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BSkyB Invests $350,000 In Early-Stage Immersive Video Startup Jaunt | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | (called BSkyB) has in , an early-stage startup that captures and displays 360 degree video content. BSkyB said that the new partnership will give it “additional insight into developments within the field.” Though Palo Alto-based Jaunt’s placeholder site currently offers no information besides “stayed tune,” the com... |
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Healint Wants To Make Life Better For Stroke Patients | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | Mobile health tech startup wants to make life better — and safer — for patients suffering from neurological conditions like strokes, epilepsy and migraines. Their first product, Android app , is an emergency alert system triggered by shaking a smartphone. You can help its development by signing up for the app’s . Th... |
Apple Patents Integrated Heart Rate Monitor For Smartphones, Hover Touch Sensors | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 24 | Apple has been issued a couple new patents by the USPTO today (via ), including one for hover touch sensing, the likes of which we’re starting to see rolled out in Android-powered devices lately like the Samsung Galaxy S4. Another patent issued today covers an embedded heart rate monitor that could add one more sensor... |
Indian Music Streaming Startup Dhingana Faces An Uncertain Future After T-Series Pulls Its Licensing Agreement | Pankaj Mishra | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | Indian streaming music startup Dhingana faces an uncertain future after T-Series, its biggest music label partner, said it will not be renewing their licensing agreement. Soundbox reported last week, and T-Series president Neeraj Kalyan confirmed to TechCrunch, that the company will not renew the license set to expire ... |
Yes, It’s Real: Tim Draper Gives Details On Ballot Initiative To Make Silicon Valley A State | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | Silicon Valley is no stranger to unusual ideas, and today the world got to witness another: noted investor Tim Draper is proposing a ballot proposition to . There were obviously a lot of questions raised by Draper’s “ ” proposal after we first broke the news last Thursday, so the man with the controversial plan held a... |
Apple Reportedly Acquires Note-Taking App Catch, BroadMap Talent | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | Two more Apple acquisitions have reportedly been unearthed today by . The first is of Catch, a that was likely acquired back in July, and the second is BroadMap. The BroadMap acquisition seems more complicated, however, as the company maintains that it still exists and operates separately from Apple, despite much of... |
Apple’s New Mac Pro In Pictures: Beauty And The Beast | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | Apple has a brand new Mac Pro with an all-new, bold design that’s assembled at . It’s easily among the most bold and unique designs of a Mac in recent memory, bringing to mind equally mould-busting creations like the G4 Cube and the original ‘flowerpot’ iMac. It’s also got a distinctly Darth Vader vibe, and with its u... |
Silk Road 2 Still Running After Moderator Arrests | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | The Silk Road 2, a hidden website modeled on the original Silk Road contraband marketplace, is regrouping as the users and single remaining moderator prepare for a Christmas lockdown. The group faced a setback when US and Irish authorities arrested moderators Andrew Michael Jones, Gary Davis, and Peter Philip Nash. A... |
Jack Dorsey Joins Disney’s Board Of Directors | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | The Walt Disney Company just that Jack Dorsey (co-founder and CEO of Square, as well co-founder and chairman at Twitter, as if you didn’t know) has joined its board of directors. “Jack Dorsey is a talented entrepreneur who has helped create groundbreaking new businesses in the social media and commerce spaces,” said ... |
AllCast Gives Your Android Device AirPlay Video Powers And Streams To Other Devices, Too | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | Android app , and is now available as a full version for all to try out. There’s a free version and a paid license, so you can find out if this Swiss army knife of media streamers for Google’s mobile OS works for you. It accomplishes the impressive feat of letting you stream from your Android phone or tablet to the Ap... |
The BeatBuddy Pedal Lets You Build Beats With Your Feet | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | This is something I never knew I wanted: it’s called and it’s basically a crowdfunded guitar stomp box that allows you to cue up and play drumbeats through your amplifier. That means you can run this in line with your guitar effects and add some undistorted, funky fresh breakbeatery, making yourself into a formidable... |
Analysts Expect 3D Printer Shipments To Grow Ten Times Before 2017 | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | Hardware are estimating that 3D printer shipments will grow 10 times in the period between now and 2017. Printers, once the provenance of hackers and engineers, will soon be household commodities. “Print is extending beyond output on media to the creation of an actual object, and that presents incredible opportunity,... |
Google’s Cloud Platform Gets Billing API To Help Developers Monitor And Analyze Cost | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | The cloud makes it easier for developers to run complex applications, but all of this convenience often comes at the expense of being able to easily track cost. Today, Google is making it to monitor and analyze how much running an application on its Cloud Platform costs. Currently, the only way to get this data is th... |
D-Wave CEO Vern Brownell On Quantum Computing And Tackling Tech’s Big Problems | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | So when D-Wave CEO Vern Brownell was in San Francisco recently, I invited him to come by TechCrunch headquarters to give us an overview of D-Wave and talk about the company’s past, present, and future. Being that TechCrunch doesn’t always deal in the realms of quantum mechanics and superconductors, it was a longer ch... |
Inside ZenPayroll’s Sprint To Reimagine The Way You Get Paid | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | things in life that are more boring than payday. Every couple of weeks, working stiffs get an envelope with a jumble of numbers on a plain white background that is meant to show them how much they’ve made over the course of the last pay period. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Which is why a few months ago, payroll... |
Tribune To Acquire Sony Audio Recognition Unit Gracenote For $170 Million | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | Global consumer electronics conglomerate Sony is getting a tiny bit leaner with the sale of Gracenote, a business unit that provides audio recognition and metadata solutions to a number of device manufacturers and media companies. Tribune will spend $170 million to buy out Gracenote in a deal that is expected to close ... |
BlackBerry Reveals Its BlackBerry Live Developer Event Is Dead For 2014 | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | BlackBerry isn’t hosting its own big annual conference this year, the company (via ). The event has been called various things, including BlackBerry World, and BlackBerry Live once the World name became what BlackBerry called its mobile app store and things got confusing. This is the first year since 2002 that Black... |
Samsung’s Newest Ad Is Pretty Much The Worst | Greg Kumparak | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | Worried that none of their recent commercials would take home that coveted “Worst Ad Of The Year” trophy, Samsung has swooped in with one hell of a last minute entry. It’s like Samsung wanted to give us all a Christmas present. But instead of giving us socks, or candy, or a puppy, Samsung gave everyone a big ol’ box of... |
Camera360, One Of China’s Most Popular Photo Apps, Now Focusing On International Growth | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | Build by Pingguo, a startup based in Chinese tech hub Chengdu, is already one of the world’s most successful photo editing apps with over 180 million users in more than 200 countries who take about 80 million photos each day. But it has faces strong competition from other photo editing apps like and , all of which... |
MaxStone Kickstarts A Remote iPhone Shutter For Digital Cameras That’s Also A Bluetooth Tracker | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 23 | [kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/702400282/maxstone-iphone-your-camera width=640] A new Kickstarter project is hoping to combine some popular recent gadget trends with commonly sought after DSLR and pro photography features for a Bluetooth gadget that’s unique and more versatile than most in the sam... |
How Smule’s Jeff Smith Got A Ph.D. While Running A Startup | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 15 | You hear about graduate students who , but I guess that would be too easy for Jeff Smith. He co-founded and serves as CEO at , the startup behind social music apps like Ocarina and Magic Piano. At the same time, he recently received a Ph.D. in computer-based music theory and acoustics from Stanford. Smith and I spoke... |
Metail, The UK Virtual Fitting Room Startup, Raises Further £2.6M As It Stretches London’s Tech City | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 12 | 15 | , the UK-based virtual fitting room startup, has raised £2.6 million in “growth funding”, as it gets ready to move into a new 6,000 square foot converted warehouse on the periphery of “Tech City” in East London. The new investment — its first institutional funding — was led by New World Private Equity Partners, with pa... |
Too Different, Not Different Enough: Why Instagram Direct May Fail | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 15 | My friends aren’t using , at least not yet. I’ve received just two IGD messages since it Thursday. In the meantime, over 20 close friends I regularly message with elsewhere have posted publicly to Instagram, and I’ve received about 60 Snapchat Snaps from 18 different people. It’s obviously early, but right now, I’m ... |
Aereo Founder Explains Delayed Expansion Plans | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 15 | [tc_5min code=”518050251″] Streaming TV startup has had a big week. The company agreed to take an arduous legal battle with major network broadcasters . To discuss the move and the growth of the company, we sat down with , CEO and founder. Regarding the decision to move ahead with the Supreme Court, Kanojia express... |
The Shifting Ways In Which We’ll Interact With Mobile Apps | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 12 | 15 | TechCrunch ‘Tis the season to reorganize the apps on my iPhone. With iOS 7 and the shift from spotlight search to swipe-down-to-search for apps, I’ve noticed my app behavior has changed a bit, as it’s become easier to search for apps with the new UI and therefore less important where the app is located on my phone. For... |
Oculus VR Raises $75 Million To Help Bring Virtual Reality Goggles To The Masses | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | The road to immersive virtual reality has been a long and strange one — it was fodder for wide-eyed futurists and engineers for years before it became painfully clear that the sorts of experiences we hoped for were limited by the feeble hardware available at the time. That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. It was re... |
Zuli’s Smartplugs Turn Your Phone Into The Proximity-Based Switch For The Connected Home | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 15 | [kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zuli/zuli-smartplugs width=640] A recent Kickstarter project called the makes each of your power outlets intelligent thanks to Bluetooth low-energy, along with remote control from a smartphone, proximity triggering and scheduling, too. It’s sort of like what you ma... |
Workout App Fitstar Gets An Overhaul As It Shows Promising Paid Sign-Up Metrics | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | The app may be killing the workout video star. , a Google Ventures-backed company , just and is bringing their work to a much larger audience through a new iPhone version. Earlier this year, the company to create a workout app with personalized routines. These programs didn’t need any specialized equipment and c... |
Now With 25M Monthly Users, Social Photo Startup We Heart It Partners With Teen Vogue & Others | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | Lots of companies spend large amounts of money and time trying to attract the lucrative but elusive young demographic. So when something organically emerges as a trend-setting app for young people, it can be a pretty special thing. Take , the photo-oriented social network seems to have hit a sweet spot. The service, ... |
TechCrunch TV’s Goodbye To The Blue Background | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | It’s no secret that many viewers were getting tired of the blue bubble background in TechCrunch TV videos (it had a good run, but after nearly three years, we were too.) So over the Thanksgiving holiday, the TechCrunch TV team picked up some hammers, saws, and glue guns and gave our humble studio a DIY fashion makeover... |
Guitar Hero Creators Tackle Fitness Equipment Next With Goji Play | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | Treadmills. They’re just so monotonous, no? It’s a challenge to keep your mind off exhaustion or muscle fatigue, so many gym users turn to TV shows or books to distract themselves. But even that may not be enough to make exercise less of a chore for regular folk. So Charles and Kai Huang, , got the band back together... |
Microsoft Is Bringing Its BUILD Developer Event Back To San Francisco In April Of 2014 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | Both and were able to secure screenshots of the post, indicating the location and time of the event before it was taken down. That Microsoft is hosting the event in San Francisco for the second time running is no accident. Though I have repeatedly asked the company to return to this city, I doubt that my requests a... |
Twitter Reverts Changes To Blocking Functionality After Strong Negative User Feedback | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | : Twitter has reverted the changes to blocking functionality that it made earlier today. After the changes, an outpouring of negative user feedback appeared on Twitter, blogs and other services. We hear Twitter executives began hashing this one out in internal discussions almost immediately after negative sentiment sta... |
Bots Now Reportedly Account For 61.5% Of Website Visitors | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | In 2012, just over half of all Internet traffic came from bots and, according to the from security CDN service , this year the number has increased to 61.5 percent. At first glance, this sounds like this means the number of nefarious attacks is up, but Incapsula actually notes that the bulk of growth in this number ... |
Google Says That Despite Changes, Marketers Can Still Track Open Rates In Gmail | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | A recent change to the way that Gmail displays images will have an effect on marketers, but it won’t be as dramatic as others have suggested, according to a Google spokesperson. The company that when Gmail users open an email with images, they’ll no longer have to click the “display images below” button to actually s... |
YouTube Opens Up Live Streaming And Google+ Hangouts On Air To All Verified Accounts | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | Bring on the school holiday pageants, local baseball games and armchair poetry slams… YouTube today that it is expanding its live video services to the masses. Everyone who has a verified account can now stream live video on YouTube, and verified accounts can now create a . The company today has not given an update ... |
Whiskey As A Service In San Francisco: Instacart v. Lasso | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | Procrastinating party throwers in San Francisco have options to toss together a soirée in short order. Let me restate that: You can have whiskey delivered all but into your glass without the need to put pants on. Launching today is a company called , which will deliver high-end meat, cheese, wine, and booze to your ap... |
CrunchBase Reaches Agreement With People+, Announces New Terms Of Service | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | Following , the company behind startup database , CrunchBase is new terms of service. CrunchBase data will now be available through . CrunchBase President Matt Kaufman also told me, “People+ has agreed to operate under our revised Terms of Service,” which presumably ends the legal fight. (Conflict of interest aler... |
Aereo Says “Bring It On” As Broadcasters Push Case Into The Supreme Court | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | Aereo, a TV streaming service backed by media mogul Barry Diller, is in the middle of a fierce legal battle. The company uses remote, miniature antennas to pull free over-the-air signals from broadcast networks like Fox, ABC, NBC and 27 others, delivering the stations to customers’ connected devices for $8 per month. N... |
Twitter’s Expanded Photo Timeline Comes To The Mac App Along With Refreshed Design | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | Twitter’s Mac app, once thought dead and gone, got an to bring it in line with the web and mobile apps in a few ways. The new expanded photo timeline makes an appearance, as does a new tweet detail view, refreshed profiles and an overall design bump. The photo timeline will be the most immediately evident change in t... |
Why I’m Crowdfunding My Book | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | I like to write. A lot. I write a lot for TC, and then when I’m done here, I like to write and most recently, . I just finished a novel – and “finished” is a very loaded term when it comes to writing, but let’s say I’ve completed the story – and now I’m crowdfunding it. I’m going to write about my experience here on... |
Google-Backed Email Privacy Petition Gets 100K Signatures, But Will It Work? | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | Google put its significant digital soapbox , reaching the difficult 100,000 signature threshold today. Google, along with a host of civil liberty groups, hopes it will pressure the administration into back legislation to require a warrant for email spying (“ “). Given the White House’s history addressing tech-related ... |
Ad Tech Startup TellApart Hits $100 Million Revenue Run Rate | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | may not be a household name, but if you spend time shopping (or window shopping) online, you have probably come across its technology. The Burlingame, California-based startup helps online retailers precisely target relevant ads to customers based on in-depth user data — so if you’ve ever clicked on an ad for a pair... |
Contextual Lockscreen Cover Hits Google Play Boasting Less Battery Drain And 100 More Upgrades | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 12 | is bringing its situation-aware lockscreen to more Android users today after its six weeks ago. It’s to Android 4.1+ users in the US, Canada, and Europe. Cover’s 100 new improvements include cutting down battery drain and being better at detecting if you’re in your car, at home or at work so it puts the right apps... |
Birdi Will Warn You When You’re Breathing Nasty Air | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | Although the Chinese government believes that we all know it also can kill you. That’s why Birdi is so interesting. It’s a dedicated air quality sensor that hides out on your wall, looking to all the world like a simple smoke detector. However, instead of telling you about something is imminently killing you, it tell... |
Ask A VC: DFJ’s Josh Stein On What He Looks For In Early-Stage Investing | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein joined us in the studio to talk about his investing strategy, and much more. Stein, who has backed and invested in Box, Chartbeat, LendKey, Selligy, SugarCRM, Swell, AngelList, Redfin, Tremor Video, and Twilio, explained that DFJ is often the first ... |
Yahoo CEO Mayer Apologizes For Mail Outage That She Says Affected 1% Of Users | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | After a week of Yahoo Mail outages that began four days ago, CEO Marissa Mayer has posted an . In it, she gives some details about the issue, which was apparently related to a hardware failure — and says that the issue affected 1% of Mail users. “For many of us, Yahoo Mail is a lifeline to our friends, family members ... |
Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s 43-Day Assault On The Patent Troll | Contributor | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | Just over a week ago, the House passed the (H.R. 3309), an innocuous-sounding bill that contains sweeping changes to U.S. patent law motivated in large part by “the troll problem.” Here’s what you need to know about patent trolls: I once defended an international restaurant chain that trades in , in a matter. Tha... |
As The Microsoft CEO Race Tightens, The Company’s Satya Nadella Sits In The Spotlight | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | Ford’s Alan Mulally was going to save Microsoft from obsolescence through his storied leadership and management skills. Until he wasn’t. For a hot minute Qualcomm COO Steve Mollenkopf was on the list. Until he, too, was not — . As before Qualcomm hung a “hands off” sign around its executive: “Mollenkopf is on a list... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | You’re in luck today, true believers! We have four exciting robots that will eventually enslave and/or eat us. Each one is more beautiful than the last, thereby allowing us to be lulled into a false sense of calm while these robots slowly dismantle our society, or morals, and eventually our organic matter. First up is... |
Widespread Apple App Store Search Rankings Change Sees iOS Apps Moved Over 40 Spots, On Average | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | Apple has again tweaked its iOS App Store algorithms, and the changes have brought about widespread search ranking changes across both iPhone and iPad devices. That’s rankings, to be clear – meaning where an app is returned when a user searches for a particular keyword, like “music” or “banking,” for example, in the ... |
Gillmor Gang Live 12.13.13 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | – John Taschek, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
Founder Stories: Meet The Young Makers And Educators Behind The Menlo App Academy | Contributor | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | First, this installment features the youngest entrepreneurs to be on our show, Max Colbert & Matthew Dillabough, who founded back in 2011 when they were only 12 years old. The Academy focuses on teaching students between grades 6-9 how to develop applications for Apple’s iOS. In about two years, the Academy has com... |
Want To Win A Crunchie? Nominations Close Sunday | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | Every year the , our annual awards show, defines what it means to be a startup. We bring the scrappiest, hard-workingest, and most amazing startups onstage and celebrate them at one of the most amazing events of the year. But we can’t celebrate if you’re not nominated. Time is running out to your favorite startu... |
How Oculus Plans To Be Riding High When The Virtual Reality Wave Breaks | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | was conceived just over a year ago announced its Series B round of funding late last night, with a to add to its existing $16 million Series A and $2.4 million in Kickstarter crowdfunding dollars. That company is Oculus Rift: A virtual reality headset dreamt up by Gaikai veteran Brendan Iribe and a team of other sta... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Oculus VR, Smartphone Subsidies, And Home Automation | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | With the gaming world reinvigorated by the introduction of two new consoles, Occulus has announced to bring virtual reality headsets to the masses. Meanwhile, AT&T’s CEO mentioned , which ended up being a hot topic of debate this week. And as we open our homes to friends and loved ones over the holidays, it’s wort... |
Facebook’s New Offline Sales Measurement Trick Could Make Ad Clicks Obsolete | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | Facebook is for brick-and-mortar business owners to measure if their Facebook ads drove in-store sales, even if customers never clicked. Businesses can buy ads, then send Facebook privacy-safe data on who bought what, and Facebook will tell them how much people who saw the ads bought compared to those who didn’t. By ... |
Obama’s NSA Task Force May Recommend Meaningful Changes | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | President Obama’s surveillance task force will reportedly recommend that a civilian should direct the National Security Agency and that it should reform its mass data collection practices. An overview of the non-binding recommendations were to and , giving the eager public a glimpse of what might be in store. Unfo... |
New Cut the Rope 2 Game Drops On December 19, Check Out The Video Preview | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | We’ve seen the global success of games like Angry Birds from Rovio, but while the latter has $42m in funding, ZeptoLab, who is sitting on 400 million downloads of its Cut the Rope game since its 2010 launch, has taken zero external financing. That’s pretty amazing when you think about it, and this lack of funds is not ... |
Social Media Analytics Company Viralheat Names Jeff Revoy As Its New CEO | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | is announcing that it has a new CEO: Jeff Revoy, whose recent roles include serving as former Chief Marketing and Product Officer at email marketing company iContact. A company spokesperson suggested that it was time for a new CEO because Viralheat is shifting its focus from small and medium businesses to larger enter... |
Last Minute Holiday Shopping? SixDoors Raises $600K To Courier Gifts, Well, To Your Door | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | Same-day mobile shopping app has been iterating on its idea of local product delivery since August, but only with the latest version released just weeks ago has the app really found its footing. Since the new release, SixDoors has doubled its user base, and now offers San Francisco residents a way to shop from their ... |
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Appsfire Exits The App Discovery Business To Focus On Mobile Advertising, Native Ads | Sarah Perez | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | It’s tough to compete with the Apple App Store. , which has been in the app discovery business since its founding in 2009, is pulling all its consumer-facing app discovery apps in a week in order to focus on its mobile ad technologies instead. Says CEO Ouriel Ohayon, it’s “something we should have done a while ago.” B... |
Leaked Facebook Video Ad Pitch Deck Reveals Plans To Steal TV And YouTube Dollars | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | “Avoid saying anything negative about YouTube – leave the impression of the user experience up to them” Facebook tells its adtech partners in a leaked, confidential deck that teaches them to sell Facebook’s video ads. The 32-page document details Facebook’s plan to beat television with reach and YouTube with targeting,... |
Nextdoor Competitor Meetey Launches Its Local Social Network Internationally | Mike Butcher | 2,013 | 12 | 13 | Back in October , the startup that lets people create private social networks with others who live in their local neighborhoods, raised a new $60 million funding round boosting its cash pot to $100 million. It’s now . So as you can tell this is going to be a pretty hot space, aiming to be for our “local life what Fac... |
CrunchWeek: Instagram Debuts Messaging, Twitter’s Blocking Debacle, Snapchat Banks $50M | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | In this episode, , and I talk about the launch of Instagram’s first ever messaging feature called and the figures announced by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, Twitter changing how its blocking feature works (and after a swift public outcry), and Snapchat confirming that it has closed from New York hedge fund ... |
Why Does Google Need So Many Robots? To Jump From The Web To The Real World | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | Why does Google ? Because it already rules your pocket. The mobile market, except for the slow rise of wearables, is saturated. There are millions of handsets around the world, each one connected to the Internet and most are running either Android or iOS. Except for incremental updates to the form, there will be few i... |
Code Literacy Doesn’t Need To Come At The Expense Of Other Skills | Klint Finley | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | This week President Barack Obama rekindled a couple of the Internet’s favorite debates: whether it’s appropriate to take selfies at funerals, and whether everyone should learn to code. As part of , Obama delivered a titled “President Obama calls on every American to learn code.” “Learning these skills isn’t just imp... |
CrunchBase Reveals: The Average Successful Startup Raises $41M, Exits at $242.9M | Mark Lennon | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | The CrunchBase dataset has now captured more venture exits than ever, so we decided to take a closer look at what successful startups can tell us about venture investing and the startup landscape. We found that the average successful US startup has raised $41 million and exited at $242.9 million. We also found that the... |
The Government Really Isn’t Sure What Snowden Took | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | Out this morning in is a stark tale: The United States’ intelligence apparatus has little idea what Edward Snowden took, despite spending half a trying to find out. As the full scope of what Snowden absconded with likely can’t be known, the government is forced to operate on its toes, unsure of what might be coming n... |
iOS Rules The Corporate Mobile Market As Android And Windows Scrap For Second Place | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | According to a , Apple continues to dominate the mobile device market among small and medium-sized businesses. During the first 10 months of 2013, Intermedia customers activated 190,000 Apple devices, 29,000 Samsung devices, and 13,800 Motorola devices. All told, Apple controlled 76% of the market in the period. As ,... |
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As Software Eats The World, Non-Tech Corporations Are Eating Startups | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | Netscape founder and VC titan Marc Andreessen famously wrote back in 2011 that software is steadily eating the world, disrupting industries like music, retail and more. Now large corporations in these industries are starting to eat startups. Over the past year or two, non-tech corporations have begun to actually open... |
Gillmor Gang: Brain Chemistry | Steve Gillmor | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor — take the edge off of a slow week with a relaxed conversation about Instagram and Twitter direct messages, online anonymity, its effects on the brain, and Google’s reasons for cacheing Gmail images. Occasionally Farber disappears to throw an... |
Twitter Tests New “Nearby” Feature To Surface Local Tweets From Those Around You | Alex Wilhelm | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | According to , Twitter is testing a new service called Nearby, which will display geographically local tweets to users, whether they are following the progenitor of the update or not. Nearby appears to be a test for the moment, meaning that the chance you can access it is low. But, do take a look, and post screenshots... |
Uber Quietly Spins Up New System Helping Riders Look For Lost Items | Matthew Panzarino | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | The car service Uber has quietly rolled out a new version of Uber Lost, the system that helps riders locate items they’ve left in drivers’ cars. The system allows you to quickly reference rides you’ve taken in order to locate it as fast as possible. After we saw some Uber service reps tweet out a link to the system aim... |
Google Buys Boston Dynamics, Creator Of Big Dog | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | Google announced that they’ve acquired , creators of quad- and bi-pedal robots like and . This is Google’s eighth robotics acquisition. The company did not disclose the details of the sale. The announcement appeared in the where Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert said they would honor their DARPA military contracts... |
Gift Guide: Our Favorite Android Phone | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 22 | Chris and I spent a good chunk of discussing some Android-centric holiday picks, but we felt that one of those choices could use a bit more fleshing out. That said, we took a moment to stop bickering and share some thoughts on Google and LG’s Nexus 5, a device that wound up being our favorite Android phone of the hol... |
Amazon Drones: As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap | Jon Evans | 2,013 | 12 | 14 | As a drone hipster — I wrote an about a drone apocalypse a — I watched the techosphere’s reactions to Amazon’s that it was experimenting with drone delivery with a mixture of amusement and despair. Almost everybody is thinking so . Jeff Bezos must feel : “I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.”... |
Q&A Platform Answers.com Raises More Cash, Buys Customer Experience Analytics Company ForeSee For Over $200M | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 12 | 22 | Q&A platform is announcing a big acquisition and fundraising tonight–the company is buying customer experience analytics company and just raised $300 million in new funding in equity from existing investors, including Summit Partners, TA Associates, AFCV and others; and in debt from SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and S... |
Teleza Turns Your Mobile Device Into A Dual-SIM Powerhouse | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 22 | When I was in Shenzhen last month I met James Sung, the guy who brought us original and turned countless iPod Touches into iPhones. Now you can do the same thing, but wirelessly. His new product, called , costs $129 and is styled like a high-end cigarette case. It comes in silver and gold and features a built-in bat... |
Everything You Wanted To Know About The Giant Elance, oDesk Merger & Ensuing Backlash (But Were Afraid To Ask) | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 12 | 22 | Earlier this year, that their companies would be joining forces in a blockbuster merger. Already two of the biggest names in online food-ordering, the prospect of a combined “Grubless” sent ripples through the market. Once upon a time, these kind of massive private mergers only happened once in a blue moon, but those... |
Fly Or Die: Instagram Direct | Jordan Crook | 2,013 | 12 | 22 | [tc_5min code=”518062004″] As you may have already figured out, Instagram has launched . It lets users send a photo up to 15 people without publicly broadcasting that photo to their entire following. Recipients can like the photo and participate in live chat underneath it. So, what do we think? Well, on one side of th... |
Partnership With Chinese App Store Shines A Light On The Hidden World Of Jailbreak Groups | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 22 | Jailbreak releases for new iOS products are major events. In the early years, release teams would celebrate major holidays with a new jailbreak or SIM unlock and millions of anxious users would rush for the latest software. Much has stayed the same – the excitement, the rush to jailbreak. But something has changed: jai... |
Apple Announces Deal To Bring iPhones To China Mobile Starting On Jan. 17 | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 22 | Apple and China Mobile that they’ve reached an agreement that will see the iPhone 5s and 5c launch on the China Mobile’s 4G and 3G networks early next year. Pre-registration is supposed to begin on December 25, with phones actually available on January 17 of next year. “China is an extremely important market for Appl... |
The Crowdfunder’s Dilemma | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 22 | My crowdfunding campaign is fully funded now and I’m preparing metrics and other measurements to help us both understand some best practices for crowdfunding. But, until then, I wanted to comment a bit on the problems facing crowdfunders when it comes to marketing and sales. I’m a writer and it’s almost as if I’m natur... |
For Holiday Shopping, Mobile Apps Bring Out My Inner Grinch | Semil Shah | 2,013 | 12 | 22 | TechCrunch Every week for this column, I write about something related to mobile technology or apps. It would be only natural, then, for me to devote at least one column to the intersection of mobile and commerce, especially during such a festive time of year. I’ll state upfront that I don’t particularly love the hecti... |
Such Hack. Many Dogecoin. Very Disappear. So Gone. Wow. | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | Dogecoin, the virtual currency that was named after a silly meme but , suffered its first hacking incident today, with users losing an estimated 21 million Dogecoins. The incident was confirmed by Dogewallet after users reported disappearing Dogecoins on . In an email, Dogewallet told us: The hacking incident was... |
Google Wants To Build The Ultimate Personal Assistant | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | Google Search is changing rapidly. Given the company’s love of small, rapid-fire updates, its sometimes hard to keep track of where the company is going, but earlier this month, at the conference in Paris, Google Engineering Director Scott Huffman presented a pretty compelling overview of the direction Google is takin... |
iOS 7 Untethered Jailbreak Now Available | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 22 | A team of iOS programmers called have jailbroken that latest iPhone/iPod/iPad operating system, iOS 7.0.4. Jailbreaking allows uses to install home-brew software and run unapproved apps from the . The jailbreak takes “5 minutes” and works on Windows and OS X. Users at have expressed dismay that this jailbreak cam... |
What I Want For Christmas From Each Major Tech Company Next Year | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | Here’s my wish list. I realize it’s too late for this year, but I’m hoping the companies are already planning for next year, and this way they have all of 2014 to deliver. Many of these are pretty big asks, I admit, but the companies in question have pretty deep pockets and access to world-class resources. So how about... |
AdEspresso Raises $500K To Make Facebook Ad Optimization Easy For Small Businesses | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | , a startup offering Facebook ad tools for small and medium businesses, is announcing that it has raised its first outside funding, a seed round of $500,000. The company focuses on ad optimization, namely finding the most effective combination of text and images for your ads. It says that customers upload possible imag... |
The 2013 Year In Review In Review | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | It’s a holiday, which means it’s time to fill a post with meaningless reflections on things you thought were interesting about 2013. Try to be comprehensive, but don’t rack your brain. After all, it’s extremely unlikely anyone is near a computer today, let alone scanning the tech blog sites for fake news masquerading ... |
Apple Slapped With $667K Fine For Trying To Influence Taiwanese iPhone Prices | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | Chances are that if you’re reading this, you didn’t recently buy an iPhone in Taiwan. As it happens, that may be for the best — according to a published earlier today, Apple has been fined NT$20,000,000 by Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission for attempting to influence iPhone sale prices. That may like a lot, but the re... |
Open Thread: What Will You Give The World This Year? | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | Maybe it’s the ham and biscuit brunch talking, but here’s something we’ve never done: an open thread. To celebrate our new Facebook commenting system, I’d like you all to start sharing what you’d like to give the world this Christmas. Is it your start-up? Is it a new hardware project? Is it a great idea? An event you’r... |
Google Destroys Rap Genius’ Search Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam, But Resolution In Progress | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | Google hit back hard today after it learned lyrics site had been using dubious SEO tricks to attain top spots in search results. Now RapGenius.com doesn’t appear on the first page of results for a search of “Rap Genius,” and popular queries like “Jay-Z Holy Grail Lyrics” don’t bring up the startup like they used to. ... |
Evasi0n Jailbreak Group Drops Pirate App Store TaiG | John Biggs | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | In a short letter to the jailbreak community, the they are refusing to distribute , a Chinese app store released alongside an iOS 7.x jailbreak. that the app store contained hundreds of pirated apps. Evasi0n said they “dropped the ball” and that the TaiG partnership was a mistake. They also reverse-engineered the ... |
Stanford Researcher Proves NSA Can Probably Identify Individuals From Phone Records | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | The National Security Agency that intelligence officers are only collecting the phone records of millions of Americans, safely omitting their actual names from analysis. But a Stanford researcher, Jonathan Mayer, that he and his co-author could easily match so-called “meta-data” to individual names with little more... |
Was Your Twitter Password Just Reset? Don’t Panic — Twitter Screwed Up | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Over the last hour or so, there’s been a big spike in the number of folks reporting that Twitter had sent them an email asking them to change their password for security reasons. What was going on? Had Twitter been hacked? Were these emails real? Was this some mega phishing attempt? Yes, the emails were real — but no, ... |
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