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Digg Reader Is Now Open | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | Exactly one week before Google Reader shuts down entirely, Digg has opened up access to the Digg Reader beta. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we sat down with General Manager Jake Levine and President Andrew McLaughlin to discuss the details of the product, as well as the long-term roadmap. Digg now has two mai... |
A Professional Viner’s Take On Instagram Video | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | I’ve already when it comes to the , but what do other users have to say about it? Instagram and Vine user posted the same stop-animation video on Vine and Instagram, and asked her followers which was better. She’s a power user on both platforms, with nearly 10,000 followers on Instagram and nearly 200,000 follower... |
Reminder: The Seattle TC Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Going Down On July 18 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | It feels like just yesterday we were congratulating the winners of our TC Meetup + Pitch-Off in Austin, and yet we’re less than a month away from the very next epic evening of startuptacular pitchemonium. Seattle, are you ready? The is going down on July 18 at , from 6pm to 10pm. Alongside beer, good people, and g... |
Keen On… Ninja Innovation: What A Guy From Detroit Can Teach Silicon Valley About Innovation | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | Does Silicon Valley still lead the world in innovation? Yes, says , the long-time CEO and President of the (CEA) and author of the best-selling selling new book, . But, Shapiro – who lives in Detroit and works in Washington DC – reminds us, that dominance is fragile. Firstly, Silicon Valley has the typical arroga... |
Microsoft Partners With Deem To Expand Its Ad Inventory With More Local Offers And Deals | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | Microsoft and e-commerce platform , which is still better known under its previous name of Rearden Commerce, have inked a partnership that will allow Microsoft to distribute Deem’s large inventory of on its properties. While you probably haven’t heard of Deem or Rearden, the company is currently valued at $1 billion... |
Google Launches Google+ Photos App For Chromebook Pixel, Coming Soon To Other Chrome OS Devices | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | Google has launched a Google+ photos app for the Chromebook Pixel, something it actually previewed way back at the Pixel launch, and screens showed up in February, but it has taken until now to get the Google+ to wide release. The app plugs into your Google+ account, and will automatically upload photos on any SD card ... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With NEA’s Jon Sakoda | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 6 | 25 | On this week’s Ask A VC, we have NEA’s Jon Sakoda. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Sakoda joined NEA in 2006 and focuses on investments in SaaS, infrastructure software, and big data applications. His investments include Blue J... |
Steve Case’s Revolution Growth Invests $22 Million In Local, Organic Salad Chain Sweetgreen | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Local, organic salad chain has attracted $22 million in funding from , the investment fund founded by Steve Case, Ted Leonsis, and Donn Davis. Along with the funding, Case will join the board and advise Sweetgreen founders Nicolas Jammet, Jonathan Neman, and Nathaniel Ru. Sweetgreen is a farm-to-table salad chain th... |
The Android-Powered, Dual-Screen YotaPhone Launches In Russia And Beyond For €499 | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Remember the ? The delightfully kooky Russian smartphone that pairs a bog-standard LCD screen with an eInk display on its rump? It’s been teased for a launch for months now, but the company behind it has just spilled the beans at a press event in Moscow: the YotaPhone will complete with a confirmed €499/19,990 RUB p... |
From The Infinity Ventures Summit In Kyoto/Japan: 12 Japanese Startups Set Out Their Pitches | Serkan Toto | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Japanese VC firm is organizing the so-called (IVS) in Kyoto/Japan this week, an online industry event that’s taking place twice a year. Like at every IVS, a few hours of the program on the second day (today) were reserved for a total of 12 local startups to set out their pitches in front of about 700 attendees. Her... |
Brazilian Antivirus Startup PSafe Raises $30M Series C From China’s Qihoo 360 And Redpoint e.ventures | Contributor | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Brazilian antivirus startup announced a $30 million Series C investment round today. Chinese antivirus company led the round with a $25 million investment, and existing investors and returned to contribute another $5 million. PSafe is a free antivirus software for the Brazilian market, with 30 million installs ... |
In Rovio And Supercell’s Wake, Finland’s Gaming Scene Sees A Renaissance | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Somehow, 2013 marked the year that Helsinki became a global gaming capital in its own right. Maybe it was because Supercell, that started back in 2010, blossomed into a $3 billion company in less than a year. Or maybe it was when Rovio announced the two billionth download for Angry Birds with a dubstep dance on-stage... |
Amazon To Look Into Deliveries By Self-Driving Car | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | But since Jeff Bezos is going to pull his , then so will we. Because quite honestly, and all through the house, every creature was stirring, posting to Twitter about Amazon considering deliveries through Bezos could have picked any trendy technology to get his company’s name in the news and entice tech blogs with ea... |
New Card Skimmer Attaches To A Real POS Card Reader Like A Nasty Succubus | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | has found a fascinating example of a card skimmer – essentially a machine that steals your credit card number – that masquerades as a real POS terminal. The skimmer fits over the ubiquitous Verifone POS reader and even reads key-presses. It is virtually indistinguishable from the actual POS card reader and can be slip... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With DFJ’s Josh Stein | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Ask a VC is back this week after a brief hiatus–and our guest this week is DFJ managing director . As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Stein has backed and serves on the boards of Box, Chartbeat, LendKey, Selligy, SugarCRM, and Sw... |
After Raising $200M More, Airbnb Built A Replica Of The Dr. Strangelove War Room In Its Office | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Airbnb’s last round of funding totaled , bringing its total funding to . The company also has a new office that includes a replica of the war room from the film Dr. Strangelove. A profile of its digs in Modern Luxury’s SanFrancisco magazine , essentially an aggrandized meeting space, along with the new office’s glut... |
Apple, PrimeSense And Perceptive Computing Or: Why Your Phone Will See In 3D | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Last month Apple confirmed the . Initial thoughts turned towards applications in the Apple TV set-top box, but other reports that Apple was interested in its ‘mapping’ capabilities as well. After some digging and asking around, it seems like there might be more than meets the eye with this particular acquisition. Appl... |
Yahoo Acquires Team Behind Dreamworks Animation Incubated Mobile Video App Ptch | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Ptch, the DreamWorks Animation-incubated mobile video startup, has been acquired by Yahoo. The app was launched just over a year ago and will shut down on January 2, 2014. Until then, you’ll be able to download your ‘ptches’ if you’re a user, or save them out to your camera roll. The announcement was . “As part of the... |
Instagram Blocks Competitor Mobli From Its API | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | The relationship between Instagram and competitor Mobli, a photo- and video-sharing app out of Israel, has been a rocky one. Today Instagram to the Instagram API, effectively making users choose between the two. For the last 18 months, Mobli users could upload their Instagram content to their feeds with one click. Th... |
The New Just.me Wins Auction For The Old Just.me’s Assets | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Mobile messaging startup announced a couple of weeks ago that . Now it looks like the auction is over. The winner? Just.me. Well, technically it’s “ ,” but founder Keith Teare (who also co-founded TechCrunch) said the new company’s goal is to continue the same work: “And from a user point of view, we hope not to ski... |
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Google Wallet Cards Arriving Now, But Consumer Benefits Remain Unclear | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | Those who signed up for the new Google Wallet debit card are now receiving their cards in the mail, following the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. This MasterCard-powered prepaid debit card allows you to link your online Google Wallet balance to a real, plastic card you can use at point-of-sale, at ATMs, or anyw... |
House Approves Plastic Gun Ban, But Fails To Update Law For 3D Weapons | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | The most unproductive Congress in history could not manage to update a ban on plastic guns for the era of 3D printed weapons. Today, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly the but didn’t amend the law to require permanent metal inserts. As the law stands, gun manufactures abide by an honors system that they wi... |
Paid Game Downloads Spike 34% On The Windows Store In November, But Microsoft Obscures Other Data Points | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | In November, paid downloads of games on the Windows Store grew 34.12 percent, while free game downloads grew a more modest 13.41 percent. In the month, the Windows Store’s assortment of games saw 1,311,209 paid downloads and 16,744,484 free downloads. Microsoft has released a for its Windows Store app platform’s perf... |
Gift Guide: Walk Your Way Into 2014 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | As a convert to the standing desk lifestyle, I wondered just what I could do to further expand my alternative loafing lifestyle. To that end I brought a desk treadmill into the home, a decision that I have yet to regret. The model I’m trying, the (a bold name, to be sure) costs $749 and maxes out at 2 miles per hour.... |
Chrome Beta Gets New Tools For Mobile Development With Better Viewport Emulation, Screencast-Enabled Remote Debugging | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | With the launch of the this morning, Google introduced a number of new tools for mobile developers that should make it a bit easier for them to test their mobile web apps right from the desktop. The beta channel for desktop and Android now allows developers to debug their apps using an improved viewport emulation a... |
Perpetu Lets You Decide What Happens To Your Online Accounts After You Die | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | One day each of us will pass on and be no more. We will . Most of us don’t like to think about joining the choir invisible or, for that matter, what will happen to our online profiles once we become ex-people. A startup called wants to make it easier for us to ensure that our social network accounts are unplugged on... |
Windows 8.1 Surpasses Windows Vista Among Steam Users, Drives Windows 8.x Over The 18% Mark | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 3 | The Windows 8.x family of operating systems had a , but among gamers the recently released Windows 8.1 is performing decently. In November, sent Windows 8.1’s market share to 6.34 percent, up 4.49 percent in the month. Windows 8 itself ended the month at 12.11 percent, giving the larger Windows 8.x host a combined m... |
ToyTalk Isn’t Just Entertaining Our Kids, It’s Teaching Our Machines To Converse | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | Today the talking iPad app from ToyTalk gets two new scenarios based on classic movie genres. The sketch called In the Movies has a film noir segment called Winston Sly, Private Eye and a sci-fi jaunt called Squabble Amongst the Stars. We’ve , but it continues to be fascinating because of the underlying technology. ... |
Pinterest’s Engineering Lead Jon Jenkins Leaves To Launch His Own Startup | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | Jon Jenkins, who a year ago as its head of engineering, is leaving the company in what he as a “bittersweet” decision. Jenkins says he wants to launch his own company, a wish he had even before he joined Pinterest. A representative from Pinterest told us that the company is now looking for Jenkins’ successor. “Long... |
Former Battery Ventures Partner Brian O’Malley Joins Accel’s Early Stage Team | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | has announced that Brian O’Malley will join the venture capital firm as a partner on its early stage team. O’Malley was formerly a general partner at , where he led its seed and early stage practices. Other recent hires include the addition of Hilary Mason as Accel’s new data scientist in residence, Kobie Fuller as a... |
Apple Finally Signs Long-Awaited Deal To Sell iPhones On China Mobile’s Network | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | China Mobile has finally signed a deal to offer Apple iPhones on its network, an agreement that took years to reach, the Wall Street Journal. China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile carrier, with more than 700 million subscribers, and is the last of China’s three major carriers to offer the iPhone. We have emailed... |
Twitter Is About To Officially Launch Retargeted Ads [Update: Confirmed] | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | Twitter is ready to roll out retargeted ads fueled by browser cookies, sources confirm. Twitter could make the announcement as soon as tomorrow, expanding retargeted ads beyond the “experimental” phase that started in July. The secret sauce of Twitter’s retargeting is the use of your account as a cross-device identity ... |
Second Screen TV Startup Wywy Raises $7M For International Growth | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | , a German company promising to help monetize TV activity on mobile devices, is announcing that it has raised $7 million in Series B funding. , the company’s history goes back to 2001, with video and audio detection technology, but it only launched its second screen products last year. Those products include multi-scre... |
Ahead of Christmas, ZowPow Launches Plush Toy Controllers That Interact With Mobile Games | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | Like moths to a flame, kids gravitate toward iPad and iPhone games. But for parents that want their children to still be exposed to real-world toys, a new startup called ZowPow is offering a way that they can do both. The company makes plush toys that can control gameplay. One of their very first toys is a tiny plane t... |
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Microsoft Closes At $38.94, Its Highest Point In 13.38 Years | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | Microsoft’s stock closed at this afternoon, a level that the company hasn’t seen since 2000. As Dow Jones , the last day that Microsoft managed to close above $38.49 was July 18, 2000, when it wrapped up the day’s trading at $39.25. Since then, Microsoft essentially mucked about in the $20s and low $30s, kicking out... |
AmEx Now Allows You To Apply Your Reward Points To Everyday Purchases Via Your Mobile Phone | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | AmEx has made a fairly significant improvement to its points redemption system, via the financial institution’s mobile app. So all those points that AmEx users rack up when swiping their card or making online purchases, can now actually be automatically used right after the transaction for a designated purchase. Here’s... |
Here Are 2013′s Most Popular Tunes, According To Our Informal Survey Of Music Startups | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJMapA8WgYw&w=560&h=315] As we head into the last leg of 2013, you may find yourself misty-eyed, staring out the window and listening a mashup of this year’s biggest musical hits. It was a good year, and not just because One Direction decided to make a fragrance. So t 100 most-pl... |
Yahoo Closes Above $38 For The First Time Since Early 2006 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | Yahoo shares closed above the $38 mark today, cresting that barrier for the first time since early 2006 on the strength of a nearly . Yahoo has since endured a long winter of CEO changes and lackluster direction. But the company’s shares have rallied strongly under the leadership of CEO Marissa Mayer, who took on the ... |
Leaked Uber Numbers, Which We’ve Confirmed, Point To Over $1B Gross, $213M Revenue | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | Today, Valleywag got its , along with a series of numbers from two weeks ago that show raw revenue, signups, active clients and ride request/completion ratios. TechCrunch has verified with a source that this is Uber’s official dashboard. TechCrunch also contacted Uber, who said that they would ‘take action’ against t... |
Publishing Platform Medium Keeps Iterating With New Photo, Layout Tools And Collection Controls | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | Medium, the blog publishing platform from Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, has today released new features and a few design changes. Medium has sprouted from a seedling to a full-fledged media tool in , recently opening sign-ups to the public. Today, however, the tool gets a bit of a revamp, with more placement and l... |
RISD President John Maeda Departing To Become First Design Partner At Kleiner Perkins | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | John Maeda is leaving his role as president of the Rhode Island School of Design to become a design partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Maeda made the announcement in a YouTube video (embedded at the end of this post), and it was confirmed in a news release from Kleiner. In his video, Maeda (who has been RISD ... |
Carl Icahn Files $50B Apple Share Buyback Proposal | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | Today that activist investor Carl Icahn filed a shareholder proposal that could press Apple to increase its share buyback program. The proposal, even if it is accepted by a majority of shareholders, would not force the company’s management to take any specific action. Still, if it passed, pressure would be strong on ... |
NSA Reportedly Tracking Cell Phone Location Data | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | According to leaked documents from whistleblower and Russian residency enthusiast, Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency is tracking people’s whereabouts en masse. By collecting the location data from billions of cell phone records, the National Security Agency can map the relationships of suspects, . The Pos... |
No, Google Isn’t The Far Right’s Sugar Daddy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | A report in PRWatch made it that Google has to a number of conservative groups, including Americans for Tax Reform, the CATO Institute, and Heritage Action. Americans for Tax Reform is known for its founder Grover Norquist and his , which many conservative politicians sign, promising to not raise taxes. The CATO I... |
How Facebook Went Mobile, In Before And After Org Charts | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 4 | Facebook used to be a website translated to mobile by a tiny team, but over the last two years it’s reorganized to make every department in the company mobile-first, as revealed in two new org charts it shared today at a small press conference “Whiteboard Session” at its Menlo Park HQ. It also said its 90 open source p... |
Maxthon Reaffirms Commitment To PC With New Windows Desktop Browser | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | Cloud-based browser maker latest announcements have been for mobile products (including to be pre-loaded onto 100 million mobile devices next year). Despite keeping pace with the rapidly growing mobile market, however, Maxthon is still focusing on its desktop products. Today the company announced the release of (d... |
Big Data Company Palantir Is Raising $58M At A Hefty $9B Valuation | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | Palantir, the big data company that secured clients like the NSA, the FBI and the CIA early on, is topping up its recent September funding round with a 50 percent bump in valuation. The company is now valued at $9 billion, according to sources familiar with the deal. An SEC filing released today showed that they are ... |
SurveyMonkey CEO David Goldberg On Swinging Into London To Build Out A Global Enterprise Business | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | At 14 years old, , the online feedback and survey company, is “not quite a startup anymore,” says its CEO David Goldberg. But the last year has marked what you might call a second childhood of sorts for the Silicon Valley company: a large raise of funds (some , all secondary); a launch of a whole new product branch (... |
Job Site Dice Acquires Recruiting Startup getTalent | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | founder and CEO Abraham Shafi told me that his SuccessFactors-backed startup was just acquired by job site . With getTalent, customers (who supposedly include Walmart, MTV, and Box) can add a plug-in to their job listings and career pages, allowing visitors to sign up for a “talent community,” where they’ll receive t... |
If Instagram Isn’t Building Private Messaging, It Should Be | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | Once upon a time, Instagram was a little app for sharing photos with friends and photography buffs. Its mostly public sharing model worked at that size. But now with over 150 million users, widespread awareness, and years of people following each other, users may be holding back from posting as much because they don’t ... |
Spotify Will Launch Limited Free Mobile Access At Dec 11th Event, Source Confirms | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | Spotify plans to make mobile access to its music service free, reports. Now a source confirms with TechCrunch that the free mobile tier will launch December 11th at a press event in New York. We’ve also learned users won’t get unlimited on-demand access, but will be less restricted if they listen to playlists or coll... |
Box Confirms It Raised $100M To Help Accelerate Global Expansion | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | The mega rounds continue to drop, with enterprise-facing cloud storage company Box confirming that it has raised in fresh outside funds. TechCrunch , meaning that Box took its time in disclosing the size of its new cash influx. The round values Box in the neighborhood of $2 billion, meaning that the company sold arou... |
Google Pushes White House Petition Demanding The Government Secure A Warrant To Read Your Email | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | Google is promoting a calling for reform to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), amending it to require a warrant for the government to read the email of its citizens. In a – natch – Google asked its followers if they felt their online missives deserve the same protection as their physical mail. Sign t... |
Online Code School Bloc Raises $2 Million For Its Web Development “Apprenticeship” Program | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | A company focused on teaching anyone the fundamentals of web development, , has raised $2 million in seed funding in a round led by Harrison Metal, with First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, and Learn Capital also participating. What’s interesting about Bloc is that, while it’s offering an online program that can be... |
Apple Puts iOS 7 Adoption At 74% Based On App Store Usage Numbers | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | Apple has just updated its to show the distribution of devices on different versions of iOS, and iOS 7 now commands a significant league, with 74 percent of devices using the major overhaul released alongside the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in September. iOS 7 usage has increased 10 percent since October according to App... |
Facebook: Brands Will Have To Work Harder (Or Buy Ads) For Your Attention — But Fans Still Matter | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | It’s going to get harder and harder for many businesses to reach fans on Facebook without paying for ads — that’s the message of sales material that the company sent to partners, as A year ago, there were rumors that Facebook was holding back the organic (non-paid) reach of Pages in order to drive businesses to its ad... |
Keen On…Jessica Rosenworcel: Why Silicon Valley And Washington DC Can’t Live Without Each Other | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | There are, of course, many libertarians in Silicon Valley who see Washington DC as the mortal enemy of innovation. But according to Commissioner , who was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by Barack Obama in 2012, Silicon Valley needs to “participate more” in DC. Entrepreneurs “need a referee”... |
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Filing Indicates Snapchat Is Looking To Raise $54.5M At Around A $2B Valuation | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | According to a filing uncovered by , Snapchat has authorized a new share class called Series C Preferred. The class of 1.6 million shares is set to be valued at $34.0893 each, according to a comment the group , or $54.54 million in total. The funding pegs the value of Snapchat at around $2 billion. Snapchat’s last ro... |
eBay Pushes Into Curating And Selling Digital Goods, Launches Dedicated Marketplace For Digital Comics | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | eBay has long been known as the de facto marketplace for buying and selling physical goods. But today the marketplace giant is making an interesting move into digital goods, launching a dedicated marketplace for Via a limited beta test in the U.S., the marketplace allows you to purchase and read digital comics, in th... |
Google’s Voice Search On Android And iOS Can Now Answer Questions In German, French And Japanese | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | Google has long had a thing for voice search, but until now, the only language it fully supported was English. Even though voice search itself is available for a , the only language Google could respond in with spoken answers was always English. That’s changing today. Google just that its Search app for and can ... |
We Need Your Help To Design The Hardware Battlefield Trophy | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | We are about to embark on amazing adventure and we need your help. In January we are holding our first in Las Vegas, Nevada to coincide with CES. We will bring 15 great hardware startups, a gaggle of amazing judges, and a 3D-printed trophy of your design. We need 3D designers to build us an amazing, open source troph... |
Airfy Is A Wi-Fi Hotspot That You Wouldn’t Be Ashamed To Take Home To Mother | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | Wi-Fi routers are usually boring. Designed to look as innocuous as possible, designers basically go for the “black box with lights on it” approach and head home. Not . Originally introduced at Berlin, Airfy is one of the sexiest Wi-Fi routers I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cross between an Art Deco lamp and a Legen... |
Who Is The Real Satoshi Nakamoto? One Researcher May Have Found The Answer | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | The Internet did something strange last week. When a researcher named Skye Grey , the interest was muted but optimistic. Did Grey, who declined to go into much personal detail, crack the code? Or was it, as always, just a matter of lucky conjecture. Whether or not Satoshi is a real person, group of people, or some sor... |
Index Ventures Leads €10M Series C In Online Plus-Size Fashion Retailer, Navabi | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | has led a €10 million Series C round in , an online retailer for plus-size fashion. Existing investors, which include and , also participated in the round. The German startup was founded back in 2007, and has raised some €13.5 million to date. Navabi sells clothes from a range of designer fashion brands — includin... |
Gift Guide: Tools And Toys For The Amateur Or Master Photographer | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 5 | Taking pictures is fun, frustrating and rewarding. But the right gear helps minimize the frustration and bump up the other two. This guide covers a range of photographers, from amateur mobile shooters to those with the best gear operating at or near the professional level, so there should be something for everyone. And... |
Google’s Compute Engine Hits General Availability, Drops Instance Prices 10%, Adds 16-Core Instances & Docker Support | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Google today the general availability of the , the cloud computing platform it launched . As part of the GA launch, Google also announced expanded support for new operating systems, a 10 percent drop in pricing for standard instances, new 16-core instances for applications that need a lot of computation power and a... |
Eleven James Is A New Startup That Lets You Rent Your Wrist Wear | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 2 |
Why should the ladies have all the fun? Like and , a new start-up, , is offering something men may find alluring: the opportunity to wear a cool new watch every few months for a monthly fee. Founded by Randy Brandoff, former CMO of NetJets and Marquis Jet, the company isn’t positioning itself as a rental service p... |
Drop ‘Til You Shop Harnesses Our Burning Desire To Nab A Deal To Turn Over Unsold Goods | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Compulsive shoppers, meet your worst enemy. It’s not Cyber Monday. A new e-commerce site called launches tomorrow. The aim, as the name might suggest, is to gamify bargain shopping. Focusing on fashion, jewelry, ticketing, electronics, and hotels/cruise deals to begin with, Drop ‘Til You Shop helps retailers turn ove... |
The Chernin Group Nabs A Majority Stake In Anime Video Distributor Crunchyroll | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | The Chernin Group confirmed today that it has acquired a majority stake in anime video distribution company . The deal was in October and gives Peter Chernin’s investment company one of the largest streaming sites out there, with viewers in more than 160 countries worldwide. Like Hulu, which earlier this year, Cr... |
PC Market Will Contract 10.1% In 2013, 3.8% In 2014, And Bottom Out North Of 300M Yearly Units | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Today IDC for the global PC market, estimating that 2013 sales will fall 10.1 percent, which is a slightly higher than the 9.7 percent the firm had previously anticipated. The PC market has had a year of historically bad proportions. That in mind, IDC does expect PCs to fare better in 2014, with a contraction of 3.8 ... |
Rentals Delivered By Drone Could Make Ownership Obsolete | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Why buy something when you could rent it, have it instantly delivered when you need it, and taken away when you’re done? While Amazon’s unveiling of its drone-powered delivery service could make buying easier, it’s drone pick-up that could make it so we don’t need to buy things at all. The sharing economy holds the p... |
E La Carte Scores Deal With Applebee’s, Bringing 100,000 Tableside Tablets To All U.S. Locations By Year-End 2014 | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Applebee’s, the largest casual dining chain in the U.S., has signed a deal with restaurant tablet hardware and software provider , which will see it introducing 100,000 tableside tablets to its locations starting in 2014, with the rollout completed by year-end. This represents one of the largest tableside tablet rollo... |
Apple Buys Topsy For Price Reportedly North Of $200M, Could Use Social Signals To Bolster Siri, App Store Relevance | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Apple has purchased social analytics firm Topsy, which focuses on parsing data from Twitter, reports . The deal was apparently worth ‘more than $200M’ according to the publication. Topsy is one of several firms that have been focused on gathering and parsing data from Twitter’s platform. It allows customers to tap int... |
Facebook’s Feed Adds More Links And “Related Articles” To Battle News Discovery Apps | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Facebook is determined to be your top content discovery destination, so it’s making several including showing more links to articles, displaying a “related articles” box when you click those links, and bumping old links back to the top of the feed when friends comment on them. The goal is to make Facebook the hub for... |
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Salesforce Says Hackathon Winner Didn’t Cheat But Declares Tie, Gives Two Finalists $1M Each | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Salesforce has to cries of in its $1 million hackathon by that while winning team Upshot didn’t cheat, judges weren’t given sufficient information to select a winner so it’s giving $1 million to each of the top two finalists, Upshot and Healthcare.love. That means Salesforce had to cough up $1 million extra to fi... |
Microsoft Rolls Out Student Advantage, Giving Students Free Access To Its Office Suite | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Today Microsoft on Student Advantage, a program, , that extends the availability of Office to students of educational institutions that pay for Office 365 for their staff and faculty. According to Microsoft, 35,000 educational institutions are eligible for Student Advantage, which provides access to the of Office ... |
Healthcare.gov: Mission Accomplished | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Apparently, no President is above the temptation of propaganda. Yesterday, the White House released a much-anticipated on the beleaguered insurance e-commerce website, heatlhcare.gov, proudly declaring that “we believe we have met the goal of having a system that will work smoothly for the vast majority of users.” Co... |
AppHero Acquired By Mobile App Publishing Firm Fuse Powered, Will Turn Its Attention To Ads | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | App discovery startup has been acquired by fellow Toronto-based company Fuse Powered, the company announced today, in a deal that will see the entire AppHero team including 19-year old founder Jordan Satok join and develop its products for app publishing, marketing and distribution. AppHero, founded in 2011, was a p... |
Supreme Court Refuses Consideration Of Amazon Sales Tax Case | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | The Supreme Court Amazon’s calls to consider their case against New York State’s sales tax on goods sold outside of its borders. By effectively upholding a New York Court’s ruling, the Justices tacitly imply that they are fine paying sales tax on black body robes purchased online and shipped from outside the DC area.... |
FTC Signs Off On The Nokia-Microsoft Deal | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | The Federal Trade Commission has on the Nokia-Microsoft deal, meaning that there is little if anything left that could derail the potential marriage of Microsoft’s money and Nokia’s hardware business. The deal, worth around $7.2 billion, will see Microsoft absorb the largest OEM for its Windows Phone line of smartpho... |
Facebook Is Replacing Its “Hide All” Button With “Unfollow” | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Here’s a new tweak to how Facebook users can filter their News Feeds: The company says it’s rolling out a button that allows you to “unfollow” other users. To be clear, it sounds like the functionality is pretty much identical to what users could already accomplish by hitting the “Hide All” button. For those of you who... |
Three Problems Stopping Bezos’ Army Of Amazon Delivery Drones | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn’t the only one who wants to take to the skies. Most of Hollywood drones for making films, police want them to patrol the skies, the National Guard needs rescue bots, journalists , farmers , and every college stoner glued to their couch would trade a vital organ for the . In short, everybo... |
Eventifier Raises A $500K Seed Round From Accel, KAE To Make Social Media Archives Of Your Events | Pankaj Mishra | 2,013 | 12 | 2 | , a Bangalore-based startup that aggregates and then creates archives of social media content from conferences, has raised around $500,000 in a seed round from Accel Partners and KAE Capital. The financing will be used to hire data scientists and beef up the sales and marketing efforts to carve out a position in an alr... |
Snapchat Sacrifices Ephemerality With New Replay Feature | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | My least favorite part of Snapchat is mistakenly opening a video Snap when I can’t hear it, like in a noisy public place or when my sound is off. Snapchat tried to with an experimental that lets you rewatch one old Snap per day. But by fixing that problem it created a much bigger one. It killed off some of its ephe... |
BTC China CEO Attempts To Calm The Bitcoin Market After RMB Deposit Shutdown | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | In a letter posted on the Chinese trading site CEO Bobby Lee attempted to calm the markets by posting a long, detailed description of the way forward for the company. “As China’s first Bitcoin and Bitcoin trading platform company, we have more than two and half years of operating experience and a good reputation,” ... |
Snapchat Adds Filters, A Replay Function And For Whatever Reason, Time, Temperature And Speed Overlays | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | Snapchat to its app today just before the holidays. The new version of the ephemeral messaging app includes several color filters, a new ‘special text’ font and a few other additions. The main update is the ‘visual filters’ that will add juiced up color effects to your images. If you’re stumped at how to activate the... |
The “Target Breach Flood” Is Already Appearing On The Carder Black Market; Target Reacts | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | In a deliciously detailed post, taken by credit card numbers stolen in the on their way to the carder black market. Krebs has far more information but he’s discovered that some card shops have created Target-only sections for the trove of numbers. Krebs described visiting a particularly infamous card shop where h... |
Mobile Rewards Startup Kiip Upgrades Its User Contests With New “Challenges” Product | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | When announced last week that that , co-founder and CEO Brian Wong said it didn’t share one of the key details (because, uh, reasons) — that this is the debut of a new Kiip product called Challenges. The company is best-known for allowing advertisers to sponsor rewards in games and other apps at key moments, say whe... |
Facebook Officially Joins The S&P 500, Prices Follow-On Offering At $55.05 Per Share | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | Facebook that it has priced its of 70 million shares of Class A stock at $55.05 per share. At this price, some $3.85 billion in stock will be offered in the sale. The offering is expected to close on December 26th. Facebook also said that Standard & Poor’s has officially added Facebook’s stock to the venerated rank... |
NSA Reportedly Paid A Security Firm Millions To Ship Deliberately Flawed Encryption Technology | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | Today that the NSA paid RSA, a security company and subsidiary of EMC, $10 million to use a flawed random generator technology as the “preferred” option in its BSafe software, increasing its popularity. In September of this year, that the NSA was working to, in its own words, “break widely used Internet encryption ... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | Hello, future IKEA Swedish meatballs! How are you this Friday? Ready to be torn to bits by sharp, gnashing, robotic teeth? I bet you are. In this exciting edition of we meet some tiny flying robots, some big climbing robots, and some bigger flying robots. First, say hello to the . This teeny weenie little flying rob... |
Ask A VC: GGV Capital’s Glenn Solomon On How Companies Should Build And Expand In China | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we had GGV Capital’s Glenn Solomon in the studio to talk about the developing technology market in China, and his predictions for 2014. Solomon, who has taken 32 trips to China in the past eight years, tells me in our interview that developing for the Chinese market is completely d... |
Windows Phone’s 2013: A Year In Perspective | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | Windows Phone, Microsoft’s smartphone platform has ground out its place at the mobile table employing a combination of tenacity, marketing dollars, improving firmware, and, at last, a world-class device lineup. It has not been an easy road for Microsoft, who launched Windows Phone 7 Series straight from the ashes of Ki... |
Gillmor Gang Live 12.20.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | – Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang |
Gift Guide: Something For A Twenty-Something | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | Twenty-somethings are some of the hardest people to shop for. They’re changing so quickly, interests waxing and waning by the day, making it pretty difficult to figure out a great gift for the holidays. But have no fear. At least one of these four suggestions should be a good fit for a young professional or college stu... |
Why Do People Keep Giving Foursquare Money? | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | Foursquare just raised a bunch of money, again. This time it’s a , back in April of this year it . The company seems to keep being able to convince people there’s something of value in its global location service. Over the past couple of years Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley has been stumping for the company’s shift in... |
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