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Samsung Level Box Review: An All-Metal Bluetooth Speaker That’s Easy On The Eyes | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | Samsung is making its own portable Bluetooth speaker as part of its new Level line of audio accessories, and the product goes on sale today online at its official store for $199. The device is definitely compact, and it’s an all-metal product, which is unusual for a Samsung piece of kit, but can it hold its own with th... |
Meet One Of The Tech Dudes Who Dated Those Women Flown In From NYC To Meet Tech Dudes | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | The very idea of it was – an online dating site, the Dating Ring, was shipping women from New York City to date San Francisco tech dudes. Greg Benson was one of those tech dudes. And he says, after meeting the women who came all that way, he wasn’t that interested. At a strapping 6’4″, the 34-year-old Bay Area-based a... |
Microsoft Launches Files Tool For Windows Phone 8.1 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | This afternoon, , a file management tool for that it had previously . The app is simple, but then again so is local file management. Users of Files will be able to access content that is stored locally, as well as on SD cards. Folder creation is supported, along with normal tasks like moving and deleting content. I... |
Don’t Freak Out You Guys, But Twitter.com Has Switched To A New Font | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | Apparently Twitter has switched its web interface from the Helvetica Neue font to Gotham Narrow SSm. Honestly, I barely have any idea what that sentence means, but that is what people who seem to know what they’re talking about yesterday. And judging by the current consternation on Twitter, the change has now gone li... |
Infoblox’s Stock Drops 36.84% After Its Earnings And Forecast Disappoint | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | Shares of fell sharply today, to the . The networking company reported after the bell yesterday, along with the coming . How bad were the earnings? The company reported $61 million in revenue for its fiscal third quarter (2014), up a mere 5% on a year-over-year basis. The company lost $7.4 million the period on a... |
Gillmor Gang Live 05.30.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | – Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session . Find us on |
Banners Go Up Suggesting That, Yes, Apple Will Debut iOS 8 at WWDC | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | In case there was some worry in your heart of hearts that Apple was going to mix things up and show iOS 8 at WWDC, let it be cast away. A few new banners went up at SF’s Moscone center today, including one that literally says nothing but “8”. So, unless Apple has collectively decided to thoroughly muddy up their prod... |
Stanford Asks Students To Learn From Snapchat Founder’s Mistakes. We All Should. | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | Following the leak of , the university’s Provost to students imploring them to “learn something from this.” “We can choose to turn a blind eye to such statements and chalk them up to youthful indiscretion,” Etchemendy wrote. “Or we can be more courageous, and affirmatively reject such behavior whenever and wherever ... |
Indian Fashion Discovery Site LimeRoad Lands $15M Series B | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | has closed $15 million in funding, which it says is one of the largest Series B rounds secured by an online commerce company in India. Investment was led by Tiger Global, with participation from returning investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Matrix Partners India. LimeRoad, a social discovery platform targeted to... |
As Square Struggles, European Payments Rival iZettle Takes Another $55.5M In Funding | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | As mobile payment startup that it’s delaying an IPO amid and other pressures, , the Swedish mobile payments company that has been referred to as the Square of Europe, has raised another €40 million ($55.5 million). In an interview, CEO and founder Jacob de Geer said the funding will be used to continue building ... |
Google Said To Be Planning Android TV Launch At I/O In June | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 30 | Google has long been rumored to replace Google TV with Android TV, a new crack at the home media market with more roots in its mobile OS and less of a separate focus, but a new report from ; in fact, it’s apparently set to make its debut at the I/O developer conference taking place at the end of this month. The Androi... |
Apple’s Beats Purchase Could Have Saved HTC | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | : Apple on May 28th. In what would have been a truly strange storyline, Apple would have effectively saved one of its chief rivals from collapse — had HTC held onto its controlling stake in Beats Electronics. The is that Apple is close to acquiring Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion, its largest purchase to date... |
An Interview With Mink CEO Grace Choi, Who’s Taking On The $55 Billion Beauty Industry With A 3D Makeup Printer | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Though that took home the winning “Cup” from the Disrupt NY 2014 Startup , there’s no question that is the company that hit the biggest nerve this past week with a . , a personal 3D printer for making custom cosmetics, is such a strikingly clever yet simple idea, just like the greatest products and — somethin... |
SCiO Shows Off Its Molecular Food Scanner In TechCrunch Disrupt’s Hardware Alley | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Dror Sharon, the CEO of , was showing off a prototype of his handheld “food scanner” at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Hardware Alley this week, called the . The device is a pocket-sized spectrometer that analyzes the molecular structure of an object by first shining a light on the item in question, then identifying the foo... |
Subscription E-Book Service Oyster Crosses 500K Titles, Plans An Android Launch This Year | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | , a startup that offers offers unlimited access to its collection of e-books for $9.99 per month, has crossed a nice milestone — it says its library now includes 500,000 books, compared to 100,000 when . The company also said it recently expanded its partnership with HarperCollins, bringing 10,000 more of the publishe... |
Apple In Talks To Acquire Beats For $3.2 Billion, Says FT | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | : Apple on May 28th. This could be Apple’s largest acquisition to date. According to the , Apple is close to a deal to acquire Beats Electronics. Beats is the maker of the popular Beats headphones, as well as the music service, . If it closes, the deal should be announced next week, the FT reports. The two compani... |
SuperSummit Launches Its Network For Live Events And Online Courses | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | , a London-based startup, today launched its platform for online live video interviews with experts out of beta after testing the service for a few months in Italy. During the beta, the company built a community of about 50,000 members and created over in English and Italian with the likes of Brad Fed, Guy Kawasaki a... |
Japanese Man Arrested For Printing His Own Revolvers | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Police arrested 27-year-old Yoshitomo Imura, a university official from Kawasaki City, after he posted a video of himself firing a 3D-printed six shooter called the Zig Zag revolver. Imura was employed at the Shonan Institute of Technology and owned a $500 home 3D printer. The trouble started when Imura printed and fir... |
BitPay Is Raising $30M At A $160M Valuation From Index, Richard Branson | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | We’re hearing that , a platform that processes payments in bitcoin for merchants, is raising the field’s biggest round yet. The company is raising $30 million on a roughly $160 million valuation in a round led by Index Ventures, with Richard Branson and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang participating. BitPay declined to com... |
Kamino Offers Crowdsourced Walking Tours On Your iPhone | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | In Startup Alley this week, we came across Roger Obando and Louis Huynh, co-founders of , a new mobile app offering crowdsourced city guides. Unlike the recommendations found in professional guidebooks, Kamino instead offers what they call “urban hikes” — guides created by locals and plotted on a map that help to in... |
Highway 1 Is Ramping Up Their Search For Startups With $50,000 In Seed Money | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Brady Forrest’s is looking for a few good hardware startups. The accelerator that brought us and the are working on their Fall 2014 program and they’ve increased their seed investment amount from $20,000 to $50,000. We first spoke to when they opened a new headquarters in San Francisco and thus far they’ve sent... |
The Pressure On Enterprises To Transform Intensifies | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Business is under intense pressure to transform these days whether it’s finding ways to capitalize on mobile, social, the cloud or big data or taking it a step further and becoming a truly digital enterprise. That was the message this week at the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit in LA –and as I listene... |
Snapchat Settles With FTC After Being Dishonest With Users About Privacy | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Snapchat has with the FTC to address concerns over the company’s privacy policy, app description, and in-app notifications after the ephemeral messaging service was at the center of a huge data breach last year, exposing 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers. According to the FTC, the security breach was in direct ... |
Intuit Buys Lettuce Apps For $30M To Add Inventory And Order Management To Quickbooks | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Some consolidation afoot in world of cloud-based enterprise services. has made another acquisition to help position itself as the go-to place for small and medium businesses to run their offices in the cloud: it has bought , a platform for companies to manage both orders and inventory online. Lettuce is not disclosi... |
Amazon Goes Big With Sunday Delivery Expansion | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Amazon has just a huge expansion for Sunday deliveries with 15 new cities slated to learn the pleasures of receiving shipments on the weekend. So far, Amazon has only offered Sunday deliveries . Amazon has partnered with the United States Postal Service to make Sunday deliveries a reality. The new cities joining the... |
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Build An Event Crew Qwerkly With Werkly | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Finding workers in this economy sounds like it should be easy. But what if you’re searching for someone with a very particular set of skills, skills they have acquired over a very long career? Skills that make them useful to marketers, events planners, and designers? Those people are a little harder to find and that’s ... |
Apple Patents Optical Image Stabilization For Higher Resolution iPhone Pics | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Apple has been working on optical image stabilization tech for use in their iPhones and other devices, according to a new patent application filed with the USPTO (spotted by ). This could allow future devices to boost image resolution considerably by stitching together multiple exposures for each picture. This isn’t e... |
TechStars Alum AdYapper Raises $1M, Receives Accreditation From The Media Rating Council | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | , a startup allows marketers to see how often their online ads are viewed, has raised $1 million in new funding from angel investors, including movie producer Jack Giarraputo. The company says it will use the new funding to expand into new markets and explore emerging media. The TechStars alum also gained accreditation... |
8tracks Launches New iPhone App To Take On Pandora | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 8 | Music startup just released a major new version of its iPhone app. The 3.0 version comes with a completely redesigned interface, a simpler user experience and a new advertising strategy. At its core, it remains a laid-back radio service like Pandora or Songza, but with human-generated playlists. After launching the a... |
Puzzle Piece’s $19 Tablets Help Children With Autism Learn Social Skills | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | Almost as soon as the iPad came out, parents and therapists began incorporating apps into autism therapy. The devices have been found to be . Many parents, however, . New startup hopes to make tech ubiquitous for all families with autistic children by making and selling an Android tablet for just $19. Instead of mo... |
Meet AltSchool, The Startup That Is Going To Reinvent Primary Education | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | Education is one of the last industries that is still going through massive change and disruption with the introduction of technology. In particular, we’ve seen the rise of iPads, the introduction of learning technologies and educational games enter the classroom, but we haven’t actually seen the physical classroom ... |
Fab May Suffer Yet Another Round Of Layoffs | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | We’ve heard that design-focused e-commerce site Fab is planning another round of layoffs. At an internal meeting today, sources tell us that the company said it would be making a decision on the final number of people to be let go by June 1. One rumor floating around is that the company could reduce headcount by anothe... |
Vine Launches A Six-Second YouTube | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | When Vine , all you could do was view your stream and check out profiles for individual users. The desktop version came with TV Mode, too, which was admittedly addictive with its constant stream of full-screen content. But today Vine is , bringing a number of the navigation and discovery features you’re used to in th... |
LinkedIn Beats The Street In Q1 On Sales Of $473M, EPS Of $0.38, Raises Outlook | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | Amid a market correction that has seen many tech stocks lose value, , the social network for the working world, today that beat analyst estimates. Sales came in at $473 million, with EPS of $0.38. Those sales beat both First Call and its own guidance — $467 million and $455-$460 million, respectively. “The first qua... |
Sleevely Tells You How Much Milk Your Wee Bairn Slurped All Day | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht
Wi muckle faught and din.
“Oh try an’ sleep, ye waukrife rogues,
Your faither’s comin’ in.”
They niver heed a word I speak,
I try tae gie a froon,
But aye I hap’ them up an’ cry
“From yer ye’ll drink it doon!” Babies, sweet bairns or waukrife rogues alike drink from bottles. B... |
Flipt Wants To Help You Make Smarter Home Investment — And Flipping — Decisions | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | While the U.S. real estate market is still experiencing its ups and downs, the number of online real estate startups continues to increase quickly. The latest entrant in this business is , which aims to take some of the emotion out of real estate purchase decisions and replace it with a more data-driven approach. Flip... |
Box IPO Delay Wouldn’t Be Without Compromises | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | It hasn’t been a great couple of weeks for Box. First came word that Intralinks bought DocTrackr, an information rights management vendor that . Then last night, and others were reporting that . What’s happening here? It could be a case of simple bad timing or even misinterpretation. For what it’s worth, Box spokes... |
Ambient Proximity Is The Next Phase Of Location Sharing | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | It’s not where your friends are, but how close they are that matters. After years of exact coordinate checkins, both Foursquare and Facebook are now focusing on ambient proximity — constantly and automatically sharing your approximate distance from close friends. Ambient proximity lets you know if a friend is near enou... |
Netflix Accidentally Pulls Popular Shows Off The Service | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | , which can only mean one thing: Netflix has experienced technical difficulties that are keeping people from their favorite TV shows. Hell hath no fury like the scorn of someone halfway through a HIMYM marathon. Alongside reports on Twitter, Netflix has also confirmed the issue on Twitter and is telling everyone no... |
Screw It, Yelp Should Do Three Apps | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | that Foursquare will become Eightsquare in order to be a “true Yelp-killer,” we have the following advice to give competitor Yelp: “Screw it. Do three apps.” As The Verge , location sharing is never going to be as popular as “sharing a selfie, sharing a link, or firing off a tweet.” In order to remain competitive w... |
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TechCrunch Giveaway: Ben Horowitz’s “The Hard Thing About Hard Things” | Elin Blesener | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | Ben Horowitz’s story is nothing if not empowering, fascinating, and — to many in our community — relatable. In his new book, , he goes into detail about everything he knows and has been through, and he offers advice for entrepreneurs about what to expect. As Mark Zuckerberg states: “Ben’s experience and expertise make... |
Meet The Vanhawks Valour, A Connected Bike With GPS Navigation To Help You Get Around | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | Cars have gotten really smart over the years: Nowadays they can provide their drivers with directions, answer phone calls, and even occasionally drive themselves. By contrast, bicycle technology is still stuck in the 20th century, with the biggest advancements coming mostly from electric bikes that make it easier to ... |
Microsoft Acquires High-Performance Cloud-Computing Company GreenButton | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | Microsoft today announced that it has , a U.S.- and New Zealand-based high-performance cloud-computing company that has long had with Microsoft’s Azure group. GreenButton allows industries that need large amounts of compute power (science, engineering, media, finance, etc.) to more easily to run their compute-in... |
Microsoft Patches Latest Internet Explorer Security Flaw — Even For XP Users | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | Microsoft is to Internet Explorer that patches a very serious security issue in its browser. This issue came to and what made it especially problematic was that it involved every version from IE 6 forward. Windows XP users, however, can’t update their browser beyond version 8 and Microsoft isn’t patching XP anymo... |
Robocoin Is Leading The Way With The First ATM-Based “Bitcoin Banks” | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | bitcoin ATM provider, is announcing that they’re upgrading all of their ATMs to turn them into full service “banks” complete with account control, payment systems, and a method for handling multiple wallets. The ATMs will still support deposits and withdrawals into private Bitcoin wallets as well as manage transfers. ... |
SpaceX Wins An Injunction Against United Launch Alliance’s Purchase Of Russian Rockets | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | After announcing last week that it would be filing suit against the U.S. Air Force over the government agency’s decision to award a contract for national defense-related rocket launches exclusively to the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint-venture between aeronautics industry leaders Boeing and Lockheed-Martin, with... |
MakeSpace, The Dropbox For Physical Storage, Packs Up $8 Million Led By Upfront Ventures | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | NY-based , the Dropbox for physical objects, has today closed an $8 million Series A funding round led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Founders Fund, OATV, and follow-ons from existing investors Lowercase Capital, High Peaks Venture Partners and Collaborative Fund. This round brings the company’s total f... |
First Class Graduates From Data Elite Big Data Lab | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | Stamos Venios, Managing Partner of Data Elite says his company had a vision when they conceived of Data Elite, a lab of sorts, providing a support system for people with ideas for big data companies. This week, the first seven participants are moving onto the next stage. Venios said from the beginning they conceived of... |
Kamcord, The SDK That Allows You To Record Mobile Games, Raises $7.1M From TransLink Capital | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 1 | , the SDK that allows gamers to record in-game video on mobile, has raised $7.1 million in Series A funding led by TransLink Capital with participation from SV Angel as well as DeNA, KLab, and M&Y Growth Partners. Existing investors Innovation Works, XG Ventures, and Mark Williamson also participated in the round. Kamc... |
Alibaba’s IPO Means Consumer Tech Innovations From Asia Can’t Be Ignored Anymore | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | Asia’s tech companies still have a reputation in the West for being copycats. But Alibaba’s is proof that consumer tech innovations from Asia can no longer be ignored. Alibaba this afternoon. The IPO is widely expected to surpass the $16.4 billion raised in 2012 by Facebook. The public offering means several big Si... |
The 6 Disrupt NY Finalists: Boomerang Commerce, ISI Technology, Mimi, Mink, Showkit and Vurb | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | Oh ! In the past two days, 1600 people have passed through the Manhattan Center for in hopes of seeing or being the new new thing. We’ve seen Fred Wilson, Brenden Iribe, Mike Judge and many more grace our stage. Tomorrow we’ll get to see interviews of Marissa Mayer, Sophia Amoruso, Whisper’s Michael Heyward and get ... |
Digital Publisher Inkling Lays Off Consumer Staff To Focus On Enterprise Business | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | is shutting down its consumer business and laid off part of its workforce yesterday. We first heard the news from a source who said the layoffs represented 25 percent of the company’s workforce. CEO Matt MacInnis confirmed the cuts, but he said the number we’d received was a little high. Founded in 2009, Inkling is be... |
An Awkward First Date Shot Through Google Glass | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | We as humans are terrible at expressing our desires. You never quite know what’s going on in someone’s head. We’re not so different from Google Glass in that way. It’s tough to tell what’s someone’s doing in that little prism screen. This short film combines the awkwardness of dating with the overly-intimate nature of ... |
Smore Raises $1.7M Seed Round For Its Single-Page Website Builder | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | , a platform for easily creating single-page promotional websites and TechStars Seattle alum, today announced that it has raised a $1.7 million seed round (including converting notes) led by Founder’s Co-op, with participation by Greylock Israel and various angels. The service, which mostly targets non-technical users,... |
Codeanywhere, The Google Docs For Developers, Rocks Startup Alley At Disrupt NY | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | , a self-proclaimed Google Docs for coders, wants to become the defacto standard for code development on the go. Co-founders and presented on stage at Disrupt NY today after the audience voted them the best company in Startup Alley. Jukic came up with the idea when he worked as a freelance developer; he didn’t want... |
Buzzstarter Provides A Platform For Brands To Do Programmatic Content Marketing | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | , which is launching today as part of Disrupt NY’s Startup Battlefield, wants to make it easier for brands to reach specific demographics audiences in the places where they can be found — that is, on various blogs and social networks. But it doesn’t want its messages to look like display ads. Instead, it’s trying to... |
Alibaba Dominates Mobile Commerce In China, With 76% Of All Sales And 136M MAUs | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | Mobile is mentioned a grand total of 254 times in Alibaba’s — underscoring the influence that phones and tablets have on Alibaba’s business today and will have in the future. While companies like Amazon, eBay, Groupon and Square are all targeting the mobile commerce opportunity, for Alibaba is already a powerhouse th... |
Online Consignment Store For Luxury And Designer Goods The RealReal Raises $20M | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | an online consignment store for luxury goods, has raised $20 million in Series C funding from DBL Investors, Canaan Partners, InterWest Partners, eVentures, Greycroft, and Expansion Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $43 million. The service lets consignors sell their designer goods online and get up ... |
Notivo Wants To Be A ‘Google Now’ For Everything Else | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | Founders Nic Barker and Sebastian Kim, who knew each other from computer science classes they took together at the University of Sydney, only began working on Notivo late last year. Explains Barker, both of them had been facing the same sort of frustrations, though in different areas. Barker had been trying to keep u... |
Alibaba Files For Massive IPO With 9-Month Revenue Of $6.51B | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | This afternoon Alibaba filed for its hotly anticipated IPO, detailing its recent financial performance, including revenue for the first nine months of its fiscal year 2013 of $6.51 billion and net income of $2.85 billion for the same period. Alibaba intends to sell around 12 percent of its shares, according to sources,... |
AirHelp Lets You Claim Money For Messed Up Flights | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | Airline websites are terrible. It’s hard to book flights, so imagine how hard it must be to claim compensation for delayed, canceled or overbooked flights. Meet , the startup that will save you all the hassle and claim money for you. Today at , the company unveiled a major new feature, making the claiming process muc... |
Check Out Media And Entertainment In Startup Alley At Disrupt NY | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | We took a walk around the Media And Entertainment Pavilion at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. Companies this year are as diverse as ever, but mobile remains a continuing theme. Check out the fast-paced 10-minute video above and you’ll get them all. |
Epson and Metaio Get Us Back On Track For Wearable Augmented Reality | Jay Donovan | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | One of the big promises of a smart-glasses approach to wearable tech was always augmented reality. Context-specific augmented reality was the most interesting though — meaning that the AR content was actually overlaid on the object you were looking at directly and not up in the corner of your eye so you had to look awa... |
Koala Band Is An App That Motivates My Kids To Play Piano, And That’s Music To My Ears | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | Luis Sampedro Diaz, an engineer hailing from Spain but now resident in Silicon Valley, cut his professional teeth at Volkswagen, where he wrote code for “things that didn’t exist yet” in cars and picked up seven patents along the way. He left that job a few years ago — borrowing a well-worn phrase of the tech world — t... |
DocSend Is The Analytics Tool For Documents We’ve All Been Waiting For | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | Meet , a comprehensive toolbox for your documents. It doesn’t sound sexy, but it could rapidly become a major part of your workflow. A successfully raised $20 million by taking advantage of DocSend’s data — it’s powerful. The company is launching today at . “When you send a document to someone, you always wonder:... |
Sedicii Aims To Better Protect Your Passwords And Information | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | Sedicii uses a mathematical algorithm to verify your information or password without actually sending it to a website for verification. On the front end, things look the same for the user entering a password, their address or other information. Merchants can add a few lines of JavaScript on a payment page or registra... |
Aol Buys Marketing Analytics Company Convertro For $101M (Memo) | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | A day before its quarterly results, , owner of TechCrunch, has announced another acquisition to beef up its ad tech operations. It is buying , a marketing optimization platform, for $101 million — $89 million in cash, $2 million in converted stock awards and a $10 million earn-out over 17 months. AOL says that it wil... |
Unglue.it Sets Books Free After Authors Get Paid | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | Giving away your books is easy for fancy guys like , but what about the rest of us poor hacks? While the impetus to release books into the Creative Commons is noble, a writer needs to get paid. That’s what . It’s a service that allows authors to post ebooks and then give them out for free after a certain amount is re... |
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HealthCrew Makes Your Doctor Scalable With Online Patient Mentorship | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 6 | Getting medical advice online can be terrifying. Who knows if the information is true and safe, or just someone’s crackpot opinion? People want guidance from their own doctor. Unfortunately those doctors are so busy, they see patients infrequently and only for a few minutes at a time. But wants to give you a legiti... |
The Promise, Progress And Pain Of Collaboration Software | Jason Green | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | Truly effective enterprise collaboration applications represent one of the most promising opportunities for cloud computing. Over the last decade, several SaaS companies have emerged that improve workplace collaboration, including well-known companies like and , as well as newer companies such as , , and . Gi... |
Amazon Keeps Fighting Big Publishers But Authors Pay The Price | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | It’s Amazon’s world and we’re just living in it. As the company continues to flex its muscle against big publishers – this time against – the average author could be excused for feeling a bit of schadenfreude. Publishers have run the show for a long time and their efforts at cultural curation have resulted in million... |
Hands On With Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | Microsoft’s newest Surface, the , is an interesting gadget. Akin to its predecessors, it sits somewhere between a tablet and a laptop. In Microsoft’s estimation, the Pro 3 can replace your laptop while providing the utility of a tablet. It’s a big claim. TechCrunch got its hands on a Pro 3 here in San Francisco, and... |
Don’t Believe Anyone Who Tells You Learning To Code Is Easy | Kate Ray | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | One of the most dangerous things I’ve seen happen to people who are just starting to code is being told that it’s easy. Here’s what your brain does: Drawing by me. (I am better at coding than drawing.) Most programming doesn’t require a special brain, but it’s more frustrating and messier than anyone lets on. There a... |
Deciphering The Economics Of Venture Capital | Matt Oguz | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | When developed his popular theory to explore way-out-of-the-norm surprising events, he outlined three characteristics of a : The black swan events are popular in venture capital, a unique asset class that historically has all three characteristics as Taleb outlined in his colorful book. What makes venture capital ... |
For Better Or Worse, Anonymous Apps Allow Us To Be Ourselves Online Again | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | Anonymous apps like and are all the rage right now and maybe that shouldn’t be a surprise. This feels like the inevitable reaction to all the major social networks wanting to own our identities — preferably with our real names attached. What they are getting, however, is the completely boring and sanitized version ... |
5-Tiles Keyboard Targets Wearables To Hunt The Post-Qwerty Holy Grail | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | Meet the , (yet) another contender taking aim at disrupting Qwerty — and hoping to increase its chances by first targeting smaller wearable devices, such as smartwatches. The rational being that’s a more realistic way to drive a wedge between Qwerty and its users’ fingers. As challenges go, disrupting Qwerty is akin t... |
The ROI Of iCloud Photo Storage | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.” That’s Apple CEO Tim Cook, speaking at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in February, after a representative of conservative think tank National Center for Public Policy Research asked a question related to a sharehold... |
Kill The Hamburger Button | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | That little three-lined button is the devil. Whether you call it a side menu, navigation drawer, or a hamburger, hiding your features off-screen behind a nondescript icon in the corner is usually a poor mobile design choice. Interaction theory, A/B tests, and the evolution of some of the top apps in the world all suppo... |
Watch This DJ Pound The Default iPhone Ringtone Into A Crazy Catchy Dance Track | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | Happy Saturday! Ready for your semi-regular reminder that some people are just too damned talented? You know that one iPhone ringtone? Yeah. Some call it “Opening”; others call it “That one damned song thats woken me up every morning since iOS 7 came out.” A DJ out of New Delhi, India, cut together a catchy mix of ... |
Gillmor Gang: Hollywood & Vine | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | The Gillmor Gang — Alexia Tsotsis, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — kick off the holiday weekend with a primer on cloud politics. Techcrunch co-editor Tsotsis in her maiden appearance in the clubhouse wastes no time putting @scobleizer on the spot, but Robert does a Seinfeld by saying noth... |
Twitter Closed At $30.50 Today, Its Lowest Conclusion So Far As A Public Company | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | Twitter closed out regular trading this afternoon at $30.50 per share. That’s its lowest end-of-day tally yet in its history as a public company. The company traded below the $30 mark earlier this month, but managed to end May 7 at $30.66. The decline of Twitter’s value is impressive. The company ‘s 52-week high — it h... |
The Internet Is Burning | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 5 | 24 | Online security is a horrifying nightmare. . . . . . . . . Whatever security cataclysm erupts next, probably in weeks or even days. We seem to be trapped in a vicious cycle of cascading security disasters that just keep getting worse. Why? Well — “Computers have gotten incredibly complex, while people have rema... |
What Google’s Favorite Bay Area Nonprofits Would Do With A $500K Grant | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | , Google announced its finalists for the Bay Area Impact Challenge, its latest effort to assist nonprofits in the region through grants and support from Googlers willing to volunteer their time. The company is . On June 3, it will announce which four received the most votes, and offer them each a $500,000 grant and ac... |
If Jawbone Were For Sale, Who Would Buy It? | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | Is Jawbone in play? That’s a question that has been bounced around the rumor mill lately, likely driven by a few other huge recent acquisitions in the hardware space. Over the last few days, the TechCrunch tips line has lit up with anonymous notes about Jawbone being acquired by Google in a multi-billion-dollar deal. (... |
A Paralyzed Teen Will Kick The First World Cup Ball Thanks To A Robotic Exoskeleton | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | The 2014 World Cup begins next month in Brazil and will feature something truly amazing: the plan is for a paralyzed, non-ambulatory Brazilian teenager to stand up and kick the first ball of the first game using a motorized exoskeleton and special 3D-printed helmet. Created by an international team of designers and eng... |
A Badass Darth Vader Is Running The Internet Party Of Ukraine | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | Who here wouldn’t like to live life like Darth Vader? And wield political power at the same time? Look, just go with it. For this is what a local politician in the Ukraine likes to do. A lot. Darth Vader ( ) is, (almost) quite literally, a candidate for mayor of Kiev and Odessa, and has even had a crack at running for ... |
Priori Data Rakes In $1M To Build A Bloomberg For App Data | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | , an app store data and analytics provider, has secured $1 million in seed financing to build a kind of Bloomberg-style platform for mobile industry professionals and analysts. The cash was raised from unnamed sources but, says the company, includes the Berlin angel investor community, private individuals from New York... |
Writers And Editors Call Out Amazon For Going After Hachette, But Will It Matter? | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | Amazon.com appears to be flexing its muscle against publishers once again. that Amazon had removed preorder options for upcoming titles from publisher Hachette (which owns the imprints Grand Central Publishing, Little Brown, Orbit, and others), a move that affected books, including , the latest mystery by J.K. Rowlin... |
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CrunchWeek: Secret’s Massive Expansion And Why Apple Wants Beats | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | This week our inimitable boss took to the with , one of our , and your to dig into the intersection of technology and the personal. Secret, an application that and the whole world, is controversial given its consistent dose of public vitriol it fosters. . Our small crew also dug into why Apple might want to... |
E-Book Platform Bookmate Secures $3M To Target Emerging World | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | Betaworks-style ‘startup studio’ – based in Moscow – has raised a $3 million Series A round from retail giant Ulmart (in Russia) to develop its subscription-based social reading service . They plan to take the startup international out of Moscow, starting with Turkey, Scandinavia and Latin America. The funding is pa... |
Croatian Incubator ZIP Poised To Raise A Fund Via Seedrs Crowd Equity | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | , a startup program based in Croatia, has decided to dump the idea of raising a fund via Limited Partners and has turned instead to equity crowdfunding. And it’s poised to hit its target ( ) of £50,000, raised through the UK-based Seedrs platform. ZIP is co-founded by entrepreneurs and angels Ivo Spigel, Mihovil Baranc... |
Gillmor Gang Live 05.23.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | – Robert Scoble, Alexia Tsotsis, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. |
Farmeron Raises Another $2.65M To Disrupt Dairy | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | , a SaaSstartup aimed at the agriculture industry (run your dairy farm in the cloud instead of grappling with Excel etc), has raised an additional $2.65 million in funding from agricultural investors Matt Swanson, Andrew Murphy, SoftTech VC and NextView Ventures. The funding will be used to go after enterprise sales. F... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Microsoft Surface Pro 3, Bug A-Salt, And OnePlus One | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | It’s been a wild week in the land of gadgets. Microsoft unveiled its latest and greatest generation of the , while Matt discovered to help him conquer summer bugs in the house. Meanwhile, Darrell takes a closer look at the , which offers premium Android specs at an affordable price. We discuss all this and more on ... |
5 Questions For Beacon Providers | Mark DiPaola | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | From concert venues to your neighborhood grocery store, beacons are ushering in an age of touchless, context-based mobile experiences for savvy consumers. There have been plenty of exciting announcements touting beacons in 2014, and enormous interest in the field. However, there is also confusion about how to actuall... |
Microsoft Confirms Windows With Bing | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | Surprising a grand total of zero people, Microsoft the existence of Windows with Bing today, and its post on the matter is deliciously vague. The core bit, in keeping to earlier reports, is that Windows with Bing will ship on low-cost devices — Paul Thurrott that devices under $250 will be eligible — bringing Windo... |
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