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Facebook Patents Point To An All-Seeing, All-Hearing Instagram Video | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 7 | Facial recognition, landmark detection, and even audio cues picked up through your phone’s microphone could let Instagram Video intelligently suggest a cover frame for mini-movies or even tag them, according to recent Facebook patents. The tech could route each video to the right people and put its best (motionless) fo... |
Indian Streaming Music Service Dhingana Launches Ad-Free Paid Subscriptions | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | , a streaming music service for Indian and Bollywood tunes, announced today that it is launching , its first subscription service for iOS and the second part of its monetization model. Gold subscriptions, which cost $1.99 a month and are available as an in-app purchase within Dhingana’s , include premium features suc... |
SnapPages Takes Aim At The Wixes And Weeblys Of The World With Major New Redesign | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Today, the website creation market is dominated by a handful of veteran players, as companies like Wix, Weebly and Squarespace now own the majority of mindshare and boast tens of millions of users between them. While many smaller players ended up in the deadpool during the market’s land grab, one veteran startup has ma... |
Dropbox’s Quest To Make Every App Work Offline | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | *Screeeeech* That’s your favorite app slamming on the brakes the second it loses its data connection. It seems ridiculous that apps can’t function offline, until you realize that cloud data sync isn’t some simple technology any developer can afford to build. That’s where comes in. “Users shouldn’t even need to know i... |
LG’s Secret New Phone, The Optimus G2, Gets Leaked A Month Early | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | You know that big announcement LG has scheduled for next month? The that more or less shouts “HEY WE’RE ANNOUNCING A PHONE CALLED THE G2 AT THIS EVENT”? Yeah, so, the G2 seems to have just leaked. Whoops! Someone just dumped a bunch of stills on our sister site , all showing off what’s purported to be LG’s newest flag... |
Google Wallet Launches Promotion With Popular Android Apps In A Bid To Increase Its Brand Recognition | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Several Android apps are for customers using Google Wallet’s “Buy with Google” button, as the company tries to ramp up adoption of its payment processing service. The button, which allows 2-click checkouts on mobile apps, is one of the strategies Google is deploying in its . While the “Buy with Google” button for An... |
Tencent Starts Testing Its Highly Anticipated Games Platform On WeChat, Its Blockbuster Messaging App | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | While messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, MessageMe and Path continue to duke it out in Western markets, the place to watch all the real action continues to be in Asia, where apps like Tencent’s WeChat, Line and KakaoTalk innovate in China, Japan and South Korea. This week, Tencent, , finally started testing its l... |
Apple Said To Be Working On “Mogul” Slow-Motion Video Recording Feature For New iPhones | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | These days it seems like just about every smartphone player worth its salt is devoting time and resources to upping their camera game, and Apple is no exception. A new report from points to snippets nestled within iOS 7 beta builds that seem to indicate the company is working on a camera feature called “Mogul” that w... |
Tom’s Planner Acquires Gantt Chart Service Competitor Gantto | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Tom’s Planner, a web-based , has acquired a competitor in providing Gantt charts to track projects: Y-Combinator-backed . The company plans to merge Gantto’s users and features into one platform under the existing brand. Gantto launched its product in 2010, less than one year after Tom’s Planner, and allowed subscrib... |
Google Finally Brings Voice Calling To Hangouts, But Not To Its Mobile Apps | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Some Google fans were mighty miffed when Google removed the ability to make voice calls from inside Gmail, but now the feature is back, flying under . Instead of just being able to place calls from within Gmail though, users can dial up friends and family while poking around on Google Plus or by using the Hangouts Chr... |
Twitter Media Launches Blog To Fight Attrition By Teaching You What To Tweet | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Twitter wants to prove it’s not just for broadcasting the mundane details of your life so it just the . The site plans to feature great uses of Twitter for “TV, sports, journalism, government, music, movies, social good and beyond.” It joins Google Inside Search and Facebook Stories as another media endeavor designe... |
Dropbox Says It Has No Plans To Charge Developers (Or Otherwise Change Its Business Model) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | One of the questions that came up a couple of times during the press Q&A at Dropbox’s DBX developer conference: What does today’s news mean for the company’s business model? Given and platform expansion announced today ( ), could Dropbox try to make money from advertising? Or by charging developers? Co-founder and CE... |
Foursquare Checks In With Feature Phones: A New App For Nokia S40 Phones And An Asha Preloading Deal | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | has made a name for itself out of the growth in smartphones, but as it tries to build up business in newer markets, it’s covering all of its bases. the company announced an update to its app for feature phones, specifically for Nokia’s range of S40 devices — which include its Asha handsets, sold and marketed as low-... |
Path Doubles Down On Stickers In Version 3.1, Alongside New iPad Design And Real World Friending | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Path , released a new iPad design, and introduced a new way to add friends in person today. Any sticker, old or new, can now be used in comments to respond to friends’ moments. Path in version 3.0 in March to extremely positive feedback. In the first 24 hours after the launch, Path saw a million messages sent and ma... |
Keen On… Draper University Of Heroes: Tim Draper Is Looking For The Best And The Brightest (Is That You?) | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Do you have spark? Are you a hero? If so, may want to get inside your head. Draper, best known, of course, as the founder and a managing director of , has founded a “new kind of university” in an old hotel in San Mateo designed to attract the “best and brightest”. Named , Tim Draper’s vision is to train young ent... |
Dropbox Launches Datastore API And Drop-Ins To Sync Data To And From Apps | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Today Dropbox launched two powerful new APIs for syncing and viewing data within apps that will help the company expand beyond the traditional “file” storage system it has built its service on. The Datastore API can save any structured data or metadata for an app. It lets developers protect their users’ data even when ... |
With 200+ Buyers Signed Up, Acquisition Marketplace Exitround Announces First Exit (But Won’t Say Who) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | , the website that launched earlier this year that lets startups anonymously seek acquirers, is announcing that it has facilitated its very first acquisition. Pretty exciting, right? But what’s the startup? Who did the acquiring? Well, co-founder and CEO Jacob Mullins isn’t saying. He claimed that he’d like to share de... |
U.S. Venture Capital Investment Amounts Doubled In Q2, As Bay Area Companies Raised More Than NYC, LA, Boston Combined | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Total new capital invested in the United States tech industry rose from $1.9 billion in April to $3.8 billion in June, a 100 percent increase in two months, according to quarterly data from . The data, which is specific to the United States, breaks down new venture capital raised by round type, investor, company, geog... |
Hateya Uses Augmented Reality Glasses To Help Firefighters Escape Burning Buildings | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Firefighters are trained to go into burning buildings, but even with all of this training, they can get disoriented in the pandemonium around them. , Belgium’s finalist for Microsoft’s 2013, says this is a leading cause of deaths among firefighters and a problem that technology can prevent. The team developed a syst... |
The Next Version Of Mailbox Adds Its First Integration With Parent Company Dropbox | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Dropbox CEO Drew Houston just announced that the company will be launching a new version of Mailbox, the iOS email app that . This will be the first real integration between Dropbox and Mailbox, he said. The demo was pretty brief, in part because the integration looks pretty straightforward. If you include a link to a... |
Cooliris Continues Push Into China and Russia, Shaking Hands With Tencent and Yandex | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 7 | 9 | Photo-sharing startup is continuing its push into two of the world’s biggest Internet markets, China and Russia. The Kleiner Perkins-backed company has just partnered with Tencent in China to pull images from Tencent’s microblogging platform, , into . On top of that, it is also expanding its relationship with Yande... |
O2 Becomes Second UK Carrier To Turn On LTE; Will Go Live August 29, But With No iPhone Support | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | Looks like the honeymoon period for and LTE in the UK is over. This morning, Telefonica’s O2 announced that it would turn on its on August 29, becoming the second operator to offer 4G in the country. Initial cities will be London, Leeds and Bradford, with 10 more cities to come by the end of the year. The first ser... |
The Pinterest Roadmap Revealed | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | The rise of Pinterest wasn’t all cocktails and cupcakes. It conquered huge scaling challenges to become the world’s keepsake box. Now as the we ditch the desktop for mobile, how will Pinterest evolve to connect us with the things we love? Today Pinterest’s head of engineering Jon Jenkins gave a surprisingly candid look... |
Eyeing Potential Growth In Asia, Fab Raises $10M From Singaporean Telecom Giant SingTel | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | Amidst and shortly following a new in new funding, Fab is announcing an additional contribution to its Series D round of financing. Singaporean telecommunications giant SingTel Group has put $10 million into Fab, and according to the design-focused ecommerce company, the Asian company will will be a key partner wIn... |
Zynga’s Threatened At Least One “… With Friends” Startup Before, And It Went Nowhere (So Far) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | The news broke this morning that the makers of for allegedly infringing its With Friends trademark. There’s been about the case (I was particularly amused by Will Oremus’ suggestion that Zynga has become “ “), but one thing that I haven’t seen mentioned is the fact that Zynga has tried to stop other companies fro... |
NSA Responds To New Reports On Top-Secret Spying Program, XKeyscore | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | The National Security Agency thinks we have been misled by ‘s report of a new tool, , that allows agents to read the content of email and private social media chatter. “Allegations of widespread, unchecked analyst access to NSA collection data are simply not true,” reads a press release issued by the agency today. “A... |
Scientific Breakthrough Lets SnappyCam App Take 20 Full-Res Photos Per Second | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | Your standard iPhone camera app is actually pretty slow, able to take just three to six photos per second at 8 megapixels each. But with , you can shoot 20 full-resolution photos per second thanks to a breakthrough in discrete cosine transform JPG science by its inventor. Twenty frames per second is fast enough to cap... |
Fullscreen Gives Video Creators The Tools To Collaborate And Make More Money On YouTube | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | is one of the newer multichannel networks to appear on YouTube, and, unlike some others, it’s focused on providing technology tools for its creators to understand their audience and better monetize their videos. As part of our in Los Angeles, we stopped by Fullscreen to get a demo of its platform and learn more ab... |
Spotify Doubles Revenues In 2012 While Losing Money, Highlighting Royalty Squeeze | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | Spotify’s 2012 results are out today, with that the private company had revenue of 435 million euros, and a 58.7 million euro net loss. The revenue figure is impressive, more than doubling 2011’s 190 million euro tally. However, the company’s net loss widened in the year, even as it saw a dramatic expansion of its to... |
Max Levchin Wants Us To Mine Hurricanes For Energy | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | Health care, finance, education, food, and transportation are the five big tech opportunities that PayPal co-founder Max Levchin outlined today at Mixpanel’s . But perhaps the most interesting tidbit he dropped was his dream of harnessing hurricanes for energy. Hurricanes release as much energy as a “50-megaton nuclea... |
Evan Spiegel And Bobby Murphy Say Alleged Snapchat Co-Founder Never Had Equity | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy have said in new court documents that alleged co-founder Reggie Brown never had equity in the company. In February, against Snapchat claiming that he has been robbed of his stake of the company. Since then, we’ve and that Brown was heavily involved in the early s... |
Airbnb Updates Mobile Apps To Give Hosts Tools For Listing And Managing Spaces From Their Phones | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | Peer-to-peer marketplace company has released new versions of its mobile apps that will give users better tools for managing their listings on the go. The app also has taken a big step forward by enabling users to list their space directly from their smartphones. The new versions of the Android and iOS apps are in pa... |
Yelp Beats Street Estimates In Q2 With Revenue Of $55M, EPS Loss Of $0.01 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | Today , reporting second-quarter revenue of $55 million, and a per-share loss of $0.01. Analysts the company to lose $0.04 per share on revenue of $53.3 million. That’s a beat, but not a massive victory. However, the company’s net revenue increase of 69 percent compared to the second quarter of 2012 has sent its sto... |
Stipple Partners With Getty Images For Smarter In-Image Advertising | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | is announcing a partnership with that integrates Stipple’s technology for in-image advertising with Getty’s library of photos. Technically, there was nothing stopping someone who published Getty’s photos from including Stipple ads inside those photos. However, the new integration should make those campaigns more eff... |
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Adobe Buys Satellite For Tag Management Technology, Makes Deeper Move Into Marketing And Ad Tech | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | Following on from its , which closed earlier this month, today made its fourth acquisition of 2013. To further strengthen its marketing and analytics business, Adobe has bought , a tag management technology that helps marketers with analytics and media tracking across web sites. Satellite had been part of a larger ... |
Socrative Gets $750K From True Ventures, NewSchools To Bring Realtime Student Response System To K-12 Education | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | TechCrunch has learned today that , an intelligent student response system aimed for K-12 classrooms, has quietly raised $750K in seed financing from True Ventures, NewSchools Ventures and a handful of angel investors in Boston — where the startup is headquartered — including Jean Hammond and Eileen Rudden. According ... |
Evernote Competitor Catch.com Shuts Down Its Note-Taking Apps, Company Heading In “Different Direction” | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | (formerly known as Snaptic) is shutting down its Evernote competitor, called Catch Notes, which allowed users to capture and save notes on iOS and Android, as well as on the web through browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and IE, and even via email. The company announced the closure in a message posted to its and... |
Google Testing Local News In Google Now, As Well As The Limits Of Feature Bloat On The Android Assistant | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | Google is testing out local news cards for Google Now according to a new , which cites Google’s VP of Search and Assist as the source of the info. The local news card is in the experimental A/B testing phase, with the aim of gathering feedback from users about whether it should go live to the broad Android user base. ... |
Grockit Sells Social Learning Platform To Kaplan, Goes All-In On Learnist, Its “Pinterest For Education” | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 31 | If you haven’t heard, some of the former giants of the education world haven’t been doing too well, particularly academic publishers, as evidenced by McGraw-Hill’s and Cengage’s . The bigs are faced with a slow death, or slow rehabilitation (with death still a possibility) by digitizing their content and services — ... |
Quip Is A Beautiful New Mobile-First Word Processor From Ex-Facebook CTO Bret Taylor | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | 30 years later and our word processing software hasn’t evolved, not even to adapt to mobile. That changes tonight with the launch of , a freemium new word processing app from former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor’s new startup. Quip works on desktop but is designed for . It automatically formats documents to the size of yo... |
Google Offers Glass Explorers An Invite To Make A Friend A Glasshole, Too | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | Google is bringing more into the program, and it’s doing that the best way it knows how: by letting current users invite a friend. Those among you old enough to remember when Gmail first started will remember this was once the only method to get on board with that service, and now Glass-owning folks can ask a single ... |
Nexon Takes A Strategic Investment in Rumble Entertainment To Expand West | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | Korean gaming giant Nexon is making another deal to expand into Western markets with a strategic investment in . They didn’t disclose the size of the deal except to say that it was an all-cash investment for a minority stake in the business. Nexon’s CFO Owen Mahoney also joins Rumble’s board. Nexon’s announcement come... |
YC-Backed Slidepay Tries To Be The “Android” Of Payments Against Square’s Apple-Like Tack | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | Back in February, I wrote that was trying to build a point-of-sale system for small and medium-sized businesses that would eventually give analytics about inventory. Cube has since pivoted, and now they’re going after a completely different market under a new name, . They’re trying to offer that want the ability t... |
BeRecruited, A Networking Site For High School Athletes, Is The Top Pick For Elite Training Camp | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | , the LinkedIn of college athletic recruiting, has become the official recruiting provider for , a training center and school in Florida that has turned out athletes like Maria Sharapova and Eli Manning. After 15 months of development, the site also launched its newly revamped website yesterday. BeRecruited CEO Vishwa... |
Memes Give Facebook Fans A Voice Amidst Comment Chaos | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | Whispering in a riot is how I would describe commenting on a Facebook Page’s feed posts. No matter how thoughtful they are, your words get drowned out. But a combo of new features is fulfilling Facebook’s promise of two-way conversation. Devise a comment that resonates with others, make it a catchy image macro meme, sc... |
Matt Edelman Is Stepping Down As CEO Of Digital Magazine Platform Glossi | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | , the maker of the digital magazine platform of the same name, is announcing that CEO Matt Edelman is stepping down from his current position and taking an advisory role with the company. Edelman first , back when it was called ThisNext and focused on social commerce. at the end of last year, pitching it as an easy ... |
Microsoft’s Windows OEM Revenue Fell 10% In FY2013 Without The Windows Upgrade Offer | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | Post-PC, indeed. Today Microsoft released its , detailing its financial performance on a per-division basis with decent granular breakdown. In addition to the news that the Surface line of tablets brought in a lower-than-expected , Microsoft explained its declining incomes from the sale of Windows to original equipme... |
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The 5 Best Answers From The Mars Curiosity Rover Team’s Reddit AMA | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | A group of engineers from the Mars Curiosity Rover mission session today. In addition to questions about the mission and Mars, the Curiosity Rover team responded to numerous comments about how to intern or work at NASA and what the process is like, but did not respond to several questions about SpaceX, Elon Musk’s pr... |
California Regulator Proposes New Ride-Sharing Rules In A Victory For Uber, Lyft And SideCar | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | The California Public Utilities Commission issued its today, granting a huge victory for companies like , and . The proposal follows months of discussions between the regulator and the startups, which seek to connect passengers with drivers who haven’t been licensed for commercial driving. The PUC is calling thos... |
Streetlife, The U.K. Local Social Network, Raises Further £600K From Archant Digital Ventures, Shohet & Cie | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | The U.K.’s , a local social network that lets residents connect and converse with their neighbours and foster a stronger sense of community, has raised £600,000 in a new round of funding. The investment comes from existing backer Archant Digital Ventures, the incubator and investment arm of regional U.K. media company... |
Surface Scorecard: Microsoft’s Tablet Had FY2013 Revenue Of $853M, Or $3.4M Per Day | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | Today in an , Microsoft revealed a very interesting fact: Its Surface tablet hybrid line brought in revenue of $853 million in the company’s fiscal 2013. However, the Surface line didn’t become available for sale until October 26, giving it in the market during the financial period. That places Surface revenue on a ... |
TC Cribs: A Tour Of Kiip, The Motorcycle-Friendly Startup In The Heart Of San Francisco | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | Hello again, tech company voyeurs, and welcome to a new episode of , the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the walls of the industry’s coolest companies to see what it’s really like for the smart whippersnappers who work there. For this latest episode we headed straight to the heart of San Francisco to the he... |
A Newbie’s Impressions Of Logic Pro X | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | Pro-level audio and video software has always been daunting. While the average computer user knows how to operate them in a general sense (the advent of non-linear editing has essentially changed how we think about what we shoot and record) the addition of pro-level features like effects, mixing boards and MIDI instrum... |
Was Promised Flying Cars, But Would Settle For Something Practical | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | After your has been and for you. After you’ve been driven to and fro in , and flown in . After you for weekends on end. After you’ve had your , and , and . After you’ve your friends for the millionth time. After you’ve figured out is, and what airline will get you there. After you’ve decided between ... |
Google Rolls Out New “Views” Site For Geotagging And Sharing Your Android Photo Spheres | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | If you’ve got an Android device running version 4.2 or later, chances are you’ve tried capturing a photo sphere — one of those nifty little 360-degree panoramas that let you spin around to capture your surroundings until vertigo sets in. Instead of just letting those photo spheres languish on your phone or on your Goog... |
Rover, A “Dogbnb” Site, Raises $3.5M And Nabs Commercial Promotion From Petco | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | , the Airbnb of dog sitting, has raised a $3.5 million funding round led by Petco. The pet specialty giant, now one of Rover’s largest investors, will be joining the site’s board of directors. The two are at work on commercial promotion of Rover across Petco’s lines of business. Rover CEO Aaron Easterly told us that th... |
Opera Proposes NEX Packaging Format For Browser Extensions, Hopes To Make It A Web Standard | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 30 | today a proposal for , the Navigator Extension format, a new vendor-neutral browser extension packaging format that it hopes to turn into a future W3C standard for packaging cross-browser, add-on development. Currently, Chromium-based browsers use Google’s for delivering browser extensions. Opera, which recently ... |
American Intern | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | I live in the Milano building in Crescent Village in North San Jose. As Silicon Valley apartment complexes go, the . It’s got swimming pools, tennis courts, a fitness center, a gaming room, a 23-seat movie theater, and roughly 1,750 apartments spread over five buildings. Since I moved in last month, I have had loud pa... |
Samsung Moves In On Apple’s Turf As Construction Starts On Its New Silicon Valley Headquarters | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | Samsung will break ground on its . Designed by architecture firm , the new campus is part of Samsung’s aggressive effort to build a more significant presence closer to rivals like Apple and Google. Due to be completed in 2015 at a cost of $300 million, the building will house 2,000 employees. When finished, the 10-st... |
Facebook Slowly Making Home More Livable With Customizable Launcher Dock And Now Folders | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | When Facebook Home launched, its launcher was awful. No dock, no folders, no widgets — basically none of the personalization Androiders know and love. Even if they wanted their friends to come first, few were willing to sacrifice their customized home screen. But with last month’s new favorites dock and , Home’s bigge... |
Amidst Few Exits, “Dabbling” Investors And Dearth Of Seed Capital, A Growing Digital Health Market Turns To Crowdfunding | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | Over the last few years, digital health has emerged as a market rife with opportunity, and both startups and investors are beginning to take notice. doubled from 2009 to 2011, for example, and that growth continued to accelerate throughout much of 2012. But fast forward to today, and, while the space continues to mov... |
More Nokia Lumia 1020 Hardware And Camera Details Surface Ahead Of Official Launch | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | In case you’re somehow immune to all of Nokia’s incessant teasing, the company’s going to unveil a shiny new smartphone on Thursday in hopes that a tremendous camera will endear the thing to the masses. The folks at got their collective hands on a new render of the forthcoming flagship — which is apparently going to b... |
With Declining Nook Sales, B&N Says Lynch Out As CEO, Huseby Steps Up, Big Strategic Review Planned | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | Looks like things at Barnes & Noble will get a bit worse before they have a chance of getting better. The bookseller has just that William Lynch has resigned as CEO, effective immediately, as the company commences “reviewing its current strategic plan.” No details yet on what the review will entail: B&N says it “will... |
TaskRabbit Confirms Layoffs As It Realigns To Focus On Mobile And Enterprise | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | , the San Francisco startup that runs a marketplace for outsourcing errands and temporary work projects, has laid off a number of staffers as part of a larger restructuring, TechCrunch has learned. Reached via email, TaskRabbit founder and CEO confirmed that layoffs have taken place, though she declined to provide sp... |
Why Twitter Finally Killed The “Auto Follow” For Good | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | Fresh on the heels of a spam report that painted Twitter , the social network has finally taken steps to crack down on one of the tools often used by those attempting to game its service: the Auto Follow. In Twitter’s parlance, an auto follow refers to an immediate and programmatic means of following another user back... |
A Month After Going International, Social Commerce Platform Fancy Raises $53 Million | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | , the shoppable rival to Pinterest, is said to have raised $53 million from investors, bringing the company valuation to $600 million, Bloomberg . The July 3 disclosing the funding round did not name the full roster of investors. A Bloomberg source “familiar with the matter” said the backers include American Express... |
Jelly Bean Tips Past Majority Adoption Among Android Users With 37.9% Share | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | Google updated its , and for the first time Jelly Bean has pulled ahead as the most-used operating system. That’s probably been helped by a number of OEMs pushing out Jelly Bean updates to their handsets recently, including the AT&T Galaxy S2. Gingerbread is still a close second, however, indicating a lot of older dev... |
Hasbro Takes A 70% Stake In Mobile Game Maker Backflip Studios For $112M | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | Toy maker Hasbro to take a 70 percent stake in Boulder, Colorado’s Backflip Studios, the mobile game maker behind Dragonvale, NinJump and Paper Toss. The company was started back in 2009 and never took any outside funding. Their initial games were super-simple like Paper Toss, where players flip a wad of paper into a... |
Samsung Said To Launch Four Versions Of The Galaxy Note III By The End Of The Year | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | Talk about trying to cover bases. Korean news outlet reports that Samsung’s Galaxy Note III isn’t going to be an only child when it launches later this year — instead, it will be joined by up to three siblings that will apparently debut at the same time. The Google translation makes it bit tricky to discern what’s go... |
Play With An MIT Tool That Visualizes How The NSA Can Map Your Relationships | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | The brainiacs at MIT created a cool visualization program to map how the National Security Agency can understand your relationships based on who you contact via email and how often. While we still don’t know whether the NSA is collecting the content of phone calls and Internet activity, and that the government broa... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Lightspeed Ventures’ Bipul Sinha | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, we have Lightspeed Ventures’ Partner in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Sinha, who focuses on investments in cloud services, and infrastructure and social utilities/apps... |
With Today’s Updates, Twitter Apps Finally Sync The ‘Read’ Status Of Your Direct Messages | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | Twitter updates to its Android, iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps today, as well as its desktop and mobile websites, plus TweetDeck. The main improvement isn’t a huge change, but it does eliminate one of the most annoying aspects of the apps — namely, the fact that they couldn’t tell if you had read a Direct Message on a di... |
Google And Make Magazine Beat The Classroom With Virtual Science Camp For Teens | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | Science class is about to look a lot more boring. One million kids logged on to Maker Camp last summer, so today Google and Make Magazine (affiliated with Maker Faire) the second year of its , which teaches teens to build, hack and explore. The six-week program on Google+ includes virtual field trips to NASA, CERN, ... |
Home Remodeling Platform Houzz Adds Reality Check To Remodeling Dreams, Launches Cost Database For Renovation Projects | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | If you need a bout of house envy, there’s no better place to go than , the increasingly popular platform for finding ideas for your home remodeling projects and the professional that can realize them. Today, however, the service is adding a bit of a reality check to these dreams. The company, which currently sees 14 m... |
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After 9 Months, The Softbank-Sprint Merger Will Be A Done Deal On July 10 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | It’s been nine months since we first of , and the story is finally coming to a close. Japanese mobile carrier that it expects the deal to close on Wednesday, July 10th after nine months of various obstacles. The FCC approved the merger on July 5th. Here’s the official wording: SoftBank Corp. will invest approxim... |
ObamaCare Gets Price-Comparison Technology On Oct 1 | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 8 | President Obama just held a blindingly fast press conference on open government, which probably left most citizens scratching their heads in confusion over one of his geekier executive obsessions. The most important point is that citizens will be able to comparison-shop the costs and features of health-care plans, just... |
Pixate Raises $3.8M Series A From Accel Partners To Bring CSS Styling To Android And Mac App Development | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | Pixate has closed a $3.8 million Series A round from venture capital firm Accel Partners. The Palo Alto-based plans to expand its engineering and support teams in order to build Android and Mac versions of its platform, which allows developers to style apps using CSS. It will also increase the quality of its support an... |
We Were The (1000+). Goodbye, Google Reader | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | Today, Google Reader’s remaining users will “Mark All As Read” one last time. There are two schools of thought on Google’s decision to move on from its aging RSS aggregator, which was never adopted by the mainstream: one, that it’s pretty much the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet. ! And two: ? Even though I... |
Ex-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Releases Hokey Rock Album To Soundtrack Your Pivot (Review) | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | If you’re a tech exec who finds Nickelback a bit too edgy, Groupon’s former CEO Andrew Mason has just released an album for you. Now available on and , “Hardly Workin'” is 80s alternative rock about how to run your startup. I can’t tell if it’s a joke or not, but, regardless, it will make you laugh, either with or at... |
Zynga Missed The Pivot To Mobile, So Can A Veteran Console Exec Revive It? | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | Although shares jumped by 10.4 percent today on is taking over Zynga as CEO, the most important audience the company needs to address for a real, long-term turnaround is not investors. It’s the game developer community. Because here are the new economics of hit mobile games: : 100 people. in the first quarter, with... |
Can Pincus Still Make Zynga An “Internet Treasure”? | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | “An Internet Treasure is something that consumers can’t remember what life was like before they had it,” Mark Pincus back in 2009. Then, Zynga had hit titles and cash flowing in. Today, Zynga’s shares sit at a third of their IPO price and it lacks a blockbuster game. With the , if Zynga wants to become an institutio... |
New App Lets Google Glass Owners Control Their Teslas Like Rich-Ass Robo-Wizards | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | Do you have Google Glass? Do you have a Tesla? Yes? Seriously? Who the hell are you, Batman? Anyway — there’s now an application that lets you bring these two extravagant toys together, allowing you to control a bunch of things in the Tesla by way of Google Glass. Why? . The app’s developer, Sahas Katta, he’s also... |
Facebook Is Experimenting With Becoming A Mobile Games Publisher | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | Facebook is testing what could finally bring it direct revenue from the mobile gaming ecosystem beyond advertising. The company is working with a handful of small mobile game developers to do publishing by offering distribution through mobile ads in exchange for a cut of revenue, according to sources familiar with the ... |
Cameron And Tyler Winklevoss File For $20 Million IPO Of Their ‘Bitcoin Trust’ | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | Buckle up, people: We might be closer than ever to our first official Bitcoin IPO. It was just a couple months back that it emerged that , the investment firm/family trust founded by and (of early Facebook fame), had bought up approximately one percent of all the outstanding quantity of , the alternative digital ... |
Yahoo Acquires Bignoggins, A One-Man Fantasy Sports App Maker | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | Oh, you thought Yahoo was done with the whole acquire-everything-in-sight bit? Nope! Yahoo has announced that they’ve acquired Bignoggins Productions, a one-man iPhone development shop which had previously built a handful of fairly popular Fantasy Sports mobile apps. Up until today, Bignoggins had at least two apps in ... |
Snapchat’s Spiegel Admits Brown “Came Up With The Idea For Disappearing Picture Messages” In New Court Documents | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | If a picture is worth a thousand words, and a disappearing picture is worth $800 million, what’s an idea worth? Reggie Brown on Thursday in a California court to disqualify Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Snapchat’s attorneys, Quinn Emanuel. The documents also show evidence that may support Brown’s claim that he is a... |
Greylock Adds Former Quora, Facebook And Twitter Alum Andy Johns As ‘Growth Strategist In Residence’ | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | How to get customers for your product is a these days as we see the rise of the “growth hacker.” Venture capital firm Greylock Partners is making an interesting move today relating to this new focus, adding Andy Johns as a Growth Strategist in Residence. Johns most recently worked at Quora where he , including email... |
Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford’s New Startup Studio Sherpa Is Raising $150 Million For New Fund | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | As earlier this year, Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and Goldman Sachs managing director Scott Stanford left their day jobs to build a new, company-building venture and VC fund called Sherpa. According to an SEC filing released today, Sherpa is raising around in funding. Of course, this is not a final numb... |
Snapchat Founders Face New Twist In Legal Battle As Alleged Co-Founder Files To Disqualify Their Lawyers | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | Reggie Brown claims to have co-founded Snapchat, and in the latest twist to his suit against the company, he’s trying to disqualify its high-profile law firm. Brown filed motions in a Los Angeles court on Thursday to disqualify the law firm of (“Quinn Emanuel”) from representing Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Snapch... |
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New Update Lets Google Glass View Websites And Listen To More Voice Commands | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | And Google Glass’ slow march toward market readiness continues. The development team shared a few details about an upcoming update on the official , and it finally unlocks some oft-requested features for all those Glass Explorers to start mucking around with. The changelog is a pretty significant one — users will soon... |
Zynga Officially Names Microsoft’s Don Mattrick As CEO, Pincus Stays On As CPO And Board Chairman | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | In an to all employees, Zynga just that veteran executive Don Mattrick will be the gaming giant’s new CEO, and former CEO and co-founder Mark Pincus will now be its Chief Product Officer as well as remaining the Chairman of its Board of Directors. Mattrick comes from Microsoft in a sudden move, and was previously a... |
Win A Ticket To DBX, Dropbox’s First Developer’s Conference | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | On July 9th, Dropbox kicks off . Tickets are no longer available for the invite-only one-day-event, but we have ten tickets to give away. Dropbox told us that the three focuses of the one-day conference will be learning about newly launched features on its platform, giving developers a chance to meet and get help from... |
GOP Maj. Leader Eric Cantor On NSA And Investing In Small Government Technology | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | The House Republican Majority Leader and Congressman with the most charming southern drawl, , sat down with me at for an interview on the National Security Agency, Immigration, and the conservative case for supporting government-funded technology. Because Cantor didn’t want to conduct our interview in a federal pris... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Resolute.VC’s Mike Hirshland | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show Resolute.VC founder and investor is in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Hirshland is the founder of Resolute.VC, a seed-stage venture capital fund . Portfolio companies i... |
Bebo’s Founder Michael Birch Says He’s Bought Back The Social Network For $1M, Plans To ‘Reinvent’ It | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | Another turn in the twisted life of social network , which has unfortunately gone in the direction of a downward spiral for much of the last couple of years: the site appears to have been bought back by its founder Michael Birch for $1 million. Birch originally sold the company to Aol (owners of TechCrunch) for some ... |
Fly Or Die: Form 1 3D Printer | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 1 | Early leader in the 3D printing space Makerbot may have just been acquired for , but we still can’t forget about the 3D printer out of FormLabs. It started as a Kickstarter project, which received 6x its , topping in one week. Since, we’ve had the chance to and pit it against the Makerbot. However, the two ar... |
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