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A Tour Through Autodesk’s Pier 9 Workshop, The Fabrication Facility Where Out-There Ideas Turn Into Reality | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | But for months now, people have been telling me that Autodesk’s new “ ” that opened this past fall on Pier 9 on the San Francisco waterfront is a must-visit for TechCrunch video. So we headed over to see what all the buzz is about. Autodesk’s Pier 9 workshop has pretty much every type of fabrication equipment that yo... |
Adform Raises $5.5M To Expand Its Rich Media Ad Business In The US | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | European ad-tech company is announcing that it has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding. The company was founded more than a decade ago, in 2002. Chief Marketing Officer Martin Stockfleth Larsen told me it sells its technology to both advertisers and publishers, with products including a demand side platform for a... |
Why I Go To Disrupt | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | It’s never good for someone inside an organization to defend its actions to the outside. It smacks of self-serving and one-sided debate, and, as the Bard wrote, “the lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Be here I go protesting too much. Valleywag’s Sam Biddle wrote a fairly even-handed look at after visiting us for... |
KakaoTalk Launches Its First Desktop Client For Mac | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | has launched its first desktop client for Mac, which is currently available in Korean and English. The release, which can potentially help South Korea’s top messaging service score more users, comes less than a week after , creating a company with a 3.4 trillion won (about $2.9 billion) market cap. In addition to its... |
SketchVid Turns Your Doodles Into Eye-Catching Animations For Instagram | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 11 | is a cool new iOS app that lets even the most ham-handed doodler make striking animations for . The app lets you trace over or draw on a photo, or sketch freehand. It records your strokes as you are drawing and then automatically turns them into a 15-second video. I have a , but I’m still pretty bad at writing on my... |
Emergence Backs SteelBrick’s Technology For The New, Mobile Salesforce | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | in a $5 million transaction, Godard Abel, the serial entrepreneur behind and , has brought in $6.5 million in new financing from for his latest venture. “I always liked the team [at BigMachines] and kept in touch,” says Emergence Capital founder and general partner — and new SteelBrick board member — Jason Green.... |
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This Is SpaceX’s First Ever Manned Spacecraft, The Dragon V2 | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | Not too long ago, the idea of a commercially-built craft that could carry people back and forth into space was but a sci-fi pipedream. Tonight, SpaceX revealed a spacecraft built to do just that. Called the Dragon V2, the craft is built to carry up to 7 passengers (or fewer passengers, with cargo) into orbit and up to ... |
Watch Elon Musk Debut SpaceX’s First Manned Spacecraft Tonight | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | Back in May of 2012, SpaceX proved that they could launch a spacecraft filled with cargo, have it dock with the International Space Station, and return it to earth safely. Tonight, they’re unveiling the spacecraft that’ll help them take the next logical (if daunting) step: sending up a handful of astronauts. Called “Dr... |
Maker Studios Culls Content On Blip’s Video Platform | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | A lot of online video platforms have disappeared . Now it looks like one — while not shutting down — is having a pretty brisk spring clean. , the video distribution startup (which is now itself getting ), has been sending out notices to many users telling them that their accounts are getting closed. That’s on top ... |
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Said To Buy LA Clippers For $2B | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | Steve Ballmer, best known for his long tenure as the CEO of Microsoft, is reportedly set to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team for $2 billion, . Previously, he had been tipped to for the team. The Clippers are in flux at the moment after their owner, Donald Sterling, was recorded saying a number of ra... |
Apple Will Use Curation To Beat A Path To Mainstreaming Music | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | Ask the average person who their favorite musicians are and they’ll struggle to name more than a few. That’s one reason search-based streaming services haven’t hit critical mass. They force users to know what they want to hear. And this is why Tim Cook Beats as the “first streaming service that really got it right.... |
Foursquare Loses Biz Dev Head To Postmates, COO Also Departing | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | Foursquare’s COO Evan Cohen and VP of Biz Dev Holger Luedorf are leaving the company, reports . The departures come amidst major changes for the company. The Foursquare app split in two and spun out with new app Swarm earlier this month. Foursquare’s CEO Dennis Crowley told Isaac the two departures were merely coincid... |
Ousted RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Promises To Sue His Board | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | In a , former RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal promised legal action against his former board of directors today. He also announced his resignation from that board and provided context, from his perspective, into how legal choices were made to protect the company’s potential IPO. After public outrage grew concerning Chah... |
Amazon Prime Music Streaming Service Pegged For Summer Launch | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | Amazon is about to round out its Prime subscription service with a music streaming service, . The service will stream old and new-ish music to Prime subs and will launch in June or July. The music service will likely be bundled with Amazon’s Prime service that currently offers subscribers with free two-day shipping an... |
Here’s The First Hands-On Video Of Android Wear In Action (Spoiler: Lower Your Expectations) | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | : Sorry, folks. The original video above was pulled from YouTube for copyright violations. Thankfully nothing is ever deleted from the Internet and someone reposted the video. It’s embedded above, but could be eventually pulled as well. The video above is with a beta unit of LG’s upcoming Android Wear smartwatch. Not... |
The NewViewWear Wearable Camera Hides In Your Shirt | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | Elvis Costello once sang of watching detectives, an act that, to most of us, has been difficult. Now with the always-on, always-recording , however, you can see them “shoot, shoot, shoot” and them “red dogs under illegal legs” no matter how they try to hide. Lifecasting waned in popularity when people realized it was ... |
Philz Coffee Drops Euclid Analytics Over Privacy Concerns | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | In the conflict between advocates of consumer privacy and those promoting the benefits of wide-reaching data collection, it’s not often we hear about the former getting a win. Yet it appears that’s exactly what happened in San Francisco last night. , the Bay Area coffee shop mainstay, announced that it would no longer... |
Microsoft And Salesforce Announce Broad Product-Integration Partnership | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | This afternoon, Microsoft and Salesforce a broad partnership that will bring their respective software and service products closer together. Salesforce will support Windows, Windows 8.1, build “interoperability Salesforce and Office 365,” Microsoft’s subscription-based productivity suite, and integrate OneDrive for B... |
A 3D Printed Cast That Can Heal Your Bones 40-80% Faster | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | It looks like something from (read, cool), but it’s actually a cast for healing bones. The , created by Turkish student , incorporates 3D printing and ultrasonic tech to make healing a broken bone more bearable. The idea of ultrasonic healing vibrations to heal bones ( ) has been . But the problem was doctors coul... |
Twitter’s Senior Vice President Of Engineering, Chris Fry, Has Stepped Down | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | Christopher Fry, Twitter’s Senior Vice President of Engineering (read: the man responsible for fighting off the fail whale), has stepped down from his position. The news comes by way of documents . Alex Roetter — a founding member of Google’s AdSense team and Twitter’s current VP of Engineering — will be stepping up t... |
Watch The Finale Of HBO’s Silicon Valley With TechCrunch | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | That is actually good, so good I binge-watched all 7 episodes last Friday. The last two episodes at TechCrunch Disrupt, replete with my former colleague as a host and a guest appearance by our founder . Because there’s so much TechCrunch in the show, we thought it might be cool to host a viewing of the finale epi... |
The Best News-Reading App, Reeder 2, Returns To Mac | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | For all five of us who still prefer managing our own news-reading experience through a dedicated RSS reader application, there’s good news out today: One of the best news readers on the market, , has finally returned to the Mac. The Mac application had been unavailable for nearly a year, following the shutdown of Goog... |
Read The Email Snowden Sent To The NSA | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | In an interview yesterday, former NSA contractor and now infamous leaker Edward Snowden indicated that the NSA had record of his internal complaints regarding government policy. Today the United States government released an email from Snowden asking several questions. The email, notably, is mostly benign, and is not t... |
Skycatch Raises $13.2M To Field Data-Gathering Drones Both High And Low | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 29 | Drones distract, drones deliver and drones do battle. But what else can drones do? That was the question facing entrepreneur Christian Sanz when he began building his own drones a few years back, and after exploring various possibilities, including delivery and also simply drawing together audiences of curious spectato... |
Qleek Brings Your Music Back In To The Physical Realm | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | When I first heard about I was a little skeptical. You see, it’s a music player that uses physical, wooden blocks called Tapps to activate digital playback. You want to listen to some Jazz? Find the Coltrane block and stick it into the player. Want to listen to ? Dig out the block and slot it to make yourself a litt... |
2008 TechCrunch50 Finalist TrueCar Goes Public, Raises $70M In Its IPO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | Today TrueCar, a company that was selected as a finalist in went public, raising around $70 million and gaining nearly 12% to end its first day as a public company at $10.06 per share. The company priced its shares at $9 apiece. That final price was steeply under its . The current IPO market, , is somewhat unsettle... |
Apple And Google Agree To Dismiss All Direct Legal Action Between Themselves | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | Late today, Apple and Google announced that they have agreed to dismiss direct lawsuits aimed at one another, and will work together to help push patent reform forward. It’s a huge change for the two companies, which compete on everything from music sales, to productivity tools, to cloud storage, to mobile app distribu... |
Switchcam Video Shuts Down, Facebook Hires Founders | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | Facebook’s mobile video feature is pretty awful. No multi-shot recording, stabilization, or editing. Hopefully it will get an update soon, though, as a source has tipped me off that last month Facebook hired the founders of , a startup that specialized in video sharing. The founders Chris Hartley and Bret Welch both n... |
CrunchWeek: Net Neutrality, Big Late-Stage Raises, And Snapchat’s Latest Features | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | This week is all about CrunchWeek East, as we’re bringing this episode to you from AOL HQ in New York. , and dive into the most recent madness in the industry. We discuss the , major late-stage raises from companies like , , , and others, as well as the that take the app from social network to messenger. W... |
The Zeus Is A 3D Printer, Scanner, And Teleportation Machine All In One | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | The future, as they say, is already here, but it’s just not very evenly distributed. To wit: the Zeus, a 3D printer that can scan and copy objects and, using the Internet, “fax” objects to other printers. That’s right – it’s the first 3D all-in-one. Created by , the $2,499 printer has a build area of 8 by 6 by 5.7 inc... |
The Once And Future Web Platform | Contributor | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | As a developer, articles are easy to dismiss out of hand. It’s not unusual or unexpected for people to predict (or herald the arrival of) the next big thing and declare the status quo dead. Yet despite the mobile explosion over the past few years, the web is going to remain the dominant software platform for the fore... |
After Pushing Ahead With Net Neutrality Vote, FCC Chairman To Face Congress On Tuesday | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | Following the Federal Communications Commission’s with new that could allow for some companies to pay for faster delivery of their content online, calls of protest have sprouted from . What’s next? FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will head to congress on May 20 for a sitdown that should prove contentious. When it that W... |
The App Store Is Proof We’re In Idiocracy | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | The number one game in the iTunes App Store is a game about selling weed. Yes, really. The app, “ ,” however, looks brilliant when compared to what comes next: it sits just above yet another fairly dumb, time-waster of a game called “ ,” reminiscent of beer pong. And that’s followed “ ,” which offers you quick games to... |
Gillmor Gang Live 05.16.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | – Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. And find us on Facebook . |
Zendesk’s Stellar IPO And The Current Tech IPO Climate | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | Following a nearly 50% pop on its on Thursday, Zendesk is up double digits again today, rising more than 11% in midday trading. For tech companies and their investors, it’s a sign that the IPO window, recently worried to be either closed or rapidly closing, , for the right kind of company. And investors are not as c... |
Let’s Face It, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft All Have Weaknesses | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | Venture capitalist Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures made waves recently when he told TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden that by 2020, (that’s less than 6 years, folks), –and Google and Facebook would be. Wilson argued that Apple’s lack of understanding of the cloud would eventually do it in, while Google and Facebook, wh... |
Samsung Goes For Another Round In The Wearables Ring With The Gear 2 | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | If I’ve noticed any sort of trend in the wearables space it’s that watches now look like watches. Runners will remember early Garmin GPS watches that looked like bulbous alien egg sacs on your wrists while even the wrist computer still looks like an unlanced polyp. But almost everyone else – , Basis, and the like – ... |
Google Maps Adds Elevation Profiles To Bike Routes To Help You Avoid Those Steep Hills | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | Google Maps now features elevation profiles for bike routes. Google added biking directions to Google Maps and specialized maps that highlight bike routes a few years ago. If you are weak like me, though, and learned to bike in Holland, where the biggest obstacle is a dike, you don’t just want to know what streets to t... |
Google Has Acquired Quest Visual, The Maker Of Camera-Based Translation App Word Lens | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | Word Lens wowed when it debuted back in 2010, with its tech that could . Now, Quest Visual, the maker of that app, has been acquired by Google, the company . With the acquisition, Google gets Quest Visual’s tech, which it will incorporate into Google Translate in the future, according to Quest Visual’s statement rega... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: WunWun, Samsung, Cheap Phones, Amazon, And More | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | We had trouble narrowing down podcast topics this week, which means that we’re kind of all over the place. But the upside is that there’s plenty to learn during this week’s discussion. We start out with a lively conversation around Amazon’s speedy shipping, and then move on to chat about , an on-demand delivery servic... |
Under Ex-Googler CEO, LiveJournal Gets A Revamp, Promises New Services, Apps And More In 2014 | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | wants to matter again, and is making a number of changes over the course of 2014 which the company hopes will make it a more relevant social networking destination, starting with a major revamp of its homepage and user interface, rolled out into beta just yesterday. On the horizon, the company is also promising severa... |
ShopDrop Alerts You To Local Sales From Major Retailers To Small Boutiques | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | A new shopping and sale finder app called , also the Audience Choice winner from our recent , is now live on the . Today the service helps users, mainly New Yorkers, find nearby sales, both at larger retailers and smaller boutiques, but the company plans to expand its coverage to more major cities in the future. At ... |
As Samsung’s Chairman Remains Hospitalized, South Korea Prepares For Its Next Act | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | There is a tension at the core of all great startup stories between the cold technology that powers these businesses and the raw, emotional hearts of founders discovering their humanity under some of the most searing conditions imaginable. Too often in the tech press, we glide over the human soul of our stories in the ... |
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Eddy Cue Says Apple TV, With 20 Million Units Sold, Will Continue To Evolve | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Apple TV has been a pretty modest success when you compare it to some of Apple’s other products, but with 20 million units sold, the product has clearly captured consumer attention. Tonight at the CODE Conference, Apple SVP Eddy Cue said the Apple TV will continue to evolve as the company seeks to improve upon today’s ... |
The Price Is Right: For Early-Stage SaaS Companies, It Needs To Be | Contributor | 2,014 | 5 | 16 | Nothing is more critical to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business than pricing strategy. Pricing is the moment of truth for a new product … and doubly so when it is a company’s first product. But far more often than not, I’ve observed new startups leaving “money on the table” when it comes to pricing enterprise produ... |
Payments Firm Swipely Raises $20M More As Its Processing Tally Crosses The $2B Mark | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Payments company Swipely has announced that it raised a Series C round totaling $20 million. This round, led by the Pritzker Group and including previous investors Shasta Ventures and First Round Capital, brings the company’s tally to more than $40 million. Swipely had recently announced that its payment processing rat... |
Google Admits It Hires Too Many White Dudes | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Today, one of the valley’s biggest employers, Google, is finally and how it goes about hiring women and minorities. The gist is that Google knows it has a problem and it’s sorry, but Google says it’s not entirely its fault…there’s just not enough women and minorities in tech. No surprise here from a giant tech firm i... |
Spark Capital Raises $375M For Later-Stage Investment Fund Spark Growth, Adds Jeremy Philips As Partner | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | , the venture capital fund known for its savvy early-stage investments in web hits such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare, announced today that it has raised $375 million for a new fund focused on later-stage investing called Spark Growth. , the Internet and technology executive perhaps best known for helping shepherd... |
Jimmy Iovine And Eddy Cue Talk Acquisition, Say Beats Music Has 250k Subscribers | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Now that Apple has , both Apple SVP Eddy Cue and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine have a lot to talk about. Three weeks after the deal was , Apple SVP Eddy Cue and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine talked through the reasons for the deal and how it’s going to work on stage at the inaugural CODE Conference. We already have ... |
CEO Tony Fadell Hates When Nest Is Called An ‘Internet-Of-Things’ Company | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | We here in the tech press have gotten used to categorizing new, interesting products that are getting smart and connected under the umbrella term “Internet of Things.” But today at CODE Conference in Southern California, Nest CEO Tony Fadell said he hates the term, and sought to clarify why Nest shouldn’t be described ... |
Twitter CEO Says Its Reach Goes Beyond Its 255M Users, But Can It Monetize Reach? | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Wall Street thinks Twitter has a growth problem, but CEO Dick Costolo said at its reach includes people who see tweets on TV and embedded online though they aren’t counted in its . Costolo also discussed trying to figure out how to get Twitter into China. But while reach is nice, the problem is that Twitter can only... |
Apple Now Makes Apps For Other Mobile Platforms – Which Could Be Huge For The Future Of Media | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Apple became something more with the – a multi-mobile platform developer at least for the time being. The company will continue to operate Beats Music on Android and Windows Phone, Apple CEO Tim Cook tells The following the acquisition. While Apple has offered iTunes for Windows in the past, this marks the first tim... |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Urges Tech Community To Give Back Right Now | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Over the years, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has emerged as one of the greatest philanthropists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he wants others to join him. Today at the CODE Conference, Benioff urged the members of the tech community to make stronger commitments to give back to their local communities. A number of t... |
Sequoia Backs Coupang, South Korea’s Answer To Amazon, With $100 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | , South Korea’s answer to , has raised $100 million in a round of financing led by Sequoia Capital. The investment led by Sequoia chairman adds one of Asia’s fastest-growing and most valuable startups to Sequoia Capital’s already impressive roster of Asian deals. According to one person with knowledge of the deal, th... |
Beats Parts Ways With Design Firm As Apple Takes Over Hardware | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Now at Apple, Beats Electronics is leaving behind the design firm that made Beats synonymous in popular culture. The news came from Ammunition’s founder, Robert Brunner, shortly after Apple the $3 billion deal. Ammunition has been with Beats since the beginning. Originally tasked with working with Monster Cable, th... |
GrabTaxi Raises $15M Series B Led By GGV Capital | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | , the taxi-calling app that claims to be the largest in Southeast Asia, said today that it has raised a $15 million Series B led by GGV Capital with participation from Qunar and returning investor Vertex Venture Holdings. The latter led GrabTaxi’s Series A round, which was announced last month; though the amount was un... |
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Distil Networks’ $10M Funding Round Valued The Bot Detection Company At Around $30M | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Bot detection startup announced today that it has . A source with knowledge of the deal says the round valued Distil at about $30 million. The company declined to comment on the valuation, but co-founder and CEO Rami Essaid was willing to discuss some of the other details. For one thing, he said that Foundry Group “... |
Mystery New iMac Models Caught Lurking In Pulled OS X Beta | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | If you’re looking to grab yourself an iMac sometime soon, you might want to wait a few more weeks. Based on details left lurking in the latest beta of OS X Mavericks, it looks like an iMac hardware refresh is looming. Poking around the internals of the OS X Mavericks developer beta just released this morning, Apple-fan... |
Twitter Soars 10% | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | It’s been a big day for Twitter, with its shares picking up just over 10 percent. What caused the spike? An from Nomura. The new buy rating came with a reiterated $43 price target. Twitter closed today at $33.77 per share. The good news for Twitter comes on the heels of it picking up yesterday. A report indicated t... |
HackerOne Get $9M In Series A Funding To Build Bug Tracking Bounty Programs | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | , a startup that was started by the former head of the Facebook security team, announced it was getting $9M in Series A funding and that former Microsoft lead security strategist was joining the company as Chief Policy Officer. Moussouris joins co-founder and CTO Alex Rice, who is formerly of Facebook and Merijn Terh... |
Apple Buys Beats Electronics For $3B | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | purchased Beats, which includes both Beats Audio hardware and Beats Music, the streaming radio service that was founded by rapper Dr. Dre and longtime music industry exec Jimmy Iovine. The deal was reported to be in the works earlier this month, and was said to be worth an estimated $3.2 billion at the time, though a ... |
Apple Will Operate Beats Music’s Streaming Service Separately From The iTunes Download Store | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | , but rather than risk cratering iTunes download sales by evolving it into a streaming service, it will operate Beats Music’s streaming service in parallel to give listeners an all-they-can-hear subscription option. This confirms my scoop from last week that to allow for a graceful transition as download sales declin... |
Samsung’s Health Event Was All Hype, No Substance | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Samsung’s “Voice of the Body” event held earlier today had seemingly everything Samsung could squeeze out the door before Apple’s . A cool-looking watch that can collect multiple data points on your health? Check. Software for storing that data? Check. Promises that partners will do all kinds of innovative stuff with ... |
The Most Important Facts From Mary Meeker’s 2014 Internet Trends Report | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 28 | Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker’s data dumps have become a highly anticipated event in the tech industry, as her research helps everyone else level up. The only problem is the is 164 slides of dense data, so we’ve broken it down into a digestible summary of the most important findings. |
WePay Withholds Funds From Sick Woman Due To Offer Of Porn For Donations | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 17 | Should credit card processors and crowdfunding sites be able to deny funds to adult entertainers and sex workers? That’s the question at the heart of an unfortunate situation where donated medical funds are being withheld from a sick woman. Legal and moral issues often entangle to facilitate discrimination against thos... |
The End Of The Acqui-Hire? | Ben Narasin | 2,014 | 5 | 17 | A few years ago, before seed investing was as well defined as it now is, I co-hosted a bean bag sitting circle at The Lobby on the topic of “the seed round.” While I assumed the topic would appeal primarily to founders thinking about their next startups, we had a surprising number of industry players — the large mono... |
For Aspiring Female Engineers, A Square Meal Of Code | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 17 | school student Michelle Nguyen had all but given up her hope of becoming an engineer. A Senior at Mission High School in San Francisco (which did not offer a computer science class), she thought she had to be smarter, more privileged, and be a male to be successful in computer science. “I thought I had to be a guy to ... |
Cue Is A Connected Lab-In-A-Box For On-Demand Health Testing At Home | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 5 | 17 | The quantified self and quantified health trends frequently overlap — but few startups are quite as tightly screwed into that sticking place as . Not yet anyway. This San Diego-based startup, which was founded back in 2009 in the midst of the swine flu peak and has attracted more than $1 million in backing from an und... |
Gillmor Gang: Fits and Starts | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 5 | 17 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — take a walk on the wild side as The New York Times publishes all the news that fits. Except, that is, the news about itself. The Twitterverse is clogged with leaked Innovation reports, business model Kremlin Wall analysis, an... |
With A Revamped Website, Geek Culture Hub Nerdist Enters “Phase Two” | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 17 | When I got on the phone with the team at to talk about the geek culture site’s recent redesign, I had a confession to make — even though I’m a regular listener to the Nerdist podcast, and I’ve watched , I’d only been to the actual website … Once? Twice? My experience might not be typical, but it’s one illustration o... |
The Western Twitterer’s Burden | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 5 | 17 | Sigh. Here we go again. The eyes of the world turn to something awful happening in a remote corner of Africa, and what feels like half of the Western population immediately rushes to proudly embarrass itself on social media everywhere. On the Internet, at least, #BringBackOurGirls is little more than #Kony2012 reloaded... |
Fjuul Activity Tracker App Measures Exercise Intensity, Not Just Steps | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 5 | 10 | Hardware fitness trackers are wrapped around the wrists of tech luminaries. Rumours continue to swirl about . Facebook acquired Finnish fitness and activity tracker app Moves . The emergent quantified self/fitness tracking movement is gunning to go mainstream — and that means a whole lot more personal tracking servic... |
People Go Bananas Over MonkeyParking | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 10 | It was inevitable. In a place where you could pay for to come to you via mobile, to have empty parking spots eventually come to you via mobile. That is the premise behind Italian app , which allows you to “sell” your parking spot (or rather, the inside information about whether your parking spot will be available sh... |
Gillmor Gang: Eat Your Beats | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 5 | 10 | The Gillmor Gang — Josh Miller, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — welcome the latest Jobsian takedown of the music cartel, the presumed acquisition of the Beats hardware/streaming empire by Apple. How the Gang winds its way through the leaks and feints of BigTech is left as an exercise for ... |
We’re Still Traveling Like It’s 1996 | John Balen | 2,014 | 5 | 10 | Travel still provides some of the highest human anxieties of anything we do on a routine basis. There are countless variables when it comes to travel: weather, mechanical issues, overbooked flights, traffic, human delays and so much more. But if we could combine all of our intelligent data in a way that it works toge... |
TechCrunch Is Invading Austin And Seattle In June, Pitch-Off Applications Are Open Now! | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 10 | Fresh on the heels of TechCrunch Disrupt NY, we’re already thinking about our next events. and , are you ready to get down with TechCrunch? Our tour will take place the week of June 10, but we want to open up applications to the Pitch-Off as soon as possible. What is the pitch-off, you ask? It’s only the best way to ... |
Google Maps Has Forsaken Us | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 5 | 10 | Once upon a time, in the days of yore — meaning, in hyper-fast-forward Silicon Valley, five years ago — there were things you could count on, evident truths on which you could rely, cornerstones on which you could construct your mental model of the world; and high on any such list would have been “Google will provide y... |
Should Twitter Crack Open Its Nest Egg To Acquire SoundCloud? | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | SoundCloud might be the YouTube of music, but that doesn’t mean Twitter should play Google and . There are better ways to spend the $2 billion from its IPO than on a music startup which won’t necessarily improve its core service. [Update: And now , a German news outlet from SoundCloud’s home country, says Twitter is ... |
Survios Snaps Up $4M To Lead The Next Generation Of Virtual Reality Tech | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | , a San Francisco startup that aims to pioneer the next-generation of virtual reality (VR) technology, has raised $4 million in series A funding. The round, which was reported this morning , was led by Shasta Ventures, whose founder Rob Coneybeer will be joining Survios’ board of directors. Also participating in the r... |
Microsoft Likely To Break Out A Bigger, Not Smaller, Surface Tomorrow Morning | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | Tomorrow in New York, Microsoft is holding a Surface-themed event that was expected for a time to include the unveiling of a new, smaller Surface device — the Surface Mini as it was dubbed by the media. Not so, it now appears. Reports have that a smaller device isn’t happening, and that instead, Microsoft will releas... |
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Moving Tech’s Moral Compass From The Inside Is Harder Than It Looks | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | Whether or not it actually lives up to its ideals, the tech industry has a long history of trying to hold itself to a higher standard in its rhetoric. (This .) But as founding a company has become de-risked over the last 10 years and many growth-stage companies begin to veer into highly regulated areas like education ... |
Andreessen-Incubated Teleport Aims To Make Location Irrelevant For Mobile Workers | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | Is finding housing getting you — and apparently, the rest of San Francisco — down? Then leave. Go somewhere else! Stop coming here! (Just kidding.) But not really. Because that’s kind of the idea behind , a new Andreessen Horowitz-incubated startup from early Skype executive and This company, which was in stealth, ... |
Insight Venture Partners Raises $510M Coinvestment Fund | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | announced that it has raised a $510 million coinvestment fund to invest alongside it announced last year. Founded in 1995, the firm focuses on later-stage deals, with investments of $15 million or more; includes Twitter, Tumblr, Indiegogo and many others. It recently , maker of blogging platform WordPress. Insi... |
Inside Jobs: What It Takes To Be The PR Lead At A Startup | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | When a tech company makes the news, the public usually sees the names of a few people: tech executives and the journalist who wrote the story. But oftentimes, a public relations person was involved too, helping to schedule the interview and otherwise facilitating communication between the company and the press. PR peop... |
Machine Vision App PetMatch Finds You A Dog Or Cat That Looks Like Your Old One | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | Still mourning the loss of your little buddy Chairman Meow? Upload a photo of him or your favorite Lolcat into , and the app’s machine vision algorithms will find a similar looking kitty in your area that you can adopt. Sounds adorable, but PetMatch is no joke. It’s the first consumer app from , a $20 million-funded ... |
GoPro Files For $100M IPO With 2013 Revenue Of $985.7M, Up 87.4% From The Year Prior | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | This afternoon GoPro with the SEC, detailing its financial performance as it looks to go public. The company states that it will raise up to $100 million in the offering, trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol ‘GPRO.’ The company’s revenue expansion has been impressive, with top line in 2011 of $234.23 million... |
HackerRank Wants To Build A One-Stop Shop For Technical Phone Interviews | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | When it comes to hiring engineers, many companies now use a real-time web platform like TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield and Y Combinator to see how candidates write their code. That way, interviewers see not only the code candidates write, but also get an insight into the thought process behind it — and how they han... |
IBM Watson Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup Cognea | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | IBM’s has announced a new acquisition today — artificial intelligence company Cognea. IBM confirmed the acquisition via a Cognea developed a cognitive computing and conversational artificial intelligence platform. The startup offers virtual assistants that relate to people through personalities. On the company’s , ... |
Kyle Russell, Sarah Buhr And Ron Miller Join TechCrunch | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | TechCrunch is incredibly happy to announce three new hires today including Kyle Russell, Sarah Buhr and, somewhat belatedly, our enterprise reporter Ron Miller. As a Business Insider reporter, has impressed with his balanced coverage of being hassled for . He’s shown a passion for covering companies like Google and... |
Glass Half Empty | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | Google made Glass available for purchase to anybody . You’d be forgiven if you didn’t notice. What started out as one of Google’s most hyped products more than two years ago, now finds itself on the brink of failure. It’s unclear how many people bought Glass this week, but it doesn’t seem like there was a massive run... |
Alibaba’s Massive IPO Could Touch Down In August | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | According , Alibaba’s IPO could kick off in the first full week of August. That timing would give the company enough time to respond to questions that the SEC may have regarding its business, and its forecasts — a standard give and take before a company goes public. TechCrunch confirmed the validity of the potential t... |
FCC Chairman Cites Google Fiber As Model For The Rollout Of Speedy Broadband | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler’s for his trip to the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology have been published, detailing the FCC’s views on net neutrality (again), the coming spectrum auction (again), and, interestingly, Google Fiber. The chairman’s document includes the f... |
Hugh Howey, Author Of The “Silo Saga,” Talks About Making It Big In Self-Publishing | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | is a best-selling Sci-Fi author with a long and interesting pedigree. He’s been a yacht captain, a computer guy and, most recently, a bona fide publishing sensation. His book, the , started as a novella on the Amazon Kindle Store and suddenly blossomed into a massive, multi-volume opus that is a #1 Bestseller on Amaz... |
Western Union And eBay Try To Horn In On Bitcoin With New Patents | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | Two weeks ago, received a patent for which, in short, is a way for the company to use and accept “alternative currencies.” At the time of filing, back in 2009, these currencies included barter systems like Bartercard and virtual gold and dollars from various online sources, including Second Life and World Of Warcra... |
Google Launches An Instagram Account | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | Instagram is so hot that no one can resist joining in. Not even Google. The search giant, in a (??), has today launched . So far there is one video post, showing today’s time-sinking Google Doodle. In other words, Google’s first Instagram is kind of, sort of (though not technically), a regram. Come on, Google. Get o... |
Networkr Is A Tinder-Style Networking App For LinkedIn Contacts | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | Meet — a Tinder for professional networking powered by your LinkedIn contacts. No, it’s not the dating app that uses LinkedIn data to find prospective love matches (that’s in case you’re wondering). This app wants to help you move your interests forward by upping your networking game. Proximity social networking ... |
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