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mDialog Enables In-Stream Ads For Roku Content Partners | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | Whenever you’re dealing with premium video content that’s going to be distributed online, the most important question is always about money. Or, rather, how exactly the TV show or film you’re distributing is actually going to make any. Case in point: YouTube Mobile didn’t have any of VEVO’s music videos for months desp... |
"Squirrels" And 100 Other Reasons Why Tumblr Is Down | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | With recently experiencing a and a reported of service reliability, there are plenty of jokes about the microblogging service’s downtime (most I’ve heard have at least a tenuous WikiLeaks connection). Here’s the most elaborate Tumblr satire piece yet: Go to and hit refresh. Hit refresh again, and again. Creat... |
HubSpot Heating Up, Sequoia And Google Ventures Looking To Invest | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | Digital marketing startup is close to closing a new round of financing, we’ve confirmed, that may put a valuation on the company in the $200 million range. is likely to invest, we’ve heard from multiple sources. And , which has recently shown an increased willingness to invest in later stage funding rounds, is rum... |
Boo.ly's browser add-on aims to take the friction out of online shopping | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | , which launched in late December last year, is another attempt at making online shopping more efficient. It takes the form of a browser plugin that supercharges searches on the likes of Google, Bing and Amazon (and a host of other online retailers) to offer on-the-fly price comparisons from a database of 10,000 mercha... |
You Still Can't Comment On Path Pictures, But Now You Can Virtually Wink At Them | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | One thing that intrigues me about is that they’re attempting to do things by thinking outside the box. There are too many services, especially in the mobile photo-sharing space right now, that are basically doing the exact same things. Path isn’t. And this opens them up to some . And today’s latest feature could ver... |
Twitter Is Now Available In Korean, Its Seventh Language | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | As of today Twitter users in North and South Korea Twitter.com, the mobile site and the iPhone and Android apps in Korean characters. Twitter has partnered with Korean web portal Daum to display Korean tweets on its homepage and Korean telcom service LG+ to make Twitter available on SMS. Twitter co-founder , who is ... |
Apple's iPad Business Now Bigger Than MacBook Business. Next Up: Entire Mac Business | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | Apple had a lot of big numbers to share during today. And while the biggest unsurprisingly belonged to the iPhone, the iPad numbers are also very, very impressive. How impressive? The iPad business is already a bigger business than Apple’s portable computer business. That includes MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and MacBook ... |
Apple's Cook On iPad/Mac Relationship: “If This Is Cannibalization, It Feels Pretty Good.” | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | During the earnings call following Apple’s , a questions was asked about Apple’s Mac business as it relates to the iPad business. The iPad business, after all, is growing much faster (and just the Apple portable computer business in terms of revenue). So is it affecting the Mac business by eating into it? “ ,” Apple... |
Apple Analysts Are Very Well Trained. Not One Asked About Jobs' Health. | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 18 | Apple just finished its quarterly earnings call a day after announcing that CEO Steve Jobs is taking a of absence. Yet not one Wall Street analyst on the call asked a singel question about Jobs well-being or even when investors might expect to learn more about the situation. It is as if the analysts knew that no su... |
DLD11: Boticca is breaking the back of intercontinental designer jewellery sales (TCTV) | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 27 | , which launched out of London , is an ecommerce startup which creates a marketplace for limited edition designer original jewellery and other accessories. Created by former associate and co-founder it’s in a similar space to and , but emphasises design, especially creating an emotional connection between it... |
Wi-Fi Flip Camera Hits FCC, Launches In May? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 27 |
We’ve heard for a while now that Cisco plans to put out a Flip camera with wi-fi built in, but so far the rumors haven’t produced an actual product. The FCC has at a new digital video camera from Cisco that has 802.11a/b/g/n support. The confidentiality request asks that setup photos remain confidential May 1st, so... |
Excuse Our Dust – We're Migrating To Disqus | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 27 |
We’ve had more or less the same comment system since the early days of CrunchGear, but what with the switching over to Disqus and our own system creaking under the weight of tens of thousands of posts, we’ve decided the time is right to make the switch. If there are some issues with your comments over the next day o... |
That's Two Million Galaxy Tabs Served | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 27 |
Good for Samsung! Although I can’t say I’d advise anyone to buy one of these devices, the probably was the best (if not the most affordable) of the 2010 stopgap generation of tablets. The sales of the iPad dwarf this, of course (nearly 8 million in the same period), but hey, like they say, first is worst, second i... |
DLD11: Mendeley now indexing 60 million research papers (TCTV) | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 27 | , dubbed “the Last.fm of research”, is on a roll right now. The startup offers a secure online database for scientists, academics and researchers to store their research papers in the ‘cloud’, making it easier to share those documents with peers. The system also helps researchers find and connect to like-minded academi... |
Five Reasons The PSP2 Won't Succeed | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 27 |
Sony has (temporarily named the “Next Generation Portable”), perhaps the final boss of handheld consoles. It’s far more powerful than its destined competitor, Nintendo’s 3DS, and incorporates social and locational data, 3G, a monster 5″ OLED screen, and a number of other features . It is to be one of the linchpin p... |
StackMob Is 'Heroku For Mobile'. And Proud Of It. And Potentially Just As Huge. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 27 | It was almost exactly two years ago that a company called . At the time, the Y Combinator startup was little more than a good idea: ease the development and deployment process a lot of other startups face by putting it in the cloud. Last month, Salesforce bought them for . It’s no wonder that a new startup, , does... |
17x17x17 Puzzle Cube Makes Rubik’s Look Like Child’s Play | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 27 |
So, you’re a big Rubik’s cube buff. Can solve any cube in five minutes, think people who can’t are fools? Well, sounds like you need a new challenge. How about this by puzzle designer Oskar van Deventer, and printed using ? Should keep you busy for a few years. Too bad it costs |
ScreenReach raises £500,000 for its Screach app and platform for smartphones | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 27 | , maker of the Screach app and accompanying platform for creating interactive experiences on smartphones, has raised a second round of funding: £500,000 from Hotspur Capital Partners. This follows earlier investment from Tom Maxfield, a founder of , shortly after ScreenReach from the . The new funds announced today... |
Sony Wins Restraining Order Against Geohot, Updates PS3 Firmware To 3.56 In Effort To Stop Hacking | Nicholas Deleon | 2,011 | 1 | 27 | owners will be prompted to update their system to today. Why is that? Hmm, could it possibly have something to do with Sony trying to prevent your from ? Yes, obviously. (“This is a minor update that adds a security patch.”) If you update your system say goodbye to being able to hack your PS3 to pieces… for now, at... |
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Hands-On Gallery: The LG Optimus 2X | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 27 | You hear that thumping? That’s my heart a-pitter-patterin’ over just what got dropped off at MobileCrunch HQ: the world’s first dual-core smartphone, . It’ll be a few days before I’ve had enough time with this device to weigh in with our official review — but in the mean time, enjoy our humble gallery of hands-on stil... |
Microsoft Sold 8 Million Kinects In 60 Days | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 27 | Microsoft earnings just got 10 minutes before market close, and aside from growing revenues 5% in the 2nd quarter to $19.95 Billion, their slides reveal some interesting numbers on their entertainment and gaming unit, mainly that they sold 8 million Kinects in the two months since launch. Said Peter Klien about the K... |
Razer Releases Special "Black Edition" Of My Favorite Mouse, The Death Adder | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 27 |
When I look back over all the mice I’ve reviewed in my time, one particular thing always comes to mind: “What the hell are you doing with your life?” But then I get over it, dry my tears, and continue thinking about how many mice come and go, but there are a few that still stand out as the best. The Death Adder is one... |
Egypt Situation Gets Worse, People Reporting Internet And SMS Shutdown | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 27 | The world is watching in shock at the moment as continue to flood in of Egyptian protests mounting and the government pre-emptively striking back before tomorrow’s planned demonstrations by cutting off the nation’s Internet connection, along with access to social media services like Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry. ... |
Zynga Close To Acquiring Whereoscope, The App That Lets You Track Your Kids | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 27 | Back in August we a Y Combinator-funded company called that helps parents keep tabs on their kids using a location-aware smartphone application. Now we’re hearing that the startup is about to be acquired by a company that’s in an entirely different space: Zynga. Our understanding is that a term sheet has been signe... |
Facebook Shares Dip 7% In Most Recent SecondMarket Auction | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 27 | Facebook shares were being traded at $28.26 per share, a $70 billion valuation. In this week’s auction at SecondMarket the per share price declined just over 7%, to $26.25, a $65.5 billion valuation with around 2.5 billion shares outstanding. That’s a $5 billion decline in valuation. 670,000 shares were sold for a tot... |
Why Bullpen Capital Thinks We Need Another Venture Fund (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | The decade-long glut of funding in the venture business is finally getting unwound as LPs get choosier and choosier about which venture funds to keep backing. Meanwhile, venture capitalists slogging it out with the new breed of super angels, striving to get in the hottest deals at remotely reasonable prices would proba... |
Formspring Closes $11.5 Million Round, Launches 'Respond' Button | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | One of the biggest phenomena of last year was , a social site that lets you invite your friends to “Ask you anything”. The site launched in November 2009 and rose from obscurity to some 40 million monthly uniques at its peak (it’s currently at around 22.2 million monthly uniques according to ). Today, the company is ... |
Silicon Valley Migrates! Accel Partners Opens Up A New York Office | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | In what is the first but certainly not the last time we’ll hear of Silicon Valley venture capitalists opening up an office in New York, storied venture firm and Facebook/Groupon backer has opened a New York outpost at 11th and Broadway. This will be the second US location for Accel, which has offices in Bangalore, Be... |
More on that Void Between Super Angels and VCs (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | Earlier we did a post about a called that seeks to fill the void between super angels, who invest up to $1 million, and VCs who want to invest $5 million or more. Since the firm’s deal flow will come mostly from super angels, it’ll likely be investing in categories where lean startup rules apply. But that’s more th... |
Revox M100 Modular HiFi Lets You Configure Parts Before You Buy | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 11 |
This system isn’t itself new, but I think they only actually started selling them recently. Either way, what really matters is that you can make your stereo look like the French Flag, or the Enterprise. Go ahead, (or ). Cost? Probably about a gazillion dollars. [via ] |
Pygmy Motorcyles Made From Lighter Parts | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 11 |
I love these twee little things! And apparently, all you need is two lighters you can get for a buck each at your local corner store/bodega. They’re not drivable, though, unless you’re Tom Thumb. I dub them . I suppose you could figure out how to make these with a little trial and error (and glue), but I don’t think ... |
OMG/JK: The Verizon iPhone And The End Of An Era | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | We’re approaching an end of an era. A time when MG Siegler, my cohost on , will no longer be forced to on a daily basis. Soon, he will be equipped with a phone that will actually be able to make phone calls. And will be able to breathe a little easier. Because soon, MG — and millions of other people — will have ... |
Is Naming Your Startup "Hipster" Genius Or Terrible? | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 11 |
Is it just me or is everyone and their skinny jeans wearing, MGMT-listening mothers a nowadays? Nowhere is this more than in tech (thanks ). And behold, the latest sign of the tech hipster-ocalypse, a startup actually called The company is in “stealth” mode and asking people not to say what they do publicly. But... |
Spotify who? We7 to launch first in Ireland next week | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | , the UK music streaming service, is launching in Ireland next Monday, MusicWeek and we can now confirm. This is interesting not only because it’s the first time We7 has ventured beyond its native shores but also because , which until very recently was seen as a direct rival, has yet to launch in said country. The m... |
GameCrush's Crush-O-Matic Blends Chatroulette With Online Gaming | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | is launching its own take on the Chatroulette-like experience today with Crush-O-Matic. The new service is a random game generator where users simply click “Go!” and automatically get matched up with another user in a two-way cam-enabled game session. As we we in our initial review of GameCrush, the startup aims t... |
M9 Defense Raises $1.4 Million For Advanced Hydroforming Technology | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | A Seattle-area materials science company, , raised $1.4 million in a series A round, a new SEC filing revealed. According to the company’s website: its core product, Boroclave presses, use hydroforming technology to mass-produce ballistic and non-ballistic composites. The company claims the composites it uses have th... |
Is That A Call Of Duty: Black Ops Jeep? | Nicholas Deleon | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | And here’s another non-iPhone story to sorta cleanse the pallet. (We recognize that not necessarily goes nuts over , but today is just one of those days.) Recognize ? You will if you’ve played , the Big Mac of the gaming world. It’s on display at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Simple and cl... |
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So Google, You'll Be Dropping Support For Flash Next, Right? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | Do you smell that? Just wait a second. You will. Though H.264 plays an important role in video, , support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies. The bolding is mine, but that’s as to why they’re dropping support for the H.264 video codec from the Chromium... |
Bitterness, Anger And Betrayal At MySpace | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | An email from a reader claiming to be a MySpace employee about the that left half of the company out of work. These things are part of life, but the bitterness, anger and feeling of betrayal are striking. As recently as Nov 18th, Mike Jones, the now CEO of Myspace, sat in front of the entire company, thanking them fo... |
Museum Files $2 Million Suit Against Guy For Taking Pictures There | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | Well well, I think we can safely file this one under frivolous. Photographer Thomas Hawk visited the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami, with his camera of course, and took a few photos during his stay. A guard asked him whether he was making a book, and Hawk said no. He later put the pictures up on . Not long after, th... |
Viridity Energy Raises $14 Million To Turn Power Consumers Into Producers | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | A Pennsylvania startup Viridity Energy drew a series B investment of $14 million from Braemar Energy Ventures and Intel Capital, the company reported today. Founded in 2008, offers “distributed demand management software, systems and services,” that can turn very energy-consuming businesses into producers and seller... |
Last Week, IE Was The Top Browser On TechCrunch. Wait, What? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 11 | In late November of last year, we noted a changing of the guard: amongst TechCrunch readers, ending the of Firefox in the pole position. And since then, Chrome has actually widened its lead. In the past 30 days, it’s a full 2 percentage points ahead of Firefox now. And that lead continues to grow. But something rea... |
Verizon Gets The iPad Too | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 11 |
More trouble for AT&T as Apple’s best-selling tablet leaves their roost. The , which has only ever been able to connect directly to AT&T, will soon do so with Verizon. You could buy an add-on before now that would let this happen, but who wants that? Businessweek that there would be a strictly Verizon version of th... |
The Future Version Of Android Isn't Called Ice Cream. It's Ice Cream SANDWICH. | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 11 |
It’s tough being a tech journalist. Countless phone calls, mountains of email, endless warring with legions of trolls. Really, you’ve got to be pretty hardcore to do this job. It’s a wonder we ever get any posts up. Which is my half-hearted explanation as to why it’s taken me this long to reveal the truth about someth... |
Zuckerberg On SNL: "I Invented Poking" [Video] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 29 |
star Jesse Eisenberg hosted “Saturday Night Live” tonight and opened the show talking about the movie’s impressive Oscar nominations. The monologue then switched to video of actual Facebook CEO watching his two “Berg” doppelgangers backstage, “ Watch the whole “Awkberg” skit, above. Via /
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OMG/JK: Massive Google Fragments (And An iPod Nano Watch!) | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 29 | This week’s episode of , the show I do on alongside Jason Kincaid, is all Google all the time. So just to even things out a bit, we kick things off by showing off my awesome new TikTok iPod nano wristwatch. For those who don’t remember, this is the result of the most Kickstarter project . We then dive into the ... |
90% of Y Combinator Startups Have Already Accepted The $150k Start Fund Offer | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 29 | the 43 startups in the most recent Y Combinator class got quite a surprise. , a new fund created by DST’s as an individual and , offered each of the companies a $150,000 investment in the form of a convertible note with no cap and no discount. Most of these companies are still in stealth mode, and Start Fund hasn’... |
The Googlers Behind Pubsubhubbub Are Back At It With Camlistore. Open Sync, Store, Share | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 29 | You may recall that back in the summer of 2009, there was a lot of hubbub over a Google 20 percent project with a near impossible name: . Creators and actually it at our Realtime Stream CrunchUp back then. And it garnered a lot of buzz for a good reason: it aimed to speed up traditionally slow feeds of informati... |
Kevin Rose Invests In Facebook On SecondMarket | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 29 | and have made a co-investment in Facebook on the secondary market. In this posted this week, Rose announces that he and Ferris recently invested in Facebook “before the craziness.” We’ve embedded the video below; Rose talks about the investment just after the 34 minute mark. We confirmed with Rose that he and Fe... |
Explaining The Internet In 1994 | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 29 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nTPX4JW_Ts&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3] Here we see Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric trying to explain the Internet in 1994. Did we ever really dress like that? |
Gillmor Gang 1.29.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 1 | 29 | What started as what we were having for lunch has emerged as a worldwide message bus, whether by tweet or friend to friend, search, or gesture. And as the media tries to capture the speed of realtime, the incredible scope and power of the global network has never seemed more fragile and yet sturdy in its robust elast... |
Silhouetter Improves Your iPhone Photos By Removing The Ugly Detail | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 29 |
Can’t stand superficial detail? Overwhelmed by samsara? Why not strip out false detail and turn your world into the wall of Plato’s cave, flickering shadows portraying the world as it really is: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Silhouetter is a 99 cent app that flattens and silhouet... |
When The Drones Come Marching In | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 1 | 29 | Way back in the 1970s, hardware-hacker hobbyists built kit computers like the — and in doing so paved the way for the computer revolution that would reshape every facet of modern life. Today the same breed of people are and kit flight controllers for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Just sayin’. Drones are far fr... |
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Meetup feels the wrath of the crowd after radical changes | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 29 | , a long time go-to place to create local online groups, has undergone a major re-launch in the past day. However, it may have missed a trick: not consulting the meetup organizers who pay through the nose for the service. There now appears to be something of a revolt going on amongst some organisers, who are vociferous... |
Awards In Hand, The Social Network Filmmakers Heap Praise On Zuckerberg | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 16 | One of the standout scenes at in happens in the first five minutes of the movie. Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) is sitting in a bar with boyfriend Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) when she says the following to him: You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re going to go through life thi... |
'The Social Network' Wins Golden Globe Awards For Best Picture, Screenplay, Director, Score | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 16 | After being for a number of awards at this year’s Golden Globe awards ceremony, ‘The Social Network’ nabbed Best Picture (in the drama category), Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin), Score (Trent Reznor), and Director (David Fincher). Those are all significant categories for the awards ceremony, with the movie garnering more ... |
Daily Crunch: Snow Day Edition | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 1 | 29 | |
Blog Fight Rules Of Engagement | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 16 | Blog fights happen. Sometimes for attention, but most of the time because someone is really pissed off about something. And don’t count out big media, they too when they feel it. No one’s ever written down any rules for blog fights that I know of. But there are some unspoken rules and guidelines. Here are a few core ... |
A Twitter Snapshot Of The Tunisian Revolution: Over 196K Mentions Of Tunisia, Reaching Over 26M Users | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 16 | After four weeks of civil unrest, the fall of the Tunisian president Ben Ali played out for all the world on Twitter this Friday, dubbing it a “Twitter Revolution” like the election protests in Iran and Moldovia. Increasingly, collective events from TV shows to the World Cup to to the fall of dictatorships cause spi... |
Yahoo Hasn't Updated Their Oscars Site Since March 2010 | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 16 | There seem to be a lot of Yahoo properties that no one pays any attention to at all. We that Yahoo kept their Halloween content up past that holiday, for example. There was the where a blog post saying the site wasn’t going offline was offline because the site had been taken down. Now, we’ve noticed, site hasn’t ... |
Fujifilm X100 Gets Priced, But Not Dated | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 16 |
My pick for just , and although the price is certainly high ($1199), it must be acknowledged that the is a unique camera, and very possibly an excellent one. Fujifilm is known for powerful sensors, the whole device was engineered as a whole, the lens is fast, the viewfinder magical, and so on. Yeah, you could buy... |
Asmyco: Each iOS Device Has Downloaded More Than 60 Apps | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 16 |
the Helsinki-based app developer / industry analysis advisory firm founded and led by a longtime Nokia manager, has just a new report on its blog with notewrthy data on the increase in iOS downloads by device. The company reports that more than 60 apps have been downloaded for every iOS device sold. That’s up from... |
True Ventures' Entrepreneur Force Pays It Forward To Budding Tech Leaders | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 16 | In the midst of the implosion of the financial markets in 2008, raised its second fund. Founder and partner tells us that shortly after this raise in early 2009 (which he calls the “dark days in the financial world”), the fund’s partners were sitting at a meeting looking for innovative ways they could help jump sta... |
The Thin Wedge Of Quora | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 1 | 16 | In 2010, a handful of mobile photo-sharing applications unleashed armies of handset users to snap pictures and instantly share them across multiple platforms and networks: growth exploded to become a Twitter for pictures; received generous funding, emerged from stealth mode, enabled 360-degree panoramic experie... |
How'd Sequoia Let Yuri Milner Grab this Sweetheart Y Combinator Deal? | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | Earlier tonight, Mike posted a that must have made super angels shudder. Not content with the grenade he threw into the late-stage investing world with aggressive investments in Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, tonight Yuri Milner announced a new partnership with Ron Conway that offers similar you’d-be-crazy-not-to-take-... |
Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | Everything just changed in the angel investing world. Two years ago , through his investment firm , disrupted the traditional Silicon Valley venture capital model when he began investing in the hottest startups – companies like Facebook, Zynga and Groupon – at very high valuations and extremely easy deal terms. He lo... |
Verizon iPhone Release Gets Dated Down To The Hour | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 28 |
Nothing much to see here folks. Just a bunch of people drooling at the mouth over, to them, the most anticipated phone (ever) moving to a similar, but different network, . With tensions so tight, someone had to let people know down to the hour just when they should keep hitting their browser’s refresh button. 3AM. 3A... |
Blekko Takes Curated Search Mobile With iPhone And Android Apps | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | , the search engine that is fighting the against web spam with human editors, is joining biggies Google and Bing in the mobile search arena today with an Android and iPhone application double whammy. Says Blekko CEO , The app has a simple interface which allows you to view search results whether or not you are logg... |
Audi-Designed Carbon Skis: Want So Bad | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 28 |
Looking good while skiing isn’t easy, and occasionally ends up in a yard sale on the slope. Function comes first when you’re hurtling down a double diamond with 15 feet of visibility. That said, these Audi-designed skis are so sexy they may cause skiers to forget where they’re going. They’re a creation of Audi’s Co... |
Enspert 7″ Android 2.2 Tablet Soon To Be Available | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 28 |
The heat may be surrounding the Android 3.0 coming in the next few months, but if you’re too impatient to wait for those, or just need a few budget tablets for around the office, the could be the iPad-lookalike Froyo unit for you. It’s not the most exciting of tablets, but it does have access to the real Android M... |
Android 3.0 Running (Poorly) On Nook Color | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 28 |
Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) just recently got its first , and it looks like the enterprising hackers in the Android community have already to the Nook Color hardware. Well, partially. It’s a “zombie” made by mixing the SDK with the Nook’s kernel, and it runs like a dog. Getting hardware acceleration (a major part of th... |
'Angry Turds' Is Like 'Angry Birds' Except With, Yes, Turds | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | Ever wish had more poop in it? Well look no further than the , as has launched Angry Turds. As a monkey in Angry Turds, you get to battle evil island explorers who have stolen your monkey babies with various projectile weapons. The concept is similar to Angry Birds as your objective is to throw stuff but the stuf... |
I Don't Think This Is A Real Verizon iPhone Pre-Order Email | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | null |
Video: Experiment Shows Cord-Cutting Simply Too Difficult For Average Families To Grasp | Nicholas Deleon | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | Here’s more evidence that regular people have for things like , , and , if only because they’re too complicated for their own good. Hill Holiday, a “caffeine-fueled ad agency,” . For one week each family was asked to forgo traditional cable TV in favor of one of the following devices: , Google TV, Boxee Box, , ... |
iPhone 4 vs LG Optimus 2X: Video Recording Quality Comparison | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | Yesterday afternoon, an LG Optimus 2X finished the last leg of its rigorous journey from a South Korean factory to my front porch in California. As the first Android smartphone (and the first smartphone of platform, really) to make it into the wild with a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, it is — for the time being at lea... |
War Maneuvers: Android Event Will Battle iPad Event For Press Love On February 2 | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | I love asking companies if the timing of events is on purpose or purely coincidental. Not only do they almost always say that it’s purely coincidental, but they often try to claim that didn’t even realize a rival was also doing something when they made their plans. Sure. Next week will feature another such situation. E... |
AnyLeaf Aggregates And Delivers Personalized Grocery Store Deals | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | For decades, my mother and grandmother have both religiously scanned the weekly coupon books and circulars that arrive in the weekend newspaper. While clipping coupons can be tedious, grocery stores’ weekly deals can often take out a significant chunk of change of the weekly food bill. Of course, as print couponing bec... |
Meetup Feels The Wrath Of The Crowd After Radical Changes | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | , a long time go-to place to create local online groups, has undergone a major re-launch in the past day. However, it may have missed a trick: not consulting the meetup organizers who pay through the nose for the service. There now appears to be something of a revolt going on amongst some organisers, who are vociferous... |
Ask a VC: John O’Farrell Gives Tips on Deal Making, Advice to Would-Be VCs (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | This week’s Ask a VC has a different twist, since we had a different kind of VC on the show, John O’Farrell Andressen Horowitz’s guru on business development and deal-making. The questions you asked O’Farrell are below. As usual, feel free to watch the whole show or use the links to skip ahead to your question. Would ... |
Groupon gets into Glittering Glitzini | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 28 | Over here in Europe we’re really glad that US-based , which has rolled up a lot of local clones in the last year, is entering in to our sexually enlightened culture. The latest example of this is the sending out of offers like “ ‘Glitzini’ Decoration.” Yes folks, you too can “bring the sparkle back to your Nether lan... |
Waviimania Continues As Investors Flock To Parade | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | This is how to milk a stealth startup for all it’s worth. We first covered Seattle startup back in July. The company has raised somewhere around $2 million in angel funding from thirty or so angel investors – only a are publicly known. It continues to get a lot of behind the scenes buzz as the stealth startup to wa... |
Stoke Scores $17 Million To Improve Mobile Broadband Networks | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | Mobile broadband network developer has snagged $17 million in Series E funding led by new investor and previous investors , , , , ., , and . Stoke a $15 million Series Dround back in April 2009 and its total funding to date is a hefty $92 million. It makes sense. The smartphone industry continues to deve... |
Perfect Market Raises $9 Million More To Boost Content Visibility, Publishers' Revenue | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | Perfect Market Inc. has raised another $9 million — bringing its total funding to $28 million — for technology and services to help publishers generate web traffic, and make more money off their content. led the round, joined by the company’s existing investors: , , and . Chief executive and president of Perfec... |
Facebook's Peculiar Foreign Language Options May Offend | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | TechCrunch reader Lane Woolf has brought to our attention a possibly offensive Languages option on Facebook Profiles (Edit profile > Languages > Type in the first three letters). While the first reports on Twitter about being able to set your profile language to “Nigga Slang” come from , complaints have come to toda... |
Facebook Estimated To Collect Almost 5 Percent Of U.S. Online Ad Revenue | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | Facebook may be responsible for nearly a shown in the U.S., but it only collects about 5 percent of U.S. online ad revenues. An article in reports on new estimates from eMarketer which peg Facebook’s 2010 advertising revenues at $1.86 billion, with $1.21 billion of that coming from the U.S. That would give Facebo... |
I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $30M For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | , the internet publisher responsible for , , and other memes, has raised a whopping $30 million in new funding led by the with , , and participating in the round. of Foundry Group, of Madrona Venture Group, and of Avalon Ventures will be joining Cheezburger’s board of directors. This latest investment bri... |
iPhone User? 90% Chance You're On The Latest OS. Android User? 0.4% Chance | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | As a member of the media, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Nexus S running Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” a few weeks ago. , easily the best version of Android yet. I hope one day soon you all get to try it out. But the likelihood of that is pathetically small. In fact, don’t be surprised if Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” ... |
Populis, the “European Associated Content”, acquires blog network Blogo for €6m | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | (formerly GoAdv), which we’ve previously described as , has just announced that it’s acquiring Blogo, a blog network that operates in Europe and South America owned by Dada, the Italian web publisher part owned by RCS MediaGroup. The acquisition price is pegged at €6 million. The “thematic blog network” consists of o... |
iPad 2 Rumor Roundup | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | The next version of the is, if timing and supply line rumors are to be believed, just around the corner. Although unexpected delays may follow in the wake of Jobs’ medical leave, the design must be finalized, and the factories in China are at this moment preparing to pump out five or six million of these things over ... |
This Nerf Gun Remix Looks Dangerous | John Biggs | 2,011 | 1 | 17 |
The original Nerf AR-15 is a Nerf revolver with attitude. The update, created by , reduces the size of the original and improves on the garish color scheme, resulting in something that looks more like the gun from than a child’s toy.
The pistol is made from 32mm ID PVC pipe, some aluminium extrusion and aluminium... |
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Weeks After Going Viral, Threewords.me Is Up For Sale | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | That was fast. A few weeks ago you may have come across a site called with a very simple premise: invite your friends and online followers to describe you with three words. It’s about as simple as they come, but the site managed to get quite a bit of early traction by feeding off retweets and Facebook shares (which w... |
FourEyesUp's geeky guide to London finds its way to iPhone | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | Described as a Swiss Army knife for techie travellers, has launched its for iPhone. The app boasts, amongst other things, a geek shopping guide covering “London’s best technology, photography, comic book and home entertainment stores”, along with listing high-tech hotels and London-based technology events and attra... |
Metroid On 3DS? TV Presenter May Have Spilled Beans | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | I don’t think any of us is surprised to hear that Metroid will be making its way to , but it’s good to know that it . Wednesday will be a big reveal for the system, showing off a number of games and so on. And when someone tweeted that they they were hoping for Metroid to make a showing, the show’s host, Jonathan Ros... |
How A Startup Named Hipster Got 10K Signups In Two Days, Without Revealing What It Does | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | By now you might be familiar with the startup with the funny name, as its very existence made news outlets as diverse as the , and . And while CEO still refuses on the record to say what the site is about, at this point we’ve heard the words Yelp, Quora and location-based Q&A site being tossed around by repor... |
One Kings Lane Buys Publishing Design Firm Helicopter To Boost Editorial Content | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | Flash sales site has made its first acquisition today, purchasing publishing design firm Terms of the deal were not disclosed. We’re big fans of the Kleiner Perkins backed startup by and Susan Feldman. The site offers deep, limited discounts on home décor, furnishings, accessories, and gifts. Helicopter is a ... |
OpenGamma secures $6 million Series B to power open source for financial markets | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 1 | 17 | One of the biggest misconceptions about the European tech scene is that it should operate like the Silicon Valley tech scene. This is just plain dunderheaded. The truth – far too too seldom stated – is that as well as operating in a ‘Valley’ manner, equally European startups can come out of a sector-specific business... |
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