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iOS 7 Fights Mobile Spam With Option To Block Calls And Texts From Specific Numbers | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | Telemarketing spammers bothering you? Clingy exes calling in the middle of the night? iOS 7 will let you block calls from specific numbers to save your sanity. Rather than allow third-party developers to modify the native Phone app like on Android, Apple has chosen to offer this feature itself. Apple mentioned the new ... |
Design, And Insecurity, Is Back At Apple | Ryan Block | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | The phrase uttered by Phil Schiller during today’s keynote got a few laughs from the predictably enthusiastic WWDC audience. To me it dropped like a ton of bricked iPhones. Let’s catch up. The last time we heard from Apple was at its absurdly aggressive , where it introduced the iPad mini and refreshed an astounding n... |
Sony’s PlayStation 4 Will Launch “This Holiday Season” For $399, $100 Less Than Xbox One | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | Following up on their oddly detail-light press conference , Sony used their E3 press conference this evening to finally disclose a bunch of important details: the price, a launch window, and, at long last, what the PlayStation 4 will look like. The PlayStation 4 will launch in the US for $399 “this holiday season”. Al... |
Take A Good Look At Apple’s New iOS 7 With These Early Screenshots | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | iOS 7 was announced today officially at WWDC 2013, and it brings a lot of visual changes to Apple’s mobile OS, plus a host of new features and functionality as well. The official release is still a few months off, but one enterprising developer, from the new beta out today. The screens really just show a close-up vie... |
Apple’s Flashlight Is Why We Can’t Fund Nice Dumb Things | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | Flashlight apps are a testament to the power and simplicity of modern technology. Power outage because of a hurricane? There’s . Need to stealthily kill a mosquito without waking up your partner? There’s an app for that, too. Actually, there are more than 1,000 in the App Store alone, many with 5-star ratings, because... |
The TechCrunch TV WWDC Wrap-Up: OS X Mavericks, iOS 7, Apple Steps On Pandora’s Turf, And More | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | Check out the video above to see Greg and Darrell give us the rundown on , , Apple with , that that will be both designed assembled in the , and more. |
Watch Sony’s 2013 E3 Press Conference Right Here | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 6 | 10 |
E3 2013 is in full swing. Microsoft with plenty of news followed by several big developers showing off their upcoming flagship titles. But now it’s Sony’s turn and, thanks to gaming startup , you can watch the live stream right here. The player above will work for all of Twitch’s content. The company’s full... |
Apple Publishes iOS 7 Transition Guide To Help Developers Adopt Flat Design | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | As expected, Apple is a completely new design language for . For developers, this means they will have to adapt their apps to match the rest of the operating system if they don’t want them to look antiquated. Thankfully, Apple today also published a pretty to designing for iOS 7 and transitioning apps to the new v... |
With $1.2M In Funding, TapCommerce Aims To Bring Ad Retargeting To Smartphones | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | Retargeting, everyone’s favorite web advertising technology, is coming to smartphones thanks to a startup called . The company isn’t exactly launching today, but it has been relatively quiet, and now it’s announcing some initial advertisers, as well as disclosing a $1.2 million round that it raised last year. Retarget... |
iOS 7 Leaves Older iPhones And iPads Out Of The Fun | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | hits iPhones this fall, but only the iPhone 5 and iPod touch will get all the features announced at . The iPhone 4 and 4S will only get the new iOS 7 look and a splattering of features. And forget about the iPhone 3GS and older iPhones. They will be stuck in the skeuomorphic world of iOS 6 forever. As shown in our ch... |
Chinese Microblog Site Tencent Weibo Will Be Baked Into iOS 7, Just Like Facebook And Twitter | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | It’s been a big news day for all things , and a lot of the buzz has been around the company’s . But one feature announced today in shows that Apple’s — and specifically, the market of Chinese iPhone users which is growing at a — is only getting stronger. Apple said today that a host of new features will be incl... |
Are You Ready For The Seattle Meetup And Pitch-Off On July 18? | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | You may associate TechCrunch with the sunny climes of Northern California, but we’re ready to make it rain. We’re bringing our TC Meetups + Pitch-Off to the great, tech-centric city of Seattle. You can expect beer, great conversation, and a battle to the death to see which entrepreneurs can dazzle and excite in under s... |
Lamoda, The Samwer Brothers’ Russian Online Fashion Store, Snags $130M Led By Access Industries | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | , the Russian online fashion site incubated by the Samwer Brothers’ , is upgrading its wardrobe. On Tuesday, the company is announcing a new injection of $130 million — understood to be a record round of funding for a Russian ecommerce site, passing the $100 million that Ozon, Russia’s Amazon, picked up . This latest... |
Survey: Majority Of Americans Think NSA Spying Is More Important Than Privacy | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | Despite the conniption fit over the National Security Agency’s Internet snooping, most Americans are perfectly okay with Big Brother spying on them. “A majority of Americans – 56 percent – say the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program tracking the telephone records of millions of Americans is an acceptable way for t... |
iTunes Radio? Pandora And Slacker Are Not Impressed | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | Apple its iRadio, er, iTunes Radio service this morning at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Now that we know the basics of the streaming music service (which is supposed to launch this fall), one of the obvious questions is: What does this mean for existing Internet radio/online music services like Pandora and ... |
Walmart Labs Buys Data Analytics And Predictive Intelligence Startup Inkiru | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | Walmart, via its Silicon Valley innovation lab @WalmartLabs, has made another acquisition today, continuing its shopping spree. The company is announcing that predictive intelligence startup will be joining Walmart Labs to accelerate the retail giant’s analytics capabilities. Financial terms of the deal were not disc... |
The Best Features Of iOS 7 | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 10 | Users of Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices got their first look at the company’s newest operating system, iOS 7, earlier today. Not only has Apple given iOS an entirely new look and feel, courtesy of head designer Jonathan Ive, but it has also revealed a revamped suite of core apps like Photos, Camera, Calend... |
LinkedIn Outage Due To Possible DNS Hijacking [Update: Fidelity.com Also Affected] | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | LinkedIn that its site suffered an outage due to “a DNS issue.” Our site is now recovering for some members. We determined it was a DNS issue, and we’re continuing to work on it. Thanks for your patience. — LinkedIn Help (@LinkedInHelp) According to , LinkedIn’s service outage began around 6PM PST yesterday and is ... |
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Rocket Internet’s Lazada Lands $100M As It Seeks To Become The “Amazon Of Southeast Asia” | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | , the e-commerce site founded by in a bid to build the “Amazon of Southeast Asia,” announced today that it has landed another $100 million from returning investors Holtzbrinck Ventures, Kinnevik Investment AB, Summit Partners and Tengelmann Group, as well as new investor, Belgian-based family-owned investment holding... |
30 Days In, Bitcoin Angel Group BitAngels Doubles Network To 120, Puts First $100K Into Seasteading Venture, Blueseed | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | As has been written ad nauseam, we’ve seen a lot of activity in the wild and wacky world of cryptocurrency of late, thanks primarily to the tech industry’s new obsession with Bitcoin. , digital currency like Bitcoin will either be worth nothing in 10 years, or its value will make Warren Buffet weep. It’s a polarizing ... |
EMC Acquires Israeli Storage Startup ScaleIO For $200M-$300M To Compete Better With The Cloud Kings | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | Palo Alto-based is one of a new generation of startup storage providers that’s using intelligent software to help big companies streamline and converge their data storage operations at scale across thousands of servers. On a mission to re-imagine the very operations of enterprise data centers, the startup’s tech take... |
Why MakerBot Is Like Apple | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | When we first was looking to partner with Stratasys, I was a bit non-plussed. MakerBot, as I’ve noted before, has a certain indie cred that makes this move a bit unpalatable. But, at the same time, it’s immensely important. Stratasys makes expensive, industrial-quality 3D printers. They are the “big iron” of the 3D p... |
Well Done, Microsoft | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | The of the Xbox One . Gamers loved the system, but hated the absurd restrictions placed on the games. But Microsoft listened and reversed its stance on some of the more ridiculous policies. Good for them. Good for us. I mean, . The memes, the tweets, the visceral anger was everywhere. Even the talking heads on na... |
Microsoft Heeds Gamer Feedback, Dumps Xbox One DRM Restrictions | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | Attention gamers: you win. The folks at Redmond infuriated many when it revealed that the Xbox One would come with a long list of potential caveats — there was the automated 24 hour check-in to keep the console in playable condition, and the restrictions on who you could share disc-based games with, not to mention the ... |
Microsoft Was Close To A Nokia Acquisition Before Talks Broke Down Recently, WSJ Reports | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | Microsoft and Nokia have gotten pretty cosy over the past few years, and at the time of the announcement of the Finnish company’s decision to use Windows Phone OS to power its smartphones, many speculated it was the first overture for a coming acquisition. And that is apparently where things were headed, according to t... |
Twitter Acquires Local Discovery Startup Spindle, Will End Spindle Service | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | Twitter today acquired Spindle, an app that uses mobile devices and social networks to make a smarter localized search engine. The Spindle team will move to San Francisco and shutter the Spindle app. Using social networks, the time of day, and your location, Spindle would show you places you may want to visit, like res... |
Stratasys Acquiring MakerBot In $403M Deal, Combined Company Will Likely Dominate 3D Printing Industry | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | Today Stratasys , as , in a stock deal worth $403 million based on the current share value of Stratasys. The combination of the companies brings together a leader in 3D industrial printing and manufacturing, with the emerging leader in desktop 3D printing, which the companies said in a press release should help drive... |
Google’s Dart SDK and Editor Hit Beta With Improved Performance, Smarter Code Completion And More | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | Google today the first of its Dart SDK and Editor. With this update, Google says, the SDK can now produce significantly smaller and faster JavaScript code and make it easier for Dart developers to deploy their code. The now features an analysis engine that’s 20 percent faster at parsing and analyzing code as you ... |
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Zynga Acquires Spooky Cool Labs To Boost Its Social Casino Push | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | , Zynga is still picking up talent in strategic areas like social casino gaming. The company bought a roughly 40-person team called Spooky Cool Labs full of real-money gaming talent. Based in Chicago, the team is made up of social and real money gaming veterans from companies such as Aristocrat, and slot machine make... |
Cortica Raises $6.4M To Improve Visual Search And In-Image Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | , a startup developing technology for analyzing in-image content, is announcing that it has raised $6.4 million in Series B funding. The round was led by previous investors Horizons Ventures (the firm which manages investments for Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-shing), with participation from Russian firm Mail.ru Gro... |
Twitter Adds Easier Column Navigation To Tweetdeck For Power Users | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | Twitter today that makes it easier to arrange and consume various feeds. Column headers now have “grab handles” in the top-left corner so they can quickly and easily be rearranged. If you are looking at fewer than four feeds, the selected column will now snap its left edge to the sidebar; if four or more columns are ... |
Wired Editor Michael Copeland Joins Andreessen Horowitz To Lead New ‘Content Strategy’ | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | Wired Senior Editor Michael Copeland is venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. We’ve confirmed with the VC firm that Copeland will be leading Andreessen’s new ‘content strategy.’ Prior to joining Wired, Copeland was a Senior Writer at Fortune and was previously also a Senior Writer at Business 2.0 covering the VC world. A... |
Backed By First Round’s Dorm Room Fund, Pagevamp Turns Facebook Pages Into Websites | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | It feels like startups are taking more and more steps to make the website creation process as easy as possible. There are companies like , which . There’s Barley, which . And now there’s , which allows you to turn a Facebook Page into a website. The company was founded by Atulya Pandey, Fred Wang and Vincent Sanche... |
Lytro Enables Its Camera’s Hidden WiFi Chip, Launches A Companion iOS App (With Animated GIFs!) | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | It sure doesn’t seem like many people have bought Lytro’s crazy light-field camera (the one that lets you focus your photos you take them) — but if you’re one of those who did: go plug that thing in. Lytro has just released a firmware update that enables the camera’s dormant Wi-Fi chip, along with an iOS app that le... |
Microsoft Launches Security Bounty Program, Will Pay Up To $100K For Exploits | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | Microsoft has long resisted this move, but starting June 26 — the date the Windows 8.1 preview will ship — it will finally its own . The company will offer bounties for “truly novel exploitation techniques” that expose security issues in Windows 8.1 Preview. It will also pay up to $11,000 for Internet Explorer 11 ... |
The Case For And Against Candy Crush-Maker King’s Possible IPO | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 19 | Zynga cast a long shadow when its stock tanked by about 75 percent in the first year after going public. But that apparently isn’t scaring off other contenders in the gaming industry from an IPO. Over the past two weeks, I had heard from several sources in the industry that King — the maker of mega-hit Candy Crush Saga... |
EFF Sues FBI, Wants Access To Records Of The FBI’s Facial Recognition Program | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | Companies like Facebook have been over the use of facial recognition technology. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation is putting a mirror up to the government to demand the same scrutiny back. The the over access to its facial recongition records, based on three Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests that t... |
Aiming At Small Business And Headed By Ex-Yahoo Head, NumberFour De-Cloaks In Berlin With A $38M Series A, Europe’s Biggest In Two Years | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | , founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38 million in Series A financing led by , specifically . Volpi Participating in the round is , /Deutsche Telekom, Andreas von Bechtolsheim, former Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, Klaus Hommels ... |
With New Initiative ‘Galactic,’ PayPal Wants To Own Payments And Commerce In Space | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | In a slightly bizarre announcement today, PayPal is debuting PayPal Galactic, an initiative to own universal payments and commerce in space. Yes, outer space. PayPal Galactic brings together leaders in the scientific community, including the SETI Institute and Space Tourism Society, to prepare and support the future of... |
21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises Three-Point-Eight Million Dollars For Figma | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | Children are our future, and VCs are giving them the cash to make it happen. Dylan Field, one of Peter Thiel’s fellows, just raised for his startup Figma according to an SEC filing. Field declined to talk with me about Figma, but the Thiel Fellowship site says “Dylan is building a browser based photo editing tool.”... |
Xiaomi Launches Its Own Text Message Service | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | Users on devices will now be able to send international text messages faster and more reliably, it said. The Chinese smartphone maker just announced its enterprise international SMS platform at the Mobile Asia Expo event in Shanghai. The new service looks like it’ll rival Apple’s iMessage service in function, but is ... |
Drew Houston And Bryan Schreier On Dropbox’s Early Days and Stealth Code Name | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | As we mentioned 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 this video, Houston talks about his journey... |
John Zimmer Says Lyft Will Work With Sidecar, Uber To Fight Regulators In Wake Of LA Cease & Desist | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | Lyft co-founder John Zimmer says the company is trying to work with other ride sharing companies to fight regulators after Los Angeles served Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar yesterday. “Do you envision partnering with competitors like Sidecar or Uber to promote and defend ride sharing as a legal alternative to the taxi monop... |
Zuck’s Adorable Sheepdog Beast Is Now A Facebook Messages Sticker Pack | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | Now you and Facebook’s CEO can unwind in the same way: playing with . The billionaire’s Puli dog just got his own Facebook Stickers pack, which lets you forgo typing and instead send friends animated images of Beast playing, begging, or wearing the cone of shame. Before you ask “why does this matter?”, consider that t... |
3D Systems Invests In Asteroid Miners Planetary Resources, Opens Up New Seed-Stage Venture Arm | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | ‘ plan to scour the heavens and find asteroids to mine may seem a little out there as far as startup ideas go, but that hasn’t stopped some big names from backing the company. Today, that list just got a little bigger — 3D printing giant announced that it , and that it will aid in the development of the startup’s AR... |
Microsoft Confirms IE11 Will Support Google’s SPDY Protocol | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | In a press briefing this afternoon, Microsoft announced that will support , the Google-backed protocol for speeding up download speeds for web sites. Microsoft only briefly talked about this in its briefing and didn’t even mention it in , but this is actually a major step for SPDY, which is now supported in all of ... |
Windows 8.1’s Start Button Isn’t A Start Button | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | The are loud and clear today. Microsoft brings back the Start Button in Windows 8! Huzzah! ZONG! But don’t believe the hype. We’ve been duped. isn’t the Start Button of old. The classic multi-step application launcher is still missing. Windows 8.1’s Start Button is more of a shortcut to the Start Menu — you know, th... |
Ranku Launches Comparison Shopping Site For Legit Online Universities | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | Scummy for-profit schools like University of Phoenix spend big bucks to rope students into mediocre educations. So launches today to help students find a reputable online university. Its site lets you browse different programs, and compare their price, online interface, and performance of graduates. The TechStars-bac... |
Google Removes All The Clouds From Google Maps And Earth | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | Ready for your regular reminder that technology is magic? Google has just rid the earth of clouds. Well, Earth, at least*. They’ve just pushed an update to the satellite imagery found in Google Earth and Google Maps, offering a higher-res (and now cloud free) view of the earth than ever before. By tapping the tools t... |
No Mailbox? No Problem. Boomerang For Android Brings Gesture-Based Email Management To Gmail Users | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | , the startup behind a suite of productivity add-ons for Gmail, Outlook, and Google Calendar, is today bringing its inbox management solution Boomerang for Gmail to the mobile platform. With a new app called , the company is iterating on its previously web-only application in order to offer non-iPhone users their own ... |
Nvidia’s Project Shield Release Gets Pushed Back To July Due To “Mechanical Issue” | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | The Nvidia Project Shield, a handheld gaming device from the graphics card-maker that was , will be delayed until July, the company revealed today. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, Nvidia explained that it had to delay the release after discovering a mechanical issue tied to a piece supplied by a third-party com... |
Maker Studios Co-Founder Danny Zappin Sues The Company Over His Ouster | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | It was only about six weeks ago that co-founder Danny Zappin , replaced by Endemol exec Ynon Kreiz. Well it turns out that he didn’t “step down,” so much as he was “pushed out.” And now he’s taking the company to court over his ouster. Zappin just filed a lawsuit against Maker’s partners and investors, claiming con... |
CrunchGov Essential: How The Internet Helped Gay America Come Out Of The Closet | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | The U.S. has always included a sizable population of gay citizens. Without a way to coordinate their latent collective powers, discrimination and isolation forced them into the shadows. As the U.S.
slowly inched its way toward tolerance, the Internet, as a soapbox for young liberals, became a
powerful platform to exp... |
Microsoft Opens Up Bing As A Platform For Developers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | At its developer conference today, Microsoft that it is opening up quite a bit of ‘s advanced functionality to developers. As Microsoft corporate VP Gurdeep Singh Pall noted, developers are already using Bing APIs, of course, but apps can now use Bing’s entities and knowledge, natural user interfaces, and new ,... |
Facebook Updates Its Ad Manager Reports With More Customizable, Real-Time Data | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 26 | Facebook’s effort to continues: Today it’s announcing an update to Ad Manager Reports, a product whose name pretty much explains what it does — helps advertisers track and manage their campaigns on Facebook. The goal of the changes, according to Product Manager David Baser, is to give advertisers tools that are “simpl... |
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CloudUp Is A Fast, Dead-Simple Way To Share And View Files On Any Platform (Without The Folders) | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | In today’s world of email, social networks, SMS, chat applications and cloud services, there are plenty of ways to share share a file, folder, photo or video. And as intelligent devices and cloud computing infrastructure proliferate, and processing power and capacity improve, we expect file transfer and sharing to be s... |
Meet Cody, The Casual Fitness Coach And Social Discovery Tool For Everyone Else | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | Today, there’s a long list of apps and services that sit at the intersection of fitness and mobile technology and leverage everything from social dynamics and behavioral economics to Quanitifed Self-inspired tracking to motivate us to be more active and drop a few pounds. There’s Lift, Nike+, Basis, RunKeeper, Runtasti... |
Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer, its Azure chief Satya Nadella and Oracle’s president Mark Hurd are holding a joint press conference next week, just two days before Microsoft’s Build developer conference is scheduled to kick off in San Francisco. The press event follows Oracle’s earnings call that featured remarks by Ora... |
France’s Dailymotion Finds Stateside Tech Partner In Video Editing Service Givit | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | In other video news this week, the video editing app Givit has announced its integration with the social video site Dailymotion. It is the first U.S. app to be built into the France-based Dailymotion’s API. This comes after news in late April that in order to prevent a U.S. company from taking a controlling stake in ... |
Thanks To A Six-Figure Purchase By Reputation Changer, Brand.com Is A Thing Now | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | My boss Alexia Tsotsis . With a name like , you can imagine that an online reputation management company would be stuck in the shadow of (which itself was formerly known as Reputation Defender). The solution? It’s changing its name, and purchasing a memorable URL of its own — . The URL supposedly cost six figures,... |
Edward Snowden Charged With Espionage | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | [tweet https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/348202090415390720] , the U.S. government has brought the hammer down on NSA leaker Edward Snowden, charging him with one of the most serious offenses: espionage. Snowden, who is holed up in Hong Kong, is currently searching for asylum with the help of fellow leak-enthusiast,... |
Ask A VC: Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha On The Consumerization Of Digital Health Care | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Mayfield Fund Managing Director sat down in the hot seat to answer reader questions. In particular, Chaddha addresses a trend he calls the “consumerization of health care,” in which technology is empowering patients to become consumers of their medical and health care. Mayfield h... |
Facebook Security Bug Exposed Personal Account Information, Emails And Phone Numbers, Six Million Accounts Affected | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | A Facebook security bug exposed users’ personal contact information (email or phone number) to other users who were connected to them; the bug has affected 6 million accounts. “When people upload their contact lists or address books to Facebook, we try to match that data with the contact information of other people on ... |
Google Makes Google News In Germany Opt-In Only To Avoid Paying Fees Under New Copyright Law | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | will soon change. Starting August 1, it will index sources that have decided to explicitly opt-in to being shown on the search giant’s news-aggregation service. Google News remains an opt-out service in the other 60 countries and languages it currently operates in, but since Germany passed earlier this year that t... |
Gillmor Gang Live 06.21.13. (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
Tobii And Synaptics Partner On Ultrabook Prototype With Eye Tracking Tech | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir4YTzu3F0E?feature=player_embedded]
You will gaze at your computer, and your computer will gaze back. That’s the inevitable path of progress in interface design, as evidenced by ongoing projects from companies like , , and more. Now, Sweden’s is taking a step forward with... |
Aiming To Disrupt Payday Lending, a16z-Backed LendUp Now Offers Instant Online And Mobile Loans | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | Y Combinator-incubated launched in October Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kapor Capital and others, to bring a fresh solution to an old problem: You have to pay your bills now, but you don’t have the money to pay them. Rather than turn to predatory lenders and banks, with their high interest... |
Snapchat Has A Patent That Could Help It Become The Defacto Camera App | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | While larger competitors struggle to , Snapchat could use a different weapon to be the first camera app opened: speed. And unlike filters, this one will be more difficult to copy. Snapchat has a patent, on its technology that allows the user to take a picture by tapping the camera button and a video by holding down ... |
Instagram Hit 5 Million Video Uploads Within 24 Hours | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | Judging by the massive spike in (and ) and in our Instagram feeds following the debut of their new video functionality, it certainly seemed like a successful launch. Now, thanks to some stats that the team just shared with us, we know exactly how well it did right out of the gate. In the first 24 hours after the ... |
Scrooser Is A Motorized Scooter From The Future | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | The unfortunately-named Scrooser (the creators are from Dresden so maybe it sounds better in German) is actually surprisingly cool. It looks like a standard, two-wheel kick scooter but actually has a motor built in and it can go about 15 miles per hour on a good day. The has been running for 19 days and is already at... |
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YouTube To Live Stream Wimbledon Matches For The First Time | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | YouTube has been getting deeper into lately and today, Google’s online video site that it will live-stream the Wimbledon tennis tournament, too. The company says YouTube will stream “the key moments of the tennis, interviews, behind the scenes and press conferences” throughout the two-week tournament. The coverage,... |
Adobe Photoshop CC Proves That The Cloud Isn’t A Cure-All Refuge From Software Piracy | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | Adobe released Photoshop CC this week, as part of its Creative Cloud-only revamp of the entire Creative Suite of software products it offers. The new version of Photoshop offers some exclusive new features, which I’ve covered previously, but the cloud-based and subscription nature of the program were seen by many as a ... |
Thankful Registry Is A Wedding Gift Registry For Thoughtful Couples | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | Registries present an etiquette quandary for engaged couples. Open one at a major retailer, fill it with and you end up looking greedy (how many newlywed couples really need a gravy boat?). Skip the registry, and you risk receiving multiple toasters. tackles that problem by re-imagining registries as a way for coup... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Instagram Video, Samsung Stuff, And MakerBot | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 21 | Instagram It be better than Vines. Samsung a bunch of computers and cameras and phones with strange names. That was fun. And of course, 3D printing sweetheart to Stratasys. It’s been a long, crazy, eventful week, and we’re here to discuss it with you on the , featuring John Biggs, Jordan Crook, Darrell Etheri... |
Malaysia Is Poorly Marketed To Entrepreneurs, Says 500 Durians’ Khailee Ng | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | Malaysia is an easy place to get cheap, good, English-speaking talent, with overheads that are often far lower than in more advanced markets in Southeast Asia. But it continues to suffer the effects of brain drain. Simply put, Malaysia isn’t cool to be in for some of the nation’s brightest, and this has hurt its startu... |
Samsung And Nokia Could Be Gearing Up For A Smartphone Camera War | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | So Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Mini and Galaxy S4 Active have officially made the leap from unimaginative rumors to unimaginative reality, which leaves only one oft-rumored version of the popular smartphone left unaccounted for — the curious S4 Zoom. As the name sort of implies, this Galaxy variant is said to blur the line be... |
NYT Claims Tech Giants Gave NSA Access To Private Data, Just Not “Direct Access” | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | The fog of confusion is slowly lifting and the facts surrounding the are becoming a little bit clearer. According to a , the tech companies that allegedly helped the government to spy on their people did indeed not provide a direct access back door to their servers. Instead, the New York Times report claims, they ma... |
Doublespeak Denials Of PRISM Hid The Truth About Participation | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | “Direct Access” didn’t mean no access. “Back door” didn’t mean no door. “Only in accordance with the law” didn’t mean PRISM is illegal. And you didn’t need to have heard of a codename to have participated. Larry, Zuck, you didn’t spell out your denials of the NSA’s data spying program in plain English, and now we know ... |
The Deep Space Tourbillon Is A One-Off, Handmade Watch That Will Take You To Infinity And Beyond | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | As you may well know, the is one of the hardest (and most expensive) complications to build and only the very rich and very obsessed can afford them. This watch, however, may be just the ticket if you’re a hardcore Trekkie and you just hit a liquidity event. The Deep Space Tourbillon is made by and is supposed to l... |
Following Google’s Lead, Zuckerberg Says Facebook Isn’t Giving Govt “Direct Access” Either | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | Mark Zuckerberg has just taken to Facebook to to the accusations that Facebook is involved in PRISM, an alleged secret government program that gives the government access to user information, denying that Facebook has ever given any government “direct access” to its servers. This comes just hours after to the unfo... |
Who’s Telling The Truth About PRISM? Computer Security Expert Gene Spafford Weighs In [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | So we were pleased today to have the chance to speak with , aka “ ,” a computer science professor and a noted expert in computer security and ethics whose C.V. includes time serving , to help elucidate what’s going on here — and perhaps point us in the direction of the truth here. It was a wide-ranging conversati... |
After Picking Up ExactTarget, Salesforce Buys Enterprise Business Intelligence And Analytics Startup EdgeSpring | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | Salesforce is on a bit of an acquisition spree this week. After purchasing marketing software company ExactTarget for , the sales SaaS giant has announced the purchase of an enterprise business intelligence and analytics startup. Though financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, this is likely a smaller acquisi... |
Ask A VC: Redpoint’s Chris Moore On What He Looks For In An Ad Tech Startup And More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | In this week’s Ask A VC show, Redpoint partner joined us in the studio to discuss how he sources and spots promising startups, and more. Moore focuses on making investments for Redpoint in consumer internet, online marketing and SaaS companies, and has led Redpoint’s investment in Efficient Frontier (acquired by Ad... |
CAPTCHA Ad Startup Solve Media Says 2013 Revenue’s On-Track For $13M-$16M, Should Reach 4B Engagements | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | , a startup that , says that it’s growing quickly. There were more than 1 billion engagements with Solve’s Type-In ads last year, the company says. It will exceed that number in the second quarter of 2013 alone, and it should hit 4 billion for all of 2013. Solve also says that it’s on-track to bring in $13 million to... |
Your Arduino Is In My Android Device! UDOO Mixes It Up With An All-In-One Solution | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | For most beginning hardware hackers, is hard and Linux/Android is easy. The folks at , a Kickstarter project that ends tonight, aim to solve that by mixing the best of both worlds. The UDOO device contains an ARM processor (dual or quad core) as well as an Arduino microprocessor. This allows you to program the Ardui... |
Twilio Raises A $70M Series D As They Consider An IPO | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | Twilio, the company whose APIs help developers easily add SMS, voice, and VoIP functionality to their applications, has closed a Series D round of $70M dollars. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, and backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. As part of the deal, Redpoint’s... |
Google: There Is No PRISM Back Door To Our Servers, No Open-Ended Access To User Data | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | All of the companies that are allegedly involved in the have now issued short statements saying that they are not in this program and that they are not allowing the government “direct access” to their servers. Among these, of course, is Google. The company, however, also just issued a penned by its CEO Larry Page... |
iOS 7, OS X 10.9, MacBooks And iRadio: What To Expect At WWDC 2013 | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | Apple is set to deliver its WWDC keynote address on Monday June 10, and there are bound to be a lot of new things revealed on that day. The exact details remain shrouded in mystery, but as with every major Apple event, there have been lots of leaks and rumors leading up to this one, so we can at least sketch in broad t... |
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Airport Car Rental Startup Silvercar Ramps Up Expansion, With Plans For 7 Cities By Year-End | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | Airport car rental startup has increased the number of markets it hopes to launch in by the end of the year, as it seeks to more aggressively make its services available to more potential customers. Now available at three airports, it hopes to add a fourth by the end of the month, and expects to be in seven different... |
After Quietly Launching Down South, NoChains Wants To Help You To Find The Best Cuisine In NYC | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | Picture this: you’re traveling somewhere new and when it comes time to eat you want to get a feel for some local flavors. You’re not going to want to chow down at the nearby Applebee’s in that sort of situation, which is why South Carolina native Rich Winley and Philadelphian Dan Mall whipped up an iOS app called — cre... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Form 1 3D Printer, WWDC, And WWDC | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | If you’ve got that , look no further than this week’s . In it, we discuss the new which is meant to compete with the likes of MakerBot, as well as all the from Apple, including a revamped iOS 7, the , and even some new MacBooks? Maybe? John Biggs, Jordan Crook, Darrell Etherington and Greg Kumparak discuss this ... |
If PRISM Is Real, Why Are All These Tech Companies Denying Participation? | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | . Even the U.S. government now acknowledges its existence. The question that remains unanswered, though, is how involved Google, Apple, Yahoo, AOL, Paltalk and Facebook were. These companies are all named as “providers” on the original slides, including the dates the NSA started collecting data from them. The reporter ... |
Despite Naming Coincidence, Palantir Says It’s Not Part Of PRISM Program | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 7 | It’s unwise to postulate that, because big data and security startup , that it’s somehow culpable. And, in an to the Financial Times’ Tim Bradshaw, Palantir has now refuted that exact claim. “Palantir’s is completely unrelated to any US government program of the same name. Prism is Palantir’s name for a data inte... |
The Battle To Be First App Opened | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | Competition is heating up in the on-demand transportation industry, but unlike other segments of the market, there’s no lock-in that keeps customers loyal to one service or another. Users looking for a way to get from one place to another seemingly only care about the cost, convenience and reliability of the service. W... |
What Android Has That iOS Has Not (Yet) | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | Android is open and customizable. iOS is closed, designed for ease. But iPhone users are maturing, demanding more personalization, and Apple might give it to them at WWDC. At , Tim Cook said “I think you will see us open up more in the future, but not to the degree that we put the customer at risk of having a bad expe... |
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