title stringlengths 2 283 ⌀ | author stringlengths 4 41 ⌀ | year int64 2.01k 2.02k | month int64 1 12 | day int64 1 31 | content stringlengths 1 111k ⌀ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Instagram Wanted To Be “Instagram For Video” Before It Was Cool | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | Calling Facebook isn’t particularly creative; not only did Myspace, Friendster and have the whole social network thing down first, but Questions, Places, Poke, Messenger, Stickers and so on were all ideas inspired by other startups. And there are so many more, countless. But while Zuckerberg is indeed the greates... |
What Games Are: Reinventing The Games Console Half Way Won’t Work | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | In some ways you’ve got to . The company has spent years trying to find ways to expand its Xbox idea. It put together a very interesting camera peripheral that many people bought into, but not too many games. It’s tried, on several occasions, to use the games console as a way to win access into the living room. Yet no... |
Video Killed The Instagram Star | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | Instagram, an app best known for photo-sharing, last week, as it (and parent Facebook) sought to defend against the advance of Twitter’s fast-growing video-sharing app, Vine. The hope was to give its users a whole new way to share what is happening around them with friends. But while it was an ambitious new feature f... |
BuzzFeed Says New ‘Flight Mode’ Campaign Shows ‘The Consumerization Of B2B Marketing’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | always seems to be the first online publication that comes up when people want to talk about smart, creative approaches to “native” advertising, so here’s a cool example of what the site is doing with advertisers — it’s partnering with GE to allow readers to navigate the site in “Flight Mode.” The campaign was designe... |
If The Government Can Access Our Facebook Data, What Happens When We Have Computers On Our Faces? | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | Wearables will follow a similar path as the smartphone market, analysts predicted in April 2012. “Wearables will move mainstream,” they said. But will they? Do you believe this? Do I? Maybe? From fitness trackers to smartwatches to computers you wear on your face, this emerging market, enabled by the increasing minia... |
New York Assembly Shelves Bill That Would ‘Shut Down’ Tesla Sales In The State | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | The New York State Assembly has tabled a set of two that would render business model for selling cars illegal in the state. Tesla’s sales model takes a page out of playbook, selling its electric cars through its , rather than through third-party dealerships. The bills, which were proposed last week and supported... |
The Series A Crunch Is No Match For Man’s Best Friend | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | TechCrunch With all the barking in startup-land these days, it can be tempting to dismiss certain categories as “another sign of the bubble.” For example, how about an for dog-owners to find other people to pet-sit their four-legged friends? Recently, I was a bit surprised to learn of a that seems to every deca... |
Ecuador, Where Edward Snowden Seeks Asylum, Is No Utopia For Journalists | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is , on this whirlwind tour of countries semi-hostile to the United States. While Ecuador has been a safe haven for world-class leakers in the past, including Wikileaks editor Julian Assange, the country . Given a “Partly Free” rating by Freedom House’s Freedom of the Press scale, n... |
NSA Whistleblower Snowden Requests Asylum In Ecuador After Leaving Hong Kong And Travelling To Russia | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program and a number of similar government initiatives over the course of , has left Hong Kong and is currently in transit in Moscow. , which has been providing legal assistance to Snowden, he “is bound for the Republic of Ecuador via a safe r... |
Up Close With Casio’s Latest Edifice Surf Watch | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | With summer coming and surf season in full swing, I thought I’d take a closer look at the watch with tide graph and moon-phase data. Casio is best known for its G-Shock line of beefy (and some would say ugly) plastic sports watches, so this steel-cased model is a departure for the brand. Casio announced the watch in ... |
After Teasing Us At CES, Withings Enters The Fitness Tracking War With The $99 Pulse | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 23 | And the battle to build quantified self gadgets rages on. The newest entrant is one that isn’t exactly new to the space — Withings has been churning out smart scales and since 2009, but it recently decided to set it sights on Fitbit and Jawbone with a new, $99 wearable fitness tracker called . The particulars should ... |
The Curse Of The Network Effect | Nir Eyal | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | Ethan Stock lived the Silicon Valley dream. He had recently and emanated the tanned skin and relaxed composure you’d expect of someone who just cashed a big corporate check. But as we sat across from one another in a Palo Alto coffee shop, I was surprised by what he said next. “Mediocrity is worse than failure, you k... |
For Some Reason, Square’s Hiring Page Listed Chirply And SeatMe As ‘Potential Acquisitions’ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | So, this is weird. Earlier today, if you visited on Jobvite, there were two unusual job listings, one for “Chirply — Potential Acquisition” and another for “SeatMe — Potential Acquisition.” If those were accurate statements, well, that’s a pretty strange way to announce a pair of pending deals. But before you start s... |
Hampton Creek Foods Shows Off Its Egg-Less Scrambled Eggs | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | , a food tech startup , is getting ready to expand beyond its initial product Beyond Eggs — though it’s not leaving eggs behind entirely. The company recently released the YouTube video embedded below, which gives a brief glimpse of its upcoming scrambled egg replacer. And founder/CEO Josh Tetrick told me that he just... |
Tristan O’Tierney, Square’s Co-Founder And Early iOS Engineer, Leaves For Destinations Unknown | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | Tristan O’Tierney, a co-founder at payment company , that yesterday was his last day at the company. O’Tierney is less well-known than his co-founders, particularly the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey, but (where he describes himself as an iOS engineer), his accomplishments include building the original iPhone app, as w... |
null | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 6 | 24 | null |
CrunchWeek: Path’s $1B Valuation, Google’s Waze Buy And The WWDC Recap | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | It’s that time of the week for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the weekly show where three of us writers plop ourselves down in the TechCrunch TV studio for some real talk about the most interesting stories from the past seven days. and I chatted this week about private social network Path’s rumored and the company... |
Doing Mobile Monetization The Right Way | blog | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | This year alone, there is an $11.4 billion mobile advertising , which means there is tremendous upside for nimble and innovative startups with disruptive mobile-first models. As we saw from Facebook last year, the company was able to turn around and actually make something of its – a business that didn’t exist at th... |
Blue Apps Are All Around But Blue Tones Get Less Of A Role In iOS 7’s Psychedelic Redesign | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | Why are so many app icons blue? The obvious answer is that so many tech brands contain blue in their logo or elsewhere in their tradedress. But why? What’s with the love of the blue tones people? I ask because the number of blue icons on my phone has reached a kind of tipping point where I’m often firing up the wrong a... |
Silicon Valley Real Estate Update: The Craziest Market In The U.S. Just Got A Little Less Crazy | Glenn Kelman | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | Well what do you know! After writing for the past year about how Silicon Valley’s Gatsbyesque wealth couldn’t find much real estate to buy, Bay Area inventory is . Bidding wars are . And rising rates are squeezing buyers who have to borrow money. Below is Redfin’s quarterly rundown of what’s happening in Silicon ... |
Security Psychology And Why Even Messy Numbers Of Government Data Demands Are Valuable | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | People assume the worst. So when it comes to counting government “requests” for private data, disclosing a number, even a high number, is far better than the fear of infinity. That’s why tech giants are fighting to show they aren’t open books surrendered to the NSA. They want to prove only the suspicious are being spie... |
Diary Of A 5,000-Hours-Per-Year Internet Troll | James Altucher | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | I know you do it. We all act like we don’t do it, like we’re all pristine human beings who WOULD NEVER do perverse things like that. But I know you do it. And you do it a lot. You respond to trolls. It starts like this: You post something intelligent on the “World Wide Web.” Triple-dub to those in the biz. You expect t... |
Disrupt Europe Startup Battlefield Deadline Is Approaching — $50,000 Is At Stake | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | Calling all startups from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. . For the very first time, the full TechCrunch Disrupt conference (complete with the main TechCrunch Editors and Writers) is coming to Europe and we’re looking for the very best startups to launch on our Disrupt stage as part of the world-famous Startup Bat... |
Can BuzzFeed Be Stopped? | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 6 | 15 | It’s been a good week for old media. , , , and have all done a superb job of reporting on the NSA/PRISM revelations. Unfortunately it has also been a terrible for them. Newspaper advertising revenue has fallen by since 2007, and paywalls aren’t even coming close to covering that loss. Worse yet, nimbler compet... |
Yahoo’s Shopping Spree Continues With Conference Calling Startup Rondee | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Thought Yahoo’s acquisition spree would culminate with a ? Nope, not so much. In fact, the buy-happy company just quietly made its second acquisition in 24 hours — in two different markets, no less. Yes, Yahoo followed this morning’s , by making a play into the enterprise conference calling space. Wait, what? Yep, u... |
RelateIQ Launches With $29M From Formation 8, Dustin Moskovitz And More To Be Your Next-Gen Relationship Manager | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Last summer, word started to trickle out about a young, stealth startup called that was rumored to be one of the more ambitious players among the new (and expanding) class of Big Data startups. Adam Evans and Steve Loughlin had founded RelateIQ the summer before to tackle some enduring problems in the way we manage o... |
Google’s Glass Explorers Are Getting A Mystery Package From Google X This Week | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | It looks like Google is shipping something to its community this week. Sadly, it’s not clear what exactly it is the roughly 2,000 first Glass users are getting. As Jesse Stay, the author of and , , a number of Glass Explorers are reporting that they have received notifications about this package through their My ... |
The Twitter #Music Website Fills Out Its Artist Profiles With Tweeted Tracks And Similar Artists | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | It looks like has gotten a couple of improvements on the web — specifically to its individual artist profiles. Previously, the artist page just pointed to the other artists that they were following. So , for example, pointed to the other musicians followed by Fun. on Twitter. (Clearly I’m writing this post to includ... |
Facebook’s Parse Grows 25% Month-Over-Month To 100K Apps Since Acquisition | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Parse, , has grown about 25 percent month-over-month and now services 100,000 apps. Around when the deal closed for roughly $85 million excluding retention and bonuses at the end of April, Parse had about 80,000 apps. (In fact, on the day the deal was announced, the company said it had 60,000 apps.) The company says... |
MySpace Punishes Its Few Remaining Friends By Vanishing Their Blogs | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Obviously has very few friends left to alienate — — but that hasn’t stopped it out of its few remaining fans by forcing through an update to its shiny new music discovery platform that’s swallowed their old blog content, with no guarantee it’s ever going to be retrievable. Oh but users are being vote on the o... |
Google Says It’s Seeing A Significant Jump In Phishing Attempts In Iran Ahead Of Elections | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Google says it’s seeing a that originate within Iran and target Iranian users. These attacks, Google says, started about three weeks ago and the company believes that they are politically motivated. Iran’s next election is and this “significant jump” in phishing activity in the region started about three weeks ago.... |
Airbnb’s Parisian Guests Want To Live Like Locals, With 70% Staying Outside Typical Hotel Districts | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Airbnb has released the results of a . After a similar study , Airbnb this time is profiling the effect that its peer-to-peer marketplace for housing accommodations has had on hosts and nearby businesses in Paris. The study was put together through a combination of proprietary host and guest data, as well as survey r... |
Congressman King Wants To Punish Journalists Who Published NSA Leaks | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | First Amendment pioneer and current Republican U.S. Congressman Peter King thinks that journalists for publishing the leaked documents about the . Unfazed by Anderson Coopers perfect jaw-line, Representative King said in a CNN interview: “Actually, if they–if they knew that this was classified information–I think ac... |
Hublished Gets Funding From NYU Prof. (AKA FirstMark Capital’s Lawrence Lenihan) During Spring Class | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | is still in private beta, so details are sparse on what the new content distribution platform (which reportedly helps content producers market their work through a webinar, e-book, podcast marketplace/network) is up to. However, we do know that the company has received over $150k in funding before its forthcoming be... |
Yahoo Acquires Advanced iOS Photography App Maker GhostBird Software | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Yahoo has just that they’ve acquired GhostBird Software, the creators of advanced iOS photography apps, KitCam and PhotoForge2. Though details of the deal are still under wraps, Yahoo is explicitly saying that they acquired GhostBird for the sake of improving Flickr. Could this suggest that a more advanced Flickr app... |
Orbeus Launches Visual Recognition (But Not Creepy Facial Recognition) APIs For Google Glass | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Google took swift action to recently, following which would have allowed developers to build apps that could identify the faces of people who a Glass wearer encountered. Today, however, another company called is launching its own and detection API platform , which sidesteps the privacy issues at hand, as it’... |
With iOS 7, Apple Shows It Will Tolerate QR Codes – But Not Further Their Cause | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Apple had a this year, but it also quietly adopted a tech that has received an equal amount of general scorn (if not more): the QR code. – yes, right into the OS – but in a way that makes clear its presence is more of a mildly unpleasant but useful tool in promoting its own tech, rather than anything to be truly up... |
Apple Showcases The Transformative Power Of iOS Apps In New Video | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtP6ZQ6Lt8?feature=player_detailpage] Apple has just posted a lengthy, nearly 10 minute video (via ) about how apps built for its platform are used around the world to make changes that significantly impact people’s lives. It’s a very different approach from the typical Apple c... |
Apple’s Golden State: Just Doing What’s Right | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Among his last advice he had for me, and for all of you, was to never ask what he would do. “Just do what’s right.” That’s what Tim Cook told the audience of Apple employees at the memorial for Steve Jobs, following his passing in 2011. Now, nearly two years later, we’re starting to see that plan . This year’s WWDC ke... |
Google Launches Cube Slam, An Open Source Pong Clone, To Show Off The Power Of WebRTC And WebGL | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | Google today , an pong clone that you can play against the computer or a friend in the browser. That by itself wouldn’t be all that exciting, but Google created this game to show off the . For most people (or at least for developers), is now synonymous with plugin-free video conferences in the browser and Cube ... |
Online Banking Startup Simple Finally Makes It Easier To Move Money Into Your Account | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | has made some serious strides since it opened up to the public last year, but there’s one thing the service has just never been that great at: transferring money from one bank account to another. According to a post on the , those days are finally over — users can link their Simple accounts to existing bank accounts ... |
Makerbot Updates Their Design Software And Firmware To Make 3D Printing Easier | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | Makerbot, besides making a darn nice printer, offers some amazing software for laying out and printing objects. Their product, , is free to download and use and supports some other 3D printers including the . The new software adds some interesting features to the package including improved support structures and raft... |
Google To Shut Down Mobile Ad Aggregator AdWhirl Sept 30, Points Developers To AdMob Mediation | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | , the in mobile advertising, today made another move that could help consolidate its position a little bit further. The company today announced to developers that it would be shutting down , a platform that let app developers switch between different ad networks on the fly. AdWhirl was a part of AdMob, after a , ... |
Inside The Storenvy Pop-Up Shop, Where E-Commerce Meets Brick And Mortar [TCTV] | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | Storenvy opened its pop-up shop in San Francisco with the intention that it would be a temporary 30-day thing. Four months later, it’s become a pretty popular destination, and the company’s CEO now says that he is looking at opening more brick and mortar locations elsewhere in the U.S. in the months ahead. In a way... |
Lucas And Spielberg Predict “Massive Implosion” Of Hollywood Caused By Tech Industry | Greg Barto | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | and aren’t so bullish on the future of the film industry. At a talk at USC, the pair agreed that it’s on track to have a “massive implosion”. At the core of their argument: there just isn’t enough time in the day for consumers to support all the films released in theaters. Films are competing with all the content an... |
Extreme Startups Demo Day Wrap Up: Canadian Startups Make A Strong Showing | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | Today was the Spring 2013 Demo Day in Toronto, and the cohort of five startups all delivered. The list this time included Brika, Instaradio, Koge, Polychart and Sciencescape. It was an incredibly diverse group, targeting verticals ranging from ecommerce to media to business intelligence, but it’s rare to see a group ... |
Smile! Hackers Can Silently Access Your Webcam Right Through The Browser (Again) | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | You know those people who put tape over their laptop’s webcam to keep digital peeping toms at bay? They’re not crazy. A new proof of concept is making the rounds today that demonstrates how a hacker can snap pics off your webcam, right through the browser, with no consent required. Well, technically, you giving conse... |
Disrupt Darling Trustev Wins Europe’s Top Startup Award | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | An EU Commission has named as the EU’s Top Startup, a prestigious honor that places the company head and shoulders above thousands of applicants. They announced the win at in London. Founded by Chris Kennedy and Pat Phelan, Trustev proves the identity of a shopper by creating a Social Fingerprint based on online in... |
A Look Back On Symbian On The Eve Of Its Demise | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | This summer the veteran Symbian platform, which started life back when handhelds weren’t phones but PDAs, will quietly pass into development history. Or at least its primary supporter over the years — Nokia — (or so says the FT). Unsurprisingly Nokia is keeping officially schtum this time around. Presumably it’s lear... |
Glossi Adds Monetization To Its Digital Magazine Platform By Partnering With RewardStyle | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | When digital publishing platform launched last December, it hadn’t quite addressed one of the big questions that revolves around any “future of media”-type platform — how publishers are going to make money. Now the company has made its first move towards publisher monetization through a partnership with affiliate n... |
Tunebox Is An iTunes Match-Like App For Dropbox Music Files | Eric Eldon | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | When late last year, wondered if the cloud music player startup could turn into a new audio streaming product. But Audiogalaxy was promptly shut down, and the team is rumored to be working on other Dropbox projects. And so, a has emerged for apps that stream DRM-free music files for Dropbox users. has a well-re... |
Senators Say No Evidence NSA Spying Prevented Attacks | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | I just got flashbacks of seeing congressmen debate on C-SPAN whether there were, in fact, any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Only a decade ago, Members of select intelligence committees saw identical pieces of evidence and came to vastly different conclusions. Now, it’s happening again with the National Security ... |
VigLink’s Affiliate Links Get More Up-To-Date (And Lucrative) With A New Link Optimizer | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | is announcing an update to its product that should help affiliate links stay up-to-date. The company promises to make publishers more money through affiliate links, i.e., links to online merchants that can earn a commission if they lead to a purchase. With Convert, VigLink turns standard, existing links into affilia... |
Facebook Begins Its Ad Consolidation By Eliminating ‘Sponsored Results’ In Search | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | Last week, by eliminating more than half of its 27 ad units. Today it’s taking one step towards that goal by announcing that it will be eliminating the Sponsored Results unit starting in July. The unit , allowing businesses to run ads in the “typeahead” results that show up when users enter a search query. , but th... |
Google To Retire Chrome Frame For Internet Explorer And End Support Next January | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | Google just that it is retiring , its open source plug-in for bringing Google Chrome’s JavaScript and rendering engine to legacy versions of Internet Explorer. The company cites the fact that legacy browsers like Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are now finally on the decline and that most people are now using modern brows... |
Betting On The ‘Reinvention Of Local,’ Sequoia Leads Thumbtack’s $12.5M Series B | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | , a marketplace for local service providers, has raised a $12.5 million Series B led by . When co-founder and CEO Marco Zappacosta told me about the funding, he said he’s excited because Sequoia is “focused on building enduring, meaningful brands,” and it’s “making us their bet” in the local services market. Sequoia’s... |
null | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 12 | null |
API Code Could Point To Facebook Building An RSS Reader | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | Move over , , , , and the rest of the RSS players who hope to pick up some new users with the of Google Reader. Facebook may also be looking to wade into the game. Asked whether Facebook is planning to launch an RSS product, a spokesperson for the company told TechCrunch, “We’re not commenting.” But there are s... |
Facebook Makes The First Big Dent On FISA, Releases Data On All U.S. Government Data Requests | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | As the shows no signs of dying down in the public consciousness, has just released the fullest account to date of the requests it has received from United States law enforcement and governmental authorities for the data surrounding its users. To borrow a phrase from local news , the numbers may surprise you. In a... |
Google X Announces Project Loon: Balloon-Powered Internet For Rural, Remote And Underserved Areas | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | Google X, the secretive lab behind projects like Google Glass and Google’s self-driving cars, announced its latest project today: for those areas of the earth where regular terrestrial Internet isn’t a good option. Earlier this week, Google started testing these balloons, which are meant to provide Internet access co... |
Ask A VC: Canaan Partners’ Maha Ibrahim On Why There Aren’t More Women VCs | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | In this week’s Ask A VC epsiode, we had Canaan Partners’ Maha Ibrahim in the studio to chat about her perspective on social gaming and more. Ibrahim, who has worked at Canaan since 2000, invests in cloud, social gaming and digital media companies for the firm. We raised an interesting question to Ibrahim: Why aren’t ... |
Google Quietly Kills Quick View For Wikipedia Results In Mobile Search | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | In April, Google a couple of new features that were meant to speed up mobile browsing. Among them was “Quick view,” an experimental feature that added a badge to Wikipedia results on Google’s mobile search results pages that, when you clicked it, loaded the Wikipedia result in around 100 milliseconds. Now, however, i... |
Jack Dorsey, Mayors Bloomberg And Lee Will Co-Host Digital Summit On Sept 30th | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 6 | 14 |
Bloomberg, Lee and Jack Dorsey. — Chris O'Brien (@obrien) Square CEO Jack Dorsey and the Mayors of New York City and San Francisco announced today that they will be collaborating on a digital technology summit, to be hosted on September 30th in the Big Apple. At a press conference at Square this afternoon, San... |
With Big-Name Backing And Some eBay Flavor, These Startups Are Looking To Shake Up The Art Market | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | Ebay is generally credited with being the first company to bring auctions — a system that, for nearly 2,500 years, had exclusively taken place live in noisy, public (and offline) forums — into the Digital Era. But, today, in spite of the fact that eCommerce has become a thriving global industry, with online marketplace... |
Facebook Will Launch A News Reader At June 20th Press Event. Update: It Launched Instagram Video | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | [Update June 24th: Facebook is in fact working on a fresh news reading experience, but we were mistaken about the launch date. It revealed Instagram For Video on June 20th. However, a source tells TechCrunch that Facebook is working on a reading product, but its not based on RSS or a Google Reader wannabe. We’ve update... |
Finally, Someone Likens Parenting To Marketing | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | You know what’s worse than waiting all day for an app (an app!) to get back to you? The fact that an article called “ ” exists. someone likens parenting to marketing. Tech newsmedia brethren, have you given up? I know, I know, some of our guest posts are also atrocious, and , but weren’t Fridays supposed to be the da... |
Teenage Musician Uses The Crowdfunded Loog Guitar To Crowdfund Her Album | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | When we last left off with the by Rafael Atijas it had blown past its funding goals on Kickstarter in early 2011 and making it one of the first successful Kickstarter projects on our radar. In the interim it’s become a mini-phenomenon and, most important, people have started using the three-stringed instruments to ... |
Groove Playlist Generation App Tops 85,000 Downloads In One Day After Going Free | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | is a Canadian-made mobile app that’s tearing up the charts, reaching a top 1o spot in over 30 countries, and climbing to number 1 in the Canadian app store over other music apps including Rdio and Songza. The app is part of Montreal-based ‘s latest cohort, and in move that’s becoming a trend for Founder Fuel companie... |
¿Cómo Ha Crecido Path? By Buying Ads In Spanish | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | The mystery of Path’s mysterious growth deepens. The app, which has been around for nearly three years, miraculously jumped up the charts from between 500th and 600th place to the teens on the free list about two months ago. That raised questions about how the app was able to do that so spontaneously. Was it that Path ... |
Heyzap Says Its Mobile Ad Network Has Grown To 800 Games (And Makes Up The Majority Of Its Revenue) | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | Back in March, I wrote about how to its mobile gaming platform. Now co-founder Jude Gomila says the company has become a significant player in mobile advertising. Specifically, Gomila sent along the chart showing the growth in publishers running Heyzap ads and the corresponding growth in ad impressions over the past ... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: E3, The Death Of Symbian, And WWDC | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | It was a big week in , and thus, a big it shall be. This week, we discuss , including Xbox One and PS4 pricing, the , and of course, . Will you buy a PS4 or an Xbox One? Does despair fill you from nose to navel when you remember the good old days of Symbian? Is the repelling, attractive, or of the two? John B... |
iOS 7 Eliminates MAC Address As Tracking Option, Signaling Final Push Towards Apple’s Own Ad Identifier Technology | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | Apple has now taken another step to push app publishers to use its preferred ad tracking option, the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), with the debut of the iOS 7 beta. Confirming what many have suspected, Apple is eliminating an alternative option involving tracking by MAC addresses. This method had sprung up followi... |
null | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 13 | null |
PiCloud Is A Model Cloud Made Of Raspberry Pi & LEGO For Teaching Students About Web Platforms | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | Is there aught the can’t do? Here’s another interesting implementation of the $35 microcromputer — or rather a stack of 56 Pis, linked together to form what its creators have called , using LEGO bricks as bespoke racks for the Pi stacks. (Not the first time we’ve seen either.) The project comes out of the Universi... |
Disrupt SF Is Around The Corner So Submit Your Startup Battlefield Applications By June 19th | John Biggs | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | TechCrunch Disrupt SF is back! We’re very excited to and that companies in stealth mode can apply for . After that, we’re pulling the plug on submissions. You have less than a week. This September 7-11, we’re bringing Disrupt back to San Francisco to welcome an all new slate of outstanding startups, influential spea... |
Optimizely Explains How It Boosted SimCity Pre-Order Revenue | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | Here’s an example of a company using ‘s A/B testing tools for a high-profile game launch. The startup, which recently , is releasing a case study today about how Electronic Arts used Optimizely to boost preorders for the new version of SimCity. Prior to the SimCity launch (and before EA division Maxis was trying to... |
Fly Or Die: Divvy | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | As photo-sharing truly hits its stride, an entire ecosystem is born around it. But what is creation without consumption? That’s what is all about. We met the folks behind at the TC Meetup + Pitch-Off. At its core, aggregates all your photos from Facebook and Instagram (Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox all coming soon) ... |
Snapchat Snaps Up A $80M Series B Led By IVP At An $800M Valuation | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | It’s the , and has raised an $80 million Series B round at an $800 million pre-money valuation. The phat Series B round was led by , according to multiple sources, after being sought after by many other top-tier Valley VCs. After putting in its dough, IVP hooks up with and , Snapchat’s existing backers. Contrar... |
Virtuix Omni Takes Virtual Reality In Every Direction | Ross Rubin | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | Now that there are enough wearable sensors on the market to track one activity per day each week, we’ve seen some sensor-based products turn their attention to chilling out already. There’s the that helps determine how you best focus, Phyode’s that aims to monitor a broad aspect of your physical state, and the th... |
Stripe’s Payments Payout Technology For Collaborative Consumption Startups Now Processing Up To $500K Per Day | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | A few weeks ago, payments startup Stripe for collaborative consumption startups to take and process payments. The company’s new technology allowed for payments to be distributed to multiple bank accounts, which is an issue for startups like Lyft, which are attempting to pay drivers with different accounts from the ac... |
RIP Snapjoy: The Dropbox-Acquired Photo Service Is Shutting Down | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | , the online photo storage service that Dropbox , has some bad news today for its users: it is shutting down. The company noted the information in a , as well as in an email it’s currently sending out to users (I am among them: I’m copying the text below). Users have until July 24 to download their pictures and rela... |
CrunchWeek: Instagram Video; 3D Printing Startup MakerBot’s Big Exit, And More Cash For Fab | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | It’s that time of the week for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the weekly show where three of us writers plop ourselves down in the TechCrunch TV studio for some real talk about the most interesting stories from the past seven days. This week you’ll notice that we decided to shoot the show from the middle of the TechCru... |
RSS Readersplosion Shows A Lot Of Skating To Where The Puck Has Been | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | Google Reader is , but people will have no shortage of alternative options when it does die, since everyone and their brother is building an RSS reader to fill the perceived gap. It’s hard to blame them; when Google announced the shutdown of Reader, it was as if millions of voices on the Internet suddenly cried out in... |
FTC To Review Google’s Waze Acquisition On Antitrust Grounds | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | has drawn the attention of the Federal Trade Commission after all. The reports today that Google has been contacted by FTC lawyers intending to conduct an antitrust review of the acquisition. Google declined to comment but did confirm to the that it has been contacted by the FTC over the deal. The news was reporte... |
Facebook Adds Like Button To Mobile Messages, A One-Touch “OK” | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | “Alright”, “Yes”, and the much-hated “k” just got a visual redesign. Facebook’s iOS and Android apps have rolled out the option in messages to reply with a one-tap thumbs-up Like button sticker. It’s a highly-functional flourish that replaces the greyed-out Send button when you haven’t typed anything. And while it seem... |
Gillmor Gang: Mo’ Beta Blues | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — welcome the summer solstice with a dip in the gene pool. With Google Glass two months new and iOS7 in developers’ hands, the stage is set for the unification of app notifications across OS and device. Microsoft releases Office for the iPh... |
Rapiro Kit Robot For Raspberry Pi Gets Funded On Kickstarter In Two Days | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 22 |
Meet Rapiro, the kit robot with a space inside its head to accomodate the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. The gizmo is the creation of Shota Ishiwatari, the Japanese gadgeteer who came up with a brain-wave controlled cat-ear headband and a heart-rate controlled wearable wagging tail, among other ‘ ‘ creations. Rap... |
The Technical Interview Is Dead (And No One Should Mourn) | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | Allow me just a little self-congratulation. Two years ago I wrote “ ,” about my contempt for the standard industry interview procedure for software engineers, condemning Microsoft and Google in particular for their and questions. And lo and behold, this week Google’s head of HR : “Brainteasers are a complete was... |
Here’s The Security Breach Email Facebook Is Sending To 6M Users | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 6 | 22 | Facebook has started sending out warning emails to users whose personal information has been compromised by , confirming which pieces of data were exposed. The bug exposed some six million Facebook users’ email addresses and telephone numbers to other site users because Facebook had “inadvertently stored [it] in assoc... |
CE Manufacturing Specialist PCH International Launches Its Hardware Incubator, Highway1 | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | Electronics manufacturing specialist is looking to find new clients just as they start. To do so, it’s creating an incubator called that will help young hardware startups build new products. PCH International is run by Irishman Liam Casey who has been dubbed “ ” by some. The company is best known for sourcing, manu... |
Planet Labs Raises $13M From DFJ, OATV, Founders Fund To Build The World’s Largest Fleet Of Earth-Imaging Satellites | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | a space and analytics company formerly known as , is announcing $13 million in funding from DFJ, Capricorn, OATV, Founders Fund Angel, Innovation Endeavors, Data Collective and First Round Capital. Planet Labs, which was founded by former NASA scientists, plans to launch the world’s largest fleet of imaging satellite... |
Brit + Co. Nabs $6.3M Series A Led By Oak Investment Partners To Go Big On Its Tech Media Hub For Makers | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | It’s become crystal clear over the past couple of years that , the former Googler who has been dubbed , is not just another 20-something woman operating a pretty lifestyle blog. Since its late 2011 launch, has emerged as a full-fledged technology and media company, complete with a staff of 16, more than 100 editori... |
null | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 14 | null |
Surre.al Launches A Kickstarter Campaign To Fund A Cross-Device, 3D Virtual World | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | , an independent game studio created by the co-founders of mobile gaming company Cellufun, is looking to Kickstarter to fund what it says will be a 3D virtual world (also called Surre.al) that will work across devices and provide access to a wide variety of game environments. The target for the campaign (which ) is $1... |
Intel Spinoff GainSpan Closes On $19M In Series D Funding For Its WiFi Chip Technology | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | , the semiconductor company that deals in ultra low-power Wi-Fi technology, will announced tomorrow that it has closed on $19 million in a new funding round. The round, which first started and appears to have finalized at about $1 million less than the company had initially sought, serves as GainSpan’s Series D and ... |
Heads Up, Haters, 70% Of The U.S. Has A Gay Friend On Facebook | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | Americans are growing more open about their sexual orientation, and that could help defeat prejudice. In honor of Gay Pride Week, Facebook ran the numbers and found 70 percent of U.S. users are friends with someone who lists themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. That fact could remind people they’re hurting someone ... |
Watchup’s Video News App Becomes More Automated And Context-Rich In Its Latest Update | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | , the startup aiming to create the tablet version of the daily news broadcast, has released , adding features for both casual and power users. The Watchup app pulls news videos from a range of sources, such as the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, and the Wall Street Journal, and it stitches them together into a continu... |
BitTorrent Would Really Like Everyone To Stop Suggesting It’s Being Used For Piracy | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | At this point, you’ve probably read about — and there’s at least one article calling the show “ .” Well, it sounds like , the company developing the open source file-sharing protocol of the same name, is getting a bit tired of the coverage. In , the company’s vice president of marketing, Matt Mason (pictured), argu... |
Havok’s Completely Free 3D Engine For Mobile Game Developers Is Now Available | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | Hey, aspiring game developers! Listen up. Way back in March, we outlined , a new 3D engine from Havok (the same people that built the engine behind some of the world’s biggest games, from Assassin’s Creed to Halo 4) that would be completely free to mobile game developers. At the time, the only target they’d give for w... |
Digg Reader Is A Promising, But Still Incomplete, Google Reader Alternative (Hands On) | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | For a subset of the Internet’s population, of its intention to shutter its dated, rusting RSS feed-reading service Google Reader was met with . Though never having grown to a size that made the service worth sustaining in Google’s eyes, its niche user base was devoted and heavily engaged. They were the Internet’s mo... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.