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Zero-Day IE Flaw Highlights The Danger Of Lingering Windows XP Market Share | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | If you are reading this in Internet Explorer, you should probably close it and fire up Chrome — and come back after a newly reported zero-day flaw is patched. Even the U.S. and U.K. governments are use of Internet Explorer for now. The zero-day flaw has been uncovered in Internet Explorer versions 6,7, 8, 9, 10, and ... |
Straw-Based Filament Could Drive Down The Cost Of 3D Printing | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | Like a high-tech Rumpelstiltskin, you may soon be able to spin straw into plastic. A new filament, made by Chinese manufacturer Jiangsu Jinghe Hi-Tech Co., is made primarily of straw and a plastic base. The resulting filament melts at about 170 degrees Celsius and costs far less than standard ABS or PLA. The manufactur... |
When $324 Million Isn’t Nearly Enough | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe have in response to a suit brought by employees of the firms who were financially impacted by their agreements to not hire from each other. That action suppressed the wages of their staff. The $324 million figure is paltry and an embarrassment. Interesting to this case is how blatant th... |
The PiPhone Is A DIY Cellphone Powered By Raspberry Pi | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8eaiNsFhtI8] The is a mini computer, just like most smartphones, so it stands to reason that you can create what amounts to a home-brew cellphone out of a few store-bought electronics parts. That’s just what . By connecting a RaspPi to a GSM module, a ... |
Facebook Plans To Break Ground On A Second Iowa Data Center Soon | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | Facebook is just about ready to finish construction on its 476,000-square-foot . Even before this new facility goes online, though, the company today that it plans to build a second data center right next to it. The company still has to jump through the usual regulatory hurdles to get this project approved, however.... |
Microsoft Boosts OneDrive Storage For Corporate Clients From 25GB To 1TB Per User | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | In the cloud storage wars, capacity is a weapon, and one that is rapidly losing its dollar value. Put simply: Companies that offer cloud storage are scrambling to add value on top of stored gigabytes, as the marginal dollar price that can be charged for that storage is rapidly dropping to zero. Microsoft, making that p... |
France Could Create A Developer Visa To Support French Startups | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | French Secretary of State for the digital economy Axelle Lemaire announced in an interview with that the French government will work on a developer visa for highly skilled employees. While the French government already announced that it plans to create a so-called startup visa for entrepreneurs and investors, Lemaire... |
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Cloud App Monitoring Company New Relic Raises $100M | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | , maker of application monitoring tools for developers, has in funding led by BlackRock, Inc., and Passport Capital with T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Wellington Management also participating. We’re hearing from a source that the valuation of the company in the round was north of $1 billion, but have not been ab... |
Facebook Messenger Adds Video And Quicker Selfies For Snapchat-Style Visual Conversations | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | People love the intimacy of communicating through photos and videos. Snapchat proved that. Now Facebook wants more of these visual conversations happening in Messenger so it’s added video sharing plus faster photo uploads and camera access in an today that’s rolling out to Android this week. The new message composer p... |
Apple To Raise Another $17B In Debt To Avoid Repatriating Foreign-Held Cash | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | As it looks to return — cash, and so forth — to investors, Apple will again to raise the funds needed. If that seems odd, keep in mind that most of Apple’s cash is held overseas, and to bring it home would incur a financial penalty equal to the full United States federal corporate tax rate: 35%. So, the company is ... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Kindle Paperwhite 3G And The Last Free Ticket To Disrupt NY | Elin Blesener | 2,014 | 4 | 28 | Believe it or not, is just one week away! Crazy, right? As you know, we have an all-star lineup of special guests and speakers who will be joining us, including , Sequoia Capital’s , Andreessen Horowitz’s , Nasty Gal’s Sophia , BoxGroup’s , SV Angel’s , HBO’s ,” and littleBits Electronics’ . That’s not even h... |
Guides.co Aims To Be The Hub For Companies’ White Papers And How-To Content | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | There are plenty of how-to sites on the Internet, but sometimes, in the words of Guides.co CEO Scott Annan, you need to look up something “more complicated than tying a tie or stuffing a turkey.” When you do, Annan is hoping you’ll visit . He argued that most forms of content have been reinvented for the digital world... |
The Rufus Cuff’s Size And Features Lord Over Puny Smartwatches | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | [vimeo 89260714 w=500 h=281] With its three-inch screen, the thumbs its nose at smartwatches with their tiny faces and dainty wristbands. The wearable device, which bills itself as a “wrist communicator” and runs on Android, has access to the full Google Play store; a built-in mic, speaker, and camera; a full Web brows... |
Tuition.io Picks Up A New Investor, As It Manages Over $1 Billion In Student Loans | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | In the year since its launch, , the company billing itself as the Mint.com for managing student loans, has grown to manage over $1 billion in loans. The company, which provides a monitoring and management service for student loan payments, has just picked up an investment from Raj Date, the former second-in-command at... |
Founder Stories: Serial Entrepreneur Karl Jacob Is Up At The Plate Again With Hangtime | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | In his career, Jacob has raised over $200 million in venture capital across the companies he’s founded, and in this discussion, he shares with us some of the best lessons he’s picked up around reading term sheets, negotiating term sheets, and how AngelList could possibly move to a level of standardization in document... |
As Food Delivery War Heats Up, Sprig Plans To Serve Lunch | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | SpoonRocket is about to have some competition in the lunch on demand market. Sprig, currently dinner-only, will soon start serving lunch, according to a source who said Sprig now delivers 1000 meals per day. Sprig just raised a $10 million Series A two weeks ago, and is wasting no time in ramping up the fight for our s... |
I Hijacked The Startup Alley Application System To Extend The Deadline, So Apply Now! | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | Attention, startups! This is a code red situation. I have infiltrated the Disrupt Startup Alley application system and left registrations open. (Cue evil laugh.) See, the powers that be wanted to shut down the applications right now, meaning that you fine startups who haven’t signed up wouldn’t get the chance to set up... |
Get Poached | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | The tech/startup industry is about as incestuous as it gets, and that’s any clear tools to help people switch from one moonshot to the next. So imagine a world in which there are two! Allow me to proudly introduce , the anonymous employee auction site, and , the NY-based site for finding your next employer. Both si... |
Instacart Could Raise A Big New Round Of Funding Valuing It At $400 Million | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | On-demand grocery startup is fielding term sheets for a big new round of funding, according to sources. We’ve heard the new financing could be led by a non-VC investor, and according to one source it would value the company at up to $400 million. Instacart provides same-day delivery of groceries from a number of diff... |
Meet The 11 New Startups Launching At AngelPad’s Spring Demo Day | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | , the San Francisco-based startup accelerator founded by early Googler and tech investor Thomas Korte, is holding demo day for its Spring 2014 class in San Francisco today. Since its inception back , AngelPad has established itself as a top player in the ever-expanding field of tech incubators. Now with operations in... |
Weibo Spikes 19.06% In Its Debut | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | This morning Weibo , offering fewer shares than previously expected, though the bloc was priced at $17, in line with yesterday’s reporting. The company went gangbusters its first day of public trading, spiking 19.06% to $20.24 by the end of the day, likely adding draft winds to other technology companies, social or ot... |
Zola Debuts Its iPhone App To Allow Couples To Manage Their Wedding Registries On The Go | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | the new wedding registry startup emerging from Gilt And AlleyCorp founder , has launched an iPhone app to allow couples to create and manage their Zola registries from anywhere. Zola, led by former Gilt employees and , is trying to . It’s part content, part Pinterest-like inspiration sharing, and part wish list/r... |
Chromebooks Could Soon Be Unlocked Automatically When Your Smartphone Is Near | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | Passwords, geez those things suck. You may not need them to login to your computer in the future, and Chromebooks might be the first PC device to offer that feature natively, according to some hints found in the developer preview channel of Chrome OS by (via ). Early code included in the latest build suggests there ... |
Sonos Wants To Ditch Its Only Annoying Shortcoming | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | Sonos has often been praised for its super minimalist setup process. Power up a couple Sonos speakers in different rooms, open the smartphone app, and boom — wireless sound around your house… right? Mostly. There’s currently one tiny asterisk in the process that tends to get forgotten: one of those speakers (or a separ... |
Is Winter Coming? Hear More From Our All-Star Investor Panel At Disrupt NY | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | VC is at its highest level since 2001, and valuations are soaring. The question on everyone’s mind is, are we in a bubble? Besides our obsession with Game of Thrones, there’s a reason why our investor panel at Disrupt NY is titled “Is Winter Coming?” We’ve never seen as many billion-dollar exits and valuations, many ... |
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Six Months After Acquisition, Magnify Rebrands And Relaunches As Waywire | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | Last fall, in an effort to create more efficiency around video curation. The idea behind the acquisition was to combine the former’s enterprise video curation business with the latter’s content deals and consumer-facing technology. At the time, : In some ways, the matchup makes a lot of sense — both companies, after... |
Google Analytics Now Lets You Track Web And App Data In A Single View | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | Here is a small but important : Developers can now create a single that includes both web and app data. Google says this will help businesses that have multiple digital touchpoints for their users (web, mobile apps, other devices) to better understand them. Until today, Analytics users had to choose between an or ... |
Putting The Many Pieces Back Together After The Death Of Your Co-Founder | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | Sébastien Métrot shared a tough story today at at the Ministry for the Economy and Finance — he co-founded in 2011 with CEO Jean-Marc Plueger, who died in a scooter accident in 2012. But It wasn’t just an accident, Métrot said Plueger’s terrible work/life balance was a contributing factor. Today’s interview was Mét... |
Optimizely Brings Its A/B Testing Platform To iOS Apps | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhuGaDJXqFI&w=560&h=315] , the popular service for testing out different variations of your website, today announced the launch of Optimizely for iOS. The company says its new mobile tools allow customers to try out different interface and content changes to their iOS apps in rea... |
Behold, Murdoculous Rift | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | wearing Oculus Rift headsets are the new And who better to start the trend than media mogul and Rupert Murdoch? According to the fantastic Tumblr “ ,” Murdoch spent yesterday at NY computer graphics studio with pals |
Major League Gaming Snags New VP From Machinima To Further Grow Its MLG.tv Network | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 17 | Major League Gaming (MLG), one of the oldest e-sports companies out there, picked up a new hire today from Machinima, another well-known gaming content company. Ryan Wyatt will join MLG as its vp of programming. The hire fits into MLG’s MLG.tv strategy that has seen rapid audience growth, enough even to drive MLG . To... |
Show Software Who’s The Boss At Hardware Alley At Disrupt 2014 In New York | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Ayy! Angelar! How about you bring some of your hardware to New York and show it off to some amazing people? Still crowdfunding? Not a problem. We take all kinds at in New York! What is ? It’s a celebration of hardware startups (and other cool gear makers) that features everything from robotic drones to 3D printers. ... |
“Code And Canvas” Unites SF Startups And Artists Under One Weird Roof | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Fast-rising rent was about to force a dozen artists out of their studios in San Francisco. But it turns out all that tech money that’s gotten so much hate lately can actually do some good. Four entrepreneurs leased the whole warehouse, let the artists stay, and renovated the place. Now there’s enough room for at least ... |
Reddit Starts Listing Trending Subreddits To Get More Users Into Its Smaller Communities | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Subreddits are, perhaps, reddit’s biggest strength. Introduced in 2008, they’re a huge part of the reason why the site rose to popularity, and why that popularity has yet to taper off. Want a community for something you like? Build a subreddit. Don’t like the current popular subreddit for that thing? Screw it, build a ... |
Refresh Makes You Smarter At Meetings | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | the party scene in when Emily Blunt’s character is whispering the names of party guests to Meryl Streep’s character, briefing her on who everyone is as she meets them? a product that aims to keep you as prepared as possible for your next encounter, wants to be the app equivalent of that character. I’ve been using R... |
DATA Act, Which Would Make Government-Spending Data Available Online, Passes Senate | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | The Senate unanimously passed the , or DATA Act, today. The DATA Act is designed to help bring new transparency to spending by the federal government, by making spending data available to the public at . The bill’s goal, to quote the Congressional Research Service’s (CRS) summary, is to “provide consistent, reliable,... |
TapTalk Is A New Video Messaging App That Adds Location | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | My TechCrunch colleague Natasha Lomas – quite convincingly – that startups should stop trying to make proximity-based social networking “happen” — that most attempts had failed, and even ongoing ventures like Foursquare have had to tone down the idea. And yet these apps still keep appearing. And who can blame them — ... |
US Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius To Resign | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius . President Obama, according , has selected Sylvia Mathews Burwell of the Office of Management and Budget as her replacement. Secretary Sebelius became a household name following the , the government’s portal to provide a marketplace for private health insurance ... |
FTC Says Facebook Will Need Permission From WhatsAppers To Use Their Data | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Facebook will need the “affirmative consent” of WhatsApp users in order to use their data for advertising or anything. comes from Federal Trade Commission alongside its approval in US for Facebook to acquire WhatsApp. announced in February will still have to get past international regulators. Facebook’s business mo... |
Bitcoin Falls Below The $400 Mark, Down More Than 60% From Its All-Time High | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Bitcoin reached another milestone today, with the cryptocurrency falling below the $400 per-coin mark. Bitcoin sold for over $1,100 inside of the last 52 weeks. The price correction was driven by news from China, as it often has been. Fresh rumors of a government crackdown on the currency in the country, which could bl... |
Hackers, Coders And Designers, Come To The Disrupt NY Hackathon | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | It’s that time of year again. The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming and, soon, coders will be hacking together APIs at the Disrupt NY Hackathon. We’ve just released another batch of tickets. Registration is free. Grab a ticket or on the form below. The 24-hour event kicks off on Saturday May 3 and runs thr... |
Twitter Makes In-Browser Notifications Official | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Twitter today that it would start to offer in-browser notifications — as we , noticing a test of the feature. “When you’re logged in on twitter.com, you will receive notifications if someone has replied, favorited or retweeted one of your Tweets. You can also receive notifications for direct messages and new follow... |
Aereo Plans To Launch Chromecast Support On May 29th | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Despite being in the middle of a battle to convince the Supreme Court that their service isn’t illegal, Aereo rolls on. In case you’ve missed it: Aereo rents HDTV antennas to cordcutters for $8 a month to let them view and record live TV from their phones, tablets, and computers. The antenna stays at Aereo’s HQ, and al... |
Amazon Acquires Digital Comic Book Store Comixology | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Amazon has just announced that they will acquire comiXology, a service that offers digital versions of comics from Marvel, DC, and many others. If you’ve never used it, it’s probably easiest to think of comiXology as a sort of iTunes/Kindle Store for comic books. You buy a comic through , then read it either on the we... |
Google Lets Anyone In The U.S. Become A Glass Explorer For $1,500 Starting April 15 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Google isn’t doing its consumer launch of Glass just yet, but it is doing the next best thing: Opening up the . That’s right, as of next Tuesday, any American resident can grab a Google Glass unit for $1,500 plus applicable taxes, and these will ship with your favorite shade or Glass-specific frame included, too. The ... |
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Zynga Names David Lee CFO, As Longtime Exec Mark Vranesh Departs The Firm | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Today after the bell, announced that its CFO and CAO Mark Vranesh will depart the firm after six years, and that David Lee will assume both roles effective April 14. Vranesh will help out for a month to, in the words of Zynga, “ensure a seamless transition.” According to Zynga, Vranesh made the choice to vacate his r... |
Facebook’s Feed Now Punishes Pages That Ask For Likes Or Share Reruns | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | You’re not clever enough to fool Facebook. Asking users to “Like this post!”, sharing the same link or photo over and over, or bait-and-switching people with links to ad-filled sites will now get your Page’s reach in News Feed destroyed, the company . Share unique, interesting content and you’ll be fine. Last week I w... |
Amazon’s Annual Shareholder Letter Talks Drones And Grocery Delivery, Not Sales And Supreme Court Cases | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Amazon’s is out today, and it includes a few juicy details on Amazon’s products, services and future plans, though not any hard data like , of course. But some of the more interesting items on the report include updates on Amazon Fresh expansions (the company’s online grocery delivery service), Amazon’s “Pay to Quit... |
PC Market Posts Smaller Than Expected Q1 Declines On Strength Of Windows XP’s Demise | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Data out from tracking groups point to a slightly rosier picture of the PC market than expected in the first calendar quarter of 2014: Gartner a Q1 decline of 1.7 percent in shipments of PCs; IDC estimates a decline. That IDC number bests its forecast of a 5.3 percent decline. Keep in mind that it is that 2014 wi... |
Criteo Buys AdQuantic, A Startup That Applies Quantum Physics To Search Marketing | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | We have discovered that , the French ad tech company that raised in an IPO on NASDAQ last October, has quietly made an acquisition. It’s bought , another ad tech startup from France, this one co-founded by two doctors of statistical physics, which has developed a bid management tool for search marketing based on ga... |
Messaging Is A Winner-Take-Some Market | Anamitra Banerji | 2,014 | 4 | 19 | , venture partner at SoftTech VC, made for why messaging is not a winner-take-all market, and it’s worth highlighting four points. We use multiple messengers because they reflect our diverse social circles, our various personas, and the variety of content we publish. If Google Circles got one thing right, it is t... |
Google Launches Chrome Beta 35 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 10 | Google today the latest . While there aren’t any major new features for end users in this release, the company added a wide range of new functionality for developers to its browser that will make web apps running in Chrome better in the long run. The features users will likely notice first once developers implement ... |
The Dawn Of Cloud 2.0 And Why Google Started A Price War | Peter Relan | 2,014 | 4 | 19 | Google up to 85 percent reduction in pricing for its PaaS and BigQuery services. Soon after, and followed suit. Welcome to Cloud 2.0. Google’s core cash engine is its paid web search/advertising business, which generates almost $4 billion a quarter from 29 percent net profit margin. Amazon’s core business, on t... |
Crowdfunded Gadgets That Talk To Your Home And Charge Your Phone With Wind Power | Ross Rubin | 2,014 | 4 | 19 | Part of the smart-home dream has always been being able to talk with a place of residence and trust it to control climate, security and sense problems. Of course, for as long as smart-home technology has been developed, it’s been reaching toward this goal without ever getting there. ALYT is an Android-powered hub that ... |
Why Your Favorite App Isn’t Business-Related And How It Can Be | Todd McKinnon | 2,014 | 4 | 19 | Think about your favorite app. Let me guess. It’s a consumer app — something like Uber, Instagram or Pinterest. So what do we do to get business apps into that list of favorites? It’s rare to hear end users rave about an enterprise app that’s useful, simple, engaging and (dare I say) emotional – particularly all at t... |
Nike Says The FuelBand Isn’t Dead, New Color Options Coming | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 19 | Nike was said to be on the heels of layoffs on Friday, signalling a significant exit of the wearable fitness device market by one of the more prominent companies involved in the space. That’s not quite true, however, according to information provided to . There were indeed some layoffs, Nike confirmed, but it also sa... |
2,500 Bunsen Burners + Dubstep = Best Visualizer Ever | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 19 | Take 2,500 bunsen burners, and put’em in a grid. Make the flames react to sound waves, thanks to some amazing physics trickery. Then drop the bass. What do you get? The . [* and probably most dangerous] The first few minutes of the video explain how everything was put together, which is incredibly interesting in its o... |
Beats Music Gets In-App Subscriptions, Beefs Up Free Streaming Options | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 19 | Beats Music, the streaming radio solution spun out from the makers of Beats audio hardware products, has decided to bite the bullet and give Apple its 30 percent cut on subscription sign-ups. The streaming music provider originally side-stepped Apple’s in-app ecommerce options in favor of carrier billing arranged outsi... |
Gillmor Gang: Action Items | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 4 | 19 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Semil Shah, Danny Sullivan, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — played the latest favorite game of the Mobility Addicted. It’s called Lock Screen, and some of us think it’s where the early adopters meet the great unvarnished Silent Majority. Forget clicks or swipes or doing an... |
Google App Engine Gets GitHub Push-To-Deploy Support | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 19 | Last summer, Google started allowing developers to get their code onto App Engine to deploy their applications instead of using Google’s usual SDK. Starting today, developers who use the popular service to manage their code repositories . Developers can now connect their App Engine projects to their GitHub reposit... |
Bitcoin 2.0: Unleash The Sidechains | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 4 | 19 | “Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet,” Naval Ravikant. “Our 2014 fund will be built during the blockchain cycle,” Fred Wilson. And Andreessen Horowitz have very visibly on Bitcoin. Even if you don’t believe in Bitcoin as a currency, and I’ll grant there... |
How To Hack Hiring | Vivek Ravisankar | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | Everyone knows there’s an arms race for tech talent. Companies in every industry, not just tech, need this talent to survive. Take banking for example. Bank of America has as of April 8. In Silicon Valley, Facebook and Amazon hire thousands of engineers every year, and expect to hire more tech talent in 2014. 3... |
A Look At Play-i’s Successful Crowdfunding Campaign | Vikas Gupta | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | In just six months, Play-i went from just an idea to a working prototype to $1.44 million in pre-orders through our crowdfunding campaign. We’re making robots, Bo and Yana, that help children ages 5+ learn programming concepts and creative problem solving. We launched our crowdfunding campaign on October 28, 2013, an... |
Five Hard Things That Great VCs Do | Michael Driscoll | 2,014 | 4 | 26 |
In Ben Horowitz’s , he recalls a conversation in 1999 where one of his investors asked coldly: “When are you going to get a real CEO? Someone who has designed a large organization, someone who knows great senior executives and brings pre-built customer relationships, someone who knows what they are doing.” Horowitz ... |
A Different Approach To Tech M&A | Tomio Geron | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | Many top Silicon Valley buyers like Google, Facebook and Twitter have a standard process for how they manage acquisitions. One main part of that is the technical interview. In this process, the selling company’s key engineers stand before a whiteboard and answer a number of programming questions, brain teasers or compu... |
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The Screen That Doesn’t Scream | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | In a noisy room, trying to shout louder to make yourself heard just escalates the problem of being overwhelmed with sound. It’s a fitting analogy for mobile devices and content too. More, bigger, shinier, more colourful and capable screens filled with more and more apps, making incessant demands on our attention. It’s ... |
We Are Dropping RadiumOne As A NY Disrupt Sponsor | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | TechCrunch will be dropping RadiumOne as a hackathon sponsor. As Leena Rao , we simply couldn’t sleep at night knowing that we were supporting and promoting a company led by someone who our values on the issue of domestic abuse. In this decision our team is united, both on the editorial and the business side. We w... |
A Letter To The Board Members Of RadiumOne | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | Dear RadiumOne Board Members, In covering the day-to-day launches, funding announcements, and feature additions of tech startups and companies, I rarely think about the founder or CEO of a company’s personal life. Sure, when it’s a serial entrepreneur, I take note. Or if the founder happens to be a friend, I’ll ask abo... |
Seed Is A Process | Paul Martino | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | The seed “round” as a singular event appears to be dying. What used to be a discrete funding round is now more of a rolling, continuous financing process. Manu Kumar at K9 ventures wrote a great this month in which he points out that these days “the Series A is now the fourth round of funding in a company,” after f... |
TechCrunch Is Here In Hanoi With A Meetup Later Tonight | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | Just a quick and spur-of-the-moment note, I’m in Hanoi this week and would love to meet founders and engineers from the community. Our writers and editors regularly travel through the major tech hubs of the world and we haven’t had a chance to do a series in Vietnam yet. These informal meetups offer you guys the chanc... |
Let’s Talk About Exits, Berlin | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | What’s missing in the Berlin tech ecosystem? Well, . But the elephant in the room really is one – no, a few – sizeable exits. This isn’t to create rich VCs, this is to create rich engineers – equipped with a wealth of experience and ideas – ready to have their next (or first) shot at building companies. And for this y... |
Google Brings Its Hotel And Restaurant Search To Android | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | Google is adding a to Google Search on Android. This is a pretty straightforward integration that allows you to type or speak queries like “show me hotels in San Francisco,” and the search results page will indeed return a list of hotels. Since its acquisition of ITA Travel, Google has been slowly adding travel-relat... |
Recyclebank Turns “Green” Actions Into Discounts At New Shop For Sustainable Goods, One Twine | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | , a company founded in 2004 which today , is now getting into e-commerce. With the launch of a new website called , Recyclebank is hoping to attract consumers looking to buy environmentally conscious goods and other sustainable items across a variety of categories, ranging from health and beauty to gear and gadgets t... |
What’s Your Honeywell Bubble Count? | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | I divided my time this month between West Africa and the Bay Area, which triggered a lot of cultural whiplash, which got me thinking about . I fear today’s technology can reinforce our instinct to confuse what’s with what’s … which leads to skewed perceptions, bad decisions, and needless conflict. It’s OK to live ... |
Gillmor Gang: Call Forwarding | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 4 | 26 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — record a midweek Wednesday edition after Apple and Facebook earnings calls but before Microsoft’s the next day and . Microsoft posted good numbers against the backwash of the Post-PC decline, but Google claiming the Vic news had no impact... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Linksys Router And $400 Gift Card | Elin Blesener | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | If you’re just returning to the daily grind after Spring Break and can’t quite seem to get back into work mode, well we have a sponsored giveaway for you. Our friends over at have sent us one of their new ($279) with SMART WiFi capabilities which one of you can win, along with a $400 Linksys gift card for all of the ... |
Makers: Rock Out At Hardware Alley At Disrupt 2014 In New York | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | We need a few good Doozers to head down to Disrupt in New York to show off your wares. You can be in any stage of the process – from pre-funding to finished product – and we’re even looking for hardware-related services. Still crowdfunding? Not a problem. We take all kinds at in New York! What is ? It’s a celebratio... |
500 Startups-Backed Roam And Wander Presents DiDi, An Interactive Teddy Bear | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | , a toy and children’s entertainment studio that is currently participating in , is now raising funds for its Called DiDi, the classic brown teddy bear is twice as large as Roam and Wander’s last toy, a , and comes to life with the aid of an iPad. Didi’s companion apps include games that teach young kids letters, n... |
Google Maps Rival Mapbox Adds Smart Directions, A Navigation Service For Any App | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | , the OpenStreetMap-based mapping platform that lets app developers incorporate maps into any app, is adding another feature to better compete against the likes of Google Maps, ESRI and Nokia Maps: , a navigation service that developers can customise with extra details such type of terrain, specific places of interest... |
Comcast Fires Back After Netflix Tosses Shade On Its Proposed Merger With Time Warner Cable | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | Netflix would prefer an ISP market with a number of large players, competing with each other on price, speed and availability. It is not in favor of Comcast swallowing Time Warner Cable, creating an even more powerful firm that could, in theory, extract increasing sums from itself. The company was plain-spoken in its ... |
Sequoia Backs Simplisafe In A Play For The Home Security Market | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | l has made a minority investment in the do-it-yourself home security company in a play on the home security and automation market, TechCrunch has learned. The investment from Sequoia came on the heels of , which showed just how lucrative the home market can be. That deal netted a healthy return for investors, includ... |
Mailbox Brings Latest Features To Its iOS App | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | Mailbox 2.0 for iOS is and brings a hosts of enhancements and goodies. Chief among the additions is auto-swipe, a feature that on Mailbox’s new Android app. As previously explained by a Mailbox team member, with auto-swipe, “With just a tap, I get less email tomorrow than I did today.” The email app learns which e... |
Aol Mail Hacked With Spoofed Accounts Sending Spam | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | It’s not just you. Aol Mail was hacked affecting an untold amount of accounts that were seemingly spoofed. The Twitter hashtag is filled with first-hand accounts of spam being sent from either the hacked email account or an email account spoofed to look like the original. We’ve reached out to Aol for further clarific... |
Inside Jobs: What Loudr’s In-House Attorney Loves About Digging Into Legal Docs | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | Lawyers are infamous for having jobs that are hard to understand. There’s a reason why “legalese” is a term, after all. But , the senior counsel at music licensing and distribution platform startup , is part of a rare breed: She is an attorney who can both function at the highest level of her field and happily try to... |
Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia Explains The Broadcaster Battle In His Own Words | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | In the past year, has fought legal battles in three different states with broadcasters looking to get the streaming TV service kicked off the air, if you catch my drift. Tomorrow, the case before the Supreme Court, where lawyers from both sides will make oral arguments. The case is highly complex, with broadcaste... |
GitHub Denies Allegations Of “Gender-Based Harassment,” Co-Founder Preston-Werner Resigns | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | GitHub published a today detailing the results of its investigation over lodged against the company by its now-former employee . According to the company, the “investigation found no evidence to support the claims against Tom and his wife of sexual or gender-based harassment or retaliation, or of a sexist or hosti... |
Netflix Says It Will Increase Prices For New Members By “One Or Two” Dollars | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | New Netflix members can expect to see their subscription rates go up in the next few months, according to the company’s most recent (the letter also included , which beat analyst estimates). The letter says Netflix’s online selection has “greatly improved … since we introduced our streaming plan in 2010 at $7.99 per... |
Sprig Tries To Eat SpoonRocket’s Lunch By Delivering Its Own | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | Hope you’re hungry. Gourmet, on-demand dinner delivery service today expanded to start serving lunch, just as a few days ago. The includes service to several districts of East San Francisco from Monday to Friday. The move puts Sprig in direct competition with , which also delivers on-demand lunches and dinners — ... |
Online Fitness Startup Wello To Be Acquired By Weight Watchers, Sources Say | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | , the startup that connects people with personal trainers to receive private fitness consultations through online video chat, is in talks to be acquired by Weight Watchers, sources tell TechCrunch. We’ve contacted Wello for details on the deal, but at the moment, the company has declined to comment. This post will be u... |
Fake Startup Landing Page From HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Is Better Than Many Real Startup Landing Pages | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | The hottest startup in the Bay Area is now online: . The documentary tracking the company’s progress, produced by the noted biographical network HBO, is the cause célèbre of Silicon Valley at the moment. Nerds of every stripe gather near talking boxes each week to watch the exploits of people that are about to be far,... |
Netflix Beats Expectations With 4M New Subscribers, Earnings Of 86 Cents Per Share | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | Netflix today released its first-quarter financial results, with the company beating analyst expectations. For the first three months of the year, the company reported earnings of 86 cents per share on revenues of $1.27 billion. Earnings were above analyst expectations of 83 cents a share, while revenues were in-line ... |
Sony’s Waterproof Tablet Goes On Sale In The U.S. | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | Sony’s latest Android tablet is now on sale in the U.S. Available for pre-order on Sony.com and available in Sony Stores on May 4th, the Z2 is Sony’s latest effort to shore up its crumbling brand. And an impressive one at that. The Z2 is the thinner, faster, and waterproof successor to the Z1 that hit in 2013. Darrell ... |
Feastly Launches An ‘Airbnb For Dinner’ Marketplace | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 21 | Over the last few years, a number of marketplaces have popped up to enable people who have assets or time to share them with others: There’s Airbnb for hosts who wish to share their apartments with guests who wish to stay there; RelayRides to allow people to share their cars with others who want to rent them; and Lyft ... |
Google Delays I/O Registration By A Week At The Last Minute | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | If you were planning to wake up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to get your name into the running for a Google I/O ticket as early as possible (not that timing matters, given that it’s a roulette this year): feel free to cancel that alarm. Google has just announced that its pushing back I/O registration by a week , from... |
GrabTaxi Raises Series A, Prepares To Expand In Southeast Asia | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | , which claims to be the largest taxi app in Southeast Asia, has raised its Series A round from , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek, an investment company owned by Singapore’s government. The startup’s CEO and founder Anthony Tan declined to disclose the exact amount of the funding, but said it was more than $10 mi... |
Adobe Launches Primetime 2.0 With Cloud Ad Insertion, Adds Xbox 360 And Roku Support | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | Adobe’s isn’t among the company’s most well-known services, but if you watched the Olympics online, chances are you have interacted with it. It’s Adobe’s platform for online TV delivery and monetization and it counts the likes of TBS, the Tennis Channel, Major League Baseball, WWE, M6 RTL Group, NBC, Comcast, Shaw an... |
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