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Facebook Eyeing Up A $10-$15M Acquisition Of India’s Little Eye Labs | Pankaj Mishra | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | We now have more details on Facebook’s , an Indian startup whose primary product is a software tool for analyzing Android apps’ performance. Multiple sources have told us that the two companies exchanged the term sheets few weeks ago, and that a final announcement could be made by mid-January. The deal size is expecte... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Our Favorites For 2013 | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | It’s the most reflective and introspective time of the year, so this week on the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast we take a look back at the year that was and offer up our favorite gadgets. John likes a lot of stuff, including the treadmill desk that has become a permanent fixture on the Gadgets cast, and some more broadly t... |
ChallengePost Will Soon Support Software Innovation On An Ongoing Basis Outside Of Contests | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | Hackathon and online technology challenge contest provider (disclosure: ChallengePost is the current service provider for TC Disrupt hackathon events) is pretty proud of its 2013 – the company awarded $7.5 million in prizes to developers and software creators this past year, topped 400,000 registered users on its pla... |
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Backed By Steve Blank & More, Startup Genome Founders Launch Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool For Startups | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | of researchers, entrepreneurs and data geeks set out on an ambitious mission: To put the world’s technology startups under the microscope in an effort to better understand why some succeed and why 90 percent eventually go the way of the dinosaur. Fast forward to today, and (as it’s now called) has analyzed data fro... |
InVision Raises $11.6M From FirstMark Capital And Tiger Global | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | , a prototyping tool for thousands of web developers and designers, has recently closed an $11.6 million Series A round from FirstMark Capital and Tiger Global. The company out of New York with a mission to make it easy for designers to share, interact with, and get feedback on their prototypes. Users can easily uplo... |
Warby Parker Raises $60 Million From Existing Investors, Fortune Reports | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 12 | 20 | Online eyeglasses company just raised a $60 million Series C round from its existing investors, with Tiger Global Management leading. General Catalyst Partners, Spark Capital, Thrive Capital and First Round Capital also reinvested. reported the news first. It is likely that the company wasn’t short on cash before r... |
Yahoo/Siri App Is Actually A Real Prototype Built By Robin Labs But Not Commissioned By Yahoo | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | A little earlier we about a video that showed what appeared to be a Yahoo Siri competitor. “Sources familiar with Yahoo’s internal projects tell us that the video is fake,” we wrote. Well, it turns out that this isn’t the whole story. It’s true that Yahoo didn’t make the video itself, and it didn’t make the app, but ... |
Viki Launches On China’s Baidu To Expand Further In The World’s Biggest Online Video Market | Pankaj Mishra | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | Video streaming site , which allows users to write subtitles in over 160 languages, is expanding in China’s online video market by launching on Baidu, the country’s biggest search engine, with around 237 million monthly active users of its video service. Over the past 18 months, . Some of the recent alliances signed ... |
Yahoo Introduces New Style Of Flickr Embeds To Seed Content Outside Of The Site | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | Yahoo has today. Just about everyone has used content from Flickr in various ways at some point, especially from its great store of Creative Commons licensed images. Now, Flickr can capitalize on the network effect of people seeing all of those images off of its site with a new cleaner style. The realization that em... |
Bionym’s Vision For A Future Where Secure Account Holders Are Their Own Credentials | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | Toronto-based turned heads with its concept for wearable hardware that authenticates a user , which could turn the whole world of digital security on its head. It’s a key tied to your person in a very intimate sense, meaning it can’t really be stolen or lost like even a current standalone unique passkey generator ... |
That Yahoo Siri/Google Now Competitor Video Is Not A Yahoo Product | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | Earlier today a video began circulating that showed what appeared to be a Yahoo project that would be aimed at the virtual assistant market currently dominated by Siri and Google Now. The video, which was posted , shows a man driving around speaking to an app which recognizes his voice. : TechCrunch tracked down the a... |
I Guess It Was My Turn To Get A Creepy Pitch Video | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 18 |
[12/18/13, 5:12:24 PM] : so this creepy santa video
[12/18/13, 5:12:28 PM] Bob Patterson: was that sent to you?
[12/18/13, 5:13:16 PM] Anthony Ha:
[12/18/13, 5:13:41 PM] Bob Patterson: I feel like you get an unusually large percentage of this crazy pitch email
[12/18/13, 5:13:54 PM] Anthony Ha: nope! that’... |
California’s Experiment With Massive Online Courses Restricted To University Students | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | in massively open online courses (MOOCs) is not so radical anymore. San Jose State University will scale back the number of purely online courses and restrict them to enrolled students. “The goal right now is to focus on providing access to all CSU [California State University] students, including SJSU students,” San ... |
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Low Surface Inventory Could Hamper Microsoft’s Q4 Hardware Results | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | Demand for Microsoft’s new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 computers is outstripping supply, with shortages being noted online and off. Over the past few days, reports have cropped up that stock of the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablet hybrids has become quite tight. A quick search around the Internet confirms this. M... |
Obama’s NSA Task Force Recommends Major Reforms | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | Today, the much-anticipated findings of President Obama’s National Security Agency task force have hit the wire [ ]. The non-binding 200 page report of 40-plus recommendations calls for the end of many of the most controversial programs. Here are the big takeaways: . Instead, phone companies might warehouse the data fo... |
Google’s Location History Browser Is A Minute-By-Minute Map Of Your Life | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | Quick! Where were you last Tuesday at 6:35 PM? If you’re anything like me, your answer is probably along the lines of “I… have absolutely no idea.” Most people’s brains just don’t work that way. But odds are, Google knows. They probably know where you’ve been most days, too. And they’ll happily show you, letting you ... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: What To Get The Android Lover Who Has Everything | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | After a whirlwind trip in Toronto, my co-host Darrell Etherington and I are back in our respective countries and ready to talk about what’s new with Android. But first, a heartrending disclaimer — we were not wearing festive sweaters while recording the show like the image would indicate, but we did get a little festiv... |
Video: A Window Into BTCChina And The Rise Of Bitcoin In Asia | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | If you’re looking for a little background on bitcoin in China – and speak Chinese – this video from our TechCrunch event in Shanghai last month may be of interest. Featuring BTCChina CEO Bobby Lee as well as bitcoin luminaries Xu Mingxing, Celso Pitta, Wang How, and Mark Mai. During the time I was there I saw a lot of ... |
Revamped PrivacyStar App Uses Color Coding To Help You Avoid Telemarketers | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | released a version of its Android app today aimed at making it easier for users to avoid calls from aggressive telemarketers and debt collectors. The previous PrivacyStar app already provided real-time caller ID, as well as call and text blocking. (You can .) It also allows users to report abusive calls and texts. No... |
Keen On… 2013: Robert Scoble’s Person And Company Of The Year | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | 2013 has been kind to one of Silicon Valley’s most iconic characters – the blogger, tech evangelist and writer . He published a new book, , with , that not only has already sold 10,000 copies but has also received corporate sponsorship from ten technology companies including Rackspace and Microsoft. So how, I as... |
Photos+: A Better, Gif Friendly, Camera Roll For iPhone | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | I get a lot of crap every time I say that my . The sensor snobs and glass hogs come out of the woodwork to tell my why I’m an idiot for using it as my primary shooter. But the truth is I don’t give a crap — I’ve used the best lenses and cameras in the business and I know good from great from amazing. The iPhone’s came... |
Boxbee Launches A Sharing Library To Spark Peer-To-Peer Lending Of Unused Goods | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | San Francisco-based storage startup was founded on the idea of using technology to change the way people thought about urban storage. By providing its users with an inventory system and an ultra-easy way to get boxes for storage picked up and delivered, the company made it so that stored stuff didn’t just disappear i... |
Crowdfunding: Figure Out What Success Looks Like And Plan Backwards From There | Contributor | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | This is what happened during my first crowdfunding project, which is currently sitting at 97% of its goal with two days left on the clock. Our campaign’s goal was to cover the launch cost of our first product, a supercapacitor-powered portable speaker which would cost about $8,000 in compliance & overhead costs. The ne... |
A Look Back At How The Content Industry Almost Killed Blockbuster And Netflix (And The VCR) | Contributor | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | . The once iconic video rental giant Blockbuster is shutting down its remaining stores across the country. Netflix, meanwhile, is emerging as the leader in video rental, now primarily through online streaming. But Blockbuster, Netflix and home media consumption (VCR/DVD/Blu-ray) may never have existed at all in thei... |
Hey Uber, Lyft Is Growing Faster Than You | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 18 | Uber’s revenue numbers, just a few weeks ago, look bold at roughly $20 million per week. But there isn’t necessarily a definitive market winner yet in the peer-to-peer space, as the entire field is on a rising tide. Lyft, which started peer-to-peer ride-sharing after Uber’s black cars on demand, is seeing its revenue... |
Snapchat Downplays Phone Number Matching Hack, Says It’s Added New Counter-Measures | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | Following security researchers publishing a way to match Snapchat usernames to phone numbers, Snapchat has a skimpy statement making the hack sound impractical and noting “We recently added additional counter-measures and continue to make improvements to combat spam and abuse.” Earlier this week of how white-hat Gi... |
Ask A VC: Accel’s Ping Li On The Impact Of Data-Driven Software and More | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Accel Partners’ Partner Ping Li joined me in the studio to talk about big data companies, enterprise IPOs and more. Li, who focuses on early-stage growth software and data-center investments for Accel and is also responsible for the firm’s Big Data Fund, talked about the impact tha... |
NY Judge Rules NSA Phone Record Collection Is Legal | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | A U.S. District Judge that the National Security Agency’s phone-record-collection program is constitutional [ ]. “The right to be free from searches and seizures is fundamental, but not absolute,” New York’s Judge William Pauley wrote. This stands in direct contrast to a decision earlier this month the very same pr... |
Rdio Shuts Down Video-Streaming Site Vdio, Offers Amazon Credits As Reimbursement For Purchases | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | It’s only been six months since Rdio to the world, but it appears that the company has already decided to give up on that experiment. In an email sent to customers today, the streaming media startup announced that it has decided to discontinue the service. While Vdio was only just introduced over the summer, it follo... |
Asia’s Richest Man Invests In BitPay | Pankaj Mishra | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | After some in two of the world’s largest countries during past few weeks, the Bitcoin ecosystem may have found its biggest individual backer yet in Li Ka-shing, . Li is now an investor in Atlanta-based BitPay, the startup with ambitions to become the PayPal for the virtual currency world. He has made this investment... |
Gillmor Gang Live 12.27.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
2013 Mac Pro Review: Apple’s New Desktop Boasts Dramatic Redesign, Dramatic Performance | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | Pro is a sight to behold: In black aluminum with an eye-catching cylindrical design, there’s little chance you’ll ever mistake it for any other computer. The previous Mac Pro was iconic too, of course, but this one is also just slightly larger than a football and dimpled on the top with a recess like a jet engine. But... |
As Marketplaces Evolve, Greylock Places Its Bets | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | The idea of marketplaces as a business model for technology startups isn’t new. We saw some marketplaces go belly up in the bubble, and saw a few, like eBay, grow into massive businesses. However, the marketplace model has experienced a renaissance of sorts lately, with companies like Airbnb, Uber and others gaining se... |
Managing Director Jonathan Teo Leaves General Catalyst, Might Set Sights On Asian Startups | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | Jonathan Teo, a General Catalyst managing director whose most notable investments included Snapchat, has left the venture capital firm. The news is confirmed on Teo’s and his , where Teo is now listed as a venture advisor instead of a managing director. It might seem surprising that Teo would leave Gene... |
Nine Music Labels Plan To Sue Vkontakte, The Facebook Of Russia, Over 6,000 Illegal Tracks | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | , a social networking site known as the “Facebook of Russia”, is facing legal action from nine music labels including EMI, Sony and Warner over what they claim is the unlawful distribution of some 6,000 tracks of licensed music on the site from artists like Madonna, Linkin Park, Metallica and Beyonce. The lawsuits are ... |
Bitcoin Exchanges In India Shut Down After Regulator Warning | Pankaj Mishra | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | Bitcoin exchanges in India are shutting down days after the country’s banking regulator warned users of virtual currency against security and financial risks associated with them. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had remained silent on Bitcoin over the past few weeks, even as China started clamping down on the exchanges... |
With Angel Funding From Top Media Veterans, The News Lens Wants To Reshape Journalism In Taiwan | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | Earlier this month, , an independent media startup in Taiwan, from Marcus Brauchli, whose resume includes top editing positions at the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, and Sasa Vucinic, who helped launch the non-profit (MDIF). In addition to their investment, Brauchli and Vucinic are also working close... |
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How A Fabricated Story About Iron Maiden’s Love Of Music Pirates Became Internet Truth | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 27 | Wouldn’t it be awesome if heavy metal icons Iron Maiden leveraged data about which regions of the world pirated their music to plan a multi-million dollar global concert tour? Yeah, it’d be awesome, if it were true. So awesome to my anarchistic ears that I was halfway through reblogging the reblog of a Rolling Stone ... |
Shopify Raises $100M To Drop The ‘E’ And Become The Commerce Company That Spans On- And Offline | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Ottawa-based has already raised a considerable amount of money, especially for a Canadian company, and its Series C round continues that theme: The e-commerce company has raised $100 million from existing investors, as well as new ones, including OMERS Ventures and Insight Venture Partners; the goal is to help Shopif... |
Spire Raises $8M In Series A To Help Customers Manage Talent, Prevent Employee Fraud | Pankaj Mishra | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | , a big data startup based in Bangalore that helps customers manage current and future talent requirements using a contextual search engine, has raised $8 million in Series A funding from an unnamed institutional investor. Saurabh Jain, the founder of Spire, said that this investor has requested two-months embargo befo... |
NSA Reportedly Uses Google Cookies To Target Suspects | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | According to information once again leaked by , the National Security Agency using the same tool that allows advertisers to target consumers — small files known as “cookies.” In fact, the Washington Post has released more classified slides, revealing that the NSA has found a way to use Google’s own cookies (“GoogleP... |
Uber Offering Lyft Drivers Free $50 In Gas, Signing Perks To Switch Teams | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Uber is offering Lyft drivers several perks to entice them away from the ride sharing service. The perks include a $50 gas card just to stop by Uber HQ in San Francisco, and signing bonuses if they choose to actually take them up on the offer. We’ve been hearing reports of a signing bonus for a while now, but a flyer —... |
Web Video Startup Ooyala Raises $43 Million From Telstra | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Video distribution startup Ooyala raised another $43 million today, in a round of funding led by Australian telecom service provider Telstra. The funding brings the total amount raised to more than $120 million, and buys the company some time before it might have to go public. Ooyala customers include ESPN, Fox Sports,... |
A Merger In Gaming Services: Playhaven, Kontagent Combine In An All-Stock Deal Worth “Hundreds of Millions” | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Consolidation ahoy! Playhaven and Kontagent, two of the bigger gaming services companies that help developers run analytics and retain their players, have decided to merge into a combined company worth “hundreds of millions” of dollars in an all-stock deal. Neither company could give more specifics on how the deal was... |
Facebook Puts Its Web Feed In Motion With Auto-Playing Videos | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | The News Feed is about to get a lot more lively. Just days after pushing its auto-play feature for videos , today we spotted auto-playing videos on Facebook.com, and the company confirms to me “we’re continuing a wider rollout of in-line video on web”. Once this rollout is complete, the stage will be set for the intro... |
Glow, The Fertility App Founded By Max Levchin, Crosses 1,000 User Pregnancies | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | When launched its iPhone app for tracking female fertility earlier this year, it garnered attention for its slick design, , and of course well-known founder . But its real success — how many women conceived with the help of using the app — couldn’t be judged right away. These things take some time. Now that it’s be... |
Kleiner Perkins Names Bing Gordon As Chief Product Officer; Debuts Founder Education Program ProductWorks | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | It’s no secret that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has been its partnership, with some partners and others transitioning to new roles within the firm. Today, the firm that General Partner Bing Gordon, who was the former Chief Creative Officer at EA, will become the firm’s chief product officer, leading a prog... |
This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: So Many Google Play Editions, So Little Time | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | After a brief hiatus, we’re back with a very special episode of the TechCrunch Droidcast. Recorded with both myself and Chris Velazco in the flesh in our studio offices in sunny, warm (actually freezing, dark) Toronto, Canada this week is a pleasantly brief sojourn into the world of Android. We deal mostly with the new... |
Gift Card Marketplace Raise.com Gives Itself A Raise With $18.1 Million In New Funding | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Chicago-based , a marketplace where consumers can buy and sell gift cards for cash, has raised $18.1 million in funding, according to . The company declined to comment on who invested in the latest round, but has raised $4.5 million in earlier seed and angel rounds, we’re told. The filing doesn’t reveal the investor ... |
Will Instagram’s Messaging ‘Moments’ Be Ephemeral? | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Instagram is preparing to launch a new on its platform this year — as soon as its event this Thursday — TechCrunch has heard from a variety of sources. This isn’t too shocking, as Om Malik that the service would be coming very soon. What we’ve also heard, however, from a few sources, is a very interesting rumor: In... |
AmazonFresh Launches In San Francisco | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | As we , Amazon has launched its grocery-delivery service in San Francisco today. The service was previously available in Seattle and Los Angeles, but has now extended to the San Francisco Bay Area. costs $299/year and promises fresh produce, meats, dairy and more delivered on the same or next day. Prime membership is... |
On Strength Of Chicago’s Growth, Instacart Launches Grocery-Delivery Service In Boston | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Grocery-delivery service today launched in Boston, its third market after and . The company said it will serve the entire Boston metropolitan area within the next few months. That rate of expansion is normal for the firm, which took its time spreading out over the greater Bay Area, and is currently continuing to co... |
Twitter Broadens Its Keyword Targeting For Ads With Synonyms And “Twitter Lingo” | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Twitter just that it calls “broad match for keyword targeting.” Supposedly, this will allow advertisers running keyword-targeted campaigns to reach users who are using synonyms, alternate spellings, or “Twitter lingo.” When Twitter in April, Senior Director of Revenue Products Kevin Weil told me that the goal of th... |
Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From Coatue Management | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Amid rumors of a and a potential $200 million funding round, turns out that ephemeral messaging sensation Snapchat has actually raised $50 million in Series C funding. Co-founder Evan Spiegel has confirmed with TechCrunch that the $50 million was from a single investor, with no secondary offering. However, there is n... |
Petsy.mx Raises $1M To Bring U.S.-Style E-Commerce To Mexico’s Pet Lovers | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | If, like me, you’re old enough to remember the original Pets.com, then this funding story will make you smile. The iconic pet supplies online retailer, not to be confused with new owner PetSmart, sits alongside Boo.com and Webvan in Dot Com history. Folklore has it that Pets.com, which went from IPO to liquidation in 2... |
Google Brings Chrome Apps For Mac Out Of Beta, Offers Web Software That Works Offline | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Google has brought its , letting users install apps to their desktop for use just like native software. There’s a Chrome App Launcher for Mac, too, which resides in your dock and provides centralized access to all those Chrome apps in the same place. The apps available work offline, and can sync their state across com... |
Google Releases Its Find My iPhone-Style Android Device Manager App In The Play Store | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Google launched , but it curiously made the tool web-only, eschewing a native Android app and causing a lot of confusion in doing so. The Android Device Manager is , and does most of the things that Apple’s Find My iPhone service does, but for Android gadgets instead of iOS-powered devices. The new app, like the web ... |
“Feels” For iPhone Updates The Pro/Con List For The Emoticon Generation | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 11 | Torn up by a complex decision you need to make, and that pro/con list just isn’t helping? A new app called can help. Feels is a recently launched app designed by three students at the Savannah College of Art and Design that offers a clever, quick way to work through your decision-making process via a simple and color... |
New Report Shows That Most Of China’s Gamers Are Still Playing On PCs, Not Mobile | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | A (link via Google Translate), an industry group for game publishers, shows that China’s video game industry is now worth 83.17 billion RMB (or $13 billion), a 40% increase over the past 12 months (h/t ). While the growth is not surprising, the fact that most of that revenue came from PC-based games may be, especial... |
Mophie’s Powerstation XL Packs In The Power For Extended Time Away From Outlets | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | Our devices have a never-ending hunger for power – it’s their single greatest failing, in a time when they can do incredible things but still only last around a day of solid use in the best-case scenario. But Mophie has made a name for itself providing extra juice for your devices, and now they’ve got a new that pack... |
New Leaks Detail How The NSA’s ‘TAO’ And ‘ANT’ Units Spy On Devices, Global Networks | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | New leaks in Germany’s newspaper about the scope of electronic surveillance conducted by the United States’ National Security Agency. In short, it looks like the agency has even more access to personal data than we already thought. says it has obtained documents detailing the depth and breadth of access that the ... |
Fly Or Die: Microsoft Xbox One | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | Microsoft’s is off to a great start, launching with cable TV control, bumped up graphics, and an all-new Kinect. But is upgrading worth it? Our own that it’s a tough upgrade from the Xbox 360, after customers have grown accustomed to taking such huge technological leaps during earlier generational transitions. An... |
Reason #152 Virtual Reality Is Awesome: Personal Movie Theaters Without The Awful Other People | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | I love going to the movie theater. Seriously, I . I just hate all the other people that go. Quite early on, my parents taught me that there was but one rule for going to the theater: silence is golden. If the theater was a moviegoer’s church, talking or otherwise ruining the experience for others was sin. If I talked,... |
SD Cards Aren’t As Secure As We Think | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | The hardware hacker gave a talk at the where he offered some good news and some bad news. The good news? SD cards contain powerful, handy micro controllers that are useful to hackers and hobbyists. The bad news? SD cards are woefully insecure. In a detailed and , Huang describes the exact problems with Flash memor... |
Marco Polo Is A Simple App For Sharing Your Location With Selected Friends | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | A smartphone app called aims to make it easier for users to find and meet up with their friends. The basic mechanic of the app is pretty straightforward, and is indeed reminiscent of . Instead of text messaging back-and-forth with your friends to find out where they are, you hit the “Marco” button to share a pin sho... |
What Makes Girls Fall In Love With Computers And Code? | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | By Zach Weiner, via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1883#comic The discussion about women in technology is in , this time after remarks made by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham about the relative dearth of female tech founders and the perks of starting to code a... |
Facebook’s Cutesy Annual Report To Partners Reveals First Country-By-Country Mobile Stats | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | TechCrunch has obtained never before published metrics showing Facebook’s international growth. Facebook sent some partners a playfully illustrated eMagazine called The Annual, but I’ve acquired a copy from a source and the stats inside are serious business. The report divulges user counts for some key international ma... |
“Steve Jobs” Biographer Puts Draft Of New Book Online To Crowdsource Ideas | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | One of the most successful authors in the world, , is seeking the wisdom of the crowds for his new book about the technology industry’s major inventors. Crowdsourcing books , but it is, as far I as can tell, the first time a writer of Isaacson’s caliber has opened up the writing process in such a way. In an email int... |
How Snapchat Became The Breakout Consumer Product Of 2013 | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | TechCrunch Last year, as 2012 ended, I scanned the early-stage startup landscape and tried to identify one company that was a breakout for the year — I ultimately selected Stripe, and explained why, . I liked the thought-exercise so much I decided to do it again this year, and it didn’t take much deliberation to choo... |
CrunchWeek 2013 In Review: Bitcoin’s Big Rise, Edward Snowden And The NSA | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | In this first installment of our two-part year in review, Leena Rao, Ryan Lawler and I talk about the meteoric rise of , the digital currency based on an open source software protocol that seemed to capture the world’s attention over the course of the year as it hit staggeringly (amid lots of ) and secured , a... |
Apple Highlights Language Learning, Visual Design With Its 2013 Top App Store Picks | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Apple just released its annual list for iTunes and the App Store, and apps that focused on language learning or featured unusual visual design were among its top picks. The iPhone and iPad Games of the Year both won Apple Design awards in June. iPhone game Ridiculous Fishing: A Tale of Redemption by Vlambeer, stood o... |
What Games Are: Games And Money Are Still Weird | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 12 | 29 | Suppose you have a passion-project game, an interactive story you want to tell or something similar. You want to develop it for iOS. You want it to be “console quality” by which you mean rich in graphics and sound and with a lengthy amount of gameplay. You want it to be cool. Given how everything has liberalized in the... |
All I Want For Christmas: A Beta App Store | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Okay, Apple doesn’t actually issue such an alert, but they might as well. The App Store is about to shutdown for holiday break . And so I felt it was a good time to reflect on where we are with regard to the marketplace heading into 2014. The answer, as best I can tell from talking with innumerable developers over the... |
After Bootstrapping To $100M+ In Sales, Tutoring Marketplace WyzAnt Lands $21M From Accel To Go Global And Mobile | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Building an online marketplace for local services is a tricky proposition, especially at scale. It takes time to recruit a stable of service providers, to offer deep coverage within local markets and maintain the quality of service (and the trust of customers) as the marketplace expands into new cities. For local servi... |
Amazon Reportedly Buys Mobile Payments Startup Gopago, Working On An ‘Ambitious’ New Project | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Looks like Amazon may have quietly made another acquisition, and another move to expand its role in the world of mobile: are that the e-commerce giant has , a startup that offers consumers an iOS or Android mobile app to pre-pay for goods before picking them up at a store, and retailers a point-of-sale system to... |
Premature Celebration: Today’s Anti-Spy Ruling Is Merely Symbolic For Now | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | The news industry exploded today with headlines trumpeting a federal judge’s declaration that the National Security Agency’s . The strongly worded anti-NSA opinion was quotation gold, but it won’t have much real-world impact for now. “It’s one judge’s view, and it will certainly be appealed,” writes former NSA general... |
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500px Plans Aggressive Consumer Market Expansion In 2014, We Take A Look At Their New Space | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, ‘s new offices are expansive, impressive and just as laden with exposed brick and beams as anything you’ll see south of Market in San Francisco. When we visited last week, they’d only been there a few days, and only about a quarter of the space was set up, but even so it was... |
Ephemeral Messaging App Frankly Updated To Give Users More Control Over Their Text | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Spurred on by the intense popularity of Snapchat, it seems like everyone’s making an app with self-destructing messages these days. Or if you’re not making a standalone messaging app, you’re adding messaging as part of your existing service. With $6 million in backing by South Korea’s SK Planet, is another recent ent... |
Trustev Adds $500K From Notion Capital To Capitalise On The Ecommerce Boom | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Ecommerce fraud prevention startup is on something of a roll. Having recently closed a $3 million seed round from investors including Greycroft Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, ACT Venture Capital, Telefónica’s Wayra and Enterprise Ireland, it’s now adding to this with a $500,000 investment from enterprise-specia... |
Pebble Seeds Engineering Schools With 4K Free Smartwatches In A Bid To Drive Developer Interest | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Pebble today revealed a in which it will donate over 4,000 smartwatches to higher ed schools including Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Virginia Tech and many more. The donation is worth over $600,000, according to Pebble’s own estimates, but it’s clearly designed to make sure Pebble and the Pebble SDK are in the hand... |
Federal Judge Rules NSA’s Phone Metadata Program Likely Unconstitutional | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | A district court judge has declared the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone metadata likely unconstitutional. While civil liberties groups are hailing the ruling as a victory, Judge Richard Leon has stayed his ruling pending government appeal. The ruling is a legal setback for the NSA, and its defen... |
Make A Little You With Shapify.me | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | , makers of high-end 3D scanners for industrial clients, have added a little whimsy to your day with , a service that can scan and print your body in full color, allowing you to make a little mini me of your very own. The system uses the Sensor – it works with either the Kinect for Windows or Kinect for Xbox 360 – a... |
Hub Launches To Become The All-In-One Calendar And To-Do App For Your Family | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Organization within families — or even within teams — has never been easy. Different people use different calendars and tools for to-do lists, which means that it’s tough to stay on the same page. Well there’s a new app called that is designed to allow family members to share calendars and lists with one another. Hub... |
Facebook Launches “Donate” Button For Non-Profits That Also Collects Billing Info For Itself | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Facebook to make it much easier for non-profits to take contributions. A nice side effect for its business? The button will collect credit card numbers and other billing info for Facebook that could aid its ecommerce and gaming initiatives. 19 non-profit launch partners will start displaying the Donate Now button at ... |
Khosla Ventures Replaces Yuri Milner In Y Combinator’s YC VC Program | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Khosla Ventures is joining Y Combinator’s YC VC program, which provides $80,000 to each startup that goes through the seed stage accelerator. According to a , the firm will be taking the place of Yuri Milner, who is spending less time doing seed-stage investments. Khosla Ventures has already invested in a number of Y ... |
Salon Booking Platform StyleSeat Goes Mobile, Ahead Of Upcoming Series A | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Salon-booking service StyleSeat has finally made its way to mobile, after seeing its smartphone usage increase from 15% during the company’s first year (2011) to now 78% of total usage today. Says company co-founder and CEO Melody McCloskey of StyleSeat’s mobile traction, “it’s completely blown up in the last couple of... |
My Long Road To Self-Publishing | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | After blindly supporting it for a number of years, I’ve decided to crowdfund my own project, a novel that I wrote for my son, and then . Today I’d like to talk about my own experiences in publishing and why I think crowdfunding is, at the very least, a viable alternative to the traditional models. Be warned: this is a... |
Comcast Will Spend Millions Developing And Promoting Khan Academy To Encourage Low-Income Broadband Adoption | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | has committed to pumping millions of dollars into a with that will pay for product development of its free, online education and promote it alongside Comcast’s cheap broadband access tier Internet Essentials for low-income families. Comcast’s executive VP David Cohen believes that backing Khan Academy will boost di... |
Windows Phone 8.1 Brings Popular Android And iOS Features To The Emerging Third Mobile Platform | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | For all its polish, Windows Phone still lags the competition in certain features that seem obvious to include. Windows Phone 8.1, set for a public reveal at Microsoft’s Build conference in April, brings two iOS and Android standards to the Windows Phone quiver, including a Notification Center and a smart personal assis... |
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella On Outgoing CEO Ballmer’s Legacy, Management Style, And Vision | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | ZDNet’s today with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, one of its key executives and a candidate to be its next CEO. The discussion as written focuses on the legacy and style of the company’s outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer, with whom Nadella has worked closely. Given the CEO buzz about Nadella, his views, and criticisms of Ball... |
Moments Lets You Quickly Build A Photo Book On Your iPad, Pick It Up At Walgreens When Complete | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 16 | Looking for a last-minute holiday gift you can create on your iPad and pick up the same day? (not to be confused with photo-sharing app ), is a newly launched photo book maker which lets you quickly build a customizable, hardcover-bound photo book using images from your social networks, iCloud or your Camera Roll. W... |
Uber, LeCab And Others Now Have To Wait 15 Minutes Before Picking You Up In France | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 12 | 28 | At first, it was just an idea, but this bill is now very real — urban transportation services like Uber and LeCab will now have to wait 15 minutes in France before letting a customer in the car. Back in October, the French government mentioned this piece of legislation as these new services would hurt traditional cab d... |
Google’s Chromebooks Have Hit Their Stride | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 28 | It looks like Microsoft was about Google’s Chromebook project. According to the , Chromebooks accounted for 21 percent of all laptop sales and almost 10 percent of all computer sales to businesses in 2013. That’s up from virtually nothing in the year before. Given that Apple is irrelevant in commercial channel sales... |
The Bathys Atomic Watch Is Heading Towards A Crowdfunded Future | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 28 | , a boutique watchmaker based on Kauai, Hawaii and run by one determined man, first announced in October. Now, a few months later, the company is nearly ready to hit the shoals of crowdfunding. The company made a name for itself by building sturdy dive watches for the surfer set. We haven’t heard much from them, howe... |
Gillmor Gang: Almost Full | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 12 | 28 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Happy New Year! @stevegillmor, @scobleizer, @kteare, @kevinmarks, @jtaschek Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor |
I Can’t Believe I’m Saying This, But T-Mobile Is Awesome | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 12 | 28 | I’ve spent the last week back in my wintry homeland in Canada, and here the scales have fallen from my eyes, and I have seen the light, and I have a message for all of you who live in America, a message of the utmost importance, inscribed in fire on the sacred stone of the Internet. And that message is: Yes, I know I ... |
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