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Olympus E-PL3 Gets Price And September Shipping | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | Olympus first the E-PL3 late in June, but at the time only the E-P3 (which we recently ) had a price and a date. No longer! The E-PL3 is now officially coming to the US in September, though Oly didn’t want to get any more specific than that. At $700, the E-PL3 is $200 cheaper than the E-P3; the two share the same se... |
Japanese Professor Shows Rare Earth-Free Electric Car (Video) | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | Prices for have gone through the roof in recent years, with China basically monopolizing the market for these rare substances (the country currently produces a whopping 97 percent of all rare earths used globally). But in the field of electric vehicles, the dependence on rare earths could be a thing of the past soon:... |
Blekko Gets An Infographic | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | Since I am our resident steward of infographics I figured I might as well highlight the creation of the very first infographic (below), brought to you by our friends over at . Am I a huge dork because I can correctly complete this multiple choice “Identify The Blekko Founders!” quiz? Yes, yes I am. *Skulks off to ... |
BuddyTV Turns Your iPhone Into A Smarter Viewing Guide And Remote | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | A couple weeks ago, I went to a hotel suite in Manhattan to get a demo of BuddyTV’s new , which hit the app store a few days ago. In the video above, CTO Bill Baxter takes me through the main features. He shows me on an iPad for easier viewing, but the app is for the iPhone and soon Android. It combines a viewing g... |
The Good: Chrome Gets OS X Lion Two-Finger Gestures! The Bad: They’re Backwards. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | Considering that it hasn’t even yet, it shouldn’t be too surprising that many users and developers are still getting used to OS X Lion. This includes Google, makers of the popular Chrome web browser. that a version specifically tailored for Lion was in the works, Google said that it may take a little while. But an ... |
Solve Media Is CAPTCHA-ing 620K Type-In Ads A Day | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | Ads are everywhere: They’re in our content, they’re online and offline, they’re on buses, billboards, and more. I’ve been told just to “get used to it” — that the advertising proliferation is only going to continue — so I’m thinking of selling some space on my forehead. Might as well take advantage. Of course, those wh... |
Official: Japan To Get The World’s First Windows Phone 7 Mango Handset In September | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | As the sun just starts to set here on the West Coast, we’ve got a bit of news straight from the other side of the globe: Fujitsu and KDDI (Japan’s second largest wireless operator) have just confirmed that they will launch the world’s first phone running Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) sometime in September. Word of the new ... |
Groupon Pays At Least $10.2 Million For Zappedy | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | Groupon has just filed for a $10,288,416 offering of equity in connection with its of Chilean startup . However we don’t know if there was cash involved in addition to equity in the Zappedy acquisition so it’s not clear what the final price of the transaction was — according to the form it looks like it was at lea... |
Facebook Will Bring Credits To Mobile Browsers | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | Over a month ago, , Facebook’s secret plan to bring applications to the mobile web via HTML5. Facebook is working with teams of third-party developers that and hope to unveil the project later this summer. As we noted, the key to all of this is really Credits. Right now, Facebook has no way to make money on any of t... |
Aircounter: Japan Gets Mini Radiation Detector | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | The nuclear crisis in Fukushima has yet to come to an end, and most of the radiation meters out there are expensive and usually sold in special-interest stores only: reason enough for Japan-based chemicals company decided to bring the so-called [JP] to market. The device, developed in partnership with the , is ess... |
Amazon Has Opened 15 Fulfillment Centers In 2011, Will Build ‘A Few More’ By End Of The Year | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | It’s no secret that Amazon is ramping up fulfillment centers across the globe to meet with increasing demand. The e-commerce giant in April that the company had built in 2011 to meet growing demand in sales across the globe. And in May, Amazon in Arizons and Indiana. In today’s Q2 earnings call, Amazon’s CFO Thom... |
Next MacBook Pros To Feature Air DNA? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | The Sandy Bridge to the Air line has been enough to make some feel the lightweight laptop is ready for prime time (I’m convinced, personally), but it’s still not enough for some. MacBook Pro users are accustomed to more storage, more screen real estate, and a greater number of ports. If rumors are to be believed, the... |
Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Marissa Mayer, Mike McCue, And Vinod Khosla Are Ready To Disrupt | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | Disruption never stops, especially around here. This year we are holding three Disrupt conferences. We descended upon in May (those are ). Next up is San Francisco in September (and then we are off to in October). Buy . Who will be there? I’m glad you asked. A few of the key speakers joining us will be Pete... |
Video: Motorola Triumph Screens Flicker Black And White, Owners Seeing Red | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | The Triumph — a pretty snazzy-lookin’ little beast (especially for a pre-paid device!) if I may say so — seems to have just hit a bit of a hurdle in its first week on the market: a number of new owners are hitting the forums with complaints of a flickering screen. Not-so-proud new owners have reported that the screen... |
Verizon LTE Push Hits Laptops, Tablets, And Networks | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | You could be forgiven (and are) for skipping over the LTE news of the last six months: the roll-out of the new 4G standard has been spotty and few consumers actually have any idea what it means, or whether they have it. But Verizon’s next big investment is starting to show up in more than small-run hot spots and high-e... |
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YC-Funded Debteye Wants To Be Your (Much Cheaper) Credit Counselor | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | It’s hardly a fun topic to discuss, but it’s the harsh reality that a lot of people out there have significant outstanding debt — many of whom won’t be able to pay back what they owe on time. In fact, there are so many people out there dealing with these issues that it’s given rise to the multi-billion dollar debt cons... |
As Shares Top $400, Apple Eyes The Next Tech Prize: HP’s Revenue Crown | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | In the past few years, Apple has been in berzerker mode. Not even 15 years ago, they were on the verge of collapse when Michael Dell famously said that if he were CEO of Apple he would, “shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders”. Apple now has a market cap well over that of Dell’s. And in the past yea... |
Amazon Beats The Street; Sales Up 51 Percent To $9.9B, Net Income Down 8 Percent | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | E-commerce giant Amazon second quarter results, posting sales of $9.9 billion, an increase of 51 percent from the same quarter in 2010. Net income decreased 8% to $191 million in the second quarter, or $0.41 per diluted share, compared with net income of $207 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, in second quarter 20... |
Nodeable, The Twitter For Machines, Raises $2 Million From True Ventures | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | , a startup building a cloud-based social platform for systems data, announced today that it has raised $2 million in series A financing, led by . The startup will use this infusion of capital to ramp up hiring efforts and continue building its platform, as it moves into private beta. But what is it about this young s... |
Greplin Wants You To Redesign Wikipedia Search | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 26 | Personal search engine is announcing the launch of its today, with the ultimate objective of conceptualizing a better way to search Wikipedia. Greplin founder tells me that Wikipedia search is “broken” in the sense that most people use Google to search Wikipedia, typing in something like “Beatles White Album Wiki... |
Justin Bieber Takes A Picture Of Traffic, Instagram Usage Explodes | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | A few minutes ago, the Instagram team noticed their servers blowing up. What happened? Were they under attack? DDoS? No. Bieber happened. Yes, Justin Bieber just signed up for Instagram. And he out his to his 11 million+ followers. The result? Boom. After I saw the tweet, I reached out to Instagram co-founder Kevin... |
Nearbuy Nabs A Cool Million From Motorola Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, And More | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | , the maker of indoor positioning solutions, today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding. The seed round was led by , , and . The funding will be used to bring Nearbuy’s technology to retail stores across the U.S. Just as startups like and are finding different ways to innovate in the in-store loyalty ... |
Vic Gundotra On How Google+ Handled Brands: “It Was Probably A Mistake” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | After warning people about it for weeks, Google began enforcing its ban on all Google business profiles this morning, to much consternation from, well, businesses. Yes Google did warn people at the launch of Google+ that any non-human pages would be killed and that people shouldn’t be surprised that the pages were kill... |
Our Newest Employee: Techathew Cruncherin, Google+ Maven | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | Earlier today, who had signed up for Google+ profiles when they weren’t supposed to. Some were outraged by this, but the truth is that Google has said from the beginning that Google+ was meant for real people only for now, and that brand/company support would be coming. This is why TechCrunch hasn’t set up a Google+ ... |
If Microsoft’s Yearly Revenue Is “Wow!”, Apple’s Is “Holy Sh*t!” | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | Earlier today, Microsoft reported . They were good — , even. And because it was the end of their fiscal year, Microsoft also stated their yearly numbers. Those were even better. The big number: $69.94 billion in revenue for the year. A new record for the company. Yes, for all the talk of Microsoft being in decline, t... |
Google Places Stops Stealing Reviews | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | Google Places looks different. It is cleaner, and there is a much bigger emphasis on user reviews and photos. And not just any reviews from all over the Web, but reviews written by Google users themselves. This should be a welcome change to third-party sources of reviews like Yelp and TripAdviser who have that Goo... |
The Winklevosses Do Not Like Being Called ‘Assholes’ | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | When asked yesterday at the conference whether the infamous scene in ‘The Social Network’ where he dismisses the Winklevosses’ claim that Mark Zuckerberg broke the Harvard Code of Conduct is true to life, former Harvard president Larry Summers glibly … “One of the things you learn as a college president is that if ... |
Android Market Now Supports Multiple APKs (Which Is More Important Than It Sounds) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | Today Google that it’s pushing a significant update to the developer-facing side of Android Market, and it’s one that consumers will benefit from too: Android Market will now allow developers to distribute multiple APKs (the filetype Android uses for applications) that will all be considered the same app, at least as... |
Leaked Picture Of New Nikon Sensor Suggests Truly Small Mirrorless System | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | That and both have mirrorless cameras solutions in the labs seems like a foregone conclusion. It would be silly for them not to at the very least be looking into it. But this is one of the first glances we’ve had at something other than patent illustrations and spec rumors: a picture that is claimed to be of Nikon’... |
Android App Player For BlackBerry PlayBook Leaked Out In Beta Form | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | What is ’s greatest obstacle? Honestly, it’s a tough question to answer seeing that the Waterloo-based company — but if I had to pick just one issue, it’d be lack of apps. Not having enough apps on a given platform is akin to sitting down to a perfectly set dinner table and getting no food. Luckily, that Android App... |
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Nine Things You Should Do After Installing OS X Lion | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | Lion is here — and as MG , it’s great. No operating system is perfect, though. At least, not for everyone, and especially not right out of the ( ) box. Looking to make your Lion experience , we’ve bundled together a bevy of tips and tricks that you really ought to have ready on your first trip into the new OS. Now, s... |
Ashton Kutcher And Madonna’s Manager Invest In Tiny Berlin Startup. What Gives? | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | Not a lot is known about , a stealth-mode startup out of Berlin. What we do know is that it’s pretty hot and the talk of Berlin. A slect few have been been given access to its Beta and are coming up with statements like “strangely addictive”, at least according to the startups itself. Whatever it is, sources tell us... |
Federal Bureau Of Sisyphean Labors | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 21 |
The loosely-organized but unquestionably effective hacking group Anonymous has gotten its hands on what it claims are confidential NATO documents. It’s the latest in a line of seemingly arbitrary attacks, the arbitrariness being the result of their somewhat haphazard and crude methods. I don’t describe it this way to ... |
The Netflix App (Unofficially) Arrives On Honeycomb Tablets, Here’s How To Install It | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | Bow down to the power of the XDA Developers! It’s now possible to get Netflix streaming on seemingly all Android devices without any hacking, rooting or general nonsense. This is counter to Netflix’s official stance to only allow the app on specific tablets that conform to certain DRM requirements at the hardware level... |
Teardown Of New 13″ MacBook Air Finds Almost No Differences From Old Model | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | The traditional “splaying of the device” has been performed successfully on the by the teardown experts and hand models at iFixit. The most user-relevant finding appears to be that the SSD module is user-replaceable — i.e. Apple hasn’t seen fit to physically bond it to the motherboard. Yet. Apart from that and some m... |
Etsy Shakeup: CTO Chad Dickerson Takes Over CEO Role From Founder Kalin As Visitor Growth Stalls | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | Today marked a bit of leadership shuffling at Etsy, the online marketplace to buy your local hipster a handmade good, as CTO Chad Dickerson takes over the reins as CEO from Rob Kalin. Etsy is Kalin’s brainchild, and the founder . Dickerson explained the change today on Etsy’s blog, saying that his focus as the new CE... |
Microsoft Hits $17.37B In Revenue In Q4, $69.94B For The Year | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | Microsoft record fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011 earnings today with yearly revenues at $69,94 billion, representing an increase of 12% from 2010. Operating income for the year was at $27.16 billion and net income was at $23.15 billion, 13% and 23% increases. Earnings per share for the year were at $2.69. The com... |
Although Many Investors Are Spinning, Turntable.fm Has Not Yet Picked A DJ | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | Although many investors are spinning for the chance to invest in , the hot music startup has not yet picked a DJ, despite reports to the contrary. that Turntable has raised $7.5 million at a $37.5 million valuation and “that term sheets were indeed signed yesterday.” But reached a few hours ago as he was boarding a ... |
Homemade Combination-Secured Flash Drive Is Steampunk Done Right | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 7 |
Once again, an example of how Steampunk can actually be pulled off. This one-off flash drive was created by a Russian guy, who modeled it in 3D, had the components cast or printed, and then assembled it himself ( ). The wheels spin and lock or unlock the drive, which slides out a la one of the rugged drives I reviewed... |
Marathon Now Available For iPad | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | Just a quick heads-up: that (Bungie’s classic Mac FPS) is And it’s free! Free, I tell you! If you haven’t ever played the game, I’d actually recommend playing it the way it’s meant to be played first (there are ports available and the game is free), but if you don’t mind the tablet controls, this should be a real t... |
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Project Mimicry Lets You Play Virtually In A Real Sandbox | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/25666910 w=620&h=465]
This is just too cool. is a game/project in which a real-life sandbox is monitored for depth information, and the resulting virtual landscape is able to be played on, raced in, and explored in a separate game environment. Watch the video, it’s easier to see it that w... |
Look, Some Transparent-Display Patents From Apple | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 7 |
Apple is always patenting things, and only a few ever are actually made, but here are a few interesting ones dug up by . They relate to putting information on a transparent display, more specifically a hybrid display that can overlay info on the transparent bit, but also has a layer that can be made opaque, on which ... |
With Google+ (And A Tweak For Analytics), The Social Sharing War Is Fully On | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | Google and Facebook are at war. This is old news. They both want to be the center of the Internet — but there can be only one center. For a while, it looked like shifting after years of dominance by Google. Then Google+ — already the most compelling social experience Google has ever offered. While it’s still far ... |
At Last You Can Fabricate Your Minecraft Creations | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 7 |
I’m not one of these guys who creates functioning computers or scale models of the Vatican in , but occasionally I’ll put together a sweet little tower and house that could just possibly be worth saving. Unfortunately, I can’t take these little structures into the real world! At least, I couldn’t before now. Some stu... |
Loic Needs To Get His Head Out Of His Silicon Valley | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | I have the hugest respect for . Years before anyone was organising a major tech conference in Europe (outside of the dull corporate IT ones) Loic was charging ahead with first Les Blogs, which became the juggernaut of Le Web. It’s the biggest tech event in Europe (although, now not the only one, which I will touch upo... |
Did Twitter and Facebook just kill a newspaper? | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | Discuss. |
Facebook Now Lets App Developers See Their Spam Scores | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 7 |
Two weeks ago a number of Facebook developers logged into the site to horrible news: their applications had without warning. The culprit was Facebook’s spam-fighting bot, which automatically tracks the amount of negative feedback an application receives from users and blocks apps that are faring especially poorly (s... |
Scientists Create Microscopic, Lens-less Camera | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 7 |
And I thought this was small. Cornell researchers have created an even tinier imaging device that does away with the last holdout features of traditional digital cameras. (PFCA) doesn’t have photosensors, as we think of them. Instead, it’s just a single piece of silicon that’s sensitive to light, and by (I think)... |
Nokia Pledges To Support MeeGo For Years | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | , once a highly anticipated OS intended to go head to head with and , now finds itself on just one phone, and although it hasn’t been said outright, it seems unlikely there will be many more — if any at all. Still, those of you rocking MeeGo’s only host, the Nokia N9, are “not to worry.” OS updates and hardware supp... |
Guy: Every Time You Fly With Your Camera, You're Damaging The Sensor | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98FZ8C6HneE?rel=0&hd=1&showinfo=0&start=479&w=620&h=383]
Rob Hummel, a film industry vet speaking at this year’s Cine Gear Expo, reveals what seems to be a shocking fact about digital cameras: taking your camera on planes kills pixels! The rationale behind this is that the gamma... |
Tickets To Our 6th Annual Summer Party At August Capital Are On Sale Now | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | Tickets are now sold out. Be sure to check back next week for our next set of tickets. We only have a couple more weeks left until our 6th annual summer party at August Capital. Our first two batches of 100 tickets sold out in under an hour. Today we are releasing 100 more. The party will follow our on July 29th and... |
Motorola (Re)Posts Droid 3 Tutorial Videos | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qIiUkZUcU4&w=640&h=390] Where have we seen this video before? It was released today, but is still… oddly familiar. Oh, that’s right, it was about a month ago, and then abruptly pulled by . The star of the show, Motorola’s , made its way onto the market this morning, official... |
T-Mobile Employee Perk: Gingerbread G2Xs That Don’t Have Narcolepsy | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 21 | Remember that one time that you bought the and it randomly restarted? And you were like, “Whoa, that’s weird,” and then it ! And again. And again. For three months. Yeah, we’re done with that. You should soon have a phone that reboot for no reason whatsoever, as employees are now sporting on their G2x models i... |
Government doubles matched-funding to £2m for early stage Silicon Roundabout startups | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | Back It was an unusual move. Startups anywhere in the UK are always interested in sources of funding – but here was one source actually geographically targeted at one area of London, and one where there has been existing organic growth of the tech community for the last few years. In other words, the TSB had managed t... |
Kobo eReader Touch Edition Gets Updated With Font Customization | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | We had when it came to . Specifically, we felt that the device was “not really a reading experience than other devices (though not a worse).” However, that sentiment might change since the Kobo eReader Touch Edition is getting an update, which should bring with it some cool new customization features. Basically th... |
CivWorld For Facebook Beta Goes Live… If You Can Get It To Load (Update) | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 7 | Back in May, that Sid Meier’s Civilization game would be migrating over to under a new name, Civilization World. Today, the Facebook game went live in its , and we’re more than excited to get civilized. While maintaining the same basic game structure, CivWorld will bring a social element into the game, giving user... |
How Apple Led The High-Stakes Patent Poker Win Against Google, Sealing Ballmer's Promise | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 9 | “It’s not like Android’s free. Android has a patent fee. You do have to license patents.” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an interview last year with . At the time, Microsoft was on the verge of releasing their first Windows Phone 7 devices, and knew their best hope in the market would be to go after Android — the sam... |
Despite Google+ Competition, Disco, Google's Hushed Messaging App, Continues To Improve | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 9 | It has been over three months since we first the news on the existence of , within Google. Google still refuses to talk about it. But work continues nonetheless. Today brings version 3 of the app — and the app is starting to get really good. Just a little over a month after Disco was with Push Notifications, tod... |
Eric Schmidt: You Don’t Know It’s A Bubble Until The Bubble Ends | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 9 | Earlier this week, Google Executive Chairman gave an over 70 minute long talk to press at the Sun Valley conference here in Idaho. Towards the end of the talk, a reporter asked the former Google CEO whether he, like many in the media world, thinks we are presently in a tech bubble and what Google’s $1.67 billion 20... |
The Twitter Endgame: IPO, Chess, or Roulette? | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 7 | 9 | Reports are swirling that is in talks to $400 million, valuing the company close to $8 billion. It seems as if it was only that Twitter raised $200m from . At the time of Kleiner’s investment, some pundits chuckled beneath their breath, claiming the old venture firm was paying up on price in order to claim a bit... |
Gillmor Gang 7.09.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 7 | 9 | The Gillmor Gang — Michael Arrington, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor — enjoyed @scobleizer’s FaceTime tour of Florida’s abandoned Kennedy Space Center in the aftermath of the last shuttle launch. The countdown clock sat frozen amid a sea of media trailers and the huge Twitter Live Assembly building. No,... |
Vroom: How Skywalker Sound Made The Cars 2 Sound Effects | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 9 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWPdowDt_0Q&w=640&h=390] Although, arguably, the second was sub-par, it’s nice to see how Skywalker Sound designed the sounds for the vrooming, racing Maters, Lightnings, and British spy cars in the movie. |
The social network that elected Obama comes to Europe | Monty Munford | 2,011 | 7 | 9 | Some people have all the luck. Alex Lofton is 26 years old, bright, handsome, has moved to London from the US and isn’t struggling to make a living in Zone 3 or 4 on the outskirts of the Tube network, he is living in a flat in Mayfair. Oh, and he also works for a public social network that helped to elect a President a... |
Eric Schmidt Comments On Google+'s Success, Claims "Millions" Of Users | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 9 | Speaking at a press event on Thursday at the Allen & Co conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, former Google CEO and now Executive Chairman gave a 70 minute talk to the relatively few reporters that are here about various topical Google issues, including the most topical of Google issues, the . When asked by a reporter ho... |
Daily Crunch: Ride The Lion Edition | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 7 | 9 | |
BigCommerce Raises $15 Million To Help Retailers Manage E-Commerce | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 31 | , a company that provides e-commerce software to online retailers and merchants, has raised $15 Million in Series A funding from General Catalyst Partners. Launched in 2009, BigCommerce provides a comprehensive SaaS for retailers and merchants to manage e-commerce online. BigCommerce helps small businesses power anythi... |
Get Your Disrupt Startup Battlefield Applications In Now | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 7 | 31 | It’s time to bring TechCrunch Disrupt back home to . We are accepting applications for startups to launch at the Disrupt Startup Battlefield until midnight tonight. Applications for the Startup Battlefield can be Does your startup have what it takes to be the next , , or —and make it through the judges gauntlet to ... |
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YouTube’s Creator Playbook: Your Guide To Achieving Internet Fame* | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 31 | Looking to turn yourself (or your show) into a YouTube star but don’t know where to begin? YouTube’s looking to help — the video portal has launched a comprehensive guide outlining how content producers should be approaching the platform and which features they can take advantage of. The 70 page guide has a fitting tit... |
Social Broadcast Network | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 7 | 31 | Every day I try and do the media rounds to see what’s happening. The Journal, the Times, the Techcrunch, and the Twitter. Twitter is consumed via a number of aggregators that I rotate, mostly settling for News.Me and the Media something newsletter that the guy from MySpace produces. Techmeme gets my votes about once a ... |
Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere” | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 31 | This last week we’ve all watched in horror as the story unfolded about an Airbnb user who had her a month ago. Other than the of us getting dragged into the story, it seemed to be winding down yesterday. The company appears to be bending over backwards to compensate the victim and avoid another of her blog posts w... |
(Founder Stories) Ben Lerer: Thrillist Will Do “$40 Million In Revenue This Year” | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 31 | In this episode of , Chris Dixon sits down with Co-founder and CEO, Ben Lerer (who is also a partner with his father Ken Lerer in Lerer Ventures). Targeted towards young men, Thrillist is a “platform for guys” that offers “both local and national content and commerce smooshed into one place” says Lerer. Inspired ... |
Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 31 | Flush with in new funding, Square is continuing to grow like a weed in the mobile payments space. After passing the mark at the end of May, is now processing $4 million in mobile payments daily, and is on track to reach over $100 million in transactions in July. And COO tells us that he expects the company to d... |
OMG/JK: The Man In The Yellow Jacket | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 31 | We’re back for a new episode of — featuring both of your hosts reunited in the TCHQ studio (I was back in SF for our ). Oh, and this episode also includes a cameo by a man in a large yellow jacket. I won’t spoil it. We kick off this week’s episode by diving into Twitter’s new ad format, which allows brands to plac... |
Buying An Electric Car | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 31 | After 3.5 years, I’ve finally re-joined the community of car owners. Between February 2008 and last week, I was . I borrowed and rented cars, took taxis and Zip cars, and occasionally biked. I also bummed a lot of rides (thank you very much – you know who you are). It had started when the warranty on my fancy German ... |
A Look Back On Our Mobile First CrunchUp And 6th Annual Summer Party At August Capital | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 7 | 30 | We had a blast yesterday at our l. At our CrunchUp, we had some amazing speakers and special guests. Even Chamillionaire managed to make a and started a debate on why Android doesn’t have a decent phone. Later in the day, the drinks were flowing at August Capital and even Ron Conway was spotted enjoying a margarita ... |
Daily Crunch: Orbs | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 7 | 30 | Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets:
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Gillmor Gang 7.30.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 7 | 30 | The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — covered the gamut between and well, Google+. The new social platform continues to delight and confound the early adopters in record numbers. @scobleizer remains optimistic that the search giant will roll out filtering features to cut... |
Technology + Politics = Facepalm | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 7 | 30 | Oh, how . Earlier this week, Elizabeth May, the leader of Canada’s Green Party, took to her Twitter account and . To think I very nearly voted for these clowns in our recent election. Lesson for my American friends: just because you find all the major parties unpalatable doesn’t mean that the fringe parties aren’t ev... |
Our Executive Assistant Greg Gets A Surprise In-Office Haircut | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | Who says working for isn’t just about the best job ever, ever? Case in point: Bummed after losing to in “Startup Haircut Contest” this week, our newly minted executive assistant was just going about his Friday business today, planning meetings and filing files, etc when he was surprised by Zaarly’s Shirley Ho... |
How The Hell Is This My Fault? | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 30 | You’ve doubtless heard about the Airbnb fiasco – being dubbed #ransackgate by some – that’s been exploding the last couple of days. If you’re not familiar with the story, we first covered it , and there’s some terrific source material from the woman who’s home was ransacked and robbed and . Today Y Combinator found... |
Lucasfilm Shuts Down Local Star Wars Marathon Over Copyright | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | A group of Star Wars fans in New York were organizing a marathon of all six movies at their local bar, but have canceled the event . The letter apparently declared the marathon in violation of copyright, and said they’d forbidden public screenings. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I’ll be giving Lucasfilm any... |
Dell Peju Windows 7 Tablet Design Documents Leaked | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 8 |
I can’t say the market for Windows is blowing up right now, what with the iPad-Android war heating up and the enticing on the horizon, but there is a market and Dell would want a part of it. Their Peju tablet was leaked before but in very little detail, so this new info is welcome. All your Peju-related news can b... |
Smart Design: Fanless Heatsink Spins Itself | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 8 |
This is a nice little twist on the traditional heatsink design you find on CPUs around the world. While normally you’d have a thermally conductive surface, some heat pipes, and a fan driving air over stationary heatsink plates, switches things up. No fan at all — or if you like, the heatsink the fan. Basically the ... |
Don’t Be Fooled By Vanity Metrics | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 30 | Startups love to point to big growth numbers, and the press loves to publish them. We are as guilty as anyone else in this regard: downloads, registered users, tweets per day. These growth metrics can often be signs of traction (which is why we report them), but just as often they are not. It is important to d... |
Epic Gif: The Facebook Google+ Slapfest | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | Oh, I could just watch this all day. We’ve been about the growing between Facebook and Google, with its new Google+ social network. But here you have it in gif form, with the Facebook and Google+ favicons superimposed on the dwarf from (Google+) the child-king (Facebook) over and over again. I am not sure wh... |
Don't Call It A PivotPlz: PicPlz Spun Off As Mixed Media Labs Prepares Their Next Product | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | When round last November, it raised quite a few eyebrows. After all, the money came from Andreessen Horowitz, the VC firm which had backed . To be fair, they backed Instagram when it was still known as Burbn — what is now a massively popular mobile photo-sharing app. Still, there’s no question that Mixed Media L... |
Now You Can Use LinkedIn To Stay Up To Date On Who's Getting Hired (And Fired) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | Today, to become the second largest social network in the U.S. LinkedIn has seen a surge in traffic since and reached an all-time high of 33.9 million unique visitors in June. Taking advantage of the professional social network’s continuing growth, , the co-founder of , has built a cool little service called, ap... |
Concrete Speakers Look Good, Yet I Question Their Fidelity | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 8 |
are a grad school project by Israeli designer Shmuel Linski. His rationale for the unusual material choice is that… well, okay, there is no rationale, he just thought it’d be cool. And certainly more love goes into creating them than your average robot-assembled standing set: On the project’s page, he notes: In my ... |
CrunchGear Is Headed To TechCrunch/Gadgets | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 8 |
By now you’ve probably seen about the redesign coming next week and I wanted to talk a bit about where things are headed. CrunchGear, in short, is being subsumed into TechCrunch/Gadgets, a plan that has been long percolating at the HQ and something we, in a way, welcome. I started CrunchGear on August 10, 2006. Mike... |
Esther Dyson On The Future Of Space Travel: We Are Only At "The End Of The Beginning" | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | Today might have marked the last Space Shuttle launch, but it is not the end of people going into space. In fact, technologist, angel investor, and space privatization advocate says it’s only “the end of the beginning” and that private companies like Elon Musk’s , Jeff Bezos’ , and will fill in the gap. I spoke ... |
Here, Look At This $40,000 Wooden Ditch Digger | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | Woodworkers want you to have this wooden ditch digger. It costs $40,000 on . I think it’s worth it. Constructed of cherry and walnut, this award-winning piece has over 4000 individual handcrafted parts and requiredover 3000 man-hours to complete, roughly a year and a half’s time. Our version of the 5230B is what we ... |
Android 2.3 Gingerbread Headed To The HTC Droid Incredible 2 | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | If you’re a proud owner of the Droid Incredible 2, get ready: your weekend just got a bit sweeter. is on its way by means of an OTA update, and should bring with it all the goodies of Gingerbread, and then some. The file is 116MB, and according to , the process should take about 20-30 minutes of your time. Update ... |
Motorola Continues Locked Bootloader Policy On Droid 3 (For Now) | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | Listen up, hackers. This one’s for you. in all of its tech spec glory, but one thing’s missing: an unlocked bootloader. That’s right, Motorola’s gone and done it again, locking Droid 3 owners in an cage, just like Atrix owners, Droid 2 owners, and the list goes on. Luckily, an unlocked bootloader is on its way. “As ... |
YC-Funded Quartzy Reduces Entropy In Science Lab Supply Cabinets | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | When we think of scientists, we often picture distinguished researchers in white coats, methodically conducting experiments in labs that run like well-oiled machines. Unfortunately things are usually less glamorous. Science labs have a lot going on, and while they’re generally very focused on making sure safety protoco... |
Google To Buy Mobile Loyalty Card Startup Punchd | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | We’ve just gotten word that that Google plans on acquiring digital loyalty card service The team, which consists of developers Reed Morse, Xander Pollock and Niket Desai (and formerly Grantland Chew), will most likely still be working on Punchd within Google according to our source. While our original source pegged t... |
Verbling Links Up Language Learners With Native Speakers Through Live Video Chat | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 8 | It’s a well known fact that people improve foreign language skills when interacting and communicating with other people who speak the same foreign language. -backed is launching today as a easy to use online conversation exchange for language learners, leveraging in-browser video chat. The site allows you to sign up... |
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