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Google Starts Rolling Out New Version Of Sheets With Offline Editing Support To Everybody | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | Last December, Google a of Sheets, its online spreadsheet app that’s part of its Google Drive productivity suite. Until now, this new version was opt-in only, but starting today, Google will . Earlier on, there were a few features that and it seems Google has indeed decided to retire a few underused features with... |
Facebook Disputes Claims That They Were Aware Of NSA Data Collection Outside Of FISA Orders | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | The Guardian newspaper made headlines yesterday claiming the tech companies were not entirely truthful about their knowledge of National Security Agency spying. News outlets the accusations from NSA General Counsel Rajesh De that tech companies had “full knowledge” of the controversial surveillance of their users. ... |
Mozilla’s Australis Design And Improved Sync Come To Firefox Beta 29 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 20 | A day after releasing the stable version of , Mozilla today the first of Firefox 29. While there wasn’t all that much interesting in Firefox 28, the latest beta version represents a major step for Mozilla. It includes both the new — and very Chrome-like — Australis design, as well as support for Firefox Sync, Mozi... |
What eCommerce Boom? From Amazon Textbooks To New Seed Funds, Education Technology Is Exploding In Brazil | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | Over the last decade, Brazil has “come online” in a big way. The percentage of people using the Web in Brazil leapt from 9 percent in 2002 to about 50 percent in 2012, . With 60 million Brazilians now using Facebook, thanks to increasing access to the Internet and the rise of social media, the country is undergoing a ... |
Y Combinator Renews Calls For “Founders Visas” | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | has taken to the blogosphere for the U.S. to create a “founders visa.” Initially proposed by Paul Graham (Y Combinator’s original honcho) as a way to bring 10,000 new entrepreneurs to U.S. shores, Sam Altman is proposing a more modest 100 visas to be granted to Y Combinator to select founders that would be eligible ... |
Sony Announces Project Morpheus, A Virtual Reality Headset For The PS4 | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | And just like that, the Virtual Reality wars have begun. Firing a shot across the bow of Oculus (the company responsible for getting many people excited about virtual reality again, after the myriad flops of the 90s), Sony has just announced that they’re building a VR headset for the PS4. Sony is calling it “Project Mo... |
The Anvil Problem | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | Over a decade ago I was a happy man. In about 2002 I bought an Archos Jukebox. It was a 6GB monstrosity, clad in metal and full of huge batteries, and it contained a clicking, whirring 2.5-inch hard drive. I used it to listen to music and even hacked it to run a home-brew operating system complete with games and media ... |
The Pandora One Subscription Service To Cost $5 A Month | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | Pandora is getting a little more expensive. Starting in May, and for new subscribers, the Pandora One monthly subscription service will cost $5. Existing subscribers that remain active will keep paying $3.99 a month to listen to Pandora without any ads. As , the subscription service hasn’t had a price hike since 2009 ... |
Bitcoin Gains Ballast As Investors Continue To Pile In | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | The has been met with the and the from institutional investment trading platforms as investors attempt to right the ship of the stateless currency. Having large institutional investors like Fortress Investments and Benchmark certainly helps the beleaguered currency ( ) platform. “They believe in the protocol more t... |
Pebble Founder Emphasizes Multi-Year Lead On Android Wear And Google’s Smartwatch Ambitions | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | Pebble is one company that came to mind when smartwatch (and eventually, other wearables) development platform. The small startup has been creating smartwatch hardware for years now, first as the for BlackBerry devices, and then reinvented as , the Kickstarter success that proved to the world smartwatches could be... |
Snowden Leak: NSA Is Recording All Calls From At Least One Country | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | The National Security Agency has the capability to replay all telephone calls for 30 days from an entire country, according to documents obtained from Edward Snowden . “The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording ‘100 percent’ of a foreign country’s telephone calls, enabling the ... |
Social News Startup Nuzzel Opens To Everyone, Announces Former Friendster Exec Kent Lindstrom As COO | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | , the social news service created by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, is leaving beta testing and opening to all users. Previously, you had to request an invite before you could use Nuzzel. In the year-plus since , Abrams said Nuzzel has brought on about 3,000 testers, but now it’s time to see whether the product a... |
Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls ‘Haunted Empire’ Nonsense, Says It Fails To Depict Company Or Culture | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new book out about Apple by ex-WSJ reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane called . Kane covered the Apple beat at WSJ for years, and her book deals specifically with how the culture changed between Steve Jobs’ tenure and the succession of Tim Cook as CEO. Cook has just issued the about the ... |
Just A Google Co-Founder Chillin’ With Robo-Snowden | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | [tweet https://twitter.com/TEDchris/status/446004368844652545] So, this happened Today: Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin hung out with whistleblower Edward Snowden, who was attending the TED conference via a telepresence robot. You may want to read that last sentence again to let it sink in. Despite the very careful legal... |
Cloudera Raises $160M From T. Rowe Price, Google Ventures And Michael Dell | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | the startup that distributes and services Apache Hadoop-based data-management software and services, has led by T. Rowe Price, and including an investment by Google Ventures and an affiliate of MSD Capital, L.P., the private investment firm for Michael S. Dell. This brings the company’s total funding to $300 million... |
YC-Backed Boostable Offers A New Way For Online Sellers To Advertise | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | , which is part of the current class of startups at Y Combinator, says it’s giving the individual sellers on online marketplaces a smarter way to promote themselves. If someone’s trying to promote, say, their products on Etsy, or their events on Eventbrite, or their housing on Airbnb, they can already buy ads for thems... |
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Inside Facebook’s Efforts To Fortify Security In A Post-Snowden World | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | At Facebook, the security team isn’t holed up in some basement wearing tinfoil hats. It’s embedded across the company so any department dealing with sensitive data or access has security researchers inside it. Hinting at protecting against government surveillance, Facebook’s chief security officer Joe Sullivan said tod... |
Draw Something Designer Debuts Sneeky, An Anonymous Social App Which Focuses On Photos | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | Anonymous social networking is the new social media. (Or the new “ .” We’ll see.) Developers are attacking the space right and left these days, it seems, despite the surrounding the ethics and morality of these services, which include apps like Secret, Whisper, Wut and YikYak, to name a few. The latest to join the fr... |
Backed By Boost VC And Tim Draper, Globevestor Helps Startups In Emerging Markets Get Funded Online | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | Entrepreneurs in India’s nascent but fast growing startup ecosystem are realizing that getting an early investor who appreciates their idea is increasingly becoming difficult. Sometimes it’s even tougher than finding their first paying customer. While there are , the early money and guidance is never enough for startu... |
Birchbox Founders To Share Subscription Commerce Insights At Disrupt NY | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | There’s no question that the future of commerce lies in providing a more personalized experience to consumers. And has quietly created an $80 million business out of a subscription e-commerce platform for beauty and grooming brands. In a post-Amazon world, creating a commerce brand, especially using the subscription ... |
Equity Firm Thoma Bravo Buys TravelClick For $930 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | With its $930 million acquisition of business-to-business travel software provider TravelClick, private equity firm Thoma Bravo is showing that . The private-equity firm, with offices in San Francisco and Chicago, is buying TravelClick from Genstar Capital and Bain Capital Ventures, which had put the company on the au... |
HTC Is The Honey Badger That Don’t Care | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | The new HTC One might be the in history. , , and new features have leaked over the last few months long ahead of its March 25th debut. Even HTC itself got into the action . HTC clearly understands that a big reveal will have little impact on the HTC One’s future. Companies have long toyed with big press events... |
MadeSolid Is Creating Next-Gen 3D Printing Materials | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 18 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpFZEl-cXv4 It seems like we can’t go a week these days without hearing about some new startup making a new 3D printer that wants to be better and cheaper than everything else. I’m not complaining, of course — competition is good for everyone. But it’s a tough space if you’re looking to s... |
Multiple Pinterest Accounts Hacked, Flooded With Butt Pics | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | If you log onto and see that one of your friends has suddenly developed a fixation with weight loss ads and butt pics like the ones below, don’t click on the pins. Multiple accounts have been hacked over the last hour and flooded with spam, including our own . Dear my accounts been hacked with someone posting hund... |
Fancal Is A Calendar App That Showcases Your Photos | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | has such a simple but appealing concept that it’s surprising there aren’t more smartphone calendars like it. The iOS app showcases photos from your library, with dates laid out in an unobtrusive sidebar. Created by Dutch startup We Are Wow, Fancal is made for people who usually shy away from time management apps. In f... |
Y Combinator’s Top Three Startups From Winter 2014, According To Y Combinator Startups | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | It’s been more than a day since , and we’ve already weighed in on which companies . But with each class, the startups within Y Combinator vote to determine which colleagues they thought were most likely to be successful. One source sent us a list of those companies, listed in order. So here’s Y Combinator’s self-... |
TrueVault Raises $2.5M To Make It Easy For Healthcare Apps To Be HIPAA Compliant | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | , the healthcare app data security startup that launched this week out of the , has closed on $2.5 million in seed funding. The money will be used to further develop TrueVault’s “database as a service,” which provides a secure API for healthcare apps to use when storing sensitive patient data. Such data security is cr... |
Facebook Joins Google In The Hunt For The Future | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | in an era when Mark Zuckerberg Obama, controls fleets of drones, brokers $19 billion acquisitions in a week, and buys whole virtual worlds. Facebook’s mission has changed. While once it was solely “to make the world more open and connected”, it’s expanded to also “give people the power to share.” And nothing is too ... |
Threes’ Creators Publish An Epic Work Log To Show How Frustrating It Is To Be Cloned | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Not really. That’s just something that people like to say without really thinking about, because it sounds nice and makes them feel better. Kind of like saying “there’s no such thing as bad press.” when of-freaking-course there is. In reality, being imitated can be cr... |
Office For iPad Is A Hit: Word Jumps To #1 In US, Excel To #3, PowerPoint To #4 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | Microsoft , and they came: Office for iPad is enjoying a big first day, with Word for iPad becoming the most popular app for the device in the United States just five hours after it went live. Data for the newly released Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps is still somewhat unfilled given the youth of the apps, but what ... |
Sony Just Launched The Most Boring Product In The World | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | Meet the , Sony’s latest e-ink slate. It’s part iPad, part e-reader, and must be made out of moon rocks. It’s $1,100 and will be available in the States this May. But you’re not going to buy it. The 13.3-inch “letter size” Digital Paper isn’t for the average consumer. It’s definitely not for me. Sony is marketing it t... |
Upshift Launches To Bring Scalable Sales Engines To Startups, And Help Engineer Growth | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | If today isn’t your first day in the tech industry (or reading TechCrunch), then you’re likely familiar with the rise of the accelerator program, a phenomenon that has swept through Startup Land like wildfire over the last five years. Pioneered by early movers like Y Combinator and TechStars as part of experiments that... |
Office For iPhone And Android Is Now Free | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | Along with a new version of , Microsoft made Office for iPhone and Android smartphones free today. The apps have updated in the respective app stores and can be snagged for iPhone and for Android. The change log notes that the apps are free for “home use.” As Emil Protalinski earlier today, this seems to imply t... |
Apple Gets Its 30% Take On Office 365 Subscriptions Microsoft Sells Through Office For iPad | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | Microsoft is not just placating user demand with the today; it’s also selling Office 365 subscriptions directly within the app. Those subs are worth a pretty penny to Microsoft, as it collects a recurring revenue stream starting at $99 per year per user from Office 365, but it turns out Apple also reaps a reward from... |
Boston And L.A. Pitch-Off Applications Close On Monday | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | You have exactly four days, depending on how much sleep you require, to apply to the TechCrunch startup Pitch-Offs happening in Boston and Los Angeles on April 8 and April 10, respectively. And if some part of you is blowing me off right now, thinking that this isn’t a big deal, you’d be pretty seriously mistaken. Afte... |
Office For iPad Review: Surprisingly Worth The Wait | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | , finally, after people have been asking for it since, oh, say, the day in 2010 when the iPad originally launched. The new apps are currently available for , so you can scratch that four-year itch, but is it worth it? Read on to find out why Microsoft’s iPad-based productivity suite will be a lifesaver for some, but... |
Amazon Plans Free Video-Streaming Service, WSJ Reports | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | point to Amazon announcing at a NYC event next week. Not a lot is known about it, but a report from the WSJ today sheds a little light on Amazon’s overall strategy, which will reportedly include a free, ad-supported streaming service. According , this service will not just be limited to Amazon Prime subscribers, bu... |
Facebook Will Deliver Internet Via Drones With “Connectivity Lab” Project Powered By Acqhires From Ascenta | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | Facebook plans to bring , satellites, lasers, and more. Today Mark Zuckerberg Facebook’s Connectivity Lab which will work on the project. It’s powered by talent acqhired from solar-powered drone maker Ascenta as well as poached from NASA. Internet.org, a partnership between Facebook and telecom industry giants lik... |
Facebook Takes Another Crack At Read-It-Later With “Save” Button | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | Facebook’s undying quest to be your newspaper has seen it launch , the standalone , , and more. You’re not always able to stop what you’re doing and read what you discover, though. But now TechCrunch has learned Facebook is currently testing a read-it-later Save button on feed articles in the web News Feed that crea... |
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Obamacare Passes The 6M Mark After “Between Two Ferns” Viral Bump | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | Today the government announced that the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has , putting it within striking distance of its original goals. The enrollment level is notable due to the law’s troubled technological rollout. The catastrophic failure of Healthcare.gov is the stuff of legends now. To accelerate... |
Sources: Dropbox Acqui-Hiring Social Reading App Readmill For $8 Million | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | With in its coffers, Dropbox appears to be on somewhat of an acquisition spree, albeit a quiet one. Following the cloud storage company’s of workplace chat solution Zulip, TechCrunch has learned from sources that it’s in talks to acqui-hire Berlin-based , the social and shareable reading platform. According to wha... |
Microsoft And Office In A Multi-Platform World | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | This morning Microsoft unveiled and launched , as well as new tools to help companies manage devices that run on platforms other than Windows. The move, while expected, underscored a shift at Microsoft, a lessening the internal hegemony of Windows, long the product considered to be the soul of the software company. At... |
Indian Online Classifieds Site Quikr Confirms $90M Fund Raise Led By Kinnevik | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | India’s largest online classifieds site, , has raised $90 million in fresh funding from a group of investors led by Sweden’s Kinnevik. The latest round, which would take the total capital raised by Quikr to around $136 million, values the startup at over $250 million, a report added. Quikr had raised $32 million from ... |
Experts Found That Mt.Gox Lost A Mere 386 Bitcoin Due To Transaction Malleability | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 27 | In the long, kabuki saga that is the fall of Mt.Gox, one point seemed always clear: the company lost loads of bitcoin to hackers using a bug called transaction malleability. It seems, however that this is wrong. According to a team at the ETH Zurich University, the company allegedly lost only 386 or $200,000, nowhere... |
Titanfall Goes Up, Xbox Live Goes Down | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | AGHHHH. I’ve been staring at my copy of Titanfall all… day. I’ve been itchin’ to hop back in the saddle of my Giant-Robot-of-Doom since the Beta ended, and finally, launch day was here — but I had to, you know, . Being an adult has its perks and all, but video game launch days tend to be a little less awesome then the... |
Sherpa’s Shervin Pishevar’s First $100K Cyrus Prize Goes To Dropbox Co-Founder Ferdowsi | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | Shervin Pishevar was just six years old when the bombs from the Iran-Iraq War started to fall in 1980. His father, a high-ranking television executive, felt the family was in danger during the Iranian Revolution and so they left for the U.S. where he ended up driving taxis to make ends meet. But in America, the Pisheva... |
Gogo Teases An App That Could Let Travelers Text And Make Calls During Flights | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | I did a lot of cool things at SXSWi 2014, but one of the coolest things I got to do was go for a trip in a private jet and test out some cool new technology from . As you probably know, Gogo powers wireless Internet for a number of airlines in the U.S. But now it’s extending that technology to eventually also enable... |
Money Transfer Startup WorldRemit Collects Its First Investment, $40M From Accel | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | , a London-based startup that is tackling the antiquated consumer money wiring/remittance market with an easy and traceable online solution, has collected some money of its own: a $40 million investment from Accel Partners, the storied VC that has backed big consumer plays like Supercell and Facebook but also a number ... |
Microsoft Appoints ValueAct Capital’s Mason Morfit To Its Board | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | Today Microsoft announced in a that it has named ValueAct Capital’s President Mason Morfit to its board, and that it will issue a quarterly dividend of $0.28. Neither piece of news is a surprise. Microsoft and ValueAct created a “ ” in which the investing group got “regular meetings” with executives, and the option f... |
Azimo Raises $10M Series A Led By Greycroft Partners To Expand Money Transfer Service | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | More evidence that the online money transfer space is heating up significantly, as startups aim to disrupt the banks and incumbents such as Western Union. Money transfer startup has closed a $10 million series A round. The new funding, which follows a $1 million seed round , is being led by Greycroft Partners, with ... |
Alibaba Pays $804M To Take Majority Stake In TV And Movie Producer ChinaVision | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | has to spend HKD $6.24 billion (about USD $804 million) for a 60% stake in TV and film producer . The purchase will allow Alibaba, which already dominates China’s e-commerce market, to boost its digital entertainment strategy. In addition to its own TV series and movies, ChinaVision is also the distributor for film... |
Priceline Buys Israel’s Qlika For $15-20M To Boost Global Expansion With Rocket Science-Powered Ad Tech | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | of Israeli-American startups in March to tackle a big problem in online marketing: Localization. In other words, what’s the point of spending millions of dollars on marketing campaigns — across search, social and display — if those campaigns look exactly the same in California as they do in Sydney? Ideally, with conve... |
New Jersey Becomes Third State To Ban Tesla’s Direct Sales Model | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | Today the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission a rule that will end Tesla’s direct sales of cars to consumers. Tesla, a manufacturer of all-electric cars, does not lean on dealerships to sell its vehicles as other car companies do. The rule goes into effect in April. New Jersey is the third state to ban the practice o... |
A Very Flappy Crowdtilted Journalism Experiment | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | Two weeks ago, I did a small experiment. to raise money to go to Vietnam and talk to Dong Nguyen, the creator of the sleeper hit Flappy Bird. At the absolute peak of the game’s hype, . He said he couldn’t handle the pressure anymore. The idea to do this came from at CrowdTilt, who reached out and asked if we at Te... |
SigFig Hires Financial Engines Exec Steve Lifgren To Build Out Its Operations Team | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | Financial planning startup has for the most part been flying under the radar since it . But now it’s ready to get serious about expanding and supporting a growing number of customers, with the help of its new head of operations Steve Lifgren. SigFig uses big data and machine learning to analyze your retirement accou... |
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Watch An Industrial Robot Nearly Beat A Professional Ping Pong Player At His Own Game – Sort Of | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8] If you’re looking for a vaguely frightening realization of just how good robots are getting at activities that require a high degree of optical precisions and fine motor control, than the video above has exactly what you need. In a promotional short film created by r... |
MakerBot Starts Shipping The New Replicator And Taking Pre-Orders For Their Biggest 3D Printer Ever | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | Back at CES, MakerBot announced three new 3D printers: one small, one huge, and one that’s about the same size as their previous models (albeit with a bunch of new tricks up its sleeve). You couldn’t actually any of them, though. You could pre-order them, sure — but it wasn’t quite clear when you’d actually get it. I... |
Watch Beautiful, Simple Explanations Of Science With World Science U | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | The Internet has a new trove of beautiful, simple explanations of fundamental scientific principles, from Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity to quantum mechanics. The massive open online course provider, , launched today with a host of short videos and full classes on a range of weighty technical subjects. “If ... |
23andMe Founder Discusses The Promises And Perils Of Genetic Information | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | Anne Wojcicki, the founder of the popular direct-to-consumer genetics testing company , sat down with us at the SXSW Interactive gathering this past weekend in Austin, Texas to discuss both the promise and perils of giving the masses access to their health data. “If consumers were more empowered, they would take mor... |
An Upcoming Anonymous App Called Cloaq Promises A New Way To Post & Share, No Email Or Phone Number Required | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | A team of engineers, who have asked to not be identified by name, are working to develop a new platform for anonymous posting called Cloaq (pronounced “cloak”). This upcoming web and mobile platform, they tell me, will combine the anonymity of apps like Secret and Whisper, with the ease-of-use of more public platforms ... |
VeryLastRoom Raises $2.1 Million To Compete With Hotel Tonight In Europe | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | French last-minute hotel app just raised $2.1 million (€1.5 million). The app is very reminiscent of its American competitor, . VC APlusFinance, Extend and Sigma Gestion invested in this round. Previously, the company had raised $550,000 from business angels (€400,000). It is one of the last standing European Hotel ... |
Twitter Goes Down For Almost An Hour | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | Twitter is down. I repeat, Twitter is down. Twitter “most users are experiencing issues accessing Twitter on web and mobile apps. We’re looking into it.” According to the , , and tests within the TechCrunch staff, the service is experiencing some serious performance issues. And it’s not just the desktop website tha... |
Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales Accidentally Starts A Bitcoin Donation Campaign For Wikipedia | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 3 | 11 | Is Jimmy Wales testing out Bitcoin donations for Wikipedia? He is certainly considering it, according to a on Reddit. It first started with a tweet — Wikipedia co-founder set up a personal account. Playing with BTC today: I just bought 0.1 bitcoin with ! — Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) But then, Wales shared his w... |
How To Run Live User Testing, Part 3: The Debrief | Brenden Mulligan | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | : The of this series focused on getting the tests setup The focused on actually running the tests, which includes arranging the room, meeting the participant, introducing the study, not revealing the answers, simulating app discovery and installation, walking the user through the prototype, and wrapping up. This p... |
Crunchweek: Facebook’s $2B Bet On Virtual Reality, Office For iPad, And YC Demo Day | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | In this special “Between Two Co-Editors” edition of Crunchweek, I was joined by my fearless bosses, co-editors Matthew Panzarino and Alexia Tsotsis at the White Table. We tackled Facebook’s $2 billion , and Zuck’s aggressive acquisition strategy in 2014; Microsoft’s release of and tales from |
The Improbable Rise Of Roku | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | In 10 years, when we look back and think about which companies fundamentally changed the way viewers get their TV shows delivered to them, will be a part of the conversation? Based on what the company has done to date, and where it’s going, it seems likely. That’s because no company has done more to define what we ca... |
After Stepping Aside From Y Combinator, Paul Graham Hands Over The Reins At Hacker News | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | As part of his from day-to-day operations at Y Combinator, Paul Graham announced today that he’s also handing over the reins of , the technology and entrepreneurship-focused social news website that he built and has run through YC since 2007. In a simple and straightforward , Graham announced that YC outreach dire... |
How One Cloud Enterprise Startup Decided To Sell To Microsoft | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | When Ursheet Parikh sold his company StorSimple in 2012 to Microsoft, it was one of the largest deals in the cloud infrastructure sector to date. But that wasn’t the only thing unusual about it. It was also a fairly large deal for which he played the banker and negotiated the deal. This is not unheard of, but it is a... |
Neil Young’s PonoPlayer Passes $5m In Kickstarter Pledges | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | The portable music player is alive and well. just crossed the $5 million milestone on Kickstarter, making it in the site’s history. Twelve thousand backers have pledged enough to pre-order the device. And there is still 16 days to go on its campaign. The and hit its goal within the day. It’s clear that consumers ... |
Box CEO Aaron Levie Takes To Quora About His (Sorta) Small IPO Stake: It’s All Gravy | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | Reporters and industry watchers go nuts when an S-1 is filed for an initial public offering because there are always a few surprises to be found while digging through the numbers. The was no exception. Along with details on Box’s revenue (growing quickly) and bottom line income (still in the red), the filing revealed... |
Watch How Matterport’s Camera Captured A 3D Model Of TechCrunch HQ | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | It’s a pretty impressive claim, so we invited Matterport to stop by TechCrunch headquarters to show us just how the camera works by creating a 3D map of our TechCrunch TV green room. You can see that in the video embedded above. In an interview, Matterport’s CEO Bill Brown told me that there are three categories of ... |
Whaling Is The New Harlem Shake | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | Have you whaled yet today? It’s the new thing. Whale at the club. Whale at school. Whale in your cubical. Just don’t whale at a funeral. That would be doing it wrong. As the Vines below show, the premise is to act like a whale breaching the water behind an unsuspecting observer. Bonus Internet points are awarded for tw... |
Pre-IPO Imperative: Know Your Customer | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | The IPO window is currently wide open. Riding the wave of strong IPO performance over the past few years (the classes of ‘12 and ‘13 IPOs have on average returned 234 percent and 78 percent, respectively, according to Deutsche Bank data), a growing number of high-growth, venture-backed companies are filing for IPOs... |
Gillmor Gang: Sign Language | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — barely came out of the gates before John Taschek let Comcast have it, and really you need to see the visual on this one. After the salute to the internet provider, talk circled around Microsoft’s release of Office for iPad.... |
The 11 Memes That Define Oculus Riftbook (NSFW) | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | Now that the dust has settled, it’s time to have a little fun. Virtual reality itself used to be a punchline. Now, Facebook and its latest purchase of Oculus Rift is the joke. But can Facebook raise and nurture Oculus Rift into the virtual reality device of the future? As the following memes show, not everyone trusts ... |
The Internet Is Held Together With Bubble Gum And Baling Wire | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | Did you know that, to quote an : The Internet from every angle has always been a house of cards held together with defective duct tape. It’s a miracle that anything works at all. Those who understand a lot of the technology involved generally hate it, but at the same time are astounded that for end users, things seem ... |
On The Eve Of GDC, An M&A Wave Hits the Gaming Industry | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | , , , . A nice, little consolidation wave is floating through the gaming industry among companies in the U.S. and Europe. What’s changed? It depends on which part of the industry you’re looking at. Half of these deals are for individual game developers and the other half are for game development On the studio sid... |
Google Cracks Down On Deceptive Ads And Other Shady Behaviors Found In Android Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 29 | Android apps are about to get cleaned up. That is, if the recently added changes to the are actually enforced. Google this week updated its policy that dictates to app developers what sort of content their apps are permitted to display, with a number of rules designed to crack down on shady and deceptive ads. In addi... |
Another Day, Another EdTech Giant Acquired: Following Renaissance Learning, Education Software Veteran Skillsoft Sells For $2B+ | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | It’s been an active week in the world of education software, with this weekend bringing news of the second big-ticket acquisition of a veteran EdTech company in as many days. Last week, Renaissance Learning, the 29-year-old, Google Capital-backed analytics and assessment giant, for a hefty $1.1 billion. On the same ... |
Veronica Mars And The Case Of The Totally Adequate Kickstarter Movie | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | On Friday night, I was in a Manhattan movie theater watching . I’d contributed to that funded the film’s production, so I actually received a download code for the full movie earlier that day. But I didn’t want to watch it at home, on a TV. I wanted to see it in a theater packed with other fans on opening night. Th... |
GitHub Puts Co-Founder On Leave, Begins Investigation Into Discrimination Against Julie Ann Horvath | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | Amidst claims of sexism and intimidation at the startup, is making moves to quiet the uproar surrounding the departure of engineer Julie Ann Horvath. This evening in a blog post, CEO and co-founder Chris Wanstrath said the company had into the reasons for her leaving. On Friday, Horvath announced that she had resig... |
Google Drive Goes On The Offensive | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | Google drastically the price for storage on Google Drive this week, to the point where it now undercuts virtually all of its competitors. At $9.99 per month for a terabyte of online storage, Google puts all of its competitors to shame, but there is more going on here than just a price war. , SugarSync has a Maybe ev... |
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The Future For Anonymity Apps: Defamations And Revolutions | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | In 2010 the Iranian election protests — the “Green Revolution” — was at its tail end, though few knew the tumult of the Arab Spring was to come. The Iranian authorities were rounding up key anti-government leaders. People who had spoken out against the election result, which appeared to the whole world to have been rig... |
Hands On With HereO, The Small And Simple GPS Watch Made Especially For Kids | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | A startup called has made a gadget especially for keeping tabs on young kids in that age range. HereO has made what it claims is the world’s “smallest and coolest” GPS watch device, which connects with a mobile and web app to allow parents to keep track of where their children are at all hours of the day. The watch... |
Popcorn Time Is Back | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | Behold the power of open-source software. After of the original , a so-called Netflix for pirated content, the project was forked several times on GitHub. And guess what? It’s back and more shady than ever before. The torrent site YTS has taken over the project, . YTS developer Jduncanator told that they are in a... |
With ‘No Meaningful Position Beyond Flash’, Gaming Platform Mochi Media Will Close March 31 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | , a distribution and monetizing platform for Flash-based games that was in 2010, is closing down, with all services ceasing March 31. The latest casualty in the decline of Flash, Mochi’s shut-down is also a message to those businesses built on it to diversify or perish. “If Mochi had a more meaningful position today ... |
“Dehumanize Your Friends” Brings Cards Against Humanity-Style Multiplayer To Chromecast | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | Cards Against Humanity! If you run around in any even-slightly-geeky circles, you’ve probably heard of it. But in case you somehow haven’t: take and make it terribly offensive. As in, straight up, jaw dropping, probably-shouldn’t-play-this-at-work-or-in-public offensive. Once a humble $4,000 Kickstarter campaign, it ... |
After 2 Months, Gadget Marketplace App FOBO Has Hit A Million-Dollar Run Rate. This Video Shows Why. | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | It’s been just about two months since launched its . But already, the app has proven wildly successful in its home market of San Francisco, where it’s pushing a $1 million run rate and spreading just by word-of-mouth. FOBO is an ultra-simple app for buying — and selling — consumer electronics from your mobile phon... |
How Many More Viral Comedy Videos A Day Will Obama Need To Meet Healthcare Goals? | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 16 |
President Obama’s is on its way to becoming one of the most viral videos in Funny or Die history. It spiked visits to Healthcare.gov an impressive 40%, compared to the day before. Unfortunately, this latest political touchdown was made in the 4th quarter and . They are still about 2.8 million enrollees short ... |
Gillmor Gang: Another Fine Mess | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor In a world where big planes can be lost without a trace and and drunk-drivers make the biggest headlines at tech conferences, it was only fitting that we turned this episode of the Gillmor Gang on its head and started with an ending. Only i... |
Cosy Is A Smart Heating & Home Control System Coming Out Of Cambridge, U.K. | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | When , it poured a fresh wave of attention and interest into smart home automation systems — even though it’s not entirely clear whether Google swooped on more as an acqui-hire (of Tony Fadell and his team) than a desire to further feather its connected home credentials. Whatever , it’s unlikely to focus early effo... |
Meet The Companies Pitching At The Washington D.C. And NYC Meetups | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | Buckle up, NYC and Washington D.C., because we have a roster of Pitch-Off companies for this week’s meetups. We’ll be hitting , at The Park at Fourteenth, and then we’ll rock on over to my turf in to hang out with Silicon Alley at Santos Party House. As per usual, our meetups are full of booze and networking, as ... |
Google’s Eric Schmidt On Critics Who Say College Isn’t Worth It: “They’re Just Wrong” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | Google Chairman Eric Schmidt took a not-so-subtle swipe at tech critics . “There are various people who run around and make claims that higher education is not a good use of your time: they’re just wrong,” he told the audience at the SXSW conference, where he was on stage promoting his book . The average college loan... |
After Supporting Prop 8, New CEO Brendan Eich Comes Under Fire From Mozilla Employees | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | Mozilla employees are calling for the removal of new CEO Brendan Eich, who previously held the position of CTO and has been with the company since its formation out of Netscape in the 90’s. In 2008, Eich , which was a California ballot proposition that aimed to ban gay marriage in California. In 2012, the was unc... |
Facebook Bought Oculus VR To Create The Metaverse, Or Why Angry Kickstarter Backers Need To Chill | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | There are many people out there who take a pessimistic view of Facebook. To them, Mark Zuckerberg is a huckster, out to sell us the snake oils of distraction and dopamine in exchange for our eyeballs and personal data. I take the more optimistic view. I do not believe Zuckerberg is building Facebook to offer the worl... |
Looking In The Rearview Mirror For Mobile App Inspiration | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 3 | 16 | TechCrunch Every Sunday, I try to write something about mobile that’s relevant today or tomorrow. This week, I thought it would be fun to briefly look back in time. When it comes to mobile (and this doesn’t include gaming), the apps that have proven to breakout either harness the (the camera), (mobile messaging), o... |
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