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Join Us For TechCrunch Bangalore | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | India’s startup ecosystem is showing some promise. In the first half of 2013, for example, investors dropped $400 million into 141 deals, and startup Red Bus had a sweet $150 million exit. In other words, the time is right for our first ever event in India: , which we are hosting with PlatformPlay in India’s tech hub ... |
Here Comes The FUD: UK Police Claim To Find 3D-Printed Gun Parts In Raid On Home | John Biggs | 2,013 | 10 | 25 | Greater Manchester Police in the UK raided the home of a criminal suspect where they found a 3D printer and 3D printed parts. With great pride and fanfare the : Sadly, they were quite wrong. The items in question, a little piece that looks like a trigger (shown here) and something that looks like a magazine, are a... |
Consolidation Heats Up In Subscription Economy, As Quarterly Buys Celeb-Endorsed Rival 12Society | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | Today, TechCrunch has learned that , a subscription giftbox service that features monthly instalments curated by respected entrepreneurs, designers and organizations is buying , a rival startup with a similar, celebrity-endorsed approach to subscription commerce. Terms of the deal are not yet being disclosed, althoug... |
Here Come The Bespoke Apps: Dolo Is Just For Finding Friends In SF’s Dolores Park | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | Apps don’t have to be for everyone. Development tools, reduced costs, and the trend of nailing a single use case are spawning a generation of homespun applications. The latest is . Useful for finding friends in San Francisco’s crowded Dolores Park, useless for everyone else. Bespoke apps designed exclusively for littl... |
BeachMint Founder, President, And Investor Rebuke Report About The Startup’s Implosion | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | This morning, Los Angeles-based eCommerce startup, , had finally tanked after a long, “slow unraveling.” The problem, however, is that this doesn’t exactly mesh with reality. The reporter, Michael Carney, says that “multiple sources” informed him that the startup’s board had essentially fired CEO Josh Berman and Pr... |
New Twitter Tool Translates The Last Desperate Tweets Of Egypt’s Fallen President | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | Avid Twitter followers saw the short reign of Egypt’s Mohammed Morsi crumble in real time this afternoon, as the army overthrew the . Twitter began , who issued . “Pres. Morsy urges civilians and military members to uphold the law & the Constitution not to accept that coup which turns #Egypt backwards,” tweeted the ... |
New Zynga CEO Mattrick’s Package Is Worth About $50M In Stock, Options & Salary | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | New Zynga CEO Don Mattrick, who , is getting incentivized heavily with stock for his new gig. He starts with a sign-on bonus of $5 million, a base salary of $1 million, then gets a pro-rated minimum annual bonus that is either worth 200 percent of his salary or the average bonus percentage for the rest of the company’... |
New Moto X Details Point To Customizable Cosmetics, Not Components | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | An ABC News report is dashing the hopes and dreams of Android fans everywhere. According to Joanna Stern, a version of the Motorola X with custom casings and wallpapers, not customizable internal hardware . Owners will reportedly be able to order a version of the phone with different color options, backside engravin... |
Cambridge Audio’s Minx Go Couples Crazy Battery Life With Great, Portable Sound | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | A little while ago, I and found it a solid new performer in the UK-based company’s new lineup of wireless speakers. Today, I’m looking at the Cambridge Audio Minx Go, a portable Bluetooth speaker with 18 hours of advertised battery life and a $149 price tag. It’s bigger than cheaper competitors like the Jawbone Jambo... |
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Xobni Was Acquired For More Than $60 Million | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | So email management startup was , the company officially . Initial reports said the company was acquired for “ ” but TechCrunch has learned that total consideration for the deal will be more than twice that amount, at more than $60 million range. Founded in 2006, Xobni raised about $42 million over the years, as i... |
Yahoo Acquires Xobni | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | Yahoo has just announced that they’ve acquired Xobni, the startup that tries to make your inbox and contacts list less terrible by focusing on the people you communicate with most. Back in 2007 (at TechCrunch 40!), Xobni launched as a plugin for Microsoft Outlook that sorted all of your correspondence by contact, autom... |
Video Editor Givit Beefs Up Social Experience With iPad App Update | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | The video editing app is releasing their first dedicated iPad app today, an effort to bolster the social, video watching side of the platform. The app includes an expanded screen view, hashtag tracking, and improved friend feeds — nothing major, but necessary changes to make Givit a more viable social site. People te... |
4chan Launches Self-Serve Ads To Stay Lean And Let Users Pay To Troll Each Other | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | 4chan, one of the wildest corners of the web, is growing up without losing its edge. The image board just opened a for scrappy businesses and trolls willing to pay for lulz. Founder Moot tells me “We’re already seeing users using it to troll one another, advertise specific threads or their favorite boards, etc. I thi... |
Health App Maker Azumio Launches Argus, A Comprehensive Food And Activity Tracker | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | the maker of health apps, such as Fitness Buddy and Instant Heart Rate, has another one up its sleeve. The Palo Alto-based startup, which is backed by Founders Fund, Accel and Felicis, is out with a comprehensive activity and food-tracking app . Argus follows how much you move, walk, run or cycle through the accelero... |
Vine Fights Instagram With Biggest App Update Yet | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | Vine, Twitter’s six-second looping video-sharing app, has just , including a redesigned camera, categories for various vine genres, and the ability to revine people’s existing Vines. The update brings some much-asked-for features to the social network, and also improves users’ abilities to gain and following and get n... |
Pave, The Crowdfunding Platform For Investing In People, Launches Option For Those Who Just Want To Pay It Forward | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | New York-based startup launched with the idea to allow investors to put their money not into startups or companies or ideas, but into people. The idea was to highlight a group of potential prospects who wanted to get a particular personal project off the ground and to help them get that funded. In return, those who c... |
Location Tracking App Glympse Links With Evernote To Let Users Archive Their Trails | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | , the navigation tracking app that has made inroads into location-based services by inking deals with the likes of Ford, Mercedes Benz and BMW to integrate its app into their in-car systems, is today laying down ground in another direction: other cloud-based mobile platforms. Today it is announcing that Glympse users w... |
TSA’s New Instagram Account Highlights The Crazy Things People Try To Sneak On Planes | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | Seemingly tired of being chewed out by every third traveler to step through their scanners, the TSA is trying something new to connect with the people: Instagram. And, uh… it’s actually pretty friggin’ effective. Over the last few days, the TSA has been Instagramming some of the crazier things they’ve confiscated at th... |
Doug Engelbart, “Father Of The Mouse” And American Inventor, Passes Away At 88 | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | Doug Engelbart, an American inventor best known for creating the early computer mouse, passed away last night due to kidney failure. He was 88 years old. Engelbart pioneered many early Silicon Valley technologies, mostly surrounding human-computer interaction, including the creation of hypertext and work on graphical i... |
WordPress.org, Reddit, Mozilla & Others Will Participate In Anti-NSA Web Protests On July 4th | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | A number of high-profile websites will be taking part in an online protest tomorrow against the National Security Agency (NSA)’s surveillance of online activity and phone calls. The protest is organized by non-profit organization , and will see participation from thousands of sites, including WordPress.org, Namecheap,... |
Lyft Takes On SoCal: Launches In San Diego, Plans Community Meeting In LA | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 3 | On-demand ride-sharing startup is looking to make more of an impact in Southern California, with a launch in San Diego and increased community efforts in Los Angeles. That’ll open a new market for the company and hopefully quell some regulatory issues that it’s faced in another of the cities it operates in. First, th... |
STABiLGO Kickstarter Hopes To Take Its Action Sport Video Stabilizer To Market | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | Watching GoPro footage makes it clear that there is basically nothing cooler than first-person action sport shots. And for those who are spending the day at the skate park, one Kickstarter project is hoping to take that genre of filming to the next level. is a handheld, motorized GoPro stabilizer that keeps the camera... |
Jordanian Startup Dakwak’s Translation And Localization Platform Helps Web Sites Go Global | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | Jordan might not seem like the most obvious place for a tech hub, but the country is leading the Middle East’s growing startup industry. 500 Startups’ features two Jordanian companies, including , a Web site translation and localization platform that wants to help small- to medium-sized businesses go global in the s... |
Fly Or Die: Samsung Galaxy S4 Active | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | We first caught wind of the back in May before it had been announced. Ruggedized smartphones aren’t always so tantalizing, but seeing that the is a variant of the Samsung flagship Galaxy S4, we thought it wise to bring the little guy in for an episode of Fly or Die. This week’s episode is particularly special, as... |
Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith On The Utah Tech Scene, Taking His Company Global, And More [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | Qualtrics’ founder and CEO Ryan Smith swung through San Francisco recently, so we invited him to come by the TechCrunch TV studio to catch up on the company in the midst of its global expansion. In the video embedded above, watch him talk about growing a startup outside of the SF and NYC bubbles, how that monster h... |
Help Me Help Uses Crowdsourcing To Make Disaster Response More Efficient | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | wants to make it easier for emergency responders to get a full picture of the situation after a disaster happens. The service combines crowdsourcing, a smartphone app and web service that allows trained professionals and civilians to mark up a map in real time with the location and photos of downed power lines, damage... |
Roamz Hits The Deadpool, But The Team Stays Together With A New Focus | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | After a series of rapid fire pivots, Roamz, one of many services launched during the location-centric app explosion to try and help you find things to do nearby, has shut down. To date, the team had raised around $3.5M, almost entirely from Australian direct mailing/marketing house Salmat. The writing has been on the w... |
A Very Celebratory Giveaway: A Pebble Smartwatch And A Free Ticket To Disrupt SF | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | to everyone who is celebrating today! We hope you are enjoying the sunshine, family and friends, booze, fireworks, hot dogs — whatever you’re into. To help commemorate the holiday, we decided to give some fun stuff away. As you know, is coming up fast. Disrupt NY was a blast, but Disrupt SF this year will be even be... |
Nokia’s New Flagship (The Lumia 909?) Spotted In Leaked Images Ahead Of July 11 Event | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | For many of us the 4th of July signifies a day of patriotism, fireworks, and grilled meats, but it also means that there are only seven days left until Nokia opens the doors to a New York press event that’s expected to highlight the company’s new flagship Windows Phone. The volume and legitimacy of pre-launch leaks sur... |
America’s Robot Heart, Half Broken | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | You’d think we’d have given up. Signs of the technology police state whip gale force at our flag. Our social tools serve to serve us tragedy while our legislative bodies do their best to serve themselves. There’ve been plenty of reasons to hang our heads low. But we clench our fists and push on, even if our faith’s bee... |
Independence Day Was The Most Superlative Of All Days For Instagram And Vine | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | The Fourth of July was another record-shattering day for Instagram and Vine, as users shared millions of hours of video. As Americans fired up their barbeques and enjoyed the holiday, millions were faced with a decision not dissimilar to Patrick Henry’s choice between liberty and death: ? Some chose to share videos of... |
Feeling Nostalgic? Shoebox Lets You Scan Old Photos With Your Phone, Update Your Ancestry.com Family Tree | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | , the mobile photo archiving app from San Francisco-based 1000memories last fall, has now gone live at its new home. The updated version of the app, , still allows users to scan in their old non-digital prints – you know, those things the old folks still refer to as “photographs” – while also cropping and auto-flatt... |
Personal Q&A Site Ask.fm Is Growing At A Clip Amid Media Backlash Over Safety Of Its Young Users | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | , the Latvian startup that’s been left carrying the personal Q&A torch after its inspiration, Formspring, to pastures new, is continuing to grow at an absolute clip. It’s now at 65 million registered users, up from 8 million in June , and is adding about 300,000 new users per-day, seeing it garner 190 million unique... |
Dell Looks To Smartwatches And Wearable Tech, But That’s Just Another Boat To Miss | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | Dell is reportedly investing in wearable tech, with an eye to developing smartwatch devices, according to a . Dell itself is saying that it’s looking closely at the wearable-tech trend, with the aim of predicting what personal computing will look like in five years’ time. Sure, it’s a smart move, but it’s also an obvi... |
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The Declaration Of Independence, 2013 | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they sh... |
France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Millions Of Trillions Of Metadata Elements | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | The NSA isn’t the only security agency that’s collecting data. In fact, France’s program is going very strong with of metadata elements stored in a Parisian basement, according to a report from French newspaper . The program targets phone communications, emails and data from Internet giants, such as Google, Faceb... |
NSA Spying Risks Undermining Trust In U.S. Cloud Computing Businesses, Warns Kroes | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | The risks undermining trust in U.S. cloud computing businesses, the European Commission’s vice-president, Neelie Kroes, has warned in today. Kroes also reiterated calls for “clarity and transparency” from the U.S. regarding the scope and nature of its surveillance and access to data on individuals and businesses li... |
AngelList Now Has More Than 100K Startup Profiles, Makes More Than 500 Intros Between Startups And Investors A Week | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | In just a few short years, has very quickly emerged as an indispensable resource for connecting entrepreneurs with investors. Started as an email newsletter, the website now has more than 18,000 accredited investors, including more than 6,000 that it would consider “sophisticated investors” — i.e. superangels and V... |
CommonFloor Raises $7.5M From Tiger Global, Accel To Be India’s Zillow | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | , a real estate search engine and listings site in India, has raised $7.5 million in funding from existing investors, Tiger Global Management and Accel India. CommonFloor is similar to Zillow and Trulia but is a marketplace for real estate listings in India, particularly for apartments and gated communities. Similar to... |
Valta Turns To Kickstarter To Fund Home Gadget Energy Management Platform | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | Toronto-based startup to help it bring its remote energy-management system to life, in order to give homeowners complete control over power usage by devices in any home. It combines special socket attachments with a hub, iPhone app and web-based application to deliver energy waste monitoring, as well as remote contro... |
Android ‘Master Key’ Security Hole Puts 99% Of Devices At Risk Of Exploitation | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 7 | 4 | Mobile security startup has unearthed a vulnerability in Android’s security model which it says means that the nearly 900 million Android phones released in the past four years could be exploited, or some 99% of Android devices. The vulnerability has apparently been around since Android v1.6 (Donut), and was disclose... |
AT&T Considers Selling Your Browsing History, Location, And More To Advertisers. Here’s How To Opt Out | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | Good news, everyone! Wait, no. Not that one. The other one. Bad news, everyone! AT&T is considering selling your usage data (location, web browsing history, etc.) to advertisers, having seemingly decided that it’s been too long since everyone was mad at them. They noted the plan in a preview of an upcoming change to th... |
Songza Founders Talk About Newly Launched Club Songza, Competition From Apple, Pandora | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | is one of the hottest music-streaming services on the market, with a special feature called Concierge that matches specific, expertly crafted playlists with activities it thinks you might be doing based on time, day and your preferences. Until very recently, Songza was an entirely free experience with a few visual a... |
Bing As A Platform Will Allow Microsoft To Compete With Google For Developer Cred | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | Microsoft knows how to build platforms, so when it announces , it’s worth taking a closer look. Until last week, Microsoft mostly wanted you to think of as a that could compete with Google. At its Build developer conference, however, the company made a surprise announcement: Bing is now also a developer platform. ... |
Meet Consano, The Crowdfunding Platform That Wants To Help Cure Cancer [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | That’s what Molly Lindquist believes, so she founded a non-profit organization called for allowing people to browse through vetted medical research projects at select universities and research institutions, and then contribute funding directly to the ones they find compelling. It’s a fascinating model that could re... |
This Tiny, Portable Laptop Stand Will Finally Fix Your Posture | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | “The Roost–stop hunching over your laptop,” I read, back and neck aching as usual. I had been working at my laptop like a gargoyle since early in the morning. But in the Roost, a laptop stand that’s raised , I’ve finally found a solution. My main issue with most laptop stands is that they’re big and bulky. At the leas... |
Ask A VC: Lightbank’s Paul Lee On The Art Of Finding Your Co-Founder | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Lightbank partner Paul Lee stopped by the studio. Lee, who is based in Chicago, joined Lightbank as a Partner in February 2011 and has led investments in BabbaCo, Udemy, ElaCarte, Skyvu and Contently. Previously, Lee was Managing Director and Group Head of Digital at Playboy Enterp... |
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This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Boxee Bows Out, Samsung And HTC Suffer And Moto X Unmasked | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | Boxee got , and announced that it would be closing down the Boxee Cloud DVR’s cloud DVR feature. So that’s done. Both and , albeit in very different ways, and . We’re chatting about that and more on today’s , on this Friday after the July 4th holiday. We’re so festive you can practically taste the BBQ. Today on t... |
No More 3D TV On The BBC Please, We’re British — And Glasses Are A Hassle | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | The grand old BBC may sound about as cutting edge as a buttered scone and a cup of Yorkshire Gold but the taxpayer-funded British broadcaster has pushed the boat out on the digital front, with, for instance, its pioneering iPlayer on-demand TV service. It’s also not been a tech laggard when it comes to 3D. Auntie — as ... |
“Made In America” | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | The five-day work week. Chevrolet. Grand Funk Railroad. Steel plants on the shores of Lake Michigan. This is America. There is a rebirth happening right now. It’s happening all over the country. Pockets of makers here, a consumer electronics company there. A startup accelerator . They’re appearing all over this land. ... |
Local Food Delivery Service Fluc Goes Live In Palo Alto And Menlo Park | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | People like to eat and generally don’t like to cook. All of which means that food delivery is becoming all the rage among startups lately.* Anyway, there’s a whole new food delivery service called , opening up for service in Menlo Park and Palo Alto, that hopes to let people pick and choose all their favorite foods an... |
Samsung’s Quarterly Earnings Suffer On Slowing Growth, Gives Apple Room To Shine In The Fall | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | Samsung has , which is bad news since those expectations were already pretty low. The slowing growth of the smartphone market dominator is being attributed to lackluster Galaxy S4 sales. Samsung’s premiere handset has reportedly sold 20 million units since its launch, according to a from Yonhap News, however. Overal... |
How Health Trackers Could Reduce Sexual Infidelity | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | I wear a that monitors minute-by-minute my heart rate, calories burned, steps taken, and if I’m sleeping. Anyone who had access to my data, like a spouse, could tell when I was exercising. Most importantly, they would know if I was having sex — and how intense it was. Indeed, I inadvertently discovered that people kn... |
Aviate Reveals A Smartphone Interface That Adapts To You & Your Surroundings | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | Given , an Android homescreen replacement app which makes interacting with the social network easier for mobile users, it’s wise to be cautious about the chances for success of other, alternative “intelligent homescreen” apps. Apps like Andreessen Horowitz-backed , for example, which though still in alpha format was ... |
Google Ordered To Amend Its Unified Privacy Policy In Europe By September | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | continues to . In the latest development, the U.K.’s has confirmed it has written to Mountain View to confirm the privacy policy raises serious questions about Google’s compliance with the UK Data Protection Act (h/t to for spotting). Specifically, the ICO said it is unhappy about the level of information Google ... |
HTC Suffers Another Bad Quarter, With Profits Down 83% In Its Q2 | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | HTC has just put out unaudited results for its Q2, with profits down 83% on last year. The Taiwanese phone maker, which is battling for oxygen in the fiercely competitive Android OEM smartphone space dominated by South Korea’s Samsung, said its total revenues for the quarter reached NT$70.7 billion ($2.35 billion). Pro... |
Google Glass Could Soon Get Device Locking, Music Player And ‘Boutique’ App Store, Firmware Reveals | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | Google Glass is still a pre-release product that’s fairly rough around the edges, compared to a lot of shipping consumer hardware, but new clues (via ) from the latest firmware update suggest that there are a number of practical additions coming to the device. Those include a Glass app store dubbed “Boutique,” which w... |
Goodbye Mr Silva — A Brief History Of East London’s ‘Tech City’ | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | It was December 2009 and I was headed to a Christmas party at Number 10 Downing Street. This wasn’t exactly a regular diary date for me. Two years in to working for TechCrunch out of London and it had proven harder than I’d thought to attract the attention of government people to the concerns of technology entrepreneur... |
Solve Media Lands $6M From New Atlantic, First Round, AOL And Others For Its Fast-Growing CAPTCHA Advertising Platform | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | You know those you run into from time to time during your Web surfing sessions and Internet escapades? Well, a startup named has developed a way to upgrade and monetize those pesky CAPTCHAs and, , is beginning to see real results. In fact, TechCrunch has learned today that Solve Media this week closed a $6 million... |
Marc Samwer, Marco Boerries And Sonali De Rycker Join TechCrunch Disrupt Europe | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 7 | 5 | We’re delighted today to announce the first round of speakers for the first-ever conference, to be held in Berlin this October. Disrupt Europe will feature an outstanding slate of global startups, influential speakers, guests and more. The conference lands in Europe just as TechCrunch has seen double-digit growth in ... |
YouTube Confirms Renewed VEVO Deal, Takes Stake In Company | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | YouTube confirmed that it has renewed its deal with music video distributor VEVO. Not only does the deal allow YouTube to keep VEVO’s videos on its site, but it also requires Google to invest in VEVO. Though the terms of the deal have not been disclosed, Billboard in February that it is worth between $40 million to $... |
Another Video Ad Network Plans To Go Public, As YuMe Files For $65 Million IPO | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | This was supposed to be the year that all the big video ad networks would , and it looks like it’s starting to come true. Less than a week after Tremor Video listed on the NYSE, competitor YuMe , announcing its intent to raise $65 million in an initial public offering. YuMe’s numbers look decent for a company looking... |
Apple Hires Paul Deneve From CEO Spot At Luxury Fashion House Yves Saint Laurent To Work On ‘Special Projects’ | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | The fashion world was all abuzz this morning with that high-end fashion house Yves Saint Laurent was losing its CEO Paul Deneve. At that time, the announcement was that the San Francisco Bay Area-based Deneve was leaving to “join the high-tech industry.” Now it’s clear that he’s not just joining any high-tech company... |
VCs Confident In Bitcoin’s Bright Future, Despite So Many Unknowns | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | , the decentralised digital crypto currency, is undoubtedly riding high right now. A few have even . But there’s still plenty of confusion and uncertainty around the nascent digital currency. VCs are clearly thinking about making investments in Bitcoin startups but many are also still in a learning phase, as several... |
Facebook Brings Its Mobile Messaging Stickers To The Web As Their Designer Exits | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | Facebook is rolling out the ability to send private messages with stickers — cute, pre-made, sometimes animated images — from its website. Facebook launched stickers on , but now the web chat smiley button reveals a basket leading to the web sticker store where you can choose from 16 free packs to add to your repertoi... |
TC Cribs: Inside StumbleUpon HQ, Where The Web’s Fearless Explorers Work And Play | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | Welcome back for a new episode of , the TechCrunch TV series that goes inside the offices of the tech industry’s hottest companies to see what day-to-day life is like for the whiz kids who work there. This time, we headed over to the San Francisco headquarters of , the long-running “discovery engine” for surfacing fr... |
Bangstyle Seeks To Establish Itself As Go-To Image Platform For Hairstyling Industry | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | When Bangstyle, the image-based site devoted to hair styling, came onto the scene in 2011, it hoped to fill a hole in online platforms for professionals and styling enthusiasts. As the company releases the third iteration of its app next week, it marks two years of working to solidify itself as an industry mainstay, a ... |
Google Maps Gets New And Updated 3D Imagery For 50 U.S. Cities | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | Google today one of its largest updates to Google Maps’ 3D imagery since it launched last year. The service now covers a number of additional cities that weren’t included in the previous releases. Most of these are smaller towns like Las Cruces, NM and Bend, OR. The company also released updated imagery for a number ... |
Apple’s Reported Time Warner Cable Deal Great For Extending Provider Reach, But Not For Real Change | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | Apple is to be working on a deal that would bring Time Warner Cable content to its Apple TV set-top streaming box, for subscribers to TWC’s existing cable packages. Which is nice, for those people, and something that’s like the iOS apps which allow cable and satellite subscribers to view content they pay for access t... |
An American Tech Company Is Advertising Its American-Built Smartphone On The Most American Holiday | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | Happy Independence Day, fellow Americans! It’s time to go to the lake, eat some red meat, and, of course, buy a cell phone from a good ol’ American company, Motorola and Google. Motorola is running a full-page spread in the July 3 editions of The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. And i... |
iOS Winning More Mobile Ad Share In 2013, AT&T Losing Its iPhone Edge, Velti Reports | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | Apple’s iOS mobile operating system is winning even more ground in mobile advertising market share, according to mobile ad firm . The firm saw Apple’s share grow from 59 percent overall to 64 percent between May 2012 and May 2013, with the iPhone 5 grabbing a lot of those new impressions. The iPhone 5’s share grew by ... |
GoldieBlox, The Toy That Aims To Get Girls Hooked On Engineering, Is Coming To A Toys ‘R’ Us Near You | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | Move over, Barbie — there’s a new toy in town now. , the San Francisco Bay Area startup that has created an engineering-focused toy aimed specifically at little girls, has inked its first nationwide distribution deal with retailing giant Toys ‘R’ Us. The company’s flagship toy, the story-oriented construction set calle... |
Yahoo Acquires Qwiki For Around $50 Million | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | In another display of their intent to buy the entire Internet, Yahoo has just acquired Qwiki, an iOS app that helps users create movies out of the photos and videos in their camera roll. When Qwiki first launched, it focused on generating short, informational videos on popular search terms. Search for Lady Gaga, for ex... |
Basno Raises $1M For Its Digital Badges Platform That Aims To Monetise Boasting | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | You’ve probably noticed how and have spread like a virus all over . Well, New York-based startup is hoping its digital badges platform can tap that trend for sharing cutesy visual stuff, too. And it’s convinced a group of outside investors to take a punt — today announcing the closure of a $1 million round from ... |
Keen On… The Cave: What Silicon Valley Can Learn From The 2012 Election | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | Who says that the Beltway always lags behind Silicon Valley? In , his best-selling book about Barack Obama’s 2012 Presidential campaign, veteran political journalist writes about “penetrating” The Cave – Obama’s top secret digital command center. Run by the campaign’s Chief Analytics Officer, the 30 year-old whiz ... |
iOS 7 Shows Interest In Apple Pre-Release Software On The Rise, Per Onswipe | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | Apple’s iOS 7 is growing quickly with more tablets and iPhones running the beta software than were running iOS 6 at the same time last year, according to new data released by mobile web optimizing company . The startup found that by July 1, 2013, 0.28 percent of all iPad visits to its mobile-optimized sites were from ... |
Splitmo’s Poker Night TV Offers A Perfect Use Case For Apple TV As A Gaming Device | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | The Apple TV is already a game console, in case you didn’t know, and a new app from independent developer and AirPlay-focused startup Splitmo shows why. The company has just released , its second app and first game, which uses AirPlay and the Apple TV to let up to eight players join in for a virtual poker game on their... |
LinkedIn Continues Its Mobile Transition With Expanded Search On iPhone & Android | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | Following , the company today rolled out another major upgrade for its service on mobile, which now allows users to do more than search for other people — it also lets you search for Companies, Groups and Jobs. These additional search options appear after you tap into the search box at the top of the app. Plus, even i... |
Mingyian Raises Half A Million From M. Night Shyamalan And Others To Connect Western Celebrities With Fans In China | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 2 | , a platform that connects Western celebrities to their fans in China, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from , , , , and Eric Yao, an executive at one of China’s largest energy companies. Co-founders and say they realized celebrities and influencers already have a great hold in China and the ability to move ... |
Google Surveys Can Make Anyone A Professional Pollster | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | and I are of Google’s Consumer Surveys tool. “Perhaps it won’t be long before Google, not Gallup, is the most trusted name in polling,” wrote Silver, on how Google conducted one of the most accurate polls of the 2012 election cycle. But I didn’t know how useful they’d be for media outlets until I was able to identic... |
MBank And The Future Of Responsive Banking | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | I’m not a huge fan of banks, but when senior director approached me about , my interest was piqued. How could a banking spin-off of BRE Bank and founded in 2000 create one of the coolest, most high-tech banking experiences I’ve seen? The more important question, however, was how could a Polish bank beat the big guys... |
How To Self-Publish A Bestseller: Publishing 3.0 | James Altucher | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | came out on June 3. Follow him on Twitter My most recent book, ” sold 44,294 copies in its first month out [update: just tipped over 100,000 copies as of Dec 30] , hit the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list, was No. 1 on Amazon for all non-fiction books for a few days and is still flirting with No. 1 in its various ... |
How This Kid Tossed One Raccoon In 43 Seconds | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | Some days you’re on call for weekend news duty and it’s pretty boring and you get tired of just sitting around waiting for something to happen and then . And other times, you’re just sort of hanging out and watching Twitter and ? Why yes, yes it is. The epic raccoon toss came after Rose heard his dog “crying and ye... |
Dropbox Acquires Mobile Coupon Startup Endorse A Month After Shutdown | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | About a , mobile coupon startup has been acquired by Dropbox, the team today. The deal follows a number of other recent acquisitions Dropbox has been making, as it looks to add headcount in an increasingly constrained talent market. Endorse had in 2010, and launched a web version of the product before moving to ... |
Bay Area Tech Wages Are The Nation’s Highest At $123K, But Should Entrepreneurs Look Elsewhere As Costs Rise? | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | The San Francisco Bay Area pays the highest median tech wage, at $123,497, but comes with higher taxes and housing costs, according to , an based in SF. Despite the significant gap in wages and costs between the Bay Area and other tech hubs, it doesn’t look like it’s causing a significant talent exodus yet. The medi... |
Why 3D Printing Will Work In Fashion | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | In case you haven’t heard, 3D printing has , and it will disrupt every industry’s manufacturing processes slightly differently. Let’s talk about why it will work in fashion. 3D printing is not entirely new to the fashion industry, as jewelry designers have for years outsourced quick modeling jobs to printing compa... |
Gillmor Gang: iBeacon & Eggs | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb filter across our head. Television is going streamland in a big way, and the Emmy nominations of Netflix’ House of Cards are but the most obvious indicator of the transformation. An... |
CrunchWeek: Microsoft Stock Nosedives, Path Raising Again, Netflix’s Emmy Nods | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | This time around, I was joined by and to talk about Microsoft’s massive after its disappointing , the latest rumors of Path , and tech taking over Hollywood with Netflix’s . |
“Designing Facebook Home” Video Gives Rare Look At Prototypes And Iteration Process | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | Facebook Home’s launcher was inspired by Lunchables. That’s just one nugget of insight into Facebook’s design process from a presentation it gave to Bay Area designers in May and that it’s now released as a video. The 40-minute clip illustrates how Home evolved, iteration by iteration. Facebook’s Julie Zhuo introduces ... |
When Will Doom Come To Hollywood? | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 7 | 20 | Jane Austen? Shakespeare? Tolstoy? Hacks. Beethoven? Bach? Mozart? Wildly overrated. Statistically speaking, at least. It’s a curious fact that while the long-dead titans of literature and music are revered above all others, they were working in a time when the talent pool — the educated population of the planet — was ... |
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URGENT FOR ALEXIA AND ELDON … | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | ALEXIA / ELDON: This note is obviously not for publication. I’m concerned that a personal message (see below) from [XXXX], the CEO of [XXXX] in Japan, . The company has asked me to help unravel the mystery. This is the third attempt by the company in the last two weeks to reach out to your U.S. staff and get your atte... |
Freedom Of Information Act Machine Fights Government Secrecy By Automating Transparency Requests | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | The Freedom of Information Act Machine, an open online platform that automates Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, two days ago and has already surpassed its funding goal. At the time of publication, it had cleared $20,000 in funding from over 600 backers. The issue is simple — the state and federal laws and ... |
Microsoft Finally Reveals That No One Wanted The Surface RT | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | Windows RT is a dog. We’ve been saying that from the beginning. We weren’t alone. It’s very hard to find a positive review of Windows RT, and more specifically, the nine-month-old Microsoft Surface with RT. And now Microsoft, in its , finally revealed that we were right. The company took a massive $900M writedown last... |
Never Forget A Face With NumberSnap | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | Have you ever been in, let’s say a discotheque, and gotten caught in a whirl of names, numbers and faces that you just can’t keep straight? Happens all the time. Luckily, just became available for Android on Google Play. The premise of NumberSnap is that sometimes, you just can’t remember what your new friend from th... |
A Visit To DogVacay’s L.A. HQ To Meet The People (And Dogs) Behind The Airbnb For Pets | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | It turns out that DogVacay has also made a name for itself as a startup to watch in its local scene — while TechCrunch TV was visiting Los Angeles this past week, when we’d ask local techies what companies were heating up lately, DogVacay’s name came up quite often. So we made it a point to stop by DogVacay’s Santa... |
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