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Keen On… Scale: How To Spread Excellence From The Few To The Many | Andrew Keen | 2,014 | 3 | 28 |
is one of Silicon Valley’s most influential business gurus. A at Stanford’s Engineering School, he is the author of bestselling books like and . And his latest book is , which argues that what distinguishes great companies like Pixar, Twitter, Google and Facebook from dysfunctional companies like Zynga is t... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | Oh, hey there, fans. Thinking about going for a little dip this summer? How about you go for a swim with a one-ton crab that will smash you under its massive legs? Sound fun? Definitely! is a wild crab-like robot designed to explore the deepest oceans without smashing itself into a squashed tin can. It has massive l... |
Meet Astro Teller, Head Of Moonshots At Google’s Project X Lab | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | has your dream job, currently serving as the Captain of Moonshots at the lab. There, he dreams and creates things like Google Glass, , balloons that , and many other seemingly impossible projects he and his team hope will one day become reality. We’re thrilled to announce that Astro will be joining us for an onsta... |
TechCrunch Is Looking For An Office Manager | Greg Barto | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | Working at TechCrunch the past three years has been a privilege for me, but it’s time for me to move on. And this is an opportunity for you to move in. Really, being the TechCrunch office manager and assisting , and the rest of the team is a dream job. You get to work alongside great co-workers and for a company tha... |
Tesla Strikes Deal To Keep Dealerships In New York | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | Tesla can keep its dealerships in the state of New York. An agreement was made between the auto maker and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that will allow Tesla to keep its five direct-to-consumer retail stores as long as it doesn’t open any more. Tesla took the deal and ran to the bank. , any new dealerships Tesla wishes to... |
Gillmor Gang Live 03.28.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | – Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
BeHere Lets Teachers Take Attendance Using iBeacon Technology | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | While Apple’s iBeacon technology is already being by both large and small , we’ve started to see other use cases pop up for this new indoor positioning technology, which involves Bluetooth LE-enabled transmitters that can communicate with nearby iOS 7 devices in order to push alerts, or even . Now a small team of d... |
Microsoft Will Stop Inspecting Customer Content, Will Instead Refer Cases To Law Enforcement | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | Microsoft has released a from General Counsel and EVP – Legal & Corporate Affairs Brad Smith detailing changes to its practices stemming from a recent report detailing how it read a blogger’s email without their permission to track down a source code leak. Microsoft will not be doing that ever again, the post says, a... |
Confirmed: Dropbox Aqcui-Hires Social Reading App Readmill | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | As TechCrunch’s Steve O’Hear yesterday, Readmill just that Dropbox acquired the company and that the service will shut down. It is a pure acqui-hire as the team will join Dropbox’s team and work on its core service. “As of today, it is no longer possible to create a new account, and on July 1, 2014, the Readmill ap... |
Zuck Nerds Out On Drones Vs. Satellites For Delivering Internet | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | Free Space Optic lasers? Low earth orbit satellites? Solar-powered drones? has just on how Facebook’s for delivering Internet to the developing world actually work. Here’s are the highlights from his 3000 word progress report on Internet.org, including digs at Google’s Project Loon, and how it all fits into . Fi... |
SRCH2 Brings Its Fast, Google-Like Search Technology To Android Developers And Consumers | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | , an enterprise software company founded by ex-Googlers and Stanford PhD’s and focused on building faster, more efficient search technology, is expanding its reach to mobile consumers and mobile developers. The company is now launching a new , which will allow third parties to integrate the SRCH2 technology into their... |
The Shifting IPO Market | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | Once the , Marketo and Tableau had , and Twitter on its opening day, the door for IPOs appeared to be wide open. King Digital and both pulled the trigger, and . The market reaction to Aerohive and King has been flat to negative. Even more, Aerohive mentioned that it saw a “deterioration” in the market during its... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Facebook Oculus, HTC One, And Microsoft’s Glass Clone | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | Are you ready for the future? Facebook certainly is, considering the social giant just , which makes virtual reality gaming headsets, for a cool $2 billion. And Microsoft is joining in on the fun, with reports indicating that the company has similar to Google’s Glass. And in less revolutionary news, HTC finally reve... |
Sigfox Raises $20.6 Million To Create A Global Cellular Network For Connected Objects | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | French startup raised a Series B round of $20.6 million (€15 million) from IDInvest and BPIFrance. Existing investors (Elaia Partners, Partech Ventures, Ixo and Intel Capital) also participated. As a reminder, Sigfox wants to create an alternative cellular network specifically dedicated to connected objects. Compared... |
Softcover Is A New Self-Publishing Platform Aimed At Technical Authors | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | is a startup offering what it calls a “frictionless” platform for self-publishing e-books. Co-founder Michael Hartl is an author himself, having written the . (He’s also a repeat entrepreneur, having founded .) Hartl told me via email that between a publishing deal with Addison-Wesley and direct sales from the tutor... |
New Android Handsets Will Need “Powered By Android” Logo To Get Google Play, Gmail, Etc. | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | For better or worse, Samsung, HTC, and the rest of the Android manufacturing lot just to mess with the way Google’s OS looks and feels. So much so, in fact, that the OS sometimes stops looking like Android at all. Seemingly annoyed by the lack of credit where credit is due, Google has started asking manufacturers to ... |
Valve’s VR Expert Michael Abrash Joins Oculus As Chief Scientist | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | After Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, many were worried that Oculus’ top talent — many of whom are industry/VR pioneers — would leave out of spite. Seems quite the opposite is happening. Michael Abrash — the man largely responsible for leading Valve’s recent charge into Virtual Reality — has just joined Oculus as its... |
Mt.Gox’s Login Returns, Lets Users Check Bitcoin Balances | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | After weeks of showing only legal notices, now has a login screen that lets users check their Bitcoin balances. But that’s apparently all the beleaguered digital wallet service will allow for now. The site also displays a notice stating: “This balance confirmation service is provided on this site only for the conveni... |
CloudGOO’s New App Turns All Your Cloud Storage Accounts Into One Big, Combined Drive | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 28 | , a newly launched with something of a silly name, offers a way for you to smush together all your cloud-based file storage accounts to form one big cloud drive in the sky. That is, the app aggregates your cloud drive accounts into one mobile interface, then uses that space as if it were one drive for things like aut... |
JFDI Accelerator Raises $2.1M To Help Singapore Become Southeast Asia’s Startup Hub | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Singapore’s has raised $2.1 million from investors led by to pursue the city state’s ambitions of becoming the startup hub for all of South East Asia. Russia’s SpinUp Partners and the Silicon Valley-based Fenox are among other investors participating in the latest round. The idea behind getting more overseas invest... |
Facebook v8 For iOS Shoots At Snapchat With Extra Private One-To-Few Photo Sharing | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Don’t want all your friends to see your photos? That’s a big reason Snapchat has become so popular, and now Facebook wants to capitalize on more private sharing. , released today, offers an easy “Share with only these friends” option, allowing you to select specific people who you want your photo album to appear to in... |
Dropbox Acquires Zulip, A Stealthy Workplace Chat Solution Still In Private Beta | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Dropbox has quietly acquired , the makers of a workplace chat solution for desktop and mobile, which had yet to publicly launch. Though still in private beta at the time of the acquisition, Zulip had already developed for Mac, Windows, Linux, and , which allowed users to share both public and private messages wit... |
Looking To Serve 17M In 2014, SimpleTuition Lands $26M To Help Students Afford College, Pay Off Loans | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | By now, you’ve probably heard about the mounting student loan crisis. Thanks to the financial crisis, the high cost of a college degree and comparatively high interest rates in the U.S., some 40 million Americans have amassed somewhere between $1.08 and $1.2 trillion in debt. in the class of 2012, it’s no wonder stud... |
Crowdfunding Platform Realty Mogul Says Its Users Have Invested $14.6M In Real Estate Worth $100M+ | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Real estate crowdfunding startup is sharing a bunch of numbers about its growth since it first launched just about a year ago. The most impressive one: More than $100 million, which represents the total value of properties that have been backed through the Realty Mogul platform. That represents 58 properties located ... |
Uncertainty Persists As The Nokia-Microsoft Deal Races Towards Deadline | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Microsoft and Nokia told investors that their deal would close in the first quarter of 2014. They have two weeks to meet that guidance, which remains unchanged even in the face of Nokia’s . Let’s review the firms’ most recent statements regarding the closing period for the deal. Here’s Microsoft from its most (the c... |
Move and National Association of Realtors Sue Zillow After It Poached Former President Of Realtor.com | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | , the company behind real estate sites like Realtor.com and moving.com, and the (NAR) today against and its chief industry development officer Errol Samuelson. Move is suing over “breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of trade secrets among other action.” “At Move, we take our trade ... |
Xbox Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten Leaves Microsoft For Sonos | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Microsoft has just disclosed that Marc Whitten, Chief Product Officer for the Xbox division, will be leaving the company. His new gig? Chief Product Officer at Sonos. Marc was a part of this division since the earliest days of the first generation Xbox. Before being bumped up to the Xbox Chief role back in January of 2... |
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Seattle Deals A Blow To Uber And Lyft By Limiting The Number Of Ride-Sharing Drivers On The Road | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | In the biggest blow yet to ride sharing in the U.S., the Seattle City Council voted today to limit the number of drivers available on Uber, Lyft, SideCar, and other on-demand transportation services available in the city. GeekWire has a of what happened at the meeting, but the end result was that the city council sid... |
If You Gave Superman A GoPro | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | If anyone ever asks you what you’d use a personal drone for, you say “Real estate photos”.. or “ “… or you could say “ ” Armed with a personal RC drone, a GoPro camera, and fistfuls of crazy video editing talent, a team out of LA has recreated a first person view of a day-in-the-life of ol’ Clark Kent himself. This v... |
For Tech Investors, The Midwest Is Flyover Country No More | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | These days, Midwestern entrepreneurs and investors are seeding more than just fields. A , propelled by strong initial public offerings and a healthy M&A market, as well as the launch of from companies like Amazon , has meant that entrepreneurs across the Rust Belt and Farm Belt are starting new technology companies ... |
GSN’s $165M Bash Gaming Acquisition Nets 100X Return For Investors | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Today, out of India went through. We’ve confirmed, through sources familiar with the matter, that the deal closed right around the $165 million mark. Pre-acquisition, Bash Gaming had raised a total of 200k in funding from Tandem Capital. If you’re having trouble with the math, the return to seed investors was over 10... |
Three Data Driven Nuggets From Nate Silver’s New News Site | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Nate Silver, the famous New York Times statistics blogger who 50 out of 50 states in the 2012 presidential election, has launched an entire news site dedicated to data journalism. Keeping the old blog name, , the relaunched site is dedicated to taking what Silver thinks is a more rigorous approach to writing about nu... |
An Algorithm Wrote The LA Times Story About The City’s Earthquake Aftershock Today | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | As reporters around the country scrambled to push out stories on early-morning earthquakes that awoke southern California, The LA Times . “This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and this post was created by an algorithm written by the author,” explained the news story, posted 20 minutes a... |
TC’s NYC Meetup To Feature Interview With Tumblr’s Derek Gottfrid, Pitch-Off Judges Announced | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | On Thursday, March 20, TechCrunch will hold it’s third Meetup + Pitch-Off in New York City, promising to be one of the biggest nights in Silicon Alley all year. As a warm up for Disrupt NY in May, we’ll be bringing you some of the brightest minds in the city’s VC scene, as well as Tumblr’s VP of Product for a one-on-... |
YC-Backed Next Caller Brings Smarter Caller ID To Businesses And, Soon, Phone-Based “Shopping” | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Y Combinator-backed , the makers of a caller ID system for businesses offering access to a secondary database containing a caller’s personal information — including their name, phone, number and, if available, email — has come a long way since last fall. Since then, the company has grown from just a handful of users... |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Is Coming To SF On March 27 To Talk Cloud, Mobile [Update: Office?] | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Newly minted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will hold a press event in San Francisco on the 27th to discuss the cloud and mobile industries. Nadella has been CEO for less than two months, meaning that his remarks will receive extra scrutiny. Will he outline a new vision for the company? A new product? The cloud name-check... |
The Secret Bubble | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | There are not a lot of posts in my feed marked ‘nearby’. In fact, I can tell you the exact number: 0. This is because I live in a medium-sized city in the San Joaquin valley, not in San Francisco, New York, Austin or San Diego — the locations I see most heavily represented in the messages delivered to my ‘circle’. So... |
Facebook Aims To Squash Chat Bugs Early With New Android Messenger Beta Program | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Facebook For Android’s beta tier has been a success, with 1 million testers helping fix bugs before updates go out to its hundreds of millions of mainstream users. So today Facebook launched a with multiple automatic updates of new features and fixes each week. With heavy competition in messaging, Facebook is intent ... |
Pebble Gets Its Tamagotchi With New Hatchi Game Launch | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 17 | Virtual pets are a natural fit for the wrist-borne Pebble smartwatch, and it was only a matter of time before a Tamagotchi-inspired app made its way to the platform. One of the new games debuting for Pebble at GDC this year is Hatchi, which is exactly that. The app originally appeared on , and on both platforms it fea... |
Apple Continues Pursuit Of IT And Education With Improvements To Its ‘Secret’ Loyalty Pricing | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | If you’re unfamiliar with Apple’s Loyalty Program, we’ll forgive you. It’s not all that well publicized and for pretty good reason. It only kicks in if you’re the kind of person who spends more than $5,000 in a 12-month period with Apple. That kind of “person” is typically easier to define as an organization — namely I... |
Microsoft’s Power Cover Debuts As Rumors Of The LTE-Powered Surface 2 Landing In Stores Abound | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | Two quick hits from the Microsoft side of things — the Surface Power Cover is now up for pre-sale, and the rumor engine is kicking around the bit that LTE-capable Surface 2 devices . The Surface 2 LTE has been an : It’s hit the FCC; the Surface team on Reddit; and we’ve known for some time even which providers it i... |
TeselaGen Is Building A Platform For Rapid Prototyping in Synthetic Biology | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | As the costs of DNA sequencing and synthesis drop precipitously, a host of computer science-meets-biotech startups are cropping up in Silicon Valley. TeselaGen, which makes middleware for biotech labs that want to quickly design and iterate on new DNA constructs, is building tools that will help researchers set up and... |
Video Ad Company YuMe Launches “Video Reach” For Brand Advertisers | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | , a video ad company that , today announced the launch of a new brand called . Senior Vice President of Marketing Ed Haslam told me via email that, like YuMe’s Connected Audience Network, Video Reach enables programmatic buying and selling of video advertising. The difference, he said, is that Video Reach was built f... |
8-Bit True Detective Is Just The Ticket For King In Yellow Withdrawal | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3GEnHbfiUU] For those of you suffering True Detective withdrawal (and really, aren’t we all?) here’re the as an 8-bit video game. Video game Rust won’t win any , but whoever came up with the video sure should. Note: Arguably this isn’t 8-bit – more like EGA or Gameboy Advanc... |
Twitch Broadcasting Finally Goes Live On Xbox One | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=894253OJn0w?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Just weeks after Microsoft announced the Xbox One, they started touting a new feature that didn’t quite make it into the original debut: the ability to broadcast a video stream of your gameplay, in real-time, to Twitch.tv. Alas, th... |
Snowden: “We Need A Watchdog That Watches Congress” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | Whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed the SXSW audience in a rare public Interview today and gave some policy suggestions about how the government can better protect our 4th Amendment rights. The good news is that congress is already considering many of the proposals he mentioned. First and foremost, Snowden says inte... |
Mulu Launches Mobile Commerce App ‘The Latest,’ Which Is Like BuzzFeed For Shopping | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | Over the past several years, e-commerce startup has built a backend technology that allows publishers to instantly embed shoppable items in their web pages. But now the company is introducing a new mobile app called “ ,” which targets consumers by connecting them with products mentioned by their favorite publications... |
Google Starts Running Consumer Surveys About Select Advertisers, Highlights Data In Search Ads | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | Google is a new feature for advertisers today that highlights data it gathers from its in their ads. These so-called “ ” can appear under Google’s regular text ads and will roll out over the next few days. The AdWords team runs these surveys on Google’s platform for the businesses that participate in this program. ... |
Build Your Own Bletchley Park With This Kickstarted Enigma Clone | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | If you invest in an open-source, crowd-funded Enigma machine today, make it Created by S&T Geotronics of Columbus, Georgia, this device first appeared as an and is now available as a full DIY for $250, which is quite a bit less than the Allies spent at while trying to crack Germany’s feared encryption system. Thr... |
Twitter Teams Up With European Galleries In #MuseumWeek To Push Its Cred With Culture Vultures | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | Twitter, a big hit with news junkies and those in the media industry, has been working to widen that scope to bring in more mainstream users, as well as those with other special interests. The latest group to be tapped are culture vultures: between March 24 and 30, Twitter will dedicate a week to museums across and t... |
Searching For The Silicon Valley Selfie | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | There are many benefits to living overseas, but among the most valuable is the ability to dislocate yourself from your timeworn surroundings. The typical cadence of our daily behaviors – driving down 280 every morning or getting a burger at SuperDuper before closing – suddenly and irrevocably disappear, and our minds s... |
This Is What Happens When Two Tech Writers Climb Into Robots And Fight | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | Contrary to what you may have heard, South by Southwest Interactive isn’t just about high-minded panels and keynotes filled with big ideas. No, sometimes startups do fun, goofy promotions like asking people to battle each other from inside offered by Hammacher Schlemmer. And that is indeed what did over the weeke... |
Bucking A Down Day, Facebook And Twitter Rise On Strength Of Bullish Analyst Comments | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | Facebook and Twitter had a good day in the public market, with each company picking up momentum from positive analyst comments. Both companies rose in the day, bucking a down day for the major U.S. exchanges. At the end of regular trading, Facebook was up 3.19% to $72.03. UBS for the company to $90, and indicated tha... |
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Shopify Examines Social ROI For Commerce Sites, Finds Facebook Dominates But Reddit Is Growing | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | Shopify has compiled data from its platform merchants to determine how much value commerce sites get from social media engagement, and put the results . If, like me, you find infographics tedious and antithetical to meaningful analysis, then you’ll be happy to see I pulled the most interesting tidbits out of the giant... |
Carbon Wants To Kick That Smartwatch Off Your Wrist – And Replace It With A Charger Instead | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 10 |
Your wrist is a hotly contested new battleground, with a small fry like Pebble doing battle with giants including Samsung, and activity trackers like the Jawbone UP and Nike+ FuelBand fighting it out, too. A new Kickstarter project also wants to be a contender, with the . The project debuted a couple of weeks ag... |
Google’s 10th Summer Of Code Is Now Open For Applications | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | For now, Google has been bringing together open source software projects and students who are looking for a challenging summer project through its program. Starting , Google will accept for this year’s program. Applications close on Friday, March 21 at 12pm PDT. The participating projects from Google’s own Chr... |
TrackR, The Coin-Shaped Dongles That Help You Locate Lost Items, Now Talk To Each Other | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | , the Bluetooth Low Energy-powered dongles that help you find missing or misplaced items, like your car keys, wallet, purse or bag, or even your dog, are now being upgraded in order to communicate peer-to-peer with other TrackR devices so that, when you’re out of range, you’ll be able to tap into a larger network for b... |
Car-Sharing Startup RelayRides Hit With $200K Fine From New York State For Insurance Violations | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 10 | , the startup that runs a peer-to-peer marketplace for people to share their cars, has been ordered to pay a $200,000 fine to New York State after an investigation by the state’s Department of Financial Services found that the company “put New Yorkers at risk through false advertising, unlicensed insurance activity, an... |
Mobile Messaging App & Gaming Platform Tango Raises Massive $280 Million Series D | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Tango, the mobile messaging application that allows users to text, play games and make free voice and video calls, is today announcing $280 million in Series D funding, in a round led by China’s Alibaba. The landmark round will give Alibaba, a company best known for dominating China’s e-commerce landscape, a minority s... |
Google-Backed Lending Club Brings Peer-To-Peer Lending To Business Loans | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Peer-to-peer lending marketplace is announcing a major expansion today into business loans. Lending Club lenders and borrowers who want to cut out banks in the process of investing among peers, has facilitated a total of $3.8 billion in consumer loans, and is growing at a pace of over $750 million a quarter. And th... |
Accel Partners Raises New Funds Totaling Over $1B, As High-Profile Partners Cut Back Roles | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Accel Partners, one of the Silicon Valley’s biggest venture capital firms best known for its early investment in Facebook, has raised two new funds totaling $1.475 billion, . According to the report, the $475 million Accel 12 fund will focus on early-stage investments, and a new $1 billion Accel Growth 3 fund will inv... |
OneNote’s Transition To Being Free Was A Year In The Making | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Microsoft a OneNote client for OS X and made the application free across all five large mobile and desktop operating systems. The OS X app , spiking to the top of the Mac App Store and collecting a high rating. It’s been an oddly positive moment for Microsoft. Basking in this interval’s good press, the company’s One... |
Ezetap Gets Additional Funding From Amex To Expand Its Mobile Payment Platform Across Emerging Markets | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | , a Bangalore-based mobile payment startup that uses a rectangular device to turn any mobile phone into a point-of-sales terminal when plugged in, is raising additional funding from American Express. Last month, in Series B funding led by , Social+Capital and Berggruen Holdings. “The investment will allow us to turn... |
Larry Page’s Wish To Make All Health Data Public Has Big Benefits — And Big Risks | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Google co-founder Larry Page made a rare appearance at the conference and expounded on a few ideas he thinks will change the world. “Wouldn’t it be amazing to have anonymous medical records available to all research doctors?,” said Page, noting that it would save hundreds of thousands of lives. There’s some great evi... |
TC Cribs: Meta, The Sprawling Rural Ranch Where Augmented Reality Magic Is Made | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | A lot of tech employees say that they are at the office “24/7” as they “eat, sleep, and breathe” whatever new gadget or app they’re cooking up. But in this episode of TechCrunch Cribs, we toured a company where that is literally the case every day: , the augmented reality and wearable computing startup. That’s because... |
Facebook Security Director, Amazon BD Director Join Bitcoin Startup Coinbase | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | has recently announced on Facebook, fittingly, that he is leaving his role at Facebook as its Director of Security Incident Response, and taking up a security-related role at Coinbase. His job, according to his posting, will be to “build [Coinbase’s] security program.” Another senior Amazon director, Todd Edebohls, is... |
YouNoodle Raises $1.1M To Build A Business From Startup Competitions And Data | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Remember ? The startup attracted some controversy all the way back in 2008 for . Since then, the business and the product may have changed, but YouNoodle is still around, and it’s announcing today that it has raised $1.1 million in new funding. Over the past couple of years, the company has created a site where entre... |
Founder Gabe Adiv Resurrects TuneUp To Continue Tidying Up Your Music Library | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | , the app that cleans up your iTunes and Windows Media Player library (by correcting song information, providing missing cover art, and more), seemed to reach the end of the road last month with . It turns out, however, that founder Gabe Adiv wasn’t willing to let it die. Adiv said he resigned as CEO of TuneUp Media l... |
White House Crowdsources Campaign To Prove Climate Change Problems | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | The White House to help its climate change campaign. Instead of creating all of the doomsday scenarios itself, the White House is opening up government data so that researchers can create their own simulations and also help the cities prepare for the impacts. “The Obama Administration is today issuing a call to Ameri... |
Box Adds Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior To Its Board | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Today that Cisco CTO will join its board of directors, thus adding another outside member and woman to its leadership team. Warrior was also previously the CTO of Motorola. Box is widely expected to have , albeit privately. The company recently , at a valuation of around $2 billion. Box has raised $414 million in... |
Of Course TechCrunch Disrupt Is In Mike Judge’s “Silicon Valley” HBO Show | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Striving to be as real as possible, more like in rather than , Mike Judge’s upcoming mixes in healthy doses of real startup life. That means TechCrunch Disrupt plays a big role in the show. And I guess that means you could be on the show too if you attended Disrupt SF last year. Bits and pieces of Disrupt can be se... |
You Have 24 Hours To Get Tickets To The NYC Meetup + Pitch-Off | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | In the wise words of Rafiki, The is going down tomorrow night, Thursday March 20, at 6pm on the dot at . Be there, or hate yourself for missing out on a night of networking, beer-guzzling, and good, old-fashioned fun. Along with my beautiful self, we’ll have some incredible on-stage speakers. , Tumblr’s VP of Prod... |
Latest Photos Of Facebook’s New Gehry-Designed, Tree-Lined Campus Unveiled | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Take a new look at Facebook’s upcoming tree-studded Engineering Building. Sprawling over 22 acres of Palo Alto, the 435,000 square feet compound is designed by famed architect Frank Gehry. These latest photos of the architectural models show updates to the understated expansion of Facebook’s headquarters. The design ha... |
Brazil’s ‘Constitution Of The Internet’ Puts Net Neutrality In The Spotlight | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Brazil’s Congress is days away from voting on , the country’s first major Internet legislation, and the big issue at stake is net neutrality. The bill, known as the “Constitution of the Internet,” has three major themes: net neutrality, freedom of expression, and Internet security. It had been rolling around Congres... |
Everything We Know About The Moto 360 Android Wear Smartwatch | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Motorola hosted a , the lead designer of the , and the discussion started with the inspiration for the product and moved to its specifics. Motorola wasn’t yet sharing that much about specs and details for the hardware, but the smartwatch actually works as Wicks used it on camera, proving this isn’t just an ambitious ... |
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One Seattle Politician Explains Why She Voted To Regulate Uber | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | such as Uber and Lyft Is this a clear-cut case of public corruption to protect a powerful political lobby, or is there a rational opposition that the tech community will have to win through hard-fought debate? Fortunately, unlike some of the , Seattle has had plenty of time to air their grievances in public. And at l... |
YC-Backed CodeCombat Wants You To Learn To Code By Playing Games | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | So you’ve decided you want to learn to code, but don’t know where to start. There are dozens of services out there that can help you find your way, but a new company wants to teach you how to code through gamification. The teaches rudimentary JavaScript fundamentals, including everything you’d learn in an introduct... |
Epic Games Tries Something New, Licenses All Of Unreal Engine 4 For $19 A Month | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 19 | Licensing a big, brand name 3D engine (like the Unreal engine) to build your video game has always been… kind of hard. Pricing was, generally, done on a case-by-case basis. You had to explain what you were up to, negotiate for weeks, yadda-yadda-yadda… it wasn’t exactly easy to just jump into. Then Unity came along and... |
Lithium To Acquire Social Influence Scoring Site Klout For $200M | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Social customer service company will announce on Thursday morning that it has acquired for almost $200 million in cash and private stock, says . Re/code last month that Lithium and Klout, which scores influence on social networks, were nearing a deal. Lithium, which is expected to make its initial public offerin... |
Aereo Says A Win For Broadcasters Would Have “Chilling” Consequences To Cloud Computing | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | has today filed its response brief with the Supreme Court in a case that will make or break the streaming TV startup. So far, we’re in the preliminary stages of this particular case, with the broadcasters filing their initial briefing in March, arguing that Aereo violates copyrights by retransmitting broadcast signals... |
With Revenue Up 2.4X In The Past Two Months, Instacart Lands In NYC | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | , the grocery delivery service popular in Chicago, San Francisco and other locations, landed in New York City today. I spoke to Instacart this morning about the New York City addition, which it described as something of an evolution. Each city is unique in its makeup, design, weather and so forth, but it seems that New... |
Yo Instacart, Can I Get Some Shareable Grocery Lists? | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | I suck at grocery shopping, at least compared to some of my friends. One knows exactly what vegetables go into a killer get-the-hell-out-of-bed smoothie. A gymrat buddy can suggest a healthier alternative to any popular foodstuff. And my favorite drunk has all the cocktail bar essentials memorized. Some of them already... |
Box Unveils First Standalone Product And New API Pricing At Inaugural Dev Conference | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Today at its in north San Francisco, Box, a cloud file storage and enterprise collaboration company, announced a number of product changes, new pricing schemes, and some new code. Especially in light of its , understanding what Box is up to matters. Let’s dig in. Financial quibbles aside, Box has grown quickly in te... |
Digital Ad Company CPXi Raises $30M In Its First Outside Funding | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Digital media holding company is announcing that it has raised $30 million in new funding. Founded in 2000, CPXi apparently raised no outside capital before this. The current round was a mix of debt and equity, and the money comes from the . CPXi says it has four main divisions: bRealTime (programmatic ad tech), Sim... |
Using Analytics, Bloomberg Beta Seeks Out Startup Founders | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | By now 350 employees at companies across the country might just be rethinking their day jobs, thanks to an email sent this morning by venture investment firm . The early-stage investor, whose sole backer is Bloomberg LP, tapped those 350 people as the candidates most likely to become founders of startup companies. Blo... |
Buying An Engagement Ring Online Spoiled The Surprise | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Buying an engagement ring online feels like a strange thing to do. It’s up there with buying a car you’ve never test driven or renting a house you’ve never seen in person. But in these technological times, instead of going from large retail chain to local jewelry store to look at sparkly rings, the engaged-to-be create... |
Microsoft And Dell Sign Patent Royalty Agreement For Android And Chrome OS Devices | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Today Dell and Microsoft that they have signed an agreement relating to intellectual property, which will see the two companies “license each company’s applicable” patents regarding Android and Chrome OS devices, as well as Xbox consoles. So Dell will pay Microsoft dollars when it ships devices running Google’s opera... |
Twitter Tests More Inviting Profile Designs On Mobile | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Twitter has been , including a . But has spotted an update in the Twitter app (which is being partially rolled out as a test, considering my version of the app doesn’t show the change) that brings the same profile look to mobile. Instead of having a centered profile picture, with a user bio hidden behind a left swi... |
Mobile Users, Women Shoppers Fuel India’s E-Commerce Boom | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Among everything else that’s driving e-commerce growth in India, the ease of buying things sitting inside homes, avoiding the hazards of traffic snarls, worsening air pollution and finding a parking slot, will easily rank at the top, no matter how simplistic it sounds. India’s e-commerce industry has seen its most acti... |
Timehop Brings Its Mobile Time Machine To Android | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | , the mobile app offering a way to recall your past one day at a time by displaying your old photos and posts from Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare and Twitter, is now launching its service . The app, for those unfamiliar, is a simple service that lets you look back on what happened on this day last year, and the year ... |
Twitter Adds People Tagging And Multiple Photo Sharing To Tweets | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Twitter has to its image offerings today, including the ability to tag up to 10 people in a photo without using any precious characters up. You’ll also now be able to attach up to four photos to a tweet, and Twitter will automatically craft a collage for you. The people-tagging feature will undoubtedly offer Twitter ... |
King Falls 15% On Its IPO Day, Erasing $1.1B In Market Cap | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Today King went public, and immediately was given a raspberry by investors who sent its stock price down throughout the day, hammering the company to the tune of and $1.1 billion in value. A good flotation this was not. In fact, it was the . King is famous for Candy Crush, a game that has been a massive hit for the ... |
Google’s I/O Registration Lottery Happens April 15 – 18: May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Google is doing something different with registration for its 2014 I/O Developer Conference this year. The company isn’t doing first-come, first-served this time around, which has resulted in a crazy scrum and a lot of server errors in the past, but instead will during which anyone can sign up, after which Google wil... |
Vice Media’s Shane Smith To Join Us At TechCrunch Disrupt NY | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | After years of stagnation, the media industry is in full-fledged evolution mode. Consumption is changing, creation is changing, and even the act of reporting is transforming right before our eyes. And few people seem to have a clearer view of the future of news than , co-founder of . Luckily, he’ll be joining us onst... |
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A Brief History Of Oculus | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | years ago, Oculus raised 2.5 million dollars on Kickstarter. Yesterday, they were acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. To write the words “A Brief History Of Oculus” is a bit funny — because really, the company’s very has been brief. From the launch of their Kickstarter campaign to their massive acquisition, just 60... |
Build Your Own Makerbot-Inspired Robotic Tattoo Machine | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | [vimeo http://vimeo.com/89639653] I actually checked to see if today was April Fool’s but, seeing as how it wasn’t and seeing as how it would be quite simple to recreate this cool piece of hardware, I figured we could check it out. Basically it’s a DIY tattoo machine that uses a base with a needle attached to the ext... |
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