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Startup Hackathon In Kiev Today Hopes To Build Tools For Euromaidan Protest | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 12 | 28 | I attended in Kiev. Normally tech startup conferences consist of speeches, pitches, panels and networking events. This time, however, there was an added element – major social upheaval just around the corner. [ : See update below]. In nearby Independence Square, there was a massive protest in favour of the Ukraine j... |
South America Can Now Crowdfund With Bitcoins | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | While the rest of us are messing around with our PayPals and Amazon Payments, some folks in Argentina have created the first crowdfunding platform in America to take Bitcoin. The platform, called focuses primarily on artistic, musical, and retail projects although, as evidenced by the project photos, many campaigns h... |
Apple Requiring All App Submissions To Be Optimized For iOS 7 By Feb 1st | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Apple is requiring developers to optimize all app submissions for iOS 7 by February 1st, 2014, according to a new . That includes new apps and updates to existing apps. In order to optimize apps for the new operating system, they must be built with the latest version of Xcode 5 which includes 64-bit support and access... |
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Gift Guide: A Few Of Our Favorite Things | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Friends, the moments are ticking away and it won’t be long at all before your tranquil living rooms turn into wrapping paper-strewn war zones. What’s that? You haven’t done your shopping yet? Well, we’ve decided to take a quick break from our more thematic gift guides and give you the straight dope on the gadgets and... |
Stupeflix Launches Replay, An App To Quickly Stitch Your Photos Together Into Videos | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | , a startup that offers video tools to app developers, has launched a mobile app of its own called . In many cases, when a developer-focused company launches an app, it’s done as a proof-of-concept: “Hey, look what you could do with our technology!” In this case, however, co-founder Jeff Boudier said this was built to... |
Facebook Acquires SportStream To Increase Sports Chatter By Providing News Outlets With Cleaner Data | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Having watched Twitter establish itself as our go-to network for realtime content and chatter and LinkedIn move beyond the resume to become a professional content network, Facebook is taking a page from its fellow networking giants and continuing to push into the content game. Beginning with news and now sports content... |
Move Fast And Break Our Comments Section | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. We’ve been on Livefyre comments , and while we weren’t the biggest fans of Facebook Comments* while we , we’ve since realized that there is no perfect solution for commenting. And Facebook Comments, as troubled as they can be, are actually not that bad. At least for Tec... |
YourMechanic Launches An iPhone App To Connect You With A Mechanic While On The Go | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | just got a lot more mobile with an iPhone app that will help users to better diagnose repairs that are needed. The app will also send notifications to users as their car is being serviced and could even allow them to see pictures of jobs being done. YourMechanic launched last year to provide an easy way for car owne... |
Facebook’s Silent Autoplay Video Ads Require Custom Content To Shine | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Facebook could have made it easy for advertisers to port their TV commercials or online pre-rolls into its new video ad unit. Instead, it’s spawned a designed to minimize disruption to the user experience. While advertisers might be a bit annoyed they can’t reuse existing creative, Facebook’s decision could reduce ba... |
Google Glass Gets ‘Wink To Shoot Picture’ Mode, Lock Screen, YouTube Uploading And Hangouts Chat | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Google has just to Google Glass which adds a lock screen, Hangouts chat, direct YouTube uploading via a Glass app and a ‘wink to shoot a picture’ mode. The wink photo mode is obviously interesting as developers had dug up and it’s just making an appearance now. You can shoot images by simply turning the mode on and... |
Microsoft Chief: “Nobody Ever Buys Windows. They Buy Windows PCs.” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Earlier today ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley in what appears to be an orgy of access, this time with outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Regarding its executive changes, Microsoft today reported that it will , cooling speculation that the new CEO would land before the end of this year. Ballmer’s remarks are worth reading, ... |
Amazon Kinesis Now In Public Beta For Developers To Build Real-Time Apps | Alex Williams | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | , the company’s new data streaming analytics platform, is now in public beta. It allows developers to build real-time apps without managing the complexity of multiple clusters. But though it has been heralded as a new type of real-time app platform, it also has some drawbacks that have emerged since its at AWS Re:Inv... |
Dropbox Makes Mailbox More Service Agnostic With Support For Yahoo Mail And iCloud | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Dropbox acquisition Mailbox has with support for Yahoo Mail, iCloud, Me.com and Mac.com accounts. Previously, the client supported only Gmail inboxes, making its audience large but limited. Mailbox said it had more requests for iCloud and Yahoo Mail support than for any other feature. This release displays the influe... |
How The Nokia Purchase Will Impact Microsoft’s Financials | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia’s hardware business appears set to sail through, having passed shareholder and regulator approval. The 5.44 billion euro deal will see “substantially all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business” become part of Microsoft, according to the companies. The deal will allow Microsoft to wrest con... |
YouTube Finally, Finally, Finally Gets A Channel On Roku 3 | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Mark this up as one of those things that we’ve been waiting for forever and had to happen at some point: YouTube announced today that it’s . Well, one Roku streaming device at least. The new YouTube app is available on Roku 3 devices in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Republic of Ireland. And it provides fun stuff like HD... |
FlyCleaners, An On-Demand Laundry Startup Rolling Out In Brooklyn, Raises $2M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | , a startup that picks up your laundry, cleans it, and drops it off on-demand, is announcing that it has raised about $2 million in seed funding from Zelkova Ventures and undisclosed angel investors. There are a number of variations on the “Uber for laundry” idea already on the market, and . As far as I know, all of... |
The Soloshot Is A Robotic Cameraman For Your Video Selfies | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Sometimes you just need a robotic cameraman at your side and when you do, the is the gadget for the task. Just set it up, strap on a wristband, turn on your video camera and go surf, bike or ski. As long as you’re within about 2,000 feet of the device, it will automatically track all of your movements and capture the... |
Foundation: Brian Armstrong on Coinbase and Bitcoin Security | Contributor | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | In this episode of my Foundation video series, I sit down for a chat with Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong. We chat about Bitcoin, his first Android wallet project, and the insane security he uses to protect your coins. Brian on security: “We have over 200 tests that run against the code before every deploy…we keep t... |
Palantir’s Latest Round Valuing It At $9B Swells To $107.8M In New Funding | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | Palantir, the big data company that started off with clients like the FBI and CIA before building up a large private-sector roster of customers, just added more funding to its coffers. Last week, the company filed that it was raising $57 million with the SEC. Now that round is coming in at $107.5 million, Sources c... |
The Napwell Knows When You Are Sleeping, Then Coaxes You Awake | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | Is this the year of the sleep mask? thinks so. The Boston-based company is creating a napping mask that allows you to grab some shut-eye and wake up gently as lights inside the mask slowly rouse you from your slumber. The device lets you set a nap duration and then nod off. Once you reach the end of your nap the mask... |
PayPal Is Buying StackMob For Christmas | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 17 | [ : ] Mobile backend service provider is being acquired in a deal expected to be announced soon, according to multiple TechCrunch sources. We’ve heard from a few people the acquiring company is “down south,” meaning Silicon Valley or the South Bay. Some names that have been tossed around include Oracle and EMC, but ... |
nWay Raises $5M To Build Out ChronoBlade MMO Game | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | , a San Francisco-based gaming startup from an experienced team of MMO-makers, just raised $5 million in funding led by TransLink Capital. They also had participation from several of Silicon Valley’s better known micro-VCs and early-stage funds like Baseline Ventures’ Steven Anderson, Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee and H... |
Meet Kubo, The Crowdfunded Electric Cargo Scooter Made By Lit Motors | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | The Kubo is a uniquely designed vehicle that brings together the best of both worlds from scooters and cars: It has a small two-wheeled form factor, but a nice amount of storage space. Lit describes it as “combining the beautiful design of Apple and Vespa with the basic utility of a pickup truck.” I’d liken it to a m... |
Lovely’s Apartment Rental App Moves Into Its New Digs On Android | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | Few things in life are more frustrating than trying to find a new place to live (especially if you’re itching to move to the housing market hellholes that are New York City and San Francisco). It’s no wonder then that so many startups — Trulia, Zillow, Redfin, Apartment List, Rental Engine, Zumper, Nestio, the list goe... |
Extole Raises $5M To Reward Customers For Promoting Products To Their Friends | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | “Referral marketing” startup is announcing that it has raised $5 million in new funding. Founded in 2009, back in April. Since then, the company has also brought on Mark Cyster as CTO and Chris Duskin as vice president of marketing — like Roche, they were formerly executives at Offermatica (which was acquired by Ad... |
Gifting Service Loop Commerce Adds PayPal As An Investor, Bringing Its Series A To Over $12M | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | After its Series A in early November, gifting startup has added an investment from PayPal to the round. While Loop Commerce co-founder and CEO Roy Erez would not disclose the exact amount of PayPal’s investment, the Series A was previously $7 million and now stands a little north of $12 million. So you do the math.... |
Microsoft Debuts Another Set Of Surface Updates And Patches | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | As 2013 wraps to an end, Microsoft released its final set of Patch Tuesday fixes, updating its Surface line of tablets at the same time. According to Microsoft, the fixes include 11 bulletins, five of which are marked critical, solving 24 vulnerabilities. That’s quite the raft. Among the patched products are Windows, O... |
Cloud Storage Service SugarSync Abandons Freemium For A Paid Account Model | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | , a gladiator in the long, hard battle that is hosted cloud storage, has decided to go mercenary. The company announced today that they will offer a “paid-only” service model, doing away with their free storage tiers. Current customers can still access their files and will be offered considerable discounts on the servi... |
Gift Guide: The Tech-Loving Outdoors Enthusiast | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | Technology and nature seem in constant conflict, but they can be better together. And being a tech enthusiast isn’t necessarily mutually exclusive with loving the outdoors, which is why we’ve put together a whole gift guide featuring stuff that scratches that techie itch but also should help you conquer (or live in pea... |
Crunchies Nominations Close Next Sunday | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | The are almost here and time is running out to your favorite startup, founder, CEO and technology of the year. You have less than a week. Co-hosted by TechCrunch, VentureBeat and GigaOm, the annual “Oscars of Tech” celebrates the best of the past year. But it’s you, the tech community, that nominates who among us... |
Twitter Apps Updated With New Swipeable Design And Photo Support In Direct Messages | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | Today, Twitter has announced an as well as TweetDeck for Web, Chrome and PC (and Mac soon) that bring a renewed focus on direct messaging. The app now features a direct link to Direct Messages in the tab bar and allows you to send photos inside DMs for the first time. This major redesign has been in the works for a w... |
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Startups, Celebrities, And The Deadpool | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | Entrepreneurs who have had successful exits find it easier to raise capital for their next ventures. They come with the sort of record the money people want: A past littered with big, profitable liquidity events. So, sell your company or take it public, count to 10 and start again. I doubt you’ll have much trouble rais... |
White Nexus 7 Now Available In 32GB Model In The US, UK And Japan For $269 | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | Google has just released a , in white and packing 32GB of storage, available now for $269 on the Google Play Devices store, so long as you’re in the U.S., U.K. or Japan. There’s no LTE version and no 16GB model, unlike with the black Nexus 7, but if you’re looking for a color match tablet for your white Nexus 5 you’re... |
Secret-Sharing App Whisper Adds Search And Topics To Find Other Users Like You | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | , the secret sharing startup backed by Sequoia and others, has just pushed a new version of its app into the app store that’s designed to help users search and browse through various topics. The update also adds a new “create flow” that will simplify the process of making and sharing Whispers anonymously with other mem... |
Twitch Picks Up 100K Video Game Streamers On PlayStation 4 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | Twitch today announced that its integration into PlayStation 4 has seen more than 100,000 new video game streamers join its service. In the month of November, grew from 600,000 total broadcasters to over 700,000. TechCrunch confirmed with the company that the delta from 600,000 to 700,000 contained 100,000 broadcaste... |
KryptoKit Lets You Pay In Bitcoin Instantly On Almost Any Webpage | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | There have been a few wallets available for Chrome and other browsers but how about one that searches for Bitcoin addresses on the pages you visit and allows for one-click payment from your BTC stash? , launched today at the Inside Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, lets you do just that. First, KryptoKit allows you t... |
Deutsche Telekom’s Hub:raum Accelerator Opens Offices In Krakow As It Welcomes Its First Batch Of Startups | Contributor | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | Originally based in Berlin, Deutsche Telekom’s startup accelerator has opened offices in Krakow, Poland. What’s more, fifteen teams from ten different European countries gathered in Poland’s second largest city last weekend to attend workshops in hopes of joining Europe’s newest accelerator. During the intensive work... |
Google Outs Play Edition LG G Pad And Sony Z Ultra, But They’re Still US-Only | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 10 | Well, that was fast. LG inadvertently outed a G-Pad tablet that would be getting the , and Google has just followed up with a confirmation, a price tag ($349) and another device to add to the mix. Sony’s $649 Z Ultra is also available in the , much to the chagrin of rumormongers who have long claimed that Sony would ... |
Messaging App Line Launches C2C Marketplace Line Mall In Japan | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | Messaging app Line began the limited rollout of its new C2C . The app, which is now available for download in Japan’s Google Play store, is a sign that the service is doubling down on its efforts to increase engagement among users as it competes with , and other popular messaging apps. Line Mall will officially lau... |
Tim Draper Wants To Split California Into Pieces And Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | TechCrunch has learned about noted technology investor plan to split California into six separate states, including a Northern California slice appropriately named “Silicon Valley.” Draper shared his vision with TechCrunch tonight. He says he’s submitting a polished version to the state’s Attorney General in the form... |
Powering Smart Content For Publishing Giants, Knewton Lands $51M To Take Personalized Learning Global | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | Just when it looked like the , that venture capital was stuck in the doldrums, and that the year in EdTech might end with a whimper, no bang in sight, along comes Knewton to put an exclamation point . In a whopping round that stands as the for an education company in 2013, TechCrunch has learned that the New Yor... |
Apple Adds FaceTime Audio To OS X 10.9.2 Beta, Bringing Native Mac-To-iOS Voice Calls Closer | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | Apple has issued a new developer preview of OS X version 10.9.2, and it introduces some interesting new features . The most interesting is probably FaceTime Audio, however. Apple introduced VoIP calling (no video required) to FaceTime in iOS 7 on mobile devices, but this marks its first appearance on the desktop. 9to5... |
Loop Upgrades Its Mobile Survey App, Adds A Pro Account For $99 A Year | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | , a startup that makes it easy and quick for retailers to collect feedback from customers, has released version 2.0 of its iOS app. The most important change probably isn’t a product feature, but the fact that Loop is ready to start charging. With Loop (which ), it’s easy for business to put together a survey with a f... |
Appsfire’s First Ad Unit ‘Ura Maki’ Is iAd Done Right | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | Last week, app discovery startup surprised everyone by its apps from the App Store to focus entirely on native advertising on mobile. The first iOS ad unit is here — Ura Maki is an ad format with an emphasis on app discovery and user experience. Unlike Apple’s iAd or AdMob, Ura Maki doesn’t rely on a tiny banner at... |
Nextdoor Talks Growth, Now Being Used In One In Six Neighborhoods In The US | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | , the fast-growing startup that has been compared to a Facebook for your neighborhood, has revealed some new numbers today in a TCTV interview with co-founder and CEO Nirav Tolia and and Nextdoor investor Josh Elman. As Tolia tells us, Nextdoor just launched its (up from 22,500 neighborhoods in October, and 6,000... |
Microsoft Exec Charged With Insider Trading, SEC Alleges 400K In Illegal Gains | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | Reality is always better than fiction. Today a — now former — Microsoft “senior manager” with insider trading. The employee, Brian Jorgenson, is accused of working with a friend to trade Microsoft stock and shares of its partners ahead of news such as earnings, generating almost $400,000 in profits over the course of... |
Fly Or Die: Motorola Moto G | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | It always seems like the flagship phones get the most attention, but what about a device that doesn’t even bother trying to claim that title? Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside has been saying for months that one of the company’s priorities was to improve the experience of using a low-cost smartphone, and the end result of... |
Twitter Adds In-App Notifications For Emergency Alerts System As Brazil And Australia Begin Supporting It | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | Twitter has just but useful updates to its Twitter Alerts system, which allows participating organizations to send out notices to subscribing users about emergencies or disaster areas. The alerts system gains the ability to pop up an in-app notification inside of Twitter’s apps today, utilizing the same pop-up ‘toast... |
AOL Finalizing Talks To Sell Winamp And Shoutcast, No Shutdown Expected On Dec. 20 | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | AOL is finalizing negotiations to sell off Winamp and Shoutcast in a deal that would allow both products to live on, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions. The company (which owns TechCrunch) that as of December 20, Winamp web services would shut down and that the desktop version of the video and mu... |
The World’s First Home-Printable Fashion Doll, Quin, Looks Pretty Spacey | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | This is Quin. She’s a fully posable (and Barbie-compatible) doll that can be made on a 3D printer and snapped together. Her creators, the folks at built her to prove that you can build usable, playable toys on a 3D printer. They also built her because she looks amazing. The 3D files will cost $55 once the project fun... |
Simple.TV Starts Shipping Next-Gen Streaming DVR, With Cloud Storage And Ouya Support Coming Soon | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | is making good on its promise to ship its to users who pre-ordered the product, telling them they would receive the devices by the end of the year. The company is also releasing new versions of its iOS and Android mobile and tablet apps to make it easier for users to find content that they want to stream and record.... |
‘The Internship,’ The Only In-Flight Movie You Haven’t Watched Yet Because Jesus It Looks Annoying | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | Though it seems to have bagged a licensing agreement with all of the airlines, the last thing you’ll want to watch as you fly home this holiday season is Now mind you, I have not actually taken the plunge and seen “The Internship,” despite the fact that I’ve flown at least 50k miles this year and watched “Les Miserabl... |
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Developer Interest In Windows Phone Grows As Microsoft’s Windows 8.x Platform Slips | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | This morning Appcelerator and IDC released the results of a they executed in November. The data indicates that while Windows Phone is seeing record developer interest, Windows itself is slipping. Polled on if they were “very interested” in developing for various platforms, Windows Phone received an affirmative from a... |
Atheer Labs Turns To Crowdfunding To Bring Its 3D Augmented Reality Glasses To Life | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | The jury is largely still out on wearable gadgets like Google Glass that let you passively consume information that appears in front of your eyes, but Soulaiman Itani isn’t satisfied with just looking. Instead, his company — Mountain View-based Atheer Labs — has been working on a device that lets its users physically m... |
Tooga Gear Gives Photo And Video Pros Options With A Modular Kit For Hard-To-Get Shots | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | [kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/762197237/tooga-gear-modular-camera-gear-for-dslr-gopro-smar width=640] A new based out of LA wants to provide a versatile, durable camera mounting solution for capturing tricky shots in a modular package that can support DSLRs, GoPros and other action cams, and ev... |
Facebook Tries Salvaging Home With Redesign That Makes Its Lockscreen More Familiar | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | Facebook’s Home has been a bit of a flop, with few users willing to so drastically change the face of their phone. Today Facebook more familiar to a traditional lockscreen by overlaying phone and Facebook notifications, a clock, and weather info on top of Cover Feed and giving users more customization options. The ho... |
Gift Guide: Four Sweet Presents For Your Sweetheart | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | The most important gift you give this holiday season will be the gift you give your sweetheart. After all, this is the person you get sex from. That said, these are some cute last-minute ideas that will keep you out of the dog house come New Year’s Eve. that offers a wide range of products — these are the same folks t... |
Elsevier’s Research Takedown Notices Fan Out To Startups, Harvard, Individual Academics | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 19 | A familiar story is starting to play out in the Ivory Tower. A powerful incumbent with a very lucrative business model gets reactive when the content it holds the rights for becomes too freely distributed on the web. First, it was the music industry. Now it’s happening in academia, one of the very last bastions to be a... |
Keen On… Innovation: Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Mojo? | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 12 | 26 | Perhaps best known for his about Facebook, is one of tech’s smartest and best informed writers. He now runs a media startup called , which — through a series of annual conferences in Detroit and Tucson — focuses on the impact of technological innovation on the broader economy. So when I interviewed Kirkpatrick at... |
Elephanti Raises $4.5M To Help Shoppers Find Products In Nearby Stores | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 26 | , a startup that’s supposed to make it easier for physical stores to connect with shoppers online, is announcing that it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding from LMJ Holdings. The basic selling point for consumers, according to founder and CEO Lalin Michael Jinasena, is avoiding situations where you end up wanderin... |
Gogolook Confirms Its Acquisition By Naver, The Owner Of Line | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 26 | Taipei-based startup confirmed that it has been acquired by , the Korean Internet giant that is best known outside of Asia for being the owner of . Gogolook has not disclosed the acquisition price, but a said the amount was NT$529 million (or about $17.6 million USD) (h/t Tech In Asia). In an email, Gogolook CEO ... |
Plain Vanilla Games, Maker Of Ultra-Hot Trivia App QuizUp, Raises Another $22 Million From Sequoia | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 26 | , the company behind ultra-hot trivia app , has raised a $22 million Series B Round of financing. The financing was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from all existing investors, including Tencent, Greycroft Partners, IDG Ventures, BOLDstart Ventures, CrunchFund (owned by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington)... |
How To Hire More Engineers In Less Time | Contributor | 2,013 | 12 | 21 | Got 990 free hours? Not likely. Yet that’s how long it takes the typical startup to hire 12 engineers. Even if you spread your hiring over the course of a year, you’ll need to spend more than 19 hours a week recruiting candidates to hit that target. A shortage of engineers is the biggest challenge facing Silicon Vall... |
Code.org: 2 Weeks And 600M+ Lines Of Code Later, 20M Students Have Learned An “Hour Of Code” | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 12 | 26 | Less than a year ago, brothers Hadi Partovi and Ali Partovi launched to help advocate for computer science in the U.S. and increase participation in STEM education by making these subjects more available in schools and classrooms around the country. Today, it seems that what started as a whisper has grown into a roar... |
Meet Re.mu, The Social Network For Idealistic Style Lovers From Plurk’s Founder | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 26 | Remember , the social network once considered a rival to Twitter, along with other microblogging sites like , and the late ? Plurk is still trucking along with 10 million users (and recent ) and now its founder, Alvin Woon, is working on , his new fashion-based startup. Re.mu is a mobile- and web-based social ne... |
CrunchWeek: Bitcoin’s Big Crash, The ‘Six Californias’ Plan, Dorsey Gives Back Square Stock | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 21 | In this episode, , and I talk about the that cut the value of the Bitcoin currency in half (and the latest on the new Silk Road 2 exchange), the far-out proposal by renowned technology venture capitalist Tim Draper to and turn Silicon Valley into its own state, and Square founder Jack Dorsey 10 percent of ... |
Announcing TechCrunch’s 2014 Pitch-Offs: Atlanta, New Orleans, Washington D.C., NYC, Boston, And LA | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 12 | 21 | TechCrunch is about to hit the road again. Starting in late February, we’re bringing the magic of our Pitch-Off events to Atlanta and New Orleans. Then, a month later, we’re hitting Washington D.C., New York City, Boston and The City of Angels, Los Angeles. And that’s just for the first half of the year. Like previous ... |
Gillmor Gang: Robophobia | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 12 | 21 | The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — talk about what it means to be human in a digital age. The rise of the stream threatens to overwhelm us, and the Gang seems bent on drowning in wearables. But maybe that’s just a harsh look at a tough nut we’re all trying ... |
Overstock.com Reportedly Plans To Accept Bitcoin In 2014 | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 12 | 21 | Overstock.com is moving to accept Bitcoin as payment in 2014, the CEO told . Apparently the retailer has the ambition to become the first major online retailer to accept the digital currency. And it very well could be. No other major retailer has announced a similar plan yet. However, put away your digital wallet for ... |
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Mozilla’s Asm.js Gets Another Step Closer To Native Performance | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 21 | Mozilla’s is a strict subset of JavaScript that Firefox can run significantly faster than regular JavaScript code. Thanks to the so-called module for Firefox’s built-in JavaScript engine, asm.js code was running at about 2x native speed and this week, the organization that it’s now running most benchmarks at ju... |
It’s A Wonderful Life, For A Few Of Us | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 12 | 21 | So where were we? Oh yes: . San Francisco’s recent and “ ” kerfuffles are symptoms of an increasingly broad, deep, and bitter anti-tech animosity. : “The tech elite will join bankers and oilmen in public demonology.” : “Tech workers have, rightly or wrongly, received the blame. Resentment simmers.” Such ingr... |
Amazon Bought GoPago’s Mobile Payment Tech And Product/Engineering Team, DoubleBeam Bought The POS Business | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 21 | Last week, we wrote about how Amazon had . Today, some more details about the deal: A source close to the situation confirms that Amazon bought the technology and the engineering/product team of GoPago, but none of the existing point of sale business and current merchant relationships. This part of GoPago is going to ... |
Tune In For The Live Stream From TechCrunch Moscow, 2 Days Of Startups And Speakers | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 12 | 7 | Today we are kicking off the first day of . Day one is all about pitching to enter the final stages. Day Two will feature from the Russian tech startup ecosystem and some international speakers. . Since the first TechCrunch Moscow in 2010, the event has created a major splash in the Russian startup and venture in... |
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Selling Anything | James Altucher | 2,013 | 12 | 21 | I’ve never read a book on sales. They seemed corny. Like many people, I always looked down on the concept of “selling.” It seemed like something lower than me. To some extent, selling appears manipulative. You have a product where you give the perception it has more value than it has in reality. So you need to manipula... |
Verizon Is Acquiring Content Delivery Network EdgeCast For More Than $350 Million | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 7 | is looking to get deeper into the content delivery business with the acquisition of Los Angeles-based CDN provider , TechCrunch has heard. Owning EdgeCast, and combining it with the carrier’s global network backbone COMMA, will give Verizon access to EdgeCast’s big-name CDN clients while also extending its reach. Acc... |
CrunchWeek: Amazon Drones, Uber’s Leaked Revenue, 23andMe’s FDA Trouble | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 7 | In this week’s episode, Leena Rao, Ryan Lawler and I discuss Amazon’s much-buzzed-about experiments in , the leaked screenshot that showed just (it’s a lot), and 23andMe’s battles with the FDA over of its genetic testing kits. |
A Few Basic Science And Tech Facts Many Americans Don’t Know | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 7 | How does a power cord charge a cellphone? Magic, silly! According to a Pew poll, many of my fellow Americans are completely in the dark about how their world works, including the fact that is a chemical responsible for some global warming. Readers can take the interactive quiz before reading more. Pew’s quiz is esp... |
Gillmor Gang: Game of Drones | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 12 | 7 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor — imagine a world 30 years in the future and discover it looks pretty much the same. A world where drones drop things off and pick them up, too. Why buy when you can rinse, rent, and repeat. The signs are everywhere, as the cl... |
Meet The Nate Silver Of Education. Bruce Baker Will Bring Sanity To Reform Hype | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 7 | Public school children have become lab rats of policymakers who are eager to see change faster than we can study what works. Experimental reforms are often founded on the lackluster research of ideological think tanks, who have filled the expertise vacuum left by academics unwilling to conduct policy-related research. ... |
Localizing Games For China Doesn’t Just Mean Making Them More “Chinese” | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 7 | China boasts the world’s fastest growing market for mobile devices and, like in the rest of the world, games dominate the amount of time users spend in apps. The there already include overseas companies like , , and , and launch of ‘s gaming platform in July promises even more opportunities for foreign game deve... |
The Open Secret Of iBeacon: Apple Could Have 250M Potential Units In The Wild By 2014 | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 7 | Yesterday, Apple began a on its new iBeacon technology, pushed an to support them and turned the in an initial rollout. According to the details we know so far, some Apple stores may have as many as 20 iBeacons deployed, depending on the size. But the size of that rollout is deceptive for a couple of reasons — an... |
Payments Company Square Debuts A Newly Designed Website | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | After announcing a this morning, Square is debuting a new today. As the company explains, this new site reflects where web design is headed, and where Square customers are headed as well, which is ubiquity across devices and countries. Square’s new site has more attention to design, especially with attention to bei... |
It’s Time For A Special Regulatory Zone | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 12 | 7 | Your government is the enemy of the future. Innovative technology that would disrupt the world as we know it is already here, but oppressive government bureaucrats keep getting in its way. ; the ; the ; the ; . This is intolerable and must stop. The government must get out of Silicon Valley’s way. No wonder that... |
Codecademy Releases Its First Educational App, A.K.A. My New Subway Time Killer | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Although I write a lot about apps and Internet stuff, I never really learned to code. I threw the “really” in there to soften the blow, but the fact is, I straight up don’t know how to do it. I started learning at one point in middle school, but my high school didn’t push CS, and by college I spent all of my waking hou... |
Fashion Site StyleCaster Gets A Glossy Redesign, Adds E-Commerce Features | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Fashion-focused startup StyleCaster Media is unveiling a redesign of that gives the company its name. Vice President of Product Peter Tanapat gave me a quick tour of the new site (the first full redesign since March 2012) last week, and many of the changes are well-executed variants of what you’d expect — the design ... |
Kleiner Perkins Partner Chi-Hua Chien Transitioning Out Of Firm | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | If you paid a visit to Sand Hill Road headquarters on any given day, you’d likely bump into . Chien, who has emerged as one of the firm’s most accessible public figures since joining Kleiner some six years ago, is known for being a particularly engaged and responsive VC — always ready to pop into the office, provide... |
Qualcomm Unveils 64-Bit Chipset With Integrated LTE: Next Year’s Moto G Could Have 4G | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Qualcomm has just , which is Qualcomm’s first announced processor with 64-bit support, but it’s actually more interesting because it aims to make integrated 4G LTE support a lot more affordable for device manufacturers. They plan to launch the 410 as a manufacturing sample by the first half of next year, which means i... |
Amazon Cloud Drive Photos Adds Video Upload On iOS, And Finally An iPad Version | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Amazon today added support for video uploads in the new iOS version of its which also now natively supports iPad and iPad mini. The update comes over a year and a half after Amazon first the capability to store videos in its Cloud Drive Photos service via the app’s Android counterpart. Its slow progress to introduc... |
As Foursquare Concentrates On Demonstrating Value, It No Longer Allows Private Check-Ins On iOS 7 | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Foursquare no longer allows users to check in privately with the iOS version of its app. The change was made with the recent 7.0 release and ‘iOS 7 refresh’ last week and appears to be a play to demonstrate the value of its network by ensuring check-in data is accessible to users of the product, its API partners and an... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Accel’s Ping Li And Foundation Capital’s Charles Moldow | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, Accel Partners’ and Foundation Capital’s will be joining us, separately, in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Li focuses on early-stage growth software and data-center i... |
How Does Apple Really Feel About Bitcoin? | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Over the past couple of months, there have been a few Bitcoin app rejections by Apple that have made some waves. First, the venture-backed startup entirely from the App Store. Today, a from peer-to-peer messaging and payments app highlights its own rejection and the subsequent removal of its ability to transact i... |
Microsoft Could Bring Back The Start Menu In The Next Version Of Windows | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Microsoft watchers and recently detailed a number of changes that could be coming in the next major version of Windows, called “Threshold.” It could be heading towards our waters in 2015. Unsurprisingly, Threshold continues the trend of unification inside the Windows aegis. The platform becomes more tightly locke... |
Scripps Buys Newsy For $35M To Expand From TV And Newspapers To Digital Video | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Another exit for a new media startup into the arms of the old media industry: , the storied owner of 19 local television stations and daily newspapers in 13 markets across the U.S., today announced that it has acquired , a digital video news platform, for $35 million in cash. Newsy will become a subsidiary of Scripps... |
Tech’s Hyper-Gentrification Has A New Fake Spokesperson | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | This weekend a taxi driver dropped me off at Twitter HQ and, as I paid my $7 fare with Square, he asked me if I worked at Twitter. When I responded “No,” he said, “Ok, I usually charge those people more.” Depending on who you ask, is either causing an economic cold war, or is blown out of proportion. Any way you slic... |
Payments Startup Clinkle Lays Off A Quarter Of Its Staff [UPDATED: New Layoffs In Addition To 30+ Who Already Left] | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Stealthy payments startup which raised in outside funding before its product ever launched, has terminated around 25% of its staff (16 people), according to a report posted this morning by . The news of the layoffs comes amid that there’s internal trouble, and even potentially issues with Clinkle leadership, whi... |
UK’s Tesco Starts ‘Close Cooperation’ With Samwers’ Rocket Internet, Leads $250M Round In Lazada | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | If you thought that the days of Samwer brothers e-commerce investments with the eBays and of the world were over, think again. Today, their Berlin-based incubator announced a new and strategic investment partner, the UK physical and online retail giant Tesco. Tesco, which is the world’s second-largest retailer by r... |
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