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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Ben Horowitz’s Honest And Real Take On Entrepreneurship | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Imagine your business is down to its last stretch of runway and your investors refuse to put more cash into it. Your friends and your most trusted advisers tell you that it’s probably time to throw in the towel, but as a last-ditch effort to find some capital, you decide to take the company public. You are half-certain... |
With $100M+ Run Rate, Gett Reveals A New Look, App And Delivery Service As It Prepares To Do Battle With Uber | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 12 | 25 | When it comes to the emergent world of on-demand transportation, of headlines of late, seemingly deadlocked in a race to become the clear “market leader” in a hot space that’s rife with competition. Of course, with startups like Hailo and SideCar , there are more than a few startups looking to throw their name in th... |
Basis Goes To Intel For Around $100M | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Intel has won , we’re hearing, at a price of around $100 million, according to one source. A second source pegs the deal at closer to $150 million. Basis makes wristwatch health trackers, 7 percent of the market versus competitor Jawbone’s 21 percent. As Intel was this year at CES, we’re assuming that this buy is ... |
Facebook Looking Into Buying Drone Maker Titan Aerospace | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Facebook, one of the primary backers of , which aims to bring affordable Internet access to the 5 billion people in the world who still lack connectivity, is in talks with a company that could help further that agenda. TechCrunch is hearing that Facebook is buying , makers of near-orbital, solar-powered drones which ... |
Because Some Days You Just Want To Customize Your Pizza On A Giant Touchscreen Tabletop | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | http://youtu.be/xvT0MCugb58 Technology is a wonderful thing. Chaotic Moon co-founder Ben Lamm says he “remembers when it was cool to go to Pizza Hut” with his family and . It was with that nostalgia in mind that his development firm began working on building a way to bring back the sense of community and engagement th... |
With $96.7M In Funding, PowaTag Launches Its Mobile And Audio-Triggered Commerce App | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Powa Technologies, a UK-based e-commerce startup that has raised in outside funding in the last seven months, is today finally taking the wraps off its flagship product: PowaTag, an e-commerce app that combines elements of mobile payments, QR Codes and audio recognition to provide an all-in-one solution for brands an... |
Fresh Off Merger With Conduit, Perion In Talks To Acquire Mobile Ad Platform AirPush | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Mobile ad platform , which to move into native mobile ads, is now in the process of being acquired by . We haven’t confirmed the terms of the deal specifically, but the number we’re hearing is $170 million.* Perion, the makers of digital consumer brands , and , as well as several B2B services, also recently mer... |
Uber Adds Push Notifications To Let Passengers Know When Surge Pricing Ends | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | For the past several years, Uber has defended its use of “surge pricing” as a way to ensure supply in times when demand is high. By charging a premium for a ride, the company argues, it gets more drivers on the road, and curtails the number of requests from potential passengers, keeping inventory in check. That said, t... |
Zuckerberg-Linked Group Releases Ad Blasting House GOP For Immigration Reform Intransigence | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | The , an affiliate of the Zuckerberg-founded and financed group, has released a new ad blasting House Republicans for slowing the path to immigration reform. Fwd.us is , where its tactics have caused a stir. After the group financed advertising praising the Keystone XL Pipeline, it lost Elon Musk as a supporter. Th... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Google Ventures’ Rich Miner | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | This week on Ask A VC, we are thrilled to have Google Ventures’ general partner and Android co-founder in the studio. You can submit questions for our guest either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. Miner, who leads Google Ventures’ East Coast investment team, has backed HubSpot, MessageMe, Stam... |
VideoGenie Goes Beyond Video With StoryBox, A Product That Collects Positive Testimonials | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | is a startup that helps businesses collect and highlight video testimonials from fans. But it seems that founder and CEO Justin Nassiri doesn’t want to limit this to video. So VideoGenie has launched a new product that it calls , which aggregates all kinds of content about a brand. The company says the testimonials c... |
If You Watch One Video Of An Arduino-Powered, Tetris-Playing Business Card Today, Make It This One | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pXhOMO6ZjRg] I like alternative business cards. In lieu of pieces of paper, for example, I like to hand out copies of . But I may have finally met someone with a far cooler business card than mine. Take a look at Kevin Bates’ Arduino-powered , and weep, ... |
Samsung To Donate $3M To Charities Chosen By Ellen, Says It Was Included “Organically” In Her Oscar Selfie | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | So … what was the deal with Ellen DeGeneres’ at the Oscars? Why did she use what appeared to be a Samsung Galaxy Note to take the photo? I mean, nothing against the Galaxy Note, but there’s been about whether DeGeneres, who was hosting the ceremony, got paid by Samsung to use the phone. Well, a Samsung spokesperson... |
Shutterstock Acquires Digital Asset Management Service WebDAM, Goes After Enterprise Market | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Stock image and video service today that it has acquired , a provider of web-based digital asset management software. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. WebDAM was founded in 2005 and never took any outside funding. The service offers a number of solutions for marketing and creative teams... |
Study: Massive Online Courses Enroll An Average Of 43,000 Students, 10% Completion | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Massively Open Online Courses are becoming more mainstream, as more top-tier universities give the public access to their courses. demonstrates continued wide-spread popularity with part-time students looking to substitute otherwise cat-video-filled downtime with ivy league lectures. Examining public data from 279 co... |
Credit Karma In The Market For At Least $60 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Riding a wave of investor interest in new consumer-facing banking, trading, credit, and lending services, the online credit marketplace is looking to raise at least $60 million in its latest round of funding, according to several people familiar with the company’s plans. The company is one of a new breed of consumer f... |
Zynga Reboots Three Of Its Biggest Franchises on Mobile | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Under fresh leadership from new CEO Don Mattrick, Zynga has gone back to the drawing board on some of its biggest money-makers. Today, the company is unveiling upcoming revamped versions of Zynga Poker and Words With Friends along with a brand-new mobile-first version of its biggest hit FarmVille. It’s a critical time ... |
Microsoft Confirms Executive Changes With Reller, Bates Out The Door | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Today the raft of executive changes that . Senior executives Tony Bates and Tami Reller will exit the company, Mark Penn will move to a more ‘strategic’ role away from advertising, and the company’s ad efforts will be headed by Chris Capossela, who will be the executive vice president of marketing. Eric Rudder will ... |
Microsoft’s OneDrive For Business Throws Down Gauntlet For Box, Dropbox | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | today that the business end of OneDrive, its cloud storage offering, would be unshackled from its other services, and sold as a standalone cloud storage solution for corporate customers. Cue a surprised gasp from the audience. Microsoft has been working towards this result for some time. After building SkyDrive up fro... |
Google Capital Pours $50M Into Real Estate Marketplace Auction.com At A $1.2B Valuation | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | Fresh off its public debut last week, Google Capital is putting more money to work this week with the announcement of a $50 million investment in real estate marketplace The valuation of the company post-money is $1.2 billion, and a representative from Google Capital will join the company’s Board of directors and ano... |
And The Oscar Goes To… Samsung, Jennifer Lawrence, And Selfies | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 3 | Though none of them actually walked away with a tiny golden statue, Samsung, Jennifer Lawrence, and a particularly star-studded selfie definitely won the Oscars last night, at least according to social media. data, , revealed that Samsung stole the show. Some of the top ten phrases about Oscars advertisers included m... |
FreedomPop Announces The Privacy Phone, A Fully-Encrypted Smartphone For $10 A Month | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | Meet the , a device that FreedomPop brags is the only smartphone and mobile service that allows for encrypted communications. Lovingly nicknamed the “Snowden Phone” by FreedomPop, It can even be purchased with Bitcoin to further protect the owner’s anonymity. Simply put, if you’re in the market for a phone to plan to ... |
Walmart Planning E-Commerce Marketplace To Enter India, Challenge eBay, Amazon | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | India’s e-commerce industry is on fire. After by investing $133 million in Snapdeal a week ago, the world’s biggest retailer, Walmart, is now looking to build a marketplace for tapping into the country’s e-commerce industry, which is expected to grow sevenfold to $22 billion over next five years. As , Walmart has al... |
inPowered’s Content Discovery Tools Are Now Free — But Advertisers Still Have To Pay | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | , a company that helps businesses find and promote positive press coverage of their products, opened the doors to parts of its platform today. Specifically, inPowered said its “content discovery and amplification” platform is now free to anyone. Users can search for any term and find relevant articles, sorted by the co... |
TreSensa Raises $2M To Help Build And Distribute Games For The Mobile Web | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | , which offers tools for the development and distribution for mobile games, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in Series A funding. Surprisingly (at least to me) TreSensa is focused on games built in HTML5 for mobile browsers. The reason, according to CEO and co-founder , is that the “window of opportunity” i... |
These Selfie Apps Refuse To Die | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | Anyone can create a self-portrait. Hell, we’ve been painting them since the Stone Age. But it’s the way you share them that can be special. Are selfies narcissistic? Sure. Can they be annoying? Yes, if done with too much arrogance, vanity, or frequency. But they’re not pointless. Selfies and context left by our shift... |
TC Cribs: Crowdtilt’s Spacious HQ, Where Ring Toss Rules And Imaginations Run Wild | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | Welcome back to a new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the show that knocks on the doors of some of tech’s hottest companies to see what the 9-to-5 life is like for the people who work inside. This time we headed to , the startup that lets you to fund projects or causes of your choice. Crowdtilt’s new digs are literally... |
Humint Proposes A Way To Recover The Lost Treasures Of Mt. Gox | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | Like the King Solomon’s Lost Mines or the treasures of the Spanish Main, the 750,000 BTC lost in the Mt. Gox implosion isn’t gone – it’s just really, really hard to get back. The solution, then, is a sort of treasure hunt/dedicated vigilante mission with a bit of crypto thrown in. It’s called . Essentially, with the h... |
How To Orchestrate A National Media Push Without A PR Team | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | This week, . The anti-procrastination to-do list app, built by teenagers Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen, saw more than 50,000 downloads in the first 48 hours of launching the free app. So how did the startup, with absolutely no marketing spend and no formal PR representation, pull in so many downloads out of nowhere? ... |
UK Advisor Involved In Britain’s Internet Filter Arrested For Child Porn | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | A top British Prime Minister advisor, who helped design the , has been arrested for possessing child pornography. Patrick Rock was arrested at his home a day after Prime Minister David Cameron’s office learned about the investigation. “This is an ongoing investigation so it would not be appropriate to comment further,... |
The PC Market And The 300 Million Mark | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | Today that the PC market will contract by 6% in 2014, and will continue to decline at least into 2018. Unit volume according to IDC would slip from 315.1 million units in 2013, to 291.7 in 2018. The figures include traditional PCs — laptops, desktops, and so forth — but exclude Surface devices, Android tablets, and i... |
Quick! Look! Gabe Newell Is Doing An AMA | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | Have you ever found out one of your heroes is doing an ask-me-anything on reddit…. only to realize that it already ended like 10 hours ago? Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve (the studio behind Half Life, Portal, Left4Dead, the Steam store, etc.) and all around really-cool-guy, . Right now. It started 20 minutes ago. Go... |
The Father Of 3D Printing Is Being Inducted Into The National Inventors Hall Of Fame | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | With all the hubbub surrounding 3D printing as of late, it’s easy to think of it as something new. Something that, before 5 or 6 years ago, only existed in Sci-Fi novels. Surprise! 3D printing has actually been around for decades. In fact, the first kinda-sorta functional 3D printer prototype was built way back in 1984... |
Why Would Titan Aerospace Sell To Facebook? Because Investors Weren’t Biting | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | One question we had concerning is why would Titan, a young company founded in just 2012, want to sell? Facebook’s interest in the business, after all, makes sense: It wants to use the drones to help spread Internet access to developing nations, via the , which is focused on connecting the “next 5 billion” people to ... |
Comcast Deal Doesn’t Change Netflix’s Earnings Forecasts | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | Yesterday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, reiterated . This means that the Comcast deal, , is not expensive enough for Netflix to change guidance on its future financial performance. Calling the deal “important because it was an opportunity to shore up the long-term su... |
Mention Launches An iPad App For Its Media Monitoring Tool, Opens Office in New York | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | French startup launched an iPad app to monitor your online reputation from your tablet. At the same time, the company hired its first full time employee in New York — it will expand to the U.S. in the coming months. It also purchased the mention.com domain name and moved its product to the new domain name. As a remin... |
The Wearables Market Is Wear It’s At | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | may not have , but the company may have in Intel (should the deal go through). On the heels of we thought it might be nice to take a quick look at some of the big winners, losers and in-betweeners in wearables. So far this year , which has a fancy portable (some would say wearable) camera, ; Fitbit with Tory ... |
There Is Only One Week Left To Apply For The Washington, DC Pitch-Off | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | Washington, D.C.: and will be hosting a massive meetup and pitch-off on March 18th. We’re looking for some of the area’s best, undiscovered startups to participate in a rapid-fire, 60-second pitch-off competition. Washington, DC-area startups have until March 11th to apply. The meetup’s general admission tickets an... |
Watch Microsoft’s Cortana Assistant For Windows Phone 8.1 Shown Off On Video | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkgJwGzsn3Y?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Want to see how Cortana works on Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1? Gander above and all of the virtual digital assistant’s functions and features will be revealed. Well maybe not all, but this video (via ) does show a good amount, part... |
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Fools And Their Bitcoin | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 4 | I got a text message today from a PR person – one I actually like – who asked me if I wanted the exclusive on two new ATMs in Austin as well as a “roving” ATM that will, presumably, be spitting out cryptocurrency for drunk social media marketing managers at SXSW. “Do you want the story?” he asked. “Nah,” I said. Beca... |
Play That Funky Music, Cyborg | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io-jtlPv7y4] Gil Weinberg, , has a mission: to make it easy for amputees and the disabled to play beautiful music. His first project is a drumming prosthesis, a system that allows a user who is missing a hand to play improvise as well as the jazz greats. The arm attaches to an a... |
Zite CEO Mark Johnson On How The Acquisition Helps Flipboard: “We Can Help Engagement, Help People Feel More Invested” | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | Earlier today – the first time CNN was the buyer, and this time around Zite’s main competitor Flipboard took it off the U.S. media giant’s hands. The deal sees Zite CEO Mark Johnson departing the company, but the outgoing executive still had plenty to say about what Zite brings to Flipboard, and how the CNN experienc... |
Founders Fund Raises $1B For Fifth Fund | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | is announcing this evening that it has raised $1 billion for its fifth fund, which will be led by partners Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Brian Singerman, Peter Thiel, Lauren Gross, Geoff Lewis, and Scott Nolan. Since 2005, Founders Fund has raised over $2 billion and invested in a number of sectors, including aerospace, art... |
Time.com Gets A Big Redesign, Along With New Ad Units | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | The new is here. Well, it should be here for some of you, anyway. A spokesperson said that the first few users should see the new layout now, and it will continue rolling out tonight and tomorrow. Time has been talking about the relaunch for months now, matching the talk with new hires (it has has made 35 of them sin... |
eShares Tackles The Headache Of Startup Valuations By Offering “409A-As-A-Service” | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | , a company trying to , has expanded its product lineup to include something called “409A-as-a-service.” To be honest, until speaking with co-founder and CEO Henry Ward, 409A didn’t mean anything to me. Apparently it around the valuations used for employee stock options. Ward suggested that these valuations can be a... |
More On Flipboard’s Acquisition Of Zite: “The Deal Whisperer,” Zite’s Fate, The Price Tag, And Paper | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | After Flipboard and CNN today announced that personalised magazine app , I had a chance to talk with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue and CNN’s digital head KC Estenson about the deal (pictured here looking chummy around the time they announced the news). What they did talk about was some of the germination behind the deal, t... |
Getty Images Jumps Into The Age Of Social Media With A Free Embed Tool For Its Photo Library | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | Last year, began to double down on how it could better control and ultimately make money from its library of 150 million of pictures (and counting) online. The first step was a that saw the company get a fee from Pinterest in exchange for metadata about each image. Today, the paid-content stalwart is taking another... |
That Fake Hoverboard Video? Funny Or Die Says They Made It | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | If you were somehow still holding out hope that the hoverboard in that (very, very clearly fake) video from yesterday was in any way real: . “Why Are All These Celebrities Participating In An Epic Fake Hoverboard Troll?” The answer? Because Funny Or Die asked them to. In a move that’ll surely crush the dreams of a zi... |
Gracenote Teams With Musicmetric To Bring Social Data To Its Rhythm Music-Recommendation Platform | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | Today Gracenote announced that , its Internet radio and music recommendation service, is becoming a bit smarter with new inclusion of social data from Musicmetric. Rhythm is a white-label service that helps companies and brands create Internet radio solutions, but doesn’t provide music licenses. Gracenote is more than... |
Quadcopters Never Have To Crash Again Thanks To This Software-Based Fail-Safe System | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek0FrCaogcs] If you’ve flown a quadcopter, you’ll know what happens when a propeller stops or fails: the thing flips around and crashes. Using a new system from Mark W. Mueller, Simon Berger, and Raffaello D’Andrea at , however, quadcopters can automatically right themselves aft... |
Twelve Reasons Business Insider Could Now Be Worth $100M | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | Business Insider just raised $12 million more, at valuation of around $100 million. The round was led by Jeff Bezos, and included RRE Ventures, IVP, Jim Friedlich and Gordon Crovitz. The $100 million valuation does not seem that far-fetched, because: |
Dumbstruck Lets You Send A Message And Capture The Reaction | Greg Barto | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | , an Albany, NY based startup from Michael Tanski and Peter Allegretti, has a different take on video messaging. The app allows you to capture moments in video and send them to specific contacts. When that contact opens your message, it shows the clip and records their reaction on the front facing camera. It then sends... |
A Look At The iBeacon Store Of The Future With Retail Startup Thirdshelf | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | At this year’s Dx3 digital business expo, Montreal-based had a fully functional demonstration retail store with iBeacon proximity based shopper customization in place. The demo store makes real a lot of what you may have heard about the potential of this tech, using Thirdshelf’s whitelabel in-store app and . Thirdsh... |
Zillow Hires Former Realtor.com President To Run Its B2B Business | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | Online real estate marketplace today that it has hired Errol Samuelson, the former president of Realtor.com and chief strategy officer of Move, Inc., as its “chief industry development officer.” Samuelson will take executive oversight for the company’s business-to-business products and tools, including services lik... |
Building On The Solidoodle 4, A Sub-$1,000 3D Printer With Solid Hardware But Sad Software | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | 3D printer prices are falling steadily, something that shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with the vagaries of the electronics market. What cost a few thousand last year is now hovering at less than a grand while knock-offs are going for around $500 or less, depending on the model. It’s a great time to be a 3D printing... |
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Stripe Debuts A New Checkout Experience With One-Click Payments For Mobile And Web | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | Stripe is on mobile and web today, which enables one click-payments for the first time on the payments platform. The new version of Checkout allows for an embeddable payment form for desktop, tablet, and mobile that doesn’t take customers outside of a merchant site, and also allows them to pay without being redirecte... |
There Is Only One Week Left To Apply For The New York City Pitch-Off | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | New York City, get ready for an epic night of rapid fire pitches from your area’s best startups. But we’re still on the hunt for startups to pitch. The application is below. Apply before March 12th. On March 20, TechCrunch is holding in your glorious city. There will be drinks, startups and the most of New York’s roa... |
Mobile Bot Traffic Reportedly Grew 30% In 2013 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | It’s no secret that mobile — and specifically Android — is becoming a for . The result of this, according to a new report from CAPTCHA-based advertising firm , is that suspicious traffic from mobile devices grew 30 percent in 2013 and currently accounts for about 25 percent of all U.S. mobile traffic. Overall, susp... |
Daylight Reinvents The Experience Of Art Photography On The iPad | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | , dedicated to art photography, has been a decade in the making. The company’s founder and Michael Itkoff first built a bi-annual magazine about 10 years ago dedicated to documentary photography. “It was meant to bridge the gap between the more conceptual concerns of fine art and artists, and then the more sociopol... |
Centrify’s Tom Kemp On Preparing Technology Companies For The Long Haul | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 5 | On a first glance, it wouldn’t be apparent that , a co-founder and the CEO of , runs one of the world’s best private enterprise technology companies. Turns out, he’s on his second startup, this one — — started back in 2004. For the past nine years, Kemp and his team have been hard at work building security and ID... |
Company Data Disruptor DueDil Raises $17M To Go Global | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Four years ago the founder pitched at a small event I was at, amid what can only be described as a fit of nerves. But now founder and CEO Damian Kimmelman is a fully-rounded, confident founder who has today raised a $17 million Series B financing round, led by previous investor Oak Investment Partners. The funding ro... |
Thoreau Warned Us About Ellen’s Oscar Selfie | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Since the very beginnings of electronic communication, we were warned about the light-speed cultural wasteland we were stringing together. When Henry David Thoreau first heard about the telegraph, , “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothi... |
It Took 122M Commands And 16.3 Days, But A Collaborative Horde Beat Pokemon Together | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Well, they did it. A group of more than 1 million gamers managed to work in chaotic fashion to beat Pokemon. Over on the Twitch game-live-streaming platform, crowds to control a game of Pokemon as a group, with each user shouting out different commands at once. They eventually won. You could likely beat the game more... |
Britain Will Reportedly Scrap 20% Tax on Bitcoin | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | British authorities have plans to scrap a 20% “value-added tax” on Bitcoins, bringing regulation of the controversial crypto-currency in line with the way it treats other currencies. “The UK’s welcoming approach to Bitcoin contrasts with the approach of other countries, amid concerns about its use for tax evasion and m... |
China Unleashes Yet Another Attempt At A State-Run Search Portal | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | The Chinese government has launched a new search site that is reportedly run by the vice president of , the Communist Party of China’s official mouthpiece. Called , its logo’s color scheme closely resembles (and that’s putting it charitably) Google’s. As , ChinaSo is not the first attempt by the Chinese government t... |
What Games Are: Going Small | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Some changes are as obvious as night and day. Where once mobile phone gaming was the preserve of Java studios against a backdrop of handset operators taking 70% revenue cuts, now there are smartphone gaming and app stores. Steve Jobs got up on stage and and changed the world in a moment. Things would never be the sam... |
Google Loses Emergency Bid To Keep “Innocence Of Muslims” Film Online | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Google to keep the controversial film “Innocence of Muslims” on YouTube. One of the actresses, Cindy Garcia, who wanted the film taken offline after receiving death threats, claims she has some copyright control over its distribution. The 9th Circuit agreed: “Garcia may assert a copyright interest only in the portion... |
Hotel Metasearch Top10.com Closes $8M Series B, Led By Balderton, To Expand In Europe | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Hotel metasearch startup, , has closed an $8 million Series B funding round, led by , following what it describes as rapid growth over the past 12 months. Its It’s been quite long journey for the U.K.-based startup thus far. The founders’ initial business was in mobile phone and broadband price comparison — via its ... |
Early Shakeups In Nadella’s Microsoft | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Earlier today that Microsoft’s Tami Reller, executive vice president of marketing, and Tony Bates, executive vice president of the company’s Business Development and Evangelism group will both depart. A reportedly formal announcement date of Tuesday now appears to be little more than a coming perfunctory exercise in ... |
Acoustic Stream Turns Your Git-Fiddle Into A Robotic Metal Monster | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Guitarists love to shred. It’s a known fact. From Slash to Debbie Gibson, shredding is the way guitarists express themselves and/or meet their wives. But how can you show the world how hard you rock when you don’t have any way to share your rockularation with the world? You use the , man. The Acoustic Stream. What doe... |
Mashable Finalizes $14M First Outside Funding Round | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Tech and social media blog Mashable has round led by Tribune Digital Ventures, the company announced today. The funding adds nearly $1 million to the as of early January this year, and represents the first time the site has sought outside funding. Mashable has offices in New York City and San Francisco, and was fou... |
Twitter’s Root Injustice | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | three years this post has been stuck in the drafts folder of my computer. I didn’t finish because I would go to edit it then convince myself, halfway through, that I was on the verge of a and my time was better spent coding. I’ve stopped thinking that there is a for Twitter. There is, instead, a systemic problem t... |
More? | Devin Coldewey | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Earlier this week, Nilay Patel at the Verge a provocative, and provocatively-titled, pronouncement on the state of the Internet. Never one to mince words, he declared it fucked. I beg to differ from Mr Patel, not to the degree, as a man once said, that is fucked, but I think that, in the words of the rejoinder, the... |
Samsung’s New Chromebook Apparently Getting The Leather Look Of Galaxy Devices | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Samsung’s next Chromebook has broken cover, courtesy of , and the Chrome OS-powered notebook has a familiar design trait that’s becoming a Samsung trademark: faux leather. Like the back of its new NotePRO and TabPRO Android tablets, the back of the lid of this new Chromebook appears to sport the leather look, with sti... |
Among News Apps, Flipboard Drives The Most Traffic For Publishers (According to Onswipe) | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Mobile publishing startup is releasing data today that looks at the popularity of mobile newsreading apps from the perspective of digital publishers. Onswipe’s platform allows publishers to create mobile-optimized versions of their websites and ads, so the company says it can track every time an article from one of i... |
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Kickstarter Is About To Crowdfund Its $1 Billionth Dollar | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | How much money would you guess the Internet has collectively thrown at Kickstarter? Don’t bother whipping out the ol’ graphing calculator — Kickstarter actually shares that number regularly. Sometime quite soon, Kickstarter will surpass . This comes from Kickstarter’s , where the company regularly provides a breakdow... |
The Mass Market Tesla E Will Have A 200 Mile Range, Be Roughly 20% Smaller Than Tesla S | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5N9xIfTU5g?feature=player_embedded] A few new details about Tesla’s upcoming ‘affordable’ electronic vehicle came out of a talk the company’s founder and CEO Elon Musk gave last week, and from the event. Musk shared info around what we can expect from the upcoming mass market ... |
The WhatsApp Effect | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | TechCrunch It’s no secret that many entrepreneurs and investors are seduced by the . Walk around any young company fine-tuning their product to fit their market or any early-stage investment committee meeting, and inevitably, network effects will be discussed. “How do we tweak the product to ignite a network effect?” ... |
Inside The Billion-Dollar Hacker Club | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | of old friends, assembled for an impromptu reunion, the venue would feel familiar: an online chat room running on a secure private server. Each were former members of the elite hacking group “w00w00” and they had reconvened that afternoon to celebrate and share in the success of one of their own. In some ways it was j... |
#SXSpontaneity, RIP | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 2 | Such was the sentiment of a long-time SXSW attendee who decided to sit out this year, echoed by many others in the tech world. With its ever-expanding programming, clusterfuckery of housing options and the commercialization of what was once considered a must-attend conference for anyone in the know, SXSW hasn’t just ju... |
AirSnap Helps You Take Beautiful Group Selfies By Pairing Two iOS Devices | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | How many times have you stepped out of the group to click pictures, feeling left out as others posed? Or have there been instances when you’re jostling to get back for a group picture after setting the timer of a camera shutter? While there is , which comes with an LCD screen that flips 180 degrees for taking selfies,... |
Mt.Gox Finds 200,000 Bitcoin In An “Old-Format” Digital Wallet | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | Mt.Gox, the bankrupt online currency exchange, said that it has located 200,000 bitcoin in a digital wallet. In , CEO Mark Karpeles disclosed that the currency, which is worth about $118 million at , was discovered in one of the “old-format wallets” that Mt.Gox had used in the past and assumed no longer held any bitc... |
Microsoft Will Now Deploy Two Legal Teams, Outside Former Federal Judge To Approve User-Data Searches | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | Following a court document revealing that Microsoft to uncover an internal leak, the company this evening announced a policy change, effective immediately, regarding how it searches user data that is part of its own network of services. Noting that it couldn’t, in its view, get a court order to search itself as none ... |
Medium Launches Simple iPhone App That’s Just For Reading | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | Blogging platform for the iPhone that allows users to read articles from the site. They’re presented as a feed that’s recommended for you automatically, though articles that have been recommended by people you follow feature their mug shot next to the title. The app does not, in its current incarnation, feature any w... |
PayPal Expands Its In-App Pay At Table And Order Ahead Services In UK | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | It’s still very early days for mobile payments, with the vast majority of consumers still not convinced that it really is a lot easier to pay for things using their phones instead of pulling out a payment card or even cash. But companies like continue to lay the groundwork with interesting implementations for how and... |
Twitter Goes Dark In Turkey Hours After The Country’s PM Threatened To “Wipe Out” The Service | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | After the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan promised that he would “ ” Twitter after it apparently ignored court orders asking the site to remove certain corruption allegations, the service has gone dark in the country. The situation is developing: a that lets the public track decisions made by the courts over In... |
Netflix Blasts ISPs, Calls For “Strong” Net Neutrality And Explains Why It Pays Comcast | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | When Netflix agreed to pay Comcast as part of a peering agreement in the wake of the legal demise of net neutrality, the landscape of the Internet changed. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings today explaining his and his company’s views on net neutrality and why it now pays an ISP that it feels should be better regulated. The ... |
Leap Motion Lays Off 10% Of Its Workforce After Missing On First Year Sales Estimates | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | Leap Motion won a lot of , which is designed to make it possible for users to interact with their computer through gestures alone. The early buzz and pre-order interest led to a lot of growth, with the company swelling to 120 employees at its peak. But disappointing reviews when the hardware actually shipped took some... |
Microsoft Read A Blogger’s Personal Email And IMs, Court Docs Reveal | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | Microsoft an employee who leaked confidential software to a French blogger. That blogger then published screenshots of Windows 8 to the Internet before Microsoft’s official announcement. The employee also secretly released, without authorization, a tool that could have allowed for the unauthorized activation of copie... |
Google Wants Everyone To Stop Hating On Glass | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | All social issues aside, Google Glass is an impressive kit of technology. However, that might not be enough to secure its future. The novel PR campaign that is the Google Glass Explorer program seems to be failing. So much so that Google has started firing back at Google Glass haters with a series of pro-Glass factoids... |
Style Lend Launches Out Of Y Combinator To Be The Airbnb For Women’s Closets | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | Essentially an Airbnb for high-end dresses and accessories, Style Lend is a peer-to-peer marketplace where women can list and rent items for a fraction of their original retail cost. Most women can relate to having at least a couple items in their closets that cost a lot of money, but get very little wear: That one s... |
Stir, A Kinetic Desk Startup From An Ex-Apple Engineer, Raises $1.5M Led By Tony Hsieh’s Vegas TechFund | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | As the world continues to see more and more everyday objects become “hardware” controlled through and internet connectivity, an ex-Apple engineer called JP Labrosse is hoping to take that principle and combine it with elegant design to transform the prosaic world of office desks. His company, , is today announcing a... |
China’s iOS Usage Spiked With New iPhones, But Increase Driven By Older Models, Mixpanel Finds | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | A new report about the state of iOS usage in China from mobile analytics firm reveals a lot of interesting info about how one of Apple’s most important international markets is adopting its mobile OS. The good news is that iOS usage overall is rising quickly, especially over the past year – but that increase in usage... |
The Ember iPhone Case Improves Your Late-Night Selfies With 56 Built-In LEDs | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | Model by model, the iPhone is getting better at taking photos at night without making everyone look like spooky-ass ghosts — but you can only go so far with one or two little LEDs. But what about little LEDs? is an iPhone 5/5S case that promises to add a crazy bright panel of lights to the back of your handset. “... |
Qik Is Shutting Down In April, Three Years After Being Acquired By Skype | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | Qik, a company that was early on in the stream-live-video-from-your-phone trend that popped up and then quickly faded around 2008-2009, is by its parent company, Skype. Skype acquired Qik back in 2011 for upwards of $100 million. Why the shutdown? To be blunt: Skype got what they wanted out of the deal, so Qik is r... |
Learnist Refreshes ‘Pinterest For Education’ Site To Add Reading Lists And Improve Board Creation | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | Pinterest for education startup wants to provide its users with all the tools needed to create, curate, and share content that can be used to learn a wide variety of subjects. Now, less than a year after launch, it’s refreshed its website to make it easier for users to create and save those lessons. Learnist was buil... |
YC-Backed One Degree Is A “Yelp For Social Services” That Helps Low-Income Families | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | When migrated from the Philippines to Southern California as an eight-year-old, he saw his family hustle to make ends meets in their new homeland. “I grew up in a working-class family and I watched my family struggle for resources,” he said. “I wanted to make sure that other kids and families didn’t have to go throug... |
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