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What Is The Future Of VC? Find Out At Disrupt SF | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | Many compare the process of picking a partner at a VC firm (or an angel) to back your idea to the act of getting married. You better be ready to be comfortable in the trenches with this person, because the startup journey is a roller coaster. Amidst the , what it really comes down to is picking the right partner to he... |
Foursquare Automates Process Of Becoming A ‘Superuser’ | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | It’s become clear in recent years that real strength is its database of more than 55 million places. Foursquare’s database API for many other apps, from big names like Instagram to small up-and-comers. Today, Foursquare is announcing an update that should streamline the process of keeping that information organized... |
Uber Strikes Back Against The Competition By Offering Free uberX Rides In New Lyft Markets | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | Just last week, ride-sharing startup Lyft announced that it was , launching in Indianapolis, St. Paul, and Atlanta ahead of the holiday weekend. Well, local incumbent Uber isn’t going to take that lying down. The company has launched its low-cost uberX service in three new markets, and will be giving free rides to use... |
Chrome’s Native-Like Packaged Apps Come Out Of Dev Preview And Head To The Desktop, Now Called “Chrome Apps” | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | Google officially its Chrome Apps today, a “new” breed of native/web app hybrid for Chrome OS and Windows that isn’t actually all that new. Google’s Chrome offered so-called for quite a while now and today’s “launch” is, for the most part, about bringing these packaged apps out of the developer niche and to consume... |
Rapt.fm Launches In Beta To Enable Live Rap Battles To Happen Anytime, Anywhere | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 5 | We first met Detroit-based startup back in November 2012, when we were swinging through town for the TechCrunch Northern Meetups. It’s safe to say that was the first startup CEO I’d ever met whose . And the product, though then still in an early private alpha version, was very cool as well — a website that lets pe... |
The Mediated Life Is Not Worth Living | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | I spent last week in ephemeral , where on Saturday night I and 60,000 others stood within a ring of hundreds of vehicles transformed into spectacular art, and watched a gargantuan wooden effigy erupt, burn, and collapse, beneath one of the most ridiculously dazzling fireworks displays in ever. It was quite a moment. A... |
Vimeo Offers $10,000 For Exclusive Rights To Indie Films From The Toronto International Film Festival | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | Video distribution company is seeking to add more exclusive content to its platform, offering some independent filmmakers a $10,000 advance to make their movies available online through . The offer for direct distribution sales will be available to films premiering at the this week. Vimeo has always been known as ... |
Spotify Makes Its Biggest Hardware Play Yet With Spotify Connect, Syncing Music At Home And Beyond | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | is today adding a new feature to its that represents the streaming company’s most ambitious move yet to position itself as the go-to music app on connected devices — and in the process entice more people to pay the $9.99 per month required to use the app. It’s launching , a new button in the app that will let users... |
Microsoft Enters Into $7.2B Deal To Buy Nokia’s Devices And Services Business And License Its Patents | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | In a surprise move, Microsoft Monday evening that it has inked a deal with Nokia to acquire “substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services.” The total price of the deal is EUR 5.44 billion in cash, which is currently worth $7.17 billion... |
Inside Hack Reactor, The Coding Bootcamp That Wants To Be The CS Degree Of The Future | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | is one San Francisco-based startup that’s aiming to help build the bridge between people who want to learn how to code and the many companies who are so keen to hire programmers. It’s an intense, that is essentially a programming bootcamp filled with intensive classes and project-based instruction for six days a w... |
With Time Warner Cable Deal, CBS Seeks To Ensure Its Digital Future | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | CBS and Time Warner Cable finally today, ending a long, protracted blackout of the broadcast network on TWC’s cable system. While getting the deal done will mean that Time Warner Cable viewers will be able to watch Week One of the NFL season next week — and no one wanted to miss that — the deal is also designed to he... |
Online Marketplace GlobeIn’s Network Of Artisans Has Grown To Nearly 30 Countries | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | Startup is building an online marketplace for artisans from around the world. When it first launched in February, it said it was working with more than 100 sellers in nine countries. Now from 29 countries, including recent additions like Mexico, Guatemala and Canada. That growth is particularly impressive given the... |
Apple, Microsoft And Google Could Learn Something From Mozilla’s App Store Prototype | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | App Stores are broken. It’s virtually impossible to find the interesting apps among the thousands of low-quality offerings. If an app isn’t in the top 10 of its respective category, chances are you won’t find it. Apple’s “Genius” feature was so dumb, it was dropped in iOS 7 and replaced with an even less interesting “A... |
Andreessen Horowitz’s Scott Weiss On Why There Will Be 30 New Franchises In The Enterprise | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | The future of enterprise software is anything but boring. Andreessen Horowitz partner aptly predicted his guest post titled “30 New Franchises” a few weeks ago, there a massive opportunity to create new multi-billion-dollar enterprise franchises despite incumbents throwing massive amounts of money to acquire these fr... |
If You’re Buying Textbooks This Week, Get Educated, Not Schooled | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | When a semester’s worth of textbooks can add up to a couple (or three or four) hundred dollars, hitting the checkout line at the campus bookstore is a distressing experience for many students, to say the least. Analog solutions to this problem include: borrowing from the library, borrowing from friends who’ve already t... |
Turning Apple TV Into Ouroboros | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | Apple has been ‘pulling the string’ on the Apple TV for seven years now. Think about that one for a minute: it’s had a set-top box since before the iPhone. During that time, the landscape of online video entertainment has completely changed, largely as a result of the iPhone, iPad and iTunes Store. While Apple has a lo... |
Sebastian Thrun And Gavin Newsom To School Us At Disrupt SF | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | Former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun there will only be ten institutions in the world that offer higher education, and that — a startup that offers STEM-heavy free online courses — will be one of them. Thrun may be on to something: As the platforms for information distribution broaden due to the Internet, more... |
Security Researcher Discovers Bug That Would Let Hackers Delete Any Photo Off Facebook | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | In a nice example of how Facebook’s bounty program work (in contrast with ), a security researcher has unearthed a bug that would let anyone delete just about any photo from Facebook — whether the photo was yours, mine, or Zuckerberg’s — and was paid a solid chunk of cash for the discovery. According to the terms of... |
Hex Airbot Shatters Crowdfunding Goal For Its Cheap, 3D Printed Drones | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 2 |
first turned heads earlier this year at China-based hardware accelerator and now the team behind it is finally pushing to bring the inexpensive flier to market by way of a recent-launched . The basics will probably sound a little familiar: like other consumer-oriented drones on the market, users can control ... |
Enfojer Wants You To Turn Your Instagram Snaps Into DIY B&W Prints | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | We’ve had an , so here’s pretty much the reverse: a . Phone-owning humans’ love affair with digital photography continues charging along at full tilt — fuelled by the ubiquity of cameraphones and the apps that allow easy digital photo remixing, whether it’s filters, or ‘s dual aspect, or ‘s serendipity. All that ... |
Video Site Viki Had Talks With Google And Yahoo Before It Took A $200M Deal With Rakuten, Which Plans To Use The Translation Platform In E-Commerce | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | Rakuten’s — the video streaming site where users worldwide contribute subtitles to premium content — is a clear sign of how Rakuten wants to use digital content to build out its e-commerce marketplace. But the deal didn’t happen in a vacuum. Before talks got serious between Japan’s Rakuten and Singapore-based Viki... |
Plated, The Startup That Delivers Fresh Ingredients To Your Door, Launches In SF | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | With the advent of online shopping and Amazon Prime 2-day shipping, humans are growing ever willing to pay for convenience and walk less. In the wake of this phenomenon, has risen up out of TechStars accelerator in New York to deliver perfectly proportioned ingredients direct to your home for your very own cooking pl... |
Swayy Launches Into Public Beta To Curate Content For Your Social Media Audience | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | While managing social media for different organizations and brands, I’ve spent hours scouring the web for relevant content to share on Twitter and Facebook. It takes a long time to find the right articles, schedule them accordingly and gauge social media reactions. , a content discovery tool, is launching its public b... |
Xiaomi’s App Market Has Nearly 2X The Average Downloads Of Competitors, Could Help Boost International Success | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 2 | Xiaomi, the , is receiving lots of attention thanks to the somewhat to the Chinese company. Xiaomi is looking to sell around 20 million smartphones by the end of 2013, and is doing so well that it’s challenging Samsung, a formerly dominant force among OEMs, at home in China. The company sees tight margins on hardwar... |
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Your Nosy Boy/Girlfriend Can Unlock Your iPhone 5s With Your Thumb While You Sleep | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | The passcode can’t die yet. The iPhone 5s’s Touch ID fingerprint security system can be unlocked with your finger even if you’re asleep. That means a jealous lover could hold your phone to your thumb while you slumber and read all your texts, call logs, emails, and more. Apple confirms that a dead thumb won’t work. Chl... |
Ask A VC: Telefonica Ventures’ Tracy Isacke On Corporate VCs And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | In this episode of Ask A VC, Telefonica Digital’s Tracy Isacke joined us in the studio to talk about the telecom giant’s venture arm. Isacke, who has led the company’s acquisition of San Francisco-based TokBox in 2012, as well as investments in Joyent, Boku, Addfleet, Expect Labs and Everything.me, talked about why T... |
Mozilla Launches Preview Of Firefox For Windows 8 Tablets | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | Mozilla’s Firefox for Windows 8 tablets has finally made its first public appearance outside of the relatively obscure and unstable development channel. As Mozilla , the chrome-less tablet version of Firefox that runs in Windows 8’s Metro/Modern UI mode is . From there, it will slowly make its way to the beta and... |
Ad-Tech Company Rocket Fuel Nearly Doubles Stock Price In First Day Of Public Trading | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | Rocket Fuel’s first day of public trading seems to have lived up to the company’s name. The ad-tech firm last month, and last night sold 4 million shares at a price of $29, raising a total of $116 million at a valuation of nearly $1 billion. Today the share price went up as high as $62.50 before closing at $55, about... |
Gillmor Gang Live 09.20.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. |
Yep, That’s Really Apple CEO Tim Cook On Twitter | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | Yes, Apple CEO has started tweeting. The account, which we at TechCrunch (and everyone else following Twitter’s magical recommendations service ) spotted this afternoon, is now confirmed by Twitter. Initially, it did not have the standard blue “verification” check mark, which is why there could have been some doubt ... |
BlackBerry Confirms Massive Layoffs, Reveals ~$1 Billion Loss In Q2 2014 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | BlackBerry temporarily halted trading this afternoon to deliver some grim news. Today the company confirmed of massive layoffs — some 4,500 employees will be let go by the end of the year. To put that in perspective, BlackBerry’s total headcount sat at 12,700 as of March 2013, so this next spate of firings means that... |
Everyone Should Be Welcome In Tech | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | Sexism in tech can be as subtle as a false assumption about engineering competence or as blatant as a couple of hackathon apps our stage last week. Changing our hackathon rules will hopefully preclude sexist presentations. The salient issue is that we need to get more female participants onstage and in the audience a... |
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Five Sites That Put The Human Back In Personalized Shopping | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | I visited the e-commerce recommendation site this morning and started scrolling through their new arrivals in women’s clothing — and grew more and more surprised at how much I liked everything. That was until I remembered that I had done their onboarding quiz a month ago and that their algorithm was actually just gen... |
NFL MVP Adrian Peterson Launches Fitness Training App | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | NFL running back has teamed with a new fitness and sports training app for aspiring athletes. This is the third time that Driven has paired with a professional athlete to release a branded app; earlier this year, the company produced apps with NBA star and pro golfer . Eight years ago, Don and Joe Saladino ope... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: iOS 7, iOS 7, And A Hint Of 3D Printing For Good Measure | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | of iPhone owners, and that’s just after two days. The , with Apple promising 200 new features. The font is different. The colors are brighter. The icons are childish. And the whole system seems to bounce and bobble against the movement of your hand. It’s a brand new world. Because Darrell’s obsessed with Apple, and... |
Verizon FiOS Expands Mobile TV Support To Android & iPhone, Now Lets You Watch Live TV Outside The Home | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | For the first time ever, customers of Verizon’s FiOS TV service are being allowed to watch live television on their mobile devices when they’re out of their homes, and disconnected from their home’s Wi-Fi network. Currently, this new capability applies to just nine cable TV channels, including BBC America, BBC World Ne... |
Microsoft Updates Bing On iOS, Highlights Siri Integration | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | With the release of iOS 7 to the general public, Bing now has a inside of Apple’s chief operating system. When you Siri, you will very often Bing. That might sound odd, but Apple is more concerned with Google at the moment than Microsoft — especially given Apple’s lack of an enterprise services business — so Bing it ... |
Meet Grove, Sequoia Capital’s New Startup Events And How-To Content Hub | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | VCs are starting to get into content. First Round its own version of Harvard Business Review. Andreessen Horowitz on Wired editor Michael Copeland to lead its content strategy. And Sequoia, who earlier this year hired Ben Worthen away from the Wall Street Journal, is debuting , its new portal for how-to content, v... |
iCracked Launches A Way To ‘Uber’ Someone Up To Buy Back Your Old iPhones | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | iCracked, the Y Combinator company that has quietly built up an empire on repairing broken iPhones and iPads, is launching a way to With the new iPhone 5s and 5c out this week, it’s an opportune moment for the 30-person startup from Redwood City. iCracked basically started out of a dorm room at Cal Poly San Luis Obisp... |
Microsoft May Pay Up To $200M For SF’s Secretive Osterhout Design Group In A Wearables Bet | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | Google may have and Apple may be rumored to be making a . Now Microsoft may be effectively buying itself a wearables play by paying up to $200 million for a trove of assets and patents from San Francisco’s quiet , a longtime U.S. military contractor. The deal is not yet closed but we’re hearing that term sheets are... |
Chipworks: Apple’s A7 Chip Made By Samsung, M7 Co-Processor By NXP | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | Here’s a bit of supply chain nerdery for you on the iPhone 5s front. Teardown experts Chipworks have and discovered that it is indeed still made by Samsung. There had been significant rumors before the release of the iPhone 5s that pointed to Apple shifting its SoC manufacturing to new supplier TSMC. Though that stil... |
With 300K Downloads, London-Based YPlan Launches Stateside In New York | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | Countless social-planning apps have tried, unsuccessfully, to capture the attention of users in a way that would produce enough engagement, which in turn would result in partnerships with vendors and merchants, which in turn would generate revenue. However, London-based , a mobile app that presents users with curate... |
Bugsnag, The Error-Reporting Platform Used By LinkedIn And Others, Raises $1.4M Seed Round | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 20 | Crash detection and reporting are tough but important problems to solve, as companies look to increase the stability and reliability of their online and mobile applications. One newer startup taking on this challenge, , has already found traction in this space, having signed up a number of notable customers, including... |
With 1M Users Now On Board, Learnist Brings Its “Pinterest For Learning” To Android | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | When first emerged back in 2008, it had set its sights on building a full-service, social learning service that would give students a better way to study for standardized tests, among other things. It enabled students to study solo or in groups by connecting with live instructors or perusing its library of video cont... |
Posthaven Rises From Posterous’ Ashes To Launch “E-Mail To Post” As It Reaches Financial Sustainability | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | , the blogging platform co-created by Y Combinator partner after his previous startup and by Twitter, . They’re also launching the feature that effectively made Posterous a serious competitor against Tumblr in the early days of micro-blogging — . Posthaven is a basic blogging platform that’s meant to last forev... |
Microsoft Isn’t Axing Windows 8.1 System Builder SKUs (Completely) After All | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Yesterday the pricing scheme for Windows 8.1 and stated that, instead of selling “upgrade” and standalone versions of its operating system, all purchases of the new code . Therefore, if you want to move a non-Windows 8 PC to Windows 8.1, or want to build a new PC from scratch, the same software will work in each cas... |
Mullenweg Wants WordPress To Power A Majority Of All Websites | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Just months after Tiger Global Management for a secondary stake in Automattic, the maker of WordPress.com, the investment management firm has done it again. We learned yesterday that Tiger had made another $60 million investment in the company. Tiger bought the shares from , who also sold $15 million in shares to .... |
FWD.us Gives First Hard Numbers On Its Impact On Immigration So Far | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Is FWD.us really making a difference? Today it released its first quantified stats on its contribution to immigration reform, announcing that it drove 33,500 calls to Congress this summer and a total of 125,000 actions including social media shares. That’s not a stellar call count, but it represents solid work by the ... |
iPhone Activation Servers Crumble Under The Weight Of iOS 7 | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Happy day! Except for me. And legions of other iPhone owners who, for various reasons, had to activate their iPhone in the iOS 7 install process. Our phones are stuck in iOS 7 activation limbo. Since early this morning, the activation servers are either down or very slow to respond, essentially rendering the phones u... |
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Free Apps And Games On The App Store Are About To Test Your Data Caps | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Apple has increased the size of its download limits on cellular networks to 100MB from 50MB. The change comes as iOS 7 launches to the public as a ~700MB over-the-air upgrade to iPhone and iPad users. The increase in size was first and we subsequently confirmed the new, higher limit. Apple’s initial download limit fo... |
What We Know About Selfie.com | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Selfie.com. It exists … shrouded in mystery and excitement. In a world where photo-sharing reigns supreme, where Instagram and its mighty legion of copycats, wannabes and tweaked iterations lead a massive charge, a new photo-sharing service rises out of the huddled mass to deliver the best that photography has to offer... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: Nvidia’s Tegra Note, Cyanogen Goes Legit, And Nexus 4 Sold Out Forever | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Back on schedule this week after TechCrunch Disrupt, me and Chris Velazco catch you up on the latest in Android news. We’re somewhat , but we get ourselves under control pretty quick. The is a reference tablet design that the company is saying could retail for $199 and boast some decent specs, and there’s and news... |
Rep. Goodlatte Demands “Further Protections” From NSA Snooping | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Today Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, stated that he is “convinced that further protections” of the civil liberties of U.S. citizens are necessary following review of the . Rep. Goodlatte’s follows his attendance of a classified briefing discussing current governmental use of the Foreig... |
Facebook Doesn’t Want To Be Cool, It Wants To Be Electricity | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Critics say Facebook is doomed because it’s not cool to teens anymore. But Mark Zuckerberg said he doesn’t care about Facebook being cool, because now its goal is to be a ubiquitous utility. “Maybe electricity was cool when it first came out, but pretty quickly people stopped talking about it because it’s not the new t... |
Apple Reinvents Its Wheel With iOS 7, Takes Developers Along For The Ride | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Today brings the release of the most dramatic iOS update that Apple has ever made. More people will experience this change in a shorter period of time than at any point in computing history. “Measured by the number of people that are going to see a big change within the same 24-hour period,” says Evernote CEO Phil Libi... |
BlackBerry To Cut Up To 40% Of Staff By Year’s End | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Hey BlackBerry fans, here’s a bit of good news: BBM will officially land on Android devices starting on September 21, with the iOS version going live the next day. Hey BlackBerry employees, here’s a bit of bad news: there’s a decent chance that you or some of your co-workers are going to lose their jobs. Those two stor... |
A Few Tricks All The New iOS 7 Users Should Know | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | At long last, iOS 7 has arrived. That is, it arrived for everyone who didn’t say “Developer? Oh, yeah, I’m totally a developer. Cough” and wiggle into the Beta months ago. iOS 7 is a strange new land, especially on day one. Out with the gradients, in with the trippy fluorescents. Your favorite app? It probably looks co... |
Twitter Revamps Its Apps For iOS 7, But Bigger Changes Are Yet To Come | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Amid preparations for its , Twitter rolled out updated iOS applications today which feature several small changes, including of course an updated design to better reflect the new style of Apple’s iOS 7 mobile operating system. But these updates are merely a hint of what’s ahead for the company in its push to make its ... |
If You Watch One Partially Cacophonous NES Player Piano System Video Today, Make It This One | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1wlaj7RyKI] The folks at RoboBand have created a robotic band that plays the soundtracks to famous Nintendo games using a , a Yamaha Disklavier, and a robotic drum kit. The system took the audio output from the NES, converted it to MIDI, which in turn either controlled the sole... |
Google Updates Chrome For iOS With Improved Voice Search And Google Apps Integration | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | When it comes to voice search, Google still runs circles around its competitors. Today’s update to adds a new layer of intelligence to this feature and now lets you use pronouns. The company previously introduced this capability and already uses it on the desktop and Android. Thanks to this, you can now ask it “Who... |
Facebook’s New Mobile Test Framework Births Bottom Tab Bar Navigation Redesign For iOS 5, 6, & 7 | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | Facebook lost its ability to “move fast and break things” when it switched its apps from HTML5 to native. But it’s gotten its mojo back. a big featuring bottom-screen “tab bar” navigation built with an advanced native mobile testing framework. Facebook knew to ditch the pull-out navigation drawer by testing differe... |
Lively Raises $4.8M, Launches Sensor Network For Older Folks | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 18 | “Help the aged,” sang the bard, and that’s what aims to do. After all, one time they were just like you, drinking smoking cigs, and sniffing glue. This $150 device, on the other hand, ensures that they’re up and about and staying active while you’re away, giving you a bit of peace of mind while the older folks are at... |
Software For Auto Repair: With New Funding In Tow, Estify Sees Big Opportunity In An Unsexy Market | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | The collision industry probably doesn’t rank at the top of the “Sexy Markets” list for startups, but sometimes the most obscure, fragmented and pulchritudinously challenged industries can offer the most opportunity to those willing to grit their teeth and immerse themselves in the mess. , a graduate of business acce... |
Where Webvan Failed And How Home Delivery 2.0 Could Succeed | Contributor | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | Webvan is well-known as the poster child of the dot-com “excess” bubble that led to the tech market crash in 2000. Business schools around the nation study Webvan’s overly ambitious rush to the biggest IPO to date in Silicon Valley, as a prime example of what to avoid doing while scaling. Ironically I recall guest teac... |
Chasefuture’s Platform Coaches Mainland Chinese Students On University Admissions | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | The allure of top-tier Western universities isn’t lessening anytime soon for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese high school graduates emerging out of the country’s best schools. That’s why a host of different startups helping mainland high school students with admissions like have cropped up in the last year or two... |
JustFab’s Checkout Tactics Are JustShady | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | This Hacker News complaint about scamming a user’s girlfriend — which gets whenever JustFab raises money — is a little off, because JustFab is not a scam in the traditional sense. The company is, however, abusing a tricky UI, loaded with design gimmicks like and — all in the name of getting customers to sign ... |
Wish, The App For Logging What You Want, Launches A Complementary Gifting Feature | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | Well, folks, it’s September. The holiday gift giving season is ON! Wish, the mobile shopping app that lets users create lists of items they would like to purchase later, has launched Gifting, a feature that enables others to purchase and ship products to their friends. It draws from users’ existing wishlists and uses t... |
Palantir Is Raising $197M In Growth Capital, SEC Filing Shows | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | Palantir, the big data company that has counted the NSA, the FBI and the CIA among its clientele, is raising up to $196.5 million in growth capital, . The company declined to say who the new funding was from, according to Lisa Gordon, who handles media and government relations for the company. Another source close to... |
Microsoft Extends Its Trade-In Program: $200+ For Your “Gently Used” iPhone 4S, 5 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | Microsoft wants to take your Apple product off your hands, today to allow owners of dated iPhone hardware to cash in their now-passé electronics. If you own an iPhone 4S or 5 that is “gently used” and not much worse, Microsoft will . The kicker? The funds come in the form of Microsoft Store credit, so you are tradin... |
Former Microsoftie And Googler Lucovsky Leaves VMware For New Project, No Word On Chairs Thrown | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | VMware VP of Engineering Mark Lucovsky is leaving the virtualization giant for a ‘new chapter’ he’s . Lucovsky has been with VMware for around four years and before that held positions at Google and Microsoft. VMware that “during his more than four years at VMware, Mark Lucovsky has been an important contributor to... |
Agolo Aims To Algorithmically Curate Your Twitter Feed | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | For all the good it’s capable of, Twitter is all too often a cacophonous mess of marketers, celebrities, talking heads, and friends who all like to jabber at the same time. Sage Wohns and Mohamed Altantawy are co-founders of a New York startup called and as far as they’re concerned, not every bit of information pou... |
Airbnb Victory In NYC: Environmental Control Board Reverses $2,400 Fine On Renting Out A Room In An Apartment | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | A big regulatory victory for today: the company has managed to win an appeal in New York City over a fine against a host called Nigel Warren, whose landlord was $2,400 in June after Warren rented out a room in his apartment. If the fine had stuck, it would have set a business-threatening precedent for Airbnb in the... |
Ask A VC: Emergence Capital Partners’ Kevin Spain On The Next Disruptions In Health Tech And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | In this week’s TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, we had Emergence Capital Partners’ Kevin Spain in the studio to talk about his perspective on investing in health tech and more. Spain, who has led investments in the LinkedIn for physicians Doximity, and social health management platform Welltok, talked about where he se... |
Shyp Raises $2.1M To Pick Up And Ship Your Stuff | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | I don’t consider myself a lazy man. To the displeasure of many a recent startup, I like to do stuff for myself. I like to . I do my own . If I need something from , I go to the store down the street. If I want a , I think “I should go to Philadelphia!” and then don’t and then eat Quiznos and feel sad. But , do I h... |
Microsoft Increases Windows 8 And 8.1 App Roaming Limit To 81 Devices | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | At its Build developer conference earlier this year, Microsoft that it planned to increase the roaming limits for apps purchased in its Windows Store. As the company , that limit is going to be 81 (and yes, that’s Microsoft trying to be funny). Starting October 9, users will be able to install all Windows Store apps... |
Gillmor Gang Live 09.27.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/GillmorGang |
Ebay Acquires “Content Meets Commerce” Shopping Site, Bureau Of Trade, As Its Personalization Efforts Heat Up | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | eBay has acquired online marketplace for men’s shopping , the company announced today. Founder Michael Phillips Moskowitz is joining the eBay Marketplaces team, where his focus will be on helping eBay improve its personalization efforts. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it was an all-cash deal and an “accepta... |
Swiftype Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smarter Search Engine For Web And Mobile Sites | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | , a Y Combinator-backed startup that creates a smarter search engine for websites, has raised $7.5 million led by NEA, with angel investors participating. The startup previously in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Ignition, CrunchFund and angel investors. NEA partner Jon S... |
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TechStars London First Cohort: Our Three Favorite Startups From Demo Day | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | The TechStars inaugural London Demo Day boasted an , but we put our heads together and came up with a consensus decision on our top pick, as well as a couple of runners up for the show. The best presentation and interview went to , a startup that’s getting some decent early traction with around a dozen b2b customers ... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Steam News Breaks While We Record, Surface Sequels And Adobe Gets Mighty | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | A rare treat this week as you can hear the TechCrunch team react to breaking gadget news (the , to be specific) live as it unfolds. It’s like being inside our brains without the echoes and cobwebs. We also cover the big , the , and . This week, we have a very special episode of the Gadgets Podcast with a ragtag... |
Evernote Updates Its Business Product With Social Features And Salesforce.com Integration | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 27 | Evernote today announced version 2.0 of its business product, appropriately called Evernote Business 2.0. CEO Phil Libin introduced the product onstage at Evernote’s EC3 conference and said it will be released next week. In its first nine months, 7,900 companies have signed up for Evernote Business (which was ). Libin... |
Nokia Chairman Risto Siilasmaa Outlines Its Next Reinvention | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | In , Nokia chairman and interim CEO Risto Siilasmaa gave more details about the company’s plans now that it has exited the smartphones business. This marks the for the 150-year-old company, which began as a paper mill in the 1860s and moved on to rubber products before morphing into an electronics maker. Without its... |
WeatherSphere’s RadarCast App Will Help You Navigate Around Upcoming Storms & Snow | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | , a small Mountain View-based startup founded by former eBay engineer Raghav Gupta in fall 2012, is focusing on developing mobile applications that look at the weather space from the technology point of view. Today, the company has a handful of paid applications in the Apple App Store, which consistently rank in top ch... |
SnapEDA Wants To Help Fuel Hardware Startups With A Github-Like Community For CAD | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | There’s a growing number of startups out there that are focusing on building new hardware, and that’s an immensely different problem compared to building a software business, in terms of sourcing resources to use to build the products involved, sourcing talent and solving problems. That’s why Natasha Baker founded a ... |
Estimote Details iOS 7 iBeacon Support For Its Contextual Proximity Shopping Devices | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | a Y Combinator graduate and Hardware Alley exhibitor here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, was able to talk about something today that it’s never been able to before: how its product will work with Apple’s new iBeacon tech in iOS 7. iBeacons allow developers to communicate with iOS devices via Bluetooth Low Energy, in o... |
Prep Pad Is A Connected Kitchen Scales That Quantifies The Nutritional Mix Of Your Meals | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | Cooking is set to get a whole lot smarter if connected kitchen device startup, , pulls off its grand vision. Here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s hardware alley it’s showing off the Prep Pad: a Bluetooth kitchen scales plus app combo that’s due to land this November, costing $150. The connected kitchen device startup has p... |
And The Winner Of Disrupt SF Battlefield 2013 Is… Layer! | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | After three days and some truly incredible pitches from each of our 30 Battlefield competitors, the time has finally come to crown a Disrupt Battlefield champion. Competition among this year’s pack of six finalists — Dryft, Fates Forever, Layer, Soil IQ, Regalii, and Cota by Ossia — was as stiff as ever, but even with ... |
Estimote Wins Best Hardware Startup At TechCrunch Disrupt SF | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | Manufacturing and logistics giant PCH International alongside hardware incubator Highway1 have announced that , a tool for , has been chosen for Best Hardware Startup at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013. “I was excited to see a company jump on Apple’s ibeacon technology so quickly to make a location service,” said Brady Fo... |
An Apple ID Is Now Required For Online Genius Bar Appointments | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | Apple is now requiring that all users online sign in with an Apple ID. Previously, users could instead fill out a form with name, address and email in order to book an appointment. When you visit Apple’s online Genius Bar appointment page now, you’ll be prompted to enter your Apple ID and password in order to confirm... |
Legislation Tracking And Prediction Startup FiscalNote Raises $1.2M From Mark Cuban And Others | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | , a startup that helps businesses stay up-to-date with state and local legislation, is announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from investor Mark Cuban, New Enterprise Associates, and First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund. When co-founder and CEO a couple of months ago, he told me that many business... |
iPhone 5S And 5C Will Still Not Do Simultaneous Data And Voice On Verizon Or Sprint | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | One of the longest-standing gripes about the iPhone on Verizon and Sprint networks will not change this time around. The new models of iPhone for those carriers will still not enable you to use both voice and data simultaneously to chat while browsing the web, Apple confirmed to us. Initially, FCC charts, dug up by , ... |
Zuckerberg’s Manifest Destiny: Connecting The 5 Billion People Without Internet | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | Facebook didn’t stop when it hit 1 billion users. And it won’t stop even if it connects everyone with web access. “To make the world more open and connected” really means — every human regardless of location or income. That’s why CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “retooling the company to take on a lot of harder problems... |
Giving You A Flavor Of Startup Alley At TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | It’s not possible to cover every single company in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt…. but we can give you a flavor of a handful with a quick run-though. Here’s just such a selection in the video above.
“We are building the world’s preferred buying experience for retailers and consumers. Think Starbucks mobile app... |
India Pavilion At Disrupt Showcases A Diverse Range Of Companies [TCTV] | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | TechCrunch is coming to India with a in November, so it’s only right that we ran though the companies on the India Pavilion at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. As you can see, they are a diverse bunch, from CRM to running Android in the cloud.
“Agile CRM is an all-in-one complete CRM solution having contact ma... |
As October Launch Approaches, BotObjects Releases Another Build Video | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | is a 3D printer company that promises “full-color” printing in a system that uses a set of colored filaments to extract colored plastic in layers. Like the , the ProDesk3D deposits plastic in layers and can print colors in bands around an object and not really in specific spots on a model. That said, they’ve (I can... |
We Catch Up With Our TechCrunch China Partner, TechNode, At Disrupt [TCTV] | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | is TechCrunch’s partner in China – many Techcrunch posts directly into Chinese on . So during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco we caught up with Kevin Chen of Technode. Together with founder , Chen writes for the bilingual blog that has been covering the VC and startup market in China for the last five years.... |
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