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Enterprise File-sharer Egnyte Opens London HQ To Meet Euro Security Demand | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 4 | 13 | , the Valley firm specialising in an enterprise file-sharing platform, has expanded in Europe, opening a London HQ. This will compliment its existing Amsterdam data center and design office in Poland. It aims to hire 100 new staff in London over the next 5 years. The company says there is growing customer demand for en... |
UberRUSH Raises Three Critical Questions For The Future Of Mobile On-Demand Services | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 4 | 13 | TechCrunch Last week, my column discussed how on-demand mobile services — — are ripe for venture capital investment. In the seven days that have passed, more startups in this category have been handsomely funded by some of the best investors in the world. And, to cap off the week, the leader in this category, Uber, ... |
How Oculus And 8 Fake Ears Could Morph Concerts Into Video Games | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 13 | I’m standing on a circular stage with neo-folk musician Beck. Surrounded by cheering fans, I blush, then turn and wave to thank them. They don’t see me, though, because I’m actually sitting in a dark, empty back room at Sundance Film Festival wearing an Oculus Rift. A few minutes before, I was blasting spaceships throu... |
US Government Will Detail Internet Exploits, Except When It Doesn’t Want To | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 13 | Heartbleed kicked off a in the rollicking discussion of privacy, digital security, and the role of government in protecting its citizenry from threats both real and imagined. News of Heartbleed , starting a soul-searching bit of Internet-scrambling by services large and small to examine their own networks and produc... |
Viddsee BUZZ Launches To Help Independent Asian Films Go Viral | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | , an , has launched the beta version of , a new site that is meant to help content reach a wider audience on social networks. The site, which launched last year, also announced that Viddsee has hit five unique million viewers. Viddsee currently serves artists from Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysi... |
BTC China Launches ATM Web App | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | , one of the world’s largest bitcoin exchanges by trading volume, released a new mobile-friendly Web app called the today. The Picasso ATM allows users around the world to exchange the digital currency for cash without having to find a physical ATM. To use Picasso ATM, bitcoin owners first load the currency into BTC C... |
Microsoft Rolls Out The April Xbox One Update — Here’s What’s Inside | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | Do you have an Xbox One? It’s update time! Get excited! Well, not too excited. Moderately excited. Like the last few monthly updates, this month’s patch is mostly meant to bring in features that aren’t so much oh-my-god-brand-new as they are things that were surprisingly absent after the jump from Xbox 360 to Xbox One.... |
Microsoft Now Accepts Universal Windows Apps As Its Insta-OEM Kit For Windows Phone Goes Live | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | Starting today developers can Windows Store and Windows Phone applications to create the that Microsoft announced recently at its Build developer conference. Microsoft is working to unite development for its two core Windows platforms, incentivizing developers to create apps for Windows by making it easier to targe... |
Google Glass Gets KitKat Support And Improved Photo Browsing, Loses Video Calls | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | Anybody will be able to , but ahead of this, Google is giving the Glass software . There are a couple of new features in this update, including new tools for making working with photos easier, but Google has also decided to remove the option to do video calls from Glass for the time being. Google says video calls fro... |
Amid Reports Facebook Is Eyeing Up Financial Services, TransferWise Hits £1 Billion In Transfers | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | A million pounds isn’t cool, you know what’s cool? In the midst of reports that , one of the startups it’s rumoured to have talked to, the European P2P money transfer service , has hit a major milestone today: Its platform has processed £1 billion of customers’ money, an eight-fold increase — £125m to £1bn — since Ma... |
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | Valley was some of the most valuable agricultural land in the entire world, but it was paved over to create today’s Silicon Valley. This was simply the result of bad planning and layers of leadership failure — nobody thinks farms literally needed to be destroyed to create the technology industry’s success. Today, the ... |
Entertainment Deals Take Center Stage In LA’s Burgeoning VC Scene | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | A string of big acquisitions, public offerings, and a pipeline of growing young startup companies has venture investors saying “ ” The recent acquisitions of and , as well as the planned public offering for TrueCar , all point to a healthy investment ecosystem, but there’s still one industry that rules over Tinselt... |
100 Tesla Model S Convertibles Are Headed To China | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | Hold on to your hat. The Tesla Model S is about to get more breezy thanks to a drop-top conversion by Newport Convertible Engineering. Both hard and soft top conversions are now available — they don’t come cheap, though. A soft-top conversion costs $29K and a hard-top $49K. Plus, the buyer has to supply the Tesla Model... |
Meet TrustTheVote, A Project To Make Voting Open Source And Transparent | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | How was your last voting experience? Smooth? Perhaps not. The wants to change that by making voting simpler and more transparent. Its chief effort, called , is a push to develop airtight, open-source vote casting and tabulation software that can be paired with off-the-shelf hardware. Open-source code and off-the-she... |
Social TV App Zeebox Relaunches As Beamly | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | Zeebox, the app co-founded by former BBC iPlayer exec Anthony Rose, has rebranded and relaunched its social TV app for consumers as . The still has all the same that came with Zeebox, but the team has enhanced Beamly to be relevant to users even when they’re not watching their favorite shows. To do that, Beamly in... |
The Most Overused Startup Pitch Becomes A Super Rare Cards Against Humanity Card | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | “Let me tell you about my new startup. It’s basically [some popular startup] but for [some completely unrelated thing].” If you’ve ever been to any startup event, you’ve probably heard it 14 thousand times. Now it’s a Cards Against Humanity card. The bad news? You’ll probably never see the card in person, because it’s ... |
Twitter Has Log Cabin Fever [Photos] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 4 | 14 |
Today in the : Twitter installed its previously purchased log cabins, which we , into its office at The log cabins are part of the company’s mid-Market office expansion, which includes a new cafeteria. Twitter now of the 11-floor, 77-year-old SF Mart building. As if the numeric symmetry weren’t enough, there’s on... |
Samsung Galaxy S5 Review: More Evolution Than Revolution Despite New Hardware Features | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | S 5, if you ask Samsung) is the company’s latest flagship phone and sure to be a swift seller. The phone is, in its own way, beautifully designed and the materials, while clearly plastic, are durable and should maintain a luster over time. Is this an iPhone replacement? No, but it is a replacement for the S4 that shou... |
Inside Jobs: How iOS Developer Danilo Campos Battles To Bring New Apps To Life | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | Mobile apps are something that you interact with on a very personal basis — you carry them around in your pocket, check in with them frequently, and really let them into your life. So in this episode of we decided to turn the tables and get personal with someone who builds mobile apps. is the developer and designer ... |
Airlines Should Make Twitter A No-Fly Zone | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | Whoops! Airlines are awful at Twitter, and should leave the platform entirely. I’m , but today’s served as an excellent reminder. No good can come from an airline being on Twitter, and here’s why: Airlines are not known for their customer service or product excellence, generally speaking. In comparison to air travel... |
Y Combinator Adds Four New Partners, Including Stripe CEO Patrick Collison | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | is announcing today the addition of four new partners to its roster, as part of its larger push for more growth under new president . Altman announced in a this afternoon that YC’s current outreach director has been promoted to take on a partner position at the organization, and joining YC as part-time partners a... |
Top Sequoia Capital Partner Roelof Botha To Take The Stage At Disrupt NY 2014 | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | When partner talks about a company, people listen. Botha has been the mastermind behind funding rounds of several successful startups, with a special knack for social services. He’s also repeatedly found himself in the top 30 on , which ranks the top individual investors at the major venture capital firms. All rea... |
Google Gets In On Ground Level With Drone Maker Titan Buy | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | Titan Aerospace, the drone maker Facebook had been in acquisition talks with prior (as we’ve now confirmed following The WSJ’s ), was a name that took many in the industry by surprise. How was it that a company that reportedly has solar-powered drones that can fly at 65,000 feet above sea level for five years withou... |
In A Bullish Move, Twitter To Report Earnings Ahead Of Employee Lock-Up Expiration | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 14 | Following its , Twitter soared north of $70 per share, topping out at $ In the face of that slide, and despite a massive share-price correction — — following , Twitter is its first quarter earnings before , the date when a large number of its shares owned by employees will unlock. Unlocked shares are available fo... |
What Is The Opposite Of A BuzzFeed Quiz? | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | “i really feel like we need a buzzfeed-type writer,” our community manager Skypes me, because we’re hiring and dealing with all the fun stuff that that entails, “everyones going in that direction it seems.” “What is that direction?” I ask. “something that you don’t have to click on yet do cause why not” is her answer. ... |
Apple Sells iPhones To Reanimate The Pixies | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | One day in the fall of 1990, or maybe it was ’91, I discovered a box my cousin had left at our house. In the box was a black cassette tape with a grubby label. On one side, recorded in long play mode to fit it all, was the Beastie Boys ‘License To Ill’ and Concrete Blonde’s ‘Bloodletting’. On the other side was the Pix... |
David Einhorn Just Cried Bubble And Let Slip The Shorts Of War | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | David Einhorn, a hedge fund manager worth north of a billion dollars, isn’t bullish on technology stocks. In a to his investors sent today, Einhorn described the current market environment as the “second tech bubble in 15 years.” Calling today an “echo of the previous tech bubble,” Einhorn notes that there are curren... |
Hipster’s Ludlow And eBay’s Mengerink Are Working On A Startup Called The Happy Home Company | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | Doug Ludlow, formerly CEO of startup Hipster, is working on something new called The Happy Home Company, and he has convinced former eBay executive Matthew Mengerink to co-found it with him. Hipster, for those of you who don’t remember, was a photo-sharing startup that was probably best known for stunts like . The sta... |
Lifeline, The Early-Stage Finnish VC Firm That Backed Supercell, Closes Another Fund | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | has never ceased to surprise me. There’s every November to find the world’s strongest investor and founder. Or, I mean, just look at their portfolio:
They even backed the Finnish rock band, , to make a game and a feature film about a half-Siberian, half-Mexican dog. They’ve also had some serious wins. They were ... |
New Details On Tactus’ Funding | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | On the heels of last week, Tactus chief executive Craig Ciesla stopped by TechCrunch to talk about its future plans. Ciesla said that the company raised $13.5 million , with Thomvest Ventures as the lead investor, with Ryoyo, Wistron and other undisclosed strategic and financial investors participating. Ciesla says... |
Meet The New CrunchBase | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | first launched in 2007, has been an invaluable source of information about major companies, startups, investors and executives in the tech ecosystem. Today we’re proud to introduce CrunchBase 2.0 — a more beautiful, easier-to-use, and more powerful version of the database that the tech world has come to depend on. T... |
Xappmedia Raises $3M For Interactive Audio Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | is announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding for its . The first part of a Xappmedia spot can sound like a regular ad, but then it offers a call to action. For example, an ad for a flower company could begin with a promotional spiel, but then ask users whether they want to find out more, or buy flowers... |
New Policy All But Bans The Intelligence Community From Speaking To The Press | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | A new policy put in place this March effectively bans members of the U.S. intelligence community from speaking to the media, even when discussing unclassified matters. The have sparked outcry from many outside the government, given that the policies as detailed in the directive further clamp down on interaction betwe... |
Star Trek And The Politics Of Silicon Valley | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | Let’s get outside of the San Francisco bubble for a little while (trust me, ). I realize in a world saturated with protesters who have all the sophistication and menace of a shipful of , it may seem like a protest in front of Kevin Rose’s home is the Biggest News in the Universe. It may seem doubly so when said prote... |
Roku FINALLY Releases A YouTube Channel For Most Of Its Streaming Boxes | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | After what has been seriously too long, Roku has just launched an official YouTube channel for of its lil’ streaming boxes. The catch: Roku says the channel is only compatible with “current generation” devices, which they define as any box launched after July 2011. Roku’s model numbering system is super confusing*,... |
Owlet, The Smart Baby Bootie, Raises $1.85 Million | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | , a smart baby bootie that measures your child’s heart rate, launched on our Hardware Battlefield last January and has just raised $1.85 million from multiple firms including ff Venture Capital and Eniac Ventures. Also in participation of the round was Azimuth Ventures, Life Sciences Angel Network, Peak Ventures, and B... |
Aol Moves To Prevent Spoofed Emails Following Mail Hack | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | A few days ago Aol Mail was , and users’ address books were scraped. Today, that will help other mail providers reject email messages sent from email accounts spoofed from this security breach. Like Yahoo earlier this month, . This puts a line of text in its DNS record telling mailbox providers to reject Aol mail i... |
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You’re More Than Your Last Few Tweets | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | Our lives are not defined reverse chronologically, yet until now, that’s strictly how our social network profiles portrayed us — as a snapshot of our latest activity. Today, with the option to to the top of our profiles “ When you meet someone, you often ask them “how are you?” and the answer usually tells you almo... |
Dorian Nakamoto Thanks The Bitcoin Community, Reminds Us He’s Not The Real Satoshi | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w7YmJZ-qVW8] The alleged Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, has taken to YouTube with noted Bitcoin activist, Andreas Antonopoulos, to thank the Bitcoin community for sending him over . “If I was the real creator, I would never use my real name,” said Nakamoto i... |
The UBR-1, A Hackable Robotics Platform, Is Now For Sale | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | One of the most interesting robotics platforms I’ve seen in a while, the , is now available for sale, something that should cause robotics wonks to rejoice. The platform runs the and includes a single hand with seven degrees of freedom, a 3D camera, stereo microphone, and speakers. It can move across the floor at 2 ... |
Apple Opens OS X Beta Testing To All Users With New Seed Program | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | Before today, you needed a developer account to help test Apple’s upcoming software releases before they hit the general user population. You didn’t need to actually develop anything, but it would still cost you $99 per year to partake, and technically it was still sort of against the rules. Today, Apple introduced its... |
Evernote CEO Details His Company’s Plans For A Wearable Future | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | There’s a conundrum facing software developers these days: Wearable tech is clearly an area of keen interest among consumers and industry watchers, but how to prepare for mass market adoption in this nascent space? There are still so many variables, so much left up in the air, that it’s hard to pick any areas of invest... |
Everplans Raises $2.1 Million To Help Users Plan For Their Final Steps | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | The internet ages with its users. As the first digital generation learned the language of computing and online networking it created tools for every conceivable life event. On the Web these days you can plan for everything from to to and even ( ). Now, Beyondly, which does business as , is set to announce a $2... |
Microsoft Will Pick Up 93.5% Of The Windows Phone Device Market When Its Nokia Deal Closes On Friday | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 22 | After delay and , the $7.2 billion Microsoft-Nokia deal will . With its conclusion, Microsoft will become the de facto Windows Phone OEM, building and shipping the lion’s share of the smartphones that are part of the platform. The Nokia assets will be called . According to the latest statistics from covering April... |
Shanghai-Based ChaseFuture Raises A $400K Round To Ease University Admissions For International Students | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | , a Shanghai-based startup that built a platform where admissions experts and college alums can coach international students on how to get in, just raised $400,000 in a fresh seed round. Led by Banyan Partners and Harbor Pacific Capital, the round also included Artesian Capital Management and other educational technol... |
Microsoft Is Challenging The US Government’s Use Of Search Warrants To Access Data Stored Abroad | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | Microsoft its first challenge to the authority of the United States government’s use of search warrants to demand data stored abroad. Microsoft challenged a U.S. search warrant for emails stored in Ireland. The cloud does have a physical footprint, after all. The company was not surprised that it lost the initial tes... |
US Telco Firm [REDACTED] Gently Pushed Back Against Bulk Metadata Collection In January | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | In December Federal Judge Richard Leon that in his estimation, the bulk collection of telephony metadata by the NSA was likely unconstitutional. He stayed his ruling, however, citing “significant national security interests” and “the novelty of the constitutional issue” at play. Less than two weeks later, an , calli... |
Sources: Blue Apron Cooks Up $50M From Stripes Group At $450M Valuation | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | is raising $50 million Series C round led by , TechCrunch has learned. The latest round is based on a $450 million valuation, according to multiple sources. It is unclear whether or not the deal has officially closed or still in the process of being finalized. We had previously reported that Blue Apron on the $500... |
Y Combinator-Backed Streem Has Raised $875K For Its Unlimited Cloud Storage Service | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | If you’re hoping to store lots of large media files, might be the cloud storage service that you’re looking for. The startup, which is part of incubator Y Combinator, last week, and it’s announcing that it has raised $875,000 in seed funding. Co-founder and CEO Ritik Malhotra compared Streem to the external hard dr... |
The Sony Xperia Z2 Will Launch In The U.S. This Summer | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | Sony has confirmed to TechCrunch that the Xperia Z2 will be released in the U.S. but not for several months. The release is scheduled for “summer.” A U.S. launch of the Xperia Compact Z1 is currently not on the books at all, we also learned. The Z2 will be sold unlocked through Sony’s online store. Carriers have not be... |
Vungle Targets Brands With Its New Exchange For In-App Video Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | announced today that it’s launching what it calls “the first ever advertising exchange built exclusively for in-app video.” When the company in February, CEO Zain Jaffer said that the exchange would allow Vungle to expand beyond app trailers to run video ads for big brands, too. He reiterated that point this week wh... |
Hillary Clinton Excoriates Snowden’s Leaks, Mocks His Softball Putin Question | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | Former Secretary of State, Senator, and First Lady Hillary Clinton isn’t big on . Clinton excoriated Snowden recently, hitting him for leaving the country, not availing himself of whistleblower protections here at home, and for asking Russian President a now . That Clinton isn’t a fan of Snowden itself isn’t news — ... |
Apple Launches Replacement Program For Faulty iPhone 5 Sleep/Wake Buttons | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | Apple has launched a new program to help iPhone 5 owners affected by a fault that may render their sleep/wake button ineffective or unresponsive. The problem affects what Apple calls “a small percentage” of iPhone 5s made from March 2013 on, Apple says, and you can find out if yours qualifies and apply for the replacem... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | What’s the haps, Pappy Van Meatsack? Still keeping your juices on the inside? Good, because we’re still not quite at the robot dystopia stage but we’re getting there. Our first contender for of the week is this robotic gecko that, aside from looking cute, can scuttle up walls and glass. The uses van der Waals’ forc... |
Yes, AT&T’s Threat To Boycott Next Year’s Spectrum Auction Was Bullshit | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | The rules proposed for the 2015 spectrum auction are crap, and ! . Fine, haha, we were just kidding. Or, to be more : Our desire to participate in this auction and our hope for a successful auction is unchanged. We believe that all stakeholders will be able to work together to achieve a successful incentive auc... |
CrunchWeek: The Future Of Google+ And Why RadiumOne’s CEO Has To Go | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | This week , and I sat around the Round Table to discuss the and the violently abusive CEO of RadiumOne. Gundotra’s departure from the Google — and we’re still trying to find out if he was fired — leaves Google+’s future in doubt. When it comes to the leader of RadiumOne, there is only one thing to say: . |
Contently Offers New Analytics Tools To Help Content Marketers Go Beyond Pageviews | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | There are a number of startups offering tools to help advertisers create articles, videos, and other content that can attract potential customers. ( to work with many of those startups.) But how can companies tell if this content marketing is actually working? That’s the problem that is trying to address with its ne... |
“Instagram For Doctors” App Figure 1 Updates With New Features | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | , the photo and information sharing service for the medical profession, is taking the next step in its evolution to become an image-based social network for physicians. Yesterday the company quietly launched a new version of its photo and information sharing service, which gives users the ability to create more robust ... |
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Sony Z2, FyreTV, And The Long-Rumored iWatch | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | Sony’s new Z2 tablet is , so we’re taking a look at , tablet and smartphone included. Meanwhile, Amazon is coming into a bit of a legal dispute thanks to a six-year old porn media player . And of course, because John can’t go a single podcast without discussing smart watches, we’re looking ahead to the forthcoming ... |
The Rabbit Proto Can Print Real Electronics | John Biggs | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | Stanford students Alex Jais, Manal Dia, and Rohan Maheshwari have created a 3D printer that creates electronic traces – the flat metallic connections found on circuit boards. By replacing a standard plastic extruder on a 3D printer, the Rabbit Proto can “print” electronic wires inside a solid object, allowing you to bu... |
SpaceX Just Made A Big Step Towards Cheaper, More Sustainable Space Flight | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | Elon Musk just announced a significant milestone for SpaceX and, well, humanity. The first live test of a Falcon 9 rocket boost stage landing vertically was a success. The first stage of the rocket returned to Earth and landed vertically in the Atlantic Ocean after boosting the second stage to a resupply mission with t... |
SpaceX Files Suit Against U.S. Air Force, Cites Use Of Russian Rockets As Problematic | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | During an event today to , CEO Elon Musk also revealed that SpaceX has decided to file suit against the U.S. Air Force to get it to open up competition for national security-related rocket launches. Musk said that they were reluctant to file suit, but that the move is the last one available to them after trying to pur... |
A Personal Reflection On Google+ | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | the day after my Stanford graduation in June of 2011, and two days later got to take a peek at the product I would be working on for the next three months. There had been rumors in the press for a while that Google was building some sort of secret social network, but these stories were mostly unsubstantiated rumors. N... |
Facebook’s Mobile Ad Network Is Called “Facebook Audience Network” And Here’s How It Works | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 4 | 25 | Next week at , Facebook will unveil Facebook Audience Network, its mobile ad network that will let developers target both standard banners and custom ad units with Facebook’s vast trove of personal data, according to multiple sources. It could let developers monetize, advertisers buy more mobile impressions than News ... |
Crowdfunded Gadgets That Let You Play Music, Charge, And Wash | Ross Rubin | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | Musicians have trouble spending time away from their instruments. But bulky instruments, especially guitars, aren’t very portable and cannot be left in cars or public places where they may be stolen. Those with busy lives who like making music are left with few options. The allows traveling musicians to travel easier... |
Pure Internet | Josh Jones-Dilworth | 2,014 | 5 | 3 |
The Internet wasn’t supposed to be so…Machiavellian. In 1963, and his wife set out on a landmark road trip, the goal of which was to educate and enliven the people they encountered with tools for modern living. The word “tools” was taken liberally. Brand wrote that “a realm of intimate, personal power is developing... |
eBay To Settle Antitrust Suit Regarding Its Hiring Practices For $3.75M | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | This week eBay announced that it has agreed to a settlement with the United States Department of Justice, and the Attorney General of California, regarding a non-hire agreement with Intuit. The settlement will include the company paying out $3.75 million to cover compensation to impacted employees, along with various f... |
The Hackathon Is On! | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | The Hackathon is officially underway here in the Manhattan Center in New York City, where hundreds of coders have gathered under one roof to build something awesome and hopefully make a few friends. The Hackathon has always been the way we kick off our Disrupt NY conference each year, and as usual, this year is bet... |
PayPal Strategy Exec ‘No Longer With The Company’ After Sending Inappropriate Tweets | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | PayPal’s new director of strategy Rakesh “Rocky” Agrawal . The company publicly confirmed that the relatively new hire is “no longer with the company” after sending a series of bizarre and insulting tweets last night. Agrawal , after working for many years as a consultant to payments and commerce companies. Hired as ... |
The Censorship Effect | Lydia Laurenson | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | The 29-year-old founder of VKontakte, Russia’s largest social network, just got “ ” and left the country. That is, Pavel Durov described himself as fired, although there were previous rustlings of . Durov’s departure was accompanied by much commentary about the censorship climate in Russia. He himself announced that... |
SweetLabs Picks Up HP As Its Fourth OEM Partner | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | SweetLabs has picked up another OEM partner, HP, to preload its software platform that includes a Windows Start Menu replacement on some of its PCs. SweetLabs, the creators of Pokki, a popular Start Menu and app tool, have placed their focus in recent quarters on helping OEMs boost per-device margins. In short, the tec... |
Lost In Translation — Don’t Mistake British Reserve For Lack Of Ambition | Contributor | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | This post has been ‘brewing’ in my mind for a number of years now. It’s only taken a shape worthy of publication thanks to Julian Rowe, principal at Horsley Bridge (that Blue Chip investor in the world’s great tech VCs). During a recent meeting, Julian and I were talking about the cultural differences we’d observed bet... |
Gillmor Gang: Pattern Baldness | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include Twitter Dead media bait, FourSquare’s move toward the new cross-app model championed by Facebook, the Google+ backslide, and Microsoft in the free lane. No matter how much the market wants to qua... |
Managing Growth In A Volatile Market | Glenn Solomon | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | Over the past several years, founders have been operating in a steadily improving macroeconomic environment. Stock market performance has mirrored the economic recovery, with the tech-heavy NASDAQ having posted meaningful gains in four of the past five years and only 2011 posting a modest 1.8 percent loss. Leveraging... |
What Games Are: Is Formal Game Design Valuable? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | There’s a number of us who claim the title of “game designer” but we aren’t really a contiguous group. Game design isn’t a set job description that applies evenly across all companies (or even projects within the same company). It doesn’t have a set of standard tools, or a standardized kind of output. Unlike engineers ... |
After Technology Destroys Capitalism | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | In honor of , let’s think big for a moment. No, no, no. Bigger than that. Consider all the furious attention paid to economic inequality of late, courtesy of Thomas Piketty and . He argues that increasing inequality is an inevitable outcome of laissez-faire capitalism, and proposes we fix this with a global wealth ta... |
A User’s Guide to Disrupt NY 2014 | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,014 | 5 | 3 | Conference is almost upon us and we’ve partnered with some amazing folks to make your experience this year better than ever. ! Join us on Monday for the Official After Party at , sponsored by our friends at . If you’re an arm chair Disruptor, thanks to you can watch the conference action from the TechCrunch homep... |
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ThriveOn Wants To Make Mental Health Care Affordable And Accessible | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | Since 1986, has equaled about one percent of the U.S. economy, or about $150 billion in 2009. So much is at stake, both financially and for the , that it’s surprising how few tech companies focus on mental health. A gradually growing roster of startups, however, want to make it easy for people who are struggling thr... |
Peer To Peer Lending Marketplace Prosper Raises $70M | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | a peer-to-peer lending marketplace in the U.S., has raised $70 million led by Francisco Partners, a private equity firm with Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and Phenomen Ventures participating. This brings the companies funding to $145 million. Previous backers include Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and... |
Twitter Is Here To Stay | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | Rakesh Agrawal’s -trashing tweet disaster — and the subsequent chicken/egg story of whether he — was a slightly surreal turn of events for a company whose most explosive story over the last six months has been whether a notorious corporate raider was going to get his way and it from eBay (he ). To be honest, I don... |
Pressing The Button | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | The is almost over. Over the past few months I’ve been writing about my experience crowdfunding and self-publishing a . After running an Indiegogo campaign and coming out with almost $20,000, I’m at the point where I have to start delivering books. When I started writing Mytro I wanted to go the traditional publishi... |
HANA Visionary Vishal Sikka Resigns From SAP | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | This afternoon, , Executive Board Member for Products and Innovation, has resigned for personal reasons. The resignation was effective immediately. At the same time, SAP named a couple of new executive board members, including Robert Enslin and Bernd Leukert. The news could indicate some disarray or possibly a power s... |
Vrban Wins The Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon Grand Prize, Indulge And MixTape Are Runners Up | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | convened at the Manhattan Center for the Hackathon. They have worked tirelessly for the past 24 hours. After a long night, the 96 teams all took the stage to present a short and sweet one-minute demo to impress our judges and audience of talented hackers. Only one team could take home the grand prize. So, without fu... |
Business Travelers Get A Boost At Disrupt NY Hackathon | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | How many times have you taken a trip for work, landed in a city you didn’t know and wondered how to get the most bang out of that sweet, sweet expense account buck? Thanks to Disrupt, there are now a few apps for that. , , , and all offered up some applications integrating with , , and many more to come up with t... |
Star Wars STREET By 50 Review: These Are The Headphones You’re Looking For | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | Today is a day of celebration: It’s Star Wars Day, and that means on onslaught of Star Wars-themed gadgets – like these special edition STREET by 50 headphones I got to test out, which feature the badging of the greatest freedom movement the galaxy has ever borne witness to. But do they honor the Alliance Starbird and ... |
‘Disrupt Taco Bell’ Hack Stretches Your Dollar On Late Night Burrito Runs | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | It’s 1 am, you’re hungry and you’ve only got $5. How do you figure out what the maximum amount of grub you can snag inside that budget is? You could try to do some drunk math but that’s never going to work out. Or you could try the time-honored method of rolling up to the drive through and scrounging for coins in the a... |
Getting Girly At the Hackathon With Indulge: The Nail Snob App | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | Ladies (or so inclined gentlemen). Picture yourself at the nail salon, searching for the precise color you want applied to your fingers or toes. If you’re anything like me, you make that selection based on snappy nail polish names. After you’ve dried and you’re on your way, you text a picture to your girlfriends and in... |
Ooberdocs Takes Incoming Email Attachments And Copies Them Into Your Dropbox Account | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | Tired of having your files pile up in different buckets, and want better harmony between your email and cloud storage account? , built during the and presented onstage today, solves that issue by copying attachments sent to your email address into your Dropbox account, as well. The hack is currently live, functional... |
The oRouter Is A Tor-Powered Linux Box That Secures Your Internet Connection | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | Longtime TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon participants, Kay Anar and Gilad Shai showed off their hardware hack today called the “ ” – a Linux-powered, Raspberry Pi-like computer offering secure Wi-Fi access via the Tor network. The idea is to offer an affordable alternative to to your computer, as well as a way to mor... |
3Dioo Hardware Hack Is A DIY Oculus Rift | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | It’s always great to see hardware hacks. This one, called , just demoed on stage here at the TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2014 hackathon turns a standard Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone into a 3D capture device — and a viewer, when used in conjunction with a couple of hardware add-ons. The array for capturing the 3D is ma... |
Watch The Disrupt NY Hackathon Live Stream Right Here | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 4 |
Over 1,000 hackers registered to participate in the 24-hour Disrupt Hackathon, and now comes the moment of truth. Each of our hacks will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product to a panel of incredible judges and our guest audience. There are dozens of API sponsors to work with, including CrunchBase, Evern... |
Hackathon Project Data Injector Adds Public Data To Anyone’s Facebook Page | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | This morning at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon, web developer William Wnekowicz and teammate Edward Yu presented , a Chrome extension that adds relevant public data links to a user’s Facebook profile page. The public record data is sourced from , and makes a pretty good case for opening up Enigma’s API further –... |
WhichBeers Wants To Help You Find The Right Beer | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | At our TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon today, Andrew Kae and Xiaoan Yan presented one of the most useful hacks of the day: a new way to find good beer. Imagine you’re in the store and looking at a giant display case with beers you’ve never heard of. Which one should you buy? WhichBeers uses image recognition and a data... |
It’s Everybody’s Birthday At The Disrupt NY Hackathon | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 4 | As I write this, it’s about 1am on a Saturday night in New York City, yet is still humming along. Ryan Lawler and I spent the past hour wandering around, interviewing several sleepy-but-friendly participants. Fair warning: Although a hackathon doesn’t seem like an obvious venue for this sort of thing, the video doe... |
Tencent To Buy 11.3% Stake In Mapping Company NavInfo For $187M | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | , one of China’s largest Internet companies, will spend 1.17 billion yuan, or $187 million for a 11.3% stake in , one of the country’s largest mapping companies. Best known abroad as the maker of , Tencent’s products in China include a large range of consumer mobile products and NavInfo will help power its location-b... |
@WalmartLabs Buys Adtech Startup Adchemy, Its Biggest Talent Deal Yet | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | the retailer’s Silicon Valley-based innovation lab and R&D center, has now made its twelfth acquisition with the purchase of e-commerce technology company , its biggest deal yet in terms of people. Founded in 2004, and backed by nearly $120 million in outside , Adchemy had experimented with a number of business mode... |
Google Wallet Is Coming To Glass | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | is coming to Glass soon. According to a source close to the company, Google is currently testing a way for Glass users to send money to their friends through Wallet by simply using their voices to ask Glass to “send money.” The company is testing this service internally right now, but chances are it will launch to all... |
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