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Mexico’s Square Clone Clip Pulls In New $1.7M Funding, Adds Payment Features | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 11 | 16 | It seems every country needs its own Square clone these days. iZettle has been busy populating Europe, alongside Payleven, to name just two. Indeed, Mexico has its own version, . Today it announced a new $1.7 million funding round in the form of a convertible note with , one of Mexico’s leading VCs, and an undisclose... |
From Its Beginnings In A Denmark Loft, Zendesk’s Steady Rise To The Top Of The Helpdesk Heap | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 11 | 16 | startups, origins began at a table with a few laptops, three co-founders and lots of coffee. But the founding of the customer service software company has an unorthodox twist: Zendesk started out of a loft in Copenhagen, Denmark, and not in Silicon Valley. and co-worker and engineer , were implementing old-school ... |
Gillmor Gang: Daft Monopolists | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 11 | 16 | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — act their age in the style of Steve Ballmer, who thinks he’s of an older time where the world’s not going. I’m not so sure he’s right about that, what with SnapChat taking a pass on $3 billion ephemeral oh-so-direct messages. Surely the sn... |
The PS4 Is Sony’s First Shot In The Next-Gen Console Wars | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 16 | closely, you can hear it: the eye of the console storm. We are between technologies and the big hardware makers know it. It’s a move from an optical-disk-based, high-heat standalone device. To paraphrase William Gibson: the future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed and its on that uneasy plane the new $399 PS4 fi... |
Money Dashboard Gets $4.4M To Tell UK Bank Users What They Spend On | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | One thing the UK, a huge finance market, has been lacking in recent years is something equivalent to Mint.com. Now hopes to fulfil at least part of that role. It’s a ‘smart’ account aggregation service that automatically analyses online banking statements. It’s now secured a £2.7 million ($4.4 million) investment ro... |
Android vs. iOS Development: Fight! | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 11 | 16 | The eternal startup question “Android or iOS first?” grows ever thornier, with that Android’s market share exceeds 80%. But never mind the managers and non-technical founders: what do think of that divide? Whoever makes life easier for them gains a sizable edge. And by “them” I mean “us.” When not writing (and )... |
Journaling App LifeCrumbs Turns Your Favorite Photos Into A Visual Calendar Of Happy Memories | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | The holidays are often less than merry if you have to deal with things like balancing work with travel, financial stress or seasonal affective disorder. I usually cope by listening to Merle Haggard’s over and over and over again. This year, however, I also plan to make visual journaling app part of my daily routine... |
As Nadella And Mulally Lead In Microsoft’s CEO Hunt, The Internal/External Debate Continues | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | According , the potential pool of candidates being considered for the role of next CEO of Microsoft has narrowed, at least for the moment. Ford CEO Alan Mulally and current Microsoft executive vice president Satya Nadella are said to be the two front-runners. If true, it’s hardly a surprising shortlist. Mulally is a l... |
Let’s Sit Out Black Friday, Shall We? | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | It’s Thanksgiving in the States and tomorrow is the biggest shopping day of the year. In fact stores will be open tonight so you can elbow your way into a scrum of bargain hunters and frotteurists. I’m here to tell you it’s a sucker’s game, at least when it comes to consumer electronics and computer hardware. This is n... |
Mt.Gox Launches Bitcoins.com To Explain What The Heck A Bitcoin Is | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | It’s Thanksgiving! And, judging by the fact that you read tech blogs, you’re probably at least a bit of a geek. Know what that means? Today’s the day you get to answer all of your extended family’s tech questions! Hurrah! For the last few years, that’s probably meant explaining the difference between iPhone and Android... |
Dutch Authorities Find Google Violates Its Private Data Protection Act | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | Google’s decision to share user data across Google services, revealed in an update to its policy back in March 2012, isn’t strictly kosher with Dutch privacy law, the Dutch Data Protection Authority said Thursday. Google doesn’t “properly inform users which personal data the company collects and combines, and for what ... |
From 1BN To 2BN Users: Mobile Messaging Apps To Get “Mass Adoption” In 2014, Says Ovum | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | If you thought the hype around mobile messaging apps had reached some already — what with SnapChat apparently snubbing cash acquisition offers of $3bn and even $4bn, from Facebook and Google respectively — expect even more craziness next year. A lot more, as usage of over-the-top messaging services reaches an “inflec... |
IBM Thanksgiving Day U.S. Sales Data Shows 22% Of Online Transactions Made On Mobile, With Average Order $132 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | It’s Thanksgiving, and , is once again tracking how U.S. consumers are taking to the web to kick off holiday season shopping. Early indications are that this year once again shows growth, but less than in 2012. Overall, Thanksgiving online sales are up 9% over last year. On the same day in 2012, they were . The avera... |
The Worst Thing About Being A VC Is Other VCs | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | So you think you want to be a VC. It sounds like a pretty cool job, after all. You have good pay and benefits, get to meet with lots of interesting entrepreneurs, play with cool technology, can hang out in khakis all day… But what about the dark side of venture capital? What’s the worst part about having an office on S... |
Palette’s Modular Harware Controls Give You Sliders, Buttons And Knobs For Creative Software | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | [kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cchu/palette-a-freeform-interface-that-controls-any-sof width=640] Waterloo-based startup is building a moddable hardware controller for your computer that can turn into a complete mixing board, should you need one. It’s a hand accessory that fits the description o... |
Wishlist Startup, Addwish, Nabs $1.8M Seed From Sunstone Capital To Grow Its Presence In The U.S. | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | Tis the season for wish-lists. , a Danish startup offering online wish-list services for consumers and online businesses has closed $1.8 million in seed funding from Nordic-based early stage VC firm . It’s the first outside investment for the startup which has been bootstrapping since 2008, with co-founders Brian Pe... |
Over 400 Retailers Are Offering Deals On New “Bitcoin Black Friday” Website | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | Bitcoin burning a hole in your pocket? . If so, a new site has popped up to help you spend your digital currency during this hectic holiday shopping week: “ .” Starting on Friday, November 29th, a growing number of online retailers will be offering special deals just for Bitcoin users. Frankly, a good many of the offe... |
MusiXmatch Aims For Bigger Slice Of Karaoke Market With Launch Of MusiXmatch Mic | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | In a bid to get a slice of the lucrative karaoke market, , the song lyrics database and maker of accompanying mobile apps that let you view lyrics of songs you’re listening to, is getting into the hardware game. Partnering with , the UK/Italian company is releasing a “custom-designed” microphone accessory and updated... |
Google’s Rumored YouTube Streaming Music Service Shows Up In Android App Code | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | Google has been rumored to be building a streaming music service into its YouTube property, which is a little confusing because it also has its catalogue-spanning Google Play Music All Access service. But there’s even more evidence it’s going forward with that plan in the latest YouTube app for Android, which contains ... |
The Lean Hardware Startup: Financing | Contributor | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | We can differentiate several steps in the life of a hardware startup: concept, minimum functional prototype (MFP), complete functional prototype (CFP), design for manufacture (DFM), first factory run (FFR) and retail. Note that the Complete Functional Prototype is different from just a mockup: it actually does the ... |
PowerUp 3.0 Is A Bluetooth Module That Turns A Paper Plane Into A Lean, Mean App-Controlled Flying Machine | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 28 |
There’s something intrinsically appealing about a choreographed blend of low and high tech. To wit, meet : a device that turns a bog-standard paper airplane into, well, a smartphone-controlled lean, mean flying machine. Or so its makers claim. And if those claims stack up pranking your teachers is about to ge... |
Google Ejects Android ROM-Maker Cyanogen’s Installer App From Play — Citing Developer T&C Violations | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 28 | Well that didn’t take long. Google has asked to remove its alternative Android ROM installer app from the Play store. Cyanogen raised from Benchmark Capital back in September to turn its geek-beloved aftermarket version of Android into a mainstream flavour of the platform — with the ultimate aim of using an Android... |
Fly Or Die: Tylt Energi Backpack | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 17 | The holiday season is nearly upon us, and we’re all scrambling to find each other the best possible gifts. Well, if you’re close with someone who carries the world on their shoulders and always seems to be low on battery, the Tylt Energi backpack may be a good option. The backpack is unusual in that it comes with a... |
Watch Airbnb’s Chef Rap About Food At A Hackathon | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 17 | Earlier tonight at the Food Hackathon in San Francisco, a chef took to the presentation area to pitch the audience on a whimsical new line of clothing designed to help make the folks who make the food gorgeous. Then he started to play the backing music to Biggie Smalls’ “Juicy.” It turns out that is Airbnb’s chef, an... |
Apple Reportedly Close To Buying 3D Sensor Maker PrimeSense For $345M, But No Deal Yet | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 11 | 17 | It looks like another Israeli startup is getting to another sizable exit. This time it’s 3D sensor manufacturer, , which is perhaps best known for producing (and licensing) the gesture-based technology Microsoft uses in Kinect. Well, back in July Apple had become interested and was reportedly in acquisition talks wi... |
Twitter Expands Its Alerts Service To The UK And Ireland To Push Out Critical Info From The Met Police And 56 Others | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 11 | 17 | Twitter Alerts — a service that Twitter launched in for emergency, relief and charity organizations from the U.S., Japan and Korea to send out critical messages to opted-in users — is getting more international. Today, the newly public company is . Some across the two countries have signed on so far, mostly in the... |
What Games Are: The Wacky World Of Convergent Divergence | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 11 | 17 | Another difference is how great games drive platform sales. Few people go out and buy a Blu-ray player just for but they do buy systems just to get at one game. The market has long associated games with systems in that way, and that’s why platform holders battle over exclusivity of key third party titles and spend bi... |
Sponsify Aims To Become The Platform For Product Placement And Other Native Ads On YouTube | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 17 | A just-launched startup called is looking to bring native ads to YouTube in a big way. I doubt anyone who visits YouTube is complaining about a shortage of ads, but those ads mostly take the form of pre-roll videos and promoted content off to the side. Sponsify, meanwhile, will focus on ads that are integrated with c... |
Amazon’s Alpha House Reveals The Silly Everyday Life Of A U.S. Senator | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 17 | Political life is more like an episode of than . The deviously calculating minds of Aaron Sorkin political thrillers belie that sheer absurdity of elected life. into original programming, , reveals the silly everyday happenings of Senators as they struggle with their DC apartment housemates, obligatory partisan s... |
Ephemerality Aside, Snapchat Sends Its First Permanent Message | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 11 | 17 | TechCrunch In many parts of Silicon Valley and the consumer technology world, the zeitgeist surrounding is undeniably the talk of the town. In a way, it has been for most of 2013. A seemingly small, unassuming outfit which builds a social, mobile application from the shores of Venice Beach, the company has grown ... |
We Need You To Design The Hardware Battlefield Trophy | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 17 | We are about to embark on amazing adventure and we need your help. In January we are holding our first in Las Vegas, Nevada to coincide with CES. We will bring 15 great hardware startups, a gaggle of amazing judges, and a 3D-printed trophy of your design. We need 3D designers to build us an amazing, open source troph... |
Let’s Meet In Hong Kong And Shenzhen | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 17 | Back in the days before worldwide Disrupts and 1,300-person meetups, I used to travel to various countries and hold ad hoc meetups. Well I’m doing it again in Hong Kong and Shenzhen this week and I’d love to see you there. Tentatively I’d like to meet in Hong Kong on November 21st, 7-9pm, at the , 45-53 Graham Street,... |
Vox Buys Curbed Network For A Reported Stock-Cash Blend Worth $20-30 Million | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 10 | , an online publisher of websites such as The Verge, has purchased the smaller of websites for a reported $20 to $30 million . The Vox logo now graces the Curbed.com homepage. The deal was a combination of stock and cash, which is unsurprising given that the total deal size is almost commensurate with the recent t... |
Meet Sense, 3D Systems’ Cheap, Dead-Simple 3D Scanner For The Masses | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 11 | 10 | We’ve seen more than a few startups cook up their own impressive 3D scanners — there’s and its , and dark horse with its just to name a few — but one of the oldest and biggest names in 3D printers is clearly itching to get in the game too. South Carolina-based just recently outed a cheapish, consumer-friendly ... |
Flite Launches A Free Online ‘Design Studio’ For Building HTML5 Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 10 | Hey, remember when people were still arguing about HTML5 versus Flash? The battle seems long over at this point, with , but Will Price, CEO of ad tech company , said the transition has taken longer than you might think — it won’t be until 2014, he said, that advertisers and publishers “get off Flash completely.” (As ... |
Rather Scrubs Facebook And Twitter, Replaces Things You Dislike With Things You Like | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 11 | 10 | Remember Unbaby.me? The browser extension that uploaded to Facebook by your proud procreating pals, replacing those posts with pictures of dogs, or cats, or whatever? Take that concept. Expand its focus, from “babies” to “anything you’re tired of hearing about”. That’s the idea behind Rather. Like Unbaby.me, Rather s... |
Fly Or Die: iPad Air | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 10 | With the new , the question isn’t whether or not the new tablet will fly or die. The question, rather, is whether or not you should upgrade from an older-gen iPad to the iPad air or to the iPad mini? In truth, it all comes down to use cases. There’s no doubt that the new iPad air is the most powerful, speedy, and be... |
What Games Are: Squeaky Bum Time | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 11 | 10 | You can get a little bit sick of interesting times. Just when you think the rules have changed and your industry now works in a new way, the new way is subverted. Just when you think you’ve got a handle on the new way to get rich, it turns out that the market gets stuck. That stuckness is a feeling in the mobile games ... |
How Mobile Alters Traditional Network Effects In Marketplaces | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 11 | 10 | TechCrunch On the web, marketplaces are the stuff of legend. With properties like eBay and Amazon, among many other, an online marketplace harnesses the openness of the web, more efficiently matches supply with demand without too many intermediaries, and leverages network effects to capture economic value during each... |
The LA Times Trolls Innocent Teachers | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 10 | The once-respectable Los Angeles Times is leveraging its to attack individual teachers under the guise of data transparency. The Times allowing them to use a highly contentious, self-designed algorithm to rank the best and worst teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Neither the , nor the widespread... |
Apple Reportedly Developing Large Curved Screen iPhones For Late 2014, Better Touchscreen Sensors | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 10 | Apple is said to be working on two curved display iPhone models for the “second half of next year,” according to a source speaking to , with a likely release planned for the third quarter, as well as better touchscreen sensors that introduce fine pressure sensitivity for later devices to be introduced after that. Thes... |
Review: Microsoft Xbox One | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | in the next-gen console battle has entered the arena. The Xbox One will launch this Friday, 8 years after the 2005 debut of the Xbox 360. As someone who has happily played three Xbox 360s to their red-ringed graves, I couldn’t have been more excited. I spent the past few days living with an Xbox One, watching on as ... |
The Digi-Care ERI Wearable Tracks Your Activity Without GPS | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | A unique, nicely designed fitness wearable just hit . Called the Digi-Care ERI, this Shenzhen-made wearable can track your steps and, most interestingly, trace your activity route using a magnetic sensor rather than GPS, allowing you to see where you’ve been without reducing battery life. The device comes in multiple ... |
With $4M From Khosla & More, ALOHA Launches A Wellness Platform That Helps You Drink Your Greens | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | Startups have begun to take on the food market with gusto of late, and a slew of new companies are now looking to connect consumers with high-quality meals, especially on-demand. Many of these startups also happen to be taking a healthy approach, not only joining the movement to revolutionize the way food gets sourced ... |
Clypd Raises $7.2M In Series A-1 To Help Sell Short TV Commercials | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | , founded by the creators of Paypal-acquired WHERE, has raised $7.2 million in series A-1 funding, gathering cash from Atlas Ventures, Freestyle Captial, and Boston Seed Capital. John Battelle was an angel in the round. The company wants to make it easier for advertisers to buy small chunks of TV air time as small as 1... |
Minecraft, The Book | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | If you read one book this year about green pixelated monsters that were originally supposed to be malformed pigs, make it . This slim volume by two Swedish tech journalists tracks the creation of Minecraft from the bedroom of a quiet, driven programmer named Markus Persson to the ballroom of the Mandalay Bay hotel in ... |
Reverse Engineering Snapchat’s Size Is Impossible…But Here Goes | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | Acquirers and investors fear (missing out on) what they don’t understand. That’s one reason might not be revealing its user count. But everyone wants to know. The problem is that ephemeral messaging isn’t like posting to Facebook or texting. It’s a new medium with a unique behavior pattern, so you can’t estimate Snap... |
Instead Of Crashing, Bitcoin’s Price Is Slowly Deflating | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | Bitcoin! You almost have to shout it. The much ballyhooed currency has had a simply amazing last few weeks. It put on the finance nerd equivalent of a fireworks show, blasting from less than $400 per coin a week ago to a high of around $900 (Mt.Gox data). The shot to the top was almost ludicrous in its intensity. When ... |
Cody Adds Personal Training To Its Social Fitness Community With Hundreds Of New Workouts | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | When it comes to exercise, both motivation and enjoyment tend to be a lot higher when friends are involved. They cheer us on, challenge us and make exercise more social. The App Store is stuffed with exercise, fitness and wellness apps of all kinds, and by this point, eyes roll every time a new fitness app launches. T... |
Nonplussed | Devin Coldewey | 2,013 | 11 | 10 | I sat down to write up the new YouTube comment system earlier this week, and before I finished the article, I had deleted my Google+ account — my real one, not the joke one that you acquire during the YouTube signup process. The labyrinth of settings and accounts involved struck me as so absurd, and the process so host... |
Twitter’s New App Refines DM Experience With Suggested Users, Introduces New Interface Experiments | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | Twitter is in full on experimentation mode with its latest app update. We’ve talked before about to push out big changes to small amounts of people and then make judgment calls about whether to implement those updates on a larger scale. Its latest update adds several features to everyone’s version of Twitter, but dep... |
FinanceIt Raises $13 Million To Bring Simple Purchase Financing Options To Small And Medium Businesses | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | Today FinanceIt, a company that brings financing options for consumer purchases to small and medium-sized businesses, announced that it has raised a $13 million Series A. The company declined to list its lead investor, but among the funding sources that were disclosed, TTV Capital was the largest participant. FinanceIt... |
Here Are The Hottest Companies In Tech Right Now, According To Goldman Sachs | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | I think we’ve established by now that what happens in Vegas actually stays in Vegas. And, as you can see by the agenda obtained by TechCrunch that’s embedded below this post, the Goldman Sachs Private Internet Company Conference scheduled to take place in Sin City over the next two days is no exception. The Goldman ... |
Dianping, China’s Largest Restaurant Review Site, Turned Down An Acquisition Offer From Google China | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | , the restaurant review platform that is sometimes referred to as the “Yelp of China,” turned down an acquisition offer from Google China in early 2007, co-founder Edward Long revealed at the TechCrunch/Technode event in Shanghai. Google China valued the company, which was then four years old, at less than $100 million... |
Never Forget That Wireless Carriers Are Evil | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | In today’s edition of “U.S. wireless carriers are dicks”, we’re going to look at the latest in how carriers and the CTIA are protecting valuable revenue streams by blocking features that would curb smartphone theft. Over had a smartphone stolen in 2012. One in three thefts within the U.S. involved a mobile gadget. Sp... |
The Startup Accelerator Trend Is Finally Slowing Down | Mark Lennon | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | Starting a company has never been easy. Not having to worry about market research and resources can be the difference between getting off the ground and moving back in with your parents. This might explain the record number of startup accelerators and incubators in 2013. According to our projections, there will be at l... |
Tyra Banks Invests In Locket, The App That Brings Ads And Other Content To Android Lockscreens | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | , the Android application that puts ads and other content on your lockscreen, letting users earn small amounts of money every time they unlock their smartphone, has received an additional investment from Fierce Capital, LLC, the investment arm of The Tyra Banks Company. , you guys, Tyra’s into Ad Tech now! The size of... |
Keen On… The Future Starts Here: Why AOL Might Be The New Hollywood Studio | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | At last count, ‘s massively successful new AOL short film series, , has already racked up 8.5 million views. An eight part series about life in our digital age, Shlain’s new series includes such off-beat subjects as and the hilarious , which she told me was inspired by “everyone becoming total jerks with their c... |
LoveRoom Lets You Share Your Home, And Bed, With Strangers | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | Sometimes the thrill of letting a perfect stranger stay your home just isn’t enough. That’s why an Airbnb with benefits has emerged called LoveRoom, which marries the idea of room/house-sharing with online dating. that the startup began as a half-baked joke of sorts, and after getting plenty of media attention, founde... |
Yahoo’s Flickr Resurgence Continues With Handsome Photo Books, But Reliance On Sets Could Stumble | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | Today, Flickr is to order photo books directly from inside the photo sharing site. This continues a series of announcements and acquisitions which started late last year, and mark continued investment by Yahoo in rebuilding the once-dominant platform. As one of the first sites to make photo uploading and sharing extr... |
TokBox Brings Its WebRTC Platform To Native Android Apps, Launches WebRTC Archiving | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 19 | TokBox today announced that it is extending its OpenTok WebRTC platform to include support for building native Android apps. This marks the first time developers using OpenTok can add real-time video and audio chat to their native Android apps. The company also announced that developers can now use the platform to arch... |
Priceonomics Dumps Price Guides To Marry Its True Love, Blogging (And Data Crawling) | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Stop what you’re doing and read “ ” or “ “. This is content marketing, and Priceonomics is very good at it. So good that today the Y Combinator startup it’s pivoting from price guides to blogging, or more accurately, the web scraping and research it does to inform its blogging. If only we could all quit our* crummy j... |
Machinima Names Stephen Semprevivo President And GM Amidst Management Turnover | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Machinima has had a rough year, as plans to and the company has gone through a . But as it faces that and a shakeup of its senior management team, the YouTube gaming network has hired an executive to help manage operations and get things back on track. That person is who will serve as the company’s new president a... |
Senators Want Tech Companies To Serve As Healthcare.gov Alternative | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Eight Democratic senators the Obama Administration to let startups act as an alternative to the malfunctioning healthcare website, Healthcare.gov. “There are long-term advantages to providing Americans multiple ways to find and sign up for the health coverage that best meets their needs,” reads the letter to the Depa... |
TC Cribs: Inside SoundCloud, The Berlin-Based Startup Fueled By Music (And Club-Mate) | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Berlin is buzzing with entrepreneurial energy at the moment, and is one of the companies that has emerged as an anchor to the city’s growing tech startup scene. So when TechCrunch TV was in Berlin recently to cover the , we made sure to stop by SoundCloud’s office to check it out for ourselves. SoundCloud has grown ... |
Google Makes Talking To Your Computer Slightly Less Crazy With Speech Search Chrome Extension | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Google has a new released today that brings a recently introduced mobile feature to the desktop. The feature is automatic voice search, which is triggered whenever you utter the phrase “Okay, Google.” The company announced the new feature on , (via ), and it’s live now and available for users in U.S. English. Previ... |
Twitter Continues Tweet Recommendation Experiments With Fav Happy @Magicstats | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Twitter continues to pull the string on personalization and recommendation with a new account called @ . The account, whose description reads ‘I favorite the best tweets I see in real-time’ appears to be doing just that. Though the account is protected and its activity closed down, we’ve been tracking it for several we... |
Fantasy Sports Startup DraftKings Raises $24 Million From RedPoint And Others | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Fantasy sports startup has just raised $24 million in Series B funding led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation by GGV Capital, Atlas Venture, and BDS Ventures. The funding comes as the company has announced some pretty impressive growth stats. Just 18 months old, DraftKings facilitates fantasy baseball, fantasy ... |
Wire, A Would-Be Snapchat Competitor From Ex-Amazon Engineers, Raises $1.8 Million | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Wire Labs, a company founded by ex-Amazon engineers Piragash Velummylum and Jordan Timmermann, has raised $1.8 million in seed funding for their new – what else? – mobile messaging application called “ .” The app, currently in a private beta release, is targeting the teen audience with photo and video messaging feature... |
Moto G Review: Motorola Bridges The Gap Between Cheap And Good In Smartphones | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | its best to deliver a premium experience with an affordable price tag with the Moto G, the little sibling to the higher priced Moto X. Both phones have Google’s stamp all over them, and share a surprising amount in common besides that, too. Best of all, the Moto G is a phone that mostly delivers on its marketing premi... |
Metaio CEO Thomas Alt Discusses Augmented Reality For Smartwatches, Google Glass And More | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Augmented Reality pioneers hardly qualify as a startup these days (being incorporated since 2003 and funded by a stream of project work from the likes of and ), but they behave very much like a startup and are constantly inventing new systems for their considerable augmented reality SDK. Many of their yearly annou... |
Microsoft Enlists Pawn Stars To Mock Google’s Chromebooks | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 26 |
Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign is showing no signs of slowing down. Its latest target is . Microsoft has enlisted the stars of the successful reality TV series to lampoon what it wants you to perceive as the Chromebook’s limitations (“It’s not a real laptop!”). If you’re not familiar with Pawn Stars, it’s... |
Bib + Tuck Has An App Now, Begins More Stringent Filtering On What Brands Users Can Swap | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | The fashion swap site launched in November 2012 as a private, invite-only community and opened up to the public late this summer. The startup is now pushing its product with the release of its first app today, while sharpening its aesthetic perspective through a new rule, implemented today, that users can only sell i... |
YouTube Addresses Massive Spam Problem Following Rollout Of Much-Maligned Google+ Commenting System | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Google says it’s taking steps to address the increase in YouTube comment spam that arose from the recent shift to the powered by Google+. YouTube users have already been fairly with the new system for reasons related to privacy, confusion, and the ability to leave anonymous comments, having already left over 31,000... |
Target (Yes, That Target) Wants To Launch An Accelerator In India | Pankaj Mishra | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | has long looked to India to fuel its software applications and back-office projects. Now, the Minneapolis-based retailer is doubling down on the country’s tech potential. Come January 2014, Target is planning to launch the Target Accelerator Program, a corporate incubator — complete with funding, and possibly equity s... |
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Global Mobile Android/iOS Messaging App Map Dominated By WhatsApp — But BBM Bags A Foothold | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | The mobile messaging app landscape , with different messaging services doing well in different global regions. Despite ongoing localised variety, messaging veteran remains dominant in multiple global regions, even as relative newcomer — — BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), gets a foothold on the social chit-chat map of t... |
Google Invites A New Round Of Explorers To Buy Glass | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Google has reportedly sent out more invitations for developers to purchase Google Glass, according to . The invites were only sent to developers who have previously inquired about how to purchase a Google Glass on Google’s website, as you can see in the image below. As far as we can tell, there’s no open website or pu... |
Nickelodeon Partners With Ludei To Bring HTML5 Games To Its Upcoming Android App | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | , which offers an HTML5 platform for building games and other apps, is announcing today that it’s powering the games in Nickelodeon’s upcoming Android app. Ludei CEO Eneko Knorr said that by focusing “on HTML5 technology for its game development,” Nickelodeon is making “a big vote of confidence for HTML5 and its ecosys... |
Backed With $3.5M From Social+Capital, Athos Is Creating Connected Workout Clothing That Tracks Your Muscle Output And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | college students Dhananja Jayalath and Christopher Wiebe were frustrated by their workouts in the gym. They felt like there was no way to know whether they were actually working the right muscles when lifting weights. A personal trainer wasn’t an option for these cash-strapped students, and, as electrical engineers, b... |
TapCommerce Raises $10.5M To Compete In The Mobile Ad Retargeting “Land Grab” | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Mobile ad retargeting startup is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. When earlier this year, he described the company’s approach to mobile retargeting (where ads are targeted based on user’s prior activity) as “very large amounts of data coupled with sophisticated statistical analysis.” T... |
Motorola’s Awfully Cheap, Unlocked Moto G Makes Its U.S. Debut | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 11 | 26 | Motorola may have designed its with international markets in mind, but cost-conscious phone nerds in the United States now join in the fun too — the company has confirmed that it’ll sell both the GSM 8GB and 16GB versions of the device starting today. Sorry CDMA sticklers, your time hasn’t come just yet — Motorola... |
Automattic Will Finally Stand Up To Bogus DMCA Takedowns | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Automattic, the WordPress hosting company, has long followed the letter of the DMCA in respect to copyright. This means that the company will side with a complainant rather than a customer, essentially allowing anyone to cite copyright violations in order to have anything pulled from their servers. This led to some i... |
Microsoft Launches Node.js Tools For Visual Studio | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | has quickly become one of the most popular platforms for writing server-side code. Windows, however, was never quite the right operating system to develop node.js applications on. That may be changing now, however. Microsoft today launched its in alpha, which now allows developers to edit, and debug node.js code rig... |
TC Makers: An Evening With iRobot | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Deep in the wilds outside of Boston a team of mad scientists created the ultimate in robotic life: the iRobot Roomba, the ubiquitous, world-famous automatic vacuum that, for many of us, is our first brush with autonomous robotics. The Roomba’s brains came from a military minesweeper, its parts came from kids’ toys, and... |
Meet The Startups From China-Based Hardware Accelerator HAXLR8R’s Third Demo Day | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Hardware startups seem to gradually be taking over the world. Thanks to the lower costs of developing and prototyping new products, it’s easier (and cheaper) than ever before to build devices that can be used in the real world. That said, some startups could use help in the promise, which is what hardware accelerator... |
Vine Focuses On Global Expansion With 19 New Languages | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Twitter’s six-second video sharing app, Vine, today launches in a number of new languages. Nineteen, to be exact. New languages include Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese... |
Deezer Will Launch In The U.S. Next Year And Fight Head-To-Head With Music Streaming Giants | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Already available in , French startup finally announced that the music streaming service will become available to American users in 2014. “The launch date is not final yet. But 2014 will be an American year for us,” co-founder and CTO Daniel Marhely the news agency AFP. Yet, the company has voluntarily avoided ent... |
For On-The-Go Clothes Stalking, The Hunt Releases An iOS App | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Catering to a smartphone-happy user base that skews young and female, the fashion site has released its first iPhone app. The startup closed a Series A round of $5.5 in early July led by Javelin Partners, having accumulated a roster of high profile seed round investors including Ashton Kutcher and Tyra Banks. Since i... |
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Wine-As-A-Service Company Rewinery Has Shut Down | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Today confirmed with TechCrunch that it has ended its San Francisco-area wine delivery service. As a company, Rewinery had a simple plan: Amazing wines delivered to you, now, at discounted price points. If that sounds appealing, you’ll understand the . No shame in that. Startups similar to Rewinery are very popular ... |
Technology Crossover Ventures Funds All Of Spotify’s $250M International Growth Round | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | is making its biggest bet (ever/in years) by backing the entirety of Spotify new $250 million round, a source tells TechCrunch. T of Spotify raising the round at a valuation above $4 billion is right, and it will fuel Spotify’s push to become the defacto streaming music service around the world, our source says. This... |
Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Computing System Hits Bumps, Taking Down Xbox Live And Other Services [Update: Back Up!] | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Here’s Microsoft statement: “Microsoft is aware of issues involving cloud and online services and we are investigating the cause. We can confirm that these issues were not caused by Windows Azure. We will keep our customers updated as information becomes available. The service interruption that affected Windows Azure S... |
With Tinder 3.0, Tinder Enters The Friend Zone | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | /">Tinder, an app that allows you to swipe right on profile images in order to meet potential friends or dating prospects, has just launched its 3.0 version on Android and iOS. For those of you who want even more in common with the random people you meet through your mobile device, the new Tinder update will have a maj... |
FCC May Let Airplane Passengers Chat On The Phone In Flight | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Look out, . The skies might get a bit more uncomfortable. The that airplane passengers may be allowed to use their cellphones, for both data and voice transmissions, based on a recent FCC proposal. But before you begin having nightmares of college kids on their Thanksgiving trips settling in for a long, petname-fill... |
AdSemble Brings Its Digital Billboard Ad Marketplace To Chicago | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | After five years in business, an ad-tech company called is making its first move beyond the San Francisco Bay Area. CEO Matthew Olivieri said the company, which offers online tools for businesses to search buy advertising on digital billboards, has reached 235.6 million impressions this year, up from 46.2 million las... |
1Sheeld, A Super Clever All-Purpose Arduino Shield, Goes Up On Kickstarter And Immediately Breaks Its Goal | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Arduinos are a godsend for the DIY/Tinkerer community, but there’s all sorts of stuff they just can’t do out of the box. Sure, you can add tons of functionality via strap-on boards called “shields”.. but those can get expensive quick. Want your Arduino project to be able to play sounds? That’ll be $20. Internet connect... |
Gift Guide: Gadgets For Budding 3D Printing Fans | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | the rage and it’s hard to know just where to start. If you have a budding manufacturing magnate on your Christmas list we’ve got a few fun things for them to check out. One word of advice? Don’t buy cheap 3D printers. I’ve tested a few so far and a number of the “cheap” open source models and some of the models you fi... |
Google Spanks Microsoft’s Recent Scroogled Antics | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | Google today released a formal response to the most recent chapter of Microsoft’s ‘Scroogled’ campaign: “Microsoft’s latest venture comes as no surprise; competition in the wearables space really is heating up.” Yesterday, Microsoft released a raft of , continuing its war against Google with now usual sniping and grip... |
GameAnalytics Finds A Home In Unity’s Asset Store While It Works On Paid Products | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | It’s hard to overstate just how finicky game design can be, and a Copenhagen-based startup called has been trying to help devs crack the design and monetization code going on two years now. Now the team has gotten a pretty nice kick in the pants thanks to the folks behind the Unity cross-platform game engine — the tw... |
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