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Curious Brings Its “Learn Anything” Marketplace And Video Lesson Library To The iPad | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | Thanks to the steady march of technology into the world of education, it’s a great time to be a lifelong learner. Today, there are a growing number of platforms that allow us to search and discover (quality) learning content, across a wide variety of topics. Plus, thanks to the advance of technology that enables the sp... |
When Apple Did Color Because It Was Delicious, Exciting, And Human | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | You know what they say about trends: wait five years and they’ll swing back around again. With confirmation that a will indeed break onto the scene in September to throw a crimp into Apple’s monochromatic streak (madness! Gold rush jokes!), let’s take a look back at all those times that the company did color and did ... |
Vogue And The Tech Hard Sell | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | It isn’t often that one learns about cool apps from Vogue. In case you don’t read fashion magazines, is basically like a seasonal shopping catalogue for women who find themselves, or aspire to find themselves, in the 1%. With an per item displayed, there are very few people who can afford what Vogue is peddling. Bu... |
Microsoft’s Next Era | Contributor | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | Moments like this happen only once a generation in the technology industry. The announcement of Steve Ballmer’s retirement from his post as CEO of Microsoft puts an end to one of the most powerful and interesting “regimes” in technology history. Symbolically, this is likely the closing chapter of an era that was led by... |
Dispatch From The Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | — As part of its second-quarter earnings announcement today, local transportation and delivery giant Uber announced its biggest bet on autonomous vehicles yet, saying it would purchase 2,500 driverless cars from Google. In addition, the two companies have agreed to a deal in which Uber will share data from its local t... |
The Board Of The Borg | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | On April 17 of this year, I wrote a post that I never published. The following day, Microsoft was set to release their Q3 numbers and I wanted to see what they looked like before I ran my piece. I wanted to see if the implosion of the PC industry would start to show up in that quarter, or if it would take before we s... |
Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gives The Open Web Top Billing On Mobile | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | Mozilla was late to mobile and now it’s trying to catch up. For a while now, the nonprofit has been releasing mobile versions of its Firefox browser for Android, but its most ambitious project to date is its mobile operating system for smartphones. Earlier this month, the Chinese handset manufacturer ZTE made the fir... |
Naughty NSA Agents Spied On Lovers | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | [tweet https://twitter.com/PRISM_NSA/status/371434894141841408] Note to self: do not cheat on employees of the National Security Agency. The NSA is in more hot water after it was revealed that a few heart-broken agents . The violation is apparently common enough to earn its own bureaucratic code, “LOVEINT” “When we ma... |
AWS Server Issues Take Down Instagram, Vine, Airbnb And IFTTT | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | Those of you looking to spend the rest of today watching people do other things on Instagram or Vine probably just had a rough time trying to do it. Both services went offline for over an hour, most likely because of issues with . Instagram was the first of the two to its issues on Twitter, and Vine followed suit .... |
What Games Are: The March Of The Muggles | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | The most (aside from Ballmer-chirping I suppose) interesting article I read this week was about how kids . Its author (Marc Scott) says that — contrary to the popular myth — kids today are every bit as incompetent with computers as their parents. They know how to use technology for specific functions (like Facebook or... |
“You Should Probably” Reminds You To Stop Wasting Your Life On The Internet | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | We all have our e-vices. Those sites that you catch yourself browsing with a half-focused gaze. The ones that nibble away at your time and leave you wondering what the hell you did all day, and how you ended up with page after page of purple links but not one thing scratched off your to-do list. For some, it’s Hacker N... |
Say Something Is An App For Singles To Get Better At Dating Small Talk. But First It Needs To Attract Women | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGciGrGApc&w=640&h=480] Say Something is that wants to inject some fun into online dating by letting you practice your small talk on other users of the app before you actually go on any first dates — thereby giving you the chance to make all those awful first impressions somew... |
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The NSA Reportedly Bugged The UN’s New York Headquarters | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | As tensions mount between the United States and over the NSA’s once-secret spying programs, German news magazine reported earlier today that the NSA has been spying on the goings-on at the United Nations’ New York headquarters for nearly a year. Der Spiegel cites a multitude of documents that “stemmed” from securit... |
The Maginot Line | Devin Coldewey | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | that I have succumbed to something like schadenfreude. It’s not that I really enjoy what is happening these days, what with institutions of the web shutting down, basic civil rights being ignored, and all the rest. It’s just that it’s all a little poetic. The technocracy, hoisted by its own petard – out-technocracied!... |
Teen Brags On Facebook About Drunk Driving, Gets Arrested | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | Police out of a teenager from Oregon who boasted about driving drunk on Facebook. “Drivin drunk… classic ;) but whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P,” wrote the clueless 18-year-old. to local news channel KGW, two people tipped the officers via Facebook about the post. After inspecting the most-likely-profusely-s... |
A Story About Threading The Needle On Mobile | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 8 | 25 | TechCrunch . As some of you may know, I’ve been lucky to be a small of the team behind , a new kind of radio experience built initially for iPhone. After spending many months in stealth mode leading up to our public at the end of June 2013, I finally gained some perspective with which to reflect on all the littl... |
Tencent Hires Peter Cheng, Former COO Of AdChina, As It Seeks To Bolster Advertising Revenue | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | , China’s largest Internet company by revenue, announced today that it has hired Peter Cheng, the former chief operating officer of , as the general manager of Tencent’s online media group advertising platform. Cheng will take charge of Tencent’s advertising platform-related business and report to SY Lau, the senior e... |
Tinder: Finding Traction On Campuses, IAC’s New Dating App Makes It Easy To Break The Ice | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | Regardless of what you think about digital dating sites, they encourage us to close our computers and get out there and meet new people. In short, they bring people together. The problem is, of course, that there are infinite variations on social and mobile dating, from compatibility engines and social, Facebook-based ... |
Sina Weibo Accounts Of Prominent Bloggers, Journalists & Activists Shuttered As China Clamps Down On Internet Users | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | The last week has been a troubling one for observers of Internet censorship in China, and things just got worse, as several bloggers and activists had their Sina Weibo accounts shut down over the past few days, t . The account closures come one week after the requiring people to use their real names when signing up fo... |
Amazon’s R&D Group Lab126 Embarks On Hiring Spree As Kindle Business Expands | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | Amazon’s , the secretive R&D group behind the Kindle, is apparently , as noted by the , which speculates that the organization may be planning to spin out the lab as a stand-alone company. There are currently about available, with most based in Silicon Valley, but several in Hyderabad, India, one in Shenzhen, Chin... |
TC Cribs: A Trip To Airbnb’s Headquarters, Where The Coolest Rental Properties Are Re-Created | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | Welcome back to , the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the offices of the industry’s hot companies to see what it’s really like inside the belly of the tech innovation beast (and check out the free food and fun perks that often help power it.) In this episode, we visited the downtown San Francisco headquarte... |
Google Isn’t A Monopoly If Consumers Choose Speed Over Options | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | While the Federal Trade Commission earlier today for prioritizing its own products in search results, it’s questionable whether the search giant can ever be considered a monopoly, if consumers continue to rely on Google to offer up solutions without the inconvenience of comparison shopping other services. There’s cou... |
Imagining The Future: Ray Kurzweil Has “Unlimited Resources” For AI, Language Research At Google | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | Last month, famed inventor, entrepreneur and futurist, Ray Kurwzeil, joining Google as a director of engineering. , Kurzweil said at the time that he would be assuming a full-time position in Mountain View, focusing on “new technology development,” as well as machine learning and language processing. Joining other g... |
Unitus Seed Fund Raises $8M From Khosla, 500 Startups To Back Ventures That Fight Poverty In India | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | Poverty is a huge problem in India. But just because there’s social good to be done doesn’t mean there isn’t money to be made. So a year after its launch, to invest in for-profit startups that help people in India at the bottom of the economic pyramid. 500 Startups, Vinod Khosla, and other angels contributed to the f... |
The Bonsai Is A Shaving Accessory That Hopes To Be One Designer’s Contribution To Water Conservation | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezo0VbcSJ-I?feature=player_embedded]The Bonsai is gadget with a soul, one that hopes to make a global difference by changing the way we go about an activity many do on a daily basis. It’s a shaving accessory, and it’s being right now, with creator Craig Battin and his team look... |
comScore: U.S. Holiday Shoppers Spent $42.3B Online, Up 14% From Last Year | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | After announcing some , comScore just released its final analysis of U.S. online holiday spending for 2012: shoppers bought a total of $42.3 billion worth of goods online from November 1 to December 31. That’s up 14 percent from the $37.2 billion comScore reported last year, but a bit lower than expected as shoppers s... |
Art.sy Now Showing Permanent Redirect To Artsy.net As Conflict In Syria Escalates | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | , the New York City-based startup that has created a Pandora Radio-like discovery engine for artwork, has attracted over the years because of its domain name — .sy is the official domain suffix for the Syrian Arab Republic, a currently which is the subject of . Now, as violent conflict in Syria , it looks like Ar... |
Source: Shutterfly To Acquire Slick Photo Sharing And Storage Startup ThisLife | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | We’ve heard a rumor that , the photo and personal publishing company founded in 1999, is set to acquire online photo sharing and storage startup . We’re hearing the acquisition price is around $25 million. The service was founded in 2010 by . While there is no shortage of cloud-based photo storage apps (including Sh... |
Indiegogo’s 2012 In Crowdfunding: Campaigns Raised 20% More Than In 2011, With Shorter Funding Periods | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | Crowdfunding site shared some exclusive details regarding their past year with TechCrunch, and the stats essentially back up what Matt Burns said about 2012: In many ways, this was the year of crowdfunding. Campaigns raised more money in shorter periods, with fewer people involved in their creation, and more than hal... |
“In The Studio,” Timehop’s Jonathan Wegener Talks Mobile Growth | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | TechCrunch “In The Studio” kicks off its second season and 2013 by welcoming an with an eclectic past, ranging from time as a lab assistant, media strategist, business development manager, and consultant to many NYC startups until he and a college friend stumbled upon what could be a big idea during a short hacka... |
Facebook Adds Voice Messaging To Messenger For iOS and Android, Tests Open Source VoIP In Canada | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | Facebook’s next messaging move is all about voice. Today it released an update for its standalone Messenger for and that lets users send up to one-minute voice messages. It’s also testing open source VoIP calling between Canadian iOS Messenger users that runs over a user’s existing data plan. Both power hands-free ... |
iPad Self-Publishing Tool Tactilize Launches In-App Editor | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | , a self-publishing tool and content network , last September. At the time, the only way to get content into the app was through a browser-based tool, which always felt like a little bit of a disconnect. Now, with the app’s latest update, users can also create content right on the iPad, too. The Tactilize app now fe... |
Room 77 Closes $30.3 Million Series C From Expedia And Others To Take Its Hotel Search Engine Global | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 3 | , a Mountain View, California-based company that operates a search engine for finding the lowest prices on hotel rooms, has closed on $30.3 million in new funding. This round, which counts as Room 77’s Series C, brings the total invested in the company to . Travel search giant Expedia Inc. participated in the round as... |
Publishing Startup Graphicly Raising $1M More As It Aims For Profitability | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | is about to close a $1 million bridge round of funding, as first revealed in . The company started out as a marketplace for digital comics, but last year it aimed at helping publishers distribute their content onto a wide range of platforms, including iOS, Android, and Kindle. CEO Micah Baldwin told me today that t... |
Zynga’s One Standout From Its String Of Sequels Has Been Farmville 2 | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | Sequels can be risky business for embattled social game developer Zynga. They can extend the lifespan of a popular franchise like Farmville. But they also siphon away players from the original game. So if a sequel doesn’t retain players well, it can cannibalize the player base But Farmville 2, with its 3D graphics, .... |
Mobile Gaming Platform Heyzap Confirms $4.3M Round From Union Square And Qualcomm | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | , which built a social platform for mobile games, has raised $4.3 million in Series B funding. The round was revealed in (first spotted ). Co-founder Jude Gomila confirmed the news over email and said the funding comes from existing investor and Qualcomm. Heyzap was incubated by Y Combinator and started out as a p... |
Facebook Mobile User Counts Revealed: 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M iPad, 56M Messenger | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | Facebook keeps user counts for its mobile apps hidden, but analyst Benedict Evans found and they provide critical insight into the direction and performance of Facebook’s mobile efforts. Most interestingly, Facebook’s Android user count is growing much faster than its iPhone user base, but is found on a lower percent... |
Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, CTO Rich Tom To Depart The Company In Q1 2013 | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | Hulu just posted an internal , indicating that he and CTO Rich Tom will be leaving the company during the first quarter of 2013. The timing is new, but word that Kilar was on his way out was , when an internal memo included a passage about transitioning to a new CEO. In the email announcing his and Tom’s departure, K... |
Vobi Raises $1.5 Million For Online Collaboration That’s Kicked Off By Phone Calls | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | Austin-based , a cloud-based collaboration startup which will sell its services through mobile operators, has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding from Dallas VC firm . The firm specializes in communications companies that have unique IP, explains Vobi CEO Mark Castleman, making it a good fit as Vobi’s lead invest... |
The Weekly Good: A Star Is (Re)Born, The Lester Chambers Story | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | Your song hits the Billboard Hot 100 Charts at number 11, you and your brothers have played with the likes of The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, things are great, you’re on fire. You’ve got it made, right? Wrong. is living proof that just because you become “popular,” doesn’t mean that you will be rewarded properly for it... |
Gillmor Gang Live 01.04.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
Amazon Improves Its Web Services Console, Launches Tablet Support And Android App | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | As Amazon’s continues to add more tools to its (AWS), the that provides a graphical user interface to services like S3, EC2 and CloudFront started to look a bit unwieldy. Today, Amazon is making to make the Management Console a bit easier to use for developers. In addition, Amazon is also launching a tablet-optim... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Two Tickets To The Crunchies Awards #Crunchies | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | will soon be upon us and (if you hadn’t noticed) we just announced our new host. The Daily Show’s John Oliver will take the stage at this year’s Crunchies Awards and we couldn’t be more excited. Not only is he hilarious, but he has been nominated for multiple prestigious awards and won the Emmy Award for Best Comedy W... |
OS X Mountain Lion Now Accounts For A Majority Share Of Mac Web Traffic, Growing Nearly Twice As Fast As Lion | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | OS X Mountain Lion, or version 10.8 as it’s known according to Apple’s numbering system, accounted for 32 percent of all , a firm that charts OS share and other web metrics. This marks the first time Mountain Lion has accounted for a majority share of web traffic from Apple computers, with Lion dropping down to 28 per... |
Mobile Accessories Maker TYLT Partners With YC-Backed Tagstand On Trio Of NFC-Enabled Products | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | , the Y Combinator-backed startup intent on taking NFC mainstream, is announcing a partnership with mobile accessories maker TYLT in advance of this year’s CES in Las Vegas. The deal involves three new products, manufactured by TYLT, which use Tagstand’s NFC technology: TUNZ, a portable Bluetooth speaker; CAPIO, a univ... |
U.S. Department Of Defense Signs New Deal With Microsoft To Bring Windows 8 To 75% of Employees | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | For the most part, the news about Windows 8 hasn’t been very positive for Microsoft, but the company today a major win. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) just a new three-year licensing agreement with Microsoft reseller Insight Public Sector to bring Windows 8, Office 2013, and SharePoint 2013 Enterprise to 75 ... |
The Daily Show’s John Oliver To Host The Crunchies | Greg Barto | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | It’s often said that the Crunchies are the Oscars of tech. It’s with great anticipation that we bring you the best of innovation in technology from the past year in an environment that’s fun and elegant. In an effort to continue to raise the bar each year, we are excited to announce John Oliver as our host for the 2012... |
Google Now And Google Translate Praise The iPad | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | Google’s text-to-speech engine loves the iPad so much, it often ends sentences with the phrase “ ” for no obvious reason. The bug appears in Google Now, assuming you ask it the , as well as in , which makes it easy to replicate and . To replicate this yourself, just head over to Google Translate and end a sentence w... |
Join The TechCrunch Greece Meetup With This Live Video Feed | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | [ustream id=68339 live=1 hwaccel=1 version=3 width=640 height=392]
So you couldn’t make it to . No worries. Here’s a live video feed sponsored by Open Coffee and Microsoft Innovation Centre so you can catch all the action from Benaki Museum in Athens. Events are all in local Athens time. • 5.00pm – 5.15pm: Opening... |
Euclid, The “Google Analytics For The Real World,” Partners With Aruba, Aerohive, Xirrus & Others To Make Customer Tracking Sensor-Free | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | , the new startup from the creators of Urchin, a company Google acquired which then of Google Analytics, first introduced its offline customer tracking solution – or “Google Analytics for the real world,” as the team calls it – . Today, Euclid is rolling out a new version of its solution called “Euclid Zero,” which ... |
JBL’s CES Speaker Lineup Includes Portable Bluetooth, Beat-Pounding Boombox And Compact Lightning Varieties | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | JBL will be at CES this year, which is no surprise, and it’ll be showing off at least a trio of new speakers, which also isn’t that surprising. The speakers themselves have some interesting features and quirks, however, and look like solid options for mobile device owners of all stripes. Also coming to the show are two... |
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An Old Eric Schmidt Interview Reveals Google’s End-Game For Search And Competition | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 4 | Google was cleared of anti-competitive accusations , but a long-forgotten interview with Chairman Eric Schmidt reveals that the search giant may be on an inevitable road to monopoly anyways. Microsoft and critics allege that when Google prominently displays its own predicted best answers above all search results, it u... |
Google Pledges To Restore In-Browser Maps Access To Deprived Windows Phone Users | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 5 | Rejoice, Windows Phone users: your daylong Google Maps crisis will soon be over. After causing quite a kerfuffle the other day by effectively blocking some Windows Phone users from , Google has released a statement (obtained by ) clarifying its rationale and promising that it would soon fix the issue. “IE mobile stil... |
What Games Are: Here Come “Local” Mobile Games | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 1 | 5 | When we talk about “social” in the context of gaming, we mean one of two ideas. The first is using social networks to distribute games, connect players and provide server-hosted fun over the long term. These kinds of game are often better described as “ ,” as they are essentially single-player roleplaying games that ... |
The Fifth Horseman: Samsung | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 1 | 5 | We all know the “ ” of tech: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. These are the companies that pretty much everyone agrees will shape the foreseeable future of the tech sector. In some circles, that list makes waves for who is not included: . But any rational thinker (meaning those outside of Redmond or anyone who has... |
Gillmor Gang: Two Clouds And A Screen | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 1 | 5 | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — made it past the Fiscal Cliff in good order and got back to the day job: buying stuff. With CES on the horizon, the talk quickly got down to screens big and small. Passive TV vs. transactional mobile devices, the differences... |
Why We Need To Kill “Big Data” | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 5 | It’s the New Year and along with resolutions about eating healthier, being kinder and exercising more frequently, I’d like to add one more to the list. Let’s banish the term “big data” with pivot, cloud and all the other meaningless buzzwords we have grown to hate. To be completely honest–I have been one of the bigger ... |
Leading Indonesian E-Commerce Platform Berrybenka.com Raises Stage A Funding From GREE Ventures | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | , the venture capital arm of social gaming company GREE, has made an undisclosed series A investment in leading Indonesian e-commerce fashion platform . The funds will be used to grow Berrybenka.com’s business in Indonesia by expanding its product selection, scaling marketing, and expanding logistics. Berrybenka.com a... |
Enter The Dronenet | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 1 | 5 | Here’s my favorite Big Idea of the year so far, via , who’s always worth : The Dronenet, a “short distance drone delivery service built on an open protocol.” He fleshes it out in , but basically, it would be a network of drones that would carry things the same way the Internet carries data: in packets, over a ... |
Stick Them With The Pointy End: Apple Files ‘Active Stylus’ Patent | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | Apple for an active stylus. According to the filing, “the stylus includes an electrode at a tip of the stylus; and powered circuitry coupled to the electrode and configured for capacitively coupling the electrode with a capacitive touch sensor panel. The powered circuitry can further include drive circuitry configured... |
Developer Training Platform Pluralsight Raises $27.5 Million From Insight Venture Partners To Expand Its Online Catalog | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | , an online training resource targeting professional developers, is today announcing its first outside funding, courtesy of a $27.5 million investment from . The additional capital will help Pluralsight fund the expansion of its course library and will be used for hiring. Salt Lake City-based Pluralsight was founded b... |
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A Little Sleuthing Leads Nexus 4 Enthusiasts To Estimate About 400K In Sales Of The Device | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | Google and LG’s Nexus 4 has been such a coveted item this past holiday season, that . Because Google doesn’t publicly comment on device sales, it’s been hard to understand exactly how much OEM partner LG produced for the device’s initial launch. However, suggests that LG produced about 400,000 devices going into the... |
Andrew Sullivan’s Ad-Free Publishing Experiment Sees Six-Figure Revenue In First Six Hours | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | When political blogger Andrew Sullivan that he’s leaving The Daily Beast and launching an independent company called Dish Publishing, the most provocative bit of news was his intended business model. He doesn’t plan to run any ads, and instead to support the company entirely through subscription revenue. “It’s been a... |
Cue User Data Shows Email Problem Worsening | Michael Arrington | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | In 2008 about 2,433 unread emails in my inbox. Which is nothing. Today it’s up around 7,000, and I declared an email bankruptcy just a few months ago and started fresh. , a handy mobile app for organizing and searching your online data across a variety of services, some fascinating anonymized user data this afterno... |
Al Jazeera Has Bought Its Way Into Viewers’ Homes With A Deal For Al Gore’s Current TV (CONFIRMED) | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | Over the past few years, Al Jazeera has gained prominence and new audiences in the U.S. and around the world. Thanks to its coverage of the Arab Spring, Al Jazeera became a powerful new outlet for news from the Middle East and other parts of the world. Even so, it had yet to reach cable audiences due to a reluctance on... |
Possible Replacements For Speaker Boehner Are Mostly Tech-Friendly | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | One of the most powerful positions in the U.S. goverment may be up for grabs if Republicans follow through on a growing opposition to House Speaker John Boehner ( : B). Opposition for his re-election tomorrow from began pouring in after an epic press conference where Republican Governor Chris Christie for choosing ... |
iPhone 5, Galaxy S III, Kindle Fire And Galaxy Tablets The Big Winners in Mobile Traffic Share Growth This Holiday | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | Mobile ad network via impressions on both the period leading up to Christmas and the period immediately following, and found a few devices grew their share significantly, while others didn’t fare so well. The iPhone 5 was the top gainer in smartphones, growing 1.11 percent overall following Christmas day; the Samsung... |
Unpakt Is A Comparison Engine For Moving Companies, And Now It’s Launching In 15 Cities | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | With , moving out of your house or apartment doesn’t have to be a nightmare. Unpakt lets you compare reputable moving companies, compare prices, and book online. Now it’s launching in 15 cities and listing 100 movers after starting in New York. It’s like Kayak plus Yelp for movers. Unpakt could earn juicy referral fee... |
Microsoft Says Google Is Preventing It From Building A YouTube App For Windows Phone | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | There’s no love lost between Microsoft and Google: The two have been feuding for more than a decade, with Microsoft regularly calling Google out for anti-competitive behavior in search. As earlier today, one issue that’s cropped up again is the lack of a Windows Phone app for YouTube. On Microsoft’s today, Microsof... |
NY County Defies Law, Refuses To Release Gun Permit Info For Controversial Google Map | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | After a , officials in Putnam County say to give up public gun permit ownership information for its residents. “In Putnam County I have over 11,000 pistol permit holders, and I refuse to put their lives and their families’ lives in danger,” County Clerk Dennis Sant , regarding the ‘ request for the public inform... |
Ask A VC: Shasta Ventures’ Rob Coneybeer On The Challenges Of Founding A VC Firm And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | We put Shasta Ventures’ co-founder in the hot seat this week for Ask A VC. After spending a number of years at NEA as a VC, Coneybeer decided to found his own firm. He explains in the video above why he felt there was a need for another fund, as well as the challenges of creating an investment vehicle. We also chat... |
After Teasing Its Touch-Friendly Future, Canonical Officially Reveals The Ubuntu Phone OS | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | [youtube http://youtu.be/cpWHJDLsqTU?feature=player_embedded] Ubuntu isn’t exactly a stranger to the mobile space — it started showing off its project in early 2012, but it wasn’t about to stop there. Not long after teasing the prospect of a touch-friendly future for its peculiarly-named OS, Canonical has officially ... |
Good News For Entrepreneurs On Fiscal Cliff: R&D Tax Credit Extended | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | The government gave the nation’s suit-and-tie mad scientists a tax break again this year, agreeing to the much-loved R&D tax credit. “We can’t keep cutting things like basic research and new technology and still expect to succeed in a 21st-century economy,” said President Obama, Congress’s passage of a budget relat... |
ABI: 43.6B App Downloads In Year To Sept 2012, Apple Leads Google + Microsoft Overall, But Microsoft Tops For Innovation | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | The mobile app economy continued to power ahead last year, with 43.6 billion downloads worldwide in the 12 months ending September 2012. And while first-mover Apple may have today had a in its attempts to fight off competitors with trademark complaints over the very use of the phrase “app store”, it continues to lead... |
Phunware Acquires Mobile Advertising Company TapIt Media Group For $23M | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | , a company that specializes in enterprise branded mobile application infrastructure and experiences, just announced that it has acquired mobile ad company (not to be confused with the Australian ). The total purchase price was $23 million and the acquisition closed just before the end of the year on December 28. Al... |
Google, HelloFax, Expensify And Others Want You To Go Paperless In 2013 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 2 | The “paperless office” has been a fantasy of office managers since the . While you are probably printing less today than you did 10 years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the average office worker still uses about 10,000 sheets of paper per year (the numbers for the UK are , too). To make ... |
Payleven, The Samwer Brothers’ Answer To Square, Takes A ‘High Single-Digit Million Dollar’ Round Led By A Mystery Investor | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | , the -incubated mobile-payment service that uses a dongle attached to a mobile device to make and process card transactions — yes, like — is today announcing that it has picked up another round of funding, as well as a new investor. As has been the case with many past investments in Samwer-incubated startups, neith... |
Sony (Finally) Moves Past Kooky Tablet Designs, Introduces The Svelte New Xperia Tablet Z | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | This latest Xperia tablet has been the stuff of rumors for a few days now — a release from Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo first hinted that the so-called Tablet Z was in fact a real thing — but the time for rumors has passed. Now Sony Mobile Japan has , and (to my utter surprise) the Tablet Z is both real and rather st... |
Cincinnati Startup ChoreMonster Makes Chores Fun And They Even Made A Beastie For Us | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | launched an update to their app a few days ago that includes a parents section, a redesign of the kids section, a new Monster Carnival and yes… . We never asked for this, but I have to say… “Damn it feels good to be a Monster.” The website/mobile app ecosystem designed to get kids to do their chores officially launche... |
Leading Asian Cloud-Based Music Service KKBOX Expands Into Southeast Asia, Starting With Singapore And Malaysia | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | , a leading cloud-based music service provider in Asia with 10M registered users, just launched in Malaysia and Singapore. The company’s decision to enter the Southeast Asian marketplace is a sign of . By 2014, KKBOX plans to offer its services in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. Founded in Taiwan i... |
Mandopop Idol Wang Leehom’s DRM-Free Experiment Seeks To Foster Innovation In The Asian Music Industry | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | When Asia’s music industry is covered in the Western media, it is often within the framework of . Another thing that gets attention is the perception that Asian pop stars are pre-fabricated . But now someone who has the influence to tackle these issues is doing so. Mandopop idol Wang Leehom released his latest single... |
Apple Reportedly Reduces iPhone 5 LCD Panel Orders From Sharp | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | Japanese newspaper is reporting that Apple has halved LCD panel orders from Sharp due to lower-than-expected sales of the iPhone 5. This is the latest indication apparently pointing to the device’s sluggish performance since its launch in September, and comes just three days after that Sharp has slowed production o... |
Social Network Fandalism Adds A Cheap Way For Musicians To Upload Songs To iTunes And More | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | , a social network for musicians, is adding a new feature that should undercut the market for “aggregators” like and (which allow independent artists to sell their music on iTunes and other digital stores). To do that, founder Philip Kaplan (who also founded the FuckedCompany blog and ad network AdBrite, as well as... |
E-Medical Records Get A Mobile, Open-Sourced Overhaul By White House Health Design Challenge Winners | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | The standard electronic medical record is a confusing, text-heavy computer read-out. But the winners of Designer Fund and the White House’s have created beautiful, comprehensible, mobile versions. Soon, a combination of the best of the submissions will be open-sourced and implemented as the record format for the Vete... |
Wheelz CEO: Avis’ Zipcar Buy Signals A Shift Toward More Car Sharing, Less Car Ownership | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | Car-sharing service Wheelz is kind of like Zipcar, but instead of owning a fleet of vehicles itself, it’s making cars that are owned by regular folks available for rent. Founder and CEO Jeff Miller says Wheelz is “building a community marketplace that connects people who own a car with people who need access to a car... |
With $4.1M In New Funding, MasteryConnect Wants To Give Teachers A Better Way To Track Student Progress | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | One of the most important roles that technology can play in transforming education revolves around data. Whether that’s by implementing APIs to make student data more transportable (à la Clever and LearnSprout) or creating integrated, cloud-based analytics platforms that give educators more insight into student perform... |
Facebook Graph Search Is Humorless, Creepy And Doomed To Disappoint | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | Facebook’s newest feature (so new it’s still in beta) can apparently tell you lots of stuff. Which of your friends are into surfing, hiking or drinking cups of tea. Or, delving into darker territory, which of your friends are sexist or racist — as this article points out. (Ewww.) But Graph Search also shines a mass... |
The World’s First 3D-Printed Building Will Arrive In 2014 (And It Looks Awesome) | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | Sure, 3D printing is fun and cute. And products like the and will most certainly disrupt manufacturing, even if it’s only on a small scale. But the possibilities of 3D printing stretch far beyond DIY at-home projects. In fact, it could entirely replace the construction industry. We’ve already seen folks at MIT’s Re... |
Organic Transit’s Solar-Pedal Hybrid Vehicle Is Ready To Ship In March | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | We’ve seen the go from in founder Rob Cotter’s eye to the real deal in a matter of a few short months. The solar-powered pedal hybrid vehicle first showed its face in prototype phase back at our , and shortly thereafter found its way to . After asking for $100,000 in funding, Organic Transit actually received $... |
CrunchWeek: Will We Use Facebook’s Graph Search, Netflix Vs. Time Warner And The CBS/CNET Debacle | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | In this edition, my esteemed colleagues , and I discuss Facebook’s and its ; Netflix’s over Open Connect, and the over not the ‘best of CES’ prize. |
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Ben Horowitz: “We Like To Invest In College Dropouts With Insane Ideas Going After Tiny Markets With No Way To Monetize” | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | At the in Munich today, venture capitalist took the stage to discuss why he and his firm invest in a company and its founders. Last year, he said, Andreessen Horowitz found 2,355 companies that were potentially worth investing in that passed the company’s initial screen. In the end, Andreesen Horowitz only closed... |
Codecademy’s Zach Sims Talks Education 2.0 And Learning To Code At DLD | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | At the invite-only (Digital – Life – Design) conference in Munich today, Codecademy’s co-founder and CEO Zach Sims talked about the history of the service, the way people are using it today and how he sees the company’s role to be in the quickly growing online education space. Sims recounted the story of Martha, a Co... |
Study: Many Skin Cancer-Detecting Apps Are Not Accurate | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | Dermatologists can rest assured that they will not be replaced by computers anytime soon. that smartphone applications designed to automatically detect cancer lesions misdiagnose more than half of all malignant growths. “There’s no substitute, at this point, for a complete skin exam performed by an expert dermatologi... |
Iterations: Graph Search, In Theory And In Practice | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 1 | 20 | TechCrunch The biggest news in consumer technology this week was created by Facebook. The social network’s new product – “Graph Search” – was the subject of an international press event where analysts initially speculated on all new things, from a Facebook partnership on the scale of Spotify or even their own phone. ... |
The Weekly Good: The Problems Of Today Will Be Solved By The Minds Of Tomorrow | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | If you’re looking for a great story to end your week, here’s one. Below is a mission statement that’s brief, to the point and something that is easy to get behind: For younger folks who really love technology and the idea of hacking things with others, there is a place for them. Just a few years ago, you probably would... |
Top Hat Monocle Adds $1.1M Follow-On From Felicis To Reimagine The Lecture Hall Experience In Higher Ed | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | If you attended a university, you likely took at least one class where you sat in a lecture hall with at least 50 other bedraggled, hungover students. In that case, you may be familiar with those handheld clickers distributed by professors to allow students to “click” their responses to questions they ask during class.... |
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