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Enigma Launches A New Developer Program That Gives API Access To Civic-Minded Hackers | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | It’s been a very busy few months since the Enigma team took home the , and co-founder Hicham Oudghiri took the stage here in San Francisco today to deliver an update on the company’s trajectory… and unveil a new program for developers looking to turn raw public data into something seriously valuable. Despite how much ... |
VC Titans Tom Perkins And Don Valentine Articulate What Makes A Good VC | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | Today at Disrupt SF, venture capital pioneers and shared their opinions about what makes a good bet when it comes to choosing companies to fund. As a reminder, Perkins co-founded in 1972 America’s premiere venture capital business, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, while Don Valentine founded Sequoia Capital in 1... |
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Zuckerberg Says The “Government Blew It” On The NSA Scandal | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | “I think the government blew it,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bluntly said about the NSA scandal . “We take our role very seriously,” he said. “It’s our job to protect everyone who uses Facebook. It’s our government’s job to protect all of us, our freedom and the economy. They did a bad job at balancing this.” Zucker... |
Startup Alley Shows Its Diversity With Companies From Cairo To Moscow | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 11 | Running across a tiny startup from Cairo or one from Moscow is part and parcel of Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt, which often has companies from the farthest-flung corners of the world. I came across when I was in Cairo this year so it was great to run into them on the Alley. Likewise, I was impressed by , th... |
With Gathr’s Custom Bundles, AOL Tries To Build A Subscription Business Beyond Dial-Up | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | One of the more awkward things about AOL is the fact that . Given the subscription business’ roots in dial-up Internet, it’s not surprising that — but with the launch of a new service called Gathr, the company is trying to turn things around. “It’s really about bringing in new subscribers,” said David Smith, vice pr... |
MLB’s iBeacon Experiment May Signal A Whole New Ball Game For Location Tracking | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | There’s been plenty of buzz about iBeacons and Bluetooth Low Energy radios — they’re supposed to do wonders for in-venue positioning, and plenty of companies have already expressed interest in deploying them in the field. But what is it like to actually stroll through a beacon-laden area? Curiously enough, Major League... |
AppSeed Relies On Computer Vision Tech And Your Phone To Speed Up UI Design | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 29 |
Digital designers point your eyes at this neat project which is utilising computer vision tech to speed up the early stages of the design process. The basic idea is to give designers a way to quickly transform the sketches in their (paper) notepad into a functioning UI prototype to test work flow and get feedb... |
Azimo Raises $1M Seed Funding To Take Its Money Transfer Service To Europe | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | It seems there’s still money be made in money transfers. , the UK-based social money transfer service that competes with legacy players Western Union and Moneygram, and to a lesser extent, PayPal, has raised just over $1 million in seed funding from the European arm of VC firm eVentures. Existing angel investors also ... |
The Upcoming Glass Development Kit Launch Will Finally Allow Google Glass To Live Up To Its Potential | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | The limited launched of Google Glass earlier this year was greeted with a lot of hype and the inevitable backlash, but one thing this first version of Glass didn’t show yet was the full potential of the platform. That’s because developers can’t do all that much with Glass right now. They can push messages and receive i... |
Video: Every iPhone Ever Gets Speed Tested Side-By-Side | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | Sure, each new iPhone is faster than the last.. . But how do these speed increases actually translate into day-to-day use? It’s one of life’s oldest questions; one that scholars and scientists have spent billions trying to answer, to no avail. Fine. Maybe not. But it is that’s cool to see put to the test in a two mi... |
What Games Are: Steam’s Big Bet | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | There had long been hints that Valve was up to something. Hints like Gabe Newell decrying the state of Windows 8 and speaking in favor of Linux. Hints like Big Picture, the TV-like dashboard. Hints like the Xi3’s boxy little machine. With new consoles and microconsoles starting to pop into existence, this week Valve fi... |
Generation Touch Will Redraw Consumer Tech | Contributor | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | Ten years ago, young adults and those in their late teens were among the fastest and earliest adopters of new social networks — Friendster, Myspace, and ultimately Facebook — and many other products that define us today. So we should be looking to today’s generation, who people often refer to as Millennials, to predi... |
The Harsh Realities Surrounding Mobile App Investing | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | TechCrunch from True Ventures likes to say: “Mobile is the only under-hyped thing in tech.” I think he’s right. Yet, for mobile developers and mobile founders out there, an overheating iOS app ecosystem hamstrung by challenges makes for a tough , a game many technology investors have often decided is not worth th... |
VetCloud Hopes To Unlock The Dormant Data In Veterinary Clinics Around The World | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | Unlocking the value hidden in data that has long gone unaggregated and unanalyzed is a hugely attractive proposition of big data and cloud-based SaaS startups, and newcomer is no exception. The startup was part of TechStars London, and while it’s targeting a very specific niche, it could hold the key to a problem tha... |
After Near-$1B Inventory Write-Down, BlackBerry Starts Selling Unlocked Smartphones Direct To U.S. Buyers | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | Well that was quick: Not long after in its retail stores (but continue selling them online), the Canadian smartphone maker has revealed a new direct selling model that it likely hopes will shore up that retail channel loss. BlackBerry now offers unlocked Q10 and Z10 smartphones via its own site, for $549.00 and $449.... |
Peerby’s Local Lending App Is Ready To Help Neighbours Participate In The Sharing Economy | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 29 | You’ve got stuff, but not all the stuff you need. Dutch startup and first cohort member is hoping to unlock the use value of that stuff with a collaborative consumption model that features some crucial differences when compared to others who’ve tried to turn caring into sharing for neighbourhoods. On Peerby, which ... |
“That’s The Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Heard Of.” | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | When Twitter last week about its forthcoming IPO, I got a bit . In 2006, when Twitter was entering the world as a side project of the podcasting startup , I had just left my first “career” in the film industry to try to make it in the tech industry. Web development was my day job at the time, but tech blogging beca... |
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Facebook And Internet.org Detail “1000X” Technologies They Hope Will Bring Earth Online | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | Air Traffic Control, HipHop, WebP, and Supplemental Downlink are some of the futuristic technologies that Facebook and its Internet.org partners will deploy to bring the Internet to the five billion people still not connected. A 70-page whitepaper by Internet.org partners Facebook, Qualcomm, and Ericsson details how ... |
Reddit Bans Search For Navy Yard Gunman | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | Reddit has thus far kept its promise to ban amateur manhunts. The site , known as a subreddit, which attempted to crowdsource the search for the gunman who on Monday. The gunman has recently been identified, without Reddit’s help, as Aaron Alexis. During the Boston bombing last spring, a community of Redditers a m... |
Secure Cellphone Maker GSMK Talks Cryptography In A Post-Snowden World | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | In a world where your every move is tracked, what would you pay for a secure cellphone? Dr. Björn Rupp is willing to bet it’s about $3,500. His company, builds cellphones that are secure from the ground up. Running a home-brew version of Android, they allow for completely secure, end-to-end communication with most, i... |
iStoryTime Debuts A “Netflix For Ebooks” For Kids | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | If a startup called , then is the children’s alternative. One of the oldest players in the kids’ interactive e-books app market is (aka iStoryTime), a company founded in 2009 and backed by . The company has been steadily growing its collection of digital, interactive e-books and apps, now reaching some 200 differ... |
The Uber App Now Lets You Tell Friends When You’ll Get There With A Live ETA Map | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | The Uber and, presumably, is today getting a couple of new features centered around estimated times of arrival. The app now lets you share your ETA with contacts from the app, letting them know exactly when you’ll arrive. The app also lets you text a live map of your trip to your contacts, letting them check in on ... |
With New File Preview And Mobile Experiences, Box Highlights Recent Acquisitions | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | showed off new versions of its file preview feature and iOS apps at its BoxWorks conference this morning. In doing so, it was also highlighting what recent acquisitions have brought to the company. The new preview, for example, was built on HTML5 document-viewing technology from Crocodoc, which earlier this year, an... |
Keen On… The NSA: Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Our Secrets? | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | Best-selling author is one of the world’s leading authorities on the NSA. At Disrupt SF 2013, he spoke on a great about online security, and afterwards I had the good fortune to interview him. So can we trust Silicon Valley with our secrets, I asked Bamford. Given the NSA’s seemingly infinite appetite to watch and... |
Box Will Add Metadata To Give More Context To Cloud Documents | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | announced onstage at its BoxWorks conference that it will be making the documents stored in its cloud storage system smarter, thanks to upcoming support for metadata. At first glance, this might not seem like a big deal (at least if you’re like me and find the word “metadata” to be inherently off-putting) but Chris Ye... |
SlideIdea Adds Interactivity, Polls & Feedback To Boring Presentations | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | A small, Shanghai-based startup called made its official debut at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley this past week, with a new take on presentation tools built for iPad first. Though this space is rife with competitors, including not only Apple’s own Keynote app, as well as , , , and others, what makes SlideIdea ... |
Ginger Software Adds Sentence Rephraser To Android Proofreading Keyboard To Reword Your Written English | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | If you’re already worried that journalists are writing for robots, it’s time to press the panic button: here’s an algorithm that can apparently rewrite journalists. Israeli natural language processing (NLP) technology startup , which makes , has added a new feature to its software that rewords entire sentences. It’s ... |
Hands-On With The botObjects ProDesk3D | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | After months of speculation and quite a bit of skepticism, we’re pleased to report that the is real, it works, and it really does print in color. How, exactly, is still under question – we weren’t given direct access to the innards of the machine – but we saw it working with our own eyes. Videographer Steve Long went... |
Luma For iPad Is A Personalized TV Guide For Streaming Video…With A Few New Tricks | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | Movie and TV recommendations app has been working to solve the “what to watch” problem for years. The company first launched as Inveni.com, a free web service backed by nearly $2 million in founder and , which helped users create their own “taste profiles” in order to serve up streaming video recommendations. Now th... |
Google Analytics To End Support For IE8 By Year’s End | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | , which launched in 2009, isn’t exactly a modern browser by any standards and it’s slowly turning into the new . Google stopped supporting Google Apps on IE8 , and today, the company that Google Analytics will also stop supporting it by the end of the year. The Google Analytics team says it made the decision becaus... |
Wearable Baby Monitor Developer Sproutling Raises $2.6M From First Round And Others To Raise Parenting IQ | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | Wearables aren’t just for adults anymore. There’s a new crop of startups hoping to give parents peace of mind and deliver more insights about young children and their sleeping patterns through wearable devices for babies. , a new startup coming out of stealth today, is hoping to raise parenting IQs through a new weara... |
PushPage Raises $1.7 Million For Its Q&A-Style Personal Homepage Platform | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | Cambridge-based is launching its personal homepage and Q&A platform today, backed by $1.7 million in seed funding. The product, live now on both web and , offers users an online presence where they can publicize their likes and interests through a series of interview-like questions PushPage provides, as opposed to t... |
Bump Mobile Contact Sharing App Acquired By Google, Will Stay Alive For Now | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 16 | After raising nearly $20 million and becoming one of the most downloaded mobile apps but failing to find real revenue, Bump Technologies has been acquired by Google. Its namesake app Bump lets you physically tap phones together to share contact info and more, and it will stay open for download. Congratulations might no... |
The Danger And Opportunity Of The Intermediate Metric | Contributor | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | Are social media companies overvalued? The question is not just a matter of revenue multiples (low or high), but rather whether that revenue is actually generating new sales for advertisers. Google convinced the world to believe in the click, Facebook has done the same with the Like, Twitter with the follower, and Pi... |
The Science Behind Using Online Communities To Change Behavior | Sean Young | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | Is it just me, or is it impossible to talk to technology entrepreneurs without mentioning user engagement and behavior? I’m a behavioral psychologist, so that might be why I keep having conversations about engagement, but I don’t think that’s the only reason. I think it’s because entrepreneurs have realized that beha... |
NSA’s Targeting Prowess Doesn’t Extend To Ads | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | If the NSA only invited TechCrunch to its birthday party, it’d have to eat its cake alone. While we aren’t big fans of the NSA, it appears to fancy our readers, as it consistently advertises on our site. This makes me slightly uncomfortable, as I have spent a good portion of my time these past few months and the NS... |
CrunchWeek: Microsoft’s New Surface 2, BlackBerry’s $4.7B Buyout, Big Changes In Fundraising | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | This time around, , (I didn’t know that was his nickname until I saw it on his TechCrunch , but I dig it) and I spouted off our opinions on from Microsoft — and if they can the lackluster Surface 1 sales, in a deal valuing the company at less than $5 billion, and how the SEC already seems to be impacting ... |
Advertising’s Logged-In User Revolution Is Brewing | Contributor | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | Native advertising may be the buzzword stealing the attention of the advertising technology landscape, though a much quieter revolution is brewing around the space: the fight for the logged-in user overtaking cookie-based advertising. You see it manifesting itself from all corners: Google’s relentless investment in G... |
Good News: We’re Not Axing Net Neutrality. Bad News: US Gov Probably Shutting Down | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | The intersection of fiscal politics, national crisis, and technology regulation , as there should be no overlapping space between the three issues. And yet. Good news: We’re not ending net neutrality. The bad news, depending on your politics, is that we’re likely going to shut down the United States government. That s... |
NSA Uses Facebook And GPS Data To Identify Suspects In Networks Of Americans | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | The National Security Agency has slowly been mapping it’s own massive network of suspects with associations to US citizens. The New York Times obtained documents that how the NSA is utilizing social data to map intelligence connections. From the “Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge... |
Should Facebook Start Its Own Version Of Google Ventures? | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | Over the past year, Facebook has seen its fair share of departures from employees and executives who are either starting a VC fund or camping out at a firm to figure out what their next startup or company will be. In the past two weeks, product manager , and rumor has it he is starting a VC fund. Facebook engineering ... |
Gillmor Gang: Sensorship | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — new iPhone + new OS = continued Apple domination. Twitter vacillates between NYSE and NASDAQ. Age of Context The Book ships as publishing gestation shrinks from 9 months to 2 weeks. It is only toward the end of the show that... |
The Genius Of Twitter: A Paean | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | It’s the first app I launch in the morning, and the first I install on a new phone, and my most-visited web site. Which is strange, because I don’t much like most social media. I’m on Facebook only reluctantly; 90% of my posts there are automatic reposts from my tweet stream. I want to like Google+, but I keep failing.... |
Bizness Apps Launches DIY Website Builder, Looks To Become A Full-Service Digital Marketing Suite For SMBs | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 28 | Once upon a time, if you wanted your own website, you either had to speak fluent Internet, or write a large check to someone who did. However, thanks that have sprouted over the last five years — like Weebly, Wix and Squarespace, to name a few — the barriers to building a snappy website have vanished. Today, website ... |
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Livefyre Opens London Sales Office To Expand Amongst European Publishers | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | Following it’s of Storify just the other week, a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, has announced that it’s opened an office in London to serve the UK/European markets. It’s already bagged some customers, including News UK, Times Online, The Sun, Fabulous magazine, The Scottish Sun, Decca Re... |
Before & After iOS 7: How Your Favorite Apps Are Changing | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | Flat. With one word Apple didn’t just change its look on mobile, but mandated an industry-wide face-lift. For , chrome, navigation buttons, and textured title bars are getting replaced with more content, gesture-controlled navigation, and single-colored panels. Here’s a before and after look at the redesigns rolled ou... |
Apple iOS 7 Review: A Major Makeover That Delivers, But Takes Some Getting Used To | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | This is a big week for Apple; it has two new phones hitting store shelves, and a brand new operating system that becomes available Sept. 18 for compatible devices. The new mobile operating system is a big visual change, and is likely to feel somewhat disorienting to users upgrading from iOS 6, but in most important way... |
iPhone 5s Review: Apple’s Latest Smartphone Goes For (And Gets) The Gold | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | Apple’s new iPhone 5s is set to go on sale this Friday, Sept. 20, and the phone is already generating a lot of buzz. The 5s is the more advanced of two new Apple iPhones, and offers a lot of technical advantages over the iPhone 5c also launching the same day. Apple has worked some behind-the-scenes magic with its lates... |
How To Decide Between The New Apple iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | Apple is launching two new iPhones, the and the , and the big question for many is going to be which is worth their hard-earned clams. Both present attractive packages, as detailed in our reviews, but is there a strong reason to choose one over the other? Here’s a breakdown of the main considerations for those facin... |
Kevin Systrom Sees Instagram Turning Into A Fashion Commerce Platform | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | is not yet launching ads on its photo and video-sharing network, but it has plans to in the next year. This evening Kevin Systrom, its co-founder and CEO, made an appearance in London where he described how in some ways it is already on the way there. On Monday, Systrom went to watch a presentation of the Spring/Summe... |
iPhone 5c Review: Apple’s Colorful Take On The iPhone Is A Refreshing Change Of Design Pace | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | Apple’s iPhone release schedule has been predictable in the past when it comes to number of devices: each year, a single new smartphone. For 2013, that’s changed with the iPhone 5c, as for the first time Apple has eschewed simply bumping down the outgoing iPhone as a lower cost option, and has instead released hardware... |
NSA Spying Justification Declassified | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), America’s super-secret spy court, has the legal justification for the National Security Agency’s phone record dragnet program. , judges had declared that every single call record was relevant to the fight against terrorism, and thus legal for spy agencies to collec... |
Yep, Social Discovery Startup Sonar Is Dead (And Its CEO Explains Why) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | So, uh, what’s going on with ? The startup, which promised to connect users with relevant people nearby (using data from Facebook, Foursquare and elsewhere), seemed to have disappeared from the web, as noted earlier this month. But we’ve been trying to get in touch with the team to figure out if the startup was trul... |
TC Cribs: eHarmony’s Santa Monica HQ, Where Love Is Definitely In The Air | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | Welcome to a brand new episode of , the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the walls of the tech industry’s hottest companies to see what it’s like for the smarty-pants staffers who work there every day. It’s not often that a tech company’s office can be described as “romantic,” but that’s exactly the theme of... |
EA Anoints Dark Horse Candidate And EA Sports EVP Andrew Wilson As New CEO | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | EA elevated Andrew Wilson, the company’s executive vice president overseeing EA Sports, . The other widely rumored internal contender was President of EA Labels Frank Gibeau. Wilson is a young and hungry up-and-comer within EA who was looked at slightly later in the selection process, which has been going on for six ... |
Google Expands Chrome Data Compression Feature On iOS | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | Google has begun expanding access to its feature to more users, specifically those on iOS devices who have the company’s app installed. The feature’s existence was announced some time ago, but TechCrunch understands that Google is now rolling out notifications about its iOS availability to more users, making many a... |
Inside Microsoft’s New $40 Billion Stock Repurchase Program | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | a new $40 billion share repurchase authorization with no expiration date. With the move, Microsoft in effect to buy its own shares whenever it wants to. The announcement came with a dividend increase of 22 percent to $0.28 per share. Its stock has responded by doing very little, rising just 0.39 percent in regular t... |
Apple’s ‘App Resurrection’ Feature Great For Customers, But Opaque To Developers | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | In the early hours today, a discovered that Apple had updated the App Store to allow users on old iOS versions to ‘ version of apps. At first glance, this is a great feature and should benefit customers with devices stuck on old versions of iOS. But the opaque nature of how the feature is implemented for developers ... |
Adobe’s Creative Cloud Surpasses 1M Subscribers, But Q3 2013 Revenue Falls To $995.1M | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | Adobe today reported quarterly earnings for its third financial quarter of the year. While the company another decline in revenue and earnings per share to $995.1 million and $0.32 respectively — something most — the company also announced another quarter of impressive growth for its subscription service. More im... |
Adobe Gets Serious About Hardware, Will Start Selling Its Mighty Digital Pen And Napoleon Ruler In The First Half Of 2014 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | Adobe’s first foray into hardware is about to . When Adobe its thin-tipped at its MAX conference earlier this year, they were still considered experiments. Even then, though, Adobe’s David Macy that these projects were more than just hobbies, so it is not a huge surprise that the company now says it will in th... |
Garmin’s New Forerunner 220 & 620 Running Watches Are More Colorful And More Capable | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | There’s plenty of commotion surrounding the smartwatch space these days, but let’s not forget that some of us have essentially been strapping tiny computers to our wrists for years now. GPS-enabled running watches are a serious tool in a runner’s arsenal, and Garmin recently outed two new ones — the — to help runners... |
Distill Raises $1.3M To Make Technical Recruiting, Hiring Dead Simple | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | With recruiters viciously competing for the best talent in the Valley, startups end up with plenty of paperwork and files to contend with. A San Francisco-based startup called is looking to make recruiting dead simple and just picked up $1.3 million in funding in a round with Felicis Ventures, China’s Innovation Work... |
After Bono’s Visit, Ghana’s MEST Moves Up A Gear With New VC Head | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 17 | It’s been fascinating to track what has become a groundbreaking nonprofit project to teach tech startup entrepreneurship from the ground up in Ghana, Africa. We first covered the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) last year in a , Accra. Then last month, world famous U2 lead singer Bono to the pro... |
Google Expands Role In Digital Education, Teams Up With edX To Build A YouTube For Free Online Courses | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | It’s turning into a busy week for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers, and the tech companies that love them — particularly Google. On Monday, Udacity co-founder and CEO Sebastian Thrun and California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the , a consortium of online organizations dedicated to closing , develop... |
TurnCast Is A Sat-Nav App With Predictive Weather Smarts To Reroute You Before A Snow Storm Strikes | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | U.S. weather app maker , a bootstrapped startup based in Mountain View which has around 1.7 million users across six extant apps and turns a profit, is launching a new app called TurnCast which combines real-time and predictive rain and snow data with voice-prompted navigation — so drivers can change their travel plan... |
Social Media Marketing Platform MarketMeSuite Raises $1.25M From Talus Holdings | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | Social media management and marketing platform has landed a new strategic investment of $1.25 million from , a media technology holding company. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup says the new funding is earmarked for adding new functionality to its platform, marketing, and customer service and support as Ma... |
The Final 6 Disrupt SF Startups: Cota, Dryft, Fates Forever, Layer, Regalii And Soil IQ | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | This year’s has hit attendance records and been one of the most exciting we’ve ever had. Over the past few days, 3200 people have walked through the concourse to watch Valley titans and newcomers hash it out with the TechCrunch team — including Marc Benioff’s moving story today about . Tomorrow, we’ve got talks fro... |
TaDaweb Lets You Create ‘Small Data’ Mashups Without Writing A Single Line Of Code | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | There is much talk about “Big Data” and the power it can provide. But with can come associated with the cost and complexity of wrangling all that information. According to — a company displaying this week at — the data many businesses are trying to analyze is simple and the results being searched for are known.... |
You Had Me At Vello | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 9 | 10 |
With short-form internet video reaching more and more consumers ( , ), timing for bringing their video greeting card app to market is excellent. In short, Vello is an app that creates these video greeting cards by allowing one or more people to capture six second videos of themselves celebrating or communicat... |
Inbox Is An Elegant, Unified Mobile Messaging App That Wants To Be Mailbox For SMS | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | Is there room for another mobile messaging app? It’s undoubtedly a very crowded space, packed with veteran behemoths and fast growing upstarts duking it out for users’ attention. But New Jersey-based startup, , which dropped by the at TechCrunch Disrupt to demo its iOS app ahead of launch, reckons there’s room for ... |
eGood Is A Mobile Payment And Loyalty System That Helps Users Give Back | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | , a new startup from Glendora, California, was chosen as one of the top startups to emerge out of Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today for its charitable spin on mobile payments and loyalty. In other words, eGood is building an in-store check-in and loyalty platform that enables those patronizing their favorite... |
Forget “Cheap”, The iPhone 5c Is Clearly The iPhone Jony Ive Wanted For iOS 7 | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | The “c” in the iPhone 5c title doesn’t stand for “cheap”. It stands for “clueless”. As in, we were all clueless in our speculation on Apple’s motivations for creating this device. (Okay, it actually seems to stand for “color”, but humor me.) After sitting through Apple’s unveiling today and more importantly, watching t... |
Yoyo Raises $1.2M To Launch New Kind Of Mobile Payment And Loyalty Platform | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | Roaming the noisy byways of TechCrunch Startup Alley I found a startup today that plans to create a new kind of mobile payment and loyalty platform. has today – at Disrupt SF – announced it’s raised $1.2 million in a seed round to launch a platform designed to create – they say – a faster, simpler way to buy goods, v... |
Soil IQ Makes A Smart Probe For Your Garden | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | is a company that’s bringing the “Internet of things” trend to urban and rural farming. They’re building a probe that streams soil fertility and weather data back to a paired app. Founded by a Princeton grad and soil scientist who has worked with hundreds of Kenyan farmers to increase crop yields, mission is to hel... |
InsideMaps Uses 3D Home Models Captured In Minutes To Build The Future Of Furniture Buying | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | The team, which is launching its app today on the Disrupt SF 2013 stage, is applying 3D mapping and capture technology to an interesting problem: How do you visualize furniture purchases in your home before you buy them? According to InsideMaps, you do it by using your smartphone to scan the inside of your home, allo... |
Beestar Launches With Ultra-Precise Quantified Self Device Aimed At Pro Sports | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | In a world where the “quantified self” is now mainstream, Beestar is launching to offer one of the most precise location and activity trackers in the world. And not only that, the technology provided by Beestar is embeddable in almost any type of sports equipment, from tennis rackets to ski equipment and everything in ... |
The Russians Have Come… Skolkovo Startups Hit TechCrunch Disrupt | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | Russia is a booming market for startups as the county’s Internet access and 4G networks ramp up. It’s now the biggest single market in Europe, passing Germany a year ago. At the same time the government realises it needs to ween the economy off its historical addiction to oil, gas and heavy industry. Thus it’s helped... |
Crowdtilt Goes Mobile With First App, Will Soon Let Anyone Launch A Crowdfunding Campaign On The Go | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | As we’ve discussed before, thanks to a handful of names, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo and the gaggle of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding is on the “Big screen.” Yet, the team behind Crowdtilt — also known as the Y Combinator-backed startup building a “group fundraising” platform for project... |
Tidepool Optimizes Your Workday For Cognitive Highs And Lows | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | Everyone has cognitive highs and lows. Some of us are night owls, while others are early birds. is a mobile app that learns when you’re at your cognitive peak and makes recommendations for how to structure your daily workflow. “For example, the Snoozer game assesses cognitive processing speed, a cognitive ability inf... |
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Trail’s Platform For Teaching Digital Literacy Skills To U.S. Job Seekers Exits Beta & Launches In Spanish At TC Disrupt | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | is a rare thing indeed: a startup not aiming to appeal to elite geeks. Quite the opposite in fact: Trail targets the circa 60 million+ Americas who aren’t digitally literate and could benefit from help to learn how to use the Internet. Its core service, , , offers free lessons to job seekers on using the Internet to... |
Curiator Is A Pinterest-Style Marketplace To Help You Discover, And One Day Buy, The Art You Like | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | , a new app launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, is not the first website that aims for people to discover and buy art, but it hopes its beautiful design, interactivity, and intelligent algorithms will mean that it will be the first to actually work. As co-founder Moenen Erbuer sees it, the art world was one of th... |
Kickstarter Is Adding Australia And New Zealand To Expand Its International Crowdfunding Network | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is expanding its platform to two markets . It is opening up its network to Australia and New Zealand-based projects “in the very near future,” the company says, drumming up interest two days after the site , and comes some months after it went to its first market outside the U.S., th... |
With Its New Licensing Service, Feed.fm Aims To Spread Music Across The Web | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 10 | just launched at Disrupt SF as part of the Startup Battlefield — and if the service takes off, you may soon be hearing a lot more music on your favorite websites and apps. Co-founder and CEO Jeff Yasuda is already familiar with the music business. He launched music services Fuzz.com and Blip.fm (which ), and he conti... |
Ballmer’s Biggest Regret Is Missing Out On “The New Device Called The Phone” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | Wrapping its analyst meetup, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed his largest regret regarding product choices: Missing out on phones, which he claims has harmed Windows itself. According to the live transcript as provided by NASDAQ, Ballmer was blunt in his description of why the error was committed [Lightly edited by... |
Microsoft’s Office 365 Consumer Edition Doubles To 2M Subscribers Since May | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | Today at its analyst event, Microsoft announced a new milestone for its Office 365 Home Premium product: 2 million subscribers. That’s up 100 percent, or 1 million subscribers, since May 29. Office 365 Home Premium is the company’s cloud productivity suite for consumers that they pay for on a subscription basis. Previo... |
Microsoft’s Business In Three Charts | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | Microsoft, like other public companies, doesn’t like to disclose more about its business than it has to, but in the middle of a reorganization and a very public CEO search, a little openness could go far to settling the nerves of jittery investors. Today at its analyst nerdmoot, the company showed three charts that str... |
WTF Is Calico, And Why Does Google Think Its Mysterious New Company Can Defy Aging? | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | The sad truth is that, if everyone on the Forbes 400 list simultaneously (and tragically) got cancer, or Parkinsons (or any given disease for that matter), the world would probably be well on its way to finding a cure for these illnesses, thanks to the enormous wealth that would be incentivized to back those efforts. F... |
WSJ Confirms It’s Parting Ways With All Things D, Adding 20 New Hires And International Conference | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | The Dow Jones-owned Wall Street Journal has that it will part ways with All Things D. The media publication — and conference powerhouse — is still in talks with potential suitors but its relationship with the Journal is dead. The news was first reported by . Negotiations have been going on for some time and sources ... |
Playing Starcraft 2 Might Make You Smarter | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | This won’t come as a surprise if you’re familiar with the game’s genre, but playing Starcraft 2 might make you smarter. Starcraft 2 is a so-called “real-time strategy game,” a form of video game that involves resource management and military planning in parallel, while restricting the amount of information that each pl... |
Announcing The First Hardware Battlefield Where One Startup Will Win $50,000 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | Hardware is king. VCs are investing, hackers are taking notice, and a subculture of “artisanal” design, prototyping, and manufacturing has grown almost overnight. And now we’re looking for some of the best hardware startups in the world to compete in something completely new and completely cool: The TechCrunch Hardware... |
Why High-Skilled Immigration Reform Is Stuck | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | In April, the Senate put together a that was then sent to the House of Representatives where it currently languishes. Once wrapped into the larger comprehensive immigration reform push, high-skilled immigration reform’s success became dependent on the passage of the full bill. It wasn’t always this way. In the Senate... |
The Caktus Hug Sensor Makes Sure You’re Drinking Enough Water | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | Summer’s all but over, but it’s no less important to stay hydrated. According to the CDC 43 percent of Americans drink fewer than four glasses of water a day, and while the actual amount you should drink varies from person to person, four glasses probably doesn’t cut it. That’s where , a neat Finnish hardware startup ... |
15Five, The Employee-Manager Feedback Network, Launches 2.0 With Like Buttons, Private Messaging And More | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | , a startup backed by the likes of that provides a platform to help the working world communicate better with its managers, has had a dose of its own medicine. Taking feedback collected from its users since its , the company is today rolling out a rebuilt version 2.0, with a smoother interface, an easier way to get ... |
iOS 7 Lock Screen Vulnerability Discovered Which Gives Access To Photos And Social Sharing, Apple Is Working On Fix | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | Vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS lock screens have become a fixture of new iOS releases over the past few years, and iOS 7 is not exempt. A new method for bypassing the passcode on a lock screen has been discovered by idle hands and reported by . . The lock screen bypass method involves sliding up Control Center, tappi... |
Pinterest Will Start Showing Ads As Traffic Keeps Growing But Shifts To Mobile | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | After four years, Pinterest is taking its first serious steps towards monetization [Update: as its traffic moves from the web to mobile]. CEO Ben Silbermann “we’re going to start experimenting with promoting certain pins” because “it’s so important that Pinterest is a service that will be here to stay.” The announcem... |
Google Makes Its New Flat Logo And “App Launcher” Style Nav Menu Official, Will Roll Out Over The Next Few Weeks | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | Google just got a refreshed flat logo and the black navigation bar is gone. Earlier this morning, we reported that Google’s new “App Launcher” style navigational menu was just Turns out, it is much closer to launching, as the company just . Gone is the black bar that runs atop all of Google’s properties. It’s now be... |
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