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Qualcomm Revamps Its Snapdragon Line, Unveils The High-End Snapdragon 800 And 600 Chipsets | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Qualcomm’s isn’t really a brand that figures prominently into the average person’s understanding of the mobile space, and that’s exactly the issue that the San Diego-based semiconductor company is trying to tackle in its newest and most prominent CES keynote to date. Cringeworthy introduction aside (facepalm material a... |
obCESsion | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | CES attendee, I’m glad you’re here. You’re going to see the latest and greatest gadgets. Just like you did last year. You have clearly noticed that you’ll always find the latest gadgets at CES. It’s here because it matters. Such gadgets do get released. They are not always figments of some marketing wizard’s imaginatio... |
CES Is So Uncool It Might Finally Be Cool | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Even though I once built a slideshow called “ ” I have never been to CES. Because the fact is that, as every cool blogger has very creatively , CES is tragically unhip. First of all, none of the actually important tech companies are there: Specifically, the “ ” – Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook. Even Microsoft off... |
Digital Health Funding In ’12: $1.4B Raised, Up 45% Y/Y; Qualcomm Most Prolific Of 179 Investors, Castlight Takes Largest Round | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | As CES 2013 gets underway, it finds the Quantified Self movement to be a far more crowded market than a year ago, but , the market is still hungry for smarter devices and “plenty of room” remains for startups for startups to push the envelope with innovation and press beyond movement and weight. With digital health d... |
EA Popcap’s Bejeweled Crosses Over Into Real-World, Physical Games Through Hasbro Agreement | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Angry Birds-maker Rovio has said that it eventually expects that at least half or more of its revenues will come from physical goods in the future. It’s not the only developer that has popularized a brand on mobile and social platforms only to later introduce real-world merchandising. EA’s Popcap is parlaying its Bejew... |
GM Announces New App Framework, SDK, And Store For In-Vehicle Apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Ford today introduced its that allows mobile apps to talk to its cars. Not to be outdone, General Motors just its own API and SDK for its new in-vehicle app platform. the big difference here is that while Ford uses a driver’s smartphone, General Motors’s framework for its MyLink platform is meant to let developers ... |
Prez Inauguration Ticketmaster Fiasco Reminds Us The Private Sector Screws Up, Too | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Those waiting patiently to buy a ticket for President Obama’s final inaugural ball will be disappointed to know that they last Sunday. “A technical error” from Ticketmaster’s system sent an email a day early and led to a flood of premature sales that sold out the entire stock of public tickets. For all the grumbles a... |
Meet The 5-Inch, Quad-Core Xperia Z: Sony’s Stunning Answer To The iPhone 5 And Galaxy S3 | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Sony announced its first quad-core smartphone at its CES press conference today: the Xperia Z. The company will be hoping this new Android flagship can deliver the scalps of high-end rival devices such as Samsung’s Galaxy S3 and Apple’s iPhone 5. The 4G handset has a symmetrical, rectangular slab design with clean line... |
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Yiftee Raises $850K For Local Business-Focused Gifting Service | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | a gifting service that aims to drive business to local merchants, has raised $850,000 in seed funding from Scott Cook, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and other angel investors. Similar to other gifting apps, Yiftee allows you to give gifts to friends via a mobile app. However, all gifts on the platform are from local business... |
HackerRank Will Host Back To School Hackathon, Bringing College Students To Hot Startups | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | has before, but on February 2, it plans to connect some of the top coding talent in universities with some of the best-known companies in Silicon Valley. Developed by the same company behind , a site where companies find programmers by hosting “CodeSprints,” the HackerRank service . Co-founder Vivek Ravisankar sai... |
Ford Launches Open Developer Program To Let Mobile Apps Interface With Its Cars | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Our cars have become increasingly connected, but building apps for them has generally involved small private betas and a lot of hand-holding from car manufacturers. The first manufacturer to open up their cars to developers is Ford, which is announcing its for iOS and Android apps at CES today. Developers will be abl... |
Following Fitbit’s New Wristband, Basis Unveils First Android App, To Go Live In March; iOS To Follow | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Quantified Self enthusiasts are getting their fair share of excitement at CES this week. first unveiled its intriguing health-tracking watch at the event last year, but after hiccups and , the company finally launched its product . At launch, however, the band looked great and the entire package was very promising.... |
Verizon And Motorola Announce FiOS TV Media Server That Can Record Six Shows At Once | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Remember that FiOS home Media Server Verizon was talking about ? Well, the company is finally starting to make things official, with an and product details revealed today at CES. Launch date and pricing info still remain elusive, however. Verizon and Motorola have jointly developed the new Media Server platform, whi... |
Dish Introduces Next-Gen Hopper With Sling Technology Built-In | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 7 | Dish has been trying to dramatically reshape its value proposition to consumers with new technologies and feature sets to set it apart from other pay TV providers. One of its big new features last year was PrimeTime AnyTime, which automatically records and allows users to watch any primetime broadcast show aired over t... |
Three Major U.S. Carriers Will Support BlackBerry 10 Devices, Which Will Be Made Available At Multiple Price Points | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Research In Motion has said that it plans to that will hit low, middle and high price points in order to capture more of the smartphone market. In addition, three major U.S. mobile carriers — Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile — say they products. RIM CMO Frank Boulben at CES that RIM will release at least six BlackBerry ... |
Foxconn Confirms Bribery Investigation After Chinese Authorities Detain Employee | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Foxconn, the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant that works with companies like Apple, Samsung and Sony, has confirmed that it is being investigated on charges of bribery by Chinese authorities. At least one of Foxconn’s employees has been detained after being accused of accepting bribes from suppliers. The br... |
Apple Locks App Screenshots To Ward Off Scammers | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Apple has that app screenshots will be locked in iTunes Connect once an app is approved. New screenshots can only be added when developers submit a binary for an updated to an existing or new app. This move will help that tricks people into buying fake apps with screenshots stolen from more popular or non-iOS games.... |
Qualcomm Totally Gets Mobile | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | It is sad that no one who reports on technology has the balls to straight up pull a at I mean peel away from the PR stunts and parties and just do mushrooms and walk around the iLounge or that crazy room with the 4K HDTV screens, or that weird fluorescent light tunnel with all the cars. A person on hallucinogens wo... |
It’s Official: The Final Countdown To Arrested Development’s Netflix Premiere Has Started | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Glory be! After seven long and miserable years without a new Arrested Development episode, Netflix that the cult comedy series will be back for 14 episodes on the video-streaming platform in May. Though reports have pinned the release date as May 4, Netflix’s content chief Ted Sarandos didn’t confirm an actual date, ... |
Median Angel Deal Size Rises As Startups Look For More Runway Amid A Series A Bottleneck | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | The median size of angel deals rose to $640,000 in the third quarter of last year — a five-quarter high — as startups looked for more runway amid a bottleneck for Series A rounds. partnered with data company CB Insights and the Angel Resource Institute to survey different angel groups about activity in the fall of la... |
Everything You Wish You Could See At Samsung’s Massive CES Booth | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Samsung is known around these here parts as the . The company has risen from a boring mega-conglomerate to Apple’s biggest competitor, the world leader in TVs, and one of the most crucial manufacturers in the world. The proof of this is in the pudding, or, rather, in the $1 million booth the company has set up to do... |
Marvell Co-Founder Weilli Dai On The Chip Tech That Powers The New Gadget Hotness | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | So it was nice to talk to , a co-founder of , the multi-billion-dollar fabless semiconductor technology . Marvell’s of the products being unveiled this week at CES, in particular in the smart TV space that seems to finally be reaching the point of mainstream interest and acceptance. Dai stopped by TechCrunch’s o... |
Boxee Is The Poster Child Of A Lean Startup: They Just Happen To Ship Hardware | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Boxee launched the shortly before Christmas. At 3,000 Walmart stores. And a major feature is in beta. As Boxee’s Andrew Kippen explains in the video above, the Boxee TV is slightly different than its previous product, the Boxee Box. It’s aimed at the cord cutter who wants to utilize OTA signals rather than someon... |
Facebook Obscures User Counts Of Apps On Its Platform But Starts Reporting App Rankings | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | To prevent people from thinking Facebook apps are losing users when there are bugs in the user count data it reports to services like AppData, Facebook will only report user counts in much broader tiered thresholds instead of to the nearest 100,000. However, it will start reporting App Center rankings. The change fol... |
The iTwin Connect Plugs Into Your Laptop To Create A Personal VPN That Nobody Can Crack | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | If you’re smart, you probably think twice before using a WiFi network anywhere outside of your own home to log into things like your bank account and even your email. Being on a shared network notoriously leaves you more vulnerable to having someone else monitor all the details of your web browsing activity and acces... |
Hands-On With Sifteo Cubes: High-Tech Games Built Into Classic Building Block Shapes | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Reinforcing that last example is , a San Francisco startup that has built an especially unique interactive gaming platform aimed at age 7 and up. Sifteo a product called ‘Cubes’ that incorporates digital games into the classic cube format of building blocks that interact with each other. It’s a very nifty product ... |
FCC Announces Plan To Help Conference Wi-Fi Actually Work | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | The government wants to help ensure that conference Internet Wi-Fi actually works. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a new plan to open up a portion of the wireless spectrum for faster and more reliable Wi-Fi devices. Specifically, the FCC will work to open up the to make way for gigabit Internet devices, “to... |
Google Makes $200M Equity Investment In Texas Wind Farm, Says Its Investments Now Generate 2 Gigawatts | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Google just yet major investment in renewable energy. The company says that it has made a $200 million equity investment in an existing wind farm in Oldham County Texas. The Spinning Spur Wind Farm currently produces about 161 MW and uses 70 Siemens turbines to generate enough power for about 60,000 U.S. homes. , ... |
TechCrunch Gadgets Live Is Happening Today At 1PM PST/4PM EST | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | CES is in full force and TechCrunch is in the middle of it all. Literally. Our massive broadcast booth — it looks like a greenhouse — is in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center. And coming up at 1:00PM PST is the second episode of TechCrunch’s Gadget Live webcast. After a quick recap of the morning’s live streami... |
Salesforce’s Marc Benioff Doesn’t Know Why He’s At CES, But He Sure Loves Disruption | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Making what he said was his first trip to the Consumer Electronics Show since he was a teenager, Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took the stage today to talk about the big shifts in the technology industry. Benioff, who was interviewed by MediaLink’s Michael Kassan, noted that CES is traditionally a show... |
Tweetdeck For Mac Catches Up With Chrome, New Version Offers 90 Fixes & Updates | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Twitter today has upgraded its , which now offers the same features that Chrome users received in mid-December. This includes “typeahead” and PeopleSearch additions, as well as the “embed this tweet” function, and more. The company says there are over 90 fixes and tweaks with this version, making it the largest update... |
Pandora CTO Tom Conrad On Bringing Personalized Radio To Automobiles Everywhere | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | In the dozen years since it first launched, personalized Internet radio pioneer has become a staple on people’s computers and mobile phones. But the company’s mission definitely does not end there. Recently, Pandora has become more and more prevalent as a built-in feature in automobiles. It’s a big market — tons of... |
Proving The Value Of Crowdfunding, Soldsie Raises $425K And Hires One Of 72 Investors Via FundersClub | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Online venture capital firm is pioneering equity crowdfunding and today demonstrated the value of bringing on dozens of investors rather than a handful. E-commerce startup just raised $425,000 from 72 investors through FundersClub, and ended up hiring one. New Chief Scientist , a founding engineer of Facebook’s ad... |
Microsoft Open Tech Launches VM Depot To Make Deploying Linux-Based Virtual Machines To Azure Easier | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 9 | Microsoft Open Technologies, a wholly owned , just the launch of VM Depot, “a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images for Windows Azure.” , of course, already has a store that allows developers to deploy premium applications to its Azure cloud computing service. With , Microsoft now also off... |
John Oliver Talks T-Shirt Cannons And Slashfics As He Hosts The 2012 Crunchies | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | John Oliver played host at the Crunchies tonight. He’s a funny guy who’s either British or an expert at pretending to be, and he’s on the Daily Show, Community and other things, so you might recognize him. Also even though he’s not a journalist, he pretends to be one, so how fitting is it that he hosted an awards show ... |
FTC Chair Announces Resignation One Month After Settling Google Antitrust Case | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz on Thursday that he will resign, one month after the agency with Google after a 20-month investigation into the tech giant’s alleged anticompetitive behavior. The resignation had been expected by antitrust lawyers since last summer and will take effect in mid-February. Leibowitz said that h... |
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! GitHub Wins Best Overall Startup | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | And like that, The 6th Crunchies Annual Award Show is in the bag. John Oliver provided a night of laughs while TechCrunch, GigaOm and Venture Beat jointly handed out 20 awards to the best and brightest startups, founders and venture capitalists. The night started off with a bit of science as the Mars Curiosity netted t... |
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: ‘We Used To Create Content Online. Now We Create Industries’ | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | was one of the trailblazers of the sharing economy, and so, when CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky today accepted the award for best collaborative consumption service — the first time the category has been a in the Crunchies — he dedicated the award to everyone: “I want to share this award with all of you,” he said. Bac... |
GitHub Wins The 2012 Crunchie For “Best Overall Startup”, May The Fork Be With You | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | In case you weren’t sure that Silicon Valley had moved beyond from consumer web companies, take a look at the top five finalists for the best overall startup of 2012. Only one is even a purely consumer service — and Instagram’s photo-sharing app is mobile-oriented at that. Fab and Square respectively provide a marketpl... |
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Coursera Wins “Best New Startup Of 2012,” Get Schooled | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | It seems as if, in our particular slice of time, many spheres of industry are coming to a breaking point; Will we be focused on marginal costs and continue doing things the old way, or chuck existing systems and focus on the new? Government is one of these spheres, healthcare is another, so is transportation, and also ... |
Mark Zuckerberg Wins “CEO Of The Year” At The 6th Annual Crunchies | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | He navigated the company that he founded in his college dorm room to a , the biggest in the history of tech companies; then led it past ; and now he’s been named the CEO of the year at the 6th annual : a big congratulations to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook. The award was presented earlier this evening at the Davi... |
Chris Dixon Wins Crunchies 2012 “Angel Of The Year;” Peter Thiel Is Named “VC Of The Year” | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | As you may know, TechCrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat host the award ceremony each year to celebrate the most compelling startups, Internet and technology innovations of the year. But we also recognize the angel investors and venture capitalists who write the checks that fund these innovations. For Angel of the Year, w... |
Affordable 3D Printer Maker Pirate3DP Hooks In $482K From Red Dot Ventures | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | Venture capital firm Red Dot Ventures has invested $482,000 USD in , a Singapore-based startup that is developing an affordable, user-friendly 3D printer for the mass market. Pirate3DP was founded by childhood friends Roger Chang, Brendan Goh and Tsang You Jun, as well as serial tech entrepreneur Neo Kok Beng, a prof... |
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom Takes “Founder Of The Year” At The 2012 Crunchies | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | This year’s saw Instagram founder Kevin Systrom take top honors for the “Founder of the Year” category, which is likely a safe pick considering what his company accomplished in 2013. He managed to grow his service’s user base and engagement to stunning levels, crossing 50 million users in May thanks to the addition o... |
Snapchat Wins “Fastest Rising Startup” At The 2012 Crunchies | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | Mobile photo messaging app just won “Fastest Rising Startup” at this year’s edition of the . If startups are really all , then our voters couldn’t have picked a better winner than Snapchat, which didn’t just grow into a massively popular service this year, but also spawned a whole ecosystem of sites that teach its ... |
After A Triumphant App Store Return, Google Maps Wins The Crunchie For “Best Mobile Application” | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | After getting the boot as the default mapping application on iOS devices with the introduction of iOS 6, Google Maps with a new look, new features, and it quickly won back user mindshare and massive adoption. And today, it won something else, too: the Crunchie for the Best Mobile Application. The runner-up was Evernot... |
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Mars Curiosity Wins The 2012 Crunchie For “Best Technology Achievement” | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | Tonight, at the 6th Annual Crunchies Awards, the won for Best Technology Achievement. Because, you know, science is awesome. Presented by former Square COO Keith Rabois and VentureBeat’s Meghan Kelly, NASA “Mohawk Guy” Bobak Ferdowsi accepted the award on behalf of the whole Mars Curiosity team. “It’s been a real ple... |
Microsoft Launches Bing Apps For Office 365 Home Premium | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | In an effort to create more synergy between its products, Microsoft’s search platform Bing has that Office 365 Premium is now available to users. The five apps included in the add-on for the newly launched Office 365 and Office 2013 make it easier for users to insert information and images directly from Bing searches... |
Intel Will Showcase Dual Core Android Smartphones At The Mobile World Congress | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | Intel has that it will showcase Android devices running a new dual core, dual graphics platform at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 25 to 28. “Specifically, Intel will showcase its latest smartphone technologies and devices running the Android* platform, including a new dual core, dual graphics p... |
ITC Will Investigate Complaint By InterDigital Against Mobile Devices By Samsung, Nokia, Huawei & ZTE | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | The U.S. International Trade Commission that it is launching a investigation into wireless devices with 3G and 4G capabilities and components by Samsung, Nokia, Huawei and ZTE. These include the Samsung ATIV S, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy Note 10.1, Galaxy S III, Galaxy Stellar, Galaxy Tab II (10.1), SCH-LC... |
Watch The Crunchies 2012 Live! | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | It’s that time again, folks. The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards show is upon us, and it’s set to be the best event yet. We’re at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, again partnering with GigaOm and VentureBeat, to recognize the best technological achievements, companies, and leaders of 2012. With startups... |
Time Inc. To Lay Off About 500 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | Another publisher, Time Inc., is laying off 6% or about 500 employees in an effort to streamline operations at the 21-title publishing house. The lay-offs came after a thorough examination by and, according to a memo by CEO Laura Lang. “With the significant and ongoing changes in our industry, we must continue to tra... |
Wishpond Launches Eight Twitter Marketing Apps That Borrow Their Look From Twitter | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | is launching a set of eight new apps that bring the startup’s social marketing campaigns to Twitter. The apps allow businesses to promote different contests and offers from their Twitter accounts, such as Photo and Caption contests. I talked to CEO Ali Tajsekandar about the new tools, and it sounds like one of the big... |
IDC: Worldwide Tablet Shipments Hit A Record Total Of 52.5M Units In Q4 , Including 22.9M iPads | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | Apple’s iPad led the charge as total worldwide tablet shipments hit a record 52.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to from its Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, but its market share continued to slide due to competition from Samsung. Meanwhile, PC shipments declined during the quarter for the f... |
The World’s Most Depressing Tech Infographic Says You’re Dead In 9 Years | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 31 | Thanks Exec, for reminding us that we spend most of our days in a hamster wheel. The point of its new was to show that life is too short to waste time doing errands, so you should hire an Exec on-demand assistant to do them for you. But it also might make you feel like giving up. Subtract all the eating, sleeping, wo... |
Q4 Showed Facebook Will Survive Mobile Because It’s An Ads Scalpel, Not A Shotgun | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | On the web, there’s plenty of room to throw a scattershot of ads at people and hope one resonates. On mobile where there’s reduced real-estate, you have to make every pixel count by targeting ads with surgical precision. That’s how Facebook succeeded in , and why the social network is actually well equipped to weather... |
The New York Times Was Attacked By Chinese Hackers Over Four Months | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | The New York Times that over the last four months, it was repeatedly attacked by Chinese hackers using methods that have been linked to the Chinese military in the past. The timing of the attacks coincided with reporting for published on October 24 that revealed Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister, had tried to hide a... |
With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Phones Collected, Device Recycler ecoATM Adds Tablets | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | , about 1.6 billion mobile phones were shipped in 2012, with 700 million of those being smartphones. That doesn’t even take tablets into account. Compass Intelligence estimates that 18 million new tablets were sold during the fourth quarter of 2012. Naturally, as waves upon waves of new smartphones and tablets hit stor... |
Hold The Phone, I Want My Dick Tracy Watch | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | A few days ago, I read of the Pebble smartwatch for The Verge. Like many others, I bought a , and I can’t wait to try it out myself. But one part of Patel’s review stuck out at me in particular: Any incoming notification will quietly buzz the Pebble and light up the screen. Frankly, it’s great — being able to see wh... |
How Two Undergraduates Went From Forever Alone To Thousands In Sales | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | A few undergraduates at Queens College in New York, Matt Sconce and Phil Malen, had a semi-bright idea: they’d make Forever Alone statuettes. Matt Scone and sculptor Hanning Saden got together to make a 3D model of the famous Forever Alone face, a sad-eyed monstrosity familiar with those with no friends and those who l... |
Backstage Acquires Music Promotion Startup Sonicbids For $15M+ To Build A LinkedIn For Creatives | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | If you’re an independent band, or actor, or clown, or really creative of any stripe, you’re probably looking for a gig. But try as you might, finding that gig is tough. But what if there were a platform that gave creatives their very own LinkedIn or CareerBuilder? In a down economy, where millions are struggling to fin... |
Facebook Tries Letting You Share Emoticons Of Exactly What You’re Feeling, Reading Or Eating | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | Facebook is poised to get a lot more expressive. Today it began tests of a new status composer that lets you say “what are you doing?” by selecting from different categories to share activities such as feeling, reading, or eating. You can then choose a specific emotion or piece of media or add a custom text description... |
Senators Seek Permanent Extension Of Internet Tax Ban | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | Congress is looking to keep popular Internet-only services, such as email and social networks, permanently free of taxes. Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Sen. Dean Heller are a permanent extension of the original 1998 Internet Tax Free Act, which is set to expire in November 2014. “E-commerce is thriving largely because the In... |
Card-Linked Offers Platform Edo Opens Up To Local Merchants | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | , the card-linked local offers platform which just closed its , is today introducing a new service for local merchants, which it’s calling the “ ” The company had previously announced its intention to go after the SMB market at the time of its recent raise, noting that it now plans to scale through partnerships with m... |
The Surprising iOS Games That Saw The Most Active Usage In The U.S. Last Month | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | Because of the rankings, the top-grossing games and the ones that get the most downloads are known. But Apple and Google are much more conservative with what they reveal about apps and their active usage. And active usage is a far more important metric than the download, because the more retention and engagement an app... |
Linkwell Lands $11M From WellPoint, Spark Capital To Help You Make Healthier Choices | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | today announced that it has raised $11 million in series C financing for its consumer engagement platform. Founded in 2007, Linkwell partners with health plans, consumer brands that want to be health conscious, grocery chains and drugstores to offer everyday consumers discounts, coupons and content to help them make h... |
Facebook Killed Off 37% Of Spammers Since June 2012 | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | If you’ve ever gotten a fake friend request, you know Facebook has spammers. But it’s winning the fight against them. Facebook’s estimate of the total percentage of monthly users that are “undesirable” or spammer accounts dropped to 0.9 percent from 1.5 percent in June 2012. That means there’s only around 9.5 million o... |
Prezi Hits 18M Users For Its Presentation Platform, Asia An Area For Future Growth [TCTV] | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | has come a long way since the days it was a struggling startup in Budapest building a new way for people to create presentations to blow the mind of an audience. Today they have over 100 employees and a San Francisco HQ. It’s become a popular alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint and Keynote, and the company is even n... |
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Hints At Bigger, More Media-Rich Ad Formats | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | A lot of the discussion during Facebook’s earnings conference call today revolved around all the stats that the company offered about the fourth-quarter performance of various ad units. However, Facebook executives also talked (in a very general way) about their ad plans for 2013, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying that t... |
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Ahead Of Expansion, Lyft Parent Zimride Closed $15M In New Funding From Founders Fund And Existing Investors | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | It’s been a , but let’s make it even bigger. TechCrunch has learned that , parent company behind the ride-sharing service, has closed a new, $15 million round of funding led by Founders Fund. Existing investors Mayfield Fund, K9 Ventures, and Floodgate also participated in the round. Representatives at Zimride wouldn... |
Surprisingly, Facebook’s News Feed Ads Aren’t Scaring Away Users | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | Facebook risked driving users away by showing more ads in the news feed last year, but to Mark Zuckerberg’s surprise, a big increase in their presence during 2012 only reduced Likes and comments by 2%. Users are staying loyal, which during the 2012 call Zuckerberg called a sign of the value Facebook provides. Whether... |
ShoeDazzle Is Bringing Subscriptions Back, At $9.95 A Month For Free Shipping, Discounts, And Other Perks | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | It’s been about three months since ShoeDazzle founder Brian Lee took back his CEO role at the L.A.-based e-commerce startup. Since then, the company has been undergoing massive changes: a reorganization aimed at refocusing the company on shoes and accessories; the to bolster the brand; the launch of a new “Daily Fix”... |
Facebook’s Revenue Per User In North America Is Now 3-4X Europe and Nearly 6X Asia (But User Growth In Its Cash Cow Is Slowing Down) | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 30 | Facebook’s user base is growing much faster outside of the U.S. than it is in its home market, but it has a little problem: those users are continuing to generate far less revenue than U.S. consumers do for the company. Facebook that average revenues per user (ARPU) for the U.S. and Canada in the quarter were $4.08, ... |
Coursera Takes A Big Step Toward Monetization, Now Lets Students Earn “Verified Certificates” For A Fee | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched last year to give anyone and everyone access to courses from top-tier universities — for free, online. At launch, the startup offered courses from a mere three institutions, but today, things have changed, over 200 courses from 33 top international and domest... |
McGraw-Hill & Kno Offer A Peek Into The Future Of Textbooks: They’re Dynamic, Vocal, Adaptive & Bring Stats To Studying | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | For many startups, creating the educational platform (and learning experience) of the future began with reinventing the presentation, distribution — really, the essence — of educational content. And what is the most familiar package for that content? The good ole textbook, in all its rigid and bulky glory. As such, sta... |
Google+ Photos Get Pan And Zoom Functionality, Letting You Really Explore High-Res Photos | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | Google+ came out of its holiday slumber today with an addition to its Photo section of the service. The team has added pan and zoom functionality to let you explore small areas of high-resolution photographs. This comes after a right before the . Google’s social feature set has attracted artists of all types, espe... |
eBay Updates iPhone And iPad Apps To Simplify Mobile Browsing And Listing | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | eBay to its and apps yesterday which the company says will “play an important role in eBay Mobile’s year to come.” The e-commerce platform also said that 1.8 million new customers joined eBay through a mobile device in the first three quarters of 2012, and eBay Mobile currently adds an average of 2.4 million listi... |
Ford Launches Its OpenXC SDK And Hardware Specs To Let Developers Access Its Cars’ Sensors And Metrics | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | Our cars today feature a lot of sensors, but it’s not easy for developers and hardware hackers to access to all of this data, which is typically . Last year, Ford, in collaboration with , the beta of its to allow developers to access metrics from its cars’ internal network. Today it is opening up the program and ... |
Tech Titans In Asia: Apple’s Cook Visits China, While Google’s Schmidt Makes A Stop In North Korea | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | Two top tech executives are currently visiting Asia, but though the reasons for Apple CEO Tim Cook’s China sojourn are obvious, Eric Schmidt’s trip to North Korea is confusing observers of the authoritarian regime and Google alike. Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Miao Wei, minister of China’s Ministry of Industry and Infor... |
Which Mobile Games Attract The Most Lucrative Players? | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | Because data is hard to come by on active usage for top mobile apps, it’s hard to understand how wide a footprint the very highest-grossing games have. Plus, with a Renaissance in mid-core games over more casual titles during the past year, it’s often not the best-known or most widely popular games that perform the bes... |
The CES Show Isn’t Over Yet: Watch Team TechCrunch Live At ShowStoppers | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | Ah, ShowStoppers. It’s always a nice change of pace for us — just about two hours after the first day of CES has wrapped, companies come to us to show off their wares instead of the other way around. As per tradition, we’re gearing up to chat with a slew of new and just plain neat companies, and to top it all off, we’l... |
Today We Learned That Verizon Is Going To Save The World | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | With Microsoft pulling out of the Consumer Electronics Show and Apple nowhere to be seen, this year’s event has become a huge opportunity for other companies to have a major onstage moment. With more than 150,000 people in attendance and millions of people watching remotely, CES is the opportunity of the year for a com... |
GE Hires Kleiner Partner, Teams Up With Startup Health To Help Fuel Digital Health Innovation | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | built what is today a $219 billion multinational industrial behemoth by continuously investing in innovation, technology, and computing. As the maker of airplane engines, trains, power plant turbines and medical equipment, GE’s business generally falls outside the virtual walls of the consumer web. However, , GE has ... |
Meet The Clarity Ensemble, The Phone That Closed-Captions Your Conversation In Real Time | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | , a division of Plantronics dedicated to making communication devices with amplified audio for those with impaired hearing, has teamed up with a company called , which provides text transcription captioning services for phone calls to create the Ensemble. The Ensemble packs a one-two punch for people who have troubl... |
Verizon Announces $10M In ‘Powerful Answers’ Awards For Health Care, Education, And Sustainability | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam’s keynote speech this afternoon at the Consumer Electronics Show was all about the big challenges facing different industries (and indeed society as a whole), as well as the ways that Verizon technology is helping. At one point, for example, he declared, “4G LTE proves the case that innovation... |
Facebook Removes Instagram User Counts From Developer API After Holiday Traffic Confusion | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | In the aftermath of a controversial story claiming Instagram’s traffic numbers were down, the data that was the source of the story has now disappeared altogether. was in the spotlight, and owner Facebook’s shares , when the ran a story between Christmas and New Year’s Day claiming that the popular photo app’s traf... |
Xzibit, Sugar Ray Leonard, Nick Cannon And More Pimp Headphones At CES | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | The CES showroom floor is full of surprises, but none were quite as exciting as the plethora of celebrities we bumped into on Day 1. Much of that is in great thanks to Monster, who is focused on new partnerships with brands and celebrities alike, including Diesel Jeans, Nick Cannon, and Xzibit. With a little luck and t... |
The Zivix Jamstik Is An Absolutely Amazing Portable MIDI Guitar For Beginners And Pros | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | The surprisingly small and light Jamstik is, in short, one of the coolest things I’ve seen at CES Today. It is a MIDI guitar that is actually a musical controller. By playing and plucking the strings you can play music using synthesized sounds and it recognizes chords, notes, and nuances including bends and hammers. ... |
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Nest Founder Matt Rogers Details Future Plans For Their Digital Thermostat, International Expansion In The Works | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | is the Founder and VP of Engineering at and brought his latest thermostat – a steel-clad beauty with improved design and sensor placement – to our stage at CES 2013. This year at Nest has been full of changes. The company launched a new and improved the iPad/iPhone app. They also began sending emails to users de... |
Livio Retools Its In-Vehicle App Platform For The Freemium Market | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | Livio is going free — at least for developers. The Michigan-based startup just launched a freemium pricing structure for , its app development platform aimed at safety bringing apps into cars. As we talked about in the video above, this move is aimed at bringing more apps to its growing library of apps. And why not?... |
Triggit Bet Its Retargeting Biz On Facebook’s Ad Exchange Because It Performs 36% Better Than Google | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 8 | “Do we want to bet the company on this?”, CEO Zach Coelius asked his advertising tech startup Triggit when it got a shot to work with Facebook’s ad exchange. It took the chance, , and now FBX is performing 36% better than Google’s ad exchange, according to showing it may have hit the jackpot. Triggit’s revenue is up... |
The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! | Michael Arrington | 2,013 | 1 | 1 | I love about . Our President and both houses of Congress have finally on this whole fiscal cliff mess. I’ve been holding my breath on this because I thought for sure that I’d be paying a lot more in taxes this year. But I dodged the bullet. All venture capitalists did, actually. Nothing the government agreed to in... |
A Secret Is No Longer A Secret Once You Tell The Internet | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 1 | Sure the headline of this post is just common sense, but I feel like we all need a reminder this holiday season, especially as all the salacious photo evidence from the past couple of nights is just hitting Facebook. For those of you that have been busy drunkenly accumulating that evidence and not reading tech news ove... |
Samsung CEO Lee Kun Hee Warns Employees About Increased Competition | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 1 | Samsung Electronics may currently be the world’s leader in sales of mobile phones and TVs, but chairman Lee Kun Hee that the Korean company must watch its back and continue to innovate in new business, as competition increases and the global economy continues to drag. Bloomberg reports that in a speech given today, L... |
New Year, New Tech, Same Old Problems | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 1 | There’s been a ton of innovation happening over the last several years. Yet, there are several places that haven’t been touched much by technology, or at least places where technology hasn’t gone far enough. Here are a few markets where I’d personally like to see innovators continue to push the limits. The transportati... |
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