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The Long Hard Road To The Edge | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 8 | 27 | Delaware, the state with the lowest highest point. David Argentar, a biochemist by training and bioinformaticist by trade, has launched a startup. Of sorts. Well – more of a hobby, he’d be the first to admit. He has no business plan, no investors, no employees. All he really has, in fact, is an idea and a pending pat... |
TechCrunched: The Week’s Top Tech News In 90 Seconds | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 27 | We’re back with another episode of TechCrunched, a whirlwind recap of the week’s top tech news in 90 seconds (or so). This week’s stories include HP’s TouchPad liquidation firesale, the latest tweaks to Facebook privacy, and, in sad news, Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple’s CEO. Tune in for the details. Here are some ... |
Gillmor Gang 8.27.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 8 | 27 | The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — explored the legacy and impact of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. @dsearls called him the Beethoven of Business, and we spent the hour and 15 minutes matching that to what I called Jobs’ ability to listen to the future. In recen... |
U.S. Judge Slaps Around Brazilian Court In Zynga v. Vostu | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Ah, litigation. Nothing ever really gets done, but the lawyers get paid, and there’s always drama. The Vostu v. Zynga case exemplifies all of this. And it just got weird to boot. Today a U.S. judge just told a Brazilian court that they can’t shut down a Brazilian startup. That’s definitely a new one for me. Background:... |
Daily Crunch: Eye Array | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 8 | 27 | Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets:
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Google Unleashes Native Client Into Chrome, Next-Gen Web Apps To Follow? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | For well over a year now, Google has been hyping up something called Native Client. It’s an open source technology that allows a web browser to run compiled native code. In other words, it’s between native apps and web apps. And now it’s finally getting baked into Chrome. As Google on their Chrome Blog blog today, ... |
Chill, Yes THAT Chill, Is A Turntable.fm For Videos | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Imagine innocently launching your Facebook app one night and waking up to a bevy of emails saying that Mark Zuckerberg thinks the thing that you built is And let’s say that your app is like a DJ interface for videos, like a for YouTube. And did I mention that it’s also a pivot for your startup ( ), much like Turnta... |
Apple Patents Hint At Multi-Part Gestures, Touchable OS X | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Designing a user interface for touch isn’t an easy thing to do. At least, it isn’t easy to do well. The great number and variety of gestures possible when four fingers and a thumb hit a touchscreen may well cause development and design paralysis. Yet the gestures we see implemented often seem so simple and intuitive th... |
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Facebook Revamps App Canvas Page, Includes Ticker For Game Updates And Full Screen Option | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Facebook has just spilled the beans on its announcement for today: A more streamlined, engaged App Canvas page, including a ticker for game updates (see below). Canvas Pages, for those unaware, are the “blank canvas” that apps get to occupy on Facebook. With 200 out of 750 million users playing games on Facebook month... |
Y Combinator’s 7th Annual Startup School Set For October | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | has just unveiled the dates and times of its 7th Annual ; 2011’s event will take place on October 29th at Stanford University, where hundreds will gather to listen to talks about entrepreneurship and innovation by some of the Valley’s most influential founders and investors. While the event is free, it is always extr... |
Sony Cuts Prices On Google TV-Integrated HDTVs | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Google TV hasn’t exactly set the world on fire, and while we could argue all day about what exactly prevented it from achieving greatness, the expensive hardware has to at least be part of the discussion. Logitech bit the bullet two weeks ago and lowered the price of their Revue — and it seems Sony has decided they m... |
Is This What Android 4: Ice Cream Sandwich Looks Like? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Google has been awfully protective of their latest version of Android, but thanks to the folks over at and , we may have our first ever glimpse at Ice Cream Sandwich. As always, keep those grains of salt handy — they claim their source is solid, but there’s no guarantee this isn’t just a smartly skinned Nexus S. We ... |
NewNewTwitter Continues: Twitter Profile Mentions Rolling Out To All | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Hot on the heels of their big , Twitter is keeping the features coming. Today brings a smaller one, but one that’s nonetheless useful: a profile mention box. First noticed in very limited test about a month ago, this feature now appears to be rolling out to all users. Right now, it looks like users with a smaller nu... |
Next Generation 911 Will Support Text, Photos, Video, And Data | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Nobody ever wants to be in a situation that requires emergency services, but when you are, that whole “dial 911” thing really helps. Sort of. In truth, our emergency response system is pretty outdated when we consider all the various forms of communication that have basically become mainstream. But luckily, Charmain ... |
Time to rethink every website in the world | Cyan Banister | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | I tried out and holy shit, I feel like Mosaic was just invented and now we have <IMAGE> tags. (Do some of our readers even know what is these days? Well, it was really cool at the time. Revolutionary even.) Or rather, that someone finally figured out how to use the image tag. HTML 5 has been out for some time, but ... |
SeatGeek Redesigns Its Ticket Marketplace, Launches Sponsor Platform | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | NYC-based startup is adding a fresh coat of paint to its ticket marketplace, introducing an overhauled design that incorporates some helpful new features. And it’s also announcing a new route of monetization that it’s hoping will serve as a strong revenue stream going forward: sponsored placements. For those who have... |
TC Cribs: Inside Etsy’s Handcrafted Wonderland | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and this one is chock-full of unique, incredible creations that you’ll never see in another office: yep, we made it to . The Brooklyn-based company gives artists, designers, sculptors, and all sorts of other creative people a place to sell their wares online — and the startu... |
Google Wastes No Time Putting Games On Google+: Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Zynga On Board | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | For all the hype it has gotten and all the users it has gained, it’s easy to forget that Google+ has only been out for a month and a half. But they’re moving fast to ensure they don’t flop again in the social space. And today brings the biggest “next step” yet: Games. Gaming has obviously been a huge part of the succes... |
Leaked Samsung Road Map Reveals Big Screens And Bada Phones | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | It had to be translated from two different languages, but a road map from Lithuanian retailer has surfaced that appears to outline some big new devices that Samsung has waiting in the wings. Well, some of them are big, anyway. The report reveals a number of entry-level devices that will pad Samsung’s portfolio, but ... |
Facebook And Google Duke It Out Over Gaming (Same Day Announcements, Zynga?) | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Sometimes the platform wars can get so dramatic. A couple of minutes before we were tipped off on we were also tipped off on a Facebook Gaming announcement and developer-only event happening later this evening. While this really is amazing timing, it highlights how realtime the competition between the two ‘Gang of Fo... |
YC-Funded Launchpad Toys Looks To Create The Next Generation Of Early Learning Toys | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | Assumptions are rarely safe. But I’m sure most of you will come with me when I go out on a limb to say that, by and large, kids love toys. Yep. And they also love cartoons. This has been true as long as either have been around, however, a more recent taste to trend among the world’s wee ones: Love for the iPad. A ne... |
Zynga’s New S-1: Zynga’s Internal Valuation In March 2011 Was $11.5 Billion | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Zynga just filed for the company’s and here’s what’s new. First, Zynga says in the filing that in March of this year, the company had an internal valuation at around $11.5 billion. From page 70 of the filing: That was five months ago, and clearly Zynga’s valuation has skyrocketed. Many are expecting the company to... |
BoltJS: Another Secret Piece Of Facebook’s Spartan Puzzle? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | After a steady stream of information in June, all has been quiet on the in recent weeks. Originally, at least some thought the plan was to in July — but that obviously came and went. It’s certainly possible we won’t hear anything until now. But one new bit of information has come to our attention that could be re... |
Mobile Q&A App Opinionaided Raises $4.3 Million From SoftBank And Others | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Mobile Q&A service has raised $4.3 million in funding led by SoftBank Capital and BlueRun Ventures with General Catalyst, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mark Wachen, Jonah Goodhart, Karl Jacob, ENIAC Ventures and Vince Monical participating. This brings the company’s total funding to $5.3 million. Opinionaided’s free iOS a... |
Rumor: Windows Phone 7 Mango To Launch On September 1st? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | If recent reports hold true, Microsoft may be preparing to release their long-awaited Windows Phone sooner than expected. Based on information from “trusted sources,” reports that Mango’s official rollout will begin on September 1, ahead of the generic “Fall” launch window Microsoft had previously announced. Aside ... |
OKCupid Integrates Location Based Dating Into iOS And Android Apps | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 11 | Online dating site is making a big move today in the mobile space—the service is adding location-based functionality to its Android and iOS mobile apps. For background, OkCupid singles tend to be younger, which is one of the reasons why IAC’s Match.com decided to buy the dating startup for earlier this year. The u... |
Pony Ma and Lei Jun Anchor Disrupt Beijing Line-Up | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | Even before I worked at TechCrunch, Disrupt was one of the few industry conferences I looked forward to every year. There were two big reasons why: The enthusiasm and excitement of the startups who launch there, and the unparalleled lineup of the most exciting people in tech engaging in frank, honest conversations. Whe... |
Windows 8’s New Explorer: This One Goes To 11 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | The development blog has been an interesting read for a while. Hearing straight from developers and then seeing unfiltered responses from users and secondary devs is refreshing, even if the topic isn’t particularly compelling or I don’t agree with their design choices. Today is perhaps the most extreme example of thi... |
iEmu Aims To Bring iOS Apps To Android, Windows, and Linux | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | Ready for this week’s almost-too-ambitious Kickstarter project? Meet iEmu, a new project from one of the iPhone’s earliest hackers. The goal? To get iOS up and running in an emulated state on Linux, Windows, Mac, and Android. By building on top of the open-source emulator, project leader Chris Wade (who had a role in ... |
Venturocket Launches An AdWords-Inspired Jobs Marketplace To Kill The Resume | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | It may not be receiving quite as much media coverage as the VMAs at the moment, but we’re all acutely aware of the fact that the economy remains in the toilet. , and detail just how long it takes for the average American to find a job — and that job seekers are giving up on the search after as little as 5 months. Of... |
Beyonce Pregnancy News At MTV VMAs Births New Twitter Record Of 8,868 Tweets Per Second | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | Beyonce helped push Twitter to a new record in terms of Tweets per second yesterday evening when the pop singer announced her pregnancy at the MTV Video Music Awards. According Beyonce at the awards show last night, and the announcement culminated in the singer rubbing her baby bump on stage after her performanc... |
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YC-Funded Bushido: An App Store For The Web That Can Kickstart Your Side Projects | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | If you’re a developer, there’s a good chance you have a handful — or more — of side projects. Things you tinker with on evenings and weekends and may upload to GitHub, but that you’ve never seriously considered releasing to the wild as a standalone service. Not because you think they’re , but because they’d be a lot o... |
Event Deals Site Goldstar Sells 5 Millionth Ticket, Adds Feature To Automatically Seat You With Friends | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | For ticket-selling businesses, nothing beats “sold out”. But whether or not a flight sells all of its tickets, or a sports team fills their stadium, the show must go on. Businesses with perishable inventory stand to gain the most from the daily deals model, and those that can make money on complementary goods (creating... |
Seesmic Focuses On The Social Enterprise; Debuts Android, iPad Apps For Salesforce CRM | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | Social application developer is making a big move into the social enterprise and is debuting a dedicated Android app and iPad app for Salesforce’s CRM product (Windows Phone 7 will also be added soon), called Seesmic CRM. The Android app will be launched tomorrow morning at Salesforce’s annual conference, Dreamforce,... |
Google+ Source Code Snoop Gets Hired By Google | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | Austrian blogger and developer recently discovered a lot of Google+’s upcoming features just by digging around in the source code for the new social networking service. He was one of the first ( ), to reveal Google+ Games before its launch, for example, as well as still unreleased features like “Shared Circles” and s... |
Isis: AT&T, Verizon, And T-Mobile’s $100 Million Gamble In Mobile Payments | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | NFC will be ubiquitous one day, but we still have quite a ways to go. Unlike other smartphone features, this requires adoption on a huge scale from just about everyone, which will definitely take a while. But we are getting closer. While Sprint fiddles with its Google Wallet, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have reportedly ... |
What Kills Startups? Blackbox Releases Report/App To Help Founders Avoid The Deadpool | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | It’s not easy being green — or an entrepreneur. The inherent risk in becoming an entrepreneur or founding a startup is high. Sleepless nights, sweat equity, bribing new users to come to your product — it’s all part of the nerve-racking, code-spinning, and teeth grinding process. . But the truth of the matter is that f... |
If You Cite Compete Or Alexa For Anything Besides Making Fun Of Them, You’re A Moron | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | Earlier today, I was checking out some new questions in the area on Quora. One in particular caught my eye: ? This has been something I’ve seen asked here and there given the radical changes we implemented — and, I assume, given the audience issues Gawker faced after their recent redesign. Mostly, people seem to wan... |
Review: Fujifilm X100 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | A unique and powerful camera hampered by uneven attention to detail and an inadequate menu system. For a camera so strongly and effectively focused on going back to basics, the legacy of ugly menus, slow focus, and chintzy dials seems especially out of place. In this case, beauty truly only is skin deep. Except for th... |
New Zelda And Golden Wiimote To Arrive November 20th | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | When I first saw , I have to admit I wasn’t impressed. The demo was obviously rushed out, the Wiimote was being unresponsive, and it took him like a dozen slingshot rocks to knock down one spider. But it has definitely shaped up nicely over the last year or so, and was looking better than ever at PAX. Now that the ... |
Video: Raspberry Pi $25 Computer Running Quake III | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | You may recall the , a barebones PC for emerging markets that they hope to sell for $25. When we wrote it up earlier this year, there wasn’t much in the way of demonstration: a few stills of the PCB and a video with founder David Braben describing his plan for the device. But today we have a demo that both captures th... |
iPhone Rumors Gone Wild! New Leaks Point To Two Models, Similar Casings | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | It’s time for your weekly dose of next-gen iPhone rumors. This edition is a doozy, friends. Purported iPhone components are leaking everywhere with every site claiming to have the real deal. It’s hard to say which components are lifted straight from Foxconn’s lines, but when they’re viewed as a whole, these components ... |
It’s About Time Someone Translated The Facebook TOS Into Bro Speak | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Thank you Miles Lothe for taking the whole thing to the next level by reading the entire Facebook TOS and . This is amazing because Facebook, aside from (yes it exists), is the most brogrammy startup on earth — Please email or IM me if you want me to elaborate on this, because it’s late but I can totally prove i... |
iTunes Rival Rdio Launches Gift Cards, Available Online And At Target | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 29 | Streaming music service from Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, is today launching two new music gifting options – physical gift cards and online credits. Consumers will be able to purchase the virtual gift card options in $10, $25, $50 and $100 values or in user-selected amounts. Meanwhile, physical ca... |
Jeremy, Call Your Mother — She’s Worried Sick | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | When we switched to Facebook comments several months ago, we spun it as a way to combat the trolls. But you know, there was actually a secret agenda. We wanted to bring families closer together. And it’s with great pleasure that I can now announce that it’s working. Earlier today, we ran a post entitled, “ “. Apple, An... |
Ooyala Now Powering ESPN’s Billion-Plus Video Streams | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Today, Mountain View-based , the fast-growing online video services provider, is announcing that it has landed a big content partner: The so-called “worldwide leader in sports”, . Those avid sports fans among us may have noticed some changes in the look and speed of videos on ESPN.com. Over the last few weeks, Ooyala... |
YC-Funded Science Exchange: A Central Marketplace For Core Research Facilities | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Scientists, get ready for some disruption. Last month I about , a nifty startup that’s looking to help scientists streamline their labs by making it easy to keep track of who has which reagents (which is actually a bigger problem than you’d think). And today we see the launch of another Y Combinator-funded startup c... |
Dell Misses On Q2 Revenue, Net Income Up 60 Percent But Cuts Q3 Outlook | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Dell this afternoon for the second quarter of fiscal year 2012. Revenue in the quarter was $15.7 billion, up 1 percent over last year. GAAP earnings per share was $0.48, up 71 percent; non-GAAP EPS was $0.54 cents, up 69 percent. The company blew past EPS expectations, Dell missed slightly on revenue. Analysts non-... |
AWS Launches GovCloud, A Secure Region For U.S. Government Agencies And Contractors | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Many government agencies have been slower to adopt the cloud because of the specific regulatory requirements, compliance issues and security regulations. To mitigate this, Amazon Web Services is , a new secure region specialized for U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the clo... |
Keen On… What Really Turns People On? (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | What’s on the end of your fork? Do you go online to look at young women or and Do you like coercion fantasies about alpha males? Or do you prefer gay romance stories? Up till now, these questions about our online sexual behavior have, at best, been speculative. But at last, we have data – hard, authoritative data –... |
Google Gives Android App Inventor A New Home At MIT Media Lab | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Back in July 2010, Google announced a nifty educational project called . The goal? Give non-programmers a relatively easy way to build their own applications for the Android platform, using a drag-and-drop interface to add pre-written ‘chunks’ of code. It was heavily inspired by the learning language , but with an An... |
Sony Announces €99 PSP For European Cheapskates | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Instead of giving us any more concrete details on when the Playstation Vita will see the light of day, Sony announced the availability of a at their Gamescom press conference today. With it’s €99 price tag, Sony’s clearly gunning for the budget gamers, albeit only ones that live in Europe: while the E-1000 is poised t... |
500 Startups Demo Day: McClure’s Second Batch Of Startups, Unleashed | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | We’re in Mountain View at s where the second-ever 500 Startups Demo Day is about to start. Today, 31 startups will present to press and investors here in McClure’s bright and sunny Mountain View office and you can watch them here, live. McClure’s primarily invests in early stage startups that focus on the “Three D... |
Sony Slashes $50 Off The PS3, Drops The Base Model To $250 | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Watch out! Price cuts all around! Following , Sony just cut a cool $50 off the PS3, dropping the 160GB model to $250 down from $300. The 320GB model is also a little lower now with a $299 price tag. This puts the PS3 in a slightly better position ahead of the oh-so-important holiday season. The Wii is currently priced... |
Foursquare And Skype Coming To Playstation Vita | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | During a press conference at the Gamescom gaming conference in Cologne, Sony announced a few new features for their new handheld console, the (watch our hands-on at E3 ). Among them were support for Foursquare and Skype. The references were made while talking about the 3G capabilities of the $300 model, but it wasn’... |
The Problem With Partners: Fake VisualHub Update Aims To Make Bank On Unsupported Software | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Tyler Loch is the creator of VisualHub, one of the best (and funniest) video converters for OS X. He shut down development a few years ago and left the app to linger completely, forcing folks to scour the Internet for copies. A few OS X versions came and went and the program still worked but a Lion killed the app for... |
Battery Ventures And NEA Back Social TV App Umami | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | More cash is flowing in for social TV apps. Stealthy company has raised $1.65 million in seed funding from Battery Ventures, NEA and other angels for the companion, social TV platform. While details about Umami are limited, we know the startup’s free iPad app is currently in closed beta with TV networks and is set t... |
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Foursquare Adds Inline Photos And Even More Polish To Their iPhone App | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Back in the day, the knock on the iPhone app used to be that it wasn’t very visually appealing. That was especially true in comparison to rival . But much has changed over the past several months. And now that Foursquare has and a larger team to deal with the pains of fast growth, they’ve been putting a lot of emp... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: Three Free New Relic Pro Accounts #NewRelic | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | What do Groupon, Zynga, Airbnb, Crunchbase and LinkedIn have in common? They know site performance is critical to their success, so they use app monitoring to make sure their apps are quick and fast. Every second on the web counts and New Relic has been on a tear since raising $10 million in October from Benchmark, A... |
SEC Watch: Cloud Storage Startup Box.net Raises $18.6 Million More | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Box.net has raised $18.6 million out of a $35 million round according to an We’ve confirmed this with the company. This brings Box’s total funding to $96 million. Box, which has 6 million users and stores 300 million documents, is a cloud storage platform for the enterprise that comes with collaboration, social and ... |
German Court Suspends Galaxy Tab Injunction In The Apple-Samsung Case | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Hope you’ve got some popcorn and a German law book at the ready because this between Apple and Samsung only gets better and better. Today, the banning Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the EU has been partially lifted. Now before you jump to the same conclusions I did, let me say that this suspension has ... |
DIY Device Mutes Your TV When Someone You Don’t Like Is Mentioned | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 16 | Matt Richardson created a wild system that mutes a TV whenever a name or other keyword is broadcast on TV. It uses the closed caption track and an IR blaster to grab what’s currently playing and then mute the TV for 30 seconds – or more – depending on the current topic. The project uses the , , and some basic code ... |
Quixey Raises $3.8 Million For A Functional Search Engine For Apps | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 28 | , the Palo Alto-based startup that’s building a functional search engine for apps, today announced that it has closed a $3.8 million series A funding round. The investment was led by and , with participation from alongside follow-on investment by Eric Schmidt’s . The series A round from Innovation Endeavors, br... |
Being Right | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 8 | 28 | One of Steve Jobs’ most devastating talents is in knowing when he is right. By he I mean he and his team of talented designers, engineers, supply chain wranglers, and technologists. Standing pat when the alternative is worse is a difficult move to make, but one Apple under Jobs has made a trademark. Take the iPhone 4 a... |
OMG/JK: Hey, Remember When August Was A Slow Month? | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 28 | It’s been a couple of weeks since our last show — and those weeks have been packed with news. Google announced that it’s in the process of acquiring Motorola, which will have major implications for the future of Android. Facebook made some changes to its Places product and privacy settings. And, in sad news, Steve Jo... |
Spotify Hires An Ex-Zynga, Ex-Google Exec For Biz Dev | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | Streaming music service is amping up its hiring efforts in the US, wanting to hire another 100 employees according to a source. The total team is currently around 380 people. One month after its US launch, Spotify has hired Zynga executive as “Chief Acquisition & [Ad Business] Retention Officer.” From what I’m hear... |
Bookmarklet Reveals The People You’re Most Active With On Facebook | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | Developer and contributor Jeremy Keeshin has the scariest thing I’ve seen all day (I live in San Francisco, okay). In searching for ways to make his search auto-complete superfast, like Facebook’s, Keesh came across a file titled first_degree.php, which revealed that Facebook has a ranking for the people who you’r... |
Accel Leads $10.5M Round In Cosmetics Discovery Platform Birchbox | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | a startup that serves as a makeup discovery retail platform, has raised $10.5 million in Series A round of funding, led by Accel Partners with First Round Capital, Harrison Metal, Forerunner Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Sam Lessin, Consigliere, Gary Vaynerchuck, Dave Morin, Stanford University Endowment and Andy Dunn par... |
The Land Rush: Why Google Won’t Bless Motorola As Its Favorite Android | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | The basics: Google is buying Motorola, pending government approval. Everyone and their editor-at-large has written about it. Now I’ll take my shot at the soapbox. I don’t know why Google acquired Motorola as opposed to simply licensing its trove of patents. My hunch is that it had more to do with fending off a from M... |
Apple, It’s Time To Block iOS 5 Beta Users From Reviewing Apps | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | “ ” — A developer who asked to not be named. Last night, our sister site (it’s still sort of weird to write that) wrote a PSA of sorts. The message was simple: if you’re not a developer, but you’ve ignored the warning signs and finagled your way into the pre-release iOS 5 betas, you need to stop. Why? Because people ... |
Google Launches A Music Blog To Remind People That Google Music Beta Still Exists | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | , remember it? It’s the online music locker service that Google unveiled at I/O in May. But the keyword in the title very much remains “Beta” — as in, not in any way ready for prime time. Okay, maybe that’s a bit unfair, the service does work — it just doesn’t offer much. A new feature today hopes to keep people intere... |
The Seven Most Interesting Startups At The Second 500 Startups Demo Day | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | It’s that time again! With Dave McClure’s , sometimes hanging out at its headquarters in Mountain View leaves one a little inundated with promising startups. Especially since motherhen McClure insists that he loves all his little monsters the same. While each of the 30 startups that presented yesterday at Demo Day i... |
GM Announces The Next Volt, The Cadillac ELR | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | GM makes money from platforms, not just cars. With that thought, Cadillac just announced the ELR Coupe, a sleek sportster built on the Voltec platform that also powers the . The dual-powertrain Caddy has been rumored ever since a concept (pictured here) was shown off at the 2009 North American International Auto Show.... |
The Federal Government Wants You! (And Your App Ideas) | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | The U.S. government is no stranger the to app game: they’ve developed over for everyday use, ranging from apps that find local alternative fueling stations to ones that can identify leaves you’ve photographed. The federal app arsenal runs the gamut for sure, but it doesn’t seem to be enough. The USA.gov blog has anno... |
Chatterfly Launches Mobile Digital Loyalty App | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | Digital loyalty startup today launched its new rewards program for businesses and consumers in the form of a for iPhone and Android. Like similar startups, including the now , Chatterfly aims to replace the paper loyalty card with a more modern, digital version. But Chatterfly isn’t only focused on making business... |
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Red Hat CEO At LinuxCon: I Have No Idea What’s Next | Scott Merrill | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, just delivered a terrific opening keynote presentation for LinuxCon. Whitehurst isn’t just a businessman, he’s also a geek. He used Linux and open source before joining Red Hat, and the opportunity to be CEO of the world’s most successful open source company was a dream come true for him... |
Razer’s Tiamat Headset Uses 10 Drivers To Produce 7.1 Sound | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | Very few headsets out there are “true” surround sound. Most are traditional stereo headphones with “virtual surround sound” — a process that adds depth and directionality, but delivers it through two speakers. Headphones like Tritton’s and Psyko’s actually use multiple drivers to simulate being in a room with, say, fiv... |
Sincerely Launching An iOS Photo App Monetization Platform: Picture Printing For All | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | You may recall that back in April, launched as a way to and deliver them for $0.99. A few month later, launched as a way to use your iPhone/iPad complete with the picture print outs. These apps, while great themselves, were tests for platform. A platform which today they’re opening to all iOS developers. The ... |
doubleTwist Now Has 1 Million Active Users — Every Day | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | , the slick media player for Android, is growing. A lot. Last February we reported that the application had passed a major milestone, drawing per month between its mobile and desktop applications. Today, the company is sharing a much bigger number: they’re getting 1 million users between doubleTwist on Android phon... |
Journalist Crowdsources An Article About A Crowdsourcing Company, Hilarity Ensues | John Biggs | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | decided to write about , a crowdsourcing content farm that allows publishers to request articles for quick publication. They call it “content engineering,” which does not bode well for my job since I have a MA and not an MSc. The resulting article, written with tongue firmly in cheek is an excellent example of the da... |
Google Pushes for Greener Buildings, Leads by Example | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | Google has taken to its this morning to talk about the company’s focus on building greener, more sustainable workplaces for its employees. The company is involved in several green initiatives, including energy and water audits, the use of green building materials, and competitive programs that pit teams against each ... |
Ford to Sell Solar Panel System Alongside Electric Cars | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 17 | is with San Jose-based solar panel maker to offer a rooftop solar system option which will be sold alongside the upcoming Ford Focus EV. The “Drive Green for Life” program, as it’s being called, involves mounting solar panels on a customer’s home. These panels wouldn’t be used just to charge the Focus itself, howe... |
Intel Capital Launches $300M Ultrabook Fund To Invest In Tablet Technologies | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | the investment arm of chip giant Intel Corporation, has announced a $300 Million Ultrabook Fund to fund technologies that will help deliver new and enhanced user experiences, longer battery life and slim component and platform technologies in personal computing. Earlier this year, Intel a new category of laptops, U... |
HTC’s Big Announcement: HTC To Acquire Majority Stake In Beats By Dr. Dre | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | Cat, meet the outside of the bag. You know that for tomorrow morning? The details have just made their way out a bit early. HTC just confirmed that they will be entering a strategic partnership with Beats Electronics, a company best known for its Beats by Dr. Dre line of headphones. While they’re leaving details ... |
Video: Free-Moving Kinect Used To Map Room And Objects In Detailed 3D | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | We’ve seen hacks for the from the very start, and even some that suggested one like this might be possible: a Kinect being moved around like a camera, recording the depth of everything it sees and building up a full-3D map of the room and every object in it. They call it , and it’s really quite fascinating to watch.... |
With Search And Big Publishers, Showyou Turns Your iPad Into A Visual, Social Remote Control | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | When Showyou first launched last April, we noted that it was . A new update out today kicks it up a notch by making things more visually appealing while adding more content and making it easier to find. Version 2.0 of features a redesigned iPad UI that is really fantastic looking. The grid-like look existed before, ... |
MediaCore Raises Seed Funding, Launches Platform To Let SMBs Create Their Own YouTube | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | Launching officially to the public today is a new venture called , brought to you by Damien Tanner and Stuart Bowness, the former of whom was responsible for , a solution that adds realtime tech to apps that . Tanner and Bowness are launching MediaCore to provide any old small business with the ability to roll out ... |
HTC To Make “Major Announcement” Tomorrow Morning | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | The word is out, folks: HTC CEO Peter Chou has something big on the books for tomorrow. A live teleconference is scheduled for at 8:30 PT/11:30 ET, and while the email making the rounds offers no insight, you can rest easy knowing that people will be speculating the night away. Given the email’s use of the word “major... |
Voxy Snags $2.8M To Help People Learn A Language Via Smartphone | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | TechCrunch Disrupt finalist is announcing new Series A investment today, $2.8 million dollars from investors , and . Relatively new investor Seavest recently had another education-related portfolio company, Schoolnet, to education publisher In addition to the financing, Voxy is launching its newest product, an... |
Facebook: We Aren’t Stealing Your Phone Numbers And Posting Them So Everyone Can See | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | Facebook has responded to a likely deriving from a recent HackerNews thread called both with an official post on and from a Facebook Messenger engineer Ben Gertzfield on HackerNews. In its efforts to dominate all modes of human communication (yay ), Facebook has chosen to match up and de-dupe numbers both on y... |
First Windows Phone Tango Device (Sort Of) Goes On Sale In Slovakia | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | Today’s tidbit of comes not from the far-flung Asian shores it is expected to storm, but rather the small, landlocked nation of Slovakia. As it turns out, the first Tango device has gone on sale, but probably not the one you were hoping for. A photo has gone up on computer forum Pretaktovanie.sk’s Facebook page adver... |
Twitter Comes Alive With Realtime Activity Streams | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | Since its inception, content on Twitter has largely been displayed in the same basic manner. That is a linear, reverse chronological stream of Tweets. Two new sections being added to the service are about to change that. Specifically, the “@Mentions” tab on twitter.com is being replaced by two new tabs: “@USERNAME” and... |
Mark Cuban-Backed JungleCents Ushers AskMen Into The Daily Deals Space | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | During its grinding transition into the digital era, the publishing industry has been grasping at straws to find ways to evolve its revenue models. Even as time marches on, publishing companies by and large, continue to struggle with how to most effectively monetize their content and add supplementary (or even primary)... |
Twitter Begins Testing t.co Shortened Links Today | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | Starting today, Twitter will begin testing its link-wrapping feature which will automatically shorten all URL’s 20 characters long or greater into t.co-wrapped links. This test will affect a certain percentage of tweets posted publicly through the service, or sent out via direct message. The tests are a “canary in the ... |
No Charges For Chen In iPhone 4 Leak Case – Others Not So Lucky | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | After more than a year of uncertainty, the case of the stolen iPhone 4 has been brought to something like a conclusion. San Mateo County Assistant District Attorney Morley Pitt announced that against Gizmodo’s Jason Chen, whose liberty has been in question since the police shortly after the alleged theft. Pitt said... |
Cha-Ching: BankSimple Banks $10 Million In New Funds And Some Heavy-Hitting Partnerships | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 8 | 10 | Alternative banking service BankSimple has $10 million in funding led by and joined by existing investors and . This Series B round will join the in Series A and seed that the startup saw from investors including , , , and others. Along with the financing, the company also announced partnerships with Visa, CB... |
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