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Adobe Announces Lightroom Mobile For iPad And iPhone | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | Adobe has heard the call from its users, and it’s bringing Lightroom to mobile devices, beginning with the iPad and coming soon to iPhone. The app offers the ability to work with RAW photos as you can on the desktop version, as well as smartphone and mobile images to get the most out of those shots you take on the fl... |
Colorbay Is A New Way Of Looking At Instagram, Flickr And Other Photo-Sharing Platforms | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | is a beautiful iOS app that lets you browse images from popular photo-sharing sites like , , and . If you are a longtime user of these services, Colorbay is also a time capsule that lets you rediscover old favorites. For example, Instagram because the service wants to make sure it “runs smoothly as the app become... |
Massive Security Bug In OpenSSL Could Affect A Huge Chunk Of The Internet | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | I saw a t-shirt one time. “I’m a bomb disposal technician,” it read. “If you see me running, try to keep up.” The same sort of idea can be applied to net security: when all the net security people you know are freaking out, it’s probably an okay time to worry. This afternoon, many of the net security people I know are ... |
Amazon Fire TV Replaces Chromecast Atop Amazon’s Best Sellers List | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | Don’t be surprised. The the top spot on Amazon’s Best Sellers electronics list. Google’s Chromecast streaming stick previously held the spot after displacing the Kindle shortly after its launch. Amazon has never detailed the metrics used to generate the Best Sellers lists. Clearly it uses data complied over a short... |
After Raising $250 Million, Lyft Cuts Prices By Up To 20% In All Markets | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | Last week, announced that it had raised a as part of its effort to compete against other on-demand ride services. Now the company is going on the offensive against its competitors, with a price cut of up to 20 percent in all of its markets. Lyft’s Spring Pricing initiative, which it is announcing to drivers in an e... |
A Satellite Startup Could Be Google’s Next Purchase | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | According to a report, Google is interested in buying , a California-based startup that builds high-resolution imaging microsatellites and provides a platform to view the data. Because apparently Google needs satellites now that . As states, the purchase would line up nicely with Google’s mapping ambitions. Skybox ... |
US Burns Through All High-Skill Visas For 2015 In Less Than A Week | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | And then there were none: As expected, more people applied for high-skill and high-degree U.S. work visas in the first five days of the application period than there were slots. This is precisely what happened last year. This indicates that the number of high-skill and high-degree folks out there who want to come to th... |
Apple Puts iOS 7 Adoption At 87% As iOS 6 And Older Fade To Black | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | Apple has just as measured by its own tracking of app usage, and iOS 7 and up now accounts for 87 percent of all iOS devices by that measurement, with iOS 6 making up 11 percent and older versions accounting for just 2 percent of the total picture. That’s a very thoroughly homogenous mix, given the comparable Android... |
USAID: Our Cuban Twitter Clone Was More Popular Than Reported | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | Consider this my favorite correction in recent memory: USAID, fine purveyors of a Twitter clone called ZunZuneo in Cuba, would like you to know that it was more popular than reported. The project, widely ridiculed such as it was, was said to have peaked at around 40,000 users. Not so, according to USAID. In a , the U.S... |
Inside Jobs: Why Facebook’s Hardware Engineering Head Likes Getting His Hands Dirty | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | When you think about the upper echelons of technical fields like hardware engineering, you might think of lifelong academics with multiple degrees in engineering and math and science. But if there’s one thing that’s become clear in our series, it’s that the people that make the tech world tick aren’t always what you’... |
Red Hat Teams With Google Compute Engine To Ease Cloud Management | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | Red Hat announced a deal today in which Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers could move their subscriptions to Google Compute Engine, a deal that could benefit both companies. Red Hat offers what it calls a “bring your own subscription” plan. For instance, Red Hat Linux customers can shift their installations from on-pre... |
Sophia Amoruso To Speak At TechCrunch Disrupt NY | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | Nasty Gal CEO intently knows what it takes to build a brand online, turning her popular eBay vintage shop into a revenue opportunity — and the envy of brick and mortar stores like Urban Outfitters — before she was thirty. A role model for young, unconventional women who want to lead, Amoruso will be joining us onst... |
Rackspace CTO On Price Cuts And The Commoditization Of The Cloud | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | Over the last few weeks, all the major cloud providers for most of their services. CTO said at the conference in Banff, Canada, today, that this is yet another example of the commoditization of the cloud. It seems Rackspace doesn’t quite believe this is the way to go. “People are dropping prices,” Engates s... |
The First $299 3D Printer Hits Its Kickstarter Goal In 11 Minutes | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | Lots of things can happen in 11 minutes. You can grill a nice steak, you can bake a pan of cookies, or you can raise over $400,000 to build an ultra-compact 3D printer that, for a brief period, cost a mere $199. Called the Micro, the printer of $50,000 and is now well on its way to becoming one of the most interestin... |
Uber Experiments With A Courier Service In New York City | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | On-demand ride service has already shown that it can get users wherever they need to go with just a tap on their smartphones. Starting tomorrow, it will begin testing out a new courier service in New York City. The new service, called , will appear on users’ home screens alongside its UberBLACK and UberSUV offerings... |
Xbox One Will Be Able To Upload Game Recordings Straight To YouTube Starting Tomorrow | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | You’ve just pulled of a truly epic, one-in-a-million shot in Titanfall. Your team is going nuts. Everyone on the opposing team is calling you a hacker. “Xbox, record that!” you yell, saving the last 30 seconds of gameplay to the console’s hard drive forever. Now… how to share it with the world? Up ’til now, getting th... |
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Following GrubHub IPO, Online Food Ordering Platform EatStreet Raises $6 Million | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 7 | , an online and mobile food ordering service which initially gained traction by targeting secondary markets across the U.S., has now raised an additional $6 million in Series B funding. The round included participation from Series A investors Cornerstone Opportunity Partners, Independence Equity, Great Oaks Venture Cap... |
Indian Software Product Startups Pitch Ideas To Fortune 500 CIOs | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | After years of working with India’s over $100 billion IT services industry for maintaining their software systems, application development and back office work, CIOs of Fortune 500 companies are now looking to tap into the country’s software product ecosystem. And this time, it’s not just about setting up a — instead... |
Prezi Puts On 10M Users Inside 5 Months, Hits 40M | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | The today that Dropbox has now hit 275 million users (far higher than the 200 million users it had in November 2013) is further proof that SAAS startups are now fully disrupting the old world. Similarly, old presentation software (hello PowerPoint!) is experiencing something of a gradual encroachment of cloud platfor... |
Senate Patent Reform Bill Delayed Yet Again | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | A bi-partisan Senate bill aimed at curbing abuse of the U.S. patent system has been handed another setback today, with Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announcing that, for the fourth time, consideration of the Patent Transparency and Improvements Act will be postponed. Senator Leahy that he’ll distrib... |
Digital Postal Mail Startup Zumbox Hits The Deadpool | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | , the startup that created a service to deliver postal mail digitally in a paperless format, is shutting down. The company announced the shutdown in an email sent this week to users of the service, which was by InfoTrends writer Matt Swain. Zumbox is recommending that users export their digital documents by Monday Ap... |
Veteran Apple Designer Greg Christie Departs As Jony Ive’s Role Grows | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | Apple has confirmed the exit of long-time software designer Greg Christie, who was a vice president in Apple’s design department. “ The news of Christie’s departure was first this morning. Christie’s group will report directly to Ive instead of Craig Federighi. So, while Christie is leaving, this really denotes a shi... |
Homejoy Comes To Clean Up The UK, Its First Market Outside North America, For £13/Hour | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | Fresh off the back of a , is taking its disruptive cleaning service to new shores. Today the company is officially launching in the UK, its first market outside of North America, with its cleaning services costing £13/hour ($21/hour). Since opening for business in July 2012, Homejoy has been expanding faster than th... |
Meet The Coolest Investors In LA At Our TechCrunch Meetup Tomorrow Night | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | TechCrunch has officially descended on Los Angeles for the going down tomorrow night at Exchange LA. With smog in our lungs and the beach in our hair, we’re absolutely stoked to be hitting LA for the first time, and we hope that the cool kids of Southern California are just as excited. The Meetup will consist of lo... |
Automattic Acquires Longreads, The App For Discovering And Reading Long-Form Content Online | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | , the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired , the platform for discovering and reading long-form writing content on the web. Financial terms have not been disclosed. In an email to TechCrunch, Longreads founder and CEO Mark Armstrong (pictured here) said that the Longreads service will continue to function exa... |
Hands-On Video Of Carousel, Dropbox’s Replacement For Your Camera Roll | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | We take more photos than we know what to do with, and that crummy camera roll that came with your phone can’t handle them. That’s why Dropbox built for and — to make managing your photos simple, just like it did with file storage. Lightning quick with automatic backup and an innovative chat feature, Carousel pu... |
Dropbox Makes Another Nod Toward Business, But It Might Not Be Enough Yet | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | Dropbox announced several product today that are designed to make it more attractive to IT pros who will administer the service in the enterprise. That said, not all are convinced that the company has gone far enough perfect its offering to larger businesses. , founder at says today’s announcements are a good first... |
One Kings Lane Loses CEO Doug Mack To Fanatics | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | CEO Doug Mack is leaving the home goods e-commerce company. Mack will be joining sports site Fanatics as CEO. Mack joined OKL in 2010, and helped grow the company to its valuation. As of 2012, he says, One Kings Lane had around $200 million in sales, which has increased, we’re told. CFO Dinesh Lathi will be stepping... |
Jabra Solemate Max Review: The Sneaker Speaker Balloons To Basketball Player Proportions | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | Jabra, like Jawbone, used to make Bluetooth headsets back when those were all the rage. Their popularity never extended beyond the ranks of particularly annoying real estate agents and I guess “rainmakers” in various fields, however, and so Jawbone, and later Jabra, turned their Bluetooth expertise to another task: mak... |
SpoonRocket Raises $10 Million From Foundation Capital And General Catalyst | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | Apparently someone thinks there’s big money to be made delivering cheap, fast meals to consumers. , which promises to deliver $8 meals to customers’ doors in 15 minutes or less, has captured the attention of customers in San Francisco and the East Bay. And that has attracted investors like Foundation Capital and Gener... |
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A German Company Is Printing Food For The Elderly | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | A German company, , is working on a 3D-printed food extruder that creates food that literally melts in your mouth, allowing elderly patients with – the inability to swallow – to eat without choking. Biozoon uses molecular gastronomy to create food that can be “printed” using a standard extruder-based printer. The fo... |
The Risk And Rush Of Supporting A Crowdfunding Project | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | Last week, a small made news, as backers and journalists questioned the company’s claims that it could measure caloric intake using a wearable device. While the claims do sound wild at best, the company is sticking to its story — and is sticking by the project. The company behind the medical device has completed In... |
Mingleton Is Tinder For Strangers In The Room With You | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | A startup called is introducing that uses iBeacon technology to help you connect only with people you can see around you, or, as one of the founders puts it, it’s like Tinder “for the people in your immediate vicinity.” The app doesn’t actually require venues to have iBeacon or Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) devices in... |
Facebook Is Forcing All Users To Download Messenger By Ripping Chat Out Of Its Main Apps | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | Facebook is taking its standalone app strategy to a new extreme today. It’s starting to notify users they’ll no longer have the option to send and receive messages in Facebook for iOS and Android, and will instead have to download Facebook Messenger to chat on mobile. Facebook’s main apps have always included a full-fe... |
Airbnb Expands Its Cleaning Service To Los Angeles | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | Hospitality startup has expanded its experimental cleaning service partnership into another market, according to an email sent out to hosts yesterday. The expansion also seems to be confirmed by the company’s , which now lists Los Angeles alongside New York City and San Francisco as markets where hosts can sign up t... |
Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | , former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor has joined the board of cloud file storage and syncing firm Dropbox. Dropbox is in the news today after launching a number of new products and features at a morning event in San Francisco. The company , a photo storage and sharing service, along w... |
Elance-oDesk Launches In Australia To Compete With Freelancer.com | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | – launched today in Australia with a new country manager and two city managers based in Melbourne and Sydney. The company also said it plans to hire more city managers to oversee its operations in Perth, Adelaide, and Brisbane. Elance-oDesk, which says there are currently 161,000 Australian businesses registered on E... |
Comcast Cable President And CEO Neil Smit To Join Us At TechCrunch Disrupt NY | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 9 | In case you somehow missed it, the No. 1 cable provider in the U.S., Comcast, is in the middle of trying to acquire the No. 2 cable provider, Time Warner Cable. With the acquisition currently under review, customers, regulators and content providers have plenty of questions about what the deal will mean for them. Next ... |
Box Might Put Its IPO Back In The Box | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | Box was rumored to have filed to go public on . On March 24, its S-1 dropped, showing the world . Today the that Box could go public in June, far later than the market previously anticipated. Quartz, citing sources, that Box could go public around May 26. Why the delay? Both the Journal and Quartz cite a difficul... |
Selling Your Company? Prioritize Dollars Over Prestige | Jason Lemkin | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | Right after Adobe acquired EchoSign, I ran into a friend whose company had recently been acquired for several hundred million dollars (wow) after having raised very little capital. It was a great outcome. The acquirer was a public company, but not one you’ve likely heard of. I asked him if he had any regrets, learnin... |
Farfetch, An Online Marketplace For Designer Fashion Boutiques, Raises $66M | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | an online marketplace for independent fashion boutiques, has raised $66 million led by private equity firm Vitruvian Partners, with existing investors Condé Nast International and Advent Ventures also participating in the round. New investor Richard Chen, venture partner at Chinese VC firm Ceyuan, was part of the roun... |
Facebook Will Soon Open-Source More Of The Core Technology Behind Its Paper App | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | At its Facebook today announced that it will soon open-source more of the technology behind its for iOS. In a few weeks, the company will upload the code for DisplayNode to GitHub. This is the asynchronous user interface technology the company developed for Paper, which allows it to render large amounts of objects ... |
Visible Measures Launches Fabric, A Self-Serve Ad-Buying Platform For Content Marketers | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | Ad company is launching a new ad-buying platform called Fabric, which it says is “the first of its kind to focus on native experiences” and other ads that consumers “opt in” to. Fabric is a demand-side platform, which basically means that it allows advertisers to manage their data and buying on ad exchanges. Founder ... |
PunchTab Raises $6.25M To Turn Loyalty Programs Into An Enterprise Data Business | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | , the startup led by YouSendIt ( ) founder Ranjith Kumaran, is announcing that it has raised $6.25 million in additional funding. The company started out by helping businesses run promotions and loyalty programs, such as giveaways. More recent products include for brands that want to reward TV viewers for checking in... |
Facebook’s New APIs Let Media Outlets Visualize Trending Topics And Hashtags | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | TV news and other media sources now have a way to show off what’s popular on Facebook and with whom. the Here’s how the new APIs work: For example, let’s say the TV show Dancing With The Stars wanted to display some visualization of Facebook data. It could use Trending to illustrate that its show is one of the most p... |
Google Takes On Microsoft For Productivity Dominance Of Apple’s Mobile Platform | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | Earlier today , two productivity applications for iOS. The unified apps work across iPhone and iPad devices. The new apps are just picking up their first ratings and ranks. Docs has picked up 23 ratings thus far, securing a four-star rating. Sheets is also rated four stars, with a total of 11 ratings tallied. Docs is ... |
Netshow.me, Brazil’s Answer To StageIt, Raises Seed Round | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | Tired of ticket fees, sweaty seething masses of teeming humanity, clubs that smell of body odor and stale beer, and concerts that sell out before you can even take out your credit card? Well, if you live in Brazil, has a solution for you. The company is offering an online concert service for artists and musicians, mu... |
Waggl Raises $1.1 Million With A New Take On Enterprise Messaging And Polling | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | A new San Francisco-based startup has raised $1.1 million in seed financing with a new take on messaging and polling for businesses. The company takes its name from the informative dance that bees in a hive conduct to communicate with their fellows. At , executives can post queries to their employees for internal dis... |
Oracle Announces Its Cross-Platform Marketing Cloud | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | Oracle today announced the launch of , a platform that combines technology from a number of the company’s acquisitions, including , , , and . As suggested by that list, the Marketing Cloud will cover a pretty broad swath of capabilities, allowing customers to run marketing campaigns (and manage data related to tho... |
Payment Innovation Is Not Enough For Retail | Dax Dasilva | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | Once a key differentiator, mobile payments are fast becoming a commodity and are widely used by retailers. Yankee Group found that 61 percent of large merchants already use a mobile checkout or plan to in 2014. We are seeing the major payments players recognize this, realizing that they can’t bank on razor-thin profi... |
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Google Will Also Stop Scanning Google Apps Inboxes For Ads | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | Earlier this morning, Google that it would to target ads at them. What was somewhat lost in that announcement was that Google will also make similar changes to other account types. Google will also soon stop scanning the accounts of Google Apps customers with , Government and legacy accounts for the free version. ... |
Internet.org Lets f8 Developers Test Apps On A Simulated Low-Bandwidth Network | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | Until now, Internet.org has been about connecting the world without much to touch. But today at , Facebook and Ericsson gave Internet.org its first physical incarnation with a hands-on demo of its . It lets developers test out their apps on a simulated 2.5G mobile network similar to what’s available in the developi... |
Yelp Drops 6% Despite Posting Better-Than-Expected Q1 Revenue Of $76.4M, EPS Of -$0.04 [Update: Now +5%] | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | After the closing of regular trading today, Yelp its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $76.4 million, and earnings per share of -$0.04. The market had expected the company to lose $0.06 on revenue of $75.06 million. Its first-quarter revenue figure is up 66% year-over-year. In regular trading ... |
Ambri Raises $35 Million For A New Approach To Grid-Scale Power Storage | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | The use of renewable energy is growing in the U.S., but its adoption has put pressure on old, overtaxed power grids. means that transmission systems need to find a way to store the energy generated from renewables to provide predictable power for grid operators. The latest company to try its hand at solving the probl... |
SV Angel’s David Lee And Brian Pokorny Will School Disrupt NY On What’s Broken In Startup Land | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | There are few venture capital funds as close to the street as SV Angel. That’s why we’re bringing on stage at . I’ll be chatting with them about the biggest issues facing startups, from acquisitions to valuations, company culture to embracing failure. Both Lee and Pokorny worked at Baseline Ventures and Google befor... |
Facebook’s Stock Picks Up Momentum After Announcing Its Mobile Ad Network | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | On the back of an based on optimism about the future of its ad products, Facebook today picked up around 2.8 percent in the public markets. After starting the day at a deficit, Facebook has picked up momentum as its f8 developer conference announced several new products, including the . Facebook Audience Network is ... |
Facebook Rolls Out Billing Info “Autofill” For Simpler Checkout To 450K Ecwid E-Commerce Merchants | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 30 | Facebook today announced a partnership with to let its 450,000 merchants easily integrate Autofill With Facebook, a feature that lets customers pull in credit card, billing, and shipping info they’ve stored on Facebook. At its F8 developer conference, the social network also announced a test of an extension to Autofi... |
SparkLabs Korea Presents Third Demo Day, Launches Hardware Accelerator In Seoul | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | , but the Seoul-based accelerator already has a strong track record of finding promising startups. Its third Demo Day today featured companies that develop wearable technology, medical devices, and mobile games. Alumni of SparkLabs Korea include beauty subscription service , which was not only the first startup acce... |
Google Seems To Be Considering Doing More With Chromecast’s Home Screen | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | While I’ve been a fan of the Chromecast , I find myself using it more and more lately. During the work day, I end up using it for all of the random videos I want to watch but that I don’t want taking up my laptop’s screen space or taking my full attention. As such, my office TV almost always has Chromecast’s idle scre... |
iControl Networks Acquires Blacksumac, The Company Behind The Piper Home Monitoring Device | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | Earlier this year, Google ushered in consolidation of the home automation and monitoring space with its of Tony Fadell’s Nest. Today, followed that trend with its , which makes the . iControl historically has sold its products through various channels, including home security companies and cable service providers... |
Founder Stories: For Matt Tucker, A Life’s Work In Building Jive Software | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | Over the arc of Jive’s history, Tucker has assumed roles both as the CTO and Head of Engineering. In this video, we discuss the variance in those technical roles, how he balanced internal-facing duties with external responsibilities, and how they’ve built teams that move offices frequently — as Jive itself is softwar... |
We’re Looking For A Few Good Startups For Disrupt NY 2014 | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | is almost here and we would like to extend the offer for you, some of the best startups in the world, to take part in Startup Alley, our special exhibition hall focused on bringing amazing startups together under one roof. This gets you a table at the event and the chance to show off your product to press, investors, ... |
Riding In Cars With VCs | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | Uber’s promo factory has delivered kittens, Christmas trees and ice cream. But its latest PR concoction has taken the Valley darling to a whole new level: Uber for VC meetings. UberPITCH will give free rides to to anyone with a startup idea, allowing them to pitch investors from the Google Ventures team. Yes, that’s ri... |
What Is Heartbleed? The Video | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | You’ve probably . You’ve probably been told that, as far as security vulnerabilities go on the Internet, it’s pretty damned scary. But what Heartbleed? How does it work? Why is it something that you should care about? This Khan Academy-style* video tries to break it all down. Made by Zulfikar Ramzan, MIT Ph.D. and C... |
OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug Leaves Much Of The Internet At Risk | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | A large is . OpenSSL, used by a host of companies and services to encrypt their data, contained a flaw for two years that, if exploited, allowed external parties to extract data from a server’s working memory in 64 kilobyte chunks. That’s not much, but it was a very repeatable exploit, meaning that nefarious parties... |
Atlassian Shareholders Sell $150M Of Their Equity In A Secondary Sale Valuing The Firm At $3.3B | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | , a company that sells collaboration tools to large enterprises, today announced a sale of $150 million worth of its shares by former and current employees. The sale of equity is designed to provide liquidity to current shareholders. T. Rowe Price is heading the deal, which will, according to Atlassian, be paid for by ... |
As Microsoft Support for XP Expires, Antivirus Vendors Pick Up The Slack | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | As you might be aware , which means that the company will stop issuing security patches. Around up until now and you’re still using it. Stubborn bunch, aren’t you? Conventional wisdom suggests that without security patches, business users would be foolish to continue using XP, lest they become victims of viruses and... |
Do Startups Stand A Chance Against Valley Incumbents? | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | A few weeks ago, I was talking with an entrepreneur in the search space who had a simple question: “Can Google ever be beat?” The question is actually quite profound, and is at the heart of everything we do in startups. Is it possible to defeat the incumbent players, even when they are essentially monopolies? I answere... |
Facebook Admits Users Are Confused About Privacy, Will Show More On-Screen Explanations | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | Facebook today offered reporters a deep dive on how it handles privacy and previewed some upcoming changes. The company revealed it does 80 trillion privacy checks per day on the backend to make sure data isn’t wrongly exposed. It runs 4000 surveys about privacy per day which pushed it to now begin displaying on-screen... |
Ballmer, Not Nadella, Gave The Go-Ahead To Ship Office For iPad, Which Has Racked Up 12M Downloads | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | has seen 12 million downloads to date, and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the decision to pull the trigger and release the suite, according to the company. Microsoft’s Office for iPad team today to check in with the mass-market nerdish culture and answer questions. Here’s the group on the critical question ... |
NSA Spied On Human Rights Groups, Says Snowden | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed that U.S. government intelligence agencies spied on NGOs and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as part of its dragnet mass surveillance programs. Snowden was giving testimony, via video-link, to the Council of Europe at a taki... |
Facebook’s India User Base Crosses 100M, Set To Become Its Biggest Market | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | India is inching closer to overtake the U.S. as Facebook’s biggest market, at least in terms of the number of active users. With over 100 million users as of March 31, India is now the only country where Facebook can aspire to have 1 billion users, thanks to a growing base of Internet users (currently around 200 millio... |
Zoove Debuts StarStar myInfo, A Mobile Contact Sharing Service That Doesn’t Require An App | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | , a company offering a registry of unique mobile numbers for brands and consumers ( and , respectively) is now introducing its third product, a contact-sharing service called . Available to U.S. consumers on any of the four major carriers, the idea with the myInfo service is to offer users a way to both share and re... |
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Mobile App Go Dish Brings Dynamic Pricing To The Restaurant World | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | You’ve probably noticed that your favorite restaurant probably has busy periods, which are usually dictated by when people typically get hungry. No surprise, that tends to be around lunch and dinner. But then there are other times when it’s not so busy. The thing is, restaurants have fixed costs that don’t really waver... |
Comcast Makes Its Case To The FCC For Time Warner Cable Acquisition Approval | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | A few months ago, Comcast announced its plans to in one of the biggest acquisitions in the broadband or pay TV market. In a and an today, Comcast made its pitch to government regulators, providing all the reasons that they should approve its latest massive acquisition. The filing goes into great detail of all the... |
Sketchfab Revamps Its Platform To Become The SoundCloud Of 3D Files | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | just released the second version of its 3D platform. As a reminder, Sketchfab’s ultimate goal has always been to become a sort of SoundCloud for 3D models. On the website, you can upload, browse and embed 3D models from your browser. Yet, until now, the company first has been focused on building the foundation of Sket... |
MediaFire Takes Its Desktop Apps Out Of Beta, Removes File Size Restrictions | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 8 | , the popular online file storage and image hosting site, today announced that its for Windows and OS X are now out of beta. The integration looks similar to what Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive do in that they seamlessly integrate themselves into the operating system’s file managers and save dialogs. Using the de... |
Spotify Goes Over To The Dark Side With A New Makeover | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | has just released a serious redesign for its web, desktop, and iPhone apps that will come to other mobile platforms soon. It brings a simple, darker, dramatic look to the streaming music service. Spotify also added contextual playlists and began shifting users from starring songs to saving a library of any and everyth... |
Bye, Bye Bootstrapping — Last-Minute Booking App Hot Hotels Raises $1M | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | In the idiosyncratic world of European startups, being bootstrapped can be both a badge of honour and a mark against your name, especially when you have a heavy-weight Silicon Valley competitor backed to the tune of . Enter , the Madrid-based last-minute hotel booking app and European competitor to HotelTonight, whic... |
Taiwan Fitness Startup iFit Raises $900K In Seed Funding | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | a Taiwanese fitness startup and online community (not to be confused with the fitness tracking app ), has raised $900,000 in seed funding from Cherubic Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage companies in Taiwan, China, and Silicon Valley. The company plans to use the funding to expand overseas a... |
Sookasa Raises $5M Series A Round To Help Companies Safely Use Public Cloud Services | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | wants to help companies use popular cloud services like Dropbox and Gmail while at the same time transparently encrypting sensitive data to ensure that companies don’t run afoul with regulations like HIPAA and FERPA. The company today announced that it has raised a $5 million Series A round led by Accel Partners with ... |
Bring Your Sexiest Gear To Hardware Alley At Disrupt NY | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | Every year I’m given the best job a guy could ever want: planning hardware alley, a one day extravaganza of some of the best hardware I’ve ever seen. This event, which happens on the last day of Disrupt, is a crowd favorite and I’d love to feature your gear. What is Hardware Alley? It’s a celebration of hardware startu... |
The Armiga Project Aims To Resurrect The Meditating Guru | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WWPOYFEDl3I] If you have a bunch of old Amiga disks lying around, we may have an . Called the Armiga, this is a clever emulator with a 3.5-inch disk drive and Dual Core ARM CPU that runs like an old-timey . The team is looking for $140,000 and they’ve r... |
Google X Product Designer And Video Star Mike LeBeau Joins Facebook As Product Manager | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | Facebook might be positioning itself to build new features around voice navigation or voice-activated search into the social network, thanks to the hiring of Google product designer . While at Google and Google X, LeBeau worked as a Staff Software Engineer and Product Designer. LeBeau worked on a number of voice-relat... |
Activists Challenge SF’s Google Bus Program On Environmental Grounds | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | San Francisco city supervisors and affordable housing activists A handful of activist groups say that the new pilot program, which charges tech companies $1 per stop, must undergo environmental review. That would involve a lengthy legal process that could take months or years. The Board of Supervisors voted 8-2 agai... |
Tesla Pays Telefonica Millions To Power In-Car Wireless In UK, Germany, Spain, Holland | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | Those with a sharp eye who visited the Geneva motor show or who own a Model S in Europe may have already noticed a connection between Telefonica and Tesla by way of the “ ” signs on the sides of cars, or through the in-car navigation system that . Now the two are making it official: Telefonica says that it will be pro... |
WalkMe, A Guidance Platform For Confusing Sites, Raises Another $11M As It Tackles Enterprise | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | , a platform that provides visual cues for website visitors so that users can navigate around them more easily, has raised $11 million in funding to expand its business and building out its customer base among enterprises. The funding was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation also from existing investors Ma... |
Apple Continues To Flesh Out iWork Apps After Aggressively Culling Features | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | Apple has updated its iWork apps for iOS, Mac and iCloud beta with a bunch of improvements and additional sharing options today. There are a bunch of new features but one of the nicer ones is the addition of ‘read-only’ sharing of iWork documents. Today’s update is pretty big, with changes rolling out to iOS, Mac and i... |
Thanks To A Grant From Montana, Submittable Has Now Raised $1M+ For Submission Management | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | When Y Combinator-backed startup in 2012, the company said it had raised $450,000 in funding. Submittable has continued raising since then, and with a recent $100,000 grant from the state of Montana, the total is now more than $1 million. Compared to some of the other fundings we cover here at TechCrunch, that migh... |
TC Cribs: Chairish HQ, A Former Whiskey Distillery Turned Home Decor Hotspot | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | Welcome back to , the TechCrunch TV show that gives you an inside look at the offices of the tech industry’s hottest companies. This time, we visited the San Francisco headquarters of , the online marketplace where people can buy and sell pre-owned home furniture. Chairish has a big focus on design, so it makes sense... |
Weedmaps Spends Some Of Its $30M To Legalize Pot In NYC | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | To put it bluntly, is no joke. The Yelp of marijuana dispensaries has grown to $30 million in yearly revenue, and now it’s saying “High, NYC” with a Times Square jumbotron campaign to legalize pot. For the next 60 days, an 8-second Weedmaps ad will blaze across the CBS Super Screen pointing New Yorkers to a . *420, ... |
Twitter Now Lets You Easily Search For Tweets By Date Range | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | Quick! What were people tweeting about April Fool’s day? Up until now, this was actually kind of a hard thing to answer. Even in Twitter’s page, there was no obvious way to limit your search by a specific date range. Now The weird part? You actually do this before. It was just kind of a pain, and not at all use... |
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SoFi Raising New Cash To Help Ease Students’ $1 Trillion Debt Burden | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | Student lending service is close to securing a new round of as much as $75 million, according to two investors familiar with the company’s plans. The San Francisco-based company is one of a of and backed by venture investors that are looking to help debtors better manage the almost $1.2 trillion in student loan... |
Apple’s iAd Workbench Now Open To Everyone With An Apple ID, Adds New Features | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | Apple is opening the door to its iAd program today, specifically to iAd Workbench, its ad creation and management tool. When the company first last year, it was aimed at developers who wanted to advertise their apps. With today’s changes, the company is hoping to bring on a broader range of advertisers. For one thing... |
Tickets Are Now Available For The Disrupt NY 14 Hackathon | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | The Disrupt NY Hackathon is a month away and the first round of tickets . It’s free to register and attend our 24 hour hackathon. Designers and developers are both welcome. It’s a grand time. Space is very limited and the tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. More tickets will be released in comin... |
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