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E-Cig Companies Will Never Promise To Help You Quit Smoking | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 11 | Two or three years ago, e-cigarattes were exotic. These strange sticks, their ends LED-lit and their owners expelling odorless smoke – “It’s vapor!” – would look as futuristic as a Replicant’s food injector. They gave the smoker nebulous powers, namely the ability to smoke on a plane, and they were expensive and hard t... |
Hands On With The Seven Best Fantasy Football Sites And Apps | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | With the NFL season just a week away, fans are poring over stats, trash talking their friends, and gearing up for the real season: fantasy football. The national phenomenon has spawned five seasons of a TV show, The League, has NFL teams refitting their stadiums so that fans can track their teams more closely, and cost... |
From The Experts To You, Six Fantasy Football Tools For Total Domination | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | Yes. Fantasy football season is upon us. Amid a sea of apps and sites promising to get you a little closer to perfection, I turned to some of 2012’s most accurate fantasy experts to get their take on which online tools you actually need to be using when you’re quietly researching your lineup at work. As fantasy sports ... |
Snowden Leaks $52 Billion Intelligence Budget, Reveals “Offensive Cyber Operations” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | National Security Agency leaker and new Russia resident Edward Snowden has . The partially redacted budget reveals the successes and shortcomings of the United States’ sprawling intelligence apparatus, as well as the justifications for top-line budget items. The CIA and NSA have launched aggressive new efforts to hack... |
Remote Work Collaboration Startup Sqwiggle Closes On $1.1M In AngelList’s First Syndicate Round | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | , a startup that makes a web application that aims to close that communication gap between remote workers, has just closed on $1.1 million in a brand new seed funding round. We’ve written about the San Francisco-based Sqwiggle , but in light of the new million dollar boost I thought it was a good idea to bring a cou... |
Digg (And Digg Reader) Arrive On Android | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | , the Betaworks-incubated social news service and new home to Google Reader replacement Digg Reader, has just , the company announced today. Included in this release are all the stories you would find on the Digg.com homepage, Digg Reader, as well as integrations with over a half dozen other services including Faceboo... |
With Sinofsky On Board, Box Is Now Capable Of Mounting The First Credible Threat To Office | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | Today Box announced that Steven Sinofsky has . The relationship was kicked off via Facebook message, consummated over pho, and gives Box key talent and experience that it needs to grow its enterprise-facing document storage solution. And to build its next set of products. The race to store your files online is not a m... |
Anki, Nest, Shasta, And Skycatch To Discuss The Present And Future Of Robotics At Disrupt SF | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | Next up on the agenda for : Robots! Now, when I bring up robots, you may be thinking about C-3PO from Star Wars, or Rosie the maid from The Jetsons, or something else entirely. But I’m guessing that we’ve got something similar in mind — a machine that looks and acts kind of like a human being, something that’s still y... |
Here’s Why Microsoft Coming To Foursquare’s Salvation Might Make Sense | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | Rumors that Foursquare is looking to take on a strategic investment from a large technology company kicked up a gear when several sources have reported that Microsoft is perhaps the potential suitor, and, to quote , the talks are “advanced.” What the hell, you might be thinking, does Microsoft want with Foursquare? It... |
Deliv Partners With Mall Operator GGP To Enable Same-Day Deliveries From Its Stores | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | Peer-to-peer delivery startup wants to provide a new way for major retailers to offer up same-day delivery to their customers. And it just partnered with one of the biggest mall operators in the country, General Growth Properties, to begin making that vision a reality. Deliv is kind of like Lyft or SideCar in that it... |
Flickr Grows Post-Relaunch, Tumblr Now 7.2% Of Site’s Referral Traffic | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | Yahoo’s efforts at improving Flickr with , , and revamped web and appear to be paying off, at least in the form of website traffic and engagement. According to a new report from , visits to Flickr have been increasing steadily, and are now up by 38 percent since April. Note, though, that the big Flickr redesign wa... |
Lodgify Launches Its Build-Your-Own Solution For Vacation Rental Websites And Listings | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ3uaLSOha4?feature=player_embedded] Barcelona-based startup is launching its product today, which aims to be the “Shopify of vacation rentals” according to its co-founder Naveen Sharma. Like Shopify, Lodgify allows small business owners to easily set up an online commerce pres... |
Three Months After Being Banned From The App Store, Bang With Friends Returns As “Down” | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | They’re . Bang With Friends, the Facebook friend hookup app that seemed to be endlessly engulfed in one controversy or another earlier this year, is returning to the iOS App Store (albeit in a slightly toned-down form) after gettin’ the boot back in May. For those who missed all the hubbub, even the behind Bang With... |
Bug In Apple’s CoreText Allows Specific String Of Characters To Crash iOS 6, OS X 10.8 Apps | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | A bug in Apple’s in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 causes any apps that try to render a string of Arabic characters to crash on sight. The string of characters which can trigger the bug — which was discovered yesterday and has spread around the hacking and coding community — has made its way to Twitter, where even looking at it... |
Lyft Launches Its Ride-Sharing Service In 3 New Markets: Indianapolis, St. Paul, And Atlanta | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | Ride-sharing startup Lyft continues to grow, adding new markets where users can hail a ride via their mobile phones and have a mustachioed car pick them up. With the launch of service in Indianapolis, St. Paul and Atlanta, the company now has operations in 10 markets nationwide. Today marks the first time that Lyft has... |
With Its Flickr iOS Update, Yahoo Swaps Out Aviary For Newly Acquired GhostBird Tech; Says It’s Keeping It On The Web | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | Earlier today, a landed for Flickr that sports new, enhanced filters and other photo editing options among its new features, and when I wrote about it I wondered aloud if it was the first signs of a speedy integration of GhostBird, a photo app developer that Yahoo in June of this year. Turns out this was right. And... |
Greylock Promotes EIR And Former eBay Motors Founder Simon Rothman To Partner; Commits $100M To Invest In Marketplaces | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | After former Facebook and Twitter product lead Josh Elman to partner, Greylock is adding another consumer investing partner to its ranks from its existing team–executive in residence . And as part of this move, Greylock is announcing a $100 million commitment to invest in marketplace entrepreneurs and companies, whi... |
Doo Releases iPhone App For Its Paperwork-Killing Platform | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 8 | 29 | Back in 2011 Doo for its big play to attack the world of collaboration and documents. Basically they want to and make everything digital. To that end they have released an earlier this year and today they have launched their iPhone version, . We have also gained exclusive access to a preview of their upcoming iP... |
Waywire CEO Nathan Richardson Departs As Company Shifts Focus From Content Creation To Curation | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | The CEO of — the startup co-founded by Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker — is stepping down, TechCrunch has learned. The resignation comes as the company is in the midst of a strategic shift from content creation to content curation, according to a source familiar with the company’s strategy. Richardson w... |
Lessons From Monks About Designing The Technologies Of The Future | Klint Finley | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | “The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body,” William S. Burroughs once said in a , of all places. But things haven’t worked out that way, at least not for most of us. Our technologies are designed to maximize shareholder profit, and if that means distracting, confusing or aggregating ... |
Beddit, The Sleep Sensor You Tape To Your Bed, Looks To Build Cloud App With Indiegogo Stretch Goal | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | Smart pedometers are just the beginning. Sensors of all kinds are emerging to track the way we move, what we do at home and the way we sleep. Last week, I wrote about a that ran for a sleep sensor you attach to your bed. They say it is so sensitive, it can pick up a person’s heart-rate. After making devices like t... |
Fox Invests In Vice, A Media Company That Makes Money Being Terrible And Brilliant | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | 21st Century Fox has invested $70 million in youth-focused media company , giving Fox a 5 percent stake in the company and valuing Vice at $1.4 billion, . I emailed a company spokesperson to confirm the funding but they have not responded. Still, the news has been enough that it seems pretty solid. Although Vice ... |
Despite Flaws, Ashton As Jobs Is Worth Seeing | Cyan Banister | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | When Ashton Kutcher was first tapped to play Steve Jobs in the movie Jobs, which opened in theaters today, I was nervous. Mostly for Ashton. In addition to being a friend, I’m also Ashton’s fan, and celebrate his entire oeuvre. But most of his roles thus far have been lighthearted (Dude Where’s My Car? for one). Portra... |
FundersClub Ditches Dumb Money By Going Invite-Only | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | “Democratizing venture capital” sounds great until equity crowdfunding fills startup financing rounds with amateur angels who don’t add value. So while other funding platforms open the floodgates to any accredited investor, and eventually anyone if the JOBS Act goes into full effect, will now only accept investors wh... |
Rep. Himes Points Out That The Intelligence Community And The President Lied To Him | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | Irked that the government lied to you about the privacy abuses of the National Security Agency (NSA)? You’re not alone. Today, of Connecticut on the recent revelation that the NSA had breached privacy laws thousands of times in a one-year period. The Washington Post, , also reported that the NSA kept news of such ... |
Taxi E-Hail Startup Flywheel Launches In Los Angeles To Take On Uber, Lyft, And SideCar | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | Mobile taxi-hailing app is growing fast, doubling its number of rides over just the last two-and-a-half months. And with new funding in place, it’s looking to enter new markets to provide a way for passengers to hail a cab from their mobile phones. The next big market it’s launched in is Los Angeles, where it already... |
The Problem With The Lean In-tern | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | I am a college student in a field that traditionally offers unpaid internships. If you were to ask me two years ago to work for a big-name publication with no pay, I would have jumped at the chance. But this year, while browsing internship listings for this summer, I had no interest in unpaid positions. I considered th... |
Startups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “ ” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the next generation of mobile applications still heavily prefer the iPhone, not only as their personal ... |
Toutpost Wants To Turn Online Debates Into Shopping Advice | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | I’ll just throw this out there right now: I am known around TechCrunch for making, let’s say, unwise purchasing decisions. Whereas my problem stems mostly from making those choices without much forethought, others suffer from the reverse. Some people will do research until they’re blue in the face, and they still can’t... |
Ask A VC: Floodgate’s Ann Miura-Ko On Rajeev Motwani’s Legacy And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Floodgate’s co-founding partner Ann Miura-Ko joined us in the studio. Miura-Ko and I chatted about her role at Stanford, where she is a lecturer in the school of engineering, and where she received a Ph.D. focused on mathematical modeling of computer security. Miura-Ko recalled how... |
After Saving The Phone Metadata Program, Rep. Pelosi Finds NSA Privacy Infractions “Disturbing” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | Timed contrition has a certain air of the false. Today Rep. Pelosi of California stated that she found a report on the National Security Agency’s history of massive, continuing privacy infractions to be “disturbing.” As , Rep. Pelosi states that “Congress must conduct rigorous oversight to ensure that all incidents of... |
Hey! You! Come Build Crazy Stuff At The Disrupt SF Hackathon —More Tickets Now Available | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | It’s almost here. In less than a month, our Disrupt conference returns to San Francisco — and with it, one of our legendary Hackathons. We’ve released two big batches of Disrupt SF Hackathons tickets so far. Both of them sold out so fast that it was almost scary. Here. Have another batch. I’ve said it before, but I’ll ... |
Meet Grand Circus, A Startup That Aims To Be Detroit’s General Assembly | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | Detroit’s startup row just got a new tenant. Housed in the recently renovated Broderick Tower, just set up shop with the stated goal of elevating the Detroit tech community. The 15,000-square-foot space will soon house tech training, events, and co-working space for up to 49 entrepreneurs — something that will go a l... |
Gillmor Gang Live 08.16.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | – Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang |
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Sphero 2.0 And Speculation | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | Sometimes it’s summer, and instead of real news like the robotic ball, we hear a lot of news . Will Elon Musk’s high-speed train idea, , ever actually get built? How sure are we that the next iPhone will be revealed at ? And is Amazon building or is that just a persistent rumor? We discuss all this and more on... |
Canvsly Rewards Parents For Saving Photos Of Their Kids’ Art | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | A new mobile app for iPhone called wants to encourage parents to photograph, save and share their children’s artwork by snapping pictures of it with their phone. Yes, just like direct competitor , which has caught the attention of more than a few mommy bloggers already. But this latest entrant has a slightly differe... |
ShopAdvisor Closes $5M Funding Round As It Grows Roster Of Magazines Using Its Comparison-Shopping Tech | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | has closed a $5 million investment round led by , with participation from Seavest Capital, Rationalwave Capital Partners, and the Boston-based investors Rob Soni and Bob Davoli. The company, which originally launched as an app to help consumers remember and shop for products later, has moved in a B2B direction in the... |
Announcing Disrupt SF’s Startup Alley, Hardware Alley, And International Pavilion Companies | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 8 | 16 | is the loud and boisterous marketplace of Disrupt. Young companies, huddled around cocktail tables demoing their wares, are vying for attention and a spot on the Disrupt stage. All of these startups are amazing and we invite you to visit this amazing group at Disrupt SF early next month. As in years past startups cove... |
Xiaomi, What Americans Need To Know | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | smartphones are currently sold only in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but its is a clear signal that the three-year-old company plans to break into international markets soon. Its track record of rapid growth and savvy marketing means that it may not be long before Xiaomi, which means “little rice” in Mandarin Chinese... |
Google Exec Departs Amidst Rumors Of Tangled Love Quadrangle | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | We’ve a report today that Android VP is leaving Google for . The report was timed to coincide with about the dissolution of Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s marriage to 23andMe co-founder It also revealed that a person whom Hugo Barra had been in a previous relationship with was now dating Brin. Barra’s departure... |
With New Funding In Tow, Lendio And Creditera Are Helping Small Businesses Secure Loans And Avoid Bad Credit | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | Brock Blake and Levi King have founded more than six companies between them. Over the course of their various entrepreneurial endeavors, like many other small business owners entrepreneurs, Blake and King applied for dozens of business loans — and received dozens of rejections. When they did receive approvals, they usu... |
The GMax Large-Format 3D Printer Is Far, Far Bigger Than A Breadbox | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | Given that the average breadbox is 12 inches wide by 6 inches high and deep, we can safely say that the GMax 3D printer, a can print one. The printer, which is available for a pledge of $1,000 for an entry-level model or $1,200 for a nicer model with LCD screen. The GMax is a fairly basic additive printer with a few ... |
Mailbox Adds Cloud Search For Gmail And Opens Links In Chrome | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | Dropbox-owned has just added a couple of nice features, including the ability to search all of your Gmail messages in the cloud and locally on your device. Previously, you could only dig through messages that had already been downloaded, which was one of the big flaws that stopped me from continuing to use the app. S... |
Singaporean Accelerator JFDI.Asia’s Latest Intake Brings Together Entrepreneurs From 9 Countries | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | Singapore-based accelerator has announced the 10 startup teams in its latest class. Modeled after , JFDI.Asia looks for founding teams who are ready to take their startups from concept to early-stage investment in 100 days. JFDI.Asia is the first Southeast Asia member of the , which was started by TechStars’ co-fo... |
Test Driving The Evelo Aries, An Electric Bicycle For Commuters From A Bootstrapped Startup | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | When co-founder and his team at were ready to launch their electric bicycle company in April 2012, they took an unusual approach: They rode electric bikes from New York to San Francisco, stopping frequently along the way to demo their bikes to prospective bicycle dealers and customers. Now, the bootstrapped start... |
Three Becomes The Fourth Carrier To Throw Its Hat Into The LTE Ring, Will Offer Price-Busting 4G On 3G Tariffs Starting In December | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | On the heels of Vodafone and O2 turning on their LTE networks to compete against EE in 4G services in the UK, has confirmed its roadmap and pricing for 4G services. The UK’s fourth-largest carrier, owned by Hong Kong’s Hutchison Whampoa, will start offering LTE beginning December 2013, starting first in London, Bir... |
If Tinder And Snapchat Shacked Up And Had A Baby, It Would Be Called Swipe | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | is the latest in a series of “people discovery” apps to pop up over the last year or so, connecting users who have expressed interest in one another. In that way, it’s not that much different from apps like Tinder or Let’s Date. But , the startup behind the Swipe app, hopes to provide a bunch of features that will ke... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: Samsung’s Galaxy Glut, Nexus Price Cuts, And HTC’s Next Step | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | Is it Wednesday already? It must be, because we’ve got yet another edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast to carry you through the rest of your day (or least the next half hour). This week it’s just Darrell Etherington and I shooting the breeze about the goings-on in the Android world, but there’s plenty for us to dig int... |
Come To The Disrupt Hackathon, Leave Smarter — Here Are The API Workshops (And More Tickets!) | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | The is so damned close that we can almost smell that rare amalgamation of sweat, excitement, exhaustion, and pizza grease in the air. We’re just over a week away from the big event, where hundreds upon hundreds of coders and designers will be locked in a battle to build the coolest thing they can build in a single 24... |
Udacity And San Jose State See Improvement In Their Online Education Experiment [Updated] | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | Experimentation is a roller coaster. San Jose State University suspended its controversial . But the university and its platform partner, Udacity, bounced back on their second try, improving students’ outcomes in four of five summer courses, compared to their traditional online counterparts. SJSU’s pilot with Massivel... |
You Can Bet On Who Will Be Microsoft’s Next CEO (Marissa Mayer Pays Out 33 To 1) | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | A betting service has for Microsoft’s soon-to-be-vacant CEO role that you can wager on. It’s a partially serious, partially silly list. Microsoft COO Kevin Turner as CEO? Perhaps. Apple CEO Tim Cook as the new Microsoft boss? Probably not. But Turner pays out but 6 to 1 while Cook is a 100 to 1 longshot, so place you... |
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Online Ad Company Turn Launches In Japan | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | , which offers advertising tools in areas like real-time bidding and analytics, is announcing today that it has opened its first office in Japan. This is part of a larger move into the Asia-Pacific region, said CEO Bill Demas. The company expanded in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia in the past year, and it also has... |
Obama’s NSA Panel Is Dead Before It Even Starts, Lacks Tech And Telco Execs | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | As part of his promises regarding better oversight of the National Security Agency, President Obama called for expert external opinion on where the lines of privacy should be drawn: And yet, no. Obama’s panel is not a set of outsiders in the slightest. As some have , the group is instead a slurry of insiders, former i... |
Twitter Reverses The Flow Of Its Timeline In Effort To Humanize It For Newbies | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | Twitter just flipped the format of its . The full timeline will still show in the traditional ‘newest stuff at the top’ view, but now there are linked conversations which display tweets in an easier-to-understand format. At first glance, this might seem like a simple update that links related tweets together with a th... |
Founder Stories: Zendesk’s Mikkel Svane On Applying Customer Service To Business | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | Can you measure corporate performance based on customer happiness? According to my Founder Stories guest this week, Zendesk’s , happiness is actually an important metric in the business of customer service. What has happened over the last five or six years is that the notion of customer service has changed from just... |
Twitter Updates Android, iOS And Web With New Conversation View, Abuse Reporting | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | Twitter has just released an update for iOS, Android and the web application with a brand new interface for conversations, as well as enhanced sharing and abuse reporting capabilities. According to , the idea is to make it easier to follow and discover conversations. With the updates, users will see full conversations... |
With Trendrr Acquisition, Twitter Continues To Beef Up Its Social TV Efforts | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | Twitter has acquired , a company that tracks social media engagement around TV content, as and . Trendrr says it’s “excited to be joining Twitter’s world class team, enabling us to realize bigger opportunities that drive better experiences for users, media and marketers – across Twitter and around the globe.” It al... |
ShopPad Raises $500K To Instantly Turn Online Shops Into iPad-Friendly Websites | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 28 | , an e-commerce platform that turns retailers’ desktop websites into tablet-optimized experiences, is today announcing $500,000 in seed funding for its software-as-a-service technology now used by more than 10,000 online merchants. Angels in the round include Mashery co-founder and CEO of MyBlogLog, Lookery and Lumatic... |
CrunchBase Analysis Of Investment Activity By Season | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 17 | Many people in tech believe that VCs slow the pace of their investing during the summer, especially in August. We wanted to verify this using the CrunchBase dataset by comparing deals over the past few years. We graphed total deals by month in CrunchBase from January 2010 to July 2013, but there was no apparent slump t... |
Cloud Service Architecture Will Power New Era Of Intelligent, Automated Applications | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 17 | The new way of the world for most web software development is the assembly of applications from cloud-based APIs. Developers are saving loads of time by pulling in various cloud services and focusing their attention on the novel business logic of their solutions. Hundreds of new APIs are sprouting up monthly, as tracke... |
CrunchWeek: BlackBerry Puts Itself In Play, Google’s Geeky Easter Eggs, Mobile Ad M&A | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 8 | 17 | This time around, , would up discussing BlackBerry’s (which basically means it is up for sale), the cheeky new hidden “Easter egg” , and what says about the state of mobile advertising. |
AngelList Tells SEC New Fundraising Rules Will Kill Startups | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 17 | Startups could face a “death sentence” one year ban from fundraising if they violate awkward new general solicitation fundraising rules, co-founder Naval Ravikant wrote in a this week. Ravikant says the Regulation D and Form D changes that go into effect soon are designed for Wall Street, not Silicon Valley, and mu... |
Formvertise Launches With Form-Based Mobile Ads And ‘Sue Me’ Campaigns Offering A Guaranteed ROI | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 17 | Startup is committing financially to the effectiveness of its mobile ad campaigns. It’s is actually a spinoff from another company , which offered mobile marketing tools for small businesses and nonprofits. The problem with that approach, as explained to me by CEO Shaunak Khire, is not hugely surprising — many of th... |
How LinkedIn Became A Wall Street Juggernaut | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 17 | In 2010, had you suggested to the smartest Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors that LinkedIn would have a larger market value in 2013 than Groupon, Zynga or Twitter, you would have been laughed at. Had you hypothesized that LinkedIn would be worth more than Groupon, Zynga and Twitter and worth nearly one-third... |
DO-RA Is An Environmental Sensor That Plugs Into Your Phone & Tracks Radiation Exposure | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 8 | 17 | There’s a thriving cottage industry of smartphone extension hardware that plugs into the headphone jack on your phone and extends its capabilities in one way or another — feeding whatever special data it grabs back to an app where you get to parse, poke and prod it. It’s hard to keep track of the cool stuff people are ... |
Gillmor Gang: Drunken Avatars | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 8 | 17 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — turned what seemed like a slow news week into a tour of emergent hardware and big tech ideas. A Down-Under visitor to Robert Scoble’s studio showed us how he used a 3D printer to prototype a Steadicam-like handheld image stabi... |
Why Venture Will Abandon Seed Investing | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 17 | Five years ago, I noticed a growing gap between angel and venture investing. Venture was getting bigger and writing bigger checks, while angel checks were getting smaller and their process was becoming more cumbersome. Since it had also become exponentially easier to launch a web, and later mobile business, entrepren... |
CrunchWeek: Jeff Bezos Buys WaPo; Max Levchin Tackles Fertility With Glow And Fail Week | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | Welcome to a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers together to talk about the most interesting tech news stories from the past week. This week, our star intern and I kicked off with the news of The Washington Post’s for $250 million. It should be interesting to has up ... |
Casio Updates G-Shock Bluetooth Line With Added Functionality | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | Don’t call it a smart watch. The line appeared in 2011 with little fanfare – it was up against devices like the Pebble in the public imagination and so an underpowered smartwatch was of little interest. However, Casio has updated their Bluetooth line with the GB-6900B And GB-X6900B, improved versions of their iconic ... |
Apple Will Reportedly Unveil The Next iPhone On September 10 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | It’s about time for a new iPhone, and with the rumors about an iPhone 5S and maybe even a cheaper version getting stronger, that the next iPhone will launch on September 10. Apple introduced the iPhone 5 on September 12, 2012, so there is a good chance AllThingsD’s sources are correct, though we haven’t heard anythin... |
StartupEquality.org: Remove Restrictions On Gay Investors | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | has a simple mission, which is to get same-sex couples the same rights to invest in startup companies as heterosexual couples. My dad received his PhD from Yale for a number of reasons. One of those reasons was that, just a few years before he enrolled, the university removed its Jewish quota. In subsequent years, b... |
The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 10th Birthday By Launching A Tor-Based Anti-Censorship Browser | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | The Pirate Bay (TPB), the torrent site that really doesn’t need an introduction anymore, celebrates today. To mark the day, TPB , “a bundle package of the , (with ).” The package, the group says, includes “some custom configs that allows you to circumvent censorship that certain countries such as Iran, North K... |
Your Miyagi Moment | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWMtUDJQfYs There’s a classic scene in the 80s movie The Karate Kid when Daniel LaRusso discovers that he’s actually learned how to fight. Here’s how it goes down: Miyagi agrees to train Daniel-san after learning that he’s been taking daily beatings from Johnny and the cobra-kais. To Da... |
Close A Round With New “Inbound” Tools And Techniques On AngelList | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | Last week, my company closed a $1.75 million seed round using an “inbound” approach to fundraising. In past ventures, we’d used the “outbound” approach that virtually all startups use – identifying investors, networking to coordinate calls and meetings, and working 1:1 to create demand. Our new inbound approach app... |
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YouTube’s Geek Week Easter Eggs Celebrate Missile Command, Star Trek And Bronies | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | YouTube just wrapped up its first Geek Week, a celebration of all things geek. Besides featuring daily videos of things like slow motion , Neil deGrasse Tyson and , YouTube also featured a daily Easter Egg each day. If you’re like us and you didn’t fully pay attention to every single one of these, here is a full li... |
NSA Reportedly Changing Section 702 Of The FISA Amendments Act To Search US Citizens’ Communications | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | Today that a change to section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) appears set to allow for the searching of communication information of United States citizens. Previously, section 702 was restricted to communications of foreign individuals who were located outside of the United States at the, to quote the Guardian... |
Gillmor Gang: I Spy | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — well, let’s just say this show went to some very strange places. Kangaroo balls, Google auto-urinary services, the real reason Jeff Bezos bought a newspaper, and other details of the Lull before the Next Storm. Much to be ente... |
Apple Brings Final Developer Services Back Online, Extends Memberships By 1 Month | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | Apple today announced that all of its developer program services are now . Apple’s portal for developers, which also hosts its iOS and OS X beta downloads, on July 18th and a few days after, the company acknowledged that there . To make up for the prolonged outage of some of the services, Apple will extend all memb... |
Spotify Wants To Be Everything To Everyone | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | You can get a little music from a lot of places, but Spotify is on a quest to be your omni-jukebox. It’s already offers on-demand streaming and radio, and it’s , a new way to discover critic and community playlists for different moods and genres. Spotify hopes to combine social, algorithms, and expert curation to beat... |
Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | If I knew what I knew in the past
I would have been blacked out on your a** —Kanye West, Because I am a prominent advocate for founders running their own companies, whenever a founder fails to scale or gets replaced by a professional CEO, people send me lots of emails. What happened, Ben? I thought founders were su... |
Microsoft Doesn’t Want To Admit Windows RT Is Dead | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNpmhcYodwI Microsoft is in a tough spot. Windows RT is all but dead in the water. But Microsoft has approximately a zillion and a half Surface RT tablets collecting dust in warehouses. And so Ballmer and Co. continued its ignorant fight against Apple and the far more successful iPad with... |
The Angel Health Monitor Is A Fitbit For Hackers | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | The , besides having a fairly morbid name (you rarely see angels unless you’re sailing down the river Styx), is actually quite cool. Designed to be a “developer’s” health monitoring system, the Angel senses motion and acceleration, skin temperature, blood oxygen saturation, and heart rate. Created by Eugene Jorov and ... |
Mobile Video Consumption Is Increasing Dramatically In China | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | Android users in China are becoming increasingly avid consumers of mobile video, according to a from , one of China’s largest third-party Android app stores with over 200 million users. This underscores the importance of online video for Internet companies as consumers’ viewing habits shift to online content. In Chi... |
The Future Of Work: Amazon vs. Zappos | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 8 | 10 | Twenty years ago was part of the three-man Harvard team that won the hyper-prestigious ACM Programmming Contest. Five years later he sold LinkExchange to Microsoft for more than $250 million. Then he sold Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion, while retaining operational independence. Now he’s trying to make the desert b... |
Tesla Model S Earns Highest Safety Rating Ever From US Agency | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | The , both overall and in each individual category, from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The company claims that the Model S achieved a new combined record of 5.4 stars. Around 1 percent of cars tested by the NHTSA earn five stars in every category. Tesla claims that the Model S was able ... |
TiVo Launches New ‘Roamio’ Family Of DVRs, With Up To 6 Tuners, 3 TB Of Storage, & Out-Of-Home Streaming | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | TiVo is unveiling a whole new family of DVRs today with more tuners, more storage, and soon the ability to stream live and download pre-recorded video to mobile devices outside of the home. The new TiVo Roamio line of devices go on sale today, with prices starting at $199 and going up to $599 depending on features and... |
Wacom Reveals Cintiq Companion Windows 8 And Android Tablets, Intuos Pressure-Sensitive iPad Stylus | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | Wacom promised a standalone tablet solution earlier this year, to be revealed this summer, and now they’re revealing not one, but two such devices. The new bring Wacom’s pressure-sensitive graphics power to creative pros in standalone devices. The Cintiq Companion is a Windows 8-powered tablet that comes in both an 8... |
Instagram Cracks Down On Connected Apps Using “Insta” And “Gram” | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | Instagram has updated its brand guidelines to ban apps that feature either the word “Insta” or “Gram” in their names, and it has begun sending emails to existing apps requesting that they change those components “within a reasonable period.” The emails specifically call out a few updates to that restrict the use of t... |
UK Govt. Destroyed Journalists’ Hard Drives In Failed Attempt To Stop NSA Story | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | The plot thickens. British authorities in an attempt to stop the Guardian from disseminating stories about classified mass-surveillance projects. Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger details how security experts from British intelligence agency, GCHQ, told him that the Guardian would have to either hand over their informa... |
Graft Concepts Wants To Be The Swiss Army Knife Of iPhone Cases | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | Card slots. . . . Whatever you might need on the go, people are thinking of ways for you to integrate it right into your iPhone case. But Y Combinator startup is trying to cover all your basic needs with one case, using a simple latched frame and interchangeable backplates. Named Leverage, the case’s frame alone i... |
Zillow Prices Follow-On Offering At $82 Per Share To Raise $205M | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | Zillow, the real estate listings juggernaut, priced its follow-on offering to its IPO . The company is selling 2.5 million shares, or raising about $205 million. The $82 figure is a bit lower , as the company’s shares have slipped by more than 7 percent over the past day. Additionally, existing shareholders are putti... |
At This Rate, Nokia Will Be The Only Windows Phone OEM By The Holidays | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | The monthly Windows Phone is out for August, and is essentially a : The Lumia 520 is crushing other Windows Phone handsets, and Nokia is quickly becoming the de facto OEM of the platform as HTC slips. Nokia moved from 85 percent market share of Windows Phone hardware in July, to 86.9 percent in August. Rounding that... |
BotObjects Vows To Put A 3D Printer In (Almost) Every High School | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | , an intriguing 3D printing outfit that builds real, full-color additive prints out of multiple colored plastic filaments, has announced that it will offer free printers to select high schools in the United States and the U.K. High Schools can register at in late August. Between 150 and 200 classrooms will receive a ... |
This Is How Maker Studios Scales Video Production For The YouTube Generation | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | As one of the earliest multichannel networks on YouTube, Maker Studios has built a pretty big business out of putting talent first. Founded four years ago by some of the biggest YouTubers of the time, the company was designed to provide its creators the tools to collaborate with one another and create really compelli... |
YouTube For Android Gets Major Makeover, Lets You Minimize Videos While Browsing And Searching | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | Google today started rolling out a major new version of . This update is one of the most significant for the service in a long time and introduces a cool in-app multitasking feature that lets you minimize the screen while you browse channels or perform searches. It also features Google’s standard “card” interface. Unt... |
Losing Our Childhood To LinkedIn | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | What’s scarier than a 14-year-old girl choosing her sexiest Facebook profile pic? Maybe a 14-year-old girl inflating her résumé on her new LinkedIn profile. Childhood used to be a time of self-exploration, but the Internet is pushing kids to define themselves early and put that facade on display. This dynamic gained mo... |
The Nvidia Shield Seemed Like A Fringe Device, But It’s Actually A Mobile Gaming Must-Have | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | Nvidia went a little outside of its comfort zone when it built the , a portable gaming device based on essentially stock Android with an integrated hardware controller. I wasn’t sure what to make of it when it was announced: Was it a reference device for potential Tegra partners? Simply a showcase for what its mobile ... |
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