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Stamped: Forget 1 To 5 Stars, If You Like Something, Just Stamp It | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | I’ve always hated the notion of ratings based on five stars. It makes no sense. Sure, something that sucks is “1 star” and something awesome is “5 stars”, but what determines a “2 star” rating? What about a “4 stars”? It’s totally arbitrary. Why not just say something is “bad”, “okay”, “good”, or “great”? Or better yet... |
DC To VC: An Inside Look At The Winners Of Morgenthaler’s Health Tech Startup Showcase | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | Last week, , the 40-year-old Sand Hill Road VC firm wrapped up its , a nationwide contest geared towards finding the most promising young health tech startups. From nearly 200 applicants, the pool was whittled down to eleven finalists, which presented to an invite-only crowd of VCs, angel investors and entrepreneurs.... |
Controversy as Spotify requires new users to be on Facebook first | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | It seems premium streaming music service just inexorably linked its future to Facebook. Fresh from integrating so deeply with Facebook’s OpenGraph that users’ Ticker stream are teaming with their friends’ listening tastes, it is now requiring users to have a Facebook account first in order to sign-up for the servic... |
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Pre-Order Goes Live, Galaxy Players 4.0 And 5.0 To Follow | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | Though its had some legal and of late, Samsung is still pumping out products. Today, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 has been made available for pre-order, with shipments to begin October 2. And rather than waste paper, Samsung included availability information on its Galaxy Player 5.0 and 4.0 within the release, as well. We’v... |
Video: A Look At The Fastest Chronograph Watch Ever Made | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | The video below shows TAG Heuer’s Mikrotimer Flying 1000 Concept watch in action. This mechanical watch times things to 1/1000th of a second – 300 times faster than a human blink. As the watch spins maniacally, it’s actually meting out 1/1000ths of a second at 500 Hz. That means the small balance wheel inside pops back... |
Chinese Social Network Renren Buys Video Sharing Site 56.com For $80 Million | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | Chinese social network has purchased China-based video and photo sharing site The deal size is around $80 million, according to a Founded in 2005, 56.com is a Chinese video sharing site where users can upload, view and share videos, similar to YouTube. The majority of the videos on the site are user-generated, cons... |
Free Startup Tools: How Does Your Term Sheet Compare To The Standards? | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | At some point in the game, every entrepreneur and startup founder becomes familiar with the term sheet. But “familiarity” can be a tricky qualifier. Even by one’s third startup, entrepreneurs are not always fully aware of the ins and outs of every term on a term sheet, or how to properly value their company. . What’s... |
Facebook To Form Its Own Political Action Committee | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | Facebook has , a political action committee intended to “give [Facebook’s] employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process,” presumably over and above voting and contributing independently to campaigns and other PACs. The company has spent about a million dollars lobbying over the last three years, ... |
Traces Of Facebook’s Music App Were Spotted… 20 Months Ago | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | Last week at its f8 developer conference, after months ( ) of rumors and speculation, Facebook finally got its Well, it got a bunch of them: Spotify, Rdio, MOG, and others are now deeply integrated with the social network, and, for better or for , your friends’ song choices are streaming through your Facebook Ticker... |
Google+ Now Lets You “Share” Your Circles With Other Users | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | In case you’re still using Google+ (I kid, I kid, the other social network is , apparently), the Google+ team has made it easy to with friends today, by enabling an option to send other users a list of Circle members on your Google+ Circles page. Users who want to “share” the contents of their meticulously curated C... |
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HTC Vigor Photo Leak Reveals 1.5 GHz Dual-Core Processor, 720p Display, And 4G LTE Support | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 26 | Since we first caught wind of the HTC Vigor, things have been blurry. And I don’t just mean leaked photos — we’ve been back and forth on a few different features like , or whether or not it’ll be a . But for a handset with such an air of mystery, our latest leak has really spilled the beans. Courtesy of , we now ha... |
Color Targets New Facebook-Powered App Exclusively To Harvard Students | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | With Sequoia’s Doug Leone at TechCrunch Disrupt, and in-the- already beginning to appear, it seems like many are rapt in anticipation of what the future holds for the storied photo-sharing app. Well, according to one Harvard student tipster, the company has been gearing up for a product launch at f8 by exclusively ta... |
Guest post: Identify and leverage your start-up sustainability | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | The majority of today’s start-ups are focused on making an action, a process, purchase or communications easier, cheaper and more efficient. This efficiency can offer great reduction in environmental impact – for your industry and to your consumer. Being aware of your environmental impact – and the value you provide fo... |
Facebook Employee Reveals Killer Facebook Music Feature In Deleted Tweet | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | Facebook Music is launching tomorrow. This, everyone knows. But not everyone knows exactly how it will work, since Facebook been tweaking things right up until launch. But tonight one Facebook employee accidentally revealed one killer feature of the service. Ji Lee, the creative director that Facebook in April, sent ... |
YouTube Now Converting 2D Videos To 3D, Removes 15 Minute Limit For Verified Users | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | I hate 3D videos. Chances are, you hate 3D videos too. And yet, the electronics makers of the world insist on shoving 3D display technology into everything from TVs to smartphones, regardless of the fact that there’s still next to no worthwhile 3D content out there. Besides Avatar — but seriously, I could barely make i... |
RelayRides Names Former Shopping.com Head Andre Haddad As CEO | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | , a marketplace that lets car-owners rent out their cars a few hours at a time, has named former Shopping.com chief as its CEO. The well-funded startup has raised $10 million to date, with investors including Google Ventures, August Capital, and Shasta Ventures. RelayRides allows users to rent out their cars for sele... |
OnStar Amends Its Terms Of Service To Allow For Tracking Without Consent | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | Vehicle assistance service OnStar has always struck me as slightly creepy, but I can appreciate its utility unfamiliar locations and emergency situations. And the notion of a company tracking your location constantly is apparently as reassuring to some as it is disturbing to me. But I doubt even those optimistic souls ... |
Nvidia Reveals Kal-El’s Secret Fifth Core For Ultra-Low-Power Tasks | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | There has been a lot of whispering about Nvidia’s next-generation Tegra chip, code-named Kal-El (Superman’s Kryptonian name, for the uninitiated), since it was on a roadmap back in Februrary. But it hasn’t shown up quite yet in any actual handsets or tablets, though and will have its debut soon. Nvidia today release... |
The End Of TechCrunch: The Song | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdWfnWDDpng&w=640&h=365] At the risk of not only beating a dead horse, but cremating it with , this video is too good not to post. , is back with a song about what else: . As we begin this new era, it’s a fitting tribute to the old one. TechCrunch is dead, long live TechCrun... |
YouTube Integrates Magisto’s “Magical Video Editing” Tool | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | Yeesh — talk about a grand debut. After just going into , cloud-based video editing service Magisto will later today announce a rather huge new partner: Youtube. Magisto’s claim to fame is its ease of use; it is, to some extent, editor-less editing. You pick up to 16 videos, select some music, give the end project a... |
BankSimple Shows Its Web-Based Banking Tool On Video | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | Since we first heard of when Twitter’s Alex Payne left to join the venture, there has been a but not much in the way of real product. They’ve remedied that today with a walkthrough video of their web-based banking client. And I have to say, their promised of banking that “doesn’t suck” is looking intact. This is ... |
Google Says Mobile Optimized Sites Will Factor Into Landing Page Quality And Perform Better In AdWords | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | Google is announcing today that websites that are optimized for mobile will now factor into ad quality. The company says that last year it began to limit ad serving on smartphone devices if they pointed to landing pages with Flash-heavy content, in order to improve the experience for users. Now the search giant will be... |
Shasta Ventures Closes New $265 Million III Fund | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | Menlo Park-based VC firm is announcing the closing of its Shasta Ventures III fund today, topping off at $265 million. With the participation of mostly already existing investors, the fund will be the VC firm’s largest raised to date, following the $250 million Shasta Ventures II fund closed in 2007 and the $210 mill... |
RIM’s Stock Price Tumbles To A New Five Year Low | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | RIM’s stock took a bit of a tumble after the release of their underwhelming Q2 earnings report last week, and it looks as though it won’t stop dropping anytime soon. Before the market closed for the day, RIM share prices continued to inch downward until it reached (at time of writing) $21.52: RIM’s lowest in . Before ... |
Stoppelman: 75% Of Yelp’s Traffic Comes From Google | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | This afternoon the Senate Judiciary Committee held a series of hearings investigating whether Google may be violating Antitrust law. During the first panel of the day, Google Chairman (and former longtime CEO) Eric Schmidt took the hot seat to answer questions focusing largely on the fairness of Google search results, ... |
Video: Developer Uses Lego Robot To Test Out iPad 2 Camera App | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | So what happens when you’ve just built this awesome camera app but your client wants you to manually test it out like… 10,000 times? You have two options: you can spend the rest of your earthly days pressing shutter, save, and repeating the process you can just build yourself a robot finger out of Legos. Simple enoug... |
Salesforce Buys Customer Service SaaS Assistly For $50M To Reach Small Businesses | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | Salesforce has social customer service SaaS startup . The purchase price is $50 million, and the deal is all-cash. Assistly helps companies collect and organize all of their customer conversations into a prioritized actionable list and equips support staff with the tools to respond to customers. The application allo... |
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Schmidt: “Senator, I Can Assure You We Have Not Cooked Anything” | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding Antitrust hearings on Google today and Google chairman Eric Schmidt is in the hot seat taking questions under oath. The hearing is under way right now (you can ). The main question the Senate hearing is trying to answer, says committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermo... |
CrowdStar And Others Bet On HTML5 Mobile Gaming Platform Spaceport | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | Multi-device social gaming platform is announcing that a number of Facebook game developers have selected their platform to go mobile. BitRhymes, IKIGames, LuckyLabs, Fortune Planet, DeezGames and CrowdStar are now using Spaceport to build their games for user across iOS, Android and other platforms. Sibblingz to s... |
Stealthy Startup Dashlane Raises $5 Million In Series A | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | Stealthy consumer Internet startup is announcing today that it has closed $5 million in Series A funding led by New York City-based firms and . Also participating in the round is Dashlane co-founder Bernard Liautaud. Dashlane won’t say much about its product offering just yet, only that it’s designed to eliminate ... |
Apple Donates Refurbed Original iPads To Teach For America Teachers | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 21 | It’s always nice to see mega-brand corporations give a little something back. For the most valuable company in the world, Apple, it’s only fitting that what they give back would be one of the more valued devices on the market: the first generation iPad. Last spring after the iPad 2 was announced, first-gen iPad owners... |
FastCustomer Raises $750K So You Don’t Have To Wait On Hold | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | Call hold deferral app is announcing that it has raised $750K worth of seed funding from , , , , , , and Henry Parry-Okeden. Attempting to finally alleviate long hold times for people who have better things to do than wait on hold (um, all of us), FastCustomer lets you register your phone number via an app and... |
After Nine Months Of Revisions, The Verizon Droid Bionic Is Finally Available | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | January 5th. That’s when Motorola and Verizon first announced the DROID Bionic. 9 months grueling months later, it’s here. It’s seen after , and revisions to both its internal specs and its outward appearance have made the Droid Bionic we see launching today about as different from what was originally announced as a... |
Facebook Imitation Not Sincerest Form Of Flattery, Says Twitter Mobile Designer | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | Because this reminds me of that time when Facebook unveiled that the Facebook Places logo was, no joke, a , I’m just going to copy the intro sentence to that post: On the right is the status and photo update interface for Facebook’s iOS app, yesterday. On the left is the iOS interface for the current leader in the s... |
Daily fantasy sports FanDuel closes $4 million Series B investment | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | With a new NFL season starting tomorrow, it’s good timing for daily fantasy sports operator to close a $4 million Series B investment round led by venture capital firm Piton Capital. Existing investors Pentech Ventures and the Scottish Investment Bank. The company will use the majority of the funds on product develop... |
HP Releases The Updated DM1 Ultraportable Laptop | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | HP’s PC business may be , but that doesn’t mean we won’t see any more HP notebooks. The company today announced the updated DM1 ultraportable laptop with a new, fresher look. Starting at $399, the DM1 comes with either an Intel second-gen Core processor or an AMD E-series processor. AMD models will also include AMD Ra... |
Labor Board: Fired-For-Facebooking Employees Must Be Rehired | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | It’s no secret that an employer can, and probably should, do a little check-up on your internet presence before hiring you, and possibly afterwards. But as several unhappy people have found out, sometimes they look pretty hard, and have access to information you thought private. It can result in foot-in-mouth moments a... |
The Bombshell That Wasn’t: FOSS Patents’ Android Scoop Misses The Mark | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | As the legal challenges against Android have mounted, a few voices have risen more quickly than the rest. One of these is patent analyst Florian Mueller’s, whose site has chronicled cases like (over the Galaxy Tab’s likeness to the iPad) and (which goes after Android itself for patent and copyright infringement).... |
Turntable.fm Is About To Rock An iPhone App; We Have Screenshots | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | For the past few months, few things on the web than . The got so hot, , that a “ ” was inevitable — and we’ve probably been seeing that the past couple of weeks. But something is coming very shortly that should supercharge the service once again: an iPhone app. Yes, it was both and that Turntable.fm would go ... |
Disrupt SF 2011: The Full Agenda | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | In addition to going on at TechCrunch this week, we are also gearing up for , which starts this weekend with the followed by the main three-day event Sept 12-14. And it’s going to be a doozy. Right now we expect more than 2,000 attendees (there are still a few left). We’ll be launching 30 new startups onstage... |
Review: Deus Ex – Human Revolution | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | : Absolutely worth a play, but there are a number of flaws that cause to fall short of greatness. The bosses, the “domestic” environments, and certain about the level design. It’s far from perfect, but the core gameplay, second by second, is fun and exciting. The world of is a softly-glowing, amber world with lot... |
Iridium’s New AxcessPoint Hotspot Provides WiFi In The Rainforest | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | Perhaps best known for their line of rugged, work-anywhere satellite phones, has revealed today that they’re looking to try something new. Alongside news of a new handset dubbed the Iridium Extreme, Iridium has also unveiled their new AxcessPoint hotspot, which allows users to get online and get their email fix just... |
Is Nike Planning To Release Back To The Future’s Auto-Lacing Air Mags? UPDATE | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | Marty McFly’s crazy kicks in have long been a geek’s dream. Ostensibly made by Nike in the film, they would tighten themselves around your feet automatically and, more important, they’ve been the paragon of ultimate geekiness for a certain subset of shoe fanatics. Well, now it looks like you, too, can go back… to th... |
If you're feeling S.A.D. try a Valkee – Special offer for TC readers | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | Back in January we noticed a clever little device which to ease seasonal depression – sometimes known as Seasonal Affected Disorder or SAD. The Finnish is Sci-Fi style device which literally shines light into your ear canals. Your wear it like a set of headphones on a music player. Since then however, they’ve now b... |
Adfonic snubs VCs to raise £4.7m from Super Angels | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | , the European-based global mobile advertising marketplace, has raised £4.7 million to expand globally. The startup says revenue has grown ten-fold in the last 12 months. The plan is to increase headcount from 40 today to over 100 in 12 months time and open offices across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific by year ... |
Palringo Dives Into Location-Based Chat And Brings Their 11 Million Users Along For The Ride | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | Location-based group chat. It’s just one of those ideas that everyone seems to be convinced is a good one, but that no one has really pulled off well just yet. Tossing their chips into the local chat game today is Palringo, which began its life back in 2007 as the iPhone’s first multi-network IM client. Their kicker? T... |
Evri Launches SportStream Apps To Bring Realtime, Social Sports News To Your Mobile Devices | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | , the realtime content discovery engine, , incorporating the startup’s semantic indexing technology into its products. The move laid the groundwork for Evri’s shift into the mobile space, as it has since used its realtime semantic matching algorithms to begin delivering news in targeted categories and the Twine team t... |
Google Docs Stumbles, Goes Down | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | Yep, Google Docs is down, and has been for at least the last thirty minutes. I’ve been trying to access the site in Chrome and am met with a white screen and an endless ‘waiting’ message in the status bar (a refresh just got me a 404 page, which I suppose is an improvement). Google’s site indicates that a “Service di... |
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Lock Down Your .XXX Domain Before The Land Rush Begins | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | The .xxx top-level domain is about to open up to all comers, but before the main event, a little prep work is required. ICM Registry, the company administrating the launch, can’t just let every joker with a GoDaddy account register domains willy-nilly. Not yet, anyway. So today marks the beginning of the “sunrise” pe... |
Daily Fantasy Sports Site FanDuel Closes $4 Million Series B Investment | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 7 | With a new NFL season starting tomorrow, it’s good timing for daily fantasy sports operator to close a $4 million Series B investment round led by venture capital firm Piton Capital. Existing investors Pentech Ventures and the Scottish Investment Bank. The company will use the majority of the funds on product develop... |
After Ice Cream Sandwich Comes… Jelly Bean | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | In case you’ve lain awake nights wondering what tasty treat will follow Ice Cream Sandwich in Google’s sweet parade of Android versions, allow me to set your mind at ease. According to a “trusted source” speaking to This is my next, . More importantly, this source says that some of the “game-changing stuff” that was g... |
Rumored Specs For Nikon’s Mirrorless Cameras | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | All the cool kids are going mirrorless these days. Micro 4/3 cameras like the and luxury compacts like the are starting to capture market share as the format matures and people see the benefits. But Canon and Nikon, the great warring giants of photography, have yet to announce any plans. After all, their mirror-ric... |
Car Rental Marketplace Getaround Gets Around $3.4 Million | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | Car rental community is announcing a $3.4 million seed round today, with participation from Netflix founder , Powerset founder , WordPress’ , , , ‘s Crunchfund and others. Co-founder tells me that investor momentum for Getaround, which is in the same peer to peer carsharing space as , picked up “like gangbus... |
Tempting f8 | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | We’re now less than from Facebook’s f8 conference. While it’s later than usual this year, Facebook uses the event to lay out their vision for the upcoming year and beyond. Typically, the event is big for developers, but this year may feature a few user-facing surprises as well. Here’s what we’ve heard so far. As has ... |
The End Of Books: Ikea Is Changing Shelves To Reflect Changing Demand | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | If you needed any more proof that the age of dead-tree books is over take a look at these alarming style changes at Ikea: the furniture manufacturer’s iconic BILLY bookcase – the bookcase that everyone put together when they got their first apartment and, inevitably, pounded the nails wrong into – is becoming deeper an... |
Rumor: Sprint Blacks Out Vacation Days In October To Prep For iPhone 5 | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | Oh, what’s this? Sprint is reportedly blacking out vacation days between September 30th and October 15th? For a “major phone launch”? Major phone launch. Early October (right when the iPhone 5 is likely to be launched.) Yeah, the rumor mill just caught on fire. Word of the blackout comes from , who received the memo a... |
Chrome Web Store Passes 30 Million Users, But How Bright Is The Future? | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | On September 1st, Google’s popular browser, Chrome, . In a relatively short span of time, Chrome has gobbled up 22 percent market share among browsers, compared to Firefox at 28 percent and IE at 42 percent. The browser continues to iterate, now working in rapid-fire six-week release cycles, and its ecosystem at large... |
British Rapper Buys First Pair Of Nike Air Mags For $37.5K | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | Just… wow. It was sort of a given that Nike’s limited edition, would be fetching , but reports British rap act Tinie Tempah spent more than he thought he would on the first pair up for grabs. The cost of his impulse decision: a cool $37,500. Mr. Tempah, a reputed Back To The Future nut and sneaker geek, received th... |
TokBox Rolls Out Video Recording API, Primes Its Monetization Pump | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | , a Sequoia-backed startup that offers tools for quickly integrating video functionality into apps and websites, is launching a new feature today for its OpenTok suite of video APIs: video recording and archiving. You may remember TokBox as the service that let users quickly jump into live video chats with each other, ... |
Gillmor Gang – Live recording | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — are recording live as we wait for editorial guidance from above. Or sideways.
: The show ended at 2pm PT. |
Nvidia: We’re No Longer In The Processor Business Because Intel “Preferred That We Weren’t” | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | If the meek capitulation in the headline sounds uncharacteristic of infamously outspoken CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, it’s probably because he’s bitter. Though the GPU-focused company way back in 2008 that it was going to “open a can of whoop-ass” on Intel, very little has happened, at least on the consumer side. Intel and... |
Lowe’s Invests In 42,000 iPhones To Improve Your Shopping Experience | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | Take it from a former retail drone: trying to give customers a good shopping experience can be tough when you have to jostle with other employees for open computers. In-store networks are slow, and more often than not, the computers are even slower. It’s enough of a process that a once free-flowing conversation can dry... |
AOL And Yahoo Merger? Two Dogs Don’t Make A Right | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | Reports are coming out that AOL is about merging the two companies in the wake of Yahoo CEO . We have an independent source who confirms discussions are happening, but it is not clear how serious they are. If a deal does go through, the likeliest scenario would be Yahoo acquiring AOL, with Tim Armstrong becoming the... |
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Follow Products And Reviewers In Your Facebook Feed With PowerReviews | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | When it comes to selling products on the Web, the more consumer reviews a product attracts, the more conversions and sales it sees as a result. This is why has built a social commerce network of more than 23 million reviews across 5,500 sites, including Staples.com, Gap.com, and ToysRUs.com. Today, PowerReviews is an... |
Google Explains Its Google Docs Outage | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | Google Docs this week, which raised concerns, , about the reliability involved with storing mission-critical documents in the cloud. Personally, I’d rather trust Google’s redundant server infrastructure than my own hard drive. However, for enterprise users, the problem with cloud outages is that local I.T. staff can... |
Adobe Gives Up On Apple, Works Around iOS’ Flash Video Limitations | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | Ardent iOS supporters have been clamoring for true Flash support for years, and with the announcement of their new version of , Adobe completely fails to deliver. Instead, they’ve managed to update their media server with a way to get streaming Flash video running on Apple’s myriad iOS devices. Alas, while you can’t s... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: 4 Free Tickets To Disrupt SF #TCDisrupt | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | is literally right around the corner. We are kicking things off this weekend with the incredibly popular , where we have more contests and prizes than ever before. Disrupt starts on Monday, September 12th, with , , and kicking things off. This is one event you do not want to miss. Be sure to check out the . Tic... |
In One Year, Tumblr Goes From 1 Billion Posts To 10 Billion | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 9 | This morning, I logged into (where I run ) and saw confetti flying everywhere on the screen. Was Tumblr hacked? Were they converting the platform to be Geocities-powered complete with animated GIFs? No, they were celebrating. They just hit 10 billion posts across the network. The numbers are staggering. It was only ... |
Buying Yahoo Is A No-Brainer For Alibaba | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Today at the China 2.0 conference at Stanford, Alibaba Groups’s about buying Yahoo with, “We are very interested in Yahoo. Our Alibaba group is important to Yahoo and Yahoo is important to us … All the serious buyers interested in Yahoo have talked to us.” Those “serious buyers” most likely include Alibaba Group in... |
Chris Sacca And Others Invest $1 Million In A Startup That Wants Everyone To Hold A World Record | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | URDB — Universal Records Database — is announcing a name change and $1 million in Series A funding, from investors , and . Initially conceived of at yes, Burning Man, URDB is now and a million dollars more flush. The premise behind RecordSetter is that “everyone on earth can be the world’s best at something.” Th... |
More Details On MIT’s “Artificial Leaf” (And Video) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Back in March, we heard about a breakthrough from MIT: that produces pure oxygen and hydrogen gas, powered entirely by sunlight. The technology was in yesterday’s edition of , and the team has released a video showing one of the devices in action. I say device, but it’s really more of a material. There are no movin... |
Mocavo Raises $1 Million To Build Its Ancestry-Centric Search Engine | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Looking to fill in the blanks on your family tree? A startup called might be just what you’re looking for. The service is setting out to become a search engine that’s highly optimized for ancestry-related purposes — type in the name of a relative, and it’ll do its best to surface content from the web’s troves of gene... |
TC Cribs: Sliding Through YouTube’s Double Rainbow (Gnomes!) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | We’re back with a new episode of , and it’s featuring one of the most tricked-out offices yet: YouTube. Yes, the world’s biggest archive of cute cat videos (among other things) invited us to take a stroll through their halls, which are brimming with nifty artifacts, viral video memorabilia, and gnomes. A lot of gnom... |
AT&T Wants Their Competitors’ Antitrust Suits Dismissed | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | By now, we all know that the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Sprint and C Spire Wireless (formerly known as the Cellular South) have filed suits to that same effect, but AT&T has asked the court The reason? AT&T believes that Sprint and C Spire are fighting for their... |
Hitwise: Singaporeans Spend The Most Time On Facebook Per Session | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Hitwise just examining how much time people living in different countries spend on Facebook. Singaporeans actually spend the longest on the social network, with an average of 38 minutes and 46 seconds per session, while people living in Brazil spend less than half that with an average of 18 minutes and 19 seconds per... |
Loopt In Process Of Receiving Broad Patent Covering Location-Based Ads | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Location-based service has been allowed its first patent, and it could be a big one. The patent, as described, seems relevant to numerous existing products, including Google’s Latitude. In layman’s terms, it describes using your location to display relevant ads and offers on top of a map, as an interstitial, or as a ... |
Facebookers Are Not In Hawaii | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Aloha! You know where I wish I were right now? That’s right, Maui! You know who else is in Maui? Note: I am really jealous of anyone who is a Googler in Maui right now, because it sure beats being someone who has to write about being a Googler in Maui right now. According to unpaid blogger , I’m not alone in my jeal... |
Microsoft “Accidentally” Tags Chrome As Malware | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Oh, Microsoft! You are so cunning. With IE market share plummeting and many users opting for “alternative” web browsers like Firefox and Chrome, your base of power is crumbling. We thought you would succumb to melancholy and accept your fate. But you had a plan all along. Clever girl. Yes, Microsoft has found a way to ... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: One DROID Bionic #TechCrunch | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Last week we ran a giveaway for one whole week, giving away a . A huge congratulations to Scott Leither for winning last week’s DROID Bionic! Since the giveaway was so popular, we wanted to give all of you another shot. Thanks again to Verizon, we are giving one more DROID Bionic away to one lucky reader. Just like be... |
PSA: The AT&T Galaxy S II Has A Pretty Terrible Security Flaw [Update: Confirmed By Samsung!] | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | The AT&T Galaxy S II is a lot of things. It’s fast. It’s thin. It’s pretty damn nice to look at. But secure? Yeah, not really. In what seems to be an almost inexcusable oversight, it appears that the pattern lock (the thing that keeps prying eyes from prying) on AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S II is… pretty much... |
Gillmor Gang Live 1pm PT (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | The Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Danny Sullivan and Steve Gillmor – are recording live at 1pm PST. Recording over at 2:25PM PST. |
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Video: AlphaDog Is A Bigger, Faster, Quieter BigDog | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | I’m sure all of you remember , the utterly terrifying biomimetic platform that dances over rough terrain on weird legs and makes a sound like it’s full of angry bees. You didn’t think they were going to give up on it, did you? No, it’s been a rousing success apparently, so much so that they decided to build one that ... |
Untappd Takes Their Social Beer Service To iOS, Android | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | The beer fanatics at are at it again. Their web app has been letting users share their brews of choice since 2010, but the company has just announced that they have released a pair of native apps for iOS and Android in time for the weekend. According to , they’re big fans of the mobile web, but “there does come a ti... |
Wi-Fi Hotspot App Connectify Gets New Funding From IQT – The Firm That Finds New Tech For CIA | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Remember ? The downloadable software in just a few minutes? It looks like the company now has a new investor: (IQT), which just so happens to be the strategic investment firm that seeks out new technologies for the U.S. Intelligence Community, including the CIA. The will help Connectify move beyond simple Wi-Fi ... |
Sequoia-Backed Stripe Wants To Disrupt The Online Payments Space | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | In March, we about , a new payments startup cofounded by brothers and . The stealthy company was tackling online business to business and business to consumer payments, and had already received $2 million in backing from a number of all-star investors including PayPal founders and , as well as , and This w... |
T-Mobile Poster Reveals Nokia Drive For Windows Phone, Confirms Sabre? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Oops. A new promotional poster made an appearance in a store at T-Mobile’s German headquarters, where it confirmed the existence of a Nokia Windows Phone with a 3.7-inch display and Nokia’s Drive navigation service. The poster was up only briefly, but a quick-thinking tipster snapped a few shots and fired them off to ... |
Best Buy To Cut The HTC Flyer Tablet To $299 On October 1st | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 9 | 30 | Watch out for falling tablet prices! No, seriously, don’t get burned by price cuts. The HTC Flyer is the latest tablet to see a major price reduction. Starting tomorrow, October 1st, Best Buy will lower the price of the 7-inch Android 2.3 tablet from $499 to $299. This follows the , , and most notable, the . The Fl... |
Facebook Begins Auto-Grouping Friends Into Smart Lists | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | You’ve got 500-something friends, all of about 50 you really interact with. You went to school with Lucy and Henry, you’ve worked with Mike for years, and Joe lives just down the block. Facebook knows all of this — it just doesn’t really go out of its way to that it knows all of this. Until now. Sometime recently, Fa... |
Twitter Closing Its $400M Secondary Offering Tomorrow | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | Twitter CEO confirmed its first $400 million tranche of this morning, the company has just closed “more money than I’ve ever seen before” and therefore was in no hurry to IPO. The entire series G, which involved Yuri Milner’s DST, institutional clients, T Rowe Price’s group of funds, and others, was split into ... |
Ex-Googlers Launch Mobile Travel Guide To Kill Lonely Planet; Raise Funding From Chris Sacca & More | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | In the days of yore, travel guides were written by intrepid travelers who spent months scribbling in diaries and field journals, or by teams of adventurous souls exhaustively scrap booking their travel experiences into the of the world. Over the last decade, however, the Web has produced an untold number of personal ... |
Vodafone Launches Their First Silicon Valley R&D/Investment Center | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | Vodafone. It’s a brand that most folks here in the states would, at first pass, almost certainly chalk up as “that one European company that puts their name on a bunch of soccer jerseys” — that is, if they recognized it at all. And yet, Vodafone is essentially the biggest wireless carrier in the world. They’re the t... |
Facebook Hires HTML5 App Store Builder | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | Over the past few months, my colleague MG Siegler has been the around , which is the social network’s secret plan to bring applications to the mobile web via HTML5. Today, we’ve learned that Facebook has made a key hire in the HTML5 space. We’ve confirmed that the social network has hired , who was the founder an... |
Video: Vortex-Powered Wall-Climbing Robot Parachutes To Safety | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | The huge variety of is a thing to marvel at. Just a few years ago, the best they could do was roll around or walk stiffly on poorly-hinged limbs. Now we have robots that , , and . This mode of transportation is totally new to me, though. The climbs up walls by generating a suction, then gets itself safely down by... |
Unlimited Music Service MOG Launches A Desktop App For The Mac | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | , the all-you-can-eat streaming music service that competes with the likes of Spotify and Rdio, has some good news for Mac users: it’s just launched a native application for OS X, which is now available on the Mac App Store. You can download it (the service is free for 14 days, then costs $10/month, which includes ac... |
Notifo Slips Into The Deadpool | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | Notifo, a YC-backed company we as a “simple mobile notifications platform for anything”, is shuttering the windows and heading for the deadpool. The idea was simple enough: Notifo would pipe real-time notifications from just about anywhere — be it Twitter, or Hacker News, or Github, or Facebook, or any Growl-compatib... |
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