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British Social Discovery Site Snog.com Looks To Build A Better Hot Or Not; Goes Viral (And Mobile) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | The Web has been home to a fair number of questionable memes and websites over the years, really too many to mention here. One among them that you’re likely familiar with is , the site that allows visitors to vote on photos of random people based on attractiveness. It’s not exactly high brow, but games like this have ... |
Nike’s Mag Sneakers Unveiled, Due For Letterman Appearance Tonight? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | Nike made a legion of sneaker geeks’ dreams come true when they sent out their , but the official word has now come down from on high: the Nike Mag is real, and they’re all going on eBay tonight. First things first: the Mags sadly don’t auto-lace. Aside from that, only subtle changes have been made from the original, ... |
Project Gutenberg Founder Michael Stern Hart, 1947-2011 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | In 1971, Michael Hart was given some operator time on a Xerox mainframe, and felt obligated to produce something worthwhile. Struck by an idea, he typed in, letter by letter, the text of the Declaration of Independence, from a copy he had been given on the fourth of July. He then attempted to send it to everyone connec... |
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Twitter’s Next Focus: Simplify And Unify All Interfaces | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | During his sit down with the press today, Twitter CEO offered up some good information. Some of it was in , some was in (get this: occasional ads in the stream). But he also revealed something that was probably overlooked, but is important: the upcoming unification of Twitter’s various interfaces. I had actually b... |
Twitter CEO On Google+: It’s Complicated | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | Twitter CEO held a press briefing at Twitter HQ this morning in order to talk about the Twitter’s path moving forward. Costolo indicated how important it was that Twitter focus if it wants to compete in today’s saturated social ecosystem, “We used to say if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you th... |
Google Launches A Slick Music Beta App For iOS — Web, Not Native | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | Now that Google Music Beta has been for a few months, it’s time to focus on how to . One key: mobile. While Google launched an Android app for Music Beta alongside the initial unveiling at I/O this year (it’s baked into the Music app), iOS users were SOL. Not anymore. Today, Google has rolled out an app so they can ... |
TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Details! | Jeffery Bennett | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | . Check-in for the Hackathon begins Saturday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse ( ). Arrive with a brown bag lunch (or eat ahead of time) so you are ready to learn & hack. To help you in your hacking conquests, we’ve got some top-of-the line industry talent leading some great workshop... |
Zagat’s Price: Under $66 Million | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | : Google has disclosed the purchase price – . So, not under $66 million. A few years ago, Zagat was trying to shop itself around for . Today, for less than $66 million. The price wasn’t disclosed, but there was no FTC antitrust review, which is by any deal worth $66 million or more. Google wants Zagat for its re... |
Yet More Proof Of “Google Drive” | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | About a week ago, I noted that , also known as “Google Drive”. The service, which was previously used internally at Google under the codename “Platypus”, was killed off in 2008. But code found in Chromium recently suggested that it may be making a comeback. Specifically, there was a note to add the non-existant (to th... |
Contour Adds Low-Cost Roam Camera To Its Helmet-Cam Lineup | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | The Contour family of cameras, which competes with GoPro and other small, hardened imaging devices, has a new member. The rounds out the range at the low end, providing the primary functions of the adventure-proof camera for $200, far less than the latest addition and $100 less than the GPS model. Let’s run down the ... |
Samsung’s New Windows 8-Powered Tablet May Debut As Early As Next Week | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 8 | Though Windows 8 is slated for a , we may get our first official taste of it next week. Samsung is reportedly building a new tablet based on the Windows 8 operating system, which is set to be unveiled at Microsoft’s BUILD developers’ conference. The conference will be held September 13-16 in Anaheim, California. Acco... |
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Weighs In On Patent Issues: They’re ‘Terrible’ | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | Eric Schmidt, Google’s Executive Chairman and former CEO, took the stage at the conference in San Francisco today to talk about a host of topics, including , , Google’s recent , with the conversation with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff even ranging into Schmidt’s thoughts on the current landscape facing the U.S. pate... |
Pico Dolly: A Diminutive Dolly System For Smaller Cameras | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | Everyone’s a filmmaker these days, what with the widespread availability of fairly high-quality HD video and the tools to edit and distribute it. But the camera isn’t the only thing you need to make movies. Without a tripod and some kind of motion control system, you’re limited to shaky hand-holding and standing the th... |
Eric Schmidt: ‘Steve Jobs Gave The Best Performance By A CEO In 50 Years’ | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | In a with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said that Steve Jobs is probably the best CEO in the past 50 years, maybe 100 years. He said of Jobs: As you probably know, Jobs from his position as Apple’s CEO last week. Of course, Schmidt until Android came in the way and started competing ... |
Eric Schmidt: Google Apps Has 40M Users; Adding 5K Companies Per Day | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | Google’s Chairman and former CEO took the stage at CRM giant Salesforce’s annual conference this evening. Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff is interviewing Schmidt. Google’s chairman started out with complimenting Salesforce how they’ve managed to become a company that defines modern enterprise computing, and... |
AppRedeem Launches In-App Deals To Drive Users Of Free Apps To Their Paid Versions | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | In January, raised $750,000 from SV Angel and Blue Run Ventures to offer mobile app developers innovative, effective solutions aimed at driving app installs and engagement. Since then, the startup has been quietly working its way into a hot new category: Deals. Today, the Mountain View-based startup is officially ann... |
64GB PlayBook Gets Price Cut To $550 At Best Buy | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | It may not be quite the savings we got from the , but taking $150 off the top of the price may help move a few more units. There hasn’t been much action lately regarding RIM’s first tablet, which received and promptly dropped off the radar. The last thing we heard was that coming some time this month. But wait! ... |
Review: The Syma S107 R/C Helicopter Is The Coolest Thing $20 Can Buy | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | If you’re one of the brave souls who dares , you probably know exactly where this post is going. I haven’t been able to shut up about this thing for over a day. As someone who writes about shiny electronic things for a living and just generally spends far too much time rummaging around the Internet, I’ve come to be wo... |
Microsoft Sued For Collecting WP7 Location Data Without Consent | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | While Apple has been catching for collecting iPhone and iPad user location data without consent, it turns out that rival Microsoft may have been quietly up to the same. A recent class action lawsuit filed in Seattle district court alleges that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system collects users’ location data,... |
Airbnb Launches Sublets, Tempts Early Adopters With $200 Off Each Month’s Rent | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | Last May, at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, cofounder Brian Chesky that there would be a new category of rentals coming soon: . It’s been a few months since then (the launch may well have been delayed as the site worked to ramp up its after a major in late July), but the wait is over — and the new feature is sure to ... |
A Deeper Look At Blackbox’s Data On Startup Failure And Its Top Cause: Premature Scaling [Infographic] | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | Earlier this week, we covered , the young company responsible for creating , an ongoing, collaborative R&D project designed to take a comprehensive dive into what makes Silicon Valley startups successful — and not. ( ) On Tuesday, of what it calls the , a benchmarking tool for startups that helps founders monitor ... |
Starz Ends Renewal Negotiations With Netflix; Will Cease Content Distribution In 2012 | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | Starz and Netflix have been in negotiations over the network’s premium movie content. For the past year, the Liberty Media-owned Starz has had ongoing discussions over the terms of the agreement, which is set to expire in February 2012. The reported earlier this year that a renewal would cost Netflix more than $200... |
Fujifilm Makes The X10 High-End Compact Official | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | Earlier this week, I posted a review of the , a unique and highly-anticipated camera that, while compelling, I felt simply wasn’t living up to its own promises. But we’ve been hearing rumors for weeks about a model for half the price that offers the same styling and high quality build, but compromises on sensor size a... |
Andrew Mason’s Silicon Valley Problem: He’s Not Here | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | Earlier this year at All Things D, CEO said one of his regrets was not opening an office in Silicon Valley earlier. The implication was that he was talking about not taking advantage of the superior coding talent, but I took it another way. Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked ar... |
Gootip Turns Twitter Into A Location-Based Q&A Service; Launches iPhone App, APIs, and More | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | , the location-based Q&A startup from France, launched in May to take on (we think, as Hipster is still stealth) and other sites like it trying to make Yahoo Answers, for example, a valuable, realtime service. Gootip was founded by alumni Mathieu Bidart, Eric Gagnaire and Thierry Sebba, and operates out of a small ... |
Toshiba Outs Monstrous 55″ 4K, Glasses-Free 3D TV With Facial Recognition | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | This TV is a beast. It’s called the ZL2, and to be honest it’s the only TV I actually have gadget envy for right now. The rest of the 3D TVs out there rely on end-of-life active shutter glasses or immature polarized 3D, but this monster is going straight to the lenticular lenslets. This technique involves a layer of ti... |
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Twitter’s Dorsey To Developers: With Apple, We Can Take This To A Whole New Level | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | Twitter founder just a note to third-party Twitter developers, asking for feedback. He writes: What’s interesting about the post is that it mentions that “Very soon, anywhere there’s an iPhone or an iPad, you’ll always find Twitter.” He’s referring to Twitter’s He writes: Here are some details from our post on ... |
Mobile Social Gaming Platform OpenFeint Launches GameFeed On iOS And Android | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | , a plug and play mobile social gaming network with 115 million players, is extending its popular feature GameFeed to its iOS SDK. OpenFeint’s plug and play mobile social platform and application for smartphones includes a set of online game services such as leaderboards, virtual currencies and achievements running in ... |
The Nexus S Powers NASA’s Lightsaber Sparring Spheres, In Space | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 1 | Yes, that headline sounds a little ridiculous. But it’s not much of an exaggeration. Today Google has posted a video how the Nexus S is being used by NASA to power its SPHERE satellites — the free-floating devices that NASA says were by the lightsaber sparring droid seen in Star Wars. The satellites have been on th... |
Chill Raises $1.5M From Kleiner Perkins And Others To Make Online Video Social | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | , the infamous for video, is announcing today that it has raised a $1.5 million angel round from , , and investor . The site, entry to which was then shut down at some point due to popular demand, is also now open to all users. Chill co-founder tells me that a lot has happened to Chill since early this August,... |
Mobile And Broadband Push In India To Cost “Tens Of Billions” – Let The Bidding Begin | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | In markets like China and India, which are showing explosive growth in the connectivity and tech sectors, there’s a bit of a gap between supply and demand. Not that the two are ever at parity even under the best of conditions — but the very thing that makes these markets volatile is what makes them harder to grow: the ... |
Paul Graham Will Bring Office Hours Back To Disrupt SF, Sign Up Now | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | One of the most popular sessions from our last Disrupt conference was (watch the video below). And next week at Disrupt SF, he will be back giving startups advice onstage. Graham and his partners at Y Combinator are famous for their , where startup founders can ask questions about anything from product design to com... |
Video: Learning About Picture And Color Modes On Your DSLR | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | DSLRs are a powerful and popular tool for creating video, but it’s likely that very few users of this fairly new product category have gone deep into its settings. For taking pictures and the occasional video, the defaults are fine, but if you’re interested in putting a little more love into your production, it pays to... |
Bartz Fired; Morse Named Interim CEO; Yahoo Board Creates Circle Of Elders To Decide Company Fate | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | is officially out as the President and CEO of Yahoo. , Bartz, who has been in the top role at Yahoo since January 2009, confirmed that she’d been fired by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board, Roy Bostock, by phone call. At least it wasn’t via text message. of Bartz’s departure. Yahoo that Tim Morse, who joined Yahoo fro... |
Carol Bartz Confirms Her Own Firing — From Her iPad | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | Title says it all. Well, except the fact that Yahoo CEO was apparently . Harsh. This is the note Bartz just sent out to Yahoo employees: To all, I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the... |
Report: Groupon Delays IPO | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | Groupon is thinking about delaying its IPO, according to a in the WSJ today. The company had intended to go public after Labor Day, according to the article, but is now “reevaluating plans for an initial public offering in the face of stock-market volatility” and has canceled its plans for its IPO roadshow, which was... |
Zuck’s New Favorite Song Lyric: “Had A Dream I Was King. I Woke Up, Still King.” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | Days after headlining list for the second year in a row, Facebook CEO and TIME Person of the Year has updated his Facebook status with the following somewhat Machiavellian Eminem song lyric, to which he adds the commentary “Favorite lyric in awhile.” Okay okay, so Zuckerberg probably doesn’t mean the update in ... |
SF Port Authority Shuts Down Tech-Hub Pier 38; Boots All Tenants Including Dogpatch Labs, Polaris Ventures, Automattic, True Ventures | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | A few weeks ago, we heard that the San Francisco Port Authority had red-tagged Pier 38 — putting up warnings that the space was unsafe. This is a big deal because Pier 38 is something of a tech hub. It’s home to tenants including Dogpatch Labs, Polaris Ventures, Automattic, True Ventures, 99 Designs, EGG HAUS, and more... |
Reminder: Help Us Celebrate TC Gadgets And Mobile At Our First San Francisco Meet-Up On 9/15 | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | San Franciscans, start your thrusters. On September 15 at 6:30pm TechCrunch Mobile and Gadgets will host our first meet-up at in sunny SF. Sponsored by Samsung, this meet-up will be the first chance for our readers to get ahold of some of Samsung’s latest products including the just-announced Galaxy S II. It is an ev... |
Android TouchPad Project Finally Gets Working Touch Screens | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | Regardless of your thoughts on , work on getting a fully-featured version of Android up and running continues unabated. There’s been in the past few weeks, but a group of devs revealed today that one crucial piece of the puzzle has just been popped into place: the finally works! In addition to getting a TouchPad ... |
AT&T’s Response To Sprint’s Lawsuit: Bring It On | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | And the fun just goes on, and on, and . Following this morning’s news that in an attempt to block their proposed merger, AT&T has just returned with a response. As you might expect, it pretty much boils down to “Yeah, yeah, see you in court. Oh, and here are some reasons we’re awesome.” This simply demonstrates what... |
eBay Nabs Former Thomson Reuters Exec To Head Global Marketplaces Business | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | eBay has on former Thomson Reuters Exec Devin Wenig as President of its global Marketplaces business unit, which includes eBay’s online marketplace; eBay’s classifieds sites and ticket marketplace StubHub. Wenig will report to eBay President and CEO John Donahoe. Wenig most recently served as Chief Executive Officer ... |
Video: Kinect-Controlled Gigapixel Image Exploration | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | Obligatory Minority Report reference. There, it’s out of the way, and we can enjoy this interesting video without worrying about when the allusion is going to drop. The University of Lincoln in the UK recently hosted an interactive exhibition in which users can navigate a number of gigapixel photos by using over-sized ... |
Reddit Evolves Into Reddit Inc., Begins Search For New CEO | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | Happy Tuesday after Labor Day everybody! In , beloved Internet hangout reddit has spun out of Conde Nast and will become its own independent entity, reddit inc., owned by Condé Nast parent company Advance publications. In a blog post coincidentally enough entitled reddit General Manager Erik Martin implies that the ... |
Nanotech Electrical Motor Is Made From A Single Molecule | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | Researchers at Tufts University have put together a “molecular motor” that is only about a nanometer across. It’s not the first single-molecule motor ever made, but this one, unlike others, can be activated singly by the minute tip of a scanning electron microscope. They’re working with Guinness to get certified as the... |
Beats Wireless Headphones Unveiled By The FCC | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | Monster Beats by Dr. Dre has a new set of cans on the horizon. Per the headphones are appropriately named Beats Wireless and feature the brand’s trademark unibody construction. Bluetooth is tapped for wireless connectivity but the rest of the headset is pretty much a standard affair. The right can features playback c... |
It’s Official: WebOS Is Divorcing From Palm’s Hardware | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | You’re excused if you didn’t notice a pair of memos leaked to this weekend. It was a holiday and, more important, neither of them particularly matter. They involved HP’s WebOS initiative and they state, in short, that the hardware part of the team is hitting the bricks while the software group will remain ensconced c... |
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Seedcamp flexes upwards with its biggest week yet | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | (Above, Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Saul Klein, Reshma Sohoni) , the annual week-long session run by Europe’s oldest tech startup accelerator, has kicked off in London, and it looks like the biggest yet. In particular, this week sees changes to the way Seedcamp has operated in the past which indicates a clear uptick in how... |
Australian Judge Asks For iPad Sales Stats In Galaxy Tab Case | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 6 | In its (as if it hadn’t yet achieved such a feat), Apple has been asked by the Australian court to provide iPad sales data from the U.S. and the U.K. Samsung originally sent Apple with the hopes that the fresh “redesign” would coax Apple into dropping the case. As we expected, that didn’t happen. A Galaxy Tab is s... |
If A Motorola Android Tab Leaks And It’s Just Like The Rest, Does It Really Matter? | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 9 | 24 | So apparently there’s in the works. Big surprise, right? The old one is nearing its eight month birthday and thanks to the rapid Android aging process, it’s about as a relevant as a Handspring Visor at this point. But in all seriousness, does anyone care any more? I ask that with void of snark or sarcasm. I’m serious... |
Clues To Amazon’s “Prime eBooks” Loan Program Found In Kindle Code | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 24 | Some forum-goers at found evidence of something called Prime eBooks in the online code. Searching for images of the new Kindle Tablet, he instead found a variable describing something called PRIME_EBOOKS_COMPATIBLE. There is also some text that will show up when trying to deleted a “loaned” book, specifically: prim... |
Tools vs. Toys: Why The Timeline Changes Nothing | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 24 | Yesterday Erick and I had an about Facebook vs. Google+ and I came down on the side of G+. Why? Because tools are important, toys aren’t. Granted Facebook’s 500 million visitors a day proves me wrong in numeric terms, but in general usability and quality, I’m coming reluctantly down on the side of Google Plus. As yo... |
Yes, Google Drive Is Coming. For Real This Time. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 24 | About a month ago, some additions to the code in Chromium (the open source browser behind Chrome) that the long-fabled “GDrive” may be on the verge of actually launching. A week later, user-facing proof started . Then earlier today, sharp-eyed social media consultant, Johannes Wigand, during a presentation at a Go... |
Droning On Towards A Date With Destiny? | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 9 | 24 | Have you been watching the skies? I have. As the US its unmanned air force, and the UK plans its , researchers are testing and demonstrating — ones that could “hunt, identify and kill the enemy based on calculations made by software, not decisions made by humans.” (According to the author of the wonderfully-titled... |
Gillmor Gang 9.24.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 9 | 24 | Soon we may see Spotify play the role of ABC to iCloud’s Disney, which in fact is already the case. In turn, smaller producers such as turntable.fm will take the role of satellite producers in much the same way Dick Wolf and the CSI producers orbit NBC and CBS respectively. Where Facebook, Twitter, and G+ stand is TB... |
Weekly Wrist Watch Round Up | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 24 | How does Switzerland do US patriotism? With a watch of course. Like it or not, Perrelet has just released this spinning stars and stripes version of their Turbine watch called the . We don’t care that this watch is made for a Dutch soccer team – what we do care about is that this highly limited edition Netherlands-mad... |
Daily Crunch: Sabre Rattling | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 9 | 24 | Here is a selection of yesterday’s Gadgets stories:
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Go Beyond Ticker, Use Facebook Music Dashboard To See What Your Friends Listen To | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | After yesterday’s announcement of its expanded , Facebook has been sharing your music listening activity over its News Ticker, allowing for music discovery and the realization that as TechCrunch founder , “A lot of you have just really terrible taste in music.” Well, in case you want to further delve into your frien... |
Motor City Mojo: The Startup Renaissance In Detroit | Contributor | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | I heard them say they’re shutting Detroit down.
But I won’t leave ‘cause this is my hometown. — Kid Rock, “Times Like These” San Francisco. Palo Alto. New York. Cambridge. Austin. Boulder. Detroit. One of those doesn’t seem to fit in there right? After all, Detroit’s a mess isn’t it? . Half of the adults . . Some p... |
Book Excerpt: Bloggers Boot Camp By Our Own John Biggs | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 24 | Our own John Biggs and his former Gizmodo co-worker, , have just released a book about blogging called . These gents produced tens of thousands of posts between them, written for some of the biggest names in blogging, and are generally good blokes. Their goal in this to teach how to write for blogs. This isn’t a boo... |
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TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Launches A New Blog, Uncrunched | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | TechCrunch founder , who recently the company he founded over six years ago, is back in action. Or at least, he has proven that he still knows how to set up a WordPress blog. Arrington just tweeted a link to , which will be his personal blog from here on out. There isn’t really much there yet, save for his first ... |
HTC Vigor Packs Beats Audio, LTE, But No DROID Branding? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | Here’s a noodle-scratcher to ponder over the weekend: the was supposedly going to hit Verizon as the Droid Incredible HD, but files leaked from the forthcoming device hint that the phone may not carry the Droid distinction after all. Someone who was lucky enough to have a Vigor in their possession managed to rip the ... |
Imagine K12’s 2011 Startup Class Aims To Invigorate Education With Technology | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | [tc_speakertext_off]One of my favorite bits from Disrupt SF was the set of rapid-fire presentations from Imagine K12, an incubator for education-related startups. We that some 200 applicants had been narrowed down to 10 companies, and those 10 made brief presentations in front of the audience at Disrupt. We couldn’t ... |
KISSmetrics Helps You Hone In On Stats That Actually Matter With Cohort Reports | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | , an analytics startup that helps you keep tabs on how your users are using your website, is adding a new tool to its suite of products today: . Cohorts, for those that aren’t familiar with them, are groups of users who sign up during a given time period (say, everyone who signed up between January 1 and 7, 2011). And... |
350Green To Add 400 More EV Charging Stations Across U.S. | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | California-based electric vehicle charging station developer will purchase and install over 400 charging stations from manufacturer , the company has announced. The new additions will be rolled out across the U.S. to help build out 350Green’s network to over 1,000 stations. In addition, the stations will be powered ... |
Groupon Loses Second COO This Year — And Restates Revenue | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | Groupon has lost its second COO in six months. Back in March of this year, , who the company in March 2010, announced that he would be leaving the company. A month later, Groupon former Google VP Margo Georgiadis to replace him. And today, just five months after she joined the executive team, Groupon is that Geo... |
Fly or Die: How Long Is Qwikster For This World? | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | If you get your DVDs from Netflix, soon the name on the familiar red envelope will be Qwikster. But how long is Qwikster for this world? In this episode of , John Biggs and I dig into the pros and cons of the service. Earlier this week, Netflix announced it will be its DVD-by-mail service from its streaming movi... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: DROID Bionic #TechCrunch | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | After being teased for months and months, nine months to be exact, of when Verizon and Motorola would release the DROID Bionic, the wait is finally over. The is now out in stores and the reviews have been nothing but positive. In fact, people are so in awe of the phone, some even believe it will be the only phone to ... |
Gillmor Gang Live (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | The Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor – recording concluded at 2pm PST. |
Samsung Asks To Ban iPads, iPhones In The Netherlands | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | So remember that one time I said that Samsung was planning on against Apple? That was no joke. In the same court that granted an , the Hague Court in the Netherlands, Samsung has asked that the iPhone and iPad get pulled from shelves. Rather than being based on design (like Apple’s GalTab injunction request), this ... |
Deal Decor To Launch A Groupon For Furniture | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | I’m not often the fan of startups that are “the this, for that,” but I think I could get into something like : it’s the Groupon for furniture. This San Francisco-based startup is using the group-buying model made popular by Groupon to connect customers with factory-direct deals from overseas furniture manufacturers. T... |
Keen On… Yossi Vardi: Cow’s-Manure-Over-IP (CMOI) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | Along with being one of the world’s leading seed investors in technology start-ups, Israeli entrepreneur is also an acknowledged expert in renewable energy. He once ran the Israeli Ministry of Energy and was involved in a number of pioneering projects to develop non-commercial, indigenous and alternative energy res... |
Amazon To Hold Press Conference on 9/28, New Tablet Incoming? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | Word of an Amazon press conference slated for September 28 at 10 AM is making the rounds. Could the fabled Amazon tablet make its first appearance? If so, then the invitation does a great job of playing it cool. Aside from a mention of the time and date, it offers little else to chew on. That hasn’t stopped speculation... |
eBay To Announce Something Big With Facebook In Two Weeks | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | At in New York today, revealed that PayPal is launching something big with Facebook in two weeks, and that it would be a more expansive partnership than the existing PayPal-Facebook integrations. This announcement is coming at eBay and PayPal’s Innovate conference in two weeks, we’ve confirmed with the payments g... |
Colbert On Defunct Satellite: “UARS All Gonna Die!” | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | You’ve likely already heard about that defunct six-ton satellite hurtling its way to the Earth’s surface. Unless you’re paranoid, you also know that the chances of this changing anyone’s life, anywhere (save for a few NASA peeps) are very small. Like, microscopic. Still, it’s been a slow news week and the media has to ... |
B&N Releasing Two New Nooks This Quarter | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | The ninjas at have uncovered the names of two new Nook Color versions – the Encore, priced at $249, and the Acclaim, priced at $349. The Nook Touch (now called the Nook Smart Touch) will remain $139. What are these new devices? Nate at The Digital Reader posits that the Smart Touch is a 6-inch Nook Touch while the En... |
Blockbuster Movie Pass: Dish Network’s $10/Month Answer To Netflix | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 9 | 23 | Dish Network has the answer to Netflix: Blockbuster. The company bought the bankrupt Blockbuster six months ago at auction and apparently wasted no time integrating Blockbuster’s current streaming service into Dish’s satellite TV plans. The Blockbuster Movie Pass is a complete media rental service and features stream... |
Facebook’s Ad Czar Envisions A Future Where Nearly All Facebook Ads Are Social | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | When you think about how far advertising has come since its days, it’s a little shocking that Facebook ads will be responsible for a majority of the company’s estimated $4 billion in revenue this year, being predicated on the notion that a user is more likely to spend money on something that a friend has recommende... |
Celebs meet tech – Cheryl Cole collaborates with Stylistpick | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | In the US celebrities have been investing and collaborating with startups. Justin Bieber using Instagram. Ashton Kutcher investing in and . So why not in the UK? Thus, UK music/TV celeb Cheryl Cole plans to launch a “capsule shoe collection” in association with London startup in December. The collection forms part... |
Line2 Now Has 50,000 Paying Customers, Launches On iPad | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | Back in September 2009, I about — a startup that offers similar functionality to Google Voice, but with a focus on catering to businesses and ‘prosumers’ (it offers easily-accessible phone support among its included features). At the time, the company was getting off to a difficult start: it took Apple three months... |
Advertising Network Longboard Media Takes In $6 Million | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | Ad network is announcing $6 million in Series A funding today, from . Managing the ad inventory for over 30 online properties including , , , and , Longboard Media likens itself to a “Glam Media” for e-commerce sites. Longboard Media has been profitable since it was founded by former eBay employees and in ... |
Bose SoundLink Mobile Passes On AirPlay For Bluetooth A2DP Streaming | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | Bose has a new toy for your desktop. The Soundlink Mobile builds on the company’s SoundDock pedigree but ditches the physical dock in favor for a bit of streaming magic. But no AirPlay here. Bose instead employs Bluetooth A2DP, which works with most Bluetooth-enabled devices rather than just the fruity ones. Awesome. T... |
SEC Watch: Social Media Dashboard HootSuite Raises $3 Million | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | Social media dashboard company has raised $3 million in new funding according to a new HootSuite has previously raised $1.2 million from Blumberg Capital, Hearst Ventures and Geoff Entress. HootSuite offers brands and businesses a comprehensive social media dashboard that allows teams to collaboratively schedule a... |
Forget Apps, Carbyn Has Built A HTML5 OS | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | HTML5, HTML5, HTML5 — it seems to be the only thing anyone wants to talk about these days. And that excitement could get kicked into overdrive when Facebook unveils , their platform for HTML5 apps. But why wait? A startup that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt has already built an entire HTML5-based OS: . The great th... |
Pinterest Has Already Pinned Down $10M At A $40M Valuation | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | If you’ve attended any mass gathering of investors in Silicon Valley lately, you’ve probably heard some buzz about invite-only visual bookmarking site raising a “massive” round. Business Insider the round as having $75+ million valuation last week and then amended its report to reflect that the valuation was actually... |
Microsoft Excises Flash And Plugins From Metro Internet Explorer In Windows 8 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | Microsoft has confirmed its commitment to a separate and separately-optimized ecosystem in Metro by announcing via the ever-interesting that IE10 in Metro will not support plug-ins. This includes Flash, of course, which gives the announcement the same flavor, if not the same substance, as Apple’s famous rejection of ... |
Microsoft Shows Off Tango Video Chat App On The HTC Titan | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | I’ve liked Windows Phone Mango since I , but the truth of the matter is that most of the features being implemented are merely catching up to competing platforms. The Bing integration and voice-to-text capabilities are… pretty cool. But other than that, as I said, Mango is playing catch-up. The addition of a video ch... |
Live Your Space Program Fantasies With A Retro NASA Camera | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | This beauty is a Nikon F Photomic T, which first hit the streets all the back in 1965. Aside from being a gorgeous piece of retro tech, it’s also one of several NASA-owned cameras from the estate of collector Arthur Keir that have been put up for auction. Keir’s spans the decades, from the Nikon F you see above, to i... |
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Longtime Mozilla VP Mike Shaver Steps Down | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | , one of the founders of the Mozilla project and longtime VP at Mozilla Corporation — the maker of Firefox — has announced that he’s leaving Mozilla Corp. Shaver has worked at the company for the past six years, holding positions including VP of Engineering, and, most recently, VP of Technical Strategy. He’s well know... |
Mint Robotic Swiffer Gets An Upgrade | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | I reviewed the floor cleaning robot just about a year ago, and found it a delightful little device as long as you know what you’re getting. While it doesn’t have the capabilities of the (or ) or the fire-and-forget simplicity of the Roomba, it’s great for hardwood floors, and it’s quiet, compact, and cute. Evoluti... |
Sequoia Leads $30M Round In Mobile Business Data Visualization App Roambi | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | , the developer of business data visualization platform has through its first round of institutional funding led by Sequoia Capital. This brings MeLLmo’s total funding to $50 million. As part of the round, Sequoia partner Greg McAdoo will join MeLLmo’s board of directors, and David Spector will join as a board obser... |
Congress Members Urge Obama To Approve AT&T/T-Mobile Merger | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | Fifteen members of Congress aren’t too pleased with the Department of Justice’s recent , as instanced by a letter they sent to President Obama. Penned by Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) the letter urged the president to because of the benefits it could bring to the American people. Though Shuler meanders a bit, the letter ... |
iPhone 5 To Launch On October 15th, Suggests France Telecom CEO | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | Apple is famous — hell, notorious even — for their culture of secrecy. With the strictest of NDAs, discussions between even the closest of teams limited to need-to-know matters, and whispers of creepy internal investigation squads lurking about, people in the know tend to keep their lips sealed up tight. Unless that pe... |
Google+ Opens First APIs: Read-Only And No Circle Access For Now | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | A week ago, we noted the talk amongst developers that a Google+ API . The next day, we learned that Google was — among them, Google Ventures-backed startups — to try out their early stab at the API. Google was not happy we found this out (and went on a witch hunt to find the leaker) — so it shouldn’t be too surprisi... |
Panasonic Creates Triathloning Robot | John Biggs | 2,011 | 9 | 15 | In honor of the Iron Man Triathlon in Hawaii, Panasonic has created a tiny EVolt mascot that will run, swim, and bike the course’s full 142 miles in about a week. The teeny little robot will run on EVolt batteries and, since he’s 10 times smaller than a human, he gets to take much longer to finish the course. This wee ... |
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