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Why We Hate Google Glass — And All New Tech | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 15 | I first noticed this phenomenon at the turn of the century when Dean Kamen invented the Segway self-powered scooter. You may recall when it came out. People dismissed it as a gimmick. I remember having a debate in an email discussion group about it. I thought it was cool. Most people thought it was useless or silly. An... |
Investors Debate The Ethics Of Anonymity Apps | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 3 | 15 | VCs are publicly and privately debating the morality of investing in the burgeoning app space, after a series of negative posts, mainstream gossip, a and have pushed the volume of the debate to eleven. Last night, Netscape founder had one of his characteristic Twitter surges. He began his speech by referencing p... |
In A Changing Financial World, Thinknum Wants To Democratize Financial Analysis | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 3 | 15 | One of the most important functions of any modern financial institution is conducting valuations. On Wall Street, this means developing financial models – projections of how a company will perform based on a set of assumptions. Get these models right, and suddenly you can make trades on public equities that bring in en... |
With 40% Of U.S. Doctors Signed On, Doximity’s Jeff Tangney Reveals How The Social Network For M.D.s Hit The Tipping Point | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 15 | With the arrival of Obamacare, millions of uninsured Americans are entering the healthcare system for the first time. As these new patients happily stream into waiting rooms, doctors are scrambling to keep pace with the increasing demand. Preserving a high standard of care amidst the waiting room blitz requires greater... |
Why Can’t A Startup Build A Self-Driving Car? | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 15 | On a 10- to 20-year horizon, large-scale technological innovation is going to center around machine intelligence, robotics and sensors. Each of these fields requires gargantuan amounts of capital and a lot of patience, a combination well beyond the scope of even the most progressive venture capital firm. As Google ha... |
Tableau Preps $345M Offering, Less Than A Year After Its Gangbusters IPO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 15 | Tableau Software would like some more, please. The company, less than a year after its IPO that , . Here’s what’s fun: That sum is greater than what the company raised in its IPO. That total, $254 million, now all but feels quaint compared to the new, coming cash. This is not even the first time that the company has ... |
Gillmor Gang Live 03.15.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 3 | 15 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve GIllmor. |
It Took 8 Years, But Someone Just Broke One Million Gamerscore On Xbox Live | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | If you’ve ever dreamed of dustin’ off all those unfinished Xbox games and somehow becoming the first person to cross 1 million gamerscore: don’t bother — as of tonight, it’s been done. For those unfamiliar with the Xbox gamerscore system: it’s a cumulative score of all the “Achievements” you’ve earned across any and a... |
Avoid Stagnation: Acceleration Trumps Incubation | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 15 | Interest in startup accelerators and incubators has exploded in the past several years, but how effective have they been? One thing that has become clear is that “incubator” and “accelerator” refer to two very different models for startup workspaces, and the distinctions may have significant effects on startup succes... |
Hey! You! Get Off Of Our Bandwagon | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 3 | 15 | And lo, it did come to pass, as prophesied by the geeks of yore, that in the twenty-fifth year of the Web, the world entire, from Kathmandu to Timbuktu to Zanzibar to New York, began to notice its by the Law of Moore. And the eyes of the world were turned upon those places where that Law had been birthed, and numberl... |
United To Launch Personal In-Flight Entertainment For iOS Devices Next Month | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | Starting next month, United will offer an in-flight that will allow passengers to pick from 150 movies and about 200 TV shows through their laptop’s browser or . The airline , but mentioned the program again in last month’s frequent flier statements, which were just sent out. United told TechCrunch that they plan t... |
Founder Stories: When It Comes To Open-Source Technologies, Reverb’s Tony Tam Has A Word For It | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | Reverb’s CEO, , joined me for a discussion about the formation and work at the company. I’ve worked with Tam over the years and know him well, as a disclaimer — I’m also an advisor to Reverb. In this chat, Tam recounts how the company’s unusual formation led Reverb down the path it charges down today, as a content-d... |
iOS Update Reportedly Includes New Capability For iAd Attribution | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | As part of iOS 7.1, the to its mobile operating system, Apple appears to have added a new feature to its iAd program. This should allow the company to take credit for the app downloads driven by its ads, and allow advertisers to get a better sense of whether campaigns are paying off. In , mobile ad attribution start... |
Overstock’s Bitcoin Purchases Account For Less Than 1% Of Revenue, But It’s Growing | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | Since Overstock.com started to , the company has received a good press for its efforts to support the nascent cryptocurrency. Working with Coinbase to process Bitcoin, Overstock.com announced that it in the currency earlier this month. A better details how Overstock.com is faring with Bitcoin now that the novelty ... |
Lineshark Turns Your iOS Or Android Device Into An XLR Recorder/Effects Rig | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | Connecting your guitar to your iPhone should be fairly simple. With the right adapter you can blow a line in through a standard headphone jack and get some tinny audio. But what if you really want to kick out the jams, as it were? For that you need something that will manage and amplify the signal as it comes out of yo... |
Trulioo Raises $6M To Verify Online Profiles | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | recently announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Tenfore Holdings, with participation from BDC Venture Capital and previous investor Blumberg Capital. Trulioo has now . When I , it was analyzing Facebook profiles and estimating the likelihood that they belonged to human bein... |
iOS Now Alerts You When Your Kids Are Free To Spend All Your Money On Fake Cat Food | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | Apple has apparently learned a lesson. After several high profile stories of children spending literal fortunes on virtual nonsense, the latest version of iOS users of Apple’s policies towards in-app purchases. Following an in-app purchase, such as virtual coins or fake cat food, a message now appears in iOS 7.1 stat... |
Lending Club’s Renaud Laplanche To Speak On The State Of Lending At Disrupt NY | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | French American entrepreneur founded Lending Club in 2007, wanting to connect investors with borrowers and bypass banks altogether. Since then, the company has facilitated more than $3 billion in loans. As Laplanche is uniquely positioned to speak to the current status of lending to individuals and startups, we’re th... |
Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Crush Things With A Tank… For Charity | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | If you’ve ever wanted to see Arnold Schwarzenegger crush a 5-foot roll of bubble wrap with his own personal tank (and really, who hasn’t?), congratulations! Today is your lucky day. Just a few years ago, the folks behind Omaze set out on a rather commendable quest: to raise money for charity, they’d sell what were esse... |
SketchDeck Turns Terrible Slide Decks Into Beautiful Presentations In Just A Day | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | A number of startups over the years have tried to reinvent PowerPoint with services that made it easier or quicker to create a slideshow presentation. Newly launched is taking a different approach: Instead of providing an alternative to PowerPoint or similar software applications, it’s offering a service that enables... |
Slideshow Of Stylish Women In Tech Includes Women Who Compiled The List | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | co-founders and have apparently voted for themselves as #2 on Lucky Magazine’s list of The list, which includes Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer (twice!), is heavy on the East Coast women, which, if you believe my feed, are generally more attractive and fashionable than San Francisco women. Now as I haven’t le... |
FiftyThree Updates Creativity App Paper For iOS 7 To Improve Navigation And Control | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | has thrived over the last few years, due to the massive popularity of its drawing and and the release of its . Today it’s taking a big step to improve the creation process with an update to its Paper app, which has been updated to be faster and more responsive, and to provide even more tools for its users. Paper wa... |
Threes Comes To Android, And I’m Not Just Using This To Tell You My Top Score Is 10,125 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | Threes, the number matching game that’s part Sudoku and part Bejeweled (or Candy Crush Saga for the young folk) is . You may not think this is a big deal, if you’ve never played the game, but that’s probably because you were on Android and unable to experience how awesome it is. The 100% original, all natural, homegro... |
Bob’s Watches Streamlines The Rolex Market With An Electronic Exchange | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | As a watch nerd, I love to see the stuffy old watchmaking industry try new things. That’s why I was intrigued by the recent changes at , a retailer turned website that buys and sells Rolex watches using a very simple exchange model. Founded by Paul Altieri in 2010, the site was mostly a sales portal for years. Now, ho... |
www.happybirthday.net | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | 25 years in a time machine to meet the you of 1989. The you that was watching the Berlin Wall fall, the you that saw Jim and Tammy Baker come back to TV, the you that was probably peripherally aware of something called the Friday The 13th Virus. Now imagine telling this past version of yourself about the World Wide We... |
Angry Birds Epic Is Final Fantasy With Swine And Fowl, Hits Australia And Canada This Week | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | The next Angry Birds game features Rovio’s now very recognizable birds and pigs, but duking it out via different in-game combat mechanics in a turn-based RPG. Angry Birds Epic makes its debut in Australia and Canada later this week, for iOS devices, which the time-tested way to see how you product works with a small, U... |
Adblock Plus Now Blocks 8,600 Tracking Filters As Ad Tech Explodes | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | The story of advertising online in the last year has significantly also been a story about the rise of ad tech — ways of serving users more relevant ads, and ways of monitoring how users have responded to them. Unsurprisingly, this has also translated into a big rise in tracking technology: , the popular German-based ... |
Google’s Search Results Ditch The Underlined Links, Increase The Font Size & More In New “Experiment” | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | No, it’s not just you: Google’s search results may look different right now, thanks to a very large “bucket” test currently underway, which has dramatically changed the look-and-feel of Google’s list of blue links. Most notably, the search result links are no longer underlined, the fonts are larger, and , but are rath... |
Yahoo Partners With Yelp To Bring Local Data To Its Search Tools | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 12 | Today Yahoo that it has partnered with Yelp to bring local data into its search experience, both mobile and desktop. The deal will see traditional Yelp information, such as ratings and user photos piped into Yahoo. Put another way, Yahoo’s search is now flavored with more third-party data that it lacks. Yahoo is no l... |
On-Demand Ridesharing Startup Lyft Adds Insurance Between Rides | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | In the modern transportation market, companies like Lyft, Uber, and Sidecar have emerged to help get users from point A to point B. But with current regulations, there are questions about who is protected against potential liabilities when something goes wrong. Tonight Lyft sought to alleviate some of those concerns wi... |
Former Baidu COO David Zhu Joins GGV Capital’s Investment Team | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | David Zhu, former COO of Chinese search giant Baidu, has as an investor. Based in Menlo Park and Shanghai, invests in companies that bridge the gap between the U.S. and China. Its portfolio includes top Chinese tech companies like , , , , , and . Zhu’s experience at Baidu, which is the largest search engine i... |
Rdio Acquires India’s Troubled Music Streaming Startup Dhingana To Push For Global Expansion | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | India’s troubled music streaming startup , which announced , is being acquired by . While Rdio will gain from Dhingana’s existing catalog of over 1 million songs in 42 languages through this acquisition, the latter will find a new home and hope for some of its staff who were facing an uncertain future until this wee... |
Lavabit’s Ladar Levison Discusses Privacy And Dark Mail At SXSW 2014 | Jay Donovan | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | If there were any thematic backdrops present at SXSW 2014, certainly privacy was one of them. To be sure, the Edward Snowden and Julian Assange keynotes were packed, but there was also a more subtle conversation about privacy taking place in Austin this week. Of all these viewpoints described to me, none had the same... |
Former General Catalyst and Lightspeed VCs To Launch New Fund Called Binary | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | Venture capitalists Jonathan Teo and Justin Caldbeck are planning to launch a new fund that will focus on consumer technology. The news was first and was confirmed to TechCrunch by two sources. We’ve learned that the fund will be called Binary and it will focus on making early-stage investments in consumer technology... |
With 10K Schools On Board, BrightBytes Lands $15M To Help Measure The Real Impact Of Technology In Education | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | Over the last year, has become a personal favorite in the ballooning world of education startups. The reason for this begins with the fact that when it comes to our beleaguered education system — from its skyrocketing costs to its middling outcomes and dwindling resources — many have begun to look at technology as a ... |
Security Startup Shadow Networks Has Raised Over $10 MIllion To Pull Threats Into The Matrix | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | , a stealthy new security company with high-powered backers, has raised over $10 million in a round of financing disclosed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission under its old name . Part of a new breed of security startup, Shadow Networks is based on technology developed for the U.S. Government that creates virt... |
Russia Blocks Websites Of Putin’s Critics, Including Chess Star Garry Kasparov | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | Russia of President Vladimir Putin. The Prosecutor General’s office ordered Russian Internet service providers to cut off access to a handful of websites, including the blog of famed chess champion, Garry Kasparov. “These sites contain incitement to illegal activity and participation in public events held in violatio... |
After Apple Acquisition, Burstly’s SkyRocket Users Get 90-Day Notice | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | When we that Apple had acquired Burstly last month, a lot of the attention was focused on TestFlight, its popular mobile app testing platform — and specifically around how it would discontinue support for Android and the wider TestFlight SDK to new users. But it looks like this won’t be the only part of the Burstly b... |
Xapo Raises $20 Million To Bury Your Bitcoin Underground | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | With the implosion of and the rising popularity of cryptocurrency, it makes sense that someone would want to build an FDIC for BTC. thinks it may have figured out how. The company, founded by Wences Casares, raised $20 million from Benchmark Capital and Fortress Investment Group LLC, among others, and has been in s... |
The SXSW Effect, Visualized | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | Secret bet that the massive density of technology enthusiasts in the city would be fertile ground for it to grow in popularity, with a viral loop being formed by the swirling nerds visiting Austin. It worked, with its popularity spiking inside the top 500 most popular iPhone apps in the United States, but has since dec... |
#BanBossy May Have Beyonce, But #BeBossy Has Nicki Minaj | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | has done it again: She’s managed people by her sheer choice of words, and the logical fallacy that one woman’s experience equals all women’s experiences. I’ve spent some time looking at the campaign and am very impressed that Sandberg corralled Beyonce — whose song happens to be my personal anthem — to perpetuat... |
Layer3 TV Announces A $21M Series A Round Of Funding For “Next Generation Cable” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | Today , a company that will operate in the cable space, announced that it has raised a $21 million Series A round of capital led by North Bridge Venture Partners and Evolution Media Growth Partners. The company bills itself as a “next generation cable provider,” which is clear as mud. Its executive leadership is heavy... |
Seeing 15M Travelers In 2013, Gogobot Goes After Kayak With New Hotel Metasearch Utility To Help You Find The Best Deals | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | launched in 2010 in the early stage of a wave of new interest in the social travel space, as a glut of new startups promised to as a new generation of companies promised to transform stodgy old travel with the magic of the social graph. Some of those players built products on top of Facebook, growing quickly thanks to... |
9th Dot Aims To Be The App For Consumer Feedback And Suggestions | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | Got a great idea for your favorite business? A startup called has created an app where you can share that idea, with potential rewards if your idea actually gets used. There are plenty of other options for businesses that want to collect customer suggestions. Many of them take the form of crowdsourced “idea” sites li... |
What’s The Best Amazon Prime Alternative? | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | There isn’t one. Sorry, Charlie. Amazon Prime stands alone as the best deal online. No other service offers the same amount of substance: Free two-day shipping on a ton of stuff, cheap overnight shipping, and a streaming library second in content only to Netflix. Like it or not, Amazon Prime is still a great deal even ... |
Apply Now To Write For TechCrunch This Summer As A Paid Intern | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | Are you obsessed with the startup world? Do you read TechCrunch all the time? Good news! We’re hiring paid interns for this summer. A year and over a hundred posts later, I was sitting in a tiny room backstage at our Disrupt NY conference interviewing intern candidates to join us and cover the crazy tech world. politic... |
CEO Sean Rad Says Dating App Tinder Has Made 1 Billion Matches | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | is announcing that it has made 1 billion matches between its users. As most (all?) of you know, Tinder works by giving users a stack of potential matches and allowing them to swipe right or left to show their interest. If two users express mutual interest, then the app will connect them, allowing them to send each oth... |
Study: Feelings On Facebook Spread From Friend To Friend | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | According to a study from the University of California, San Diego, feelings on Facebook can spread from user to user like a virus. In other words, your friends’ moods can affect your moods, positively or negatively. As we well know, humans can spread their moods to each other in face-to-face situations. A grumpy co-wor... |
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Smart Sparrow Lands $10M To Help Teachers Make Online Learning More Adaptive And Interactive | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | For most students, learning within the traditional confines of the educational system has been something to be endured, rather than something that’s just as fun as it is rewarding. Every student knows that learning is more fun when content it comes alive and is personalized. In other words, when it’s actually adaptive,... |
If You Look At One Picture Of 3D-Printed Chicken Today, Make It This One | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | You like chicken. You like 3D printed stuff. Why not slam them together to make the ultimate in 3D printable model food? How does that sound? Cool, right? I thought so. So what’s going on here: some designers at in Yokohama, Japan wanted to surprise the staff of . They grabbed a tasty KFC drumstick, scanned it using... |
Potcoin, A New Cryptocurrency To Help Ease The War On Drugs | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | It started with one evocative name shouted into the phone from one developer to another: “Potcoin!” The Founding Fathers had to work for years to craft a Constitution that would grant the government the power to “coin money.” However, three developers in the frozen north, who were only able to provide me with pseudon... |
Bill Gates: It’s OK If Half Of Silicon Valley Startups Are “Silly” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | Microsoft Founder Bill Gates doesn’t worry that Silicon Valley is the home of billion-dollar texting apps and farming games. “Innovation in California is at its absolute peak right now. Sure, half of the companies are silly, and you know two-thirds of them are going to go bankrupt, but the dozen or so ideas that emerge... |
Firm You Haven’t Heard Of With $13M In 2013 Revenue IPO’d Today, Spiking To Valuation North Of $3B | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | So you are a company. You’re about six years old. You’ve to date, including a Box-esque $100 million Series D bloc. The tough bit is that your revenue in 2013 was a mere $13 million. Even more troubling, your losses are accelerating, increasing from $19.9 million in 2011, to $35 million in 2012 to $62.2 million in 2... |
Pinterest Debuts A “Gifts Feed” Featuring Only Things You Can Buy | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 13 | Pinterest publicly introduced a new on Wednesday that only displays “Product Pins” – pins that are enhanced with additional details, including pricing, availability and where the item can be purchased online. The announcement was made on , aimed at advertisers, instead of on the company’s more widely read, consumer-... |
Sina Weibo, China’s Answer To Facebook And Twitter, Files For $500M IPO In The U.S. | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | , the microblogging and social media service that’s often characterized as China’s answer to Twitter and Facebook, has filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $500 million in an initial public offering. Weibo was launched by Chinese online media giant in August 2009. Today, Sin... |
The “Stolen” Mt.Gox Data Contained Malware That Robbed Users Of Bitcoin | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | Security researchers at Securelist have found that the data “stolen” from Mark Karpeles’ computer actually contained a BTC-stealing Trojan that masqueraded as a back-end app for managing Mt.Gox trades. The app searched user directories for Bitcoin-related files – wallet.dat and bitcoin.conf – and uploaded them to a ser... |
CrunchWeek: Uber Beefs Up On Insurance, Secret’s New Funding, More Trouble At Clinkle | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | In this episode, Ryan Lawler, Alex Wilhelm, and I talked about Uber to its U.S. drivers to “close the insurance gap”, anonymous social sharing app Secret after seeing a (and subsequent fall) in user installs, and the latest sign of trouble at Clinkle, with the of its well-regarded COO Barry McCarthy. |
Meet Memebox, Y Combinator’s Korean Beauty Import | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | Not many companies in the Y Combinator stable have executives who’ve spent time at both and the Korean . I’m betting is the only one. It’s the first Korean company accepted into the Y Combinator program and arguably one of the more mature, with a $1.5 million round of venture funding already under its belt and a st... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | Sure, Babar was a pretty cool elephant, but what happens when he becomes a cyborg bent on the destruction of the mustache man who stole his crown in ? He goes out and gets one of these robotic trunks and starts tearing stuff up around Paris. Pure insanity.
, a German robotics company, is making sure that Babar ... |
Popcorn Time Is Dead | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | : Two days after this article was published, another group of developers re-released Popcorn Time. The details are . Hollywood won. The open source project called is dead after just four days. It’s not really surprising. “Popcorn Time is shutting down today. Not because we ran out of energy, commitment, focus or all... |
Mozilla Cancels Firefox For Metro, Cites Fewer Than 1,000 Daily Active Users | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | Mozilla today that it will halt development of its browser after about of development. According to Mozilla’s Firefox VP Jonathan Nightingale, the organization has never seen more than 1,000 active daily users for the Metro app, so in order to free up resources for products that have traction, Mozilla has decided... |
Secret Now Warning Users Not To “Defame” Others | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | It seems that are not the only ones who aren’t able to handle the power of anonymous social applications appropriately. Secret, the San Francisco-based (and now, ) confessional app, has begun warning users to not “defame” others when posting on its service. The message appears in some cases after Secret detects a na... |
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Ask A VC: TransLink Capital’s Jay Eum On Expanding To Asian Markets | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we hosted Jay Eum visited the studio to talk about expansion to markets in Asia and more. Eum is a co-founder of VC firm TransLink, which actually specializes in helping startups partner with companies in and expand to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. As he explained to me in the interv... |
GoDaddy Preps For IPO Fewer Than 3 Years After Its $2.25B Sale To Private Equity Groups | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | GoDaddy, the well-known domain and hosting company, is preparing to go public. The company was in the summer of 2011 to a mixture of private money, including Silver Lake, a group now famous for its work to help Dell go private. According to , GoDaddy has “plans to interview banks that would lead the underwriting of ... |
AOL Lays Off “Double Digit” Number Of Employees | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | AOL had a round of layoffs today affecting a “double digit” number of employees, according to sources with knowledge of the company. We reported on larger AOL layoffs (with hundreds affected) in , and then again . Those cuts stemmed mostly from the challenges at, and , hyperlocal news effort Patch. One source said t... |
How Telecom Company Free Nearly Disrupted The French Mobile Landscape All Over Again | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | Last week, everything was very different in the mobile landscape in France. France’s Free was about to make the best strategic move I had ever seen. Yet, it all fell apart today. While it’s a boring industry, the acquisition of SFR is a story of secret agreements and betrayals. SFR (the second biggest telecom company... |
Bill Gates Says Snowden Is No Hero | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | When Edward Snowden starts his official fanclub, he . The richest man in the world isn’t much of a fan at all, it turns out. In an , Gates outlined his view of Snowden in the context of his methods, and privacy itself. Answering the question as to whether he viewed that Snowden was a hero, or a traitor, Gates hedged ... |
Report: Changing Tax Rules For Tech Giants Would Mean $89 Billion For U.S. Gov | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | Tech giants, including to , are notorious fans of offshore tax havens, which saves them . A from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism finds that “if this cash was brought onshore and taxed at the current US corporation tax rate of 35%, it would produce a $89bn windfall for the US Treasury – equivalent to 17% of... |
I’m Going To Interview Vine Co-Founder And GM Colin Kroll At Disrupt NY, And Then Vine It | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 3 | 14 | It’s been just over a year since launched into the world, catapulted by parent company Twitter to bring mobile video creation to the masses. A lot has happened in that year, including the launch of Instagram video, Twitter’s IPO, and the explosion of mobile video apps. So what does have to say about all this? Lucki... |
Let’s End The Search For Mobile TV | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | Mobile TV has never been a thing. Since the in 1982, we’ve been excited at the prospect of mobile TV, but no matter how good our devices are, there still seems to be something missing. As recently as this January, Josh Elman to John Borthwick that the results of the study show that even now, no one keeps mobile v... |
A May-December Media Strategy Could Help Locally Focused Startups | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | In Silicon Valley, it’s sometimes easy to focus solely on social and other types of cutting-edge, digital advertising when advising startups on their marketing strategies. But these businesses, particularly those serving specific geographic markets, can also amp up customer acquisition by combining their Facebook, Tw... |
The Sweet Irony Of Popcorn Time | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | So the big fun story of last week was this . Essentially, it aggregated torrent links and packaged them with artwork and a nice interface that allows one-click streaming of movies. Popcorn Time is incredibly illegal almost anywhere, but it’s also almost impossible to stop people from using it without ISP intervention.... |
Hacker News Attempts To Fix Its Comment Problems With Pending Comments | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | As it has grown, has struggled to keep its comment threads relevant, thoughtful, and above all else, friendly. Like YouTube, Reddit, and other sites with a large community of commenters, popular threads on Hacker News can degrade into grandstanding, arguments for the sake of being argumentative, and ad hominem attack... |
Turkey Moves To Block Twitter At The IP Level | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | In its effort to curtail access to Twitter, Turkey is getting more aggressive with a block of the service’s IP address, according to as well as a DNS provider. That means that changing their DNS server, whether it be Google DNS or OpenDNS, will no longer work for residents in the country. Previously, Twitter users in... |
Turkey Blocks Google DNS, YouTube Could Be Next | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | The social media crackdown in Turkey continues, as the country has moved to like Twitter through Google DNS. YouTube, another service offered by the global search giant, might be next after refusing to remove videos alleging government corruption. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government called the ban a “pre... |
After WhatsApp: An Insider’s View On What’s Next In Messaging | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | I was driving to a meeting in San Francisco when I got the message: “Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion.” I pulled over and watched as messages started to stream in. Everyone had the same question: Is Facebook crazy? As the CEO of the only smartphone messenger more popular than WhatsApp in the U.S., I gave them... |
Deal With Getty Images Means Quality EyeEm Photos Make Cash For Their Owners | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | , the Berlin-based startup which focuses on high-quality photo sharing, has signed a partnership with Getty Images to license EyeEm images across its platforms, including on iStock by Getty Images and a bespoke collection where they are royalty-free and rights-managed. The EyeEm collection will be populated with images... |
Vicarious Grabs A Huge, New $40M Growth Round To Advance Artificial Intelligence | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | , a San Francisco-based company that developed technology to solve Captcha queries last fall, just raised a big new $40 million round from investors including Joe Lonsdale’s Formation 8, Mark Zuckerberg, Vinod Khosla and Peter Thiel. Zuckerberg invested personally while others like Dustin Moskovitz and Ashton Kutcher i... |
CrunchWeek: Airbnb’s $10B Valuation, Netflix And Net Neutrality, And Microsoft’s Email Brouhaha | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | It’s Friday, and that means its time for another episode of CrunchWeek. This time, sitting around the White Table with me were my two excellent colleagues and . We dug through Airbnb’s , Netflix and the , and Microsoft’s . As an aside, this was the first time that I have ever hosted the show, so please be gentle ... |
Gillmor Gang: No Reply | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Semil Shah, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — wade into the rumors that Twitter is dumping @Reply and #Hashtag from the mix. Scoble and Teare insure themselves of no seats on the Google plane with diatribes against Glass polishing and management confusion respec... |
Rocket Internet’s PricePanda Launches In Thailand | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | Rocket Internet has launched its price comparison site in Thailand. The site, which is also backed by Tengelmann Group and AB Kinnevik, already operates in eight countries throughout Latin America and Southeast Asia. In a statement, PricePanda co-founder Christian Schiller said “with 66 million inhabitants and a grow... |
Enter The Blockchain: How Bitcoin Can Turn The Cloud Inside Out | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | Drop whatever you’re doing and go read Maciej Cegłowski’s absolutely magnificent essay , an astonishing history of the amazing Russian engineer Lev Sergeyevich Termen. Make sure you read right down to its punchline, “the most badass answer imaginable.” But if time is short, or you struggle to read English, please at l... |
Real Engines Of Growth Have Nothing To Do With Growth Hacking | Contributor | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | Imagine you’re a 17-year-old girl at a well-to-do high school in Los Angeles and you just discovered Snapchat. Until that moment, every time you thought about sending risqué photos to your romantic interest, you had to worry about images of your naked self ending up on the Internet. When you wanted to gossip with you... |
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The Short, Serendipitous Life & Untimely Death Of Antisocial Photo-Sharing App, Rando | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 3 | 22 | Almost exactly a year ago I wrote about a new photo-sharing app called built by a London app & design studio, , which had a colourful app release history (including the popular, psychedelic game ). What was really exciting about Rando was not that it offered yet another way to share photos with your friends. Rath... |
Apple Pledges To Make iOS Emojis More Racially Diverse | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | has vowed to update its emojis after Miley Cyrus and actor Tahj Mowry complained about the cartoon emoticons’ lack of diversity. MTV Act blogger Joey Parker and got this response from Katie Cotton, Apple’s vice president of worldwide corporate communications: “Tim forwarded your email to me. We agree with you. Our e... |
TechCrunch’s Picks: The Top 8 Startups From Y Combinator W14 Demo Day | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | While today saw Paul Graham physically pass the reins to new Y Combinator president Sam Altman, the bigger buzz at Demo Day was about how most investors thought this was the best YC class yet. There were unsexy startups in industries ripe for disruption, deep B2B specialization to meet the needs of specific companies, ... |
YC-Backed CareMessage Is On A Mission To Improve Health Literacy By Bringing Mobile Healthcare To The Underserved | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | It’s no secret that the U.S. healthcare system is in desperate need of change, especially as costs have continued to rise, while the quality of care remains the same. While technology will play a critical role in reversing this trend, many assume that improving outcomes is simply a matter of putting smarter technology ... |
Confirmed! | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | In the realm of beautiful acquisition stories, someone about a Mark Zuckerberg sighting at offices. Today Facebook Oculus Rift for $2 billion. “So no way to confirm this, but my friend works in the same building as Oculus, and he ran into Mark Zuckerberg taking the elevator to Oculus’ floor,” the original Reddit ... |
Y Combinator Winter 2014, Batches 3 And 4: Meet Kimono Labs, TwoTap, Abacus And More | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | Here are the 17 startups that presented in the third batch of companies and the four from the fourth batch that were on the record. Let’s go! Ambition was formed by a bunch of sales guys who were looking for ways to optimize performance… But what better way to do that than by getting already-competitive people to compe... |
Candy Crush Maker King Prices Shares At $22.50, Puts Valuation At $7B | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | In the most anticipated gaming IPO of the last few years, that will raise $326 million for the company and value it at slightly more than $7 billion. Shares will trade for the first time tomorrow. That valuation will put King at nearly four times its trailing annual revenue of $1.88 billion. The vast majority of that... |
UK E-Commerce Intelligence Startup Ometria Raises $1.5M Seed Round | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | The UK’s is another startup that wants to help online retailers make better use of data, and, in turn, compete harder with larger, more data-driven players in the market. It offers an e-commerce “intelligence” platform that provides retailers with insights relating to customer behaviour and product performance and en... |
Facebook Says It Has 1B Monthly Active Users On Mobile, 200M Actives On Instagram | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | Following up the announcement that it’s , Facebook also shared some numbers about its growth, because why not? On the acquisition conference call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that, as of last week, Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users on mobile. That’s up from as of the end of its most recent quarter. Zucker... |
Facebook Buys A Virtual World | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | Today, in a somewhat surprising move, Facebook . The buy elicited visceral reactions from people dismayed that Oculus sold out so early to snarky comments about what Facebook might do with it. First of all, any talk about the Facebook news feed appearing in virtual form is far too short-sighted. Will someone port the ... |
HTC Goes “Blah Blah Blah” In The First HTC One M8 Ad | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | Frankly, the only way this ad could be more effective is if it were a “let me Google that for you” link. HTC is right here. Dead right. In the first video ad for , Gary Oldman advises viewers to turn to the Internet to learn about the new phone. It simply doesn’t matter what Gary or tell viewers about the phone. It’... |
HTC One M8 Hands-On: Come For The Styling, Stay For The Warranty | John Biggs | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | The past few years have taught once high-flying cellphone makers one or two things about demand. As Samsung rose in Android prominence, the rest of the manufacturers fell one by one. LG? Life’s not good. Motorola? Mostly moribund. Then there’s HTC. HTC made quite a splash with its impressive One last year. The styling,... |
Minecraft Creator Cancels The Oculus Rift Version Because Facebook “Creeps” Him Out | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 3 | 25 | Minecraft creator Markus Persson (aka Notch) has cancelled the Oculus VR version of the game, because, as he puts it: “Facebook creeps me out.” His studio, Mojang, had been in talks to bring a version of Minecraft officially to the VR gaming headset, but he said on Twitter shortly after the was announced that he “can... |
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