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Leaked Revenue Figures Illustrate Need For Hundreds Of Patch Layoffs | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | Yesterday I on Patch’s revenue, yielding the point that, given the scope of the proposed cuts to its staff, the hyper-local news service does in fact have a shot at reaching profitability this year. A reader helpfully pointed out a leaked document from Patch, , detailing its year-to-date advertising incomes. It’s ti... |
Matthew Panzarino Joins TechCrunch As Senior Editor | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | Matthew Panzarino has been a professional photographer, hobbyist chef, hardware tinkerer, independent Apple blogger, and most recently the . He has made a name for himself in the tech media world as a writer relentlessly covering Apple and Twitter, in addition to a broad range of startups. Less obviously, he has also ... |
Personal Security Startup MyPermissions Adds Real-Time Protection For Twitter | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | , a startup offering a suite of security protection and privacy tools, is today becoming the first service to offer live protection for users’ Twitter accounts. What that means is MyPermissions will now be able to alert you in real time as new Twitter applications access your personal information, tweets or direct mess... |
Nextpeer, Which Brings Multiplayer Mode To Mobile Games, Comes To Android | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | , an Israeli startup that’s looking to make every mobile game multiplayer-enabled, is landing on Android after racking up about 10 million monthly actives in its network on iOS. The company’s SDK basically offers a deeper version what earlier mobile-social gaming platforms tried to do by letting players compete directl... |
GoDaddy Acquires Local Business Data Provider Locu | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 19 | is acquiring San Francisco-based local business data provider , the companies are announcing today. The startup, founded at MIT in 2011, is currently being used by over 30,000 businesses, largely restaurants, as well as spas, salons, and other local businesses like accountants, law services, photographers, home remod... |
Judge Approves Facebook’s $20M “Sponsored Stories” Settlement | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | A U.S. District judge has to a settlement in which Facebook will pay $20 million for including users’ names and profile photos in its “Sponsored Stories” advertising program without their approval. The class action lawsuit was first filed by five Facebook users in April 2011, three months after Facebook introduced th... |
With Funding From Top Flight Investors, Fast-Growing NoRedInk Is On A Mission To Rid The World Of Bad Grammar | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | The declining quality of humanities education (and student performance) in the U.S. has become a big problem. Last year, that SAT scores in reading and writing have hit record lows, while this year, its new, Common Core-based test results, which found that only 31 percent of its students in third through eighth gra... |
TxtMeApp Offers An Easy Way To Drive Mobile Downloads From Desktop Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | Here’s one way advertisers can convince desktop viewers to try out their mobile apps — send them a text. That’s the proposition behind ,a new product from Israel-based digital media agency (not to be confused with , the San Francisco-based advertising and publishing company that owns sites like XOJane and ReadWrite... |
Inside Funny Or Die’s Celeb-Filled Video Production House | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | Funny Or Die has spent the last six years making some of the funniest content on the web, and unlike a lot of the new media companies that have popped up lately, it’s done so without leaning on YouTube for distribution. Instead, Funny Or Die has relied on hilarious, celeb-filled videos to drive content to its own web... |
Worth $100B, Facebook Has Recovered $58B In Market Cap Since Last September | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | Today Facebook ended normal trading with a market valuation of $100.6 billion. The milestone capped a long return to form for Facebook, after a botched IPO and mobile concerns led investors to unload their shares during its first year as a public entity. Facebook traded as low as $17.55 on September 4, 2012. This makes... |
Now With 10M Users, Wanelo Adds Search And ‘Stories’ To Its Hot Social Shopping App | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | Today , the online platform that lets people discover and share things they “want, need, and love,” issued an update to its that brings two handy new features, search and “stories,” to its mobile shopping experience. In general, Wanelo has emerged as a powerful player in the social shopping space since it launched b... |
Apple’s iPhone Trade-in Program Is Already Being Piloted, Here’s How It Works | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | Apple is about to introduce an iPhone trade-in program that will allow users to walk into a Retail store and trade up from an old model to a new one. We’ve heard some interesting details about the way that the program will work, and indeed, is working right now in some pilot Apple Stores. The program, has gotten a bit ... |
Party With TechCrunch At Disrupt SF | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | There ain’t no party like a TechCrunch party. And with that bit of trivia, I’m excited to announce that this year, tickets to after parties will be available to the general public. These parties are mostly reserved for Disrupt attendees. Buy a Disrupt general admission ticket and you’re granted access to the three da... |
Anonymous Document Sharing Site Pastebin Surpasses 1 Million Members, Keeps Growing | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | officially announced that they’ve surpassed 1 million registered members since the introduction of the login service two and a half years ago. The service allowed users to log in using social media tools and control the pastes they uploaded to the site. Members can also edit and delete pieces of information they post ... |
Google Palestine Hacked And Defaced Through A Domain Registry Attack | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | Google’s primary search domain for Palestine has seemingly been hacked, with the standard Google search interface for the region being replaced by a political message from its hackers. From the information available so far, it doesn’t appear that Google’s own servers were hacked — instead, it seems that Google’s Palest... |
Owlet, A Bootie That Tells You How Your Baby Is Breathing, Hits The Crowdfunding Trail | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | The lives of new parents are fraught with stress but now the weight of knowing whether or not your wee one is breathing can be lifted. Owlet is a small bootie that the baby wears while sleeping. It signals heartrate and respiration and you can check in on the little shaver via a mobile device. As a parent of three, I r... |
Facebook Announces Shared Photo Albums To Boost Group Engagement | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | Facebook is rolling out shared photo albums, as . Users can share access to an album with up to 50 contributors, who can each add up to 200 photos. For those of you who aren’t math whizzes, that means shared albums can be as large as 10,000 photos. Previously, albums were limited to 1,000 total photos and users could ... |
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Android Developers Can Now Use Google’s Play Store To Distribute Their Free Apps In Iran | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | Google today that Android developers can now make their free apps , one of the where app downloads through Google’s store were completely unavailable until now. Paid apps and apps that use in-app billing, Google notes, will still remain unavailable in Iran for the time being. For developers, this move opens up an ... |
Sequoia- And Khosla-Backed Cloud Phone Company RingCentral Files For $100M IPO | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | , a company offering cloud-based phone and communication systems, has for an initial public offering of up to $100 million. Incorporated back in 1999, San Mateo, Calif.-based RingCentral says it saw revenue of $50.2 million in 2010, $78.9 million in 2011, and $114.5 million in 2012. However, it’s also experiencing gr... |
Microsoft’s New Scroogled Ad Sets Fresh Low For Bad Writing, Boring Argument | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | The annals of bad Microsoft advertising have a new member today — a short clip that attempts to paint Google as evil because its services contain advertising. Contrast this with , which does not. So, use Bing in your classroom! Because Google is bad! Credit score! The ad is stilted, poorly written, and mostly annoying... |
Qualcomm Ventures Managing Director Quinn Li Is Excited About Wearables | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | is the managing director at Qualcomm Ventures, one of the top wireless investment firms in the world since 2000, with portfolio companies including PayPal, Waze, and Fitbit. He also happens to be a resident of San Diego, where Qualcomm was founded and the site of our latest , where he was kind enough to grace us wi... |
Rumors Of Apple’s New A7 Chip Could Indicate That CPU Innovation Is Flagging | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 8 | 26 | With every new iPhone, most of the discussion centers around its look and not what comes inside. But, according to , Apple has designed a new dual-core A7 system on a chip for the . If rumors are true, the A7 could supposedly be 31 percent faster, representing a serious slowdown in spec improvement. It could indicate... |
Google Now Update Adds More Entertainment And Travel Features To The Android Personal Assistant App | Mahesh Sharma | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | Google has a half-dozen new travel and entertainment features to its personalized search service . With the additions, the company is aiming to capture the attention of the real-world consumer, such as a sports fan watching an NCAA football game, or the recently landed tourist trying to find their rental car. , Goog... |
Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Joins Board Of UCWeb As It Builds A Mobile Ecosystem In India | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | founder and former CEO Jack Ma has joined ‘s board of directors as the company focuses on building mobile ecosystems in India and other emerging markets. UC Browser recently surpassed Opera as the top mobile browser in India, but only by a thin margin, and UCWeb has said it plans to build relationships in different v... |
Website Editor Jimdo Launches An iOS App So Users Can Build And Edit Sites From Their Phone | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | , a Hamburg-headquartered company offering easy-to-use tools for building websites, already seems pretty mobile friendly. Jimdo-powered sites can also be viewed in mobile-optimized layouts, and earlier this year the company , where businesses create a landing page that highlights their most important information. What... |
Bradley Manning’s Tough Sentence Shows White House’s Uncompromising War On Data Leakers | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | Wikileaks source Private Bradley Manning was slapped with a 35-year prison sentence today — the largest sentence ever of its kind. “It’s further indication that the Executive Branch is very serious about discouraging classified documents,” Yale Law School professor Eugene Fidell tells me. “It struck me that it was a li... |
HP CEO Pitches Patience And Progress To Investors, Who Send Her Company’s Stock Down 7% After-Hours | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | Today during its earnings call, a sober HP discussed recent progress in executing its five-year turnaround plan that remains in its early stages. HP had a that merely managed to meet expectations. The company failed to demonstrate that its recovery efforts are proceeding more quickly than . It’s a fix and rebuild ye... |
Google’s Street View Ups Its Panda Count, Adds 6 New Zoos | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | For quite a while now, Google has featured Street View imagery from zoos around the world. Today, the company decided to highlight some of these image collections on its site and also added six new zoos to its lineup. The new zoos that are now featured on Street View are the , , , in Chile, in Brazil and the ... |
Court Eventually Stopped NSA From Collecting Millions Of Communications | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | Two new fun facts today regarding America’s surveillance state: the National Security Agency was collecting hundreds of millions of communications up until 2011, but a military court stopped them. court order, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ruled that a potentially defunct mass email snooping progr... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: SHIELD Me From These Idiots, I Want A Wacom And Google’s Now Octopus | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | Midweek, we’re here for you! Our hump day tradition of the continues into its third episode with your host Chris Velazco, myself and special guest Romain Dillet delivering some worldly charm. This week, we’ve got some new Android-powered hardware to discuss, including the and combo Android tablet/PC or Mac drawin... |
With $1M In New Funding, Betterfly Launches Live Video Platform Tailored To Online Learning | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | Chicago-based self-improvement startup has been connecting teachers and students in real life for music lessons, relationship coaching, juggling instruction and just about anything you can imagine. But the startup is finally bringing its model online thanks to a live video platform launch today. Betterfly LIVE connec... |
US Director Of National Intelligence Launches Tumblr Site “IC On The Record” To Assuage Surveillance Concerns | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | The U.S. office of National Intelligence today to promote government transparency in the wake of the months-long scandals surrounding the National Security Agency’s surveillance tactics. “In June, President Obama requested that Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper declassify and make public as much info... |
Foursquare Begins Crowdsourcing Local Business Data Collection With Questions That Appear After Check-Ins | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | , a company now focused on transforming itself into a source of local business information and reviews more along the lines of Yelp, is releasing a feature that it hopes will help to extract more value from users’ check-ins. The company says it may now ask users a brief question about the business they’re visiting afte... |
Amid Executive Changes, HP Posts Declining Q3 Revenue Of $27.2B As Its PC Division Weakens | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | Today HP announced its , including revenue of $27.2 billion, down 8 percent year over year. The company earned $0.86 per share on a non-GAAP basis. The street had expected revenue of $27.3 billion, and earnings per share of $0.86 on a non-GAAP basis. Today a number of that were not detailed in HP’s earnings release,... |
Tech Gets Its Own “Modest Proposal” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | In Jonathan Swift’s he postulates that one solution to the problem of poverty in Ireland is that the poor sell their offspring to rich people as food. In Patrick McConlogue’s “ ,” he makes a similar logical leap, that fixing the “lost pieces” of humanity can happen with a couple of books of JavaScript How-Tos and an ... |
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Okkervil River Debuts 8-Bit Point-And-Click Game Created By Lead Singer Will Sheff Ahead Of Album Release | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | Okkervil River’s Will Sheff grew up playing games like Maniac Mansion and King’s Quest, and as part of the release of his band’s new album “The Silver Gymnasium,” he’s teamed up with Eyes And Ears’ Benjamin Miles to . The game features basic but beautiful 8-bit graphics, a chiptunes soundtrack composed by Miles based ... |
Foundation: David Copperfield On The Art Of Magic And Eternal Curiosity | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | In this episode of my video series, I travel to Las Vegas to interview famed illusionist, magician, and entrepreneur David Copperfield. David explains how he combines magic with storytelling, recounts the moment when Francis Ford Coppola taught him to text, and shares his theory that people who are eternally curiou... |
Facebook Aims To Be A News Source By Now Letting Everyone Embed Public Posts | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | With hashtags, trending topics, verified profiles, and now the ability for on external websites, Facebook is making a big push to become a primary source of real-time news, both for journalists and readers. It opened post embeds to a few partners . Now anyone can grab embed codes from public posts, and Facebook’s ad... |
Meet The Original Hyperloop… For Rocks | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ci_Ta_Ul-Y] The Hyperloop isn’t a new idea. In fact, the concept was so compelling that an engineer named built one to carry phosphate ore back and forth through a mine. Because the entire system needed to survive in a dank, dirty environment and have as few moving parts as p... |
Google Updates Its Keep Note-Taking App With Reminders, Location-Based Alerts And Google Now Integration | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | When Google launched and the web , it was essentially a basic note-taking application. Today, the company is launching that turns it into a far more useful application. The update, which will start rolling out today, is centered around the new “Remind me” button, which now lets you schedule time-based reminders an... |
The College Students Behind Norway’s Hit Fun Run Look To Become More Than A One-Hit Wonder | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | When iOS was a younger platform three or four years ago, every few weeks a small studio out of some tiny corner of the world would emerge with a top-ranking hit. There were games out of tiny towns in Northern Germany like Tiny Wings and then there were titles like Angry Birds, which some companies like Rovio parlayed ... |
Maker Studios In Deal To Buy Blip As It Works To Reach More Screens | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 21 | YouTube multichannel network has to acquire long-running video distribution network . While the deal hasn’t closed yet and there are a number of issues to be worked out, it would bring more content under the Maker umbrella and could give the company more technology to distribute outside of the YouTube platform. We... |
Sign Up For Hardware Alley At Disrupt SF, Be Considered A Giant Among Your Peers | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | Every year I’m given the best job a guy could ever want: planning hardware alley, a one day extravaganza of some of the best hardware I’ve ever seen. This event, which happens on the last day of Disrupt, is a crowd favorite and I’d love to feature your gear. What is Hardware Alley? It’s a celebration of hardware startu... |
Facebook Fights Snapchat By Letting You Send Instagrams With Messenger | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | Snapchat sends 200 million private photo messages a day. WhatsApp sends 325 million. These are scary numbers for Facebook that prove the visual communication is on the rise, so it’s just begun allowing for iOS users to and photos from other non-Camera Roll albums. It shows that while Poke failed, Facebook is seriou... |
Cyber-Security Company Sentinel Labs Raises $2.5M | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | , a startup that detects cyber-security threats in real time, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from Data Collective, Granite Hill Capital Partners, Accel Partners and several other angel investors. The company also in funding last March. A graduate of Israeli startup accelerator , Sentinel Labs is trying to e... |
Bitcoin Clampdown Continues As Federal Judge Says It’s A Currency | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | Wikipedia Bitcoin a cryptocurrency (a currency that relies on cryptography), but now it’s official. A federal judge in Texas that Bitcoin is a currency and should therefore be regulated just like U.S. dollars or gold. The ruling represents yet another attempt to regulate Bitcoin transactions, threatening the origin... |
Check Out YouTube Space LA, Its Huge New Space For Local Video Creators | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | Over the past few years, YouTube has emerged as the dominant platform for distributing video online, but it would be nothing without all the creators and networks that produce content for it. The number one request from those members in LA was for production space to help them create better videos. And so, the compan... |
Conference Networking App Topi Gets Deep Meetup Integration | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | , a mobile event networking app that wants to help you find the right people to talk to at large conferences, today announced that it has launched a nifty integration with . The new feature will allow that site’s members to more easily find each other at events and stay in touch even after the event ends or at other e... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: LG G2, Nexus 7, Moto X And The Madness Of BBM For Android | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | Surprise! We’ve got another podcast for you to enjoy with your earholes! This is the , wherein we discuss all things Android on a weekly basis. The Droidcast features regular appearances by Chris Velazco and me, Darrell Etherington, along with a rotating Rogue’s Gallery like Romain Dillet, who joins us this week. We’r... |
Biomeme Wants To Turn Your iOS Device Into A Disease-Detecting Mobile DNA Lab | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | There’s a vast, vast sea of the smartphone accessories out there that are designed to solve first-world problems (do we honestly need another bottle opening case?), but here’s one that aspires to change the rest of the world. The folks at Dreamit Ventures-backed have developed a device that will turn your humble iPho... |
Ubuntu Edge Gets Its First Major Corporate Backer In Bloomberg, But Funding Still Off Needed Pace | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | The is an audacious attempt to Canonical, the company behind the Edge and Ubuntu itself is seeking an exorbitant $32 million to make it happen, and gave itself only a month to raise those funds. Now, Bloomberg LP has come forward as its first major corporate backer, with a lump $80,000 contribution in exchange for ... |
Investors Cheer Groupon’s Appointment Of A CEO, Narrow Earnings Beat, Stock Buyback Program | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | Groupon the appointment of Eric Lefkofsky as its CEO, Ted Leonsis as the Chairman of its board, revenue of $609 million in the second quarter, operating income of $59 million excluding stock compensation expenses, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.02. Investors are enthralled, sending Groupon up more than 13 perc... |
Fail Week: When Mariam Naficy’s Startup Launch Was So Bad She Almost Gave The Investor Money Back | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | On Monday we , who talked about being in debt to the government to the tune of $6 million; yesterday we , who talked about losing “total credibility” as DoubleClick’s CEO when he had to lay off hundreds of dedicated employees during the first dot-com bust. And today, we’re hearing from , the CEO of design marketpl... |
Weilos Wants To Pair You With An Online Weight Loss Coach Who Has Shed Pounds Themselves | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | A new startup currently participating in the Summer 2013 cohort of Y Combinator called wants to make weight loss attempts more sticky and more accountable by pairing those with weight loss goals with coaches who have already achieved theirs for personalized, one-on-one training. It’s yet another example of the crowds... |
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In The Smartphone Wars It’s iOS Vs. Android And Windows Phone Vs. The Rest | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | It’s , meaning that your about the latest figures: Android’s continuing massive growth, the slowing of iOS’s year-over-year unit volume expansion, and curiously, today, if Windows Phone’s numbers matter. You see, Windows Phone posted the highest year-over-year unit volume increase, , clocking in with a second quart... |
Mobile Payments Platform For Apps Venmo Touch Expands To Android, iOS 7 | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | Braintree-owned Venmo is expanding its one-touch mobile payments platform today, with a private beta release of Venmo Touch for Android arriving now, alongside the launch of an iOS 7-compatible version of Venmo Touch and the Braintree iOS SDK. This marks the first time the service has been made available on non-iOS d... |
How The Curiosity Rover Sang Happy Birthday To Itself On Mars | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVVgBAosqg#at=86] We’re a few days late in wishing the Mars Curiosity Rover a happy birthday – it landed on the Red Planet on August 5th one year ago – so to make up for it we present Florence Tan, the team lead for the rover’s on-board chemistry lab, talking about how they tran... |
Facebook Publishing Optimizer PostRocket To Shut Down On August 15 | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | , a startup that helps customers optimize their Facebook posts for maximum exposure and engagement, has announced that it will be shutting down on August 15. The company was incubated by 500 Startups, and it raised from Polaris Ventures, 500 Startups, and various angel investors. The PostRocket team previously manage... |
Prepare To Be Outdone By Pros And Brands, Instagram Just Enabled Video Uploading | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 7 | Anyone can shoot a good photo with Instagram. Directing a good video is a whole other ballgame. But until now there was an even playing field. Everyone had to shoot their mini-movies in the app. But Instagram just began allowing you to . That means pros can shoot on high-tech cameras, edit on a desktop, and post their... |
Why Jeff Bezos Bought The Washington Post For $250M | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | Test, test, test, , test, test, test, test, test, test. Test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test. Test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test. Test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test. Test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test. Test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test. Test, test, test, test, ... |
Bitcoin Ticker Available On Bloomberg Terminal For Employees | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | Bitcoin is now officially mainstream. According to , Bloomberg terminal users can now look up Bitcoin’s pricing history. Data comes from ubiquitous Bitcoin exchange service as well as . For now, only Bloomberg employees can access the ticker. But the feature should make its way to regular Bloomberg terminal custome... |
Skolkovo, Russia’s Massive Project To Emulate Silicon Valley, Gets A $4B Commitment | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | , the much debated public effort by the Russian government to kickstart a startup culture inside the country, ($4 billion) commitment from the government through the next seven years. With additional private investor money projected on top of the government commitment, Skolkovo’s new funding should total about $15 bi... |
Five Things Entrepreneurs Should Never Do | James Altucher | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | I’m breaking all the rules. I’m at a silent retreat for the week. No talking! My wife is two doors down. She said to me before we went silent for the week, “put your computer on airplane mode.” It’s in a beautiful area. There are paths and trees and birds and flowers and benches to sit on with sprawling landscapes and ... |
Press Corps Fails To Ask Any NSA Questions At Obama’s NSA Press Conference | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | The White House Press Corps just completely botched the one opportunity we had to learn details about the National Security Agency’s spying program, and the rationale for sweeping government surveillance. During the hour-long press conference President Obama held specifically to answer questions about the NSA, . As a ... |
ITC Says Samsung Violated Apple Patents, Calls For Sales Ban On Older Samsung Devices | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | Apple won a seemingly decisive victory against Samsung in its patent-centric court battle last year, but the legal back-and-forth is far from over. The Cupertino company asked the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. to allow a sales ban on certain Samsung devices earlier today, and now the International... |
Betaworks Updates Instapaper’s Web Reader, Browser Extensions And Mobile Updates To Come | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | Since Betaworks read later service from its creator , the startup studio has been pretty quiet. But the first major update is now right around the corner. The web reader was updated and a beta version is . According to the , the iOS and Android versions will receive some love as well, and many long standing feat... |
Meta, The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t, Go Up For Pre-Order | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | Over a year after the announcement Of Google Glass, many folks I talk to still seem to be misunderstanding what Glass can actually “It’ll be great for Augmented Reality!” they say, assuming that Glass can render objects directly into your full view of the world (it can’t.) “Ooh! It’ll be like Minority Report!”, expect... |
MIT Students Show How To 3D Print Your Own Non-Duplicatable Keys For Easy Breaking And Entering | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | If there’s one thing that sucks about breaking-and-entering it’s that it’s too difficult. Three enterprising young MIT students have , thanks to a 3D printing workaround to the sticky issue of making duplicates of so-called “non-duplicatable” keys. All you need is a flatbed scanner, an original Primus lock key made by... |
Obama Says “No, I Don’t Think Mr. Snowden Is A Patriot” As Leak Risked National Security | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | President Obama said a review of the NSA could have come “without putting at risk our national security”, and therefore, declared, “No, I don’t think Mr. Snowden is a patriot” at a press conference today on spying transparency. Obama insisted he had ordered a review of surveillance programs before the “NSA leaker” kick... |
Spikes Builds A Secure Browser For The Enterprise | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | The vast majority of malware on corporate networks arrives . Branden Spikes, the CEO of , believes that by virtualizing the browser and having it run separate from the desktop, his company can prevent the vast majority of these attacks. The WebKit-based browser runs in a virtualized environment either on-premise or i... |
Fail Week: Max Levchin’s ‘Doomed’ College Startup That Maxed Out His Credit Cards (And Got Him Dumped) | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | So TechCrunch TV decided to declare this week “ ” and run a five day long video series in which we talk to some of tech’s most famously successful people about the darkest days in their careers when everything seemed to be going wrong. This final episode features , who is of course known for co-founding such blockbu... |
Gillmor Gang Live 08.09.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | – Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Like us at Facebook.com/GillmorGang |
Tablet Tribulations: Asus Dumps Windows RT While NVIDIA Hopes For The Best | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | Asus may have a hand in producing Google’s refreshed Nexus 10 Android tablet, but recent remarks from the company’s chief executive reveal that the Taiwanese company is turning up its nose at the prospect of making another Windows RT-powered tablet entirely. “It’s not only our opinion,” CEO Jerry Shen remarked to the ... |
Obama Announces Website For NSA Transparency, 3 More Reforms | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | President Obama announced a series of new reforms to increase public confidence in the National Security Agency’s controversial Internet and telephone surveillance program. The press conference (live at whitehouse.gov/live) is still on-going. Here are the 4 reforms he’s proposed. All are quite vague: 1). “Pursue approp... |
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YC-Backed LocalOn Works With Newspapers To Give Small Businesses A One-Stop Shop For Online Marketing | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | In the past few years, it seems like there’s been the explosion of startups trying to convince local businesses to sign up for their marketing or loyalty tools, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area. In fact, co-founder Shahbano Imran recalled going door-to-door trying to convince businesses to sign up and discove... |
Amazon Could Launch Qualcomm-Powered Games Console And Media Box By End Of Year | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | Amazon is working on a games console, according to rumors from and backed up by rumblings we’ve heard at TechCrunch as well. Game Informer says we’ll see the device by end of year, possibly in time for holiday shopping season, and that it will have its own dedicated controller and offer access to digital games sold o... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Ubuntu Edge, Nexus Rumors, Beddit And Trace Tracker | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 9 | The may be the future of the smartphone, but does it have a future? for the next generation of Google’s vanilla tablets and smartphones. Meanwhile, startups are hitting up Indiegogo with new quantified self devices, including and . We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the , featuring , , a... |
Stealth Startup Fantex Wants To Make It Possible For Celebrities To IPO | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 8 | 31 | If corporations can be people, why can’t people be corporations? A stealth startup called aims to allow celebrities and professional athletes to file for initial public offerings (IPOs). The quoted text and screenshots in this article are from the Fantex app the company had launched in the iTunes app store on August ... |
Because Walking Saves Lives, Mobilizer Inc. Is A Startup That’s Aiming To Get Hospital Patients Moving | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 8 | 31 | For sedentary medical patients, one of the easiest ways to reduce the time of hospital stays and decrease the risk of complications like blood clots and pressure ulcers is simply to get up and walk around. But with medical equipment like oxygen tanks or IV drips in tow, it can take nurses up to 20 minutes to prepare a ... |
India’s Visa Maze Ensnares Foreign Entrepreneurs | Mahesh Sharma | 2,013 | 8 | 31 | Carrying all the right documentation for his five-year business visa, Alex (not his real name) embarked on what he thought would be his fourth and final visit to the Indian immigration authority. He believed his wild goose chase was almost at an end. However, his awkwardly smiling assassin, the elusive office superviso... |
How Amazon Is Tackling Personalization And Curation For Sellers On Its Marketplace | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 8 | 31 | When it comes to personalization, Amazon has been one of the pioneers in mining and using data to create a more curated e-commerce experience for consumers. But by now, nearly all e-commerce companies and marketplaces have caught on and are using more personalized recommendations to enhance the user experience when sho... |
CrunchWeek: iPhone Trade-Ins, The New New Foursquare, And Twitter’s Blue Lines Problem | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 8 | 31 | This time around, , and I discussed the ins and outs of Apple’s , the latest big update to (and the rumors of a ), and Twitter’s latest with lots of controversial . |
Coinchat Is A Chatroom Where Talking Sense Earns You Bitcoin | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 8 | 31 | is a Bitcoin-incentivised browser-based chatroom where you can shoot the breeze with strangers online and earn in the process. Where’s the catch? Well, there isn’t really one. The Bitcoin you’re earning through chatting with other users comes from the site’s own revenue generation — funded by ads and also a transfer... |
Gillmor Gang: Contextual Adults | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 8 | 31 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — settle in for the Labor Day weekend with a tour of a busy news week. Stops along the way include iBeacon in iOS7, Twitter’s thin blue line, the politics of twerking, and devices, devices, devices. Short takes on Bill Gates’ ... |
The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 31 | It started with an idea: How can we get our drinks more quickly at the bar? Dreamed up at 2 a.m. in Coloft, a Los Angeles coworking space, future founder doodled up an iPad application mockup that he called Apptini to answer the question. Apptini, a portmanteau of application and martini, wouldn’t last, but the produ... |
Google Confirms It Has Acquired Android Smartwatch Maker WIMM Labs | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 8 | 31 | Google has confirmed it acquired last year, a company that previously made before shuttering operations in 2012. At the time a message on its website said it had entered into an exclusive partnership without releasing further details, but it’s now clear that partner was Google, rather than Apple as some had initial... |
Following Mobile Test, Facebook Tries Out A ‘Trending’ Section On Its Desktop News Feed | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | Back in June, Facebook said it would be rolling out a number of features for following public conversations, and it looks like the company’s holding true to that promise. Specifically, the company is testing a section highlighting “Trending” topics that appears alongside its desktop newsfeed. The Wall Street Journal ,... |
Microsoft’s Next CEO Will Not Spin Off Xbox, Unless They Abdicate The Company’s Larger Strategic Direction | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | A story floats the idea that Microsoft might spin off its Xbox business, which it calls “more likely [following current CEO Steve Ballmer’s] exit.” The publication values Xbox at around $17 billion, a figure based on a comparative revenue multiple with Nintendo. This is precisely the sort of bilge that cavorts and pr... |
Former Waywire CEO Nate Richardson Joins AOL As President Of AOL Live | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | A few weeks ago we reported that Nate Richardson, the CEO and co-founder of Waywire, would be as it makes a strategic shift from content creation to content curation. Well now we know where he’s landed: Richardson has joined our parent company AOL* as the President of , TechCrunch has learned. Richardson was one of ... |
Target Ticket, Target’s Video Download & Rental Service, Nears Launch | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | Target’s answer to Walmart’s Vudu, Netflix, and iTunes, is preparing to launch. Employees at the Minneapolis-headquartered retailer were told this week that , as the service is called, will soon be offered to consumers, allowing them to rent and purchase digital copies of movies and television shows like they do on Ap... |
Ask A VC: Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil On The Evolution Of Developer Platforms And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Bessemer Venture Partners’ joined us in the studio. Kurzweil, who leads Bessemer’s roadmap on developer platforms and has led investments in Twilio and SendGrid, talked about the biggest changes he’s seen in developer platforms. One observation he made was that companies are tapp... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Win Disrupt SF Tickets And Fitbits From New Relic | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | You know what’s cooler than reading TechCrunch every day? Diving into startup culture head first by attending . We’re excited to announce that New Relic is giving away eight coveted Disrupt SF tickets. To try your luck, simply tweet a link to this article with the hashtag #NerdLife. Besides loving us, the New Relic te... |
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Gillmor Gang Live 08.30.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. |
As Ballmer Exits, Microsoft Inks Deal With ValueAct That May Lead To Board Seat | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | Today that it has reached a “cooperation agreement” with ValueAct Capital, an investment company that had been a thorn in its side. It was said that ValueAct wanted a seat on Microsoft’s board. Instead, Microsoft and ValueAct have come to a different agreement, in which the president of ValueAct – Mason Morfit – and ... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Nintendo 2DS, Pebble, And Unikey | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | The is just like a 3DS, except for the fact that it’s cheaper and has no 3D. Deal breaker or deal maker? Meanwhile, Matt still seems to fancy the , while the rest of us are sick of hearing about it. And finally, the (currently available for pre-order) will make its way into homes in about a month with plenty of co... |
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