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White House Declines To Deport Bieber, Pivots To Immigration Reform In Its Official Response | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | TechCrunch when the to deport the Canadian Justin Bieber passed the 100,000-signature mark, the minimum threshold to warrant an official response. (At that time, TechCrunch offered to help build a catapult to assist in completing the expulsion.) The White House today responded to the petition with a dodge: Thanks f... |
In Just A Few Minutes, SpaceX Will Attempt To Launch A Reusable Rocket — Watch Now! (Update: It’s Over) | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | Quick! Tune in! SpaceX is about to attempt something pretty historic: launching a rocket in such a way that much of it can be reused in later launches. If the launch is successful, the payload of the rocket will spend a few days cruising to the International Space Station, then drop off a bunch of supplies. The (the ... |
Facebook ‘Nearby Friends’ Will Track Your Location History To Target You With Ads | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | Facebook says it’s not using its to target ads yet, but after I asked why it’s tracking “Location History” it admitted it will eventually use the data for marketing purposes. This morning, the proximity sharing feature began rolling out to iOS users after it’s , and with it I discovered a new “Location History” sett... |
Gusto Debuts A Smarter, More Powerful Email App For iPhone | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | There’s no lack of startups trying to rethink the mobile email experience, such as Mailbox, Boxer, CloudMagic, Triage, or Acompli, to name just a few. Now a new application called is throwing its hat into the ring, as well, with a smart email application that helps you more easily find files and photos within dedicat... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Siri Hack, Amazon Smartphone, And Galaxy Gear | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | ! But don’t panic — it’s apparently a really fun hack that gives Siri access to your other apps. Meanwhile, rumors are swirling over with 3D-gesture features. Plus, we’re taking a good hard look at the Galaxy Gear smart watch equipment from Samsung. Or, more accurately, we diverge into . Also, it’s Good Friday. We... |
Supreme Court Justices Say They’re Likely To Rule On NSA Surveillance | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia think that the nation’s top court will on the NSA’s surveillance activities. The two, appearing in front of the National Press Club, both touched on the subject, with Justice Scalia calling the Supreme Court the “ While Ginsburg and Scalia are intellectual... |
Airbnb Has Closed Its $500M Round Of Funding At A $10B Valuation, Led By TPG | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | TechCrunch has learned that , the fast-growing site that lets people become hoteliers by renting out sofas, rooms or entire private homes, has now closed its latest round of funding: $500 million, led by private equity firm TPG, at a $10 billion valuation, according to our sources. This brings the total raised by Airb... |
Facebook Says Paper Users Browse 80 Stories A Day, Adds Features That Let It Replace FB For iOS | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | Facebook just released , an update that for Facebook for iOS. It also gave the first momentum update on Paper since its Febraury 3rd launch, saying “ “. It didn’t release a user count, though, and are calling it a flop due to low App Store chart rankings and anecdotal evidence. It’s still a bit early to make a cal... |
Taking On Amazon, Target Expands Online Subscriptions Program To More Categories, Lowers Prices | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | Target has significantly expanded its subscription-based e-commerce service, first launched last fall as a response to Amazon’s popular “Subscribe and Save” program, by increasing the number of online items available for subscription purchase from just 200 to now 1,500. While the company’s original focus was on baby-ca... |
La Belle Assiette Launches Its On-Demand Chef Service In Belgium And The U.K. | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | French startup just opened shop in Belgium. La Belle Assiette is a sort of on-demand chef service. You can browse the site, find your chef and book a meal directly from the service — a chef will then come to your home or office. The startup will also roll out its offering in the U.K., Switzerland and Luxembourg in th... |
Telerik Open Sources Most Of Its Kendo UI HTML5 Framework | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | , the company behind the popular Kendo UI library, this week that it is open sourcing the vast majority of Kendo UI’s tools and JavaScript framework features. This new Kendo UI Core package is licensed under the , which allows developers to use it for both commercial and non-commercial projects. The company is stil... |
Who Wants A Ticket To The Disrupt NY Hackathon? | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 18 | Ready. Set. Go. Our events team just released another batch of tickets to the Disrupt NY Hackathon. You can grab one below. Last year using the Foursquare and Plaid APIs, took home the top prize. Teams are forming now so grab a ticket while they’re still available. Space is very limited and the tickets are available ... |
Every Fitness App And Wearable Should Have A Mood Tracker | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | Along with its many other benefits, regular workouts contribute to better moods and energy levels. As a result, I am constantly surprised to see how many fitness tracking apps and wearable devices lack a mood tracking feature. My interest in this is personal. When I was teenager, I was diagnosed with major depressive d... |
Crowdfunded Gadgets That Frame And Notify | Ross Rubin | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | There’s nothing that grandparents love more than photos of their grandkids. Photo sharing these days is easy with the Internet and social media, but grandparents are notorious for having trouble using these new technologies. From a distance, sharing photos with older people can be difficult. Famatic is a digital pictur... |
Wanderful Media Raises $14.5 Million Bringing Newspaper Circulars To Mobile Phones | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | Circulars (the advertising inserts with coupons from local retailers) are still critical to revenues for local newspapers. In an effort to bring them into the digital age, a consortium of some of the largest media conglomerates are investing another $14.5 million into , to bring them to mobile devices. The new round ... |
What Games Are: What Became Of Social Games? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | A couple of days ago I read the news about Mark Pincus stepping down as chief product officer at Zynga. It’s not surprising given that the company continues to hand over fist and hasn’t really been able to muster the same energy behind products that it used to. Perhaps there’s a lesson for all of us there in the peri... |
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What’s Next For PonoMusic, The Startup That Took Kickstarter By Storm And Raised $6.2M | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | Once in a while, a Kickstarter project just hits a nerve and compels thousands of people to donate money to make sure it becomes a reality. , a startup that aims to create a music download service and physical music player focusing on ultra high-quality sound, is the most recent example. PonoMusic, which set out to ra... |
Kantar: Windows Phone ‘Stutters’ Amid Android Price Competition, iPhone 5S Is Apple’s Buffer | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | Last Friday, Microsoft finally of Nokia’s devices business, but it’s coming into its new position as a mobile hardware maker with no less a challenge than Nokia has had for the last couple of years. According to the latest 12-week figures from — a market research division of WPP — Windows Phone accounted for 8.1% o... |
Infamous Paper Trail Shows The Power Of Episodic DLC That Goes Beyond The Console | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | I’m not generally a person who plays very much DLC or post-release content on games; for the most part, it comes out long after I’ve lost interest in the original title, and it’s a time suck, and time is not something I have very much of. PS4 Game storyline is an exception, however, and one that had me playing along ... |
Here’s What Happens When You Strap An Oculus-Controlled Video Camera To A Drone And Take It For A Spin | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | So what would happen if you took a drone, attached twin video cameras to it, and had each of those cameras feed directly into one half of an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset? Now take it a step further: Have the drone-mounted twin video cameras the head movements of the wearer of the Oculus headset. This would giv... |
Greeks Build World’s Most High Tech Lamb Rotisserie | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | It was actually probably the first time I considered the true impact of innovation — turning a spit manually may sound awesome and quaint, but you end up smelling like sweaty, chain-smoking livestock for days. using technology and Arduino in order to effortlessly spin our traditional Orthodox Easter meal. Dear Alexi... |
#Love: What’s Your Type? | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | There was a time, I’m told, when the closest that two lovers came to text messaging was written love letters, sent through the snail mail. Perhaps they were from a soldier to his sweetheart back home, or, that’s how I’d like to imagine it. And then, slowly but surely, a period of textual radio silence commenced, driven... |
Facebook In The Age Of Mobile-Only | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | Just 21% (268 million) of Facebook’s users access the service from desktop-only, and both that percentage and number are falling as Facebook grows, according to new stats from this week. Meanwhile Facebook’s is now at 341 million, or 26.7% of its total userbase, and those figures are quickly climbing. What this mea... |
Alexis Ohanian Wants To Put A Pro-Net Neutrality Billboard “Right In The FCC’s Backyard” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | Recent news that the FCC may to net neutrality that would allow some content providers to pay ISPs for faster delivery speeds to consumers has . , known for his work at Reddit and HipMunk, once placed protest advertisements and hired a billboard during the SOPA and PIPA battles. He’s back, to place a billboard in ... |
Fired RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Says We Can’t Handle The Truth | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | This morning, RadiumOne announced a board vote its CEO Gurbaksh Chahal. Chahal, always a fairly public figure, has garnered unwanted attention for pleading guilty to domestic abuse. Charged with 45 felony counts of domestic violence, Chahal eventually got off with misdemeanor charges after video evidence showing the ... |
My Weekly TechCrunch Habit Ends | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | TechCrunch Over the past three years, every weekend, I sit down with my laptop and write something that eventually becomes a blog post on TechCrunch. Every Sunday, 10am PST. It started back when Mike was writing here, as was MG, and Erick was the editor (thanks for giving me the opportunity). It continued during the El... |
RadiumOne Confirms That It Has Fired CEO Gurbaksh Chahal | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | RadiumOne just announced that its board of directors terminated CEO and Chairman Gurbaksh Chahal on Saturday night. The company said in an emailed statement that Chief Operating Officer Bill Lonergan will be taking over as CEO. Chahal’s firing was . The company faced intense criticism and earlier this week after ... |
These Aren’t The Patent Trolls You’re Looking For | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | Over the past few years, the debate over so-called “patent trolls” has risen to a fever pitch. Businesses of all sizes have complained about the “horrible” effects of patent trolls. Legal scholars are performing studies to determine their impact. Every branch of the federal government has become involved in attempt... |
Bitcoin Slips Following News Of Fresh Restrictions In China | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 27 | Bitcoin, which has recently traded under $400 and over $500, shed more than 10% of its value over the past few days, falling from around $500 to under $440, before recovering slightly. As has happened many times in recent months when it comes to Bitcoin price swings, this downturn is based in news from China. This time... |
A Chat With Maxim Lobovsky, Co-Founder Of Formlabs | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | I had the unique opportunity to sit down with , co-founder of , when we had our meet up in Boston. While the audio was a little rough – it’s hard to handle big, happy crowds – I think his insight on 3D printing is important and it was a great chance to sit down with Lobovsky while he was head-down in his business. ... |
iOS App Driving Curve Is A Fitness Tracker For Your Car | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | iOS app is an easy way to track your driving performance without having to fiddle with additional devices. Some high-profile driving apps, like , a Y Combinator alum and Techstars-backed , offer their own hardware to connect with smartphones. Other use a Bluetooth-enabled on-board devices (OBD), which plugs into an... |
CrunchWeek: Heartbleed Terrifies The Internet, And Dropbox Hires Condoleezza Rice | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | Happy Friday everyone, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, our weekly round up of the biggest stories in technology. This week , , and your took to the round table to dig into , and the NSA-thereof, along with Dropbox’s , and its . (If can add a small production note, the show was taped in between ... |
Box Defeats Preliminary Injunction In OpenText’s $268M Patent Infringement Case | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | Some positive legal news for , the cloud services company that is . A judge has denied a motion for a preliminary injunction of one of its products — originally requested by the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Canada’s , one part of a larger, covering 12 patents. The decision, from Judge Edward J. Davila in the U.S.... |
Ran Harnevo On AOL’s Video Strategy And The Web’s “Massive Wave” Of Original Content | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | We’re a few weeks away from , where the big online companies pitch their upcoming programs to advertisers. So it seemed like a good time to sit down with Ran Harnevo, AOL’s president of video, to talk about the company’s plans, and about broader trends in the industry. Harnevo suggested that became “a defining mom... |
With Its New Samsung App, Health Startup Lark Moves Away From Hardware | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | Among included in Samsung’s just-released Galaxy S5 was a new app from , a health startup that’s been pretty quiet for the past year or so. In fact, co-founder and CEO Julia Hu told me that Lark has been “pretty much in stealth mode” as it worked on the new app. The vision, she said, is still the same — the company ... |
Tinder Is Not Valued At $5B, And IAC Did Not Buy 10% Of The Company | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | There was an audible gasp in the Twittersphere this morning, after that buzzy mobile dating app Tinder was valued at $5 billion in a recent transaction. According to Bloomberg, IAC recently purchased 10 percent of the company for $500 million from Social+Capital Partnership founder and former Facebook exec Chamath Pa... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | Oh, hey, puny human. What’s up. Not much, right? Well enjoy the brief respite between now and the rise of our robotic overlords, something we call . Your first nemesis? Proton, the surprisingly realistic robotic man. This robot is actually being used to test military equipment for strain and wear and mimics the moveme... |
Are You Living Your Purpose? Asana’s Justin Rosenstein Will Challenge TechCrunch Disrupt NY | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | Cynicism in tech has reached a new peak, and with good reason. We may be squandering our potential to truly improve the world by building silly apps in pursuit of riches, but there is another way to live and work, and Justin Rosenstein will share it at . After being an early employee at Google and Facebook, could ha... |
Dropbox Promises Adding Condoleezza Rice To Its Board Won’t Change Its Privacy Views | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | After Dropbox announced the hiring of , the Internet roiled with unrest: Could a former government official who during the Bush administration properly advise a cloud storage company at the epicenter of the discussion of data privacy, especially in the current context of the NSA and its surveillance programs? Many i... |
Gillmor Gang Live 04.11.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | – Robert Scoble, Semil Shah, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into A Computer From The 80s Using Commodore Pi | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O-NF8ZiT3QM] As a former user of the Atari 800XL, I find the Commodore line to be piffle at best but I’ll become a bit more catholic in my support of decades-old hardware and tell you a bit about the Commodore Pi, a wacky emulator that turns your into a... |
Native Advertising Startup Adyoulike Acquires Content Amp For $2.5M | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | French native advertising company acquired . According to , the British company was acquired for $2.5 million. Adyoulike appears to be at the same time an advertising technology company and a more traditional advertising network for native content. An ad-tech company in native advertising seems counterintuitive — n... |
Report: NSA Exploited Heartbleed For Years. NSA: No | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | This afternoon that the National Security Agency (NSA) knew about the now infamous Heartbleed flaw in OpenSSL, and that it used the weakness to collect intelligence. It is not clear if the NSA used Heartbleed to collect information regarding citizens in the United States, so this issue may not concern privacy like so... |
ZEFR Is Selling MovieClips To Comcast’s Fandango | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | Los Angeles-based has built a huge business by helping content owners and brands to track and monetize video content on YouTube. But years after launching as a destination site for movie fans to discover and watch their favorite scenes online, the company is selling off its legacy business to Comcast’s Fandango uni... |
Box Debuts ‘Box Open Source’ To Share Its Internal Tools With The Larger Developer World | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | Box today unveiled a new initiative called for sharing its own homegrown open source engineering tools with the larger programming community. The project was announced this afternoon in a company accompanied by a from Box CEO Aaron Levie. In a joint phone interview today, Levie and Box’s principal technical oper... |
App.io Turns iOS Apps Into Playable Mobile Ads | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | , a startup offering tools that allow iOS applications to run in the browser for testing or demo purposes, has now taken the next logical step: it’s bringing its technology the world of mobile advertising. With the company’s newly launched mobile ad product, developers can create ad units that are basically functional ... |
Turning The Ship: Microsoft Might Have Begun A Subtle Shift From Windows To Services | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | Since Steve Ballmer passed the torch to Satya Nadella earlier this year, it marked a sea change in the organization: the first time in its history one of the founding team wasn’t running the show. Changes were expected and have happened. A surprising one is a subtle shift toward a service model and what appears to be a... |
After Killing Intro For iOS, LinkedIn Gets Deep Integration On Mobile Via Samsung Partnership | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 11 | Score a small victory for Android users. Earlier this year, LinkedIn , which used an engineering hack to . But the service was deemed for the way it intercepted emails on behalf of users before augmenting them with the additional data, and was later shut down. Today, however, select Android users will have access t... |
Looks Like Facebook Will Make Ecommerce And User Testing Announcements At f8 | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | What exactly is Facebook launching ? It’s hard to say. But we know it’s planning coordinated announcements with at least one ecommerce platform and one product testing service, as these companies reached out to schedule briefings with TechCrunch tomorrow but Facebook forbid them from saying what they’re doing until af... |
Foxconn’s FIH Invests $2.2M In Social Media Site mig33 | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | Project Goth (PGI), the holding company of , has received $2.2 million in funding from , one of Foxconn’s handset manufacturing service providers in a deal that could preload the social networking service’s apps into millions of mobile phones. Founded in 2007, mig33 focuses on sharing entertainment content in emergin... |
Watch The Nymi Heartbeat Identification Wristband Personalize Its Wearer’s PC | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | Toronto-based hardware startup gave a special public demo of its at the monthly event yesterday, and talked a bit about their product in more detail, now that it’s well on its way to production. The Nymi measures a user’s heart beat, and uses that to verify their identity and then perform various handshake operat... |
Before Rebranding As Mode Media, Glam Raised An Additional $15M | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | Online publisher and ad company Glam Media — for one thing, it’s now called . For another, it’s launching a new video business, with a new content-curation platform. It looks like that Mode/Glam is funding these efforts, in part, by raising more private funding. Last summer, I heard from a source with knowledge of t... |
500 Startups Partner George Kellerman Joins Paul Singh’s Crystal Tech Fund | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | 500 Startups Venture Partner is jumping ship to join former colleague Paul Singh as part of his , which was . The Crystal Tech Fund focuses on post-seed investments — that is, in companies that find themselves in the “funding gap” between seed and Series A stages. It looks for companies that have found some product... |
Concur Increases Stake In India’s Cleartrip, Buys Out Sherpalo and Kleiner | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | Travel and expense management company wants a bigger pie of the $3 billion Indian online travel market. The company has just concluded negotiations with Sherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perkins to acquire additional stake in the Indian online travel startup . In April 2011, , to tap into India’s booming online travel ... |
FCC Chairman Promises To Regulate The Internet As A Utility If Needed To Protect Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | In a sternly worded today, FCC Chairman further explained his views on net neutrality, detailing how he plans to implement them. Most important in his comments is a promise to regulate Internet service as a utility if needed. Wheeler is plain: “T However, in his estimation, the recent Verizon case “ Going Title II ... |
Food Ordering Site Delivery.com Expands To Hong Kong | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | is with a that provides online food ordering and delivery to corporate consumers. The company is Delivery.com said in a statement that it launched in Hong Kong first because it is “one of the world’s most densely populated places with a cultural and business environment that mirrors New York City, where delivery.co... |
MIT’s Bitcoin Club To Give $100 In BTC To Every Student | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | YOU get bitcoin! And YOU get bitcoin. In fact, everyone at MIT gets bitcoin. Two ambitious MIT students, CS sophomore Jeremy Rubin and MBA candidate Dan Elitzer, have raised over $500,000 so that all 4,528 undergrads at MIT can have $100 worth of BTC. Why? They want to educate MIT students about cryptocurrencies and ge... |
Twitter: We Have No Plan For A Secondary Offering | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | Today on its earnings call, Twitter indicated that it has no plan to host a secondary offering of its shares to provide liquidity to its large shareholders and early investors. In a , Twitter had already indicated that, as , “CEO Dick Costolo, plus co-founders and board members Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams, as well ... |
DollarPhotoClub Expands Into More Markets, Hits 11,000 Users | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | Stock photo provider is a shot across the bow of the Big Stock Photo Cartels™. Created by a repeat entrepreneur and owner of one of the biggest modeling agencies in England, the company aims to make getting a stock photo as easy as . Now the company has announced that they are moving into 13 new markets including It... |
Adly And Nestivity Merge, Will Integrate Their Social Marketing Tools | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | Social marketing companies and have announced that they are merging. Moving forward, they’ll be one company doing business under the Adly name. As you may recall, Adly connects advertisers with celebrities and other influencers who are willing to post promotional messages on social media. Nestivity, meanwhile, allo... |
This Monstrous Linksys WRT1900AC Router Is For Folks With A Real Appetite For Networking | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | There are wireless routers, and then there are wireless routers with a 1.2GHz dual-core Marvel Armada SoC processor and 256MB RAM that supports USB 3.0 drive transfer speeds and has four massive antennae that can blow wireless connectivity through almost any environment. The $250 Linksys WRT1900AC (which you can win )... |
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Twitter Shares Test New All-Time Lows After Its Q1 Earnings Fail To Excite Investors | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | Twitter’s stock is , hitting a new low of $38.27, below its previously recorded lowest-point of $38.80. Twitter went public for $26 per share and shot to more than $74 per share at its peak. It opened around $45 on its first day public. The following image comes moments after Twitter traded for $38.27. However, given ... |
Google Denies Shady Claim That AdSense Robbed Publishers | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | An alleged former Google employee has anonymously published that AdSense purposefully banned publishers right before their periodic payout so it could keep their ad revenue. But Google denies this as “a complete fiction”, and based on our examination of the report, the allegations look false. There may have been mech... |
Sony Xperia Z2 Review: A Waterproof Android Smartphone That Goes Beyond Gimmicks | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | a great time of it in the U.S. smartphone market over the past few years, and it recently announced that its new flagship, the . But the Z2 is still a solid device, and a contender on more or less even footing with flagships from other Android OEMs, so fans of Google’s mobile operating system ignore it at their own r... |
eBay Beats, Q1 Non-GAAP Earnings Up 11 Percent to $899M, Revenue Up 14 Percent To $4.3B | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | eBay just first quarter earnings this afternoon, beating expectations. Non-GAAP earnings increased 11%, to $899 million or $0.70 per diluted share, over the prior year, driven by strong top line growth, says the company. Revenue for the first quarter increased 14% to $4.3 billion, compared to the same period in 2013.... |
Twitter User Growth Accelerates To 5.8%, With 255M Monthly Users (And 78% Of Them On Mobile) | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | Twitter just released for the first quarter of 2014, it has grown its monthly active user base to 255 million. Will that be enough to avert more awkward questions about growth during today’s analyst conference call? Well, maybe … but probably not. This means MAUs grew 5.8 percent quarter-over-quarter, which is an i... |
TC Cribs Tours Optimizely’s Spacious HQ, Where Table Tennis Is A Serious Sport | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | It’s time for a new installment of , the TechCrunch TV show that takes you inside the doors of some of the tech industry’s hottest companies. This time around, we headed to the San Francisco headquarters of , the company that makes website optimization software. Optimizely has had some impressive growth over the past... |
Twitter Beats In Q1 With $250M In Revenue And Picks Up 14M New Monthly Active Users | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 29 | Twitter its first quarter financial performance this afternoon, reporting revenue of $250 million in the period, and earnings per share of $0.00 on a non-GAAP basis. The street had Twitter to report revenue of $241.5 million, and a three cent per-share loss. That non-GAAP $0.00 EPS is slightly occlusive — the compa... |
Fired Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro’s Severance Totaled $58M | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | When Yahoo , it wasn’t clear how much loot he was going to take with him. The final tally, revealed today in an that also detailed Yahoo’s , has the figure: $58 million. Or, more precisely, $57.96 million. That includes cash, restricted stock units that vested over time, stock options linked to performance, and so-... |
With iOS 8, Siri Might Be Able To Name That Tune Shazam-style | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | Quick! That catchy new track is playing over the gym’s loudspeaker, and you’ve been meaning to figure out its name for days. Grab an Android phone. Say, “Okay, Google — What song is this?” Within a few seconds, it’ll spit out an answer. (plus a link to buy the song, if you’re so inclined.) But what if you grab an iPhon... |
Photojojo Gets Into Rentals For Drones And Other Crazy Camera Gear | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | began as a newsletter for photography enthusiasts to share their latest tricks. Over time, it’s evolved into a popular storefront for photo geeks, selling unique but oh-so-useful photography accessories. Now they’re trying something new: … but probably not like anything you’ve seen before. Whereas sites like LensRent... |
Yahoo Nominates One Of Its Co-Founders, A Stock Guru, And A Former Walmart CEO To Its Board | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | Call it Yahoo’s version of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. The venerable Internet firm today a trio of nominations to its board that could round out the sort of folks keeping tabs on its focus. Most interesting among the nominations is David Filo, a Yahoo co-founder. Joining Filo in the ranks of th... |
Pinterest’s “Choose Your Own Adventure” Could Be A Travel Product | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | Pinterest’s dubbed “Choose Your Own Adventure,” may not be directly related to the company’s efforts in the personalization space, but rather the announcement of a consumer-facing travel product, we’re hearing. The launch will be aimed at attracting more men to Pinterest’s service, which is today overwhelmingly femal... |
Created With Imogen Heap, Mi.Mu Turns Hand Gestures Into Music | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 16 |
Made in collaboration with British singer-songwriter Imogen Heap, the turns the arms and hands of performers into musical instruments. Currently on , the project has raised about £67,000 (about $112,800) so far and has 16 days to reach its £200,000 ($336,620) goal. Eventually, Heap and Mi.Mu’s developers hope... |
Ad Company Tremor Video Now Offers Automated Campaign Optimization Across Screens | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | , last year, has announced a new product that should take a lot of headache and uncertainty out of running ad campaigns across desktops, tablets, smartphones, and Internet-connected TVs. Cross-screen advertising is a big buzzword (buzzphrase?) right now, but Tremor CTO Steven Lee said that when it comes to running a ... |
UberConference Adds Screen Sharing | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | , the popular conference calling service and former TechCrunch Disrupt Battelfield , today announced that it has added screen sharing to its service. The company says this was one of the most requested features it has had since launch, and starting today, it’s available for all users, including those who use the free ... |
Kitestring, The App That Makes Sure You Get Home Safe | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | There are plenty of when you’re out alone. and can share your current location with loved ones. can ping your emergency contacts with one touch, and record audio and video evidence. And lets you alert your contacts just by shaking your phone. But what I like about Kitestring is that it’s a mobile web app, whic... |
Online Dating Site Zoosk Files For $100M IPO, With $178M In Revenues And A $2.6M Net Loss In 2013 | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | Online dating site just filed its with the SEC, announcing its plans to raise $100 million in an initial public offering. The company, which has offers up a website and apps for daters around the world to find each other, posted a net loss of $2.6 million in 2013 on revenues of $178 million. Zoosk uses big data and... |
IBM Looks To The Cloud To Fight Disruption | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | We are in an age of disruption and this is even more pronounced for a large technology company like IBM. But Big Blue finds itself in the position of having to reinvent itself yet again after surviving and even thriving through earlier technology transformations. Let’s not forget that IBM was once the king of mainframe... |
IBM Drops 4% After Its $22.48B Q1 Revenue Fails To Meet Investor Expectations | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | This afternoon following the close of regular trading, IBM its first quarter financial results, including revenue of $22.48 billion, GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $2.29, and non-GAAP EPS of $2.54. Those figures were down, on a year-over-year basis, 4%, 15% and 15%. Investors had expected IBM to earn $2.54 per shar... |
Now Facebook Wants You To Share Where You’re “Traveling To” | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | Serendipitous meetups with friends while traveling make us happy and Facebook wants to be the portal to that joy. So this week it quietly rolled out a new feature that lets you share where you’re “traveling to”. Facebook’s Page today, so I asked the company which said that after some testing, “traveling to” is now av... |
Google Misses in Q1 With Revenue Of $15.42B, EPS Of $6.27 As Its Cost-Per-Click Fell 9% | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | Following the bell, Google reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $12.20 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC), $15.42 billion including those costs, and earnings per share of $6.27. Analysts and investors Google to earn $6.40 on revenue of $12.25 billion (ex-TAC), or $1... |
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AT&T May Sit Out 2015 Spectrum Auction Over Rules Dustup | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | AT&T is not happy with the rules the FCC has proposed for a 2015 spectrum auction that would reserve a piece of the airwaves for sale for smaller providers that lack low-frequency range. The second-largest wireless company in the U.S. is not enthused with that. “If the restrictions as proposed are adopted, AT&T will ne... |
Instagram Reassigned Inactive “Kathleen” Username To An Employee But Will Give It Back | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | Is Instagram going around stealing users’ accounts and distributing them to employees? That’s , who says his wife’s Instagram account, with the likely much-desired username of “@kathleen” was taken from her control and is now being used by another Kathleen, who also happens to be a current Facebook/Instagram employee.... |
Google Launches Chrome Remote Desktop On Android, Allowing Mobile Access To Your PC | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | Google this morning a mobile client application called “Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android” (whew!) which allows for remote access to your Mac or PC from your Android device, whether smartphone or tablet. The new app is an extension of Google’s screen-sharing service, which allows you to share your desktop’s scr... |
AngelList Unveils Maiden Lane, A $25 Million Fund For AngelList Deals | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | is working on a new project called . Behind this name is a new experiment in startup investment. Structured as a traditional small VC firm, Maiden Lane will only invest in AngelList syndicates or hand some money to active angels on the platform. While technically not part of AngelList, Maiden Lane currently has two g... |
Google’s New Street View Image Recognition Algorithm Can Beat Most CAPTCHAs | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | Here is an interesting conundrum for Google: it has created an algorithm that’s significantly better at reading street numbers in Street View images, which helps it give you more accurate directions. At the same time, though, it turns out that this algorithm is so good, it can decipher 99 percent of CAPTCHAs (those squ... |
Google Camera App Brings Lens Blur Background Defocus To Any KitKat Android Devices | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 16 | Google has a new standalone camera app available in the , and it can be installed on any smartphones or tablets running KitKat 4.4 or higher. The new app will also be rolling out to other devices in the future , so that might expand beyond just KitKat to those on other versions of Android. The app offers a 100 percen... |
Enterprise Platform Brightpearl Raises $10M In Round Led By MMC Ventures | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | The advantage with enterprise startups if that they can be based just about anywhere. And that’s proved today with the news that , which a cloud-based business management system aimed at small to mid sized multi-channel retailers, has raised another $10m. The round led my MMC Ventures with participation from Quayle Mu... |
Lyft Is Launching A Premium SUV Service [Update: Confirmed] | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | is preparing to compete with Uber’s upscale SUV option by launching its own on-demand premium SUV ride service, according to a source. It will let riders book leather interior Ford Explorer SUVS that seat a squished maximum of six passengers. Until now, Lyft has only offered a single tier of service on par with UberX ... |
How I Killed A Startup In 4 Hours (And Why I Don’t Regret It) | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | The Sociopaths of Silicon Valley I hate activist journalism. But last week, I was responsible for the death of a startup. It was probably the fastest death in the history of the tech industry: four hours from launch to deadpool, by my reckoning. If that sounds like boasting, well… I’m afraid it is. Let me explain. Pe... |
Netflix Inks Peering Deal With Verizon | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | Netflix has signed an “ ” with Verizon, an agreement similar in nature to the peering deal that it struck . The deal will help Netflix get its content onto the ISPs networks. In the travails of net neutrality, this sort of peering agreement is a new frontier. Although it is acting in a diametrically opposite fashion, ... |
Julie Horvath “Satisfied” With GitHub Transparency | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | GitHub has published a detailing the results of an investigation into the of Julie Horvath. New GitHub CEO explains that the more transparent post is a follow-up to , which he deemed “the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written.” Though it holds back on specifics because of confidential... |
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Will Talk Net Neutrality With Congress On May 20 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | Mark your calendars: May 20 should provide fireworks. On that date, Tom Wheeler, current chairman of the And yes, . The issue of net neutrality has had a rollicking year, and only now potentially coming back to life. The rub, however, is that what the FCC might cook up and call “net neutrality” this time around mig... |
Curated Food-Delivery Startup Caviar Raises $15 Million Led By Tiger Global | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | , one of many startups that have sprouted up over the past year or so to offer lazy customers an easier way to order meals online, has raised $15 million in seed and Series A funding. The big difference between Caviar and other food-delivery startups is that it , working with them to enable customers to place orders a... |
LendUp Raises $50 Million To Disrupt Payday Lending | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | Y Combinator-incubated payday loan disruptor has raised a $50 million credit debt facility from . This adds to the $18 million in equity funding LendUp has from investors including Google Ventures, Data Collective, QED and others. LendUp wants to redefine payday lending and make the loan experience for the million... |
Inside Jobs: Why Fitbit’s Tim Roberts Looks For Rock Bands, Not Just Rock Stars | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | As a kid growing up, wanted to be an artist. Today as an adult, he’s the vice president of interactive and design at personal health tracking startup . On the surface, it might seem that his current job is a big departure from his childhood aspirations. But as Roberts told me in this latest episode of TechCrunch TV’... |
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