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Disney+ to add IMAX signature sound by DTS to select titles this year | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | Disney+ is going to add support for enhanced IMAX signature sound by DTS to select Marvel films and more in 2023. The streaming service has been offering movies in an for more than a year now and plans to expand the experience even further with this upcoming addition. Disney Streaming, in partnership with IMAX and DTS... |
4 data science predictions for 2023 | Torsten Grabs | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | long been the domain of hardcore data professionals who understand the complex frameworks and languages involved, but those professionals are in notoriously short supply. Fortunately, the landscape of tools and frameworks is constantly evolving, and in 2023 I predict new developments that will alleviate challenges for... |
Meet four more startups pitching at the CCC Web3 Demo Day | Lauren Simonds | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | We have so many (12, in fact) outstanding early-stage startups ready to pitch at the on January 11. If you want to learn more about who’s on the cutting edge of building the future of web3, DeFi, NFT and gaming, you do not want to miss this event. for this free online pitch-a-thon. Buckle up, because we’re set to ... |
Ember brings Find My functionality to its self-heating travel mug | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | a bit of a weird one. The Southern California firm has two distinct — though not wholly unrelated — arms. There’s the smart mug side of the business that launched the startup and the more recent cold chain shipping wing, which leverages its temperature control technology to move things like medical supplies. While it ... |
Sony offers a sneak peek at Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Gran Turismo’ film | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Sony’s CES press conference is always a real smorgasbord of the electronics giant’s different media offerings. Tonight it kicked things off my bringing “District 9” director, Neill Blomkamp, to offer some insight into the filming of his upcoming “Gran Turismo” adaptation. Sony’s perfected a lot of unique camera tricks ... |
ZF and Beep to launch ‘several thousand’ autonomous shuttles in the US | Rebecca Bellan | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Automotive supplier ZF is partnering with to deliver “several thousand shuttles” to customers over the coming years, ZF said at in Las Vegas. Beep, which describes itself as an autonomous mobility-as-a-service company, will implement ZF’s next-generation, Level 4 autonomous shuttle, which the company also launched ... |
Frosty fundraising environment may change early startups’ DNA for the better | Rebecca Szkutak | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | hope that will be better for startups than . It seems likely that it will get worse before it gets better — even at the earliest stages, which have largely been insulated thus far. But for burgeoning companies capable of building business models that reflect current conditions and rely less on venture capital to gr... |
With Kokomo VR meeting software, Canon takes a step away from its hardware roots | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | and deep history of being a hardware manufacturer. Most consumers know it best as a camera manufacturer, but the company has a long, deep and illustrious history in medical, office equipment, and other imaging applications. During the pandemic, a lot of its business shifted. People stopped going to offices. Sporting e... |
Daily Crunch: Salesforce CEO admits ‘we hired too many people’ as company lays off +7,000 employees | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Hello, and welcome to the middle of the week. CES is starting tomorrow, so bookmark TechCrunch’s to catch up on all the happenings. Now, onto the news! — It’s Autodesk’s turn for a competitor, and Snaptrude wants to be it. to take on the design giant in the building design space, writes. Snaptrude wants to infus... |
Snaptrude gets VC backing to take on Autodesk in building design space | Jagmeet Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Snaptrude, a young startup, is attempting to disrupt Autodesk in the building design space, giving customers modern and broader sets of features at a more affordable cost. The early progress by the New York City-headquartered firm has helped it court thousands of customers and now, a seed funding. The startup — which h... |
Sony aims to make PlayStation more accessible with Project Leonardo controller | Devin Coldewey | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Sony has been embracing accessibility options in its games for a few years now, but one place it has lagged behind perennial rival Microsoft is in accessible hardware. They aim to change that with , a new gaming controller aimed to be customizable to the needs of any person. The device was described only generally ons... |
Today at CES: Smellscapes, robot dogs, and ‘awareables’ | Devin Coldewey | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | is about to begin in earnest, but even though the show floor opens tomorrow, we’ve already found lots of interesting tech at the show, ranging from practical to bizarre (yet compelling). Read on for our roundup of the coolest things we’ve seen so far. Icoma Last night we spotted a suitcase-sized electric bike, . It ... |
SurrealDB raises $6M for its database-as-a-service offering | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | There’s plenty of vendors in the managed database services market — and plenty that are well financed. Take a look at , which last October raised $30 million to bring its database tech to new customers. There’s also , which landed $15 million in November ahead of the launch of its cloud database product. Tobie Morgan... |
Nowatch is a health-focused smartwatch without the watch part | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Your health is all you’ve got, and you can’t change what you can’t measure, so it’s little wonder that health trackers are everywhere. The problem with a lot of them, however, is that in addition to measuring steps and heart rate and what-have-you, they also deliver a deluge of notifications. takes another tack, offe... |
WowWee returns to robots with a dog named ‘Dog-E’ | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | It would be a massive understatement to suggest that robot toys are a mixed bag. They largely get the looks right, but brains are another thing altogether. Look at the time and money that went into building the first , for example, and it becomes very clear why the dream of a ubiquitous home robot still seems like a l... |
Archelis’ exoskeleton is basically a chair you can wear | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | I’ve written a fair bit about exoskeletons on these pages. They’re a fascinating subset of the robotics industry designed to improve mobility and assist with manual labor that can be taxing on the body. The FX Stick is a lower tech version, lacking the sorts of battery-powered systems that drive those products. If anyt... |
Online grocery startup Kurly scraps IPO amid market uncertainty | Kate Park | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | , a South Korean startup that provides next-day grocery delivery service, just announced that it has called off its plan to go public amid worsening economic situations that have put startups’ market debuts on hold. “We have decided to postpone listing on the Korea Exchange (KOSPI), considering market sentiment remaine... |
Aromajoin brings videos to life by squirting your face with smells | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | There are a lot of YouTube videos out there that we’d rather not smell, but Kyoto-based tech startup today showed off the option to add a multidimensional experience to the mix. Using its “Aroma Shooter” technology and a programmable “AromaPlayer,” a neck-wearable smell dispenser can add six different aromas to your ... |
Spotify’s new time capsule feature will let you revisit your musical taste a year from now | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Spotify is called “Playlist in a Bottle” that is designed to let you capture your current music tastes and revisit them one year later. The streaming service announced on Wednesday that the new user experience will help users capture the moment by the time January 2024 rolls around. To get started with your Playlist ... |
Samsung’s new wireless charger has a smart home hub built-in | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Or maybe it’s a smart home hub with wireless charging built in. Either way, this is the SmartThings Station, which debuted on stage at . The hub is a bit of an unsung lynchpin in the smart home ecosystem. It isn’t especially flashy as these things go, but it can be quite useful when it comes automating your setup. Mat... |
Camera maker Canon leans into software at CES | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Depending on whether you spend most of your time in hospitals, offices or in the great outdoors, when you hear “Canon,” your mind will likely go to medical scanning equipment, high-end printers or cameras. , the 85-year-old company is leaning in a new direction, with an interesting focus on software applications. At t... |
Trade Republic, a popular stock trading app, adds 2% interest on cash | Romain Dillet | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | While German startup is better known as a mobile app that helps you buy and sell stock, the company is adding interest on uninvested cash. Users who hold cash in their Trade Republic account will receive 2% in annual interest. This feature reminds me of Robinhood’s brokerage . In the U.S., Robinhood users currently ... |
Amazon’s custom-built ‘Hey Disney!’ voice assistant will become available for purchase later this year | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Last year, to develop a custom voice assistant that combined Alexa’s smarts with Disney’s library of character voices and original recordings. Dubbed “Hey Disney!,” the voice assistant was the first non-Alexa assistant to become available on Echo devices and installed at select Disney Resort hotels. Now, for the firs... |
Seen at CES: Nuralogix uses AI and a selfie to measure your heart rate, BP, body mass, skin age, stress level and more | Ingrid Lunden | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | A picture is worth 1,000 words, as the saying goes, and now a startup called is taking this idea to the next level: Soon, a selfie will be able give you 1,000 diagnostics about the state of your health. Anura, the company’s flagship health and wellness app, takes a 30-second selfie and uses the data from that to crea... |
Formlabs inches toward mass manufacturing with high-volume 3D printing solutions | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | 3D-printing stalwart Formlabs today showed off a series of new solutions that enables its customers to dramatically increase their 3D-printing output. The result is better large-scale manufacturing options and a significant reduction in cost per part, given that machines don’t have to sit around waiting for operators t... |
Wireless Power Consortium is working with Apple to bring MagSafe-like capabilities to Android | Ivan Mehta | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) — an organization that overlooks wireless charging standards — announced a new standard called Qi2. The headline is that the WPC is working with Apple to bring Magsafe-like capabilities to Android. It’s been over two years since Apple introduced — a wireless standard that opens up a to... |
Lablaco seeks to help usher in the new era of web3 digitized retail | Dominic-Madori Davis | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | The future of digital retail has arrived in Paris, naturally. Today, SPIN by lablaco, launched its first digitized retail experience called Web3 Fashion: The Origin Story at the famed Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées. The plan is to host a three-week takeover with Crypto.com, showing consumers how digitized fashion co... |
Twitter’s advanced search filters for mobile are on their way | Amanda Silberling | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Twitter is finally making a feature update that people want. According to social media analyst , Twitter’s advanced search filters for mobile are coming soon. Here’s what they look like in practice: NEW! Twitter Advanced Search feature on iOS is coming soon 👀👇 — Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) The feature makes it... |
It’s like the Power Glove, but for VR | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | Nintendo’s Power Glove was, to quote one of the eighties’ finest films, The NES peripheral transfixed a generation of youngsters, only to later realize that the “bad” in this instance should perhaps have been taken a bit more literally. Nintendo ultimately sold 1 million of the things, but the technology just wasn’t ... |
New York’s right-to-repair bill has major carve-outs for manufacturers | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | During the lull between last Christmas and New Year’s, New York State became one of the first in the country to enact a “right to repair” law — albeit with amended language that some advocates say make the law toothless. Called the Digital Fair Repair Act and set to go into effect on July 1, New York’s regulation requi... |
India’s crypto tax pushing traders to foreign exchanges | Manish Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | India’s tax rules on crypto, which went into effect last April, have resulted in local exchanges ceding the lion’s share of the market to those operated by foreign players, according to a new report. Binance, Coinbase and other foreign exchanges commanded 67.6% of the crypto market share in India as of October 2022, up... |
Last chance — Apply to present at TechCrunch Early Stage | Lauren Simonds | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Time’s running out if you want a chance to show what you know at on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts. What’s that mean, exactly? It’s a shot at presenting your expert content to hundreds of bootstrapping entrepreneurs and fledgling founders at the beginning or very early stages of the startup journey. The search con... |
Read, which lets you measure how well a meeting is going, is now a Zoom Essential App | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | , the app that lets meeting organizers read the virtual room and see how engaged (or not) participants are, is now one of Zoom’s Essential Apps. This means Zoom customers, Zoom One Pro Business and Business Plus users will have free access to Read’s premium features, like real-time and advanced meeting metrics, for 12 ... |
Hackers claim ransomware attack on Los Angeles housing authority | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, or HACLA, has confirmed it is investigating a cybersecurity incident shortly after the LockBit ransomware gang claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the agency. HACLA, which provides affordable housing to more than 19,000 low-income families across Los Angeles, wa... |
Apple is increasing battery replacement service charges for out-of-warranty devices | Ivan Mehta | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | Apple is increasing service charges for battery replacement in out-of-warranty iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks starting March 2023. The price rise ranges from $20 to $50 for different kinds of devices. The change was spotted by , who pointed out that Apple had silently mentioned this change on the repair pages for thes... |
This startup brings Southeast Asia’s vacant hospital rooms into the sharing economy | Rita Liao | 2,023 | 1 | 2 | Uber and Airbnb have long been the poster children for the sharing economy. In other realms of society, entrepreneurs are also trying to match demand with untapped assets and services. , a startup based out of Bangkok, is applying the economic model to healthcare in Southeast Asia. HD operates a platform that helps th... |
How to make the most of your startup’s big fundraising moment | Scott Brown | 2,023 | 1 | 2 | facing major fundraising headwinds, but early-stage investing is for startups until they hit Series B rounds. Traditional venture capital dollars are harder to come by these days, but institutional investors are still looking for smart investments, and industry watchers are hungry for the good news a new round of fi... |
Intel unveils high-end 13th-gen 24-core processors plus N-series workhorse to fill the the Pentium and Celeron gap | Ingrid Lunden | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | Intel is taking a more subdued approach to CES these days — forgoing a splashy event staged in a big hotel showroom in the wake of COVID-19. It is also pursuing a wider change in PR strategy after years of making bullish investments in next-generation tech like drones and moonshots like Volocopter and using them as sho... |
How well did Israel’s cybersecurity industry do in 2022? | Yuval Krigel | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | and funding rounds of 2021 left some room for optimism around the state of the in 2022, instilling a sense of security in Q1 of the new year. While other sectors began to feel the shifting tides of the market as the year progressed, capital continued to freely flow into cybersecurity, further reinforcing the belief ... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Normalizing down rounds, 2023 climate trends, term sheet basics | Walter Thompson | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | The “Pineapple Express” that dropped several inches of rain over the Bay Area last week left the ground saturated. The next storm front expected to arrive tomorrow is expected to bring disruption and destruction on a massive scale. It’s a decent metaphor for our startup ecosystem: Just as there aren’t enough sandbags i... |
3 ways PE firms can ensure relevant due diligence for M&A targets ahead of a recession | Corey Massella | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | volatility, rising interest rates, inflation and the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict affected the M&A market in the third quarter of 2022 to the point that deal volumes across the globe. Most experts agree that a recession is here or likely imminent, and even if one is not, it still is a scenario that companies must... |
5 tips for healthcare startups fundraising in a down market | Dr. Galym Imanbayev | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | greatest challenge is not selling any particular product or strategy. Instead, it is often unwinding and realigning the investor’s biases. The competition is not your market competitor or incumbent. More often, it is the investor’s set of operating heuristics, many of which are quickly influenced by market conditions.... |
Daily Crunch: Reddit users discover Apple is raising its battery replacement service fees | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | And we’re back! Well, just me for now anyway. is covering CES, so if you are there, seek him out and say “Hi!” Thanks so much to for conducting the Daily Crunch train last week. It was a joy to read it and hope you enjoyed it, too. It looks like we are back at it with a long list of news, so let’s get started. — C... |
Product-led growth and profitability: What’s going on? | Anna Heim | 2,023 | 1 | 2 | companies, “product-led growth (PLG) companies — those who educate and convert buyers with product rather than sales and marketing (SLG) — operate at about 5% to 10% less profitability than sales-led motions,” venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz in a blog post. This data point may be specific to the moment we are in: F... |
Hear from ecobee CEO and founder at a special in-person TechCrunch Live at CES | Matt Burns | 2,023 | 1 | 2 | Ecobee started in 2007 when connected thermostats were an entirely different product and nothing like what’s available today. Ecobee released its SmartThermostat in 2008, bringing modern connectivity and usability to the device. I’m excited to host a special IRL TechCrunch Live event at CES 2023. We’re filming in the L... |
Max Q: 2022 was big. 2023 will be even bigger. | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,023 | 1 | 2 | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. I hope everyone had a restful holiday season and a celebratory New Year. Thanks again to all Max Q readers, whether you’ve been with me for many issues or you’re a recent subscriber. I’m glad you’re here. I’ll be departing from my usual format for the newsletter. Instead, at the risk of... |
LockerDome Lands $6M From Square Co-founder & More To Help Sports Fans Connect With Their Favorite Teams & Athletes | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | , a social media publishing platform designed to connect sports fans with their favorite athletes, teams, brands and sports properties, announced today that it has raised $6 million in Series A financing. The round was led by Cultivation Capital Growth Fund, a new venture fund created by Square co-founder Jim McKelvey,... |
Steve Newcomb’s Famo.us Raises $4M To Power Fast, Beautiful Apps In HTML5 | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | , which offers a JavaScript framework that’s designed to power HTML5 apps that are faster and better-looking than what’s currently possible, has raised $4 million in Series A funding. The round was led by previous investor , with participation from “one or more” hardware vendors (whose name or names aren’t being share... |
Youth App Maker TabTale Buys Kids Games Club For $3-4M, Preps New Buying Club Model | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | The market for children’s and educational apps continues to grow — evidenced by Apple last week announcing 1 billion downloads of educational apps from iTunes U — and that growth is leading to both consolidation and new business models. In one of the latest developments, , a publisher of children’s and family apps, ha... |
CloudFactory Launches CloudFactory 2.0 Platform After Acquiring SpeakerText & Humanoid | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | , a distributed workforce company that seeks to reduce poverty in emerging economies, launched its CloudFactory 2.0 platform last week after acquiring SpeakerText and Humanoid in October for an undisclosed amount. SpeakerText automates video transcriptions through algorithms and crowdsourcing and Mitch Kapor, 500 Sta... |
If You’re Worried About Likes, Avoid Posting To Facebook From Twitter | Michael Arrington | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | Facebook is showing your content to than they used to, says Nick Bilton at the NY Times, pointing out that while his subscribers have soared, the number of likes per post has declined rapidly. Josh Constine writes his thoughts . Bilton’s theory is that Facebook wants to incentivize people to pay to promote their con... |
Social Recommendations Startup Stik Relaunches, Raises $2.3M From Detroit Venture Partners And North Coast Technology Investors | Matt Burns | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | Just months after from San Francisco to Detroit, is relaunching its Facebook-powered recommendation service and announcing a new round of funding. The $2.3 million Series A round was co-led by Detroit Venture Partners and North Coast Technology Investors. Draper Associates, First Step Fund, MEDC and Automation Alle... |
Labor Shortage Forces Apple Manufacturer Foxconn To Move Further Inland Into China | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | Less than two weeks ago, shares of Apple slipped after an announcement by iPhone manufacturer Foxconn that it was at several Chinese factories ignited concerns about falling demand for the Cupertino-based company’s devices. As it turns out, there were several other possible reasons for the freeze, including the and... |
Songdrop Is A Delicious For Music That Lives Outside Of Paywalls | Steve O'Hear | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | With competitors such as and , it may not be the most original idea, but newly-launched — which is perhaps best described as a ‘Delicious for music’ — is a fun and well designed take on solving the music discovery and sharing problem, at least for music fans that live outside of the paywalls of services such as Sp... |
News360’s Roman Karachinsky Shows Off Revamped Android App, Hints At Plans Beyond News | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | Roman Karachinsky, CEO of news personalization startup , stopped by the TechCrunch TV studio earlier this week to show off . He also shared a little bit of data on how the company’s behind-the-scenes algorithms are improving reader engagement. Our video actually focuses on the iPad app, just because it’s easier to ... |
There Was That Whole Internet Thing, Too | Michael Arrington | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | Anyone wanting to see the whole “history is written by the victors” thing in process should read and battle over exactly why Apple has kicked the crap out of everyone else since the late 90s. Wu, who’s about what open v. closed systems really mean (he uses a variety of definitions), says that Apple has succeede... |
Why Simple Is Better Than Your Bank, Both Online And On Mobile Devices | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | Most banks are notoriously bad at online, and especially mobile, experiences. Some don’t have mobile apps at all, and those that do exist typically aren’t that good. That’s why the folks at Portland, Ore.-based startup think they can make banking better, with new ways of keeping track of your money. Simple isn’t ac... |
Facebook’s News Feed, A Skittish Gift Horse | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | Remember Facebook Questions? Checkins? Spotify listens? They had their time at the top of the news feed because Facebook favors new products, but their prominence diminished as they matured. This and competition for space between posts may explain why New York Times writer Nick Bilton on shares to his public follower... |
Google Glass’ Women Problems | Taylor Buley | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | If you build it, they will come. Perhaps. And only if you don’t chase them away. Recently Google took to the stage at the “ ” conference. His idea worth spreading? That cellphones are “ .” This newsbyte, currently making the rounds, appears here and elsewhere out of context from a much longer pitch for , a high-... |
Conde Nast Leads $20M Round In Boutique Marketplace Farfetch, Its Third E-Fashion Investment In 4 Weeks (Updated) | Ingrid Lunden | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | , a London-based online marketplace for independent boutiques, has raised another $20 million, led by a new strategic backer, the fashion publishing powerhouse , along with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Advent Venture Partners and e.ventures. 2013 is shaping up to be a big year for Conde Nast i... |
How Halfbrick Studios Develops Games Like Fruit Ninja, Age Of Zombies And Jetpack Joyride | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | “This is the original concept shot for Fruit Ninja which was pitched to the company during Halfbrick Fridays. This is literally the very first piece of Fruit Ninja imagery ever created, so it’s historically significant,” ‘s Chief Marketing Officer Phil Larsen said in an email to me last week after I interviewed him an... |
This iPhone Breathalyzer Wants To Call You A Cab | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | Last Saturday, I got sauced for purely journalistic purposes: I had to test out what could be the first law enforcement-grade iPhone breathalyzer accessory. It was also , the delightful Jewish holiday that celebrates my people’s liberation from yet another anti-semitic tyrant with dancing and a lot of alcohol. Alcohoo... |
A Chat With Robotics Pioneer Red Whittaker On The Google Lunar X Prize And The Future Of Interstellar Exploration | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | Red Whittaker is a certified legend in the robotics community. The head of the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Whittaker has been instrumental building the driverless car that took part in the DARPA Grand Challenge as well as the Mars Rover, a robot designed to explore volcanoes, the arctic, and ... |
Fitness And Health Tracker Fitbit Is Raising $30M At A $300M-Plus Valuation | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | Fitness technology and hardware startup is raising north of $30 million in growth capital at a $300 million-plus valuation, according to multiple sources. The company in January 2012 from Foundry Group, True Ventures, SoftTech VC and Felicis Ventures. It’s unclear who the investors are in this round. Fitbit, which ... |
Google Is Building A Same-Day Amazon Prime Competitor, “Google Shopping Express” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | Google is stealthily preparing to launch an competitor called “Google Shopping Express.” According to one source the service will be $10 or $15 cheaper than Amazon Prime, so $69 or $64 a year and offer same-day delivery from brick-and-mortar stores like Target, Walmart, Walgreens and Safeway (though no specifics were... |
MEETiiN Lands $500K To Optimize Its Cloud-Based Meeting Management Platform | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | , a meeting management platform startup based in Taipei, has received $500,000 from angel investors including . Since its launch last month, 2,400 accounts have been opened on the platform, says spokeswoman Kris Jen. MEETiiN is operated by skyWallets, a startup founded by former employees of HTC, LiteOn and Yahoo that... |
Samsung Publicly Apologizes For Fatal Gas Leak At Semiconductor Plant | Catherine Shu | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | Samsung has a rare public apology for a January 28 gas leakage at one of the company’s semiconductor plants that resulted in the death of a contractor. The accident occurred at Samsung’s semiconductor plant in Hwaseong, and injured four other workers in addition to the worker that died. The public apology, made by co... |
Microsoft: We Will Continue Our Scroogled Campaign “As Long As Google Keeps Scroogling People” | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | Despite , Microsoft’s is long from over. Earlier today, a number of publications picked up on a comment by Bing Search Director Stefan Weitz who told that the campaign is “about finished.” Now, however, a Microsoft spokesperson has told us that this is not true and that we should “stay tuned for the next chapter.”... |
Why Every Office Should Switch To Walking Desks | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 3 | Man was not meant to spend all day hunched over a dimly lit screen; disturbingly high incidences of obesity, and are our bodies’ not-so-subtle ways of saying they want to get up and move around. After piloting a walking desk – a standing desk attached to a treadmill – for a month, I’m convinced they should become t... |
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Microsoft Acquires Cloud Performance Management Service MetricsHub, Makes It Available For Free On Azure | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | Microsoft just that it has acquired , a service that automates cloud performance management and helps its customers manage their cloud services . MetricsHub in the , a competitive three-month accelerator program the company hosts in collaboration with TechStars. The program provides these companies with $20,000 ... |
Twitter Shuts Down TweetDeck For Android, iPhone And AIR, Discontinues TweetDeck’s Facebook Integration | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | , the feature-rich Twitter client that Twitter in 2011, will soon mostly exist as a web-based service, and the native Mac and Windows apps will play second fiddle to the web and Chrome apps. The company is the AIR-based version of TweetDeck for desktop and will remove the Android and iPhone apps from their respecti... |
U.K. MOOCs Alliance, Futurelearn, Adds British Council To Its Free Higher Education Roster | Natasha Lomas | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | The U.K. MOOCs alliance, , which was and will be offering its first free courses “from mid-2013” with the aim of creating a globally accessible British higher education brand, has added another member to its consortium of backers. The is the latest to join the Futurelearn alliance, following the and a further fi... |
Luxury Clothing Startup Everlane Crowdfunds Its Canada Launch, Targets More International Growth | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | It’s becoming that crowdfunding isn’t just for nascent upstart projects anymore. The latest example of this: , the company that produces and sells luxury clothing and accessories at a discount since it’s , is raising $100,000 in a to determine whether it will extend its reach into Canada. The effort, which began ... |
Silicon Valley Has Hit Peak Lameness | Jack McKenna | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | Hey , I know you think it’s cool that is being written up in TechCrunch. But seriously, half-naked girls in silver mono-kinis dancing in front of floating arithmetic, fractions and percentage signs? Why would women want to work for this company? When did Silicon Valley become so thin on actual technology that startu... |
Chamath Palihapitiya Confirms That His Social+Capital Partnership Has Raised A New Fund Of $275M+ | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | , the early Facebook executive who to launch , said today that he has raised a second fund. Palihapitiya, who was speaking at the Launch conference in San Francisco, didn’t specify the fund size or the limited partners who invested. (The fund was earlier in that pegged its size as $325 million, but the firm hadn... |
Facebook Admits Likes Are Down For Some Celebrities’ Posts, But Claims Up 34% For Most | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | Facebook dwindling engagement with public posts to subscribers cited by The New York Times’ , other journalists, and I, but calls us isolated cases, noting public figures with more than 10,000 fans are now getting 34 percent more Likes and comments than a year ago. While Facebook often changes the news feed to impro... |
Hourly Worker Software Platform PeopleMatter Raises $19M From Scale Venture Partners | Leena Rao | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | , a SaaS for hourly worker human resources management, has raised a $19 million round of venture funding led by Scale Venture Partners, with Intersouth Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Harbert Venture Partners, Noro-Moseley Partners, C&B Capital and Silicon Valley Bank participating. This brings PeopleMatter’s total fu... |
Galaxy S IV Gets The Pre-Launch Benchmark Treatment, Complete With Leaked Specs | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | The Galaxy S IV, Samsung’s next big flagship smartphone, is only around a week from its public introduction, and it’s getting mighty leaky. Today, the NYT reported that Samsung will be including an , and now a set of benchmarks have emerged that supposedly lay bare the smartphone’s complete hardware profile. Italian s... |
Facebook Pushes Plot To Kill Your “Phone” App By Giving Messenger For Android VoIP In Canada | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | Facebook today will wage its war against your phone’s “phone” application on a new front with an update to that adds VoIP calling for Canadians. It’s also improving group messaging. By combining voice-over-data calling with unified instant, asynchronous, and email messaging, Facebook could dominate communication in t... |
With $2.1M From True Ventures (And Others), TripleLift Builds Ads From A Brand’s Trending Images | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | is a New York City-based startup aiming to help advertisers embrace what Chief Strategy Officer Ari Lewine calls “the rise of the visual web.” “The web is increasingly dominated by images, and images are quickly becoming the primary currency with which brands communicate with their potential customers,” CEO Eric Berry... |
There’s No Native Instagram App For BlackBerry 10, But This Ported Android Version Gets The Job Done | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | BlackBerry 10 may have launched with over 70,000 apps, but fans of taking pictures of their lunch were saddened to learn that Instagram wasn’t one of them. While there’s still no official version of Instagram for BlackBerry 10 devices, the folks at obtained and released a repackaged ready to load onto a Z10 near yo... |
Facebook And Google Bury The Hatchet (Temporarily) To Kill A Core Problem In Gingerbread Dalvik | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | When Facebook hit a limitation in Android’s virtual machine, Dalvik, that would halt its app development, Google and Facebook worked together to create a patch for Gingerbread. “We’re a significant app to them, and they’re a significant platform for us,” Facebook’s Director of Mobile Engineer Mike Shaver explains. It’s... |
Google Updates Chrome For Android, iPhone And iPad With Focus On Speed, Search And Sharing | Drew Olanoff | 2,013 | 3 | 4 | Ever since Google launched its Chrome browser on multiple mobile devices, more people have been getting used to syncing their desktop browsing experiences for on-the-go usage. Being able to have one browsing experience wherever you go is handy, but when a browser doesn’t move as fast as, say, Safari on the iPhone, it’s... |
Streaming Music Service ‘Daisy’ Raises $60 Million, Spins Out Of Beats Electronics As Standalone Firm | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | Project ‘Daisy,’ the streaming music service headphone and speaker maker , has received a $60 million investment round that it is using to spin out as a standalone company. The news was announced in a written release from Beats, confirming a report on the funding issued earlier in the evening (the Verge’s report d... |
Ev Williams: Medium Wants To Help Build A Sustainable Economic Model For Journalism | Rip Empson | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | At the in San Francisco today, Twitter co-founder took the stage to talk to conference founder Jason Calacanis about everything from his experience at Twitter and the rise of Vine to sharing his take on Google and Facebook as well as the latest from , his latest effort to shape the future of digital publishing. Wi... |
Adobe Announces A New Social Interface For Its Marketing Cloud, Says It’s Breaking Down Silos | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | Adobe is in the middle of , its annual digital marketing conference, and as expected it’s making a bunch of product announcements. The biggest one is a new interface for , the company’s suite of products that includes Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Adobe Social, Adobe Experience Manager, and Adobe Media Optimizer. Br... |
YouTube To Launch Music Subscriptions | Victoria Ho | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | YouTube plans to launch a music subscription service later this year, to allow people to listen to tracks online, and to possibly cut out the ads that precede each video for subscribers, according to . The largest storehouse of streaming video, YouTube relies on selling banner ads on the site and running short clips b... |
Watch The Grand Lighting For ‘The Bay Lights,’ The $8.8M Art Project Backed By Some Of Tech’s Biggest Names | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 5 |
The has been an artistic landmark since it was finished in 1937, even serving as a modern-day muse for tech industry visionaries . But its plainer stepsister, the six months older , is finally about to have its long-awaited moment in the spotlight. That’s thanks to ‘ ,’ a project kicking off that will turn the ... |
AdStage Launches Its Cross-Network Ad Creator, Raises $1.4M | Anthony Ha | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | , a startup aiming to make it easy for small businesses and other advertisers to run cross-network ad campaigns, launched today at in San Francisco. The company also announced that it has raised $1.4 million in funding, with an investor list that includes Freestyle Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Dave McClure/500 St... |
The $99 Roku 3 Launches With A New Processor, UI, And Remote Control With Built-In Headphone Jack | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | Today, is launching the newest version of its streaming media box, the $99 Roku 3. While keeping a similar form factor to previous Roku set-top boxes, the latest in its series should be much faster and more responsive, thanks to hardware upgrades. It also comes with a new remote control with a built-in headphone jack... |
Facebook Will Launch Content-Specific News Feeds, Bigger Photos And Ads On Thursday | Josh Constine | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | At a big press event on Thursday, Facebook plans to launch new ways to filter the news feed. These include a Photos feed of Facebook and Instagram photos, as well as a revamped Music feed of what friends are listening to, concerts, and new albums, according to multiple sources both within and close to Facebook. Larger ... |
Apps Are Important | John Biggs | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | I had a little bit of time to play with the today and I’m a regular user of the Acer C7, a $199 machine that is wildly underpowered but good enough on a bad day. I really like the concept and I really like ChromeOS – it’s a solid way to get a little browsing done, say, in a cyber cafe or hotel bar. It isn’t, however,... |
Valve’s Steam Box Prototypes Are Being Prepped For Player Testing In “Three To Four Months” | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | As it turns out, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell gets awfully chatty when he attends award ceremonies. His appearance at the (generally awful) Spike TV Video Game Awards got him ruminating about the , and ahead of today’s BAFTA Games Awards he confirmed that Valve is working on Steam Box prototypes that will be release... |
TC Cribs: A Look Inside Weebly, The Land Of Prohibition-Era Tunnels And (Shh) Secret Rooms | Colleen Taylor | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | A big part of what makes our series so fun to make is going behind closed doors to get a real glimpse at how a company works (and plays.) But it’s not every day that Cribs take us behind a set of closed doors — ones that are completely hidden — and enter into top secret rooms. So our tour of , the San Francisco-ba... |
BlackBerry Community Wants Marquee Apps So Bad It’s Porting Them DIY-Style – And BlackBerry Doesn’t Approve | Darrell Etherington | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | BlackBerry’s platform has seen some big-name additions in the past couple of days. Unfortunately both came via sideloaded Android apps, likely created by the community using BlackBerry developer tools and the APKs of the Android apps in question. BlackBerry has made it very easy for any developer to port their Android ... |
Chrome Beta For Android Gets Support For Experimental Data Compression On Google’s Servers, Reduces Data Usage By 50% | Frederic Lardinois | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | Google just that it has released a new feature for the that could speed up web browsing and save bandwidth for mobile Chrome users. With this turned on, all your web requests will be routed through Google’s servers, where the company then uses its to compress and optimize the content. The actual connection to t... |
Your Galaxy S IV Will Probably Be Plastic, And That’s For The Best, Says Samsung VP | Chris Velazco | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | We’re just over a week away from the Galaxy S IV’s official unveiling in New York City, and the pieces are starting to fall into place. Sure, we still don’t know what the thing is , but persistent rumors have pegged the device as sporting the same sort of plastic body that Samsung has been (in?)famous for. While she w... |
Pew: Twitter Is A Mainstream Liberal, But A Conservative Wonk | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | Twitter’s liberal bias is no shocker to anyone who saw “Binders Full Of Women” at a . Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s slip-of-the-tongue during a presidential debate instantly became , fueling discussion of conservative gender bias for weeks after the event. Now, delicious new survey data from Pew j... |
Vistar Media Raises $1.5 Million To Bring Real-Time Bidding To Digital Out-Of-Home Ads | Ryan Lawler | 2,013 | 3 | 5 | A new startup called is looking to change the digital out-of-home advertising market by making it more programmatic, more targetable, and more predictive. In other words, it’s hoping to make buying ads on displays outside the home kind of like buying display ads online. Ya dig? Vistar Media was founded by a couple of... |
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