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Yahoo China Shuts Down Its Web Portal | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | , which is operated by Chinese e-commerce and Internet services behemoth Alibaba Group, has closed its Web portal. The site now displays a good-bye message before redirecting visitors to , a news site run by Alibaba Group’s Taobao. The good-bye message says the decision to shutdown Yahoo China’s portal is in accordan... |
Japanese E-Commerce Giant Rakuten Confirms Acquisition Of Video Site Viki | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | Rakuten has confirmed that it will acquire Viki, a global video streaming platform that crowdsources translated subtitles. The Japanese e-commerce giant, which is expected to sign an agreement to buy Viki tomorrow, did not disclose financial terms, but is . The acquisition of Viki is another strong signal that Rakuten... |
Mega Man’s Creator Turns To Kickstarter To Fuel His New Game (Which Looks A Whole Lot Like Mega Man) | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | It’s becoming almost formulaic at this point: An iconic game designer, backed by a legion of dedicated fans, turns to Kickstarter to allow them to break out on their own. See: ( , ), who raised over $3M for his studio, DoubleFine, or ( ), who raised just shy of $1M to build a spiritural successor to his earlier ga... |
Mozilla Gets On The Web Components Bandwagon With Brick | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | Web Components will change how you build web apps . At its core, web components let developers create reusable custom HTML tags (think: <datepicker>) for user interface patterns. Building them , but all it takes is some knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to get going (though knowing something about what “Shadow DO... |
Samsung’s Bizarre Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Gets Detailed Before Official Launch | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | Samsung is getting ready to pull the curtain on its curious Galaxy Gear smartwatch (well, among other things) in just a few days, but what’s a major product unveiling these days without a slew of last-minute leaks to ruin the surprise? To that end, recently got what may be the first real glimpse of Samsung’s Galaxy Gea... |
Fly Or Die: Motorola Moto X | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | The Moto X has caused a rift between the TechCrunch Gadgets family. Chris Velazco and I think it’s just fine, whereas Darrell Etherington and John Biggs are rather unimpressed. But why? Well, the Moto X is Motorola’s first real Google phone, with pure Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, customizable back plating, a 4.7-inch 72... |
What Google And Uber Have In Store For The Future | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | Last week, I published a piece of speculative fiction about how I saw Google and Uber evolving as companies and taking advantage of new technology 10 years from now. That “ ” got quite a lot of attention, in part because more than a few people got very excited about the prospect of driverless cars and the impact that t... |
Verizon, Vodafone Reach Agreement In $130 Billion Verizon Wireless Deal | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | Verizon and Vodafone have reached an agreement on a $130 billion deal that gives Verizon total control of Verizon Wireless, the Wall Street Journal . Verizon has taken Vodafone’s 45% stake in Verizon Wireless, which was founded as a joint venture between the two companies in 2000. Verizon and Vodafone’s boards were se... |
Cybersecurity, NSA Spying, And Silicon Valley To Take Center Stage At Disrupt SF | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | Strap on a tin foil hat and dust off your VHS tape of because a thrilling, civilized discussion of contemporary cybersecurity is coming to . I’ll be joined onstage by some of the leading security experts to discuss cyber threats from hostile foreign governments, rogue hacker groups, corporate espionage, and complica... |
Five Forces Fueling Frontback’s Fame | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | TechCrunch . “ !” is an oft-heard or tweeted phrase. After Instagram combined the power of a networked camera, nostalgic filters, and snappy sharing to various networks to create a mobile before selling to Facebook, and after SnapChat created a new behavior with more private photosharing that touched the web (or ... |
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Watch Smartwatch Space For Continued Consolidation As Samsung Gears Up To Kick Off The Race | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | Last week, geek-focused early smartwatch player , lending strong support to earlier speculation that the search giant would enter the watch-based computing fray with a wearable-device follow-up to its ambitious Google Glass project. Consider it the opening bell as the race begins to own consumer wrists, and expect more... |
Shutterfly Has Acquired Photo Printing Company R And R Images | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. R and R Images, a private company that was founded in 1986, specializes in digital printing and photo products. Shutterfly focuses on photo books, stationary, wedding invitations, and other personal goods. Shutterfly said the acquisition will “enhance the company’s enterprise... |
After Raising $10M, Customer-Funded Naked Wines Launches Investment Bond | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 1 | Only this August, wine retailer , the customer-funded online wine retailer, in a third round of investment from a German group of direct wine-selling companies and founder shareholders. The money will be used to expand in the U.S. and Australia from its UK base. Now it’s launching of a new bond for retail investors,... |
Personalized E-commerce Startup Wantful Shuts Down | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | , a San Francisco and New York-based gift giving and personalized e-commerce startup founded in 2011 is shutting down after failing to secure follow-on investment. According to founder and CEO , the company had launched a series of well-received products for web, tablet, print and in-store, but did not achieve the kin... |
VC, Startup Survey Addresses Whether Patent Assertions Help Or Hurt, And What To Do If You Get Hit | Contributor | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | You have an idea for a product that is going to change the world. For years you work day and night, and over time, that hard work turns into a company. You have users, revenue and, finally, the business of your dreams. But as you get traction, you also have a patent troll letter. The timing couldn’t be worse. As you ... |
Scholly Helps Students Find Their Ideal Scholarships On Their Smartphones | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | More and more of America’s young people are coming to grips with a nasty truth: college can be incredibly, stupidly expensive. Drexel University student (and member) Christopher Gray knows that all too well, so he and partners Bryson Alef and Nick Pirollo developed a mobile app called to help students easily search... |
With 3X The Active Users From A Year Ago, Skout Launches A Feature For Traveling Vagabonds | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | , the app for meeting new people last year, is adding a feature for travelers who want to scope out people in new cities before they land. The Travel feature is a paid premium feature, where Skout users can spend a little bit of virtual currency to meet users in another city. (Normally, you are only connected to user... |
A User’s Guide To Disrupt SF 2013 | Joey Hinson | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | Disrupt SF kicks off on Monday, September 9th. TechCrunch has put together an incredible array of offerings from our partners to make your Conference experience even better. As always, Disrupt SF will be a busy and boisterous event so use the following guide to get the most out of the show. This year, Disrupt Battlefi... |
Co-Ed Supply Whisks Curated Boxes Of ‘College Essentials’ To Busy Students | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | The days are getting shorter and the air is growing colder, which means that students across the country are trodding back to school once more. For a subscription e-commerce startup called , that means it’s time to really get down to business — their forte is curating and shipping much-needed care packages to the coun... |
Ideal Media Takes A More Hands-On Approach To Combining Recommended Content With Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | Here’s another startup trying to turn content recommendation into a business: . Similar in concept to and , Ideal Media works with publishers to add a recommended content unit to their pages. Then it makes money by including sponsored content in the mix. You can see an example in on the OneBigPhoto site (there’s ... |
Ask A VC: Trinity Ventures’ Patricia Nakache On The Secret To Zulily’s Success And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | It’s time for another episode of Ask A VC, where we grill VCs in the TCTV studio! This week, Trinity Ventures’ Patricia Nakache joined us to chat about e-commerce, marketplaces and much more. Nakache, who via Trinity has backed a number of e-commerce companies such as Beachmint, ThredUp and others, talked about the s... |
Gillmor Gang Live 09.06.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. |
Keaton Row, An E-Commerce Site That Pairs Busy Ladies With Personal Shoppers, Raises $1.6 Million In Seed Funding | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | The personal shopping site has raised $1.6 million in a second round of seed funding led by , an early investor in Fab and Warby Parker, with participation from and . The site, which launched in 2012, previously raised a seed round of $1 million led by Rho Ventures. Keaton Row is an e-commerce site that puts the ... |
CrunchBase Has A New Mobile Site, Is Bigger Than Ever | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | We have some updates today from the other side of the TechCrunch office. The growing team at , our free database of tech companies, has a new mobile site available for your browsing pleasure. The site basically didn’t work in mobile before, but the new one is great. Check it out at . The homepage is mainly a search b... |
Dots Implements Its First-Ever, In-Game, $ponsor$hip | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | betaworks-backed has today announced its very first sponsorship/native advertising deal with GE. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the sponsorship, Dots is releasing a special update with a new version of gameplay called Gravity Mode. As it turns out, GE has created an entire week’s worth of scienc... |
Cory Booker Is Stepping Down From Waywire’s Board As The Company Seeks A New CEO | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker is announcing today that he will be stepping down from the board of the company that he founded last year, according to a source familiar with the campaign’s plans. The departure leaves just one of Waywire’s three co-founders at the company, which is still in private beta a... |
Microsoft Untethers OneNote For iPad From The PC, Now Lets Users Create New Notebooks On The Go | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | Microsoft’s note-taking app for and got a that finally makes the iPad version a completely stand-alone experience. Until now, you couldn’t create new notebooks from the iPad, so you were always forced to go back to the desktop or web version sooner or later. With today’s update, Microsoft is adding this feature... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Disrupt <3’s Hardware, Nokia Goes To The Mall, And Galaxy Gear | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | starts on Monday, so that’s on all our minds for this week’s TC Gadgets Podcast. Hardware Alley showcases gadget startups on September 11, and if you’re still looking for hardware fixes there have been plenty this week, including , and . We talk about all these things, as well as the Galaxy Note 3 smartphone from Sam... |
Energy Excelerator, The Accelerator For Clean Energy Startups, Receives $30M From The Navy | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | , a Hawaii-based accelerator program for cleantech start-ups, has received an investment of $30 million from the Navy’s Office of Naval Research under the Asia Pacific Technology Education Program. It’s a significant investment in a sector that has struggled to raise money from venture capitalists because of its large ... |
Now UK Nationwide, The £100M Angel CoFund Is Able To Super-Charge Angel Syndicates | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | UK startups raising financing have a new route to funds in the shape of a government-backed fund which can super-charge an Angel round with extra cash. The is a UK government-backed £100m fund able to make initial investments of between £100,000 to £1 million into businesses, alongside syndicates of business angels. ... |
OS X Mavericks Most Likely Arriving In October, Reports Claim, Perhaps Alongside Haswell MacBook Pros | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | Apple’s next-generation operating system for desktops, OS X Mavericks, is already in the hands of developers, but we likely won’t see version 10.9 make its way to consumer devices ahead of October. Some rumors had suggested Apple might ship the OS at its iPhone even next week, or another time during September, but both... |
That Was Fast: Nokia Draws Down The $2B In Convertible Bonds Offered By Microsoft Earlier This Week | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | If we needed some more confirmation of how urgent the financial situation was over at Nokia, we got a glimpse of it today. The company announced that it would be the €1.5 billion ($2 billion) in convertible bonds offered to it by Microsoft earlier this week at the same time as the announcement of its $7.2 billion acq... |
Pinterest And Path To Battle Over Letter “P” Logo Trademark | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 6 | Are the and logos too similar? Path apparently thinks so. The mobile messaging startup is currently working to prevent Pinterest from acquiring the trademark to the letter “P” as a stylized design ( , and below). The U.S. trademark office allowed Pinterest’s trademark registration on this proposed design mark, but ... |
HotelQuickly Raises $1.16M Series A To Expand In Asia | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | Hotel booking app has raised a series A round of HKD$9 million (about $1.16 million USD). Investors include Boon Hwee Koh, the former chairman of Singtel and Singapore Airlines. The startup says it will use the funding for product development and to expand further through the Asia Pacific region, where it currently o... |
Europe, Come Build With Us! Here Are The Very First Tickets To The Disrupt Europe Hackathon | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | Hey, Berlin! Come show us what you’ve got. In just over a month, we’re bringing the for the very first time — and with it, one of our big ol’ Hackathons. Our will run overnight from Oct 26-27th. If you’ve never been to one of our Hackathons, here’s what you need to know: once you’re in, you’ve got just shy of 24 h... |
Alibaba Group Acquires Kanbox, A Personal Cloud Storage Service | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | Chinese Internet giant has acquired , the personal cloud storage service sometimes referred to as “the Dropbox of China.” This marks Alibaba Group’s first personal cloud storage acquisition as the company focuses on expanding its range of consumer-focused cloud computing products. The acquisition price was undisclos... |
Bitcoin-Infused Accelerator Boost.vc Gains Momentum With The Launch Of Stellar Second Batch | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | Last summer, Adam Draper and Brayton Williams launched , a 12-week accelerator program for early-stage startups. Taking a familiar approach to business incubation, the San Mateo-based accelerator and investment fund offers a handful of on-site services to its chosen companies, including housing, office space, mentorin... |
Yahoo Will Offer ‘Not My Email’ Button To Report Mistaken Deliveries Due To Username Recycling | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | Yahoo will begin offering a new ‘Not My Email’ button this week that gives owners of newly claimed, previously dormant, user names the ability to ‘return’ messages that were not meant for them. This is part of Yahoo’s ongoing efforts to mitigate any potential harm that may come from its ‘. In order to continue providi... |
Amazon Introduces Mayday, A Unique And Amazingly Useful Live Tech Support System For Kindle | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | Live support has always been a dream for major retailers. While chat solutions already exist, today Amazon announced a new support service available on Kindle HD products called Mayday. It is a single-click support solution that lets users work with a remote tech support representative to solve problems with their ta... |
RealNetworks Bets On Cross-Device Video Sharing With RealPlayer Cloud | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | RealNetworks is announcing a big expansion beyond its RealPlayer media player today with the launch of a new service called , which is supposed to make it easy for users to access and share their videos from any device. Founder and interim CEO Rob Glaser described this as “the biggest product release we’ve done in a l... |
Amazon Announces The Kindle HDX 7- And 8.9-Inch Tablets With High-Res Screens, 2GHz Processors | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | has upped the Fire tablet ante with two new HDX models in 7- and 8.9-inch sizes with brand-new, high-resolution screens and running an updated Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor at 2GHz. Both models have adaptive screens that change brightness according to the ambient light and a special reading mode that will keep th... |
Now Processing $1B Annually, Swipely Announces A Partner Network To Support Growth | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | announced today that the flow of payments through its system has doubled since April, with the firm now processing charges at a yearly run rate of $1 billion. It in April, and a $250 million run rate three months prior. Swipely is notable for its non-traditional location: Providence, Rhode Island. Its CEO calls it... |
Nest Labs’ Next Product To Be A Smoke Detector, Per Reports | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a sibling. . If is correct, the company behind the incredibly popular Learning Thermostat is prepping a smoke detector. Yep, a smoke detector, reportedly called Protect, — which sounds about right for Nest Labs. Co-founder and VP of Engineering Matt Rogers recently told m... |
Elance, SkilledUp & Smarterer Launch New Learning Platform To Let You Learn, Validate & Find Work In One Place | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | The shift towards career and skills-focused content and models in digital education has begun to gain momentum of late, and last week, it got another boost as Elance, one of the largest online staffing platforms (for freelancers), announced that it would be launching a new “skill assessment platform” that will include ... |
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AppleCare+ Now Covers Travelers’ iPhones, iPads, iPods In Any Country Where It’s Offered | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | Apple made a , around the time that the new iPhones were announced. It now allows you to get your iPhone, iPad, or iPods serviced in any country that offers AppleCare+, not just your home locale. This change means that if you’re traveling with your device, you’re able to get service in another country if you purchased... |
Lending Marketplace Prosper Locks Down $25M From Sequoia, BlackRock | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | , a peer-to-peer lending platform, announced today that it has raised an additional $25 million. The round was led by Sequoia, a longtime investor in the company, with participation from BlackRock. The $25 million raise might feel oddly timed, as Prosper raised $20 million , a month that also saw it shake up its leade... |
Petcube Opens Kickstarter Campaign To Let People Play With Their Pets Remotely | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | If you haven’t gotten your dose of cute cat footage for the day, watch and then listen up. A startup called has launched a Kickstarter today to manufacture a sleek box, tricked out with a laser pointer, wide angle camera lens, speakers and Wi-Fi, that allows people to play with their pets remotely. Pet owners set... |
Marissa Mayer Says That She Won’t Read This | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer seems to be on a bit of a press tour, and as result, a lot of her comments onstage today at the IAB MIXX conference won’t be a big surprise to folks who have been following her recent and the broader coverage of her time at Yahoo. One thing that did surprise me: Mayer said (a couple of times... |
Google Earth Meets The Body: BioDigital Gets $4M To Bring Its 3-D, Virtual Anatomy & Health Platform To Every Browser | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | While the film is extremely compelling, it turns out that there’s actually a better way to learn about and visualize the human body than by watching on repeat. It used to be that students and the anatomically curious had to turn to pictures in textbooks or plastic models (Gasp! I know!) to get a virtual tour of the h... |
Flywheel Launches A Premium WordPress Hosting And Management Service For Designers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | , an Omaha, Neb.-based startup, is launching a new WordPress hosting and management service today that was built specifically for web designers, freelancers and agencies. has come a long way from being “just” a blogging tool to being the go-to content management framework for designers and web developers who want to s... |
Senators Demand Answers On NSA Snooping — By The End Of 2014 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | This week nine members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to the inspector general of the Intelligence Community, , asking him to conduct a full review of U.S. intelligence operations, and to “make public the findings.” This almost sounds compelling: A bipartisan group of Senators demanding that the intelligence wing... |
Twitter Launches Personalized Recommendation Notifications Based On @Magicrecs Experiment | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 24 | Twitter has in its twitter apps for Android and iPhone that will deliver personalized recommendations for tweets and accounts to follow. The new notification is based on the long-running experiment, which monitored the people you follow to see who followed and what tweets they were re-tweeting. The new notificati... |
[UPDATED] China Reportedly Lifts Ban On Facebook In The Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, But Continues Crackdown On Internet Freedom | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | The People’s Daily, a newspaper run by the Communist Party of China, has denying that Facebook and other sites will be made available in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone. The that the Chinese government will allow access to some banned Web sites in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, including Facebook, Twitter and The New... |
FormaFina, A Fab For The New Rich Of South America, Raises $1.4M | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | For those who haven’t yet heard of , think of it as the Fab of South America. The e-commerce startup, which sells curated, limited-run collections of decor products in Argentina and Brazil, has raised a seed round of $1.4 million to anchor itself in the Brazilian market. FormaFina’s investors include Redpoint eVenture... |
Confirmed: Cella Irvine Is No Longer CEO At Vibrant Media | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | Cella Irvine has stepped down as CEO of ad tech company Vibrant Media, according to a source with knowledge of the company. I emailed and called Vibrant earlier this evening, but I haven’t heard back yet. (I did manage to speak to someone at Vibrant for a few seconds, but they immediately transferred me to a spokespers... |
Surface 2: Repeat Or Redemption? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | The inimitable and I took to the TechCrunch TV screens to dig into the new Surface hardware that Microsoft announced today. Chris and I are both long-time Surface owners and users, so we speak with a bit of experience and fondness. The hardware, we surmise, is great, but we remain a bit unsure about the software th... |
Digital Health Startups Get The Same Toys As Everyone Else | Contributor | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | Until this summer, a significant subset of U.S.-based healthcare entrepreneurs were unable to legally use one of the most fundamental, integral, and efficiency-boosting development tools out there: Amazon Web Services (AWS). Cue the sweaty palms and standing arm hairs of any developer reading this. That’s because any... |
Up Close And Personal With Microsoft’s Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | Now that the dust from Microsoft’s Surface event has settled, we’re left with two new tablets and one grand vision for the holidays — with three Surfaces now on the market, Microsoft has carved out a seemingly strong position for itself as people began to plan for some big purchases. But really, how solid are Microso... |
Digital Chocolate, Which Nurtured Some Of Gaming’s Best Talent, Sells Its Barcelona Studio To Ubisoft | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | , the long-troubled gaming company from original EA founder Trip Hawkins, has sold its 46-person Barcelona studio to France’s Ubisoft. The sale comes just months after the company closed down its Helsinki office. Ubisoft confirmed the acquisition to us and Digital Chocolate has yet to respond to immediate requests for ... |
Facebook Partners With PayPal, Stripe, Braintree To Autofill Billing Info In Mobile Commerce Apps | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | Facebook wants to put an end to typing billing details on the small screen, help developers and payment processors earn more money, and prove that its app install ads make money for e-commerce companies. So today it’s rolling out of “Autofill With Facebook” in partnership with PayPal, Stripe, and Braintree to two e-c... |
Betaworks And Tim Ferriss Among First Using General Solicitation To Ask Crowds For Investment | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | It’s day one of the new rules allowing companies to openly advertise that they’re fundraising, and is wasting no time. It’s just emailed asking its thousands of Openbeta testers to through AngelList Syndicates. It’s not the only one diving head-first into general solicitation, indicating the new rules will have a... |
Apple Froze App Store Rankings On Friday, And Odd Behavior Continues | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | In the last three years, the only times Apple has ever frozen its App Store rankings has been over the holidays. So it’s interesting to note that the company actually froze rankings for a total of eight hours on Friday, and things still aren’t quite back to normal in terms of the store’s usual behavior and ranking resu... |
Gmail’s Ongoing Email Slowdown Nearing Resolution | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | Good news! Today you can blame your non-responsiveness to all those important emails you’ve been ignoring on Google itself. The company’s online email service Gmail has been experiencing issues leading to delayed emails and attachments failing to download, the company confirmed. Earlier this morning, Google said an est... |
SEC Allows General Solicitation, Effective Today: What Changed And What To Watch Out For | Ansel Halliburton | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | Today, the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission’s final rules allowing general solicitation went into effect. In the fundraising context, general solicitation means publicly advertising the fact that you’re raising money. Previously, this was a big no-no. The most important securities regulations for startups is Regulat... |
Google Will Start Blocking Most Netscape Plug-In API Plug-Ins In January 2014, Will Whitelist Silverlight, Unity & Others | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | The name “ ” (NPAPI) sounds like a relic from another age of browsers, but Chrome, Mozilla and other browsers still support this architecture for writing browser plug-ins today. But its time is quickly coming to an end. Mozilla will block NPAPI plugins and Google today that Chrome will start blocking webpage-instan... |
Flipboard’s Mike McCue Confirms $50M Raise, Says Windows 8 App, More International Versions Coming By End Of Year | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | , the mobile-first “social” magazine that lets people tag, assemble and then share collections of stories from around the web, has now raised another $50 million at an $800 million valuation led by Suhail Rizvi, with Goldman Sachs close behind and existing investors like Insight Venture Partners, Index Ventures and Kle... |
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Valve Introduces SteamOS, A Linux-Based Platform To Bring Steam To Your Living Room | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | Valve just announced the first part of its living room strategy with , a free Linux-based operating system that takes the ‘Big Picture’ feature one step further. In addition to playing your game collection, SteamOS allows you to watch movies and listen to music. The company has yet to announce a hardware partner for S... |
AngelList Beefs Up Syndicates With New Backers Model, Lets Accelerators Raise Funding Too | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | With the loosening of the SEC’s restrictions around general solicitation or public fundraising by startups, is launching a suite of products that could extend its influence (and its revenue model) in the tech ecosystem today. Much has been made of for startups. Regular angels can essentially raise a venture fund on... |
BlackBerry Signs Letter Of Intent To Go Private For $9 Per Share In Deal Valued At $4.7 Billion | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | Today a $9 per share offer for its outstanding stock, a deal worth around $4.7 billion. The $9 per share price is a slight premium over its current stock price, which traded at $8.23 before it was halted pending the news. BlackBerry had declined more than 5 percent on the day. Fairfax Financial, which offered the $9 ... |
Backed By First Round’s Dorm Room Fund, Addy Is A Location-Sharing Service That Goes Beyond Addresses | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 23 | Khaled Naim, CEO of startup , is hoping to create a new way for people to share their location. What’s wrong with plain old addresses? Well, they usually get the job done, at least if you live in an urban or suburban area in the United States. But even then, I’m guessing that you’ve had moments where they don’t quite ... |
Famo.us Finally Rolls Into (Very) Private Beta, Hires A Founder Of Facebook’s Dev Platform As VP Of Engineering | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 15 | Back at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, announced a Javascript framework for building super complex yet still super-smooth HTML5 apps. They promised to let developers build rich, 3D, Iron-Man-esque interfaces running in the browser at 40 frames per second, no plug-ins required. Almost exactly a year later, Famo.us is fina... |
Google’s Bet On Native Client Brings Chrome And Google+ Photos Closer Together | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 15 | Google is betting big on photos on Google+. Indeed, most of the innovation on the company’s social network so far has been around photos, including the . Last week, Google stepped up its efforts and a set of new photo-editing tools, including the ability to fine-tune Google+’s Auto Enhance feature, apply new filters... |
Dubb Wants To Expand Your Address Book By Connecting You With Friends Of Friends | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 9 | 15 | For anyone who’s had to text a friend for another friend’s phone number — so, all of us — is an app that lets users request contact information from those in their extended friend network, who can in turn choose to accept, deny, or only allow certain addresses and numbers through. Dubb will be available in beta Octob... |
How Bluetooth LE And Crowdfunding Are Accelerating The Connected Hardware Boom | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 15 | It’s one trend that’s been hard to miss, being mostly clipped and/or strapped in plain sight. To spell it out, hardware startups — and the devices they’re making — are having a moment, thanks in major part to crowdfunding websites providing the funding bridge between a promising prototype and the cost of manufacturing ... |
What Games Are: The Marketing Squeeze | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 9 | 15 | The official number that most people cite is $1.80. That’s the average cost to acquire a user in the mobile space, in July. Rumor increasingly has it that the real cost is higher depending on who and where you’re targeting. That may mean $3, maybe even $4, per user in raw advertising spend just to get their install. ... |
Pebble’s Eric Migicovsky Is Uninterested In A Potential Acquisition | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 9 | 15 | When it comes to competition, has plenty to be concerned about. In an interview onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, founder seemed unconcerned about from Apple and Samsung, claiming that Motorola and Sony have offered smartwatch products for quite some time. However, speaking backstage, Migicovsky went a bit... |
For Mobile Developers, iOS 7 Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 9 | 15 | TechCrunch Leading up to last week’s Apple event and the unveiling of the iPhone 5s, the Internet may have led you to believe that “ .” The reality for , however, is more nuanced. When it comes to the first choice developers have for starting in mobile, Apple still leads the competition, as mobile expert asserts t... |
NSA Allegedly Spies On International Credit Card Transactions | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 9 | 15 | Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper – increasingly joining the NSA revelations train – that the intelligence agency is interested in international credit card transactions and may have found a way to monitor payments processed by companies including Visa. Spiegel alleges it has even set up its own financial database to t... |
Apple’s M7 Motion Sensing Coprocessor Is The Wizard Behind The Curtain For The iPhone 5s | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 9 | 15 | Apple has a new trick up its sleeve with the iPhone 5s that was talked about on stage during its recent reveal event, but the impact of which won’t be felt until much later when it gets fully taken advantage of by third-party developers. Specifically, I’m talking about the that now takes the load of tracking motion a... |
TechCrunch Droidcast Episode 6: Nokia’s Experimentation, Sony’s Kitchen Lunacy, And Android At Disrupt | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 9 | 15 | Darrell and I pride ourselves on making the TechCrunch Droidcast a Wednesday staple, but alas, we just couldn’t find the time at Disrupt to record the show. I know, I’m sorry. To make up for it, we roused ourselves early this morning to record a slightly special weekend edition of the show. Topics on the agenda? Darrel... |
iPad App mem:o Is A Simple Data Visualization Tool For Design Lovers | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | Technology makes it easy to turn the minutiae of our daily lives into useful data sets, but sometimes it feels bleak seeing every experience or memory broken down into pie charts and bar graphs. is a unique visualization tool that takes life-logging beyond spreadsheets by transforming data into striking images influe... |
The Eye Tribe’s Strategy Is Larger Than Their $99 Eye Tracking Hardware Unit | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | is an aftermarket eye tracker currently available for Windows-based tablets and computers and serves many functions from gaming to reading. Built to work with any Windows 7 or 8 device with a USB 3 interface, The Eye Tribe Tracker allows users to navigate, interact and actuate software running on the device, purely by... |
Outgoing Turner CEO Phil Kent Sees Big Opportunities For The Company’s Media Camp Incubator | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | Before the five startups taking part in this year’s San Francisco took the stage at Demo Day, the gathered investors, journalists, and tech/media industry folk were addressed by Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent, who predicted big things for the startup accelerator. Apparently this was the first time Kent has attende... |
Microsoft Adds IMAP Support To Outlook.com To Entice Mac Users, Developers | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | Today that it has added IMAP support to its Outlook.com webmail product. Outlook.com has over 400 million active users according to Microsoft, making it not only one of the most popular webmail services around. Why IMAP? Demand, likely, and the fact that Microsoft wants developers to take a keener interest in its lit... |
Twitter’s New “Verified” Filter Lets Celebs Hob-Nob In Peace | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | Life is hard for famous people. You’re trying to @ reply with your celebrity friends on Twitter, but the conversation gets drowned out by rabid fans and spammers mentioning you. So Twitter’s begun rolling out to people with verified profiles two new filters for the Connect tab. Filtered, which attempts to cut down spam... |
Facebook Sunsets Credits, Transitions To Local Currencies To Boost International Payments | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | Facebook launched its virtual currency Credits in June 2011 to simplify payments. In reality, Credits caused headaches for international payments due to fluctuating exchange rates. But last night, the sun set on Credits and Facebook completed its transition to . It will help developers and Facebook make more money, sm... |
Free Massive Online Education Provider, Coursera, Begins To Find A Path To Profits | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | Online education providers may very well disrupt establishment, but first, these for-profit companies need to find a way to finance the mammoth technical infrastructure needed to support millions of students. It’s a challenge that all mission-based businesses wrestle with, and why many have wondered whether Massively... |
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CodeBender.CC Makes It Crazy Easy To Program Your Arduino Board From Your Browser | John Biggs | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | The official IDE is a dour piece of software designed for uploading code to the ubiquitous and super-cool micro controller. It is a standalone, non-networked app that isn’t very pretty to look at. But what if you want to share code and upload programs right from your browser? That’s where comes in. CodeBender is a ... |
Give Microsoft Your iPad, And They’ll (All But) Give You A Surface | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | Happy Post-Disrupt Day, super troopers. I trust you are rehydrated and back at work. A pity. While we were watching Zuckerberg for misbehaving while others managed to with the PayPal water, Microsoft and released a : Trade in your iPad, get mad store credit. The gist is that if you have an iPad 2, 3, or 4 that i... |
Google Creative Lab Launches Coder To Turn Raspberry Pi Into A Basic Web Development Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | , a new project that’s coming out of Google’s Creative Lab, is an open source tool that allows you to easily turn a Raspberry Pi into a basic web server with a web-based development environment. The tool, which was developed by Googler Jason Striegel, designer Jeff Baxter and a small team in New York, is meant to be an... |
The Sixense STEM Brings Your Hands And Feet Into Virtual Reality | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | Oh, you thought virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift were cool? The folks at Sixense are trying to take it to a whole new level, with a set of motion tracking controllers that bring your hands and feet into the game (and improves the Rift itself, while it’s at it.) Called the STEM, the system’s basestation... |
Twitter Is Going Public, Files S-1 With SEC | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | Today that it has filed an S-1 with the SEC and is therefore on the road to going public. This is an important moment for Twitter, and for tech, as it shows that the IPO window is open. Here’s Twitter on its filing: We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an ... |
Facebook Tests Silent Auto-Play For User Videos In Mobile Feed, Foreshadowing Video Ads | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | In a test that could make News Feed more engaging and pave the way for video ads, Facebook’s mobile feed will start in-line when they’re scrolled over for a small subset of US iOS and Android users. Videos play silently until tapped to full-screen, which feels slick. Facebook is expected to soon launch a new video ad... |
A Photographer’s Take On The iPhone 5S Camera | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | The iPhone 5S announcement this week was punctuated with a lot of specs and buzzwords. Much of it centered around the new Touch ID fingerprint scanner and the 64-bit processor. But the most intriguing to me was the camera advancements. Apple has been putting a major focus on the camera in the iPhone for a couple of yea... |
Nettlebox Is A $28,000 Hologram Rig That Lets You View Real-Time 3D From All Angles | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | Russian startup , which is based in the , is showing off a $28,000 holographic gaming set-up at TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Hardware Alley. The Nettlebox rig consists of a 3D plasma display, with four fisheye lens infrared cameras at the corners to track the position of the gamer who wears a pair of 3D glasses with two i... |
Mobile News App Circa Launches Its Web Platform For Browsing And Following Stories | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 9 | 12 | , a startup that offers quick and mobile news consumption, is expanding its services to the web by launching its for following and sharing news. While the website doesn’t have the full functionality of the iOS app, the company aims to complete it later this year. The mission of , the startup’s iOS app, is to give re... |
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