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Retargeting Giant AdRoll Poaches Google Ads Veteran To Head New EMEA Office | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | As retargeting startup is poised to IPO, one company flying under the radar but, by the looks of it, that is also doing well in the retargeting space is AdRoll. It’s now launched in Europe, or perhaps more accurately EMEA. At the same time it’s poached Marius Smyth, eight-year Google veteran, and former head of UK & ... |
Google Adds SMS Support To Its Android Messaging App As Facebook Axes It | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | A few days ago, a pointed to some pretty drastic changes to the Google Hangouts Android app, the biggest of which was that users would be able to send SMS messages without having to switch into another messaging application. Well, Vic Gundotra trotted onstage at a Google+ event in San Francisco (after a power outage c... |
Twitter Says A ‘Technical Issue’ Is Preventing URLs From Being Sent In Direct Messages For Some | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | Earlier this afternoon Twitter users began experiencing difficulty sending URLs or ‘links’ via Direct Message. Depending on the client used, error messages popped up that indicated the DMs being sent included links to ‘malware’, or simply indicated that the message could not be sent. A Twitter spokesperson said only th... |
Cory Booker And The Silicon Valley Makeover Of The Democratic Party | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | Newark Mayor Cory Booker cruised to victory in New Jersey’s special election tonight. As a , he’ll instantly become one of the Democratic Party’s most powerful voices. Booker represents a permanent shift in how Silicon Valley is trying to give an ideological overhaul to the Democratic Party. Booker is a , co-founder ... |
Turn Report Shows Climbing Ad Rates In Display And Social | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | A new report from online advertising company shows rising or steady eCPMs (the effective price paid by advertisers for every thousand impressions). The Global Digital Audience Report is based on data from Turn’s marketing platform between July and September — the company says the platform has access to 2 trillion ad ... |
The Best And Brightest Startups From Around The World Come Out For Our First Disrupt Europe | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 10 | 29 | Disrupt Europe is now in the can. The energy was electric. Every seat was filled. Startup Alley was packed. Pavel Durov with TechCrunch Co-Editor Alexia Tsotsis. Benchmark’s Bill Gurley . And one lucky TechCrunch fan even and pitch — an event that has never happened before. Fifteen startups launched on the Disrup... |
Blockchain Smashers | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | , Indonesia costs three cents per kilowatt hour. That’s 30 cents less than power in the US and Europe. This means, all things being equal and provided you don’t mind your apartment heating up alarmingly, you can make a decent living mining for and Litecoin (another cryptocurrency) using powerful – and hot – graphics ... |
Anki’s Self-Driving Race Car Toys Will Launch On Oct. 23rd — We Go Hands On | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | Four months ago, Anki co-founder Boris Soffman took the stage at Apple’s WWDC keynote. After years of stealthily toiling away in their labs with few outside of the company knowing their plans, the team unveiled their first product: Anki Drive, a racing game for the real world. While the company has been somewhat quie... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: HTC One Goes Max, LG Mindlessly Curves Glass | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | LG is following Samsung’s example in providing a , HTC is offering a , and Mad Catz is entering the – for which there is no proven demand. The Android world has gone mad this week, and me and your host Chris Velazco are just trying to put the pieces back together. Join us as we try to divine the twisted psyche of t... |
Boxer Raises $3 Million To Tame Your Inbox | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | Email management company has raised $3 million in funding led by . The company, which in June, will use the funding to expand its engineering and design team and to build apps for other platforms, most notably Android. Along with the funding, Sutter Hill Ventures managing director will join the Boxer board of di... |
eBay Barely Beats Investor Expectations With Revenue Of $3.9B, Stock Falls 5% In After-Hours Trading | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | eBay reported its today, including revenue of $3.9 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.64. The company’s revenue was up 14 percent from the same quarter last year, while its earnings per share rose 17 percent. Analysts had expected eBay to earn $0.63 per share (non-GAAP) on revenue of $3.9 billion. In its ... |
Looking Beyond Video, Jun Group Announces Its Overdrive Format For ‘Owned Advertising’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | Until recently, advertising company focused . In recent months, however, it’s been exploring a format that it calls “owned advertising” with a new product called Overdrive. CEO Mitchell Reichgut told me that Jun Group actually “soft launched” Overdrive back in June, and it already accounts for more than 30 percent o... |
Facebook Starts Letting Teens Post Publicly Despite Risks, As It Aims To Stay Cool | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | Like a cautious parent, despite risks. For the first time, users under 18 can post publicly. The logic is that other sites don’t restrict kids, teens are getting more web savvy, and young celebrities want a voice. This could let minors publicly share things they’ll regret, so they must manually opt in to public shari... |
Apartment List Acquires RentAdvisor, Bolstering Their Listings With Reviews | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | Last we heard from , they had just and were aiming to take on Craigslist as apartment hunters’ tool of choice. Now the service has made its next move: acquiring the reviews site , which will immediately add 20,000 reviews to the site’s listings. The all-stock deal brings on board 12 new employees, who will remain b... |
Windows 8.1 Will Start To Roll Out Tomorrow At 4 AM PDT | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | Tomorrow, at 4 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, Windows 8.1 will begin to roll out as an optional update to Windows 8 users. The new software represents a of the bets that Microsoft made with its Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8.1 contains a grip of new features, including new built-in applications, fresh user-interf... |
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Custom Goods Marketplace Makeably Rebrands As “Hatch,” Now Updates Pricing As You Go | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | , the New York-based, custom-made goods marketplace that closed on from Great Oaks, 500 Startups and others earlier this year is now relaunching under a new, easier-to-remember name: Hatch. Alongside the rebranding, the company has also evolved the process by which consumers tweak and “remix” the products offered for... |
Bre Pettis, Jeff Clavier, And Matt Rogers Will Join Us At Hardware Battlefield In Vegas | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | With the rise of crowdfunding and easier paths to manufacturing, there are more gadgeteers than ever before. And we’re looking for some of the best hardware startups to compete on our Las Vegas stage for a giant $50,000 check, tons of publicity and the brand new cup. We are pleased to announce that , , and Nest fou... |
LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman On Two Realistic Outcomes Of Teaching Everyone To Code | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | On a regular basis, we get pitched with major tech industry initiatives to broaden computer science education. A day after Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates signed on to a from Code.org to inspire 10 million new computer programmers, education startup General Assembly for self-taught coding. And, just a few weeks earl... |
Smartphones Now Account For 60% Of Mobile Phones Shipped Globally, With Apple Expected To Rebound On The iPhone 5s, Says Strategy Analytics | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Global shipments of smartphones are continuing to increase, growing 45% to hit a record 251 million units in Q3 2013, from 172.8 million units a year ago, according to . “This was the first time ever that smartphone shipments exceeded a quarter-billion units in a single quarter. Smartphones accounted for 6 in 10 of a... |
Gowalla Co-Founder Scott Raymond Joins Airbnb’s Mobile Product Team | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | A little less than two years after being , Gowalla co-founder and CTO Scott Raymond has left to join ‘s mobile product team. There, Raymond will work on a product that is growing in importance, as Airbnb seeks to facilitate connections between its users and speed up the process of creating listing and booking reserva... |
Meet Lesson.ly, A Training-As-A-Service Startup That Is Clocking Quick Revenue Growth | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | If you work for a large company, you likely dealt with an onboarding process. Perhaps little quizzes or pamphlets. I recently enjoyed this precise exercise while joining TechCrunch a few months ago, given that our corporate boss AOL is a fan of all things ancient. The gist is that corporate training is a pain in the as... |
The Endangered Double Irish Could Make Apple, Google, Twitter And Others Pay Way More Taxes | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | According to , a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, the infamous Double Irish tax avoidance method could be endangered. If it were to be written out of law, the legal practice would force many companies to either find new methods to avoid taxation, or pay far higher rates on their profits. Before we dig into the detai... |
Apple Made 15 Strategic Acquisitions In Fiscal ’13, Leaving 7 Undiscovered | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Apple completed 15 acquisitions in fiscal 2013, Apple CEO Tim Cook . That amounts to one acquisition every 3-4 weeks during the year. Given that we only know about eight of those acquisitions, there are still seven more out there. Apple typically makes small acquisitions of companies that have developed a set of skill... |
Apple: Future Versions Of OS X To Be Free, $900M Increase In Revenue Deferral Due To Free Software | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Today during its earnings call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer confirmed that future versions of OS X would be free. Last week, Apple announced that OS X Mavericks would be available for free, but did not confirm plans for future versions of its operating system. Oppenheimer’s statements during the call indicate that futu... |
CollabFinder Just Made Founder Dating Super Simple | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 16 | Two heads are better than one. It’s an age-old saying that has particular poignance in the entrepreneurial realm, where investors are much more comfortable handing over wads of cash to a team instead of an individual. A new betaworks-backed startup out of New York, CollabFinder, is banking on that very idea. The serv... |
Apple’s Greater China Business Bounces Back, Accounts For 15% Of Q4 Revenue | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Three months ago, when CEO Tim Cook was asked why Apple’s revenue from greater China sunk 14 percent year over year, he didn’t have a great answer. Apparently, there wasn’t a “totally clear” answer for the shift. Now, poring over Apple’s Q4 earnings, the story is very different. That same region accounted for $5.7 bill... |
Google Launches Invite System For Early Glass Explorers And Preps Updated Hardware | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Hey Google Glass Explorers, Google thinks you’re keen. Really, they do. So much so in fact that the company has been quietly working on an updated version of the Glass hardware, and those of you who shelled out $1,500 to be among the first to support the project will be able to swap your existing units for the second r... |
Apple’s Rebound Quarter In Charts | Dan Frommer | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Apple just reversed its slide, if you can call it that. After three quarters in a row of slowing sales growth, Apple’s September quarter — reported this afternoon — shows a modest re-acceleration. See for the financial big picture, and for the product-by-product details. Now for the charts. You’ll note a modest upt... |
Apple’s Q4 ’13 Beats With $37.5B Revenue, $7.5B Profit And $8.26 EPS On Strong iPhone Sales | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Apple has , reporting $37.5B in revenue, $7.5B in net profit representing $8.26 per share. That marks a year-over-year growth of 4.2 percent in revenue and 4.7 percent decline in EPS, with net profit down 8.6 percent year over year. Apple sold Macs in the quarter, which allowed it to post record Q4 revenue. Analysts... |
Apple Sold 33.8 Million iPhones, 14.1 Million iPads, And 4.6 Million Macs In Q4 2013 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Well folks, Apple has just put up some mixed numbers in its — $37.5 billion in revenue and $7.5 billion in net profit to be exact — but how exactly did the tech titan fare in terms of hardware sales? This time around Apple sold 33.8 million iPhones (which it notes is a record for Q4), 14.1 million iPads and 4.6 milli... |
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The Final 4 Disrupt Europe Startups: Asap54, Import.io, Lock8, Voicesphere | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | It might have been a long time coming, but the first ever , held in Berlin, has been a fantastic window into the burgeoning European tech startup ecosystem. Plus, it has surpassed our expectations on attendance, passing 2,000 delegates over two days. Well known players from Silicon Valley have been rubbing shoulders w... |
The Syrian Electronic Army Hacked Obama’s Twitter Links And Campaign Emails | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | [tweet https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/statuses/394878079044055041 The pro-regime hacker group, the Syrian Electronic Army, : They managed to hack a link on the Obama campaign Twitter feed and send users to a propaganda video on YouTube (since removed). The group also accessed the emails of many members who work fo... |
Apple Sends Out Set Of Slick Mac Pro Posters To Some Journalists | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Apple sent out a set of slick Mac Pro posters to at least one journalist today. TidBITS received a long black tube with four Mac Pro images as posters in it this morning. Other journalists like (Photo by Dan Ackerman) and Dallas Morning News’ Jim Rossman also . Apple sends out printed material from time to time to... |
Rent Management Startup Cozy Recruits Flickr Co-Founder Stewart Butterfield To Its Board | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | , an online tool for landlords and tenants, is announcing that Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has joined its board of directors. Butterfield told me that he’s actually known Cozy co-founder and CEO Gino Zahnd since . With that relationship, and knowing Butterfield’s family background in real estate (his father ... |
Germans React To Revelations That The U.S. Spied On Chancellor Angela Merkel | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | It was recently revealed that the National Security Agency secretly and from a spying hub in the United States German Embassy, all while President Obama was reportedly oblivious to the program. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was so discomfited that even after President Obama personally apologized, she called for... |
Samsung Launches Five SDKs To Lure Developers Into Its Hardware Web | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Samsung kicked off its first Developer Conference in San Francisco today, and the Korean tech juggernaut is eager to show just how much it cares about the devs building apps and services for its hardware ecosystem. And really, what better way to prove it than to unleash five (yes, five) brand-new SDKs for those develop... |
Twitter’s Attitude Toward DMs Shows Signs Of Thawing With Direct Link In Top Bar | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | Twitter has been rejiggering its thinking about direct messaging recently, largely in the face of enormous messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Line, Snapchat and others. Today, the signs of Twitter’s thawing feelings about messaging have which takes you right to your inbox. Recent reports from that Twitter is workin... |
Hey, Arduino Fans! 1Sheeld Lets Your Smartphone Act As Many Different Arduino Shields | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 28 | I loves me some Arduino. The only thing I love — and I’m sure many of my fellow Arduino tinkerers would agree with me here — is buying or building a new shield (read: add-on board) every time I need to some functionality that the board doesn’t support out of the box (like internet connectivity, microphone input, or a... |
U.S. Tech Companies Raised $8.1B In 806 VC Deals In Q3, Capital Raised, M&A Activity And IPOs All Up From Previous Quarter | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | Dow Jones Venture Source released its quarterly report on the state of venture capital, including data on number of VC deals, funds raised, M&As and IPOs in the technology sector. According to the report U.S.-based companies raised $8.1 billion from 806 venture capital deals in 3Q 2013, a 2% increase in capital and a 4... |
Could San Francisco Automate BART Workers Threatening To Strike? | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | For the past week, the entire San Francisco Bay Area has been on the brink of a full-fledged train strike. The unpredictable negotiations have left commuters in limbo: it’s too risky to schedule business meetings, but there is not enough uncertainty to arrange alternative transportation. As a result, BART has an esti... |
Apple CFO Oppenheimer Says New Carbon-Balanced ‘Campus 2’ Will Foster Collaboration | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | “We can’t wait to get our people closer together, we’re a very collaborative company. One of the beauties of Apple Campus 2 is that it will be walkable. It will be great for us to innovate in for decades to come,” said Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer about plans for the company’s new ‘Campus 2’ in Cupertino. The plans were... |
Developers Can Now Submit Windows 8.1 Applications To The Windows Store | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | Developers are now free to submit their Windows 8.1-ready applications. Microsoft initially denied developers access to the operating system after it was released to OEM partners. Developers, accustomed to getting early access so that they could get to work before general release, were . The company and provided acc... |
How Money And Politics Brought Waywire And Magnify Together | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | , New York City-based startup Magnify has acquired Waywire, the once-hyped startup founded by . That’s been widely expected ever since over the weekend that the deal would be done soon. In some ways, the matchup makes a lot of sense — both companies, after all, have the shared vision of empowering users to find, col... |
40% Of YouTube Traffic Now Mobile, Up From 25% In 2012, 6% In 2011 | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | It’s hard to get people to concentrate long on anything on their phones and tablets, yet YouTube seems to be the exception. The video service is quickly going mobile, with small screens making up 40% of its traffic now compared to 25% last year, Google said on its . In 2011, just 6% of YouTube traffic came from mobile... |
This Week On The TC Europe Podcast: Dailymotion Is Growing, SwiftKey Gets Better, Cambridge Gets Into VC | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | This week, we talk about SwiftKey a lot of new keyboard layouts and features, Dailymotion to Japan and acquiring a startup in Europe, and Cambridge VC. This is the , wherein we European writers discuss tech news, as well as what’s happening in our startup scene. As always, those topics were a great opportunity t... |
“Fashion Inspiration” For Tots: Lil’Stylers Wants Parents To Snap & Share Their Kids’ Best Looks | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | , a new shopping discovery service launching first on the , has a different (and maybe unsettling?) take on tracking children’s fashion trends. For those following mobile shopping space, the easiest way to put it is to say it’s a “ for kids.” To better explain what that means, Lil’Stylers is an attempt at building a ... |
Microsoft Confirms It’s Working On Books, And Other Key Bits From Its Windows 8.1 Reddit AMA | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | Windows 8.1 day rolls along, and, while I assume that you have already updated if you were a Windows 8 user, Microsoft is continuing to speak out about its new software. The company has again taken to Reddit to answer questions from its community. The , but since you are busy, below are the best pieces from the sessio... |
Google Beats The Street In Q3 With $14.89B In Revenue, Net Income Of $2.97B, And EPS Of $10.74 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | Google’s Q3 2013 earnings report has just crossed the wires, and they’re better than expected. The company reported that over the past three months, it generated $14.89 billion in consolidated revenue and $2.97 billion in net income, as well as non-GAAP earnings of $10.74 per share. According to Yahoo Finance, analysts... |
Facebook Brings Trending Topics, Post/Comment Editing, And Photo Comments To iOS | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | Facebook’s trying hard to be a mobile first company, but a lot of new features still come out on desktop first where it’s easier to test. But today, the options to edit posts and comments after publishing, and add photos as comments . The goal is to help people express themselves through images and without fear of typ... |
Now With 175M+ Users, SoundHound Launches Its iOS 7 App, As Company Struggles To Exit Shazam’s Shadow | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | music identification app has the unfortunate position of having to live in Shazam’s shadow, but that may not be the case for much longer. Though both apps currently allow users to push a button to identify a song they’re hearing, SoundHound has been steadily nipping at its older competitor’s heels, with a growing user... |
Why Senator Shutdown, Ted Cruz, Blocked The FCC Chairman Nominee | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | Tea Party darling and Texas Senator Ted Cruz just the nomination of Thomas Wheeler for Federal Communications Commission Chairman. In a statement to TechCrunch, a spokesman says that Cruz is dissatisfied with Wheeler’s stance on whether the FCC will force political advertisements to disclose their donors “Yes, the ... |
Hulu Names Fox’s Mike Hopkins As CEO | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | Hulu has that Mike Hopkins, a board member at Hulu and president of Fox Networks Group, is the company’s new CEO. Hopkins had as the likely candidate for the role. It’s been a bumpy year for the online TV site. Then-CEO Jason Kilar left in March and was who now, according to Hulu, is leaving the company. Then the... |
A Standalone Messaging App Is The Last Thing Twitter Needs | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | Despite being one of the most popular and powerful social networks on the planet, Twitter is far from perfect. With only a actively using the service, the platform clearly lacks mainstream appeal. So what’s missing? According to today, Twitter may be launching a standalone messaging app to compete with the likes of... |
Planting A Startup Garden | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | in deal-making than getting things going. Perhaps I’m just naive.” Those are the words of Rick DeVos, founder and CEO of the Michigan-based , a $15 million investment fund located on the West Side of the state that’s throwing money to startups every single week. And after spending some time around their downtown offi... |
Mindie Is An Immersive Music And Video Jukebox App Done Right | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | Meet , a beautifully designed video-sharing app for the iPhone. But calling it a video app is just one part of the story. It’s not yet another Vine, Instagram or even competitor. Mindie is all about music discovery. You pick a track, record a few seconds of video like you would do in Vine, and share the combination ... |
Fun Video Makes Startup Life Look As Easy As Watching MTV — If Only | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-b2Zrr8BEk] We were randomly emailed by one , an entrepreneur from Poland. is a sort of MTV-esque homage to the swirl of experiences that might happen to a startup founder were they to compress their experience into a fast-paced music video, shot in the first person. It’s pre... |
Can’t Find The Windows 8.1 Update? Here’s How To Get It | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 17 | Earlier today, Microsoft released Windows 8.1, the successor to its controversial Windows 8 operating system. From what I can tell, most folks appear to be having a fine time updating. Not everyone, mind you, but that’s frankly to be expected. However, some folks are having a hard time actually finding the update itsel... |
How Harvey Mudd Transformed Its Computer Science Program — And Nearly Closed Its Gender Gap | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | But under , the renowned computer scientist (and Microsoft board member) who joined Harvey Mudd as president , the gender ratio at Mudd’s CS department has changed dramatically. This year, fully 48 percent of the CS majors in Harvey Mudd’s junior class are female. TechCrunch TV had the pleasure of sitting down with... |
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Google Malaysia Site DNS Hacked, Credit Claimed By ‘Team Madleets’ Hacker 1337 | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | Google’s has been hacked and replaced with a splash screen giving credit to a group called “Team Madleets.” The normal site has been offline for several hours as of late Thursday afternoon and the page lists a series of handles that are ostensibly part of the team responsible. with brief statement from the hackers ... |
As More Startups Move To San Francisco, Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In The City | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | Y Combinator has been a mainstay of Silicon Valley, with an office not far from the Mountain View Caltrain station.* Over the years, however, the seed-stage venture firm has seen more of its companies and partners take up residence in the city. As a result, it has opened a small satellite office near San Francisco’s Un... |
Is HP Investing Properly For A Post-PC And Post-Printer Future? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | Yesterday HP enjoyed a sharp rally following encouraging words from its CEO, the release of its fiscal 2014 guidelines, and promise that . The company, its CEO Meg Whitman said, is in the midst of . Yes, revenue will decline in fiscal 2014 from fiscal 2013 levels, margins remain an issue, and HP will generate non-GAA... |
Rep. Amash Slams Congressional Intelligence Committees As The “Opponents Of Congress” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | Members of Congress are not very content with the flow of information that reaches their ears concerning the pervasive surveillance activities of the United States intelligence apparatus. Following remarks from Senator Bob Corker that Congress often learns more from newspapers than their briefings on the National Secur... |
Philip Kaplan Officially Launches DistroKid, A Cheap, Efficient Way To Distribute Lots Of Music | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | Philip Kaplan, AKA “Pud”, AKA has just announced the official launch of , a service for musicians to release unlimited tracks to various online music stores for a flat yearly fee. Folks wanting to try it out can upload any song for free without submitting a credit card. Artists get 100% of the royalties for their mu... |
Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name, Highlighting Lack Of Universal Privacy Controls | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” Anyone you haven’t blocked. Facebook is , notifying those who had hidden themselves that they’ll be searchable. It deleted the option from those who hadn’t used it , and is starting to push everyone to use privacy controls on each type of content they share. But there’s no one... |
Foundation: Matt Galligan On The Next Phase Of Circa | Contributor | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | In this episode of my video series, I sit down over some craft beers with entrepreneur and founder . Matt and I discuss the concept of breaking news and Circa’s second version of its news app for iOS and Android. Matt’s advice for fellow entrepreneurs building companies:
“A good formula is looking at what probl... |
Amazon Snaps Up Online Math Instruction Company TenMarks To Help It Make Education Apps | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | Amazon has to snap up online education company . The company offers an online math curriculum currently, and Amazon VP of Kindle Dave Limp says that together, “Amazon and TenMarks intend to develop rich educational content and applications, across multiple platforms, that we think teachers, parents and students will... |
Thiel Fellows Program Is “Most Misdirected Piece Of Philanthropy,” Says Larry Summers | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | Two years after billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel announced an experiment to pay bright high schoolers to drop out of college for $100,000, the program hasn’t won over education leaders. “I think the single most misdirected bit of philanthropy in this decade is Peter Thiel’s special program to bribe people to dro... |
Twitter Launches An Android Tablet Optimized App For The First Time — On One Tablet | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | In what is a poignant statement about the state of Android tablet apps, Twitter has for the platform. It’s been 3 years since the iPad hit and Android tablets have blown up in the meantime, but this is the first time they’re being served with a real app. Twitter says that the app is rolling out on the Samsung Galaxy ... |
BlackBerry Co-Founders Mike Lazaridis And Douglas Fregin Consider Buying Back The Company | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | We already know that BlackBerry is considering , with a already having been made. Looks like two other guys might be interested, though: its co-founders, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin. Though Lazaridis is a bit more well known and oft credited as the sole founder of BlackBerry, he and Fregin co-founded the compa... |
Airpush Acquires Hubbl For $15 Million To Bring Native Ads To Mobile | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | New York-based , a maker of app discovery and personalization technologies, has been snapped up by mobile ad platform for $15 million, the companies are announcing today. The two businesses will combine their respective efforts – Hubbl with its personalized native ads technology and Airpush with its ecosystem of som... |
Another One Bites The Dust: Boston Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Against Aereo | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | , Aereo has just confirmed that a federal judge has ruled in favor of Aereo in its legal battle with Hearst Stations , one of three ongoing lawsuits between the streaming TV startup and major network broadcasters, the other in New York and . Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton issued a ruling that denies the plaintiff a motion... |
Nifti Brings Its Smart Shopping Wishlist And Price Tracker To iPhone | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | , a Google Ventures-backed shopping startup which its price tracking and alerts service this summer, is today making the move to mobile. The company is launching by the same name, while also offering a slightly different take from what Nifti does online. On the web, the company’s idea is one of a smarter wishlist w... |
This Week On The TC Europe Podcast: Raspberry Pi, Wayra, France And Esperanto | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | We’ve made it to episode 10! This week, we talk about Raspberry Pi worldwide sales of 1.75 million, Partech Ventures $215 million in European startups the American way, and Wayra numbers about its accelerators for the first time. This is the , wherein we European writers discuss tech news, as well as what’s happ... |
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Tony Espinoza Steps Down As CEO Of Couchsurfing, Jennifer Billock Steps Up As Interim As Startup Lays Off Staff, “Doubles Down” On Mobile | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | Big changes at , the social travel site that lets people connect and crash on their sofas and spare beds when visiting each other’s towns. Today, CEO Tony Espinoza announced that he is stepping down as the company lays off staff and refocuses on mobile. In the interim, Jen Billock, who currently is listed as director ... |
Microsoft Updates Its Outlook.com Android App With Better Syncing, Storage, Colors And More | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 10 | Today an update to its Android Outlook.com application, including server-side search, improved offline mail storage, colors, vacation replies, and aliases. Outlook.com, a key project for Microsoft, has over 400 million users. The successor to Hotmail, Outlook.com is Microsoft’s mail vision for all mobile platforms. A... |
In Which Jack Dorsey Reads Us Some Poetry And Lists And Plays Us A Jazz Tune | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | Jack Dorsey seems to be at the tech world’s center of attention, thanks to and an about the early days of Twitter, and whether or not he screwed over friends and coworkers in the early going. But the co-founder of Square and Twitter (a company which also just happens to be in a quiet period while it prepares for ... |
Airbnb Has Now Served 9M Guests Since Being Founded, Up From 4M At The End Of Last Year | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | Airbnb continues to grow at an amazing pace, and now has served a total of 9 million guests in the five years since being founded. At event today, Airbnb co-founder and CTO Nate Blecharczyk demonstrated what hockey stick-like growth looks like after several years in a row. “What happens when you append five hockey st... |
Loop: The Future Of Mobile Payments Or A Temporary Fix? | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | is a new mobile payments startup making some fairly big claims. The company says it has invented a technology that lets you pay with your phone at nearly any point-of-sale across the U.S., without requiring merchants to upgrade their hardware. Nor do you have to own a particular device, like those NFC-based smartphone... |
Optimizely CEO Dan Siroker’s Trick For How To Test Investors, Board Members | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | Dan Siroker, the co-founder and CEO of Optimizely, a Y Combinator-backed company that helps businesses A/B test their webpages, says he’s got a trick for testing prospective investors. He runs them through mock board meetings, he told founders and hackers at Y Combinator’s Startup School today in Cupertino. Siroker say... |
Twitter Exec Makes Really Inopportune BART Strike Joke | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | The thing about race, class, religion and gender is that, for the most part, they are out of people’s control. This all-encompassing feeling of lack of control is why, when chronically underpaid service professionals like teachers or transport workers strike, there is an equally out-of-control discussion around the soc... |
CrunchWeek: Earnings Week Winners And Losers, Netflix Cozying Up To Comcast, Path Layoffs | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | In this episode, , and I talk about the and news from the latest quarterly earnings reports and , Netflix’s with Comcast and what that says about the larger video ecosystem, and private social networking startup Path laying off . |
Phil Libin On Evernote’s Close Call: Just 3 Weeks of Cash Left During The 2008 Financial Crisis | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | While Evernote and a valuation that’s reportedly more than $1 billion, the company faced many close calls. In fact, it had just three weeks of cash left during the 2008 financial crisis when an investor bailed at the last minute, said CEO Phil Libin today at Y Combinator’s Startup School in Cupertino. The investor di... |
The Key To Entrepreneurial Success In South Asia | Contributor | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | Asia are obsessed with Silicon Valley, as is much of the world these days. Social media and mass media have combined to create the perception that geeks from the Bay Area are a breed apart. The combination of skinny jeans, hipster glasses and confident personalities like Dave McClure or Steve Blank, it seems, is irres... |
Former News Corp Exec Greg Clayman Joins Vimeo | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | News Corp executive Greg Clayman has left his position with the company to join video distribution firm Vimeo as its general manager of audience networks. The news was first , and later confirmed by Vimeo. Clayman had previously served as publisher of the digital-only news publication , and after that took on a new... |
Walmart Labs’ Subscription Snack Service Goodies.co Will Shut Down | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | Last year, Walmart Labs jumped on the subscription commerce bandwagon with a new service called in order to compete with a range of startups offering monthly boxes of goodies to customers. But the service, which has , will be shut down over the next few weeks. To recap, Goodies.co was one of several projects that Wa... |
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Reinventing Yourself | James Altucher | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | Here are the rules: I’ve been at zero a few times, come back a few times, and done it over and over. I’ve started entire new careers. People who knew me then, don’t me now. And so on. I’ve had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond ... |
Gillmor Gang: Bluetooth Nipple Rings | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — demonstrate once again a complete disregard for the trending topics of the week. Instead, we talk bodyware, iBeam fashion design, the things that are still dead, and a healthy component of digital dish disguised as news. Exc... |
Microsoft Yanks Windows RT 8.1 Update “Temporarily” Following Discovery Of A “Situation” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | If you are a Windows RT user looking forward to moving to Windows RT 8.1, you can’t — at least for a little while. Today Microsoft removed the update from the Windows Store following the discovery of a “situation” that was “affecting a limited number of users updating their Windows RT devices to Windows RT 8.1.” So the... |
Seene Uses Computer Vision To Create Unique And Eerie 3D Images On iPhone | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | It’s not often that I use a new ‘photo capture’ app and impressed by it within seconds. It’s not that there’s not a lot of cool stuff being built out there, it’s just that the frontiers are getting closer and easier to predict. That’s , an app by computer vision company Obvious Engineering that leverages smartphone se... |
Zuck Knows If You’ve Been Bad Or Good, So Be Good For Goodness’ Sake | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 10 | 19 | Like everyone else I am shocked, shocked!, to learn that Facebook’s latest policy switch was one which will lead to users posting more public data. This time it’s teenagers, who “have the choice to post publicly on Facebook.” which they didn’t before. Why? Simple: as the puts it, “ ” I don’t intend to get all moral... |
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How To Tell If You’re In A Cloud-Friendly Industry | Contributor | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | The benefits of an are clear. But are there certain industries that are more cloud friendly? To answer this question, we analyzed industries using a framework that ranks each one based on eight factors that speed up cloud adoption and two factors that slow things down. Two industries stand out as the most cloud-fri... |
With iWork, Apple Walks It Back Before Moving Forward | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | Over the last few days there has been a lot of talk about Apple’s new direction for iWork, especially when it comes to the OS X versions of its productivity suite. At an event on Tuesday, the company announced that they would be — but it also announced a redesign that many are seeing as a regression of the product. S... |
Meet The Coders Of The Disrupt Europe Hackathon | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | The Disrupt Europe Hackathon is , but just because you can’t make it out to Berlin for the festivities, it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the experience. That said, we’re bringing you as close as possible to the sights, sounds, and (unfortunate) smells of the 24-hour coding competition with this video. We’re seeing st... |
CrunchWeek: Pinterest’s Big Raise, The iPad Air And OS X Mavericks, And NSA’s Foreign Surveillance | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | It’s that time of week for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings three writers, three TechCrunch TV cameras, and a whole lot of opinions together to dish on the most interesting stories from the past seven days in tech news. In a special episode taped from Disrupt Europe in Berlin; , and I chatted abou... |
Social Scheduling Tool Buffer Gets Hacked, Floods Twitter And Facebook With Weight Loss Spam | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | If you’re a user of social media scheduling app , there’s a good chance that your Saturday morning has been less than relaxing. There have been numerous reports circulating today purporting that the service has been hacked, and just a few moments ago the company officially confirmed those reports in a tweet. the terse... |
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