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US Gov Alleges Chinese Hackers Compromised American Companies To Steal Trade Secrets | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 19 | Remember the that from inside of China, presumed to be tied to that country’s military? Today the U.S. government of “unit 61398,” indicating that actors from the group “conspired to hack into computers of six U.S. victims to steal information that would provide an economic advantage to the victims’ competitors, ... |
Taking Lots Of Selfies Is Not A Mental Disorder | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | Have you heard? The American Psychological Association says that taking an excessive amount of . But of course this claim, which predictably spread like Kardashian wedding news on social media channels this weekend, is completely . It was the hoax we all wanted to be real. It was vindication that certain annoying peo... |
Retro Is One Of The Most Beautiful Instagram iPad Viewers | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | Despite being , still hasn’t come out with an iPad app. This has allowed several developers to step into the breech and offer their own tablet viewers for the popular photo-sharing app. Some of the most popular ones include , , and . In order to step up to the competition, a bootstrapped Singaporean startup calle... |
You Talkin’ To Me? — London’s App Car-mageddon Is Underway | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | Protests by London Black Cab drivers outside Hailo offices. Protests by taxis in Paris against Uber. In some case is taking place across the globe as private car hire apps and taxi apps gradually start to eat away at the long-controlled taxi and private car markets. What does it look like on the ground, what is the l... |
Bitcoin Rallies As Allegations Of Trading Irregularities Swirl | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | It’s been a torrid few days for bitcoin, the now globally known cryptocurrency. A price rally kicked off that has, over the past week, pushed the value of bitcoin up by around 25 percent. Trading near the $580 mark, bitcoin is still down around 50 percent from its record, late-2013 highs, but the life that it’s showing... |
Home Alone? | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | Connected devices company , now , has been lauded — mostly, it must be said, by the tech press — for turning its attention to the utilitarian devices in your home. The ones no-one loves. The no-frills, (usually) beige plastic devices that squat on the wall or ceiling of your home doing one thing and one thing only, a... |
Fly Or Die: Microsoft Surface Pro 3 | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | Forget everything you thought you knew about the Microsoft Surface tablet, as the latest generation of the Windows-powered is a clear step up from the Microsoft slates of yore. In terms of specs, the 12-inch tablet packs a Core i7 processor, and is thinner, lighter, and more powerful than anything Microsoft has pu... |
Rap Genius Drops Co-Founder Following Elliot Rodger Manifesto Annotations | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | Rap Genius, the startup that wants to “annotate the world,” sees the departure of co-founder Mahbod Moghadam today, owing to Moghadam’s ill-advised annotations on the rambling manifesto of Elliot Rodger. , injuring 13 and killing seven, including himself. In a , co-founder and CEO Tom Lehman describes how Moghadam’s ... |
Samsung Wearable Patents Feature Circular Face, Gesture Controls And Image Recognition | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | Samsung has a group of new patent applications it filed recently related to wearable tech (via ), and these could describe an initial foray into Android Wear, which Samsung has said it would support in addition to its Tizen-powered Gear devices depict a device with a circular face, much like the one featured in Motoro... |
On The Set Of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | Thanks to an unlikely series of events, I, a civil/environmental-engineer-turned-tech-media type, found myself on the set of HBO’s Silicon Valley last fall, serving as a consultant to HBO, which was trying to recreate a TechCrunch Disrupt in a Hollywood (well Culver City) studio. You probably don’t realize the insane a... |
The iPhone Is Still The Best Smartphone | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | I see a lot of phones in my work here at TechCrunch, and I’m genuinely impressed with where the average level of quality is at compared to where it was even just five years ago. I’ve seen Android mature so much in that time that it’s amazing – but for all the work Android OEMs have done in terms of narrowing the gap wi... |
Apple Said To Be Prepping Smart Home Software Platform For WWDC Reveal | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | Apple is going to make a big play in the connected smart home space, according to a new report from the . The company is planning a platform that would turn its iOS devices, including the iPhone, to control their smart home devices, doing things like controlling lights, security systems and connected appliances. This ... |
Messaging 2.0 Is Now Over | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | revolution is now quickly coming to a close. With , Daum Communications, we are witnessing the end of the rise of mobile-focused independent messaging startups that started just five years ago. Only Kik Messenger remains standing independently, although there are a slew of ephemeral messengers like Snapchat that are ... |
Flipkart Raises $210M In New Funding From DST Global And Returning Investors | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | , India’s largest e-commerce company, announced today that it has raised $210 million in a new funding round led by DST Global, with returning investors Tiger Global, Naspers, and Iconiq Capital also participating. The announcement comes on the heels of last week’s news that Flipkart will acquire online fashion retaile... |
#YesAllWomen Shows That Misogyny Is Everyone’s Problem | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 26 | If the actions of the UC Santa Barbara shooter last week , then the Web is also where we turn to grieve and try to process something that is truly incomprehensible and horrifying. Since news of the murders broke, #YesAllWomen has remained one of the top trending topics on Twitter. Originally in reaction to the , #Ye... |
How TheFamily Is Reshaping The French Tech Ecosystem | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | is raising up to $2 million from angel investors and . It’s an open round — so far investors have committed $1 million. Given the overall interest around the funding, the company should quickly max out its round. Today’s news is also a good opportunity to take a step back and tell you why TheFamily has been key in ... |
Google To Announce Finalists For Bay Area Impact Challenge | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | Tomorrow, Google will announce the 10 finalists for its , its latest effort to give back to communities in Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area. For the next 10 days, anyone can visit the website to vote for their favorite nonprofit among the group. According to the Bay Area Impact Challenge site, finalists were se... |
Fab Lays Off One-Third Of Global Headcount, Slashing New York City Staff | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | The day of reckoning has come for Fab’s New York City office, where it is expected to have widespread layoffs due to yet another change in the company’s business model. The layoffs will affect about a third of the company’s global staff, but will be limited to New York staff. After previously morphing from a social net... |
ROLI’s Radical Musical Keyboard Attracts A $12.8m Series A Round | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | The , is a completely new type of keyboard musical instrument. It has soft rubber keys which can bend and shape a tune, the way you can bend the strings on a guitar. It’s a genuinely radical departure from normal keyboards. Check out the video below to see what I mean. That’s all great, but these are not usually consi... |
JD.com Prices At $19, Higher Than Its Initially Proposed Range | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | JD.com, fresh off rumors that its IPO is massively oversubscribed, , higher than its initially proposed range of $16 to $18 per share. The pricing indicates market appetite for shares in the Chinese company that is analogous to Amazon. As , Amazon is down steeply so far this calendar year. The JD.com pricing comes ri... |
Weibo Drops 5% After Reporting In-Line Q1 Revenues Of $67.5M, Better-Than-Expected $0.03 Loss Per Share | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | This afternoon Weibo reported the , including revenue of $67.5 and non-GAAP earnings per share of -$0.03. The market had expected the company to lose 5 cents per share on revenue of $67.45 million. The company, up more than 6 percent in regular trading, has fallen around 5 percent in after-hours trading. The company’s... |
New Tunepics Social Network Is Like Instagram With A Soundtrack | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | [gallery ids="1005910,1005909,1005908,1005907,1005906,1005905,1005904,1005897"]
If you mashed up Instagram with music tracks, what would you get? A timeline of pictures from friends with evocative soundtracks that stimulate the ears as well as the eyes? Perhaps even tug at the emotions? That, at least, is the hope of ... |
May 22 Is Bitcoin Pizza Day | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | Four years ago this week, on May 22, 2010, a BTC fan and programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 Bitcoins – about $40 at that time – for two Papa John’s pizzas (pictured above). He wrote: A volunteer in the UK ordered the pizzas (which explains why he ordered the execrable Papa John’s) for $25 and sent them to H... |
The White House Throws Its Weight Behind Weakened NSA Reform Bill | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | In the wake of that the USA FREEDOM Act had been that it has lost sight of its initial goals of limiting NSA mass-surveillance, the Obama Administration today that it “strongly supports” its passage in the House. Citing “strong bipartisan effort,” the White House says that the bill “ensures our intelligence and l... |
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There’s A New Segway And It Has Three Wheels | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | Is a Segway still a Segway if it has three wheels? Meet the , a Segway with three wheels designed for mall cops everywhere. The new model forgoes the traditional two-wheel, auto-balancing setup for a more stable and robust three-wheel arrangement. It’s for security forces such as mall cops and police officers who need... |
The Oculus Rift Is Coming To Chuck E. Cheese | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | We can all agree Chuck E. Cheese is a great place to get shoddy pizza and various diseases. But! Are you willing to risk contracting the flu or meningitis to try the Oculus Rift? The children’s play place is rolling out the Virtual Ticket Blaster Experience at 29 locations including Dallas, San Diego, and Orlando over ... |
Recalled Nest Protect Smoke Alarm Will Return To Sale In Weeks | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | Google’s Nest, by way of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, has issued a recall notice covering all 440,000 Protect smoke alarms sold over fears that the alert will fail to sound due to a false triggering of the “Wave” feature, which disables the sound with a gesture. The recall was detailed on the website th... |
True[X] Raises $6M More As It Tries To Enlist Big Publishers For Its Interactive Ad Platform | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | Interactive ad startup is announcing that it has raised $6 million in additional funding. CEO Joe Marchese told me that the money was an extension of that true[X] raised in 2011 (back when ), and that it came from existing investors Pinnacle Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Jafco Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures... |
ZeniMax Sues Oculus And Palmer Luckey | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | Who would’ve thought being acquired for $2 billion dollars would earn you a few enemies? Following up on legal threats over the past few weeks, ZeniMax — the parent company behind id, Bethesda Games, and a few other studios — has officially filed suit against Oculus and Palmer Luckey. Their claims? Oculus stole trade s... |
Google Plans Low-Cost, High Quality Wi-Fi Networks For Small- And Medium-Sized Businesses, Report Says | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | Google is apparently planning to offers subsidized, , The Information reports, alongside software to help greatly improve the quality of the Wi-Fi experience at places like doctors’ offices, restaurants, gyms and more. The hardware would be the only cost involved, as it would use the businesses’ existing Internet conn... |
Giphy Taps Alphaworks For The Final $100K In Its $2.5M Series A | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | Giphy, the betaworks-backed search engine for gifs, is today opening up a slice of its on the equity crowdfunding site Alphaworks. is a site run by Nick Chirls, in collaboration with betaworks, that lets accredited investors within a startup’s community invest a small amount of funding to get a cut of equity. It fo... |
Xbox One’s June Update Will Finally Fix Two Of The Console’s Most Annoying Shortcomings | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | Everybody celebrate! Or, at least, Xbox One owners, celebrate! Two of the Xbox One’s most frustrating quirks are being swept away come June. First up: auto sign-in is coming. As it currently stands, even if you only have on the machine, you have to either: sign in manually, or plug in the Kinect and hope it successfu... |
Spotify, Please Chill With The [Censored] Music | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | Spotify is a magic music box. It’s [Censored] an amazing tool. I like to [Censored] people that the $10 I send it each month is the [Censored] money I spend. Having access to such a massive catalog of tunes on every device I own is the [Censored] knees. But Spotify has an [Censored]-interface issue that makes using it ... |
Whistle, The ‘FitBit For Dogs’, Adds GPS Features To Make Sure You Never Lose Your Pet | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | The new product, dubbed , uses both GPS and sub-GHz cellular technology to add on-demand location monitoring to Whistle’s flagship activity tracking gadget that syncs with iOS or Android devices. It’s a logical addition, as Whistle’s core product seems best suited for pet owners who aren’t always physically with the... |
BlackBerry Reveals Project Ion, Its QNX-Powered Effort To Underpin The Internet Of Things | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 21 | BlackBerry is mostly discussed in terms of its slow decline in the global smartphone market, which it once pioneered. But it acquired QNX in 2010, and that would provide the basis not only for its BlackBerry 10 smartphone operating system, but also for the platform underlying a huge percentage of in-car infotainment sy... |
Samsung’s Head Of Mobile Design Resigns After Galaxy S5’s Poor Reception | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | Samsung Electronic’s head of mobile design, Chang Dong-hoon, following criticism about the Galaxy S5 smartphone’s lack of pulchritude. Though the Galaxy S5’s design did not actually , its looks and textured plastic back were roundly lambasted by reviewers. “I think I audibly let out a sound that was something along ... |
Google Ventures Leads $130M Series B In Cancer Data Startup Flatiron Health | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | , a startup that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors, has raised $130 million in Series B funding led by , with participation from , , and angel investors. Part of the capital will be used to acquire , an electronic medical records company. The funding, which , is significant for ... |
“Lyft Plus” Launches In SF With Tricked-Out SUVs In SF That Cost 2X [Update: Confirmed] | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | Lyft’s forthcoming premium SUV service will cost twice as much as normal Lyfts, but comes with extra perks, says a Lyft contractor who refused to be named as the plans are still private. I of Lyft’s competitor to Uber SUV earlier this month before Lyft released a for the service. Now I have more details on what the... |
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2014 Is… Vurb | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | , tough road, but it’s finally time to crown the winner of the Disrupt Battlefield. This year’s batch was truly awesome. Twenty-seven startups took the stage to present. The six finalists were , , , , , and . It was an amazing batch with multiple hardware startups, innovative business models and good engineering.... |
Greylock’s Lilly: Tech’s Landscape Is Unfair In An Invisible Way To Women | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | Ah, that perennial issue — women in tech. Solving it is so intractable and talking about it can be thankless because readers get emotional without arriving at pragmatic solutions. It requires multiple layers of intervention all the way on up from the toys and cultural icons we present to young girls, through encouragin... |
Zennström — Going Global Outside The Valley, We Were ‘Too Eager’ With Fab | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | Despite being quite a self-effacing person, it’s clear Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype and now a VC with his fund, is actually something of a rebel. He has consciously chosen to build a portfolio outside of North America and looks for great companies almost anywhere else. Zennström co-founded Skype, which he ... |
Beloved Image Sharing Site MLKSHK Saunters Off Into The Sunset | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | There are only a handful of sites that I visit every day aside from TechCrunch. Among those was the lovely, lightweight , which is set to shut down on September 1st. MLKSHK got so many things right for me. It’s nicely designed and provides an honest transaction when you visit. You go there to look at an image and the ... |
Ad Tech Company Marin Software Names David A. Yovanno As Its New CEO | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | , maker of tools for managing online ad campaigns, is announcing a new CEO — David A. Yovanno, a . Co-founder Chris Lien has served as CEO since Marin was founded in 2006. He’s moving to the role of executive chairman, but the company said in that he “will continue to be actively involved day-to-day.” The company st... |
Tesla Slips Despite Beating Estimates In Q1 With Non-GAAP Revenue Of $713M | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | It’s to be a . Today despite beating non-GAAP revenue and non-GAAP profit expectations, Tesla is in after-hours trading. The company $713 million in non-GAAP revenue and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.12. Both figures were ahead of the street’s expectations of $699 in non-GAAP revenue, and $0.10 in non-GAAP e... |
Pst! Secret’s Android ETA Is “Two To Three Weeks” | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | , the anonymish app that’s enabling iOS users to thrill their own friends and people in their social circles by saying stuff freely, without having their own identity attached to the information they are sharing, is coming to Android in “a few weeks”. The ETA for the Secret Android app was revealed backstage at TechC... |
Anova Updates Their Sous-Vide Device For The Smartphone-Toting Cook | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | Another day, another cooker. Anova, a company I’ve covered before, has announced the , a precision circulator/heater that uses your phone to cook delicious sous-vide meals in a hot water bath. They’ve surpassed their The original Anova was a self-contained device with temperature and time settings right on the mach... |
Layer Raises $14.5M, Hires iMessage, Facetime Pioneer Andy Vyrros As CTO | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | Communications platform for mobile and web apps and winner has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding from Homebrew, AME Cloud Ventures (Jerry Yang’s investment vehicle), CrunchFund, Fuel Capital and other investors. At the same time, it has announced a key hire: Andy Vyrros, a former engineering head at Apple wh... |
Hover Adds Gestures And Touch To Your DIY Electronics | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | hackers rejoice: you can now add touch sensitivity and gesture controls to your tiny electronics projects, something that could add some very compelling user experience tweaks to existing projects. Called , the $39 board is basically a capacitive touch sensitive PCB with a small controller built in. Interestingly, yo... |
Yahoo Is Doubling Down On Mobile — Again | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | to Yahoo, mobile was everyone’s hobby. It was no one’s job,” Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer told Michael Arrington on stage today at . Ever since Mayer joined Yahoo in July 2012, mobile has been one of the company’s main focuses. And it turns out that the company is doubling down on mobile once again. “Mobile is doubling on... |
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Zillow Posts A Loss Due To Ad Expenses, But Q1 Revenue Up 70 Percent To A Record $66.2M | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | Real estate marketplace Zillow Q1 earnings this afternoon, with revenue for the quarter increasing by 70 percent to a record $66.2 million from $39 million in the first quarter of 2013. GAAP loss per share was $0.16 in the first quarter of 2014 with non-GAAP net income per share coming in at $0.02 in the first quarte... |
Marissa Mayer Explains Yahoo’s New Video Strategy | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | Speaking at Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer explained the strategy behind the company’s new . “Can you tell me what Yahoo is?” TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington asked, bringing up the old question of whether Yahoo is a tech or media company. Mayer argued that this dichotomy doesn’t matter, and that Yahoo ... |
Kloudless Makes Connecting Apps To Multiple Cloud Storage APIs Easier | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | At last year’s Disrupt NY, its service for easily moving data between email and various clouds. That, however, was just the first stage in the service’s evolution. Returning to the stage at Disrupt NY today, CEO and co-founder Eliot Sun announced the launch of that allows developers to easily connect their apps... |
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Talks Funding, Investing And The Future Of WordPress | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | CEO today took the stage at for a wide-ranging chat with our co-editor Alexia Tsotsis. During the conversation, he touched upon everything from raising the company’s latest funding round to the future of WordPress’ backend interface. Talking about WordPress’ $160 million funding round — which the company announced... |
Knotable Hopes Its Alpha Will Fix The Email Headache | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | Email, email, email. It’s the bane of our life but it’s also incredibly necessary. But out of the hundreds of emails you might get a day, perhaps only 25 are actually really, really important to you. These are the conversations that you look out for, nurture and really put a lot of effort into. They are key projects. B... |
Facebook Is Down For Many | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | Facebook’s website is down for many. The voluminous , and , are pretty plain: For many, Facebook is not working at the moment. Young services are infamous for having extensive outages. Twitter, for one, when small, was down chronically. Facebook going down, given how mature it is as a platform and public company, is... |
Marissa Mayer Explains Why Yahoo Is Undervalued | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 7 | On stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Yahoo CEO pushed against the narrative that Yahoo is worth nothing. The company has a market capitalization in the tens of billions, but it’s been pointed out that if you add up the value of its stakes in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba, the company could be valued at something ... |
As Mobile Roars Ahead, It’s Time To Finally Admit The Web Is Dying | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | While have been heated, few commentators seem to be targeting their invective at the real underlying bubble: the World Wide Web itself is crumbling. Like any outmoded technology, the Web is rapidly losing users as it fails to adapt to disruption from mobile apps and continues to perform poorly – despite incredible op... |
Manilla, The Hearst-Backed Service For Managing Bills, Is Shutting Down On July 1 | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | Account management startup says that it will be shutting down on July 1. We received several tips about the shutdown today, then when I visited the site and tried to sign up, I was directed to , which says that the service will continue to operate as normal until June 30. After that, users will no longer be able to ... |
Ask A VC: Google Ventures’ Rich Miner On Android Growth And More | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Google Ventures’ Rich Miner joined us in the studio to talk about Android’s massive growth, and more. Miner, who was the co-founder of Android and helped lead the development of the Android platform and ecosystem at Google following the acquisition, talked about his view on “altern... |
10 Senators Blast FCC-Proposed Internet ‘Fast Lane’ Net Neutrality Rules | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | Ten U.S. Senators, including Sens. Wyden, Warren, Franken, and Booker, today to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in opposition to his proposed rules-changes to net neutrality that would create so-called Internet ‘fast lanes.’ As we’ve covered a half-dozen times, the proposal cuts at the heart of net neutrality’s bent on non-... |
Jawbone’s Newest Investor Is Rizvi Traverse | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | Back in February, that Jawbone was nearly finished raising a $250 million round of funding led by , the investment firm that has backed Twitter, Square, Flipboard and a number of others of late. While Jawbone’s CEO and founder Hosain Rahman declined to comment on the round on stage at Disrupt NY this past week, he d... |
Gillmor Gang Live 05.09.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | – Robert Scoble, Josh Miller, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. |
PrintToPeer Networks Your 3D Printer So You Can Build Your Own Bot Farm | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | Calgary-based is a crowdfunded project aimed at networking open-source and commercial 3D printers in one location or around the world, thereby allowing users to send jobs to distant printers. It’s not something you’d think you’d need, but if you harken back to the old days of central laser printers, you can understan... |
Monegraph Uses Bitcoin Tech So Internet Artists Can Establish “Original” Copies Of Their Work | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | People don’t want to buy copies of art, they want the original. And that’s been a huge problem for artists who create digital works that are easily copied. No scarcity means no market, so artists can’t make ends meet. But , short for “monetized graphics”, uses cryptography to bring meatspace scarcity to online art. He... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Disrupt Hardware Rocks Our Socks | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | This week, TechCrunch was consumed by Disrupt NY 2014. It was an amazing week, and made even better by the appearance of three hardware companies in our Disrupt Battlefield finals. , an inkjet printer hack that prints out makeup, wowed the audience. ISI Technology reinvented the water heater with the , and focused o... |
Gearing Up To Raise More Capital, TrackVia Is On Pace For 100% Revenue Growth In 2014 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | After booking 50% revenue growth in 2013, is looking to grow its top line 100% in 2014. The company is on track to meet that benchmark, it told TechCrunch. is an interesting company, selling a product that lets companies quickly build mobile applications for their employees to use. Instead of hiring an application d... |
Fab’s Future Could Be Decided In The Coming Weeks | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | Design-focused e-commerce startup has fallen on hard times over the last year, going through and along the way. The company has raised from investors that include Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Mayfield Fund, Atomico, Menlo Ventures, and others. But it’s gone through a violent boom-and-bust cycle, ... |
Despite Furor, Proposed Net Neutrality Changes Appear Headed For A Vote | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | The rising furor regarding proposed changes to net neutrality has so far a vote next week on proposed new Open Internet rules at the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) monthly meeting on May 15th. Several FCC commissioners have for the proposals in question, even . It didn’t work. At question is the idea to... |
Media Temple Expands Its WordPress Hosting Features With Backup Service And Git Integration | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | more than 20% of websites, and given this huge market, it’s no surprise that the number of specialized hosting services for WordPress sites also continues to grow. Media Temple is one of the latest companies to join the fray, launching its just . Today, it’s expanding this service with a number of new features, inc... |
Style-Focused Community And Shopping Service Polyvore Arrives On Android | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | , the style-focused community whose members of outfits and accessories to Pinterest, has now arrived on Android. The app follows the company’s by roughly a year and a half, indicating, perhaps, its largely female user base’s preference for iPhone and iPad when working with their fashion creations. The company today ... |
Dattch, The Dating App For Queer Women, Launches In LA | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | , the far more sophisticated version of Tinder aimed exclusively at queer women, is today launching in Los Angeles with some updated features. Dattch is currently operating in the UK and San Francisco, with New York next on the list. The app requires Facebook sign-in, verifying that only women are on the app. And unlik... |
Netflix Learns From Past Mistakes, Increases Prices The Right Way | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | When you make a really big mistake, the best possible outcome is that you learn from it and never make it again. It would seem Netflix has done that, based on sent out Friday about the company’s pricing plan. The price of the streaming service is going from $7.99 to $8.99 for new customers, but existing Netflix subsc... |
ZTE Is Selling The $99 Open C Firefox Phone Exclusively On Ebay | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | If you’re into open source, unlocked phones that cost less than a month of phone service, take note. Manufacturer ZTE is selling their first Firefox OS phone on , a price that should make it a great choice for folks looking for a solid phone with a solid pedigree and an actually open OS. Preceded by the original , re... |
Intel Pays Up To $30M For A Personal Assistant Platform From Ginger Software | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | has Siri, and now has Ginger. The chipmaker has made one more acquisition to bolster its advanced computing and artificial intelligence holdings: it has purchased selected assets, and hired talent, from Israel’s in the area of natural language processing tools and applications. Those assets include a platform for ... |
GE Buys Wurldtech To Beef Up Internet of Things Industrial Infrastructure Security | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 5 | 9 | This morning General Electric announced it had completed a deal to buy , a Vancouver-based cyber-security firm that protects big industrial sites like refineries and power plants from cyber attacks. GE VP and world technology head, Bill Ruh told me that they intend to leave Wurldtech as a wholly owned subsidiary. The ... |
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Is Some Tech Too Addictive? | Nir Eyal | 2,014 | 5 | 31 | Addiction can be a difficult thing to see. From outward appearances, Dr. Zoe Chance looked fine. A professor at the Yale School of Management with a doctorate from Harvard, Chance’s pedigree made what she revealed in front of a crowded audience all the more shocking. “I’m coming clean today telling this story for the... |
After Expanding To Android, Addappt’s CEO Breaks Down Its Growth Plans | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 31 | Mrinal Desai, founder and CEO of , is betting that people need a better way to keep their cell phone contact information up to date. Addappt, a smartphone app — and — syncs contact information between users, allowing for individuals to remotely update their data on the phones of their friends. (For a more detail... |
Two Dots, The Sequel To Betaworks’ Dots, Is A Beautiful Monster | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 31 | My highest score on Dots — the original Dots — is 414. I achieved this respectable, albeit relatively average, score about a year ago, just after Dots was first released. When I open up the app now, I never play for more than a few tries. I can never get anywhere close to 400. I can’t even get close to . Which brings... |
Google Receives 12,000 Requests To Be Forgotten From Europeans On Day One | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 31 | Google has officially confirmed that it received 12,000 requests to be forgotten from EU citizens on the first day that it offered the ability to do so, according to a . The requests were submitted Friday, after for users to fill out in order to ask that search results related to their name be removed from Google’s l... |
You Have The Right To Manage Your Own Online Persona | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 5 | 31 | Kids today have pretty much had their entire lives on public display from the time their mother posted their first embryo shot on Facebook. And currently there’s no way in the US to erase yourself, embarrassments and all, online. But with the rise of anonymous apps, there is a way to separate who you want to be publicl... |
This Is Your Final Chance To Apply For The TC Pitch-Offs In Austin And Seattle | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 31 | If you’re an entrepreneur in the Austin or Seattle areas, pay close attention. You have exactly one weekend to complete your application to compete in the TC Pitch-Offs, where a few lucky startups will win a chance to attend Disrupt SF in September. Applications close on Monday, June 2, and your company must be in pri... |
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The Five Tough Truths Of Cybersecurity Software | Ted Schlein | 2,014 | 5 | 31 | Building a successful security software company is notoriously hard to get right over the long haul. Computer security is a fast-moving target. You still need anti-virus software, for instance, but it won’t necessarily keep you safe. The same is true for firewalls, and malware detection, and spam blockers, and various ... |
Gillmor Gang: EarPlay | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 5 | 31 | The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor — grow more and more convinced that Apple is in for a good time this fall. The blending of streaming with downloading promises to accelerate what may well be the takeover of the industry formerly known as the music business. Mix ... |
The Valley Has Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 5 | 31 | Silicon Valley, at its best, is a kind of insurgency. Most of the world is ruled by dinosaur bureaucrats; but as software eats the world, Valley misfits and iconoclasts, armed with razor-edge tech and contempt for the status quo, overthrow those antediluvian empires and build better ones, which light the path to a brig... |
New Materials Let You Bake Your Own Robot | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | MIT researcher Daniela Rus wants to help you bake a robot. Not out of cake batter, silly (although that would be delicious.) Instead, Rus’ project involves cutting out and “printing” plastic materials that change shape when baked, essentially allowing for self-forming objects that build themselves. The system takes a 3... |
The Lomo’Instant Blows Through Crowdfunding Goal To Bring Artistic Instant Photography To The Masses | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | Lomography makes weird cameras that take weird pictures – on purpose. The New York-based company is famous for their work at rebuilding old fixed-focus camera styles that produced photographs that were a cross between a Soviet-era crime scene snapshot and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s street photography. Now the company is l... |
Virgin Galactic Deal Gets Them A Bit Closer To Sending You To Space | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | It’s been a good week for space travel. Just last night, SpaceX — their very first spacecraft capable for carrying astronauts (as opposed to just cargo) to the stars. They expect to be shuttling astronauts back and forth to the International Space Station by 2017. That’s great for astronauts and all, with their many ... |
This Algae Battery Could Power A Tesla With 200X The Charge | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | In a small lab, near a lake at the edge of West Berkeley, sits the prototype of what could revolutionize battery power as we know it. The secret to this power? Algae. OK, just hang with me here. has already been done on algae’s possible power capabilities. Prototype creator Adam Freeman says this new kind of battery,... |
As Software Eats Up Jobs, Startups Need To Consider Ethics Of Marketplaces | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 5 | 31 | Anger can be a deeply chilling emotion when coursing through politics, and we have witnessed our fair share of it over the past few years. In San Francisco, , and demanded . Nationally, we have seen the frustration of millions across the country through the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements. More ominously... |
OoberDocs Will Now Sync Your Incoming Email Attachments To Google Drive | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | , a neat little tool built and , has expanded its feature set to include support for Google Drive. The service, which puts a copy of all incoming email attachments in your preferred cloud storage system, launched with initial support for Dropbox. In an email, founder John McBride informed TechCrunch that today proce... |
House Republican Efforts To Curb FCC Authority Mirror Cable Industry Lobbying | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | A by Rep. Bob Latta would “limit” the FCC’s ability to regulate the telecom industry by prohibiting it from classifying broadband as a public utility under Title II of the Communications Act. Latta’s argument against regulating broadband as a public utility is that it would create “uncertainty,” reducing the incentiv... |
deviantART Makes Its Case For Administering The .Art Domain | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | Online artists’ community is hoping to , and it recently sent a letter to ICANN (the organization responsible for managing top level domains) laying out its perspective on the stakes in the decision. The letter also presents deviantART’s case for why it deserves a “community designation” in the application process, ... |
CrunchWeek: Google’s Self Driving Car, Apple Buys Beats, And Founders Misbehave | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | In case you had missed it, today is Friday, which means it’s time for another spin of the round table as , and sat down to dig into what happened this past week. Google’s cute , Apple’s , and the controversial topic of , either in the past or present were our topics. Tune in every week to hang with a rotating... |
Tradeshift Takes Over All The Invoicing For The UK’s Health Service | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | E-invoicing platform has landed a partnership with a company that processes transactions for the UK’s NHS, one of the biggest public-sector bodies in the world. The NHS Shared Business Services will be using the Tradeshift platform instead of processing 30,000 paper invoices daily. Tradeshift has made a speciality of... |
Meet Raptor, The New Running Robot That Will Smother Your Soul In Fear | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lPEg83vF_Tw] Another day, another bipedal robot that will eventually run you down and crush you! This new robot, called the Raptor, can run 26 miles an hour without falling over and even jump over obstacles. The robot, created by the Korea Advanced Instit... |
Style Jukebox Raises Seed To Stream Your Own Music Collection | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | has raised undisclosed seed funding from Central European early-stage fund to boost its cloud music-streaming service. The cloud part is that you upload your personal music files collection and then use Style Jukebox to stream it into your device wherever you are. There are of course other services like this, though... |
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