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Gillmor Gang: Free As A Bird | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — recorded a Tuesday evening session in the wake of Apple’s iPad refresh announcements. Tim Cook cemented control of the company by open-pricing apps and OS for the price of the hardware. In so doing, Apple did what Google has b... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Apple’s New iPad Air And Traveling With Gadgets | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | Guten Tag, and welcome to a very special (Saturday) edition of the . This week, Apple unveiled the , the thinnest, lightest, and most powerful iPad yet. But is it an upgrade worth your cash? Is it light enough to truly become a one-handed device, as ? Plus, as the gadgeteers are traveling through Berlin for , we th... |
Moniker Guitars On Building A Business Through Kickstarter | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | to become a Kickstarter success? First you need a great product. Then you need a plan for the future. Luckily, Austin-based had both. We first covered when founders Dave Barry and Kevin Tully had already created a small guitar shop and wanted to expand into custom git-fiddles. They built a unique guitar customizer... |
Hackathon Team Builds ‘Open Radioactivity Warning System’ For Crowdsourced Data | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | Hackathons can sometimes turn into a sea of laptops and monitors, so perhaps it’s no surprise that, as I wandered the Disrupt Europe Hackathon today, I found myself drawn to a table covered with wiring and gadgets, including a Geiger counter. The idea was pretty unusual, too — as the four-person team explained it to me... |
The War On Hackers | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | Corey Thuen was a developer at the Idaho National Laboratory who helped to develop a network-visualization tool called Sophia. Then Battelle Energy, the company that the INL, the notion of open-sourcing Sophia, and instead licensed it for commercial use to a company called NexDefense. So Thuen created a separate-bu... |
A User’s Guide to Disrupt Europe: Berlin | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | Disrupt Europe: Berlin kicks off on Monday, October 28th. TechCrunch has put together an incredible array of offerings from our partners to make your Conference experience better than ever. As always, Disrupt EU will be a busy and boisterous event so use the following guide to get the most out of the show. We will be ... |
Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Goes From Snapchat “Role Model” To Potential Investor | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | Snapchat is looking to raise up to $200 million at a valuation of $3 billion to $4 billion and one of the potential investors that founder Evan Spiegel has talked to the most is Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings, . Spiegel has referred to Tencent in the past as a “role model,” . The startup’s last funding round ... |
H2O-Pal Helps You Get Your Two Gallons Of Water A Day | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | The United States National Laboratory Of Water Drinking And Health (not a real laboratory) recommends that all humans drink lots of water all the time. That’s why exists – it’s a water bottle that tells you how much you’ve drunk and, more important, when you’ve reached the daily goal of two to five gallons (warning: ... |
The TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Hackathon Is Underway! | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 10 | 26 | And they’re off! TechCrunch’s first Disrupt Europe Hackathon is officially underway. There are hundreds of registered coders, hackers, and designers. More than $5,000 is on the line and the deadline is tomorrow morning. Plus, Foursquare brought a box of dodgeballs so things will get wild. Thanks to Daylight Savings tim... |
With $1M In Funding, Appsee Promises Mobile Developers Real Insight Into Their Users | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Israeli startup says it’s taking a different approach to mobile analytics. I wrote about the company more than a year ago , when it focused on making video recordings of mobile app user activity. Now the company is launching a broader iOS analytics platform, where user recordings are just one feature. So what’s Apps... |
YPlan Launches On Android | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | has only been around for less than a year, but the company is rapidly covering new ground. After expanding from the UK into , the social planning service is today launching an Android app. YPlan works by aggregating cool events, parties, and activities happening within the next 24 hours, eternally answering the que... |
Yahoo Is Ordered To Start Using Microsoft Search In Hong Kong And Taiwan | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Signed in 2010, Microsoft and Yahoo’s was supposed to lift Google’s stronghold on search advertising. But the deal has steadily eroded since then, with the latest sign coming from . U.S. District judge Robert P. Patterson ruled on Monday that Yahoo must start using Microsoft’s search technology in those two markets... |
A Closer Look At Microsoft’s New Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2 Tablets | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Over the past few days, we’ve had in our hot hands the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets. We published an and and today, we’re sharing a short video run-through of the hardware. Surface, of course, is Microsoft’s hardware gambit that places it in contention with its traditional OEM partners. The company’s n... |
Google Maps Engine Gets Free Tier And A Public Data Program To Help Governments, Other Orgs Surface Maps | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Google is launching a free tier of Google Maps Engine today, in conjunction with its , a small business tool. The free tier offers all of the same features but has smaller quotas for data access, in the ‘tens of megabytes’ vs. the terabytes available in the full version. Google is also launching a new Public Data Prog... |
Netflix Tops HBO In Paid U.S. Subscribers As Members Stream 5 Billion Hours Of Content In Q3 | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Today, , with the streaming video provider exceeding analyst projections thanks to strong subscriber growth in which it added 1.3 million domestically. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells said in a letter to shareholders this afternoon that the company recently surpassed the 40 million members milestone, up ... |
Google’s Maps Engine Pro Aims To Help Small Businesses Visualize Location Data As Easily As They Make A Pie Chart | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Today, at Google’s San Francisco offices, Google introduced Maps Engine Pro, a utility that allows small businesses to use Google’s location tools to create maps out of location databases. There will also be a mobile app available for Android initially to allow users to edit and create these maps on the fly. The app, c... |
Andreessen-Backed Game Developer TinyCo Lays Off 27 Employees | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | , an , is laying off 27 employees as it moves toward a new strategy. The company says it will outline its new moves in the coming few weeks. “We’ve moved 10 steps forward on executing a specific strategy around how we build games and what games we build. To execute against this strategy, we decided to consolidate game... |
InfoScout Tells Brands Who Buys What By Getting Meatspace Shoppers To Photograph Receipts | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Brands are desperate to know what demographics they should be marketing to. Yet until now, that data was very hazy or tough to collect. It was easy to monitor sales by particular store and time of day, but not the age, gender, interests, income, ethnicity, education, and household size of who buys them. One archaic dat... |
Netflix: ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Is Our Most-Watched Original, But Our TV Exclusives Are Even Bigger | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Earlier comments from Netflix suggested that its show “Orange Is The New Black” was a hit — specifically, that each of its original shows had a better first week than the one before it. It expanded on that point in and letter to investors: Orange is the New Black has been a tremendous success for us. It will end th... |
Who Said It? President Obama Or An Infomercial? | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | At today’s White House press conference, President Obama came out to sell Americans on the Affordable Care Act and try to deflect criticism about Healthcare.gov’s . I think most of us in the press expected him to address the shady government contract processes that , to take on a $92 million, U.S.-government-funded e... |
TechStars-Backed Lua Will Open To The Public By 2014 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | More than two years after , little has grown up. The company, which provides mobile workforce technology to enterprise customers with mostly out-of-office employees (think Convo or Yammer but as a usable mobile-first product), is today announcing plans to offer self-service public availability by the end of the ye... |
Netflix’s Q3 Beats Analyst Estimates With 1.3M New Domestic Subscribers, $0.52 Earnings Per Share | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Netflix’s third-quarter earnings report just came out, with the company beating analyst expectations on higher-than-expected subscriber numbers. For the third quarter, Netflix reported earnings of 52 cents per share on revenues of $1.1 billion. That compared to earnings of 13 cents per share on sales of $905 million in... |
Social Video Broadcasting Startup Spreecast Comes Out Of Beta With A New Design | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | It’s been two years since we , a startup that allows anyone to create live, social video broadcasts. After all that time, it’s finally coming out of beta and doing so with a big new redesign. Spreecast was launched as a platform for enabling users to quickly and easily create multi-user video broadcasts. As a free p... |
Facebook Adds Video And New Pricing To Its Mobile App Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Facebook just two changes to its mobile app install ads that should make them more appealing to advertisers. First, the company says it will now support video in these ad units. “Video creative has proven to be an effective way to drive engagement in News Feed,” Facebook writes, and it makes sense for app ads since a... |
Facebook’s Referrals To Media Sites Up 170% YOY, New “Stories To Share” Tells Pages What To Post | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Facebook wants to get more news content in its feed by proving to media sites it’s their premier social ally. referral traffic to media sites is up an average of 170% this year. It also launched the “Stories To Share” tool, which aims to drive even more traffic by suggesting which articles media sites should post to ... |
Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | , the drink that’s designed to fulfill a person’s nutritional needs, just raised $1.5 million in seed funding from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer Ventures. Yes, that’s right. The seemingly wacky personal experiment of YC-backed founder Rob Rhinehart and his team is becoming a full-fledged business w... |
BlackBerry’s BBM Will Hit iOS And Android Today, One Month After Botched Launch | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | Hey, remember when BlackBerry was going to officially roll out BBM for iOS and Android a few weekends ago only to be stymied by technical issues? At the time it was yet another dark mark on BlackBerry’s already sketchy record, but things are finally starting to look up. The company confirmed on its that the messaging... |
Microsoft Releases Code To Fix Surface RT Tablets Borked By Windows RT 8.1 Upgrade | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 21 | The Windows RT 8.1 upgrade until Microsoft can fix an issue with the software that was causing havoc for a slim percentage of Surface RT owners moving to the new operating system. The company today released a new statement relating to the problems, indicating that the bug in the code only impacted Surface RT owners. ... |
What Do You Love About Writing Code? We Ask, Software Engineers Answer | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | The answers were all unique, and all pretty inspiring — so we compiled a number of them in the video embedded above. I especially enjoyed hearing , the president of , share her viewpoint (starting at 3:30.) Here’s one good excerpt:
“I love abstract problems, but I also love working on problems that might change pe... |
Behind South Korea’s Big $65M Mobile Gaming Merger | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | They’ve been rivals for more than 10 years. Both Com2uS and Gamevil have battled for the local South Korean gaming market through the era of candy-bar phones until today. But in a new twist this month, they’re actually joining forces with Gamevil’s in its longtime competitor. The reason? Android and iOS have fundamen... |
Microsoft Announces Azure For US Government, Satya Nadella Dodges The CEO Question | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | At the San Francisco offices of Yammer, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella today announced a new instance of its Azure cloud product built for U.S. government customers. The product, formally called “Windows Azure US Government Cloud,” is a separate service, hosted inside the U.S. that will only be managed by U.S. citizens. The... |
BranchOut Launches Talk.co To Expand From Networking Into A WhatsApp For The Workplace | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | BranchOut’s professional network cratered when Facebook muted its virality. the $49 million-funded startup is hedging its bets with the launch of a mobile-first web, , and messaging app for coworkers that looks like Yammer and WhatsApp’s white-collar love child. Talk.co ditches Yammer’s passive news feed for a l... |
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky And Sequoia’s Alfred Lin On The Importance Of Culture And Core Values To A Business | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO 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. In this episode, we focus on h... |
DG Acquires Republic Project, A Google Ventures-Backed Ad Startup, For $1.4M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | Publicly traded ad management and distribution company Digital Generation, better known as , is announcing that it has acquired ad startup for $1.4 million in cash, with additional earn outs based on revenue and profitability. The startup as a way for artists and labels to sell pre-ordered music to fans. Since the... |
Those Giant Fox News Touchscreens Are Microsoft Perceptive Pixel Displays Running Windows 8 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | Huge iPads or tiny journalists? That’s the question that after Fox News detailing a new set that includes a number of analysts sat before . The screens measure 55 inches, run Windows 8 (soon: Windows 8.1, presumably) and look damned futuristic. Secret Fox News hardware? Something that Samsung kicked together for t... |
Google Glass Gets Transit Directions So You Can Get Your $1,500 Head Computer Stolen On The Bus | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | Today, Google Glass gets , as long as you’ve paired it with an Android phone. Previously, the head computer would give you directions to nearby locations but only via your feet or personal vehicle. This latest update adds buses, streetcars and more into the mix, letting you specify a location and allowing Glass to pin... |
Forkly, The Foodspotting Competitor From Brightkite Founders, Is Looking For A New Home | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | , a Foodspotting competitor launched back 2010, is shutting down. Well, sort of – it will remain open for six to eight months, and maybe more, while looking for a new home, we’re told. It looked like bad news for the company when one of its co-founders, , left the startup to join as CTO at , and now we’ve confirmed w... |
Mobile Engagement Platform Appoxee Grabs $1.8 Million As It Heads To The U.S. | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | With mobile publishers and toward in-app purchases in order to monetize on mobile, there’s an increased need to generate more revenue out of existing install bases. That’s an area which mobile app engagement platform has been focused on since its founding in early 2011, and today it’s announcing an additional $1.8 ... |
Tablo BookMaker Takes The Complexity Out Of EBook Publishing | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | Getting a book published used to require something called “an agent” who talked to a “publishing house” who, in turn, hired a “printer” to make a “hardback” or “paperback” version of your words. is just another in the long line of startups aimed at relegating those things to the deep, dark past. Tablo is an Australia... |
After Buying Wibiya For $45M, Conduit Discontinues Product As It Shifts Away From Toolbars | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | Less than a month after browser-toolbar and mobile startup merged its Client Connect division , the company is making another change to its business. Conduit has announced that it will be discontinuing , the social browser toolbar service that it , as it shifts further away from its toolbar business. In a letter m... |
Netflix iOS Bug That Breaks Output Via Apple HDMI AV Adapters Will Be Fixed | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | The latest Neftlix update for iOS 7 finally added full AirPlay support to the app, something that many probably assumed it already had. But it also appears to have broken the feature, which allowed it to connect directly to TVs with Apple’s HDMI AV adapter. Some users have been crying foul about the error, claiming tha... |
Sparkcentral Picks Up $4.5 Million To Build Its Vision Of Social Customer Service | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | announced today that it has raised a $4.5 million Series A round of funding and changed its name to . The company’s vision is the integration of social customer service into the mass-scale call centers that large corporations staff with phones, people who answer phones, and angry calls. Sparkcentral’s focus on enterp... |
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FiLIP, A Smartwatch For Kids, Will Be Home For The Holidays | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | Just in time for frenzied family trips to the mall — i.e. the holiday season — wearable tech maker is preparing to take its first product to market, a GPS and mobile-enabled watch that keeps children and their parents in communication. After three years in product development, AT&T has partnered with Filip Technologi... |
Verbase Is A Search Startup Using ‘No Ads’ To Lure Users To Fire Its Crowdsourced Engines | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | Has Google done enough annoying stuff to drive users elsewhere in search of other, less privacy-trampling search engines? Security focused rival , as some users switched to punish Google for participation in the NSA’s Prism data collection program. So there would seem to be a degree of scope for user churn away from s... |
Fox News And Its Big-Ass Touchscreens | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | And in this week’s episode of absolutely , we bring you BATS, officially known as big area touchscreens. The media outlet responsible for bringing fair and balanced news into our lives has today released a video that shows off the network’s brand-new Fox News Deck studio, a room filled with video walls and giant 55-in... |
The NSA Oversight Farce | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | This weekend we learned that President Barack Obama’s NSA surveillance panel, built at least in theory to vet our intelligence activities and weigh their performance against the right of privacy, after the government shutdown froze its funds. It was an emblematic moment. As a nation we couldn’t even keep the farce of... |
The Internet Costs 30% Of Monthly Wages In Some Nations. Google Wants To Help. | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 7 | Internet access is astonishingly expensive in some parts of the world. The International Telecommunications Union estimates that fixed broadband costs 30 percent of the average monthly wage within the developing world [ ]. To address this, Google, Facebook, USAID and a host of top-tier tech companies have teamed up to ... |
Twitter Exploring Personalized Breaking News Notifications With @Eventparrot Experiment | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication. An account called @ has garnered around 1,500 followers and promises to deliver ‘direct messages that help you keep up with what’s happening in the world’. : Yep, , the ... |
Twitter’s Silent Chairman | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | Last week, when Twitter’s S-1 filing dropped, the media pored over it with a fine-toothed comb, extracting every bit of juice possible from under the freshly peeled-back rind of the intensely secretive company. One very interesting tidbit was dug up by the : Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey had apparently given up the v... |
From Sprint And TechStars To The FDA, A Look At The Changing Landscape Facing Health Startups | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | The health-care industry in the U.S. is broken, and considering the industry itself represents some 18 percent of the U.S. economy, it’s a sizable problem. While other sectors have begun to adapt, health care has managed to resist change — particularly the technology-based variety. Meanwhile, 30 percent of total health... |
Microsoft Rereleases Its YouTube App For Windows Phone | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | Microsoft today re-released its YouTube app for Windows Phone, two months after Google the prior version over a terms spat. The application is little more than a bridge to YouTube’s website itself. In May, Google and Microsoft to get a strong YouTube app into the Windows Phone marketplace. Microsoft had built somet... |
T-Mobile Takes Aim At Rival Carriers With Free, Unlimited International Data | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | T-Mobile USA just loves to crow about how different it is from the rest of its carrier rivals; it decided to show off the latest of its “Uncarrier” moves at a packed concert/press event in New York City’s Bryant Park. Here’s the gist of it: if you’re a T-Mobile customer on one of their Simple Choice plans, you can now ... |
Crowdsourced Design Startup Dispop Gets Into the Ad-Buying Business | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | , the startup that allows businesses to crowdsource the design of their ads, has relaunched its platform with a big addition — the ability to actually run ad campaigns. Through the service, advertisers could already solicit submissions from multiple designers, then A/B test them to see which ones are the most effective... |
Former Mint And Intuit Exec Anton Commissaris Joins Vend To Run US Operations | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | New Zealand-based point-of-sale startup is looking to expand quickly in the U.S., and it’s made a big hire to lead that charge. , who had served as an executive at Mint.com and later Intuit has joined the company as its President of U.S. operations. Vend offers a cloud-based point-of-sale system that is designed to ... |
PC Market Beats Expectations, Slips 7.6% In Q3 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | According , the PC market contracted 7.6 percent in the third quarter. The group had expected a 9.5 percent decline, so the quarter outperformed expectations. In the United States, the PC market was essentially flat during the quarter, with unit volume falling a mere 0.2 percent compared to the year prior. That fact, ... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: More Leaks Than A Sinking Ship | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | There’s nothing like a heaping helping of leaks to make it through hump day, and there are plenty of them to dissect on this week’s edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast. Some of them are more surprising than others — who know that HTC was working on a plus-size version of the One with a fingerprint scanner on its back... |
Brian Chesky And Sequoia’s Alfred Lin On Adding The Wow Factor To Airbnb’s Customer Service | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | As we mentioned earlier this week, co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO 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 ser... |
HP Admits What We Already Knew: Microsoft Is At War With Its OEM Partners | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | HP stated the obvious today, clearing the air a bit in the world of personal computing, not to mention other areas of the technology industry. Microsoft, it said, is now a competitor to its business. Of course, we knew this. HP sells software, services, and devices. So does Microsoft. Here’s the key quote from HP CEO M... |
Airbnb Files A Motion With The NY Supreme Court To Block Attorney General’s Subpoena | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | Airbnb’s fight with local regulators in New York continues to heat up, as it was put under pressure to provide a large amount of user data to the Attorney General’s office there. Today, the company fought back against those demands by filing a motion that it hopes will block that request. Earlier this week, Airbnb was ... |
New Google Maps Regains Support For Multi-Destination Trips, Now Integrates Your Flights And Upcoming Events | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | The big, still-in-Beta brought a bunch of new shiny stuff, from its new fullscreen interface to drastically improved public transportation integration. It also some features, though – and when you take away things that people (like me!) have been using for years, those people (like me!) get sad. One of the features... |
EXMO, A Mobile Events Platform Making Conferences More Social, Exits Beta | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | Although there are a number of mobile applications working to replace the printed guidebook for conferences and events, there’s no all-out market leader at this point. In addition, a number of the companies building conferencing apps are focused on larger events, with pricing plans to match. Today, a startup called i... |
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Microsoft Promises Quick App Approvals Following Windows 8.1 Release | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | After a public face plant regarding the release of its operating system update to developers, Microsoft that applications built for Windows 8.1 will be approved no more than five days following their submission, once the new build of Windows becomes generally available. That means that come October 18, when Windows 8... |
VEVO Launches Music Video App For Samsung Smart TVs & Blu-Ray Players | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | announced that it is launching on yet another connected TV platform today, making its music videos now available on the . The launch will grow the number of viewers who will have access to the company’s streaming service, while also improving monetization of its content. Over the past several years, VEVO has moved to... |
Themer App Grabs Half A Million To Bring Android Customization To Mainstream Users | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | Android users are rolling their eyes over the newly introduced customization capabilities released in Apple’s iOS 7 like “dynamic” (live) wallpapers and backgrounds with the effect. You can already do these things on Android and have been able to for some time. In fact, you can fully personalize your smartphone, from... |
Just One Week Left To Register For Startup Alley At Disrupt Europe | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | As we approach we would like to extend the offer for you, some of the best startups in the world, to take part in Startup Alley, our special pavilion focused on bringing amazing startups together under one roof. This gets you a table at the event and the chance to show off your product to press, investors, and TC wri... |
Who Will Be The First Snapchat Stories Celebrity? | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 9 | Each sharing medium has its virtuosos. YouTube celebrities, Instagram artists, Vine comedians. And soon, thanks to the private ephemeral messaging app’s new public broadcast feature Stories, we may see Snapchat superstars take the spotlight. Their creations could make Snapchat less about intimate conversations and more... |
Runtastic Releases Scary, Exciting “Story Running” To Encourage Your Ploddings | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | , an Austrian running startup with an aim of hitting the Polars and Nikes of the world where it counts, has released something it’s calling essentially an app that tracks your run and replays an audio story that becomes more exciting as you approach the high points of an interval run. There have been a few of these al... |
Nomorerack Raises $40M In Series B Financing To Build Depth Across Its Biggest Categories | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | Less than one year after a $12 million Series A round, the multi-category retailer has raised $40 million in Series B financing led by Oak Investment Partners and HTV Industries. Although the company launched as a flash sales site in 2010, Nomorerack has since transitioned to position itself as an online retailer t... |
Circle Raises $9M Series A From Accel And General Catalyst To Make Bitcoins Mainstream | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | has launched with $9M of Series A funding to increase mainstream adoption of digital currencies like Bitcoin by providing a payment platform for consumers and merchants. Investors include Jim Breyer, and . All three invested in Circle founder Jeremy Allaire’s previous startup , an online video platform . Circle ... |
Ecomm Newcomer Greats Is Building A Brand On Sweet, Affordable Sneakers | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | Someone should probably go make a Wikipedia page for the “Warby Parker model,” since it has rapidly become the go-to business strategy for online retail startups. The latest addition to the genus is , a men’s footwear brand that launched in August. The name derives from the ambition to put a fresh spin on the enduri... |
Calls To Limit Speech In The Snowden Era Underscore The Importance Of A Free Press | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | The Snowden revelations have reignited a discussion about privacy — especially privacy in the digital age. That discussion will eventually, we can hope, not only reform how the government views the privacy of its citizens, but also how those citizens interact with private entities that might store massive amounts of th... |
Is Comcast Buying The Seattle Mayoral Election To Dodge Homegrown Competition? Not Really | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | The mayor of Seattle has alleged that Comcast donated significant sums to his rival ahead of the November 5 election. The money could have been donated, perhaps, in hopes of scuttling the planned public-private broadband initiative in the city that could introduce new inexpensive, and fast competitive service. In respo... |
Hands On With The Nexus 5 And Android 4.4 KitKat | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | The Nexus 5 is here! The Nexus 5 is here! After months of hype and more questionably “accidental” leaks than any device in recent memory, Google announced their new flagship Android handset this morning. I’ve only had the device in my hands for a few hours, so it’ll be a few days before I’m ready to give my final ya... |
Apple, Microsoft-Backed Rockstar Consortium Sues Google, Samsung Over 7 Nortel Patents | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | The Rockstar consortium is an organization backed by Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson and Sony. It purchased patents off of the defunct telecommunications company Nortel in 2011, in a bidding war with Google. Now, the consortium has filed suit against Google, ASUSTek, HTC, Huawei, LG, Pantech and ZTE over those p... |
Twitter’s IPO ‘Oversubscribed’ Despite Accelerating Losses And Growth Concerns | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | Today, report that Twitter’s highly anticipated initial public offering is oversubscribed, indicating booming interest for its shares as the firm looks to become a public company. Notably, Twitter had priced the shares well below expectations, all but guaranteeing an oversubscribed IPO. The report says that the IPO h... |
SoundTracking Launches Updated App With New ‘Discover’ Section For Trending Music | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | Music-focused social network released a new version of its smartphone app today, one that co-founder and CEO Steve Jang said will make the app useful beyond “hardcore music lovers.” We’re also hearing that SoundTracking has reached an agreement with Sprint, with SoundTracking being preloaded or featured on certain Sp... |
Ask A VC: AngelPad’s Thomas Korte On NYC Expansion, The Incubator’s New $7M Funding Round And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | In this week’s special episode of Ask A VC from Disrupt Europe in Berlin, Germany, founder and former Googler talked to TechCrunch about his incubator’s strategy, expansion and more. Korte, who with six other ex-Google employees, explained why he’s kept the incubator small, with only around 10-12 startups per s... |
Oracle, Red Hat, And Google Employees Pitch In To Fix Beleaguered Healthcare.gov, Reports Indicate | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | Workers from tech giants Google, Red Hat, and Oracle and other companies have reportedly joined with the government to help fix the notoriously broken Healthcare.gov website that is a key portion of the Affordable Care Act. According to a , “experts” from the firms have been dispatched. It is not clear yet in what qua... |
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Google’s Search Results Can Deep-Link To Your Android Apps | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | It should be clear by now that there’s than some early reports alluded to, and one of the more interesting (to me, anyway) tidbits managed to escape the early leak treatment. Tucked away toward the tail-end of Google’s Nexus 5/KitKat presentation was a mention of a feature called App Indexing that should get companie... |
Keen On… Social Media: The First 2,000 Years | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | How old is social media? Maybe we can date it from the birth of in February 2004. Or perhaps we can go back to 2002, to when was founded. Or even way, way, way back to digital antiquity – back to 1997, when Reid Hoffman founded the first social media website, SocialNet. No, social media is actually older, 2,000 y... |
Google’s Nexus 5 Is Now Real And Ships Today At $349 For 16GB, $399 For 32GB | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | At long last, Google has officially announced what has been perhaps their worst kept secret in a while: the Nexus 5. The Nexus 5 had seen more than its fair share of early outs, with everything from fleeting, “accidental” appearances in the hands of Google employees in quickly-deleted promo videos to full-blown product... |
Amazon Launches AWS SDK For JavaScript In The Browser | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | Amazon today the developer preview of its . With this, developers can now easily build dynamic JavaScript applications that can from the browser without the need to write any server-side code and to configure an application server for hosting. Amazon previously launched an , so this isn’t Amazon’s first foray int... |
Android 4.4 KitKat Targets Google’s Next Billion Users, Adds Pervasive Search & Improves Google Now | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | details of its long-awaited Android 4.4 KitKat operating system for the first time, going beyond just the candy bar branding. KitKat is designed around three major tentpoles, Google told TechCrunch, including reaching the next billion (it ) Android users, putting so-called Google “smarts” across the entire mobile exp... |
Hailo Ups Its Minimum Fare In London To £10, Triggers Licensing Complaints | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 10 | 31 | Another chapter in the ongoing saga between city cab regulations and on-demand taxi apps: cab app , which in London relies on a portion of the city’s black cabs to power its taxi-hailing-on-demand service — meaning it is bound by the same minimum fare regulations attached to London black cabs — has raised its minimum ... |
Highlights From The Disrupt Europe 2013 Hackathon | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | This past weekend, we brought together 500 of Berlin’s finest coders, designers, and builders for our first ever Disrupt Europe Hackathon. Teams had to slam together the best thing they could build from the ground up in just 24 hours, with $5,000, a chance to present your project in the main Disrupt Europe conference... |
Facebook’s Desktop Ad Revenues Fell $26M In Q3 As Its Mobile Ad Revenue Surged $226M | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | As part of its , Facebook today reported that 49 percent of its advertising revenue in the period came from mobile usage. That figure is , in which Facebook reported 41 percent of its advertising revenue came from mobile usage. Facebook had third quarter advertising revenue of $1.8 billion. Forty-nine percent of that... |
After Nearly 5 Years And 5M Backers, Kickstarter Gets A New CEO As Two Founders Step Back | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | As it approaches its fifth birthday, Kickstarter’s star continues to rise, as the indie crowdfunding goliath that five million people have now collectively pledged nearly one billion dollars to its crowdfunding projects. Today, in a somewhat surprising turn after yesterday’s milestones, it appears that an impromptu v... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: Google’s Plan For Hangouts And Motorola’s Modular Future | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | To paraphrase the one and only Gloria Gaynor, Darrell and I are back from outer space for yet another edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast. Well maybe not outer space , but the two of us have had to spend some time far from home and we couldn’t get together to record a show last week. For that you have our deepest apol... |
Facebook Admits Some Decrease Of Usage Amongst Young Teens For The First Time | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | Facebook may be feeling the pinch from teen-focused, mobile-first social networks like Snapchat, as CFO David Ebersman said on today’s that Facebook “did see a decrease in daily users specifically among younger teens,” though he prefaced that saying “usage of Facebook among US teens overall was stable from Q2 to Q3.”... |
TechCrunch Disrupt Europe In 1,337 Photos | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | TechCrunch Disrupt Europe was a hit. Thousands of attendees, founders, and venture capitalists from around the world filled Arena Berlin for the event. Startups from more than 80 countries exhibited their wares. 15 startups launched in the first Startup Battlefield held in Europe and the $50,000 prize and Disrupt Cup... |
Facebook’s Mobile Tipping Point: 48% Of Daily Users Are Now Mobile-Only (But No Mention Of BlackBerry) | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | The word “ ” did not come up during conference call yesterday, but you can see why such a crazy idea like the social network buying the beleaguered handset maker might have a sliver of plausibility to it. The company is moving closer to a tipping point where mobile usage and revenues will soon be outweighing that of ... |
No, Madam Secretary, Prices On Healthcare.gov Are Not A “Hypothetical Situation” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, wins the award today for most creative political spin. During a congressional grilling about the failings of the federal e-commerce website, Healthcare.gov, the secretary now claims that insurance prices are merely “hypothetical situations.” The claim was in re... |
Facebook’s Q3 ’13 Beats With $2.02B Revenue, $0.25 EPS, With 49% Of Ad Revenue Now Via Mobile | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | Facebook , posting $2.02 billion in revenue (making this the company’s first $2 billion quarter) with earnings of $0.25 a share. That blew away estimates of $0.19 EPS and $1.91 billion in revenue. Much of the growth can be attributed to exploding ad revenue on mobile, with 49 percent of its revenue in Q3 coming from o... |
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NSA Infiltrates Google And Yahoo Networks, Report Says | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | The National Security Agency has secretly taped the networks of Google and Yahoo to monitor real-time communication, according to newly revealed documents from whistleblower, Edward Snowden [ ]. “The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data cente... |
Runnable Raises $2M Seed Round To Expand Its “YouTube Of Code” | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | a Palo Alto-based startup that aims to make it easy to discover and reuse code snippets, today announced that it has raised a $2 million seed round led by Sierra Ventures with additional investments from , and . Hiten Shah, the founder of KISSmetrics and Isaac Roth, the founder of Makara, also participated in th... |
Tesla Officially Opens West Coast Supercharger Circuit, Covering San Diego To Vancouver | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 30 | Tesla’s , making it possible for owners of the Model S to travel free between San Diego and Vancouver, using Highway 101 and Interstate 5. This makes a Supercharger reachable within 200 miles to over 99 percent of Californians and 87 percent of those in Oregon and Washington. A lot of attention has been paid to Tesla’... |
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