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Digg Raises An Inside Venture Round | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | has raised a new round of financing, we’ve confirmed. It’s an inside round, meaning one or more put in the money. We’ve heard the amount raised was single digit millions, probably around $5 million. CEO has confirmed the financing to us, but won’t give an exact number on the amount raised. The real question is aro... |
EA Buys PopCap Games For As Much As $1.3B | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | As we initially a few weeks ago, EA has PopCap Games. The acquisition price is $650 million plus $100 million stock and a multi-year earn-out. The total acquisition price is as much as $1.3 billion. PopCap Games is the company behind such hits as Plants vs Zombies, Zuma and Bejeweled. PopCap games have been install... |
AutoUncle raises Angel funding for used-car search engine | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 12 | , a startup which is trying to disrupt the used car market initially in Denmark, has raised 1.3 million DKK (€175,000) from Hampus Jakobsson, a Swedish entrepreneur/angel who just sold TAT to RIM. The founders are brothers Johan Frederik Schjødt and Niels Kristian who have built a site which is not unlike a Skyscanner ... |
Crittercism Raises $1.2 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Google Ventures For App Support | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | Yesterday, at the in San Francisco, Google Ventures Managing Partner and Co-founder of Android announced that , a startup that provides support infrastructure for mobile apps, had raised an undisclosed seed funding round from , , , , and , among others. GigaOM on the startup’s mystery raise, but we’ve since... |
Leica Planning New Line Of EVIL Cameras For September Debut | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | CEO, Alfred Schopf, has abruptly and rather casually being planned for a Photokina debut. The new system will have “at least” an APS-C sensor and will “do things differently” from the rest of the EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder, Interchangeable Lens) cameras — serious competition like the NEX, PEN, and G series. The unn... |
Stealthy Prism Skylabs Seeks To "Bring Physical Spaces Online" | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | A couple weeks ago, a stealthy startup called was formed in San Francisco. Already it’s creating buzz among angel investors. It’s site is not much more than a place holder right now with this : We are pioneering ways to bring physical spaces online, creating new places for people and businesses to understand and e... |
A Reverse Priceline? SoBiz10 Tests Automated, Consumer-Driven Deals Service (With A Touch Of Charity) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | I hope you’re not getting tired of daily deals, because I’ve got more daily deal news for you, dear reader. Among the latest trends in the evolving daily deal model are the now popular “deal wallet” and “deal resale marketplace”, which quite a few startups have begun implementing, like and , to name a few. Another a... |
Eric Schmidt On Google's Acquisition Strategy | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | Google Executive Chairman sat down and talked to reporters at the Sun Valley conference in Idaho last week, dropping all sorts of science about Google +, Google China and whether or not we are in a tech bubble, among other things. One of the most interesting nuggets of info relayed was the fact that Schmidt could env... |
Amazon’s Tablet Is No Threat To Apple, It’s A Huge Threat To Google | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | Last September, we got a tip from a source that Amazon was that would run Google’s Android operating system. The source was a good one — they had also correctly called Amazon releasing their own Android app store. It took a while, but it looks like they nailed this news as well. Today, that Amazon plans to release ... |
Series A Whopper: Benchmark Invests $33M in New BI Company Domo | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | A new software as a service company is formally launching tonight at a party in Salt Lake City. I have no idea how opulent or bare-bones this party will be, but theoretically the company would have plenty to spend on drinks, T-shirts and canapes. It just raised a massive $33 million series A from Benchmark Capital. A... |
Spotify Will Launch In The US Tomorrow Morning (It's About Time) | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | After tons of , speculation and on our part, it beloved digital music service will be available invite-only tomorrow morning in the US. The pricing is now set at $4.99 a month on the web and $9.99 a month on mobile in addition to an ad supported free plan which includes a limited amount of songs. Peter Kafka is r... |
mlove – Trying to figure out the future of mobile, the universe and… everything | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | has been something of an underground movement the last couple of years. Billed as a ‘confestival’ it’s more like the kind of three-day off-the-wall workshop with a few (excellent, mind) keynote speeches that you might have found happening in the Mission district during the 1960s. There is a lot of high concept thinki... |
Alternative Tablets: The Next Big Thing Or Dead On Arrival? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | It’s hard out there for a . Not just because consumers aren’t quite sure they want to buy in just yet, but because the shelves are so crowded that it’s difficult to stand out. At CES this year, having an Android tablet seemed to be a prerequisite to reserving booth space; few major companies announce some sort of pl... |
InMobi: 78 Percent Of Mobile Ads In North America Are On Smartphones | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | Mobile ads in North America are reaching an inflection point. In the second quarter of 2011, 78 percent of total mobile ad impressions on ad network were on smartphones (as opposed to older feature phones), up from 67 percent in the first quarter, according to a it is putting out. “We expect 90% of ads by end of ... |
InstaEarth Puts The World’s Instagram Photos On The Map | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | , a digital advertising agency focused on design and technology, claims not only to help its clients build their brands (and advertise) but also to “make and design things they would use themselves”. While this is always a good litmus for a new product or business, you’ll have to excuse my cynicism, but coming from an ... |
Ad.ly In Play As Social Sites Look For Celebrity Connections | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | is an advertising platform that advertisers with celebrities. For $1,000 to $200,000, an advertiser can get one of a thousand celebrities to publish a sponsored message, usually on Twitter. The company has raised , has sixteen employees, and has sold 26,000 paid endorsements in the last year and a half. The company... |
Not So Crazy Rumor: Amazon To Release An Android Tablet And Two New Kindles This Fall | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | The fabled Amazon tablet: Oh how you tease us so. You come from the maker of the world’s most beloved ereader and are said to run the versatile Android OS. (hopefully skinned, though) But there’s just so much we don’t know about you. When are you coming? How much are you going to cost. What’s your name? Are you even re... |
Hold Your Applause: Ovation Lets Your Live Audience Rate You In Real Time | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | Uh oh. Now you’ve done it. You’ve lost your audience. The crowd that was once hanging on your every word and gasping for breath between laughs is now sending back nothing but vacant stares. A few people just snuck out the back door, and you’re sure that dude in the back row is snoring. Where, oh where, did things go ... |
With T-Mobile Name ID, You'll Know Whose Call You're Ignoring | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | You know what’s really annoying? Calls from numbers you don’t have stored in your contacts. If you don’t answer, you could end up missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, or getting some much-needed good news. If you get brave and answer, you could end smack-dab in the middle of a conversation that you never wa... |
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MotherKnows Raises $1.7 Million For Online Health Record Service For Parents | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | , an online health record service designed specifically for parents, has announced that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. The round was led by , with contributions from , , , former product manager at Google Health , and several other angels. The startup plans to use its infusion of capital to complete p... |
Post PicPlz, Mixed Media Labs Makes Their Big Bet: App.net — About.me For Apps | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | Last week, that Mixed Media Labs had spun off their initial project, , to be able to work on their next big idea. Well, now we know that next big idea: . The easiest way to think of App.net is as “About.me for apps”. At first glance, that may seem a bit lame. But the truth is that it’s a very good idea. The reason ... |
Dual-Core, Android-Powered Motorola Photon 4G To Hit Sprint On July 31st At $200 | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | Hey, look at that! Just a month after Sprint and Motorola announced the beastly, dual-core, Android-powered Photon with the uber-vague launch window of “sometime in Q3”, they’re back at the well with proper launch details. If all goes as planned, the Motorola Photon (fancy kickstand an all) will be hitting Sprint’s sto... |
Twitter For Android Now Supports Multiple Profiles, Push Notifications | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 13 | Congrats Android owners, you now get to as us iPhone users have been reveling in for months! Yes as of today Twitter for Android supports multiple Twitter accounts and allows you to receive push notifications on your phone. Users who want to try out the sleek new features can go to Account Settings, choose Automatic ... |
"Like A Toothbrush": Larry Page Live-Google+'s His Own Earnings Call | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Today, during the earnings call about , CEO kicked things off. While this was technically his first full quarter as CEO, he got some flak during the last earnings call for only saying a few sentences. This time, he went much further, even sticking around for the Q&A session. He also did something really cool: as he ... |
The Roundabout Tapes – Could GoSquared put the heat on Chartbeat? (TCTV) | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Back in January arrived on the scene to on realtime analytics territory. While Chartbeat has financing with a glittering array of backers including Betaworks and Ron Conway, GoSquared has had a more modest seed funding round from Passion Capital. Founders James Gill, James Taylor and Geoff Wagstaff range between... |
Groupon Releases New S-1, Adds 11 Underwriters Including JP Morgan And Allen & Co. | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Groupon has filed new from for its IPO where it is looking to raise at least $750 million. What’s changed from the last one filed on June 2nd? Well to Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, the daily deals site has added new underwriters Williams, RBC, Loop, Citadel, JPMorgan, Allen & Co, BofA, Citi, Barclays and Deutsche in add... |
Nintendo DS Still Outselling 3DS Two To One | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | It’s probably too much to expect that a more expensive new handheld would immediately unseat its predecessor, but I doubt Nintendo is too happy that consumers are buying more than twice as many DSes as . At the same time, selling over half a million handhelds in a month isn’t exactly news either. According to a Nint... |
Shelby.tv Raises $1.5 Million To Give You Personalized Channels Of Online Video | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Just glancing at YouTube’s , it doesn’t take a genius like me to figure out that people are spending more time watching video on the web — and that online video is going to increasingly eat away at the amount of time they spend watching cable. But while the web has plenty of benefits (like on-demand content), good old... |
Larry Page On Android Patent Problems: "There Hasn't Been Any Slow Down" | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | During the earnings call after Google announced today, a question was asked about the patent issues surrounding Google right now. Specifically, Android is under assault from Oracle as well as . This is happening because Google only has roughly 700 patents, and they recently to gain Nortel’s 6,000+ patents — with t... |
Sprint Slashes Nexus S 4G Price To $99.99 On-Contract | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Fast, good, or cheap. Most of the time products can only manage to nab two of those three qualities, but with the recent price cut from it looks like ’s Nexus S 4G is pulling a hat trick. Fast? 4G WiMAX speeds — ‘nuf said. Good? The specs (which I’ll delve into below) speak for themselves. And cheap? Well, it’s toug... |
Google Android Now On 130M Total Devices, With 6B App Downloads | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Today during Google’s Second Quarter earnings call a lot of focus was put on the success of Google Android, which was put in Larry Page’s successful consumer products category. How successful is Android exactly? Well the operating system is now on 130 million total devices, with six billion app installs from the Androi... |
Sony NEX-7 Prototype Shown In Leaked Picture | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Sony’s NEX series of mirrorless cameras has gotten fairly positive reviews, and it appears Sony thinks there’s room at the top for a hotter model. The NEX-7 (big brother to the NEX-3 and NEX-5) , though it’s clearly not final hardware. Observe, for instance, the rather non-traditional “OFF-NO” switch. It’s not just a ... |
It's Plick: Somebody Call Mattel And Get This Guy An Interview (Video) | Jay Donovan | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | What is it you ask? (as in rogrammable by c ing your fingers) is a set of connectable, interactive components that can be attached to ordinary objects and transform them into interactive gadgets. The components include an engine, distance sensor, LED lamp, battery pack and microphone. Just as the name suggests, you c... |
Larry Page: "I Think About Our Products In Three Separate Categories" | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Google has just released its earnings statements for Larry Page’s first quarter as CEO, to positive results, namely that Google set a at $9.03 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2011. Page began the earnings call outlining the “substantially increased velocity” of his product-focused management team which has acc... |
Android Now Seeing 550,000 Activations Per Day | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Fresh off the Google Q2 2011 Earnings Call, Larry Page has just disclosed that Android is now seeing activations per day. That’s up from the 500,000 per day number Andy Rubin revealed in Rubin also disclosed that Android was growing by around 4.4% week-over-week, an estimate which works quite well with these new n... |
Larry Page On Google+: Over 10 Million Users, 1 Billion Items Being Shared Per Day | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Google CEO Larry Page headlined Google’s today and of course revealed some interesting statistics on Google’s most recent product, . Page said the new management structure he implemented is “working together fabulously,” and helping complete Google’s goal of making “sharing on web like sharing in real life.” Page sa... |
Spotify partners with Klout to get the word out | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | There’s not much detail on this, but it appears Spotify is with , the social rankings startup, on pushing out its service to the US, . Spotify is going to have to do a hell of a lot of marketing over the next few months. Partnering with Klout is hardly a mainstream move, IMHO, however, via Klout Spotify has a shot ... |
The Chrome Niko Is A Weather-Proof Camera Bag | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Well-known bag maker Chrome has put out a new camera bag, called (for whatever reason) the . It’s a slightly strange creature, somewhere between a shoulder bag and a backpack, but it looks pretty solid. The top section is your plain cargo compartment, for wipe cloths, snacks, and so on. Down below, you have a customiz... |
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Spotify reveals the detail behind its US launch | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | , the European music startup which has garnered 10 million users in the last two years, finally launches in the US today. The packages are: An invite-only free, ad-supported service, a $4.99-per-month ad-free package and a full “premium” experience costing $9.99 which also syncs with mobile. Unlike the European service... |
ShowWX Projector Gets HDMI Option | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | I the ShowWX+ pico projector a while back and pronounced it admirably tiny but problematic image-wise. Whatever the case, though, more input options certainly can’t hurt. They’ve so that you don’t have to worry about carrying around the VGA adapter or anything like that. The original had an adapter for super-easy us... |
Google Back On Track In Q2, Beats The Street With Over $9 Billion In Revenue | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Google has just released their , and after a , it looks like Q2 is right back on track for the search giant. They beat the number the Street was expecting across the board. The key one being revenue: Google earned $9.03 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 (a new record for quarterly revenue). The street had b... |
More Tickets To Our 6th Annual Summer Party At August Capital Are On Sale Now | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | Tickets are sold out. Stay tuned for our next set of tickets to be released next week. Our 6th annual summer party at August Capital is almost here! Today we are releasing our next set of 100 tickets. The party will be held on the beautiful and sunny Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park on July 29th from 5:30 – 10:00pm, follo... |
Google Earnings Day! First, Enjoy The Full 2011 Stockholder's Meeting [Video] | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 14 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKSoGOMLWI4&feature=player_embedded&w=640] In just about a half hour, Google will announce their Q2 2011 results. After that, at 1:30 PM PT, they’ll do their usual Q&A. Thankfully this time, they’re going back to YouTube to stream the thing, instead of . You’ll be able to follow... |
Lulz? The ‘Murdoch Leaks Project’ Gets A Landing Page | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | Over the last week, there’s been quite a bit of news swirling around Rupert Murdoch’s empire, including, most recently, the now infamous LulzSec’s , News Corp’s daily tabloid newspaper. On Monday, the network of merry hacktivists hacked into The Sun, pinned a fake news story about Murdoch’s supposed death on the home... |
Ouch: The Netflix Price Change Hangover | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | It’s been pretty fascinating to watch Netflix’s growth from a company that Blockbuster (when Founder and CEO Reed Hastings and former CFO Barry McCarthy proposed to Blockbuster management that they run its online brand) to the of web traffic in North America in 2011. There have been quite a few hiccups and ups and... |
VideoInbox, Another Google/Slide Production, Brings Viral Videos To Your Inbox | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | We’ve come across the latest in series of projects developed within Google, — a combination daily newsletter/Facebook app that basically centers around the viewing, sharing and cataloguing of viral videos (proof that it’s from Slide ). Sign up for VideoInbox with Facebook Connect and you’ll get a daily email with ... |
Obvious Already Ramping Up With Two New Founding Team Hires | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | Back in January of 2009, we noted that a “ ” was about to launch in the MMO space, with a startup called . A few weeks ago, Ohai was sold, . And at least two of those rockstars have now moved on. and are the newest members of , the idea incubator that was by the former Twitter guys, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, a... |
More Americans Are On Facebook Than Have A Passport | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | To celebrate the fact that my vacation during the last two weeks of August has been officially confirmed (!), I am posting the most massive infographic I have ever seen: “The Social Travel Revolution” brought to you by the folks at still-in-beta travel startup . 50% of all Americans are on Facebook (155 million) whil... |
Doubts About Lytro’s “Focus Later” Camera | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | I’ve been meaning to address since it hit a few weeks ago. I wrote about omnifocus cameras as far back as , and more recently in , and while at the time I was more interested in the science behind the systems, though it appears that Lytro uses a different method than either of those. Lytro has been slightly close-l... |
How MySpace Tom May Have Inadvertently Triggered The Google/Facebook War | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | Gotta love . Newly reinvigorated by the launch of Google+, “MySpace Tom” has become (and regular TechCrunch !). As a man at the forefront of the early days of the social wars, he’s obviously full of information. And today he decided to share a bit more. This time, it’s a fascinating story about the time Microsoft, ... |
Spotify ecosystem grows as ShareMyPlaylists secures Angel funding | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | Any new US Spotify users will be busy creating playlists and sharing them with their friends. This is an awesome part of the service which is really the central point of why Spotify can become so addictive compared to other services like Mog and Rdio. A while back a clever little startup realised there was gold in them... |
Google Acquires Facial Recognition Software Company PittPatt | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | Google has just acquired facial recognition software company (Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition), according to an announcement on the startup’s site. PittPatt, a project spawned from Carnegie Mellon University, develops a facial recognition technology that can match people across photos, videos, and more. The company h... |
Long Before Google+, Google Declared War On Facebook With OpenSocial | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | Google and Facebook are at war. We’ve known this for a while. Of course, neither side will admit to it, but they are. Winner takes the Internet. After months of Facebook owning Google in just about every way imaginable (well, except search, of course — but the rise of social is slowly making search less important), Goo... |
Enhanced eBooks: Valuable Sales Tool or Just a Gimmick? (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | New technologies usually allow for . In the move from print media to the Web the “more” was comments, slideshows and of course rapid-fire content. In the move from VHS to DVDs the “more” was all sorts of behind the scenes footage and director commentaries. In the move from Blackberries to iPhones, the “more” was a won... |
Festo’s SmartBird Robot Flies Through The Air At TED | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | You may recall the , a we saw back in March that mimics the flight of birds, flapping its wings like the real thing. The video we saw then was a bit too edited to get a feel for the bot, but luckily one of the inventors was invited to do a TED talk, and of course they had to set the thing free in the auditorium. Che... |
Leaked LG Roadmap Points To Five Android Smartphones And One Mango Fantasy | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | The only thing better than a leak is six leaks, which is exactly what we have for you today. Bundled nicely in the form of a 2011 Roadmap (discovered by ), five Android smartphones and one Mango-powered handset have found their way to the web. Along with the , LG has quite a bit more in store for the rest of the y... |
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Apple’s iOS 5 Beta 4 Update Now Available, First To Be Released Over-The-Air | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | It’s been just 11 days since Apple released Beta 3 of iOS 5 to developers, but a new Beta is already up in the air — literally. iOS 5 Beta 4 has just gone live, and it appears to be the first update to support installation via iOS 5’s new over-the-air update system. We can’t actually get the update to over the air ri... |
Porsche’s Sport And Rennsport Bikes, For The Car-Loving Cyclist | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | We’ve already seen bikes from both and in the last year, so I suppose it’s no surprise to see . The German sport car giant has actually had a bike for quite a while now, but I believe the new Sport and Rennsport are their first attempts at road-going bikes rather than the mountain variety. These “Driver’s Selectio... |
Founder Office Hours With Chris Dixon And Josh Kopelman: Profitably | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | Today, we are trying a special edition of ; that we are calling . Inspired by onstage at our last Techcrunch Disrupt, we brought together a group of startup founders in our NYC studio to get feedback and advice. Joining regular host is , managing partner of First Round Capital. In this first video above, ... |
For The Geek Who Has Everything: A Gold-Plated Atari 2600 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | One thing most 30-something people in tech have in common is video gaming nostalgia. Generation X (and ) can go on for hours discussing the merits of our favorite Nintendo games, our programming experience in school, and of course our beloved Ataris. Sure there were C64s and Amigas and such, but Atari’s 2600 and its s... |
Keen On: Why Google Is Now A Social Company (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | So what is Google+? As Gundotra told me yesterday, it is an attempt to “understand people” and to make human relationships the heart of the Google experience. Both Horowitz and Gundotra acknowledge that this is a major project, something that may, in the future, redefine the company. This unGoogle-like goal to,as Ho... |
I Had Cancer, A Social Network For Fighters, Survivors And Supporters (Private Beta Invites) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 22 | Social networks for cancer patients and survivors are not new. There’s the and for younger survivors, for instance. Now there is , a new resource for cancer patients, survivors, and friends and family who are supporters. The site just launched in private beta. If you have cancer or know somebody who does, we h... |
Gary Vaynerchuk, ‘The Sommelier of Social Media’, Partners With Consmr | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | If you’re anything like me, this scenario may be somewhat familiar: You’re standing in the aisle of your local supermarket, or Walgreens, and you’re looking to buy a particular type of product, be it peanut butter or shaving cream or shampoo, yet you don’t have any particular allegiance to one brand over another. Conf... |
After-Hours Blues: Netflix Stock Falls 10 Percent On Warnings Of Slower Growth | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | On Friday, about how Netflix’s was having a noticeable (negative) effect on the perception of the company and its brand. An interesting conversation evolved in the comment section, with some explaining why they cancelled their Netflix subscriptions and why some even view it as a “PR nightmare”. During its Q2 earni... |
Zynga Partners With Tencent To Launch Localized Chinese Version Of CityVille | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | is furthering its presence in China with a new partnership with Chinese internet giant Tencent. As part of the deal, Zynga is launching a beta version of Zynga City, a new localized Chinese version of CityVille. The game will launch in the next few days and features brand-new content and game-play inspired by both tr... |
Zaarly Security Glitch Exposes Private Messages, Phone Numbers | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | Another day, another startup security glitch. This time the startup affected is , the service that lets you buy or sell anything with people nearby. A bug in a recent code push created a security hole that revealed phone numbers and private messages between buyers and sellers. To exploit the bug, you’d need only acces... |
Spotted! Secret Ubers On The Streets Of Seattle | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | It’s testament to the enthusiasm of the fan base that we’ve gotten multiple tips this afternoon about the service being live in Seattle. Via a quick phone call with Uber CEO , I’ve confirmed that Uber has indeed in the Pacific Northwest’s largest city, with an initial three black cars in its test fleet. Perhaps bec... |
“Data Furnace” Would Heat Homes While Flipping Bits | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | One byproduct of computing almost everybody has had to deal with at some time or another is the heat. Whether it’s your Xbox 360 overheating due to poor ventilation, your MacBook’s fan roaring like a jet engine, or some other manifestation, the inescapable truth is that computers these days get . Whether it’s a proces... |
New job site Qapa goes live with €1.7 million | roxannevarza | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | If you think European startups tend to lack the ambition of their US equivalents, guess again. Today, , a new Paris-based startup went live with €1.7 million in the bank and 1 not-so-simple goal: to decrease unemployment in France by 10% within the next year. Yes, sounds a little far-fetched. In France alone there are... |
Google On The Nortel Loss, Patents As Government-Granted Monopolies, And Plates Of Spaghetti | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | Back in early April, , Google’s Senior Vice President & General Counsel, wrote a post on the Google blog titled “ “. The reason behind the post was clear: Google was feeling the pressure in the patent space after multiple attacks against them and their partners. And now they were going to do something about it. In his... |
Playstation Vita’s Social And Online Modes Officially Detailed | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | We heard about the long before we even knew its name, but the official details are just now solidifying. We knew it would have a net-connected staging area for each game, and a proximity-based social tool (LiveArea and Near respectively), and although some of the functions there are intact, and the features have ... |
Technology Is The New Smoking | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | We’ve all been there; You’re at an outing or a dinner table with friends but itching to check your email or Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Google+ or Yammer or what ever digital hit of serotonin you prefer. Have you ever in order to check email or come up with a socially appropriate excuse to pull out your smart... |
Social music games company MXP4 opens office in Los Angeles | roxannevarza | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | In April, Paris-based social music games company MXP4 a new app – – that could transform the tunes of singers like Lily Allen into gaming music. Now, the company is opening an office in Los Angeles, California to prepare for the commercial launch of the application. While the musical element definitely differentiat... |
Netflix: 75 Percent Of New Customers Signing Up For Streaming-Only Plan | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | In its first quarterly since it announced for DVD subscribers who also stream videos, Netflix tried to put the best face on its new decision. In a shareholder letter ( ) accompanying earnings, CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells report that during “the quarter, the streaming only plan continued to gain in popula... |
With Monetization And The Mainstream In Mind, Twitter Adds To Senior Management Team | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | While Twitter was busy last week in an attempt by to streamline the product side of things, this week they’re doing the opposite — at least on the sales and marketing side of things. Twitter has just announced that they’ve made two additions to their senior management team. is joining Twitter as director of Globa... |
Go FAQ Yourself With Philip Kaplan’s FaqMe | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | and FuckedCompany.com founder is at it again with his whimsical and sometimes useful experiments, this time launching , a FAQing free service that helps people build snazzier and Contact Us pages. “Many websites have sucky (or non-existent) help pages and customer service,” says Kaplan, who aim to make the whole... |
Boot To Gecko: Mozilla’s Open-Source, Mobile Answer To ChromeOS | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | Straight from the heart of comes news of an ambitious new project: a standalone, web-based operating system. If that concept sounds familiar, I’ve also just described the core of Google’s Chrome OS which we’re beginning to see pop up on netbooks. The big twist? It’s currently being developed for mobile devices. And i... |
Are M&A opportunities increasing for European startups? Interview with Frederic Court from Advent Venture Partners | roxannevarza | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | , a company originally from Switzerland specializing in mobile payments. For the London-based VC fund , this constitutes the third successful exit of the year. , who has been a General Partner at Advent Ventures for the last ten years, shares his opinion regarding the exit environment in Europe. Are M&A opportunities... |
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Party Over: Facebook Blocks The Secret iPad App | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | Well, it was fun while it lasted. Just last night, our own MG Siegler right within the publicly available iPhone app. All it took was a quick, mostly-pain-free modification or two, and you were knee deep in unexplored Beta territory. Alas, it looks like Facebook has found a way to close things back up. We’re hearing ... |
Hello! I’m Chris Velazco, and I’m TechCrunch’s New Mobile Writer | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | Man, this place looks different. Before I get too lost poking around the new digs, I’d like to introduce myself — my name is Chris Velazco, and I’m joining the TechCrunch staff as your new mobile writer. Longtime readers may remember me as a hapless MobileCrunch intern from the days of yore, a position I only really la... |
Social Music Games Company MXP4 Opens LA Office Ahead Of Rollout | Roxanne Varza | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | In April, Paris-based social music games company MXP4 a new app – – that could transform the tunes of singers like Lily Allen into gaming music. Now, the company is opening an office in Los Angeles, California to prepare for the commercial launch of the application. |
Apple Releases Another Security Update With iOS 4.3.5 | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 7 | 25 | Apple’s none too fond of nasty security flaws lurking about in iOS, and they’re not above cracking out rapid-fire updates to prove it. Just 10 days after (which existed almost solely to kill off a potentially nasty PDF exploit), they’re back with another one: iOS 4.3.5. The main fix in this minor patch? A fix for a s... |
The Tragic Triumph Of The MBAs | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 9 | 3 | “We’ve seen Mubarak fall,” of the corporate need to focus on social networks at the recent Dreamforce conference. “We’ve seen Khadafy fall. When will the first CEO fall for the same reason?” What a fantastic comparison! Because, as we all know, dictators who brutalize, torture, and murder thousands of their own peopl... |
AdMob To Stop Serving Ads To Mobile Web, Google Pushes Developers To Use AdSense | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 3 | When Google bought mobile ad network AdMob for in 2009, the company was clearly trying to capitalize on the growing mobile advertising market. Mobile advertising, both on apps and the mobile web, is a natural extension of Google’s display and search ad business. Of course, as the integration has taken place over the ... |
Review: Microsoft’s Touch Mouse And Explorer Touch Mouse | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 3 | I got a chance to play with two of Microsoft’s three touch mouse offerings — the Explorer Touch Mouse and the flagship Touch Mouse — and as far as ideas go, they’re absolutely wonderful. But in terms of execution, the whole “touch” part didn’t exactly impress. When compared to your standard desktop mouse, these two of... |
Gillmor Gang 9.3.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 9 | 3 | The Gillmor Gang -— Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — calmed down after a week of Dreamforce, the annual salesforce.com user conference. As the editorial independence of TechCrunch is questioned, let us be clear that Dan Farber is editor in chief of CBSNewsOnline, Robert Scoble... |
Daily Crunch: Guard Tower | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 9 | 3 | Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets:
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Hot, Flat, And Widescreen: The Rise Of The Minitabs | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 4 | The past three days have brought us a trio of interesting “tabs:” the Samsung Note, the 7.7 Gal Tab, and (bear with me) the new, flatter iPhone. Sadly, two of those may not make it to the (and one can’t even be ), but it’s clear that there’s a trend. Wait a few months and we’ll see more 5- to 7-inch tablets/phones... |
What To Look For In A Company Board | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 4 | At any company level, the board of directors has a direct impact on the organization’s product strategy, hiring, fundraising and much more. And startups have to be very selective in choosing board members who will advise the company in the right direction. In the big company realm, both and the have questioned Yah... |
TV In The Cloud | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 4 | TV is moving to the cloud. It is inevitable, just as other kinds of media from books to music are increasingly delivered over the Internet. Netflix, Hulu, and even Apple TV are making inroads when it comes to distributing traditional TV shows and movies to Internet-connected screens. YouTube keeps grabbing more of our ... |
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The European Startup Summer Of Love – London, Berlin And Beyond | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 4 | : When you can gather 1,500 startup people into a car park on a warm summer evening in London, you know something is going on. When you can tell 800 people at a joint startup party in Berlin that they will have to PAY if they LEAVE the party 8am, you know something is going on. And so it is in London and Berlin. Othe... |
Lost In Denmark: Hackers, Robots, Wacky Office Spaces And Sharks | Flemming | 2,011 | 9 | 4 | I spent the better part of last week hanging out with some fellow tech bloggers in Denmark – in and , to be more specific – and mingling with the people who organized and traveled to attend, speak or exhibit at the Next Aarhus conference and exhibition. The in itself was really fascinating, though not exactly T... |
Disrupt Beijing: We’re Bringing Steve Chen, Peter Vesterbacka, Phil Libin and More | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 9 | 5 | As we last week, we’ve been busy securing some of the most exciting names in China for our conference this October including Tencent Founder and CEO and Chinese entrepreneur and angel investor . But it wouldn’t be a TechCrunch event without bringing a little of that Silicon Valley magic too. In selecting people ... |
Attn Entrepreneurs: How to Attend Disrupt Beijing for Less Cash | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 9 | 5 | Hopefully, anyone who has attended our Disrupt San Francisco and Disrupt New York conferences knows why we charge $2,995 for tickets: Between the Hackathon, Startup Alley, the big names on stage and the Startup Battlefield, we essentially cram four conferences into one. Our challenge in bringing was to find a way not... |
Netrobe Is A Virtual Closet For Your iPhone | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 5 | One glance at my closet after coming back from vacation this morning and I realized that I owned A LOT of clothes, many of which I had forgotten about while purchasing presumably complimentary accessories like shoes and bracelets on my travels. If only there was a way to access my entire wardrobe via iPhone … Inspired ... |
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