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“Piano Hero” Concept Video Makes Me Want To Try To Learn The Piano For The 500th Time | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Take a piano. Strap a projector above it. Build a Guitar Hero-esque interface that shows upcoming notes, and project it down onto the Piano’s top surface and keys. What do you get? The piano instructor of . Or, at least, a piano instructor that won’t yell at you and make you wish you decided to stick with soccer after... |
Sen. Feinstein Claims The NSA Does Collect Phone Call Location Information, Contradicting The NSA | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Today Senator Feinstein stated that the NSA phone metadata program that collects records on the telephone calls of American citizens includes location information. Previously, head of the NSA, General Keith B. Alexander, stated that the NSA was collecting call location data under the authority of Section 215 of the P... |
Google Acquires YC-Backed Flutter, A Gesture Recognition Technology Startup, For Around $40M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Glass, Android and other products may soon be picking up more Kinect-style gesture features: the company has bought , a Y Combinator-backed startup that focuses on gesture recognition technology. Its first and only product — an app that provides gesture detection and recognition from standard webcam devices — will re... |
How Microsoft Built The Cameras In The Upcoming Kinect | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Earlier this week I traveled to Microsoft’s Mountain View campus to play with the company’s new Kinect sensor. While there I met with a few of the team’s engineers to discuss how they had built the new device. Up front, two things: The new Kinect sensor is far cooler than I expected. Also, I touched an Xbox One. The st... |
TC Cribs: ModCloth, Where Playing Dress-Up Is All In A Day’s Work | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Welcome back to a new episode of , the video series that steps inside the gates of the hottest technology companies around to get a good look at the places, people, and oftentimes pets behind the web’s most popular products. It’s not often that visiting a tech startup inspires you to amp up your wardrobe. But that’s e... |
Facebook And Cisco Let Brick-&-Mortars Demand Customers Check-In To Get Wi-Fi | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Restaurants, hotels, and other businesses are spending a lot to provide customers with free Wi-Fi. Today Facebook and Cisco roll out a way to help any brick-and-mortar recoup its costs by asking users to check-in to get Internet access. Those who oblige get dropped on the business’ Facebook Page, and their anonymous, a... |
Dell Tries To Crack The Android Tablet Code (Again) With The Venue 7 & 8 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Dell rounded up a slew of journalists in New York today to show off a number of new gadgets — including some shiny new XPS notebooks and convertibles — but the company is finally making good on promises of a big tablet push. And among that portfolio of tablets are two low-cost options that run Android. Really, Dell? ... |
Tesla Takes A Breather Passing $184/Share Due To Outstanding Convertible Debt, Warrants | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Tesla has been on a tear in 2013, showing its first quarterly profit, raising $1 billion in cash, paying off its government loan, and enjoying a more than 400% gain in its share price year to date. Today, however, Tesla slipped 6%, settling around the $180 per share mark. After having risen to a 52 week high of $191.83... |
Gay Gets Better (And More Targeted): Say Hello To The Next Generation Of Grindr | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | Boys who prefer kissing other boys will be glad to know that Grindr, the location-based hookup app focused on gay men, has today released a huge update with a handful of new features and a brand new look and feel, including an all-new logo. To date, has over 7 million downloads worldwide, with over one billion chat m... |
RadiumOne Finalizes IPO Plan As It Hits ~$100M In AdTech Revenue | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | RadiumOne is completing the selection of which bankers will underwrite its IPO, which it plans to secretly file for soon, according to a source close to its Wall Street negotiations. The advertising tech company is said to have nearly $100 million in yearly revenue, and hopes to draft off of successful IPOs by fellow a... |
Court Docs Reveal Reputed Silk Road Founder’s Alleged Murder-For-Hire Plot | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | For two and a half years, Silk Road was the Deep Web’s worst-kept secret. The underground site was infamous for drug trafficking, gun running and murder for hire – a veritable rogues gallery for underground dealers. Since launching in 2011, the site generated over $1.2 billion in revenue and $79.8 million in commission... |
LinkedIn’s Mobile Update Telegraphs Its Interest In Endorsement Data | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | LinkedIn has updated its with the ability to create endorsements for your connections right from your smartphone or tablet. The move demonstrates how important LinkedIn feels that this endorsement data is to its growing trove of signals. The app has also been updated to look more ‘iOS 7-ready’ and has a new on-boardi... |
CardFlight, The Stripe For Real-World Payments, Has Raised $1.6 Million From ff Venture Capital | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 2 | was founded to enable any developer to create his or her own branded app and take in-person credit card payments from it. To accomplish this, it’s raised $1.6 million in funding as it moves to support more customers with its card reader and mobile SDKs. The company received $1.6 million in funding that was led by ff V... |
Field Testing Microsoft’s New Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2 Tablet Hybrids | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Microsoft has two new Surface tablets that are currently up for preorder, as well as a crop of refreshed accessories. I’ve had the Surface 2, Surface Pro 2, and new Touch and Type covers for a few days now, and can report on their performance. The above video clip has all the hardware specifics that you could possibl... |
AmEx Partners With VeriFone To Allow NYC Taxi Passengers To Pay For Cab Fares With Rewards Points | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Similar to other credit cards, AmEx card holders have been able to use the rewards points they earn for flights hotels, retail purchases and access to concerts and sports events. Today, AmEx is taking this a step further by allowing users to access membership rewards points at point of sale, via a VeriFone integration.... |
Ketchuppp Is An App That Wants To Help Friends Catch Up In Person — Not On Facebook | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Are you spending too much time looking at what your friends are posting on Instagram and Facebook and not enough time hanging out with each other IRL? The founders of Ketchuppp think so. And their answer to this problem is, of course, another app that’s designed to help you meet your buddies when you happen to be near ... |
HTC’s CEO Sheds Some Operational Responsibility To Focus On Product Amid Falling Market Share | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Today that HTC’s CEO Peter Chou will relinquish some of his daily operational responsibilities to Cher Wang, another of the company’s founders. Chou will use his now freer schedule to focus on HTC’s smartphones. HTC is a . Ascendent during the early boom times of the Android ecosystem, HTC has suffered from bleeding... |
Apple Pushes New Version Of OS X Mavericks GM To Quash Last Minute Bugs | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | The consensus is that Apple currently plans on announcing the details of OS X Mavericks availability and pricing during this . We’re hearing that, in order to kill some last-minute bugs, a quiet update has been made to the previously shipped out to developers. Apple has pushed out updated “Gold Master” versions of i... |
What Games Are: A Farewell To Games Stores | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | There are sudden goodbyes and there are long goodbyes. In technology and media industries more usually the latter. Entropy sets in slowly, like a cancer or Alzheimers, and little things start unravelling bit by bit until one day you notice how everything changed but you’re not sure why. It’s like that with game retail.... |
VCs Try A New Method: Curated Events | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | VCs have long thrown events for portfolio startups to share knowledge, and learn from each other and from previous successful entrepreneurs. Last year’s Kleiner Perkins featured fireside chats with Bill Gates, Colin Powell and Al Gore. last year included Sergey Brin and Ron Conway, among others. And most other firm... |
With Backing From Resolute, Mafia Wars, Tapjoy Founders & More, OKpanda Wants To Bring Better English Language Learning To Asia | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Learning a new language isn’t easy; it takes a lot of patience, time, effort and a good teacher. The other challenge? Just as the definition of a “good” teacher varies depending on the student, there usually isn’t a “right” way to learn (or teach) a new language. As the Web and its content distribution and communicatio... |
The NSA Hacked Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s Email While He Was In Office | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden demonstrate that the National Security Agency (NSA) hacked the email of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon while he was in office, according to . The operation, dubbed “Flatliquid,” exploited a mail server to garner access to the account. The compromised s... |
Cooliris Reports Big Growth in Asia And 3B Connected Photos | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Over the past year, photo app has been announcing a number of international partnerships with companies like , , and . Earlier this week I met with Cooliris CEO Soujanya Bhumkar and VP of Business Development Sebastian Blum, who told me that these efforts have been paying off. There are now 3 billion photos connec... |
Rethinking The Seductiveness Of Mobile-First | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | TechCrunch For the past few months, my weekly column here has been focused on some aspect of “mobile.” There’s no denying the scope of the platform shift, user volume, and consumer attention. Yet, for startups, being “mobile-first” in today’s market is a dicey proposition given the harsh realities of distribution and t... |
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Skim Is Snapchat For Text | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Serious question: Which would you prefer? To have all of your chat conversations instantly deleted upon receipt (Snapchat-style), or to keep a record of each and every word forever on the Internet? A new app, , is looking to answer that question. Not unlike , a , the app automatically deletes the message as soon as ... |
Apple Product Placement Architect Suzanne Lindbergh Confirms Departure To Jawbone | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Apple executive Suzanne Lindbergh, who has been with the company for 25 years, confirmed via email today that she has accepted a new position with speaker and Bluetooth accessory maker Jawbone. The marketing specialist had the official title of “Worldwide Director of Buzz Marketing” at Apple, which put her in charge of... |
Twitter’s #Music App Could Be On The Way Out, Says New Report | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Twitter’s #Music app, which offered social music discovery culled from activity on the 140-character sharing service, is reportedly nearing the end of its brief life, according to a new . Twitter is “strongly considering” shuttering the mobile app, after its download and usage numbers have dropped precipitously follow... |
How Healthcare.gov Doomed Itself By Screwing Startups | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 20 | Healthcare.gov, a government-run e-commerce website for the Affordable Care Act, does not actually need to exist. The still-dysfunctional federal site could have offloaded all of the work to startups, which were already building more sophisticated price-comparison alternatives to the official site, just like Orbitz doe... |
Apple Employees Jokingly Referred To Gold iPhone 5s As ‘The Kardashian Phone’ | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | Internally, the gold iPhone 5s was jokingly referred to as ‘The Kardashian Phone’ by some Apple employees. This fact was today and we confirmed the nickname with our sources. Yes, we asked this question of our sources. Apparently this was not a serious ‘code name’ or anything, just an internal joke. Kim Kardashian, o... |
Monica+Andy, A Children’s Clothing Line And Online Store From Bonobos Founder’s Sister, Debuts | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | , a new children’s clothing line and online store launching in early November, has the benefit of receiving input from a famous name in the e-commerce space: the “Andy” in “Monica+Andy” is , CEO of men’s fashion brand, Bonobos. Now his sister, Monica Royer, is getting into the business too, but with a completely diffe... |
Ask A VC: Greylock’s Simon Rothman On Disruptive Marketplaces, Greymarket And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | In this week’s Ask A VC, we were joined by Greylock’s newest partner, Simon Rothman, to talk about future disruptive marketplaces and more. Rothman, who is spearheading Greylock’s new $100 million commitment to investing in marketplaces, led U.S. operations and founded eBay Motors, which he built into a $14 billion a... |
Wolfram Alpha Launches Problem Generator To Help Students Learn Math | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | If you’re studying math or science, you are probably pretty familiar with as a tool for figuring out complicated equations. That makes it a pretty good tool for cheating, but not necessarily for learning. Today, the Wolfram Alpha team is a new service for learners, the , that turns the “computational knowledge eng... |
U.S. Cellular Gets The iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on November 8th | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | U.S. Cellular, the 5th largest wireless network in the US, has announced today that it will get the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on November 8th. Subscribers on the network have been champing at the bit for the announcement and Twitter is that they still hadn’t announced a date that the device would come to the carrier fo... |
Capo 3 Released, Allows Guitarists To Learn Hot Licks And Cool Jams | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | As TechCrunch’s resident guitarist/horrible guitarist, I enjoy apps like . The $29 program allows you to “reverse engineer” any song in your iTunes library, allowing you to play along by marking out your own tablature, playing the chords the app senses in the music, or by looping and slowing down tricky parts of the s... |
Gillmor Gang 10.18.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | – Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang |
Why The Outlook For High-Skilled Immigration Reform In 2013 Remains Troubled | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | Coming off of what can only be called a political victory in the shutdown and debt limit crisis, President Obama is making noise about reviving comprehensive immigration reform from its dead status. Don’t get too excited. Following his win, the president appears to feel it’s time to push an issue that was all but writt... |
Occipital Raises $1M (And Counting) On Kickstarter To Bring 3D Scanning To The Masses | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | Boulder & SF-based startup is probably still best known for its Red Laser and 360Panorama apps, but it confirmed today that it raised over $1 million on Kickstarter to bring its Structure 3D sensor to market. The Structure though. It’s an incredibly small one — so small, in fact, that it can onto the back of your iP... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Windows 8.1, The Kindle Fire HDX, And Curved Display Smartphones | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | That’s right. It’s Gadgets Podcast time once again, and all I can say is TGIF. Here are some of our topics this week: Who’s already upgraded to Windows 8.1? John had no trouble with it but Matt . Meanwhile, we’ve been testing out the new Amazon , and we all pretty much agree that it’s a fine media-centric tablet and ... |
Google Partners With Facebook To Let DoubleClick Clients Buy Retargeted Ads On FBX | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | Google and Facebook are getting a bit friendlier despite their social networking competition. Google’s DoubleClick ad buying software will . FBX, Facebook’s retargeted ads platform, has become a major player in the 16 months since launch, and DoubleClick will be a more comprehensive ad buying solution by tapping into ... |
High School Athlete Site beRecruited Secretly Acquired Last Year By Raine Group For $17M-$22M | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | , the “LinkedIn for high school athletes” looking to be recruited by college teams, was secretly acquired by private equity firm , sources tell me and beRecruited now verifies. Sources with knowledge of the deal confirm Raine paid between $17 million and $22 million for beRecruited because of its growth momentum and l... |
Hybrid Data Storage And Backup Company Nimble Storage Files For $150M IPO | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | Nimble Storage, the developer of flash-optimized, hybrid storage and backup solutions for the enterprise, has filed its with the SEC today. The company aims to raise as much as $150 million in the offering, but this is just a placeholder amount and could change. Founded by former Data Domain and NetApp executives Var... |
Nokia Quietly Shuttering Pioneering Location Network Dopplr Nov 1st, 4 Years After Acquisition | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | Nokia has very quietly shuttered the social travel service Dopplr today, just over four years after acquiring it back in 2009. Nokia placed an that says the service will be closed down as of November 1st. The notice indicates that users will only be able to download their data until that date: As of November 1st, 201... |
Digital Loyalty Platform Pirq Launches Nationwide, Gives Up On Daily Deals | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | Seattle-based , a digital loyalty and deals platform provider, is now moving away from the deal space entirely, the company says. In addition to deals, the startup had earlier been testing a digital loyalty program which includes smartphone apps that allow consumers to earn rewards at nearby businesses, and going forw... |
Virgin Galactic Wants To Do Moon Cruises, Replace The Concorde For Terrestrial Travel | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | Virgin Galactic is starting off , which is pretty cool… if you’re a billionaire. But the startup’s (yes, it’s a startup, even with Richard Branson at the helm) Commercial Director Stephen Attenborough took the stage at Wired 2013 in London today to talk a bit more about what the space travel company wants to do beyond... |
Motorola Is Becoming Google’s Surface | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | Motorola isn’t doing very well as a part of Google. In Google’s most , Motorola garnered revenue of $1.18 billion. Not a small number, but a mere 8% of its parent company’s consolidated revenue. And, in the comparable third quarter of 2012, its revenue totaled $1.78 billion. That’s a decline of 34% in a year, even wit... |
Kickstart This Oscilloscope Watch To See Your Hardware Beat To The Beat Of The Drums | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | Some day, archeologists will look back on our civilization and wonder why we had so many smartwatches. Case in point: by Gabriel Anzziani is a wild little bit of gear that adds the power of a fully-functional oscilloscope to your wrist. Why? Because don’t worry about it, that’s why. The watch contains a small a whi... |
Automatic Link Review Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Realtime Driving Feedback | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 18 | to get off my chest: I live in New Jersey, so by definition that makes me a “Jersey driver”. I’ve never thought of myself as the sort of manically aggressive road warrior that befits the stereotype (and I’d argue that Pennsylvania drivers are way worse), but Link dongle begs to differ. It’s been plugged into my car ... |
Meet Telegram, A Secure Messaging App From The Founders Of VK, Russia’s Largest Social Network | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | Created by the founders of Russia’s biggest social networking platform, is a new messaging app that offers speed, security and features such as secret chats with end-to-end encryption and self-destructing messages. Brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, who launched (originally called VKontakte) in 2006, began working o... |
Nielsen’s New SDK Adds Mobile Viewing To Its Traditional TV Ratings, Uses Data From Facebook To Match Demographics | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | After months of trials, today is an SDK that will give it the ability to measure how people view TV on mobile apps and other digital formats. Nielsen plans to use this data alongside its core business measuring traditional TV viewing, an essential component for how broadcasters ultimately sell ads against that cont... |
What Games Are: The Future Of Pervasive Games | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | Pervasive gaming is a well-worn idea that’s drifted through the pages of design theory for at least 20 years. It’s the idea of a game that goes beyond the bounds of one screen. You’d play your game on your computer and then go out into the world with your PDA and keep playing. Your game would seep in to your life in a ... |
Qualcomm: Nokia Lumia 2520 “Bigger, Faster, Lower Power” Than Microsoft’s Surface 2 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | If you, like me, took some offline time this weekend, we’re a bit late to the latest slap fight in the world of Windows RT. Until recently, there was only one functional player in the Windows RT space – Microsoft, and its Surface 2 tablet – but Nokia has stepped into the ring, and one of its suppliers is talking a litt... |
The Nexus 5 Gets A New Color And A New Rumored Launch Date | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | There really isn’t much we know about Google and LG’s new Nexus 5 at this point — a blew the door open on plenty of technical details, and Google even “accidentally” outed the device in the Google Play Store, giving us a $349 price tag for the base 16GB model. Now, thanks to the one and only , we’ve gotten yet anot... |
“Post-Print” Startup Stateless Media Creates Short, Smart Documentaries For The Web | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | My recent conversation with Stateless Media’s Peter Savodnik was a bit discombobulating. He’s had what seems like a successful career in longform journalism, with publications in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and . Yet he sounded awfully pessimistic about print — and as someone who makes his ... |
Fitwall Is A Gym That Knows If You’re Working Out Too Hard, Or Not Hard Enough | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | Many earnest novice gym-goers have a commitment that won’t outlast a green banana. One problem is that newbies exert themselves too much and drop their membership before their overly worked muscles have time to recover. On the other end of the six-pack spectrum, Brad Pitt-looking characters may skate by without break... |
Foursquare PreCheck-In Wins The First Disrupt Europe Hackathon, Teleapp And Colorful Gift Place Second And Third | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | TechCrunch Disrupt Europe’s first-ever hackathon has just concluded, and the judges have crowned a winner. There were 91 companies presenting hacks at this year’s inaugural event, and 24 hours after they sat down and started hacking, the teams stood up on stage and ran through 60-second demos of what they built. Our pa... |
Pretzels, Backrubs, And Booze: Late Night At The Disrupt Europe Hackathon | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | But then the pretzels and popcorn came out. Beer was served. And everyone got a second wind. Plus, the sponsored masseuse helped calm sore backs. I know he helped me. The attendees made it through the night and eventually formed more than a 100 teams to present the next morning.
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Fancy Hands Enhances Mobile Search In Novel Ways | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | TechCrunch This weekly column has been focused on mobile lately and will likely stay this way. Last week, I wrote from a devil’s advocate position to consider situations in which entrepreneurs may not want to enter the market “mobile-first.” This week, I want to take a slightly different approach and highlight one app ... |
Twpple Hack, Built By Kenyan Duo, Connects Small Businesses With Social Media “Big Wigs” | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | Here at the TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Hackathon, Sam Gichuru (left) and Billy Odero spent the night working on a neat hack to help small businesses promote themselves by tapping into social network influencers. The hack, called Twpple, is designed to give smaller outlets, such as kebab shops, market stalls, hair salons... |
Truly.am Uses Facial Recognition To Help You Verify Your Online Dates | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | One of the coolest hacks we saw at the today was built by two coders from Uruguay who have been hacking their way around the world for the last few months. Truly.am lets you verify who you are talking to online. Say somebody on Facebook or a dating site sends you a picture. How do you know they really are the person ... |
Here Comes The Disrupt Europe Hackathon Hot Dog Cam! | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | Sometimes you just want a hot dog. That’s why we drove a GoPro mounted to a shopping cart around the Disrupt Europe Hackathon where we saw some of the happiest hackers in the world enjoying fine tubesteak and donuts. Why did we film this? Because we could. Keep up with and our new . |
Beatcoin Is A Music Jukebox Hack Powered By Bitcoin Micropayments | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | Why did music jukeboxes disappear? They were probably the first truly social experience around music, but then everybody stopped using them. Meet , a nifty hack that was presented onstage at the . The team turned everyone’s phone into a jukebox. Every bar owner can start accepting Bitcoins to play the songs on his or... |
ION Glasses Are The Unobtrusive Notifications System You Wear On Your Face | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Google Glass, Google schmass. What you really want on your face are these puppies. ION Glasses are sunglass or prescription glasses frames with a built-in LED, Bluetooth stack, and tiny button controller. What do they do? Well the LED lights up to notify you of new messages – you can set different people to different c... |
Watch The Disrupt Europe Hackathon Right Here | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 27 | Here at , coders, hackers, engineers and designers spent the last 24 hours to try to build the best product possible. There have been trials and tribulations, and quite a bit of Club Mate, and it all culminates today with the Hackathon presentations. We have around 100 hacks hitting the Disrupt stage, each getting... |
Yahoo Acquires Bread, Will Shut Down The URL Shortener That Earned You Money | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Yahoo has , a 2.5 year old startup that had raised $3.5 million [Update: and we hear was low on cash and shopping itself around to several companies]. Bread let people make money or generate donations by designing interstitial ads. These ads could promote a product or cause and would be shown to people who click links... |
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Memo From AOL Mgmt Re: Use Of TechCrunch Editorial Branding For Personal Pranks | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Dear [Name Unknown, possibly Chris Smith?], It has come to our attention that you recently used a fake, mocked-up version of our technology editorial “blog” property TechCrunch in a personal prank. Furthermore, it has come to our attention that your friend, a Mr. “Olivier M,” was in fact fooled by the aforementioned pr... |
Marc Andreessen: Series A Investments Are Still The Bread And Butter Of A16Z | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | This week, the Wall Street Journal published with Andreessen Horowitz Partner Scott Weiss in which he seemed to indicate that the firm is moving away from Series A investments in consumer startups. He also compared many consumer companies to “fruit fly experiments.” It was unclear what Weiss meant by this, but A16Z f... |
Brian Chesky Talks About Why Airbnb Didn’t Acquire European Clone Wimdu, Global Growth And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO Alfred Lin joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Chesky and Lin work together on retaining culture, expanding internationally, and maintaining customer service. The first foc... |
Aussie App Omny Is Heading To The U.S. To Be An All-Purpose, Personalized Radio | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | After delivering audio versions of blog articles to the busy masses through , Australian startup is back with a new service that creates personalized radio stations for users. It’s called , and after a soft launch in the this week, the team is shooting to bring it to the States in the next few months. In a market... |
Rappers Are Rapping About Being Verified (Or Not) On Twitter | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Here’s a question: Are rappers rapping about being verified on Twitter? As it turns out, a number have, both in the positive (verified) and the negative (not verified). And, it also turns out, I am way, way behind. The lyrics, as you might have already guessed, are fucking incredible. It’s fun to see Twitter become cul... |
The Comical Irony That iOS 7 Users Are Suffering From Blue Screens Of Death | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | So Windows sometimes does this thing when your computer freaks the heck out, displays a blue screen, and then reboots or fails in some other way. Called the Blue Screen of Death, it’s long been a cultural meme among nerds about the shortcomings of Windows. Blue Screens are more past than present, as they are, at least ... |
Ask A VC: Redpoint’s Ryan Sarver On Why He Joined Venture Capital And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | In this week’s Ask A VC, we hosted Redpoint Ventures’ newest partner in the studio to talk about his jump to the VC world from Twitter and more. Sarver recently left Twitter after spending four years working with developers, and helping lead Twitter’s platform strategy. Prior to his tenure at Twitter, Sarver was t... |
Gillmor Gang Live 10-11-13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | – Kevin Marks, Roberts Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. like the Gillmor Gang on Facebook at Facebook.com/gillmorgang |
Here Is Apple’s Mailer Asking Cupertino Residents To Support Its New Campus Ahead Of City Council Vote | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | If you live in Cupertino, you might have received a little gift from Apple in the mail: a brochure asking for support for its new headquarters, which the company calls “Apple Campus 2.” The circular building has become famous even before becoming real, due mostly to its striking design and massive size. The complex, wh... |
You’re Not Just The Product, You’re The Ads (And Your Friends Should Thank You) | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Word of mouth, sponsored. Trusted recommendations, promoted. Reviews from friends, endorsed. This is the new lexicon of advertising. As the world learns to ignore traditional advertising online, tech giants have found a way to grab people’s attention: using your name, face, and words. Are we okay with that? Maybe we sh... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: BlackBerry, FitBit Force, The New iMac, And Pokemon? | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Is BlackBerry co-founder really , now called BlackBerry instead of RIM, a company which has recently lost most of its design team and talent and… well, dignity? Is the the most amazingly awesome thing Apple has ever done in the history of Apple? What’s the deal with that new ? Do we care? And, in news that doesn’t... |
Pinterest Acquires Coding Challenge Site Hackermeter Right Out Of The Gate, Will Shut It Down | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | If you were looking forward to boasting about as a means of getting your next coding gig, you’re gonna have to make new plans: the two-month old startup has been acquired by Pinterest, and will be shut down. The premise behind Hackermeter was a fairly simple one: they didn’t think the classic résumé was good enough f... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Welcome to another rousing edition of TIDWRTWHUFOO! Today we feature three exciting robots that will change our lives as we know them by eventually threatening us with violence if we don’t “Move along, citizen, or else!” First we present iStruct, a robot from German firm Das Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche In... |
ICANN, W3C Call For End Of US Internet Ascendancy Following NSA Revelations | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Key Internet stakeholders, including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have condemning pervasive government surveillance and calling for an . The Internet as we know it today is largely managed through a model that is multi-stakeholder, with vari... |
Google’s New Plan To Highlight Android Tablet Apps Starts On November 21 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Android plays host to some impressive tablet apps — I’m partial to IMDb and Flipboard to name just a few — but I’ve all too often downloaded an app only to discover that it’s a regular phone app scaled to fit a larger display. Needless to say, the experience was less than ideal. Now Google is pushing to shine more ligh... |
Following Its Revamp, Yahoo Email Forwarding Bug Leaves Users’ Inboxes Empty | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | has been experiencing a major bug, following its revamp earlier this week. According to a number of reports, the service has been automatically forwarding emails to users’ “alternate,” external email addresses – a setting that was switched on without users’ permission. Yahoo has replied to some help requests via its T... |
Klout Deepens Its Bing Integration By Placing ‘Snapshots’ Alongside Your Search Results | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 11 | Well, here’s another reason to care about your Klout score (and, y’know, actually create an account on Klout) — the company, which aims to measure social media influence, is announcing a prominent new integration with Microsoft’s search engine Bing. About a year ago, Klout and said it was integrating with Bing, for e... |
WebMD Acquires Avado For $20-$30M To Help Drive Its Evolution From Media Company To Patient Engagement Platform | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | Seventeen years after its inception, remains one of the go-to resources for basic health and diagnostic information (and hypochondria enablement) on the Web. Born at the height of the Dot-com Boom, WebMD is on a very short list of companies that were able to not only endure the ensuing crash, but go on to achieve pro... |
Senate Confirms Tom Wheeler As New FCC Chairman | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | The Federal Communications Commission finally : Tom Wheeler. Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz and Wheeler was unanimously approved. He will take over for Acting Chairwoman, Mignon Clyburn. As a , there has been concern about what his priorities will be. Rather than join the speculation party, we’ll wait until his first ... |
Baidu Reports Q3 2013 Revenue Growth of 42.3%, Net Profit Up 1.2%, But Mobile Monetization Still Lags Behind PC | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | Chinese search giant reported strong revenue growth in Q3 2013, but it is still investing aggressively in its mobile business, which continues to lag behind PC in terms of monetization. Baidu’s total revenues in Q3 2013 were RMB 8.892 billion ($1.453 billion), a 42.3% increase year-on-year. Operating profit in Q3 20... |
Barnes & Noble Outs The $119 Nook GlowLight, We Go Hands-On | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | For better or worse the holidays are right around the corner, and that can only mean one thing: consumer electronics companies are slaving away on new hardware designs and trying to get those final products onto shelves in time for an annual feeding frenzy. Barnes & Noble is no different. Well, it’s a little different ... |
iPad Air Review: Apple Makes Big Tablets Beautiful All Over Again | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | new iPads this month at a special event in San Francisco on October 22, and the first of those to go on sale is the iPad Air, which is in stores and on virtual shelves this Friday, November 1. After a week with Apple’s newest 9.7-inch device, it’s clear there’s a new champion of the large tablet market, and one that b... |
Apple Replacing ‘Limited’ Number Of iPhone 5s With Manufacturing Issue Leading To Battery Life Problem | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | Apple released a noting that a manufacturing issue has caused shortened battery life in a ‘very limited’ number of iPhone 5s devices. At its introduction, the phone was reported by Apple to have nearly identical life to the iPhone 5, and most tests have borne that out with reviewers seeing identical or slightly impro... |
Trulia Reports $40.3 Million In Q3 Revenue, Net Income Of $7 Million | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | Online real estate market has been a public company for just over a year now, and it’s already seen its share of ups and downs as it dukes it out with competing players like Zillow. The company just dropped its (with additional color on Twitter, as usual) — the combined company posted $40.3 million in revenue for t... |
Nokia Had A Stunning Q3 In North America, With Device Volume Up 367% From Last Year | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | According to its , Nokia appears to have finally in North America for its Lumia line of Windows Phone-based smartphones. This bears well for the platform itself, and Microsoft, who is buying Nokia’s device business for more than $7 billion. Nokia’s device unit volume in North America spiked from 500,000 units in the... |
AbbeyPost, An Etsy For Plus-Size Clothing, Has Its Eye On Democratizing Fashion | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | Like so many other startups, grew out of a personal pain. Founder Cynthia Schames had become fed up with the lack of stylish plus-size clothing available to her. “I was having the hardest time finding clothes. I live in New York,” Schames says. “If I can’t find stuff to wear, where is everyone else shopping?” AbbeyPo... |
Yelp Ekes Out A Win In Q3 As Revenue Jumps 68% To $61M, EPS Losses Grow To $0.04 | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | , the local online business and restaurant guide that has become the web’s go-to resource for reviews of local businesses since launching in 2004, after the market closed this afternoon. , the company beat expectations, with revenue coming in at $61.2 million in the third quarter and a per-share loss of $0.04. Consi... |
EA Beats In FQ2 With Non-GAAP Revenue of $1.04B And EPS Of $0.33, Raises Earnings Guidance | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | Electronic Arts had non-GAAP revenue of $1.04 billion in its fiscal second quarter (2014), and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.33. The Electronic Arts to earn $0.12 (non-GAAP), on, again, non-GAAP revenue of $978 million. The beat has sent Electronic Arts up almost 4% in after hours trading. Electronic Arts also ra... |
Jibe Secures $4 Million Credit Facility To Help Make Companies Better At Hiring | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | The last time we heard from TC50 alum , it locked up a $10 million Series B from the likes of Longworth Venture Partners (which led the round), Polaris Partners, Lerer Ventures, DFJ Gotham, and Thrive Capital in a bid to make it easier to apply for jobs from smartphones. This time around, though, Jibe has more money t... |
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LinkedIn Beats In Q3 With Revenue of $393M, EPS of $0.39, But Weak Q4 Guidance Sends Its Stock Lower | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | LinkedIn its third-quarter earnings today, with revenue of $393 million (up 56 percent) and earnings per share of $0,39. Analysts LinkedIn to earn $0.31 per share, on revenue of $385 million. In the comparable year-ago quarter, LinkedIn earned $0.22 on revenue of $252 million. On a GAAP basis, LinkedIn lost $0.03 p... |
ResearchGate: “Forget About Revenue Until The Network Is Valuable Enough To Command It” | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | ResearchGate’s Ijad Madisch’s lifelong ambition of winning a Nobel Prize for changing the way scientific research is undertaken piqued the interest of Valley investors several years ago. Now with more than $35 million in funding from investors like Bill Gates, Benchmark, Founders Fund and Accel, he’s running one of Ber... |
Proposed USA FREEDOM Act Would Dramatically Curtail The NSA’s Surveillance | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative Jim Sensenbrenner have , called the Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection, and Online Monitoring Act (USA FREEDOM Act), designed to dramatically curtail the ability of the NSA to collect information on the average Un... |
Twitter Apps For iOS, Android And Web Get In-Stream Video And Image Previews | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | Twitter today that adds in-stream video and image previews to the main feed in its iOS, Android and web apps. Previously you would have to tap on links for images via Twitter or video service Vine. Now you can see them right in the feed. At this point, the previews will just be for Twitter photos and Vine videos, th... |
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