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UPDATED: Facebook Hit By Extended Outage In Several Countries | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | Facebook is back online for everyone, according to and the company. A spokesperson said: Earlier today we experienced a DNS issue that briefly prevented people who typed ‘facebook.com’ into their browsers from reaching the site. People who accessed the site using a mobile app, typed ‘www.facebook.com<http://www.faceb... |
VMware To Cut 900 Jobs As Outlook Disappoints, But Will Still Pursue M&A | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | VMware plans to , as part of a restructuring. The company also issued cautious 2013 forecast, due to a decline in U.S. federal government bookings and continuing concerns about the sluggish economy in Europe. The company reported on-target fourth-quarter earnings and said it expects revenue of $1.17 billion to $1.19 b... |
Sand Hill Road’s True Belieber | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | , a venture capitalist at Mohr Davidow, decided to completely overhaul his investment strategy today after returning from a trip to New York. Hartley, who is originally from Palo Alto, spent a few days in New York for meetings and When he unlocked his Sand Hill Road office today, he found that his colleague had ch... |
Ad Exchange adBrite To Shut Down On Feb. 1 | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | Ad exchange told partners today that it will be shutting down on Feb. 1. A couple of TechCrunch readers sent us copies of the emails that went out to adBrite publishers and advertisers. Here’s the advertiser version: Dear adBrite Advertiser, Over the last few weeks, adBrite and its management have been evaluating the... |
Marissa Mayer’s 3 Goals for Yahoo: A Better UI, Bigger International Reach And Broader Demographics | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | Considering the long-standing struggles of Yahoo as a business, its board of directors battles, and Scott Thompson’s , Yahoo (and its investors) have been in sore need of some good news. When beloved Google exec Marissa Mayer took the helm as CEO back in July, finally Yahoo had a cause for optimism. Today, , which m... |
With The Help Of Citizen Cartographers, Google Launches More Detailed Map Of North Korea | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | Google Maps is not only a strong product, it’s a strong platform. With its Map Maker tool, people from around the world can participate in making Google’s maps more detailed, accurate and up-to-date. This is exactly what happened for North Korea’s maps, . Google’s Senior Product Manager of Map Maker, Jayanth Mysore, d... |
Rdio Needs More Users, Hopes Going Free On Web & Desktop Will Help | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | The battle for international users continues to heat up for streaming music services. Just this morning, in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Brazil, and now Rdio follows with news of its own – it’s going free. The company says it’s rolling out free web access internationally to all territories where it operates, exce... |
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Goatse.cx Is Reborn… As An Email Address Provider | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q82RNlCRoFs#!] It was nigh on half a decade ago that I first met the fell demon they call Goatse.cx. It haunted my dreams – the ring, the red, the evident pleasure – and even today I am loath to type in those five consonants and three vowels without a shud... |
MediaCorp Taps Tvinci To Launch Toggle, Its Virtual Cable Service In Singapore | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | It used to be that building a new TV service was incredibly expensive, as operators had to build out all sorts of new infrastructure to do so. But now with the Internet, operators can launch streaming video services that can reach millions without major new investments in equipment. One example of an operator doing thi... |
Get Ready For Even More Google Glasshole Sightings | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | In major metropolitan areas and in Silicon Valley, there have been a rash of sightings of people wearing . They look like inhabitants of the future, come back to and and report back to their leaders about what the world used to be like, well before everyone had the Internet on his or her face. Maybe you’ve seen th... |
Pinterest, One Of The Web’s Most Iconic Designs, Tries A New Look | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | Don’t worry, isn’t ditching the grid-style “Masonry” design it’s known and cloned for. But today Pinterest of a new navigation system, bigger images, and more related content on pins to keep you clicking. The redesign is being tried with a small group of users that can sign up to join, but everyone could get the ne... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Foundation Capital’s Anamitra Banerji And Kleiner Perkins’ Chi-Hua Chien | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 28 | We have two guests joining us in the TechCrunch TV studio this week for our Ask A VC series, where you put VCs in the hot seat. First up we have Foundation Capital’s newest partner and former Twitter product lead . Later in the week, we’ll be joined by Kleiner Perkins’ partner As, you may remember, you can submit que... |
Sony Corp Sells Its U.S. Headquarters Building for $1.1B | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Sony’s U.S. unit is selling its NYC headquarters to a group of investors led by Chetrit Group for $1.1 billion, the cash-strapped company today. Sony said it will use the proceeds to “undertake a range of initiatives to strengthen its financial foundation and business competitiveness and for future growth.” The elect... |
VCs Invested $26.5B In 3,698 Companies In 2012, Total Dollars And Deal Volume Both Down | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | A new Moneytree report is being released this evening, showing that annual VC investment dollars have declined for the first time in three years. The study, which was conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), and based on data from Thomson Reuters, reports that there were ... |
‘Search, Plus Your World’ Just Got Bigger As Google+ iOS Apps Launch In 48 New Countries And Territories | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | The Google+ iPhone and iPad apps are now available in 48 countries and territories, announced Google engineer (h/t ). Users with iOS devices can now download Google+ in: Albania, Anguilla, Barbados, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Chad, Republic of Cong... |
With Customers Like LinkedIn On Board, Bugsnag Launches To Bring Realtime Bug Tracking To Your Web & Mobile Apps | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Last year, James Smith and Simon Maynard left mobile gaming startup Heyzap, where Smith was the CTO, to build and launch a new venture that aimed to tackle one of the biggest problems they encountered in working with mobile developers: The need for better crash detection. In an attempt to bring some continuity to the f... |
Facebookers Feed Graph Search And Set A Record By Uploading 1.1B Photos On New Year’s Day/Eve | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | No one knew it yet, but people all over the world gave a hearty meal when they uploaded a record 1.1 billion photos during the 48 hours over News Year’s Day and Eve. That’s nearly double the 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook on an average day. Content upload stats from Facebook take on new meaning now that Grap... |
Telcentris Raises $5.3M For Calling, Chatting, Faxing (And More) App VoxOx | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | , the maker of “unified communications” app , says it has raised $5.3 million in its first institutional funding. The VoxOx desktop and iPhone apps combine features like VoIP calling, texting, chatting, and faxing; aggregate contact info from Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere; and offer Google Voice-style support for c... |
Mobile Video App Montaj Makes Editing As Easy As Shaking Your Phone | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | The latest entrant into the mobile video segment is , a new app launching next week that seeks to be a kind of “Instagram for Video.” Montaj was founded by Demir Gjokaj and Dan Long, a couple of New York-based entrepreneurs who had originally been focused on making a more engaging travel site. Key to that experience w... |
NewHive Lets You Hack Together Any Media Into A Website Collage. 10M Views Let It Raise Funding | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Instagram for websites? Not exactly. is more like a cross between MS Paint, Photoshop, and Tumblr. But NewHive’s not just a collage site-making tool. It has a community that’s logged 10 million views of NewHive creations, and that attracted investors. SV Angel, CrunchFund, and some angels just backed its seed so NewH... |
Apple’s iOS Newsstand Now Offers Hearst Magazines Days Before Print And Other Digital Stores | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Apple today quietly launched a , whereby publications by partner Hearst (covering their entire catalog) will now be available to subscribers days before they come to print, or other digital editions. Hearst’s library includes a number of top titles, including Car and Driver, Popular Mechanics, Esquire, Seventeen and H... |
Foursquare’s New Interactive Map Plots Its Evolution From Local Check-In Site To Global Utility | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Any mature Internet product always has difficulty proving its success or illustrating its evolution. Foursquare is definitely one of the companies with a product that fit into many buckets, depending on who you talk to. Today, the company has , plotting out 500 million check-ins from the past three months. There are q... |
Study: Learning Spanish With Duolingo Can Be More Effective Than College Classes Or Rosetta Stone | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Education is quickly moving online, but we haven’t seen all that many studies that actually look into the effectiveness of these new forms of online learning. To see how its program performed, the language learning service , founded by CAPTCHA Luis von Ahn, commissioned a study ( ) into the effectiveness of its prog... |
Intel’s Q4 A Mixed Bag: Misses Estimates With $0.48 EPS, But Nails The Street’s Revenue Consensus | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Intel has just reported both its , and they’re a mixed bag to say the least. The company itself expected to rake in $13.6 billion in revenues as per its Q3 release, but only managed to hit $13.5 billion this time around — a slight disappointment to be sure, but right in line with analysts’ consensus. That said, the le... |
Now In Brown And Ruby Wine, The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Gets New Color Options | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The , arguably the next big thing, will be available in Brown and Red along with its usual blue and white options. The only bad news is that the new color flavors are only available in Korea at the moment, but it’s entirely possible they’ll make their way stateside eventu... |
Instagram Reports 90M Monthly Active Users, 40M Photos Per Day And 8500 Likes Per Second | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Instagram , marking the first time it has talked about numbers on its own site since the following the Facebook buy-out. The internal stats show strong engagement, and user growth, rather than a , as . Part of the discrepancy between the these numbers and third-party doom and gloom reports may have to do with the ... |
LG Remains Committed To Nexus 4 Production, Even As New Nexus Rumors Swirl | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | If you’ve been trying to get your hands on a Nexus 4 (without signing a contract, anyway) then these past few weeks have probably been some pretty iffy ones. Even now they’re unavailable from the , but LG France Communications Director Cathy Robin wants to straighten things out a bit — according to an interview with h... |
“In The Studio,” XG Ventures’ Pietro Dova Prefers To Fly Under The Radar | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | TechCrunch “In the Studio” welcomes a quiet, unassuming early-stage company veteran who has been through the ups and downs of Valley startups before landing at a certain search engine around the year 2000, after which he spent nearly seven years in various finance leadership roles and helped steer the company to it... |
Accel-Backed Entertainment News Outlet Global Grind Finally Starts Taking Mobile Seriously With New iPhone App | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Global Grind, the NY-based digital media company funded by Accel Partners and hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, is finally taking mobile seriously with today’s relaunch – and really, it’s a start-from-scratch job – of . With today’s debut of Global Grind for iOS (Android to follow), the company is bringing custom ... |
Nielsen: Smartphone Battle Ready To Rage In Brazil, Russia, India | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | In a research note today, Nielsen examines the potential for smartphone growth in the BRIC region (Brazil, Russia, India, China), where, in many cases, feature phones still dominate. According to the firm’s findings, only in China are smartphones predominant, where they’re now owned by two-thirds of mobile subscriber... |
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Dropify Is Part Of A New Wave Of File-Sharing Using Facebook-Authentication | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Promoting your stuff on Facebook is all very well, but what if you want to offer downloads (such as for music) from within the platform? Oddly, German startups are all over this problem. Out of Berlin has recently come . Yet to launch, this is an app which promises to send files up to 1GB to Facebook friends in real-t... |
Glooko Receives FDA Clearance For Its Mobile Diabetes Tracker, Hires Intuit Health Exec As Its First CEO | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 17 | Back in September, announced the release of a new version of its iOS app, a digital logbook which helps people with diabetes track their blood glucose levels from their smartphone. , meaning that Glooko is now compatible with more than 17 different devices — a sign of the headway the startup has made in its march to... |
Bad Dog Tools Demos Drill Bits That Cut Through Basically Everything There Is [Video] | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | The CES show floor was packed with tons of companies that you’ve probably heard plenty about this week, such as Panasonic, Sony, LG, etc. But the hidden gems and oddballs among the consumer electronic giants were the real treat for world-weary attendees who felt it was hard not to stifle a yawn at yet another 4K TV. ... |
Hands-On With The Lockitron, The Easiest Way To Control Your House’s Locks With A Smartphone | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | Lockitron’s Cameron Robertson stopped by our CES booth for a little demo. It doesn’t take much to demo the . It’s a little wireless device that slips onto a deadbolt and can be controlled by a smartphone. Put it on your house. Put it on a rental property. Put it on your cat. To be honest, is much more interesting ... |
Sphero And Augmented Reality Are Made For Each Other | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | had a big 2012, but it’s clear that 2013 will be even bigger for the company. This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the makers of a phone-friendly robotic ball launched a handful of augmented reality games, expanding the breadth of the little sphere’s functionality. The first game is inspired by p... |
Refinery29 Raises $3.5 Million Through A Private Offering, According To SEC Filing | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | According to a recent , fashion news and e-commerce site has raised $3.5 million through a private offering from a total of seven undisclosed investors. The Web site, which focuses on trends and independent designers, has grown rapidly since it launched in 2005 in New York City. It now focuses on six cities (NYC, Lo... |
With 15K Businesses On Board, BetterCloud Lands $5M To Help Accelerate The Adoption Of Google Apps In The Enterprise | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | For years, Microsoft has been the king of the world’s offices, as its own Office productivity suite dominating the market. If you’ve worked in an office in the last 20 years — preferably at one with computers — chances are good that you’ve used (or at least familiar with) Word, PowerPoint, Excel or Outlook. But, in tak... |
Google+ Hangouts On Air Now Have A Full-Screen Option For Your Broadcast | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | When you’re using Google+ Hangouts to broadcast, say, a live concert, there hasn’t been a way to make it full-screen for your wonderful viewers. Basically, it would show a big window with you in it, along with a smaller window under it. A full-screen option has been a long-requested feature, and the Hangouts team annou... |
UPDATED: Apple Not Focused On Developing Cheaper iPhone, Says Marketing SVP Phil Schiller | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | UPDATE: Reuters has its original report about Phil Schiller’s interview with the Shanghai Evening News based on “ ” to original story, though its not clear what those changes are. The Shanghai Evening News report remains . Earlier this week, reports that a caused plenty of buzz as observers speculated about how suc... |
Samsung Fined By Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission For Misleading Advertising | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | Samsung has disclosed that Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) fined it NT$300,000 (or about US$10,389) for an advertisement that featured “misleading” information about the Samsung Galaxy Y Duos GT-S6102, reported Taiwanese news agency (link via Google Translate). According to the FTC, the South Korean company said... |
ScottEVest Shows Off Their Latest Pocket-Ful Travel Jacket | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | As geeks, it’s hard for us to carry all of our geek accoutrements to our various geek events. That’s why I, for one, love : they’re durable, fun, and pocket-ful pieces of clothing for the nerd on the go. We sat down with Scott Jordan, the Scott of the EVest, and talked about their latest creation, the TEC Jacket 2.0... |
Talking To Your TV, Your Car, Maybe Your Fridge? Maluuba Is Connecting Users To Their Favorite Devices By Voice | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | You might remember from TechCrunch Disrupt, where the company for Android last year, combining voice recognition and natural language processing with search to create a really smart way to easily find the things you want quickly. If you’ve already forgotten: It’s kind of like Siri, except it works. Anyway, the co... |
Samsung Says It Will Not Release Its Windows RT Tablet In The U.S. | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | Samsung’s Windows RT tablet, the Ativ Tab, will not be sold in the U.S. Mike Abary, head of Samsung’s PC and tablet business in the U.S., told at CES that his company shelved the release because its retail partners do not see enough demand. (Abary did not specify if the Ativ Tab will be launched in non-U.S. markets).... |
Withings Shows Off Its New Smart Scale And Smart Activity Tracker At CES [Video] | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | Withings was one of a pretty busy section of the CES 2013 show floor demoing health, fitness and lifestyle monitoring apps, and it had a couple of new things to add to its line of Wi-Fi scales and monitoring devices. One was the new Withings Smart Body Analyzer, which is a version of its Wi-Fi scale that, for the fir... |
The YotaPhone Has An E-Ink Display On The Back And That’s Simply Awesome | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | Okay, hear me out. The duel-sided is not a gimmick. It makes sense. On the back of the YotaPhone is an e-ink display that can mirror anything displayed on the main screen. And because e-ink screens do not require battery life, these images are available even if the phone battery dies. Get it? Probably not yet. As sho... |
Want: LG’s Pocket Photo, A Tiny, NFC-Friendly Photo Printer | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | LG and CES are made for each other. The company may not make the best smartphones (with the exception of Google’s Nexus 4), or get the most attention all year round, but when they whip out the big screen TVs at their massive CES booth, it’s easy to get on the “Life’s Good” bandwagon. Unfortunately, TechCrunch is one... |
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Tim Cook Meets With China Mobile, Says China Will Soon Become Apple’s Most Important Market | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | Tim Cook would like to get Apple on a faster boat to China. On his current visit to the country, it looks like the Apple CEO has focused on smoothing the rollout and distribution of Apple products there. In an interview with Chinese news site (link via Google Translate), Cook said that he believes China will become A... |
An Interview With Eric Migicovsky, A Product Designer Who Had To Ramp Up From $0 To $10 Million In Funding In A Month | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | The Pebble Smart watch is one of the best-known projects. A compact e-ink device designed to work with almost any smartphone, the Pebble grabbed attention when it hit $10 million and sold 85,000 watches after expecting to sell 5,000 unitKickstarter”>;=”https://techcrunch.com/tag/s. Eric had to go from a tiny, one- ... |
Lemmy From Motorhead Answers Questions About New Motorheadphones | Jay Donovan | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | I can tell you that the very, very last place I expected to see , from the band Motorhead, was at CES 2013. However, the metal pioneer emerged from the chaos with his new line of headphones — , that is — to sell to the masses. Lemmy is definitely a man of few words. The press conference was a reminder of this. Howe... |
Oculus Shows Off Its Virtual Reality Goggles For Genuinely Immersive Gaming | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | As someone who devours way too much science fiction, I’ve always secretly believed that I’ll be wearing giant VR goggles at some point in the future. (I’m patiently waiting for my jetpack, too.) Now it looks like I might not be crazy after all — Palmer Luckey, founder of , is hoping to take VR goggles out of the lab... |
The Sky Is The Limit For Aereo, Assuming The Sky Remains Filled With Free TV Signals | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | Aereo is quite possibly the most disruptive company to come out of New York since Kickstarter. The startup, founded by serial founder , brings live and recorded TV content direct to your Internet-connected devices for as low as $8 per month. In a world where retrieving free over-the-air signals with rabbit ears is a... |
Performance Marketing Brands (a.k.a. Ebates) Buys Grocery Shopping App Pushpins | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 19 | , the operator of online shopping and rewards programs, has , the mobile app for saving on groceries. We’re hearing that the acquisition price was likely in the range of $10 to $15 million. Pushpins and rewards when they scan UPC barcodes at the grocery store. The company’s app also allows you to access digital sh... |
Facebook + Kayak: Flights With Friends Launches To Take The Pain Out Of Group Travel Planning | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 10 | Over the last few years, the travel industry has begun to undergo significant change, as startups and incumbents have fought to bring the disparate parts of a highly regulated industry online. Much of the attention from consumer web businesses has focused on making travel more “social,” improving discovery and helping ... |
What Games Are: Playing In Interesting Times | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 1 | 19 | It’s no great revelation that financial reports can be arcane and hard to interpret. Everything is balance, trends, pointers and a series of evolving narratives that subtly dance with one another across a crowded floor. There are always new angles to consider, players in the mix and potential directions to be taken. Ye... |
Senator John Cornyn Wants Answers: Did U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Aim To ‘Make An Example’ Of Aaron Swartz? | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 19 | It’s been one week since , the prominent programmer and digital activist who took his own life as he was for computer fraud after he allegedly used the network at MIT to illegally download a large cache of scientific journals from . Since then, a number of people — including Swartz’s family, friends, and longtime c... |
Every Company Is Up For Disruption, So Keep Your Products Simple | Victor Belfor | 2,013 | 1 | 19 |
A friend of mine told me recently that he closed a $240,000 account. A competitor (let’s call it BigCo) was bidding for the business. I doubt that BigCo even considered my friend’s company (let’s call it SmallCo) a direct competitor. BigCo is a major player in their space and it raised a lot of money from good VCs an... |
Facebook’s New Employee Swag: A Low-Key Hoodie With A Lofty Hidden Message | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 19 | Most clothing items companies give out to their employees make it outwardly clear where the person works ( .) It makes sense and all, but sometimes you don’t want to be a walking advertisement for your employer, especially if you’re in Silicon Valley and work at one of the most buzzed-about companies in the tech world.... |
Gillmor Gang: It’s Only Love | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 1 | 19 | The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — have some fun with Facebook’s new GraphSearch and advances in medical techniques. We all agree that when Facebook says it’s not about search, well, it’s all about search. Should Google be quaking in its boots as @scobleiz... |
EyeEm Photo App Snaps At Instagram’s Heels In iTunes Free App Charts | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 1 | 19 | , the Berlin based social photo and filters app, has been snapping at the heels of photo giant Instagram in the U.S. iOS app charts this week. A week ago they were No. 242 in the photo and video charts, but at one point this week they were No. 2 behind YouTube. Yesterday they held the No. 20 spot in the free app chart ... |
Mega Launches Its Cloud Storage And File Sharing Service As ‘The Privacy Company’, ‘Thousands Of Registrations Per Minute’ | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 19 | Kim Dotcom’s new secure file-storage and file-sharing venture has now officially launched on a surge of interest. The timing of the launch, 6:48 a.m. New Zealand time on January 20, coincides with the one-year anniversary of the after the closure of Megaupload, another file-sharing and file-storage site that was se... |
Circa Raises $750K From Group Including Lerer Ventures To Revolutionize Mobile News Delivery | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 19 | We’ve learned today that has raised another $750K on top of the $900K raised previously. The company launched its app of the same name, which allows you to follow an often-changing story in bite-sized chunks, only three months ago. A few more big names have joined in this up-round, including: Lerer Ventures, Advancit... |
Backed Or Whacked: Smartphones That Light Up Your Life | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | Last week’s Backed or Whacked on devices that can remotely provide input to smartphones; this week, we venture beyond the bounds of simple information retrieval and toward illuminated products that can actually be controlled by one’s pocket companion, particularly in the home. (Note: Starting with this column, Indieg... |
Your Database Is Probably Terrible | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 1 | 19 | Databases aren’t sexy, but they’re the absolute foundation of the tech world, the ground on which all of its edifices are constructed. You probably use a hundred every day. At . They’re like the Spice in : “S/he who controls the database, controls the universe!” Well, don’t look now, but that universe is beginning to... |
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Unlocking Your Phone Is Now Illegal, But What Does That Mean For You? | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | All the salacious headlines are (mostly) true — as of today, you can’t unlock a carrier-subsidized smartphone on your own before the contract associated with it runs out without technically running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Granted, I’d wager that the number of people who faithfully stick to their ... |
Truth, Money, Right, Wrong | Michael Arrington | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | I wrote about the ongoing CNET editorial independence issue. I said that the editors and journalists at CNET were part of the problem, and suggested that they either publish their (assumed) dissent, or resign, or both. A conversation began in the comments of that post, with some people saying that it isn’t reasonable ... |
The Roger Dubuis Quatuor Watch Attempts To Outfox Gravity With Four Separate Balance Wheels | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf_kkDMZC58&feature=player_embedded] Today’s watch porn comes courtesy of Roger Dubuis, a manufacturer of odd timepieces. Their latest, the Quatour (which kind of sounds like a character from Total Recall), is a watch with four separate escapements that average each other out as... |
What Games Are: Games Need Their Nielsens | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | In the age of better metrics for games, some developers take it too far and . This generally leads to trouble. However one of the better aspects of metrics is the idea that you can assess the overall performance of your game against someone else’s. You can know how well you’re really doing, or at least you should be... |
The Silicon Valley Housing Market Is Only Going To Get Crazier | Glenn Kelman | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | Silicon Valley home buyers, I wish we had better news. Prices keep rising, with no end in sight. Across the 20 markets Redfin serves, only Phoenix saw more rapid price increases than the Bay Area. Over the last 12 months, . When the market moves this fast, the appraisals required by a lender reflect last year’s prices... |
Fly Or Die: Vine | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | Twitter launched Vine, the mobile iOS app that lets users create six-second looping video and share it to various social networks, and it’s been of many a media conversation since. Yesterday, Vine in the App Store after being featured, and many have even called the app the Instagram of video. But does Twitter’s... |
Netflix’s House Of Cards Could Be The Best Show You Won’t See On TV | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | Early on in the Netflix original series House of Cards, you see Kevin Spacey get his hands dirty. As Representative Francis Underwood, he doesn’t suffer fools and he doesn’t tolerate weakness. The opening scene shows Spacey performing a mercy killing of sorts, removing the pain of a beast not fit to continue living. It... |
Gillmor Gang: The 10 Percent Solution | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — watched in amazement as Apple’s stock price tanked due to their blowout quarter and two-thirds ownership of the U.S. smartphone revenue. @scobleizer gave it a 70% chance that he would bolt the Apple Fanboy ranks by the end of February, b... |
CNET Now Forbidden To Review Aereo, The TV Service In Active Litigation With CBS | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | John P. Falcone over at CBS-owned CNET posted a quick piece on Aereo, the TV-over-Internet startup that is giving broadcasters fits. , which would have been a short piece on Aereo on a Roku device, is now awash with ridiculous disclaimers and discussions of lawsuits filed against Aereo by broadcasters. In short, CBS n... |
America Has Hit “Peak Jobs” | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | “The middle class is being hollowed out,” James Altucher. “Economists are shifting their attention toward a […] crisis in the United States: the significant increase in income inequality,” the . Think all those job losses over the last five years were just caused by the recession? No: “Most of the jobs will never ... |
Anonymous Threatens Massive WikiLeaks-Style Exposure, Announced On Hacked Gov Site | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 26 | Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, is play ever: a massive WikiLeaks-style exposure of sensitive U.S. government secrets. As proof of their power, they announced details of the plan on hacked government website, the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC.gov). Citing the of free information activist Aaron Swart... |
Yahoo Sending “Welcome (Back)” Packages To Former Employees, Trying To Get Them To Come Back | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | This is the official Yahoo “employee welcome” kit. Except the employee in question, doesn’t work at Yahoo. He . Over the past couple of months, Yahoo recruiters have reached out to ex-VPs, low-level engineers and PMs who used to work for Yahoo with these packets, with the word “Back!” scrawled on them in black Shar... |
Pew Study Suggests Libraries (And Print) Still Have A Future In An E-Book World | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | A new study from looks at the future of libraries. The study, titled “Library services in the digital age,” doesn’t include anything particularly shocking or revelatory, but it suggests that many people still value the role of libraries, and that librarians are thinking about how their services can evolve. Pew found ... |
RIM Extends Built For BlackBerry Deadline After Receiving More Than 19,000 Applications | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | RIM that it is extending the deadline for Built for BlackBerry after receiving more than 19,000 applications. One of several incentive programs launched by RIM to attract developers for BlackBerry 10, Built for BlackBerry is meant to highlight apps that have “passed an added level of evaluation” and will receive extra... |
Modern Guild Gets $500K From Jawbone Founder & Others To Bring Better Online Career Coaching To College Students | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | With unemployment and “under-employment” rampant among grads, many college students are facing the unpleasant reality of a less-than-appealing job market. As a result, students have begun turning to alternative resources to help them prep for life after college, whether that be through skill-focused online platforms li... |
Huawei Again Mulling IPO As It Hits Back Against Accusations Of Espionage | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | Huawei is considering an IPO after disclosing sales figures that in the race to become the world’s biggest telecom equipment maker by revenue. Huawei CFO Cathy Meng said yesterday to a listing (link via Google Translate) after disclosing details of . Huawei’s sales last year rose 8 percent year-on-year to 220 billi... |
Logitech Gaming Software Beta-Testing Program Confirms Future Support For Mac OS X | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | According to a on OnlineBeta.com, Logitech is finally preparing to support OS X gamers. At long last, the company is working to release its “Gaming Software” for Mac OS X that lets users configure their Logitech gaming mice and keyboards to optimize performance and play. It’s unclear what this type of software will d... |
Facebookers Get Into Philanthropy: A3 Foundation Launches At Sundance To Support Asian-American Artists | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | With Facebook’s incredibly hyped IPO now over, longtimers at the company are naturally exploring the question: what does life after Facebook hold? Some are years into new startups of their very own, while others are funemployed. But a small group is getting into philanthropy and giving back. The latest of these projec... |
Mozilla Devs Are Working To Optimize Firefox For The OUYA Android Game Console | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | To say that the Android-powered OUYA game console has garnered some serious attention is a hell of an understatement, and that’s sure to be the case as developer units keep trickling out into the wild. As it turns out, it’s not just game devs that are getting some hands-on time here — some of the folks at Mozilla may b... |
LG’s Optimus G Will Hit LTE Markets In 50 New Countries Starting In Late January | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | LG’s might not have gotten the same attention as the Nexus 4, but it’s the cream of LG’s 2012 crop. And to that end, the company has just that it will roll out the Optimus G smartphone globally to ove 50 new countries in the coming months. Back in , the Optimus G landed in the states, along with Canada, Korea and... |
Photovine Grows Again As A New Photo App, Under A New Owner, Less Than A Year After Google Killed It | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | Remember Photovine? This was the rolled out by Google via its acqui-hired Slide developer team in 2011, then relegated to the not one week later, and then finally shut down in . Now, much like a persistent vine itself, “Photovine” is getting a new lease of life, once again as a photo sharing app — this time launch... |
Read-Me-The-News App Umano Launches On Android | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | , an app that provides commuters (and others) a curated selection of articles read by voice actors, . Now it’s available to Android users, too. It seems pretty inevitable for a mobile app to go cross-platform, especially since it was created by former Googlers. But Ian Mendiola, co-founder and CEO at Umano-maker , sa... |
PennApps 2013 Hackathon Runner-Up SparkTab Could Be Your New Browser Start Page | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | I attended this weekend and got to judge the winners out of 20 excellent finalists. The 48-hour event brought out some amazing talent from many colleges across the nation but one product, really stuck out as a unique and interesting solution to a thorny problem. SparkTab is kind of like for your browser. Instead ... |
Twitter Is Having Connectivity Issues Again, But Why? (UPDATED) | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | With a lot of people in the United States off for the national holiday, Twitter appears to be buckling under the pressure. Right now, the service is experiencing issues, including the inability to connect to any of its official apps. As is usually the case, the problems are intermittent and don’t affect all users. Sadl... |
Tagged Embraces Mobile To Help You Meet People Offline Too With New City-Exploring App Sidewalk | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | Tagged isn’t doing too shabby, introducing you to people to flirt and make friends with online. It’s got 300 million registrations and 3 million daily users. Now it’s stepping into offline meetups by launching standalone app that feeds you fun happenings in your city, as well as who you might run into where you’re ha... |
Listia Partners With Best Buy To Let You Trade Old Stuff For New Electronics | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | It’s getting more tempting to give away used goods on , the marketplace startup backed by Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz ( ), thanks to a new partnership with Best Buy. When you give away “old stuff” on Listia, you earn points, which can be redeemed for items that other users are giving away, as well as new good... |
With The Xperia Z And Xperia Tablet Z, Sony Has Finally Found Its Mobile Soul | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | There was a time when Sony defined mobile. Its products, along with wares from partner Ericsson, were the very best looking and performing mobile devices. But that was a decade ago. Sony hasn’t been part of the mobile conversation since before Apple crashed the party and it never picked itself up in the aftermath. But ... |
Branch Adds Personalized Recommendations To Help You Find Good Conversations | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 21 | launched out of closed beta only last week, but the engineering team is hard at work pushing out new feature updates. Today, the company announced that logged-in users will now when they visit the homepage, from people you know. Your conversations will likewise be displayed to your contacts. The new recommendations ... |
500 Startups-Backed Silver Living Wants To Be The Consumer Reports For Senior Care Communities | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | When his grandmother was no longer able to live safely at home, Tal Ziv and his relatives set out to help her find the best senior care facility — better known as assisted living communities. It’s an experience many families face at some point, and it’s not always an easy one. What’s more, the stakes are high; we want ... |
Hands On With Verizon’s Elusive Samsung ATIV Odyssey Windows Phone | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Samsung’s ATIV Odyssey has been a real noodle-scratcher of a device ever since its existence was first hinted at during Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 launch event. Well, consider that particular veil lifted — Samsung had a near-final version of the Odyssey to play with here at Digital Experience in Las Vegas, and I took ... |
Hands-On With Polaroid’s Three New Android-Based Interchangeable Lens Cameras | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Polaroid saw the curtain raise early on its Android-based interchangeable lens cameras thanks to early leaks, but today was the first day we got to go hands on with the new cameras at CES 2013. The cameras, based on Android 4.1 (but fully upgradeable to 4.2, Polaroid tells me), feature a 10-30mm F2.8 lens (which mainta... |
Hands-On With Canon’s PowerShot N: A Compact Camera That Does Instagram One Better | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Canon had a number of new cameras on display at CES 2013 this year, but the most noteworthy of all was the PowerShot N, a new ultracompact shooter that’s only about 3 inches by 2 and half, and only 1.2 inches deep. It’s almost square, which makes it resemble the camera depicted in the Instagram icon on the iOS and Andr... |
We’re Live From Pepcom’s Digital Experience At CES 2013 #CEScrunch | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Tonight is the last night of teasers and private previews before the main event. Starting at 8pm PST TechCrunch TV will be streaming live from at the MGM Grand hotel. Join us as we tour the exhibit hall looking for the most newsworthy gadgets, smartphones, and tablets, and stay sober enough to report on them. Got to ... |
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