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It’s Not A Bird, Plane Or Taco-Copter. This Wedding Has A Ring-Dropping Quadcopter | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | Sadly, was not a reality. But maybe quadcopters could disrupt the near-dominant hold that children have on ring-bearing at weddings. Otavio Good, , the app that translates written words while you’re traveling in foreign countries, used a quadcopter to deliver his wedding rings by air yesterday. When the marriage of... |
Facebook Engineer Fires Back At BuzzFeed: Users Don’t Care How Many People View Their Posts | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | “The Number Facebook Doesn’t Want You To See”, from Thursday by BuzzFeed claimed Facebook is hiding the number of people who see your posts so you don’t feel bad that most people don’t Like or comment. This morning, a Facebook engineer claiming that is “just plain wrong”, and that Facebook’s testing showed most use... |
What Games Are: The Culture Gap In Mobile Games | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | This week was very sad because of the unexpected . Only 34 years old and very recently married, Davis was a journalist, podcaster and general impresario of gaming fan site Giant Bomb. In particular many people knew him as the host of the Giant Bombcast. It is one of the most popular podcasts in the world which discuss... |
Why Pens Are Popular On Kickstarter And What It Means For Crowdfunders | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | This morning brought news of the $72,000 on Kickstarter. RETRAKT is a nice-looking pen made of aluminum that looks a little bit like a part that fell off of a space ship. But $72,000 raised? For a pen? What gives? I think pens, in this case, are a fascinating case study of the value and danger of crowdfunding. I deci... |
Only 16% Of Republicans and 29% of Democrats Want Increased Immigration | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | Despite the international heritage of the United States, Americans are not eager for more immigrants. finds that only 16 percent of Republicans and 29 percent of Democrats think that immigration “should be increased.” The good news is that this paltry support is a record high and continues to grow. “Support for incre... |
As Dropbox Transforms From Utility To Platform, The Bulls And Bears Emerge | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | TechCrunch Earlier this week, one of the Valley’s most steady high-growth technology companies held its first-ever developer conference — — marking a potentially historical turning point for an already large company with the potential to become even larger. The company — Dropbox — has all the ingredients for the b... |
Package Tracking Platform AfterShip Marks Its Public Launch With A New Track Button Plugin And Pricing | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | , the package tracking platform for small e-commerce merchants that , is leaving beta mode today and launching to the public. The Hong Kong-based startup also debuted an easy-to-use for vendors that don’t want to deal with an API. By inserting a simple short code (like the one for Facebook Like button plugins), an Af... |
Leaked Video Highlights Moto X Software Features, Including Always-On Voice Commands | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUmuIEp6dvs Motorola’s secretive Moto X smartphone has been spotted in its fair share of photos ( and ) this past week, but there are only so many thrills to be derived by looking at still images. The folks at got their collective hands on a short demo video from Canadian wireless carr... |
Internet Killed The Magazine Star | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 14 | I’ve been musing on whether or not to weigh in on the demise of , a computer “magazine” that was once printed on “paper.” Founded after the acquisition of PC Magazine by Ziff-Davis publishing, PC World’s story is so similar to the stories of the major blogs these days that it is worth a brief look. PC Magazine and PC ... |
Adobe Systems Completes $600M Acquisition Of Conversational Marketing Startup Neolane | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | Adobe Systems today that it has completed its acquisition of Neolane, a conversational marketing company with annual revenue of just under $60 million. As , the deal is worth $600 million in cash and adds a roster of new features to . “With the completion of the Neolane acquisition, Adobe’s lead in digital marketi... |
Chris Devore Talks Up Seattle As A Solid Tech Hub | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | Each time we run a meet-up we like to have a brief interview with some of the major players in the industry. This time we spoke with , creator of Founders Co-Op and a serial entrepreneur and general Seattle cheerleader. “When you asked me ‘Can you talk about why Seattle is a great place for a startup up,’ that’s bas... |
Kiip Will Power Rewards In Yahoo Japan’s Mobile Apps | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | , a startup that delivers real-world rewards to app users when they perform desirable tasks and reach key milestones, is announcing its integration with Yahoo Japan — marking the first time Yahoo Japan has integrated a third-party service into its app, according to Kiip co-founder and CEO Brian Wong. As in other Kiip c... |
Facebook Remembers Its First Chef, Josef Desimone, After Tragic Motorcycle Accident | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | Although CEOs and the first engineers are often the ones most lionized for creating the founding blocks of great companies, there are others who shape corporate culture in ways that are sometimes hard to appreciate or see. Early Facebook employees today are reeling from the loss of the company’s executive chef, Josef D... |
Behind On Loan Payments, Online Gaming Company Zattikka Could Fold As Soon As August 2 | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | Online gaming company suffered a precipitous decline on the London Stock Exchange today, falling a staggering 64 percent in normal trading. The cause of the plummet is simple: Zattikka is behind on its loan repayments and today confirmed that discussions are ongoing with its creditors. That is troubling given that a ... |
How To Stop 3D Printing’s Race To The Bottom | John Biggs | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | Today’s big news, courtesy of , is about the expiration of laser sintering patents that will change the face of 3D printing in 2014. In short, the reason “good” 3D printers – namely the ones that create solid, injection-molded style pieces – aren’t cheap or readily available is that older 3D printing companies have he... |
Happy Birthday To Alex Wilhelm, Our Newest TechCrunch Writer | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | Alex Wilhelm is turning 24 today, but he’s been writing about tech since his sophomore year of college. So he’s joining us now with four solid years at The Next Web, where he wrote about Microsoft, finance, tech policy and the broad range of startups that have helped define this era. He’ll continue writing about those ... |
A Peek Inside Science Inc.’s Santa Monica Tech Startup Studio [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | So when a few of us TechCrunch TV folks were in L.A. earlier this month, we made it a point to head over to Science’s Santa Monica HQ to get a firsthand look at what it’s really like inside. After all, a video is worth at least 1,000 words, right? Watch the video above to see the busy (and buzzy) Science space, and h... |
Memorability Lets You Create & Narrate Beautiful iPad Photo Books, No Printing Required | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | There’s no shortage of mobile photo book applications on the market today, but a majority of these are focused on taking digital creations and turning them into offline, printed products. , a recently launched iPad photo book app, is different. Instead of bringing online web printing services to the new, smaller scree... |
eBay CEO John Donahoe: I Wish We Could Buy Airbnb But We Can’t Afford It | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | At Fortune’s Brainstorm Conference in Aspen today, eBay CEO John Donahoe joined Airbnb’s co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky onstage to talk about how they mentor each other (you can watch the live stream ). The two CEOs have been informally advising each other for a few years, after being introduced through eBay board me... |
5by Wants To Be Your Web Video Concierge, And It’s Taking Aim At Phones And TVs, Too | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | I like to think we’ve all been here at one point: You’re bored out of your wits and rather than try to do something productive, you just spend hour after endless hour on YouTube. The problem that tends to come up in those situations is that, after a while, you just can’t find videos that strike your fancy any more. Tra... |
Netflix’s Original Content Plans Go Beyond TV Shows To Include Stand-Up Comedy And Documentaries | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | Following a second quarter that saw , Netflix’s touted the progress that the company has made in original content and its future plans. Perhaps most interesting is its intention to expand beyond TV shows to stand-up comedies and feature-length documentaries. That’s not entirely new information — Chief Content Office... |
Google Brings Cloud Print To Windows, Makes Printer Sharing Easier | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | Google today a number of updates to that finally bring it to Windows and make it easier to share printers with others. Even Google knows that there are still some occasions when you just need to print something, so for the last few years, the company has been steadily improving this service. At its core, Cloud Prin... |
Netflix’s Q2 Misses Due To Lower-Than-Expected Subscriber Adds, Earns 49 Cents Per Share On $1.07B In Revenue | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | Netflix just released its , missing analyst expectations with lower-than-expected subscriber numbers. For the second quarter, Netflix reported earnings of 49 cents per share on revenues of $1.07 billion. That compared to earnings of 11 cents per share on sales of $889 million in the . Earnings were above analyst expe... |
Sir Michael Moritz To Join Us At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | The original journalist-turned-investor, , will be joining us onstage at next September. In his over three-decades-long tech career, Moritz, who rose from humble beginnings, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, written two books about Apple, consistently topped the Forbes , and has either sat on or currently si... |
She++ Documentary Features Industry Leaders, Stanford Professors and Students Talking Women In Tech [Video] | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | , a Stanford community for women in tech, a 12-minute documentary today featuring discussing gender in technical fields. In the documentary, high-profile Silicon Valley leaders Kimber Lockhart, a Director of Engineering at Box; Tracy Chou, a software engineer at Pinterest; Jocelyn Goldfein, a Director of Engineering... |
Researcher Reported iAd Workbench Hole Before Apple’s Dev Center Went Dark, Here’s What He Found | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | Apple’s developer site and remained dark straight through the weekend. The company revealed yesterday that it was because an “intruder” attempted to access personal information pertaining to Apple’s registered developers. While Apple continues to work on revamping the Dev Center’s security and bringing the whole thin... |
Frontback Is A Deeply Personal Photo-Taking App To Capture Fleeting Moments | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 7 | 22 | From the team behind , is a straightforward iPhone photo-taking app to capture the moment as it happens. You launch the app, take a photo of what you have in front of you, take a photo of your face and share the digital collage on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. It’s addictive, very easy to understand, and, more imp... |
Timehop, The Place To Reminisce Online, Raises $3M Led By Spark Capital | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | While present-focused social networks like Facebook and Instagram make plenty of room for the narcissists in us, there’s not really a dedicated and focused place to reflect on the past. Timehop, which , has evolved into a that surfaces old memories from your social networks. will pull up status updates from a year ... |
Samsung Q2 Profits Up 47.5%, But Operating Profit At Its Mobile Division Slows | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | As the worldwide smartphone market slows, Samsung’s second-quarter earnings showed that it is beginning to feel the pressure despite being the world’s top smartphone vendor. Samsung said its Q2 2013 operating profit increased 47.5% to $8.5 billion, in line with the company’s own estimate. Operating profit at its mobil... |
A Week With The Shine, A Beautifully Designed Smart Activity Tracker Made From Japanese Metal | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | Fitbits. FuelBands. UPs. The market for smart, connected activity trackers continues to get ever-more crowded. And yet, there’s not an obvious winner yet. is a new entrant in the space and they may have the most beautifully-designed piece of hardware yet. The company behind the Shine is itself a homage to Apple founde... |
Prim Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | You can call it a first-world problem. Or you can say it distracts people from their passions and contributions to the world. Either way, laundry is a chore, and wants to do it for you. You can schedule Prim online to come to your place, pick up your laundry, have it washed and folded at a top-notch laundromat, and d... |
Cross-Device Ad Startup Drawbridge Adds Mobile App-To-Web Retargeting (And Vice Versa) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | , an ad targeting startup by and , is expanding its offerings today with a new feature allowing mobile advertisers to reach consumers with retargeted ads, regardless of whether they’re using an app or on the mobile web. Founder and CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan said that while ad retargeting (i.e., ads targeted ba... |
Google’s Chromecast No Longer Comes With Free Netflix Because Demand Got Too Nuts | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | In what is a solid example of the best sort of problem to have, Google’s is already proving too damned popular for its own good. At yesterday’s debut, Google announced that buyers of the $35 device would also be getting three free months of Netflix service with their purchase. Just 24 hours later, that deal is off. ... |
Pentotype Lets Developers Quickly Build And Collaborate On Interactive Wireframes From Their iPads | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | Are you a developer? Do you wanna create wireframes and share them with your friends and collaborate and mashup and test out the user experience of new apps before you commit to code? Well here comes , a new web app for the iPad (and frankly, any other HTML5-enabled device) that will let developers quickly sketch out ... |
Here’s Video Of The House Debate That Almost Passed An Amendment Cutting At The NSA’s Domestic Surveillance | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | Yesterday, an that would have dramatically undermined the NSA’s authority to collect records on the phone calls of American citizens failed to pass. Proponents of the amendment claimed that it protected the Fourth Amendment rights of the public. Those opposed argued that it would erode national security. The debate b... |
Pfc. Bradley Manning’s Trial Comes To An End As The Government Alleges He ‘Aided The Enemy’ | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | While the world has become fixated on the NSA’s domestic and foreign surveillance activities in the past months, the trial of Private First Class Bradley Manning is coming to a close. Concluding arguments were heard today. The government, as , is trying to convict Manning using the Espionage Act, and slap him with the... |
Zynga’s New CEO Don Mattrick Says It Won’t Be Quick Or Easy To Get The Company Back On Track | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | Don Mattrick, at the beginning of the month, offered his initial on-the-job observations today during the conference call discussing . Mattrick (on the right of the photo with Zynga founder and former CEO Mark Pincus) started out by offering some positive commentary, saying that the company “caught lightning in a bo... |
Zynga Won’t Pursue Real-Money Gaming License In The U.S.; Shares Drop 13% In After-Hours | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | Zynga is giving up what many investors had hoped might be its trump card: a real-money gaming business in the U.S. The company, which has been testing out real-money casino games in the U.K., said it won’t be pursuing a U.S. license after all in its Sources tell us this is a decision to focus and not spread the compan... |
Y Combinator-Backed Lob Debuts A Cloud Printing & Shipping Service For Developers | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | Want to build your own Postagram? You could with , a new developer API for integrating printing and shipping services into applications that’s officially opening its doors today. The company makes it possible for a business to implement a programmatic means of printing, packaging, and shipping items on demand, includi... |
Nexus 7 Trade-Ins Suggest Lots Of Upgraders To New Model, Little To No Interest From The iPad Crowd | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | The new Google Nexus 7 is a big improvement over the original with a bunch of additions like LTE and a super high-resolution display – the best in tablets, in fact. And that’s driving a lot of first generation device owners to trade in their old Nexus 7, according to gadget buy-back site . There was a 333 percent spik... |
With New CEO Mattrick At Helm, Zynga Reports Loss of $16M And Revenue Decline Of 31% | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | Zynga’s revenues for the second quarter of 2013 declined 31% year-over-year to $231 million in the midst of a challenging transition that saw former . The company had a net loss of $16 million compared to last year’s net loss of $22.8 million during the same quarter (which also had $95.5 million of stock-based compens... |
Amazon’s Q2 Disappoints, Sales Up 22 Percent To $15.7B, Net Loss Of $7M | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | Amazon just , with sales increasing 22 percent to $15.7 billion in the second quarter, compared with $12.83 billion in second quarter 2012. Net loss was $7 million in the second quarter, or $0.02 per diluted share, compared with net income of $7 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, in second quarter 2012. Analysts $... |
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Facebook’s Desktop Ad Revenue Grew Only $69M In Q2, Mobile Rev To Outpace Desktop By EOY 2013 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | Facebook with its report that mobile advertising represented 41 percent of its total ad revenue in the second quarter of 2013. In the first quarter of 2013, it totaled a then-hailed 30 percent, bumping that key ratio by more than a third in just a fourth of a year. On a dollar basis, Facebook’s mobile advertising gre... |
Canary Shatters Its Indiegogo Funding Goal For Its Smart, Dead-Simple Home Monitors | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | There are some 90 million homes in the U.S. without any security system whatsoever. Many of them are renters who don’t want to invest heavily in a place they don’t own, among hundreds of thousands of home owners who are simply priced out. There has never been a convenient, all-in-one system that could offer home secu... |
Photobucket Co-Founder Alex Welch Lets You Demand Photos From Friends With Lasso | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 7 | 25 | Six years after , is launching a new way to share photos with your family and friends. Rather than making photos available on Instagram, Flickr, or any number of social networks according to privacy settings, Welch’s new venture, , lets friends ask for photos from each others’ camera rolls. Welch, who left Photobuc... |
Chinese Internet Giant Baidu Enters The Smart TV Wars With Launch Of TV+ | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | Baidu, the Internet giant that operates China’s largest search engine, has to compete with rival platforms from , as well as other companies including , Samsung and Apple. Called TV+, Baidu’s first smart TV will be and feature content from iQiyi, Baidu’s online video platform. Baidu plans to merge iQiyi with onli... |
With New Business Suite & Samsung Partnership, Mobile Security Company Lookout Prepares To Take On The Enterprise | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | , a mobile security company which previously focused on consumer protections and anti-malware services, is today taking a step to expand its footprint further with the launch of a new, standalone product for business. Arriving later this year, Lookout for Business intends to allow larger organizations the ability to se... |
In An Apparent Bug, Some Twitter Users Report Avatar Photos Being Replaced With Default ‘Egg’ | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | A number of Twitter users Tuesday evening that their personal photo avatars had been abruptly replaced by the that accompanies profiles from users who haven’t added a custom photo of themselves. What’s happened to all those artfully posed selfies? Was all that time constructing a flattering yet also somehow self-de... |
RocketSpace CEO Duncan Logan Talks Expansion Plans And What ‘Office-As-A-Service’ Actually Means | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | , a San Francisco office company that has hosted companies like Uber, Zaarly, Podio, and Pocket Gems (though not always the main team), recently — two spaces, actually, one for early-stage startups and one for more mature companies. The move seemed like a good opportunity to both tour the new office and talk to fou... |
For Authors, Amazon’s Kindle MatchBook Offers Plenty Of Upside | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | Today, Amazon introduced a brand new model of its Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader, which looks pretty nice. But the bigger announcement was a brand new , which allows authors and publishers to offer heavily discounted Kindle editions of their print books past and future. After digging into the requirements and feature... |
GraphDive Raises $2M For Social Media Analytics And Targeting | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | , a startup that uses Facebook Connect data to give businesses a better understanding of their online visitors, has raised $2 million in new funding. Co-founder and CEO Shahram Seyedin-Noor said the company allows website owners to do more with the social data that’s already provided by users who log in to their sites ... |
Studio 9+ Accelerator Raises $2.5 Million To Fund Its First Class of Entrepreneurs | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | founder ‘s new accelerator has raised another $2.5 million in funding from several angel investors, bringing total funding for Studio 9+ to about $4.6 million. The program is also extending its application deadline to Sept. 10 to include two more companies in its first class of participants. , Studio 9+ provides ment... |
LinkedIn To Raise Up To $1.15B To Fuel Acquisitions, “Infrastructure” Investments | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | LinkedIn has more than $1 billion by selling stock in its company to both the public, and banks that will underwrite the issuance. $1 billion will be sold to common investors, and the banks participating in the deal have the option to buy up to 15 percent of the offered shares in addition, bringing the total capital ... |
Amazon’s AWS Command Line Tool Hits General Availability, Lets You Control 23 Services From Your Terminal | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | Graphical user interfaces are great, but sometimes, the good-old command line . Amazon today that its command line interface for AWS has . For a while now, Amazon Web Services has made this command line tool available as a developer preview. The tool allows developers to control 23 of AWS’s services from the comman... |
Optimizely Co-Founder Pete Koomen On Using The Art Of A/B Testing | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | The book has some rave reviews ( has called it “smart” and “valuable”), so we recently invited Koomen to swing by TechCrunch TV and share some key takeaways. We also caught up a bit on the latest at Optimizely as a company, which just crossed over the 100 employee mark. Check it all out in the video embedded above. |
Announcing The Disrupt SF Hackathon Judges And A Ton Of New Prizes (And The Very Last Batch Of Tickets!) | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | The first batch of tickets for our Disrupt SF Hackathon (happening this weekend!) sold out so fast I thought something had gone wrong. We’ve released a few batches since, each bigger than the last… and yet, each one has sold out almost immediately. If you’ve never been to one of our Hackathons, here’s the gist of it: t... |
Sony Hopes You’ll Carry A Lens In Your Pocket | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | Remember that time when your smartphone camera just wasn’t good enough? That time when you wanted a picture that was just slightly better? You know, the time you lugged a pocket camera to your kid’s karate lesson or significant other’s colonoscopy. Well. Sony will soon have a product for you, friend! The Sony QX10 and ... |
After $258M Google Ventures And TPG Investment, Uber Hires Finance, Business, And Growth Execs | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | After from Google Ventures and TPG, Uber is revealing a of new hires today in finance, business and international growth at the executive level. Uber stole Brent Callinicos from Google, where he was VP, Treasurer & Chief Accountant. He will be Uber’s new Chief Financial Officer. Former COO of Klout, Emil Michael, wi... |
Mobile Calendar App Event Book Gets A New Design And ‘Location Book’ Features | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | While startups are trying to replace your mobile calendar by , there’s a new-ish iOS app called that seems to be built around the belief that what calendars really need is to become simpler and easier to use. Created by Abhinay Ashutosh, . Since then, Ashutosh said the app has been downloaded more than 60,000 times... |
Why Microsoft Had No Choice But To Purchase Nokia’s Handset Business | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | The news that Microsoft has from Nokia came as a surprise, but perhaps it shouldn’t have. The underlying reason that Microsoft had little choice but to buy Nokia is plain: Nokia had too much control over the Windows Phone platform, and Microsoft could not afford to lose its primacy over its mobile efforts. How did we... |
Announcing Your Disrupt SF Finals Judges: Marissa Mayer, Roelof Botha, Keith Rabois, David Lee, Chris Dixon And Michael Arrington | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | You’ll see some startups trying to solve big problems in networking, business software and security next week during our Battlefield competition at — industries which at first glance may seem boring or overly complex but are extremely important to the world. You’ll also see Battlefield companies working in more unusua... |
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Keen On… Smart Machines: The Next Big Thing For Smart Human Beings | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | “ “, says economist in his new book of the same name. And success and failure in a world dominated by digital technology, he says, will be defined by our relationship to smart machines. If our skills “complement” smart machines, Cowen writes in , we are likely to be successful; if not, he warns Luddites, “you may... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Spark Capital’s Bijan Sabet And Trinity Ventures’ Patricia Nakache | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, we are fortunate to have two guests in the studio—Spark Capital’s and Trinity Ventures’ . You can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Sabet was an early investor in Twitter (Spark Capital, which just this year, ... |
Burning Man Founder Is Cool With Capitalism, And Silicon Valley Billionaires | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 3 | “We’re not building a Marxist society,” jokes Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey in response to a series of recent stories detailing the annual festival’s and its buddy-buddy . More seriously, he says, “you can make a lot of money and do good with it. Elon Musk has made a lot of money.” Musk and his elite brethren hav... |
Led By Pixar Alum, ToyTalk Debuts Its First Product: The Winston Show, A Game You Can Talk To | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | Two years ago, Oren Jacob left his role as CTO at Pixar after working at the studio for over 20 years. After a brief stint as Entrepreneur In Residence at August Capital, he announced that he was off to start his own company: ToyTalk. ToyTalk has kept their projects mostly under wraps.. until now. Before today, most of... |
Yahoo Picks A New GeoCities Logo | Mahesh Sharma | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | After months of hype, questionable marketing spend, and 30 days of ‘meh’, has unveiled the next big move in its ambitious transformation: a slimmed down logo. Honestly, the new logo reminds one a lot of fonts used in the 90’s, especially the , where many of us first learned to build these funny things called ‘web pa... |
Stanford University Is Going To Invest In Student Startups Like A VC Firm | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | is going to start directly investing in students’ companies. Stanford is also giving a $3.6 million grant to , a non-profit startup accelerator for Stanford-affiliated entrepreneurs. StartX founder and CEO tells me Stanford will only invest in StartX companies and alumni companies. University spokesperson Lisa Lapi... |
Federal Jury Orders Motorola Mobility To Pay Microsoft $14.5 Million In Patent Case | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | A federal jury has found Motorola Mobility failed to license standard patents at a reasonable rate and ordered the Google-owned handset maker to pay Microsoft about $14.5 million in damages. This is the second of two federal court decisions determining that the royalties Motorola Mobility charges for “standard-essentia... |
Square Opens Girls Coding Camp To High School Students | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | The good corporate citizens at Square are aiming to bring more bring more diversity to Silicon Valley by expanding their computer science education program for girls from college to high school. Twenty college and eight high school females will be schooled in the art of computer coding by Square engineers and other tea... |
Pew: 86% Of U.S. Adults Make Efforts To Hide Digital Footprints Online; Fear Of Creeping Ads And Hackers Outweighs Spying | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | In one of the latest developments in the fallout of the PRISM story, the ACLU is in the Obama Administration to try to get federal courts to put a stop to the NSA’s metadata program and delete all existing records. But if you ask the general U.S. population, as surveyed by the , the average U.S. citizen appears to b... |
Secret-Sharing App Whisper Snags $21 Million From Sequoia, Adds Roelof Botha To Its Board | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | Secret-sharing app has closed a new round of funding, bringing in $21 million at a $75 million to $100 million post money valuation. The round, as , was led by Sequoia Capital, with existing investor Lightspeed Ventures participating. With the financing, Sequoia Partner is also joining Whisper’s board. Malik had ... |
From Jailbreaks To App Store Awards, Developers Grow Up iPhone | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | “This is going to sound a little odd,” Ari Weinstein says, “but when I was a kid coding…was a lot harder.” is just 19. He’s about to start as a freshman at MIT after deferring for a year to do a little fooling around. And he’s been playing in Apple’s ecosystem — in one form or another — since he was 11. That was when ... |
SourceAudio, A Platform For Selling Licensed Music, Raises $1.2M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | , a startup aiming to connect buyers and sellers of licensed music, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. Co-founder and CEO Geoffrey Grotz, who previously co-founded , said the company isn’t building a consumer music store, but rather a platform that will allow musicians and music companies to build their own site... |
The Bitcoin Revolution Hits TechCrunch Disrupt Next Week | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | Once a consuming hobby for a coterie of anarcho-libertarians and and others predicting an econo-apocalypse, Bitcoin started crossing over into the mainstream in a big way this year, . While the math-based currency is trading at about half its peak U.S. dollar value this year, there are startups betting that this was j... |
Samsung’s Galaxy Gear Is Here And Better Than Expected | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | The first time I caught wind of the , I laughed heartily. Of course Samsung was trying to make a smartwatch — what haven’t they tried to make over the past few years? It didn’t help that some preliminary reports may have done more harm than good for the Gear’s early reputation. Needless to say, I wasn’t expecting mu... |
The Death Of Nintendo Has Been Greatly Under-Exaggerated | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | I love Nintendo. I love Nintendo. I love Nintendo. I feel the need to say that over and over again to begin with because this post will inevitably be read by some as some sort of anti-Nintendo screed. I know that because every single time anything critical of Nintendo, groups of folks reveal themselves that make An... |
Online Travel Marketplace Vacatia Raises $5M To Simplify Buying And Selling Timeshares | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | With Airbnb, HomeAway, Roomorama and plenty of others, there’s no shortage of vacation rental platforms for travelers to browse. Add to the list , a secondary marketplace aimed at timeshare owners who want to sell their fractional interests to other travelers. The startup has raised $5 million in seed funding from inv... |
BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti Says The Site Is Profitable, With 85M Uniques And 300+ Employees | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | founder and CEO Jonah Peretti that laid out some details about the site’s growth, as well as its plans for the coming year. For one thing, Peretti said that BuzzFeed posted “record profit in August” and that the company has “gone from zero revenue four years ago to a profitable company with over 300 employees.” As f... |
TC Droidcast Episode 5: Samsung Galaxy Gear And Note 3, Sony’s Crazy Cameras And The KitKat Crunch Heard Round The World | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | We’re sure glad the weekly falls on a Wednesday, because this was a big one for Android. Samsung and Sony both had events at IFA in Berlin and revealed new hardware, and we’re joined by none other than ‘s as a special guest this week to break it all down. The is probably the most buzzed about news of the week, a... |
Topsy, Now With Every Tweet From 2006 On, Has Other Social Media Indexes In The Works | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | Twitter has established itself as top social networking destination, mentioned the same breath as sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, or YouTube, as well as a go-to destination for breaking news. But as a search engine that could be the Google for real-time media, Twitter still fails. For Twitter data partner , that was an... |
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Party At Disrupt | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | As a man named R. Kelly once said, “After the show, it’s the after party. And after the party, it’s the hotel lobby.” So goes the story of this year’s from September 9 – September 11, where for the very first time we’ll be offering standalone tickets to the Disrupt after-parties which are available to the general pub... |
Skout Borks Its Code, Spams Its Users, Cops To The Error And Apologizes | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | Skout is a mobile app that wants to . It’s raised and is more than half a decade old. It also had a recent spate of spamming-the-hell-out-of-its-users that it has now publicly apologized for. It’s an episode worth digging into. A over for dinner complained that Skout had sent a message, using her name and such, to... |
Groopt Revamps Its Collaboration Tools As It Shifts Focus To Nonprofits | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 4 | Startup is hoping to become the platform that nonprofits and member-based organizations use to both build their websites and communicate/collaborate with members. I actually , and the vision wasn’t all that different. It started out as a collaboration tool for fraternities and sororities, and at the time it was tryi... |
ZappRx Lands $1M To Rethink Prescription Processing With A Pharmacy-Agnostic Mobile Checkout Platform | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | Today, technology is in the process of transforming healthcare. The whole nine years: From software, medicine and insurance to fitness, care delivery and the very science behind all of it. By now, this probably sounds like a familiar refrain, and for good reason. s, Quantified Self-inspired wearable tech, social healt... |
Elon Musk Shows Off His Crazy Iron Man-Inspired 3D Modeling Setup | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | Elon Musk, the world’s busiest rich dude/mad scientist, has just posted a video showing off the Iron Man-inspired 3D modeling setup he Because people don’t compare him to Tony Stark* enough, right? By combining the gesture-sensing Leap Motion controller with an array of different display technologies (like the Oculus... |
Hardware Is Eating The World | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | It’s clear more than ever that hardware is in vogue. The rise of crowdfunding graciously coincided with the shrinking of processors and sensors. It’s never been easier to create a smart device. And on Wednesday, September 11, hardware companies will fill the halls of The Concourse at San Francisco Design Center for . ... |
How To Get In On The New York Fashion Week Action, Techie Style | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | It’s . New York Fashion Week, that is. And if you’re a user of the Internet, it’s pretty hard to miss this season. As Women’s Wear Daily , ramped-up social media and live streaming have led Fashion Week to become a veritable “digital spectator sport.” In the last few years, tech has begun to carve out an increasingly... |
Rotten Tomatoes Founder Positions New Site To Be “Google News For Movies” | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | founder has redesigned his new site, , to be the “Google News for movies.” Movies With Butter originally launched with more of a Digg/Reddit strategy, allowing users to vote which stories would be on the homepage, but Duong says it didn’t work because the site couldn’t gain enough users to vote on the stories. He f... |
Get Your Friends, Co-Workers Out Of “Password Remembering Hell” With Matrix-Backed Mitro | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | At TechCrunch, we have a host of passwords for Twitter, Dropbox and so on that get shared amongst the staff. But inevitably, there’s always a scramble when a new employee signs up and doesn’t have access to the account. Or when someone just plain forgets their passwords. Enter , which is a company from several former ... |
NSA Subverts Most Encryption, Works With Tech Organizations For Back-Door Access, Report Says | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | The National Security Agency’s most wanted man and newly minted Russian resident, Edward Snowden, has revealed new details about the ability of intelligence agencies to crack supposedly secret communications. “The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, techn... |
The Data Visualization Technology That Makes The America’s Cup Accessible To The Rest Of Us | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | The experience of watching televised sporting events has evolved dramatically in recent years, with data visualization technology making it much easier for spectators at home to understand what’s really going on. Innovations such as the yellow “first down” line in televised football, the pitch and strike zone visualiza... |
Braintree Is On The Block, Had Acquisition Talks With Square And PayPal | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | Chicago-based payments gateway is currently shopping itself around to potential acquirers, TechCrunch has learned. The company has been on the block for some time, having previously tried to work out a deal with Google which fell through. More recently, it had been in acquisition talks with Square, which also fell th... |
With 100K Titles In Tow, Oyster Brings Netflix To Book Lovers With New All-You-Can-Read Subscription Service | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | While the pace has slowed of late, thanks to Kindles, Nooks, iPads and the steady advance of mobile technology, the eBook market (and the demand for all shades of digital prose) has grown exponentially over the past few years. , the total revenue generated from eBook sales in the U.S. topped $3 billion in 2012, which ... |
Evomail’s Gesture-Based Email App Arrives On Android | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | , one of the many newer startups trying to rethink the email inbox for mobile, has . Originally designed as a Gmail client for iPad, the service seemed inspired by a number of well-known apps and email clients, including now Google-owned , as well as Dropbox-acquired , which popularized the use of gestures as a way ... |
Insurance Zebra Launches A Kayak For Auto Insurance | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | Austin-based , as the name implies, isn’t exactly tackling the sexiest industry, but it’s definitely one that’s trying to help the everyday, mainstream consumer. The startup’s goal is to be the Kayak for auto insurance, so to speak, as it aggregates quotes to allow consumers to find their best options. But the company... |
How Social+Capital Is Building The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs In Residence | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | has been commonly referred to as the unconventional VC. And he’s been about his ambitions to turn his fund, , into a vehicle that backs ideas and startups that are changing the way we live, diagnose, learn and more. So it’s no surprise that Palihapitiya and his team are taking a more unorthodox approach to the entr... |
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