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Tools For Treason | Devin Coldewey | 2,013 | 7 | 6 | Our rights are extended and limited by the tools we use. The Internet has magnified our capability for free speech, but has pared down the reasonable expectation of privacy. And we, of course, have volunteered our data unreservedly at every turn. Even when we got burned, we kept coming back to give more. I suppose we d... |
Why Do We Endlessly Retweet Tragedy? | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 6 | With the utmost respect for victims and survivors, may I question why we feel so compelled to personally spread bad news? Why with each bombing or disaster we all race to tell everyone we know what happened? We’ve realized the power of social media for distributing real-time news. It lets us express empathy, but can al... |
Plane On Popular Tech Route From Seoul-To-SF Crash Lands at SFO | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 6 | I just crash landed at SFO. Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I’m ok. Surreal… (at ) [pic] — — David Eun (@Eunner) An Asiana Airlines flight that follows a popular route in the tech industry between Shanghai, Seoul and San Francisco crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport this morning, killing t... |
Top Apps For The 1% | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 6 | There’s been an interesting phenomenon occurring lately, thanks to the increasing ability of companies to reach and serve ultra-niche audiences — the rise of the app for the 1 percent. Now more than ever, you can download apps that you can’t actually afford to use. The democratization of the app store, of course, has m... |
Flash Sales Site Ideeli Raises $12M More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 6 | It appears that flash sales site has raised another $12 million in funding, according to an from Friday. It’s unclear who the investors are in this round, but this raise would bring Ideeli’s total funding to $112 million. Past investors include Credit Suisse, Next World Capital, Cue Ball Capital, StarVest Partners,... |
College Humor’s First Feature-Length Film Coming To iTunes And Other Digital Media Stores July 9 | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 6 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBBmo_bTj1s?feature=player_embedded]
College Humor is putting out a feature film July 9 (via ), and it stars a bunch of people you might recognize, including Glenn Howerton (Dennis from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia), Adrianne Palciki (from Friday Night Lights), Ben Schwart... |
Low-Cost iPhone’s Plastic Case Shows Up In Alleged Video And Photo Leak | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 6 | [vimeo 69703577 w=640 h=360] Apple is said to be preparing a lower cost iPhone for later this year, with a plastic shell instead of its typical recipe of metal and glass to lower component costs. Now a , which creates Android knock-off handsets of higher-end devices, is claiming to have obtained the new phone’s plasti... |
Google Plus Is Like Frankenstein’s Monster | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 7 | 6 | Your humble correspondent begs your indulgence for this flu-fuelled stream-of-consciousness post, but deadlines wait for no virus, so needs must I expel the contents of my febrile mind onto this screen and thence to yours. To wit: Google Plus is a total mess. You probably knew that already. But you may not have realize... |
Google And Others Reportedly Pay Adblock Plus To Show You Ads Anyway | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 6 | If you work for a company that depends on advertising revenue, you won’t hear people talk that often about using Adblock Plus, but it’s something that millions of consumers probably can’t imagine their Internet browsing without at this point. It manages to block out most ads on websites, providing a relatively clean ex... |
Yahoo’s Recently Acquired Task Tracking Service Astrid Will Go Dark On August 5 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 6 | Yahoo has been snapping up companies left and right lately, and the revitalized company’s hunger means that some well-received apps and services have gone (or will soon go) offline. Earlier today, another company threw its name into that particular pile: task management service Astrid will officially go dark on August ... |
The NSA’s Massive Utah Data Center Won’t Store Anything Close To Yottabytes Of Data | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | A today detailed that the NSA’s rapidly completing data center in Utah will not hold as much data as was originally suspected. If you are at all worried about the power of the NSA, this is good news for you. The gist of the Forbes report is that, given the allotted space for digital storage equipment, the center’s fo... |
Wool And The Gang Raises $2.8M Seed Round To Rethink Fashion Production Via Knitting | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | The U.K.-based knitwear brand is hoping to shift fashion production away from factories by developing a global network of individual knitters. Although a knit sweater may be the ultimate in low tech, Wool and the Gang has raised a seed round of $2.8 million from Index Ventures, Wellington Partners, and MMC Ventures i... |
Baidu Shares Jump 14% After Hours On Upbeat 3Q Outlook Thanks To Mobile Advertising Momentum | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | efforts to strengthen its mobile advertising business appear to finally be bearing fruit. Investors were reassured by the Chinese search giant’s 3Q outlook, sending its stock price . The company forecasts 3Q revenue between $1.422 billion (8.7 billion RMB) and $1.46 billion (8.96 billion RMB), representing a 39.7% to... |
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A List Of Congressmen Who Voted For & Against The Amendment To Stop NSA Spying | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | Congress narrowly defeated a law to to the National Security Agency’s dragnet spying program. We have a lot of readers who are furious that their representatives didn’t stand up for their 4th Amendment rights, so here’s a list of everyone who voted for and against Representative Justin Amash’s amendment to the Defens... |
Rep. Amash’s Amendment To Defund The NSA’s Domestic Phone Metadata Program Fails 205-217 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | Today Rep. Amash’s amendment to the 2014 Defense Appropriations Bill failed in the House on a vote of 205 in favor to 217 opposed. When it became known that the amendment would in fact come up for a vote, the powers of the status quo came together to decry its tenets as ham-fisted and irresponsible. The White House a... |
Meet Helpouts, Google’s Secret Project That Turns Hangouts Into A Commerce Platform | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | While its roots lie in search, today, Google wears many hats. From self-driving cars and wearable technology to social networking and mobile operating systems, there are few industries where the search and advertising giant has yet to make its presence felt. Lately, however, Google’s expansion has taken a noticeable ta... |
Meet Stat, The Startup That Wants To Be Uber For Medical Transport | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | I’m getting sick of all the “[new startup name] is the [more prominent startup name] of [random industry]” descriptions that people like to throw around these days, but it’s hard to avoid that with a new startup called . The three-person team demoed earlier today at ‘ Health Demo Day in Philadelphia, and long story s... |
Zuckerberg Says Teens Still Steadily Engaged With Facebook | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | Critics claim Facebook is losing its cool among kids and expect teens to start tuning out in favor of hip apps like Snapchat, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg says “b ased on our data, that just isn’t true.” Zuckerberg said on call that “we believe we have close to fully penetrated the US teen demographic for a while,” and th... |
Facebook’s Q2: Monthly Users Up 21% YOY To 1.15B, Dailies Up 27% To 699M, Mobile Monthlies Up 51% To 819M | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | In , Facebook grew to 1.15 billion monthly active users up from 1.11 billion at the end of Q1, 669 million daily active users from 665 million, and to 819 million mobile monthly active users from 751M. These totals don’t tell the whole story, though, as much of Facebook’s growth is coming from Asia and developing mark... |
Perk’s Reward-Centric Mobile Browser Now Blocks Unwanted Ads | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | Austin-based incubator is putting even more of its weight that blocks out ads when used on tablets. Perk, which originally started out as a way to give consumers coupons, discounts or airline miles while browsing the web, is now blocking ads. While with more than 200 million downloads, Perk co-founder Julian Frac... |
Live From The 500 Startups Accelerator’s Sixth Demo Day | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 24 |
The sixth group of startups from the 500 Startup Accelerator program will be making its debut today in Mountain View, Calif. — and then going on to do demo days in San Francisco and New York City as well. Can’t make it yourself, or can’t wait until 500 Startups comes to your town? You can check out the live stre... |
Facebook Q2 Earnings Beat Expectations With $1.81B In Revenue, Up 53%, Mobile Hits 41% Of Ad Revenue | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | Today Facebook reported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $1.81 billion. Analysts Facebook to earn $0.14 per share on a top line of $1.62 billion. The company’s revenue figure released today is an all time quarterly high for the firm. Facebook’s second-quarter revenue is up 53 percent on ... |
Walmart Labs Scoops Up Site-Speed Optimizer, Torbit, To Help It Keep Pace With Amazon | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | Josh Fraser and Jon Fox founded in 2010 after becoming fed up with the amount of time they and other engineers dedicated to the tedious process of managing website performance optimization — by hand. In 2012, the Sunnyvale-based startup , in an effort to make the tools they’d spent years developing internally availa... |
Mediaspectrum Raises $35.8M From Insight Venture Partners To Support Big Media Publishers | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | Boston-based , a company that has a subscription software service catering to big media publishers like Gannett, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Post and more, led by Insight Venture Partners. The roughly 100-person company helps these publishers manage their advertising and content across... |
Michael Dell Ups His Offer To Take Dell Private By A Comically Low $0.10 Per Share | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | Michael Dell and Silver Lake have offered improved terms for their to take venerable computer OEM Dell private. Their former offer was , who offered an almost that involved removing nearly all Dell shares from the market, but not taking the company fully private. Michael Dell and his partner Silver Lake were adama... |
Developer Training Platform Pluralsight Acquires PeepCode To Expand Into Open-Source Content | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | , the online training resource targeting professional developers that announced its raise of earlier this year, is now putting that funding to use. The company, whose corporate users include Microsoft, Salesforce, Twitter, Facebook, Dell, HP, Intel, Disney, EMC and others, is acquiring , a similar resource providing... |
Google Launches Google Cast SDK For iOS, Android and Chrome, Lets Developers Stream Their Apps To Chromecast | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 24 | Google launched its today that allows users to stream their Chrome tabs and videos to their TVs from virtually every popular platform. In addition, Google is also launching the for developers on iOS, Android and Chrome, which will allow them to enable their apps to stream right to their users TVs. The new SDK, whic... |
Apple’s Growth Rocket Has Hit A Wall. What Will Get It Started Again? | Dan Frommer | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | Apple’s stunning growth over the past decade has been one of the biggest stories in all of tech. Even as the company released new product after new product, and grew larger and larger, its growth rate continued to , its competitors. For the past ten years, Apple has posted year-over-year revenue growth every quarter... |
John Doerr On Zynga Investment: “We Own 60M Shares, So I Want That Stock Back Above $10 … Where God Intended It” | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | Investors tend not to be cool, sexy or “famous” in the traditional sense. After all, anyone can invest in one great company, but reproducing those victories habitually over decades is nearly impossible. Thus, while investors may never become celebrities, a handful have managed to achieve a kind of renown by defying the... |
Who Honestly Wants Bill Gates To Come Back And Run Microsoft? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | Bill Gates is not coming back to Microsoft as its CEO. He’s not. He’s said so again and again. And yet, today, some began to circulate that the man was coming back to manage the company he helped found. It’s not happening. That should go without saying, but at this point I’ve surrendered to reading the same bullshit ... |
Video Platform OpenWatch Aims To Support Global Citizen Journalism | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | , which presented at media startup accelerator ‘s , wants to become a video platform for citizen journalism worldwide. Founded in November last year, the company is at the start of its fundraising process, with the hope of closing a fast seed round to get things off the ground. The purpose of OpenWatch is to create a... |
Groupon Updates Its Breadcrumb Payments App With Deal Redemptions, Offline Mode And More Customization Beyond Restaurants | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | In May of this year, to raise its game against the likes of Square and PayPal, its — originally conceived as a payments app for restaurants — as a free payments app for all local merchants. Today, the daily deals company is embarking on stage two of that strategy by adding a number of new features in an update to m... |
Latino Startup Accelerator Partners with Google For Entrepreneurs To Launch In Fall | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | , a program to support Latinos involved in the startup community, has announced a partnership with Google For Entrepreneurs and will launch its first session for five to six startups in September. Based in San Jose, Manos Accelerator is meant to increase the number of Latino entrepreneurs and startups. Less than one pe... |
Inside MuckerLab, The Startup Accelerator That’s Amping Up L.A.’s Tech Ecosystem | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | In the San Francisco Bay Area, there is no shortage of “accelerator” programs that promise to take fledgling technology companies to the next level by providing mentorship, funding, business introductions, and the like. And as the startup scene a few hundred miles south in Los Angeles continues to heat up, the appetite... |
Journalism May Be Collapsing, But With Pressfolios, At Least You Can Build A Nice Portfolio | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | If you’re a working journalist (or even an aspiring one), you’re probably getting tired of hearing that . Now, leaving aside the obnoxiousness of the phrase “personal brand,” I suspect we hear it so much because it’s kinda true. A startup called aims to make it easy for journalists to build that brand through an onl... |
Mixamo Is Building A Platform For Game Developers To Create And Animate 3D Characters | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | With app stores becoming ever more competitive, game makers have had to upgrade from building 2D games to creating 3D titles over the past two years. That has meant even more creative and intensive work for artists and producers, as the graphics processing power on smartphones has increased. But there are tools to help... |
Media Startup Accelerator Matter Comes To New York For Demo Day | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | Matter, the San Francisco-based accelerator and early-stage venture capital firm, held a Demo Day in New York today for its first class after an initial Demo Day last month in SF. Matter formed last year and is backed by the and , a public media network, with support from the , PRX. Matter invests in media startups... |
Apple Q3 2013 Sees Revenue Plunge In China To $4.6B, Down 43% On Q2, Amid Weaker International Sales | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | With pressure from low-cost smartphone makers on Android and other platforms, today in Greater China, which includes Taiwan, Hong Kong and the world’s largest smartphone market, Mainland China. In that region, sales were $4.64 billion (and $4.9 billion including retail), down 14% over last year and a whopping 43% on... |
Up Close And Personal With Verizon’s New Trio Of Droids | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | As you may have heard, Verizon unwrapped three new Motorola Droid smartphones in New York earlier today, and to my surprise, they just may be the Droids you’re looking for. Well, some of them, anyway. Fair warning, friends: any of you expecting dramatic differences between the three of these things are going to disappo... |
Apple’s Average Selling Price On iPhones In Q3 Suggest Promotions Are Moving Devices, Older Models Popular | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | Apple’s , and the one thing that many of the financial big brains are paying attention to is the average selling price of the iPhone: It currently sits at around $580, compared to $613 last quarter, which is a big change sequentially. There’s a couple of reasons that could be happening, and they aren’t necessarily bad... |
Apple’s No-Growth Q3 2013 In Charts | Dan Frommer | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | Apple , and as expected, sales were pretty flat — up just 1% from last year to $35.3 billion. It’s been a while since Apple has released any major new products, and it shows. A few highlights: Here’s a visual look at Apple’s June quarter, in context with the last several. The big picture: After a rapid growth period w... |
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iPad Sees First Ever Yearly Decline With 14.6M Units Sold In Q3, iPhone Remains Strong With 30M Units Sold & 20% YOY Growth | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | Apple today released its Q3 2013 earnings report, announcing 31 million iPhones sold in the three-month period ending June, along with 14.6 million iPad units sold. Both the iPhone and iPad sales are down from the previous quarter, but this marks the first time the iPad has seen a yearly decline in sales, a 14 percent ... |
Apple Beats In Q3 2013 With $35.3B In Revenue, $6.9B In Profit, $7.47 EPS, But Posts Another YOY Earnings Decline | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | Apple has just released its fiscal — it reported $35.3 billion in revenue (slightly up 0.9 percent from $35 billion in the ) along with $6.9 billion in quarterly net profit (down 21.6 percent from $8.8 billion in the year-ago quarter), representing earnings of $7.47 per share. Similarly to Q2 earnings, Apple posted ... |
Viber Attacked By Syrian Electronic Army | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | Viber has confirmed a situation earlier this morning in which Viber appeared to have been hacked by the (a pro-government group of computer hackers aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad). originally reported on the hack that affected the , though it was unclear the extent to which hackers accessed Viber sys... |
Xiaomi Makes $2.16B In First Half Of 2013, Beating Its Entire 2012 Revenue | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | Android handset and OS maker Xiaomi sold 7.03 million handsets in the first half of 2013, the company announced today. Over that period, the Beijing-based startup made RMB 13.27 billion (about $2.16 billion) in revenue. Xiaomi’s latest figures mean it sold almost the same number of phones in the first half of 2013 as i... |
Yahoo, Alibaba And Why Mayer Can Keep Buying Whatever She Wants | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | A quick glance at Yahoo’s might have you worried: Only $1.14 billion in cash and equivalents, and the company just dropped $1.1 billion on Tumblr? It seems profligate. But happily for Yahoo investors, the company is not low on funds in the slightest. In fact, given its current balance sheet and asset pool, Yahoo is i... |
Twitter’s One-Two Punch Now Lets All US Advertisers Target People Who Just Saw Their TV Commercials | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 23 | Hit ’em with a television commercial, then with a Twitter ad to really drive the message home. That’s the promise of Twitter’s to all US advertisers today after its beta launch . Twitter’s Nielsen studies say the combo deliver 95% stronger message association and 58% higher purchase intent than TV ads alone. Twitter... |
Baidu Agrees To Buy Chinese Android App Distributor 91 Wireless For $1.9B | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | Here’s a sign of how valuable China’s biggest alternative app stores have become. The country’s leading search engine, Baidu, from NetDragon. 91 Wireless runs through 91 Assistant and . An independent research firm iResearch put the company as the top third-party distribution platform in China by active users and ... |
Airbnb Reorganizes International Team To Focus On Local Activations And Improve Customer Service | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | Peer-to-peer housing marketplace has reorganized its international team in an effort to improve its customer support and boost the number of local options available to visitors traveling overseas. With the re-org, the company has shifted some of its regional operations team to work in customer support, while putting ... |
Court Will Reportedly Declassify Yahoo’s Fight Against PRISM | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | Yahoo will be allowed to prove that it fought against the National Security Agency’s Internet spying program, PRISM. A secret court ruled on Monday that the government should investigate how it can declassify the legal battle. “The Government shall conduct a declassification review of this Court’s Memorandum Opinion of... |
Red Hot Dating App Tinder Officially Arrives On Android, Begins Hooking Up With Big Media | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | The Digital Dating World has seen its fair share of companies come and go over the years, and few have been able to give the usual suspects, like eHarmony, Match.com and OkCupid, a run for their respective monies. However, since bursting onto the scene in October of last year, has been making a play to become the nex... |
Gowalla Co-Founder Josh Williams And Instagram Designer Tim Van Damme Will Leave Facebook In Unrelated Departures | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams , a year and a half after Gowalla . In a reportedly unrelated exit, Instagram designer Tim Van Damme will also leave Facebook. Van Damme was also a former Gowalla employee, but he before it was acquired by Facebook. While the Gowalla product was shut down, Williams went on to whic... |
White House, Google and Others Adopt Plan To Choke Off Ad Revenue From Pirate Sites | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | The White House is in league with top Internet advertising companies to rain on everyone’s free-software parade: a new to remove ads from pirate websites in an attempt to choke off their revenue stream. The voluntary agreement says that companies will remove revenue sharing relationships with a website after users su... |
BloomReach Harnesses Big Data And Machine Learning To Personalize Any Mobile App | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | The shift to mobile is sucking the money out of e-commerce, but thinks big data can save the day. Today it brings its big-data content optimization SaaS to the small screen to add smart product recommendations, predictive search, a trending section and cross-device personalization to the mobile presence of any busine... |
Kabam Eyes $300M In Revenue This Year As It Lets Employees Cash Out | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | With the IPO door seemingly shut to gaming companies, some of the biggest privately held studios in the world have been looking for new ways to reward longtime employees. San Francisco midcore game developer Kabam, which makes Kingdoms of Camelot, becomes yet another one today. They arranged a secondary offering that l... |
Choose Your Own Adventure At Disrupt SF Startup Alley | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | Startup Alley is part wild west, part farmer’s market. But it’s all about startups. You’ll love it. It’s a three-day exhibition. The first two days will see web companies take over The Concourse at San Francisco Design Center. Then, on the last day, September 11, hardware-oriented companies get their turn in the spotli... |
Mobile Incubator Tandem Unveils Its Three Latest Startups — And Oh Yeah, It’s Raising A $100M Fund | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | is announcing the three latest startups that have joined the Silicon Valley-based mobile incubator. It’s also confirming some news that was revealed earlier this year in with the Securities and Exchange Commission — that it’s raising a big, new fund. Tandem co-founder that the firm was planning to expand significa... |
After Expanding To Fashion, Gojee Launches A Shop For NYC Designers | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | , the site that in July 2011 and expanded to high-end clothing last December, has made its first move toward serious money making. The company is launching a new app today with a shopping platform, Gojee NY, which sells clothing exclusively from up-and-coming New York designers. The shop is Gojee’s first foray into o... |
BuzzFeed Chairman Ken Lerer Backs New Animal-Themed Site The Dodo Led By Daughter Isabel, Former Salon EIC Kerry Lauerman | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | Ken Lerer, a co-founder of Huffington Post, Chairman of BuzzFeed and Betaworks, and founder of Lerer Ventures, is starting another new media business, a website called The Dodo, launching this fall. The site, a combination of “content and commerce” exploring the topic of humans’ relationship with animals, is being join... |
Boston-Based Local Marketing Startup Privy Raises $1.7 Million Seed Round From 500 Startups, Atlas, And Others | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | , a Boston-based local marketing startup that was also one of the this past February, has raised $1.7 million in seed funding from Atlas Ventures, 500 Startups, and others for its end-to-end solution for small businesses. Also participating in the round were John Dais (VP Finance at Wildfire), Mike Volpe (CMO of Hubs... |
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Uber Becomes Even More Affordable With Fare Splitting For Multi-Passenger Rides | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | On-demand transportation Uber unveiled another new feature this morning that will make its rides even more affordable: With its latest software update, users will have the ability to . That could not only lower the cost of riding with friends, but it could also increase its potential user base over time. After request... |
Tim Stevens Out At Engadget, Marc Perton To Take Over | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | Once hailed as the , Engadget’s is no longer Editor In Chief, with gdgt’s Marc Perton taking over as Engadget head while a new EIC is found to round out the management structure. Perton will be taking on the Engadget Executive Editor role permanently, we’re hearing. It’s not clear whether Stevens resigned or was ter... |
Elon Musk Will Reveal His High-Speed Hyperloop Transport Design By August 12 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | Startup renaissance man Elon Musk has spent the past year or so not-so-subtly dropping hints about yet another ambitious transport project of his, and it seems he’s getting ready to describe it in more detail. Amid plenty of speculation, Musk revealed earlier today that he plans to publish his tentative designs for t... |
Automattic Acqui-Hires Lean Domain Search To Improve Its Domain Registration Service | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | Matt Mazur’s launched on in January 2012. Today, Mazur that the tool, which makes it easy to find available domain names based on a keyword, was acquired by WordPress.com parent company . At Automattic, Mazur will help the WordPress.com team to make it “even easier for WordPress.com users to find and register gr... |
Pew: Teachers Believe Digital Tools Encourage Sharing and Collaboration In Classrooms | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 7 | 15 | released a study today that determined specific pros and cons of using digital technology in classrooms. According to its survey, the majority of middle and high school teachers believe digital tools increase student collaboration with apps like GoogleDocs, and help them share their work through social media. Pew surv... |
Z Vector Takes Live Kinect Feeds To Create Stunning Video Art | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | This is a bit of a niche product, but it’s still interesting nonetheless. Artist Julius Tuomisto believes that VJs are the next DJs. Just in the same way that a DJ shepherds music lovers through a thoughtful selection of tracks, video artists can guide audiences through live visualizations that respond to music. He and... |
In The Cloud OS Debate, OpenStack’s Success Inspires Backlash | Randy Bias | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | In God we trust. All others bring data. This quote, widely attributed to total quality management pioneer W. Edwards Deming, came to mind this morning as I read an anonymous Tumblr post (which has since been taken down) challenging my “ ” presentation. Specifically, the author took issue with my analysis concluding t... |
Crowdsourcing Startup CrowdFlower Says Its Contributors Have Completed 1 Billion ‘Judgments’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | , which helps businesses manage crowdsourced tasks, that contributors have completed 1 billion “judgments,” which is the basic unit of work on the platform. The company says those judgments are “the crux of microtasking,” with businesses asking CrowdFlower contributors to do things like judge whether an image is appr... |
Health Scanner Scanadu Scout Breaks Indiegogo’s Crowdfunding Record | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | Today the Indiegogo campaign for became the highest funded in the site’s five year history. At over $1,378,545 and counting, Scanadu has broken the $1,370,461 record set by Let’s Build A Goddamn Tesla Museum. The Scanadu is a small, round scanner that takes a person’s vital signs and sends them wirelessly to his or h... |
Trademark Dispute Brewing Between Flipboard And Flowboard | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | Looks like is unhappy with , the new “interactive storytelling” app from — specifically with the app’s name. In response to Flipboard’s complaints that the Flowboard name could be confusing and infringe its trademark, Treemo filed a complaint asking for a “declaratory judgment of non-infringement of trademark righ... |
Ask A VC: NEA’s Jon Sakoda On Why The Venture Firm Makes Seed Investments And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, NEA’s Jon Sakoda joined us in the studio to discuss his views on big data, seed investing and more. For background, Sakoda joined NEA in 2006 and focuses on investments in SaaS, infrastructure software, and big data applications. His investments include Blue Jeans Network, Desire2L... |
AddThis Launches Smart Layers, Giving Websites Social And Personalization Tools That Adapt To Mobile | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | has released a new platform called Smart Layers, which it says can improve traffic and engagement by just adding a single line of code. President and CEO Ramsey McGrory told me that Smart Layers both improves on and introduces some new ones. In terms of new features, Smart Layers introduces a “toaster” at the bottom... |
AT&T To Acquire Leap Wireless (Cricket) For Around $1.2B | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | Hey, Cricket customers! You’re about to become AT&T customers. AT&T has just announced that they’ve agreed to acquire Leap Wireless, the parent company behind Cricket Wireless. As part of the deal, AT&T will be acquiring all of Leap’s towers, stores, and all 5.3 million of their subscribers. For the time being, it soun... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Nokia’s Not-So-Secret Lumia 1020 And A Brand New Microsoft | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | Nokia has apparently reinvented zoom with the newest addition to the Lumia family, the , with a 41-megapixel PureView camera. It lets you zoom after the fact and still see ultra high resolution detail and sharpness. Meanwhile, Microsoft moving most of the company’s high-ranking leadership into new positions. Is the ... |
Market For Spy-Proof Messaging Heats Up | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | Now that the 4th Amendment is no longer a guarantee against broad government spying, the floodgates have opened for tech companies to give users their privacy back. Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde’s text-messaging app Heml.is already reached its funding goal, while the Skype-like Unsene platform launched its own Indi... |
Lyft Sells Legacy Zimride Assets To Enterprise Holdings As It Focuses On Local Ride Sharing | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | is announcing this morning that it has sold off its legacy ride-matching business Zimride to rental car giant . The sale will allow Lyft to focus on its fast-growing, on-demand ride-sharing business, while also adding to its war chest as the company expands into new markets and competes against the likes of Uber and ... |
Why Immigration Reform May Fail, In 4 Charts | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | We reported yesterday that . Despite a comprehensive immigration bill being passed in the Senate, top Republicans in the House of Representatives say the Senate version is a “Pipe Dream” and they plan to aggressively pursue their own (right or wrong). Here’s why Republicans and Democrats could continue their unproduct... |
Houzz Founder Adi Tatarko To Join Us At Disrupt SF | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | Home remodeling and inspiration platform Houzz is one of those secret gems of Silicon Valley that has avoided the hype cycle in favor of quietly building an innovative, compelling company. And the brains behind the idea and operation originate from co-founder Adi Tatarko, who started Houzz with her husband Alon Cohen, ... |
Hulu’s Owners Say They’re Not Selling, Will Invest Another $750M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | 21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal, and The Walt Disney Company just that they’re not selling online video site after all. They also said they’re making “a commitment to recapitalize Hulu with $750 million in new funding for future growth.” The final bidders for Hulu DirecTV, a partnership between AT&T and Chernin Gr... |
We Want You (And Your Hardware) For Hardware Alley At Disrupt SF | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | Every year I’m given the best job a guy could ever want: planning hardware alley, a one day extravaganza of some of the best hardware I’ve ever seen. This event, which happens on the last day of Disrupt, is a crowd favorite and I’d love to feature your gear. What is Hardware Alley? It’s a celebration of hardware startu... |
SoundBrush, An App That Lets You Draw Music, Turns The Untrained Into Musicians | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | An iPad app called is out to make music composition accessible, even those who don’t play an instrument. After releasing a MVP in April 2012 to test out the concept of drawing music on a tablet, SoundBrush released a more sophisticated second version last month along with a sharing and collaboration platform, Discove... |
CrunchBase And AngelList Have A Partnership | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | It used to be that you had to pay a bunch of money to get basic information about private tech companies, like how much they’ve raised and who they’ve acquired. made that free. And it used to be that you had to spend lots of time and money trying to network your way into some angel investor money. made that free. N... |
eBay Is Latest To Join 3D Printing Craze With New App For Customizable Goods, eBay Exact | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | Ebay is hopping on the 3D printing bandwagon. This morning, the company the debut of a new iPhone application called which allows users to browse and buy customizable print-on-demand merchandise from three top 3D printing companies: MakerBot, Sculpteo, and Hot Pop Factory. The app features roughly 20 categories a... |
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The Djoclate II Is A Portable Music Mixer That Lets You DJ Tunes From Friends’ Devices | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 7 | 12 |
Here’s a neat hardware project seeking funding on . The Djoclate II — NB: Djoclate is pronounced ‘chocolate’ with a Dutch accent — is a portable, near pocket-sized music mixer. The idea is to enable the would-be DJ who brings it to a house party to pull tunes into the mix from any music storage device in the ro... |
Rovio To Launch “Angry Birds Star Wars” Sequel (Or Prequel?) On Monday | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 12 | Rovio this morning the launch of its next gaming title due to arrive on Monday – a game that appears to be a sequel to the current Angry Birds Star Wars. An image accompanying the announcement features a bird dressed like young Anakin Skywalker, wearing racing gear, as in the 1999 prequel It’s not too hard to then d... |
Why Behavior Change Apps Fail To Change Behavior | Nir Eyal | 2,013 | 7 | 13 | Imagine walking into a busy mall when someone approaches you with an open hand. “Would you have some coins to take the bus, please?” he asks. But in this case, the person is not a panhandler. The beggar is a PhD. As part of a French study, researchers wanted to know if they could change how much money people gave to a ... |
CrunchWeek: Nokia’s Lumia 1020, Dropbox’s Developer Conference, Hulu’s Non-Sale | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 13 | After a week off, is back. Regulars and were out of the office, but Greg Kumparak, Billy Gallagher, and I still got together to talk about the big tech stories from the past seven days. We start our discussion with an overview of the new phone that Nokia announced this week, , which attracted attention for its... |
Sweat Equity: From Co-Founders To Co-Investors, Freestyle.VC Invests More Than Just Cash | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 13 | When co-founder and investor Josh Felser walked into the TechCrunch office a few weeks ago, you could tell something was on his mind. He was in the midst of sorting through a hiccup one of his portfolio startups was having with the Apple App Store. As we sat down, he excused himself for a few minutes to reach out to ... |
Your App Is Slow Because Our World Is Ending | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 7 | 13 | The meatiest article I ran across on the Internet this week was also–maybe–a harbinger of doom for life as we know it. I mean Drew Crawford’s . It’s long, and somewhat dense, but definitely worth reading if you’re technical enough to follow along. Its upshot: HTML5 apps will be vastly inferior to native apps not jus... |
Gillmor Gang: Batteries Not Included | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 7 | 13 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — talked Microsoft reorg and the chance it might make a difference. No one is underestimating the power of the Windows giant, but rearranging the deck chairs may not move the needle enough to matter. With Office subsumed in one group and Win... |
iPad App Color Band Lets Children Paint Pictures With Sounds Using Motion Sensing Technology | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | Freemium app uses the iPad’s front camera as a motion sensor to create a magical experience for children learning about music and color. With a few strokes of their fingers on the iPad’s touchscreen, kids can draw their own instruments. To play them, they just have to wave their hands in the air. Color Band was creat... |
Microsoft’s Chief Evangelist Steven Guggenheimer On Touch, The Desktop And The Future Of Imagine Cup | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | The desktop’s future isn’t bright, but it isn’t likely to go away anytime soon, Microsoft’s Chief Evangelist Steven Guggenheimer told me last week during a brief interview in St. Petersburg, Russia on the sidelines of Microsoft’s finals there. “Over time, it’s likely to go away,” Guggenheimer first said, but then he ... |
The Art And Science Of YouTube Networks | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | Over the last several years, we’ve seen a growing proliferation of multichannel networks (MCNs) pop up on YouTube, all of which are seeking to aggregate channels and audience in an effort to boost viewership and better monetize the videos that creators make. While the end goal — more viewers, more money — is the same f... |
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With Cinematique’s ‘Touch-Enabled’, Shoppable Videos, Product Placement Might Not Be So Bad | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | In time, we’re all going to want to interact and shop from our favorite online — at least, that’s what
Randy Ross, co-founder and CEO of startup called , argues, and he’s hoping to enable those interactions with Cinematique’s new MTEVideo platform. When you watch content enriched by Cinematique, small dots appear on ... |
Fly Or Die: Ploom ModelTwo E-Cig Vaporizer | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | It’s been a couple weeks since I , but we thought it fair to have someone else weigh in on the tobacco vaporizer as well. That said, Engadget’s Brian Heater steps up this week (to fill in for John Biggs) and shares his thoughts on the ModelTwo. Ploom has been focused on revolutionizing vaporizers for a while, notab... |
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