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Sprint’s Nexus S 4G Gets Final Price Cut: Free At Best Buy, A Penny At Amazon | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | Less than two weeks ago, cut the price of its by half to just $99 on-contract. That had me pink in the cheek with barely controlled glee, so you can only imagine my reaction when I saw that both and were offering the device for free (and nearly free). Best Buy promises all the Google phone you can handle as l... |
Two Free Tickets To Our Mobile First CrunchUp This Friday #GoAdlibrium | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | Tickets to our sold out in one day and we just released our last set of tickets to our annual summer party at August Capital. If you were not able to get a ticket to the CrunchUp (which also gets you into the after party), here is one more chance. has offered to give away their two tickets to the CrunchUp to two luc... |
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New Battery Tech Is Partially Transparent, Flexible | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | at Stanford University have put together that combines two theoretically coveted attributes: transparency and flexibility. The method of making the battery transparent is rather clever, and while the resulting product is far less energy-dense than its opaque relatives, it’s still an interesting development. The secr... |
Newly Public HomeAway Reports Q2 Revenue Up 41 Percent To $58.7M, Profit Down 85 Percent | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | Newly public home rental service is reporting today, posting a 40.9 percent revenue growth, to $58.7 million in the second quarter, compared to $41.6 million in the second quarter of 2010. The company said growth was buoyed by renewal rates, coupled with increases in new listings and revenue per listing. Net inco... |
The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | Until now everything has been just great for , a service that lets people rent out their homes and become a sort of mini-hotel. The company and has grown rapidly. They’ve been , which is always a mark of success. And they’re now a part of the . Even the clone . Which is all super great. But now the story of a tru... |
Xperia Arc Comes To US Without Carrier Support | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | Ever since it was first , we’ve wondered how long it would be before we’d have an Xperia Arc of our own to not notice in our pockets. For months rumors flew about which U.S. carrier would be lucky enough to nab the svelte smartphone, with . Well, summer has come, and so has the answer — the Xperia Arc is, It’s frank... |
The iPad Was Built For Something Like StumbleUpon, Now They Have A Worthy App | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | Since its inception, has always been one of the most perfect lean-back apps. Long before anyone even used that term, the StumbleUpon toolbar took various pages on the web and allowed you to quickly jump between them to find new things of interest. This concept seems perfect for a device like the iPad. Unfortunately t... |
Copygram Lets You Download All Your Instagram Photos | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | Like similar service , allows you to easily download all your photos into one .zip file. In addition the service provides a web interface for the popular photo-sharing app with the ability to search through other people’s Instagrams, download the pics from other users’s feeds as well as print them out through its ... |
Kleiner-Backed Katango Organizes Your Facebook Friends Into Groups For You | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | Perhaps there’s something to these friend circle/list/groups after all. As you’ve doubtless heard by now, Google recently launched a social network that revolves around one core idea: people want to share different things with different groups of friends. Of course, it’s an idea that isn’t all that novel — Facebook has... |
Technicolor LED-TV Dreamcoat Is Fantastic But Somewhat Impractical | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtSm8Oom2n4&w=640&h=390]
This brave fellow plans on wearing at Burning Man, which you may know is in the desert. I can’t think of anything I’d like to be wearing less than a full-on labcoat loaded down with PCBs, batteries, and so on.
The TV plays NTSC video and it’s 160×... |
The Bowers & Wilkins C5 In-Ear Headphones Will Hold Your Ears In Sweet Harmony | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | Bowers & Wilkins has a new set of ‘buds that your ears are letrally crying to hear. Seriously, hear that soft hum? It’s your poor ears telling you to ditch those stock Apple earbuds and opt for B&W’s new hotness instead. The high-end audio firm has always been known for its high-end sound but also high prices. The B&W ... |
Samsung Wave 725 Specs Trickle Out, Bada 2.0 On Board | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | Back in April, three Bada-powered phones were leaked onto the web, only one of which had a name: the Samsung Wave 578. At the time, all we knew was that the trio would sport NFC chips, and that they all run Bada 2.0. Now, one of the mysterious unnamed handsets has been discovered in the Bada 2.0 SDK by BadaWorld as the... |
HTC Status Goes Up For Pre-Order On AT&T | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | The Facebook-centric HTC Status smartphone is now available for pre-order from AT&T, with an official launch date of July 17. We knew the Status (once the ChaCha) was officially headed to AT&T, and we had pegged the launch for July, but we didn’t know pricing or availability details until today. The HTC Status will cos... |
Red Bull Creation Spawns Wheelie Mobile, Spinning See-Saw, And Other Crazy Contraptions | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | Red Bull gives you wings, right? Well, apparently it also gives 16 teams the energy necessary to build brand new and quite random inventions as a part of Red Bull’s annual Red Bull Creation event. In a nutshell, Red Bull throws out a secret theme at the very beginning of the weekend and teams are asked to create gizmos... |
PayPal VP: Supporting Payments In The Physical World Is Critical For PayPal | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | eBay owned PayPal has been making some interesting acquisitions over the past few months that clearly show the direction of the company in capturing payments flow from digital goods, and physical products at a local level. The company bought local payments and advertising company Where for over in April, snapped up m... |
DataSift – The little startup (from Europe) that could [TCTV] | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | When I first in a tiny, unassuming office an hour’s drive from central London in October 2008, I realised I was meeting someone who was passionate not just about startups, but had the kind of deep technical knowledge that would stand him in good stead. Unlike some non-technical, paper-thin ‘MBA entrepreneurs’, Halste... |
Formspring's Marketing Moment Comes With Its First Promoted Question Of The Day | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | Social Q&A site , where more than have been answered so far, had a marketing moment today. For the first time, the Question of the Day was a promoted question: “What do you think would happen if apes took over? #apeswillrise” The question promotes the upcoming movie , which is the prequel to the classic hence th... |
DIY Hoverpuck: Fun For The Whole Family | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe2CuVw2rsw&w=640&h=510] If you’ve always wanted to play air hockey in real life and couldn’t shrink yourself down enough to stand comfortable on a regulation table, this may be a solution. It is a DIY hoverpuck that uses a motor, propeller, and a puck-shaped case to create a rea... |
Indian Mobile Bank Eko Raises $5.5 Million, Processing $270 Million in Payments a Year | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | Innovative mobile banking platform Eko India Financial Services has raised $5.5 million from Creation Investments’ Social Venture fund, Promus Equity Partners and several unnamed angel investors. Mobile banking is one of the most exciting trends in the tech world outside Silicon Valley. And now that more people have mo... |
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ROAR! Apple Puts Out The Call For Devs To Submit OS X Lion Apps | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | A Lion is quickly approaching. OS X Lion — aka OS X 10.7. Some are it will hit this week. Other signs point to next week. Either way, it’s coming very soon. How do we know? Apple has just put out a call to developers asking them to submit their OS X Lion apps for the Mac App Store. The email message (pasted below) no... |
Zipments: The Zaarly Of Courier Services Arrives In NYC And Chicago | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | Back in March we wrote about , a startup that lets you post an and find someone to complete it for a modest fee. It, and similar services like , have honed in on a key idea: there are a lot of intelligent, hardworking people who have some spare time and would love to make a few bucks during their off hours. And the... |
NCR To Buy Hospitality And Retail POS Software Company Radiant Systems For $1.2 Billion | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 11 | NCR is buying , a company that develops point-of-sale systems and software to the hospitality and specialty retail industries, for $1.2 billion in cash, or $28.00 per share. The deal is expected to close during the third quarter of 2011. NCR says it will raise approximately $1.1 billion of new funded debt to finance t... |
Three Companies Chi-Hua Chien Of Kleiner Perkins Would Love To Invest In | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | , a number of entrepreneurs, VCs, and executives gathered to discuss the state of the mobile industry and mobile technology. After a series of individual panels, the day concluded with the crowd of panelists gathering together for a lively discussion about the future of mobile, current mobile trends gaining legs, as we... |
360: TeliportMe Brings Its Killer Panorama App To Android (Oh, And It Works On Over 200 Phones) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | Last November, TechCrunch’s own Sarah Lacy from “social streetview” startup, , which, at the time, had just received term sheets from a number of high-profile U.S. investors and had recently been awarded the “Top Emerging Technology Company of 2010” by . The startup was the first international, non-funded, under-20... |
Android’s Matias Duarte: Ice Cream Sandwich Will Help Devs Cope With Myriad Form Factors | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | As we closed out today’s , all of our speakers took the stage for an extended roundtable discussing a variety of topics affecting mobile: design, gaming mechanics, and, of course, iPhone vs Android. One of the last questions posed during the roundtable came from Mike Isaac, who asked how the next version of Android,... |
Chamillionaire Pleads With Android Design Lead To Give Him A Decent Device | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | “I’ve used all these different devices — they suck.” Short. Sweet. To the point. Rarely do you find that at tech conferences. Luckily, loves coming to ours. That was the hip-hop star’s words to Android design lead during our today. During the closing panel, Chamillionaire got up to express his love for the iPhone... |
Mobile Neighborhood App Blockboard Now Covers All Of San Francisco | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | What would Craigslist look like if it was a mobile app? It might look a little bit like , a neighborhood which is expanding today from its initial neighborhood of the Mission in San Francisco to the rest of the city. Co-founder demoed the app at our Mobile First CrunchUp today. It is designed from the ground-up ... |
Mobile Has The Opportunity To Re-Think The Ad | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | Kleiner Perkins VC kicked off the “Money Matters” panel at the TechCrunch Mobile First CrunchUp with a telling understatement, “There seems to be a lot of new business models around mobile.” Indeed, what makes mobile unique as a communication platform is that traditional advertising isn’t the default. See: As Chien ... |
Springboard presents 10 startup graduates to investors | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | Ten startups were showcased to investors at the brand new accelerator programme in the UK today, which has joined Seedcamp, Startup Bootcamp and Hackfwd as one of the bigger programmes across Europe. The startups to present were the following, (click the links to get our coverage of each company): , , , , , , ,... |
Next Jump’s Mobile App Ella Rewards You For Sharing Local Shopping Tips | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | , which for thousands of corporations and credit card companies, has been steadily expanding its platform to offer a more social experience for consumers. For example, the startup inked a to get access to its inventory of daily deals, and to use Next Jump’s WOWpoints to buy deals and merchandise from retailers li... |
Stealth Social Mobile Startup just.me Raises $600K From Google Ventures, SV Angel And Others | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | a stealth startup playing in the social and mobile spaces, has just raised $600,000 in seed funding from a list of all star investors including , , , , , , , Steve McArthur, and Four Horsemen LLC. just.me was founded by , a serial entrepreneur and a co-founder of TechCrunch. Teare previously co-founded RealNam... |
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Publification aims at Amazon, Google and Apple with amazing HTML5 eBook app [Springboard] | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | Perhaps one of the most interesting new startups to emerge from the at its first investor day today has been . Right now there is a problem with ebooks. They are files. They are not dynamic. You need a reader. Not all readers work with all files. Plus, publishers are in hoc to the platforms like Kindle and iBooks. I... |
Matias Duarte On iOS Vs. Android Looks: “Why Are Sicilians More Handsome Than Other Gentleman?” | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | Today during our in Palo Alto, CA, our own Jason Kincaid led a panel focused on designing the mobile experience. On the panel were Bump’s , Soundtracking’s , and Google’s (the Director of User Experience for Android). Not surprisingly, much of the talk was iOS versus Android. Such is the state of the mobile world... |
With 7M Users In His Pocket, Kevin Systrom Says The Biggest Opportunities For Instagram Are On Mobile | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | At today’s , Erick Schonfeld sat down with AdMob and Churn Labs founder and founder to discuss how both founders approached mobile development vs. the web. Systrom, whose popular iOS photo sharing app just passed 7 million users, explained that the biggest opportunities for Instagram are on mobile, not the web.... |
TotalGigs plans live location-based content sharing at music events [Springboard] | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | : A “Color for live music” might be stretching the analogy (and the comparison) but wants to be in the same location-based content sharing field, even if it probably wouldn’t like Color’s negative press. They intend to launch an app on the iPhone, RIM and Android to allow sharing of Pictures, Messages and “Moods” bas... |
HTML5 Developer Joe Hewitt: “There’s A Place For App Stores Long-Term” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | Here at the TechCrunch storied mobile developer spoke about the future of native and mobile Web apps with TC writer MG Siegler. Hewitt is most famously the Facebook mobile developer that stopped doing work on Facebook’s iOS efforts after he got fed up with Apple’s staunch App Store rules. Eventually leaving Facebook... |
Buy A New Mac, Install iLife On Your Other Macs With This Simple Workaround | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | Good news! If you’re missing a little iLife in life than have no fear, ’s got it . iLife has been included on the new MacBook Air and Mac mini, in the form of GarageBand, iPhoto, and iMovie. As luck, and Apple, would have it, once you have a licensed copy of iLife ‘11 (like the one that comes with your new Mac) att... |
SpaceX To Launch ISS-Bound Supply Ship In November | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | With the demise of the space shuttle program fresh in my mind, I’m forced to find my space-related solace wherever I can. Luckily, with companies like SpaceX still devoted to removing the obstacles to commercial space flight, I can’t be too bummed — and as has reported, SpaceX is preparing their next step. After thei... |
Google Retires 13-Year-Old ‘Google Friends’ Newsletter | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | a charming thirteen year old newsletter that a few old-time techies still subscribed to has decided to shut down today, citing flat subscription numbers and the prominence of Google news on Twitter and the official Google blog as impetus for its retirement. Created by co-founder and current CEO Larry Page on April 29,... |
Arachnys pulls big data from emerging markets [Springboard] | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | What do you get if you cross an ex- analyst with a technical co-founder? Remember, Control Risks is about entering and dealing with emerging new markets, where anything can happen. So is about digging deep into the data about business information from emerging markets like India, China, and Russia. Think Google for ... |
MiniMonos to take on Moshi Monsters with a fun 'Green' game for boys | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | : In a sentence, is a ‘Green for boys.” The longer story is that this is a 2D virtual world for kids to have fun in (it’s focused on entertainment with green/sustainability themes, not education). MiniMonos has been going for two years and is led by an experienced team led by of CEO Melissa Clark-Reynolds, but only... |
Tastebuds.fm launches its bid for investment [Springboard] | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 29 | has been making waves recently with an innovative approach to dating which is a lot less run of the mill. Today it launches to investors at the accelerator programme in Cambridge, with a bid for £500,000 of Seed investment. Users import their music profiles from last.fm, facebook or just put in some of their favouri... |
Why startups should be .44 Magnums | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 16 | Disruption. It’s been playing on my mind since something happened at the eG8 Forum in Paris. Since then, I’ve been to many events involving startups and seen many pitches. Then recently, Nick Halstead about whether startups get enough support from VCs in Europe to ‘think big’, with a weighing in on . And that’s wh... |
Zing! Larry Page Calls Out ‘Competitors’ (aka Facebook) For Lack Of Social Data Portability | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 16 | At the end of yesterday’s , CEO Larry Page made a very interesting comment about data portability, Google+, and competitors (aka Facebook). In the an analyst asked Page what the most compelling reasons are to switch from existing social platforms to Google+ or if the company sees a future where people can be a part ... |
The Underground Promise Of Turntable.fm | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 7 | 16 | One of the most vinyl collections belongs to a DJ who only surfaces every now and then. And when he does, legions of fans wait on baited breath, desperate to taste the latest brew from Josh Davis, otherwise known as . DJs like Shadow usually begin creating underground. Their music is the result of months of samplin... |
Following Twitter | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 16 | In honor of Twitter’s the folks at have made the following graphic plotting out key milestones on it’s path to 200 million tweets a day. Following Twitter, get it? |
Keen On… Don’t Steal This Book (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 7 | 16 | “Steal this book,” wrote Abbie Hoffman in 1970. So, today, why should we pay for our books – especially in a digital age where intellectual theft is both ubiquitous and pretty much risk free? According to the best-selling author of novels like and paying for his books means that he doesn’t have to work at a gas s... |
In The Battle Of The Music Tweets, Turntable.fm Has More Klout Than Spotify Or Pandora | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | Have you noticed an uptick in the number of Tweets that mention Spotify, Turntable.fm or other music services lately? It’s all part of their diabolical plans. Online music services live or die by word of mouth, which is why most of them have hooks into Twitter and Facebook for users to share invites and the songs the... |
Looking To Sink Their Teeth Into Some Tasty Northwest Startups, Google Takes A Bite Of PIE | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | If you haven’t heard of , it’s probably because you don’t live in the Pacific Northwest. But the Portland Incubator Experiment has already amassed such an impressive roster of startups that everyone may know about them soon enough. Recognizing that, Google is getting out in front and partnering up. Google joins Coca-C... |
Tap2print secures funds for printing platform aimed at photo app developers | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | KiMA Ventures has made a small $150,000 investment in , a global ‘In-App Printing Service’ for mobile applications that makes print product ordering possible from any mobile app worldwide. Clearly there are a lot of photos out there unprinted. The idea is that developers download Tap2print’s ‘In-App Printing Service’... |
Battle Of The Goofy Email Campaigns | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | The heated battle between two of the biggest email services on the web has taken a decidedly humorous turn. Yesterday Google unveiled , a site “built by a few folks from the Gmail team” that encourages users to get their friends to switch from draconian email systems and their “embarrassingly outdated addresses” over ... |
Toshiba-Fujitsu IS12T: World’s First Windows Mango Cell Phone Up And Close (Video) | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | Two days ago, Toshiba-Fujtsu in Japan took the wraps of the IS12T, the world’s first world’s first phone running Windows Phone 7.5 (aka ). We were quick in giving you , but we now have a video that shows the 1 Ghz Qualcomm CPU-powered device in action – plus some more detailed specs. First, here are the main specs (i... |
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Stocial Launches In Beta To Blend StockTwits With Yahoo Finance (Invites Herein) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | , the market seems to be showing that there’s ample demand for a social micro-blogging service that targets stocks, trading, and financial information. Or at least that’s what is hoping. The Seattle-based startup, which is launching today in public beta, wants to be, in conception, the love child of StockTwits and Ya... |
Polaroid’s Z340 Isn’t Quite The Gaga-Inspired Beauty We Saw At CES | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | Back at CES, we spent a long time waiting for Lady Gaga to show up (again) and introduce her new product line, a collaboration with Polaroid called Grey Label. The and Bluetooth printer didn’t exactly blow our socks off, but the GL30 camera prototype sure did. Of course, no matter how much I bugged Polaroid, I neve... |
Softbank Shifts Focus To Early Stage Companies, Renews Focus On New York Startups | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | Today, is announcing a series of updates, including the launch of its . Some of these changes have been brewing for some time now, but, hey, the redesign of its website is as good a time as any to spread the word. Over the past year and a half, Softbank has been in the process of shifting its investment strategy to ... |
Twitter Adds “Possibly Sensitive” Designation To Tweets With NSFW Content | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | Twitter has to developers that it has added a field for “possibly_sensitive” content in its streaming API, in a test that will eventually result in more granular end-user media settings for Twitter. Writes Twitter developer Taylor Singletary, “Beginning today you may notice a new boolean field in API responses & strea... |
So much for TechCity if BT can't install a simple phone line in 78 days | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | It goes without saying that there is a great deal of activity in the tech startup world these days, whether you think it’s a bubble or not. At the same time governments all over the world are realising that with economies in dire straits, anything which shows hypergrowth like technology is to be encouraged. Little wond... |
TC Cribs: Inside Tumblr’s Reblog-Worthy Digs | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | We’re back with a new episode of , and this one is sure to be a crowd pleaser: red-hot blogging platform . The NYC-based startup has been growing like crazy (they’re now up to 11.6 billion page views per month), and they’ve given us a chance to take a peek inside their headquarters. For a company with over in fun... |
Motorola CEO: Droid Bionic Will Launch In September | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | After six… Wait, let’s make that months of uncertainty, we might finally have something solid to work with. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said in an interview with that the Droid Bionic will land in September. Just so we’re clear, that’s nine months after the phone was , five months after , and four months after Motoro... |
Mobile Research Firm Zokem Acquired For Up To $24M | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | Tearing through a mountain of mobile phone data isn’t much fun, but someone has to do it — and it looks like it pays well enough. Just 4 years after its founding, mobile research firm Zokem has been snatched up for $11.7 million up front, with a potential payout of an additional $12 million through 2014. Their buyer? A... |
Motorola Mobility Beats The Street, Shipped 440k Xoom Tablets, 4.4M Smartphones In Q2 | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | Motorola Mobility just released its Q2 earnings and it’s loaded with fun stats. First off, the company posted $3.3 billion in net revenue with non-GAAP earnings of nine cents a share. That’s up 28% over last year’s second quarter and beats the Wall Street’s estimate of just six cents a share. The company also realized ... |
British Court Orders ISP To Block Filesharing Website In Potential Landmark Ruling | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | The issues of censorship, net neutrality, and file sharing will be kicking for years to come, and the necessity of making the relevant laws agree internationally will be by no means a small part of the conflict. But those laws have to be reasonable and scalable to begin with. , where a judge has determined that BT mus... |
Is This The iPhone 5? | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | iPhone fans, start drooling. Skeptics, have your grains of salt at the ready. An iPhone 5 — or at least something closely fitting the rumored description of the iPhone 5 — has just been spotted… on a train, of all places. The shot up above (and the ever-so-slightly-different one below) comes from , who received them f... |
Carriers To Obama: Give Us More Spectrum Access! | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | President Obama announced back in February his support for a , which he believed would (among other things) “benefit all Americans, bolster public safety, and spur innovation in wireless services, equipment, and applications.” Under his plan, 500 MHz of spectrum would be freed up over the course of the next ten years ... |
Google’s Two-Factor Authentication Now Live In 150 Countries And 40 Languages | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 28 | Good news for Google users outside of the United States: the internet giant has that Two-Step Verification is now available in 150 countries worldwide and 40 languages. You should use it. Really. No, the feature, which is more generally referred to as two-factor authentication, doesn’t sound cool. In fact, it’s sort ... |
Why Can’t You Search Google+ On Google+? | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 17 | One of the most counter-intuitive details about Google’s new social network is that you can’t actually search for public posts from it. Instead you have to use the clunky workaround or use one of the new search engines that have cropped up since its launch like or . The latter also has the added boon of searching ... |
Women’s World Cup Soccer Final Scores New Twitter Record With 7,196 Tweets Per Second | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 17 | After an epic run, the U.S. women’s soccer team today in the final of the Women’s World Cup tournament. And if you were paying attention to your Twitter stream today, you may have seen an influx of Tweets about the game, which ended in a penalty shootout. Twitter just that the Women’s World Cup final scored a new r... |
Redpoint Ventures: Making Money the Old Fashioned Way | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 7 | 17 | Last week we broke the news of the impressive-but-not-jawdropping by Citrix and the stellar year of returns that Redpoint Ventures is having. What makes Redpoint’s record so unique is that the firm is having a good year despite the fact that they’re not in one of the big five: Zynga, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or G... |
OMG/JK: Yes, Of Course You're In My 'Friends' Circle. Swear. | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 10 | We’re back for a new episode of OMG/JK, and, in the spirit of Skype’s new integration with Facebook, we’ve decided to try out this nifty video conferencing technology for ourselves! Okay, so the split-screen action was primarily motivated by the fact that I’m now out in New York, but it’s certainly timely. In this we... |
College2Startup Wants To Connect Startups To The Best Young Talent (And Vice Versa) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 10 | Those media experts among us may be familiar with , or HARO, which brings reporters and bloggers to quotable sources, and helps small businesses promote their brands. It’s an interesting, if not completely proven, model. Now, what if you apply that model to startups, and the startup hiring process? This was thinkin... |
Power To The People | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 7 | 10 | As I type this, a UPS beeps furiously behind me, over the growl of half-a-dozen diesel generators on the street outside. I’m in an Internet café in Leh, a city nestled in a Himalayan valley surrounded by 6,000-metre / 20,000-foot peaks, the fast-growing capital of India’s northernmost territory . It’s clearly outgrown... |
Soap Media | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 7 | 10 | Oh lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz. That’s how I feel about the strange trip we’re on with our social studies. Used to be that I could just sit back and wish for a Mickey Mantle home run, and sure enough, it would be there. The powerful compact swing generating an arc unlike any other, still rising as it cleared ... |
Justin.TV: The Movie | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 10 |
While the of Facebook tell-all was questionable, the movie did tremendously well at the . And at the and Now Hollywood producers are looking for the next big story around a tech company. Next up— LA-based production company Riche Productions has to the story behind the development and founding of live video... |
Hotwire For Surgery | Mark Suster | 2,011 | 7 | 10 | The hotel bed that is empty tonight can never be sold again. That insight led Hotwire to create a disruptive model that has given travelers great deals on hotel rooms. It turns out there are “beds” and “suites” of a different variety – Surgical Suites/Beds – that have a similar phenomena. Just as top hotels rarely are ... |
A Groupon For Sports? Crowd Seats Brings The Daily Deal Model To Sports Tickets | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 10 | Daily deal sites, by and large, seem like they’re here to stay, much to Rocky Agrawal’s chagrin, surely. Whether or not you agree with Rocky’s last month about Groupon and its claque of clones, the daily deals model is not perfect, and it’s certainly a worthy endeavor to make sure that small businesses and merchants... |
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Google+ Added $20 Billion To Google’s Market Cap | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 10 | How much is social worth to Google? Investors added $20 billion to Google’s market cap the first week after the launch of on June 28. A on Friday, brought the total down to $15.8 billion because of doubts whether Google will indeed be able to capitalize on new products such as Google+. But somewhere in between t... |
Nearing 2M Members, One Kings Lane Lands A Lucrative Endorsement From Bravo | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 10 | I happened to be watching my new favorite show, Bravo’s , last week and noticed a very familiar name. The show, which follows five LA-based, high-end interior designers in their industry, prominently featured the K flash sales site for home décor, furnishings and accessories. In an episode that aired a few weeks ag... |
Lenovo Outs The ThinkPad Tablet, An Android Tablet You Might Actually Want | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | Last week I tuned into a press preview of today’s Lenovo announcement. It was an online presentation so, you know, I went on and did other things while half listening. I was nearly ready to close the tab after listening to 20 minutes of some product manager explaining every little detail about the consumer-oriented Ide... |
Kleiner Perkins Doubles Down On FindTheBest | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | Santa Barbara and New York based has nearly doubled in size , so it’s no wonder is putting another bet down on the company. They invested . And now they’ve invested . I’ve been a fan of the company since I first heard about it. It’s a very useful comparison engine for large data sets (see or or , for exampl... |
Roku Launches New Media Streamers Complete With Motion Gaming Capabilities Perfect For Angry Birds | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | Roku just announced its fourth generation of media streamers and they’re unsurprisingly the best yet. They sport more features, an even smaller physical footprint, and the same Apple TV-killing price points as before. These new models, the Roku 2 HD, Roku 2 XD, and the Roku 2 XS, have even more media streaming capabili... |
UK startup guys plan game site after Murdoch pie incident | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | There’s nothing like an unexpected moment at a high profile event to bring out the mischevious geeks. It would appear the incident where Rupert Murdoch was attacked with a plate of shaving foam by a member of the public during his hearing over the phone hacking scandal today is just that kind of event. Alex Tew is best... |
Google Now Detecting Viruses, For At Least One Form Of Malware | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | Google has something pretty interesting, that it is using its own data to detect viruses and will as of today be using Google Search results pages to warn users if their computers are infected with a specific form of malware. Users infected with the virus, which is apparently rerouting traffic to Google and other sit... |
Riverbed acquires Zeus for $140m – A win for Cambridge, DFJ Esprit and SEP | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | , which manages networks, has acquired which runs software-based load balancing and traffic management for the cloud. The deal is worth $140m. Zeus was backed by VCs DFJ Esprit and Scottish Equity Partners. Cambridge, U.K. based Zeus Zeus developed software-based scalable application delivery controllers otherwise k... |
The Primary Colors of Secondary Markets | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | I find myself conflicted about . My cautionary side wonders how these private stock sales can potentially distort incentives within companies and artificially impact valuations. The libertarian side of me, however, says all in business is fair game. Everything can be bought or sold. Everyone has a price. Secondary mar... |
With $5 Million In Their Pockets, Ness Has Quietly Built A Subjective Search Engine | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | For the past 18 months, has been very quietly working on some new technology that they believe will be the next big thing in search. It’s a new, highly personalized search engine that they hope to launch in the coming weeks. But first, they’re happy to announce they’ve been given $5 million in funding to fulfill this... |
Apple’s Tim Cook: “China Was Very Key To Our Results.” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | By all accounts, Apple’s Q3 earnings report was , with the company bringing in a monumental $28.57 billion in revenue. When you break down that revenue into region — Americas revenue: $10.13 billion, Europe: $7.1 billion, Japan: $1.51 billion and Asia-Pacific (mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan): $6.33 billion — yo... |
The Key Subtle Notes From Apple’s Earnings Call | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | When Apple announces their earnings, they typically do so with much pomp and circumstance. You get a superlative-laden press release, which in recent years have been more than backed up . But it’s the earnings call itself that is often even more interesting. Because there are other, more subtle things said, almost in ... |
Uber Calls TechCrunch’s Bluff, Opens Actual Lemonade Stand | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | Not enough startups have a good sense of humor. We all know Groupon is , and Uber is following suit. Rather than flame me for of Uber’s immediate business ambitions to a lemonade stand, the company has penned a fake (we hope) post about its — lemonade stands that track your movements as you get closer to them. Of c... |
Twitter goes insane, becomes the default back-channel to HackGate, Smithers trends | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | I’m sitting watching a live feed of the UK Parliamentary hearing into the into the News International phone hacking furore featuring Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and, soon, Rebekah Brooks. But right now it’s Twitter which is running into over-drive. UK users ave jumped onto Twitter since the super-injunction scandals,... |
Kickstarter Celebrates Its 10,000th Successful Project And $75M In Pledges | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | Crowd-funding website has put up today in honor of their 10,000th successfully-funded project ( if you’re curious). We were privy to some of these numbers (or their predecessors, anyway) when co-founder Yancey Stickler and some successful project creators took to the stage at Disrupt NYC, but now they’re here in g... |
Zillow Prices IPO At $20 Per Share, Now Valued At Nearly $540 Million | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | Real estate listings site Zillow has at $20 per share, giving the company a $539 million valuation. Last week, the company of its IPO to $16 to $18 per share, from the initial range of . Zillow, which will begin trading under the symbol “Z” on the NASDAQ tomorrow morning, will raise as much as $79.6 million in the... |
Apple’s Tim Cook: The iPad Is Cannibalizing Some Mac Sales, But There Are “A Lot More Windows PCs To Cannibalize Than Macs” | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | Apple just announced another . Revenues were up 82 percent to $28.6 billion, it sold , but it also sold 9 million iPads. The iPad sales outpaced every other product. iPad unit sales were up 183 percent, growing even faster than the 142 percent growth of iPhone unit sales. Revenues for iPads and iPad peripherals ... |
Get Taxi to launch in London | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | You wanna bitch about valuations and call this a bubble? Go ahead. I, for one, love that a flood of we-can-do-anything enthusiasm fueled by seemingly infinite cheap venture capital is disrupting all kinds of annoying, antiquated corners of the real world. Groupon is changing local business in a fundamental way, Airbnb ... |
Apple Shoots Past $400 A Share In After-Hours Trading | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | Yesterday we wrote that Apple had a very good chance of becoming in the world by this fall, as its stock hit a share. Today, after and beating analyst’s expectations, the stock is currently trading after hours at around $400 (we saw it at $404 at some point, now it’s hovering at $398), which would imply a market ... |
Mac OS X Lion Launches Tomorrow | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 19 | Hot on the heels of Apple’s stellar comes some more big news: the next version of its Mac operating system, OS X Lion, is coming tomorrow. The announcement was made (rather nonchalantly) by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer during the earnings call, which is currently ongoing (you can find our notes from the call . Lion’s... |
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