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Amazon Launches Its Fastest EC2 Instance Type Yet | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 14 | Amazon today its fastest EC2 instance type yet. The improved C3 instance type, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels noted in the announcement at the company’s re:Invent developer conference today, represents the highest process performance on EC2 yet. The C3 instances join the new storage- and I/O-optimized I2 instances the comp... |
Judge Permits Google To Continue To Make Books Relevant Online | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 14 | As an author and , I use Google Books almost every day. It’s become the primary reason I even bother exploring non-fiction books online, rather than looking up an article on the same subject. Today, a U.S circuit judge that Google provides enormous benefit to society and authors, and denied the Author’s Guild’s copy... |
Email Is Now Just Another Stream | Contributor | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | Only a couple of years ago, pundits were predicting an end to email. But instead of fading away, there’s been ever-increasing email volume and usage. Rather than being replaced by Facebook and Twitter streams, email is actually becoming a stream itself. Mail systems are evolving to match the new volume of email, and ... |
Microsoft Matches PS4 Sales With 1 Million Xbox Ones In 24 Hours, But Takes 11 More Countries To Do It | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | Microsoft sent out some Xbox One PR today to various outlets, you may have seen the numbers. Over 1 million Xbox One ( ) consoles sold within 24 hours! That’s pretty good, and far better than the Xbox 360 sold on its opening day, marking a new record for Microsoft. But let’s make sure to put the numbers in perspective.... |
Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries | Klint Finley | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But there’s a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolution. Neoreactionaries believe that while technology and capitalism have advanced humanity over the past couple centuries... |
Google’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Doodle Pits You Against Daleks, Cybermen, And Weeping Angels | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | As we learned from that back in August, there’s some pretty strong Doctor Who love goin’ on at Google HQ. Today, just in time for the show’s 50th anniversary, the company found another way to fly that Whovian flag. This one’s not quite as hidden as the TARDIS egg, but you’ll still have to know where to look. Followin... |
Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green Hints At Further Windows Harmonization Across Device Classes | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | A recent written by includes a quote from a Microsoft leader that directly hints at future harmonization of the various strains of Windows across disparate device classes. According to Branscombe, Microsoft executive vice president said the following at a recent event [Insertion via CITEworld, formatting: TechCru... |
Twitter Enables Perfect Forward Secrecy Across Sites To Protect User Data Against Future Decryption | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | Twitter has enabled , website and API feeds in order to protect against future cracking of the service’s encryption. The PFS method ensures that, if the encryption key Twitter uses is cracked in the future, all of the past data transported through the network does not become an open book right away. “If an adversary i... |
IDrive Launches Facebook Backup So You Never Lose The Photos And Videos You Were Tagged In | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | , like most online backup services, has long focused on keeping the data on your local hard drive safe by backing it up to the cloud. Now, however, the company is launching a new product that expands its services beyond your local drive and deeper into the cloud. IDrive now allows you to also back up your pictures and ... |
Uber-For-Laundry Startup Washio Uses Ninjas To Get Your Dirty Clothes Clean | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | There’s no shortage of on-demand services popping up these days, as different startups each attempt to win the favor of users in specific verticals. One of the latest startups to launch in an “Uber-for-X” category is , which is seeking to bring the on-demand model to the way in which people get their laundry and dry c... |
Doom’s John Carmack Leaves id Software To Focus On The Oculus Virtual Reality Headset | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | Video game legend has , a company that he helped to found, to focus his energies on his role as the CTO of . It’s the end of an era, as Carmack wrote game franchises like Doom and Quake while at id. Carmack is renowned for his coding prowess, work with three-dimensional graphics, and building games that changed the... |
Travel Startup Triptrotting Relaunches As Wist, A Local Recommendations App For iPhone | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | Travel startup Triptrotting is relaunching today on mobile as , an app that gives you the top five personalized suggestions for dining and drink in any given neighborhood or city, based on your likes, plus friends’ and locals’ recommendations. The is debuting with support for Miami only, but will arrive in other lar... |
Turntable.fm Shutting Down So Company Can Focus On Turntable Live Events Platform | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | Today, Turntable.fm has that it will shut down its ‘virtual dj’ product entirely to focus on its new Turntable Live platform, which attempts to replicate the ‘being there’ experience of live performances. TechCrunch broke the news of Turntable.fm’s live event , but today the company has acknowledged that Turntable.f... |
Google Wants To Bring Glass To Optometrists’ Offices, But No Partnership Yet | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | According to a , Google is working with to bring Glass to optometrists’ offices. We have learned from sources close to Google, however, that Glass does not currently have any partnership with VSP (yet). So while the two companies may be exchanging ideas, as the WSJ reports, no formal relationship between the two com... |
Record Setting 32M Tuned In To Watch League Of Legend’s Season 3 Finals | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | Among the youngs, competitive gaming, often referred to as esports, is growing at a rapid pace. The world’s , League of Legends, this week reported the viewership figures for its recent Season 3 finals event that sold out the Staples Center in Los Angeles: , with peak concurrents spiking as high as 8.5 million. For c... |
Aufeminin Acquires Subscription Service And City Guide ‘My Little Paris’ For $90 Million | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | From little Parisian website to subscription service juggernaut, has come a long way. Earlier this week, acquired the company. We’ve learned from multiple sources that Aufeminin agreed to pay around $90 million (€66.7 million) for the acquisition. Part of Axel Springer, Aufeminin is one of the largest lifestyle web... |
Microsoft Now Shipping Kinect For Windows Preview Kits To “Thousands” Of Developers | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | Today that it is shipping developer preview kits of its new Kinect for Windows sensor and software. That means the company is getting the new Kinect (a pre-release version) and the code to run it into the hands of developers on the same day that the Xbox One launched. The Xbox One brings the living room variant of th... |
Announcing The 7th Annual Crunchies Awards | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | The glitz. The glamour. The nerds. It’s nearly time for the , where TechCrunch, Gigaom, and VentureBeat put aside the day-to-day blood sport of blogging and celebrate the best of technology. As in years past, the collective tech blog community will give awards to the best and brightest startups, founders, investors an... |
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KwikDesk, An Ephemeral Messaging Platform, Mulls Introducing Bitcoin | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | sprouted up this week called KwikDesk, dubbing itself as a “Snapchat Meets Twitter.” The service allows anyone to send self-destructing messages into the ether with tags, which can be used to later dig them back up in a search. It’s entirely anonymous, with no senders IP log or record of individual users. Senders can ... |
SEEiT, The Feature That Turns Twitter Into A Remote Control For Comcast Subscribers, Rolls Out This Week | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | A new feature on Twitter which will allow Comcast subscribers to tune to or record select television programs by clicking on tweets is now live. Last month, Twitter and Comcast a strategic partnership to introduce “See It” button in tweets, which Twitter users would tap on to immediately watch a live show or set th... |
BancBox Invest’s Crowdfunding API Processes $4M Inside Three Months | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | , a payment services platform similar to Stripe, has a platform allowing developers to build a lot of different payment services. Earlier this year it BancBox Crowd (now dubbed ), an escrow service aimed at crowdfunding portals that operate on equity, debt or revenue share models. It’s now announcing that 18 crowdIn... |
Android 4.4 KitKat Now Available For Google Play Editions Of HTC One And Samsung Galaxy S4 | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | Android 4.4 KitKat update is for people who use the Google Play editions of HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. They follow Motorola’s Moto X, which less than one month after Google revealed it. Back in October, Google that KitKat was designed to reach the next billion Android users in developing markets, which means th... |
Niche Raises $550K To Help Marketers Work With Social Media Celebrities | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 22 | Niche, a startup that connects brands with popular users on social media, has , and it’s also announcing that it has raised $550,000 in funding. Niche isn’t the first startup attempting to make money from celebrity-driven marketing campaigns on social networks — after all, . But the team seems to be working hard to r... |
Tagboard Revamps Its Cross-Platform Hashtag Aggregator | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | The hashtag has been , but the broader conversations often remain locked on one site or platform. A startup called is looking to change that, and today it’s launching version 2.0 of its product. Basically, Tagboard aggregates hashtag-associated content from across six social networks, including videos from Instagram... |
Omniata Is Building An Analytics, CRM Platform To Watch For The Digital Goods Era | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | Mobile gaming companies — the revenue gorillas of the iOS and Android platforms — are at the forefront of refining how virtual goods transactions are done. But attracting the kinds of users and retaining them is growing more complex with each month. It’s becoming a big data problem where top studios often rely on a h... |
Couric Hire Is Key To Yahoo’s Mobile Strategy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | A technology company hiring a media personality might not make sense at first, but if you dig through the company’s recent past, it begins to make more sense. In a widely leaked move, Yahoo has hired Katie Couric to be its . The role, kicking off in 2014, will frame Couric as the face and leading voice of Yahoo’s grow... |
QuizUp Sends Personal User Info To Strangers, Company Says Bug Contributed To Weakened Security | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | It’s only been two-and-a-half weeks since hit mobile trivia app began to . It’s fun, and it’s addictive*… but if you haven’t started playing yet, you might want to wait a little bit before downloading the app and connecting it to Facebook. That’s because one software developer claims to have uncovered what he views ... |
In Its First Acquisition, Byliner Buys Seesaw, The Startup Led By CoTweet Founders | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | , a startup offering and , just announced that it has acquired mobile developer . Seesaw launched an app of the same name that allowed users to collect opinions from friends, then followed it with . The company is also — it was founded by Aaron Gotwalt, Jesse Engle, and Kyle Sollenberger, who previously co-found... |
If Inaccuracy Were Illegal, The Feds Would Have To Regulate Most Health Gadgets | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | I wore a calorie counter that told me I was burning over 3,000 calories a day. If that were true, I would be emaciated enough to play Gollum in the next sequel. The accuracy of consumer health gadgets varies widely across the spectrum, yet this hasn’t stopped the FDA from popular genetic testing company 23andMe o... |
Sygic Fleshes Out Travel Experience With Features Powered By Groupon, Foursquare, And ParkMe | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | The offline navigation system is rounding out its offerings by integrating with Groupon, Foursquare, and ParkMe on a slew of new features for their U.S. and Canada user base. Although the Slovakian startup has accumulated 30 million users across 115 countries since 2004, Europe remains its biggest market. In order to... |
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Twitter Streamlines Its ‘Age Gate’ Process To Make Ads More Attractive To Adult Brands | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | Twitter introduced ‘age gate’ screening over a year ago in order to make the platform more legally sound for ‘adult’ brands like liquor and beer vendors. Today, it’s in its apps greatly in order to improve the follow rate and therefore the attractiveness of running an active account for those brands. The previous met... |
Google Gives Business Owners A Single Place Online To See All Their Customers’ Reviews | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | Google now makes it easier for business owners to see who is reviewing them across the web. Verified business owners who are already using the Places for Business user interface can now go to , where they’ll find a new “Reviews” section. There, they will find all of their customers’ online reviews and be able to res... |
Microsoft Confirms That “Excessive Profanity” In Xbox Upload Studio Videos Can Cost You Account Privileges | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | Reports have surfaced over the past 24 hours that Xbox users are after uploading profanity-laced videos. Xbox One customers complained that they were losing the ability to use Skype and other applications on their consoles. Microsoft today released a statement regarding the account bans, that swearing in private Sk... |
Insta-Sales? Soldsie Expands From Facebook-Based E-Commerce To Include Support For Instagram | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | Instagram isn’t only a place to share perfectly framed photos of sunsets and selfies – some business owners have realized that the site works for pushing product, too. Today, e-commerce startup , which previously focused only on businesses selling to their Facebook Page visitors, will now bring similar functionality t... |
Twitter Slips Below $40 As The NASDAQ And NYSE Flirt With Record Levels | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | Twitter’s stock is slipping today, shedding around 4.5 percent of its value in regular trading. That works out to around $1.3 billion in market capitalization, calculating with a fully diluted share count of 705,098,594. Its decline coincides with a very public record for the tech-heavy NASDAQ exchange, which traded o... |
Fly Or Die: Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | In early October, we brought you on the seven-inch Kindle Fire HDX, of which John is a huge fan. Today we bring you the seven-incher’s big brother, the . In terms of Amazon’s evolution as a hardware (and specifically tablet) company, the Fire HDX 8.9 is a markedly improved device from previous generations. It’s th... |
Google Opens Glass Mirror API To All Developers Even If They Don’t Have Glass | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | In the early days of , everybody who picked up their unit would also be whitelisted for access to the , as Google only wanted developers with access to the actual hardware to develop for the device. Well, those days are over. Google announced that the whitelist is now gone and the Mirror API is open to all. There a... |
Quad’s Mobile Messaging App For College Groups Supports 500-Person Chats | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | A new mobile chat application targeting college students, , is working to move student organizations off of email and onto smartphones for managing their group communications. Despite the popularity of mobile messaging applications, like WhatsApp, Kik, GroupMe and dozens of others, few of these can support a large num... |
Kingsoft Office Raises $50M From Morningside, GGV And Shunwei China Internet Fund | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | , which makes an office suite that competes with Microsoft Office, has landed $50 million in new funding from Morningside Group, GGV Capital and Shunwei China Internet Fund. The company, which recently incorporated in the U.S. and opened its North American headquarters in Palo Alto, will use its new capital to support ... |
Katie Couric’s Global Anchor Position At Yahoo Confirmed | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | TV personality Katie Couric will indeed by joining Yahoo as first reported by , the company announced via a blog post today. She starts the gig beginning “early 2014,” and will continue her hosting duties on ABC’s concurrently. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced the new hire today via a blog post on , using a terrib... |
Prompt.ly Raises $1.5M Seed To Become The OpenTable For Time And Services | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 11 | 25 | We’ve seen the rise of the ‘on-demand’ economy in the form of startups like TaskRabbit and FancyHands. What we have seen less of is a full-blown ‘platform play’ where it is not about connecting buyers and sellers (TaskRabbit) but about managing a business based on time (likeOpenTable). , which operates a service in th... |
Indian Streaming Music Dhingana Claims 9 Million Monthly Unique Users As It Hones Its Competitive Strategy | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Indian streaming music service says it now has 9 million unique users per month from around the world. As music streaming services around the world face down the international expansion of and , Dhingana CEO Rohit Bhatia says the startup is hedging its bets on a mobile-first strategy as well as growth in internati... |
Hey! You! Come Build Something Amazing At The Very First Disrupt Europe Hackathon | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | In just a few weeks, we’re bringing for the very first time — and with it, one of our big ol’ Hackathons. If you live in Europe and have never had the chance to build at one of our events, now’s your chance. Never been to one of our Hackathons? Here’s what you need to know: once you’re in, you’ve got just shy of 24 ... |
How Many Of Twitter’s 218 Million Users Are Just Blind-Tweeting From Other Apps? | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Being a communication backbone of the web has its pluses and minuses. Twitter gets lots of content syndicated from other sites, but those contributors don’t necessarily visit Twitter or see its ads. That last part is a problem, especially since these blind tweeters count as some of Twitter’s 218.3 million active users.... |
Twitter Has Been Making 80 Cents In Ad Revenue For Every Thousand ‘Timeline Views’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | If you’re reading Twitter’s to see where the business stands as it prepares to go public (hey, that’s what ), you may have noticed a number that comes up repeatedly: “advertising revenue per timeline view.” What does that actually mean? Twitter says that along with things like monthly active users, ad revenue per ti... |
Lyft Is Expanding Its Ride-Sharing Service To Silicon Valley | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Ride-sharing startup has been on a mission to make its mobile ride app available in various markets around the country, recently launching service in places like Dallas, Indianapolis, and St. Paul. But its newest market is a little closer to home: Beginning Friday evening, riders in certain parts of Silicon Valley wi... |
Oscar, The New York Health Startup Looking To Revolutionize Insurance, Launches | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | , the New York-based startup from Thrive Capital’s Josh Kushner, has finally launched. Their debut comes as the U.S. government unveils new health insurance exchanges where consumers can pick and choose plans. The startup, , is an insurer itself and is looking to make the consumer experience less opaque. They’ve launc... |
Twitter’s Accumulated Deficit Is $418.6 Million And That Figure Is About To Get Much Bigger | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | It costs a lot of money to build a business of Twitter’s scale. The company prior to its , which could total $1 billion itself. Here’s another figure: Twitter’s accumulated deficit to date is $418.6 million, a figure that will race to $748.2 million once it goes public and realizes $329.6 million in costs related to... |
Twitter’s International Revenue Is Skyrocketing, But The Company Is Worried About Sina Weibo And Line | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Twitter’s international revenue is up massively year over year, with the company earning more in the first half of 2013 from outside the United States than it did in all of 2012. Twitter’s full-year 2012 international revenue totaled $53 million, while its first two quarters of 2013 saw $62.8 million in international i... |
The Twitter IPO By The Numbers | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Here are some accumulated statistics from our scouring of the for your perusal. The overall numbers show a company with good but slowing growth in users, solid revenue in mobile but no profit yet to show. Twitter is absolutely a mobile-friendly company, with some 75 percent of its monthly active users coming on porta... |
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After Silk Road | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | The Internet routes around damage. With the fall of the comes the inevitable expectation that the underbelly of the Internet is somehow cut and something important has been removed like a dark organ of indeterminate worth and function. This is not true. As we well know, the Silk Road was not the first nor the last ... |
Rizvi/Sacca, Evan Williams, Spark Capital, USV, Benchmark, DST Among Twitter’s Largest Shareholders | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | As expected, Twitter’s , which states that the company is looking to raise as much as $1 billion in a public offering. As with every S-1 filing, the company reports which individuals/firms hold the most shares in the company. According to this , founder Evan Williams owns 12 percent of the company before the offering... |
Dell May Have A Winner With Its Windows-Powered Venue 8 Pro | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | The most pleasant surprise to come out of Dell’s press conference the other day wasn’t its line of new laptops or the silly Android tablets it’s trying to foist on weary consumers. To my utter shock it was the Venue 8 Pro, the company’s first pint-sized Windows 8 tablet. Let’s start with its looks. The lightweight, p... |
In Twitter’s IPO Filing, The Letter To Shareholders Is Fittingly Concise | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Everyone’s going crazy as Twitter just made for its IPO public. One of the standard parts of the S-1 is a letter from the CEO to shareholders, where they lay out their vision for the company. In Twitter’s filing, however, it’s a letter from “@Twitter”. And whereas the letters from , , and all clocked in at one or... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: Dude, No One’s Getting A Dell Venue Tablet | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Dell had an event this week, which is in itself noteworthy regardless of what they launch, but it turns out ! We talk about those for a while, as well as the , , Amazon’s , and briefly the . This week on the show prodigal son Chris Velazco returns from his many travels (we held the podcast a whole day to make sure... |
Twitter Files For $1 Billion IPO, Will List As TWTR | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Twitter has just . The company is looking to raise $1 billion in this initial offering, which is set to mint many millionaires among shareholders and founders like Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone. Currently, the filing does not list a valuation, and sources are saying that’s because they have yet to determine o... |
Mobile Twitter: 164M+ (75%) Access From Handheld Devices Monthly, 65% Of Ad Sales Come From Mobile | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Twitter started on mobile, and that’s where the service is going. In the that the company filed today for its public offering, Twitter called mobile the “primary driver of our business.” It said that 75 percent of its 218.3 million+ monthly active users are accessing the site from mobile devices — or 161.25 million u... |
Why Did Apple Buy Cue? Because Google Now Eats Siri’s Lunch | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Apple has Cue, for over $40M. Why? Because Google is absolutely murdering Apple when it comes to the utility of Google Now. Apple is likely to use the acquisition, or its talent, to bolster the offerings of its Today section with additional signals curated from email, social networks and more. This would improve the ... |
Adobe Gets Hacked, Product Source Code And Data For 2.9M Customers Likely Accessed | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | Uh oh — Adobe has just that one of their servers has been hacked. While their investigations are still ongoing, Adobe has shared a few details on what they believe could have been accessed and obtained in the hack — and it’s a big one. From what Adobe has shared so far, it sounds like the hackers had access to encryp... |
Shumway, Mozilla’s HTML5-Based Flash Player Replacement, Lands In Firefox Nightly | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 10 | 3 | , Mozilla’s technology experiment to build an efficient, web-native renderer for Flash files, has now in the latest . The idea behind this project – which is still far from being production-ready – is to fully replace the Flash Player to display SWF files by using HTML5 and JavaScript. Back in the late 90s, Macromed... |
Inside The Grace Hopper Celebration, Where Thousands Of Women Are United By Tech | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | It makes sense that Hopper is a unique kind of gathering, since it is dedicated to a very unique person: was a pioneering technologist who was one of the first computer programmers, and she had a real knack for being able to explain computer science in . Hopper passed away at the age of 85, and two years later h... |
Filing Says Sleep- And Health-Tracking Startup Lark Is Raising Another $3.6M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | , which onstage at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference back in 2010, has raised $3.1 million of an intended $3.6 million round of funding, according to . I’ve emailed the company and its CEO Julia Hu for confirmation, and I’ll update this post if I hear back. The filing doesn’t specify the investors in the new round, bu... |
Saps Looking For Twitter Bounce Penny Stock 1,400%, Telegraph Strong Retail Interest In Its IPO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | I have all my money under a mattress in fear of a debt ceiling collapse, and people are buying stock because they think an S-1 means the company has started trading. Let’s rewind: Twitter has . Its stock symbol, when it commences trading, . Another firm, Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, which is out of business foll... |
Skype Will Finally Start Syncing Chat Messages Across Devices | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | If you use on your phone and desktop, you know how annoying its inability to effectively keep your chat message status in sync between different machines can be. After you start Skype on your phone, for example, it downloads and alerts you of all of the sometimes hundreds of messages you’ve received since you last sh... |
Pinterest Or Pintrips? Pinterest Files A Trademark Infringement Suit Against Travel Planning Startup | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | has made a point of the many social media companies that riff on Pinterest in their own brand names, with some of the more prominent of these going so far as to . And as for the rest? Get ready to go to court. Today Pinterest filed a suit against , a personal travel planning startup, accusing it of trademark infr... |
Twitter’s M&A Has Ballooned From $52.2M Last Year To Over $417.5M In 2013 | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | When it comes to acquisitions, it’s clear that Twitter had been spending more money on acquiring technologies and talent in 2013 than in the past few years. According to the company’s recently Twitter spent $52.2 million in cash and stock on acquisitions in 2012. In the first half of 2013, Twitter spent double that, ... |
Ask A VC: Battery Ventures’ Brian O’Malley On AngelList Syndicates And The Importance Of A Lead Investor | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we welcomed Battery Ventures’ general partner Brian O’Malley into the studio to talk about his perspective on the latest topic du jour, O’Malley, who leads Battery’s Seed & Early Stage practices, explained how he thinks AngelList Syndicates will effect the investment ecosystem. We... |
Elon Musk Details Cause Of Tesla Model S Fire, Says It Would Have Been Worse With Gas | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken to the today to talk about a Tesla Model S fire that caught the this week. Musk says that the fire was caused by a piece of a tractor-trailer that punctured the battery compartment of the car with a “peak force on the order of 25 tons.” The owner of the car, says Musk, was able to pull... |
Deep Web Users Are Ready To Launch Silk Road 2.0 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | In an by the creators of the defunct anonymous marketplace there is information that the former admins and users of the are planning to resurrect the service. User RR writes: “We have SilkRoad v2.0 ready to launch and is now in its final testing stages. Our site has all the features of the original one and we hav... |
Hands-On With The Kickstarted Bohemian Guitar Company’s ‘Oil Can’ Guitars | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | In order to put our money where our hype is we like to take a closer look at products we’ve talked about on the site. Today we have the Bohemian Guitar Company’s “oil can” guitars, a that raised $54,000 – $20K over their $32,000 goal. The company, based in Georgia, just started shipping their cleverly-designed gitf... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | Welcome to our continuing series featuring videos of robots that will, when they become autonomous, hunt us down and force us to work in the graphene factories of Mars. Below we see Wild Cat, a fully untethered remote control quadrupedal robot made by , creators of the . This quadruped can run up to 16 miles an hour ... |
YourMechanic Introduces Pre-Purchase Car Inspections So You Don’t Buy A Lemon | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | Before you buy a used vehicle, it’s always a good idea to take the car to a mechanic. Knowing what’s wrong with a car before you buy it could save you a lot of headaches down the line, and it could help you negotiate the price of the vehicle. now wants to make it easier for used car purchasers to get vehicles check... |
This Week On The Gadgets Podcast: Silk Road, Instagram Ads, BBM, And The Z30 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | An anonymous, underground drug trafficking web site has been busted and the founder has been arrested, effectively shutting down a $1 billion+ revenue business after two years. And in softer tech news, Instagram has revealed plans to over the next couple months. Meanwhile, BlackBerry continues to be in shambles, wi... |
General Assembly Shuts Down Co-Working Space In NYC To Focus On Education | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | After three years of offering co-working spaces to young startups and entrepreneurs, General Assembly has decided to shut down the co-working brand of its business in 2014, according to multiple sources as well as . According to the post, it simply makes more economic sense to shut down the co-working branch of the c... |
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Twitter Vs. Facebook IPO In One Chart | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | In the near future, anyone with an Internet connection and some lunch money will be able to invest in one of Silicon Valley’s hottest tech companies. But after big brother , should America’s armchair investors pin their hopes and dreams on Silicon Valley’s younger sibling? We help you compare in one easy chart. The di... |
Video Automation Startup IRIS.TV Launches With $1.7M In Funding To Keep You Tuned In Longer | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | A new startup in Los Angeles called wants to give video publishers the tools to make streaming video more personalized and keep viewers hooked for longer. The company is coming to market with $1.7 million in seed funding from angels in the media and finance worlds. IRIS.TV was founded by the folks behind , which sou... |
Locca Wants To Stop You Losing Stuff — Or Your Kids — With Its SIM-Packing GPS Trackers | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | You wait ages for a lost-item tracker hardware startup, and then loads and loads pile on at once. There have been a spate of such startups cropping up on crowdfunding sites in recent times — notably , which raised back in July, although it won’t be shipping product until next year. Others hoping to attack the space ... |
iCloud Alternative Loom Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | A startup called , which begin its life as the Y Combinator-backed photo-sharing startup Popset, is working to build a better iCloud for both consumers and developers. Currently, the company offers a cloud storage and syncing service, in the form of a mobile application for iOS and desktop app for Mac. And today, Loom... |
Gillmor Gang Live 10.04.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | – John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Like the Gillmor Gang on Facebook at facebook.com/gillmorgang |
White House’s Deputy Tech Advisor Turns To Bartending Amid Shutdown | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 4 | [tweet https://twitter.com/KateNocera/statuses/384128161535262720] Here’s a novel way to spend some mandatory vacation time: serve your fellow co-workers top-shelf alcohol. The government shutdown has most of Washington’s public sector furloughed, so Tom Power — the White House’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer — . Wa... |
CrunchWeek: Twitter’s S-1, The Silk Road Shutdown, And The Rumored Amazon Phone | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 5 | So this is what is like without adult supervision. Leena Rao and Colleen Taylor, the show’s two regular hosts, were both out of town this week, but there was still plenty of news for TechCrunch writers — specifically , and me — to talk about. We weighed in on the anticipation around Twitter’s IPO filing ( ), the... |
An AngelList Syndicates FAQ For Entrepreneurs | Contributor | 2,013 | 10 | 5 | Investors have been talking this past week about AngelList Syndicates and its nuances and potential implications, but mostly as it all relates to investing. Having run two of the first six Syndicates on AngelList – successfully generating over $800K in reservations and oversubscribing both in under 24 hours – I’ve in... |
Gillmor Gang: IPOed | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 10 | 5 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — Sure, we talked about the Twitter IPO, about the Bitcoin Bust, about whether Apple is a hardware or software company, and other stuff. Looming in the background was the idea that our politics have atrophied yet more to compl... |
Twitter Quitters And The Unfiltered Feed Problem | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 5 | At its heart, Twitter is a firehose. Everything you tweet shows up to every one of your followers. It’s what makes Twitter feel like the real-time pulse of the world. But it could also be preventing Twitter from growing. Follow too many people, and you lose track of those you love and stop following anyone new. Imagine... |
Meet The New Serfs, Same As The Old Serfs | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 10 | 5 | Once upon a time there were things called , and they were well understood. People went to work for companies, in offices or in factories. There were exceptions — artists, aristocrats, entrepreneurs — but they were rare. Laws, regulations, and statistics were based on this assumption; but, increasingly, what people do ... |
The Potential And Pitfalls Of Twitter’s Mobile Business | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 5 | Twitter has millions of monthly users, growing revenue, brand awareness, a propensity for breaking news, and data ripe for mining. Adding to this, Twitter’s main feed allows advertisers and media outlets to grab users’ eyeballs in a time when so many are looking away from the big screens in their living rooms to the sm... |
Founder Institute Says It Has Graduated More Than 1,000 Companies | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 5 | Adeo Ressi, founder of the startup incubator, recently told me that FI has hit a big milestone — more than 1,000 (1,003 at the time of our conversation) companies have graduated from the program. A mind-boggling number of incubators and accelerators have launched in the past few years. That seems doubly true when you... |
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Google, SAP, Cisco & Samsung Among Potential Tech Buyers For Some Or All Of BlackBerry, Says Reuters | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 10 | 5 | Google, SAP and Cisco are among a number of technology companies interested in buying up portions — or all — of BlackBerry’s business, according to , which cites several sources close to the matter. BlackBerry has also apparently asked for preliminary expressions from Intel, LG and Samsung, by early next week. Portio... |
Siri 2.0? Skyphrase Wants To Make Data More Accessible With Natural Language, Starting With Analytics & Fantasy Sports | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | With an increasing number of commercial applications relying on its technology, natural language processing (NLP) has started to come into its own of late. After years of research and experimentation, it has emerged from geeky obscurity and into the limelight — thanks to Watson, Siri and Nuance’s Dragon, among others. ... |
Quantopian, A Community Of Quants, Picks Up $6.7M From Khosla, Spark | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | , a community where around 11,000 or so quants collaborate on algorithmic trading strategies, has raised $6.7 million from Khosla Ventures and Spark Capital. The new round brings the company’s total funding to $8.8 million. Quantopian says it is the world’s first browser-based algorithmic trading platform. Developers c... |
Penn Jillette Turns To FundAnything To Become A Bad Guy | Cyan Banister | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igZYs5T-jr8&w=420&h=315] Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller fame is about as nice as they come. And he’s super sick of it. So he wrote a movie called “Director’s Cut” in which he will no longer be the hero. His role is so bad, in fact, that he decided not to pitch the script to Holly... |
Cue, The Startup Formerly Known As Greplin, Shuts Down Its App | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | , the personal assistant app that grew out of a promising search product, has shut down. The company left a brief note on . Cue is Shutting Down We appreciate all of the support from you, our users, as Cue has grown over the last few years. However, the Cue service is no longer available. Cue Premium users who regist... |
You’ve Got Until Sunday To Apply For San Francisco’s Entrepreneurship In Residence Program | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Last month, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee program for startups solving public sector problems. Now there’s an actual application deadline and that deadline (this Sunday, October 6) is coming up. In some ways, the program’s head, Rahul Mewawalla (he’s on the right of the photo with Lee and Lee’s chief innovation officer ... |
Veteran Travel Search Engine Skyscanner Lands “One Of Largest” Sequoia Investments To Date At $800M Valuation | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | In travel search, most young people’s memories don’t extend much further back than Kayak, which began appearing, circa 2004. Though its name may be slightly less familiar among American travelers, is today one of the largest flight search engines on the Web, and outdates Kayak, with its origins going back all the way... |
Amazon’s Smartphones Detailed: ‘Project Smith’ 3D Flagship Model And A Value Handset With FireOS | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Amazon is in the process of developing two smartphones, one inexpensive model and one with a 3D eye-tracking interface, TechCrunch has learned. The details are somewhat sparse, but are corroborated by sources and reports from earlier this year. Amazon is planning two devices, the first of which is the previously rumore... |
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