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TechCrunch Has Redesigned, Again | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | , we were at a dinner, and when one of us mentioned that we were an editor at TechCrunch, the guy across the table from us chimed in, without introducing himself, with a well-worn complaint: “Why does your site load so slow? It’s unreadable on the tablet.” It’s not like we’re oblivious to this. We’re not just TechCrunc... |
Square Cash Goes Head To Head With Venmo And Google Wallet To Allow Anyone To Send Money Via Email | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | Square today is formally launching , a product that allows anyone to send money to a contact via email. Square initially soft-launched the product to a limited number of users earlier this year but is opening the service more broadly to users with a few tweaks to the initial payments system. As Square’s director of pr... |
Apple Solicits Developers For OS X Mavericks-Ready Apps, Signaling Imminent Release | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | Apple sent a message on its (public) today encouraging developers to submit apps that are fully compatible with its upcoming operating system OS X Mavericks. If the fact that Mavericks went GM (Gold Master) recently isn’t enough for you, we’re hearing that it is indeed “ready” for release, hence the encouragement on ... |
Twitter User Growth Decelerating: +6% In Q3 To 231.7 Million Now Vs +10% In Q1 | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | Twitter’s percent user growth is slowing. In a new to its IPO filing, Twitter notes it hit 231.7 million monthly users by the end of Q3 2013, up 6.13% from 218.3 million at the end of Q2. If you look back, you’ll see Twitter had 6.86% growth in Q2, 10.27% in Q1, and 10.77% in Q4 2012. The trajectory could indicate tr... |
TC Cribs: The Lights, Cameras, And Classrooms At CreativeLIVE’s San Francisco HQ | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | So this time around, Cribs just turned our cameras on the people who turn their cameras onto others. So meta! It was very fun to see behind the scenes of a truly modern kind of video studio. Check out the video embedded above to see CreativeLIVE’s very charismatic co-founder show us through the company’s massive Sa... |
Using 3D Modeling, Threadmason Aims To Be A Solution For Badly Fitting T-Shirts | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | Today in t-shirt startups, a New York operation called has launched a Kickstarter to use 3D modeling to create basic shirts that fit guys really, really ridiculously well. If Bonobos got its business of the ground by focusing on fit, Threadmason is aiming to one-up that standard by offering their wares in 24 differe... |
Twitter Doubles Its Q3 Revenue, But Its Aggregate 2013 Loss Has Widened To $133.8M | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | According to its , Twitter has lost $133.8 million to date in 2013. That compares negatively with its equivalent loss of $70.7 million in 2012. Both loss figures include the results of the first 9 months of the calendar year. Twitter’s covered only the first two quarters of 2013. That report indicated that Twitter h... |
Yahoo Spent $163 Million In Cash On Acquisitions In Q3, Down 84% From Its Tumblr’d Q2 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | In the , Yahoo purchased eight companies, including Lexity, Rockmelt, and Xobni. According to its , the net cash impact on those purchases totalled $163 million. Does that mean that the total value of the eight purchases came to $163 million? Not at all. That figure is merely the net cash outflow for Yahoo, or, the t... |
Walmart Expands Same-Day Grocery Delivery To Denver | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | Walmart today announced its plans to expand its same-day grocery delivery service, a part of its “Walmart To Go” offering, to a new market: Denver, Colorado. This move follows the company’s ongoing grocery delivery tests which have been taking place over the last couple of years in San Jose and San Francisco. The Denve... |
Path Axes 20 Percent Of Staff In A ‘Realigning Of The Company’ | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | Mobile-only social networking app laid off 13 staffers today, axing 20 percent of its workforce. Rumors of the layoffs have been percolating around the tech industry this afternoon, and were first by Valleywag. Path founder and CEO , who celebrated his 33rd birthday , has not responded to requests for comment. I... |
Twitter Announces It Will List On The NYSE Under TWTR | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | Twitter has to note that it will be listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the TWTR symbol, a detail that was . The new document was uploaded to its EDGAR archive today. There is still no valuation or IPO estimation listed in the document. Twitter notes that it now has 230 million MAUs, marking a growth of 15 ... |
Wikileaks In A Box: SecureDrop Is WhistleBlower Communication Tool For Media | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | In an effort to protect government whistleblowers from unprecedented levels of surveillance, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has launched , an anonymous submission tool for secure communications between sources and journalists. SecureDrop accepts encrypted documents and tips from sources and facilitates communicat... |
SB Nation Partners With BlogTalkRadio For Its Move Into Live Podcasting | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | has signed a big partner to its live podcasting network — sports site . The timing might seem interesting, since news broke today that Vox Media, the company behind SB Nation and tech news site The Verge, has . However, SB Nation shows have actually been live on BlogTalkRadio’s site since September — they just haven... |
MyHeritage Partners With FamilySearch To Add Billions Of Historical Records To Its Genealogy Database | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | When it comes to online genealogy, the two major for-profit players are and . Ancestry.com got a major head start over MyHeritage, but it mostly focused on gathering historical records while MyHeritage put an emphasis on building and matching family trees. But now it’s also starting to amass a wider range of histori... |
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Yahoo Reduces Planned Sale Of Alibaba Shares By 20%, Will Keep More Skin In The Game When It IPOs | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | Today in conjunction with its third quarter earnings release, that it has come to a new agreement with Alibaba that will force the company to sell less of its shares in the Chinese ecommerce firm when it goes public. The number of shares that Yahoo will be required to sell now totals 208 million. That figure represen... |
Yahoo Q3 Barely Beats Estimates With $0.34 EPS, Revenue Flat At $1.08B | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | Yahoo just released for the third quarter of the year, with revenue of $1.08 billion (minus traffic acquisition costs) and earnings per share of 34 cents. That’s in line with on the revenue side ($1.08 billion) and the estimated EPS of 33 cents. Revenue is down 1 percent from the same period last year, while net ea... |
Intel Beats The Street In Q3 2013 With $13.5 Billion In Revenue And $0.53 EPS | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | Well, it’s that time again — famed chipmaker Intel has just reported its and they’re just a bit better than expected. The company reported quarterly revenue of $13.5 billion (which is pretty much flat compared to its performance last year) and earnings of $0.58 per share (again, same as last year). To put that in a l... |
Why Accel Is Leading A $40M Round In Vox Media, A Digital Content Company (!) | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | “At some level, it is still contrarian,” Accel Partners’ Andrew Braccia admits about leading a $40 million fourth round of funding in , the publisher of hundreds of major league sports fan blogs as well as tech/culture site and gaming site . Coming on top of $30 million in previous rounds, the Washington, DC-based ... |
Microsoft’s Scroogled Ad Campaign Appears To Be Working | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 15 | The Scroogled advertising campaign undertaken by Microsoft to ding and scuff its rival Google appears to be an effective effort, according to statistics . That publication’s report details data collected for Microsoft by Answers Research indicating that, following a visit to , Google’s favorability gap with Bing with... |
Ditto Defeats Patent Claim After Teaming Up With A ‘Troll’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 12 | Earlier this year, I called , which launched a campaign on Indiegogo to fund patent battles against 1-800-CONTACTS and Lennon Imaging Technology — or, as Ditto characterized it, to “save” the startup from “patent trolls.” Since then, Ditto’s story has taken a couple of turns. Over the summer, the company partnered w... |
CrunchWeek: Facebook And Google’s Big Privacy Changes, Zulily’s IPO, And All The Latest Twitter Talk | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 10 | 12 | This time around, , and I discussed Facebook that allowed people to hide their profiles from public searches, Google to start using regular users’ product ratings and photos , e-commerce for moms site Zulily filing for , and the latest buzz around Twitter on its from its board of directors to the latest ... |
Gillmor Gang: Context Matters | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 10 | 12 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — took out their devices and slapped them down on the table. By any measurement, the Context Wars are well under way. But neither Apple or particularly Google seem to realize what Twitter does — that notifications are the way ... |
The Panopticon Is Extremely Convenient (So Use Facebook, Google, And Chrome) | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 10 | 12 | I write from the Philippines, where a phone has which, if stolen, can be remotely triggered to repeatedly scream “ ” Back home, BART riders have been hearing: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your train operator. If you have any electronic devices with you, please make sure they are secure, especially if you are near t... |
How To Opt Out Of Google’s Weird New Ads That Use Your Face And Name | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 12 | Angry that Google is planning on using your face and name ? Here’s how to make them not. If there’s any upside, it’s that opting out is, quite seriously, two clicks away. Two clicks that I only discovered because I went out of my way to look and because I checked the depths of Google+ (lol). But hey — it’s two clicks ... |
LG May Fire Back At Samsung With Its Own Curvy Smartphone Next Month | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | And the seemingly age-old war between LG and Samsung continues. This time the battle is centered around curved displays on smartphones — Samsung has already shown its hand with the , and now some newly disseminated images seem to indicate that LG is going to return fire in short order. Earlier this evening a handful o... |
Facebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo, Reportedly For Up To $200M… And (Finally?) Gets Its Office In Israel | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | Big news for a Monday/late Sunday night (depending on where you are): , the Tel Aviv-based mobile analytics company, has just that it has been acquired by . Onavo will become the anchor for Facebook in Israel — its first office in the country. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed; we are trying to find out. Ri... |
Netflix Reportedly In Negotiations With U.S. Cable TV Providers | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | is in the early stages of negotiating with U.S. cable providers to make its online streaming video service available as an app through their set-top boxes, . If a deal goes through, it will mark a major victory for Netflix, signifying that it has changed viewer habits so much that cable TV operators can no longer aff... |
Of Course Harvard’s Larry Summers Hates The Thiel Fellowship | Contributor | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | The former President of Harvard the Thiel Fellowship. In his shoes, neither would we. A program that asks the best and brightest from top universities to pursue their interests outside Harvard’s hallowed campus walls? Larry Summers’ critique of the Thiel Fellowship as “single most misdirected bit of philanthropy in t... |
Woojer Is A Wearable Audio Accessory For Bass Junkies Who Want To Feel The Noise | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | Woojer is a wearable mobile accessory designed to allow its wearer to feel what they’re listening to on their mobile device — via the medium of haptic feedback — rather than simply having banging tunes inserted into their earholes. It’s also being aimed at gamers who want a more immersive in-game experience, or for wat... |
The End Of The Library | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | A simple link. That’s all it took to unleash a hailstorm of angry emails, messages, tweets, and comments. Why? I dared wonder if libraries will continue to exist in the future. I mean, it’s not that crazy a notion, right? (If a , you’re not allowed to answer that.) Last Monday, to from my blog. In it, he argues ... |
Magnify Is Buying Waywire To Build A Consumer-Facing Video Curation Powerhouse | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | New York-based video startup Magnify is in the process of acquiring Waywire, the company that Cory Booker founded, to build a consumer-facing business around the curation of videos online. The deal, which was , isn’t quite done yet, but is expected to close early this week. When it closes, it will give Magnify access ... |
Microsoft: Yeah, The Surface RT’s Name Confused Consumers | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | In its new generation of tablet hybrid hardware, Microsoft renamed its lower-end, ARM-based Surface device, calling it the Surface 2. It kept its prior Surface Pro branding in place. Why ditch the original Surface RT name? As you expected, consumers didn’t get what it meant. Speaking , an Australian publication, – a... |
Xero Zeros In On Another $150M To Do Battle With Intuit In The World Of Online SMB Accounting Software | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | Nearly a year after Peter Thiel, Matrix Partners and others into , the online accounting software company is adding yet more capital to its coffers. Today the New Zealand-based startup that it has raised $150 million (NZ$180m), led again by Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures and Matrix Partners. Xero says it will u... |
What Games Are: The Nintendo Difference Still Exists | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | There are three kinds of articles that regularly get written about Nintendo. The first article says Nintendo’s and talks about how impossible it is becoming for the company to survive in the modern world. The reasons for the doom are several (a few years ago it was the encroachment of HD, now it’s the rise of mobile)... |
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Fifteen Years On, Pokemon Still Holds Power Over This Thirty-Something | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | While iPhone launch days and big gadget reveals represent some of my most anticipated events because I’m a tech blogger, a day like today can still awaken just as much excitement. Today is the launch day of a new Pokemon game, you see – the newest installment of the “Catch ‘Em All” franchise, Pokemon X/Y for the Ninten... |
The Precise Art Of Mobile Push Notifications | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | TechCrunch I may sound like a record when I consistently reference this phrase in my weekly column: “mobile is the only under-hyped thing in tech.” Yet, it is hard to argue with, and if we agree to agree, then within a mobile context, almost everything we can do with our phones and apps is , as well. Take mobile pus... |
Fly Or Die: Samsung Galaxy Note 3 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | Samsung’s is here. If you haven’t met her already, say hello to the Galaxy Note 3, a barge of a phone with incredible processing power and no fashion sense whatsoever. There’s no question that the Galaxy Note 3 is a powerful device. It’s the first smartphone to come with 3GB of RAM under the hood, and it also pack... |
Flipcase Adds Some Fun And Games To Apple’s iPhone 5c Case | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTVoD-3MDr0&w=640&h=390] Apple may not have hit a home run with its iPhone 5c case, which in my view would’ve been better off without the cut-out dots on the back, but those holes have proven inspiring for at least one enterprising game-maker. , a new game from Australia’s Dave ... |
Study: Facebook Comments Are More Civil Than Newspaper Website Comments | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | : A person is less likely to accuse a complete stranger of being a socialist demon hell-bent on killing babies with free health insurance, when their friends can see him being a complete asshat. : True A new study finds that Facebook users are about twice as civil as the anonymous trolling netizens that comb the badlan... |
Shouts And Murmurations | Devin Coldewey | 2,013 | 10 | 13 | comments? You know, the comment section there at the bottom of the post. It seems like a simple question. And indeed, there is a simple answer: So that people can express themselves regarding the topic or article to which the comment section is appended, or peruse the expressions of others. But that’s not exactly corr... |
500 Startups Alum Dakwak Launches Freemium Model For SMB Site Translation | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | Web site translation and localization platform , which we , has launched a new freemium model to attract small- to medium-sized businesses. The startup hopes that the simplicity of its translation service and search-engine optimization for sites across different languages will convince companies to upgrade to . Dakw... |
To Get Around US Law, The NSA Collects Email Address Books And Chat Buddy Lists From Foreign Locations | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | The that the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting for both foreign individuals and United States citizens. It appears that the NSA lacks Congressional authority to collect buddy lists and address book information in the way that it currently does. As the Post rightly points out, address book data can includ... |
Voxer Adds A Web Version To Its Push-To-Talk Business Messaging App | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | , the mobile messaging app that started out 2013 with a little notoriety (thanks to its API access), is today taking the next step in its transformation into a paid enterprise push-to-talk and chat product: the company is launching , a version of the service that links up the company’s paid iOS and Android apps wi... |
How Will The Fiscal Mess In Washington Impact Twitter’s IPO? | Contributor | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | As excitement grows for the upcoming Twitter IPO, the federal government shutdown and pending debt-ceiling issue looms large. There are some in Silicon Valley who believe that the current innovation cycle, powerfully led by mobile and cloud computing, will overwhelm any public market dislocation caused by Washington ... |
NSA “Is Harvesting Hundreds Of Millions Of Contact Lists,” Reports WaPo | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | The National Security Agency has been secretly “harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans,” the Washington Post from documents obtained by whistleblower on the lam, Edward Snowden. PowerPoint slides reveal... |
Can Yahoo’s Growing Mobile Usage Drag It From The Revenue Doldrums In Q3? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | Yahoo will report its third-quarter earnings tomorrow. Analysts per-share profit of $0.33 on revenue of $1.1 billion. That compares unfavorably to Yahoo’s year-ago third quarter, in which it reported $1.1 billion in revenue, and a slightly higher $0.35 per share income. So investors are expecting Yahoo to be essentia... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Greylock’s Simon Rothman | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we have Greylock’s newest partner, Simon Rothman, joining us in the studio. You can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Rothman, who was recently promoted from EIR to Partner on Greylock’s consumer investment team, was forme... |
Zenefits Rolls Its HR Automation Services Out To All 50 States | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | Back at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in April, a company called debuted a service that aimed to automate away many of the most annoying bits involved with running a startup or small business. Hire someone? Give Zenefits the basic details, and they’ll get them insured, on payroll, etc. Fire someone? Click a button to pull th... |
Founder Stories: For Ping Identity’s Andre Durand, Patience Is A Virtue | Contributor | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | As someone who is — at times — impatient (that’s me), this conversation with Durand impressed upon me in powerful ways. For instance, he discusses how he viewed time as a founder at age 35, recalling the feeling of constantly being in a rush; yet 10 years later, now, he strives for patience in business. Surely, the s... |
BlackBerry Reaffirms It Isn’t Gone Just Yet In An Open Letter To Customers | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | BlackBerry is currently dealing with some serious, serious issues — no one wanted its , one of its co-founders might be making a dark-horse bid to , and the company might just end up being parted out to the highest bidders. So what’s a once-dominant smartphone player to do in light of all this uncertainty and depress... |
Threadless Gets Into The Greeting Card Game With Strategic Partnership And Investment In Open Me | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | For more than a decade, has been the place to go to get interesting T-shirts and other apparel, all of which have been submitted and vetted by its own community. Now you’ll be able to find and send those designs on greeting cards, thanks to a strategic partnership with a new player in the space called . As a next-ge... |
The Boston Meetup + Pitch-Off Is In One Month, Apply Now To Be In The Pitch-Off | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | Boston in the fall. There’s nothing like it. Leaves are falling, a crisp wind blows in from the bay, and the particular pencils being sharpened are owned by Harvard, Boston College, and MIT students. That said, TechCrunch can’t help but pay a visit to one of the oldest cities in the nation to enjoy some of the newest t... |
iTunes Radio Product Manager Gareth Paul Jones Joins Twitter To Work On Ad Partnerships | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | Apple product manager Gareth Paul Jones is leaving the company to join Twitter, . , he was a product manager on iTunes Radio (which recently ), and he’s also worked as a product manager at TRUSTe and as an engineer at Google. We wrote about Jones when after leaving Google. ( .) TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden asked Jone... |
Twitter Plans To Use What You Follow And Tweet To Target MoPub Ads On Other Apps. Here’s How | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | Everything that happens on Twitter could become fuel for targeting off-site ads run through its recent ad network , according to the ‘ sources. In theory, users logged in to Twitter could see ads related to who they follow and words they tweet on sites with MoPub-powered ads. Twitter could then earn money on its data... |
PayPal Expands “Real World” Presence Via Integration With iPad Point-of-Sale Maker Revel Systems | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | PayPal has today scored another deal to bring its technology to more point-of-sale platforms via an integration with iPad POS solution provider, , a company whose business has grown by 400% year-over year and now includes big-name clients like Dairy Queen, Goodwill, Popeye’s, and others. While PayPal is currently focu... |
Skimbox Goes Beyond Email Triage With A “Priority Inbox” App For Consumers & Enterprise | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | A new application called is attempting to take on the heady challenge of fighting email overload in a way that makes sense for both consumers and the enterprise. The app, , uses the concepts popularized by – with its various swipes and gestures – as a way to move through email messages. But Skimbox’s core idea doe... |
Europe’s iversity Launches 1st MOOCs With 100k+ Students & Curriculum Of 24 Courses | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | Berlin-based startup , which last year began a pivot away from online learning collaboration tools with the aim of , is launching its first clutch of free online courses today. Back in , iversity told TechCrunch it was hoping to attract six-digits’ worth of students at the launch of its MOOCs. And it’s managed to ... |
Unbundled Channels Coming To Canada, But Terrible Taste Could Make It A Disaster | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | If you want History Channel, you also have to get Biography Baby or something non-fictional but equally dumb. It’s the magic of cable and satellite bundles, and it’s the Way Things Are Done. But in Canada, that might not be true for much longer, as the government is gearing up to force and offer them to customers on ... |
Cluster Brings Simple Group Photo-Sharing To Android | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | Photo-sharing app , which this summer in a round led by early Instagram investor Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, is today making its mobile photo albums app more practical for real-world use with a launch on . The new app is similar to the 1.0 iOS app released earlier this year, with its smart, easy-to-build p... |
TRAFI Raises $500K In Seed Funding To Be The Go-To Transit App For Emerging Markets | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 14 | Lithuanian startup is announcing a seed funding round of $500,000 U.S. today, provided by Practica Capital. In addition to the funding, former Nokia Maps chief Sylvain Grande is joining the board, and the company hopes to pursue a strategy of aggressive expansion in key markets not well covered by leading players lik... |
Gillmor Gang Live 10.22.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | – Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang |
Prism Skylabs Raises $15M Round Led By Intel To Use Surveillance Cameras For In-Store Analytics | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Video analytics startup Prism Skylabs that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The company in 2011 (co-founder Ron Palmeri is also co-founder of MkII Ventures and ). It says it can use footage from existing security cameras to provide retailers and other businesses with “web-style analytics”. For exampl... |
With $2.6M From SoftTech, 500 Startups & More, BetterDoctor Wants To Take The Pain Out Of Finding The Best Local Care | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | After a frustrating search to find the best local doctor in San Francisco during a “series of family emergencies,” Ari Tulla teamed up with friend and co-founder Tapio Tolvanen to do something about it. The result of what Tulla calls his “vendetta against the broken healthcare system” is , a search engine and ranking ... |
Two iPads To Tango | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | I walked into today’s Apple event positive that the iPad mini with a retina display, if unveiled, would be the one iPad to rule them all. I was sure that such a device would so thoroughly upstage the 9.7-inch iPad, that there would be no shortage of folks wondering why the larger sibling even continued to exist. And ac... |
Microsoft Would Really Prefer If You Called The Surface RT Just “Surface” From Now On | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Microsoft has renamed, or partially unnamed its Surface RT tablet to merely the “Surface.” The Surface RT struggled in the market through its first year in the wild. It has been mostly replaced by the new, and quite nice, Surface 2. However, Microsoft intends to continue selling the Surface RT for some time, perhaps ge... |
TechCrunch TV Apple Event Wrap-Up: Software Free And Now, New iPads And Macs | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | The today was a big one in terms of just how much stuff Apple trotted out between software updates, pricing bombshells, and new hardware. The iPad underwent a makeover and lost some weight with the , and the stepped up to the big leagues with an uncompromising 64-bit A7 processor and Retina display. There were to... |
Meet Nexmo, The Telecom API Firm On Track For $40M In 2013 Revenue | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Given the massive global popularity of messaging, the market in play is enormous. is a quickly growing company that provides carrier-direct SMS and Voice APIs that developers can use to reach phones around the world. Vying for traction in the space with competitors like Twilio, Nexmo has raised , and unlike so many ... |
Content Recommendation Service (And Rumored IPO Candidate) Outbrain Raises Another $35M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Outbrain is announcing that it has raised $35 million in new funding. If you’ve ever read an article and found a widget at the bottom recommending stories you might also like (which can come from multiple sites), there’s a good chance those recommendations were provided by Outbrain. It’s not the only content recommenda... |
Fashion GPS Gets Cozy With Editors, Provides Access To Product Stills | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Three years after it began powering the event management logistics of fashion week, Fashion GPS is going one step deeper into the seasonal editorial cycle. Its newest feature, Styles 2.0, launched today as a platform for PR agencies to push assets to editors when they begin requesting styles for shoots after the shows ... |
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TechCrunch TL;DR: Apple’s October Keynote In A Nutshell | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco earlier today and, as promised, there was plenty to dig into. We’ve pumped out , but in case you’re looking for a highlight reel of sorts, we’ve put together a quick rundown of everything Apple pulled back the curtain on. Yeah, people tend to swoon about new iGadgets, but... |
Twitter Sets Up $1 Billion Credit Line, MoPub Had $6.5M In Revenue In First Half Of 2013 | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Twitter has just announced via an that “the Company entered into a revolving credit agreement with certain lenders which provides for a $1.0 billion revolving unsecured credit facility maturing on October 22, 2018.” Twitter also listed out financials for its acquisition MoPub, including that it brought in $6.51 milli... |
Handybook Hoovers Up $10M To Bring Its On-Demand Cleaning And Household Services To 5 New Cities | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Are you unhappy with your cleaning service? Your local handyman? Thanks to the advance of the Web and adoption of mobile services, a handful of startups have popped up to take advantage of an opening they see in the fragmented and slow-to-change home services space. As many local cleaning and repair services continue t... |
Distimo’s New App Lets You Track Analytics, Competitive Intelligence & App Store Leaderboards Right From Your iOS Device | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Mobile analytics firm Distimo launched on iPhone and iPad today, which allows anyone – even non-developers – to keep an eye on app store trends. The company, which currently offers a suite of tools for mobile app publishers that allow for tracking downloads, purchases, rankings, revenues and more, is primarily target... |
Former BabyCenter Exec Tina Sharkey Hired As CEO Of Sherpa Foundry | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Scott Stanford and Shervin Pishevar’s Sherpa Foundry has brought on BabyCenter executive Tina Sharkey as its CEO. Previously, she was CEO of Johnson and Johnson wholly-owned subsidiary BabyCenter, and prior to that co-founded iVillage and built out AOL Networks. Sharkey, who also sits on the board of HomeAway and Brit... |
Hands On With The New 2013 Retina MacBook Pros | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Apple has updated its today, with changes that make both machines more powerful under the hood and that actually result in a size and weight savings for the already-svelte 13-inch Retina Pro. The core of each update is the Intel Haswell processor, which adds considerable benefits in terms of battery life. This means ... |
Hands On: Apple’s New iPad Air Makes The Tablet A One-Handed Device | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | The most important thing about Apple’s iPad Air is the fact that it is now a one-handed device. Previous generations of the full-size 9.7″ iPad could not be held in a single hand for long periods of extended periodical reading or web browsing. This new version fixes that by making it much, much lighter. It weighs in ... |
Hands On With The New iPad Mini With Retina Display | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | The was near-perfect in terms of a small tablet, with the one big shortcoming being that it lacked Apple’s impressive Retina high-resolution display. It was hard to go back to a standard-res screen after the iPad 3 and iPhone 4, which is why it’s great that the new version offers a Retina screen. The eye-boggling 2... |
Google Debuts Parental Controls For Chrome & Chromebook Computers With A “Supervised Users” Feature, Now In Beta | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Google is officially beginning to roll out parental controls in its Chrome web browser in the form of a new “Supervised Users” feature that is live now in the for early testing ahead of its expected public release. The option allows a user, most likely a parent, to lock down the Chrome browser running on their device... |
Jony Ive And Marc Newson Customize An Unreleased Mac Pro For (RED) Auction | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Apple head of Human Interaction Jony Ive and designer Marc Newson have . Apple is a (PRODUCT)RED partner and often produces editions of its products for the organization, whose proceeds go to fighting to eliminate Aids. The charity recently . The machine is absolutely beautiful, making me wish that all of Apple’s Mac... |
The NSA’s Website (NSA.gov) Is Down | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | The National Security Agency’s website has been down for at least 30 minutes. , but won’t say if it was hacked. At least a few Twitter accounts that like the elite hacktivist contingent, Anonymous, . Official Anonymous channels are just making fun of the outage: [tweet https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral/status/393... |
Pinterest Closes Another Copyright Hole, Inks A Deal With Getty Images, Will Pay A Fee For Metadata | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | With a fresh in its pocket, is gearing up to spend a little of it to build out its platform and the data that powers it — and close up a copyright hole in the process. Pinterest today a deal with — the image agency that holds digital rights to some 80 million still images and illustrations and over 50,000 hours... |
Hands On: Apple’s New Mac Pro Is An Insanely Quiet Thermal Wizard | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 22 | Today at an event in San Francisco, Apple reintroduced its new Mac Pro computer which will form the vanguard of its new high-end lineup of machines for the professional set. The new Mac Pro got a December release schedule and a $2,999 starting price. We went hands on, as much as we could, with the new machine today and... |
Ask A VC: Google Ventures’ Dr. Krishna Yeshwant On The Opportunities For Health-Focused Mobile Apps And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | In this week’s Ask A VC show, we sat down with Google Ventures partner Dr. Krishna Yeshwant in the TechCrunch TV studio. Yeshwant is unique among most of the VCs we have on the show. Not only is he an investor, programmer and former entrepreneur, but he is also a practicing physician. Yeshwant, who is based in Boston... |
The Other IPO Roadshow: Design Your Initial Product Offering To Attract Fortune 500 Enterprises | Contributor | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Getting to a successful initial public offering is not an easy road for enterprise startups selling to Fortune 500 customers. Earlier in the lifecycle, the first question of death they encounter is: “Who are your other customers?” This can be effectively addressed by taking your startup on the other IPO roadshow: the... |
A Way To Save BlackBerry | Contributor | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | The first smartphone I owned was a Nokia Communicator, which I chose because the C++ dev kit gave me the most freedom. When the iPhone appeared I did not switch, because mandatory App Store signing to execute code seemed like a major step in the war on general computation. Eventually I rid myself of Nokia and got an ... |
Huge Google Shift Points To Faster Search Results | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Researchers at USC have stumbled on a huge change in how Google architects its search services. The result? Reduced lag in serving search queries, especially in more far-flung regions (as in, far from Google’s own data centres). The insight into Mountain View’s pipes stems from other research the team was doing to deve... |
Bang With Friends Rebrands As ‘Down’ To Match You With Friends Of Friends By Hotness | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | After settling a Zynga trademark infringement suit, today and reveals its revamped set of dating apps. Down’s update lets you browse friends of friends rather than just friends, say you want to date as opposed to just being ‘down’ [to bang] someone, as well as browse the hottest people in your network. And believe ... |
Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams’ Blogging Platform Medium Opens Signups To All | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has a new blogging platform called Medium, which has been a closed-signup affair since its introduction. Today, the platform sent out an email with the news that . There are a few requirements set out to sign up and use Medium. You must be writing from Chrome, Safari or Firefox browser... |
Healthcare.gov Likely Broken Until Key Thanksgiving Deadline | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Healthcare.gov until the end of November, says Jeff Zients, a consultant brought in to fix the beleaguered federal health insurance e-commerce website. On a press conference call, Zients finally acknowledged wide-spread enrollment problems, estimating that only 3 in 10 users have been able to sign up and complete an ... |
At Coworking Space Runway, Allan Young Says He’s Trying To ‘Kill The Idea Of The Garage Startup’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | San Francisco coworking space isn’t quite like other shared offices and incubators. Yes, there are still conference rooms, rows of people bent over their laptops, and so on. But there are fewer desks than usual, and, true to the name, everything’s organized around a wide central walkway. There’s even an igloo-style... |
Wishbone Lets Kids Apply To Have Their Educations Crowdfunded | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Eighty kids got to attend academic summer camps and after-school programs this year thanks to , and today its education crowdfunding platform starts allowing needy children in the Bay Area or NYC to apply for assistance. The non-profit startup has spent the last year building out its fundraising and impact fulfillment... |
Another Member Of Congress Calls Congressional Oversight Of The NSA An Utter Farce | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Members of Congress calling Congressional oversight of the United States intelligence empire flaccid at best, and utterly incompetent at worst, is becoming a trend. Recently , Rep. Alan Grayson called Congressional oversight of the National Security Agency a “joke.” Calling oversight in Congress nothing more than “ove... |
Lots Of Hollywood Interest In Making Bilton’s Twitter Book A Movie | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Interest is swirling at Sony and several other major Hollywood studios around Nick Bilton’s book “ “, TechCrunch has learned. While we’ve only heard Sony named, word is several other major studios are nibbling at the worm. At least one of the studios involved wants to explore producing the project as an HBO or Netflix... |
Late-2013 15-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Review: Apple’s High-Performance Notebook Tops The Field | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | with Retina Display will soon be just the MacBook Pro, period. But this generation two version of both the 13- and 15-inch super slim notebooks with high-res displays is still something many average users will be weighing as an outlier possibility versus the more mainstream MacBook Air. But thanks to price cuts and sm... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Say goodbye to a good night’s sleep and say hello to night terrors because we have some very special things to share with you today in our ongoing feature, Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs. This week we have Elmo, a vacuum, and a twerking automaton that will soon replace Miley Cyrus. Fi... |
Foundry Group Raises Fourth $225M Fund To Make Late-Stage Growth Investments In The Firm’s Portfolio Companies | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | has , called Foundry Group Select. This new fund is $225 million (the same size as Foundry’s previous funds), but has a much different focus. This fund is purely for late-stage growth rounds in Foundry’s existing portfolio companies. The firm says it will invest up to $25 million into companies that Foundry has backe... |
Twitter’s IPO Roadshow Video Unites Dorsey, Stone And Williams, Emphasizes News And Media Uses | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Twitter has to its upcoming IPO Roadshow, scheduled to begin next week. The video accompanying the posting unites Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey, who all pitch the company to investors together. Seeing all of the founders together pitching the company wouldn’t be such a strange thing wit... |
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