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Bloomberg Launches Bloomberg Beta, A $75 Million Early-Stage Investment Fund Led By Former IGN Exec Roy Bahat | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Media company Bloomberg is launching its own venture capital fund, called Bloomberg Beta today. With the fund, the company is putting aside $75 million to invest in early-stage startups. The fund has already put money into nine companies and is being led by Roy Bahat, chairman of video game hardware startup OUYA and fo... |
Zynga Co-founder’s Junyo Is Using Big Data To Help EdTech Companies Better Understand What Schools Really Need | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | In 2011, Steve Schoettler left Zynga, the company he had co-founded four years earlier, to devote himself to a new project, called . With interest in education technology beginning to take hold, Shoettler and his co-founders at Junyo set out to leverage the growing capabilities of Big Data tools and analytics to tackl... |
Google Glass Updated With HDR Photography And Voice-Powered Photo Captions | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Are you part of the lucky bunch that got offered a pair of Google Glass had $1,500 bucks to kick down? Good news! The camera on your set just got a whole lot better. Following up on their promise to update Google Glass every month, Google has just released a patch that brings two important photo-centric features to t... |
DC Says Readers Are Downloading 1M Digital Comics Each Month, Announces New Interactive Features | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | is announcing two new technologies today that should give readers more opportunity to interact with their digital comics. The company is also sharing some numbers about the growth that it’s seeing on the digital side. Co-Publisher Jim Lee told me that the new features are “the next evolutionary step in our digital pub... |
With $12M Burning A Hole In Its Pocket, London’s YPlan Wants New York To Be More Socially Spontaneous | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | , the London-based startup that’s building a platform for selling last-minute event-booking on mobile, has closed a $12 million (£7.9 million) Series A, led by . Existing investors and also participated in the round, along with a swathe of co-investors, including A-Grade, Kevin Colleran and David Morin’s Slow Vent... |
U.S. ITC Finds Apple Violates Samsung Patent, Issues Limited Import Ban On AT&T iPhone 4, 3GS And Some iPads | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Apple has been , which has resulted in a limited import ban on certain products, including the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, original iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G, all only for AT&T-specific models. More details are emerging about the ruling, but it’s likely this affects only older devices on AT&T because it relates to a specific co... |
TC Cribs: Asana, Where Zen Yoga And Knife-Wielding Drones Are All In A Day’s Work | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Summer is just about here and the time is right for another episode of , the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the tech industry’s most buzz-worthy companies to see what it’s really like for the smarty pants people who work there. This time we headed over to the San Francisco headquarters of , the company th... |
Facebook To Webcast Its First-Ever Stockholders Meeting June 11th | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Facebook’s board of directors and stockholders will convene on June 11, and anyone will be able to virtually sit in as Facebook today its first . The move will likely set a precedent for webcasting future Facebook stockholders meetings, similar to how Google does, but in contrast to Apple’s un-streamed assemblies. C... |
Google’s New Content Experiments API Turns Google Analytics Into A Full-Blown A/B Testing Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Google today its new , a tool that allows developers to easily test their sites’ content with programmatic optimization. The new API is deeply integrated with , so developers can use all of Analytics’ power to measure their different optimizations. Indeed, as Google describes it, “this API makes Google Analytics a ... |
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3 Silly Abuses Obama’s Patent Troll Executive Order Could Stop | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Allowing for the legal ownership of ideas has some silly unintended consequences. “Dumbass patents are crushing small businesses,” Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told me. Roughly a third of startups have been threatened with patent violations, often by entities built solely to scare small businesses into settling ... |
Bose Reveals SoundLink Mini Bluetooth Speaker And QuietComfort 20 In-Ear Headphones With “Aware Mode” | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Today Bose is announcing two new products to its lineup, with the introduction of the SoundLink Mini Bluetooth speaker and the QuietComfort 20 In-Ear headphones. Both offer the same high-quality audio Bose prides itself on, and the company claims that the in-ear headphones in particular required more patents than any ... |
Google Updates Gmail For iPhone With Support For New Auto-Categorized Inbox And Improved Notifications | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | As promised, Google today launched the latest version of . Just like the new Android version, which , the iOS version now offers support for Google’s new for updates, promotions, newsletters and messages from your social networks. If this new feature has already been enabled for your Gmail account, you will now be ... |
Twitter Redesigns #Music To Further Highlight Charts, Offering A Hint Of What’s To Come Site-Wide | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | As we noted a few weeks ago, for its #Music product. The company’s intentions for the service aren’t known, and it seems like they’re taking somewhat of a public beta approach with it. Having said that, before the service launched, I noted that it . To compile meaningful charts, a huge chunk of data is needed to mak... |
Amazon Reportedly Looking To Expand Grocery Business, Roll Out AmazonFresh Beyond Seattle | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Amazon has had an ongoing experiment for the past , which offers grocery service and delivery of fresh produce to customers in its home base of Seattle. That program is on the verge of a significant expansion, according to a today. Amazon is looking to offer -type services in markets outside of Seattle later this ye... |
Scripted Gets $4.5M Series A To Build Out Its Online Marketplace For Freelance Writers | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 4 | Freelance writing doesn’t always have the reputation for being a hugely lucrative endeavor. But it looks like investors are seeing some bright spots there — at least when it comes to technology platforms in the space. , the San Francisco startup that runs an online marketplace to connect freelance writers with companie... |
AT&T May Join The Chernin Group To Bid On Hulu | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | AT&T may link up with the Chernin Group to make a joint bid for Hulu, citing unnamed sources close to the telecommunications company. If the discussions go through, the partnership would give the Chernin Group a financial boost as it competes with six other bidders for the streaming video site. The other potential bu... |
GREE Ventures Builds Its Southeast Asia Portfolio With Investment In UrbanIndo | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | , the investment arm of the mobile gaming giant, has expanded its Southeast Asia portfolio as the lead in Indonesia real-estate startup ‘s preferred Series A funding. Other participants include Japanese-US investment firm . The amount of funding was undisclosed, but UrbanIndo co-founder and Arip Tirta told me that i... |
Fired Reuters Employee Previews No-Nonsense Premium Breaking News Site MatthewKeysLive | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | Matthew Keys is getting back into the news game. He previewed the beta of his new, paid-subscription worldwide breaking beta news site tonight, but has since taken it down. The site focuses on delivering facts fast, and features Keys pulling in news from Twitter, App.net, local news affiliates, and video feeds while ... |
TripAdvisor Ditches Popups, Now Displays Kayak-Style Price Comparisons On Its 100M Hotel Reviews | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | Since it was founded way back in 2000, has established itself as one of the web’s top go-to places for travel reviews — but its booking capabilities for hotels have notably lagged behind. The site has historically adhered to showing hotel prices in a series of early aughts-style pop-up windows from partner sites, rat... |
Snapchat Launches v5.0 With Revamped UI, Swipe Navigation, And In-App Profiles | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | Snapchat, the app that lets you send pics and videos that self-destruct, has just to version 5.0 “Banquo” (I’ll get to that in a minute), which includes a dramatic revamp of the app’s UI. The update also brings with it a few new features, like the ability to double-tap to reply, in-app profiles, and better tools for... |
The Team Behind Ngmoco Raises $12M For N3twork, A Re-Imagined Way Of Browsing Mobile Content | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | The for up to $400 million is back at the grind again. They’ve raised $12 million to re-imagine how people consume mobile content around their personal interests. Again, not only are we seeing the same cast of founders , Bob Stevenson and Alan Yu, we’re also seeing the same investors. Kleiner Perkins, which backed N... |
Report: NSA Secretly Collecting Phone Records Of All U.S. Verizon Calls | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | The National Security Administration is secretly collecting phone record information for all U.S. calls on the Verizon network. “Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls,” ... |
On A Mission To Build The Next Big Pet Brand, Whistle Launches A $99 Fitbit (And Health Monitor) For Pooches | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | “The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” — Andy Rooney Yes, it’s become exceedingly clear that the Internet has entered into a prodigious, lascivious (and hilarious) relationship with cats. But, at the end of the day, when it comes to the title of “Man/Woman/Child’s Best Friend,” it’s the friendly n... |
Google Wants To Make Your Android Device More Like A Nexus With Its New Keyboard App | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | Heads up Android keyboard aficionados — if your handset runs Android 4.0 or later and you’re just not thrilled with the keyboard you already have, you can now download from the Google Play store. According to a post on the official , the app has launched in certain English-speaking markets with a wider rollout to fol... |
Meet SpinMe, The iOS Alarm For People Who Suck At Waking Up | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | I’m not sure I can aptly explain just how absolutely terrible I am at getting up in the morning. I know, I know. “BOO HOO, GARFIELD, EVERYONE HATES MORNINGS”. . I don’t just getting out of bed. It’s more like I was genetically engineered to be part of a superhuman army of soldiers that are REALLY GOOD at waking up, b... |
Mourn The Loss Of Odwalla, Mourn The Loss Of Your Job | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | When the , when the , when you have to — these are the leading indicators that your company is in trouble. That’s one of the key takeaways — for me, at least — of a with a user calling himself . At TechCrunch, we are in the comfortable position of being a small- to medium-sized news organization and events busin... |
App Infrastructure Startup Buddy.com Gets Into The Analytics Business | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | today announced a mobile analytics service that’s supposed to give publishers and brands a better sense of who’s actually using their apps and how they’re using them. There’s plenty of competition on this front — , for example, has increasingly become a mobile analytics company, and it makes a big deal out of not foc... |
Founder Stories: Climate Corp’s David Friedberg On Why Leading A Company Is Like Playing Poker | Contributor | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | For this week’s Founder Stories, I sat down with of The Climate Corporation to talk about building a business around big data and machine learning. collects data and tracks weather patterns on a field by field level to aid farmers in better planning agricultural operations. The company uses this data to offer ins... |
Social Media Is “Worst Menace To Society” Says Turkey PM, 25 Twitter Users Arrested | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | Turkish authorities have 25 protesters for the high crime of using Twitter. Amid widespread violent clashes, police rounded up netizens on Tuesday night for “spreading untrue information.” Embattled Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has labeled social media “the worst menace to society,” saying of Twitter, “... |
Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser, Uses Up To 18% Less Power Than Chrome And Firefox | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | If everybody switched from Chrome and Firefox to Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, we could save enough energy , a new study ( ) commissioned by Microsoft says. The reason for this, Microsoft says, is its focus on making IE fast and the fact that IE taps into modern PC hardware like native graphics cards to speed up ... |
TechCrunch Returns To China, For Keeps | Ned Desmond | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | Gang Lu (center) and the TechNode team at their annual China Bang event in Beijing TechCrunch has a large international readership — there are no geographical boundaries to the startup revolution. No country demonstrates that vastness better than China, where huge markets, a red-hot economy, a (controversial) governmen... |
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Amazon Resurrects The Kindle DX, That Most Awkward Cousin Of A Device Family On The Way Out | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | Amazon has made official the return of a device many thought was bound for the e-reader graveyard, the . The DX is Amazon’s big-screen reader, with a 9.7-inch e-ink display and a full keyboard at the bottom. It’s almost comically oversized compared to the more popular and current e-reader models, which include the Kob... |
Science Is Raising A New $30 Million Fund To Back Its Startups And Others | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | L.A.-based incubator and studio is in the process of raising a $30 million new investment fund, according to sources familiar with the matter. Science was founded in 2011 by former Myspace CEO and serial entrepreneur Mike Jones as part of the new wave of company builders. The studio is currently led by Jones and Pete... |
Google Backtracks On Its CalDAV API “Spring Cleaning” And Launches CardDAV API | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 5 | All Google wants to talk about this week , it seems, but today’s announcement that it is not making the CalDAV API partner-only, as it announced during one of its latest earlier this year, definitely comes as a bit of a surprise. The , which allows developers to access calendar data, was scheduled to become unava... |
The Sisyphean Problem Of Email | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | “Before you marry, consider this, ‘Is this the person I’d like to watch stare at their phone for the rest of my and their life?” In the Greek myth of , Sisyphus, as punishment for aspiring to immortality, is given the task to roll a boulder up a hill every morning only to have it roll back down every night. A grisly ... |
Nimbuzz Offers Free Service To Hutch In Sri Lanka, Continues To Push Telco Strategy in Asia | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | is continuing its push for South Asian dominance with its latest telco partnership. The Indian messaging startup just announced a tie-up with Hutch in Sri Lanka, offering six months of free Nimbuzz usage to Hutch subscribers. Today’s announcement is just another in a steady string of telco partnerships that the compan... |
EduClipper Launches Its “Pinterest For Education” To Bring Better Crowdsourced Curation And Sharing To The Classroom | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | Back in 2007, Adam Bellow launched a site called to aggregate and surface the best educational resources and content on the web. A high school teacher, Bellow set out to highlight new technologies and educational tools that could be used in the classroom to improve the learning experience. When a new generation of co... |
Transportation App Corral Rides Loses Access To Lyft’s Driver Data | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | Looks like not everyone is embracing the vision behind , which aims to bring all of your transportation options together in one place — cabs, ridesharing, mass transit, and more. A reader tipped us off that , which was one of the main services in the app, has been removed at the company’s request. (Apparently this ac... |
Divvy Is Photo Consumption And Sharing Done Right | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | There are dozens upon dozens of apps interested in your photo creation and sharing habits, but very few focus on the consumption of photos. Meet , an iOS app that lets you combine all of your social feeds (for now Facebook and Instagram) into one collective photo stream. You can filter between the two social networks,... |
Townsquare Media Acquires Some Doomed AOL Music Sites And Comics Alliance | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | AOL began to and comic books site in April, but tomorrow it will announce it’s sold music sites , and , plus to , the Connecticut-based radio station owner that network of blogs last year. The deal, whose terms were undisclosed, puts the properties back under the stewardship of Townsquare’s executive vice pr... |
Online Publisher Lulu Angles For The Next Wave Of Self-Publishing With Picture.com | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | Founded in 2002 by Red Hat’s Bob Young, on the Internet. Initially the company offered printing services and editing tools for self-published authors and, arguably, in 2002 they would have still been called a vanity press. Now, however, they’re another solid link in the chain between authors and readers. This month t... |
As Mobile Devices Morph Into Wearables, Keyboard Maker MessagEase Wants Your Fingers To Settle On Its Qwerty Killer | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | The touchscreen text input space could be heading for some serious disruption. If Apple drops its API guard a little more to allow developers to create system global keyboards that could open the floodgates to real keyboard innovation on iOS. ( .) That’s not to say novel keyboards aren’t already out there — they are — ... |
Facebook Tries Letting You Message From Homepage Status Box To Battle Google Hangouts | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | Sources confirm Facebook will test the option to send private messages from its website’s homepage status composer to increase messaging rates. It will also help Facebook compete with Google, whose web chat presence is strong, and just combined its Gmail, Google+, and mobile chat systems into Hangouts. It’s a risky mov... |
Maybe It’s Time For Apple To Go Back Behind The Curtain | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | Like most people, I was following with great interest. And while it generated , it became apparent quickly that not much was actually being said. Just to make sure, I went back and watched the entire interview. One thing stuck out above all others: It was boring. It’s not just that Cook wouldn’t answer any of the qu... |
What Games Are: Who Will Create The No-Bullshit Games Console? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | In any line of technology there’s always a bit of spin as part of an attempt to build . A successful platform is often as much about the sexiness of an idea as it is about its engineering, particularly in the early days. As it fills out then some of the promise of the idea is met, some maybe not so much. Yet the next ... |
What To Watch For At WWDC 2013: More Freedom For Developers | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is a little over a week away, and that means we’re already seeing a lot of buzz surrounding what will and won’t appear at the conference. Apple itself has dropped hints, and indicate developers should be especially excited about what’s on tap for the annual conference – which, ... |
Former Facebooker Noah Kagan Tells Us Why Austin Matters | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | Noah Kagan can work a room. That’s the first thing you’ll figure out about him. The second thing you’ll learn is that he doesn’t want you to move to Austin. Kagan, whose , is the founder of AppSumo and Facebook employee #30. He quit the Valley and moved to Austin to found , a daily deals site the features long, det... |
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HitFox-Incubated Mobile Games Marketing Platform AppLift Raises $13M Series A | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | As mobile gaming has exploded, it follows that startups helping to feed and in turn feed off the mobile gaming ecosystem are poised for growth. One such company is , the mobile games marketing platform by games distribution incubator , which today is announcing that it’s closed a $13 million Series A round from . ... |
Iterations: From Amazon Prime To Amazon Pronto, The Future Of Physical Delivery | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | “Membership has its privileges.” A slogan made famous by American Express today also applies to an online membership many, many people happily keep: Amazon Prime. Ever since committing to Prime — and this is anecdotal — but our household trips to Target steadily decreased, and in 2013, outside of one trip to replace ... |
Bijoy Goswami Doesn’t Want Austin To Be The Next Silicon Valley | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | is a fascinating man. Born in India, the entrepreneurial evangelist lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the U.S. before attending Stanford University. Now, and for the last 15 years or so, he lives in Austin, TX, and we were fortunate to have him speak at the TC Austin Meetup + Pitch-Off. But even though he went to Stan... |
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings On Arrested Development, Managing Content Licenses, And Coming Back From The Qwikster Debacle | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | It has only been a few days since the release of Arrested Development on Netflix, but the fourth season of the series . In an interview at the D11 conference, CEO Reed Hastings and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos talked about the company’s plans for more original programming, as well as its relationship to other co... |
Yahoo Shuts Down Mail Classic, Forces Switch To New Version That Scans Your Emails To Target Ads | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 2 | Starting the week of June 3rd, tomorrow, Mail Classic. It’s requiring all Mail users to switch to the new version of Mail and accept a TOS/Privacy Policy update that lets it scan emails to “deliver product features, relevant advertising, and abuse protection”. You can opt out of the ads, but if you don’t want to be s... |
Tesla Shows Off A 90-Second Battery Swap System, Wants It At Supercharging Stations By Year’s End | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | Tesla teased electric motorheads earlier this week by announcing an event that would show off its curious , and it wound up being even more impressive than most of us imagined. Long story short, Tesla can swap a Model S’s battery in just 90 seconds (that’s less time than it takes to fuel up a regular car), and you won... |
Mud-slinging Behind The Scenes As Malaysia’s Taxi Apps Duke It Out | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | There is an ongoing land grab for taxi drivers in Malaysia, with taxi app startups aggressively targeting the handful of taxi drivers keen to jump on a digital platform. Two year-old taxi booking startup, has been busy recruiting cab drivers over to its service. When I visited its offices two weeks ago, Aaron Gill, M... |
Cameron And Tyler Winklevoss Tell Us Why They’re So Bullish On Bitcoin [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | and first emerged as household names in the tech world because of their with that and its . But these days, their focus has shifted onto a new area of the tech industry that’s very different (though no less controversial): . Through their early-stage investment firm, the brothers have bought up roughly , ac... |
App Infrastructure Startup Firebase Raises $5.6M From Union Square And Flybridge | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | , a Y Combinator-backed startup that offers infrastructure for real-time apps, is taking the stage today , where it’s announcing that it has raised a $5.6 million Series A from and . As , Firebase aims to enable developers to create web and mobile apps “really, really fast without worrying about servers or writing... |
Instagram, Technology’s Window To The Soul | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | Today Instagram a new mission statement that reflects its true purpose. At our best, we don’t share photos or videos to brag or get ‘Likes’. We share to let others see through our eyes. Facebook has “To make the world more open and connected”. Now, , Instagram has its own guiding words: The phrase may be new but it... |
Highland Capital Partners Commits To Invest $25 Million In Leap Motion Developers | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | It seems like every time we’ve got a new developer platform, there needs to be a fund to invest in and entice developers to create awesome new applications for it. First there was the . Then there was the . And the . And the . And now, one venture firm has decided to put aside money for a fund that invests just in ... |
Video Ad Buying Platform TubeMogul Hires Google Media Platforms Head Chip Scovic As CRO | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | has come a long way since being founded in 2006. The company, which originally provided an analytics service for video distributors, a couple of years ago. With a platform that brand advertisers can use to systematically purchase online video inventory, it’s — and it keeps getting bigger. To help it boost revenue ... |
Photoful Improves On iOS 7’s Photo Gallery With A More Open, Gesture-Based App | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | , a new mobile application which is the rebranding and relaunch of , is hoping to attract iPhone users who want the Photos experience the new iOS 7 mobile operating system will offer…and then some. As with iOS 7’s re-imagined Photos app, Photoful will also sort your photo collection into smart groupings like iOS 7’s “... |
Instagram Video Vs. Vine: What’s The Difference? | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | just launched . Glorious, 15-second, editable video functionality. Complete with image stabilization. So what does this mean for Vine? In the end, the competition should give users plenty to be excited about, whether you’re a Vine loyalist or an Instagrammaholic. And both apps will likely continue to thrive, as I’ve ... |
Agawi Uses Its Cross-Platform Gaming Tech To Launch A Mobile Ad Unit That You Can Actually Play | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | Pretty much everyone agrees that mobile advertising isn’t very good (or outright sucks). Here’s an interesting solution from — an ad unit for mobile games called AppGlimpse, which functions as a playable demo for the game. The startup, , has developed technology for virtualizing games and eventually other apps so th... |
Hands-On With Instagram’s New Video Feature | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | We’ve just made our way out of Facebook’s Headquarters in Menlo Park, where Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom took the stage to debut the app’s new (and not un-Vinelike) video functionality. Kevin Systrom suggested on stage that they’ve been thinking about how to do video since day one — and if that’s the case, it shows. T... |
Samsung’s Shape-Shifting Ativ Q Isn’t Pretty, But Running Windows 8 And Android May Make It A Worthy Workhorse | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | Samsung just pulled back the curtain on a new line of Ativ Windows notebooks, but perhaps the most interesting of the company’s new Ativs is a 13.3-inch convertible tablet it hopes will appeal those prepping to head back to school. The shape-shifting Ativ Q sports a tablet mode, a video-friendly formfactor with the scr... |
Samsung Reveals The Ativ Q, A Convertible Windows 8 Tablet That Runs Android, Too | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | Samsung has just kicked off its Premiere event at Earls Court in London, and decided to lead with one particularly curious device — in addition to the ability to transform from a 2.8-pound tablet to a notebook with QWERTY keyboard, the company’s shape-shifting Ativ Q convertible also gives users a taste of the Android ... |
Samsung’s Galaxy NX Is A 4G Android Interchangeable Lens Camera That Lets You Post To Instagram | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | Now that , a connected pro camera with direct access to Android apps makes a fair bit of sense. Enter the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy NX. Samsung continues to push its Galaxy brand into new devices’ types and categories, a strategy aimed at extending the success it’s had with the brand in smartphones. Today the Kor... |
Hands-On With Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Zoom, The Smartphone With A 10x Optical Zoom Lens | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Zoom steers its Galaxy brand into slightly new territory, by creating a hybrid smartphone-cum-pocket-camera. Unlike pretty much every other cameraphone around, the Zoom has a 10x optical zoom lens protruding from its rear. In short, it’s a phone with two faces: one pure Galaxy smartphone, the second... |
I/O Ventures VC Paul Bragiel Goes On Hiatus To Train For The Winter Olympics | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | Some VCs are into . Some do . Then there’s i/o Ventures managing director , who has spent the last two and a half months in the Nordics, either cross-country skiing for two to four hours per day or doing “swamp training,” where he runs through bogs for several hours. His dream? To compete in the Winter Olympics, w... |
Instagram Launches Cinema, Its Fix For The iPhone’s Shaky Camera | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | Instagram today finally unveiled and served it with a kicker, which is great for those of us with shaky hands. It launched Cinema: a way to stabilize the video captured with the iPhone. Right now this is an iPhone-only app. And for good reason. Since the launch of the iPhone 5, Android phone makers have embraced highe... |
Instagram Launches 15-Second Video Sharing Feature, With 13 Filters And Editing | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | , the immensely popular photo-sharing app that was acquired by Facebook in a , is not just for photos anymore. At a at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters, Instagram’s co-founder and CEO debuted a new feature called, simply, “ ” This lets people create 15-second videos to share on the service. The feature includes ... |
Instagram Crosses 130 Million Users, With 16 Billion Photos And Over 1 Billion Likes Per Day | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 20 | On stage at Facebook’s big mystery event, Instagram’s Kevin Systrom has just shared some new growth statistics for the photo-sharing platform. Instagram now boasts over 130 million active monthly users. And that’s not all — there are over 16 billion photos on the service altogether, with over 1 billion likes given to u... |
Netflix Will Launch In The Netherlands Later This Year As Its International Expansion Slows | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Netflix has announced that it will begin operating in The Netherlands later this year, further expanding its European footprint. The Netherlands, Netflix’s seventh European country, is a relatively small market for the streaming video service, but in keeping with Netflix’s more cautious approach to moving into new coun... |
Fab Grabs $150M At $1B Valuation (And Is Raising Another $100M+ More) | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Design-focused commerce company Fab has raised that round of funding a few months ago. Fab is announcing today that it has raised $150 million in the first tranche of the company’s Series D round of financing. We’re told that $150 million is the first part of a larger Series D round that Fab expects to complete over the... |
Ooyala Sets Up R&D Center In Singapore To Chase Mobile Audiences In Asia | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Video services provider is setting up an R&D operations in Singapore, and is hiring researchers and data scientists for the facility. The company provides video technology to media companies and telcos, enabling them to stream their content online such as the , or helping .It claims to have a collective viewership ... |
Startup-PR Matchmaker AirPR Opens To The Public, As Data Begins To Reveal How To Fix A Broken Model | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | For pretty much as long as anyone can remember, a relationship triangle, or a “love triangle” if you will, has taken shape between companies and the PR firms that represent them and the press that covers them — existing in some sort of recursive loop. Yet, while that triangle should have come to represent a symbiosis a... |
New Yorkers Get Free Power In The Parks | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Months after Hurricane Sandy left New York scrambling for power, the city is unveiling 25 solar powered charging stations in parks and public spaces throughout the five boroughs, starting today. The pilot project between AT&T and the city of New York is officially called AT&T Street Charge. (DUMBO firm Pensa handled de... |
Vine Will Survive! | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Instagram is in two days. But don’t go deleting Vine just yet. Before shoving Vine’s into , let’s just a second. has been declared by many as the “Instagram for Video.” Instagram’s own video product is likely already too late to squash Vine like a bug. Heck, Facebook couldn’t even get Poke and Messenger off the ... |
TC Cribs: Quirky, The NYC Startup Where Unique Inventions Are Brought To Life | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | More and more jobs deal in the virtual realm, and are done by people sitting down at desks at computers. Desk work can be made interesting in its own ways, but it’s always fun to visit a company that’s actually making physical stuff. So for this episode of TechCrunch Cribs, we jetted over to New York City to check out ... |
Facebook iOS 6.2 Lets You Easily Change Who You Just Shared That Racy Pic With | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | It happened to me. Yes, I once uploaded a pic of my friend to Facebook from my phone, forgot to change the setting from “Public” to “Friends” and had the friend get told that day by a random person: “Hey I just saw a picture of you on Alexia from TechCrunch’s wall!” So now I’m circumspect. Apparently this social media ... |
Google Fights Spying Gag Order, But Key Details Would Be Missing Even If Successful | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | As it promised it would, Google is fighting the government’s gag order on releasing how many users are monitored by the National Security Agency. Unlike Facebook and Microsoft, a government deal to disclose the total number of spying warrants for user data, which would include (but not detail) the number of requests ... |
GameStick Android Console Ship Date Delayed Until August To Refine UI | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Android home gaming consoles are nearly arriving for the consumer market, but one at least needs a little more time in the oven to bake. It’s the , the super portable USB-stick style device that plugs into an open HDMI port on your TV to turn it into an Android-powered gaming machine, and its release schedule is being... |
The Offline Glass Ensures You Talk, Not Text, At The Bar | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Tired of your friends texting on their phones while they should be getting schnockered? This clever hack is called the Offline Glass and it’s designed to ensure that you and your friends don’t sit at the bar checking Wikipedia for who starred in and whether Tabitha will totally come out tonight oh my god she won’t sh... |
Adobe’s Q2 Earnings Beat Street With $1.011B In Revenue, $0.36 EPS, 700K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Adobe just earnings for its second financial quarter of 2013. The company reported revenue of $1.011 billion and non-GAAP operating income of $247.3 for an earnings per share of $0.36 (though diluted GAAP earnings were only $0.15). That’s a little bit better than most analysts expected, especially with respect to the... |
Kazam Is Another European Startup Hoping Against Hope To Inch In To The Smartphone Hardware Market | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Hardware is so hot right now. So hot, in fact, that another European hardware startup is formulating an attack on the smartphone hardware space — joining the likes of and to have a go at handset making. The newest comer stepping in with a plan to shake up the “status quo” is called : a startup co-founded by a pair... |
Please Join Us For The 8th Annual August Capital Party: July 26 In Silicon Valley | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | It’s that time of the year again for us nerds to infiltrate Sand Hill Road, let loose, and enjoy some good food and libations. We’ve been hosting the with VC firm since 2006. This year, as in years past, we’ll be partying on August Capital’s beautiful, sunny Sand Hill balcony on Friday, July 26. The party starts at... |
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Weather Could Be Next On The Auction Block For Crowdsourced Data | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Waze’s proved one thing: if companies can harness the power of the crowd to deliver real-time, granular data, big tech corporations will be watching them closely as potential acquisition targets. There’s another category ripe for the picking, even if the problem being solved isn’t as apparent or immediately useful as... |
Google Updates Local Search Results On Desktop With Carousel Design | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | At the end of last year, Google introduced for some local search results on tablets that put a carousel with the top results at the top of the page. Today, it’s bringing this design , too. This new feature can be triggered by searches for restaurants, bars and other local places, Google says, and it’s currently roll... |
Amazon’s New Social Gifting Service “Amazon Birthday Gift” Leverages Facebook, Competes With Facebook’s Own Gifts | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | Stealing a page right out of playbook, Amazon today launched a new feature called “ ,” which allows a group of Facebook friends to go in on an Amazon.com Gift Card together. That gift isn’t posted to the recipients’ Facebook Timeline until their big day arrives. To get started with the service, a user buys an Amazon.... |
Torch Browser Passes 10 Million Monthly Active Users, Adds Download Accelerator, Updates Torch Music Service | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 18 | The world of alternative browsers is littered with also-rans like , but there are also companies that have managed to make a name for themselves in the shadow of Microsoft, Mozilla and Google. One example of this is , but another browser that’s quietly gaining a following is , which the company tells us just passed ... |
Translation App Linqapp’s Developers Are Running Around Taiwan To Promote Its Startup Industry | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Though Taiwan is known for its technological prowess, startup founders there still face many obstacles, including the lack of early-stage funding. As a result, the developers of had to get creative–and their solution brings new meaning to the term “bootstrapping.” Co-founders Sebastian Ang and David Vega plan to comp... |
Uber Launches In Taipei, Just Two Days After Debuting In Seoul | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Uber is moving forward with its Asian expansion at a quick pace with the , just two days after it launched in Seoul. The premium taxi calling app is currently in stealth mode in Taiwan’s capital, which means that there are a limited number of cars available while Uber fine tunes its service. Uber is to oversee it’s T... |
Marc Andreessen: Beijing Should Be Another Silicon Valley, But…. | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Marc Andreessen, the Netscape co-founder and namesake behind venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said that he’s skeptical that efforts globally to recreate the Silicon Valley ecosystem will succeed. Even the most promising city and rival to the U.S.’s Silicon Valley, Beijing, faces lots of potential complication... |
Mark Suster On Being “Upfront,” Plans For His New $200M Fund, And High Expectations For The LA Startup Ecosystem | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Mark Suster’s venture firm just wrapped up a , and it also has a brand new name: . Today at the , I got a chance to sit down with him to talk about the firm’s new branding, as well as his plans for the new fund and continued support for the L.A. startup ecosystem. According to Suster, there were a few reasons to c... |
As Snapchat Grows Up, It Must Retain Its Youth | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | It has been quite a week for Snapchat. The young company closed a at an $800 million pre-money valuation. Young co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy earned a cool $10 million each in a secondary offering. The company even rolled out a service for kids. Now, the founders will try to keep their heads down and out ... |
Facebook Launches Related Hashtags And #Mobile Site Support | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Facebook’s on a quest to get you involved in real-time global conversations. Today it takes the next step towards challenging Twitter by adding hashtag support to its mobile site and launching related hashtags. Starting this evening, when you click or search for a hashtag, the results page will show other hashtags ofte... |
Propeller Gets $1.25M From A16z, ffAngel, Everyone Good Basically | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | The app that allows you to create your own native apps, , has raised $1.25 million from , , , , , , , , , , and Alfred Mandel. Like a less-complex Appsify.me or a Testflight for normal people, Propeller aims to democratize the app store. When launched, Propeller will eventually let people who don’t know ho... |
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