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Tour Management Startup TourCommand Upgrades With An Eye On Up-And-Coming Musicians | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | Given the challenges facing the recorded music industry, touring seems like an ever-more-important way for musicians to make money. Yet co-founder Asad Yusupov said there hasn’t been that much done to make it easier to actually manage a tour. “There are very few tools for the backend of the music industry,” he said. ... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Ubuntu, Omate, Digitizer And A Gold iPhone? | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | The Ubuntu Edge may have been the most successful crowdfunding campaign in history, but that doesn’t mean it made its goal. Meanwhile, yet another smartwatch joined the fray this week, coaxing John’s money out of his wallet by being just a tad “smarter” than the rest. Makerbot released a scanner this week called the Di... |
Facebook Feed Change Punishes Pages For Posting Crappy Memes | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 23 | Facebook is cracking down on Pages that try to trick their way into your News Feed. Today it announced a feed algorithm change for Pages that gives more visibility to timely, relevant, sharable content from trusted sources. Meanwhile, it punishes Pages that ask people to Like their posts and that post “low-quality” mem... |
Lies, Damned Lies, And The NSA | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | Today the Washington Post documents demonstrating that the NSA breaks privacy laws “thousands of times” each year. Consider this the conclusion of what was the last-ditch argument put forth to defend the NSA: Yes, they have the capability to abrogate your Constitutional rights, but there is no evidence of abuse! Wron... |
Selling Hopes And Dreams In Southeast Asia | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | Being a startup means believing in your dreams, and Southeast Asia needs dreamers, say incubators. , for one, is keen to sell hope to the growing communities of startups in Southeast Asia, and is willing to back that up with real money. When I spoke with its founder, , in Jakarta a couple of months ago, he said the ac... |
Coinbase Adds SMS Commands So You Can Send BTC Via QR On The Q.T. | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | has added SMS commands to their already user-friendly Bitcoin wallet and purchasing systems. The system, which uses simple commands (qr $100 will make a QR code for a $100 request to your account) and a trusted phone to make things a bit easier on BTC lovers. Another example, “request 1.5 user@example.com sold him a b... |
WaPo: NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands Of Times, Harms Uncertain | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | According to obtained by , the National Security Agency broke its own privacy rules thousands of times per year. Many of the violations seem like unintentional infractions, such as a typo while searching telephone area codes, which results in a swath of phone records that shouldn’t have otherwise been scanned. It is... |
Digital Retox – My Week Using Tech Every Minute | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | Can too much information drive you crazy? I’m about to find out. As we struggle to adapt to the mobile age, digital detoxes have become a trend. But I wanted to see what true toxicity feels like. So I’ve begun what I’m calling a Digital Retox, where I’ll be using high-tech devices during my every waking minute for a we... |
Adap.tv Founders Discuss Their $405M Acquisition And The Company’s ‘Secret Ingredients’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | A week after AOL (which owns TechCrunch) announced that , we drove down to the company’s office in San Mateo to speak to co-founders Amir Ashkenazi (the CEO) and Teg Grenager (the chief product officer). Ashkenazi told me that there were “secret ingredients” leading to the company’s success — namely, its engineers. ... |
Vungle Raises $6.5M For A Growing In-App Mobile Video Advertising Business | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | As iOS and Android have matured, the mobile ad units on both platforms have had to evolve, becoming richer and more interactive. The tiny banner ads that earlier mobile advertising startups like Google AdMob pioneered are falling to the wayside as mobile video ads and rich interstitials have taken off. One startup, , ... |
Birchbox Says Its Subscription Model Is Working, With 25% Of Revenues Coming From E-Commerce Store | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | , a pioneer in the field of subscription e-commerce, said that its model of letting men and women sample personal care products and then up-selling them to buying the full products in an e-commerce store is working. While reaching 400,000 monthly subscribers, the startup helped inspire a wave of copycats with monthly b... |
InteraXon Raises $6M Series A Round From Horizon, A-Grade And Others For Its Brainwave-Sensing Headset | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | , the Toronto, Canada-based company behind the Muse headset for thought-controlled computing, today announced that it has raised a $6 million Series A round from a number of prominent investors, including , , (Ashton Kutcher’s investment company), , , and Bridge Builders. The company, which was founded in 2007, m... |
Gif.Me Is A Chrome Extension For Gif Storage… Because GIFS! | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | is a new Chrome extension that allows users to store and share gifs they find on the internet with nothing more than a right click. It’s wonderful. The extension lets you right click on any gif, on any website, and choose the GIF ME option. From there, each gif is saved in a folder right in the browser window, with th... |
Zumper Goes National And Releases An iPhone App To Help You Find Your Next Apartment | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | About one year after launching and , apartment rental startup is expanding beyond New York City, San Francisco and Chicago and is going national. Along with all the new places where users will be able to find listings, it’s also launching an that is designed to help renters find their next apartment. For those who... |
Microsoft Calls Foul After Google Yanks YouTube Access In New Windows Phone App | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | This morning Google admitted that it had to YouTube from Microsoft’s brand-new Windows Phone application. This came fewer than 50 hours after the launch of the application. Windows Phone users were predictably disappointed. What happened? In the intervening hours I’ve learned enough to piece together the situation. L... |
Mobile Ad Startup Apsalar Raises $9M For International Growth | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | , which offers mobile ad buying and targeting tools, has raised $9 million in Series B funding. The company , and CEO and co-founder Michael Oiknine told me it started out by offering free analytics for mobile app developers. Apsalar then used that data to create anonymized user profiles, of which there are now 800 mi... |
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Parrot Announces The A.R. Drone 2.0 Power Edition | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | It was hovering. Just sitting there. The livery was different. A black body with different color blades. Something was clearly different about this . It wasn’t as colorful as the ones he had seen before. He sat there for a lot longer. This drone was clearly hiding something under the piano-black shell. Eight minutes p... |
After Initially Locking Down Funds, PayPal Relents And Gives GlassUp Access To Indiegogo Cash | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | The , an ambitious that wanted to take the concept of Glass and make it more about passive consumption of content than about privacy-treading recording, video and photography, was in danger of losing a full third of its funding earlier today due to a PayPal rule, but is now on track again after the payments giant re... |
Perch Launches Video “Portal” Service For Distributed Teams | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | for iOS wants to help businesses build a persistent video portal between their offices to help teams work together more effectively. The service originally started out as an asynchronous video chat tool for families, but as the company’s CEO Danny Robinson told me yesterday, the team quickly realized that businesses w... |
Dropbox Alternative Lima (Née Plug) Works With Chromecast, Breaks Into Kickstarter Tech Top 10 | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | It’s been a crazy 36 days since Plug its . First, Plug is now called due to some trademark issues. But everything else stays the same. The $69 adapter will seamlessly transform your USB drives into a personal Dropbox for all your devices. And now it will support . As a reminder, here’s how Lima works: you plug yo... |
Wittlebee Co-Founder (And Former Myspace Exec) Sean Percival Joins Topix As VP Of Marketing | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | , who was most recently co-founder and CEO of children’s clothing subscription startup , has joined online discussion site as vice president of marketing. earlier this year due to fundraising trouble, and he said he’s taking a role at Topix that has been “vacant for a bit.” includes a stint as vice president of o... |
Watch Ashton Kutcher Blow Kids’ Minds With Steve Jobs Quotes In “Smart Is Sexy” Speech | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | “The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!” Ashton Kutcher passionately shouted (yes, shouted) life advice at Nickelodeon viewers as he accepted a Teen Choice Award . Most spend award speeches thanking people yet Kutcher seemed hell-... |
How YouTube Network Big Frame Focuses On Big Stars With Four Vertical Brands | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | Some YouTube networks focus on specific vertical interests — like gaming at Machinima or food at Tastemade. And some try to add a technology layer to the business, like ZEFR or Fullscreen. But at Big Frame, it’s all about the talent and nurturing four specific vertical segments, helping creators to collaborate and bu... |
New App MyFab5 Wants To Offer Better Restaurant Recommendations By Nixing Reviews And Ratings | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 15 | Restaurant discovery apps have become increasingly simple, all the better to cater to diners rendered indecisive by low blood sugar. signature gimmick is serving up new listings with a shake of your phone, while . The freshly launched , however, may be the most streamlined. The Web site and only lists the current... |
From The Founders of .Co, Pop.Co Is A Fast, Simple Way To Launch Businesses Online | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | The behind the .co domain has been . Now its founders are trying to make it as easy as possible to start a business online with a new company called . Basically, Pop.co is a bundle of online services that should remove any barrier between coming up with a cool idea and building a web presence around that idea. This... |
The Mobile Tipping Point And Why Yahoo Must Mimic Groupon And Facebook | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | When Facebook announced in its report that 41 percent of its advertising revenue was generated by mobile usage, it was a watershed moment: The social company proved that it could monetize its increasingly on-the-go user base. Key to the 41 percent figure is that it was up 11 percent as a percentage of total revenue i... |
CloudZync, (Yet) Another M-Payments Startup, Launches In London With 280 Retailers Willing To Give Its Wallet App A Go | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | There’s no shortage of ways to pay for stuff involving a mobile phone, even if most people still reach for the coin in their pocket — rather than trying to grapple with or or or or stick their bank/credit card in someone else’s or . The future of money is a pretty flavourful place already and it hasn’t even ... |
Anthony Weiner Has No Idea Why He Didn’t Use Snapchat Either | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | Today during a session with , New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner was asked why he didn’t use Snapchat during his infamous sexting campaign with half the single women of the United States. His answer will rest immortal: “I don’t have a good answer to that.” It isn’t clear whether Weiner is simply unaware of wh... |
Stantt Uses Body-Scan Data To Create A Shirt For Every Body Type | Stephanie Yang | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | Clothing brands have begun using body-scan data to tweak their clothing sizes and to help customers find the right fit. But is taking this method further by creating sizes from the ground up. With 50 different sizes modeled after body scans, Stantt wants to provide a quick and cheap alternative to custom-tailored clo... |
Facebook Acquires “Mobile Technologies”, Developer Of Speech Translation App Jibbigo | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | Facebook’s latest acquisition could help it connect users across language barriers. It has just announced that the team and technology of Pittsburgh’s , a speech recognition and machine translation startup that developed the app . From voice search to translated News Feed posts, Facebook could to a lot with this te... |
In Wake Of Teen Suicides, Ask.fm Faces A “Myspace” Problem | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | The teenage brain is not fully developed, say . Specifically, the part of the brain called the frontal lobe, which houses judgment, insight, dampening of emotions, and impulse control. This is relevant in a discussion about building companies that target young adults, especially if those sites are social media outlets... |
Google Drive Now Lets You Spellcheck Entire Documents At Once, Adds Customizable Lists | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | We haven’t seen any groundbreaking updates to Google Drive’s productivity tools lately, but the company continues to regularly make to them. Today, it’s a new spellcheck mode and more customizable numbered and bulleted lists for those “who love structure.” The new spellcheck mode will look familiar to those who gre... |
Week One With The Misfit Shine — A Hands-On Review From Someone Who Hates Most Activity Trackers | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | Fitness is a very personal thing, so when it comes to the ever-expanding market of activity tracking gadgets, it always helps to hear what exactly different people love or hate about a given device when trying to assess if it’s the right one for you. It’s kind of like why is good for restaurant reviews — it helps t... |
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Explained: A Technically Possible Sci-Fi Dream He’s Too Busy To Work On Right Now | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | Elon Musk, the extravagant entrepreneur know for his futurey projects, has explained his Hyperloop project to ahead of publishing his blog post and holding his press conference today. It’s an ambitious project that borders on the crazy. This is the guy who built Tesla Motors and SpaceX, but he actually says he regret... |
Sony’s Crazy Plan To Improve Mobile Photos Involves Making Attachable Cameras For Phones | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | While Samsung and Nokia (and everyone else really) are locked in a sort of mobile photography war by baking elaborate cameras into new smartphones, Sony is apparently testing a slightly different approach. Rather than cramming a high-end camera into a phone, the folks at have happened upon a set of photos that depict... |
Google’s Bug Bounty Program Has Now Paid Out Over $2M, Increases Some Chromium Rewards To $5K | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | Google’s bug bounty program, the company today , has now paid out more than $2 million to security researchers. Since the program launched three years ago, the company rewarded researchers for reporting more than 2,000 security bugs in and its . About $1 million of this prize money went to researchers who reported ... |
Hackermeter Wants To Kill Your Résumé And Replace It With A High Score | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | If you’re looking to hire a bad-ass programmer, fielding résumés can start to feel like an exercise in futility. They’re good for quickly filtering out folks who are clearly applying to — but when everyone in the industry has some crazy made-up senior ninja/rockstar/space cadet title, when considers themselves a co... |
Last Chance To Sign Up For Hardware Alley At Disrupt SF | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | 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... |
Google Glass Update Adds Video Player, Voice Actions For Path And Evernote, And New Cards | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 12 | Google has added some new features to Glass in the for its experimental face-based computing device. There’s a new video player with simple tap to start/pause, swipe to fast forward and rewind commands, and new voice commands for posting an update or taking a note that uses Path or Evernote glassware by default if you... |
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New ‘Listiclock’ Campaign With Pepsi Shows BuzzFeed Really Has A List For Every Second Of The Day | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | If you have any doubt that has published a crazy amount of lists over the years, well, check out the front page right now and click on the “Clock Mode” button at the top of the page. Doing so will bring up the “ ,” which was created for a campaign to promote Pepsi’s new soda . (Pepsi’s agency OMD was also involved.)... |
Om Malik, Father Of Tech News Blogging, American Citizen | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | is good people. He is also as of today, after a cornucopia of visas and a decade as a Green Card holder, an American citizen. For those of you not familiar with Om Malik, he happens to be one of the forefathers of professional tech news blogging, when he realized he was seeing more engagement on his personal website ... |
India’s Accelerator GSF Graduates A New Batch Attacking Everything From Trip Planning To ECGs | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | , an incubator endeavoring to become a “TechStars” for India and the developing world, just graduated its second batch of startups covering everything from trip planning in South Asia to CRM to cheaper electo-cardiograms. The accelerator, , is the brainchild of longtime Reliance Entertainment executive Rajesh Sawhney.... |
Apple Scoops Up Matcha.tv To Pack More Smarts Into Apple TV | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | Apple may still keep us guessing over whether it will ever make a physical Apple TV set, but it’s clearly strengthening its play for the living room, by becoming the conduit between us and the screen on which we choose to watch video content. On Tuesday, it emerged that Apple has made a key move into second-screen TV: ... |
Why Ladar Levison Shuttered Encrypted Email Service Lavabit In The Face Of Government Pressure | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | Today Ladar Levison, owner of the Lavabit email service, about his decision to close his company and the government pressure that led to that choice. Along the way, he touched on Edward Snowden and the limits of what he is allowed to say in public. provided an encrypted email service for its users, designed so tha... |
New York’s Financial Services Subpoenas Bitcoin Firms To “Root Out Illegal Activity” | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | Twenty-two companies received a letter from New York’s top banking regulator to determine whether they respect the current financial regulatory guidelines. More importantly, the authority wants to create a new set of rules to make sure that bitcoins are not used for illegal activities. “We have also seen instances wh... |
Wholesale Catalogue Lookboard Aims To Open Up Buying Process For E-Commerce Sites | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | A startup called is hoping to bridge the gap between e-commerce retailers and small-scale suppliers by functioning as an online wholesale catalogue. The site aims to simultaneously streamline the buying process and expose merchandisers to a broader range of products than they might be able to track down on their own,... |
What Zynga’s Management Shake-Up Under New CEO Mattrick Means | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | Just as the new CEO of Zynga, former Microsoft executive Don Mattrick is . He restructured the top level of management in a move that will see COO David Ko, CTO Cadir Lee and Chief People Officer Colleen McCreary leave. Mattrick explained the move, saying that senior executives could work more directly with product.... |
Following Comical Scrap With Google, Microsoft’s YouTube App Will Return To Windows Phone Today | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | Well, Windows Phone fans, you are almost home. Today Microsoft’s YouTube application for Windows Phone will return to the platform’s marketplace. At last, Google and Microsoft appear to have worked out a compromise that will allow for a fully featured YouTube experience on the latter’s mobile platform. Google and Micro... |
TC Cribs: Mulu, The Cozy And Cool Startup That’s Right In The Heart Of Hollywood | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | We made sure to put on our trendiest hoodies and shiniest sneakers for this episode of , which brought us out of our casual hometown of San Francisco and into the heart of Hollywood. Here is where we found , the startup that combines cutting edge online commerce with charitable goodness — Mulu’s technology lets web p... |
Glam Media Raises Another $25M As It Prepares To Go Public | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | Digital media company has raised $25 million in new funding, according to an industry source. (The company declined to comment.) My source said this is a “top up round” for Glam — in another words, some extra cash to keep the company going while it goes through the IPO process. back in February that Glam (which run... |
White House Says Intelligence Director Will Not Lead NSA Review Group | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | Despite some initial freakout, the White House that embattled Director Of National Intelligence, James Clapper, will direct a new independent review group of the National Security Agency. “Director Clapper will not be a part of the group, and is not leading or directing the group’s efforts,” a White House spokeswoman... |
Straight Pride UK, A “Heterosexual Rights” Group, Sics The DMCA On A Journalist | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | In an excellent example of the working its sordid magic, a group called has forced WordPress.com to pull a story by that featured an interview with the group in regards to heterosexual rights in the U.K. In response the post has been retweeted and reposted in multiple places. While the group ostensibly supports “... |
Facebook Reveals 78% Of US Users Are Mobile As It Starts Sharing User Counts By Country | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | A new level of transparency from Facebook will help the world see whether its mobile growth is entirely propped up by international users that don’t earn the company as much money. Today Facebook announced it will start sharing country-by-country web and mobile monthly and daily user counts. Facebook’s 101 million US d... |
Pinterest Targets Casual Visitors With New “Pinterest For Teachers” Site, May Add More Content Hubs In Future | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | Pinterest has launched what may be the first of several official “hubs” featuring content targeting a particular segment of its user base, with today’s debut of a new “Pinterest for Teachers” site at . Obviously timed to coincide with the back-to-school rush and news cycle, the company tells us that the new hub will a... |
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Apologizes For Brutally Firing Employee During Patch All-Hands Call | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | After a call with the AOL-owned Patch team , AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has issued an internal memo apologizing for the action and providing some additional context (disclosure: AOL also owns TechCrunch). In the memo obtained from a tipster, Armstrong says that he has apologized to Lenz for the behaviour and that it was un... |
Yammer Releases Open Source SDKs For iOS And Windows Phone | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | Today two public, open-source SDKs for its social enterprise communications service: one for Windows Phone 8 and one for iOS. Android, for now, remains on the outside of the Yammer love circle. The APIs will, according to the Microsoft subsidiary, work for smartphone and tablet applications (presumably this means iPa... |
Millennial Media To Acquire Mobile Ad Company Jumptap For $200M+ In Millennial Stock | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 13 | Millennial Media just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Jumptap, a deal that brings together two well-known mobile ad companies. The describes the deal as “a predominantly stock transaction,” with Jumptap shareholders to receive 24.6 million shares in publicly traded Millennial, giving them owners... |
Carrot Is A Productivity And Social Motivation App With A Sense Of Humor | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | There are plenty of productivity and self-motivation apps on the market, but Hong Kong-based company wanted to create one that lets users indulge their whimsical side. iOS app ‘s interface only allows you to fill-in a simple template and people have used the Mad Libs-like format to set goal and reward sets (called “... |
Ad-Free Social Platform App.net Raises Another $2.5M From Andreessen Horowitz | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | the social platform created in response to the ad-driven consumer social networks ( ), just announced that it has raised $2.5 million in new funding. The announcement came as part of celebrating the project’s one-year anniversary. The post implies that Andreessen Horowitz was the sole investor in the new funding, an... |
Fashion GPS, The Platform For Organizing Fashion Week, Looks To Serve Event Planning Industry More Broadly | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | , the creator of a number of iOS apps and web services for coordinating the logistics of fashion week, has released a new app targeting the broader world of special-events planning called . Although the company will continue to develop its fashion apps, it is also looking to expand to ticketing management by the first... |
Twilio Snags Skype’s Former Head Of Engineering As Their Own | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Twilio, a company that helps developers build voice calling and SMS functionality into their apps, just hired up one of the people who helped make Skype huge. Tomorrow morning, Twilio will announce that Skype’s former Head Of Engineering, Ott Kaukver, is their new VP of Engineering. I usually tend to stay away from all... |
How ZEFR Brings Content ID To Content Creators, Media Companies… And Now Brands | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Over the past several years, Los Angeles-based startup has made a name for itself by working with content creators to make money off their videos on YouTube. Founded as Movieclips.com, the startup began by licensing short movie clips, distributing them, and monetizing them on its own site. It wasn’t until it was ab... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: Weird Samsung Phones, Weirder HTC Ads, And Lengthy Android Love Letters | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | It’s late afternoon on a Wednesday, and you know what that means (bonus points if you didn’t cheat by looking at the headline)! That’s right: It’s time for another edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast featuring myself and hirsute wunderkind Darrell Etherington. But this time we’ve roped in a special guest to join the fu... |
How Much Cory Booker Trounced His Opponents, In 3 Graphs | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Newark Mayor and Silicon Valley white knight Cory Booker trounced his competitors in last night’s primary election. He raked in as many votes as his closest Democratic competitor, Congressman Rush Holt, and more than 100,000 people turned out to vote just for him, compared to the last non-presidential race in 2006. ,... |
A16Z’s Scott Weiss, Box, Zendesk And Nebula To Talk About Winning In The Enterprise At Disrupt SF | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Enterprise is . As Andreessen Horowitz partner Scott Weiss aptly predicted in his brilliant guest post titled there is an unprecedented opportunity to create new multi-billion-dollar enterprise franchises despite incumbents throwing massive amounts of money to acquire these franchises. Weiss’ post created such an en... |
Flipboard Updates iOS App With GIF Support | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Nary a soul on the Internet can resist a good GIF, but Flipboard browsers on iOS devices have been deprived until now. Today Flipboard has with GIF support, a feature Android users have long enjoyed. The update includes support for GIFs within the news feed, as well as some new GIF-centric magazines such as (a beau... |
Valve’s Former Steam Guru Jason Holtman Lands At Microsoft To Spearhead Its PC Gaming Efforts | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Microsoft confirmed today that it has hired Jason Holtman to help lead its PC gaming efforts. Holtman left Valve in February for unknown reasons. As , he was known in that role for his work on Steam, the exceedingly popular PC game sale and delivery platform. Microsoft has a similar effort, Games for Windows, that is ... |
Online Textbook Rental Firm Chegg Files For $150 Million IPO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Online textbook rental company today . Its proposed ticker symbol is CHGG. The company had revenue of $149 million in 2010, $172 million in 2011 and $213 million in 2012. In the first half of 2013, Chegg had revenue of $117 million. That compares favorably to its first half 2012 revenue of $92 million. So, Chegg is ... |
Founder Stories: Serial Entrepreneur Steven Kirsch On Building A Remote Engineering Team | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | We spend a lot of time on Founder Stories talking about hiring and culture largely because there is no secret sauce or fail-proof way that guarantees success. My guest this week is a serial entrepreneur who attributes the success of his current company, , to creating a culture that attracts the best hires. , whose p... |
Amazon’s Silk Web Browser Gets A Whole New Look | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | which comes built into Kindle Fire devices, has received its first major upgrade since , the company today. Though there have been steady under-the-hood improvements over time, this is the first release since last fall to introduce consumer-facing changes to the way the browser looks and behaves, including a new tu... |
Yes, Gmail Users Have Some Privacy. Here’s What You Can Expect | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Google is in hot water after its that Gmail users have “no reasonable” expectations of privacy. The short answer is that yes, Gmail users do have some expectation of privacy and there have been no major privacy policy changes in the past year. But, since the press is freaking out, let us review what kind of privacy u... |
Facebook’s Star Manager Peter Deng Becomes Instagram Director Of Product To “Do Fewer Things Better” | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Peter Deng built Facebook Chat, Groups and Messenger as its product management director for the last six years. Now he’s going to execute the vision of Instagram’s founders as its . “I’m not trying to come in and make changes,” Deng tells me. “Kevin and Mike have a great thing going. How can we move faster and build m... |
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Apple Shares Hit $500 Again, Representing A Massive $100 Billion Market Cap Gain In 48 Days | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Apple shares ( ) are currently up 2.79 percent to $503.25 a share in the wake of Carl Icahn’s on Twitter. Yet, the stock performance of the past two days shouldn’t diminish the overall performance over the past two months. In less than two months, Apple has indeed gained $100 billion in market capitalization. On June... |
Made In Space, Makers Of The Only 3D Printer In Orbit, Answer Some Pressing Questions About Manufacturing And Yoda | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | This week we learned that into space to support the astronauts on the International Space Station. But NASA didn’t build the printer. Instead they farmed it out to a company called , a startup focused on making a solid, space-ready 3D printer that can survive the vast darkness of the cosmos. That company has a great... |
Google Search Gets More Personal, Now Lets You Find Your Flight Info, Reservations, Photos And More | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Google today a number of search features that make it easier for you to find your own personal information through Google Search. The search engine can now find information about your upcoming flights (“Is my flight on time?”), hotel or OpenTable reservations, package delivery information (“When will my package arriv... |
Microsoft Acknowledges Outlook.com, Messenger, SkyDrive Outages | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 14 | Having a hard time accessing your SkyDrive files or your email on Outlook.com? You are not alone, and Microsoft says that it is working on the issue. The latest from Microsoft’s (remember Live.com?) is simple: Outlook.com, SkyDrive, and the ‘People’ services are all on the rocks at the moment. Some, such as ZDNet’s M... |
Obama Keeps Promise By Appointing A Privacy Hawk To NSA Review Panel | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | So far, Obama is keeping his promise to create a truly independent review board over national surveillance policy. Today, ABC that and Center for American Progress fellow, Peter Swire, will join a small group of government insiders to draft a public report on the National Security Agency’s civil liberties record. T... |
Salesforce + Zillow? RealScout Lands $1.1M From DCM, Formation 8 For More Personal, Collaborative Real Estate Search | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | , a new real estate technology company based in Sunnyvale, announced today that it has raised $1.1 million in seed financing from DCM’s mobile‐focused A‐Fund, as well as Formation 8 and angel investors like long-time realtor, Ken DeLeon. With its new funding, RealScout wants to continue expanding its listings search en... |
iPad Animation App Loop Captures The Fun Of Making Doodled Flipbooks | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | Remember turning the corners of your class notes into flipbooks with a sequence of tiny drawings? iPad app recreates the glee of watching your doodles come to life by making it easy to create frame-by-frame animations. Loop, which costs a dollar , is the creation of , a studio known for its large-scale digital insta... |
Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | A unearthed today shows that Uber $361.2 million in its latest round. It’s unknown why TPG, which picked up 775,092 shares, paid a lower per-share price than the other participants. The late-stage investor plunked down a total of $88.4 million in Uber. Existing investor Benchmark put in another $15 million in thi... |
Google Search Gets Improved Dictionary Definitions With Sample Sentences, Synonyms, Translations And Usage Stats | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | Here is a : Google’s dictionary definitions — which you can invoke by using a query like “define crunch ” — now feature significantly more information about virtually every word in its catalog. The update, Google says, is meant to “give you more information about these words beyond just their definition.” The dictiona... |
Video Site Chill Offers New Tools For Giving ‘Insider Access’ To Fans | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | , the site where independent filmmakers and other content creators can , has some new features for engaging those fans even before the movie (or other project) has been completed. You can see these features in action in the page for , an . In exchange for providing their contact information, fans get access to beh... |
Why Obama’s Radical Education Plan Could Finally Disrupt College | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | For the first time in American history, colleges could be judged on how their graduates perform in the real world and give the private sector a way to compete on a common metric. Later today, President Obama will unveil a new plan to overhaul college ratings, funding requirements and loan repayment, as well as promote ... |
Pandora Plans To Lift Its 40-Hour Free Mobile Listening Cap On Sept. 1 | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | During this afternoon’s earnings call, Pandora executives said that they would lift for that was announced back in February. This is actually the second time Pandora has instituted a free cap and then lifted it again — it last lifted the cap in September 2011. CFO Mike Herring said the decision was based on two facto... |
The Form 1 3D Printer Gets An OS X Update | John Biggs | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | The software package that comes with the Form 1 3D printer, , has gotten a much-needed update. First, the new software, called is now compatible with OS X, which means more users can use the system natively on their machines. The new software also supports automatic mesh repair using software from . Writes Sam Jaco... |
Pandora Revenue Beats The Street, Grows 58% To $162M For Its Last Quarter Before iTunes Radio | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | Streaming radio platform just released its second-quarter earnings, and it largely beat the street’s expectations. Total revenue increased 58 percent year-over-year to $162 million. The company reported non-GAAP EPS of -$0.04, a $7.8 million net loss. Analysts expected revenue of $156 million and non-GAAP earnings of... |
The Disrupt SF Hackathon Is Almost Here! More Tickets Available Now | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | Two. more. weeks. In just a little over two weeks, our annual Disrupt SF conference is rolling back into town, and with it, one of our legendary Hackathons. We’ve released most of the Hackathon tickets already, and each batch has gone faster than the last. Here — have another batch. Never been to one of our Hackathons... |
Apple Acquires Embark, Another Mapping App With Transit Information | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | Apple has acquired yet another transit mapping application , this time it’s Embark, a Silicon Valley-based startup that builds apps for different cities to provide information about routes and stops. This acquisition follows the , another app that offers transit directions to users. HopStop and Embark had different t... |
Circle Gives You Distributed Control Of Your Family’s Internet So You Can Be Human To Each Other | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 22 |
Let’s not kid ourselves: We don’t control the Internet, the Internet controls us. Any notions to the contrary are foolish at best, but a wants to help families fight back against the Internet’s omnipresence with hardware and software that allows individual control of devices connected to a local network. Circl... |
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Keen On… Brewster Kahle: How The Internet Archive Is Fighting Our Orwellian Government | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | Even if he hadn’t founded the , – the co-founder of and – would still be a first-round inductee in the . But with the Internet Archive, Kahle has established himself in the pantheon of the true greats of the Internet. The Internet Archive stands as the web’s largest library, with 3 million users every day. It... |
HP Is Back In The Acquisition Game For Targets Between $100M And $1.5B After Cutting Net Debt | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | Yesterday HP reported , and after an earnings call that was more a than a rallying call, investors sent the company’s shares down heavily. HP is trading more than 12 percent down today. However, despite repeating a declared internal zeal for cost cutting, a balanced plan between revenue growth and margin pressure, a... |
Nudge Is Like Reddit For Social Activities | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | Social planning continues to be a hot topic for developers, and the latest new service out of San Francisco is taking a different approach to the whole thing. , a mobile and desktop web app, crowdsources activities from people in the area and surfaces the best ones to the top of the list. The app is centered around in... |
TechCrunch Meetup. Tonight. San Diego. | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | We’re here, San Diego. And it is sunny. And hot. We love it. Tonight, at 6:00, TechCrunch is taking over the Block 16 on 7th Ave. for an evening of good times and startup pitches. After sorting through over a hundred applications, to take part in a rapid-fire pitch-off competition to be judged by TechCrunch editors a... |
New Update For Find My iPhone Locks Out Non-Developers Without iOS 7 Beta [Update: Working Again] | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | Reports say that the update is now working again, so go ahead and find those iPhones. A new update for Apple’s Find My iPhone app seems to have been pushed out a little early: It changes the icon to a flatter design, which is more in keeping with iOS 7’s aesthetics. Unfortunately, it also locks out users on iOS 6 who ... |
Windows Phone Takes Second Place In Latin America, Validating The Nokia-Microsoft Relationship | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 8 | 22 | new data from IDC indicating that Windows Phone is the second-most-used mobile platform in Latin America. It would be simple to dismiss it as a minor victory in a secondary market, but the news is in fact a validation of Windows Phone’s strategy to grow its install base and accelerate its unit shipment growth. Microso... |
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