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Audience Choice Winner Roadie Automagically Tunes Your Guitar | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | is a nifty little robotic device. It’s a small box that you put on your guitar’s machine heads. You connect it to your phone and it automatically tunes your guitar, all by itself. Earlier today, the startup was selected as the audience choice in the . And it’s no surprise. Roadie is accurate, fast and easy — if you’r... |
Oculus CEO Says Selling To Facebook Convinced Big Developers To Build For It | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | “Do we want to be Game Boy, or iPhone or Android?” That’s how Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe says his team considered the . Without the financial backing, Oculus may have had to scale back its ambitions. But now, virtual reality platform. On stage during a fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt NY with co-editor Matthew Pa... |
Evercam Makes It Easy To Integrate Cameras Into Any Project | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | Programmers don’t like to leave the confines of their offices. Therefore, access to closed-circuit cameras would be a great addition to any programmer’s arsenal, at least to see if the pizza guy is outside. From this problem was born . The system works in three ways. You can connect your IP camera to the system to . ... |
Mobile Social Networking App Skout Acquires Nightlife App Nixter | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | , a social networking app that’s backed by $22 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, just Skout’s CEO Christian Wiklund (pictured above) said he pursued the deal to find a better way to marry offline and online interactions in Skout’s app with real-world events. While Skout is an app that helps connect... |
Simply Grid Is Putting Clean, Easy Power Where People Need It | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | Power is readily available for most people in North America these days, which can make it hard to grasp how annoying it can be when it isn’t – especially if you’re trying to run a business. TechCrunch Battlefield NY 2014 competitor Simply Grid aims to offer power from the established electrical grid in situations where... |
Alignable Is A Social Network For Local Business Owners | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | With all the handwringing about the future of local business, a startup called aims to connect those businesses and help them work together. The company was co-founded by Eric Groves (formerly a senior vice president at Constant Contact) and Venkat Krishnamurthy. Groves, who’s the company’s CEO, said that most local ... |
Boomerang Commerce Helps Retailers Get Their Prices Right | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | Today’s e-commerce retailers are under serious competitive pressure from all sides, but maybe most importantly from Amazon. That company has developed a massive big data analytics service for its online retail operations that can track and adjust prices based on internal and external data every two minutes. Given that ... |
After Years, Michigan’s Attempts To Build A Startup Ecosystem Bear Fruit | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | Five years ago, Michigan had seven early-stage companies raise money from venture capital investors in the first quarter. This year that number climbed to 31. The story behind this growth was more than a decade in the making, as state and local leaders crafted a policy to make early-stage investments more robust and la... |
OfferBoard Brings Crowd Investment To Growth Capital | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | The U.S. Platform Development Group has a pitch for companies looking for growth capital and the investment bankers that love them. The group launched , its new growth capital crowdfunding platform, onstage this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. “Because raising money sucks,” according to the founders. Using the P... |
Tom Hadfield Is Trying To Make Fetch Happen To Improve Mobile Shopping | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | , a mobile app that connects users with personal shopping assistants, launched today onstage at Disrupt New York. Users can simply open Fetch and type what you want, record yourself saying what you want, or take a picture. Fetch has trained assistants on the other end who will look at your request, find the best price ... |
The NSA’s Code Tweet Deciphered | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | So, the NSA tweeted this earlier: tpfccdlfdtte pcaccplircdt dklpcfrp?qeiq lhpqlipqeodf gpwafopwprti izxndkiqpkii krirrifcapnc dxkdciqcafmd vkfpcadf. — NSA Careers (@NSACareers) What does it mean? Well, realized quickly it was a substitution cypher, something that is pretty simple to solve. In this case, c in th... |
Kurbo Health Debuts A Mobile Service To Help Fight Childhood Obesity | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | This afternoon on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in New York, debuted its mobile subscription service designed to teach children — and their families — how to eat healthy. The overall idea is to combat the growing issue of childhood obesity, the company says, noting that over 30 percent of U.S. kids today are overwei... |
S’moretgage Launches To Bring Real-Time Mortgage Data To Real Estate Investors | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, S’moretgage wants to bring real estate data for pros and consumers alike. The company launched a preview version today with data pertaining to New York City. According to S’moretgage, the information will include “individual mortgage-level detail on loans recorded in New York City,” i... |
CEO Shane Smith Says He Wants VICE To Be 10 Times Bigger Than CNN | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | seems to be getting more journalistically legit, particularly with its international coverage, but CEO Shane Smith said today that he doesn’t consider himself a journalist, and doesn’t want to be a journalist. “I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don’t want to be called a journ... |
Oculus VR Created A Research Group To Advance Virtual Reality | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | was recently all over the news because it was by Facebook for $2 billion. But Oculus VR is still operating independently and trying to figure out the future of virtual reality. Co-founder and CEO took the stage at today to talk about a new research initiative to turn virtual reality into the next major tech plat... |
Tango PC Wants To Be The First Everywhere Computer Without Compromise | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | Smartphones are more powerful than they’ve ever been, but PCs are still able to do more, and do some things better, too. Size advantage has generally meant sacrifices when it comes to computing, but wants to change that with its modular dock and computer design that moves space-heavy heat diffusion components out of ... |
Peekster, A Shazam For Print Media, Launches In The U.S. At Disrupt NY | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 5 | 5 | It may surprise you but print media isn’t dead yet. Hell — some people even reading ink off of pulped tree. And that curious fact is something U.K. startup is intending to cash in on — with an app (yes, it’s still an app) that links offline reading habits with online socializing and sharing habits to please old sch... |
CrunchWeek: Foursquare Splits Into Two Apps, Facebook f8, Twitter Stock Sinks To New Lows | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Josh Constine, Anthony Ha, and I discussed Foursquare’s plan to different standalone apps, the inside scoop on , and Twitter’s causing its stock price to . |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Good morrow, Bluffkin! How dost thou find thouself this good day? Not afraid of robots? You should be! Our first robots of the day are , a swarming cleaning team that can fix messy floors or suck you up and turn you into pink slurry. Huzzah! Avidbots uses swarming patterns to figure out where your floors are dirtiest ... |
With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Square and Box would seem to be the very epitome of every startup founder’s dream of reaching the pinnacle of entrepreneurial success. Take a kernel of an idea and turn it into a massive, multi-billion-dollar company that publicly debuts in an IPO. For the founders involved, the exhilaration and elation of that drive t... |
MyFitnessPal Moves Into Asia With Localized Apps For China, Japan, And Korea | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | , a nutrition and fitness startup that says it now has more than 50 million registered users, is announcing the last big piece in its international expansion. The company back in June of last year, and this week, it released versions in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Co-founder Mike Lee told me that this brings the t... |
Steve Ballmer Now Owns More Microsoft Stock Than Bill Gates | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Bill Gates sold 4.6 million Microsoft shares recently, an released today indicates. That action lowered his holdings to 330,141,164 shares in the company. Former CEO Steve Ballmer owns The sale therefore , the second CEO of the company. This is not a surprise. As ComputerWorld’s : What will be interesting to watch... |
Gillmor Gang Live 05.02.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | – John Taschek, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
Facebook Promotes VP Of Product Chris Cox To Chief Product Officer, But No Organizational Change | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Chris Cox helped invent News Feed and devised Facebook’s “Social By Design” strategy, so now the company is recognizing his critical contributions by promoting the VP Of Product to Chief Product Officer. The new title won’t come with any organizational change, but cements the 31-year-old Cox as a leader of Facebook al... |
Making Child Support Easier, SupportPay Raises $1.1 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Managing child support payments sucks. Even when divorces are amicable, the process of figuring out who pays for what when it comes to raising a child can be devastatingly difficult. Looking to make the process just a little bit easier, Sheri Atwood, a former executive at Symantec and the founder of Ittavi, has raised ... |
Ugggghhhhhh | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | At a time when Silicon Valley is facing increasing scrutiny over the treatment of women in technology, there emerges a website called Codebabes.com that, as you may have already , involves women stripping as you learn to code and pass online tests. . . To which I have to say only this: What in the actual f@ck? The si... |
Apple Acquires Power Efficient LED Tech Company LuxVue | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Apple has acquired , a stealthy company that had been working on micro-LED, screen technologies, we’ve heard from sources close to the transaction. The company had raised in funding from Kleiner Perkins, iD Ventures America and others. Apple has given us a statement which reads “Apple buys smaller technology compani... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: The Harman/Kardon HTC One, LumaFit, and TC Disrupt | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | News was flowing this week, as HTC launched a new alongside the . Meanwhile, we took a closer look at the , and as would be expected, we’re all getting geared up for next week. We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the featuring , , , and . Have a good Friday, everybody!
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Announcing Your Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield Final Judges: Borthwick, Botha, Dixon, Mayer, Pokorny And Wilson | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Welcome to sunny New York City, where people wear jackets to parties and time is of the essence! As you can probably guess, our whole team is here for the at the . We’re really excited about this year’s lineup, which includes Marissa Mayer, Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe, Sophia Amoruso and Mike Judge . Just like in t... |
Google Buys Rangespan To Add Big Data Inventory Management To Google Shopping | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Google has made another move to build out its e-commerce business, and specifically its retail portal . It has acquired , a London-based provider of back office services for online retailers, using data science to help them expand their product selection based on real-time sales dynamics. The company is based out of ... |
Tweets Can Guide Emergency Responders Almost Immediately After An Earthquake | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Aggregated data from sites like Google and Twitter have given researchers new ways to track things ranging from to . But those are situations that usually take hours, if not days, to develop. Now Stanford researchers to add potentially life-saving information to , which are created by the U.S. Geological Survey (... |
White House Report On Big Data Calls For Email Privacy Reform | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | The White House this week released a on big data in which it calls for an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The act, which should in fact be called the Electronic Communications Lack Of Privacy Act, is . The ECPA allows the government to access email that is older than 180 days, or has been... |
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KidAdmit Wants To Take The Hassle Out Of Applying For Preschools In The Bay Area | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Applying to preschool in San Francisco is not that different from when you may have applied to college 15 years ago. You have to complete a bunch of applications either by hand or print them out from an online application, and then you have to mail them in manually with a check to each school. It’s archaic and fairly f... |
Sphero And Ollie Robotic Toy Maker Orbotix Has Raised Another $20M, Say Sources | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | , the company that makes fast-moving, robotic toys that you control with smartphone apps, has raised another $20 million in funding, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with a reliable source. This brings the total raised by maker of the popular ball to $35 million, as it gears up to start selling its next product, ... |
Heyzap Is Killing Its Standalone “Social Discovery” Apps For Gamers | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Mobile ad network is shutting down its standalone , company CEO Immad Akund confirmed to us. The , which previously served as something of an app discovery service for mobile gamers, is already gone from the App Store, and the plan is to do the same with the Android version in the near future, Akund says. The compa... |
Happy Birthday, BASIC | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | Fifty years ago this month, in 1964, a computer programming language winked to life that changed the course of a generation. While many would point to the rise of Unix and other ubiquitous programming languages in the intervening years as formative points in the history of computing, on May 1, 1964, a computer at Dartm... |
Foursquare Swarms Over Swarmly | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 5 | 2 | News that a major company or extremely well-funded competitor has launched a new product with a similar or identical name is certainly the kind of thing that keeps startup founders up at night. . Well, the former has just happened to location-sharing UK startup , after location-sharing app announced yesterday that ... |
The Fourth Internet | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | Not very often do you read something online that gives you the chills. Today, I read two such things. The from former Gizmodo, Buzzfeed and now Awl writer , who wrote about the brutality of the mobile social (or for sake of discussion ‘fourth’) Internet: “Metafilter came from two or three internets ago, when a websi... |
Google Accused Of Denying AdSense Payouts In Fishy Class Action Lawsuit | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | Last month, an anonymous blogger claiming to be a former employee slammed Google with so it wouldn’t have to pay publishers. Despite a strong denial from Google, that claim has been escalated into a filed on behalf of Free Range Content, a California company that says Google killed its AdSense account in order to w... |
Indian E-Commerce Site Snapdeal Raises Another $100M From BlackRock And Others | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | , one of the larger online e-commerce companies in India, has raised $100 million from Temasek, BlackRock, Myriad, Premji Invest and Tybourne. This follows a round of funding from marketplace giant eBay, Bessemer Venture Partners and others that was just announced three months ago. This brings Snapdeal’s total fundin... |
Messaging To The Tune Of A Remix | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | When you’re speaking to someone who’s created a photo sharing app that has a social component, there’s a certain kind of mutual understanding. This isn’t the first time that this has been done — they’re mostly hoping that the permutation on the formula that they’ve come up with will be one that resonates. During those ... |
AUGMENT Is A Stylish, Lightweight Charger And Case Set For iPhones | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 20 |
Keeping your iPhone fully powered is a pain, especially if you like running a lot of battery draining apps. popular cases can hold a charge forever, but they are bulky. Separate battery cases are more lightweight, but they usually attach with a cord and dangle awkwardly from your phone like a placenta attached... |
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The Little Surface That Didn’t | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | Earlier today when Microsoft’s Surface event was wrapping, and took to to head off a stampede of writers trying to get their hands on the , tweets were still wondering what had happened: Where the heck was the much-rumored smaller Surface? Bloomberg indicating that Microsoft had worked on the small device, but... |
Dropbox Buys Bubbli, Will Integrate The 3D Photo Tech Into Its Photo Service | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | It looks like has made another acquisition today in the photo space: it has acquired , a startup that has built some innovative ways of incorporating 3D technology into 2D views, and packaging it in a for ordinary consumers to use. We’re reaching out to get more details from both companies. For now, Bubbli has bee... |
Investors Circle Taptalk After Facebook Clone Rumors | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | Facebook was recently to be working on a new “ephemeral messaging” app similar to Snapchat, allowing users to send short video messages very easily. Dubbed Slingshot, the app is understood to resemble , the video-messaging app from Berlin-based Wit Dot Media. In Taptalk, users tap or hold a contact’s profile picture... |
A Walk Through The Surface Pro 3, Microsoft’s Ultralight Laplet | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | To top off our cavalcade of coverage today, I present a very quick walk-through of the Surface Pro 3 with a special guest star. So far, the laplet (laptop-tablet) is quite an improvement over the original Surface. Make no mistake: This is a full PC. It has a powerful Intel Core processor — this model contains an i5... |
Local Services Marketplace Thumbtack Raises $30 Million | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | , a marketplace that connects local professionals with clients, has raised a $30 million Series C round from and , TechCrunch has learned. The startup has an original approach when it comes to local services. Unlike with , customers don’t have to waste time searching for different options. Instead, they tell the pl... |
Major U.K. Real-Time Train Database Opens Up To More Developers | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | A long-standing pain-point for U.K. developers wanting to do cool things with real-time train data looks like it’s going to ease up, thanks to changes in the terms of access and usage being announced today. From the user side, this will also (hopefully) mean more U.K. apps offering better and cheaper access to useful u... |
Gogo Opens Up Its APIs To Allow Developers To Build Better In-Flight Apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | Now that most airlines allow you to use your mobile devices during flights and many offer Wi-Fi on their planes, it’s no surprise that we are also seeing more applications that enable that in-flight use. Most major U.S. airlines use to their on-board connectivity, and the company obviously wants to encourage people... |
Captora Raises $22M To Help Marketers Increase Their Reach | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | , a company led by former Marketo and SuccessFactors executive Paul Albright, announced today that it has raised $22 million in Series B funding. Albright said he co-founded the company to address some of the challenges he faced in his previous roles, where as chief revenue officer (at Marketo) and chief marketing offi... |
Weev Sends A Screed To The Federal Government Asking For 28,296 Bitcoins In Restitution | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | Andrew “ ” Auernheimer to the United States Federal Government today asking for restitution for the 38 months he spent in custody, including time he spent in an upstate NY prison. His letter, which quotes Shakespeare and calls bomber Timothy McVeigh a patriot, is sure to turn any court in the land against him, which,... |
Dating Website Plenty Of Fish Hit By DDoS Attack | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | Add to the list of technology companies whose websites have come under DDoS attacks from unknown cybercriminals in recent days. The company says that it was the victim of a five-hour attack today that affected approximately 1 million users. Initially, the attacks took down the Plenty of Fish website, then later the c... |
Twitch Is Basically League Of Legendsville | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | Google might be paying for an audience that’s mostly interested in watching people play a single game. If you take a look at the most-viewed games on , there’s a clear and definite frontrunner. , a massively popular online multiplayer game, had . At any given time, League of Legends will have 100K to 200K viewers o... |
Pinterest Rolls Out A New “Business Insights” API To Select Marketing Technology Companies | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | Fresh off the heels of another massive $200 million funding round which , Pinterest is preparing to announce a new initiative that will allow businesses to gain a better understanding of Pinterest trends, as well as an enhancement to its API platform which will aid with those insights, TechCrunch learned and Pinterest ... |
Here’s What HTC’s Next Flagship Phone Might Look Like | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | Oh, you thought HTC’s 5-inch flagship phone One (M8) was big? Just you wait. I’d heard whispers on more than a few occasions that HTC’s next flagship would come in with a big ol’ 5.5-inch display. Sure enough, renders of such a mammoth have just leaked out. Released by the shockingly reliable , the animation below i... |
Salesforce Beats In Its FQ1 With Revenue Of $1.23B, Up 37% | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | In the first quarter of its fiscal 2015, Salesforce that beat expectations. Revenue for the period totaled $1.23 billion, of which $1.15 billion came from “subscription and support,” and $79 million from “professional services.” Total revenue was up 37 period compared to the year-ago period. Investors expected Salesf... |
OnePlus One Review: Smartphone Value Redefined By A Newcomer | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 20 | beast: A startup building smartphones. Their first device is the , which, despite its unnecessarily repetitive name, is impressive hardware in a market where legacy device makers rule the roost and charge top dollar for smartphones packing the same kind of internals as the One. The OnePlus One is actually a remarkabl... |
The NSA, Cisco, And The Issue Of Interdiction | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 18 | It’s been a hectic week of NSA news in light of Glenn Greenwald’s recently published book, which furthered the revelation that the NSA from US companies. The agency then reportedly compromises the equipment before it is delivered to overseas customers. Published imply that Cisco technology is part of the class of e... |
Google/YouTube Reportedly Prepping To Buy Twitch | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 18 | Yowza. So much for Sunday being a slow news day. About an hour after AT&T officially announces their plans to buy DirecTV, word of another billion-dollar acquisition has surfaced. The story this time around: Google/YouTube reportedly want Twitch.tv, the increasingly/explosively popular service meant to let gamers watch... |
#Love: Design For It | Contributor | 2,014 | 5 | 18 | If you believed the hype, you’d think technology was killing love. To start, the search has been tainted, or so people say. Algorithms are turning serendipity into superficial math. Swipe right and find yourself mired in a gone mad. Try the likes of Grindr and experience the irrevocable blurring of the lines between ... |
EverPurse Raises Seed Round For A Different Kind Of Wearable | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 18 | , the fashion technology company is back in the proverbial saddle with a new product and big plans for the future of a different kind of wearable. The Chicago-based company, which was launched by the dynamic husband and wife duo Liz and Dan Salcedo, has returned with a clutch wallet that doubles as an smartphone hol... |
AT&T To Acquire DirecTV For Nearly $50B | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 18 | As has been rumored for the past few weeks, AT&T has just officially announced their plans to acquire DirecTV. The terms of the deal came together at roughly $95 per share, which comes to a grand total of $48.5 billion dollars. If you add in the nearly $19B worth of debt that DirecTV is towing behind it, though, this d... |
As TrueCar IPOs, The Fuelist Launches Classic Car Pricing App | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 18 | TrueCar’s public offering on Friday showed that investors are willing to back a service — and the founders of are hoping that same appetite for price clarity will drive demand for their vintage car and motorcycle pricing service. People spend a lot of money on classic cars worldwide; with one English dentist . Ro... |
Novena, The Crowdsourced, Fully-Open Laptop, Is Shipping This Winter | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 18 | Hardware magician Bunnie Huang’s , a completely open-source computing machine, is fully funded and will ship in January. There are 13 hours left in the crowdfunding effort, but so far the system has surpassed its goal of $100,000 and is on course to raise over $500,000. The laptop itself is designed for simple, tool-f... |
What Games Are: Welcome Back, Xbox One | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 5 | 18 | This time last year I wrote up my deep reservations about Microsoft’s Xbox One. Comparing it to the Spruce Goose, I called it a technological marvel that solved last year’s problem. I faulted it on its size, on its focus on TV, and on its short-head approach to games. Overall I said it was an example of a product that ... |
Wavii Founder Leaves Google | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Lots are at the Re/Code conference in Rancho Palos Verdes this week. But at least one of them won’t be a Google executive for very much longer. Wavii founder is leaving the search company, a little more than a year after acquisition of his content aggregation startup, in order to start a second company. It is u... |
Why Google Made Its Self-Driving Car So Darn Cute | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | for knowing computers better than people, it understands that people might be a bit afraid of its self-driving cars. So rather than show the power and cool-factor of its new autonomous vehicles, Google made them look like Playskool cars, built them out of phone, and capped speeds at 25mph. The result is that attention... |
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Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin On Google X’s Translation Of Research Into New Businesses | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants the company to explore new areas of technology and develop projects that could have a huge impact on the world. Which is why he’s thrilled to be leading the company’s experimental technologies division, Google X. Google still makes the lion’s share of its profits from web search, but... |
Valve Delays The Touchpad-Happy Steam Machine Controller | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | The future of gaming will have to wait. Valve has pushed the release from 2014 to 2015. Essentially, it will be released when Steam thinks its ready and not a minute before. Smart. Hardware rarely recovers from a rocky launch. The minimum viable product has to be free of bugs and full of enjoyment — especially from a... |
An Adorable Android Easter Egg, Hidden In Plain Sight | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 18 | I’ve always had a special place in my heart for design . Particularly the ones that are hidden in plain view — the ones that I’d somehow looked at a hundred times without actually . When’s the last time you took a close look at the icons on an Android phone? Like, really, close? If you’ve got an Android phone handy... |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says Company Will Keep Bing, Xbox | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Ready for an update from the no-surprise department? Microsoft isn’t keen to sell either its Xbox or search businesses. Today at the CODE Conference Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicated that he has no intention to divest Bing, the company’s search property, or Xbox, its gaming and living-room play. This should come as... |
Google X Built A Fully Self-Driving Car From Scratch, Sans Steering Wheel And Pedals | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Google’s experimental Google X division has been working on self-driving cars for a while, but it’s created the prototype for a brand new version that looks nothing like the retrofitted version. “We took a look from the ground up of what a self-driving car would look like,” Brin said at the CODE Conference tonight, aft... |
Microsoft Demos Real-Time Speech-To-Speech Translation On Skype | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Microsoft’s Skype has long enabled people in different parts of the world to communicate with one another through video, voice, and text chat. Now the service is looking to expand those capabilities by testing out a feature that could allow people who don’t speak the same language to talk with each other. Today at th... |
How To Mine Bitcoins With The HexFury ASIC USB Miner | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | At this point, unless you steal power from the electrical grid in some weird squat or you have your own hydroelectric plant, home bitcoin mining is a sucker’s game. Sure you can make a little and you definitely help out the bitcoin network by processing the hashes that make up bitcoin transactions, but plugging in your... |
Despite Exits, Aerospace Deals Are Crashing To Earth | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | With Google and Facebook both interested in and , perhaps other investors are taking the time to look to the skies. Last week to acquire the satellite company in a deal that could easily top $1 billion. It follows the search giant’s acquisition of , a drone manufacturer which had also caught the eye of Facebook... |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says We’ve Entered The Post-Post-PC Era | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Microsoft’s new CEO Satya Nadella said the company is looking beyond the post-PC era that we’re currently in now, which is defined not by consumers and businesses being tied to a single device. Instead, the company is betting on a cloud-first, mobile-first future. “I think we’re at the very beginning of what I describ... |
TC Cribs Tours Twitch, Where Playing Games Is Part Of The Job | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | In this episode of Cribs, we stopped by , the San Francisco-based startup that’s created a massively popular video platform for live streaming online gaming. With that surpasses the likes of Facebook and Tumblr at peak hours, Twitch is often called the ESPN of online gaming. It’s one of the hottest companies around ... |
These Kids Are 3D-Printing Their Education | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | A group of junior high and high school students in Cambridge, Mass., are part of an experimental education program that aims to prove they’re capable of solving real-world problems early with the help of 3D printers, Arduino and group collaboration. Co-founders Saeed Arida, David Wang and Saba Ghole started as a way ... |
Iran Summons Zuckerberg Over Instagram, WhatsApp Complaints | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Iran has Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to court over privacy concerns involving WhatsApp and Instagram. He won’t go, of course, because the U.S. and Iran do not have an extradition treaty. And because the summons is ludicrous. Facebook did not respond to a request for comment on the matter. While Iranian President Has... |
Foursquare Declares Local Search (Yelp And Google) Broken, Vows Fix With Personalization | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Foursquare versus Yelp and Google today with a blog post explaining that its redesigned app will beat their “one-size-fits-all results” that users get “regardless of their interests or places they’ve been before”. Foursquare explains it standalone app to let the focus on local search, which it calls “fundamentally b... |
Western Digital Has Lost Its Mind | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Western Digital has a new $100 media streamer it would like you to buy. At first glance is a standard affair with the usual A/V jacks, Miracast support and a focus on local media streaming with MKV and FLAC support. But it lacks Netflix. Seriously. The ubiquitous app is not available on this player making it — and I ... |
Pictorian Offers A Uniquely Designed Photo Storage App, Perfect For Your GIF Collection | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | On an App Store that today sports applications and a set of that hold a heavy influence over how developers proceed, it’s rare to come across an app that offers a unique perspective. But a newly launched photo storage application called does just that. The app, a simple utility for storing photos outside your iPh... |
Watch Dogs Launch Day Uplay Disaster Is A Reminder That PC Game Sales Are Broken | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Today I made a mistake: I bought a PC game. I’ve been good – I haven’t bought one in a while, since Just Cause 2 probably. But I was looking at graphics comparisons of Watch Dogs on Xbox One and on PC and I thought “what the heck, let’s try it.” I have an extremely capable gaming PC that’s pretty much neglected after a... |
Slidely Launches New Show App For Making Videos Out of Pictures | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Israel-based , which claims 50 million users across several image apps, recently closed $7.3 million in funding but it was something of a mystery what the cash was actually for. They did say they would produce an iMovie-like app, which is now revealed to be called “Show,” . Show lets users create movies that stitch t... |
Facebook Isn’t Axing Auto-Shares From Other Apps, But Will Favor Explicitly Shared Stories In Feed | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Facebook has no plans to discontinue “implicit sharing” from third-party apps, likely because the data is still very valuable, but today the company said it will be in the feed over auto-shares. Facebook isn’t giving up on auto-sharing; it just doesn’t want to show it all those Spotify listens, Instagram Likes, and m... |
Twitter Lands $230M Deal With Omnicom | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 27 | Twitter’s MoPub will integrate with Omnicom’s programmatic ad purchasing product in a two-year . According , the agreement includes a “‘first look’ at mobile-ad units created by Twitter.” The Omnicom deal could indicate that Twitter’s purchase of MoPub, a into the mobile space, wasn’t a misplaced wager. The deal ex... |
FCC Said To Tweak Proposed Net Neutrality Rules, But Preserve Pay-For-Speed | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | Call it a non-fix: According , FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has tweaked the language of his proposed rules to allow content providers to of their content across an ISPs network. He has not recanted that proposal. Instead, according to the Journal, “the new language by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to be circulated as early a... |
Alibaba’s Cloud-Computing Unit To Open First Hong Kong Data Center | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | Alibaba Group’s cloud computing unit, called (or AliCloud), . This is significant because it marks Aliyun’s first step toward international expansion. The announcement comes less than a week after Alibaba , which is expected to be one of the largest tech IPOs ever. It is important to note, however, that Aliyun Ins... |
Parrot’s Newest Drone Packs A Serious Camera, Extreme Range | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | Say hello to Bebop, aka the AR Drone 3.0. This is the latest drone from Parrot and it’s a big upgrade from the much-loved AR Drone. It’s essentially a flying camera that can even pipe imagery directly into an Oculus Rift headset, taking flying in the clouds to a whole new level. Sticking out of the center of the small ... |
What Games Are: The Politics Of Play Matter | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | A few years ago, film critic Roger Ebert royally put his foot in it when he declared that . Tone deaf though his reasoning was (he got hung up on their functional nature and saw the capacity of play as destroying all possible representation), the most interesting aspect of the debate was just how pilloried he became. ... |
If You Read One Book With A Hashtag For A Title This Year, Make It #GIRLBOSS | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | Motivational stories are banal, personal anecdotes of people you don’t know are boring, and most business books contain about one postcard’s length of wisdom, spread out over several hundred pages. Sophia Amoruso’s recently manages to avoid these pitfalls, fusing her personal life, her professional life, and a series... |
Does The Beats Aftermath Usher The Next Episode For Wearables? | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | : Apple on May 28th. As to , there are a few things about the news that should have tech investors’ ears ringing. One, Dre may hate embargoes more than reporters do. I guess Dr Dre doesn’t adhere to embargoes. — danprimack (@danprimack) But beyond Dr. Dre’s (booze-fueled, but who could blame him?) is a potenti... |
#Love: When Mothers Text | Contributor | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | I bought my mom a cellphone a few years ago. It was just a simple Nokia flip phone. Something to keep with her on long drives to use in an emergency. She has a penchant for driving long distances, often to see me. The first thing she did was send me a text. I don’t even remember what it said. She probably does. But I d... |
Q: Why Did Quora Join Y Combinator? A: It Was Almost Free | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | Quora has plenty to learn from Y Combinator but it’s not giving up the traditional 7% equity share to . Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo tells me “YC invested an amount that was similar to their standard $120k. They invested as part of the Tiger round.” That $80 million round valued Quora at $900 million, so the startup only t... |
Why We Can’t Forget About Dre | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | The of Beats by Apple has captured the public imagination. Though it is not yet official, we’ve spent all weekend about it on Twitter, shocked at Andre Romelle Young’s , joking that Forbes should change its list because he’s now a billionaire, for some reason. Quite honestly, part of the appeal of this story is th... |
R.O.W. With Butch — Either Tax Tech Giants In Europe Correctly, Or STFU | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | “Amazon UK boycott urged after retailer pays tiny tax bill” “Politician says consumer action could persuade Tech firms to cough up tax” “Fresh questions to be raised over Google’s tax avoidance” Headlines like this are an annual event in Europe as companies file their taxes at the end of the financial year. The reasons... |
Mozilla Is Moving Ahead With Sponsored Tiles On Firefox’s New-Tab Page | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | Despite what you may have read, Mozilla isn’t canning its plans to sell sponsored tiles on its new-tab page. A few days ago, Mozilla’s Vice President of Firefox Jonathan Nightingale wrote a defending the organization’s plans to include sponsored tiles on Firefox’s new-tab page. For some reason, a couple of people Nig... |
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