title stringlengths 2 283 ⌀ | author stringlengths 4 41 ⌀ | year int64 2.01k 2.02k | month int64 1 12 | day int64 1 31 | content stringlengths 1 111k ⌀ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BlackBerry Sued An Executive Who Defected To Apple | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | The story goes BlackBerry senior vice president for software Sebastian Marineau-Mes resigned from his post in late December 2013 after Apple offered him a position as vice president of Core OS. But BlackBerry wouldn’t let him go and sued for breach of contract. Marineau-Mes alleged his contract is not a valid and enfor... |
In Response To Google, Amazon Announces Massive Price Cuts For S3, EC2, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce And RDS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | Amazon today a new round of price cuts for a number of services on its cloud platform, including its S3 storage service, EC2 cloud computing platform, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce and RDS cloud databases that will bring the cost of running applications on Amazon’s platform closer to the new prices . For the first ... |
With Over $100M Raised, P2P Lending Platform CommonBond Expands To 100 Programs To Help Grad Students Reduce Debt | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | New York City-based launched the power of person-to-person lending and crowdsourcing to the student debt crisis. With student debt in the U.S. having surpassed $1 trillion, college grads find themselves in an ugly situation today when it comes to subsidizing their education. Borrowing money from Uncle Sam means tur... |
Lawyer, Disrupt Thyself | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | According to TechCrunch, law is the sector with the . I’m not at all surprised by that. I’ve been practicing law for nearly 25 years, in myriad settings (large firm, GC at a tech company and now GC at a venture capital firm), and I’ve seen precious little innovation in my field over that time, and certainly nothing ... |
The Awesome Easter Egg In Sergey Brin’s Old Resume | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | Sergey Brin probably doesn’t need a resume anymore. Back when he was a student at Stanford, however, it was a different story. You couldn’t just Google him. He had to lay out his achievements in a boring text doc like any other non-19th-richest-person-on-the-planet. Someone stumbled upon his (complete with totally aw... |
Twitter #Music To Be Pulled From App Store Today, Will Shut Down Completely On April 18 | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | Twitter just that it will be removing from the App Store “later this afternoon.” For those who have already downloaded it, the app will stop working on April 18. #Music’s disappearance is no surprise. After early last year, the app’s popularity waned, and by the fall it was , with both and reporting on its l... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Xbox One And A Free Ticket To Disrupt NY | Elin Blesener | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | It is officially spring and is fast approaching. We have already announced some amazing speakers, which so far include Vine co-founder and GM , Kickstarter CEO , Birchbox founders , Lending Club’s , Skype co-founder , Secret co-founders , New York’s own , and new president of Y Combinator , just to name a few... |
Report: Apple Considers Building An On-Demand Music Service To Take On Spotify | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | Apple already , but it’s hoping to go further in the direction of on-demand music, that cites “three people familiar with the talks” between Apple and music labels. To be clear, Billboard describes these as “exploratory talks,” so it doesn’t sound like anything is definite. Citing Nielsen SoundScan, the article also... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | Ready to be exterminated, puny flesh bag? thinks so! Today’s robots will walk all over your heart, face, and stomach and, more importantly, smile while they do it! First, check out this robot that will polish metal and other materials with human-like motions to ensure the object doesn’t get worn down, broken, or ruin... |
AT&T Exec Calls Netflix’s Reed Hastings “Arrogant” For Net Neutrality Post | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | AT&T just turned the high-stakes debate between Netflix and telecommunications companies into a name-calling food fight. AT&T Senior Executive Vice President of Legislative Affairs, James Cicconi, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, as “arrogant” for his support of stronger laws. Earlier this week, Hastings penned a calli... |
Ask A VC: Javelin Venture Partners’ Alex Gurevich On The Enterprise Messaging Opportunity In Emerging Markets | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC Javelin Venture Partners’ Alex Gurevich stopped by the studio to talk about messaging, marketplaces and more. Gurevich, who helped establish one of the first venture capital funds focused on high tech investments in Russia with DFJ Aurora, is particularly fascinated by the opportunit... |
Gillmor Gang Live 03.21.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | – Robert Scoble, Semil Shah, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
After Acquisition, OpenTable Plans To Shut Down Ness On April 21 | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | Ness, the personalized restaurant recommendation app last month, now has an expiration date. The company announced that the app would be , just a few months after the acquisition first was announced. OpenTable paid $17.3 million for Ness in early February, as part of a string of acquisitions that also included Quick... |
The White House Blasts Turkey For Blocking Twitter, Calls For Its Reinstatement | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | White House Press Secretary today to the Turkish government’s attempt to block Twitter in the country. The suppressive effort , as Twitter users could still tweet via SMS, or change their DNS settings and get around the block. Here’s the White House: The United States is deeply concerned that the Turkish governmen... |
Y Combinator’s New President Sam Altman To Take The Stage At Disrupt NY | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | We’re very pleased to announce that , the newly appointed president of the renowned Silicon Valley startup accelerator , will be joining us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in May to talk about how he plans to lead YC into the next phase of its growth. There’s no question that Y Combinator has become one of the most ... |
PlayStation 4 Supply Issues Will Be Fixed This Summer | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | Sony is selling its PS4 as fast as it can. But the company has experienced supply constraints ever since its launch in November 2013. And don’t expect to find a PS4 on your store shelf anytime soon — Sony told that it doesn’t expect to meet demand before this summer. Yet, the console only recently launched in Japan, ... |
Microsoft Now Offering $100 Discounts To Get Consumers Off Windows XP | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | As Windows XP winds down, Microsoft has a problem: People still use the operating system. Many people. Given that support for Windows XP ends on April 8, the number of days left in which the OS is mostly safe to use are all but spent. To combat that, Microsoft has been offering discounts, in , to induce consumers to g... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Android Wear, Virtual Reality Headsets, And Popcorn Time | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | It’s been an exciting week in the land of gadgets. Google revealed a version of , and LG and Motorola subsequently revealed their hardware to go along with it. A slew of virtual reality gaming headsets hit the scene, including one from . And if that weren’t enough, we discovered the magic of , for those of you who ... |
Screenburn, Which Does Paid Video-On-demand Inside Facebook, Raises Angel Cash | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | , which specialises in video-on-demand events, with fans paying to watch films or concerts, has raised $500K (£302k) in angel investment to expand. The company is used by musicians and filmmakers to monetize their Facebook presences. Screenburn’s app works with Facebook pages, taking payments from fans, and then makin... |
Twitter Says It Is Standing By Its Users In Turkey, Hopes To Have Access ‘Returned Soon’ | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | Help appears to be at hand for advocates of free speech in Turkey, where Twitter after the Prime Minister accused it of helping people spread false information about him. Twitter has that it is standing by its users and working on restoring access soon. We stand with our users in Turkey who rely on Twitter as a vit... |
YC-Backed StackLead Takes The Hassle Out Of Lead Analysis | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | Imagine you have a huge sign-up list for your yet-to-launch startups or you are a quickly growing company with 50 new sales leads coming in every day. Who are those people signing up for your product? How do you research those leads? In most cases, you have to spend at least a few minutes per sender figuring out who th... |
Keen On… Taxis: The Real Dangers of Riding In an Uber Car | Andrew Keen | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | According to , the , riding in an Uber car is more dangerous than catching a traditional cab. Firstly, he says, there’s a chance that your driver might be a convicted felon – a situation, he says, that was particularly true of some of the earliest Uber drivers in Los Angeles. Equally worrying, Rouse says, there are “... |
null | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 26 | null |
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Dealing With Excuses | James Altucher | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | I didn’t have any money so couldn’t start a business. And even if I started one, I didn’t have an office, or clients, and I was too shy to cold-call clients. I didn’t have connections or rich parents or anything for that matter. I didn’t have talent. I just got lucky. Nobody will hire me. I don’t have the right equipme... |
Once Again, Down Wants To Hook You Up With Your SXSW Hookup | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | It’s a new year, and a whole new SXSW, but some things don’t change. Thanks to an endless stream of parties with open bars, the (relatively) warm nights, and a large population of web-curious visitors descending on Austin, the tradition of the SXSW hookup lives on. And wants to help keep that tradition alive. Twelve ... |
Start Your Weekend Right With This DIY Drink Mixing Arduino Project | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkc7QWlxNpc] While this is no , this DIY project may be the next best thing. The system uses a kitchen scale, a little , and an (you can add in a Bluetooth chip if you want this to be wireless.) You place the shaker on the scale and a connected Android device prompts you to... |
Windows Phone Surpasses BlackBerry In The US Despite Flat Market Share | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | The dogfight between BlackBerry and Windows Phone in the U.S. has a new leader. Microsoft’s smartphone platform now controls more market share than that of the Canadian firm. But there is more to the story. New Comscore indicates that even while besting BlackBerry at last, Windows Phone’s market share in the U.S. isn... |
Google Ventures Boots ‘Bustle’ | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | the unfortunately named and ill-marketed woman’s publication launched by Bleacher Report founder , has lost at least one prominent investor. Google Ventures has pulled its initial investment of $100K out of the company’s latest round of funding, divesting after deeming the startup out of touch with its values, sour... |
FAA Appeals Commercial Drone Ruling, Cites Safety Concerns | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | Yesterday, a National Transportation Safety Board judge that the Federal Aviation Administration could not fine anybody for using small, hobby-plane-sized commercial drones use because it hadn’t made any legally binding rules against them. That went against everything the FAA had ever with regard to commercial dron... |
Tell All App Secret Adds Social Sharing And Nearby Gossip | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | is hoping to grow bigger and capitalize on SXSW with . Share lets you post any Secret you see to Twitter, Facebook, SMS, or email. Nearby lets you opt in to seeing Secrets shared by people nearby, which could create an ad hoc community of users at SXSW. The two could draw more people into Secret and keep them there e... |
Tumblr Now Lets You Dial A Toll-Free Number To Post Audio To Your Blog | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | Tumblr today a new audio posting feature that lets you dial a toll-free number with your phone in order to post a short recording directly to your blog. We nearly missed the news of the addition because, in typical Tumblr fashion, the company doesn’t exactly describe the feature in detail on its blog. In fact, the po... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | Those of you who are about to fight in the Great Human Rebellion, we salute you… with the robots that will kill you! Hello and welcome to another episode of where we meet the Gs that killed thee. Today we have quite a treat because today we see what happens when the robots lose hope. But first, check out this amazing... |
F.lux Gets Updated To Work Around Your Personal Sleep Schedule | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | F.lux! If you haven’t heard of it, be warned: once you get used to f.lux, you’ll probably find yourself annoyed whenever you use a computer that doesn’t have it. The theory behind f.lux: your body’s is largely driven by daylight. Your monitor, and the bright, blue light it emits, can be perceived by your brain as day... |
Ask A VC: YL Ventures’ Yoav Leitersdorf On The Cyber Security Opportunity | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we hosted YL Ventures’ Yoav Leitersdorf in the studio to talk about cyber security, innovations in Israel and more. Leitersdorf, who has backed a number of cyber security companies including Seculert, FireLayers and 6scan, talked about the trends he saw discussed at the recent RSA ... |
Modders Get Samsung’s Exclusive Music Service Running On Non-Samsung Devices Within Hours Of Launch | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | This morning, Samsung launched a new service called Milk. The idea? Unlimited, ad-free music stations … . Thing is, locking Android apps down on a device-by-device basis is actually pretty tough. Just a few hours after launch, the Android community already has it up and running on non-Samsung devices. It’s not funct... |
null | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 3 | 21 | null |
Google’s Schmidt Says Inequality Will Be Number One Issue For Democracies | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | Google’s Eric Schmidt told a SXSW audience in Austin today that Google is “very, very worried about” . “The average person there has benefited from the automation, the globalization, the technology,” he said, and predicted that inequality will become “the No. 1 issue of democracies.” Schmidt was promoting his book, ,... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Omate, CarPlay, And Hoverboards… Oh My! | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | It’s Friday, which means your Pavlovian response to the nearing weekend has left you drooling to hear us chat about gadgets. Hooray! Smartwatches are taking over the world, or at least our wrists, and is the next gifted wrist-worn gadget to go under our microscope. Meanwhile, Apple released , officially making your ... |
FireEye Drops 9% As Its Stock Price Catches Up With Its Massive Secondary Offer | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | Today technology security firm FireEye sold a massive set of stock in a secondary offering, following up on its very successful IPO. The company recently for ten figures, so the capital is welcome. A total of 14 million more shares in FireEye are now in free flotation. The company itself sold 5.6 million shares for i... |
Moven Takes Its Mobile Banking App Out Of Beta | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | , a mobile banking service similar in some respects to , exited from beta this week, meaning users no longer have to request an invite to sign up for an account. Now publicly available, the company is allowing users to open a bank account directly from their smartphone, which can be funded through external transfers a... |
Finalists In VC Bill Tai’s New Startup Contest Will Pitch Branson On Necker Island | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | Extreme hobbies lead to extreme places. , who took up kitesurfing and turned it into a multi-annual gathering of Red Bull athletes and entrepreneurs called , is taking it to the next level. He’s launching the that scout for teams from around the world. This time, the top 10 finalists will get to pitch on-stage at ... |
Pebble Appstore Comes To Android, Alongside New Partner Apps From eBay, Evernote And TWC | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | Smartwatch maker Pebble has finally , following a public beta originally brought the software and the Pebble Appstore to smartphones using Google’s mobile OS last month. The update, if you haven’t used the beta or if you’re not an iPhone owner, offers the ability to search for, install and manage new apps and watchfac... |
On The Road To An IPO, Wayfair Picks Up $157M | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | On the way to an initial public offering later this year, the home furnishing online retail juggernaut Wayfair in a new round of funding. The online retailer is mum about who’s doing what with whom as far the plans for a public offering are concerned, but that Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Allen & Co. and Bank of Americ... |
Congressman Denounces SXSW For Allowing Snowden To Speak | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | A member of the House Intelligence Committee the massive technology conference, SXSW, for allowing NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, to deliver a keynote. “Rewarding Mr. Snowden’s behavior in this way encourages the very lawlessness he exhibited,” said Representative Mike Pompeo in a letter to the organization [ ] c... |
Car Rental Startup Drive.SG Lands $790,000 For Asia Expansion | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | , Singaporean car rental portal, has raised a SGD $1 million (or about USD $790,000) Series A from , a Malaysian investment holding company. The startup will use the capital to expand its services to the rest of Asia. Founded in 2011, Drive.SG currently serves about 15,000 customers who can pick vehicles for short- or... |
ROIKOI Launches Leaderboards For Professionals | Jay Donovan | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | is a very simple concept. At its core, it is a leaderboard that anonymously rates people you know based on one single criterion — “Would I hire this person at a job and work with them.” The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that this is an excellent way to rate and quantify certain components of someone’s... |
What Games Are: Patreonomics And “Supposed To Be” | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | It should go without saying that the digital industrial revolution (the one we’re all living through) disrupts everything. Technology reduces the marginal cost of distribution to zero (or as near enough as makes no odds), enabling one-to-many and many-to-many communications on a vast and cheap scale. Information, ideas... |
Bill Nye Sees An Intimate Connection Between Startups And Science | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | While at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to (briefly) interview one of my childhood heroes, . Nye was about to evaluate inventions at an event for , a startup that , but I also asked him what he thought of the current startup craze — did he see a connection between excitement about startups and public... |
Tencent Takes 15% Stake In JD To Strengthen Position Against Alibaba | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | , one of China’s largest Internet services companies and the maker of WeChat, and have formed a strategic partnership. The deal can potentially boost Tencent’s competitive position against rival , which dominates China’s fast-growing e-commerce market. Though it’s much smaller than Alibaba Group, JD.com is China’s s... |
null | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 7 | null |
VEVO Is Launching New Mobile Apps And An SDK To Offer Its Music Videos To Third-Party Developers | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | Music video streaming startup is building an updated version of its mobile apps, which are coming soon. It also took the step to making its videos available on partner applications with plans to release software development kit for third-party developers. Today at a private event for press and partners, execs from th... |
Ahead Of Build, Tastes Of Microsoft’s Coming Platform Changes | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicks off in a month, making it not surprising that we’re seeing increasing leaks and noise regarding platform changes the company is working on that may be unveiled at the shindig. Over the past few days, the Windows Phone app emulator has caused due to an . Well, of course Mi... |
Travel Tech Investors Are Ready For Takeoff | Christine Magee | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | ( Despite the popularity of travel booking sites like , , and , venture capital firms are still investing in companies selling consumers a better way to travel. In the past few years, investors have poured millions into travel and accommodation companies around the globe like and , (Berlin), and (Beijing a... |
TC Droidcast Episode 23: Samsung’s Music Milk Shake, HTC’s One 2 Punch | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | This week on the TechCrunch Droidcast, I’m joined by Chris Velazco as he shares his recent MWC memories. We also dig into Samsung’s new Milk Music streaming radio service, and the Pebble 2.0 software for Android, as well as HTC’s upcoming One flagship smartphone announcement. It’s a crazy, crazy time in Android land, i... |
Mt.Gox Hack Allegedly Reveals Bitcoin Balances, Customer Account Totals | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | Anonymous hackers have and have uploaded a data dump of customer data that, according to users with accounts on the site, is accurate. A Reddit user created an Excel spreadsheet of anonymized user accounts with balances, and many current users have found their balances present. The text of the post reads [NSFW]: ... |
The Console Market Is In Crisis | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | A few days ago Sony announced it has now sold a total of . Microsoft’s next-gen equivalent, the Xbox One, has likely racked up sales of around 4 million so far. Both flagship consoles were released around the same time in late November last year, in time for the 2013 holiday season. And both companies have been shouti... |
Google Faces Antitrust Heat In India | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | Google could face a penalty of up to $5 billion if found guilty by in a two-year old probe launched to investigate if the company abused its dominant position in the business of Internet search and advertising. India started antitrust investigation against Google in 2012 based on complaints from the advocacy group, ... |
How Secret May Uncover A New Secret To Mobile Growth | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | TechCrunch Greetings from a rainy (but always fun) Austin, TX. As is the case leading up to every SXSW, many wonder what will be the breakout app. As someone who works in, invests in, and writes about mobile, the app that’s come up the most in conversation, offline and online, is no “secret.” It’s not too surprising gi... |
Eyeing Expansion In The BRICs, eBay Doubles Down On Machine Learning And Context Translation | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | In 2013, eBay in emerging markets for its marketplace, in particular, Russia, Brazil and China. Some of this growth can be enabled through localization, but the marketplace has tested a more technical approach — with machine translation — with its first big expansion effort in Russia. To spearhead these efforts, eBay... |
Omlet Launches Privacy Focused Chat App At SXSW 2014 | Jay Donovan | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | The bright minds at Stanford who created have a different idea about how communicating — and more importantly, the data that goes along with communication — should be handled these days. Given the recent purchase of by , the content and conversations taking place in the digital realm are obviously no laughing mate... |
Fly Or Die: Jelly | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | A couple of months ago, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone launched an app called , meant to make asking and answering random questions more fun. So, in a world where we wear out Google with inquiry after inquiry, is there really a place in the world for a Q&A app? This is the question we pose on this week’s episode of F... |
Introducing CrunchCoin | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | Technology never sleeps. You need to pivot, expand, re-pivot, focus, unfocus, refocus and unrefocuspivot. With that, we are proud to announce TechCrunch’s greatest endeavor since our . Yes. A digital currency that will change consumer lives more than Netscape and Windows 3.1. Introducing CrunchCoin. Every new currency... |
Industrial Toys Raises $5M From Accel To Build Tablet Games For Serious Players | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | , the tablet and mobile gaming startup led by Bungie Studios co-founder Alex Seropian (Bungie was behind the enormously successful franchise), is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners. Accel’s Vas Natarajan, who’s joining the Industrial Toys board, said that when there’s “a ... |
Gillmor Gang: Free Shipping | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | The Gillmor Gang – Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — talk the usual smack about the complete fantasy known as IM interoperability. You’d think these stalwarts would acknowledge the Sisyphean nature of the task, but no siree Bob. Instead we have a real life get together brought to you in 6-frame ... |
Jawbone Snaps Up Playground.fm | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | Looks like instead of , wrist and speaker hardware company is doing some acquiring, scooping up social and personalized music playlist app Playground.fm, according to a well-placed source. Last time we heard something about , it had of about $250 million at around a $3 billion valuation. Kara Swisher and Re/code ... |
Shh. Secret Raises $10M At A $50M Valuation | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 9 | The buzzy new app — which lets people post messages to their circles of contacts without attribution — has closed a $10 million round of funding at a $50 million post-money valuation, TechCrunch has learned from two sources close to the situation. The funding was led by , with participation also from . The news fol... |
Harvard-Backed Experfy Wants To Create A McKinsey In The Cloud For Big Data Talent | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | There is a scramble to find the right big data talent, especially for short-term data projects currently being outsourced to big consulting companies such as Accenture, Deloitte apart from several niche suppliers. , the U.S. alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical expertise and 1.5 million ... |
Airbnb Says It Will Start Collecting Hotel Taxes In San Francisco | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | Airbnb on behalf of hosts today. The move counters to get ahead of traditional competitors in the hotel industry. But as Airbnb has grown up and is from private investors, they’ve said they want to play by city rules. David Hantman, “We have repeatedly said that we believe our community in San Francisco should pa... |
iOS App Store Prices To Increase In Australia, India, Indonesia, Turkey and South Africa | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | Apple has sent out an email notifying customers of App Store price changes in certain countries within the next 24 hours. The company said that it will raise retail rates for the following currencies because of foreign exchange rate changes: Australian dollar, Indian rupee, Indonesian rupiah, Turkish lira, and South Af... |
Roamer Makes It Easier To Make Calls From Foreign Climes | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | A month ago in Barcelona I met with one of the founders of , a clever SIM hack/app that allows you to bring your own phone number along with you around the world. The company raised £300,000 in December and is closing a £1 million with the Angel Co-fund and UK Angels. So how does it work? The Roamer app allows you to ... |
Email Marketer Declines To Pay Its DDoS Attacker 1.8 Bitcoin Bribe To Prevent Repeat Attack — Seriously | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | In about two hours if threats are carried out, email marketing service ( ) will be hit with another denial-of-service attack (DDoS) similar to what it endured yesterday, which made its service unavailable for a period of time. The attacker then demanded 1.8 bitcoin as ransom to prevent another assault. Mad Mimi decli... |
One Company Betting On Oculus Rift As The Platform For VR HR Training | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | The , and that’s causing some, including , to reconsider their projects for the platform. But others are doubling down on their Oculus investment, including Technology Transfer Services (TTS), a company that designs training software for workforce education. This is another story today where I had to check to make su... |
Microsoft Azure Matches Amazon’s Price Cuts And Introduces New “Basic” Tier | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | After Google’s for its cloud computing services, Amazon them. Given that Microsoft always promised to match prices, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the company today its own round of massive price cuts. Prices for compute on Microsoft Azure (previously known as Windows Azure) dropped by up to 35 percent and Mi... |
OkCupid Offers Firefox Visitors Links To Alternate Browsers To Protest New Mozilla CEO | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | Online dating site is presenting Firefox visitors with something other than the standard home page you’d normally encounter – instead, there’s a lengthy message apologizing for the interruption and explaining that OkCupid opposes the political views of Mozilla’s new CEO Brendan Eich, who made donations to a campaign ... |
This Demake Of Legend Of Zelda Is Most Fun You Can Have With Colored Squares | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | It’s dangerous to go alone! , deconstructed and reduced to its component concepts! You are Link, a green square, and your mission is to kill Ganon (probably a dark block). Along the way you’ll grab a sword (a brown block) and fight all sorts of monsters, from Octoroks to Moblins (represented by blinking colors). Creat... |
Meetups Are Coming (To Boston And LA Next Week So Buy Tickets Now!) | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | Brace yourselves, residents of Los Angeles and Boston, for TechCrunch arrives in less than a fortnight. The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off will go down in , and on the eve of my 26th name day, with bells on. It should be a week to remember. , but tickets to attend the event are still available. You can purchase one h... |
Intel Pours $740M Into Cloudera In Exchange For An 18% Stake | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | Earlier this month, announced that it had raised $160 million from a cadre of investors, including Google Ventures. That, as , brought its total funding to $300 million. Scratch all that: Cloudera today announced that it has more from Intel, a figure that we confirmed with the investor. The company noted in its re... |
Inside Jobs: How True & Co.’s Head Of UX Blends Psychology With Technology | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | The technology industry today has job titles that you don’t really find anywhere else. User experience, or “UX”, is one of them. It seems like every tech company is hiring in “UX design” and “UX research”, but it’s hard for outsiders to know what exactly it is that they do. For today’s episode of I sat down with , w... |
Square Market Partners With Coinbase To Accept Bitcoin | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | In the sci-fi show , everyone has a bitcoin wallet. More and more places to spend bitcoin means that could become a reality, and popular indie merchant mobile payment provider . In an announcement today on their blog, which isn’t an April Fool’s Joke pushed early Square assures us, the company notes that bitcoin can ... |
Google+ Adds Total Content View Counts To Profile Pages | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | Google made a small but interesting to Google+ today. Every profile page now includes the total number of times the user’s content has been seen by others. This new number is the sum of all of the views of the user’s profile, posts and photos . It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time Google started highligh... |
Video Chat Marketplace LiveNinja Raises Additional $500K, Launches Tools For Online Businesses | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | Video chat marketplace , a former TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley participant, has raised an additional $500,000 in new funding, the company is announcing today. The news, which is being announced onstage at event this afternoon, arrives alongside the official launch of the company’s business marketplace, called .... |
With A Focus On Big Data Startups, Data Collective Redefines Thematic Investing And Debuts Its Third Fund | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | bumping and the drinks were flowing at a dimly lit San Francisco nightclub on a spring evening in 2009. But two voices rose above the sound of the music. You wouldn’t think that big data would be the topic of conversation on this evening, but that’s the subject that brought Data Collective founders and together fo... |
Facebook’s Oculus Buy Will Force A New Social Future | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | Some reacted to less than enthusiastically, but the announcement is one of the most exciting opportunities for the future of “social VR” a future where virtual reality will help build stronger online interactions through more expressive communication and shared experiences. The winner in social VR will start with ... |
Alibaba Will Pay $692M For 35% Stake In Retail Operator Intime | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | has agreed to pay $692 million for a 35% stake in , which operates department stores throughout China. The two companies will form a joint initiative to focus on offline-to-online retail opportunities. The deal is the latest flurry of M&A and investment activity among China’s top Internet companies, including Alibaba... |
Nielsen And Integral Ad Science Expand Their Ad Viewability Partnership Beyond The US | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | and are announcing that they’re taking their partnership international. Nielsen is best-known for its TV ratings system, but it has been expanding its measurement on the web, on social media, . Back in 2012, it (then known as AdSafe) to measure ad viewability (i.e., whether an ad was actually seen by someone — it... |
What Games Are: Virtual Reality, We Hardly Knew You | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | It might be white hot news that Facebook on buying in, or that Valve’s Michael Abrash has as chief scientist, but I suspect that this generation of virtual reality is already dead. Dead like 3DTV is dead. Dead like Blu-Ray is dead. Dead like Kinect is dead. Which, on the face of it, is a pretty bold claim to make g... |
Bitcoin Slips In The Wake Of The IRS’s Tax Decision | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | Earlier this week, the IRS decided that , setting in place a that could see users of the cryptocurrency forced to keep price score in a rapidly shifting market. Bitcoin had a rough time of it last week, as , losing around 17% of its value. Part of that was tied to a rumor regarding Bitcoin in China, and part, I thi... |
New Kit Lets You Print Your Own 3D Skulls | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | Say, for example, you wanted a dog skull but did not want to remove said bone mass from a living dog. What to do? If you’re the team behind , the 3D-printable posable doll, you’d make and sell a set of models that you can print out on your or similar device. The is quite interesting. Essentially you are buying a s... |
Microsoft Has Big Plans For Bing’s Entity Engine | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | Both Microsoft and Google have long worked on getting users answers without having to click through a number of websites. At Google, the current result of this is the Knowledge Graph and at Bing, it’s the company’s entity engine (previously referred to internally as Satori). Both search engines currently offer very sim... |
#Love: Unfollowing Exes | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | , I got dumped. It was the third in a series of failed long-term relationships I’ve had over the past five years. All relationships end differently. Some exes stay friends and some disappear. Some continue hooking up and some cut each other out entirely. Some exes combine any number of those things to form a symphony o... |
How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff) | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file from being shared on a Dropbox user’s account. wow. DMCA takedown in personal folders . . . this is new to me. — dw (@darrellwhitelaw) As of this afternoon, it’s seen just shy of 3 thousand retweets. What was going on? Wa... |
TC Droidcast Episode 24: A Couple Of Mates Talking About The HTC One M8 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | This week, Chris Velazco joins me, Darrell Etherington, to talk about , which we already like quite a bit. The new device is HTC’s big chance to make a splash in the smartphone market, and they haven’t squandered it; let’s hope consumers are willing to give it a look. We also catch up on the Nvidia Shield, the handhel... |
Launched On Kickstarter, Musaic Promises Hi-Fi Music And Home Automation | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | Compact wireless HiFi systems are pretty common these days, but what is less common is startups thinking more deeply about how the same systems could move into home automation and the Internet of Things. That’s the implication behind a new system launched by device startup , recently launched . It now plans to go up ... |
Music Startup Spawnsong Wants To Be Kickstarter For Single Tracks | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | Holy incremental music startup, Batman! is a (very) new music platform startup with a strategy to elbow into the crowded digital music space by focusing on a very thin wedge: individual songs. Slicing things even more niche, Spawnsong’s target is tracks that aren’t even finished yet. The basic idea is to be a platfor... |
Doing It For The Likes | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | We crave approval, but you already knew that. Conventional thinking would suggest we seek digital validation in the forms of Likes and Favorites because they signal that we’ve impressed people and raised our social status. But what anonymous apps such as are highlighting is that we don’t always care if our name is at... |
Windows Exec Antoine Leblond Leaving Microsoft After Almost 25 Years | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | The post-Ballmer Microsoft is slowly taking shape now that Satya Nadella has become the company’s CEO. At the same time, though, those executives who were passed over for the CEO role and those who lost power in last year’s reorganization are starting to leave the company. The latest executive to depart, today, is .... |
Microsoft Office, Now On iOS, Highlights A Powerful Lesson For Incumbents | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | TechCrunch Finally, Microsoft’s flagship Office suite (Excel, PPT, Word) is on one of its key rival’s mobile operating systems: Apple’s iOS. Nearly seven years after Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, Microsoft has finally built native products for Apple’s iOS to extend its popular, high revenue-generating Office suite ... |
The Resurgent, Post-Windows Microsoft | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 30 | Microsoft had become an oft-ignored, behemoth to the North, despite $77 billion in revenue, $57 billion in gross profits and $21 billion in net income. It seemed that the mobile revolution had passed it by. Although Steve Ballmer was already making many of the right moves, it took new CEO Satya Nadella to fully accep... |
Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey On Why Now Is The Time For VR, And The Biggest Hurdles Ahead | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 8 | Today at SXSW, two of the cofounders of Oculus and one of its lead hardware engineers took the stage for a quick on-the-fly Q&A session about the future of their burgeoning virtual reality headset. If you (like, presumably, most people watching) were hoping for an update on when they might ship the retail version (or e... |
null | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 31 | null |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.