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Google Makes Quickoffice For iOS And Android Free For Everyone | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | It’s been more than a year since , a mobile app for editing Microsoft Office files on tablets. Over the last few months, it has slowly expanded the tool’s availability by making free for Google Apps for Business customers. Everybody else still had to pay for the apps. Today, however, it is changing this policy and is ... |
Kamcord Brings In-Game Screen Recording Tools To Android | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | Just about every time I’ve spoken to founder Matt Zitzmann in the year since the company launched, I’ve asked one question toward the end of our conversations to gauge the team’s progress: “Have you guys figured out Android support yet?” Every time the answer has been “no.” The ability to record gameplay videos on a m... |
Branding Brand Rides M-Commerce Wave To $9.5 Million Series B | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | You may not be familiar with the m-commerce vendor known as , but you’ve likely encountered its work. The company, which is today announcing a $9.5 million Series B, powers the mobile e-commerce and for more than 200 of the top retailers worldwide, including American Eagle Outfitters, Costco, Ralph Lauren, Sephora... |
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Why Zuckerberg Thinks Government Should Not “Move Fast And Break Things” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | Silicon Valley has dramatically altered many aspects of our lives, but Congress still operates in the same way its horse-riding forefathers did. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not only optimistic about Congress, but thinks its general operating principles are A-OK. “The cynical view is that everything is broken an... |
California Regulator Passes First Ridesharing Rules, A Big Win For Lyft, SideCar, And Uber | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | The California Public Utilities Commission has unanimously approved new regulations around ridesharing services such as Lyft, SideCar and UberX (as initially noted in a number of on ). The CPUC proposed the rules back in July, offering a legal framework for ridesharing services to operate throughout the state. As we... |
Fly Or Die: LEGO Mindstorms EV3 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | . Even the name is formidable, but just wait until you connect the dots and fire up these dragon-esque robots. The EV3 set of robotic, programmable LEGOs is the very best version of this 14-year-old product line we’ve ever seen. The most notable edition is that users can program directly from the smart brick, the com... |
Apple Adjusts ‘App Resurrection’ Policy, Will Allow Developers To Restrict Versions Offered | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 19 | Earlier this week, we of apps to users was good for the downloader, but not so great for the developer. Today, Apple has adjusted its policy and will allow developers to choose not to offer old versions. Apple made the announcement on its (emphasis ours): Previous versions of your apps are now available for re‑down... |
Pin-Digital, The NSFW Startup Behind (Ahem) PinSex And PinGay, Raises $800K | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | Pin-Digital, a Barcelona-based startup that created and , says that it has raised $800,000 in funding. The names are pretty self-explanatory — they’re both Pinterest-style sites where users can save, share, and browse adult content. It turns out that there are several Pinterest-inspired for porn sites, including an... |
Facebook Starts Up Its Mobile Ad Network Again, Focuses On Improved Targeting | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | After a nine-month pause, is taking its mobile ad network out for another spin. “We’re running a second test to show Facebook ads off Facebook in mobile ads and on mobile sites. Our goal is to improve the relevancy of the ads people see. Since this is a test, we don’t have additional details to share,” a Facebook rep... |
Singapore App Maker MyHero Raises $10M Series A For Its Stock Market Trading Gamification App, TradeHero | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | An app that lets people play the stock market without the risk of losing any real money has turned its virtual cash game into a pile of actual Benjamins, by closing out a $10 million funding round — one of the largest Series A rounds for a consumer startup in the region, it claims. The app in question, , is made by a ... |
After Kickstarter Success, Ministry of Supply Lands $1.1M To Expand Its Tech-Savvy Men’s Line | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | Founded by a couple of MIT grads in 2010, set out on a mission to breathe a little fresh air into the starchy world of business attire. Using some of the same technology found in NASA’s space suits, the Boston-based startup developed a line of more “technologically-savvy,” adaptive dress shirts that help control pers... |
Shutting Down The US Government Likely Won’t Slow The NSA’s Surveillance Activities | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | According to an unnamed government official , shutting down the U.S. government wouldn’t lead to the National Security Agency (NSA) halting its controversial, and broad surveillance efforts. The United States may shut down in short order, due to political intransigence between the two chambers of Congress. Republicans... |
House Republicans Want To Kill Net Neutrality As Part Of Their Debt Ceiling Bill | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | Not sure what to make of this episode, but it matters and so here we are: A draft of provisions that Republican leaders in the House are attempting to demand in return for allowing the debt ceiling to be raised includes the elimination of net neutrality. The language of the legislative outline that the calls for the ... |
Microsoft’s Mobile Platforms Suffer From Flagging Developer Interest | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | Appcelerator, a company that supports multi-platform development, released its quarterly developer report today. The survey helps track market interest in the various platforms, tacking changing winds. The third-quarter details Microsoft’s difficult market position: The percentage of respondents (developers, CIOs, et... |
Sudan’s Internet Back Up After A Day In The Dark | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | The Republic of Sudan was digitally from the world today, amid government protests. The government likely cut the cord to stem outrage over the termination of fuel subsidies, though they have yet to issue an official statement on the matter. “There are 4 physical routes from Sudan to the rest of the world. So, it is ... |
Two iPhones Diverged… | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | What I’m about to say may be considered blasphemy amongst a certain group of my peers: I think I like the iPhone 5c more than the iPhone 5s. This unexpected revelation came about as I’ve been testing both devices this past week. , I figured I wouldn’t pay much mind to the iPhone 5c since it’s largely the same device a... |
3D Robotics Raises $30 Million To Legitimize Aerial Drones For Business | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | The very mention of the word “drone” often conjures up images of autonomous machines cruising over battlefields, but that’s far from the future has in store for its own aerial machines. And thanks a recent infusion of capital, that future may be closer than you think. 3D Robotics announced earlier today that it locke... |
Google Improves Knowledge Graph With Comparisons And Filters, Brings Cards & Cross-Platform Notifications To Mobile | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | Google is turning 15 tomorrow and, fittingly, it’s by announcing a couple of new features for Google Search. The mobile search interface, for example, is about to get a bit of a redesign with results that are clustered on cards “so you can focus on the answers you’re looking for.” Those answers, Google today announce... |
Facebook Hires Data Privacy Litigator Ashlie Beringer As New Deputy Counsel | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | Between its struggles with the NSA and negotiations with privacy regulators, Facebook needs a lawyer that can fight to protect its data, and its ability to use yours. So today it announced that its new Deputy Counsel is Ashlie Beringer, a litigation partner at Palo Alto’s Gibson Dunn and co-chair of the law firm’s Info... |
DataSift Now Offering Historical Social Data Analysis Across Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Bitly & More Combined | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | Fresh on the heels of its for access to the Tumblr “firehose,” social data platform DataSift is putting that data, and more, to good use with the launch of a new API that performs historical analysis across Twitter, Tumblr, and Bit.ly “firehoses,” as well as data pulled from forums, blogs and public Facebook data. Wi... |
Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, “Hummingbird” | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | Have you noticed recently that Google has gotten a bit better at offering up direct answers to questions? If so, there’s a reason for it: they recently flipped the switch on a new search algorithm they call “Hummingbird”, which focuses on parsing searches as complex questions. Google mentioned the new algorithm for the... |
Microsoft Updates Windows Phone App Studio With New Graphics, SkyDrive Integration | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | Microsoft’s bid to help anyone to build applications for its Windows Phone platform continued this week, with an to that improves the graphical diversity of apps and improved SkyDrive integration. TechCrunch felt that Windows Phone App Studio was an and actually , building our very own app for fun on the day it ... |
Google Research’s Open Project Makes It Easy To Project Android Apps Onto Touch Screens | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | For the last year or so, has been working on a project that aims to make it easier to migrate tasks between different devices. The premise of this work is that you are currently using a number of computers, smartphones and tablets every day. Even though much of your data is stored in the cloud, Google that “there a... |
Facebook Lets You Edit Posts After Sharing On Android And Web Now, iOS Soon | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | Typo ruin your social media masterpiece? Facebook is starting to let you edit a post’s text after you publish it. The feature comes to the web and in an update today, and to . Previously you had to delete your post, lose all your Likes and comments, and repost to edit something. Android users also get emotion and ac... |
(RED) Partner Apple Has Raised Over $65M For AIDS Relief In Total | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | (RED) announced early today that its partner Apple had helped it raise more than $65 million to finance programs which include prevention, treatment, counseling, HIV testing and care services. The announcement was made by U2 singer Bono at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting. The $65 million means that Apple has rais... |
Google Updates Their iOS Search App With Google Now Push Notifications | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 26 | This morning at an oddly mysterious* event in Mountain View, Google announced a minor, but not insignificant, update to their Google Search app for iOS: Push Notifications. So, what does all that mean for you? Mostly, that Google Now for iOS will be able to alert you of things it’s noticed without you having to enter t... |
BitWall Allows Publishers To Make Money Through Bitcoin Micropayments | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 21 | Here’s another way that digital currency Bitcoin could have a big impact, according to startup : it could give online publishers a real alternative to putting up paywalls or relying solely on ads for revenue. The argument for micropayments is probably familiar to most of you: You may not want to pay a big subscription... |
Trainspotting: Hands On With The Mondaine Retro Automatic Watch | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 21 | This weekend’s watch review is focused on the Mondaine Retro Automatic, a mechanical model that hovers right about the $600 price point — a rare departure into the bargain section for this series. The model I tested is unique for a few reasons although, in the end, this watch is less about the feature set and more abou... |
High-Skill Immigration Reform Likely Dead In 2013 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 21 | After much speech and pomp, it appears that general immigration reform is dead in 2013, ending with it the chance of positive change to how we handle high-skill immigration. It didn’t have to end this way, but here we are and we need to face the current reality. The Washington Post’s that in the House, the so-calle... |
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Atlantis, The Flashy Silk Road Alternative, Shuts Down | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 21 | Atlantis was supposed to be a “better” alternative to the popular, but hidden, Silk Road market. In short, it allowed the average user to buy and sell drugs, contraband, and whatever else using an encrypted web session and . Now it’s sunk. The site launched in June to much fanfare, including write-ups from . Hidden b... |
CrunchWeek: The iPhone 5s Cat Paw Test, Google’s Calico And Bump’s Exit | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 21 | It’s been a week chock-full of news in the tech world, so what better way to cap it off than by watching a brand-new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers together to talk about the most interesting stories from the past seven days. This week, , and I talked about the release o... |
Gillmor Gang: Under My Thumb | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 9 | 21 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — collected iPhone 5’s from the four corners of the tech world. Danny Sullivan ordered the elusive gold one at midnight in L.A., Scoble hit the midtown Apple Store in the Big Apple, John Borthwick got his via the betawor... |
Why You Need To Pay Attention To General Solicitation | Contributor | 2,013 | 9 | 21 | On Monday, the legal framework for startup fundraising will change. Because of the JOBS Act, you will be able to publicly announce that you’re raising. This is not crowdfunding — you still have to raise from accredited (“rich”) investors. But, by raising in public, you will have to work harder to verify that your inv... |
‘Scuse Me While I Solve This Immigration Problem | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 9 | 21 | There’s a crippling talent shortage out there, stalking the streets of Silicon Valley; just ask any Valley executive in the choir crying out for . But the , , and — an odd triumvirate if ever I saw one — disagree, singing back their own united refrain: “The STEM shortage is a myth!” And, as usual, everyone is wr... |
Spanish Pirate Site Owners To Get 6 Years Of Jail Time, But Users Off The Hook | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 21 | Spain has long had a difficult reputation as one of the heaviest users of file-sharing services, crippling music and entertainment sales in the country for years. That’s the way the cookie crumbles, some might say. But it’s affected relations with Hollywood for years and threatened to land it back on a U.S. government ... |
Monkeying Around At The TC Disrupt Hackathon | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 9 | 7 | It’s not often that we get to see the Crunchies Monkey. When he’s not busy or taking a , he’s usually working hard to identify all the hottest new startups that have launched every year. That takes a lot of patience and focus. And most of all, a lot of bananas. But today, hackers at the TC Disrupt Hackathon got a ... |
CrunchWeek: Samsung’s Galaxy Gear, Microsoft-Nokia, And Braintree Acquisition Talks | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 7 | It’s that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers together in the TCTV studio to chat about the most interesting tech news stories from the past seven days. This week, and I chatted about announcement of Samsung’s new smartwatch, ; Microsoft’s of Nokia’s devices and... |
The TC Disrupt Hackathon 2013 Is Officially Underway | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 7 | The not only marks the beginning of Disrupt SF 2013, but it also marks the beginning of potentially hundreds of new products, services, and gadgets. 1,200 hackers have filled the San Francisco Design Center to build whatever their heart desires. They’ll have a handful of at their disposal and hanging in the bal... |
The NSA Can Read Some Encrypted Tor Traffic | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 7 | Security expert has done a bit of research and posts that the encryption standard used by earlier versions of the “secure” Tor protocol is most probably insecure and readable by the NSA. The run version 2.2 of the software which uses 1024 bit RSA/DH encryption. This is the same encryption standard that and can be... |
The Hash-Hole, And 6 Other People That Ruin Instagram | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 7 | Facebook may have , and Twitter may be . But if you were to ask the next young, hip person you saw which social network they love most, odds are they’ll name Instagram. But as Instagram grows, annoying behaviors sprout up like weeds. Beware, dear Instagrammers, these pitfalls that will make people hate you. (Or worse... |
Diveboard Targets Highly Active Niche Diver Community For Ecommerce Opportunity | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | French startup was at TechCrunch Disrupt SF for day one of Startup Alley today, demoing its social network and e-commerce platform aimed at the thriving and avid niche of community of divers. According to the company, the market is worth approximately $2 billion annually in Queensland, Australia, alone, where the Gre... |
Gillmor Gang: Running On Empty | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 9 | 7 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — why September 10 will be a turning point for Tim Cook, why the Microsoft/Nokia acquisition/Ballmer resignation had it backwards, why iWatch stands for software not hardware. Confusion makes for interesting times, or something... |
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It’s Almost Time To Throw Out Your Books | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 9 | 7 | The near-unthinkable has happened. The are evolving. The publishing industry’s long war against technology, the future, and its customers may finally be coming to a close. This week Amazon introduced , “an innovative new program which enables you to offer your Kindle book at a discount when readers purchase your p... |
Pplconnect Launches Its Private Beta For A Virtual Smartphone Platform You Can Use Anywhere | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt this year is underway, and is one of the companies exhibiting today. This Montreal-based startup, co-founded by Jenviev Azzolin and Densil D’Sa, is looking to make your entire smartphone a virtual device, accessible anywhere, at any time, from any device so long as you have an Inte... |
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom On New Online Education Initiatives: “If This Doesn’t Wake Them Up, I Don’t Know What Will” | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | This morning, former San Francisco Mayor and current Lieutenant Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and Udacity co-founder and CEO Sebastian Thrun took the stage to talk to TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis about technology and the fissures it’s creating in higher education. Lately, the colleges and universities ha... |
Joyent Co-Founder Jason Hoffman Steps Down As CTO Of The Cloud Computing Pioneer | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | co-founder Jason Hoffman is leaving his position as CTO of the pioneering cloud computing company. Hoffman that he will remain connected to Joyent as an advisor. We’ve reached out to Joyent to ask who their next CTO will be. Hoffman told us this about his post-Joyent plans: “I haven’t quite figured it out yet, I may... |
Medtech Startup Embrace Her Health Helps Women Track Their Pregnancies | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | Among the crowd showing at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley was , a two-year-old company at work on a suite of maternity apps that aim to enable women to manage their pre- and post-natal health better and cut the risk and costs of preventable complications. Embrace Her Health’s first mobile app for iOS and Android, ... |
Forget Quantifying Yourself, Driblet Wants To Help You Quantify Your Water Use | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | So our Hackathon technically ended yesterday, but that doesn’t mean we’re through shining the light on some of the great projects that presented on our stage. Take Mexico-based startup Driblet, for instance. The three-person team (who just recently took home the top prize at AngelHack Monterrey) makes a smart water m... |
Outline Raises $850K To Make Public Policy Tools Accessible To All State Residents | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | Born at Berkeley as , a fun app to compare the personal impacts of tax plans of then rival candidates for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, is building a tool to demystify the process of governance. If you have played a real-time strategy game that involves resource management, you understand Outline: Voters ... |
What’s Ahead For Snapchat? CEO Evan Spiegel Drops Clues In Disrupt Talk | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | Snapchat co-founder and CEO took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt and dropped a number of hints about Snapchat’s future products, from wearable tech to social media feeds. What’s particularly interesting is how successful Snapchat has been as a product (Spiegel announced today that on Snapchat, a 1,750% increa... |
Jack The Ripper Is A DIY, 3D-Printed DVD Ripper For Fans Of Optical Media | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mmHycIOtYHA] If you like DVDs but also like shelf space, have we got a project for you. Called Jack the Ripper, this -powered system takes DVDs from one pile, drops them into a DVD drive for ripping, and then tugs them out and onto another spindle. Ad inf... |
SlickLogin Aims To Kill The Password By Singing A Silent Song To Your Smartphone | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | The password , and SlickLogin is trying to help kill it. Launching into closed beta in the Disrupt SF 2013 Battlefield today, lets you log into a website on your computer by holding your phone within a few inches of it. Here’s the idea: as a user, you’d go to whatever SlickLogin-enabled site you’d like to log in to.... |
Shine Security Is Reinventing The Antivirus Company For The Age Of Zero-Day Attacks | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, is reinventing the idea of what it means to be an antivirus company in an age of cyber-warfare and zero-day attacks. The company’s technology was built by white hat, ethical hackers, and works in real time, performing behavioral monitoring on end users’ systems in ... |
Facebook Will Give Marketers Access To Conversation Data With Richer Identity Details Than Twitter | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | Facebook knows what you talk about, just like Twitter. But its edge is that it also knows who you are. Facebook’s let select news outlets view search and see your public posts, plus it tallies keyword mentions and collects the demographic data of everyone mentioning certain keywords. But it’s confirmed to me that “We... |
Zula’s Mobile-First Teamwork Tool Lets You Spend More Time Outside Of The Inbox | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | a startup from Jeff Pulver, a co-founder of VoIP success story Vonage, and serial entrepreneur Jacob Ner-David, is hoping to make your life a little less reliant on your inbox. The app combines elements of enterprise collaboration and communication tools, as well as mobile messaging giants like WhatsApp, for a tool th... |
Nexon Takes A Strategic Stake In Former Zynga, EA COO’s New Gaming Startup | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | Nexon, the publicly traded free-to-play gaming giant out of Asia, is continuing its streak of strategic investments in promising Western studios by taking a stake in John Schappert’s new startup . They didn’t disclose the size of the deal, which will see Nexon take an equity stake in the company in exchange for excl... |
Ansa Is A Messaging App That Lets You Talk Off The Record | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | is a new breed of messaging app, one that allows you to be yourself. Whenever you don’t feel like sending messages that will stay on your friend’s phone, you can go off the record. Every message will be deleted 60 seconds after reading it. This is just one of many privacy features that will make messaging more persona... |
Shasta Ventures’ Rob Coneybeer On Why He’s Betting Big On Hardware Startups | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | Shasta Ventures’ managing director Rob Coneybeer likes the opportunity in hardware startups. A lot. And he’s putting his money where his mouth is — over the past year or so he’s made investments in companies like Nest and Ouya, and is actively on the hunt for more that are building physical products. So what’s he fin... |
Voxel Virtualizes Mobile Apps To Create Truly Playable, Interactive Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | , a startup aiming to make mobile ads genuinely representative of the apps they’re promoting, just launched on-stage as part of the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF. The company’s founding team includes some experienced entrepreneurs. CEO David Zhao was co-founder and CEO at Zecter, the startup behind cloud service Zu... |
Hands On With The Anova Automatic Sous Vide System | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 9 | Sous vide cooking is probably one of the most high-tech methods of food preparation that home cooks can perform without a degree in chemistry and/or killing themselves and those around them. That’s why I was particularly excited to try the , an automatic sous vide circulator that can turn a lump of cold chicken into a... |
LogEntries Secures $10M Led By Polaris Ventures To Scale Log Management For SMEs | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | Last year a $1.1M seed round led by . Similar to Splunk, which has IPO’d, LogEntries collects and analyzes huge quantities of machine-generated log data, helping companies track their application logs. But unlike Splunk, which works with big enterprise or ‘the Fortune 500’, LogEntries wants to go after SMEs, or ‘t... |
Taking First Steps Into Monetization, Viber Messaging App Announces A Sticker Market | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | , the app that has promised free messaging and calls to its users since it’s inception, has today announced it’s first step into monetization. As has been the case with competing apps like WhatsApp, MessageMe, and even Facebook Messenger, plans to use stickers, large clipart-style emoticons and text, to generate reve... |
In Race With Twitter, Facebook, Like, Fluffs Its Social TV Numbers | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | On the same day that Twitter and Nielsen are debuting their first TV Ratings report emerging from , Facebook is slyly designed to give its own TV efforts a boost. Facebook claims that AMC’s hot “Breaking Bad” finale was a hit across its social network, generating more than 5.5 million interactions from 3 million+ us... |
Social Analytics Startup Socialbakers Hires Its First CMO, Former Adobe VP Neil Morgan | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | , a social analytics startup headquartered in Prague, is announcing that it has hired its first chief marketing officer — , who recently left Adobe. The company says it has 190 employees in 10 offices worldwide. When I spoke to founder and CEO Jan Rezab last week, he described it as the largest independent player in t... |
SparkLabs Presents Its Second Demo Day In Seoul With Eight Startups | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | , the accelerator that brings Silicon Valley mentorship to Seoul’s young startup ecosystem, presented its second Demo Day today. It also added 12 new people to its roster of over , including Dr. Sang Cha, the creator of , one of the enterprise software’s core platforms; Pat Kinsel, Entrepreneur-In-Residence at and c... |
With Weak Back-To-School Sales, The PC Market Is Now Microsoft’s To Save | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | Splat. That’s the sound the PC market just made. According , back-to-school computer sales were “virtually absent.” Put in other words: The traditional September bump that students provided to PC OEMs as they headed back to classrooms failed to generate a meaningful sales delta. It’s like missing spring for the larger... |
Bang With Friends To Change Names After Trademark Settlement With Zynga | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | catchy name unfortunately is getting tossed after the startup reached a settlement with Zynga. The social gaming company line-up. But now both are saying they’ve reached a settlement. Neither company is talking about the terms, however. It seems like a clear win for Zynga. Bang With Friends had to acknowledge Zynga’... |
Not Verified? Here’s The Twitter View From Where I’m Sitting | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | So you aren’t verified on Twitter. Don’t worry. There is still time — unlike for Congress to fund the government. But I digress. Anyway, what you might not have known is that if you verified, you get access to a neat filter option inside the Interactions tab of Twitter’s web interface. It allows you to see only inter... |
To Put Its Listening Rooms On More Platforms, Soundrop Picks Up $3.4M Led By Spotify Investor Northzone | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | Norwegian startup first made its name as an app on Spotify, tapping into the streaming platform’s catalog to create real-time group listening rooms that were popular places for Spotify users to congregate for more social listening experiences. But as Spotify has become a more social platform by default, Soundrop is e... |
Need To Print Teeny-Weenie Things? The LumiFold Has You Covered | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | I never thought I’d see the day when someone would find a reason to build a wee tiny foldable 3D printer that can make things about as big as a few matchboxes. This printer, called the , is a with a build envelope of 90x90x90mm and uses UV sensitive resin to print fairly high-quality objects in a few minutes. I pers... |
Google Analytics For Android Gets Card-Based UI, New Visualizations And Improved Real-Time Reporting | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | If it’s a Google product and it’s on mobile, it’s getting a . The latest product to get this treatment is . With today’s , though, the app isn’t just getting a new look. It’s also getting a slew of new features based on feedback Google received from the 700,000 users who have already downloaded it. In addition to th... |
With Launch of iOS App, 99dresses Goes Mobile-Only For Dress Swapping Goodness | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | , the Y Combinator graduate that gives women the ability to hit “refresh” on their wardrobes as often as they like through clothing swaps, has gone mobile-only with the launch of its new iOS app. The startup has fundamentally reworked the virtual currency system on which its swaps operate, due to the fact that U.S. use... |
Dropbox Continues Its One-Click Campaign To Be Your Default Photo Library | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | If you’ve been watching Dropbox at all over the last couple of years, you’ll be completely unsurprised at a new feature announced today. The apps on Mac have to automatically detect, upload and ready shared links to the screenshots you shoot on your computer. That’s pretty much the main reason apps like Cloud.app eve... |
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Facebook Starts Rollout Of Graph Search For Posts, Comments, Check-Ins To Reveal The Past And Present | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | What’s everyone saying about Breaking Bad? What about just my friends? What do my old photo comments say about me? A trillion posts full of this info start getting unlocked today as for posts to a small subset of US English users. It will allow us to see what the world thinks of anything, but could also dredge up the... |
TechCrunch Is Coming Your Way, Boston | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | As TechCrunch powers through the major tech hubs of the world we’ve consistently missed Boston. That’s about to change. I’m pleased to announce our second Boston meetup on . These meetups offer you guys the chance to hang out with TechCrunch writers and editors and take part in our pitch-offs, contests that allow star... |
Leaked YouTube Video & Tumblr Blog Reveal All About Stealthy Payments Startup Clinkle | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 30 | , a much-hyped mobile payments startup which raised ahead of having a publicly available product, has been notoriously secretive about its user interface and the details of how it all works. TechCrunch has been able to grab some in the past that demonstrate how the app functions, and spoke with beta testers and for... |
Xbox Music To Launch Apps For iOS And Android | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | will be available for iOS and Android today, as Microsoft furthers its bid to take on streaming music services like Spotify. Xbox Music is the first entertainment service from the Microsoft to launch on iOS and Android, and follows its Web version, which now offers free streaming to all browsers. The apps’ updated de... |
Adobe Makes Life Easier For Web Designers, Adds Easy Export From Photoshop To Edge Reflow | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Adobe is launching the latest update for today. Besides numerous smaller feature additions, this new version adds a tool called “Adobe Generator” that is, among other things, deeply integrated with , the company’s tools for creating responsive web designs. Using Generator, which is also available as an open source t... |
Topping 150M Users, Instagram Promises Ads Within The Next Year | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Instagram told the that Instagram will begin selling ads within the next year. Are users ready? White comes to Instagram from Facebook, and has been tasked with turning the revenue-free Instagram into a moneymaker for Facebook, which purchased the photo-sharing app in April 2012. She said that Instagram’s future ad... |
Use Google Glass And New App Glashion To Buy Fashion Items You Spot On The Go | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | These days, there is more taking place at the than there ever has been. Of late, some of these involve . At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 hackathon today, made its debut, providing a way for Google Glass wearers and users to buy fashion items that they spot on the go. Here’s how it works. Via the app (which can... |
Spruce Crowned The Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon Grand Prize Winner, Cloudiverse And AdFree Take Second And Third | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013’s Hackathon wrapped up today, with a demo session that spanned around five hours, after a marathon 24 hour session of actually building hacks. We had a record 264 registered entrants this time around, crushing the previous record of 164 set at Disrupt NY. As a result the 60 second presentat... |
300ft Drone-Powered Hack Foresees A Future Stuffed With Eye-In-The-Sky All-Seeing Apps | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Hackathon hacks can lead to fully fledged apps and companies. Other times they are intended to be nothing more than a great hack. 300ft is certainly that: a neat hack, built overnight at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF hackathon, which pulls in “close to live” aerial imaging from UAVs (aka drones) so the user can check how ... |
Introducing Disrupt Daily, TC’s Daily Flipboard Magazine Covering The Best Of Disrupt SF 2013 | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | There’s at Disrupt SF. So much so that it cannot be consumed on just one site. Produced daily at 6:00pm PDT (right after the last panel of the day) a new Flipboard magazine will be released to showcase the best of the day’s panels, interviews, and videos. Between all the stories and videos from Disrupt, ( ) it can be... |
Trance Wants To Make It Easy For Great Dancers To Show Off Their Moves | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Dance is a creative art that has always had real mainstream appeal. But while big general platforms like YouTube and Twitter are decent for showcasing dancers, they’re not ideal. Dance could certainly benefit from having a service that’s made especially for it. That’s the idea behind , a mobile app developed this we... |
For The Rhythmically Challenged, Strumbot Will Strum Your Guitar For You | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Yu Jiang Tham may not have rhythm, but that didn’t stop him from getting up on the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon stage and singing “ ,” thanks to his self-strumming guitar, Strumbot. For the first three hours of the hackathon on Saturday, Tham had no idea what he wanted to do and didn’t want to use any of the available ... |
An App For Social Change, Hot Mess Anonymously Tells Your Friends That They Have Gunk In Their Teeth | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Neil Mansilla and Rob Zazueta got a lot of laughs this afternoon for their Disrupt Hackathon submission, Hot Mess. The app aims to solve the universal nightmare of unwittingly walking around with a piece of crud in your teeth by allowing people to send anonymous texts alerting you to the situation. Users can choose fro... |
SARAH Lets You Request Information From 21 Government Agencies At The Same Time | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | The federal government collects gobs and gobs of data on people, and thanks to a little something called the Freedom of Information Act, people can make requests to liberate some of it. It sounds simple enough, but navigating the labyrinthine process and drafting the request is no easy thing. That’s where comes in.... |
An Apology From TechCrunch | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Normally our hackathons are a showcase for developers of to create and share something cool. But earlier today, the spirit of our event was marred by two misogynistic presentations. Sexism is a in the tech industry, and we’ve worked hard to counteract it in our coverage and in our own hiring. Today’s issues resulte... |
Context Lets You Search Across Dropbox, Evernote, Spotify & More, All From Google.com | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | For some time, Google has been experimenting with augmenting search results using personal data through its , but that’s been limited to data stored only in Google’s own services. Most users have their data stored elsewhere, too. At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 hackathon today, a browser add-on, called simply “Conte... |
Missing Disrupt? Follow The Action On These Social Channels | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Disrupt SF is bigger than one site can handle. Our Instagram, Flickr, Flipboard and Facebook accounts are packed with the happenings from Disrupt. If that’s not enough, we have accounts just for Disrupt that have even more content. Because Disrupt is that big. |
An App For Kids, By A Kid: Meet The 9-Year-Old Co-Creator Of ‘Super Fun Kid Time’ | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Super Fun Kid Time quickly emerged as an audience favorite during Jordan’s spirited minute long on-stage presentation, which you can view in the video embedded above. And while Alexandra’s father (and ) Richard was along at the Hackathon this weekend to lend a helping hand, he’s made it very clear that she is the on... |
The Hackathon Hackers Code Straight On ‘Til Morning | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | The is just as much about the journey as it is the destination. More than 1,200 coders showed up to the SF Design Center to build something awesome, make some new friends, and present their wares to a panel of amazing judges. They coded through the night, fighting sleepy eyes, tricky Wi-Fi and hacker-style roadbloc... |
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Kovert Is A GPS That Lets You Keep Your Phone In Your Pocket To Foil Would-Be Muggers | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | When walking through a sketchy neighborhood that you don’t know well, it doesn’t always feel like a good idea to have your phone out. Disrupt Hackathon entrant Kovert is an app that allows you to keep your phone tucked away out of sight while giving you walking directions through buzz signals. As makers Scott Jones and... |
SmartDrive Hack Creates A Real HUD For Your Car Via Google Glass | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Today at the , Brent Bovenzi presented SmartDrive, a neat Google Glass app. Thanks to this hack, you get a true heads-up display to see how your car is doing — a kid’s dream come true. Moreover, you can unlock the car with your voice. “You’ll see fuel mileage, how much gas you have left and tire pressure before even g... |
Kiwi Wearables Shows Off A Way To Use Its Personal Tracker Device To Make Music | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 8 | Single-function wearable devices are old-school and a massive waste of potential, according to a new Toronto-based startup that’s building a hardware device as well as a cloud-based platform for leveraging data gathered from their wearables to build a wide variety of different experiences. The Kiwi team was at the D... |
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