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Samsung’s Galaxy S Smartphone Series Passes 100M Channel Sales, Driven By Flagship Galaxy S3 | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | Samsung just announced another smartphone sales milestone: its Galaxy S series has passed channel sales (or sales to retailers, not end users) of more than 100 million units since launching in May 2010, the Korean conglomerate announced . The sales were driven in large part by the series’ flagship Galaxy S3: Samsung El... |
Carvoyant Is Ready To Put Your Car In The Cloud | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 12 | , a startup that’s been busy developing a platform that will tell you exactly what’s going on with your vehicle’s general health (and ), is today to early adopters and developer testers. It has also signed a couple of agreements with auto dealer partners, who will be the first to distribute the system more broadly t... |
Apple Cuts Orders For iPhone 5 Components, Reports WSJ | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 components due to weaker-than-expected demand, the Wall Street Journal. The article said that “Apple’s orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order.” In addition, orders for ot... |
GetGlue-Viggle Merger Called Off | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | GetGlue today that it is not merging with Viggle, though the social TV app maker said in a statement on its blog that “the two companies remain friendly and think highly of each other.” A Viggle-GetGlue merger was first announced in November and the deal between the two competitors, which never closed, could have bee... |
PDF Tribute to Aaron Swartz Attracts Roughly 1,500 Links To Copyright-Protected Research | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | An online tribute to Aaron Swartz, , has attracted more than 1,500 links to research and academic papers. It’s an effort to honor Swartz, who faced up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines after he downloaded 4.8 million documents from JSTOR. He had wanted to make them more freely available before he took his... |
Anonymous Appears To Have Hacked MIT Website, Leaves Swartz Tribute | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, appears to have hacked MIT’s website and left a tribute message to the late Internet activist, Aaron Swartz. “We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this temporary use of their websites,” writes a postscript to a memorial note posted by Anonymous, on a subdomain of the ... |
Participating In Hackathons Is the Best Way To Become Pitch Perfect For VCs | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | The proliferation of organized “hackathons” has been a big story over the past few years. Quite a few developers that I’m friends with see them as a way to keep themselves sharp on their own products and ideas, especially when a different company is the one putting the event on. I recently attended, and judged, a Fours... |
Shenzen New Degree’s Touch Panel Tech Doesn’t Mind The Rain And Still Delivers Killer Input Detection [Video] | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | Shenzen New Degree Technology was one of the companies showing its stuff in the Eureka Park portion of CES 2013, and this China-based hardware startup had some impressive tech to show off related to touch input. Combining capacitive and resistive touch-based input with a means to make it work even on solid stainless ... |
Pentametron Is A Twitter Poet That Gives Bots Some Literary Cred | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | If you’re reading this post, chances are you use Twitter as a place to chat about, link to, search, debate and debunk the big and little things going on in tech. But as you know (and as Twitter likes to remind us and and ) Twitter is also home to a lot of other kinds of conversations. And bots. And spam (boo). And... |
Never Lose Your Keys Again Thanks To StickNFind’s Bluetooth Stickers | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | Here’s a novel way to keep track of your wallet, your cat, or, yes, your keys. Jimmy Buchheim stopped by the the TechCrunch booth at the Consumer Electronics Show to demo StickNFind, a bluetooth sticker technology that you can use to track almost anything. Once you’ve attached the sticker to an object of your choice,... |
The Best And Worst Of CES 2013 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | CES has come and gone, but the memory of this year’s show will live on forever. Not necessarily because the 15-20 TechCrunch staffers who attended will remember it — chances are the night-time debauchery has wiped away all recollection of the past week — but because this post exists. We met . We discovered a phone ... |
MIT.edu Currently Down Following Investigation Into Swartz Tragedy | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | Following calls and recent suicide of internet activist, Aaron Swartz, MIT’s website is currently down. President L. Rafael Reif today called for an investigation into the handling of the case brought against Swartz for his release of pay-walled academic papers from popular database, JSTOR. There is a possible conn... |
Cars Are The Next Playground For App Developers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | This year’s CES may have been about startups more than ever before, but over the last few years, the car industry has also increased its presence at the show. In previous years, we heard a lot about the connected car, but until now, those cars remained virtually closed to developers. In one fell swoop, that changed thi... |
MIT’s President Orders Internal Investigation Into Its Handling Of Aaron Swartz’s Case | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | After news about Internet activist on Friday started to spread across the Internet, many at least partly blamed for the 26-year-old hacktivist’s death. This included his own family, which openly criticized the way MIT handled Swartz’s case after the school detected his attempts to download millions of articles from... |
The Upcycling Filabot Turns Regular Plastic Scrap Into 3D Printer Filament | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | A fascinating project is making the rounds this weekend that could change the way we think of 3D printers. The is a robot that can turn scrap plastic into 3D printer filament, thereby allowing an almost endless supply of material for prototyping and manufacturing. While it’s probably not that exciting for non-hobbyi... |
The Playsurface Brings A Lot More To The Touchscreen Table Than Just Touch [Video] | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | The Playsurface, a spin-off project from Templeman Automation that aims to provide a low-cost alternative to interactive touch table devices like Microsoft’s PixelSense (formerly known as the surface), was at CES showing off their functioning units, which the company will be shipping out to 40 or so Kickstarter backe... |
Messenger For iPad, One More Thing Facebook Could Be Unveiling On Tuesday | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | Take a look at that “reach friends wherever they are now” image to the left. What’s missing between the iPhone and the laptop? Ding ding ding! You’re right! A tablet. Okay, I’m sure it was obvious. In fact, many of you may have already assumed that Facebook has a version of its Messenger for iPad. Well it doesn’t, and ... |
Phablets Are The New Normal | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | As trends go, it’s been hard to miss this one: Smartphones are getting bigger. Much bigger. has been championing huge phones for well over a year, introducing its original 5.3-inch whopper — the Galaxy Note — in 2011, and firing out a 5.5-inch successor last year, going on to ship in the first two months. More rece... |
CrunchWeek: Those Pesky Cheap iPhone Rumors, Facebook’s Mystery Announcement, Startups Win CES | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 13 | This past week the TechCrunch TV crew was in Las Vegas for the , so this is a special Sin City version of CrunchWeek. Our usual host sat out CES this year to help down the fort back in San Francisco, so , , and I took to the TechCrunch stage at CES to discuss the latest rumor of an , the to a big press eve... |
Non-Profit Innovation: How Minerva Plans To Make Its Affordable, Next-Gen University A Reality | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | burst onto the scene last year with an ambitious goal: To create the next elite American university, online, and, in so doing, help rethink the role of higher education in the Digital Era. Not only that, but the startup wants to establish rigorous, Ivy League-caliber standards, admitting only the best and the brightes... |
Polycom And AT&T Partner For Video Chat And Collaboration On Multiple Screens | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | Video conferencing is fast becoming a popular tool for communications among a growing number of businesses. But few want to invest the money in deploying the hardware necessary to make enterprise-class video conferencing and collaboration. That’s why Polycom is teaming up with AT&T to roll out a new managed offering to... |
Baidu-Kingsoft Alliance Rumors Gain Further Credence As Qihoo 360 CEO Fumes | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | Reports that Baidu, the Internet giant known as “the Google of China,” is planning to become a strategic investor in security software company Kingsoft gained traction today when Kingsoft that it is in discussions with “independent third parties relating to a possible disposal,” though it gave very little away in the... |
Moontoast Raises $5M For Premium Social Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | Social advertising startup just announced that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding. CEO Blair Heavey told me that the company currently works with about 50 clients. It’s not an enormous list, but one that includes names like Universal, Lexus, Nike, Hyundai, Lady Antebellum, Time, and Simon & Schuster. Advert... |
Wi-Fi And Cellular Versions Of The iPad Mini And 4th-Gen iPad Will Hit China This Week | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | Apple that the Wi-Fi and cellular versions of the iPad mini and the fourth-generation iPad with Retina display will be available in China this Friday. iPad mini and the fourth-gen iPad are currently available in more than 100 countries, including China, the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the U.K.... |
Y Combinator-Backed InstallMonetizer Is A Selective Ad Network For Desktop Software | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | is an ad network for desktop software developers, a group that co-founder and CEO Vince Mundy says he once belonged to himself. “We looked really really hard to find legitimate sources of income [from free downloads],” Mundy said. “We found that there were other developers facing the exact same problem, so we created ... |
Canadian Internet Provider Rogers Buys Mountain Cablevision, Wireless Spectrum Licenses From Shaw | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | Rogers Communications, one of Canada’s largest wireless and Internet provider, said it will buy Mountain Cablevision and some wireless spectrum licenses from Shaw Communication for about $710 million USD ($700 million in Canadian dollars), . Shaw will buy the 33.3 percent stake in the TVtropolis General Partnership it ... |
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Backed By New Partnerships With Humana, Aetna & Verizon, Blueprint Health Debuts Its Third Class Of Healthcare Disruptors | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it one bajillion times. If you’re going to start a business accelerator, don’t clone Y Combinator or TechStars. Find a niche. With the glut of new accelerators today, the most successful are building vertical-specific approaches that bring together seed capital with meaningful industry p... |
Financial Planning App SigFig Crosses $50 Billion In Assets Managed Through The Platform | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | , the startup that tracks your financial assets and provides detailed visualizations of your investments and recommendations on how to manage them, is now officially playing in the big leagues. SigFig tells TechCrunch that it just crossed $50 billion in assets on the site’s platform. For comparison, that’s in the ball... |
Ask A VC: Venrock’s David Pakman And Kleiner Perkins’ Ted Schlein Answer Your Questions | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | After a break for the holidays and CES, Ask A VC is back with two all-star investors, Venrock’s and Kleiner Perkins’ investment partner . Remember, Ask A VC allows you to ask the hard questions and put VCs in the hot seat Pakman is visiting us from New York, where he’s been a partner at Venrock since 2008, focusing ... |
Facebook Preps Radically Visual Redesign Of The Mobile News Feed | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | Today, Facebook’s mobile apps look like its website shrunk down. Soon, that could change. I’ve seen first-hand the employee-only iOS app build of an evolved form of Facebook’s mobile news feed, which ditches the empty blue and white chrome for full-screen photo tiles and overlaid text. Reminiscent of Flipboard, Google+... |
Social TV Startup Kwarter Raises $4 Million To Help Broadcasters And Brands Build Second-Screen Apps | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | TV viewers increasingly are using their mobile phones while watching TV, mostly ignoring commercials while doing so. As a result, a number of startups are emerging to try to get viewers’ attention during those times, instead of letting them play games or do email during ad breaks. To meet this demand for interactive ex... |
Amazon Launches Instant Video For Nintendo Wii | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | If you own a Wii, you were probably a little bummed out to hear that Amazon would be serving up Instant Video to the Wii U and not to your older console. But fret no longer, as that its library of streaming video content is now available to Wii owners. Amazon’s Instant Video library is home to over 145,000 titles, ... |
Microsoft Launches “Next App Star” Competition For Windows Phone Developers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | You know a mobile app store is still young and needs more content when the company behind it still when interesting new apps appear in it. With 150,000 apps, the isn’t actually quite as empty as the Windows 8 store, but Microsoft could sure use some marquee apps for its mobile platform. To get developers and consum... |
The Aaron Swartz Hacking Case Has Been Dismissed By The US District Court | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | The US District Court in Massachusetts has dismissed the case against Aaron Swartz. on January 11 after an investigation into his involvement in the theft of digital documents from , a journal archive. noted: Information on his memorial service . that this case is an example of draconian informations security law... |
Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago | Michael Arrington | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | [tweet https://twitter.com/nikcub/status/290714899036897280 align=’center’] points out that people were significantly by Aaron’s legal troubles just a few months ago. Apparently Swartz to make a direct plea for help: For in the 18 months of negotiations, that was what he was not willing to accept, and so that was ... |
Finally, There Is A Conference To Talk About Information Overload To Add To Your Already Overloaded Schedule | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | As someone who just wants to run away to the desert with a tent and a paperback book and live on a mesa somewhere, solving the problem of information overload is near to my heart. If you’re like me, then the non-profit Information Overload Research Group’s should be up your alley. The conference, to be held on Februa... |
BOKU Co-Founder Ron Hirson Departs To Take On EIR Roles At Khosla Ventures And Mayfield Fund | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | , the co-founder and president of mobile payments company , is stepping down from his full-time position at the company. Hirson is leaving to take on entrepreneur-in-residence roles at two separate venture capital firms, and , according to an today. Hirson played a part in building the original BOKU product and... |
NRA’s New First-Person Shooter For Ages 4+ Profits From Assault Weapons Upgrades | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 1 | 14 | The National Rifle Association must have a media mole inside its executive team directing the organization to conjure up the most incendiary policies imaginable. Today, the NRA for Apple’s iOS, suitable for children as young as 4 years old. Just in case that didn’t offend enough people, children can purchase military... |
RIM Launches BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 For Government & Corporate Clients | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | Research In Motion that BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES 10), a device management system, is now available for government agencies and corporate clients. BES 10 is a successor to RIM’s enterprise mobility management (EMM) and consolidates device management, security and mobile applications management for BlackBe... |
Free, Open-Source Digital Textbook Provider, Boundless, Releases Its Content Under Creative Commons | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | Since first emerging early last year, Boston-based startup has been on a mission to give students a free alternative to the financial and physical costs of bulky backpacks brimming with pricey hard-copy textbooks. Co-founders Ariel Diaz, Brian Balfour and Aaron White believe that the incumbents, the old-school textbo... |
Ooyala Adds Twitter Integration, Signs Up ESPN As First Client To Embed Videos In Tweets | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | Video distribution platform wants to make videos available wherever users may be. That means enabling its customers to distribute their content onto all sorts of mobile phones and tablets and connected TVs and crap like that. But it also means distributing video directly into platforms like Twitter. Since Twitter , ... |
UPDATED: Microsoft Korea Reportedly Shuts Down Its Seoul-Based R&D Unit | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | UPDATE: A Microsoft spokesperson said: The phrase R&D has been misinterpreted and Microsoft’s R&D is not moving from South Korea. Last month, after evaluations that the company regularly does, Microsoft made adjustments to its Office workforce in South Korea. With work completed in a particular product area, some role... |
FitStar Reinvents The Home Workout With Upcoming iPad App From NFL Tight End Tony Gonzalez | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | , that uses the iPad to transform home video workouts, just announced its first creation. In it, Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez becomes a user’s personal trainer, leading them through about 60 different video exercises. The idea is that the iPad is much better suited toward helping people achieve their fitne... |
Google Expands Southeast Asian Presence With New Office In The Philippines | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | Google announced today that it is opening a representative office in the Philippines, which will be headed by country manager Narciso Reyes and based in Manila. Reyes, a former Friendster exec, was brought on as sales head in the Philippines by Google . The Mountain View-based company plans to start hiring for its new... |
Chinese Government To Open Mediation Center For Online Piracy Disputes | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) plans to establish a center that will deal with disputes over intellectual property and online copyright issues, (link via Google Translate). Slated to launch later this year, the center will be part of the MIIT, which made the announcement at a meeting o... |
Peter Thiel & Reid Hoffman-Backed 100Plus Unveils Its First iPhone App, “A Life Coach In Your Pocket” | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | Founded in late 2011, set out to tap into the growing popularity of the movement to create a personalized, mobile health prediction platform to help Average Joes like you and me stay active and get healthy. Like some of today’s better known activity and health trackers, like Fitbit, Jawbone’s Up and RunKeeper, 100P... |
A French Artist Is Posting DIY Robot Parts So We Can Print Our Own Androids | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | wants to give you a robot. The French artist is posting 3D printer files for a humanoid robot he’s building as he completes the various parts, allowing us all to create our very own plastic helper/lover with some ABS plastic, a few Arduino boards, and some motors. The plans for the and Langevin will release more par... |
What Google Does Best Is A Stark Contrast To Apple, According To Larry Page | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | are the single-fastest-growing consumer electronics segment in the world, and Google and Apple are the most formidable players in the arena. iOS and Android together hold of the global market, and both Apple and Google have their own hardware ventures (the iPhone/iPad and the Nexus tablet/smartphone family). But onc... |
Google Appears To Arrest The Decline in Cost-Per-Click; Page Is Hopeful That Mobile CPCs Will Rise | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | One of the reasons that Google’s shares is evidence that the company is stabilizing declines in cost-per-click. The closely watched metric is a measurement of how much advertisers are paying on average when consumers actually click through on paid search keywords or on other ads. It declined dramatically throughout 2... |
White House Announces National Day Of Civic Hacking, Asks Americans To Solve Problems With Govt Data From NASA And More | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | The White House wants you to hack for a better America. Today it the on June 1-2 where many government agencies will liberate data for citizens across the U.S. to use to build tech that helps their communities. Twenty-seven cities have planned events where hackers will have access to data from The Department of Lab... |
Yahoo Buys Snip.it, The Pinterest-Meets-News Startup, For $10 Million Plus Earnouts | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | With Marissa Mayer , is continuing to flex its M&A muscles, with a on startups with smart teams that have made well-designed apps. The latest target: , the San Francisco-based startup that created a web application for clipping news articles and arranging them in a visually compelling Pinterest-like format. The d... |
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Keen On… Injustice: What The Aaron Swartz Case Says About The American Criminal Justice System | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | The tragedy has unleashed an intense debate about computer “crime” and the US criminal justice system. Heavyweights like , , , and have all written with great passion about the case. But the one article that really resonated with me was written by the blogger . Provocatively “Aaron Swartz’s “crime” and... |
Commenters, We Want You Back | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | It was early 2011 and TechCrunch’s comment section was overrun with trolls. Bullies were drowning out our smart commenters. We hated our commenters because, well, they hated us. So we Facebook Comments in an attempt to silence the trolls — by removing their anonymity. But we eventually that our anti-troll tactic work... |
Kim Dotcom Tackles Mega Security Concerns, Points To Password Changes In The Pipeline | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | Though it launched to considerable fanfare, Kim Dotcom’s Mega encrypted storage service has recently drawn fire from the press thanks to supposedly questionable security practices. Well, Mr. Dotcom is none too pleased with the conclusions that some news outlets have come to, and has taken to to address some of those i... |
The Europas – Europe’s Tech Startup Oscars – Showcases A Booming European Scene | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | – Europe’s tech startup awards – hit Berlin on Tuesday evening with over 1,000 guests gathering to celebrate the best of the continent’s tech entrepreneurship. ZeptoLab, the Moscow-based makers of the smash hit Cut The Rope game took the ‘winner of winner’s’ Grand Prix award after hitting 300 million downloads, markin... |
Google’s Larry Page Talks Improving Nexus Hardware Supply, Motorola’s Opportunities For Device Innovation | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | Google’s conference call regarding its mostly rehashed themes we’ve heard before – cross-platform remains a priority. But Google CEO Larry Page had a few words to share about hardware in his own kick-off spiel. Page reiterated what we’ve heard recently about hardware supply levels from the Google Play store, and drop... |
Visual FX Specialist GenArts Gets Into Mobile With Vivoom, A New App For Video Editing | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 22 | Visual effects company GenArts is introducing a new app that it hopes will leverage some of the same technology used by movie and TV production studios to improve mobile videos and make them actually watchable, and hence, shareable. The app, called , has yet to be released, but will be positioned to compete against ex... |
The Weekly Good: Here’s How $7 Can Help Change The World | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | What if just by buying a t-shirt that spreads a message for a charitable cause, you could help fund that cause? What if there were a website that highlighted a specific cause and t-shirt every week? And what if that website donated $7 from each sale to that cause? You’d have , a pretty amazing startup with the sole pu... |
“We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers” | Michael Arrington | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | A CNET was put into an absurd situation – they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET’s parent company, CBS. I wasn’t all that interested in the story at the time. Reporters and bloggers are constantly pressured to write or not write about th... |
Time Spent In Retailers’ Mobile Apps Grows More Than Five-Fold In A Year, Flurry Finds | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | compared to a year earlier, showing that shopping and commerce is finally beginning to take off on mobile platforms. Flurry, the mobile analytics startup, looked at about 1,800 iOS and Android apps from December 2011 to December of last year. They also broke it down into five other categories including Retailer Apps,... |
Realtime Polling Startup GoPollGo Begins To Show Real Business Potential With “Promoted Polls” | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | Back in early 2011, Ben Schaechter, Sam Grossberg and Paul Kompfner launched to address a perceived deficiency in analytics, geographical info and social integrations from the Web’s go-to polling platforms. Six-months later, , the startup decided to re-focus on Twitter — on providing everyday users with the ability ... |
How Long Till Facebook Clones Vine? No, Facebook Should Have Invented Vine | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | Facebook used to build the future, but since the mobile era began it’s been chasing what’s next — buying Instagram, reskinning Beluga as Messenger, copying Snapchat as Poke, and now getting beat to animated photos by Twitter’s Vine and Cinemagram. If Facebook doesn’t bust out its crystal ball, it could get picked apart... |
Mobile Ad Platform Aarki Acquires Mobspire To Improve Rich Media Ad Creation | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | , which offers a platform for creating and delivering mobile ads, just announced that it has acquired another mobile ad startup called Mobspire. The financial terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed. Aarki (its size was also undisclosed) led by Walden Venture Capital last year, while Mobspire was entirely self-funde... |
Twitter Could Relieve IPO Pressure By Selling $80M Of Early Employee Stock To BlackRock At $9B Valuation | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | Today in a paywalled article that Twitter is brokering a deal for investment firm BlackRock to buy up to $80 million of stock from early Twitter employees at a $9 billion valuation. By giving employees liquidity, Twitter may not need to rush to an IPO the way Facebook did to satisfy veteran talent. The $9 billion val... |
BlackBerry 10 To Star In RIM’s First Super Bowl Commercial | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | Waterloo-based RIM is gearing up to take the wraps off of BlackBerry 10 in just a few days, but a bit of showmanship in front of journalists and analysts won’t be enough to convince the masses of the platform’s worthiness. For that, RIM is gearing up for a big advertising push, including a 30-second spot due to run dur... |
Ask A VC: Kleiner Perkins’ Ted Schlein On How The VC Industry Has Changed; What’s Next For The Enterprise And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | I was fortunate to have Kleiner Perkins’ investment partner join me on Ask A VC this week. Schlein, who joined Kleiner in 1996 and has nearly two decades of experience in the VC world, discussed what’s changed in the VC industry as well as what the expectation is for a return on investment for startups. We also tac... |
Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | The ITU has that could bring 4k video to future broadband networks, while also making streaming HD video available even on bandwidth-constrained mobile networks. The H.265 standard, also informally known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), is designed to provide high-quality streaming video, even on low-bandwidth... |
New York Startup Caskers Offers Rare Spirits Online | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | Whether you’re into delicately sipping a fine brandy in the company of beautiful men and women in some smoky, wood-paneled bar in Zürich or, like me, you would rather drink an entire bottle of Maker’s Mark in your shed while dreaming of Melissa Wycliffe, the girl who wouldn’t go to prom with you, aims to be your one-... |
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Y Combinator Backs Its First Non-Profit, Watsi; Paul Graham Says He’s “Never Been So Excited” To Invest | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | Back in August, , which offers anyone and everyone the opportunity to fund “low-cost, high impact treatment” for those who lack access to necessary care. Again, considering the fact that there are more than one billion people who are unable to afford adequate medical services (or don’t have access to them), Watsi’s mi... |
Gillmor Gang Live 01.25.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
Rabois Left Square Over Sexual Harassment Claim, Calls Accusations “A Shakedown” | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | In a very surprising twist to yesterday, the reason is now known, and it wasn’t about business like everyone speculated. He was charged with sexual harassment by an employee. Here’s Square’s statement, which highlights both that it has found no evidence for the claims, and that he used poor judgement: The first we he... |
Cheezburger Creator’s Startup SimpleHoney Shifts Focus From Travel To ‘I Want Wish List’ App | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | , the startup co-founded by Joyce Kim (former CEO of Korean pop site Soompi.com and former co-host of the GigaOm show) and Eric Nakagawa (creator of the I Can Has Cheezburger blog), is pursuing a new goal — creating the perfect app for “wish list commerce.” in May of last year, its goal was to connect travelers with t... |
Canceled Soaps “All My Children” And “One Life To Live” Coming Back From The Dead On Hulu, iTunes | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | ” but Hulu is today announcing that it, too, is bringing TV programs back from the dead. (Coming back from the dead – hey, that sounds like a soap plot!). Hulu has now signed a deal with media production Prospect Park to air the previously canceled soap operas “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” on Hulu and Hulu P... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Nike+ Fuel Band Plus 2 Free Tickets To The #Crunchies | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the are nearly upon us! Voting and the last set of tickets are . If you want to purchase them in time for next week’s show you’d better hurry, because the tickets are going fast. Next Thursday is going to be a night you will never forget. We have all-star surprise guests, musical g... |
Facebook Clarifies Ban On Apps That Use Its Data To Replicate Its Features Or Don’t Share Back | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | After to several competing apps, Facebook today to its Platform Policy, banning apps that use its data but don’t make it easy for users to share back to Facebook, or that replicate its core functionality without permission. Facebook Platform Head Justin Osofsky tried to calm fears by noting the majority of develope... |
Just In Time For The Weekend, We Present The DIY LEGO Pancake Bot | John Biggs | 2,013 | 1 | 25 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KCT-l642WGY] If you only watch one video today, it should be this one. You will discover that it is footage of a DIY LEGO pancake maker which is, in my expert opinion, the best thing to come out of Norway since the fjords. Created by , an American maker a... |
Come To The TechCrunch Singapore Meetup And Echelon After-Drinks Tonight | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | TechCrunch is serious about covering Asia Pacific. So we’re holding a after the Echelon conference where you can connect with TechCrunch writers and teach us about the region’s startup ecosystems. It’s from 6pm-8:30pm today, Tuesday June 4th at , Changi City Point Mall #01-70/71, 5 Changi Business Park Central 1, Si... |
Brighter Launches A New, Free Version Of Its Dental Service To Bring Affordable Care To The Uninsured | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | It was just about two years ago that Jake Winebaum (who had previously sold Business.com for $360 million) quietly launched , an online marketplace for discounted dental care. Within a few months, Winebaum and Brighter, which had launched with $5 million in its coffers, and a few others. The reason for this was sim... |
Zynga Shares Plummet 12% To $2.99 After It Announces Layoffs | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | Investors were unsettled by Zynga’s that it is cutting 520 employees, or almost one-fifth of its workforce, with shares 12% to $2.99, before recovering slightly in after hours trading. Trading of Zynga shares were halted twice in the afternoon on the Nasdaq stock exchange, first for the layoff announcement and then... |
Facebook Messages Just Went Down For 90 Minutes For Some Web And Mobile Users, Back Now | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | Facebook confirms that Facebook Messages experienced a limited outage today. It prevented some users from sending or receiving messages on both the web and mobile for 90 minutes, but chat is back at full-strength as of 7:30pm PST. The outage comes at an inconvenient time as Facebook is seeing increasing competition in ... |
More Details On Why Zynga Laid Off 18% Of Its Workforce And How It’s Shifting To Mobile | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | Earlier today, . After the news broke, I spoke to a source with knowledge of the company’s decision-making process to get more details about why Zynga made the cuts and what they mean for its future. What they said won’t be revelatory if you have been following Zynga’s earnings reports or if you , but they did paint... |
Facebook NY Signs 10-Year Lease To Move Into ~100K Sq Ft Office With 2X Space | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | After weeks of rumors, Facebook has a 10-year lease to move its New York office into a new, nearly 100,000-square-foot space over two floors at 770 Broadway in Manhattan. The interior will be designed by famed architect Frank Gehry who is masterminding its Menlo Park Headquarters expansion. Facebook NY’s engineering,... |
Reeder, gReader & Other Popular Feed Reading Apps Partner With Feedly Ahead Of Google Reader Shutdown | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | In less than a month, Google Reader will shut down for good, according to on Digg.com, a company now in the process of building a replacement. For end users, the loss is one of a simple, fast and powerful front-end for browsing news feeds, but for developers working on apps in the RSS ecosystem, it means something ev... |
One API To Rule Them All – Segment.io Lets Mobile Developers Send Analytics Data To Dozens Of Services, Without Resubmitting To App Stores | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | , a Y Combinator-backed startup making it easier for developers to integrate APIs from multiple analytics providers into their applications, is today expanding its service to include support for . The company is introducing mobile software development kits for both iOS and Android, which will allow developers to toggl... |
Vine Gets RickRoll’D With A Three Minute Video | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | Vine has over . And with this morning’s , chances are that number is climbing rapidly. But of all the Vines, from all the millions of users, across all of the world, this is the best one. Period. Trust me. might have used that seems to have been discovered about a month ago, wherein users can upload videos longer ... |
Twitter Is Experiencing Site-Wide Issues, Including Timelines Not Updating And Profiles Not Loading (UPDATED) | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | According to and all of Facebook, the service appears to be experiencing site-wide issues, including errors on just about every single feature of the site. So far, I’ve only been able to send and receive DMs without error; however you can still tweet. You just won’t see it. Along with the timeline refresh issue, you ... |
Microsoft Acquires InCycle’s Release Management Service InRelease To Improve Its Team Foundation Server | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | Microsoft has InRelease, a tool for automatically deploying application components to target services in different environments. InCycle is a Canadian company that specializes in application lifecycle management (ALM) and release management solutions on Microsoft’s .NET platform. As Microsoft is only acquiring th... |
Zynga Confirms That It’s Cutting 520 Employees (18% Of Workforce), Says It Will Save $70M-$80M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | The company says this was result in $70 million to $80 million in annualized pre-tax savings. Despite those savings, its guidance for its second quarter earnings is a loss between $39 million and $28.5 million. In a note to employees, CEO Mark Pincus described this as a “proactive” move that will “offer our teams the... |
Julian Assange Unmasks Eric Schmidt’s Evil Plans To Enslave The World | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | “General Schmidt, Julian is on to us,” said President Obama, as he sauntered through the steel doors of the Google Bunker, Secret Service in tow. The President wore his mandatory “I’m A Googler” t-shirt over his dress shirt. As always, he had stopped first at one of Google’s rainbow-colored snack stations to grab a bot... |
Google Launches Mobile Backend Starter, A One-Click Deployable Cloud Backend For Android Apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | Google today the launch of its that allows Android developers to deploy a basic cloud infrastructure for their apps that runs on Google’s . Mobile Backend Starter provides developers with a one-click deployable mobile backend and a client-side framework for Android that provides them with storage services, access ... |
New Android Alarm Clock App Warmly Wants To Wake You Up Right | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eXuh-3_ygc?feature=player_embedded] Generally we seem content to be rudely shocked out of sleep, with alarms that blare at us and beep violently, rendering continued sleep impossible. New , from the Seattle-based , thinks it might be better if an app wakes you up with graduall... |
Keen On… Stephen Wolfram: Confessions Of The Most Quantified Person On The Planet | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | , the founder and CEO of the software company , may well be the smartest and most interesting guy in tech. A PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech at the age of 20, the youngest ever recipient of the MacArthur “genius” fellowship, the inventor of both and , Wolfram’s life has been dedicated to the capture and o... |
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Makerbot Opens New 50,000-Square-Foot Factory In Brooklyn | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | Makerbot, the hardware darling that , has just announced that they will open their new factory and warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on Friday. The space is part of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard and will be set up in a complex of older warehouses that dot the waterfront. The company is looking to hire 50 new employees ... |
Fracture Raises Another $500K For On-Demand Printing Of Photos On Glass | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | , a digital “maker” startup offering an on-demand system for printing your photos on glass, has raised an additional $500,000 on top of its previous $1.5 million in outside funding, following a year that saw the company’s revenue double. Though photo printing on glass is not new, the company has developed a proprietary... |
Google Updates Chrome For iOS With Conversational Voice Search, Faster Page Reloading | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 3 | Google today to version 27, which introduces a couple of new features that should make using voice search on iOS a bit easier. Just like on the , as well as the , Chrome for iOS now allows you to speak your search query and — assuming Google’s natural language algorithms understand it and its Knowledge Graph know... |
Xyologic Gives A New Personal Touch To Its App Search Engine | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Talk to most developers and they will invariably say that the status quo of app discovery through rankings can’t really last. People have, of course, been saying this for a couple years. While Apple did , rankings still have an overwhelming influence over how consumers find and discover new apps. This where the long... |
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