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Strike Social Analyzes The Performance Of Your YouTube Videos For Free | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | A new startup called says its tools give YouTube publishers a way to track how their content is performing on the video site and on social networks, and at a pretty compelling price — free. The first big piece of the Strike Social product is a number, called the Strike Score, that reflects the overall performance of ... |
Lockbox Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round To Help Encrypt Your Stuff | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | It’s hard to trust the cloud. With the NSA coming in one end and hackers coming in through the other, complete encryption is key. That’s what is for. The company, founded in 2008, has accepted $2.5 million in seed funding to further roll out their . Lockbox offers end-to-end encryption. The system encrypts and compr... |
Augment Makes Augmented Reality Useful For Salespeople With Its New ‘Business Catalog’ | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | While augmented reality has been around for a while, is trying to monetize it with its platform. The company just released its feature, targeted toward salespeople. For $30 per month and per user, you can carry around all your catalog on your iPad and show how it would look like to your client. It makes sense for f... |
As Uber Drives Into India, It’s Shifting Its Emerging Market Strategy Up A Gear | Mahesh Sharma | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | Transportation tech startup is continuing its aggressive expansion across Asia. As of this week, it is now live in India, starting first with a luxury car service in its tech capital, Bangalore. The subcontinent may boast a potential market of over a billion, a rising middle class and , but these are silver linings ... |
Nokia Promises Its Amber Update Will Come To All Windows Phone 8 Lumia Devices By The End Of September | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | Today Nokia owners of its Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices that its “Amber” will reach all phones by the end of September. The Amber upgrade is a mix of feature improvements that will improve Nokia’s handsets, further setting them apart from devices built by other smartphone OEMs. Amber contains a photo-editing tool, i... |
MoPub’s Optimizer Lets Mobile Publishers Automatically Prioritize Their Most Lucrative Ad Networks | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | is releasing a new tool called the Optimizer that should allow mobile publishers to take an entirely automated, hands-off approach to managing their ad networks — and increase revenue, too. The team gave me a demo of the new feature, saying the technology uses a “waterfall” approach, moving down a list of possible net... |
Deeplink.me Launches A Retargeting Network For Mobile That Sends Users Back To The Apps They’ve Already Installed | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | , the new service from making it possible for users to the way you navigate the web, is today exiting from its beta period and launching an accompanying . The network takes advantage of Deeplink.me’s knowledge of deep linking into apps to identify users who have a particular app installed on their phone, in order ... |
Microsoft Vows To Fight Government For Right To Disclose More Information About User Data Requests | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | Microsoft today post stating that it feels that recent government changes to how it reports surveillance activities are insufficient. Calling the decision by the federal government to publish more information on the quantity of consumer data requests relating to national security each year “a good start,” Microsoft c... |
Twitter To Appoint Vijaya Gadde as General Counsel as Alex Macgillivray Moves On | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | Twitter is appointing as its new General Counsel after current appointee has announced his plans to move on. The news came as a post on and was shortly thereafter reported on by . Techcrunch has confirmed both the departure of Macgillivray and the hire of Gadde with Twitter. Macgillivray says that he is planning... |
Flutter Is A Wireless Platform For Arduino-Based Projects To Network Over Wi-Fi-Busting Distances | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 8 | 30 |
Getting Arduino-powered devices to talk to each other over long distances is going to get cheaper and easier if this project flies. Flutter is a wireless development platform for Arduino with over half a mile of usage range — making it suitable for outdoor projects covering greater distances than Wi-Fi can com... |
Startups From New Zealand Accelerator Lightning Lab’s First Intake Close $2M Total In Angel Funding | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Wellington-based accelerator program , which launched in February, announced today that four of the nine startups in have raised a total of $2 million in angel funding. The startup teams from New Zealand and Australia pitched 150 investors during Lightning Lab’s first Demo Day on May 15. The four companies that have ... |
Bitmonet Monetizes Your Blog Through The Power Of Bitcoin | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 30 | – think “Bitcoin Monetization” rather than “Bitcoin Impressionist Painter” – is a platform for creation microtransaction-based paywalls on your blog or content portal. While most people don’t like paywalls, most people are also going to have to start expecting them and this open source service definitely makes a lot o... |
Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Encrypted Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | “We knew USG would come after us”. That’s why Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch his company . It hadn’t been told to provide data to the government, but after shut down today rather than be “complicit” with NSA spying, Silent Circle told customers it has killed off Silent Mail rather than risk their p... |
Social Ad Startup Shift Hires Former Facebook VP Paul Ollinger As President | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | , a company that offers tools for running social advertising campaigns and , has hired Paul Ollinger as president. Ollinger was previously vice president of sales for Facebook’s west region, joining in 2007 and leaving two years ago. Since then, he has served as an advisor to several startups — including Shift. And no... |
Microsoft’s Lightweight Windows Phone App Builder Saw 30,000 Projects Started In First 48 Hours | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Today on the , on which , Microsoft’s announced that the new had seen usage higher than the company anticipated, with 30,000 applications started in the first 48 hours of the tool’s life. Given the stronger-than-expected demand, Microsoft is currently “throttling” usage to the service. However, your lag time to e... |
Beddit: A Proper Sleep Tracker That Uses An Ultra-Thin Film Sensor In Your Bed | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | , a Finnish company that has long made sleep trackers for medical professionals, is looking to tap into the broad consumer market with a $149 sleep tracker that uses a thin-film sensor on your mattress. The sensor can send data back to a person’s smartphone, that tells them when they’ve been snoring or when they’ve fal... |
Fail Week: When Mark Suster Believed His Own Startup’s Hype, And Everything Came Crashing Down | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | So we at TechCrunch created , five day long video series that shines some light on the dark days that even the most lucky of entrepreneurs go through. Today we’re featuring , who famously had success on “ ” as a repeat entrepreneur turned investor over nearly two decades in the industry. But not all of his effort... |
Lyft Hits A Million Completed Rides And Launches Service In Washington, DC | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Ride sharing startup hit a big milestone yesterday,* reaching its one millionth completed ride about a year after . The company also continues to expand into new markets, launching most recently in Washington, D.C. The comes as Lyft has been expanding quickly into new markets. In fact, the number of rides has doub... |
Snowden’s Alleged Email Provider Shuts Down, Warns Against Trusting U.S. Companies | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | The alleged email provider of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden , leaving just an ominous message in its absence. “I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision,” writes Lavabit owner Ladar Levison on the company’s front page. “I would _strongly_ recommend against an... |
Record Your Every Waking Moment With Narrato | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Not everyone can be as obsessive about journaling as, say, a lovesick 14-year-old or Samuel Pepys, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try. That’s why is so interesting. Created by a London-based team of , Narrato allows you to enter notes, take photos and describe your feelings and mood in an app that is reminiscent of... |
France’s $16M Anti-Piracy Agency Has Sent Two Million Warnings, But Only Fined Two People | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Anti-piracy agency Hadopi just broke a record. In less than three years, it more than 2 million warning emails for copyright infringement. Warning emails are just the first strike in the “three strike” scheme. After that, it sends you registered snail mail, and finally it takes you to court. Yet, only four people wer... |
Google Adds 79 Cloud And Big-Data Patents To Its Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Earlier this year, Google not to sue open-source developers over 10 patents related to MapReduce. Today, the company is this pledge by to its . These patents, Google says, cover software that is “used to efficiently operate data centers, including middleware, distributed storage management, distributed database ... |
AOL To ‘Impact’ Hundreds Of Patch Employees Friday In A Bid For Hyper Local Profits | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Patch, AOL’s hyper-local news effort, will lose up to 550 employees this Friday, according to a local editor at the group. Hundreds of sites in the network are expected to close in the process. In recent calls with Patch employees, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong avoided the word “layoffs,” and instead stated that hundreds of Pa... |
Google’s New Maps App Now Showing Local Ads Related To Users’ Searches | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Google AdWords customers can now better target mobile device owners via an updated ad experience within the Google Maps app on Android, iPhone, and iPad, Google today. This news follows app, which previously saw a number of changes and additions, including an updated user interface, integrated traffic reporting, Za... |
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Android And Chrome OS Could Reap Big Windfalls From Slowing Worldwide PC Economy | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | The global PC market is shrinking, and continues to which means there are a lot of concerned device-makers looking around for what to do next. Acer is one of those companies, and the firm is looking to pin the blame on Windows and find a better option, . That might be a very popular tune in the next few years from o... |
The TC Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Invading San Diego On August 22 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Baseball season is in full swing and football is around the corner, but there’s one other competitive sport that’s heating up. The on Tuesday, August 22. That’s right, folks. It’s game time! The event will start at 6pm and last until 10pm at . We’re looking for all the best and brightest entrepreneurs of Southern Ca... |
Evergage, The Disrupt Finalist Formerly Known As Apptegic, Launches A Freemium B2B Service For Improving Website Click-Throughs | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | , the start-up that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt New York in 2012 under the name , has been quietly building its business for a year and is now launching a freemium model to help companies improve the click-through rates on their websites without the need for hiring a developer. Though the name has changed, in part ... |
Rdio Hops On The Radio Bandwagon With Pandora-Style Stations Based On Your Friends | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Mainstream music fans don’t want to constantly choose what to listen to, so streaming services are embracing radio. The latest is , whose new Friend FM turns your friends’ listening activity and social connections i While Pandora popularized adaptive online radio, it’s becoming an essential feature for all music servi... |
The NSA Searches US Citizens’ Cross-Border Email That Mentions Foreign Targets | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | It’s difficult to keep track of what the NSA does and doesn’t do, and today, the New York Times piled on. Citing “senior intelligence officials,” the paper is that, under a broad interpretation of the FISA Amendments Act, the NSA intercepts communications of U.S. citizens whose communications cross borders and mentio... |
Dragon Innovation Raises $2.3 Million To Help Build Hardware Startups | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | Prepare yourself for an onslaught of small, clever, software driven hardware projects because former members of the iRobot team have just started , a manufacturing services and crowdfunding firm that will help small makers go from garage to factory. Co-founded by Scott N. Miller and Herman Pang, the group has decades ... |
Mozilla’s Persona Login System Now Supports All Gmail Addresses Out Of The Box | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 8 | One of Mozilla’s lesser-known projects is , a login system that aims to eliminate site-specific passwords so you can log in with your existing email accounts without having to type in a password. Its aim is somewhat similar to what Google, Facebook and others are doing with their login systems, though Mozilla’s is o... |
Culture Amp’s Analytics Platform Uses Data To Help Companies Boost Employee Morale | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | Human resource departments often use the term “culture change” to describe positive adjustments to a company’s working environment. Unfortunately for frustrated employees, that concept is often poorly defined. Created by Melbourne, Australia startup , is an innovative data-driven analytics platform that enables comp... |
Burpple Serves Up A Fresh Version Of Its Social App For Foodies | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | , the memorably-named mobile app for food lovers that we , has launched an updated version that makes it easier for gourmands to share pictures and recommendations. The and app’s brand new design has a revamped feed that allows users to see photos, restaurant names, comments, likes and other activity at a glance. ... |
Watch NSA Chief Gen. Alexander’s Speech To Black Hat Defending His Surveillance Work | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | General Alexander, head of the National Security Agency, recently took the stage at the Black Hat security conference to reiterate that what the NSA is up to is legal, efficacious and, frankly, hardly controversial. Given Glenn Greenwald’s deep and broad leaks concerning the general’s activities, the NSA had a skeptica... |
Facebook News Feed Event Aug 6 Will Give Much-Needed Rankings Explanation And Reveal What’s Next | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | Facebook plans to clear up confusion about what appears in the News Feed, announce a ranking algorithm change, and preview the future of the feed at a press event on August 6. The Menlo Park HQ session will be live-streamed to Facebook’s London offices to keep European reporters in the loop. Hopefully users will gain b... |
Codementor Is An Open Marketplace That Provides Developers With One-On-One Programming Help | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | It’s a scenario all programmers are familiar with: you are coding alone, only to have something go awry and no one to ask for help. wants to prevent developers from going insane by providing an open marketplace where they can ask experts for one-on-one programming and design help. Founder Weiting Liu says the goal of... |
Social Bill Payments Service PayDivvy Sold To Higher One To Expand Its Education Payments Platform | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | Back in February of this year, , a social payment platform that lets people split bills for utilities and other services and each pay their share, that it had been acquired and that it was no longer accepting payments on its platform. We reached out at the time and Mike Melby, the co-founder and CEO, said that he wo... |
The New Motorola Is Focusing On “Very Few” Devices, And A Low-Cost Phone May Be Next | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | Motorola has never been the most prolific smartphone maker, but there’s no question that they’ve churned out over the years, but now that Motorola is flying under Google’s banner, you can expect to see some shifts in the company’s hardware strategy, and it looks like that scattershot approach to making phones is getti... |
Andreessen-Backed Tutor Matching Service Is Working With Colleges To Upend The Tutoring Industry, Starting With Cost | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | Of the many ways that technology is disrupting education, one area that’s changing a lot, is rife with potential, but doesn’t get as much play as it should is tutoring. Mostly, this involves the attempt to make high-quality, local tutors accessible to a wider range of students online, without having to turn to traditio... |
YC Partners Taggar, Tan And Reddit Co-Founder Ohanian Raise $39M For Initialized Capital | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | YC Partners Garry Tan and Harj Taggar along with the early-stage firm’s “Ambassador to the East” and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian for a separate fund called , . All three of them have been investing on their own for a couple years and Initialized Capital isn’t formally tied to Y Combinator in any way. It is the... |
Employer Tipped Off Police To Pressure Cooker And Backpack Searches, Not Google | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | In what might be ‘s first widespread , music writer Michele Catalano to blog details of an unexpected visit to her home yesterday, from six men she identifies as members of the “joint terrorism task force.” Catalano asserts that the visit was likely prompted by her husband searching for the term “backpacks” in clos... |
Wall Street Darling LinkedIn Beats Estimates Again, Revenue Booms 59% To $363M, Now At 238M Members | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | LinkedIn continues to be on of the few companies that can do no wrong on Wall Street, continuing to beat estimates and display growth curves that consistently move up and to the right. Amazon would perhaps be one of the few other exceptions, as Jeff Bezos’ short-term-loss-for-long-term-gain continues to confound the st... |
The American Nightmare | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | Inside a casino whose theme is an empire that collapsed into venal decadence, middle-aged computer-security professionals clutching cups half-full of free Veuve Clicquot line up to collect VIP nightclub passes. Outside, teenagers who beg on the pedestrian overpasses. Earlier, the man turning today’s empire into a sur... |
LinkedIn Wants To Ramp Up Ads With An Advertising API Like Twitter’s And Facebook’s; A ‘High Priority’ Says CEO Weiner | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | , now with 238 million registered users on its social network for the working world, wants to follow in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter and turbo-charge its advertising effort. Speaking during the company’s , LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner, in answer to a question from an analyst, said that the social network will b... |
CityMaps Announces $1.5M In Additional Series A Funding From A-Grade Investments, Endeca’s Founder & Others | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | , a company for a new version of its mobile mapping application for iOS, has raised an additional round of $1.5 million in outside funding – an extension of its earlier Series A, this time bringing in new investors, including and s , (founder of Endeca, which ), and other angels. This additional round brings C... |
Reebee Launches To Provide A Bridge For Bargain Hunters Moving From Paper To Digital Flyers | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | Waterloo-founded startup , a current Y Combinator Summer 2013 cohort member, wants to take digital flyers and make them actually useable, something which a lot of companies have tried but none have gotten quite right. Reebee is mobile first, which is a great start, but it’s got a lot of plans besides that in store for... |
Facebook Brings Home’s Lockscreen Replacement To Their Main Android App — A Bad Sign For Home? | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | Four months after the launch of Facebook Home, which aimed to turn Android phone into the long-rumored Facebook Phone, the company is starting to bring certain Home features into their primary app with an update today. In other words, bits and pieces of Home are coming to the main app… without requiring anyone to act... |
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Soylent Closes In On Finalizing Its Formula, Reaches $1M In Pre-Orders | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | , the of 24-year-old engineer Rob Rhinehart, is maturing into a full-fledged business. Rhinehart and his team, who were running a Y Combinator-backed startup called Level RF last year, did what Paul Graham has called the “pivot of the century.” Fascinated by inefficiencies in the industrial food system, Rhinehart des... |
Hello Moto X | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | After Google acquired Motorola Mobility last year, I wondered what was next for the smartphone company. It spent ages clearing out its pipeline of smartphones that were already in development before rumors of an X Phone made in America started making the rounds. In those early X Phone days, Rick Osterloh, Motorola’s ... |
A Majority Of The Public Still Approves Of NSA Dragnet, 4 Graphs | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 1 | I’m , but I’m honest enough to admit that I hold a minority view. Recently, have that the public has become more privacy-happy in response to the scandal surrounding the leak of the NSA’s telephone and Internet metadata surveillance program. So, to test whether public opinion had actually changed over the last mon... |
Design Competition Model Is Working For 99designs, Especially In Asia | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Love them or hate them, 99designs’ design contest model is working pretty well, going by its latest figures. The Melbourne, Australian company now pays out about $2 million per month to designers on its site, according to its CEO, Patrick Llewellyn. Comparing that to the $20 million it paid out in the three years betwe... |
YC-Backed Glio Aims To Be The “Yelp of Brazil” And Beyond in Latin America | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Even though Yelp is almost a decade old, the business model it pioneered with crowd-sourced local listings has yet to permeate the rest of the emerging world. A Y Combinator-backed startup called is betting that it has a chance to dominate Brazil’s fractured local listings market. Co-founded by , a former profession... |
Yahoo Will Update Its Logo! | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Yahoo with a sans-serif font similar to the ones , but keeps its purple color and oft-maligned exclamation point. Don’t like it? That logo is just the first of 30 variations Yahoo will show off over the next month on its homepage and other sites before the final version is revealed on September 5 (so you’ll have ple... |
I Built A Windows Phone App And It Freaking Sucks | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | INTRO TALK ABOUT LOOK ! LET’S SEE WHAT THE OPTIONS ARE AN OPTION FROM ABOVE: I DO NOT OWN A RESTAURANT SO I WILL SELECT ‘CREATE AN EMPTY APP’ THE LOGO UPLOAD FAILED. SORRY TECHCRUNCH NO FREE LOVE FOR YOU. LET’S SEE WHAT IS NEXT: TRYING TO ADD STUFF TO THE SOMETHING, I’M KINDA CONFUSED. OH IT WORKED, LOOK EVERYONE: M... |
Airport Car Rental Startup Silvercar Quietly Launches Service At SFO | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Airport car rentals seem like they’re ready for disruption, right? The same incumbents have been serving a more than $10 billion market for decades, and a few startups are stepping up to try to steal a little share from companies like Avis and Enterprise. That includes FlightCar, RelayRides, and Silvercar — which just ... |
Fail Week: When Kevin Ryan Held 7 Ugly Layoff Rounds — And Lost ‘Total Credibility’ As CEO | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Today’s Fail Week story features , who has one of the most star-studded track records in the tech industry, having been the president and CEO of DoubleClick from 1996 up through the time of its to Hellman and Friedman in 2005 (a couple years before its ) and the founder of luxury flash sale pioneer , among other... |
Meet Appidemia, A Beautiful Application Guide For iOS In Case You Need More Distractions | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Today released , an application guide for iOS that helps you find new software to play with, and keep track of what your friends are using. It has the added quality of being one of the prettiest applications I’ve used on any phone. Once a platform expands past a certain size, the sheer scale of its app catalog can b... |
YouTube Network Fullscreen Sued By Music Publishers Over Unlicensed Cover Songs | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | The National Music Publishers’ Association, or NMPA, is for copyright infringement, bringing the company to court primarily over the distribution of unlicensed cover song videos. At the same time, the publisher association has announced a deal in principle with Fullscreen competitor Maker Studios. Fullscreen is what ... |
TechCrunch China Is Our Latest International Expansion, And It’s Live Now | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | We’ve been busy expanding our coverage around the world and today our latest project is ready for you — if you’d prefer TechCrunch written in Chinese that is. You can now find translated TechCrunch articles available on , via a partnership with Gang Lu and his Shanghai-based tech publication, . We’ll gradually intro... |
Facebook Toys With Twitter-Style Feed Order For Posts About Real-Time Events | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Facebook could soon look a little more like Twitter. It’s internally testing “Chronological By Actor,” a new way to display updates about live events so they appear in order from most recent to oldest, surrounded by feed posts ranked by its traditional relevance-sorting. It’s not ready yet, but the algorithm test denot... |
Zillow Posts Record Q2 Revenue Of $46.9M, But EPS Drops To $0.30 Loss, Traffic Up 66% YOY | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Online real-estate database has its earnings for its second financial quarter of 2013. The company, which saw its stock over the last few months, reported record revenue of $46.9 million, but a massive loss per share of $0.30 compared to the $0.05 loss it posted in the last quarter. The Wall Street was that Zil... |
Microsoft Goes WYSIWYG To Broaden The Appeal Of Windows Phone 8 App Development | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Microsoft has just revealed an interesting effort to get more apps to the Windows Phone Store, via its new , a visual, web-based editor for Windows Phone 8 apps, which launches in beta today. With it, anyone can build apps without code, using customizable themes and custom text, graphics and design. This is unique in ... |
Causora Promotes Philanthropy By Matching Donations With Spa Gift Cards | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | What if you could donate to charity, and get your money back in full? It seems like there would be a catch, but that’s exactly what is doing. The startup, which launched its platform a month ago, allows users to donate to nonprofit organizations and receive matching rewards in gift cards. Here’s how it works: After r... |
Yelp Will Add The Ability To Book Home Services Online With ReachLocal | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | If you’re looking to find home services ranging from movers to interior designers, you’ll be able to do it all on by the end of the year. The popular review site will be adding a new option to book services online through a partnership with online marketing company . ReachLocal announced yesterday, and is using th... |
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Keen On… The Mobile Future: Why IT Might Not Happen | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | “The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed”, William Gibson said. But, with 20 billion connected devices and 6.5 billion network users by 2020, Gibson’s optimism might be misplaced. Indeed, according to Ericsson CTO, , the future – at least, our connected, mobile future – might not happen a... |
Inside Foursquare’s Growing Revenue, Which Could Reach $20M In 2013 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Aside from what Path is worth, the way in which Foursquare will monetize its user base and dataset is perhaps the most popular conversation over the second cocktail in Silicon Valley. At least if I’m there. Today, in , new figures were disclosed concerning Foursquare’s revenue: It’s growing. , a Foursquare investor, t... |
We Should… Be Better Friends | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | We should go get drinks sometime soon. We should go on a trip to Atlantic City! You know what we should do? We should get everyone together for a parrrtyyyy! Yeah! It’s easy to make plans, but keeping them is a different story. A new app launching out of New York aims to change all that. However, the aptly named WeSh... |
Sensor Tower Raises $1M To Help Mobile Developers Improve Their App Store Presence | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | As Google Play and Apple’s iOS stores have become crowded with north of 1 million apps, it’s no longer practical to try and climb the overall top rankings for most developers. That’s why a series of startups focusing on . They try and help apps that might practically not have a chance or the capital to break into the ... |
With Tynker’s New Service, Kids Can Learn To Code At Home | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 6 | Mountain View-based , a startup focused on teaching children of all ages the basics of learning how to code, is now expanding its service beyond schools with today’s debut of . This new system is similar to the platform targeting teacher and classrooms which . Tynker for Schools, as that previous suite is called, pr... |
Weekend Watch Review: Grappling The Girard-Perregaux Chrono Hawk | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | Girard-Perregaux, to those not familiar with watch lore, is a watchmaker founded in 1791 and that now produces handmade, manufacture pieces in the mid- to high-level range. I’ve been a longtime fan of the brand – they usually come up with designs that are timeless and more classic than, say, Concord, and less fuddy-dud... |
As Wix Heads Toward IPO, Weebly Looks To Expand With Big New SF Headquarters, Plans To Add 500+ Employees | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | , the service that lets you, your grandma and anyone else build a website for free, is growing fast. The startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2007 and today hosts over 15 million sites, which together see more than 100 million unique visitors each month. But they also expect this growth to continue, as Weebly co-fou... |
Gillmor Gang: Watching the River Flow | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor — digest the resignation of Steve Ballmer and its potential impact on the direction of the Post-PC Era. Whether he was pushed by Bill Gates or what, it’s clear something changed in the last few days. Just how or who can do better... |
CrunchWeek: Ballmer’s Classy Exit, Our Picks From YC’s Demo Day, And The Gold iPhone | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | Are you feeling like you’re ready to kick off the weekend, but could just use three more opinions on the biggest tech news stories of the week before you really get the party started? Well you came to the right place, because it’s time for a new episode of the show where three of us writers plop ourselves down in t... |
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business | James Altucher | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | This is going be a bullet FAQ on starting a business. No joke. If you’re a lawyer, feel free to disagree with me, so you can charge someone your BS fees to give the same advice. If you can think of anything to add, please do so. I might be missing things. If you want to argue with me, feel free. I might be wrong on any... |
Livewith.us Makes The Roommate Search More Social, Less Painful | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | Looking for someone to share your apartment on Craigslist can be a huge pain — so much so, in fact, that when my roommate moved out last year, I considered leaving the room empty. Thanks to some friend-of-friend connections, it all worked out in the end, but if it hadn’t, I probably I could’ve used a service like . Pe... |
Doximity, A LinkedIn For Medical Professionals, Now Reaches About 30% Of Doctors In The U.S. | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | , which is like a LinkedIn for physicians that lets them share patient data in a HIPAA-compliant way, said that it’s now reaching about 30 percent of doctors in the country. They’ve got about 200,000 licensed physicians on-board across the U.S. in every major city and sub-specialty. Two hundred thousand users isn’t a ... |
Forget Your Phone | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8] This video made the rounds yesterday, tugging at heartstrings and giving us all in the Era Of Communication a bit of a kick in the buttocks. It shows a woman who forgot her phone. The premise is hokey at best, but it still tells us something about ourselves these pas... |
How Fast Should You Be Growing? | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | wrote a great in which he defines a startup as a “company designed to grow fast” and encouraged founders to constantly measure their growth rates. For companies, he notes that a good growth rate is 5 to 7 percent per week, while an exceptional growth rate is 10 percent per week. But 10 percent growth can’t last ... |
Gillmor Gang Live 08.24.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | – Doc Searls, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
Justdelete.me Wants To Help You Pull The Plug On All Those Pesky Online Accounts | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | It’s tiring, isn’t it? Doing everything online, I mean. Everyday you log into services tailor-made for shopping, searching, sharing, watching, chatting, curating, reading, bragging — that’s a lot of places to keep your personal information, and no one could blame you if you wanted to try to pare down on those extraneou... |
Jobs, Robots, Capitalism, Inequality, And You | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 8 | 24 | . Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe the “ between ” is temporary. Maybe the steady growth in the proportion of jobs that are and/or will soon reverse. Or maybe the idea that is not unlike the claim that new technologies automatically create new jobs for everyone. Maybe, unless something drastic changes, ... |
FitTrip Will Take You On Tours Of The World From The Safety Of Your Gym | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | I’m a mediocre runner at best, and I’ve taken to blaming that on the dearth of idyllic running spots in my particular corner of New Jersey. For schlubs like me, the key to true fitness may lay in something like , a Kickstarter project that vows to liven up the experience of working out indoors. The concept is a simple... |
Motorola’s New Keyboard-Packing Droid 5 Reportedly Caught On Film | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | Motorola just showed off last month (or, if you prefer, one new Droid and two spinoffs), but it’s apparently not done cranking out Verizon hardware just yet. Another new Motorola device clad in Verizon livery was spotted in a batch of newly leaked images from Chinese social network Weibo, and it seems to hearken back... |
Drivewyze Raises $7.5M From Emergence, iNovia To Streamline Commercial Trucking | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | , which helps commercial trucking companies save time by bypassing weigh stations through a mobile app, just raised $7.5 million in a round led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital. They’ll use the capital for a sales and marketing expansion of their bypass service that should bring their offering nationwid... |
Yahoo Acquires Image-Recognition Startup IQ Engines To Improve Flickr Photo Organization & Search | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | Oh, so you thought Yahoo’s acquisition spree was over? Not even close. A Yahoo spokesperson has confirmed that the revitalized web giant has snapped up yet another company — this time it’s an image-recognition startup called . Yahoo has declined to disclose the terms of the deal, but the IQ Engines team confirmed in a... |
Google Glass Isn’t Coming To Best Buy Next Year, And It Won’t Cost $299 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | Even though Google Glass is out in the wild and on the heads of around 10,000 people, there are still plenty of questions about it. For a long time now, we’ve heard that Glass would retail for $299. And earlier this week, unofficial Glass evangelist put a bit more oil on the fire when he that Best Buy would rent ou... |
Growth Product Manager Erin Teague Leaves Path For Quora | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | , a growth product manager at Path, is leaving for the same position at Quora, . At Quora, Teague replaces , whose Twitter handle is amusingly @ibringtraffic. Johns to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Greylock Partners. No word yet on who will replace Teague at Path, but they will face interesting challenges... |
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Inside Ballmer’s Exit And Who Definitely Won’t Be Microsoft’s Next CEO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that in the next 12 months. His successor is not known, but the move marks the end of an era in technology, as Ballmer himself has become a controversial stalwart in the sector. The stock market with a 7.29 percent bump in its share price following the news. However, Ball... |
Locket, Which Puts Ads On Your Lock Screen, Asks Users To Vote For The Ads They Want To See | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | , the startup that pays Android users to engage with ads, is now asking those users to weigh in on the type of ads that they want to see. When users install Locket, they’ll start to see ads on their lock screens, and they can swipe left to claim a deal, watch a movie trailer, or whatever the desired engagement is. (Or ... |
Instagram’s First Acquisition Is Video Sharing App Luma | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | Instagram has just made its first acquisition, buying both the team and technology of Y Combinator company (formerly known as Midnox). Luma created a video-capture, stabilization and sharing app, which will be shut down soon. In fact, one source tells us Luma’s stabilization technology is already live in Instagram. L... |
Why I Hate Conferences But Love TechCrunch Disrupt | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | Conferences can be dull, soul-sucking enterprises. Too often, the stage is filled with the same speakers saying the same things and providing too little value to the people who’ve paid to attend. Those sessions are sometimes complemented with sponsored messages from universally bad companies touting their latest new th... |
Ask A VC: Menlo Ventures’ Mark Siegel On The Opportunity For Building Startups In ‘The Right Now Economy’ | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we hosted Menlo Ventures’ managing director Mark Siegel in the TCTV studio. Siegel, who focuses on investments in enterprise and advertising, has recently penned a presentation on the opportunities in mobile, social, cloud computing and data, titled the While many companies like ... |
Facebook Ditches Physical Gifts To Double-Down On Digital Codes And Its Own Brick-&-Mortar Gift Card | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | is getting a major redesign that will end sales of physical gifts. It will now focus on suggesting you buy friends digital gift codes or Facebook’s omni-Gift Card credit to spend at brands and local businesses they Like, which now get their own Gifts landing page. These two types of Gifts made up 80% of sales, cost le... |
Uber Confirms That It Raised $258M From Google Ventures And TPG | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | Well, it’s official — Uber has confirmed that it raised $258 million in new funding and added a couple of new members to its board of directors to help move it forward. In a blog post that but was quickly taken down, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick confirmed that the new money came from Google Ventures and TPG. The company ... |
Fly Or Die: The Nvidia Shield | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | In this decidedly dorky edition of Fly Or Die, yours truly and TC’s resident Canadian Darrell Etherington duke it out over Nvidia’s curious Shield game console and what it means for the future of Android gaming. In a surprising twist (well, surprising if you haven’t already ), Darrell is absolutely smitten with the ... |
Steve Ballmer’s Classy Exit | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | Today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met his critics head-on that he will relinquish his title within the next 12 months. Microsoft’s stock ticked higher on the announcement, to the company’s market capitalization. The market responded to the impending leadership change not with exultation, but with grim relief. Micr... |
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