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NYU “Deep Learning” Professor LeCun Will Head Facebook’s New Artificial Intelligence Lab | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | By teaching a computer to think, Facebook hopes to better understand how its users do too. So today the that one of the world’s leading deep learning and machine learning scientists, NYU’s Professor Yann LeCun, will lead its new artificial intelligence laboratory. first reported that Facebook would launch an Artifici... |
iPhone 5s Passes 10% Adoption; 5c Seeing Strong Uptake, Too, Compared To Past Launches | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | The iPhone 5s is doing pretty well in terms of sales numbers, and has just passed 10 percent usage rate among iPhone models according to mobile analytics firm . That’s a significant milestone, because it means that users are adopting the iPhone 5s at between two and three times the rate they got on board with the iPho... |
Give A Hoot, Add Smart Sensors To Your Home With The Owl Platform | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Building a smart home is hard. First you have to install all the hardware then you have to figure out a platform for controlling lights, sensors, and the like. Thankfully the has got your back. The platform is aimed at hackers who want to experiment with various sensor arrays around their premises. It includes a base... |
Confirmed: Flipboard Raises Another $50 Million To Close Out Its Series C Round | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | Flipboard has confirmed that it raised an additional $50 million, which will close out the Series C round of financing that it . In addition to the new funding, Flipboard is also announcing that it has also surpassed the 100-million-user milestone. The additional funding, which was , will also be led Rizvi Traverse M... |
Counsyl Co-Founder Balaji Srinivasan Steps Up As Andreessen Horowitz’ Newest General Partner | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 9 | , a Stanford academic who co-founded genetic-testing company Counsyl, is stepping up as Andreessen Horowitz’ eighth general partner. The firm, which is just four years old, tends to pick general partners who have built or operated large companies before. So this is in keeping with that philosophy. While teaching at Sta... |
Confirmed: Snapchat Hack Not A Hoax, 4.6M Usernames And Numbers Published | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | A site called has saved usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million accounts and made the information available for download. In a statement to us, SnapchatDB says that it got the information through a recently identified and patched Snapchat exploit and that it is making the data available in an effort to convince th... |
Google To Close Bump And Flock, Its Recently Acquired File Sharing Apps | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | Bump and Flock, the file sharing apps Google acquired last fall, will be shut down by the end of this month. Both apps will stop working and be removed from Google Play and the App Store on January 31, . Google bought Bump Technologies, which make both apps, back in September, and that work on the app appeared to st... |
The Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2013 | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | Congratulations, Planet Earth! We made it another 365 days without crashing into the sun. Go team! It’s the end of the year, and that means three things: booze, ridiculous sunglasses with numbers on them, and lists. Lots and lots of lists. You’ve seen our list of . Up next? The Best Mobile Apps Of 2013. Now, to be cl... |
Dell Looks To Set A New Tone For Its Private Life | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | The Dell saga added a new chapter this year, when its founder and Silver Lake , borrowing $2 billion of in the process. The deal that closed on October 30th valued the company at $24.9 billion. Tucked away from the public eye, and released from the quarterly trial of investor expectations, Dell may now have the flex... |
I, Spammer | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | As I approach the half-way mark of my crowdfunding project, I wanted to address the thing that makes me feel the worst about this whole process: the spam. As I intimated in , moving from passive content producer to active content salesperson is hard. As someone used to fire-and-forget posting, convincing others to buy... |
How the Internet’s Founders Feel About The NSA Scandal | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | As the co-fathers of the Internet, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn tend to be pretty protective of their digital masterpiece. Both were early Defense Department engineers of the communications architecture that underlies the modern Internet, and both tend be outspoken about threats to a free and open information superhighw... |
The Best And Worst Gadgets Of 2013 | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | year: a ; a ; a ; and a . But it was also a time for gadgets. As we wait for 2013 to come to a close and hope for brighter things for the year to come, here’s a look at the gadgets we loved, the ones we hated, and the ones that we found aesthetically offensive. Fitness trackers are many and varied, but Fitbit cons... |
Sony Rumored To Be Considering A Windows Phone Handset In 2014 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | According , Sony could release a Windows Phone device, diversifying its mobile device lineup, bolstering Microsoft, and perhaps demonstrating a growing wish among hardware firms to hedge against an Android-dominated future. Sony appears to be strongly interested in the project. The Verge that the company has continu... |
LG May Be Taking Another Stab At The Wearable Activity Tracking Formula | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | CES 2014 is just around the corner, along with enough new gadgetry to fill several lifetimes. Last year we saw a glut of activity trackers pop up in the wake of notable hits like the Fitbit and Jawbone’s UP, and now it looks like LG is taking yet another stab at the wearable fitness formula with its newly leaked (thank... |
Why 2014 Is The Year You Change | James Altucher | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | I stopped going to classes. I had a scholarship that paid all my living expenses ($1,200/month) so I didn’t want to quit (ugh, and get a job?). So I stayed a student but I failed every class I took for three semesters in a row. Finally, the dean wrote me a note that said, “We have to ask you to leave. You can come back... |
Apple Says It Has Never Worked With NSA To Create iPhone Backdoors, Is Unaware Of Alleged DROPOUTJEEP Snooping Program | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | Apple has contacted TechCrunch with a statement about the DROPOUTJEEP NSA program that detailed a system by which the organization claimed it could snoop on iPhone users. Apple says that it has never worked with the NSA to create any ‘backdoors’ that would allow that kind of monitoring, and that it was unaware of any p... |
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’ Salary To Get 50% Bump To $3M In 2014 | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | Remember ? Wall Street doesn’t. The this morning that the Netflix CEO will get a healthy pay raise in 2014. According to a regulatory filing, Reed Hastings’ annual salary will jump to $3 million, up from the $2 million he earned this year. His annual stock option allowance also improves to $3 million from the curren... |
Makers Of Oscar-Shortlisted Documentary “The Act Of Killing” Turn To BitTorrent For Promotion | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | has been pitching itself as a legitimate way for content creators to promote their works, and now the company is what may be its most noteworthy partnership yet — and the co-directors of the documentary are using a BitTorrent Bundle to promote . Noteworthiness is relative, and there’s a decent chance that you ... |
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Samsung Got A Bigger Tablet Boost For Christmas Than Apple, According To Onswipe | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | Touchscreen publishing company has good news for Samsung. As Onswipe’s Chief Marketing Officer Jason Baptiste put it in an email, “Samsung clearly won Christmas when it comes to tablets.” Specifically, the company looked at visitors to Onswipe-optimized sites for the period of Dec. 26-29 in comparison to Dec. 19-22, ... |
MaternityCompare Helps Expectant Parents Find Healthcare Providers | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | Choosing an obstetrician can be extremely stressful for expectant parents. , a new startup, hopes to help patients find trustworthy providers with , its first product. The site pulls data and turns it into an easy-to-understand reference tool. MaternityCompare shows what percentage of newborns at different hospital... |
Sprint Wants To Revive Nextel As A Business Brand, Merge Boost + Virgin Mobile Into ‘Sprint Freedom’ | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 31 | It was only that Sprint decommissioned and shut down the Nextel iDEN push-to-talk network, and while the carrier has no plans to bring that legacy service back, the brand is another story. According to a source close to the company, Sprint wants to introduce Nextel again — as a brand for business services. The source... |
These Apps Will Help You Make 2014 Less Filthy | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | This year, several notable apps that connect users with house cleaners have launched or gained traction. These include , and . There are a lot of benefits to hiring a professional cleaning service but, unfortunately, I live outside the area covered by these apps. Letting people I don’t know into my apartment also m... |
Silicon Valley Hustle: Former Motionloft CEO Accused Of Defrauding Investors | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | of high-profile exits and a generally frothy financing environment, it’s not unusual to see startup founders spending money lavishly these days. But the story of and its founder could serve as a cautionary tale, especially for unsavvy investors drawn to a big payout. On the surface, Mills seemed like a successful ... |
Nokia Closes Out 2013 With 92% Of The Windows Phone Market | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | The fine folks at have provided with an early look at their , giving us in the public a final look at the key statistics of Microsoft’s smartphone platform’s OEM and device makeup. The figures are much as they have been all year, only more so. Nokia continues to control the lion’s share of Windows Phone hardware, ... |
Revenue-Sharing “Knowledge Community” Teckler Launches Its First Mobile App | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | is a site where users get a share of the revenue for the articles, photos, and other media that they post. And with the recent launch of , users will be able to post from their phone too. When I discussed the platform with founder and CEO Claudio Gandelman ( the Latin American president for Match.com), he pitched it... |
Medallia’s Amy Pressman And Sequoia’s Doug Leone On Bootstrapping And Vetting Investors | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | In this three-part series, we hosted Medallia, an enterprise company that offers customer experience management software, and Sequoia partner and board members Doug Leone in the studio. Co-founder and President Amy Pressman talked about why she founded the company after being a consultant for a number of years. Medal... |
Microsoft Was Right To Worry That Government Snooping Constituted An ‘Advanced Persistent Threat’ | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | Early this month, “government snooping potentially now constitutes an ‘advanced persistent threat,'” a statement that became ironic this weekend, given that, early this month, Microsoft likened government surveillance to “sophisticated malware and cyber attacks.” New NSA revelations out this weekend detailed precisel... |
Twitter’s Recent Market Correction Doesn’t Mean Its Sky Is Falling | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | Twitter has had a rough few days in the markets, slipping from north of $74 to just over $60 at the end of trading today. That’s not even half the story, however: Twitter’s December is one for the record books. If dropping in a few days of trading is dramatic, so too is Twitter’s epic run from December’s opening pric... |
Netflix Says It’s Testing New $6.99 Single Screen Streaming Plan, But It May Never Roll Out To Everyone | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | Netflix has informed TechCrunch that it is indeed testing a $6.99 single-stream plan to new users as part of a test. The option appears to some new users after selecting the streaming option as a free trial. Unfortunately for those of you excited for a dollar-off discount on a standard definition stream, a Netflix spok... |
Paul Graham Responds To Critics, Says Y Combinator Is Planning An Event For Female Founders | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham just published about what he did and didn’t say during with The Information (if you don’t have a subscription, you can ). He also makes an announcement, of sorts, that the incubator is planning an event for female founders later this year. As many of you have probably read, Grah... |
73% Of U.S. Adults Use Social Networks, Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | Facebook may be currently over how well it’s faring with younger users, but among those over 18 in the U.S. it remains the social network king. According to out today from the researchers at the Pew Research Center, the percentage of adults using the social networks of Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter or Inst... |
The FitBit App Now Turns The iPhone 5s Into A FitBit | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | has just released a major to its iOS app for iPhone 5s, allowing the smartphone itself to track steps, distance and burned calories. These are basic features, and just a fraction of the metrics provided by one of Fitbit’s own hardware devices, such as the Fitbit handheld or the Fitbit Flex wristband. With a Fitbit F... |
FAA Selects 6 Sites For Civilian Drone Testing | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | There are already quite a few drones in use in U.S. airspace, but given that commercial drone usage remains off-limits, most of them are either operated by government agencies or for research purposes. Today, however, the FAA has in its congressionally process of integrating drones into the U.S. air traffic system.... |
Keen On… The 2013 Debacle: Why Gavin Newsom Says The Government Is On A Collision Course With The Future | Andrew Keen | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | It may be the holiday season, but , California’s tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell. And he’s not going to take it any more. The fury of California’s second most powerful state politician is, ironically, directed at government itself. After what Newsom called “the debacle” of Obama’s roll-out, he sa... |
Divining The Underlying Value Of Bitcoin | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | Business Insider’s today , partially responding to Paul Krugman’s that called the cryptocurrency “evil,” and partially answering the question of why Bitcoin has value. It’s been a topic we’ve been discussing for months, making Wiesenthal’s argument worth digging into. He breaks Bitcoin into three interrelated char... |
Archos To Launch A Line Of “Pebble-Like” Smartwatches For iOS And Android At CES | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | Archos just dropped a huge in advance of the huge annual tech show, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas. Among the various announcements, tucked away near the bottom, is the revelation that it will be introducing a “selection of smartwatches” for 2014, which will start at under £50 (roughtly $82 U.S.). Archos does... |
U.S. Senator Issues Letter To Top 5 Wireless Carriers Urging Kill Switch Adoption | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota has today taken up the battle cry of numerous legislators before her, calling for wireless carriers to enable new anti-theft technology on handsets. According to the Senator, one-third of robberies involve cell phone theft, resulting in an estimated $30 billion in lost or stolen ... |
Microsoft’s Surface 2 Shortage Persists, Will Likely Stretch Into The New Year | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | In mid-December, Microsoft’s Surface 2 inventory became extremely tight. Now in the post-Christmas period of the month as we move into 2014, Surface 2 inventory continues to be heavily constrained: Microsoft’s own online store remains sold out, Best Buy won’t ship you one of the Windows RT 8.1 devices, on Amazon you ca... |
Yahoo Ends 2013 With No Apps In Apple’s Top 100 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | Yahoo put a lot of effort and investment toward presenting a new Yahoo to the world in 2013, with much of it hinged on improving its mobile business. There have been to old apps; over a dozen mobile-related (out of a total of 28) to pick up talent, technology and products; and for what Yahoo should focus on next.... |
Flurry Finds Christmas App Download Spike Continues, But Lessens As People Get Used To Smartphones | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | Mobile analytics and ad platform Flurry has released its on the state of app downloads over Christmas for 2013, and as is usually the case, consumers clearly went crazy for apps this year. Unwrapping a new iPad will inevitably prompt a spike in software downloads, but Flurry is finding that spike is starting to dimin... |
The Twitter NYSE Honeymoon Is Over As Stock Price Takes Another Nosedive | Romain Dillet | 2,013 | 12 | 30 | Today at market opening, Twitter shares ( ) dropped once again. Shares were at $60.27, down 5.46 percent compared to Friday’s closing price of $63.75. This nosedive marks the end of the honeymoon between Twitter and the NYSE as many analysts stated that shares are overpriced. Until now, the stock held strong amid those... |
Tech Companies Outline More NSA Reform Demands | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | Before Congress’s holiday recess, Silicon Valley’s major tech companies have renewed calls for surveillance reform. Executives from Google, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, Linkedin, Twitter, and (TechCrunch parent company) Aol have put their weight behind Reform Government Surveillance, publishing an open to Congress and Pr... |
Obama, Celebrities, Politicians And Tech Co’s Come Together To Launch Coding Education Push | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | Back in January, brothers Ali Partovi and Hadi Partovi launched a new non-profit organization called with a simple mission: Change the perception America has of coding and computer science and make those subjects accessible to the masses. There’s no better indication of just how far Code.org has come in less than a y... |
Twitter Is Taking A “Log-Out” Approach To Raise Usage, Awareness In Emerging Markets With USSD On Mobiles | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | is working hard to build up its profile and usage among people in developing markets, and today another piece of that strategy has come into focus. It has signed a with Switzerland-based mobile software company to provide access to Twitter via mobile devices without using a mobile Internet connection, instead rely... |
What Games Are: The Multiplayer Singularity | Tadhg Kelly | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | My whole industry rests on the invention of the single player video game. From the early days of pinball through to on the NES to , the single player game dynamic defines most modern gaming. You could say that single play is the most important invention of the video game age, and even go one step further: Single pla... |
Playing Next-Microsoft-CEO Bingo | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | The small, insular and inbred world of Microsoft watchers is on something of a hold at the moment, as we wait with breath partially bated to see who will run the company next. Each of us in this small cabal of journalists and writers – guess which I am – has a vested interest in who gets picked: If it’s someone we know... |
The War For Your Wrist | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | The past decade has seen the consumer electronics war grow more furious and more personal: your living room is a battlefield, as are your desks and your pockets. Now, more than a year-and-a-half since the Pebble (née Allerta) team saw its e-Paper smartwatch concept shatter a $100,000 Kickstarter funding goal, gadget pu... |
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Fly Or Die: Nexus 5 | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | The is the latest generation of Google’s Android software, KitKat, come to life. The hardware itself isn’t super glamorous, with a simple 5-inch display and a matte black backside, but the software more than makes up for what can be a bland appearance. The 1080p display is quite nice, at 445 ppi, and the Snapdragon... |
Square Teases Some Kind Of Announcement For Monday On Vine | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | Square has a cryptic teaser on Vine that suggests it’ll show us… something on Monday. There’s little about the short video that offers any clue about what could be revealed, except that it fits in a balled fist. But maybe it’s conceptual, so it would technically “fit” anywhere. IT’S A MYSTERY. [vine url=”https://vine... |
Let It Full-Bleed | MG Siegler | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | Load up your favorite tech blog. Or almost any blog, really. There’s a good chance it looks like shit. There’s a better chance that the reading experience is even worse. And we put up with it, day in and day out. Why? Because that’s where the content is. Enter . While there are as to what exactly Medium aims to be, ... |
Heyday, The New Journaling App, Reminds Me That I’m Kind Of Boring | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | When I met Siqi Chen, founder and CEO of the startup behind a new journaling app called , a few weeks ago, he said he’d built an app that offered a “more holistic” approach to tracking your life on your iPhone. Well, , and since then, I’ve been testing it out to see whether Chen was right. My initial conclusion? Firs... |
Beatport “Bloodbath” As Dance Music Startup Lays Off Engineers | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | “These guys will trash the office if we don’t send someone there”, Beatport worried, so it flew HR to its San Francisco office to fire the whole engineering team there, a source tells TechCrunch. Multiple sources confirm the 88-person startup laid off large sets of engineers in SF and Denver this week. [Update: Beatpor... |
In Praise Of The Holiday Book | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | It has to be one of those cold, half-light afternoons. A radio in the house mumbling something low and steady — Click and Clack or the news. The snow might be fresh, might be coming, might not come for weeks. The heater kicks on in the basement and the warmth balloons up through the rooms, a fog of comfort along the fl... |
On Mobile, The Location Arrow May Finally Be Pointed In The Right Direction | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | TechCrunch From time to time on Twitter, I’ll unknowingly dip my toes into contested waters. There are some debates which run deep, like strong ocean currents. Occasionally, I muster up the courage to write about my personal preference for iOS over Android (as well as vis a vis others), or to write about how native m... |
Evntlive Could Help Yahoo Fix Its Broken Video Experience | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | This week, Yahoo continued with its prolific acquisition strategy with a one-two punch picking up companies working on video — a sign that, while some of its acquisitions have been basic talent grabs, at least a few of them have a very specific focus to them, concentrating on fixing its . The move taps not just into h... |
Windows 7 Handily Bests Windows 8 And 8.1’s Minute Market Share Gains In November | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | November was not a good month for Microsoft’s Windows 8.x operating system according to , with Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 collectively gaining a mere 0.05% points of market share during the period. Windows 8 fell 0.87% to 6.66% global market share. Windows 8.1 managed to grow by 0.92%. The total gain of 0.05% is a weak... |
Here Are The 38 Startups Pitching At TechCrunch Moscow Today | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 12 | 8 | today features a whole pitching to enter the final on , which features the main conference. You can catch the pitches live today on the but here’s a run-down of al the companies, as they describe themselves. The Startup Alley features over 70 startups that met the requirements of an exhibition participant, being... |
I, Drone | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | Let’s ignore, for a moment, all of the obvious problems with a . Let’s ignore the fact that . And let’s ignore the fact that a 10-mile range isn’t much when it comes to underserved rural areas and is a jungle of potential snags and snares in urban, populated areas. Let’s ignore the fact that, unless you’re having Ama... |
Amazon Is Experimenting With Autonomous Flying Delivery Drones | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BIu9dpwHU&w=853&h=480] Between launching a charity-friendly buying program, announcing Sunday deliveries, and gearing up for the first wave of frenzied holiday shoppers, Amazon has been busy these past few weeks. But that didn’t stop CEO Jeff Bezos from spending a decent chunk ... |
The Amazon Future | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | Jeff Bezos revealed something that truly would revolutionize e-commerce and online ordering, should it become widely used: that could deliver 86 percent of the goods Amazon ships to customers today (packages under 5 pounds), in less than 30 minutes in many cases. That would be a huge change to business as currently co... |
Microsoft Should Be Worried About Google’s Chromebooks | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | , Google’s cheap ChromeOS-based, web-centric laptops. Why is Microsoft worried about Chromebooks? Because it can see the writing on the wall. For many mainstream users, the operating system they use is slowly becoming irrelevant, and even though Chromebooks are not right for everyone, they are slowly becoming a real al... |
YourFreeProxy Is Caught Installing A Toolbar That Mines Bitcoin On The Sly | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | Today in “Things Your Tech Service Shouldn’t Do” we present YourFreeProxy from Mutual Public AKA We Build Toolbars, LLC. The company, which offers proxy servers for routing around firewalls and censorship, has been secretly using its tool to mine Bitcoin using their customer’s computer. This “feature” even . [blockquo... |
WaterField’s Staad Is A Durable And Gorgeous Low-Profile Backpack In Leather And Canvas | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | There have been so many permutations of the standard backpack at this point that it’s hard for a bag maker to come up with an original spin that adds anything to the formula. WaterField, a San Francisco-based manufacturer with a reputation for quality, has done an admirable job with their new . The Staad is a handsome... |
Sold To Telefonica For $207M In 2009, Now-Neglected VoIP Provider Jajah Is Shutting Down | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | Chalk up another casualty in the consolidation of Internet voice services. Nearly four years to the day after getting , VoIP provider has announced that it is shutting down, effective January 31, 2014. Registered users of Jajah.com (its web-based service that provides a price-reducing VoIP bridge between two landlin... |
Fly Or Die: The Ostrich Pillow | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | With travel ramping up over the holiday season, we thought it wise to bring you a taste of Ostrich. The , to be exact. It’s a clever little pillow that slips over your head and covers everything but your nose and mouth. Though it doesn’t offer much by way of neck support, you can lay your head down and slip your h... |
Black Friday Desktop E-Commerce Spending Rose 15 Percent To $1.2B, Amazon Was The Most Visited Online Retailer | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | We heard that record numbers over the weekend, and today an actual amount that was spent on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Black Friday 2013 (November 29) saw $1.198 billion in desktop online sales, making it the season’s first billion-dollar day and heaviest online spending day to date, up 15 percen... |
“Hello Santa” Offers A Memorable, But Pricey, Video Call With A Real-Life Santa | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | Want to FaceTime Santa? There’s an app for that. A new video chat app called “ ” offers you and your child a one-on-one with the jolly ol’ elf himself, and for once, it’s not a pre-recorded video. For those who are sick of standing in half-hour or longer lines only to have their kid freeze up, balk or cry when it’s fin... |
A Tweet About Mobile That Took On A Life Of Its Own | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 12 | 1 | TechCrunch I’ve been with mobile startups like Uber and Snapchat, among others — but not for the standard reasons. Yes, they’re both great products and ideas, but the one aspect I found most with Uber and Snapchat is its users never directly interact with the web. Even Instagram, Twitter, and other fast-growing mo... |
STI Buys Chalkable For $10M To Bring Its Educational App Store And Learning Platform To K-12 Schools | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | With entrepreneurs beginning to wake up to the huge demand for better learning tools, and the opportunity for technology to remove some of the long-standing barriers within the system, startups have begun to flood into the education market. As a result, venture investment has begun to flow into education, and with a ne... |
Facebook Videos Now Auto-Play On Mobile, Expect Video Ads Soon | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | FB could look a lot more like TV soon. While Vine and Instagram Video are booming, you don’t see many people natively uploading videos to Facebook. But now Facebook is bringing auto-play for native videos to all users after the feature in September. And it’s just the beginning of a huge push to put Facebook in motion... |
Play-i Raises $1.4M From The Crowd For Toy Robots That Make Programming Kid-Friendly, Comes To Stores Near You Next Summer | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | If we’re going to prepare future generations for an increasingly technical world (and workforce) ahead, then we need to teach them computer science and engineering. To some, that may sound like a no-brainer, but to the American educational system, where nine out of ten schools don’t offer programming courses, it not. O... |
Inside India’s Aadhar, The World’s Biggest Biometrics Database | Pankaj Mishra | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | India’s , also known as Aadhar, earlier this week finished capturing demographic and biometric data of over half a billion residents–the largest biometric project of its kind currently in the world. It’s been a multi-year effort not without its critics among privacy and security advocates and others. The latest develo... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | Good morning and how do you do? Do you enjoy all of your limbs and organs? Good! Keep them healthy because these Dystopian War Robots are sure to want them when they come to power. To begin with, we present the two-armed worker robot from . Designed to work a great deal like the now-famous , this robot will be availa... |
Ask A VC: Redpoint’s Geoff Yang On What Makes A Successful Entrepreneur | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | In this week’s Ask A VC episode, Redpoint partner Geoff Yang joined us in the studio to talk about entrepreneurship, international investing and much more. Yang, who has backed a number of tech giants and hot startups over the past two decades, talked about what makes a great entrepreneur. He’s said in the past that ... |
Architect Bradley Rothenberg Does 3D-Printed Fashion At The Annual Victoria’s Secret Show | Eliza Brooke | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is about so much more than lingerie. Over the years the annual event, which took place in Manhattan in mid-November and airs December 10, has grown into a mega-beast of elaborate outfits, wings, glitter, and musical performances. Of course, all the images of this year’s show have leak... |
Flurry Raises Another $12.5M For Mobile Analytics And Advertising | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | Mobile analytics company has raised $12.5 million in new funding, as first revealed in and confirmed by a Flurry spokesperson. The company started out as an app developer before shifting its focus to analytics and then using its data for advertising. It about a year ago, and at the time, CEO Simon Khalaf hinted a... |
NSA Claims Collecting Cellphone Location Data Is Legal Under Executive Order — From 1981 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | Today the National Security Agency (NSA) discussed its program that collects billions of cellphone location records each day. The NSA targets foreign phones but also absorbs data on the phones of American citizens. “The NSA does not target Americans’ location data by design, but the agency acquires a substantial amount... |
Wisely Helps You Find Where To Shop Or Eat Based On Real Consumer Spending Patterns, Not User Reviews | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | When looking for a new place to eat, drink or shop, most people turn to local recommendations services like Yelp, Google Places or Foursquare. A new mobile application called , launching today, has a different idea. Instead of user reviews, Wisely taps into actual transaction data, allowing you to filter searches by t... |
Beeline Bikes Is Like A Homejoy Or Uber For Bike Repair | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | While there are thousands of small, independently owned bike shops across the country and in bike-friendly cities like San Francisco, it’s still a pain to bring your bike in for a tune-up. There’s scheduling, and then there’s the hassle of not having a bike for several days. That’s why Peter Buhl, a former longtime par... |
Gift Guide: Five Kitchen Gadgets Your Foodie Will Eat Right Up | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | More food is consumed during the holiday season than at any other time. But that’s the thing with food; you can’t stay full forever. And so these gadgets, services and tools should serve your food-friendly loved ones quite handily. We’ll cover a range of products, including an ingredient-delivery service, a magical sca... |
Bitcoin Value Loses Its Mind As Trading Lags On The Mt.Gox Exchange | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | Bitcoin is acting up at the moment. Following a steep decline that saw the currency trade at prices not seen since late November, trading of Bitcoin on the Mt.Gox exchange has . It has fallen into a pattern of that end and begin in a very tight, specific trading range. The following is a chart using one-minute ticks... |
Gillmor Gang Live 12.06.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang |
Microsoft Really Doesn’t Want You To Buy A Chromebook | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wAgB5J1gSQ About a week after posting its , which features the cast of “Pawn Stars,” Microsoft is now back with a second video. But instead of revisiting the humorous approach of the first one, the company has brought back its regular man-on-the-street routine for the second. In this vi... |
YC Alum MobileWorks Aims To Make Acquiring Users Easier (For A Price) With LeadGenius | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | Startup founders, especially those up to their necks in product development, don’t always have the head for building the kinds of customer bases required to keep their business afloat. That’s where Y Combinator alum comes in. It first raised funding for its approach to building a virtual, on-demand workforce, and now... |
Former Square Wallet Lead, Google PM Raise $1.2M For Secret (Which Is A Secret) | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | David Byttow, the former technical lead for Square Wallet, and Chrys Bader-Wechseler, a former Google product manager at Google+, Photovine and YouTube, “Nothing is a secret these days,” Bader-Wechseler said, declining to comment on his startup or the round. Byttow designed the infrastructure for Square’s partnership ... |
National Geographic Offers Up Over 500 Maps Through Google Maps Engine’s Public Data Program | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | Google is launching an initiative to let organizations share their map data with the public, via Google’s Maps product and cloud-based infrastructure, and today partner in the project and shared some info via the official Google Maps blog. The partnership will mean that more than 500 reference and historic maps will ... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Moto X, Drone Hacks, And Gift Guides Galore | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | Happy Friday, lovers. is upon us, which is why we spend a good chunk of this podcast discussing smart gifts to buy your friends and loved ones. But that didn’t stop us from chatting up the , or the that turns one drone into the leader of an aerial army. Listen in to all this and more on this week’s episode of the ... |
With $1.5M In Angel Funding, byUs.com Wants To Provide Better Recommendations For Important Service Providers | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | There are tons of recommendation sites out there, but for services where the stakes are much higher than a meal–like pediatricians or financial advisors–a lot of people still prefer referrals from friends. But that’s a challenge if you are, for example, new to an area. New site wants to mimic the way word-of-mouth re... |
I’ve Learned To Love (Wearables) Again | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | As a dedicated watch nerd, I felt that smartwatches were, on the whole, awful. A watch was a watch – if made correctly and correctly handled it’s a miracle of technology in its own right. The movement, the face, the metals, the design – all of these came together in a beautiful whole. There was nothing extraneous in a ... |
Nickelodeon Vets Debut BatteryPOP, A Kid-Safe, Kid-Programmed Online Network | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 6 | YouTube may be a popular destination for kids, but parents know that it’s not a kid-friendly one. One innocent video of Elmo singing leads to others of him . That’s why two Nickelodeon vets have created – an online and mobile destination where children ages six to eleven can safely browse through cartoons, comedy, m... |
The Consumer Electronics Startup Show | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | scope of the Consumer Electronics Show is unfathomable for the uninitiated. CES has been called a cesspool. It’s been called a shitshow. And those descriptions are accurate. It’s a clusterfuck of consumer electronics companies, big and small, vying for attention. That’s why TechCrunch attends. For the 2014 show, which... |
Fly Or Die: Singtrix | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | [tc_5min code=”518056176″] is the personal karaoke machine of the future. Instead of being limited by karaoke-friendly, vocal-free tunes, Singtrix lets you erase the vocal track from any song in your phone or tablet, effectively expanding your library from a few songs to anything you can download. And that’s not the b... |
TC Cribs: TellApart Turned An Old Auto Shop Into A Golden Land Of Tech (And Champagne) | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | There are a few extra special Christmas gifts that can’t be wrapped and don’t quite fit under the tree — love, family, happiness… and new episodes of , the TechCrunch TV show that takes you inside the doors of the tech industry’s hottest companies to see what day-to-day life is like for the people who work there! In t... |
This Gift Box Only Unlocks When You’re In Exactly The Right Place | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | We didn’t plan it, but it seems that this week is “Mystery Gift Box” week on TechCrunch. First we had , a tightly secured titanium box that can only be opened after a certain amount of time. Now, we have its spiritual brother: the GPS AdventureBox, a box that locks itself down until the recipient makes it to a specifi... |
Rap Genius Apologizes For Not-So-Genius SEO Spam Tactics | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | Those lovable rascals from are stirring up trouble again. But this time it’s not for controversial statements they’ve made — instead, the company came under fire for spammy SEO tactics. Yesterday, following a looking for blogs interested in participating in the company’s affiliate program, Y Combinator alum John ... |
In A Post-Amazon World, E-Commerce Site Wayfair Wants To Win At Selling Home Goods And Furnishings | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | Taking on Amazon when it comes to e-commerce can be a futile effort. There are only a handful of e-commerce companies that have successfully been able to build a billion-dollar-plus business in e-commerce (without having physical stores) in a post-Amazon world. Zulily is one of those companies. Another one, which has s... |
Prediction: The Government Will Put The NSA In Check | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | Up until a few months ago, President Obama probably didn’t worry much about the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program. After all, Congress had approved it, courts oversaw it, and a — even after the leaks were reported. But, now that every major branch of government is calling for reform, , I predic... |
Fly Or Die: Nokia Lumia 1520 | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | Nokia is now basically the defacto Windows Phone handset manufacturer, and the Lumia 1520 is its latest effort. The big, big full HD 6-inch display sets it apart from any previous Windows Phone device, and puts it into a rare class of device even among Android phones, whose screens can also get pretty darn huge. The ... |
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