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Gov’t Analysis Startup FiscalNote Enlists Former Cabinet Secretary Lu And Elsevier’s Chi As Advisors | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | , a startup that promises to help businesses track and predict state and local legislation, is announcing that it has brought on two prominent advisors — former White House Cabinet Secretary for Barack Obama, and , chairman of publishing company Elsevier. The startup was founded by , former president of the 750,000... |
YC-Backed Orbs CCG Takes To Kickstarter To Reinvent Magic: The Gathering For Asynchronous Online Play | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | Hey, remember Magic: The Gathering? Maybe you’re like me and you played the game religiously as a teenager, only to abandon it as you got older. (For those of you don’t know what I’m talking about: It’s a collectible card game in a fantasy setting. Also: Stop looking at me like I’m weird.) Jeff Pickhardt, founder of Y ... |
Online Grocery Store Redmart Raises Series A Round To Stay Put In Singapore | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | Singaporean online grocery store, , just raised an undisclosed Series A round that is “in the millions”, according to co-founder and CEO Roger Egan. Together with this funding amount, its previous three seed rounds add up to $4.6 million. Redmart will also raise its next round before the year is up, said Egan. When as... |
Startups, I Give Up On You For Today | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | Startups, I just give up on you for today. Because after whatever happened in this , the office arrival of that some company made of co-editor Eric Eldon, Susan Hobbs and me ( is wearing a ) and I just received calling me old, I think we should all just take a break for a second here and rethink our core purpose ... |
Young Mad Scientist Super Awesome Sylvia Is Kickstarting A Robotic Watercolor Set | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | A 12-year-old maker named (she is quite super awesome) is looking for $50,000 to build a robotic watercolor set, the , that can draw nearly anything you design in a computer paint program. Asking why you don’t just take brush to paint pot with your hand is irrelevant — this, friends, is a robotic watercolor plotter.... |
Reddit Insight Is An Awesome Hack That Reveals How The Internet’s ‘Front Page’ Really Works | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | Anyone who has had their website get some traction on knows that it truly lives up to its “front page of the Internet” — the kind of traffic the site drives can be remarkable. But the process by which a link takes off on the site is still pretty mysterious. For the most part, you submit something to Reddit, and c... |
Casual Game Developer Arkadium Gets On The HTML5 Train | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | Casual games company is announcing today that it’s supporting HTML5 games in its Arena Network. In other words, the company is finally acknowledging the need to move on from Flash. The news seems inevitable — and, if anything, a bit late. Back in 2011, Adobe, the company behind Flash, seemed to accept the fact that t... |
Venturocket Grabs $700K To Kill Resume Spam, Build A Better “Pay-Per-Connection” Jobs Marketplace | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | With the war for talent alive and well and jobs sites continuing to leave more than a little to be desired, San Francisco-based is announcing today that it has raised $700K in Series A financing for its unique spin on matching job seekers with the most relevant opportunities. The round was led by Runa Capital, with c... |
Stayful Brings The Priceline Model To Boutique Hotels, Letting You Bid On Places To Stay In Realtime | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | There’s a new travel site launching that’s focused on bringing real-time bidding to the boutique hotel market. The site, called , was founded by travel industry veterans from Expedia and Hotels.com and has raised $2.4 million in seed funding to attack the market. The idea behind Stayful is to let users negotiate room ... |
Intel Misses In Q2 2013, Reports EPS Of $0.39 And Revenue Of $12.8 Billion | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | Intel reported its fiscal Q2 2013 earnings a few moments ago, and they just fell short of analyst predictions. The legendary chipmaker reported earnings of $0.39 per share and $12.8 billion in revenue (down 5 percent from the year-ago quarter) this time around. According to the consensus provided by and , analysts e... |
Driven By Marketplace And PayPal Growth, eBay’s Q2 Revenue Up 14 Percent To $3.9B | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | As expected, eBay decent financial results in Q2 2013 today. Revenue was up 14% to $3.9 billion, compared to the same period of 2012. The company reported second quarter net income on a GAAP basis of $640 million, or $0.49 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income of $822 million, or $0.63 per diluted share. GAAP Ne... |
Audiodraft, The Crowdsourcing Platform For Sound And Music, Raises $400K From 500 Startups, Promus | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | , a platform where brands or anybody else can commissions custom music or sounds, just closed $400,000 in a funding round led by 500 Startups and Promus Ventures. The best analogy for what the startup does is 99Designs for sound. Founded three years ago, the company has grown a community of about 20,000 sound designers... |
Liquor.com Raises $3.1 million In Series B Funding | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | If you ask me you don’t mess around with people like that you get out of the room and then you get into the car and go home you don’t call nobody you know or whatever, right? So I’m talking with Suffolk Equity Partners, some people out of Cambridge, and they got some investments, right and they invest in and it’s a s... |
ColAR Uses Augmented Reality To Bring Your Kid’s Drawing To Life | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | I would’ve written this earlier, but I was busy picking pieces of my mind up off the floor. I get to write about cool stuff all day, but this… this is incredible. colAR is the coloring book of the future. By mashing up traditional coloring books with some good ol’ augmented reality voodoo, colAR brings your drawings ... |
More Tickets Are Now Available For The 8th Annual August Capital Party In Silicon Valley | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 7 | 17 | Ready, set, click. We just released one of the last batches of tickets to our annual party at August Capital. Space is very limited. The deck at August Capital’s beautiful Sand Hill Road office can only hold so many entrepreneurs, founders, VCs, and tech nerds. The party is from at 5:30 to 9:00 on July 26. Tickets are ... |
Pitchfork Media Launches The Dissolve, A Movie Site Looking To Break Out Of The Online Hype Cycle | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | Pitchfork Media, the company behind the music site that all my cool friends used to read (I use the past tense because, like me, my friends have gotten old and uncool), just launched a new property — , a site that’s all about movies. When I loaded up The Dissolve earlier today, my first feeling was one of familiarity.... |
Rental Car Startup Silvercar Raises $5M As It Looks At New Markets | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | , a startup looking to improve the rental car experience at airports, has raised $5 million in new funding. The news was revealed in a filing with . A Silvercar spokesperson declined to identify the investors who participated in the round, but they sent me the following statement from CEO Luke Schneider: The equity ca... |
Gillmor Gang Live 07.10.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. |
Pantheon Aims To Take The Pain Out Of Collaborative Web Development With New Multidev Feature | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | Drupal-based cloud platform is launching a new feature today called Multidev, which it says addresses the No. 1 request from the developers using the platform — the ability to “fork” every aspect of a web development project so that large teams can collaborate. Co-founders Zack Rosen and Josh Koenig told me one of th... |
T-Mobile Reveals $10/Month JUMP Program To Let Users Upgrade Phones Twice A Year | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | T-Mobile has been struggling to position itself not so much as a value carrier, but rather as a carrier that makes it a point not to screw its customers over. To that end, T-Mobile CEO John Legere and CTO Neville Ray unveiled a slew of impressive changes for the magenta-hued carrier, perhaps the biggest of which is the... |
The Plight Of The Intrapreneur, Or How To Be An Innovator From Within | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | At in Montreal this week, one of the noteworthy pieces of data so far is how many non-startup folks are attending workshops ostensibly designed for startups. Ben Yoskovitz and Alistair Croll went out of their way to direct part of their talk regarding their book to attendees who might want to take steps to innovate... |
The Iconic Picks Up A $26M Round To Build Out Online Fashion In Australia, As Rocket Internet’s Global March Continues | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | , the incubator run by Berlin’s Samwer brothers, has picked up hundreds of millions of dollars ($837 million, in fact) in funding this year for its e-commerce startups, with much of that focused on emerging markets, but today comes news of another significant investment for a far-flung part of the developed world. , a... |
Occipital Releases One Of The First High Quality 3D Scanners For OS X | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | While Windows 3D scanning software has until now outperformed any Apple counterpart, Occipital Inc. plans to remedy that today with the launch of for OS X. Originally developed by France-based startup ManCTL, Skanect allows users to create 3D scans on Apple computers using low-cost sensors like Microsoft’s Kinect or ... |
The Seattle Meetup + Pitch-Off Is On July 18 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | San Diego startups, tech fans, and general citizens, get ready for a night you’ll never forget. We’re bringing for a night of drinking, debauchery, and good old-fashioned tech talk at . Not only will there be fireside chats with some of Seattle’s biggest names in tech, but we’ll be holding a 60-second pitch-off whe... |
With Plug, Create A Personal, Subscription-Free Dropbox With Your USB Drives | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | Plug just launched a for its $69 adapter. It will transform your USB drives into a personal Dropbox for all your devices. Thanks to a deep integration in your filesystem, you won’t have to move your files to a special folder or a virtual hard drive. After launching Plug’s app, everything is transparent and you won’t ... |
After A Year Of Upgrading Yahoo, CEO Marissa Mayer To Join Us At Disrupt SF | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo nearly a year ago and has quickly moved to reshape the storied Internet company’s culture and bring in new talent. Starting out, she hired a strong new management team, had a child(!) and altered workplace practices. More recently, she’s been making a huge acquisition push, buying Tumb... |
Confirmed: $1.4B Mobile/Browser Toolbar Startup Conduit Is Splitting, Still Mum On Perion Acquisition | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | , the Israeli-based browser-toolbar and mobile startup estimated to be worth some $1.4 billion, has confirmed to us that it is splitting itself into two entities, but is declining for now to say that it is purchasing Perion as part of the deal. We have also obtained employee memos from sources with more details about t... |
Yidio’s New App Is A Comprehensive Guide To All The TV Shows & Movies You Can Watch On Your iPhone | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | There’s no shortage of as portable guides to the shows, specials, and movies now playing on our television sets, but a company called is today launching that addresses the way users are “watching TV” today: via other mobile apps like Netflix, Hulu, HBO GO, YouTube, and more. Yidio’s new app makes it easy to... |
Loudie, The App That Gamifies Your Concert Plans | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | If concerts are you’re thing, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re slightly overwhelmed with all the upcoming concert information sent your way, from various subscriptions with LiveNation, AEG, or Bowery. But an app called Loudie is relaunching to clean up the process of planning with friends, giving you easy way... |
Second Life Maker Linden Lab Buys Desura For Games Distribution, Plans To Keep It Open | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | is continuing with its mini-acquisition spree in gaming: it has just announced that it is buying , a Australia-based digital distribution service for PC gamers. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but it follows on from the company’s in February 2012 and in January of this year. Linden Lab says it will k... |
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How To Think About Minimum Viable Products, And The Path To Passion At Startup Festival | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | At in Montreal this week, today saw a Lean Workshop hosted in part by authors Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits. The two entrepreneurs and authors spent the morning articulating what makes for a lean entrepreneur or startup, and how lean tactics can apply to companies big and small. The talk was exhaustive, but a c... |
Lyft Holds First Community Meeting To Rally Support And Save The ‘Stache In LA | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | On-demand ride-sharing startup held its first-ever community meeting in Los Angeles last night, inviting drivers and passengers to meet one another and share their stories. The prompt for the meeting was a that the company received from the city a few weeks before and the company’s hope to rally support around ke... |
Beezinga Brings Data Analytics To The Apiary | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | Beekeeping isn’t exactly something you read about a lot in the tech press, but it’s a big business with about $268.9 million in revenue in the U.S. alone, and technology is slowly into apiaries around the world. , the Microsoft from Slovenia, has developed a system of sensors for standardized beehives (yes, ther... |
Groopic For iPhone Mashes Up Group Photos To Include The Missing Photographers | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | One of the more amazing things about our smartphones is that they don’t just put the capabilities of computers and cameras into small, portable form factors, they also leverage the combination of being both these things to give ordinary users the access to tools that previously required advanced photoshopping skills. C... |
SEC Lifts Ban On General Solicitation, Allowing Startups To Advertise That They’re Fundraising | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 10 | The SEC has just voted of implementing section 201(a) of the JOBS Act, which lifts the ban on general solicitation and permits startups, venture capitalists, and hedge funds to openly advertise that they’re raising money in private offerings. While it may pose added risk of investors being misled, it should make it s... |
Nate Silver Is Leaving The New York Times For ESPN | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | , the statistician who rose to national prominence for his scarily accurate predictions of the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections, for ESPN. Silver will take the brand with him to the sports giant, according to The Times’ Brian Stelter. Silver will have a number of roles at ESPN, from his stats-driven bloggi... |
Ask A VC: Resolute Ventures’ Mike Hirshland On Why He Hates Party Rounds (And Why Founders Still Raise Them) | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, founder joined us in the studio to talk about seed-stage investing, party rounds and how startups should structure boards. Hirshland, who has openly said he dislikes party rounds, talked about why entrepreneurs still raise rounds with more than 15 investors despite many warning... |
In Wake Of Outcry Over Censorship, Tumblr Explains Its NSFW Policy (Kind Of) | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | So, I was searching for pornography on Tumblr this morning. (It was work-related!) Word was, the now-Yahoo-owned blogging network made a significant change to the way adult-themed blogs could be discovered on the site, which even further hid their content from public consumption. Tumblr following user outcry. Accordi... |
Apple To Buy Transportation App HopStop — Mass Transit To Return To Apple Maps? | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | Apple has agreed to acquire transit navigation app , according to . AllThingsD has apparently . I’ve reached out to both companies and will update if I hear back from either of them. HopStop offers walking, taxi, and bicycle directions, but is probably most useful when it comes to mass transportation. When Apple bro... |
Poppy Is Now Courting Developers To Build 3-D Augmented Reality Games For Your iPhone | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | Remember Poppy? It’s that device — — that lets you using your iPhone. It’s kind of like a Viewmaster for the digital age. Anyway, a lot’s happened since we first wrote about the company’s Kickstarter campaign. It’s racked up nearly 2,500 backers and met its funding goal, raising more than $150,000 (compared to the ... |
Motorola Will Officially Unveil The Moto X In New York On August 1 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | Well, here we go. After a considerable amount of teasing (not to mention cheerleading from Google execs during earnings calls), Motorola Mobility is finally ready to unveil its long-awaited Moto X smartphone to the world, and it’s going to do it at a special event in New York City on August 1. Actually, you know what? ... |
As The Series A Crunch Tightens, Teams of Coders Are Looking To Find New Jobs On DeveloperAuction | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | , an , has expanded to allow teams of coders and designers to put themselves up for auction as a group. “As a general trend around the Series A crunch, we’ve seen a huge influx of talent on our marketplace in the last two months who are on there because their current company has been unable to secure further funding o... |
Thrive Capital’s Kushner Looks To Build A Modern Health Insurer With $40M For Oscar | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | With new parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) going into effect next year, Josh Kushner is betting that health insurance — an area long considered off-limits to tech entrepreneurs because of its legal and political complexities — is finally ripe for change. Kushner, whose venture fu... |
Gmail Offers Full-Screen Compose Again | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | Google has a brand new, but ultimately ineffectual, feature for Gmail users: a full-screen compose option. Enabling this option will push the compose window to the center of your inbox, expanded across the majority of the screen for a better viewing experience. Google launched a a few months ago, which gave users... |
Microsoft Experiences Its Biggest Drop Of The Century As Shares Fall 12 Percent | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | Microsoft shares ( ) dropped 12.2 percent, representing the biggest single-day drop in over 13 years. On April 24, 2000, shares dropped 15.6 percent — since then, Microsoft has never experienced such a shelling. Yesterday, the company announced and took a massive writedown due to unsold Surface RTs. The stock close... |
ModCloth, Now With Over $100 Million In Annual Revenue, Is Going Mobile First | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | , the indie fashion site best known for its vintage-inspired dresses, is today offering the first look into its revenue situation since 2009. The e-commerce startup, which is backed by roughly in outside funding, says it did over $100 million in revenue last year, and is now growing faster than 40 percent year-over-y... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Surface RT, Moto X, And The Seattle Meetup | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | Hello and welcome to another Friday. It’s a scorcher out there, AMIRITE? But we’re here to cool things down a bit with yet another episode of the . This week, Microsoft . Meanwhile, placed a focus on Moto X (and we also just ). Finally, TechCrunch just yesterday with the TC Meetup + Pitch-off with over 900 peopl... |
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Blink(1), The Cute Little Indicator Light, Is Kickstarting Itself Into A Second Version | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | Blink(1), a Kickstarter favorite that is coming back for more. The indicator light, which plugs into your USB and simply blinks on command, and sports updated features including USB 3.0 support, dual-sided LEDs, and improved design. I haven’t seen an example of a Kickstarter project launching a second version so so... |
Adobe Launches PhoneGap 3.0 With New Plug-In Architecture, APIs And Better Tools | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | Adobe today version 3.0 of its open source mobile app development platform. PhoneGap has long been one of the most popular tools for developers who want to write cross-platform mobile apps in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. With this update, PhoneGap introduces a new plug-in architecture that, the company says, “keeps y... |
Apple’s Developer Center Goes Down For Over 24 Hours | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | If you’re trying to get some iOS development done and just can’t get to the tools you need, don’t worry: you’re not alone. Apple’s Developer Center is down. While occasional outages are nothing new, the first mentions of this outage that we can find go back well over 24 hours. That’s longer than any outage that I can ... |
Tracks Pivots From Photo Sharing To Social Self-Expression With The Launch Of Its New Kanvas App | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | The team behind group photo sharing application has launched a new app today called . The new app is aiming to create a whole new wave of social self-expression by giving its users the tools to easily make fun, creative, mixed-media projects that they can share with friends. Until now, Tracks.io has been focused on ... |
Microsoft Still Hopes You’ll Buy A Surface RT, Launches New “Surface Vs. iPad” Ad | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE7AQY5Xk9w Sometimes it feels like Microsoft . After yesterday’s was made even worse because Microsoft had to reveal how badly the had been selling, the company today released a new “Surface RT vs. iPad” ad that touts the tablet’s detachable keyboard, a USB plug and low price (which... |
Job Listing Suggests Motorola Mobility Is Starting To Focus On Wearable Tech In Earnest | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | Heads up, wearable tech aficionados: Motorola Mobility is looking to produce some new wearable gadgets and it wants some help. The Google-owned company yesterday looking for someone to fill the role of senior director of industrial design for wearables — according to the post, that person will “provide strategic lead... |
San Jose State’s Bold Experiment In Online Ed Disappoints, Suspends Pilot With Udacity | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 19 | The largest university system in the world in massively open online course (MOOC) education, after disappointing student outcomes. Last January, San Jose State University a partnership with online course startup, Udacity, to offer super-low cost remedial college courses to the masses. Unfortunately, the reports t... |
Are Adidas Springblades The New Crazy Monkey Shoes? | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | It is a point of pride and, to an extent, shame that I introduced the TC audience to minimal running shoes aka . Since I’ve tried to keep up with the trends. The latest stop in my exploration? . Why is this on TechCrunch, you ask? Because these are some high-tech shoes, friends, and I suspect some of you out there ... |
Zenefits Lands $2.1M From Venrock, Maverick, Aaron Levie, Charlie Cheever And More To Automate Startup HR | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | For small businesses, managing health insurance and payroll services can be a huge pain and time-sink. They probably don’t have someone on staff dedicated to these issues, and they themselves would rather be dedicating that energy to building a company. launched out of to remove the friction of setting up and manag... |
Y Combinator-Backed DoorDash Delivers Food Quickly In South Bay, Hopes To Expand Beyond Food | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | , a Y Combinator summer ‘13 company, delivers food from restaurants in Palo Alto and Mountain View in an average time of 45 minutes. Sound familiar? It’s a crowded space, but while competitors like and offer users an app to order food from any restaurant that has its own drivers and delivery-system setup, DoorDash ... |
Someone Please Actually Hack Chipotle’s Twitter Account | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | For whatever reason, this week has felt particularly long. It might be some astrological reason like . Or it might just be the emotions that are a package deal with being a woman at the end of any month. Or it might be that burrito haven on Sunday, and the stunt has left a bad taste in my mouth. Brands who stage fak... |
Get Ready For TechCrunch TV’s Tour Of The New Hollywood, Starting Next Week | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | Over the last several years, we’ve seen a new group of digital media companies emerge in Los Angeles, driven by the growth of YouTube as a platform for distribution of video content. What started out as a cottage industry built around YouTube is becoming a pretty massive business, with L.A. at the center of it all. C... |
Apple’s Developer Center Is Back After Over A Week Offline | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | Apple’s Developer Center is finally back online, after taking a break for over a week. The developer site , and stayed down without any kind of return for multiple days. The hack was reportedly one that only affected developer accounts, after an intruder attempted to secure personal information. Apple said at the time... |
Google Asks Glass Developers To Start Working On Android-Based Apps Ahead Of Glass Development Kit Launch | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | It looks like Google is about to unleash a new wave of more powerful applications for Google Glass. Currently, Glass developers can only build apps that are essentially that talk to the user’s hardware through a set of relatively limited APIs. At its I/O developer conference earlier this year, Google announced that i... |
Ask A VC: Lightspeed Ventures’ Bipul Sinha On How The Enterprise Sales Model Has Changed | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | On this week’s Ask a VC show, Lightspeed Ventures’ Partner joined us in the studio to field reader questions and talk about enterprise investing. Sinha, who has led investments in Nutanix and PernixData among others, talked about how the enterprise sales model has changed over time. Sinha has an interesting view on... |
Mobile Payment At U.S. Starbucks Locations Crosses 10% As More Stores Get Wireless Charging | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | Starbucks is seeing impressive adoption of mobile payments in its U.S.-based store locations, the company revealed during its quarterly earnings conference call last night (via ). Mobile payments crossed the 10 percent mark in the U.S. as a percentage of in-store purchases, indicating efforts like the Starbucks mobile... |
Mailbox’s First App, Orchestra To-Do, Is Shutting Down | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | Before being for $100 million, before its app became one of the buzzier startups of 2013, the team at Mailbox had been known for , a simple to-do list app with tasks you could assign to others, or pull in via email. Now that app is shutting down, and will be removed from the App Store on September 6th, the company s... |
FindIt Launches A Universal Search App For iPhone With A Visual Twist | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | , a new mobile application offering universal search across emails and files stored in the cloud, is today making its official debut. With the , you can quickly connect your Gmail, Dropbox and Google Drive accounts, and then proceed to search by keyword, person, time or file type. But the ability to search for items i... |
Gillmor Gang Live 07.26.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
After Losing Nearly Half Its Users In A Year, Investors Dock Zynga’s Valuation By $400 Million | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | It is not a good day to be Zynga, or one of its investors if you held stock in the firm yesterday. Following a , investors have unloaded the firm’s shares, sending them down around 15 percent in regular trading. That loss comes after Zynga’s stock price rose in the wake of a . Investors had hoped that the strength of... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Nexus 7, Cheap iPhone 4s, And Chromecast | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | Does the high-res beat out the iPad mini? Why has Apple’s ? Is Google’s new dongle an Apple TV/Airplay killer? We discuss all this and more on this week’s . The show features John Biggs, Matt Burns, Jordan Crook, Chris Velazco, Darrell Etherington, and Romain Dillet. Packed house, I know. So sit back, relax, and ... |
Come Hack At The Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon — Tickets Now Available! | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | Hey, you! On the computer! You want fame? You want glory? You want more free pizza than any human should consume in a single night? Come build with us. We like to start off each of our conferences with a 24-hour hackathon, and we’re continuing that tradition at in September. It’s going to be I know, I know — of cour... |
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A First Look At Younity, The App That Lets You Access All Your Files All The Time | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | But a new app called could make situations like that a thing of the past. Younity, which is in the current class of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator , purportedly creates a “personal cloud” for the files shared on all of your various devices to let you access them anytime, anywhere. I met Younity co-founder ... |
Pinterest Adds Support For “Do Not Track” As It Begins To Personalize Its Service For Users | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | Pinterest announced today that it will add support for Do Not Track, the web browser mechanism that allows users to opt-out of having their personal data and activity collected by websites and third parties. It’s not the first social media company to make this move — Twitter, for example, that it would also support t... |
Inside Tesla’s Supercharger Partner Program: The Costs And Commitments Of Electrifying Road Transport | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | Tesla is building a in the U.S. to help give its growing fleet of consumer vehicles the juice they need to conquer the nation’s highways, and now we at TechCrunch have an inside look at how they’re approaching partners to help them expand. Tesla’s footing the bill for the Supercharger spots, asking only for time and ... |
Google Axes Shopper Price-Comparison Apps For iOS And Android To Focus On Google Shopping | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | It looks like Google is starting to cut back on some of its less successful mobile apps. Earlier today, we that the Google+ Local app has disappeared from the App Store a few weeks ahead of its planned shutdown, and now, the company has that it is going to shut down the standalone Google Shopper app for and on ... |
Hey San Francisco, Your Rep. Pelosi Saved The NSA Phone Metadata Program | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 26 | Congress almost cut off funds for an NSA spying program, until San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi stepped in to save it. Rep. Pelosi, of California’s 12th district, to the 2014 Defense Appropriations Bill. Amash’s amendment would have defunded the NSA’s domestic phone record program, which collects metadata on every cal... |
When Zuckerberg Thought His Sales Guy Was 50 Cent | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | In April 2005, current General Catalyst Venture Partner replaced Eduardo Saverin as Facebook’s business development head and first sales guy. Colleran was Facebook employee number seven, . And eight years ago around this time, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to fly out to New York to meet his new hire in perso... |
Facebook’s Feature Phone Platform Scores 100M Users, Most In Emerging Markets | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | Facebook that Facebook For Every Phone, a native app that works on feature phones, has been downloaded 100 million times. Facebook For Every Phone is an of the company’s global strategy because more feature phones than smartphones are used in developing markets like India, Indonesia and the Philippines. In fact, fo... |
HTC Appoints New U.S. Strategy Chief, Creates “Emerging Devices” Unit To Focus On Innovation And Global Sales | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | After months of internal turmoil and struggling sales, HTC is trying to reboot its strategy by establishing a new unit to develop “innovative” products and putting its global sales president back in charge of U.S. operations. In an internal email obtained by , HTC’s CEO Peter Chou announced that President of Global ... |
Touch: Where Microsoft Went Wrong | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | Microsoft had a pretty bad week. The software giant announced , which prompted its stock to tank more than 11 percent the next day. One reason for the bad quarter was the $900 million charge it took against “Surface RT” inventory adjustments, but even without this writedown, its quarter still would have been pretty ba... |
Google’s Revamped Nexus 7 Spotted In Newly Leaked Press Image | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | In just a few days now, Google’s Chrome and Android chief Sundar Pichai will be joined by a slew of journalists and media types to nosh on some breakfast and show off the newly-revamped Nexus 7. If you haven’t yet had your fill of leaks, none other than has come through with one final (seemingly press quality) image o... |
Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Been Breached By Hackers | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | After 3 days of silence as to why the , Apple has just confirmed that they are investigating a security breach. Developers just began receiving the email below; Apple has confirmed to us that the e-mail is legitimate. According to the email, Apple detected a security breach on its Dev Center servers on Thursday. While... |
Sports Illustrated’s Peter King Aims To Create Appointment Reading With New MMQB Site | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | is launching a standalone football website, , tomorrow morning. The site’s name comes from star Sports Illustrated writer Peter King who writes a weekly column called Monday Morning Quarterback. ESPN gave one of its stars, Bill Simmons, his own site in two years ago and it’s been a big hit. King is quick to shoot d... |
What Games Are: Apple Needs To Make An iJoypad | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | I’ve been an iPhone loyalist since the beginning. Although I never owned one of the original phones, I was always a big fan and dived in with the 3G. I’ve never looked back. I use it for phone, mail, social media, audio and as a gaming device. It’s a similar story with my iPad, but with the addition of books and produc... |
News360 Adds Edelman And Network For Good As Advertisers To Its New Sponsored Content Program | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | Earlier this week, the makers of personalized news app that they have launched their monetization efforts with a sponsored content program, where companies can pay to have their content promoted to relevant consumers. Even before the announcement, CEO , and News360 had already run a pilot campaign for Cincom Syste... |
Blippar CEO Celebrates One Year In The U.S. With AR Advertising Demo | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | Today , a out of the UK, is celebrating its one-year anniversary in the U.S. AR advertising sounds about as exciting API management, but 3 million users beg to differ. At its core, Blippar lets users scan Blippable content in the real world (think Ketchup bottles, packets of gum, train station posters, etc) to se... |
We Need To Have A Debate About Growth | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 7 | 21 | TechCrunch . In September 2012, Y Combinator’s penned a widely-circulated essay titled “ .” The message was clear — startups are about growth. Once a startup stops growing, it gets busy dying. Since so much of the Valley hangs on Graham’s words (myself included), this essay cemented what proclaimed in his famous ... |
Data Is Becoming The Beauty Box End Goal | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 7 | 7 | The beauty box concept is a few years old now, but some of the newer beauty box startups in Asia have modified their business models to be more data-centric, as competition floods the market. The way beauty boxes have worked is, subscribers pay a monthly fee to receive a shipment of surprise cosmetic items. A lot of th... |
Racing Google To Bring Driverless Cars To The Road, Mobileye Valued At $1.5B As Investors Take $400M Stake | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 7 | In the world of self-driving cars and autonomous vehicle technology, Google gets most of the attention, but it’s far from being the only player in the field. Earlier this month, , the Israeli and Dutch maker of advanced driver assistance technologies, self-driving cars “could be on the road by 2016.” Rather than Goo... |
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Fly Or Die: Instagram Video | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 7 | Now that the dust has settled around the , we thought it was high time to take a good look at the photo-sharing phenom’s new video venture. Does it live up to Vine? Is it better? Or does it just ruin the Instagram experience we’ve all come to know and love? — kindly filling in for John Biggs — and I discuss all th... |
Facebook Will Begin Making Graph Search Public On Monday | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 7 | Use Facebook in American English and aren’t one of Graph Search’s beta users already? Then you can expect to get the tool in a rollout that will begin on Monday and take place over the next few weeks. The company that “several hundreds of millions of people” will get access to Graph Search this week, after six month... |
Solar Impulse’s Solar-Powered Coast-To-Coast U.S. Flight Touched Down Safely This Weekend | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 7 | made history this weekend when its HB-SIA airplane touched down late Saturday night in New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, completing an entire cross-country United States flight relying solely on energy from that in the Earth’s backyard. The Switzerland-based Solar Impulse organization, founded by Bertrand Piccar... |
The Ivee Sleek Isn’t Just An Alarm Clock, It’s A Voice-Controlled Hub For Smart Homes | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 7 |
Alarm clocks rarely do much to get people’s salivary glands fired up, but may just change that. To be fair though, calling the Sleek an alarm clock is about as accurate as calling Microsoft an OS maker — the description technically fits, but it’s a hell of an understatement. The Sleek may have the right looks t... |
Shazam Pulls In $40M From America Movil To Take On Latin America | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 7 | 7 | , best known for its music recognition app and platform which has become a global success, has raised $40 million in new funding from , the largest wireless carrier in the Americas. It will now pursue a strategic collaboration to push out in Latin America, which involves pre-loading Shazam onto devices. The last fundi... |
As Microsoft Doubles Down On Touch, The Desktop Becomes Even More Of An Afterthought | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 7 | The has now been out for over a week. One of the highlights of this update is the return of the Start button (but not the Start menu), and after using the new version for a while, it becomes clear that, despite this concession, the old desktop isn’t coming back. All the interesting new stuff in Windows 8.1 is meant f... |
The OnBeat Solar Headphones Want To Charge Your Phone While You Listen To Music | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 7 | 7 |
Solar panels need plenty of sun to work well so why not carry them around on your head? That’s the slightly off-the-wall thinking behind this U.K.-based campaign aiming to produce a pair of solar headphones. The OnBeat headphones have a flexible solar panel embedded around the band where it’ll be exposed to am... |
Move Over Peter Thiel, Oregon Proposes Investment Model For Student Loans | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 7 | As college debt to over $35,000 per student, the state of Oregon has proposed a novel to loans: free tuition at public universities in exchange for 3 percent of earnings for the first 25 years after graduation. Just like a venture-capital portfolio that earns its profit from a few star investments, many students wo... |
In The Bay Area, Why “The Rent Is Too Damn High” | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 7 | 7 | TechCrunch . The unraveling of the Enron debacle in 2001 became a of corporate scandals of that era. The effects were so decimating to loyal employees vested in their employers’ retirement plans and public investors, the Federal Government responded with legislation the following year, the . Originally intended to... |
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