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Vine For Android Gets Updated With Front-Facing Camera Support | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | When Vine for Android, there was one, big, near-universal complaint amongst its users: It didn’t support front-facing cameras. While the existing iOS port had been supporting front cameras for months, Android users looking to take Vine-selfies (Velfies?) were stuck contorting their wrists like some sort of chump. Use... |
Unity Game Engine Announces Xbox One Support, Goes Free For Windows Phone 8 Developers | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Unity, the cross-platform 3D engine and game development tool that’s been on something of a roll lately, has a few more bits of good news today. At Microsoft’s Build 2013 conference this morning, Unity announced two new tricks: Xbox One (and Kinect!) support, and completely free support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows ... |
Case Study Shows Google+ Sign-Ins Are Working, Increased Snapette Sign-Ups By 16% | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | One developer feature Google is really stressing these days is , the company’s recently launched authentication tool for third-party sites and mobile apps. While the company will continue to support its standard Google Sign-in tool as well, it’s pushing hard to get users to switch to its new system. The Google+ versio... |
Incubator AngelPad Plans To Launch A New York Office, Says Its Startups Have Raised $100M Total | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Startup incubator is looking beyond its current base in San Francisco — founder Thomas Korte just announced that he plans to hold one of his two annual sessions in New York City. That doesn’t mean AngelPad is going to be working with more companies or hiring more staff. Instead, the New York class is taking the place... |
Immigration Reform Passes Senate, House Leadership Calls Bill A “Pipe Dream” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Immigration reform is half-way to its goal: The Senate passed a comprehensive bill this afternoon 68 to 32. , including more foreign visas, a special visa for startup entrepreneurs, and unlimited space for brainiac inventors and scientists. However, Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have unspecified i... |
Google Looking For Groups To Provide The Next Hikers To Don Trekker Street View Backpack | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuiEmxDklKw?feature=player_embedded] Google is trying hard to build out its Street View-style imagery of locales off the beaten path with its Trekker program. The Trekker, a roughly 40-pound backpack that has a camera-ridden sphere poking out over its wearer’s head, captures 360-... |
Adobe Acquires Conversational Marketing Platform Neolane For $600M In Cash To Bolster Its Marketing Cloud | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | today announced that it has acquired , a conversational marketing company with an annual revenue of just under $60 million, in a transaction that’s worth $600 million in cash. Neolane was founded in 2001 and is currently headquartered in Paris, France, with offices around Europe, North America and Asia. The company’s... |
Rolocule’s Motion Tennis App Turns The Apple TV And iPhone Into A Legitimate Gaming System | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Just in time for Wimbledon, is releasing a new tennis game today. It’s , but it is the first that turns your iPhone into the controller and Apple TV into a gaming console. The app, which costs $7.99, uses the iPhone’s gyroscope, magnetometer, and accelerometer to track the phone’s motion, so players can slice and ... |
AdTech Star Nanigans Scoops Up Facebook’s Retargeted Ads Director Antonio Garcia-Martinez | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Facebook’s just lost some critical business talent. Today, ads product director , and now Facebook Exchange director , has signed on with one of Facebook’s top ad partners, Nanigans. Garcia-Martinez could help Nanigans keep adapting to Facebook’s ever-changing ad platform. Founded in 2010, Nanigans has become a power... |
DigitalOcean Wants To Challenge Amazon, Linode And Co. With Better Prices, Marketing And Focus On Simplicity | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | is quickly becoming a household name in the web-hosting world. For , the company lets you rent a basic virtual private server (or “droplets,” as the company calls them) with 512MB of RAM and 20GB of SSD-powered hard disk space in one of its three locations (two in the U.S. and one in Amsterdam). The company, as its c... |
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Boombot Rex Makes Good On Kickstarter Promises With Durable, Siri-Friendly Bluetooth Speaker | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | Sometimes I refer to Kickstarter as the “land of broken dreams,” especially when I’m looking through my backer history and noting how few projects actually delivered, and how disappointing were most of the ones that did. The does not fall into either of those categories, thanks to an experienced team that sent me a r... |
Ex-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason’s Album Of Motivational Music Is Coming Out Next Week | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 27 | We already told you that , the founder who was ousted from the , was dead serious when he said last month that he was planning to release a (Mason is known pretty well for his , so many people thought he had to be joking about his foray into music.) Well, for those of us to hear Mason dropping workplace knowle... |
Electric Kool-Aid iOS 7 Test | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Flat, man. Flat is free. It doesn’t tell us what to think. We don’t need those metaphors. Skeuomorphism was a trap. A mental prison, holding us back. Let the people decide for themselves what a calendar or a notepad looks like, and their eyes will open wide When their icons cease to be facsimiles, we stop trying to rep... |
Roam And Wander’s TuTu Turns iPhones And iPod Touches Into Cuddly Children’s Toys | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Children’s entertainment studio wants spark children’s imaginations by bridging the gap between touchscreens and real-life toys. The Hong Kong and Taipei-based startup’s top-selling iOS app, Sticker Games, allows kids to earn real stickers sent through postal mail. Now its first stuffed animal, a pink bunny named TuT... |
Netflix Will Launch Multiple User Profiles This Summer To Keep Your Recommendations Pristine | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | It’s a nuisance many users are familiar with–you log-on to watch something from the Criterion Collection, only to find that your recommendations are now littered with “Dora The Explorer” or “Say Yes To The Dress” because someone in your household with less erudite tastes in streaming entertainment used your account. ... |
Reddit Adds Benefits For Gold Members To Further Monetize The Site Without More Ads | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Social-sharing site Reddit has announced the addition of new benefits for Gold members as part of its efforts to further monetize the site without relying on more banner ads. Reddit Gold members from the site’s retail partners, ranging from urban gardening accessories seller to Goldbely, whose products include . R... |
WTF Is Waze And Why Did Google Just Pay A Billion+ For It? | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | The tech industry has seen its fair share of acquisition whoppers lately, with Salesforce acquiring this month, and Yahoo putting the icing on its by snatching up . But the news (reportedly for around $1.1 to $1.3 billion) is a little different. While the prices are similar and Tumblr may well have seen interest... |
PRISM Would Have Come Off Better With Better PowerPoint Design | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 11 |
First of all, how does an NSA contractor have to wiretap anyone, ANYONE, from an infrastructure level to a legal level? Is the legal part that “terrorism” is important enough to bypass a court? Is the infrastructure part that the data is available on the NSA’s servers somewhere, and this guy who worked at Booz ... |
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Gmail’s People Widget Now Lets Brands Highlight Their Google+ Profiles And Posts | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Google today a small but nifty new feature for its Gmail that allows brands and businesses to highlight their Google+ profiles and recent Google+ posts right in their customers’ inboxes. Once they have , Gmail users will be able to easily follow these brands’ page right from within Gmail and without the need to go... |
Is PRISM Precipitating A Bitcoin Sell-Off? | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Bitcoin has experienced a fairly massive drop in value over the weekend and into this week, moving from a peak of $118 on June 7 to a low of $89 on June 9. While precipitous drops and dizzying highs aren’t unusual for the cryptocurrency, BTC watchers are pointing to the PRISM and NSA leaks as a cause for this weekend’s... |
Take A Peek At The Inner Workings Of MakerBot’s New Brooklyn Factory | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Brooklyn-based MakerBot is a darling of the 3D printing community, and it in Sunset Park, so the crew can more efficiently build and ship their shiny new Replicator 2 and 2X printers. Call it a classic case of growing pains — once demand for 3D printers started picking up, the MakerBot team soon found themselves ac... |
Event Ticketing And Crowdfunding Platform Picatic Now Lets Event Organizers Pay What They Want | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Online event ticketing startup is taking a novel new approach to signing up event organizers and getting them to use its services. The company’s new FairPay initiative will allow users to pay what they want after their events are successful. Picatic launched as an event ticketing startup — sort of an alternative to t... |
This Mechanical, 3D-Printed Entabulator Is An Amazing Tribute To The Power Of Clockwork | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | As a lover of all things mechanical, I’m in awe of . Using an old book about mechanical loom-making, a 3D printer and some serious patience, he engineered a computer that can read a program off of punch cards and, in this case, calculate the Fibonacci sequence. The machine runs using a hand crank (Fenton notes you can... |
Why Google’s Request To Release More Spying Data Would Be *Uninformative [Updated] | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Google for a letter to the federal government requesting the right to release more information on compliance with spy orders. The letter claims that if the public knew how many requests for data the National Security Agency demanded, they would dispel rumors that it’s giving away sweeping access to federal spies. “We... |
Apple Stays Closed As iOS Shuts The Door On Developers | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Apple demonstrated that it will keep its iron grip on iOS 7, despite it’s time for Apple to start opening up. Rather than debut new opportunities for developers, Apple squelched them at WWDC by building its own substitutes for widgets, phone modifications, and whole categories of existing apps. Long ago, Apple declar... |
Zuckerberg Is (Still) Disappointed By Facebook Stock, Says He’s ‘Well-Versed’ In Its Ad Business | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Before Mark Zuckerberg started the question-and-answer session at today’s Facebook shareholder meeting, he noted that many of the pre-submitted questions focused on the performance of Facebook’s stock since IPO. It’s a familiar question, and he offered comments similar to ones that he’s made before — . Zuckerberg ackn... |
The Best Of iOS 7’s Minor Upgrades | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Apple revealed with the of iOS 7 yesterday, but there are many smaller features that are now leaking out as developers have had a chance to play around with the new operating system. Though most of these didn’t get a shout-out during Apple’s keynote and accompanying demo at WWDC, they are the “little touches,” whic... |
At Facebook Shareholder Meeting, Zuckerberg Stands Behind His Initial PRISM Denial | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | The has since last week, when Mark Zuckerberg to the reports that it is among a group of tech companies that have been secretly cooperating with the United States government to provide user data. But at Facebook’s held today in Millbrae, California, Zuckerberg said the company continues to stand behind that i... |
Who Won E3? | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | By now we’ve heard most of what the big three have had to say. Nintendo is holding the line with the Wii U, Microsoft has announced an always-on box for $499, and Sony has made nice with gamers by offering a $399 device that allows users to share and sell games. All of the consoles are HD, all of them support multi-pla... |
Gillmor Gang: Cider House Rules | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — absorb the WWDC keynote. iOS7, OS/10 Mavericks, Macbook Air refresh, and iTunes Radio were the big bullets, but underlying the event was the resurgence of Apple as the leader in setting the agenda. Not everyone buys this perspective, of co... |
Keen On… Internet Access: Does American Broadband Suck? | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | For years, it’s been taken for granted that the U.S. ranks low in the broadband performance table. But a piece by explodes the myth of poor U.S. broadband. Not everyone, however, agrees with Bennett. So, to debate the ITIF Senior Research Fellow, I invited SVP , who has a much less positive take on America’s... |
As IPO Nears, Twitter CEO Says “We Think Of Revenue Like Oxygen” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | As Twitter nears its IPO — at least according to — CEO Dick Costolo seemingly refuses to focus on the money. “We think of revenue like oxygen. Essential to life but not the first thing you think about in the morning,” he told Katie Couric at The Atlantic’s Aspen Ideas Festival. “I don’t try to get caught up in short-... |
Google Asks U.S. Government For Permission To Publish Aggregate Number Of National Security Requests It Receives | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 11 | Google is one of the companies implicated in the leak last week, but the company continues to that it provided the NSA with special access to its servers. It is, however, now to be allowed to publish at least a little bit more information about the national security requests, including FISA disclosures, it recei... |
CrunchWeek: Sean Parker’s TechCrunch Post, VCs Get Into PR And Journalism, SnapChat Snaps Up $80 Million | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | , and I piled ourselves into the TechCrunch TV studio to discuss some of the most interesting tech news stories from the past seven days: Sean Parker’s in which he tackled the criticism of his wedding and the larger state of modern journalism, venture capital firms such as First Round Capital , and SnapChat’s ... |
IE11 Gives Microsoft A Shot At Browser Redemption | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | is a hard product to love. It was and Microsoft its position of having the dominant browser for so many years that even today, with a few solid releases under its belt, IE still feels like the browser you should hate. But with IE11, which just with the Windows 8.1 Preview, Microsoft is finally stepping up its ga... |
You Can’t Quit, Google Reader, Because I Already Fired You | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | Google Reader is dying come Monday, and the whole Internet is sad. I’m not sad. I won’t miss it at all. I used to use Google Reader a lot, as in every day, and it was once a key component of my arsenal of work tools, too. Reader was the pulse of the Internet, my way of staying up to date with everything that happened w... |
A Year After Launch (And With 300K Sites Created), ‘Social Front Page’ RebelMouse Mulls Ad Strategy | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | It’s been since former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry first launched , a service allowing users to pull their content together from across social networks. To mark the occasion, Berry stopped by the TechCrunch office to look back at the past year and hint at his plans for the future. Overall, Berry said that the ser... |
DFJ Restructures Firm Partner Network | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | Back in 1990, then relatively young venture firm started thinking about how to expand the firm’s presence outside of Silicon Valley and share ideas and diligence with other VCs in the industry. DFJ created a partner network of independent VC firms across the globe that adopted DFJ branding. It was the closest thing t... |
Nokia Launches Nimbuzz Chat App To Tell Indian Users To Trade Up To A Smartphone | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | After biding it’s time in emerging markets, free messaging app Nimbuzz has ben ratcheting up the news and partnerships lately. It’s hit 150m users globally, in Asia, India and Saudi Arabia, has been for platforms like Windows 8, and . Of course, Viber, WhatsApp and GroupMe are doing well, but these startups concen... |
Gillmor Gang: Interdependence Day | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — marvel at the mutually assured creation of a partnership between Larry Ellison’s Oracle and Marc Benioff’s Salesforce.com. Few would have predicted such a stunning partnership just a few years ago, but the crescendoing int... |
Why Oracle And Salesforce, Once Bitter Rivals, Are Now On Cloud Nine | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 29 |
Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison, the CEOs of two of the more powerful enterprise companies in the world — Salesforce.com and Oracle — are not known to be the chummiest of pals. Before this week’s sudden peaceful truce, which will see the two companies , the only clouds that connected the two were dark and frowny ones.... |
If You Must Wear Your Tech, Try Not To Look Like An Idiot | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | Like Dance Moms or protein-only diets, wearable tech is one of those things that simultaneously incites excitement, bandwagonning, distrust and disgust. Gut instinct tells us we’re turning into cyborgs, which is either terrifying or great, depending on how you see it. Maybe we will become more efficient, fit versions o... |
Pirate3D Printer Exceeds Kickstarter Goal By 14X | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | The Buccaneer printer has been successfully funded , reaching $1,438,765 in funds—more than 14 times its original $100,000 goal. The Singaporean startup burst onto the scene with news of its relatively . The Buccaneer cost $347 on Kickstarter, far cheaper than the at $2,199. For reference, the , which has just... |
Samsung Galaxy Owners Will Get Jay-Z’s New Album For Free 72 Hours Before Its Official Release | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | If you own a Samsung Galaxy and are a Jay-Z fan, then you will probably be happy to hear that Samsung is giving away one million copies of “Magna Carta Holy Grail” to owners of its flagship smartphone 72 hours before the album’s official debut on July 4. Jay-Z hinted at the endorsement deal on Sunday when he appeared i... |
Tomorrow’s Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 6 | 29 | Everyone is worried about the wrong things. Since Edward Snowden exposed the incipient NSA , the civil libertarians are worried that their Internet conversations and phone metadata are being tracked; the national-security conservatives claim to be worried that terrorists will start hiding their tracks; but both sides ... |
Social Web Privacy Wonk Andrew Keen Weighs In On PRISM — With More Than Just ‘I Told Ya So’ [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | Keen talks about a lot of these ideas in his TechCrunch TV interview series “ ,” but I thought it’d be good to bring him to the other side of the table to hear a bit more about his thoughts on the NSA and PRISM and how people should view privacy in light of the news that’s just surfaced. Talking with Keen is always i... |
As Hardware Startups Take Off, Materials And Technology Marketplace Inventables Raises $3M | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | Chicago-based , a marketplace for technology and materials for developers and designers, has raised $3 million in new funding led by Tim Draper (via Draper Associates) with Dundee Venture Capital, Richard Yoo (founder of Rackspace), Georges Harik, and True Ventures participating. This brings Inventables’ total funding... |
Unofficial Vine App 6Sec Finally Lets Windows Phone Users Upload Their Own Micro Movies | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | A few people have taken up the challenge of bringing some kind of Vine support to Windows Phone, but so far all the ersatz Vine apps in the Windows Marketplace do is let people view those six-second clips. According to , developer Rudy Huyn’s is different — the third-party Vine app crossed a major milestone with a rec... |
Agent Smartwatch Banks On Design, Developers, Distribution To Survive Battle | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A guy walks into a watch store and a smartwatch business partnership is formed. OK, it’s not a funny joke; in fact, it’s not a joke at all. Secret Labs’ founder and CTO Chris Walker walked into the store on Prince Street owned by neighbor Lawrence Layderman. A discussion about the fu... |
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Thanks, Dads | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | My father put together a Heathkit shortwave radio in his youth. The radio is still there in my childhood home. He’s still alive so this isn’t saccharine reminisces of a man who passed. Dad still sits in that room with the radio, the radio still works, his hands pound away at the Internet all day now, the radio forgotte... |
The YouTube Paradox And The Off-YouTube Solution | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | When it comes to video distribution on the Internet, there are few solutions better than YouTube. The company is the No. 1 place to search for and find the video content that viewers want to watch, and for creators it provides a size and scale of audience it can offer videos to. That said, a growing number of YouTube c... |
Apple Is Building A Beautiful New Store To Overshadow Microsoft In Palo Alto [Images] | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | Apple is building a big, visually stunning store in the Stanford shopping center. A few hundred yards from the construction site sits a small, modest Apple location. Last spring, Microsoft with a free Maroon 5 concert. Whether for pure dollars and cents or for appearances (maybe both), Apple has been very aggressive ... |
What Games Are: E3 Was Wild, But AAA Games Are Still A Mess | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | Between all the press conferences at E3 and the follow-up interviews, there’s been a lot of gaming news to chew on this week. Announcements of consoles and games all came at a terrific pace, along with a lot of he-said/she-said. There was an amusing gaffe made by one platform chief, essentially saying “ ” to those who ... |
Mayor Bloomberg Tells Stanford Graduates To Go To NYC For Tech | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | “No other university in the world has so profoundly shaped our modern age,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today in his commencement speech at Stanford University. Bloomberg’s speech was relevant to both the tech and Stanford communities, and often self-serving, as he touched on entrepreneurship, immigratio... |
Google Pledges $5M To Fight Online Child Exploitation | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | The Internet has plenty of dark corners, but one of the darkest is surely the growing number of sites that traffic in child pornography. Google, which has no interest in surfacing any of these sites and images, has worked with numerous nonprofit organizations and law enforcement agencies to help protect children onli... |
U.S. Government Denies Reports That NSA Listens To Domestic Calls Without Legal Authorization | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | Yesterday, a that alleged that the NSA disclosed during a secret Capitol Hill briefing that its analysts can listen to domestic phone calls “simply based on an analyst deciding that,” got a lot of play in the tech and blogosphere. Today, however, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) a statem... |
Iterations: Man Vs. (The Government) Machine | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | TechCrunch In 2013, we have seen a reincarnation of “man vs. machine,” except this time, the machines aren’t algorithms — the machine is government. Within a few months, various levels of government across the United States have made headlines with respect to new technologies, products, and services. Unmanned aerial ... |
Sciencescape Wants To Solve Academic Research Discoverability, Deal With The Noise Problem | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | Toronto-based startup came about because of a problem that was significant enough to lure co-founder Sam Molyneux away from a bourgeoning career as a cancer researcher, and into a new venture that wants to tackle the bigger picture issue of fixing the entire system of academic, medical and scientific research. It’s a... |
A Handy Guide For Comparing Spying Vs. Terrorism Disaster Scenarios | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 16 | The week’s news has been a fear-mongering marathon between civil libertarians who are convinced we’re on the road to becoming North Korea, and security hawks who are building bunkers for the inevitable post-cyberattack hell scape. Unfortunately, because the most important facts about the National Security Agency’s surv... |
After Three Months Of Work, Digg Reader Officially Opens To The Public | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | Despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth Google Reader is finally set to go dark next week, and more than a few companies (including ) are shooting to fill the gap it’s going to leave behind. Digg Reader is probably the most prominent of those reader replacements, and just a few minutes ago the team officially annou... |
Drew Houston And Bryan Schreier On Dropbox’s Future As An Enterprise And Consumer Company | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | Dropbox founder and CEO and partner joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Houston and Schreier work together on recruiting, growing as a CEO, and building the company. The first part of this series was , and in the second part of the series, Houston of a multi-billion-d... |
Ask A VC: General Atlantic’s Brett Rochkind On Spotting Startups That Have IPO Potential | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | In this week’s Ask A VC episode, General Atlantic Managing Director joined us in the studio to talk about international investing and more. Rochkind, who makes growth-stage investments on behalf of the firm, talked about how he evaluates whether a company has the potential to be public. For background, he has helpe... |
Yahoo To Sunset AltaVista, Axis, RSS Alerts, and Nine Other Products, Some As Soon As Today | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | Yahoo under Marissa Mayer is taking a page from her old employer, Google, and , with some starting as soon as today. Included are AltaVista and other search products like its experimental Axis search extension, as part of “an ongoing effort to sharpen our focus and deliver experiences that enhance your daily lives,” i... |
Co-Founder “Who Made Numbers God” At Zynga Joins Bee Cave Games As Advisor/Investor | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | Zynga co-founder and godfather of metrics-based game development Eric Schiermeyer quietly slipped out of the company, is working on a new startup, and today announced he’s become an investor and advisor to , makers of play-money gambling Facebook game Blackjack Casino. Bee Cave Games CEO Erik Bethke tells me Schiermey... |
YouWeb Founder Peter Relan Sunsets His Gaming Incubator, Will Open A New Company Building Studio Soon | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | Peter Relan is best known for his gaming and mobile incubator which spawned Crowdstar, Agawi, Spaceport, OpenFeint and others. Today, the serial entrepreneur is announcing that YouWeb will no longer be incubating any additional companies, and Relan will be moving on to a new venture. With this move, Relan will be sun... |
Google+ Tries To Gain Photo Sharing Ground By Making It Easier To Move, Download, And Upload Your Pics | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | Photo sharing just got a little better on Google+, as the social network has made it easier for users to move, download and upload their pictures. Google+ engineering manager Jon Emerson that the new features came from user feedback. Users can more easily move batches of photos between albums, use a new download opti... |
Google+ Turns 2, Rolls Out Redesigned Follow Buttons And Badges, Introduces Badges For Communities | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | Google+ turned two today. To celebrate, Google’s social network didn’t just dress up , but it also a redesign of its Google+ plugins for websites, including its , +1 and share buttons, as well as its for pages and profiles. All of these are getting a refreshed look, and most of them are also getting a few new fea... |
UK’s BSkyB Wins Case Against Microsoft Over Use Of “SkyDrive” Name In Europe; May Have To Drop Name Or Pay Fines | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | went this week at its Build conference, but today it was dealt a blow for how it might get to market them in Europe. , the pay-TV broadcaster partly owned by News Corp., won a against the U.S. software giant for infringing the “Sky” trademark. The next step is another hearing in which the presiding judge, Justice... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Bye Bye BlackBerry And Vanilla Android On The HTC One/GS4 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | BlackBerry is “ ,” as Chris Velazco puts it so eloquently. Meanwhile, Google is now offering of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. We’re also mildly interested in Hyundai’s new infotainment system, Blue Link, (especially given Apple’s foray into the car with iOS 7). Just as you’d expect on this lovely summer Friday, ... |
Facebook Announces New Review Policy To Prevent Ads From Running On Controversial Pages And Groups | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | Facebook just a new review policy for Pages and Groups that’s aimed at reducing cases where ads run alongside content that the advertiser or their customers might find objectionable. Earlier today, stated that Marks and Spencer and BSkyB had pulled “all or part of their spending” on Facebook after a BSkyB ad (which... |
Labster Gamifies Bio-Tech Teaching So Students Can Use Their iPads To Blow Stuff Up | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | Educational games to make learning more engaging for students are nothing new, but , a bio-tech education startup founded back in 2011 and just now coming out of stealth, has gone further than most by creating an entire virtualised laboratory for teaching bio-tech students without the need to purchase expensive lab eq... |
CE Week’s Startup Pavilion Serves Up Bikes, Hydroponics, And Rotary Phone Photo-Sharing | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | In the , there’s just as much diversity as there is similarity among the new flock of products and services hitting New York. We saw a number of bikecessories, bike services, and reached the other end of the spectrum by visiting a cloud-based hydroponics monitoring solution and a nice twist between new-school photo-... |
Mozilla Opens Its Firefox Social API To Developers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | With the release of the , Mozilla didn’t just introduce and , it also its for developers. This feature allows them to create new ways for users to interact with their favorite web apps through a persistent sidebar, notifications or toolbar buttons in the browser. With this release, Mozilla also adds a to the ... |
Google Trekker Gets You Off-Limits Access To Exotic Locations Like The Island From Bond’s Skyfall | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kmKO_gGsc?feature=player_embedded] Google Trekker just announced the , and today it’s : Getting virtual tourists behind velvet ropes at completely unique, remote destinations. On the Google Maps blog today, the team showed off a virtual tour of the island of Hashima, in Japan’... |
Music App Songza Goes Ad-Free With A New Paid Service, “Club Songza” For $0.99 Per Week | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | , the music-streaming and recommendation service that has picked up some 4.8 million monthly active users with its free, ad-based service, is turning on a feature now that it hopes will convert some of its most loyal listeners into more monetizable ones. It is launching “Club Songza,” a subscription-based service that ... |
Maker Nabs A 3D Model Of Marcus Aurelius With Google Glass | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 28 | In what looks to be a first for the technology, designer and engineer took 30 pictures of a bust of Marcus Aurelius with Google Glass and created a downloadable 3D model that you can Blatt writes: Obviously Blatt had some prior experience with the gear and the tools required to build a 3D model but it’s fascinating ... |
Accel Launches $100M Big Data Fund 2 To Invest In The ‘Second Wave’ Of Big Data Startups | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | The tech industry has been buzzing about “big data” for years now. And according to venture capital firm , the excitement around the big data space is not set to die down any time soon — it’s just about to enter into a new phase. Accel is announcing tonight that it has dedicated $100 million for a new investment fund ... |
Yahoo! Discloses Number Of Data Requests From U.S. Law Agencies, Says It Will Issue “Transparency Report” Soon | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | Yahoo! has disclosed the number of government requests for data it has received over the past 18 months, becoming the latest tech company to do so after the fallout from the NSA spying scandal. In , the company said that Yahoo! received 12,000 to 13,000 requests from FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) and U.... |
Yahoo! Reportedly Offers $30M to $40M For Social Email Startup Xobni | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | Yahoo! is offering to purchase social email startup for $30 million to $40 million, . If the deal goes through, Xobni would be the latest acquisition by Yahoo! as CEO Marissa Meyer seeks to boost the company’s talent roster and product offerings. Xobni’s social email plugin automatically creates a profile for each c... |
Yahoo! Becomes Exclusive Partner Of 49ers Online Content | Greg Barto | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | I get as excited as anyone thinking about the upcoming 49ers season. Quite a bit has happened since we were five yards from winning the Super Bowl. The stadium was branded with the , we got Anquan Boldin from the Ravens for pretty much , and Michael Crabtree . Yahoo!, while on a purchasing spree of startups, decided... |
Big Brands Are Growing More Quickly On Twitter Than Facebook (According To Optimal) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | Here’s a fun comparison from , a social advertising and analytics startup: If you look at big brands on social networks, their following seems to be growing more quickly on Twitter than on Facebook. Optimal says it looked at the data from 4,330 brands, representing a total of 3.49 billion Facebook Likes and 595 millio... |
If You Watch One Daft Punk Remix Performed By Robots (And Jack Conte) Today, Make It This One | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TAJBc7gW-Vc#!] , musician and founder of , has been on a tear lately with a set of unique music remixes performed by him and a group of pneumatic robots that fire off audio sequences to create some amazing music. In this video Conte used a , a wooden su... |
Why Was Apple Late To The PRISM Party? | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | If there’s one striking thing about those slides, other than their hideous aesthetics, it’s that Apple’s allocated yellow oval, instead of a date, has the words “(added Oct 2012)” underneath it. That difference is most striking when you consider the fact that Apple competitor Microsoft cooperated with the government ... |
PalTalk: It Was “Flattering” To Be Included In The PRISM Slidedeck | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | The eyesore of a PowerPoint deck that contractor Edward Snowden had leaked had globally recognized names: Microsoft. Google. Yahoo. Facebook. Apple. AOL. Skype. YouTube. The NSA had allegedly collaborated with all of these Internet giants to request and access data on foreign users. But then there was also PalTalk. WTF... |
Oculus VR Raises $16M To Build Their Crazy Virtual Reality Gaming Goggles | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | Following up on their massively successful $2.4M Kickstarter campagin, Oculus VR a gigantic $16M Series A to help them build the truly amazing Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles. In case you’ve somehow missed all the hubbub about the Rift, here’s what you need to know: it’s quite possibly the most exciting thing goi... |
With $1.9M From Venrock And Others, Trumaker Wants To Bring Made-To-Measure To The Masses | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | To help in achieving its mission, Trumaker has raised $1.9 million from a group of seed backers that include , RRE, and angels including , , Bonobos CEO , , , and others. From top to bottom, Trumaker’s business model is quite unique. Made-to-measure has been done on a more mainstream level , but Trumaker is fo... |
Online Coupon Giant RetailMeNot (Formerly WhaleShark Media) Files For $230M IPO | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | Online coupon giant RetailMeNot has just filed for $230 million IPO, according to an released today. RetailMeNot, which was by the $300 million-funded WhaleShark Media, operates one of the largest digital coupon marketplaces (WhaleShark was subsequently rebranded as RetailMeNot this year). In 2012, the marketplace ... |
In First NSA Interview, Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | President Obama finally took a sit-down interview on the and we’ve pasted a partial transcript below. Disappointingly, most of it is (very) generic and defensive. But, there is one important takeaway: President Obama couldn’t answer whether oversight courts (FISA) have ever rejected a single NSA spying request. PBS’s... |
Living In The Future With The Formlabs Form 1 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed,” wrote William Gibson. He’s right. Luckily, the future is mostly in my attic workshop. I’ve been lucky enough to have access to a for the past week and have come away with a better sense of the platform, the way forward of 3D printing in general a... |
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Win Admission To creativeLIVE’s “Secrets From Silicon Valley” Workshop | Elin Blesener | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | The world’s largest video education platform is hosting a “Secrets from Silicon Valley” workshop later this week, where some of the Valley’s best minds will be sharing their wisdom with a handful of attendees. Only 30 tickets to this event were released, and they can’t be purchased anyway… but we have five of them to... |
Google Will Soon Start Selling Chromebooks At Walmart And Staples, Other Retailers Coming Soon | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | Google sure isn’t giving up on its , even though it’s not clear that the company’s Chrome OS-based laptops are selling all that well. Today, Google announced that it’s expanding its brick-and-mortar retail efforts for Chromebooks through partnerships with Walmart and Staples. Over 1,500 will feature them starting th... |
Indonesian Instagram-Clone PicMix Gets Monetization Right From The Start | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | At first glance, the similarities between and are obvious. Both apps are photo sharing platforms with simple, square Polaroid-esque aesthetics, and display photos from friends in streaming feed. But while Instagram is figuring out , Indonesian startup, PicMix seems to have nailed it from the get-go. PicMix makes i... |
Apple’s 2013 13-Inch MacBook Air Sweetens The Deal For One Of The Best Available Computers | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | The MacBook Air was the only new Apple hardware to be (besides the new AirPort Extreme), and while it isn’t a big change from the previous version, it packs some crucial improvements that really cater to the Air’s existing strengths. The 2013 Air is really Apple pushing the envelope with its ultraportable, and that h... |
Squrl Updates iOS Apps To Simplify Video Discovery With Better Recommendations And Social Features | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 17 | There is no shortage of apps on the market to help users find new, interesting videos to watch and enjoy. But video discovery startup still thinks there’s work to be done. The company just released a new version of its iPhone and iPad app that provides new ways to share with friends and find content that is more pers... |
Looking To Beef Up Margins, Exec Hikes Hourly Rate For Errands From $25 To $30 And Triples Its Surcharge | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | , the San Francisco startup that lets you easily hire people online by the hour to run your errands and do your cleaning, will be increasing the flat rate for its flagship errand-running service by 20 percent and more than tripling its surcharge in an apparent bid to beef up its margins. In an email sent to Exec use... |
Pinterest Pushes Global Growth With A Localized Version For France, Its First Non-English Site | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | , the image-based social network, is picking up more global momentum: today, it the launch of a new site in French, with users in France getting pushed more localized content and more French site links in both their search and category feeds. The French version is being launched simultaneously on web, iOS and Android... |
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