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Y Combinator-Backed FanHero Helps YouTubers Sell Branded Merch To Their Fans | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | There are a lot of new YouTube stars out there, dudes who have a bunch of subscribers to their channels, watching their videos and whatnot. But sometimes it’s tough to make a ton of money from YouTube. I mean, advertising isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be, and then you share some revenue with YouTube and the next ... |
Yelp To Acquire Online Reservation Service SeatMe For Up To $12.7M | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | Yelp has just announced that they’ve agreed to acquire SeatMe, the startup that set out to battle OpenTable in the restaurant reservation space. Looks like they acquired them for $2.2 million in cash and 263,000 shares of common stock, pinning the acquisition price at a total up to $12.7 million. SeatMe’s main offeri... |
Microsoft’s Q4 Earnings Miss With $19.9B In Revenue, EPS Of $0.59, Takes $900M Charge Against Surface RT Inventory Adjustments | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | just its earnings for its . The company reported revenue of $19.9 billion and earnings per share of $0.59. The Wall Street was that Microsoft would report $20.74 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $0.75. The surprise in this release is that Microsoft says it’s taking a $900 million charge “related to Su... |
Another Day, Another Yahoo Acquisition: Chinese Social Network-Data Startup Ztelic | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | Yahoo has acquired , a Beijing startup focused on social-network data, as first reported by the . This is Yahoo’s second acquisition in as many days (something they’ve already done once this summer), and the company’s 19th acquisition under CEO Marissa Mayer. A Yahoo spokeswoman says the deal is “part of our investme... |
TechCrunch Meetup. Tonight. Seattle. | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | We’re here, Seattle. And boy is it nice. Blue skies, cool weather, and great startups. We’re loving it. Tonight, at 6:00, for an evening of good times and startup pitches. After sorting through over a hundred applications, we selected 20 companies to take part in a rapid-fire pitch-off competition to be judged by Tec... |
Google Misses Estimates In Q2 With $14.1B In Revenue, Net Income Of $3.2B, And EPS Of $9.56 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | It’s that time again — Google’s fiscal second quarter earnings have just crossed the wires and they’re definitely not what most people expected. For Q2 2013, the company reported consolidated revenue of $14.1 billion (that’s up 19 percent from the year-ago quarter), net income of $3.23 billion, and non-GAAP earnings pe... |
Content Delivery Network EdgeCast Raises $54 Million From Performance Equity Management | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | Los Angeles-based content delivery network is looking to expand its sales and engineering teams, and it’s raised a fresh round of $54 million in new financing to help it do so. The funding was led by Performance Equity Management (PEM), with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures.... |
Flight Search Startup And Disrupt Contender Superfly Adds Personalized Hotel Booking Service | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | , which helps travelers take advantage of frequent flier miles and airline rewards programs, is expanding its services to include a mobile app for finding and booking hotels. Superfly first launched and uses big data to personalize flight results based on consumer travel records. In April, Superfly developed , which... |
Locket Puts Ads On Smartphone Lock Screens, Pays You To Use Your Phone | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | Would you install an Android app that put ads directly on your smartphone’s lock screen? No? What if you were paid to do so, and whenever you swiped to unlock your device, you made a little money? That’s the promise of a new mobile application called , launching today , backed by $500,000 in funding from and a coup... |
When TV Isn’t Just TV Anymore | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | We live in a world where Netflix is . The streaming video company received an unprecedented number of Emmy nominations — 14 in all. That included nine nominations for the Kevin Spacey-led political drama House of Cards, three for Arrested Development, and two for Hemlock Grove. There are some who might say that , and... |
Mexican Online Take-Out Ordering Service SinDelantal.Mx Raises €2.5M From Seaya Ventures | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | Mexico’s , the online takeout delivery service started by the founders of Spain’s SinDelantal.com, has raised €2.5 million from Spanish VC . Seaya’s Michael Kleindl was a previous backer of Spain’s SinDelantal, which late last year for a figure we pegged in the range of “a few million dollars,” so he knows its foun... |
Legendary Investor John Doerr Will Take The Stage At Disrupt SF | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page that partner and legendary technology investor John Doerr “sees the future first.” He’s backed companies like Amazon, Intuit and Google. We’re thrilled to announce that Doerr will be taking the stage to talk about what the future looks like at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in September.... |
Gillmor Gang Live 07.18.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | – Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
Content Marketing Platform Kapost Raises $5.6M From Lead Edge And Floodgate | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 18 | , a startup offering tools for content marketers, just announced that it has raised $5.6 million in Series C funding. This brings the TechStars-incubated company’s total funding to $8.7 million. The new round comes from new investors and , as well as previous investor High Country Venture. Content marketing is basic... |
Angels Get Carry For Helping A Startup Raise Money With AngelList Syndicates | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 7 | 27 | is testing out a new service that lets angel investors syndicate deals with each other, a feature that could allow startups to raise venture-sized rounds of money with relative ease. Called , the private-beta product lets any on the AngelList fundraising platform essentially create, lead and collect carry for a fun... |
Why You Should Never Digital Detox Alone | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 27 | For the first time in years, I spent 72 hours without Internet or cell phone reception. While I didn’t experience any life-altering epiphanies that some claim comes from a digital detox, I now enjoy a handful of very meaningful relationships that never would have existed, with the constant temptation for shallow intera... |
CrunchWeek: Google Chromecast, Apple’s No-Growth Q3, And Earnings Madness | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 27 | Welcome to a brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers together in front of the TechCrunch TV cameras to dish on some of the more interesting stories from the past seven days. In this week’s episode, , and I talked about Apple’s (and ), Facebook’s and financials from its earnin... |
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Gillmor Gang: Christmas in July | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 7 | 27 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — celebrate Google’s gift to StreamTV. ChromeCast is cheap, small, simple, and extensible, just in time to kickoff the run up to Apple’s big move to the Big Screen. It’s a win-win for everybody involved, except maybe Microsoft and its XBox ... |
Snapchat And The Beauty Of Ephemeral Photography And Fleeting Creativity | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 27 | Traditionally photography is about preserving a moment in time; you take a picture literally because it’ll last longer. The entire art is built around a quest for permanence, and archival desires. But with , you’re casting off those things you photograph almost as soon as you take the picture – in many cases it’s less... |
Reminder: The London Pitch-Off+Meetup Is Monday | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 27 | In preparation for I’ve been running around the Continent for more than a month, hitting the for a huge tour and for an amazing meet-up. Now I’m back for a meet up+pitch-off with our own Mike Butcher and the rest of the UK team. Tickets are . There will be great networking opportunities, and a battle to the deat... |
SETT Is A New Blogging Platform That Has Community At Its Heart | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 27 | Although blogging is nearly as old as the Internet, it still feels like something is amiss. From to , there is a feeling afoot that existing platforms for blogs and long-form content still need a lot of improvement. Five years ago, early platforms like Blogger gave way to micro-blogging and networks like Tumblr. Now... |
Technology And The Ruling Party | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 7 | 27 | “Power tends to corrupt,” said , “and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” The sexism needs updating but the sentiment remains true. That’s been all too obvious this week, during which the powers that be to protect their once-secret surveillance programs…while the NSA to Freedo... |
Maxthon Is A Cloud-Based Browser For Power Users | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | may not have the name recognition of Chrome, Firefox or Safari, but the cloud browser has gained a global following of more than 100 million unique visitors per month in 140 countries. Karl Mattson, the company’s vice president, says Maxthon’s growth has been driven in large part by Web developers and gamers who appre... |
The Highlight Startups From FounderFuel’s Summer 2013 Cohort Demo Day | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | Montreal-based accelerator held its Demo Day for its Summer 2013 cohort of startups today, and the nine companies taking part all offered pretty impressive pitches. Three companies stood out from the crowd, however, and earned my pick for highlights of the show. Some are familiar names who have made big changes and e... |
Vine For Android Gets Homescreen Shortcut For Instant Video Recording Plus iOS Features | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | Vine has brought up to speed with the iOS counterpart, adding revining, camera tools, channels and more, along with one more update that the iOS doesn’t have– a capture widget. The little homescreen widget immediately boots up the Vine video recording screen so you don’t miss the beginning of those sudden, sharable m... |
Vonage Co-Founder And VoIP Pioneer Jeff Pulver’s Next Call: Zula, A WhatsApp For Business | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | Today, whether it be via Skype or Gmail, making phone calls over the web has become part of our daily routine. While the name may not ring any bells for younger generations, Jeff Pulver is one of the pioneers of that very technology we take for granted. A co-founder of , one of the biggest and earliest VoIP companies ... |
Star Wars Fans Take To San Francisco’s Streets Thanks To Nerdist Industries’ Course Of The Force | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | Geek-focused digital media company did something kind of amazing in the lead-up to last year’s Comic-Con International — it staged a relay race called , where fans carried a lightsaber along the California coast to raise money for the Make a Wish foundation. The company ( ) brought the event back this year, and it... |
Vine Is Coming To Windows Phone 8 As Nokia Looks To Attract More Big-Name Apps | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | Perhaps the most understated announcement at Nokia’s Lumia 1020 release event today was the promise of Vine for Windows Phone 8 within the year. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced onstage from Pier 92 in New York City that apps from CNN, Vyclone, Yelp, Foursquare, Path, Flipboard, and Hipstamatic would all become availab... |
Trulia Now Allows You To Find And Promote Real Estate Agents | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | , the online marketplace for buying and selling homes, has added a service that allows users to search specifically for real estate agents by location, name and company. The search engine returns a list of local agents with pictures, recommendations and other information. This new update comes after Trulia announced a ... |
Report: Skype And Microsoft Handed Over Calls And Emails To NSA | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | The Guardian more top-secret documents alleging that both Skype and Microsoft cooperated with U.S. spy agencies to give away the content of email and video chats. Though it’s unclear whether the collection of this data was indiscriminate or targeted at specific subjects, the language of the documents indicate that th... |
Developer Hacks His Microwave Into The Microwave Of The Future | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | Hello, and welcome back to today’s episode of “Why? LOL BECAUSE WE CAN.” Tired of your dumb old microwave that just to cook it? Stupid thing probably can’t even play animated GIFs or send Snapchats or download the Fergie. What’s the point? In the coolest mod I’ve seen in ages, developer has hacked away at his micro... |
SaleMove Wants To Make Selling Big-Ticket Items On The Web More Personal | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | You and I might buy a pair of socks online without a second thought, but buying a car? Or a pricey bit of jewelry? The process becomes much trickier as the price of a product increases, and it isn’t long before canned descriptions and stock photos just don’t cut it anymore. That’s where a New York-based startup called ... |
Pac-12 Revamps Network Websites Around Unique Sports Events To Connect More Fans | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | A major part of what makes sports so enticing and addictive is that they connect individuals to something much larger in real time. Whether they’re in the stands cheering with thousands of other fans, frantically checking Twitter for updates, or arguing with friends after the game, fans want to be connected to each oth... |
Tattoo Hero Wants To Bring Tattoo-Seekers And Artists Together For Beautiful Results | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | One of the startups showing their stuff at Montreal’s International Startup Festival this year is , an Ottawa-based startup building a portal on the web to help connect those looking for tattoos with the artists who can make them. The startup is taking an age-old dilemma, which is normally handled almost exclusively v... |
Nokia, Please Keep Going | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | So, finally, Nokia has and let us event goers get some long awaited hands-on time with the thing. It’s definitely not your run-of-the-mill Windows Phone, but is that camera-centric kookiness enough to make the Lumia 1020 worth that $299 price tag? The jury’s still out on that one, but so far the 1020 definitely seems... |
Time Is Running Out For Extra Early Bird Disrupt SF Tickets | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | The early bird, as they say, gets the worm. You, on the other hand, are not a bird. So you can get for far less than you will be able to at the door or even three days from now. But you do not get the worm. Our events team is pulling down our early bird tickets on the 15th and it would behoove you to act quickly. The... |
Pebble Sold 275K Units Through Kickstarter And Pre-Orders, Tops 1M Watch Apps Downloaded | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | Smartwatch startup revealed today for the first time that it has received 190,000 pre-orders for its wearable computing accessory through its own web store following the tremendously successful Kickstarter campaign it ran last year. That means it amassed around 275,000 pre-orders total for the smartwatch, which is im... |
Most Unproductive Congress Ever Could Kill Immigration Reform | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | It’s looking less likely that high-skilled immigration reform will pass soon, if at all. Comprehensive immigration reform is currently sliced up into several smaller bills, waiting for the long, drawn-out deliberative process in the House of Representatives to stitch them together in a bi-partisan-friendly way. But giv... |
Snapguide Now Lets Users Request How-To Guides From Each Other, Another Step To Build Out Its Platform Of Microapps | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | — the how-to app now that capitalizes on the ubiquity of smartphones and tablets in our lives to encourage us to create guides for everything from to and — is today releasing an update that it hopes will spur users to become more interactive with the service, even if they themselves lack the motivation to create... |
Task List App Maker Any.Do Joins The Smart Calendaring Race With New “Cal” App | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | Any.DO, makers of a smart task app for mobile, is today launching its next creation out of private beta. The company’s is now available and is designed to integrate with the task app, as well as sync with other mobile calendaring services, including Google, iCloud and Exchange. The new app is unique in how it extends... |
Automation Startup IFTTT’s New iPhone App Is Beautiful, Simple, But Still Limited | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 11 | , the web services automation startup by $8.5 million from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, and others, is now available as . Like the web version of IFTTT, the app allows you to create and edit tasks (in IFTTT lingo, “recipes”) that allow you to kick off actions based on other activities. For example, , or . But by its ... |
Hilary Mason Leaves Bitly To Join VC Firm Accel As Its First Data Scientist In Residence | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | Accel Partners is announcing a major talent win tonight, with the addition of former Bitly chief scientist as its first data scientist in residence. The role of the data scientist in the VC world was first pioneered by IA Ventures and Greylock Partners. IA Ventures brought on Drew Conway as an in-house data scientist... |
Crowdfunding Reaches Its Terrible, Glorious Climax With ‘Smart Vibrator’ Vibease | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | The startup behind a “wearable smart vibrator” called has with hopes of raising at least $30,000 from fans. That sentence kind of speaks for itself, doesn’t it? I mean, I could probably insert some suggestive wording from the campaign description (“People often forget that the brain is the biggest sex organ.”), men... |
Zynga Sheds Three Top Execs As Its New CEO Shakes Up The Troubled Gaming Firm | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | In the last month, Zynga has quietly parted ways with three of its executive staff, early changes under the period of transition that the company’s , is currently leading. Bloomberg the departure of Nathan Etter, John Osvald and Jesse Janosov. TechCrunch confirmed their collective exit with a source familiar with th... |
Vaavud Smartphone Wind Meter Now Available, Use Your Phone To Measure Windspeed Like It’s The Future | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | Kickstarter success is a thing of beauty. Created by a Danish team of enterprising inventors, it plugs into your iPhone or Android device’s headphone jack and connects with an app to . It uses no power, and actually talks wirelessly to your phone via the built-in magnetic field sensor that ships with modern smartpho... |
Twitter’s Sunnyvale Office Is Open And Hiring | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | It looks like Twitter is now hiring out of its new Sunnyvale, Calif., office. The leasing of an 8,000-square-foot office in downtown Sunnyvale was — apparently that should hold between 40 and 50 employees. Twitter recently posted for that location. It’s looking for a “software engineer, core runtime diagnostics.” T... |
Atlas Virtual Reality Turns Any Room Into A Holodeck You Can Run Around In | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | Archenemies for decades, video games and exercise are about to unite. Atlas is a cheap, new “walk-around” virtual reality system that uses markers you put on the ground to track your movements as you play with an Oculus Rift headset. Protagonist is Kickstarting Atlas to get real-space VR into the hands of developers, s... |
Inside Machinima, The New Video Network For Gamers And Fanboys | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | Los Angeles is becoming a mecca of like Maker Studios, Fullscreen, and others. As part of TechCrunch TV’s tour of these companies, we checked out , which is one of the largest multichannel networks on YouTube. Over the course of that tour, we found out how the company has evolved and what its plans are for the fut... |
JustFab Sues Fab Over Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition And More. Fab Says It Will “Aggressively Defend Our Brand” | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | , the shoes and apparel e-commerce site that has , is taking to the courts to make sure that no one steps on its feet as it expands beyond its home market of the U.S. The company has filed a lawsuit against , the other popular fashion commerce site with “Fab” in its name (funding raised: ), over trademark infringeme... |
Lenstag Helps You Track Your Super-Expensive Photography Gear For Theft Recovery And Prevention | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | If you’re a photographer, professional or hobbyist, you probably know that you can accumulate gear costs quickly. All those costs can be hard to keep track of, making it imperative that you get your stuff insured and/or protected against theft somehow. New site wants to help with that. The website already has users in... |
Now Analyzing More Than 15 Billion Actions A Month, Mixpanel Launches A Big Marketing Campaign And A Conference About Analytics | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | Andreessen Horowitz-backed analytics startup has been growing quickly over the last year, adding new customers and rapidly expanding the amount of data it tracks. Now it’s looking to grab more customers and help them better understand their users, with a big marketing push in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, as well... |
Windows Phone Manages Mere 1.1% One-Year Market Share Growth In Its Home Market | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | Microsoft is in the smartphone game until the smartphone game is over, and Windows Phone is its vehicle. That said, the company’s success thus far appears to be slightly lumpy and downright sluggish on the home front. The release of Windows Phone 8, and a crop of new smartphones from Nokia and HTC, helped boost the pla... |
Russian Politician Proposes Law Punishing Individuals For Using Naughty Language Online | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | You can’t be a little pregnant, and you can’t be slightly censorious. Word out of Russia is that the country is working to further denigrate free speech, this time with a proposed law that would make the use of naughty language online a punishable offense. Ludicrous? Certainly. Outside the bounds of possibility? Not in... |
Why Labor Unions And Silicon Valley Aren’t Friends, In 2 Charts | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | None of the Internet giants have unionized employees, which has made Silicon Valley a favorite target for civil libertarians. Earlier this month, after several prominent Bay Area technologists came out against the BART subway union strike, . “There’s a reason why so many people are hating on the techies,” wrote Slate’... |
Finland’s Next Gaming Phenom? Grand Cru Raises $11M From Idinvest, Qualcomm, Nokia Growth | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | Almost at a steady pace, Helsinki has produced a hit gaming company every couple of years: Rovio’s Angry Birds in 2009 and then Supercell iOS game developers in the world last year through Clash of Clans and Hay Day. Is the next one ? Named after the French wine classification, the 25-person startup has been quiet... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Greylock’s Newest Partner Josh Elman | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, we have Greylock’s newly appointed partner . As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. As was announced last week, Elman is , focusing on consumer investments. Prior to Greylock, Elman was a ... |
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Google Relaunches Zagat’s Website And Mobile Apps, No Payment Or Registration Required | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | Google today gave , the restaurant review service , a set of new mobile apps for and , as well as a complete facelift . For the first time, Google , all of the service’s ratings and reviews are now available for free and without the need to register. Currently, the new Zagat covers restaurants and nightlife nine... |
Groupon Loses Mobile Head David Katz, Who Is Heading To Sports Commerce Site Fanatics | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | continues to roll out that point to the e-commerce company’s ongoing ambitions to move beyond the daily deal and further into becoming a central hub for local and mobile commerce. But come August, it will be doing so without one of its most senior mobile execs. David Katz, VP and GM of consumer mobile, is leaving th... |
At Current Pace, Tablets Will Outsell PCs By Q2 2014 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | The PC market is in poor health, and consumers love tablets. When do those two trends cross? No prediction is perfect, but given simple trend analysis, it appears that by the second quarter of 2014, tablets will likely outsell the PC market. That said, current market dynamics could accelerate, pushing us over that mark... |
iTunes Beta Adds iTunes Radio, Slide-To-Unlock Tweak And Screenshot Detection API Added To iOS 7 | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 29 | Apple has released a new beta of iOS 7 today, which is the fourth in the series. There are only a couple of months to go at most before we see the final edition roll out, so it’s not surprising that this update contains a variety of notable visual changes that smooth out some of iOS 7’s rough spots. There’s also a new ... |
Weathermob Raises $650K More To Turn Smartphones Into Mini Weather Stations | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | , a mobile, social network centered around crowdsourced weather reporting, has raised an additional $650,000 in new funding today from a number of angel investors, including Mark Hastings, Lord Waheed Alli, Victoria Hackett, and Drew Volpe, bringing its total raise to date to $1.1 million. The company had in angel fu... |
Marketing On WeChat Helps Apps Succeed In China’s Fragmented Marketplace, Says Wandoujia | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | China is the , but data about app downloads is difficult to get because Google Play is inaccessible there. The Chinese app ecosystem, which will be according to one estimate, is very fragmented, with more than 200 app stores competing for consumers. As a result, it’s difficult for developers to gauge what makes an a... |
The Granddaddy Of Messaging Apps, WhatsApp, Finally Goes For A Subscription Model on iOS | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | While messaging has become a veritable war with apps like Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat, Path and Facebook Messenger across Asia and Western markets, there’s been one longstanding app that’s presided over the space with very few apparent changes. WhatsApp, the Sequoia-backed messaging app that dominates in Europe and that is... |
TC Cribs: A Trip To Houzz, The Startup HQ That Feels Like Home | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | Welcome back for a brand spankin’ new episode of , the TechCrunch TV show that knocks on the front doors of some of the tech industry’s hottest companies to take a look inside their offices. This time, we headed about 30 miles south of San Francisco to the leafy, sunny, startup-happy paradise that is Palo Alto, Califo... |
Incredible Labs, Maker Of Personal Assistant App Donna, Cuts 25% Of Staff After Launch | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | Incredible Labs, the startup that built personal assistant app , reduced headcount by about 25 percent this week, as it seeks to streamline operations and improve its balance sheet. The layoffs came just a few weeks after Incredible Labs finally . We’ve written about Donna a since launch, but it’s important to note... |
Zynga’s Former Chief Game Designer Takes Strategic Investment From Nexon For SecretNewCo | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | Back in January, Zynga’s chief game designer Brian Reynolds, who was also behind older hits like Rise of Nations and Civilization II, . He’s popping up back on the scene this month with a new company called (appropriate, eh?), and the startup is announcing a strategic partnership with Tokyo-based gaming giant Nexon ... |
Marissa Mayer Says Yahoo Has 340M Monthly Users On Mobile, Promises To Improve Display Ads, Video | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | One of the big themes that CEO Marissa Mayer kept returning to during the webcast discussing was mobile. “Yahoo’s future is mobile,” she said, noting that the company now sees 340 million monthly mobile users. She didn’t offer any earlier mobile traffic numbers to illustrate growth, but to show the company’s commitme... |
Path Is Raising $50M At A $500M Valuation, Still Looking For A Lead Investor | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | is raising a $50 million Series C round at a $500 million post-money valuation. Sources tell us the company is still seeking a lead investor, the round is currently oversubscribed, and one of the investors in the round is “a strategic private investment group in Asia.” Last April, the social network founded by ex-Face... |
Google Opens The New Google Maps For Web To Everyone | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | Remember that shiny new Maps web interface that Google started ? It’s here! Technically, the new Maps interface has actually been here for a while… assuming you signed up for an invite shortly after it was announced and were able to make it through Google’s invite queue before they opened the floodgates today. (I sign... |
With Its $5 Billion Share Buyback Program, Yahoo Still Has A Big Pile Of Cash For Acquisitions | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | Yahoo just released its mixed , and a few sentences may have given the answer everyone was waiting for — yes, Yahoo still has plenty of cash to pursue more acquisitions. Evidence of this lies in the company’s share buyback program. “During the second quarter of 2013 Yahoo repurchased 25 million shares for $653 million... |
Microsoft Asks Attorney General To Release Gag Order On NSA Spying | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | [tweet https://twitter.com/BradSmi/statuses/357219988328816640] Microsoft is tired of getting pummeled in the press over reports that it to the National Security Agency. Unfortunately, the federal gag order related to the NSA is so strict that companies can’t even talk about the existence of the program. Today, Micro... |
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After Acquisitions Aplenty, Yahoo Q2 Beats With EPS At 35 Cents, But Revenue Flat Again At $1.07B | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | The day for purple exclamation points (or lack thereof) has arrived. Yahoo its earnings report for the second quarter of 2013, with better-than-expected (non-GAAP) net earnings of $386 million, or 35 cents per share. Revenue (excluding traffic acquisition costs) was flat compared to last year, at $1.07 billion. Maris... |
Bitcoin Transactions Rise As Economic Unrest Hits Argentina | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | Bitcoin has created an interesting solution for problematic economies. Because it allows seamless extraction of wealth out of a bank account and into the cloud, Argentinians have been ramping up usage of the cryptocurrency in an effort to stem the effects of their worsening economy and their choice to go BTC is actuall... |
Charitable Water Filter Maker Soma Raises $3.7M Seed Round | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | , a startup that’s hoping to be the Warby Parker of water filters, has closed a $3.7 million round of seed funding led by and . Other backers include Lerer Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Vast Ventures, Mindful Investors, The 4-Hour Workweek’s Tim Ferriss, Coca-Cola’s Rohan Oza, and Sukhinder Singh Ca... |
We Can All Go Home Now. Piracy Is Mostly Dead | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | According to a , piracy has fallen alarmingly in that country thanks to viable alternative sources. For example, music piracy has fallen from 1.2 billion songs in 2008 to 210 million last year. About 60 million movies and TV shows were pirated last year, compared to 125 million and 135 million five years ago. In short... |
Microsoft Releases A Hobbled Outlook iOS App That Pretty Much No One Will Use | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | Outlook is now available for the iPhone and iPad. Kind of. Don’t expect full Outlook functionality. This isn’t a MS Office Outlook app; this is stripped down mail, calendar and contacts app much like the one found in Windows 8. It’s free to download to right now. But, in typical Microsoft fashion, it’s not that simpl... |
KeepSafe, The Private Photo Gallery App, Raises $3.4M And Grows To 13M Users | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | , which on people’s phones, just raised $3.4 million in a round led by Floodgate. They’ve also grown to 13 million users, 6 million of whom are active every month. This is probably not a perfect way of putting it, but one could argue that KeepSafe attacks a market that overlaps a little bit with Snapchat. Many of the... |
Keen On… Brian Solis: WTF Is The Future Of Business? | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | Known as one of Silicon Valley’s observers of social media, analyst is now thinking way beyond Twitter and Facebook. The future of digital business, Solis says, is “shared experiences”. . WTF? Yes, exactly. In his lavishly illustrated new book (itself a memorable media experience), , Solis reminds us that all ... |
Crowdfunding Site Medifund Wants To Help Students Become Doctors | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | is a crowdfunding Web site that wants to increase the number of doctors in countries with a critical shortage by helping students afford medical tuition. So far, the site, which is based in the Philippines and launched last month at , has successfully completed the , who raised PHP 25,000 (about $577 USD). Founder J... |
Surf Air, The Air Travel Startup That’s Bridging The Tech Hubs Of L.A. And S.F. | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | Now, location will probably always be important when it comes to building a tech business, but a startup out of Los Angeles called has made it much easier for people on the California coast to travel between the state’s tech hubs in San Francisco, L.A., and most recently Santa Barbara, through a uniquely tech-savvy... |
Last Chance To Get Tickets To The Seattle Meetup + Pitch-Off On July 18 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 16 | There ain’t no party like a TechCrunch party ’cause a TechCrunch party don’t stop. So hopefully you’re ready, Seattle, because in just two days the is going to rock your socks off. On Thursday July 18, entrepreneurs, VCs, technology enthusiasts and TechCrunch writers will come together under one roof to talk tech, he... |
Michael Dell Vows To Stay At Dell Regardless Of The Outcome Of His Offer To Take The Firm Private | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | After promising to sell his shares at a discount and increasing the price of his offer, Michael Dell, founder of Dell, has today vowed to stay at the firm regardless of the to take the company private. This is not a surprise, given that Dell owns a large equity stake in the company. For him to step back if his plan t... |
Bob Mansfield To Leave Senior VP Of Tech Role At Apple, But Will Remain To Work On Special Projects | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | Bob Mansfield is leaving his role as Senior VP of Technologies at Apple, but will remain at the company to work on special projects reporting to Tim Cook. Rumors first started flying about Mansfield’s movements when his biography on its website. The company has not yet issued an official statement, but that Mansfie... |
Jawbone Hires Its First VP Of Data To Focus On The Intersection Of Wearables, Quantified Self And Personalized Health | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | has made a key hire that shows some of the direction the company is headed towards when it comes to the quantified self and wearables development. The developer and manufacturer of the fitness device UP has brought on Monica Rogati, who was formerly a senior data scientist at LinkedIn, to be the company’s first VP of ... |
What Games Are: Self-Publishing On Console Will Not Create The Next SuperCell. But Microconsoles Might. | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | To the joy of many, Microsoft announced : Rather than try to maintain a fortress of solitude, the console will support indie publishing. You’ll be able to use your console as a dev kit (traditionally dev kit licenses could be very expensive) to make and publish your games. Microsoft even promises to remove some of the... |
Bootstrap 3 Goes Mobile-First, Now Reportedly Powers 1% Of The Web | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | The team behind , the immensely popular grid-based, front-end framework for web development, launched the first release candidate of Bootstrap 3 includes over the weekend. Besides a tweaked look and a couple of new features (and also the removal of a few others), the most important change in this update is that Bootst... |
Dell’s Cloud-Friendly Project Ophelia Inches Closer To Release As Testers Receive Early Units | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | Google’s $35 dongle may have made all the headlines this week, but the folks in Mountain View aren’t the only ones working on curious gadgets that plug into your TV’s HDMI ports. Dell showed off its Android-powered all the way back in January, and it managed to turn a few heads… until its tentative launch window cam... |
Mozilla, The Late-To-The-Mobile-Party Lumbering Dinosaur Of Open, Is Playing Carriers’ Pet To Make Firefox OS Fly | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | The first mobile devices running Firefox OS are out in the market. It’s too early to say how well Mozilla’s fledgling open web HTML5 mobile platform is doing in its bid to steer budget buyers away from Android gateway devices. Which is, make no mistake, exactly the hope of the carriers throwing their weight and influen... |
Architizer Relaunches To Connect Architects With Other Architects, And Brands, And Clients Too! | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | For 100 years or more, architects have relied on the massive catalog sitting on their desk to find the right products to use in their projects — this brand of glass, or that brand of toilet. That catalog had a monopoly on the market for a century, but with the birth of the internet, that catalog never made the transiti... |
Review: Google Chromecast | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” -Sir Arthur C. Clarke It’s probably the most overused quote in tech writing… which sucks, because I’d really like to use it to describe how I feel about the Chromecast. The Chromecast is deceptively simple: you plug it into your TV, then stream vid... |
Fly Or Die: Nokia Lumia 925 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | The is the Finnish phone maker’s latest attempt at wooing hapless shoppers over to the Windows Phone 8 platform, and it’s a solid proposition. The real stand-out feature has to be the camera, which is still considered PureView despite being an 8.7MP camera, as opposed to the Lumia 1020’s 41-megapixel shooter. Stil... |
How Social And Primary Sources Affect Online Media Brands | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | TechCrunch Throughout high school and college, I took a heavy dose of political science and history classes. As a result, those teachers and professors stressed the importance of investigating source documents and analyzing them on their own merits versus secondary sources (like textbooks, for instance), even thoug... |
SaaS Pioneer Open-Xchange Raises $20M To Expand Its Cloud-Based Services | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | , a maker of Web-based communication, collaboration and office productivity open-source software, has received $20 million in funding from United Internet, former Deutsche Bank COO Hermann-Josef Lamberti and existing shareholders. Part of the proceeds will be used for a secondary transaction. This investment round is n... |
With Launch Of 3.0, Adobe Social Supports Instagram, LinkedIn, And More, Plus Predictive Capabilities | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | Adobe says version 3.0 of , its set of tools for social marketing, is going live right now. When I met with Bill Ingram, vice president of product management for digital marketing, and Emi Hofmeister, senior manager of product marketing, they said Adobe Social is part of a larger effort to revamp Adobe’s marketing pro... |
Publicis And Omnicom Are Merging To Form A $35.1B Advertising Leviathan | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 28 | Today and , two of the “big five” global advertising and marketing agencies, a “merger of equals”, in which the two will combine to create the world’s biggest agency, with some $22.7 billion in annual revenues and a market capitalization of $35.1 billion. The pair say that the new Publicis Omnicom Group initially ... |
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By Wrapping Sensors In A Plushie, “Teddy The Guardian” Aims To Sell Medical Tech For Kids | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | In only a few months, the founders of , a medical technology start-up based out of Zagreb, Croatia, have developed and launched what they’re marketing as medical sensor technology for children. But unlike the sleek , this one takes the form of a teddy bear. The product is called a plushie installed with sensors that... |
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