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Much Of Intel’s $740M Cloudera Investment Likely Went To Existing Shareholders | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | Yesterday’s that Intel had invested $740 million in Hadoop-focused Cloudera was a surprise. The market hadn’t expected Intel’s investment to be so large. The deal was so large that industry watchers like TechCrunch and ticked through Cloudera’s seventh amended and restated certificate of incorporation, and tried to... |
Stratsys Acquires 3D Filament Researcher Interfacial Solutions | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | , the 3D-printing company that bought , has purchased , a Wisconsin-based R&D house and maker of plastic filament for FDM-style 3D printing. The company announced the . No purchase price was given. “Interfacial Solutions provides significant expertise in plastics and filament,” wrote David Reis, CEO of Stratasys. “W... |
With Infamous: Second Son, Sony Has A Console Selling Exclusive | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | The console wars are in full swing, and Microsoft gave gamers a lot to get excited about with the launch of Titanfall last month. Sony fired back with its own high-profile console exclusive launch last week, and it’s a fan favorite that’s sure to get PlayStation gamers excited. is a spin-off for what is arguably the ... |
HBO Go Still Recovering From Outage During Game Of Thrones Premiere | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | HBO Go crashed during the Game of Thrones’ season premiere due to “overwhelming demand,” potentially affecting millions of viewers. The service .” But that might not be enough for fans who are almost as devastated as they were during [SPOILER ALERT] last season’s Red Wedding. In a statement to TechCrunch, a HBO Go rep... |
What Games Are: Fire TV And The “Casual Console” | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | Sometimes I have to walk a fine line between my weekday job and my writing. Not because I’m enjoined from writing (actually actively encourages it) but to rather to avoid the perception of conflict-of-interest. It’s easy to write about a game design issue, for example, or talk about the fate of VR because they’re not... |
Secret And Whisper Get Their Own Chinese Clones | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | and have hit a dubious benchmark of success. Both have been cloned by developers in China. Secret this weekend, while Tech In Asia was the first English-language publication to . Mimi means “secret” in Chinese, while Xiaosheng means “quiet.” Mimi was made by Shenzhen Wumii Technology Limited, which , while Xiaos... |
The ‘World’s Largest Tetris Game’ Was Played On A Philadelphia Skyscraper This Weekend | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6P1sskPc4w&w=640&h=360] On Saturday night, a 29-story Philadelphia skyscraper hosted what’s purported to be the “world’s largest game of Tetris,” and likely the world’s largest videogame overall. A team led by Drexel University computer science professor hacked into the LED li... |
Apple Said To Be Looking To Bring Display Chip Design Mostly In-House | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 1 | Apple is looking to acquire a 55 percent stake in a joint venture between Sharp and Taiwanese company Powerchip formed to develop chips for use in smartphone displays, according to a new . The stake Apple is after is currently owned by Renesas Electronics, and the division is called Renesas SP Drivers. It consists of ... |
From Office Space To Silicon Valley: How The World Has Changed In Mike Judge’s Tech Wonderland | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | Tonight viewers will be treated to Hollywood’s latest take on the startups in Mike Judge’s on HBO. But while Judge might be known best for his comedy, he is no stranger to the tech world — he used to be an engineer himself, and about fifteen years ago he filmed what would become a cult classic in . Things were diffe... |
The Market Welcomed Tech IPOs Last Week, Even As Industry Giants Slipped | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | Friday was a busy day for tech companies on Wall Street, with , , and going public on the same day. It went well: GrubHub spiked , Five9 , and IMS Health . A good crop, you could say. On the other end of the stick, a number of young-ish, but already public technology companies took it on the nose: Facebook fell ... |
Bootstrapping Into Brazil’s Travel Metasearch Market With Voopter | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | Global Founders Capital has made its first Brazilian investment in , the newest player in Brazil’s travel metasearch market joining . , and also operate in the country, though only Mundi and Voopter are Brazilian startups. The Series A is Voopter’s first capital raise, after 100 percent bootstrapping for the f... |
Bing Is Here To Stay | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | Every couple of months, new about Microsoft trying to sell off its search engine pop up. At some point late last year, the was that if then-CEO candidate Stephen Elop would take the reins of the company, he would sell Bing as soon as possible. After last week’s , I think we can now put those rumors to rest. Bing... |
The Fallacy Of Android-First | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | To build a messaging app on iPhone, you have to create your own communication channel — essentially an IM service. But on Android, you can simply replace the built-in Messages app, while still using the underlying SMS/MMS medium. You save yourself the effort of building a communication service. And, your users needn’... |
Dropbox Reportedly Secures $500M+ In Debt Financing | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | Online storage company has obtained a credit facility of more than $500 million, according to . I’ve emailed Dropbox for confirmation and will update if I hear back. Apparently the Financial Times first broke the news in , but Recode says it has confirmed the financing with “sources close to the situation.” Earlier... |
Anti-Tech Protesters Are Telling Kevin Rose’s Neighbors That He’s A “Parasite” | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose says that his San Francisco home was visited by protesters today, who held up a banner calling him a “parasite” and distributed leaflets with the same message. What did he do to deserve this? Well, he invested in startups. Rose of what he said was a flyer distributed to his neighbor... |
eBay Is Betting On Bringing Commerce To Wearables And Other Connected Devices | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | The next frontier for eBay could be bringing commerce to wearables and other connected devices. In fact, the company has formed a brand-new group of engineers and designers internally, as part of its Innovation and New Ventures group, that focuses on creating ways to incorporate commerce into anything with a screen. Pa... |
Tap Your Phone, Get Stuff (Including Funding) | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | TechCrunch Earlier this week, , an investor with RRE in New York City, about all the various startups that offer consumers the ability to order goods and services directly from their phones. These startups — Uber is the prime example — turn our phones into remote controls. I call it, “ ” And if we look at the list, ... |
As March Madness Winds Down ShotTracker Gears Up To Make Everyone Clutch | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | In the annals of sports there’s no bigger hero than the clutch shooter, whether it’s to get Kentucky to the , or . In an effort to make every would-be baller a scoring machine, , a small startup from Kansas City, has been demonstrating their new wearable technology at the tournament. The company has developed a w... |
Million Man Ban | Devin Coldewey | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | Participating in democracy “takes a certain amount of civic courage.” Although I never expected to say this, I found the words of Justice Scalia (in Doe v. Reed) coming to mind these past few weeks. In the Internet era, it takes more civic courage then ever: more of our speech is public, and much of it has global reach... |
The Lean Hardware Startup: Investing in Hardware Startups | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 6 | This is the fourth part of a series on . Nest and Oculus got acquired for billions, Jawbone and GoPro are going IPO, multiple projects are crossing the $1 million bar on Kickstarter. Something is happening in hardware. Yet many investors from angels to institutional investors are still reluctant to get into hardware... |
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Pinterest Launches Exploration-Focused Guided Search And Reveals Custom Categories For Mobile | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | Today Pinterest announced two new mobile products: to lead you on chains of explorations, and a third one that will be unveiled in a few minutes, and Custom Categories for making it easier to browse your way to cool stuff through a dynamic interface. Guided Search will be available on and in an app that was just ... |
Pinterest Hits 30 Billion Total Pins, Up 50% In 6 Months | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | Tonight at an event in the company’s San Francisco headquarters, CEO Ben Silbermann announced that users had contributed more than 30 billion Pins since the service was founded, a number that has grown by nearly 50 percent in the past six months alone. Users have also created more than 750 million boards in that time... |
Storyful’s Verification Tech Could Stop Fake News From Spreading On Facebook | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | Twitter is the king of real time news, but people’s eagerness to retweet juicy stories sometimes outweighs their willingness to verify the facts first, leading them to parrot misinformation. That’s why the most intersting thing about with to create a isn’t about refferal traffic or find things to cover. It’s th... |
Mozilla Names Firefox OS Co-Founder Andreas Gal As Its New CTO | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | When Mozilla named JavaScript inventor Brendan Eich , it left the CTO position Eich previously occupied unfilled. Today, Mozilla that will become its new CTO. Most recently, he was Mozilla’s Director of Research and later VP of Mobile and Research. Gal, who joined Mozilla six years ago, brings an impressive resume... |
Co-Founder And CEO Marcus Nelson Departs Addvocate | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | Marcus Nelson, who co-founded and served as CEO of social media startup , said that he’s no longer at the company. Nelson doesn’t offer any details about the reasons for his departure, but it sounds like this wasn’t entirely by choice. In , he wrote, “These are never easy situations, but there really was no choice. I... |
Google+ Is Walking Dead | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | Gundotra after eight years. The first obvious question is where this leaves Google+, Gundotra’s baby and primary project for the past several of those years. What we’re hearing from multiple sources is that Google+ will no longer be considered a product, but a platform — essentially ending its competition with other... |
Stewart Butterfield’s Slack Raised $43M Million In New Funding | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | , a collaboration platform founded by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, is raising $30 million-plus in new funding, we’ve learned. (Update: the company confirmed the day after we published our scoop that it the final amount was ). For background, Butterfield left Yahoo and started TinySpeck (and a multiplayer gam... |
Automattic Buys Scroll Kit, A Code-Free Website Builder That Once Got Legal Heat From The NYT | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | WordPress maker acquisition spree to build out its platform continues apace. Today comes news that it has acquired , a New York-based startup that had developed a platform for people to build websites without needing to know any code, or, in the words of co-founders Cody Brown and Kate Ray announcing the news, “a pr... |
Warburg Pincus Buys Compensation Software Service PayScale For Up To $100 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | Making its fourth acquisition of a technology company in fewer than three weeks, is announcing that it has bought compensation software services vendor in a deal worth up to $100 million. In the 14 years since its launch in 2000, PayScale has developed a massive database of individual compensation profiles, conta... |
The FyreTV Porn Streamer Maker Is Suing Amazon For Trademark Infringement | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | Remember the ? Probably not, but it was a media streamer, much like Amazon’s new FireTV streamer, that was released in 2008. Unlike Amazon’s FireTV, however, the FyreTV streams porn and only porn. And now the company behind the device is suing Amazon. WREAL, LLC, makers of the FyreTV box, recently in a Florida court... |
Domino’s Launches Its Pizza Ordering App For iPad With 3D Custom Pizza Builder | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | Domino’s Pizza has its menu and turned around its over the last few years, during which time it also started to offer mobile ordering. Next Monday, the pizza chain will launch its iPad app, which will allow you to build your pizza and order it for take-out and delivery right from your couch. What makes this app sta... |
Apple, Google, Intel And Adobe Settle Antitrust Lawsuit Over No-Hire Agreement | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | Four of Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies have settled an antitrust lawsuit brought against them over a shared no-hire agreement that prevented poaching employees from one company by another. The terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed, , but this averts a trial that had been scheduled to start later in May. T... |
The Stalactite 3D Printer Uses A Projector To Produce High Quality Objects | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuGott75nss#action=share] The , like the Form 1 before it, is a resin-based, light-cured 3D printing system that “extrudes” objects out of a bath of liquid. Unlike the , however, this printer uses an ingenious workaround to the problem of getting a bright enough light source i... |
Amazon Beats Street In Q1 With Net Sales Up 23% To $19.74B, $0.23 EPS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | Amazon today reported its results for the company’s first financial quarter of 2014. Amazon reported net sales up 23 percent to $19.74 billion compared to $25.59 billion and $16.07 billion in the year-ago quarter. Operating income, however, decreased 19% to $146 million in the first quarter, compared with $181 millio... |
Microsoft’s FQ3 Earnings Beat With Revenue Of $20.40B, EPS Of $0.68, Surface Top Line Of $500 Million | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | This afternoon Microsoft its fiscal third quarter 2014 financial results, with revenue of $20.40 billion, and earnings per share of $0.68. Analysts had expected the company to report $20.39 billion in revenue, and earnings per share of $0.63. Surface revenue was slightly soft, Office 365 uptake remains solid, and Azu... |
Hulu Plus Launches Remote Control Feature To Connect With Game Consoles | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | just to its mobile apps that will enable users to control the videos streaming on their game consoles from their phones or tablets. The new app connects with Sony’s PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, as well as Microsoft’s Xbox One. Users open up their Hulu Plus app, and it should be able to automatically detect game ... |
We’ve Got To Embrace It, Man | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | First, understand that as an employee of AOL, I’m embarrassed but far more amused by our “digital prophet,” David Shing AKA Shingy AKA . His efforts to make AOL look cool have, at best, made us look like absolute idiots. Remember, we’re not all him, but sadly he represents us. Here’s my biggest problem: Shing’s future... |
You Know You Want A Galaxy S5 With Swarovski Crystals On The Back | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTLBCACEX2k Samsung and Swarovski are back at it again with another unholy mash-up that puts crystals on the back of Samsung Galaxy smartphones. Because why not? As the teaser shows, the phone is adorned with countless crystals, effectively turning the backside into a knuckle-scrapping, ... |
FTC Issues Blistering Rebuke Of States Limiting Tesla’s Direct Consumer Sales | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not big on state’s limiting the ability of electric car manufacturer Tesla to sell its cars directly to consumers. In a , fittingly on its Competition Matters blog, the FTC whacked such restrictions, detailing how legal protections for dealers were built, and how they in time evol... |
Sorry, But Google Glass Isn’t Actually For Sale To Everybody Yet | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 24 | that is currently for sale to in the United States. Sadly (or not — depending on your feelings about Glass), that’s not actually the case. While the Google Glass store is indeed open and ( : ), Google tells us that this isn’t the public launch of Glass to anybody who wants to plunk down $1,500 (plus tax). Accord... |
Vevo Releases New iOS App With A Real-Time Feed And Live Vevo TV Streams | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Music video distributor just launched an update to its iOS app today, providing users with a new, regularly updated home page, as well as access to the company’s live, programmed music channels. The new version of the app, which the company , follows a major redesign to its website that . In that update, Vevo did... |
The Return Of Reddit’s /r/Technology Is “Certainly Possible” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | of Reddit was demoted this week, with the subreddit being removed from the Reddit homepage and the default subreddit subscription feed. Earlier today I spoke to Reddit General Manager about the process of demoting subreddits as a form of punishment for mismanagement. Side note: I know Martin from back in the day whe... |
Gillmor Gang Live 04.23.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | – Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Michael Arrington, and Steve Gillmor. |
FCC Tells Internet To Chill, Denies That It Will Kill Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Earlier today that the FCC was considering new rules that would allow content purveyors to pay ISPs for preferential access to their networks. This would have made it possible for content companies to speed the delivery of their material across the Internet. The FCC, nearly a full working day after the story broke,... |
Google, AT&T, Verizon And Comcast Each Spent More Than $3M In Q1 Lobbying Congress | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | The dollars from tech companies are showing little signs of abatement: Google spent $3.8 million on lobbying in the first quarter, AT&T $3.7 million, Verizon $3.5 million, Comcast $3.1 million, Facebook $2.8 million, Microsoft $2.1 million, Time Warner Cable $1.9 million, Oracle $1.5 million, Apple $1.1 million, and A... |
The FCC’s New Net Neutrality Rules Will Brutalize The Internet | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | The FCC will propose new net neutrality rules that at once protect content from discrimination, but also allow content companies to pay for preferential treatment. The news, first reported by , would in fact create a two-tiered system in which wealthy companies can “better serve the market” at the expense of younger, ... |
Facebook’s Standalone App Plan: Launch Betas, If They Work Grow To 100M Users, Then Monetize | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Facebook plans to launch more standalone apps, and today on its call, Mark Zuckerberg laid out a blueprint for picking which ones to throw the company’s weight behind. First, its Creative Labs initiative will build apps with specific purposes. If they resonate with users, Facebook will push to grow them to 100 millio... |
Apple Sold 20 Million Apple TVs, Which Are Now Far From A Hobby | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | The Apple TV continues to gain traction despite little effort from Apple. On today’s financial earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that Apple has sold 20 million Apple TV boxes. By the end of 2013, the company had sold approximately 10 million Apple TV units. The product is clearly on-pace for a killer year even... |
iTunes Now Has Nearly 800 Million Accounts, Most With Credit Cards Attached | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | In June of last year, Apple announced that over 575 million accounts had been created for iTunes Just 10 months later, they’ve grown that number by nearly . On the Apple earnings call today, Tim Cook announced that they were just about to surpass their 800 millionth iTunes account. If my quick calculations are correct... |
Apple CEO Tim Cook Lauds Office On iPad, Chides Microsoft For Not Delivering It Earlier | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Apple CEO Tim Cook took time to answer a question about Microsoft Office for iPad arriving this past month, and his answer was surprisingly long. “I do see that Office is a very key franchise,” he said, and also added that he “wholeheartedly welcome[s] Microsoft to the App Store.” Cook admitted that Apple’s “customers ... |
Apple Acquired 24 Companies In The Last 18 Months | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Apple’s pace of acquisition has seemed to be picking up lately, and Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed just how many the company has been making of late. Cupertino has nabbed 24 companies over the course of the past year and a half, which is a pace that observers recently noticed actually . Typically, Apple doesn’t make any ... |
Apple’s Stock Surges In After-Hours Trading Following Earnings Beat, Promise To Return More Cash To Investors | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | The market likes what Apple today, sending its share up more than 7% in after-hours trading. The company reported an earnings beat today, with $45.6 billion in revenue, $10.2 billion in net profit, or $11.62 in earnings per share. Analysts had expected Apple to report $10.18 in profit per share, and revenue of under ... |
Apple’s Greater China Revenue Grew Sequentially In Q2 As iPhone Growth Impresses | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Apple’s , and the iPhone’s 17 percent growth was likely the most noteworthy number in its hardware results. That’s a big increase for a device that analysts expected to perform pretty much on par in terms of Q2 last year. One probable reason: growth in Greater China, where Apple saw 5 percent increase in revenue seque... |
Apple’s New Retail Leader Angela Ahrendts Officially Steps Into Her Role Next Week | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Apple’s new retail chief Angela Ahrendts is going to start officially at the company officially beginning next week, CEO Tim Cook revealed on the company’s earnings call today. Ahrendts comes from Burberry, and her move to Apple was announced in October of last year, but she hadn’t yet begun in her new role yet. A repo... |
Apple Announces 7 For 1 Stock Split, Boosts Its Dividend 8%, Adds $30B To Its Buyback Program | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | As part of its earnings cycle today, Apple that it will increase its dividend 8 percent, add $30 billion to its share buyback program current to a total of $90 billion, and split its stock 7 for 1 in June. The company’s dividend will also now rise yearly. Apple is incredibly cash-rich, and has been under pressure to ... |
Apple Sold 44M iPhones, 16M iPads And 4M Macs In Q2 2014 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Apple shared its , and for fiscal Q2 2014, the company moved 43.7 million iPhones, 16.3 million iPads and 4.1 million Macs. That compares to 51 million iPhones sold , along with 26 million iPads and 4.8 million Macs, but that was a holiday quarter, so a dip is to be expected. Last year , Apple sold 37.4 million iPho... |
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Parchment Launches College Recommendation Engine So Applicants Can Hedge Their Bets | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Hello, high school juniors. Stressed about graduation next year? Nervous about getting into college? Well , co-founder of the online education giant and current chief executive at , has some advice for you: Treat your college applications like you would a stock portfolio and hedge your bets. And you can even use a ... |
Facebook Passes 1B Mobile Users, 200M Messenger Users In Q1 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Another mobile milestone for Facebook: the company reported in its that it has now passed the 1 billion mark for monthly active users on phones and tablets. 1.01 billion to be exact. That is a sign of how mobile is approaching near-parity with desktop for Facebook: overall MAUs across both desktop and mobile totalled... |
Apple Beats In Q2 2014 With $45.6B Revenue, $10.2B Profit And $11.62 EPS | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Apple has just its fiscal Q2 2014 earnings, reporting $45.6 billion in revenue, $10.2 billion in net profit representing $11.62 per share. Compared to the , it corresponds to a growth of 4.6 percent in revenue, and 15.2 percent in EPS. According to , the consensus among analysts was for Apple to report earnings of ... |
Zynga Founder Mark Pincus Steps Down From Chief Product Officer Role | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 23 | Along with the , Zynga announced that founder Mark Pincus would be stepping down from any operational duties and ceding his chief product officer title today. The company said that Pincus, who started the social gaming company in 2007, will remain chairman of the board. The announcement comes about nine months after t... |
Mashfeed Lets You Discover Better Content On Social Networks | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | At first I didn’t understand the point of because there are already plenty of social media aggregation platforms. Plus, many people crosspost the same content to different sites, rendering aggregators redundant. Then I realized I was using the new iOS app wrong. Like , a photo discovery app that , Mashfeed isn’t ju... |
Mt.Gox Will Reportedly File For Liquidation Instead Of Bankruptcy | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | has filed for liquidation in a Tokyo court instead of going forward with its plans to rebuild under bankruptcy protection, according to . The newspaper’s sources said that Mt.Gox decided to abandon its previous plan for rehabilitation because it was too complex and unrealistic, but that it still hopes a buyer for the... |
TPG Growth Commits $100M With India’s Smile To Help Internet Cos Tap Emerging Markets | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | has committed around $100 million in a joint venture with India’s for helping Internet and e-commerce companies build and scale their businesses across emerging markets such as India and Africa. TPG and Smile will co-invest through their joint venture, , which will work with Internet companies in the marketplace, c... |
India’s Snapdeal Acquires Fashion Discovery Site Doozton, As Battle For Online Fashion Heats Up | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Online fashion retail is fast becoming the next battlefront for India’s growing e-commerce startups. With two of the biggest Indian e-commerce companies — Flipkart and Myntra — , rival Snapdeal is now pushing aggressively to get its piece of action in the online fashion retailing space. Less than two months after , I... |
Online Invitations Startup Paperless Post Raises $25M From August Capital | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Online (and offline) invitations startup has become a modern-day greeting card company, enabling users to create custom cards to their events and send them to friends. TechCrunch has confirmed that, today, the startup has closed a $25 million Series C led by August Capital, with participation from existing investors.... |
Ellen Tries Out Google “Glasses” | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Today is . For the first time, the company is letting anybody and everybody order a pair with no application process needed. Because before, if you wanted to give Google $1,500 for a face computer, you had to . Now that Google Glass is fair game, we’re probably going to see it a lot more. Take, for example, , where ... |
HP Finds Mobile Tax Apps Lacking On Security, Privacy | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | As the clock ticks toward midnight, , Hewlett-Packard is warning consumers of mobile tax and finance apps that they may want to audit their own usage. According to the HP Audit, more than 90 percent of the applications the company tested, including , and , contained at least one potential privacy violation. Those i... |
Pinterest Plans “Choose Your Own Adventure” Product Announcement For April 24 | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | A more personalized way to pin may be on the way as Pinterest has announced a big press event in San Francisco on April 24th with the teaser image above. We’ve confirmed with the company that this will be a product announcement and CEO Ben Silbermann will speak. So what will Pinterest unveil? The startup has written th... |
Investors Send Twitter Up 11.4% Following Gnip News, Adding $2.7B To Its Market Cap | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Twitter had a massive day in the markets, soaring more than 11 percent following news this morning that it has . Gnip is a company that provides other firms with access to social media information streams. Gnip became well known by being a Twitter partner that could provide the latter’s “firehose” of tweets to compani... |
Telefonica, Blackstone Launch Axonix, A Mobile Ad Exchange Built On Defunct MobClix Tech | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | , the Spanish carrier with operations in 24 countries and 323 million customers, is making its latest bid to expand its business beyond basic mobile and telephone services, by moving into ad tech. It’s teaming up with Blackstone to launch , a real-time bidding mobile ad exchange that has been built on technology from ... |
Inside DODOcase, Where Modern Tech Accessories Are Made The Old Fashioned Way | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Welcome to a new episode of , the video series that takes you inside where the offices where all the tech industry magic happens to see what it’s really like for the people who work there. This time around, we headed to the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco to visit , the startup that makes iPhone, iPad, Kindle,... |
Google Actually Sells Out Of A Google Glass Model | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Apparently some people still want Google Glass. The white model after Google the product. Models of the other colors are still available — at least until Google stops selling the product tonight. , Google made Glass available to anyone. This is the first time since the product’s announcement that Google has allowed... |
Seeking Growth, The Payments Industry Embraces New Technologies | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Now a victim of its own omnipresent success, the global electronic payments industry is increasingly turning to new technologies as it looks to expand its footprint and find new ways to make money by getting consumers to spend theirs. The pace of technological advancement in the payments market , with innovations like... |
Yahoo’s Shopping Spree Is Slowing Down, It Used A Net $22M For Acquisitions In Q1 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Yahoo’s acquisition train looks like it may finally have slowed down, at least in terms of value if not numbers. Yahoo noted in its that it used a net $22 million for acquisitions in the three months that ended March 31, covering eight companies. The tide could turn, however, post an IPO of Alibaba, which is expected... |
Google Releases Helpouts App For iOS | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Google introduced Helpouts last year to HELP PEOPLE OUT (yeah that’s where they got the name). The system works through Hangouts, letting people connect with experts for paid or free video chats that are about solving a specific problem, rather than just shooting the breeze with pals as we all do on Hangouts all the ti... |
Intel Meets In Q1 With Revenue Of $12.8B, EPS Of $0.38 On Back Of Recovering PC Market | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Following the closing bell today, Intel its first quarter results, including revenue of $12.764 billion, and earnings per share of $0.38. The results roughly match analyst expectations that the company would earn $0.37 per share on top line of $12.81 billion. It’s worth noting that that $0.37 per share earnings expec... |
Yahoo Beats Street For Q1 On Sales Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.38 But Flat Display Sales Of $438M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Yahoo has just reported its , with ex-TAC revenues of $1.087 billion and earnings per share of $0.38, and net income of $314 million. That just about beat analysts’ expectations on revenue: they were ex-TAC sales of $1.08 billion (First Call estimates were $1,076.9 million). Yahoo had provided adjusted earnings gui... |
Respondly Launches To Simplify Your Support Team’s Workflow For Emails And Tweets | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | The founder of , a tool that surfaces popular Twitter favourites, has launched a new startup with a Twitter focus — bringing a customer support tool called out of private beta today. Its tagline best sums up what this b2b startup is aiming for: ‘Team inbox for email & Twitter’. The basic concept, say co-founders Tim... |
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Samsung’s Galaxy S5 Can Be Tricked By The Same Lifted Fingerprint Hack As The iPhone 5S | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Remember back in September when a couple of researchers figured out how to bypass the iPhone 5S’ fingerprint lock ? Turns out, the fingerprint sensor on Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 falls victim to the very same trick. They didn’t even have to make a new mold. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhLZZWBn5Q&w=640&h=390... |
Hands On With The Xperia Z2 Smartphone And Z2 Tablet, Sony’s Waterproof Wonders | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 15 | Both Samsung and HTC have new flagship Android phones out in the U.S., but Sony isn’t just sitting back and doing nothing. The company has its new launching soon in select markets, including in Canada in May. The waterproof glass-encased handset has a lot in common with last year’s Z1, but goes the extra mile with ne... |
How Much Time Have You Killed In Front Of Your TV? This Tool Tells You | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 12 | Oh man! I’m going to be so productive this weekend! I’m going to work on of my side projects! Screw side projects! Lets re-watch all of Breaking Bad! Do you ever wonder how much time you’ve spent watching TV shows? It’s probably a lot. But Two week’s worth? A month? crunches the numbers for you. Punch in a show y... |
A Multi-Factor Analysis Of Startups | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 12 | Every decision we make from what to wear to whom to hire requires a balance of multiple factors. Sometimes we decide quickly and other times with deliberate consideration. Either way, we do this every day. Picking what to wear, for instance, depends on a number of variables: what we have in the closet, what we’ll be ... |
Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 12 | I used to think corporate culture didn’t matter. Discussion of vision, mission and values was for people who couldn’t build product or sell it! We had work to do and this MBA BS was getting in the way! And then my first company failed. Cambridge Decision Dynamics did not fail because we didn’t have a great technology o... |
Phones Go Back To The Future | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 4 | 12 | I’m no fan of LG’s rear smartphone control keys — but turns out the company had its finger on the pulse of looming hardware disruption when it ushered in those backside smartphone controls last summer, with the . Smartphone case-makers start quaking because all that unused real-estate on the rear of the proverbial han... |
Apple Nabs Itself A Renewable Power Plant Project in Oregon | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 12 | Apple’s been on a bit of a buying spree lately. ! ! ! If you had to guess the next thing Apple would take under its wing, what would it be? If you guessed “a hydroelectric power project in Central Oregon”, you’d be right! You’d also be a weirdly specific guesser. reports that Apple has taken over the efforts to com... |
Instagram Is Down (Update: It’s Back!) | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 12 | RED ALERT! We are at DEFCON 1. Instagram is down. According to and , and my iPhone, the service is down for everyone. According to this service status site, Instagram has been down for about an hour. Twitter is about Coachella. Instagram has not made a comment on the matter yet, but we’ve reached out and will upda... |
A Wearables Startup Playbook | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 12 | received as much buzz as the wearables market. From fitness bands and anklet baby monitors, to smartwatches and Google Glass, wearables are fun, cool, and cutting-edge. The rise of mobile broadband, commodity sensors, smartphone-based companion apps, virtualized manufacturing and supply chain, crowdfunding, and nimble... |
Changing Our Education System One Programmer At A Time | Contributor | 2,014 | 4 | 12 | In the off chance you’ve been sleeping under a rock with no Wi-Fi for the past 20 years, here’s some news: The U.S. educational system is under attack from multiple fronts and is on the verge of being reshaped by a profound entrepreneurial uprising. This is acutely evident in higher education. Colleges are in an unsu... |
Sequoia-Backed Chinese Retailer Jumei Files For $400M U.S. IPO | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 13 | Beijing-based online retailer plans to hold its initial public offering in the U.S. In its over the weekend Jumei, which offers daily deals on fragrances and cosmetics, said it wants to raise up to $400 million, but did not disclose which exchange it will list on. The company was founded in 2009 and its investors i... |
Google, Eich, Rice: The Evil That Tech Does | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 4 | 12 | Techies hate politics. Well, no: we hate the of politics. Whenever I talk to pretty much anyone in the industry about politics as a sphere of human endeavor, from individual coders to zillionaire VCs, pained expressions cross their faces and they rush to distance themselves from the whole toxic mess. Which is a prob... |
Gillmor Gang: Deep Bench | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 4 | 12 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Semil Shah, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — Heartbleed security hole, changing landscape of Twitter notifications, Brendan Eich’s exit from Mozilla, politically charged and leadership compromised, Condoleezza Rice heading to the Dropbox Board of Directors? D... |
With Comixology, Amazon Acquires A Piece Of The Comic-Based Media Empire | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 13 | Amazon , and that’s a huge deal, because it means the largest bookseller in the world now owns the company that brought digital comics distribution to the masses, and essentially forced big publishers like DC and Marvel to get with it and start distributing titles on the same day in print and via digital channels. It’... |
What Games Are: Valley People And Games People | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 4 | 13 | In the middle of talking about why the hype around Oculus Rift and Facebook I made a comment about why trust was a big issue, and why for game developers it’s not simply a matter of telling them to get over it. And this: (which betrays a big disconnect between how the Valley thinks and how games people think, but tha... |
Inside Microsoft’s New Platform And Services Strategy | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 13 | During the week before Microsoft’s Build developer conference, I spoke to the company’s (Guggs), corporate vice president in charge of evangelism, and , director of the company’s developer ecosystem. We discussed Microsoft’s changing views on the technology market, and specifically its place in it — topics that are ... |
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Entitle Brings Its Subscription E-Books To E-Ink Readers, Including The Nook | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 13 | When e-book service launched last December, one of the main selling points was the idea that subscribers truly own their books. Now the company says it has given users even more control by allowing them to transfer books to their Nooks, Kobos or Sony Readers. Until now, it seems that have focused on the big app eco... |
#Love: Thanks, Porn | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 13 | As a modern married male, the times spent alone with my computer and a box of tissues are, in some ways, the best times. That is not to say the manifold pleasures of family life and the wild menagerie of mere existence aren’t amazing, but a body likes to be alone. For this I thank porn. While there is no doubt that the... |
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