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Google’s Schmidt Predicts Government Censorship Can Vanish In A Decade | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 21 | “I believe there’s a real chance that we can eliminate censorship and the possibility of censorship in a decade,” Google Chairman Eric Schmidt at Johns Hopkins University. “The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.” Currently, citizens of oppressive regimes have a few ways of sneaking around g... |
HTC Channels Crazy With $8,000 Gramohorn Smartphone Trumpet | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | Smartphone maker — and having something of an identity crisis that’s playing out as a rebranding exercise. That’s why it’s spent millions hiring to spice things up with its . It’s also, apparently, got a few other attention-grabbing tricks up its sleeve. Such as the gizmo pictured above. Part vapourware, part stea... |
Obama’s Interview: Most Important Quotes On Healthcare.gov And NSA | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | President Obama sat down for an extended interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd about the . The video is embedded below. I’ll get right to the quotes and add context: — Obama was referring to the hundreds of thousands of people from plans that do not conform to rules under the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a “Obamacare”).
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Newsle Lands $1.8M From Media Giant Advance Publications, Bloomberg Beta & More To Be The News Reader For People You Care About | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | The Web fundamentally changed how people consume the news. On the one hand, it’s now easier than ever before to create and distribute content to millions of readers; on the other, the Web has become an ocean of content and information, and it almost goes without saying that it’s now more difficult than ever before to l... |
AOL Asks AOLers To ‘Disrupt AOL’ | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | Over the last few years, TechCrunch has done a pretty good job of Disrupting things. We’ve , we’ve , and most recently we’ve . But now, our parent company wants TechCrunch employees, and all the rest of the company, to “Disrupt AOL.” In an internal memo today, AOL Global CTO Curtis Brown announced an “exciting even... |
A New $1 Million Prize Competition Aims To Fight Gun Violence With Tech | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | “We looked at this and said there’s been a systemic failure in the level of innovation and capitalization in this area,” Smart Tech director and serial entrepreneur Jim Pitkow Fast Company. He announced the program at Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored conference in San Francisco yesterday. This isn’t the first tim... |
Meet Context, The New Photo Texting App All The Cool Kids Are Using | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | There are a number of apps out there seeking to displace SMS as the primary mode of communications between mobile users — there’s MessageMe, Line, WeChat, WhatsApp and others. And, of course, there’s Snapchat, which has built a big, booming following around photo messaging. Well, there’s another new messaging app out t... |
To Buy Or Not To Buy? The Twitter Question | Contributor | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | As the offering date for Twitter approached, the bankers could not seem to make up their minds on the pricing, with the offering price rising from $17-$20 barely two weeks ago to $23-$25 last week to . The stock opened today, about an hour later than expected, at an , up 73 percent from the offering price. As you w... |
Groupon Q3 Misses On Sales Of $595.1M; Announces Acquisition Of Ticket Monster For $260M To Boost Mobile Business In Asia | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | Fresh from celebrating its fifth anniversary , Groupon today its Q3 earnings: it’s a mixed picture but shows that Groupon continues to make good on its commitment to take its business beyond daily deals and into a wider marketplace for location-based and mobile commerce. Groupon reported revenues of $595.1 million w... |
Apple Rolls Out Patch To Fix Mavericks Gmail Issues | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | Apple’s newest version of OS X debuted to generally positive feedback a few weeks back… unless you were an Apple Mail user trying to use the app to check your Gmail. Then you probably had to deal with syncing headaches, incorrect unread email counts, and plenty of other miscellaneous unpleasantness (Joe Kissell has a p... |
Meet The 9-Year-Old Who Rang The Opening Bell For Twitter’s IPO | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | Before Twitter stock started trading this morning, journalists assumed that we’d see the company’s founders and/or executives ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. And indeed, there were excited whispers as we spotted folks like Dick Costolo and Biz Stone on the floor. But the figures who actually ... |
Path Loses Biz Head Amid Rumors Of Over $7M In Funding From Dustin Moskovitz | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | It’s been a long, hard road for Dave Morin’s Path, as it has seen in a tough ( ” anyone?) social market. These data points mean that it’s had to trim down staff — and that it took awhile to raise its We’ve heard that Path’s Head of Business gave notice yesterday, in order to co-found his own company with Path iOS ... |
With 220M Downloads And $12M From Qualcomm, Magma, TabTale Is Quietly Becoming One Of The Top Children’s App Makers | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | With education apps on iTunes earlier this year, the demand for quality learning content, especially content of the kid-friendly variety, is growing fast — and so is the opportunity for app publishers. Since launching in 2010, Israel-based startup, , has been on a mission to capitalize on this demand and is quietly ... |
Checking Up On Monkey Inferno, The Tech Incubator Where Bebo Is Working On Its Rebirth | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | Michael Birch that his plan is to “reinvent” Bebo at the personal incubator the Birches in San Francisco, and have “a lot of fun” in the process — but we haven’t heard many updates about the plans since then. And people are clearly curious: A Reddit “Ask Me Anything” about Bebo held a couple of weeks back by Mo... |
Twitter’s Strong IPO Leaves The Company More Richly Valued On A Per-User Basis Than Facebook At Its Debut | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | If you were holding Twitter stock yesterday, congrats. You can now afford an extra bedroom in your house in Pacific Heights. Or maybe a baby. But not both. Anyway, Twitter’s IPO pop has the world losing its collective marbles, so let’s take a look at how the market is currently valuing Twitter in comparison to a few an... |
Ibotta Expands Beyond Mobile Coupons, Now Lets You Earn Cash Back From Restaurants, Fast Food & Home Improvement Stores | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | Denver-based mobile couponing application , which pays you cash back for items you buy in grocery stores by simply scanning your receipt, has today debuted its iOS 7-optimized version 2.0 that now brings its shopping discounts to a number of new stores, including home improvement stores like Lowe’s and Home Depot, as ... |
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Healthcare.gov Could Only Handle 1,100 Users On The Eve Of Launch | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | Recently released documents reveal that the failed federal insurance e-commerce website, Healthcare.gov, could 1,100 users the day before it launched [ ]. It has long been suspected that the White House prioritized politics over technical realities in the launch of the healthcare website, but this is some of the best... |
Behavioral Health Startup Sessions Launches To Provide Personalized Fitness Programs To All | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | Fitness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition, and there are few apps that are tailored specifically to the needs of individual users. After all, everyone has different exercise interests, goals, time, and patience — not to mention, everyone has a different “starting point” when it comes to how fit they are or what the... |
Chrome On Windows To Start Rejecting Extensions From Outside The Chrome Web Store In January | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 7 | Starting in January, Google’s Chrome browser will to install extensions that aren’t hosted in Google’s own Chrome Web Store. While Google had recently increased its security measures for keeping malicious extensions out of Chrome by adding and , the team clearly felt that it had to go a step further to keep Window... |
Yale Adds Another Stop To The College Hacker Circuit | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 11 | 9 | The organizers of the hackathon at Yale this weekend aren’t exactly sure how many students turned out for the sleepless grind. Gauging from the depletion of t-shirts, they put it at about 950. That’s about 915 more people than came last year, when a group of students organized a mini-hackathon that one participant de... |
These Hand-Made, Solar-Powered Nixie Watches Are Retro-Tastic | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 9 | watches are nothing new – Woz wears one sometimes – but these glowing tubes, originally designed in the 1970s for heavy-duty industrial displays, are hard to power and hard to maintain. However, it looks like a designer has finally hit on exactly the right mix of cool styling and power management. Created by an Austra... |
Prefundia, A Platform For Crowdfunding Projects To Gain Backers Ahead Of Launch, Exits Beta | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 9 | wants to help crowdfunding projects get backers they launch their campaigns. The startup, for startup it is — launching out of U.S. accelerator this summer — has been operating in beta for the past three months, and has just released some early performance data as it opens its doors to the public. Prefundia said 1... |
Instagram Is Down For Some Users Due To ‘System Issues’ | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 9 | A number of Instagram users are currently difficulty accessing the popular photo-sharing service both on the web and mobile versions of the app. At 3:37 pm Pacific Time this afternoon, Instagram confirmed the outage in a Tweet citing “system issues”: https://twitter.com/instagram/status/399319797722140673 As of 4:00p... |
Year Up Helps Give Urban Youth The Training And Connections They Need To Land Hot Tech Jobs | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 11 | 9 | One organization called is dedicated to closing that gap, which it calls the “ ,” by providing one specialized year of intensive training to young adults aged 18 to 24 with no more than a high school diploma. After training is completed, the program provides introductions to companies keen to hire skilled staff. It... |
Gillmor Gang: Hocus Pocus | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 11 | 9 | The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — find themselves in a quandary over Steven Elop’s alleged exit strategy for Microsoft. Is he really serious, dumping XBox and casting aside Bing? Or is this just a magician’s sleight of hand, misdirecting the attention fro... |
To Save Itself, The DSLR Market Should Look To Smartphones And Revalue Each Press Of The Shutter | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 9 | There’s mounting evidence that the tendency to favour smartphones over standalone cameras isn’t just tanking compact camera sales – it’s affecting DSLR and interchangeable lens cameras, too. A new claims that DSLR camera shipments could fall 9.1 percent by the end of 2013, versus 2012, according to research firm IDC.... |
Microsoft Starts Taking Office On The Web Seriously | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 9 | Earlier this week, Microsoft updated its Office 365 suite with a couple of new features and licensing terms. Overall, the update was very much in line with the other 100 changes Microsoft had made to its subscription-based Office version for consumers and businesses, but one feature stood out. Starting this week, all O... |
Moving Past Digital Schizophrenia | Contributor | 2,013 | 11 | 9 | we face today building products is not whether we have an identity without our devices, but rather can we have an identity with our devices? Our identities are fragmented across dozens of websites, mobile applications and databases. Every day, these programs simultaneously squawk at us with push notifications and emai... |
In Which We Make Coffee With The Founders Of Bonaverde, A Machine That Roasts, Grinds, And Brews | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 11 | 30 | Last we heard from the founders of , they had a Kickstarter campaign to raise $135,000 to produce a coffee maker that turns green, unroasted beans into a cup of coffee in under 14 minutes. At this point the startup has raised $465,475 with eight days to go, so we caught up with founders Hans Stier and Felix Artma... |
Where I Went Wrong, Third Annual Edition | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 11 | 9 | Happy anniversary to me: I’ve now been writing this here weekly column for exactly three years. Over the last year I have opined, prescribed, and predicted many things. And now, like , and the , as part of my one-man crusade for greater opinion-journalism accountability, I’m going to take a moment to go back and look... |
IndieVoic.es Hopes To Become Kickstarter For Independent Media | Contributor | 2,013 | 11 | 30 | The Internet wasn’t kind to media. Huge media corporations have managed to transform their businesses, for the most part, but independent media, often playing a vital role in emerging countries, are seriously threatened by the lack of available funds. hopes to change that. Founded by Sasa Vucinic, V Media Ventures CEO... |
A VC And Olympic Hopeful Taps Indiegogo With A Game To Raise Funds For Young Athletes | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 11 | 30 | Paul Bragiel, to compete in the Sochi Winter Olympics, After seeing dozens of other younger Olympic contenders struggle to raise funds for training, he felt he needed to do something to help out. Some friends over at offered their talents pro bono to . It’s a beautiful, little side-scroller that takes a player th... |
Gillmor Gang: Private Practices | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 11 | 30 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — work off that stuffed feeling with a show devoted to the intersection between public and private messaging. What started with Twitter and continued with Facebook has now yielded a startup frenzy many mistake for a bubble. Instagram starte... |
Hands On With Jolla’s First Phone — The “Spearhead Device” For Its MeeGo-Successor Sailfish OS | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 30 | The first handset from Finnish smartphone startup is simply called Jolla. This phone has been some two years in the making — a timeframe that testifies to the complexity of building handset hardware a new mobile platform, not to mention rallying developers and achieving . So really two years ain’t bad for a plucky... |
Yahoo Users Anonymous: A Transcript | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 11 | 30 | This is what happened: A Silicon Valley church basement. Folding chairs, coffee, cigarettes tucked behind ears. , a tall man with a shaved head and an Arsenal FC T-shirt, steps forward to the podium. He has a slight Canadian accent. Hi, my name’s Jon, and I’m a Yahoo! user. Hi, Jon! I guess…I mean, this is so emba... |
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“F*ck You, Google+”, An Adorable Song About YouTube’s New Comments | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Some YouTubers are not pleased about being forced onto , and took a stand in the cutest, most profane way imaginable. “You ruined our site and called it integration / I’m writing this song just to vent our frustration / Fuck you, Google Plusssssss!” Personally, I think the shift to Google+ comments is . It will gre... |
The Rise Of The Mobile-Born | Contributor | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Watching my two-year-old nephew Dashiel interact with his mother’s iPad made me realize that he was born into an era unlike any in history. As he grows up his expectations about how information should be presented and processed, and how interfaces should respond, will be profoundly different from how we experience tech... |
Yes, High-Skill Immigration Reform Is Still Dead This Calendar Year | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Breaking non-news out today: Immigration reform is dead in 2013, meaning that high-skill immigration reform is also kaput this year. We already , but the third-ranking Republican in the House confirmed the fact today. According to , “California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the majority whip, said in a meeting with immigratio... |
Intel Has Acquired Kno, Will Push Further Into The Education Content Market With Interactive Textbooks | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | We had a tip about, and have now confirmed, latest acquisition: , the education startup that started life as a hardware business and later pivoted into software — specifically via apps that let students read interactive versions of digitized textbooks. “I can confirm Intel has purchased Kno,” a spokesperson told us ... |
Why Apple Bought $578M Worth Of Sapphire In Advance | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Apple is in Arizona that will be used by GT Advanced Technologies to make sapphire crystals for use in its products. Apple currently uses sapphire in its home buttons and camera lens covers, but several details about the material itself and the nature of its deal with GT indicate that it could be expanding its intere... |
Time Is Running Out To Enter Our Hardware Battlefield In Las Vegas | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Time is running out to apply to Hardware Battlefield. Have you submitted an application but didn’t complete it? What the heck, man! Do it! Do it now! This is shaping up to be one of the coolest things we’ve ever done and it’s all set on the amazing backdrop of CES in Vegas this January. We’re going to have some amazing... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | ‘Ello ello! Welcome to another edition of . Today we’re looking at flying drones, crabby bots that climb your body, and a robot that can roll, spin, and eventually decapitate you and/or your pets. Good times! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ShuAEIfGw&w=640&h=360] First we see some silly humans who think they... |
Quick, Everyone IPO | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Facebook’s share price tanked upon IPO, scaring plenty of private companies away from the public markets. But with its eventual recovery and now the stellar performance of out the gates, the Wall Street bell suddenly has a much nicer ring to it. Just in the last few days we’ve heard of Square, Box, and Seamless movin... |
Twitter Drops 7.24% In Its Second Day Of Trading, Burning $2.3B In Market Cap | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | That’s more than half a Snapchat. The company’s massively successful IPO led some to claim that Twitter mispriced its offering. The company originally indicated that it would price the offering as low as $17 per share, a firm discount to its final $26 offer price. The markets and larger technology industry will closely... |
Gillmor Gang Live 11.08.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | – Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble. Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Like us on Facebook at |
Elop Is Going To Do What Now? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | The technology press is abuzz this morning after Bloomberg concerning what Nokia’s – and soon Microsoft’s again! – Stephen Elop would do to reform Microsoft should he be selected as its next CEO. He is widely tipped as a leading candidate for that role as he is set to return to Microsoft as an executive vice presiden... |
Oppo’s First Cyanogen-Modded Smartphone Will Launch In December | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | As much as I love stock Android sometimes you just need something , and that’s essentially been the guiding mission of the folks over at . They’ve made plenty of strides with their customized version of Android over the past few months, but now they’re on the verge of a big milestone — after officially revealing the ... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Xbox One, Nexus 5, And The HTC Gramohorn | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Thanksgiving is around the corner, which means that the Holiday season is actually upon us. And you know what that means? Electronics makers are literally spewing gadgets at us in time for gift-giving season. The is on its way, with a launch date of November 22. But will the new model wow you the same way older gene... |
Flash Sale App Tophatter Adds Android Version, Brings Its Auctions To Canada | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | , a flash sales site that sells apparel, makeup and electronics through 90-second auctions, today and announced its first international expansion. The app is now available in Canada and plans to go into the UK and Ireland within the next few weeks. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand are the next markets in the st... |
Impala For iPhone Identifies Your Photos Using Artificial Intelligence, Organizes Them For You | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | A new mobile application called is picking up where Everpix left off, in terms of automatically categorizing your photo collections using computer vision technology. Once installed, the app works its way through your entire photo library on your iPhone, sorting photos into various categories like “outdoor,” “architec... |
Banana Republic, CNNMoney And CNBC Among Top Twitter Accounts During TWTR IPO | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Data from social media analytics companies and give insight into the chatter during Twitter’s IPO using data gleaned from (what else?) tweets. Most of the accounts that produced the top tweets are expected (like and major news outlets such as ), but there were a few surprises. (Both Crimson Hexagon and Topsy are... |
Tech Lobbying Group The Internet Association Comes To Airbnb’s Side In NY Attorney General Case | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Airbnb has been in the midst of a in New York, where it was recently for a wide-ranging amount of user data. Well today the company received broad support from the tech industry as a whole, as Washington, DC-based lobbying group The Internet Association has come to the company’s side in that fight by today. The I... |
Guitar Hero Creators Launch Singtrix, A Karaoke Lover’s Dream | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | What’s your karaoke song? If you have an instant answer to that (or even if you don’t), pay attention. The guys that helped create Guitar Hero, John Devecka, Charles Huang, and Kai Huang, along with music gaming pioneer and production company owner Eric Berkowitz, have today introduced a new product called Singtrix. ... |
Neat Cuts The Cord With The New NeatConnect Scanner | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Late-night TV commercial stalwarts may seem a little chintzy at first blush, but rest assured that their products – essentially very simple document scanners – are surprisingly good. Their latest version, the $499 , is a completely wireless scanning solution that lets you scan documents to services like , , Box, S... |
Green Throttle Ends Arena Support As The Android Game Microconsole Herd Begins To Thin | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 8 | Guitar Hero creator , a Santa Clara-based startup with $6 million in funding, to build out multiplayer Android gaming for the living room. Now, the company says it’s . It’s a mission shared by others , BlueStacks and , and , but now the space is a little less crowded. The question is, was Green Throttle a canary i... |
Britain’s GCHQ Collaborated With Other EU Nations To Enable Broad Internet Surveillance | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | Today that the GCHQ, Britain’s NSA equivalent, worked with several foreign governments to help them tap Internet traffic and phone communications. The Swedish, French, Spanish, and German governments are said to be involved. It has been known for some time that the United States and British governments, through a num... |
OS X Mavericks Is Now Installed On More Than 10% Of Macs, Smashing Mountain Lion’s Adoption Rate | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | If Apple decided to make updates to its OS X operating system free in part to drive more rapid consumer uptake, it was a great decision: of its new operating system has beaten adoption of the preceding Mountain Lion version by a large margin. According to , OS X Mavericks is now installed on 0.84 percent of the gl... |
Google’s Barges Likely Glass Exhibition Spaces, Lease Indicates | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | The furor over Google’s mystery barges in San Francisco and Portland has reached a fever pitch over the past week. According to our sources the various reports about the barges being showcases for Google’s Glass retail efforts are correct. Today, a report by The notes that most of the reporters going after this barge... |
A Love Story That Spawned A Hardware Revolution In The Kitchen | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | Neither of them had any entrepreneurial history before they met. was a plasma physics Ph.D. at Princeton and had worked in hospitality at Jean-Georges and Mario Batali before entering the magazine world. But while watching Top Chef episodes during their first week of dating, they clicked. Lisa, who was working arou... |
Bing Renews Its Firehose Deal With Twitter | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | Microsoft today that it has renewed its partnership with Twitter, giving Bing access to all of the public content Twitter’s users create. The terse three-sentence announcement is short on details, but a Microsoft spokesperson told us it extends, for an unspecified amount of time, the deal the two companies made . “T... |
Gillmor Gang Live 11.01.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | – John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live chat at http://friendfeed.com/realtime-network/5d54b6dd/gillmor-gang-recording-live-today-1pm-pt Like us on Facebook at |
Exactly What It Sounds Like, Sizem Made A Fit Calculator To Find Your Correct Bra Size | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | If you’re a lady, you’re probably well aware at this point that you’re wearing the wrong bra size. Which is a bummer, because as womens’ magazines and lingerie companies will tell you, the right bra is like an unlimited month of Pilates classes for your boobs. A Croatian startup called has created a size calculator... |
JD Power Explains Why Samsung Beat Apple In Its Latest Tablet Study: Price | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | Yesterday, JD Power released its and the Internet went a bit nuts. For the first time, Samsung had edged out perennial favorite Apple in customer satisfaction on tablets. This was a stark change from which had Apple handily beating its competitors. There was it was, about and scoring (835 to Samsung, 833 to Ap... |
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Yes, Only 6 Users Signed Up On Healthcare.gov Launch Day, But Don’t Panic | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | New documents that a mere six people managed to sign up for health insurance through the government’s beleaguered e-commerce website, Healthcare.gov on its opening day. Naturally, the every last ounce of this click-bait statistic, but in reality, it probably doesn’t matter. Young, uninsured consumers are compulsive... |
The First Instagram Ad Has Been Spotted In The Wild | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | About a month after that it would start running Sponsored Photos and Sponsored Videos, and about a week after it , it looks like Instagram ads have arrived. comes from designer Michael Kors, and as promised, it’s a regular Instagram photo, but it’s also showing up in the feeds of users who don’t follow the Michael ... |
Fab.com Files Counterclaim Against JustFab, Says JustFab Is A “Predatory” Bargain Clothing Peddler | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | The latest chapter in the legal dispute between online retailers Fab.com and JustFab is unfolding. In July 2013, JustFab , accusing it of infringing on JustFab’s trademark by using a “confusingly similar” name, along with related allegations including unfair competition. Now Fab.com has hit back with a counterclaim th... |
Windows 8.1 Doubles Its Market Share In October To 1.72%, Handily Beating Windows 8’s Initial Rollout | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 grew quickly in the first month of its general availability, outpacing the launch of its predecessor, Windows 8, according to numbers out today from NetMarketShare. In October, Windows 8.1 to 1.72 percent, up from 0.87 percent in September, which is a precise 97.7 percent in the month-long per... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Disrupt Europe Aftermath, The iPad Air, And Google’s New Nexus | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | It’s been a long road home for the TechCrunch Gadgets team, but the lure of new hardware was too much to resist so we huddled around our microphones on a dreary Friday morning to gab about them all. So what’s on the docket this time around? Some choice hardware highlights from Disrupt Europe start things off on a posit... |
PLAiR 2 Launches To Take On Chromecast With Netflix, Hulu Plus, Spotify, And Pandora Apps For $49 | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | What do you do when your startup launches a product in a nascent category and then a behemoth like Google enters the space and validates it? And eats your lunch in the process? If you’re video-streaming startup PLAiR, you go back to the drawing board and start from scratch. To review, PLAiR had built a that plugged i... |
Google’s Barge Likely A Modular, Floating Retail Space To Feature Glass | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | Google caught some attention this past week for mooring a huge barge in SF Bay for mysterious purposes. Rumors about what that barge could be used for, with some suggesting it’s a floating data center, which Google does indeed have a patent for. But reports from a Bay Area local CBS affiliate and CNET suggest it’s a ... |
Unii, A Student-Only Social Network, Signs Up 100,000+ Users In Six Months In The U.K. | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | Facebook started life as a university-only network and has since grown far beyond those original roots, with some one billion+ users globally. No surprise, then, that it’s losing ground among its original user-base. Facebook finally fessed up to some just this week. Being social’s catch-all behemoth means there’s ple... |
Bezos, Amazon And Refusing To Act Your Age | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | In early 1998, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CFO Joy Covey co-authored a letter to shareholders discussing the previous year’s accomplishments. That letter has become holy writ inside the company, and is in its annual report. The letter and its contents struck me as incredibly prescient, or perhaps simply potent, as ... |
iFixit’s iPad Air Teardown Reveals Tightly Packed Innards Dominated By A Big Battery | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | Apple’s iPad Air goes on sale today – it’s easily the , but we’re waiting with bated breath for the iPad mini with Retina display. Until then, however, the Air is also the most remarkable feat of engineering in any tablet device in terms of what goes on under the hood, or at least that’s what it looks like based on ... |
Groupon Redesigns Web And Mobile Apps To Focus On Personalization, Local And Search | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | Groupon hasn’t had a great go of things since becoming a publicly traded company; founder and earlier this year, and its so-called “third-party” or daily deal revenue seems to be in a state of continuing decline as more customers shy away from or ignore those emails offering flash sales. But under current CEO Eric Le... |
6Wunderkinder, Maker Of To-Do App Wunderlist, Has Raised Up To A $30M Series B, In Sequoia’s First Step Into Germany | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 11 | 1 | , a popular task management app from Berlin-based , has built up a loyal following of some six million users, with about one-third of them in the U.S. and nearly 241 million “to-do”s logged to date. Now TechCrunch understands that the startup is closing in on a round of investment that could help it ramp up even more.... |
Zendesk And Japanese SaaS Provider Cybozu Announce Product Integration And Marketing Deal | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | Cloud computing providers and Tokyo-based have announced a strategic partnership to integrate and market each other’s products in the U.S. and Japan. The deal underscores the rapidly growing adoption of cloud computing in Japan, and is also a potential harbinger of further product integrations between software-as-a... |
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Discover “The Red Web” At TechCrunch Shanghai, November 19-20 | Gang Lu | 2,013 | 11 | 6 |
In , TechCrunch launched a landmark Chinese edition in partnership with super awesome Chinese blog TechNode. Now we are coming together again, and bringing in some of the leading entrepreneurs, investors and others in the region, for our first joint event in Shanghai on November 19-20. We’re calling the event “ .” “T... |
With 1M Downloads Under Its Belt, GAIN Fitness Raises $2.1M To Put A Personal Trainer In Every Pocket | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | debuted back in 2009 to put a professional trainer in every pocket and give Average Joes like you and me the ability to access personalized fitness routines from the comfort of their couches and mobile devices. Since then, GAIN has launched tracking apps for a wide range of activities, from weight training to Pilates,... |
Internet Archive Seeking Donations To Rebuild Its Fire-Damaged Scanning Center | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | The non-profit suffered a major setback this morning , causing an estimated $600,000 in damages. Fortunately there were no injuries and no data was lost, but the digital library, which seeks to give “universal access to all knowledge,” lost high-end scanners and digitization equipment. The Internet Archive is seekin... |
Microsoft Updates Office 365, Brings Real-Time Collaboration To Free Office Web Apps, Adds Yammer To All Enterprise Versions | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | It’s been six months since Microsoft launched Office 365, its subscription-based version of Office for businesses and consumers. Over consumers now subscribe to (the Office 365 “family pack” with five licenses) and 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies are using it in some form. This, Microsoft says, makes it the com... |
How Biz Stone’s Biggest Mistake Spawned Twitter | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | , third company I went to work for, somehow I screwed them all up. Doing startups is all about making mistakes,” Biz Stone nervously admitted onstage at the in San Francisco. He’d just confessed that he didn’t prepare anything so will talk about his biggest screw-ups, including one that could earn him many millions o... |
Silk Road Rises Again | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | Like the legend of the phoenix Silk Road has risen from the ashes of a recent US crackdown and is now live and even more secure. At 4:20 p.m. GMT on November 5, the so-called Silk Road 2.0 reappeared at silkroad6ownowfk.onion, an address on the TOR network. The new site now supports PGP encryption of accounts and inclu... |
The Bitcoin Bubble | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | We’re back, baby! Bitcoin’s price has taken off again, forcing some to defend the value of the currency as utterly un-bubblish. This becomes a humorous exercise. The finance nerd community (of which I’m not nearly good enough to be a member) is done talking about the Trillion Dollar Coin for now, so it’s back on the Bi... |
Poll Finds Tech-Savvy Users Prefer Smartwatches Over Glass Devices | John Biggs | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | A fairly small poll of users on found that, in general, users prefer smartwatches to smart glasses. While this is not definitive proof of any real preference – the sample size is far too small – it does allow us to see what the early adopter will be wearing next season. The poll, produced by Eric Newcomer, asked visi... |
With 30K Active Online Stores, Weebly Launches DIY eCommerce Platform To Take On Amazon And Shopify | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | on the NASDAQ this morning, another veteran website builder is responding with some big news of its own. Since launching in 2006 (the same year as Wix), has taken a slightly different approach to website creation than its competitors: By catering to entrepreneurs. Today, Weebly users have created over 20 million web... |
Microsoft Unifies Windows And Windows Phone Developer Programs, Lowers Registration Fees | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | Microsoft that it is bringing together its Windows and Windows Phone developer programs. The commingling of both groups is a move by Microsoft to encourage developers to build for more than one of its supported device classes. It also represents another step in Microsoft’s effort to unify its platforms on top of a sh... |
At $26 Per Share, Twitter’s Executives And Directors Own A Combined $3.24 Billion Of Its Stock | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | Currently, that group holds 124,529,741 shares in the company, or 25.5% of the company. After the IPO, and 70 million shares are sold to the general public, the group will control 22.3% of the company. Evan Williams, who owns the most shares of the group will see his stake fall to 10.4%, but don’t feel sorry for the gu... |
Twitter Prices IPO Above Estimates At $26 Per Share, Raising $1.82B At Valuation Of Up To $18B | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | Twitter will start trading at $26 when it goes on sale, made today by the company on Twitter. That’s on the low side of expected pricing but still above the new official range that Twitter released yesterday. At $26 the proceeds of the sales of 70 million shares of common stock will net it $1.82 billion. This means t... |
Startups Pitching A “Netflix For E-Books” May Have A Tough Sell | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | When it comes to getting consumers to pay for things on a subscription basis, some services fare better than others. A growing number of people seem happy to pay for entertainment-based offerings like Netflix or on-demand streaming music, for example, while “box of the month” clubs and subscription-based shopping sites... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: We’re All Getting The Nexus 5, So Break Me Off A Piece Of That KitKat | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | Google messed up Daniel Bader’s Nexus 5 order, and that makes him sad. Truly, our guest from and deserves better than having half his hopes dashed by a UPS delivery man live on air. We’ve all ordered like the Android suckers we are, and so we chat and what dreams may come. Other topics up for discussion with Da... |
Blockbuster’s Demise; An Elegy To Video Store Culture | Chris Nesi | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | After years of clinging to life, Dish Network has announced on its remaining 300 Blockbuster Video brick-and-mortar locations by early next year, signaling another death knell to the age of home video rental. The once-mighty video juggernaut had more than 9,000 locations at its peak in 2004, a number that over the ... |
With $1.2 Million In Seed Funding, Sprig Launches To Bring Fast, Healthy Meals To SF Eaters For $12 Each | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | It seems like every day there’s a new food delivery service launch, each seeking to connect a large and growing number of hungry customers with high-quality meal choices. While the way each tries to approach the market and handle demand differs, it’s clear that there’s huge interest in revolutionizing the way that food... |
Facebook Like Button, Viewed 22B Times A Day On 7.5M Websites, Gets A Redesign | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | Facebook has today updated the design of its Like button for the first time since inception. An image of the new design can be seen below. Websites currently using the like button will be automatically upgraded. , Like buttons appear on over 7.5 million websites and are seen 22 billion times each day. The new design ha... |
YouTube Starts Rolling Out Its New Commenting System Based On Google+ | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 6 | In September, YouTube that it would soon roll out a new commenting system powered by Google+. After testing it on channel discussion tabs for a few weeks, it’s now to all videos on the site. Given the size of YouTube, this roll-out will start this week, but it will take some time before it is fully effective. Until... |
Uber Strikes Deal To Lower The Cost Of Car Ownership For Drivers | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 24 | is trying to get new drivers on the road, while also improving the experience for those who are already on its platform. To do that, it’s partnered with a couple of auto manufacturers and a few financing providers to reduce the cost of new car ownership for Uber drivers in six of its fastest-growing markets. Over th... |
Learning To Code On The Street | Contributor | 2,013 | 11 | 24 | It’s 7:33 AM. Leo is leaning over his laptop writing some practice lines of code while I sit nearby on leftover sandbags from Hurricane Sandy. It’s cold, but it is a great morning. A little less than three months ago, Leo when he declined my offer of $100 in cash in favor of learning to code. You can catch up on his s... |
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