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GetComparisons: A Tale Of The Tape For Anything | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Nexus S or iPhone? Kindle Fire or iPad? Samsung TV or LG TV? When people try to make such decisions, they usually look for as much data as possible so they can compare choices. For many gadgets, that’s relatively easy because you can compare similar specs such as CPU speed, RAM, screen size, etc. But what about for eve... |
Why No Kindle Touch Or Fire For EU, UK? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Jeff Bezos that these days, “if you are just building a device you are unlikely to succeed.” He certainly seems to be backing that statement up, with the launch of the producing more optimism than the last ten non- tablet launches combined. It seems that people do indeed like the idea of a purpose-built device tha... |
Spotify Hires Another Former Googler To Head Asian Expansion | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Setting its sights beyond the west after a successful US launch and the recent unveiling of , subscription music service has hired former Google executive as General Manager Asia-Pacific. I’m hearing that Brody is currently in Australia talking to potential recruits, and Spotify itself has confirmed the GM position... |
You Might Have Klout, But What’s Your Kred? | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Reputation on the Internet is a tricky thing to measure. But with the rise of social media—with its retweets, likes, +1s, replies, and followers counts—companies are trying to keep score. If you are a big user of Twitter, you have probably checked out your score or at least heard of it. Well, soon Klout will have ... |
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Apotheker Leaves HP With $10 Million Severance | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Massive severance packages are nothing new, but sometimes you just feel the need to call attention to them. Ousted HP CEO Leo Apotheker is leaving the company with a , plus a $2.4 million bonus and $3.7m in stock (more if you count the other 440,000 vested shares). I understand that this high pay is part of our busine... |
Kobo Vox Android Tablet Leaks On Retailer Website | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | It looks like and aren’t the only ones who want to get into the LCD scene. Kobo, who like them has a , must have felt left out of the 7″ LCD device race, and apparently is releasing the Vox to fill that gap. We actually heard about the Vox in an FCC filing a couple weeks ago, but held off on posting because ther... |
The Europas Awards for European tech startups launches – enter now | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | , the European Tech Startup Awards, were held for the second time December 2010, in London, supported by . It was the culmination of a month of online voting by the European tech startup industry for the finalists, where some 33,126 votes were cast, judges deliberated over the results and over 350 people joined the cr... |
Sony To Stop Comping 3D Glasses For Theaters – Because Movie Tickets Aren’t Expensive Enough Already | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Sony, which provides many theaters with the projectors and hardware needed to display 3D cinema, has informed those theaters that starting this spring, it will . From now on they’ll have to foot the cost themselves — and by “they” I mean “we,” because obviously the theaters aren’t going to voluntarily pick up this ext... |
Microsoft Cracks Down On Spammy Windows Phone App Submissions | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | There may be more than 20,000 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace now, but it seems as though some “developers” are intent on fiddling with the cool-to-crap ratio. As low-quality, low-functionality apps flood the marketplace, Microsoft will be limiting developers to starting tomorrow. Microsoft had previously set t... |
Foxconn’s $12bn Brazil Expansion Stalled In Negotiation Stage | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Earlier this year it was reported that Foxconn had decided it was going to try to diversity its global holdings by establishing an iPad factory in Brazil. Their reasoning seemed fine: the economy is expanding, there’s a tech-savvy populace, and the government, they figured, would be game for few little sweetheart deals... |
Sync By 50 Headphones Leak Early, Appear To Be Appropriately Street | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | 50 Cent’s wireless headphones are finally nearing release and I just received multiple pics and a full spec sheet concerning the upcoming high-end model. Sync by 50 uses the now-popular unibody casing but features full on-board playback controls — something no other headphones can proclaim. Housed in each can is a 40mm... |
China Takes First Steps Toward A Space Station, Launches Tiangong 1 | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | As NASA’s , China’s space program is making big leaps with plans to have a manned space station in orbit by 2020. This morning (around 9pm in China), the Tiangong 1 space station module blasted off from a desert in the northwestern area of China. The reported purpose of this mission is to practice docking with other m... |
Myspace Owner-Specific Media Hit With Layoffs | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Myspace owner- has laid of a percentage of its staff today, we’ve confirmed with the company. Specific Media said these layoffs took place in sales and operating areas, and was part of a consolidation effort to eliminate redundancies between the two businesses. As Specific Media says in a statement: Specific Media s... |
Google Analytics Catches Up With Real-Time, Launches Enterprise Tier | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Google Analytics, the immensely popular suite of tools that Google offers to help webmasters track their site traffic, is getting a big boost this week: the service has a real-time dashboard that updates with user events as they happen. That’s a big deal, as it brings Google more in line with popular real-time analyt... |
Swatch Announces Touchscreen Watches | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Ugly though they may be, these Swatch watches have a trick up their sleeves. Using the same technology found in the Tissot T-Touch line, these Swatch Touch watches are touch-sensitive and allow you to swipe through different functions and control most of the watch features with a simple finger tap. The Touch 2011 model... |
Music Piracy Down As Streaming Services Take Over | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | The Swedish polling company, Media Vision, has released a about downloading habits in the country where Spotify was born. Their results? 23 percent of Swedes download music illegally, down 2 to 3 percent since 2010. In short, music piracy, at least in that market, is falling rapidly and much of that decline can be at... |
Make It HD: Star Trek TNG Remastered For Blu-ray | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 29 | Hold onto your phasers — the dream of many a Trekkie is about to come true. . Every one of the show’s 178 episodes will be released eventually, though not all at once. Why such a slow release? Well, it turns out that instead of upconverting and selling for a premium, the producers of this new version are doing it righ... |
Paul, I Accept Your Resignation | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | Paul Carr, one of our columnists who was hired for his grandstanding ways, has decided to fall on his own sword and on TechCrunch. I believe this is the second or third time he’s quit in public in the past couple weeks. I keep losing count. He thinks he is somehow being loyal to Mike and standing up for the editor... |
Sony’s New PSN Terms Of Service Prevent You From Joining Class Action Suits Against Sony | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | Version 12 (September 15, 2011) of Sony’s new (PDF) states, on page 18: Just thought you should know that in order to play games on their service, you’re being required to give up a very relevant method of legal recourse. I actually was about to sign up for a new PSN account, but I think I’ll hold off for a while. I ... |
Six Must-Watch On-Stage Videos From Disrupt | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | [tc_speakertext_off]We have hours and hours of quality video from this year’s , and you can browse it all , but there were a few on-stage interviews and discussions that we felt were unmissable. Whether they’re funny, interesting, or controversial, these show the quality and variety of the guests and topics we get to... |
Lyst comes out of the closet to open up high fashion | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | While the retail or ‘high street’ fashion world has been gradually populated by startups looking to create communities of fashion lovers (such as ), the more rarified world of high fashion has remained largely untouched by online. This is an anomaly, because if there is one thing to be said about high fashion it’s tha... |
Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Program: Posterous Raises $5 Million | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | Um, oh hey guys, what’s up? Nothing much over on my side, except that I’d really like a Diet Coke. Also, I’m hearing that nascent photo sharing app née blogging platform is raising some money. So yeah that’s what’s up over here in my neck of TC HQ. Chew on this if you’re in the mood for some actual tech news; the sim... |
Seven States Oppose AT&T/T-Mobile Merger, AT&T Isn’t Worried | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | “This proposed merger would stifle competition in markets that are crucial to New York’s consumers and businesses, while reducing access to low-cost options and the newest broadband-based technologies.” So sayeth New York Attorney General , who is joined by the attorneys general of six other states in support of the ... |
George Costanza’s Infamous Wallet Is The Star Of New Google Wallet Commercial | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKGptWtzeaU&feature=player_embedded&w=630] While Google Wallet didn’t come out this summer Google has just unveiled first Google Wallet commercial, starring none other than Seinfeld’s George Costanza and his overstuffed wallet. For those of you who aren’t familiar, the George C... |
RIM’s BBM Service Suffers Partial Outage In Canada, Latin America | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | RIM, to put it mildly, has been having it rough these past few days. Among other things, they’ve failed to hit their quarterly revenue goal, sold far fewer PlayBooks than they had hoped, and potentially let their market share slip into . After all that, RIM didn’t need any more problems, but another one has popped up... |
Y Combinator-Backed SellStage Wants To Help You Better Showcase Your Products — With Video | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | If you’re advertising a product, would you rather simply have an image of that product, or have your consumers be able to watch a video of that product in action? Unless you’re sarcastic like myself, you probably answered with the latter, because the truth is that videos help products sell online. This is true even for... |
Wrap It Up: Photos From Our First TC Gadgets/Mobile Meet-Up | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | It’s been a long while since we had a formal Gadgets/Mobile meet-up and I’m proud to say that this one, sponsored by Samsung, was a roaring success. We had people who drank far too much, people who ate far too many Cheez-Its (there were, sadly, no hors d’oeuvres so we made do with grub), and people who won excellent ... |
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Track Your Dog With Retriever, The Compact GPS Dog Collar | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | One of the cooler gadgets we saw at Disrupt this year was the new Retriever GPS dog tracker. Completely redesigned, this device lets you track Fido wherever he does roam and will let people know where to take him or her if lost. The device lasts about a week on one charge and will go into sleep mode if it hasn’t been a... |
TenMarks Raises $3 Million For Personalized Math Learning SaaS | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | Education technology startup has raised $3 million in new funding led by Catamount Ventures with Birchmere Ventures participating. , at , is joining TenMarks’ board. TenMarks offers a cloud-based service that provides a personalized practice and learning software to help teach students of varying skill levels ma... |
The New Social Network: Who’s Nearby, Not Who You Know | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | There’s a new concept for social networking services taking root, and it’s not about re-creating your offline social graph on the Web, like Facebook does today. It’s about discovering the people who are nearby you now – the ones you probably would like to meet. This type of discovery mechanism is already being made pos... |
Keen On… How To Make Movies and Money (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | “Artists need to be business people too,” filmmaker told me when she came into San Francisco’s TechCrunchTV studio. Shlain, whose movie launched earlier this week, is a pioneering movie maker not only because of her award-winning films but also because this innovative businesswoman has figured out a way to make m... |
Who Spends The Most In Freemium Games? Battle Of The Sexes Edition | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 16 | Just last week, I wrote about a data dive by mobile research firm (who, thanks to their mobile analytics SDK, has a sample group of about 20 million users across 110,000 iOS/Android apps) on out the most cash in freemium mobile games. Almost immediately, the top rated comment was something along the lines of “That’s... |
More Disrupt Beijing Speakers: Kai-Fu Lee, David Li, Fritz Demopoulos and More | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | With all the recent TechCrunch drama– not to mention my own busy September — you might think our upcoming Disrupt Beijing conference had gotten pushed to the back-burner. You’d be wrong. We’ve been busy ferreting out and booking more of the hottest names in the Chinese startup scene to augment our keynotes by Tencen... |
This Is Facebook’s Project Spartan [Screenshots] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | Facebook mobile developers page is , first of all because it starts with a statistic, “350 million users access Facebook from a mobile device every month,” which was just and then because it describes Facebook mobile web app features and includes screenshots that are unlike anything we’ve seen live. From what I can... |
Real Journalism, VentureBeat Style | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | And that, by the way, is why anyone who cares about real journalism mistrusts TechCrunch—Dylan Tweney, VentureBeat TechCrunch has plenty of critics. But I don’t think I’ve ever read such a botched attempt at a takedown as a post published this evening on VentureBeat by Dylan Tweney titled, (which has now been taken ... |
Farmeron, the "Google Analytics for farms", gets investment from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups | Ivan Beres | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | Ever had cows instead of users? You’ve probably never thought about building software for farmers, but just raised a round of investment as well as support from , a seed fund and startup aggregator led by Dave McClure. Farmeron is buidling an analytics package inspired by the numerous tracking apps you might have ... |
New German initiative pools ad media to take stakes in startups | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | While startups in the US, especially in the Valley, tend to be able to find funding at different stages of their life-cycle, there remains significant funding gaps remains in Europe, a disparate market of multiple countries. While the seed stage is gradually being addressed by programmes like Seedcamp, SpringBoard, Sta... |
Google And Samsung Announce October 11 Event: Nexus Prime Imminent | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | It looks like the wait for the elusive Nexus Prime may soon be over. Samsung has just started sending out invites for a special Samsung/Google event that’s being held on October 11 at 11:30 AM in San Diego. The topic isn’t listed, but the invitation says we’ll see “what’s new from Android”. The Prime, which has been ru... |
Official Flickr App Arrives For Android | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | Being an Android user as well as a Flickr user has been dangerous territory for quite a long time now. There’s been no official app, and the third-party ones haven’t been too hot. Luckily for us, Yahoo has finally dropped a Flickr app that not only has their official blessing, but doesn’t suck at all. It’s quite full-f... |
Video: Jeff Bezos Demos The Kindle Fire | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | The highlight of today’s was when CEO Jeff Bezos finally announced the about midway through. We captured it on video, and you can see for yourself how Bezos introduced the device. He demos the unique interface, which highlights the media you’ve interacted with most recently. There is also Whispersync for movies, wh... |
BetterLesson Grabs $1.6 Million To Let Educators Find And Share The Best Lesson Plans | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | Primary and high school teachers already have a hard job. It’s difficult to envy the pour souls who had the unfortunate position of educating the type of disorderly rapscallions like myself at a young age. Not to mention, enduring low wages and a system largely devoid of the same technological aids that have come to as... |
Lucky eBay Buyer Demos Ice Cream Sandwich On Video | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | Why is it that random eBay shoppers always seem to have the best luck? In what has to be one of the most fortuitous purchases I’ve seen in a while, someone picked up a Nexus S off of the auction site that just happened to be running a build of Google’s latest Android update: Ice Cream Sandwich. Well, that’s the story, ... |
Motorola Finally Comes Through With Xoom LTE Upgrades | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | Xoom users, rejoice! Despite having to stick it out for a few extra months, the 3G version of Motorola’s ambitious 10-incher is finally starting tomorrow. Frustrated users may remember that the Xoom was originally slated to get its LTE upgrade some time in Q2 2011, but months have come and gone without a firm release... |
Can Twitter’s Self-Serve Ad Product Meet Rosy Expectations To Drive Revenues To $400M By 2013? | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | As Twitter CEO a few weeks ago, advertising is a key strategy for the company. “Our advertising method is the only one we need to be a big business,” he said at the time. And Twitter has rolled out a number of new products including Promoted Tweets. But according to a new Twitter’s ad revenue is expected to be lo... |
Well done Google – But TechCity needs to storm the Olympic Park next | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | There are two sides to the story of Google’s move to startup / developer hub slap bang in the middle of of Shoreditch, where so many London/UK/European startups seem to be congregating. Drawn by the cluster effect and the plethora of events in the area aimed at developers, Google’s move surely makes sense. But behind... |
NASA To Invite 150 Of Its Twitter Followers To Mars Rover Launch | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | While giveaways and “follow us and win!” contests aren’t always worth calling out, this promotion from is too great to pass up. They’re planning on inviting 150 of their followers to . Yes, the actual launch, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The tweetup will take place just prior to the launch window, which beg... |
Self-Service Ad Platform isocket Grabs More Funding; Partners With Google; Steals Rubicon Exec | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | , a startup that makes it easy to buy and sell online advertising, is making a few big announcements today, including the closing of a multi-million dollar series A round of funding from their existing seed investors (the startup raised $1.8 million back in 2009), which includes some big name angels/VCs like Tim Draper... |
Which Wireless Carrier Stores Your Private Data The Longest? | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | Your cell phone knows all of stuff about you. It knows , which websites you’ve visited, who you call most, and, depending on how many times you’ve found yourselves drunk with your cell phone handy, what you look like without pants on. But still, you can be comforted in knowing that all of that information can be des... |
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New Humble Bundle Tries Different Pricing Tack | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | If you’ve watched the gaming world at all over the last year or so, you’re probably aware of the , a charity-orientated promotion where you pay what you want for a few standout indie titles. The few so far have had a great reception, raising millions for charity (EFF and Child’s Play). A new one has just launched with... |
Microsoft Wants To Pick Your Brain For Windows Phone Tweaks | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | Mango has already begun to trickle out into the wild, and Microsoft is still trying to figure out exactly what their Windows Phone users want. Case in point: they’ve just unveiled their , where users can submit and vote for ideas that they would like to see implemented in Windows Phone 7. All snark aside, it’s a much ... |
Mobile devs need to get to OverTheAir this week | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | I remember when was all just fields… Just kidding. This year Europe’s largest mobile developer event lands in the UK’s Bletchley Park, the home of the World War II code breakers. Appropriate. From 9am September 30th to 5pm October 1st, up to 400 developers & designers from around the world will meet for 36 hours of ... |
TCTV: Hands On With The Kindle Fire | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 28 | The Kindle Fire is the device we were all waiting for and when it arrived it did not disappoint. The Fire is a 7-inch media device that plays well with all of Amazon’s media services including the book store, the video store, and the music store. It includes a web browser and supports Amazon’s own Amazon App Store, a... |
OMG/JK: Sh*thead Lists, Touching On Windows 8, And A Goodbye To Mike | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 17 | Despite our , Jason and I had the chance to sit down to do an episode of OMG/JK yesterday. We focused on a few key topics: Facebook’s new subscribe social option, their smart lists, the first Windows 8 developer preview, and TechCrunch Disrupt. Obviously, it’s impossible to talk about Disrupt without mentioning Mike... |
Six Must-Watch Backstage Videos From Disrupt Plus The Music (TCTV) | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 9 | 17 | [tc_speakertext_off]It’s been a very busy week at TechCrunch with our Disrupt conference and other internal disruptions, so you may have missed some great and revealing interviews. Devin Coldewey wrote a post with the . But there was a lot of activity going on backstage too. We did more than 60 interviews with entr... |
Disruptive Tendencies | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 9 | 17 | Early on Day One of , Silicon Valley legends and came out on stage with a grim message of doom: “Innovation in the world today is somewhere between … outside of computers and the Internet, we’ve had forty years of stagnation.” Meanwhile, Startup Alley boasted a large number of trivial, me-too apps, all too often... |
Weekend Giveaway: Toshiba Thrive Tablet | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 17 | At TechCrunch, we don’t just want you to survive, we want you to thrive. That’s why we’re offering one Toshiba Thrive tablet to one lucky commenter. What is a Thrive? It’s a with plenty of gusto and it’s waiting to wing its way to your home, office, cloister, or dance hall. Here’s how to win. Comment below. Since thi... |
Daily Crunch: Bite Size | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 9 | 17 | Here are some of yesterday’s posts on TechCrunch Gadgets:
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The Mobile Picture Wars, The Moskovitz Manifesto, And Other Big Themes From TC Disrupt SF | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 9 | 17 | TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 is over. After three days of launches, pivots, interviews, and demos, I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on sleep and digest what just happened. In no particular order, here are my thematic takeaways from this year’s conference: I was naive to think the mobile picture-sharing wars started an... |
Spotify And Ford Team Together To Showcase The Music Service’s First In-Car Integration | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | Today at the TechCrunch Hackathon, Ford, the second largest automaker in the U.S., teamed with Spotify, the fast-growing Swedish music service that recently arrived in the states, to demonstrate the current opportunities for in-car app innovation as well as the new voice-activated system. Just to clarify: This isn’t ... |
TCTV: Roaming The Hackathon Hall | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | We ran through the Hackathon this afternoon, asking folks what they were working on. The results, obviously, were quite varied and very impressive. Our favorites? The dudes working on an air guitar for the iPhone and some other cats working on image-based logins and data sharing. It’s a bit on the long side but ever... |
Meet Ten Disrupt Hackathon Hackers | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | Here are ten hackers we met at today’s Disrupt Hackathon. These folks have steeled themselves with snack food and coffee and are hacking away as we speak. Rob Banagale is the founder of a new product launching at the Hackathon, so we’re going to let him debut the name. In the words of Rob, “it’s a new identity service ... |
The Disrupt Hackathon In San Francisco Has Officially Begun | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | Every hacker is different, and that’s exactly what we expect to see when this is all through. Something new, something different — all with the potential to disrupt. So far about half of registrants have made it into the venue, with the rest still signing in. Laptops are already fired up, hackers are putting their head... |
The Disrupt Hackathon Is Powering Up! | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | It’s nearly noon and the Disrupt Hackaton Hackers are converging on the Design Center Concourse like zombies hunting only one thing: caffeine. We’ll bring you posts from the floor as the festivities start but we thought it would be nice to see the building in its pristine state before countless cups of coffee, pizza ri... |
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Two Key Features Of Facebook Music: Scrobbling And Track Unification | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | Yesterday, we outlined a bit of what . One big launch will be their official foray into music. Today, we’ve heard more about that launch. One thing we’ve heard from a very good source is that a key aspect of the service will be “scrobbling”. The term, made popular by Last.fm, means that when you listen to a song, it g... |
294 Patent Lawsuits Were Filed In August 2011; Mobile Handset Complaints Up 25 Percent Yearly | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | There’s no question that the Google is paying $12.5 billion for Motorola . In July, an anti-Google consortium raised for Nortel’s patents (and they ). Interdigital, Kodak, and others are looking to sell their patent portfolios. As my colleague Erick Schonfeld wrote recently, we are in the midst of a . One startu... |
Samsung Quietly Continues To Conquer The World | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | Is there anything Samsung doesn’t do? The same week I bought myself a shiny new , they launched a for use in the developing world. Unlike any American or European company, Samsung Electronics manufactures smartphones their memory chips, TVs their screens, computers their hard drives. They’re the only entity th... |
Gillmor Gang 9.10.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — rallied from big media’s confusion over how to grapple with reality. For @dannysullivan, the notion that Apple dominates the social moment (@stevegillmor says this) flies in the face of reality, or at least last years’s m... |
The Fragmented Mobile Information Race | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | Mobile devices are shifting many individual computing behaviors, perhaps none more significant than how we search for and receive information. Right now, it’s moving at warp speed. In between the time I finish this draft and its posted, it’s entirely possible another company or service launches in this space. Every tim... |
Applications For Paul Graham’s Office Hours Close Today. Get Your Applications In Now. | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | One of the most popular Disrupt sessions is . (See video below). We are bringing it back to Disrupt SF on Monday, September 12th. If you are attending Disrupt and would like to be considered, be sure you fill out the form below and fill it out soon. We will consult with Graham to select the best candidates, based ... |
Hi5 Confirms “Significant” Layoffs, Wraps Them In Mumbo Jumbo Speak | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | Earlier today, we heard social network was laying off a large number of their remaining employees. When we pinged them about this, we expected the usual “no comment” or simply no response. Instead, here’s what we got from President/CTO Alex St. John: In support of our market strategy to launch next generation social ... |
Daily Crunch: Beans & Chips | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 9 | 10 | Here are some of yesterday’s Gadgets posts:
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The Guy Behind The Qwikster Twitter Account Realizes What He Has, Wants A Mountain Of Cash | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | Last night, Jason went to bed a normal man, with a normal Twitter account (albeit one with a weed-smoking Elmo as the avatar), and a few dozen followers. This morning, Jason woke up to an inbox full of messages, thousands of new followers, and wants to sell his account for many thousands of dollars. As we , Netflix ma... |
Inspired By ‘Minority Report,’ Immersive Labs Raises $810K For Digital Display Recognition | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | alumnus is announcing its $810K in seed funding today, led by investors , Robert Semmens, Windquest Group, Teddy Schiff and followed on by , Andy Keller, Simon Gelfand, Jay Weintraub, Peter Krupp and Mac Harman. Along with the new funding, the company is also announcing Justin Holmes joining the team as CTO and Ji... |
Nikon Hypes Up Mystery Wednesday Launch | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | A new website has just gone live, the rather curiously-named . I guess didn’t want to sell. It consists of a lot of yellow, a countdown at around 43 hours as of this writing, and the ominous message “I AM COMING.” What is coming? Well, we’re guessing it’s Nikon’s . We saw some leaked specs a while back, and have b... |
Disrupt Beijing: Niklas Zennstrom, Kevin Systrom, Hosain Rahman and More Are China-Bound | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | We’re not done announcing our all-star lineup for Disrupt Beijing. In addition to top Chinese Internet names like Tencent co-founder and CEO , proven successes like YouTube’s and top up-and-coming Western names like Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka and Evernote’s Phil Libin, we’ve got even more startup experts lined up. I’... |
Smartphone-Powered EEG Makes For Creepy Meetings | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | The Technical University of Denmark has put together a portable EEG system consisting of a low-cost scalp monitor and a smartphone app. It’s not the biggest technical breakthrough, but I find it comforting to see these pocket computers, more powerful than our PCs were a few years ago, being used for something other tha... |
Facebook’s Spartans Ready For Battle, But War Won’t Come At f8 | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | Facebook’s f8 is quickly approaching — by all accounts, it’s . Ten days ago, I laid out some of what . Now it’s time for one important update — for something not coming: . Facebook’s HTML5 app project (which will not be called Spartan at launch) is ready to go. But the latest word is that Facebook is worried that th... |
Source: Facebook To Launch Read, Listened, Watched, And Want Buttons | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | The cat is out of the bag that Facebook is going to launch at its developer conference f8 this week. We’ve heard about the that could be debuting in a few days, but as the this past weekend, Facebook is planning for ways to surface personal content better. And we’ve heard from a source that Facebook will introduc... |
In-Game Ads Become The Target Of Scene Hackers | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | The “Scene,” a loosely-knit network of hackers extant in some form or another since the days of diskette-based media, is in many ways the precursor to Anonymous. Unlike that slightly schizophrenic collective, the Scene’s marching orders have always been clear: distribute movies, TV, music, and games within itself — and... |
Obama Hits Up Silicon Valley One More Time With $35K+ Sheryl Sandberg Dinner | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | Silicon Valley, President Obama just can’t quit you. In the Bay Area and free this weekend? Got 35K to toss around? Well if you’ve ever wanted to meet an in-office President now’s your chance to attend an Obama , going down at Facebook COO house in Atherton on Sunday the 25th. This Obama “Victory Fund 2012” dinner a... |
Google Wallet Goes Live On Sprint, Visa/Discover/AmEx Support On The Way | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | As we , Google has just announced the official launch of Google Wallet. Google Wallet, if you recall, allows you to pay for products in the real world by tapping your NFC-enabled Android phone against a compatible card reader. Now, there’s a bit of a catch: even if you’ve got an NFC-enabled Android phone, you might no... |
TechCrunch Review: Google Wallet | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | I have seen the future, and it is called Google Wallet. Note, however, that this future is just that: the future. As in, something not . I’ve lived with Google Wallet in my life for the past week or so, and have walked away thoroughly impressed — but while Google Wallet , don’t expect it to kick your actual wallet ... |
Vuzix Wrap 1200VR Glasses Can Track Your Head Movements While You Game | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | Looking for a nice pair of new glasses? What about glasses that make you feel like you’re watching 3D content on a 75-inch display? Well, that’s quite a specific request you’ve made but Vuzix has what you’re looking for. The company today announced its new pair of virtual reality glasses called the Wrap 1200VR. These ... |
The TechCrunch Gadgets Webcast Episode 2: Gaming, Movies, And Trackpads | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | Is the second time the charm? Probably not, but Devin, Matt, and I all discuss the gadgets lying around our offices including Logitech’s new remote trackpad. We also discuss , , and the value of disk-based video services. A little bit of housekeeping: We’re still shaking out some of the bugs in this system but, in g... |
Keen On… Sir Martin Sorrell: We Have to Get Consumers to Pay for Their Content (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | It’s Stream time again. Last year, when I interviewed the co-founder and CEO of at the company’s annual Stream unconference in Athens, Sir Martin argued that And this year, Sorrell, who presides over the world’s largest advertising company, a global leviathan with 153,000 people working in 2,400 offices in 107 c... |
Orbotix Wants Sphero Beta Testers Before The Holidays Hit | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | Everyone’s favorite smartphone-controlled robotic ball got a minor facelift , but it may need just a bit more polish before it officially gets pushed out the door. That’s why Orbotix has quietly put out to play with the Sphero ahead of its launch later this year. Of course, not just anyone will get their hands on a ... |
Expect This Year’s f8 To Be Huge — The Biggest Since Facebook Platform Launched | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | Last week at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference, I had the opportunity Facebook’s VP of Engineering . It was a great talk: I asked him about his favorite features on Google+ (he said something about loving competition), and there was even a brief mutual death glare. A few minutes after the interview, I chatted backst... |
Japan Game Awards 2011 At The Tokyo Game Show: Here Are The 10 Winners | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 9 | 19 | The closed yesterday with not too many spectacular announcements, but several interesting games were on display. Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association ( ) asked the 222.668 attendees of the show this year what their favorite titles were. And here’s the complete [JP, PDF] (no ranking) of Japan’s most... |
Google Taps Kleiner-Backed Inrix To Provide Real Time Traffic Data For Maps And Navigation Apps | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | Realtime car traffic data company has been selected by Google to provide traffic data to help power the search giant’s navigation and mapping applications. Inrix, which just from Kleiner Perkins and August Capital, aggregates and crowdsources real-time traffic information from more than 30 million sources includin... |
With Moneyball In Theaters And October Closing In, Baseball Geeks Get A Mobile App | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | For baseball fans, that magical month is almost afoot. October: The time in which we look on, annoyed, as our favorite team heads to Florida to play golf, or stumbles, gets injured, and whimpers quietly out of the playoffs. It’s a testy time for most, but still one most of us would never miss. Another thing baseball fa... |
Political Sons Launch Ruck.us, A Social Engagement Platform Based On Issues, Not Parties | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | In honor of — and the impending campaign — we bring you a political startup. Before you gag, give it a chance; I think this is a political startup that might just get your vote. Launching today is : A social and political engagement platform that allows like-minded individuals to find each other, connect, and to tak... |
Quora Gets Threaded Comments, Comment Voting, Editing And Images | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | Q&A site has just unveiled of its commenting system, the most notable change being the implementation of a threaded commenting feature for the discussions under a question and its subsequent answers. The new threaded comments allow users to reply to specific comments in an answer thread, intuitively by entering tex... |
A List Of Things Paul Carr’s New Startup Isn’t | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | “The companies who enjoy the most success in revolutionizing the book industry (as opposed to simply creating a totally new medium) will be those that disrupt the publishing process, the writing process, the distribution process — but leave the actual reading process the hell alone.” — Apparently my former colleague a... |
Walk Score Takes Wraps Off Slick New Apartment-Locating Tool | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | You might be familiar with , a site that crunches mapping data into a simple “walkability” score for a neighborhood or region. You know, whether food and entertainment are nearby, whether transit is available, and so on. It’s being used by more than 10,000 sites that list apartments and real estate now, providing an a... |
Piston Cloud Launches pentOS, An Enterprise OpenStack Distribution | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | is today emerging from stealth and introducing its new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds called . The new OS is built on , the open source IaaS cloud computing project that now has over 1,450 contributors and 110 participating companies, including NASA, Rackspace, Citrix, Intel, Cisco, Arist... |
Amazon’s Small Gamble | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | The news that Amazon’s tablet was real was , but not quite a shock to the industry. Bezos months ago, and had it coming in late summer, which was optimistic but not far off; the Fire will be . One question I always had, though, was how Amazon would justify putting out this device when they’ve spent so long slaggi... |
YC NYC: Paul Graham Shares The Antidote To Startup Poison | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | In took them a few years, but has finally stormed Manhattan. Albeit — much to the chagrin for some of the people reading this — for one night only. No, despite some of the rumors that had circulated around tonight’s event, Y Combinator is not opening a branch in NYC. But the YC crew in attendance, which included ne... |
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