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Rumor: Dijit And Miso Are Close To Merging, As Social TV Consolidation Continues | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | ? Today, TechCrunch received a tip that San Francisco-based social TV startups Dijit and Miso could be close to combining forces in what would be the latest round of consolidation in that segment. The deal would likely involve NextGuide app maker Dijit acquiring patents, IP and other assets from Miso in exchange for so... |
Cube26’s Technology Turns Your Face Into A TV Remote | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6QIpEabg-U] The hardest thing about watching TV is finding the remote after a long, slovenly lounge on the couch. aims to improve on that situation by turning your TV, phone, or tablet into a face-detecting powerhouse. What does that mean? Basically, your TV or other device wi... |
Former Zynga ‘Fixer’ Guru Gowrappan Heads To App Search Startup Quixey As EVP Of Products | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | App search startup Quixey is bringing in some senior management help to grow its business. The company has hired former Zynga executive Guru Gowrappan as its new executive vice president of products. Gowrappan held several roles at Zynga during his time there. Nicknamed “ ,” he led M&A integration during , which broug... |
Radio Freaks Out: First Cox Media-Owned Radio Station Turns Over Control To Listeners 24/7 On Web And Mobile | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | Today, a Cox Media-owned radio station in Florida’s Tampa Bay is shifting its entire format to listener-controlled radio, now putting its audience in control of the songs that play 24 hours a day. It’s the first station among Cox Media’s 86 U.S.-based properties to do so on both web and mobile, if not the first in the ... |
Ask A VC: Venrock’s David Pakman On Digital Music Startups, The New York Tech Scene And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | Venrock’s joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio this week for , where we chatted about a number of things, including why he hasn’t made an investment in a digital music startup. This is surprising considering Pakman’s extensive experience in the music industry. Pakman was the co-creator of Apple Computer’s Music G... |
Gillmor Gang Live 01.18.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
Facebook Is Cutting Off Find Friends Data To “Competing” Apps That Don’t Share Much Back, Starting With Voxer | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | Facebook is getting stingier about giving data to startups that don’t share content back to it. At least, that’s how it’s describing its decision to cut off a voice messaging app that it has recently begun competing against. Yesterday, Facebook told voice messaging startup it will cut off the app’s access to Facebook... |
Digital Natives And Doctors Rejoice, Google Handwrite Gets Faster And Smarter | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | , a small but helpful tool that the search team introduced last year, has gotten a . The tool allows you to turn on a mode when you’re on your mobile device to “write” your search. A part of the update is the ability for Google Handwrite to understand overlapping characters and write more than one Chinese character at... |
Line, The Messaging App That Took Japan By Storm, Crosses 100M Users And Enters The U.S. | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | , , just crossed 100 million users globally 19 months after it originally launched. The app is one of the leading contenders in smartphone messaging in Asia and faces off against Tencent’s WeChat and KakaoTalk. As I’ve written before, , While Naver didn’t share details on daily or monthly actives, Line’s numbers put... |
Uber Lowers Prices By 10% And Rolls Out UberX To All SF As Bay Area Competition Heats Up | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | is lowering its prices in San Francsico, as the company seeks to remain competitive with an influx of low-cost, on-demand transportation offerings in the city. The startup is also expanding availability of its lower-priced UberX service to all San Francisco users. In a , Uber announced that the price of an Uber Black... |
We Chat With The 4Moms Founders About Robotic Strollers, Creativity, And Baby Exoskeletons | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | Building hardware is hard and breaking into entrenched markets is even harder. However, the founders of , Rob Daley and Henry Thorne, managed to do both. 4Moms is a baby products company that aims to change the way we think about traditional products like play yards, strollers, and sleepy-time swings. Their products... |
US Government Still Leaning On Europe To Dilute Data Protection Reform Proposals | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | The U.S. government is continuing to lobby Brussels to water down plans to reform privacy legislation. The European Union’s executive and legislative bodies are in the process of reforming the region’s data protection rules — a long overdue wrangle since current legislation dates back to 1995, when Facebook was not eve... |
Omega Releases An Anti-Magnetic Mechanical Watch That You Can Wear In Your Supercollider | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | Whether you’re polishing your magnetic death ray or powering up your Stargate, the effects of magnetic fields on your watch can be quite destructive. Back in the old days when scientists wore suits and nice watches to work, they would bring their timepieces too near certain pieces of equipment, rendering the movement u... |
After Growing Revenue 750% In 2012 And Conquering Video, Taboola Goes After Article Recommendations | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | had a banner year in 2012, serving nearly 1.5 billion video recommendations per day by year’s end. With all of its growth in video recommendations, the company also grew revenue by more than 750 percent in 2012. The startup now sees a huge opportunity to move on from recommending videos to tackling content of all type... |
Axcient Raises $20M To Help Companies Backup And Protect Data | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | , the hybrid cloud-based data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity startup, has raised $20 million in Series D funding led by Scale Venture Partners and Thomvest Ventures with Peninsula Ventures and Allegis Capital participating. This brings the company’s total funding to $53.5 million. Founded in 2006, A... |
Facebook’s “Dirty Likes” May Mislead Graph Search Initially, But Facebook Has Other Good Signals, Too | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 18 | Apparently I “like” OfficeMax, Folgers, JCPenney, Kraft and several other big-name brands. At least, according to Facebook I do. Except, it’s wrong. It’s not that I these brands, really (well except maybe Folgers – I mean, yuck). But the truth is, I’m just indifferent to them. Why did I like them? I don’t recall. I p... |
Nooly Wants To Be The Last Weather App You’ll Ever Need; Brings Realtime, Localized Forecasts To iOS & Android | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | While “the weather” generally makes for dependably boring conversation, the weather itself tends to be anything but dependable. Mother Nature is mercurial, and she has no problem raining on your parade at a moment’s notice. When it comes technology and the weather, the conversation (albeit boring) is usually dominated ... |
59% Of All Android Tablet Usage Comes From The U.S., And The Forked Amazon Kindle Fire Is The Most Popular Brand | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | Android tablets have nearly caught up to iPad devices as the world’s most popular tablet platform, and some project that they iPads later this year. According to new research from app analytics company , the U.S., and specifically Amazon, should take the most credit for that trend: some 59% of all Android tablet usa... |
Report: There Were 94 Tech M&A Deals in 2012 Above $100M, Average Deal Value Was $717M | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | Towers Watson’s M&A practice recently published the results of Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor (QDPM), which is conducted in partnership with Cass Business School, and has examined the data on all deals over $100 million completed in 2012. The results are really interesting, especially when you look at what was happ... |
uBiome Nears $200,000 on Indiegogo To Crowdsource Data About The Bacteria That Lives Within Us All | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | Nope, this isn’t your average tech startup. No mobile apps here, or integrations with Facebook. Instead, this is a project that sits at the intersection of crowdsourcing and health. or research that relies on data contributed by regular people. In this case, Ubiome is looking at the human microbiome, or the very compl... |
Lenovo Downplays RIM Acquisition Reports, Says It’s Looking At M&A Opportunities In General | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | Lenovo has downplayed reports that the company plans to buy Research In Motion, saying that it is instead looking at acquisition opportunities in general, (link via Google Translate). If Lenovo does indeed decide it wants to court RIM, it may face significant regulatory hurdles. Canadian Minister of Finance Jim Flahe... |
Help Key: Put Display Settings Back In The OS X Mountain Lion Menu Bar Where They Belong | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | I like my Retina MacBook Pro, in part because I have the option to switch to extremely high-resolution display modes when I’m way from my home Thunderbolt monitor and want as much screen real estate as I can get. But Apple did a curious thing in OS X Mountain Lion: They removed the option to put a display preferences i... |
Twitter Expands Ad Services To Middle East, North Africa After Regional Users Tripled Over The Last Year | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | Twitter yesterday that it has started selling advertising services in the Middle East and North Africa after users in the region tripled over the past year. The microblogging platform will work with Cairo-based agency Connect Ads to market its sales products across the region. While financial details of the deal were... |
Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | ************************ Yeah. So let me maybe start with sort of – top-down and bottoms-up is how we think about it, because both are important — so let me start with historical context and then maybe go to the stuff happening right now. Is that all set? So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for... |
Twitter Is Finally Preparing To Release Its Advertising API In Q1, Say Sources | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | People have speculated that 2013 will be the year that Twitter will . That strategy could get a boost very soon with the entry of mass-market advertising: Twitter is finally gearing up to launch its advertising API some time in Q1. Aimed at large advertisers and their agencies, it will give them the ability to launch ... |
Can Brands Tell A Story In Six Seconds Or Fewer? Ritz, Dove And Trident Think So | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | Whenever a new platform launches these days, brands are instantly checking them out to see how they can “become a part of the conversation.” What that really means is how they can use a site like Twitter, or , to get your eyeballs, interact with you and, of course, sell you more stuff. There’s nothing wrong with that.... |
Fuelled By A $200K Seed, Free Mobile Marketplace Vendly Wants To Be A ‘Twitter For E-Commerce’ | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | Chilean startup , backed by a $200,000 seed from — and now relocated to San Francisco and looking to raise a Series A this spring — wants to cash in on mobile by turning your smartphone into a free mobile marketplace. The Vendly iPhone app lets you sell (aka ‘vend’) items; impulse buy from your friends (or strangers... |
The Enterprise Cool Kids | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | No, this isn’t a by . Though he and his startup Box, the poster child of the are definitely included in the bunch. “You should definitely kick Aaron off the list. Just to mess with him,” Zendesk founder commented when he heard what we were writing. With VCs voting with their feet and this play period, we’re se... |
VinePeek And VineRoulette Let Us Become Real-time Video Voyeurs | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | Twitter’s new video-sharing service, , , which we’ve . My main complaint after a couple days worth of use is that I simply can’t find vines to enjoy. But a “Friday project” out of product incubator PXi Ventures could change all that, as they’ve launched a service called VinePeek. is a website that pulls in the la... |
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Twitter’s Vine Has A Porn Problem | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | If you build it they will come. , Twitter’s new video sharing platform, is currently experiencing a porn problem. As , by searching for the tags “#porn” or similar NSFW words, you can find content featuring exhibitionists of various stripes as well as porn video taken directly from laptop screens. All is not lost, ho... |
CrunchWeek: Apple Earnings Land With A Thud, Twitter Launches Videos With Vine, Quora As A Blog Platform | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | In this edition, , and I (beaming into the TechCrunch TV studio via Skype as I was a bit under the weather) discuss how Apple’s has gotten a very from Wall Street, Twitter’s into video sharing with , and Quora’s recent expansion from its Q&A core to . |
Will Nokia’s Music+ Premium Service Be Enough To Dent Lumia Sales? Unlikely. | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | Nokia has had its free Nokia Music service for a while, allowing free music streaming on its Lumia handsets in the U.S. since last September. But the service allowed for only a limited number of song skips and playlists. Now it’s announced the impending launch of Music+, a premium music-streaming service that will affo... |
Iterations: Silicon Valley Slowly Awakens To Android (On Samsung) | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | TechCrunch . When the iPhone launched in 2007, Jobs proclaimed when it came to phones, Apple was likely, at that time, five years ahead of the competition. Well, those five years are up, and all of a sudden, as if on cue, many of the Valley’s smartest technology minds and observers have begun to slowly split up their... |
Webdoc Dumps Confusing Name For Urturn, Adds Tools For Fans To Create Memes For Bands | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | I always thought Webdoc was extremely poorly named. While the platform had been used by record labels for fan engagement and marketing, the name really did not work. Pretty much any fool could see this and it’s amazing how long the team there took to realize this. Webdoc screams: ‘Microsoft Word on the Web’. Or somethi... |
Facebook’s Categorial Imperative | Devin Coldewey | 2,013 | 1 | 27 | adds some much-needed relevance to the huge proportion of its data hoard that no user has seen or, if we’re honest, thought about, in days, weeks, or years. But Graph Search is ultimately nothing more than a handy sorting algorithm, and it’s indicative of the fact that really, Facebook doesn’t understand the first thi... |
Parku Looks To Make Parking Spot Rentals Mobile-Friendly In Europe | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | Now that Airbnb and Uber have dramatically changed the markets for providing rides and temporary space, it’s natural that we’re seeing variants of their models being applied in other spaces. Parking seems like a natural place, since there is plenty of unused inventory in urban cities. There have been a few attempts at ... |
iRig HD Surfaces At CES | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | I spent a lot of time at searching for new audio goodness and one of the cool things I found was latest product called the . Not “officially” announced yet and missing a release date, there were still a few demo units at their booth in the South Hall. The iRig HD is an upgrade to the company’s previous and very po... |
The Weekly Good: Groupon Isn’t Just About Selling, It’s About Doing | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | When you think of Groupon, you immediately think of instant deals for restaurants and nail salons. That’s not all the company is about though, it’s about connecting people to businesses and helping you find interesting things to do in your area. Sure, it’s a business like any other company, but as we’ve come to learn, ... |
Pairasight Is An Embeddable, Open Source 3D Camera | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | This morning we sat down with the creators of , a unique system for adding stereo vision to almost anything, including glasses. While the company is still nascent, they do have a very compelling technology that could help EMTs, police, and military record their world wirelessly when on duty. The glasses can take ste... |
White House Responds To Death Star Petition: Obama “Does Not Support Blowing Up Planets” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | I love the Internet so much. America’s netizens have demanded that President Obama consider building the legendary Death Star and . Unsurprisingly, they have thoughtfully rejected the request, claiming it would cost an estimated $850,000,000,000,000,000 and that “the administration does not support blowing up planet... |
Pontiflex Raises $7.7M For Its ‘Mobile Signup’ Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | Mobile ad company has raised $7.7 million in new funding. The news was revealed in with the Securities and Exchange Commission and confirmed by Geoff Grauer, Pontiflex’s CIO, COO, and co-founder. In an email statement, Grauer said the round was led by , and is intended to grow AdLeads, a self-serve mobile ad platf... |
PayPal Apologizes For Freezing Science Fiction Writer Jay Lake’s Cancer Fundraiser, Promises Greater Transparency | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | Earlier this afternoon, I started seeing a bunch of tweets from science fiction writers and fans about what looked a big screw up at PayPal. Author Jay Lake has been fighting cancer since 2008, and to raise money for a new treatment (whole genome sequencing), he pulled together a number of big-name writers to perform “... |
Angry Birds-Maker Rovio Crossed 263M Monthly Active Users Last Month | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | Rovio, the Finnish makers of Angry Birds, , with 30 million downloads in Christmas week alone and 8 million downloads on Christmas Day. The figure is about 30 percent higher For perspective, 263 million monthly actives is nearly as many as Zynga has. , and Rovio, which found its landmark hit on the iOS platform o... |
“Now” App Scans Instagram To Find You Something Fun To Do Nearby | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | You’re bored at home asking “What should I do?” Meanwhile people nearby are shooting Instagrams of the fun events they’re at. that uses Instagram’s API to sort through photos in real-time, organize those from the same time and place into events, and show you the events as a feed. Now harnesses the powerful Instagram ... |
Almond+ Expands The Router’s Domain, Adds Zigbee And Z-Wave Smart Home Control | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | The Almond, a router with a small touch screen that achieved significant success on Amazon thanks to a decent price point and excellent reviews, has a successor from parent company hitting Kickstarter soon. The comes with 802.11ac support, boasts a 2.8-inch touchscreen, and can be set up without even connecting t... |
In A Sea Of iPad Cases, Lazy-Hands Stands Out With Little More Than Velcro, Cloth, and Ingenuity | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | CES is all about the little guy this year. At least, . As easy as it is to spill a thousand words out over some new 300-inch floating TV that no currently breathing mortal will be able to afford, we aimed to route around the show’s bellowing giants and find the self-made gems so often lost in their shadows. Lazy-Han... |
Polaris Closing Dogpatch Labs Locations In New York And Palo Alto, Says No Change In Investment Strategy | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | plans to close two of its incubator spaces — specifically the ones in Palo Alto and New York — while refining the approach in its two remaining locations. The news was first reported in . I called John Lacey, the firm’s director of communications, and he confirmed the news: “We are ramping down in Palo Alto and New... |
Groupon Acquires Realtime Location-Aware Service Glassmap To Help You Find Deals | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | Y Combinator company , a location-aware app that was big back in the day (last year), has just announced that is has been acquired by Groupon. A representative from Groupon has confirmed to TechCrunch that the company has indeed acquired Glassmap and is “excited to bring the team aboard.” This makes total sense, becau... |
CES Is The Wild Wild West, Which Explains This Massive 1600lb Mechanical Spider | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | CES covers over 1.9 million square feet of the Las Vegas desert, and walking up and down the various lanes of gadget goodness can be hard on the old dogs. Luckily, we discovered this massive mechanical spider walking machine that does all the work for you. After all, it does have eight legs to my two. The , as it were... |
Swivl Introduces Their Updated Camera With DSLR, Tablet Support | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | The is an odd duck. When you first look at it you wonder what it’s for. But anyone who has given a speech or performed onstage will immediately appreciate this clever little device. The Swivl essentially follows you around the room as you speak, allowing you to record your video without a separate camera operator. ... |
Just Give The Dish DVR Its Nomination Back, CNET | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | Here we go again. There is a in the tech news media. Well I just can’t believe how this could happen in an industry that pays bloggers to review products from companies that then get advertised on those bloggers’ websites which pay those bloggers’ salaries … Ohhhhh. This time the victim of the business we’ve chosen i... |
It Looks Like SV Angel Just Raised Another $30 Million | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | According to an , Silicon Valley investor SV Angel has raised a new round of funding for a fund titled, SV Angel-III Growth P. As we SV Angel filed another document with the SEC that indicated the firm was raising another $40 million for a new fund. SV Angel, which was co-founded by angel investors and has inves... |
Sony May Kiss Low-End Smartphones Goodbye To Better Compete With Samsung And Apple | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | Sony Mobile’s top-tier Xperia Z may have been one of CES’s most pleasant non-surprises (seriously, is there anyone Sony didn’t brief about that thing?), and it turns out that the company’s future efforts may be more of the same. According to a recent with Xperia Product Manager Stephen Sneeden, Sony is contemplating ... |
Streamweaver Nabs $1.3M From Former Facebook Chief & Others To Bring The Split-Screen Experience To Mobile Video | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 11 | You may have thought you’d seen every permutation of the video-sharing app, given the glut of new startups scrambling to become the “Instagram of Video,” or some derivation thereof. There’s , , , , , , , and if you wait a day, there will probably be a few more. , mobile video does indeed present a huge market ... |
The 21 Winners Of The Facebook, Gates Foundation Education App Contest Are Making College Easier | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | Back in September, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched a contest that aimed to challenge entrepreneurs and app developers to build awesome, innovative education apps on Facebook’s platform. The so-called kicked off with an EdTech hackathon co-hosted by the Gates Foundation and Facebook, located at the social... |
Report: 2,277 Private Tech Companies Were Acquired For Over $46.8B in 2012; Google And Facebook Were Most Active Acquirers | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | Private company M&A database released a number of interesting data points tonight in a report focusing on M&A transactions in the technology sector. According to the report, 2,277 private tech companies acquired in 2012. The acquisitions of public tech companies (i.e. Priceline buying Kayak) were not included. You ca... |
Foodspotting CEO Alexa Andrzejewski On The $10 Million Sale To OpenTable, And The Importance Of Telling Your Startup’s Story | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | So were very pleased to have Foodspotting co-founder and CEO stop by TechCrunch TV this afternoon (after what was certainly a very long day) to give us the scoop on the deal and what’s next for Foodspotting now that it’s part of a larger company. First, she said, the good news for Foodspotting’s users is that the... |
Samsung Did Not Willfully Infringe On Apple Patents, Says Judge Lucy Koh | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | In the latest development in a long and complicated series of ongoing lawsuits between the two companies, Judge Lucy Koh has found that Samsung did not willfully infringe Apple patents. Last August, a jury , awarding the Cupertino company $1.05 billion in damages after it found Samsung guilty of infringing on patents ... |
City Authorities Confirm Apple R&D Center Will Open In Shanghai This Summer | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | According to a report in the (link via Google Translate), the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce has confirmed that Apple will open an R&D and procurement management facility in the city this summer. Apple has been emailed for comment. The facility will consist of three buildings in Pudong district that will c... |
Chief Game Designer Brian Reynolds Leaves Zynga | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | Another key member of Zynga’s team has left the beleaguered social game maker. This time it’s chief game designer Brian Reynolds, as . The company confirmed Reynolds’ departure, but did not offer any details about why Reynolds is leaving or his last day. In a statement, Steve Chiang, president of games, said: “Brian h... |
Intuit’s New Payments Directions In NFC, Passbook And Facebook Revealed In 20+ New Products | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | Yesterday took a step into social commerce with the acquisition of the team, technology and patents of . Today, it’s revealing more about how it plans to expand its services into new areas to complement its bread-and-butter business of payrolls and accounting software, with over 20 new products. They include those i... |
FCC Documents Reveal A Smaller, More Powerful Apple TV Is Coming Soon | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | There’s a new Apple TV on the way. Per , the new model is physically slightly smaller and as noted by TheNextWeb, rocks an A5X SoC. With the faster core, the new model should provide a better user experience with a smoother UI and improved app performance. Plus, with the recent Apple TV update that added , it seems t... |
WTF: Amazon Barely Ekes Out Profit On $21B In Sales, Hits Negative P/E, Misses Estimates, Guidance, Yet Stock Jumps 10% | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | You really have to hand it to Jeff Bezos and Amazon, which seem to continuously defy reality — and gravity. , and if you listen to the press, you’d think it was another home run. And if you are watching Amazon , you’d think this is the most buyable stock since the last time MG wrote about AAPL. Amazon is up nearly 10... |
Search Ads, App Ads, Gifts, And FBX Could Make Or Break Facebook’s Q4 Earnings | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | Facebook for several new money-makers in Q3 2012. will hopefully show if search typeahead ads, app ads, Gifts and Facebook Exchange are actually bringing home the bacon. If they’ve done well and are growing, Facebook’s future might look brighter to Wall Street. If not, Facebook will need new revenue building blocks ... |
Rave ‘Reviews’ For North Korean Gulags On Google Maps | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | It’s no secret that the Internet has a hard time taking things seriously. “Best. Gulag. Ever.’, raved Google user, C. Quinn, about Yodok North Korean prison. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt probably expected his recent high-profile visit to the isolated dictatorship to have a more sobering impact on online discourse. But,... |
TC Cribs: Inside Romotive, The Las Vegas Startup Where A New Generation Of Robots Is Being Born | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | It’s great to go beyond TechCrunch’s San Francisco headquarters to check out Cribs in other locales — and our latest sojourn was particularly worth it. Earlier this month we were in Las Vegas for the , and while we were in town we headed over to the , which is the home of a number of startups — including maker .... |
On An International Buying Campaign, Cisco Acquires Cyber Threat Protection Startup Cognitive Security | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | Today, it seems that Cisco’s international buying spree continues. for $475 million in cash last week, the company announced this afternoon that it is acquiring Czech network security startup, . The terms of the acquisition were not made public. , Cisco Head of Corporate Business Development Hilton Romanski said tha... |
Amazon Misses: Q4 Sales Up 22 Percent To $21.3B, Net Income Down 45 Percent To $97M | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | Amazon just lower-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings today. Net income decreased 45% to $97 million in the fourth quarter, or $0.21 per diluted share, compared with $177 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter 2011. Net sales increased 22% to $21.27 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $... |
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Ringadoc Raises $1.2M From Founders Fund’s FF Angel To Connect Doctors With Patients On-Demand | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | has a pretty big vision: To be the “frontline of primary care,” to let anyone and everyone pay a flat fee to instantly talk to a real doctor at any hour of the day. In pursuit of perfecting on-demand medicine, the startup announced today that it has raised $1.2 million in seed financing, led by Founders Fund’s seed ve... |
Philips Bows Out Of Consumer Electronics Business | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | Philips, a brand well known for their televisions and optical media devices, is leaving the consumer electronics market and is now focusing on medical equipment and lighting. The company sold its CE business to the Japanese manufacturer Funai Electric Co. for $201 million. Like , Philips found the CE market fraught wi... |
SimilarGroup Raises $2.5 Million To Take On Alexa’s (Often Terrible) Web Rankings With Its New SimilarWeb Service | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | Tel Aviv-based , a company whose recently launched web measurement tool is out to topple stronghold in web rankings, is today announcing $2.5 million in new funding. The round was led by , the former President of Microsoft’s Israel Research and Development Center, and as a part of the funding, Lichtman is also jo... |
VidCaster Integrates With Salesforce To Introduce Its Leadwall, A Paywall For Collecting Contact Information | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 29 | Last summer, video platform provider VidCaster , letting its customers collect money for access to their videos. But its clients also asked for a way to request viewer contact information, and so VidCaster is now rolling out its . Instead of having users pay for access to individual videos or pay monthly subscription... |
BodeTree, The Financial Tool For People Who Hate Finance, Launches A Free Education Platform For Small Business Owners | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | launched early last year to help small business owners better understand and make sense of their financial data. The startup has been attempting to make the absurdly tedious world of financial software fun, or at least less crappy, pitching itself as a “financial tool for people who hate finance.” , BodeTree syncs wi... |
Bango Adds Telefonica To Its List Of Mobile Carrier Billing Partners For Facebook And Beyond | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | Mobile payments company — partner to Facebook, Amazon, BlackBerry and others to enable app and content charges directly to your mobile phone bill — has another major carrier partner: is enabling Bango payments via its payment API. The global deal (RNS statement embedded below) will mean that developers who make a... |
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement About Her Office’s Handling Of Case Against Aaron Swartz | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | After accusations of and a with nearly 40,000 signatures , U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz has issued a statement . In it, Ortiz defended her office’s handling of the case, saying its conduct was “appropriate” and that it would not have sought a : The prosecutors recognized that there was no evidence against Mr. Swart... |
Uber Gets More Super As It Expands Into Germany | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | Uber has that it is expanding into Germany, where “Secret Ubers” are now operating in Berlin. The on-demand car service company’s first passenger in that German capital was another startup founder, Alexander Ljung of Soundcloud. The company said that its Berlin cars are still in testing phase, and that “more Ubers ar... |
In The Fight Between Netflix And Cable Operators, High-Quality Streaming Video Is Being Held Hostage | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | Last week at CES, Netflix announced that a number of ISPs had , which provides a more direct connection between it and a cable operator, of its streaming video. And for those who do participate, Netflix has a bonus: Due to those efficiencies, it will be able to offer up Super HD and 3D video to their broadband subsc... |
LoopMe Wants Less Noise In Mobile Ads, Gets $500K Seed Round Led By Ex-AdMob MD Russell Buckley For Its Inbox Solution | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | Advertising has been one of the chief routes for developers and publishers to make money from apps and other mobile content, but there is (literally) a small problem: Handset screens have a finite amount of space, so too many ads feels claustrophobic and crowded, and downright intrusive when you click on them accidenta... |
A First Look At Silvercar, The Future Of Airport Car Rentals | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | For those of you, like me, who hate incumbent car rental firms, seems like a breath of fresh air. The startup is focused on providing a better quality of experience for airport car rentals, mainly by adding technology to its cars and using mobile apps as a way to simplify and improve the whole process. The startup an... |
Twitter.com Experiencing “Rendering” Issues, So If You Like Ugly Websites, Visit It Now (UPDATED) | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | While that became popular in years past, Twitter.com is indeed . According to a tweet by its support account, engineers are working on a “rendering” issue. A lot of Twitter users rely on mobile and desktop apps, so they might not visit the website at all. For those of you who do, though, the problem is impossible to... |
Hack Design Teaches Design To Hackers, Has Already Signed Up Over 20K Developers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | Most developers are famously not great designers, but some of the best products come from teams where developers know a bit about design and the designers know a bit about what the developers do. wants to get developers up to speed with the basics of design by sending to developers a about design. There is clearly ... |
Social Gifting App Wrapp Hits 1 Million Users (Because People Like Free Stuff) | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | Social gifting startup is today announcing that it has grown its user base to 1 million within 14 months – proof that people really do enjoy freebies, it seems. The company, which allows users to send both free and paid digital gifts and gift cards to friends, also had a busy holiday season, hitting 1 million gifts s... |
Facebook Graph Search Makes Privacy Seem Selfish | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | The subtle impact of is that when you share openly, you share for the benefit of mankind. And when you don’t, or share to just a few people, you’re robbing the world of your knowledge, recommendations, and content. The question for each of us now is whether we prioritize our contribution or our privacy. Facebook’s mi... |
eBay And PayPal Expect To Do $20 Billion Each In 2013 Mobile Commerce | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | eBay strong earnings today, thanks to growth in mobile adoption, as well as improved performance in the Marketplaces business. The company also released its mobile commerce numbers for the year, which blew past original estimates. In 2013, eBay expects each to exceed a whopping $20 billion. PayPal and eBay both expec... |
StumbleUpon Lays Off 30% Of Staff As It Restructures Company Into A Profitable State | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | today laid off 30 percent of its staff, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch. The move, which brings StumbleUpon’s employee count from 110 to 75, is part of a larger restructuring plan that will bring the web content discovery company to profitable operations in the first quarter of 2013. “The main drive here is to... |
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Thanks To Growth In Mobile And Marketplaces, eBay’s Q4 Revenue Up 18 Percent To $4B, Net Income Up 22 Percent | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | eBay’s Q4 and full-year 2012 earnings , with revenue for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012, increasing 18 percent to $4 billion, compared to the same period of 2011. The company reported fourth-quarter net income on a GAAP basis of $751 million, or $0.57 per diluted share, and net income on a non-GAAP basis o... |
TechCrunch Redesign Mockup [Do Not Publish] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | There are a bunch of people in this meeting who I don’t know. I think they . They don’t know who I am either. Half of the people in this room are sick, myself included. I’m going to go get a flu shot once this flu is over. Are you even allowed to do that? There’s a There’s another Now we’re being asked to draw boxe... |
Facebook Rolls Out VoIP Calling To U.S. iOS Messenger Users | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | Facebook originally started testing a new for users of its Facebook Messenger app for iPhone in Canada early this year, and now the service is available to U.S. users as well. The free call button app now shows up in the app for U.S. users, in any conversation where both parties are using the Facebook Messenger app. ... |
Microsoft Launches HelpBridge For iOS, Windows Phone And Android, Lets You Alert Friends And Family When Disasters Strike | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | When a disaster happens, chances are you want to get in touch with your loved ones as soon as possible, either to tell them that you’re fine or to make sure they are. To make this easier, Microsoft is today, a mobile app for , and . HelpBridge, which is based on Microsoft’s platform, lets you notify your frie... |
‘Bi-Partisan’ Official Inauguration App Is a Sexy Liberal Data Spy | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 16 | [ .] Watching the live stream of President Obama’s inauguration on the official smartphone app could make you a lucrative target for liberal spam. Buried in the terms of service for the and gorgeous Inaugural 2013 application is permission for the non-partisan Presidential Inaugural Committee to share data “with cand... |
Jody Sherman, Ecomom Founder And Longtime Web Entrepreneur, Has Died | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | , a longtime web entrepreneur most recently known as the co-founder and CEO of healthy kids products site , has passed away. He was 47. Details on the cause of death have not been confirmed. The news was relayed earlier today to close friends, family, and business associates, and has spread this evening from a writ... |
Building Digital Literacy: JobScout Brings Its Online Learning Platform To iOS To Teach You How To Find A Job | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | It’s easy to get lost in the Silicon Valley and Bay Area tech bubbles, where it seems that everyone carries five phones, owns three laptops and just had lunch with a sentient robot. But, the reality is outside of the bubble is a little different. Digital literacy is a privilege, and more the exception than the rule. No... |
NewVoiceMedia Takes $20M Led By Highland Capital, MMC To Build Contact Centers In The Clouds | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | , an enterprise startup riding the wave of cloud-based services, has raised $20 million for its business of contact center solutions, which currently serves 8,000 agents in 30 countries. The Series B round was led by Highland Capital Partners and MMC, with participation from existing investors Eden Ventures and Notion ... |
Qihoo Gets Double Dose Of Bad News As Apple Cuts Its iOS Apps And It Receives Unfair Competition Warning | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | Qihoo 360 shares slipped after it disclosed today that its iOS apps had been removed from the iTunes stores without warning, . The Chinese security software maker also received an unfair competition warning from the Chinese government, according to the Beijing Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau’s . But Q... |
Samsung Buys Medical Imaging Company NeuroLogica | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | Samsung that it has acquired medical imaging company NeuroLogica, part of the multinational conglomerate’s plans to build a leading medical technology business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “The acquisition of NeuroLogica is another important step in the expansion of Samsung’s medical imaging business,” said... |
We’ll Publish Your Story If CNET Won’t | Jon Orlin | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | Editorial independence is kind of at TechCrunch. When our , or might have an issue with a story, we write it anyway. So we have an offer to make to the writers at Its parent company, CBS, that CNET’s , barring something changing, will be its last. A disclosure statement on a recent news article states blun... |
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