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Waiting For Prometheus | Devin Coldewey | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | What is the real issue brought up by this whole PRISM debacle? It’s not that the government is willing to overstep its role using national security as an excuse. That’s been going on for thousands of years. It’s not that companies in a position of power are willing to throw those that rely on them under the bus in orde... |
To The Victors Go The Spoiler Alerts | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | : Last week, I did something I don’t normally do — I watched the latest episode of right around the time that it was actually airing on HBO. You see, I don’t have cable, so . But each week, these episodes tend to find their way to me anyway, as they spread around the internet like wildfire around Blackwater Bay. But... |
After Selling Its Display Network To Ziff Davis, InPowered Expands ‘Earned Advertising’ Beyond Tech | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | A few weeks ago, that would be to publisher Ziff Davis. Now the company is ready to talk about what comes next. Peyman and Pirouz Nilforoush, the brothers who co-founded InPowered and serve as CEO and president respectively, said they’re using the money from the deal (an undisclosed amount) to double down on InPo... |
It’s Time For Apple To Treat Us Like Adults | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | It’s time for Apple to treat us like adults. The company revolutionized the smartphone with iOS, no doubt. But as iOS gets older, its users are, too, and fewer and fewer of them are first-time smartphone owners. It made sense to hold everybody’s hands when this whole idea of a computer in your pocket was new. But just ... |
What Games Are: Have We Hit “Peak Mobile”? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | I was not particularly surprised. I’m talking about this week’s , OMGPOP and news, but not in a haughty-told-you-so sort of way. I’m wondering whether they are canaries in the coal-mine, symptomatic of a larger shift in mobile gaming. I’m wondering whether the mobile market has hit a peak, and whether that means its... |
First Cut Pro Just Made Post-Production Collaborative Video Editing Much Less Painful | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | Editing video is tedious enough on its own, but it becomes a whole new world of pain when producers, editors, audio guys, and others are trying to collaborate on a single project. That’s where (not to be confused with Final Cut Pro) comes in. The software comes out of Austin, where the company , meaning that the Fir... |
Google’s Inroads For Waze Could Roadblock Facebook And Apple | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | In the ever-raging Map War, Google seems to be not only a first mover, but the boldest mover. According to , an Israel-based publication, Google is reportedly set to acquire the Israeli transit and navigation company Waze for $1.3 billion, making it one of the larger Google acquisitions in recent memory. This latest d... |
How Google Sets Goals | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJB83EZtAjc] Goal setting within a startup or company is essential to success. But there are a number of different approaches to attaining these goals both within teams and individually. And what better framework to follow than Google’s strategy around establishing goals. This ge... |
Spy Whistleblower Comes Forward, Says “NSA Routinely Lies” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | The NSA whistleblower who exposed has come out and taken an interview with the leak reporter, ‘s Glenn Greenwald. “The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I want... |
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Skeuomorphism Isn’t iOS’s Biggest Problem | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | that the new release of Apple’s operating system, iOS 7, is in for a major overhaul, most notably bringing an end to so-called “skeuomorphic” design (visual metaphors reflecting the physical objects a digital version aims to replace – e.g. the faux leather in “Find My Friends,” bookshelves in iBooks, fake glass, notep... |
Hacker Faces More Jail Time Than The Convicted Steubenville Rapists He Exposed | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | A 26-year-old farm dweller who helped expose the rape of a teenage girl is up to 5x more jail time than the high school football members who publicly assaulted the girl. The Steubenville rape case became a after it was revealed that dozens of people had witnessed the assault at a party and then shared pictures and ... |
Facebook’s New Colocation And Image Recognition Patents Tease The Future Of Sharing | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | Facebook’s empire was built on photo tags and sharing, but it’s a grueling process many neglect. Luckily, new Facebook patents give it tech to continuously capture video whenever your camera is open, rank and surface the best images, and auto-tag them with people, places, and businesses. They tease a future where patte... |
Dekko Debuts An Augmented Reality Racing Game Playable From The iPad | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | , a San Francisco-based startup that just closed , just brought its first title to market with a racing game that has players drive virtual cars across tabletops. OK, so augmented reality, which overlays virtual items or information over the real world through a phone or tablet’s viewfinder, hasn’t really come into it... |
Build A Company That Attracts The Next Steve Jobs | Derek Andersen | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKrjEg03z0w&w=560&h=315] On Steve Jobs’ first day at Atari in 1973, he walked into the founder/CEO Nolan Bushnell’s office unannounced. “I think you have a really awesome company. I think that everything is pretty good, but I’ve seen your soldering connections and they’re really ... |
Iterations: Getting To Series A Is Not Sexy, It’s Really Hard Work | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 6 | 9 | TechCrunch . If you keep up with all the tech startup news, it’s easy to develop the impression that money is just sloshing around the Valley and even the worst products and ideas curry investors’ interests. Thankfully, this is far from the truth. As many of you know, raising institutional funding is quite hard and t... |
Mark Zuckerberg ‘Likes’ SF LGBT Pride As Tech Companies Publicly Celebrate Equal Rights | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook employees celebrated the San Francisco LGBT pride parade from a decorated trolley today, as tech companies across the country very visibly supported equal rights. According to , Facebook had over 700 employees at pride, and Google had over 1,400, around 40% more than last year. This year’s... |
Looking For A Show? Preamp.fm Builds A Music Video Playlist Of Bands Playing Nearby | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | Oh, my. I think someone has actually done it. Someone has built a system that promises to help me find fun things to do near me that… actually makes me want to do fun things near me. Like many a concept before it, is so simple, yet so clever, that it drives me crazy that I didn’t think of it first. Preamp.fm finds a ... |
The Plasticky BlackBerry Q5 Is Not The Mid-Tier Hero Handset BB10 Needs To Save It | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | In some ways the Qwerty-packing Q5, with its throwback BlackBerry looks, is a far more important device for BlackBerry than its current flagship, the all-touch . Or the premium-priced Qwerty-clad . The mid-tier Q5 should be priced to shift — because that’s what BlackBerry needs to happen to start regaining the ground... |
What Games Are: The Ludophile Mindset | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | There are regular people who like music on their phones and maybe listen to the radio or Spotify. For them, music is just a back track of daily life. Then there are interested people, who like good headphones, pay for a Spotify subscription or attend the occasional concert. Beyond these two groups lie the passionate 5%... |
Paul Graham’s Prescription For VCs: Move Fast, Take Less Equity | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | At the 500 Startups’ last week, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham gave a presentation in which he suggested a new way for Series A investments to get done. Graham provided a few suggestions for innovative early stage investors to differentiate themselves. It basically comes down to: move fast, and don’t over-invest in sta... |
Why Facebook Needs Trending Links | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | Facebook is not working on an RSS product, we hear, but it
still has a huge and truly social opportunity in news discovery.
Facebook could turn what links we share with friends into an
automatic Digg for the world. Over a billion people are on
Facebook, and many share links to news stories and offsite content
alon... |
Why Obama Was Never Going To Be A Civil Liberties Champion | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | President Barack Obama was never going to be a champion of civil liberties; he leads a growing sect of the Democratic party that prioritizes the collective good and mass innovation over individualism. This coercively inclusive political philosophy feels that every citizen, business, country, and institution has an obli... |
The Rise Of The Ephemeralnet | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | In the aftermath of the dot-com crash, a new era for the web began to take hold – a turning point whose seismic shift was hyped under the moniker “Web 2.0.” The concept referred to the web becoming a platform, a home for services whose popularity grew through network effects, user-generated content and collaboration. B... |
PandaWhale’s Slow And Steady March To Relevance | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | TechCrunch There is an interesting shift occurring in consumer websites and apps where users perform microwork that reshapes experiences. Classic examples of this are how Pinterest users are grabbing images from the web, personally reorganizing them, and, in the process, image search engine, much like Google Images... |
EU ‘Deeply Worried’ Over Report That NSA Bugged Its Offices, Wants Clarification | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | The NSA/Prism controversy rumbles on. Today the European Parliament President Martin Schulz there could be a severe impact on EU-US relations if the claims that the US had bugged EU offices in America and accessed computer networks turned out to be true. He’s said he’s ‘deeply worried’ about the issue and called for ... |
PlayJam Sticks It To The Video Game Giants | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | It’s been six months since ’s GameStick started its off-again, on-again Kickstarter campaign that netted it nearly $650,000 — well beyond its $100,000 goal. While it attracted less than a tenth of the funds that its predecessor OUYA nabbed for its Android-based home game console, things have moved apace with the two-p... |
Dejamor’s “Sexy Tales” Let You Have “Choose Your Own Adventure” Phone Sex | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | Observe, ladies and gentlemen, the lyrics of true seduction. Dejamor, a Dreamit-backed startup that creates subscription romance-filled boxes to help couples spice up sexy time, has now launched a new product called — yes, Sexy Tales — which lets you leave a sexy play-by-play recording for your partner. The service l... |
Can Google Really Crack The Game Console Market? | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | Look, we’ve all heard the rumors that Google is toiling away on a smartwatch, and the company has said the Nexus Q isn’t completely dead, so part of that recent report from the doesn’t completely out of the blue. That said, Google is reportedly also working on an Android-powered game console in response to murmurs of a... |
Benchmark’s Eisenberg And Face.com’s Shochat Raise $140M For Aleph, An Early-Stage Fund For Israeli Startups | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 30 | Two veteran investors who have been integral in the development of a new generation of Israeli startups are on a mission to reverse a trend in a country that has traditionally favored later-stage and enterprise-skewed venture capital. Benchmark’s Michael Eisenberg and Genesis Partners’ Eden Shochat are teaming up to cr... |
3D Printer Manufacturer Stratasys In Acquisition Talks With Makerbot | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | , the Brooklyn-based 3D printing company, is in talks with Minneapolis/Israel-based Stratasys regarding a possible acquisition by the latter, according to a source close to the matter. While Makerbot founder and CEO Bre Pettis refused to comment on speculation, and in fact told reporters “We’re not going anywhere” at a... |
We Asked For This | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | There is a certain jollity in the reactions of the webby class to news that the NSA has been, first, spying on Verizon communications for years, and second has approached multiple information-gathering startups, hat in hand, asking for access to their data stores. It is indeed funny: faceless bureaucrats who, we are ce... |
EFF’s Peter Eckersley On ‘Clever’ PRISM Denials, Fighting FISA, And Why Privacy Matters [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | Now those issues have come to the forefront of the mainstream’s consciousness, with a series of revelations this week that the NSA has reportedly been secretly working together with major tech companies to give the government access huge amounts of private user data through a . So it was a massive pleasure to have ... |
Zazzle Pulls Fake NSA PRISM Program T-Shirt For Intellectual Property Infringement | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | Turn on your radio-activated tooth fillings and cover your windows in aluminum foil because someone – no one knows who, for sure – has asked that homemade T-shirts be removed from the Internet. Read created the t-shirts as a joke, selling a grand total of three items before Zazzle shut down his store after citing “... |
Snapchat Hiring Massive Sales Team, Said To Be Raising $100M At A Near $1B Valuation To Pay Them | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | Snapchat is aggressively recruiting sales people from Stanford as well as USC for its impending debut of a monetization scheme, we’ve discovered. Meanwhile it’s raising $100 million at a valuation as high as $1 billion to pay them, as well as buy more servers and hire other talent to power its rapidly growing self-dest... |
Windows Phone 8 Reportedly Gained A Notification Center Before Losing It Again | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | When I buy gadgets off of eBay, I’m lucky if half of them haven’t previously been gnawed on by dogs. Meanwhile, who picked up a second-hand Nokia Lumia 920 from the auction site seems to have gotten much more than he bargained for — he’s been posting screenshots from the device for the better part of a day, because t... |
Director Of National Intelligence Tries To Downplay PRISM Paranoia, Says The System Doesn’t Mine Data | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | There have been plenty of making the rounds these past few days, and unsurprisingly the Office of the Director of National Intelligence doesn’t think the NSA’s surveillance practices have been cast in the most accurate light. In an effort to help do away with some pervasive misconceptions, the ODNI has issued a state... |
Senate Candidate @CoryBooker: What We Know And What We Need To Know | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | [tweet https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/343376246631190528] Democratic celebrity Newark Mayor Cory Booker just announced his candidacy for Senate, to be decided in a special election on October 16 to replace the late Senator Frank Lautenberg. We named him one of our because there’s a lot to like: he has pioneere... |
Girl Loses Friends Because Her Phone Is Too Big To Carry | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | Somewhere on the dance floor, she vanished. It would have a been no problem, except her smartphone was so large she left it at coat check. In the pursuit of a big, beautiful screen, she’d sacrificed why people carry phones in the first place. We had no way to find her in the massive nightclub, and we never saw her agai... |
Gillmor Gang: Back in the USSR | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — view the world through PRISM glasses. We, or me, couldn’t help wondering what part of surpised we are at the idea we’re being monitored and scraped within an inch of our metadata. It’s hard to tell whether we’re worried about losing our i... |
CrunchWeek: Zynga’s Big Layoffs, OMGPOP Gets The Axe, NSA Spying Emerges With Verizon | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | I’d be amiss if I didn’t acknowledge that this episode is missing a big, huge, massive story. We taped this late Thursday afternoon, one day earlier than normal, so that and I could say our proper CrunchWeek goodbyes to , who is departing TechCrunch . The that the National Security Agency has been some of t... |
Blanket Surveillance. Total Secrecy. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | Imagine that one day you came home to find a shiny little bubble of one-way glass in an upper corner of every single room, and a notice left on your kitchen table: “ ” Would that give you warm fuzzy feelings of safety and security? I ask because that’s a pretty good metaphor for what happened this week. I refer of cour... |
Tech Giants Built Segregated Systems For NSA Instead Of Firehoses To Protect Innocent Users From PRISM | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 8 | The NSA may have wanted full firehoses of data from Google, Facebook and other tech giants, but the companies attempted to protect innocent users from monitoring via compliance systems that created segregated data before securely handing it over as required by law, according to individuals familiar with the systems use... |
The New “Handmade” (Part Three) | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | Consumer interest in 3D printing is booming, thanks to , crazy stories about , human and , all of which are impressive technological leaps. But 3D printing is fueling artists’ creativity, too, whether those artists are or , finding their way around by watching YouTube tutorials. Although the results of 3D p... |
Crowdstar Picks Up An Extra $12M To Fuel Its Move Onto Tablets, Mobile | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | Crowdstar, the social and mobile gaming company that has built several fashion-focused titles, just picked up another $12 million from existing investors to bring two products to market later this year. As you might expect, both are mobile and Crowdstar CEO Jeffrey Tseng says the company now has a renewed focus on tab... |
Mozilla Readies Major Firefox Redesign As It Ponders What The Browser Of The Future Should Look Like | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | “Maybe we shouldn’t even call it a browser anymore,” Mozilla’s VP of Firefox engineering Jonathan Nightingale told me a few days ago. “‘Browser’ is really an antiquated word. People don’t really browse all that much anymore.” Instead, he argues, we now mostly use our browsers to access sophisticated web apps, web-based... |
As Anti-Government Protests Erupt In Istanbul, Facebook And Twitter Appear Suddenly Throttled | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | A massive anti-government protest in Istanbul, prompted after days of unrest were sparked by plans to redevelop one of the last remaining central public parks, appears to have led to a throttling of social media both in the city and across Turkey. TechCrunch has independently verified via a number of sources that both ... |
CrunchWeek: Elon Musk Dominates Tech, Waze Sale Talks Falter (Again), Jury’s Out On Arrested Development | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | This time around, , and I discuss continuing to with his moonshot business moves (and whether he’s the next Steve Jobs or even Thomas Edison), Waze’s reportedly — and how it’s not the first time that M&A talks have in recent months, and whether Netflix’s debut was (and Lawler’s kind of amazing from... |
How Samsung Got Big | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | stacked up high in the Gumi factory yard and more were coming out every minute. Phones, TVs, fax machines, and other gear shattered as it hit the concrete and Samsung CEO Kun-hee Lee and his board cracked the screens and cases with heavy hammers. Then they lit a bonfire and threw everything in. The 2,000 workers began... |
Austin Turns Out For A Hot Night Of Fun, Drinking And Pitching | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | Last Thursday, on a balmy night in Central Texas, over 900 people attended TechCrunch’s first event in the Lone Star State. Just like every other TechCrunch meetup, the crowd was an eclectic mix of tech nerds, entrepreneurs, business types, and venture capitalists. It was an epic night that ended with a pitch-off for... |
Policing Hate Speech Is Harder Than Nipples | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | No automated system can identify what will offend people. What some humans find disgusting, others find controversial, and others still find funny. Computers just don’t understand. That when activism groups got advertisers to boycott after the social network failed to suspend accounts accused of and encouraging vio... |
Gillmor Gang: Wake Up Call | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — recorded early on a Thursday morning, flush with Apple CEO Tim Cook’s read-between-the-lines performance at D11. Cook took some 80 minutes to say very little, or so say the pundits and Wall Street spinners. But the Gang foun... |
The Quantitative VC | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | It’s no longer sufficient in venture capital for firms to wait for companies, people and trends to come to Sand Hill Road. Seeing a startup on Demo Day at Y Combinator used to be the pipeline for scouting an early deal. But these days, YC companies are raising from angels before demo days. This is a sign of the times i... |
After Your Job Is Gone | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | Do you have a job? Do you like having a job? Then I have some bad news for you. “today’s technologies are going to remove people from economic activity completely.” Techonomy “America’s real worker crisis is not immigration, it is jobs.” Om Malik : “People talk about robot-helpers and an army of drones, but…what... |
Coub’s Gif-Like Looping Musical Videos Start To Pick Up Real Traction | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 1 |
While other file formats have faded, the lowly Gif has stubbornly stayed alive for more than 25 years through sites like Tumblr. Other apps like Vine and Cinemagram have also popped up to support the short-looping video. is doing the same and it’s starting to pick up some real traction. Over the last few months... |
LightInTheBox’s Shares Surge 22% To $11.61 As E-tailer Launches 2013’s First Chinese IPO In U.S. | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | Online e-commerce site became the first Chinese company to hold its IPO in the U.S. this year. Trading under the ticker LITB, shares rose 22.2% to $11.61 during the stock’s first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, raising a total of $79 million. LightInTheBox’s strong debut also boosted shares of other Ch... |
Oculus VR Co-Founder Andrew Scott Reisse Killed At 33, The Victim Of A Hit-And-Run | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 1 | Our community has lost a brilliant mind. Andrew Scott Reisse, a founding member and lead engineer on the Oculus Rift VR headset project, was struck and killed by a vehicle in Santa Ana, California as its driver fled from the police. According to an , Reisse was crossing the street when the driver, said to have been ru... |
VivaKi Partners With Nativo For Native Ad Campaigns | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | Native advertising startup and , a tech-focused agency within ad giant , announced today that they’ve formed a strategic partnership. Basically, VivaKi will be using Nativo technology to run campaigns for Publicis clients. The partnership is another sign that the ad industry is becoming interested in native adverti... |
U.S. Government: Reports About PRISM Contain “Numerous Inaccuracies” | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | After the flurry of about the NSA’s alleged earlier today, the U.S.’s Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper just released an official statement. According to Clapper, “ and articles refer to collection of communications pursuant to Section 702 of the . They contain numerous inaccuracies.” Clapper a... |
Who The NSA Follows, On Twitter | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | It’s not a surprise that by the U.S. government. It’s not a surprise that our Facebook and Google and What is a surprise is that the NSA Twitter account I can find ( is poetically a squatter) only follows seven accounts.
Betrayed by all its , perhaps the NSA in its because the NSA does not know... |
President Obama Visiting Silicon Valley Tonight, As Reports Of NSA’s Tech Spying Come To Light | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | President Obama’s that he is currently aboard Air Force One and en route to the San Francisco Bay Area for private events being held tonight with some of Silicon Valley’s most elite players. The president’s visit comes within hours of massive new revelations about the United States National Security Agency’s reporte... |
Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Yahoo, Microsoft, Paltalk, AOL And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM Surveillance Program | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | The Washington Post today that Google, Apple, Facebook, Dropbox, Microsoft, Paltalk, AOL (TechCrunch’s parent company) and Yahoo participated in the which provided the with what looks like virtually direct access to their servers and their users’ data. We have now reached out to all of these companies and all of ... |
Kamcord Now Makes Mobile Game Recordings More Interesting With Audio Commentary Tools | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | It’s been just under a year since officially launched, and the young team has spent its time and quietly fleshing out its SDK for iOS games. The team had seen its in-game screen recording tech implemented in over 100 games, and gamers have recorded 500 million videos since those very early days, but now the team ha... |
Report: NSA Collects Data Directly From Servers Of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook And More | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | The Washington Post is a top-secret National Security Administration data-mining program that taps directly into the Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple servers among others. “The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting a... |
The RK-1 Is An Arduino-Based Mobile Robot You Control With Smartphone Swipes | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 6 |
London-based roboticist Evangelos Georgiou wants to offer an open-source platform for helping Arduino hobbyists take their projects mobile, thanks to a that combines a programmable Arduino microcontroller with apps for iPhone or Android, tank tracks, DC motors and Wi-Fi connectivity. It’s a project that could ... |
FWD.us’ First Big Call To Action Automatically Phones Your Senator | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Green’s controversial FWD.us started getting the public involved today with its that calls you and connects you to your senator to show your support for immigration reform. Until now, the only way people could participate in FWD.us was by signing up to volunteer later or sharing the group’s ... |
EasyPost, A “Stripe For Shipping,” Raises $850K Seed Round, Sees Transactions Doubling Every Month | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | With more commerce moving online every day, the shipping industry is in need of innovation. And one of the bigger pain points developers face when trying to integrate postage and shipping into their applications involves the antiquated technology major carriers like FedEx, UPS and USPS provide – complex SOAP or XML API... |
Shopgate Raises $7M To Help Retailers Maximize Mobile Storefronts And Sales | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | Mobile e-commerce startup announced its Series B funding round today, which it revealed to TechCrunch totals $7 million in an interview. The Germany and Palo Alto-based company offers retailers custom native app and mobile web development for their online stores, which Shopgate co-founder Andrea Anderheggen says can ... |
Taxi E-Hail Apps Get The Green Light In New York City Officially, Finally, Once Again | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | Good news for New Yorkers who don’t want to walk outside and raise their hands in an effort to attract the attention of a yellow cab passing by: The New York State Supreme Court has , which had put into question the legality of taxi e-hail providers like Uber and Hailo operating in New York City. The ruling is yet ano... |
Facebook Home Gets A Much Needed Dock To Keep Your Favorite Apps Close | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | While Facebook Home hasn’t proven to be a smash success so far, it picked up a handful of features today that might just coax a few more users to hop on board. Amongst other things, the new Home allows you to pin your favorite apps to a dock — a basic feature, certainly, but something that’s been sorely missed since l... |
Facebook To Simplify Ad-Buying Process By Eliminating Half Of Its 27 Ad Units | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | Facebook is wrapping up a press session at its Menlo Park headquarters where it talked about the progress that it’s making with advertisers and announced it will be eliminating and consolidating a number of ad units. The big vision, according to Product Manager Fidji Simo, is to simplify the general process of running ... |
With $2.5M Injection From Nexus, Indian Housing Marketplace Launches In Bangalore | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | Indian housing marketplace, has expanded out of its home base of Mumbai into another major Indian city, Bangalore—its fifth city in the country. The company, which operates similarly to and , provides a real estate search site which displays a visual map of available housing for rent or sale. The search results ar... |
Apple Reportedly Planning Trade-In Program For iPhones, Similar To Existing Third-Party Buy-Back Plans | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | Apple is said to be looking into an iPhone trade-in program on used devices in order to “add sales,” according to a . Bloomberg says that this would be the “first time” Apple has attempted something like this on its homepage, but that’s not entirely true – the company started a program to accept iPhone trade-ins back ... |
Uber Continues Asia Expansion With Seoul Test Runs | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | Uber has , the startup’s second stop in Asia. Uber has been promoting its app and premium car service in South Korea since the beginning of May, right after it . The San Francisco-based company . Uber launched its testing phase in trendy Gangnam district with its first celebrity passenger, footballer and Olympic m... |
YouTube Founders Hurley And Chen Have Released An Asian Clone Of Vine | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 6 | , the company YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has just launched that appears to be a Chinese version of . I hate to use the word clone, but… clone. The app is called Wan-Pai, (or Wanpai, we’re not really sure due to complexities in the translation from Mandarin) which seems to mean “Beat” based on the... |
Appfuel Is A Simple Way For App Developers To Balance Monetization And Growth | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | is aiming to make it easy for mobile app developers to manage the tradeoff between user growth and monetization. Cross-promotion between apps is a big part of the ecosystem, but CEO Andrew Boos said Appfuel is unique because of its simplicity. Developers add a “suggested apps” unit to their own apps, and they can eith... |
“Facebook Reader” Is Real, But It’s Not RSS Or A Google Reader Wannabe | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | Facebook is working on a fresh way to read news, a source tells TechCrunch. It’s not based on RSS, and Facebook isn’t rushing the launch of a product that could compete with Flipboard. That’s because news reading is a high-stakes, long-term project that could get us to invest even more time in the social network. Since... |
Datameer Smart Analytics Is Designed For The Person Who Is Not A Data Scientist | Alex Williams | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | , like a lot of companies, is trying to make its data-analytics platform accessible to people who are not data scientists. It’s part of a growing trend to ease the complexity of data analytics so the practice is accessible to the far larger group of people who are more versed in using spreadsheets to do their work. Dat... |
Dropbox’s Drew Houston And Sequoia’s Bryan Schreier On How To Recruit (And Retain) Top Talent | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | 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 is focused on recruiting and retaining talent. For background, Houston foun... |
Medical E-Booking Platform ZocDoc Opens Up $55 Million In New Convertible Debt | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | , the company that makes a web-centric platform for booking health appointments, has drawn on $2 million of a new . In a phone call this afternoon, ZocDoc CEO said that the debt note is being provided by a “handful of folks.” He declined to provide further details on the entities involved. However, Massoumi is keen ... |
Enterprise Leaders Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner And Doug Leone At Disrupt SF | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | San Francisco, here comes . Our annual conference is once again at the historic San Francisco Design Concourse this September 7 through 12. The tech leaders of today will be onstage, and kicking off our slate this year we have enterprise heavy hitters, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner an... |
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Snapchat’s First Monetization Move Will Be In-App Purchases | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | Fresh on the heels of the announcement that Snapchat received , co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has told TechCrunch that the first phase of the monetization strategy will involve in-app transactions. According to Spiegel, the company is already playing with hidden features and doing experiments to see what works best.... |
Honest Buildings Gets $5.5 Million To Scale Out Its Online Network For Real Estate Pros | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | , a New York City-based startup that’s created a web platform to connect professionals in the real estate construction and design space, is announcing today that it’s raised $5.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by the and , and brings the total invested in Honest Buildings to date to $7.5 million. Thi... |
Microsoft and Oracle Team Up To Bring Java, Oracle Database, Linux and WebLogic Server To Azure And Windows Server | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | Ahead of their joint press conference later today, Microsoft and Oracle a new partnership that will bring a number of Oracle products to Windows Server and the company’s Azure cloud computing platform. These Oracle products include , and Oracle . , Oracle customers can run supported Oracle software on Windows Ser... |
Snowden Took Booz Allen Job With Intent To Expose NSA | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | Surveillance whistleblower and current Edward Snowden was a man on a mission: according to his latest interview, he took a private contractor position with the intent of exposing the National Security Agency. “My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacke... |
Hacker Scrapes Thousands Of Public Phone Numbers Using Facebook Graph Search | Billy Gallagher | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | A hacker has exploited Facebook’s Graph Search to collect a database of thousands of phone numbers and Facebook users. Both parties agree that all the information was left public by users (even if the users themselves may still not realize it). But Facebook issued him a cease and desist after the hacker continued to sc... |
Apple Releases iOS 7 Beta For iPad And iPad Mini With New Update, Brings Voice Memos Back | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | Apple has released a new beta of its iOS 7 software for developers today, and the big news is that the iPad version has arrived. Back when Apple announced iOS 7, it said the tablet version would follow the iPhone version a few weeks later, and they’ve stayed good to that promise. The iPad version support is available f... |
Win A Case For The Unreleased Redesigned iPad | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | So I just got an iPad case in the mail. It’s for the iPad 5. That model is not out yet. But you can have this case anyway. Of course I have no way of knowing if this will, for an absolute fact, fit the next iPad, but the chances are good. At best, you’ll win a case for the next iPad. Or, likewise, you could win a fun c... |
There Is No Google Reader Replacement, Only Alternatives | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | Google Reader is slowing down. Over the past few days, buttons have broken, marking feeds as read seemed to take a bit longer than usual, and the Android mobile website on some devices shifted over to the desktop view with no way to change things back. As users up until the bitter end, we can no longer complain about t... |
Leap Motion Opens Up Beta Access To Developers In Preparation For Its July 22 Launch | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | is about a month away from shipping its 3-D gesture controller to consumers, and it wants to make sure that there are plenty of apps for users to play with once it does. With that in mind, the company is opening up access to its Airspace app store for any developers who are already testing out the device, and it will ... |
Snowden Still Seeking Asylum, Wikileaks May Publish Rest Of His Docs | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is in political limbo as he seeks asylum with any country that will help him escape from U.S. extradition. On a press call today, Wikileaks Editor Julian Assange that he is “healthy and safe,” meaning that they still have no idea where he’ll eventually end up. “I cannot give further i... |
Google Launches Cloud Playground, A Browser-Based Environment For Trying Its Cloud Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | Google’s is slowly becoming ay fully featured environment for running complex web apps, but it’s not easy to just give it a quick try. To get started with Cloud Platform, after all, you have to first install the right and other tools on your local machine. Today, however, Google is launching its browser-based , wh... |
Africa-Focused Savannah Fund Graduates Its First Batch of Startups | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | Even though its startup scene is still nascent, Sub-Saharan Africa continues to grow pools of capital and entrepreneurial know-how in hubs like Nairobi, Kenya. Today, the Nairobi-based Savannah Fund, which is raising up to $10 million for startups in the region, just graduated its first batch of companies at . They in... |
Advice From The Game Maker That Made GungHo Worth $14B: “Listen To Your Wife.” | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | One of the most absurd stories this year has been the rapid rise of Gung-Ho, the Japanese gaming company that saw its stock surge by in a single year because of one hit mobile game called Puzzle & Dragons. The company is on public markets. That’s more than twice is worth and . For a brief moment, GungHo even sur... |
Reminder: Let’s Rock Out In The Balkans | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | Are you in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, or Slovenia? Have I got a treat for you. In an effort to spread the good word about TC in the rest of Europe, I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana at the beginning of July for a series of informal meet-ups. If you’re in those cities, I want you to attend... |
FAA Says It Will Be Months Before In-Flight Electronics Ban Is Lifted | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | Just , it seemed that the Federal Aviation Administration was finally going to relax the rules that require passengers to stow away electronic devices during take-off and landing. Now it appears, however, that travelers will have to wait months before the new regulations go into effect. Even though the FAA has prepar... |
State Machinery For State Machines | Contributor | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | My name is Andrew Auernheimer. I used to believe problems could be solved with criticism and discourse in our marketplace of ideas. Three years ago I incremented an integer on a . It was then demanded I apologize for abusive arithmetic. I disagreed that addition could be abhorrent, so now I write this from the Special... |
New iOS App Lets You Record What You Heard Five Minutes Ago | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | Have you ever wished that you could record something that already happened? Your kid’s first words. That perfectly timed comeback. The email address your boss told you to have those important documents sent to within the next 10 minutes. If only there was a way to record the important bits of your life, without having ... |
Instagram, Give Me A Photos-Only Stream Or Give Me Death | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | You hear that? It’s the sound of people closing the Instagram app. is More than any other social network, Instagram is a consumptive experience first and foremost, even though it might have tricked you into thinking it’s all about taking pictures. Instagram has never shared concrete stats on creation vs. consumptio... |
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