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DARPA Is Using Oculus Rift To Build The ‘Mega Man Battle Network’ Of Cyberwarfare | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | In a surprising amount of futuristic visions of how hacking will work in the future, the experience is immersive, rather than something done hunched over a computer looking at lines of code scroll by. DARPA appears to agree with the full-body submersion vision of hacking’s future, as it’s working on an Oculus Rift-base... |
Google Is Building A Creator-Focused Mobile App, Channel Donations And Crowdsourced Captions | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR8XBZRkkao] Google’s letting YouTube creators know they’re special and important with a new series of videos (via ) to keep the updated on new developments, and the first one reveals some of the upcoming YouTube-focused features the search giant is working on. Among the new d... |
Stash For iPhone Finds The Best Prices For Beauty Products And Personal Care Items, Makes Re-ordering Easy | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | A company called wants to take the hassle out of shopping for beauty and personal care items, while also scouring the web to find the lowest prices and best products, as recommended by experts, including fashion and beauty magazines, websites and blogs. The company has been quietly testing over the past year with a... |
Personal Assistant Startup Fancy Hands Taps New CEO To Focus On Growth | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | , the New York City based startup that lets you book a remote personal assistant to for a flat fee, has hired a new CEO to focus on business partnerships and growth, founder tells TechCrunch. Roden has handed over the CEO role to , who was previously a founder of Amie Street, the online music store and social shar... |
The Kairos Mechanical Smartwatch Blends Tradition And High Tech | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 23 | As a watch fan I’ve seen them all: the Fossils, the Rolexes, the Omegas, and now the . Created by a team of engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs, these watches feature a standard automatic mechanical watch (the kind you wind) behind a tinted crystal that can show notifications right on the surface. How does it work... |
SV Angel Leads Pinterest Financing At A $5 Billion Valuation | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | News broke this afternoon that Pinterest valuing it at $5 billion. We’ve just confirmed that the massive round, which could fund Pinterest until its monetization makes it self-sustaining, was led by none other than . We’d been tipped earlier that Andreessen Horowitz and others had invested with significant particip... |
9 Tech Firms Receive Perfect Scores In EFF Ranking Concerning Data Protection From The Government | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Dropbox were each awarded perfect scores in the (EFF) yearly scoring of major tech companies’ practices when it comes to protecting user data from government eyes. The six companies posted various improvements in the year interval regarding their work to defend user priv... |
ANTVR Is An Open-Source, Cross-Platform Virtual Reality Gaming Kit | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 15 |
Products like the and have revolutionized the gaming landscape by making virtual reality headsets accessible to the average gamer, but they have a major drawback. Each are married to their platforms and only work with a . To address that issue, a hardware startup called has created an open-source, cross-p... |
Circle Emerges From Stealth To Bring Bitcoin To The Masses | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | the bitcoin-based financial services company, is emerging from stealth with a suite of products and services aimed to take bitcoin’s blockchain to mainstream consumers. Since its launch in 2013, Boston-based Circle has been very quiet about its planned offerings based on bitcoin’s exchange technology. Now, as the inte... |
Marketing Exec Ivy Ross Is The New Head Of Google Glass | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | Some significant HR changes at Google Glass we’re hearing. First off is the departure of lead electrical engineer Adrian Wong, Oculus. Second off is the bringing on of Art.com’s Chief Marketing Officer to head the division. The Harvard-trained Ross has a rich, non-tech background, having held several high-level mar... |
Grand Theft Auto III Series Lands On The Fire TV, Kindle Fire | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | There are finally quality games available for the Amazon Fire TV. The entire GTA III series just launched today on Amazon’s Fire platform, finally giving owners a legitimate reason to buy Amazon’s $40 gaming controller and use the box as a casual gaming machine. Up until now, the Fire TV has lacked a must-have game bes... |
Apple Is Testing Promo Codes For In-App Purchases | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | Apple’s app store has let developers create promo codes for ages. It’s also supported In-App purchases for ages. But promo codes in-app purchases? That’s You want to give a user a promo code for a free bag of virtual cat food to feed their virtual cat? But that might be changing! While it doesn’t seem to be a wide... |
Google Glass’ Lead Electrical Engineer Adrian Wong Defects To Oculus | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | Adrian Wong still lists himself as a “professional daydreamer” on LinkedIn, but he’s just left Google[x] where he was a lead electrical engineer on Glass to start “Building the Metaverse” at Oculus VR. Wong had been at Google since December 2010 following a stint at Sandia National Laboratories, but now he’s working at... |
Crazy Dude Builds Fully Automatic Wolverine Claws In His Garage | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | Hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of “Things You Really Probably Shouldn’t Do At Home! Seriously.” Armed with a pinch of ingenuity and a heaping fistful of insanity, garage inventor Colin Furze has recreated Wolverine’s signature claws. They extend! They retract! They… look incredibly dangerous! [youtube http://www... |
Mens’ Personal Shopper Site The Cloakroom Raises €1.2M | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | Online personal shopping has become something of a ‘thing’. In the UK we’d seen the launch of , for instance, which matches you with an online personal shopper. Now is getting in on the act, but aiming at men. This online personal shopping service from Amsterdam launched 11 months ago but has now raised €1.2m from l... |
Watch A Myo-Controlled Humanoid Robot Lay The Groundwork For Real-World ‘Real Steel’ | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8nCyrRMuGU&w=854&h=510] The gesture controller is already in the hands of some early developers, and it’s producing some pretty interesting looks at what might be possible using the gadget. The device is an armband worn on the forearm that detects electrical impulses and trans... |
Here’s The FCC’s Language Asking For Comment On Banning “Pay-For-Priority Service” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | After much sturm und drang, the Federal Communications Commission this morning voted to proceed on a set of controversial net neutrality rules. The proposed regulations now enter a four month comment period. Expect there to be shouting. This morning the FCC voted to move forward with a to collect public response. Mos... |
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Madesquare Turns Square Pictures Into Home Decor Objects | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | You’re reading TechCrunch. So you’re probably heard of FourSquare. Well, now there’s , and, well, other than having square in the name there’s no resemblance. This is an app which takes square photos. But wait… Its iPhone app takes square photos, and then auto-magically turns those into square photo products, which c... |
Is Adding Live Video Mobli’s Last Throw Of The Photo App Dice? | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | , the social-mobile photo and video-sharing app which competes with Instagram and the like, has a major update out today that adds one, single important new feature: live broadcast streaming. The question is, will this be enough to attract the attention of the millions sharing images on Instagram and, now, WhatsApp? m... |
FCC Passes 2015 Spectrum Auction Framework On Party-Line 3-2 Vote | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | Following its historic vote to proceed with new, and contentious net neutrality regulatory proposals, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to approve a framework for its coming spectrum auction, which it calls the ‘Broadcast Television Incentive Auction,’ that will ensure that the largest providers can’t sna... |
Apple’s Podcasts App For iOS Gets Siri And CarPlay Support | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | An update to Apple’s for iPhone and iPad brings Siri integration to the app, as well as support for its new CarPlay mode for in-vehicle entertainment systems. You can can now voice command Podcasts, essentially, or interact with it from your in-car interface with your physical or touchscreen console controls. The app... |
U.S.’ Text-To-911 Service Goes Live, But You Probably Can’t Use It Yet | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | Starting today, all four major U.S. carriers, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint, have begun to offer in select markets. The new service, as the name implies, allows you to reach emergency call takers through text messaging. However, there are a few caveats about this service’s usage, the most important being that th... |
Google Play Store Adds Wallet Rival PayPal As A Payments Option | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | Here is a somewhat surprising move by Google: starting today, the company as a payment option in its Play store in twelve countries, including the U.S., Germany and Canada, as well as While users will be able to buy apps and other digital content with PayPal, the service can’t be used to buy devices and accessories ... |
Are Tech Companies Overvalued? Top Investors Think So | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | Is Winter coming? It may already be here, according to VCs like Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and John Lilly of Greylock. We asked some of the world’s most respected investors about state of valuations at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. The consensus is that public tech company prices soared too close to the sun, and t... |
OpenGov Secures $15M Series B Led By A16Z To Bring Cities’ Financial Data Online | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 15 | , a company that helps cities and other local governments bring their financial data onto the cloud, has picked up a $15 million Series B round of capital, led by Andreessen Horowitz, and participated in by Thrive Capital and Formation 8. Previously, OpenGov had raised around . The company’s product brings years of a ... |
ReShare App Offers International News Articles Translated Into 11 Languages | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | is targeted at news junkies who are tired of relying on Google Translate to read articles from foreign-language publications. Instead, the app offers articles translated into 11 languages by humans. The and was created by , a . After raising a total of , Conyac grew its base of translators from 10,000 to 17,000... |
Inside Jobs: Why The Best Software Engineers Never Stop Learning | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | How often are you so impressed by a website or technology service that you think, “I really want to be a part of that” — so much that you set out to get a job at the company? That’s what happened to Surabhi Gupta, who first became a user of travel accommodations marketplace while she was working as a full-time softwa... |
NSA Allegedly Intercepts Shipments of Servers To Install Spying Backdoors | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | Today in a of his forthcoming book, reports, citing documents from 2010, that the NSA intercepts routers and servers being shipped from the United States overseas and compromises them. The document that the revelation is based on, , will be released tomorrow. Backdooring American technology not only dramatically... |
Original Stitch Is A Shirt Company That Offers 1 Billion Computerized Style Combinations | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | Menswear, like sewage treatment and rabies, needs to be disrupted. I’ve already seen about a dozen folks trying to change the space, most notably Bonobos and Indochino, but no one has quite cracked the “older, odd-shirt-wearing tech dude demographic.” Until now. is a custom shirt generator with a bit of a twist. Inste... |
A Random Walk Down Hardware Alley | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | I’ve been in a lot of alleys and my favorite one is Hardware Alley. Every year at I get to invite a few dozen hardware companies to show off their wares on our show floor. Every year we also get a chance to walk through the alley for a meet and greet where we get to , , and . Without further ado, here’s our visit ... |
Mute Me | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | I remember the moment I fell in love with Twitter. I was crashing on a couch in Portland, Ore., with the guys back in 2008, and we were watching the live stream of a TechCrunch conference. I had joined Twitter the summer before, during my first internship at , but had found it roughly as interesting as sawdust. When ... |
The New Dynamics Of Unicorn Startup Acquisitions | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | The rumors of a possible spread far and wide last week, and rightfully so. It wouldn’t just be the largest acquisition of all time for the 38-year old computer company — dwarfing — but also the seventh billion- or near-billion-dollar “unicorn” acquisition by the major forces in consumer tech in just the last year (... |
Office For iPad Apps Have Racked Up 27M Downloads In 46 Days | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | In just over a month, Office for iPad has picked up another 15 million downloads of its applications. Microsoft reported in early April, and . That’s a massive figure. The apps have for , implying an average daily download rate of . It will be interesting to see where that number rests in another month — how muc... |
Tech Puts Points Back On The Board As Twitter, FireEye And Netflix Surge | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | The recent decline in tech stocks has led to a : The market’s appetite for young tech stocks in late 2013 and early 2014 led to valuation excesses, and the ensuing declines have all but closed the IPO window. Today, in a nice bucking of that trend, beleaguered companies that posted large declines are picking up big ga... |
Google Hangouts In Gmail Gets New Presence Indicators, Improved Search | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | Google is today. It’s not a major new release, but the update brings back the green “availability” bubbles that Google did away with when it replaced Google Talk in Gmail with Hangouts. Instead of the bubbles, Hangouts in Gmail would show a very subtle green line underneath a user’s profile picture when they were a... |
Shortwave Shows Off Anonymous Chat As Another Consumer Use Case For iBeacons | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | Apple’s iBeacons are being all over the place, but they’re slowly becoming more interesting to average users, too. A new app called offers up an everyday use case for iBeacon tech that could prove either terrifying or exciting, depending on your perspective; the software uses iBeacon protocols to turn your iPhone i... |
Heading For A Vote, The FCC’s Spectrum Auction Plan Draws Mixed Reactions | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | AT&T might not be a big fan of the FCC’s plan to reserve some spectrum for smaller carriers in the coming 2015 auction, but that doesn’t mean the effort doesn’t have supporters. Recently, ten Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed endorsing the proposal. In their words, the “proposal to reserv... |
Jason Hirschhorn Goes From Teen Club Promoter To Internet DJ | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | is no stranger to media But before Mischief New Media in his twenties, and before stints at Viacom, MTV, News Corp, and Sling Media, Hirschhorn was a 17 year-old club promoter of the alcohol-free NYC dance club “Club promoting was my first curation job,” Hirschhorn — who a music subscription service to Steve Jo... |
Very Foundation, Much Wow: A Conversation With Dogecoin’s Jackson Palmer | Contributor | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | We discuss the Dogecoin community’s ability to raise money for good (like sending the ), and Jackson’s views on what digital currency will look like in five years. Jackson on how to grow the bitcoin community: “The way to win more people’s hearts and build adoption is to unpeg from get-rich-quick schemes. Unfortun... |
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Researchers Teach A Robot To Catch Flying Objects Like Yogi Berra | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | When the robot uprising begins, don’t try to take on our new overlords by throwing assorted household items at them. It won’t work, man. Meet Ultra-fast, a robotic arm built by researchers at the . By analyzing an object’s shape and trajectory a few hundred times per second and combining that data with the knowledge... |
Twitter Officially Introduces The Mute Button For Android, iPhone And Web | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | Twitter has a new feature for its Android, iPhone and web clients that lets users selectively turn off the posts of certain users they follow, without unfollowing them. Muting the users will stop their posts from showing up in your timeline, including their own posts and native retweets, and it also means you won’t g... |
SalesPredict Lands $4.1M In Series A Funding | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | , a company that helps sales teams find the best customers using predictive analytics, announced $4.1M in Series A funding today. The chief funders in this deal are Yandex and KGC Capital. SalesPredict CEO says the two-year-old company was started by himself and , who is chief technology officer. The two had previous... |
AllTheRooms Lets You Look At All Available Rooms At Your Destination | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | Air travelers have to aggregate flight deals, but once you land you need . Founded by a former Travelocity exec and Morgan Stanley investment banker, the company has raised $1.1 million to help find all the rooms in a particular city. In short, the system scans all potential room sources. They can bring up hotels an... |
Square M&A Lead Rishi Garg Joins Twitter To Head Corp Dev | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | Twitter is on a new head of corporate development — . Garg joined the company from Square, where he headed corporate development for the payments company. Twitter has only its acquisition spend over the past few years so Garg should be kept busy in his new role leading M&A. And of course, he’ll be working on other... |
Nvidia Shield Gets Half-Life 2 And Portal As Valve Classics Get Their Android Moment | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 12 | Nvidia’s has two powerful new titles under its belt today – Half-Life 2 and Portal, both from celebrated developer turned platform creator Valve, and both appearing for the first time on Android. Nvidia worked on these ports with the guidance and blessing of Valve, so they’re understandably exclusive to the graphics ... |
Backed By John Legend, Adventr Allows You To Build Choose Your Own Adventure-Style Videos | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | Startup (pronounced “adventure”) is betting that it can make online video even more addictive with interactivity. For example, here’s — at the beginning, a girl finds a camera in her closet, and you can choose whether she takes it or leaves it. (Trust me on this one — it’s a lot more interesting if you take the cam... |
Tracour Locks Up $335K To Help Uncover The Best Financial Analysts | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | , a company building a web-based tool to track analyst rankings of stocks, has raised a $335,000 seed round of funding. The company expects to enter a beta period in July. The modest seed round was led by , and participated in by angel . The company performs two key functions: tracks financial ratings information in ... |
Conductor Says It Wants To “End” Ads And Turn “Web Presence Management” Into A Real Thing | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | first built its business (and ) by helping companies improve their search engine rankings. Now it’s pursuing broader ambitions with the launch of a new product, and some new catchphrases, to go with it. The big goal, according to co-founder and CEO Seth Besmertnik, is to “end paid media.” He pointed to showing that... |
All The Important Stuff From TechCrunch Disrupt NY | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | So what happened at ? With 25 panels, 27 startup demos, and a hackathon, TechCrunch’s annual gathering in New York produced plenty of news, insight, and controversy. Even if you were there in person it was a lot to process, so we’ve compiled a Cliff’s Notes for the conference. For starters, here’s a supercut of the be... |
Google Will Now Sell Glass To Anyone In The US Who Wants It, Indefinitely | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | With surprisingly little fanfare, Google has gone ahead and opened up Google Glass sales to anyone and everyone in the US, indefinitely. If you’ve got $1,500 and the desire, Google is down to sell you a pair of robo-glasses until they run out of stock. But before we go and call this the “public launch” of Google Glass,... |
NSA Docs Detail Efforts To Collect Data From Microsoft’s Skype, SkyDrive, And Outlook.com | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | Last July, Glenn Greenwald regarding a number of Microsoft services that were, especially at the time, unsettling: That Microsoft had helped the NSA “circumvent its encryption” relating to web chat on Outlook.com, that it had worked with the FBI to bring OneDrive (then called SkyDrive) into better fit with PRISM, and... |
Yahoo Acquires Self-Destructing Messaging App Blink, Which Will Soon Disappear | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | , a mobile messaging application that lets users share self-destructing messages, has been acquired by Yahoo, TechCrunch has confirmed. The app competed in an increasingly crowded space alongside Snapchat, of course, but also newer entrants like , , , and others. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. All seven Blink... |
ISPs Claim That If The FCC Reclassifies The Internet As A Utility, “Paid Prioritization” Wouldn’t Be Banned | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | In a letter signed by a swath of broadband CEOs, the ISP industry pushed back against the idea of reclassifying Internet service into a Title II utility, under which it could be more heavily regulated. Private companies pushing back against increased potential regulation is no surprise, but some of the claims that the ... |
TC Cribs: A Stroll Through Shutterstock, Up Sky High In The Empire State Building | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | For today’s episode of , we crossed the continent and headed to New York City to check out the headquarters of online stock photography powerhouse . Fittingly, Shutterstock has created its home in one of Manhattan’s most picturesque places, the Empire State Building. The recently renovated office, which takes up two ... |
New Snowden Docs Highlight “Weaknesses” In Facebook Data Security | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | Journalist Glenn Greenwald released from “the Snowden archive” today to coincide with the publication of his book . Those documents include a presentation from Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) about obtaining user data from Facebook. The presentation is titled, “Exploiting Facebook traffic in ... |
The Gi-Bike Is Electric, Foldable, And Looks Like The Future | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | When I head into the future in my magical time machine, I’m going to want to bring a few things with me. One of those things is a Rambo knife. Also a CD of . And also the . Created by adopted New Yorkers Agustin Agustinoy, Eric Sevillia, and Lucas Toledo, the Gi-Bike is a foldable electric bike aimed at creating simp... |
Julep Is Heading To iPhone With App That Lets You Customize A Monthly Box Of Beauty Products | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | , the beauty brand whose nail polish shades are virtually is today launching its own personalized subscription-based “box of the month” club, as something of an alternative to quasi-competitor Birchbox. While the latter helped pioneer the concept of monthly boxes shipped to your home on an automatic basis, Julep’s box... |
Coatue Adds Top Goldman Tech Banker | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | Multi-billion dollar hedge fund investor Coatue is getting a new, heavy-hitting talent with the addition of former Goldman Sachs investment banker Anthony Noto, TechCrunch can confirm. News of the move by the former global co-head of technology, media, and telecommunications at Goldman Sachs to the hedge fund investor ... |
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Outlook.com Bests Gmail’s Filters With A New Inbox Automation System | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | Microsoft’s Outlook.com a new method for users to create complex “rules” for how to handle email today — think of them as similar to IFTTT recipes for your inbox — along with a number of quality-of-life improvements. Outlook.com has been a success for Microsoft. When Microsoft completed the Hotmail transition roughly... |
Judge Strikes Down NY Attorney General’s Subpoena In Airbnb Case For Being Overly Broad | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | Airbnb received some good news in New York today, as the State Supreme Court quashed a subpoena issued by the attorney general there. The decision puts an end to the first part of a legal battle there between the peer-to-peer lodging marketplace and local officials. Last fall, the NY AG’s office related to hosts in a... |
Microsoft Improves Windows Store Navigation And Discovery, But Pricing Pitfalls Loom | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | Microsoft wants its to be the main gateway for buying apps on its platform, but the store was always hard to navigate, and the quality of the apps in it is often dismal. Today, Microsoft is launching an update to the store that tries to fix some of these issues. In addition, it introduces a couple of novel features m... |
The Case For Censorship In The New Social Age | Geoff Yang | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | Intellectuals for centuries have campaigned against censorship. From Ben Franklin to John F. Kennedy to Justice Earl Warren, the argument has been much the same: Censorship is antithetical to democracy. More recently, megastar Jay-Z reiterated the point in his 2011 book, , writing simply that “we change people through... |
Fly Or Die: Garmin Vivofit | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | The Garmin is the company’s answer to the relatively new craze around wearable fitness trackers. After all, Garmin became relatively useless after every smartphone in the world got access to Google Maps with a GPS chip. Except for their sportswear, which is what we’re focusing on today with the Vivofit. Like most f... |
Google Glass Aims To Entice Travelers With New TripIt, Foursquare, And OpenTable Integrations | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | A day after Google announced that , the company is unveiling some new “Glassware” (basically, Google Glass apps) that’s supposed to be particularly useful for travelers. This isn’t the first travel-related Glassware. last fall, so if you saw a sign written a language that you didn’t understand, Word Lens could super... |
Now Processing $2B Annually, Swipely Adds Support For Multi-Location Businesses | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | , a company that helps physical merchants collect credit card payments and market to their customers, now processes $2 billion in annual sales for its customers, it told TechCrunch. The company released the figure in conjunction with new product features that will allow its product to be used by businesses that have mu... |
OpenDNS Raises $35M From Cisco For Its Cloud-Based Enterprise Network Security As A Service | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | Cloud-based enterprise network security company has raised $35 million in Series C funding from Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Glynn Capital, Cisco, Evolution Equity, Lumia Capital, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Northgate Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $53 million. Founded... |
MakerBot Patents An Automatic Filament Switching System While Parent Company Stratasys Enjoys A Financial Bump | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | A patent shows that the company is working on a dual-filament solution that can change print colors on the fly. By leading the filaments through the heated extruder using a sort of “slider” system, the patent suggests that future MakerBots should be able to change colors mid-print, a vast improvement over current dua... |
Monk’s Hill Ventures Launches $80M Early-Stage Fund For Asian Startups | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | Though there are many promising startup ecosystems in Asia, founders there have to cope with a lack of venture capital funding and mentorship. hopes to address those challenges with a $100 million SGD (about $80 million) fund that will provide early-stage funding and guidance from experienced entrepreneurs, including... |
Comcast Wants To Put Data Caps On All Customers Within 5 Years | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | If you’re a Comcast customer living in one of the many states where they’ve imposed no real limits on bandwidth usage for the last few years… enjoy it while it lasts. During an ( ), Comcast executive VP David Cohen said that he predicts bandwidth caps (or, as ISPs prefer to put it, “usage-based billing”) to be rolled... |
There’s An Upcoming TV Show Called Selfie And I Hate Everything About It | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5-9qDF36I4&w=560&h=315] So, have you heard about these things called “selfies”?
What? No.
Didn’t you watch ?
Are you kidding me? That thing’s like six hours long.
It was on ABC.
… Your point being?
Uh, anyway, they’re a huge deal now. .
Let’s assume that ... |
Health Data Startup SolveBio Raises $2M From A16Z, Max Levchin, SV Angel, And Other Investors | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 13 | Even though is becoming increasingly accessible, it is still difficult to glean helpful information from an individual’s DNA. That is because there is a lack of reference data compiled from other people’s DNA. Most reference data is currently curated by academic institutions and is often compiled in different formats,... |
Former About.com CEO Darline Jean Joins Ad Tech Company PulsePoint | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | , a startup offering tools for automated ad-buying and selling, announced today that it has hired Darline Jean as its chief operating officer. Jean spent the past decade at , which she joined as vice president of finance in 2003. She also served as the company’s chief finance officer and chief operating officer before... |
Airbnb’s NY Battle Continues, With Attorney General’s Office Issuing A New Subpoena | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | won yesterday, but the AG’s office hasn’t given up. Airbnb was , with Schneiderman seeking records on all hosts in New York. A judge in the state Supreme Court struck down the subpoena, siding with Airbnb’s argument that it was “overbroad.” However, the AG’s office responded that would reissue the subpoena in a way... |
Contextly Launches Its Editorial Tools To Find “Related Content” That’s Actually Related | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | If you’re tired of seeing “related content” widgets that are full of links that are, at best, kinda, sorta related, a startup called is trying to make things better. The company was founded in 2012 and aimed, , to create online publishing tools that were “actually designed by journalists, rather than marketers or ad... |
Betaworks-Backed Giphy Launches Gif Link Shortener For Twitter And Facebook | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | , the betaworks-backed search engine for gifs, has released a brand new tool that makes sharing gifs on social networks even easier and more efficient. is a search platform that is based entirely around gifs, with so that creators can get more exposure and easy sharing tools for social media. However, without in-li... |
Bid To Meet With SV Angel, First Round Capital And Others In VC Auction For Cancer Charity | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | Getting a meeting with a top venture capitalist is tough unless you’ve got the right connections. For all the talk of meritocracy around product development, raising money is still a bit of an old boy’s club. The is offering chances to break into the club house with today’s launch of its 5th Annual VC Auction. Meetin... |
Flappy Bird Creator Promises Game’s Return – With Multiplayer And Fewer Addictive Qualities | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | It’s Episode XVII of the , and this time the formerly recalcitrant (he’s on a media tour at the moment) creator of the addictive game is promising the game’s return, eventually, complete with multiplayer. Nguyen told CNBC’s Kelly Evans the news on the network’s program today, albeit with the caveat that the game wou... |
Fab Unveils Private-Label Products And A Physical Showroom In NYC | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | Senior executives at design-oriented e-commerce startup are in the midst of in a series of strategy meetings this week. But that’s not stopping it from moving forward with a bold new initiative to introduce a series of private-label and exclusive products for its customers. In an , Fab introduced the first wave of... |
MakerBot Scores Sesame Street As The First Big Partner In Its 3D Printing Store | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | If MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis’ dreams come true, we’ll one day see a 3D printer in every home. And when you’ve got a 3D printer in every home, what do you need? Things to print, of course. A few months back, MakerBot for premium 3D printable objects — sort of like an iTunes for 3D printing, if you will. MakerBot put up ... |
Share The Music With The Wearhaus ARC | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | True story: a few years ago I was in the East Village when I heard the disco version of the Superman theme playing loudly. A man on a skateboard was riding back and forth, around and around, blaring the Superman theme for all and sundry, sharing the horns of John Williams’ most uplifting hymn with the world (to a disco... |
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Clever Kinect Hack Brings This Guy’s Full Body Into Virtual Reality | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | It’s one thing to bring your mind into virtual reality. Get some snazzy VR goggles in front of your eyes, bump the framerate up high enough — bam, you’re a good part of the way there. But bringing your into the mix? Thats a whole different challenge. Crack that one, and you’ve got yourself a holodeck. It’s far from p... |
Ask Pinterest Anything? Site Tests Q&A Feature | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | , , (sometimes to ), and others have looked to question-and-answer services as a way to boost user engagement and advance conversations. Now another player could be entering the fray: Pinterest has confirmed to us it is testing out a new Q&A feature, too. “We’re always gathering feedback from Pinners to make Pins m... |
Windows XP’s Enterprise Market Share Slips Under 10% | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | According to security firm , Windows XP’s market share among enterprise-level corporations has slipped under the 10 percent mark, falling from 10 percent in April to “close to” 8 percent in May. This matters given that Windows XP is now , as Microsoft has ceased to support and patch the more than decade-old operating... |
House GOP Leadership Calls For FCC To Abandon Proposed Net Neutrality Regulation | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | Ahead of tomorrow’s vote on the consideration of new net neutrality rules, House GOP leaders today published to the FCC’s Chairman Tom Wheeler, pushing back against regulating the Internet, especially in the context of reclassifying broadband access as a utility on Title II authority. Their letter is perhaps expected... |
The Sure Chill Company Raises Gates Money To Store Vaccines Anywhere | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 5 | 14 | One in five children who need vaccinations can’t get them. And while that fact is neither startling nor incomprehensible, it is tragic. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent several years and millions of dollars trying to cure the diseases that afflict children unnecessarily in the world’s poorest countries, bu... |
YOYO Holdings Snags $1.3M For Its Prepaid Mobile Consumer Survey Platform | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | , a rewards platform that targets prepaid mobile phone users in developing economies, has secured $1.3 million in funding from Japanese venture capital firms GREE Ventures, CyberAgent Ventures, and Incubate Fund. Based in Singapore, YOYO Holdings operates a reward platform called which is similar to sites like Swagbu... |
DoorDash Raises $17.3 Million From Sequoia To Expand Its On-Demand Delivery Service | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | is one of many on-demand food-delivery startups to crop up over the past few years, but the company has big ambitions to move beyond food. Thanks to new investor Sequoia Capital, it has a sizable war chest to go after the competition. The company just raised a $17.3 million Series A round of funding led by Sequoia, wi... |
Researchers Plug Google’s Project Tango Into A Drone To Let It Fly Itself Around A Room | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | Remember ? Google’s crazy project to add 3D environment mapping abilities to a smartphone? Yeah, someone just went ahead and took the next logical step: they plugged it into a drone. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania managed to get their hands on a prototype Tango device, and quickly strapped it into their... |
Pentagon Report Calls Scope Of Snowden Leaks “Staggering,” Their Impact “Grave” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | The , that mix of consciousness raising and potential legal reform of government surveillance, has another side to it: the impact of Snowden’s revelations on those revealed. The Guardian heavily redacted parts of a on the matter, two elements of which are worth reviewing. The report does not detail the impact of w... |
GuideSpark Rolls Out New Platform To Serve Up HR Video To Phones And Tablets | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | , a Menlo Park-based startup that provides employers with customizable video templates for conveying what would normally be incredibly boring HR paperwork, is rolling out a new platform for smoothly delivering its content on phones and tablets. In addition to enabling access to bite-sized explainer videos on topics lik... |
Apple’s Beats Deal Is Happening, And It’s A Dre Acquihire | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | : Apple on May 28th. A well-placed source has confirmed rumors that Apple’s acquisition of Beats “is happening” but was close to falling apart multiple times. The source said with “70% certainty” that Apple’s planned multi-billion-dollar acquisition of headphone maker Beats will go through. But Apple isn’t buying Be... |
The EFF Blasts Twitter For Censoring Itself In Russia And Pakistan | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today for censoring itself in Russia and Pakistan, stating that the company has stepped “down from the free speech party.” The EFF’s argument is simple: Twitter’s decision to censor content on a country-by-country basis was the “least terrible option” available to it, provided... |
Apple Wants Beats Music Because Transitioning iTunes To Streaming Could Kill Download Sales | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | : Apple on May 28th. Why would Apple buy Beats when it could just evolve iTunes into a streaming music service? Well, it of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. But according to a source with direct knowledge of iTunes’ executive strategy, by buying and operating an external streaming service like Beats, Apple can coin off a... |
HP Shares Dip As FQ2 ’14 Revenue Disappoints | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | Today HP’s earnings earlier than expected, with the company reporting a second quarter revenue tally of $27.3 billion, and earnings per share (non-GAAP) or $0.88. The market had expected the company to report higher revenue of $27.41 billion. Following the disappointment, HP shares fell several points before resurrec... |
Foursquare Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai Joins Expa Startup Studio As NY Partner | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | Foursquare co-founder is joining the startup studio, by former Uber and StumbleUpon founder . Selvadurai joins Expa as a partner focused on New York operations for the organization, which is not to be confused with your standard accelerator, incubator, or investment firm. Instead, Expa runs much more similarly t... |
California Will Start Granting Licenses For Driverless Cars In September | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | need a license to drive a car. But does a robot? For now, yes. Come September, the California Department of Motor Vehicles will begin granting licenses to select driverless cars and their human co-pilots, which will make it a bit less legally iffy as to whether or not they’re actually allowed to be on a public road. T... |
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