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Watch This 767 Blow A Tire During Takeoff | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_66mlsFwB9I&w=640&h=390] Scary video. Just think if the person had uploaded that and emailed it to a passenger on the plane before it landed. Yeah, that would be scary — and a bit creepy. By the way, where’s our high-speed rail system at already? I’d gladly let Big Sis pat me dow... |
Heyzap Brings Social Discovery And Check-In For Games To The iPhone | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | , a social discovery platform for mobile and online games, announced today that it’s zapping its way onto the iPhone just in time for , Apple’s developer conference. The startup will be extending its fast-growing Android community (which launched in March) and has been doubling in size every month since. In spite of... |
CrunchDeals: Worms 2 Armageddon On iOS For A Buck | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 3 |
I’ll keep this short. We reviewed a while back and found it a worthy title in the series, worth the $5 price of admission. And now that you can get it for 99 cents, that recommendation is even easier to give. |
Fly Or Die: Windows 8 Tries To Out-Touch Apple | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 3 | The debate about rages on in this episode of . CrunchGear editor John Biggs, who joins me from Las Vegas where he is attending a watch conference (don’t ask) thinks nothing has really changed because users can always switch back from the touch interface to the old Windows. I appreciate the , but counter that deskt... |
When Facebook Captured Beluga, They May Have Harpooned It In The Head | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | When this past March, it was an interesting deal for them. Interesting, because they previously had only . But this deal, they told us, was for both talent assets. In other words, they were also interested in the technology behind . More importantly, the plan was to keep Beluga running. And they have. Sort of. Ov... |
A TechCrunch Disrupt Proposal | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | Ah, true love. Everyone was surprised — even Michael Arrington was left speechless and said he was “discombobulated” — after was proposed to onstage during her special product announcement at in New York City. Hu, CEO and founder of , was near the end of her presentation when someone called out that she had one mo... |
Hornik on VC's Secondary Mania: "If It's Just Money, We're All Fungible" (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | August Capital was doing very late stage deals when most VCs refused to. And its of Seagate was one of the better returns in the firm’s history. So why is it mostly sitting out this round of late-stage mega-deal mania? In the final segment of our Ask a VC on the road with David Hornik, he explains why the answer to m... |
Why The Groupon IPO Feels Like A Swindle | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | http://twitter.com/#!/erickschonfeld/status/77140061157720064 |
OMG/JK: iCloud, gWallet, and tPhotos | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | In this week’s episode of OMG/JK, Jason and I start off with a preview of what may be coming at Apple’s WWDC event next week in San Francisco. Then we get into what Google unveiled at their NFC event in New York City last week. And finally, we talk about Twitter’s move into the photo space. All three topics have a bi... |
Weekend Giveaway: An iPad 2 | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 4 |
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think iPads grew on trees or were on sale at TJ Maxx or something with the number of these things people want to give away. Regardless, we have a 16GB Wi-Fi waiting for you in sunny San Francisco, ready to wing its way to your mailbox in a few days. Want it? Thought so. Here’s how to... |
David Hornik: Why Real Entrepreneurs Aren't in it for the Money (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | We haven’t done Ask a VC for a while thanks to my hectic travel schedule, so I pulled David Hornik out of the hallway at D to catch up on his thoughts on his portfolio and the industry. But first, we chat about the highlights from the All Things Digital conference. Or we started with that and then talked about how the ... |
Gillmor Gang 6.04.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — shuddered with expectant glee at Apple’s presumed iCloud announcement at next week’s WWDC event. It’s clear from all the leaks, most interestingly from Apple itself, that the record companies are finally healthy enough to move into the n... |
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Hornik on Blippy: "Apparently I Was More Interested in Sharing Credit Card Purchases than the Average Person" (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | Let’s be honest: One of the reasons David Hornik actually agreed to be on camera at All Things D is that he didn’t have a startup about to file to go public . So we talked about some of his more high profile investments that haven’t always lived up to the hype. Hornik explains why reports of have been greatly exagge... |
SEC Watch: Tiger Global Bought Massive Amounts Of LinkedIn Stock Pre And Post IPO | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | LinkedIn and investment firm both filed separate yesterday evening indicating that the firm loaded up on LinkedIn stock both before and after the company’s IPO in May. According to the filing, a Tiger’s head Chase Coleman and Tiger fund, PIP V, acquired 2,436,001 shares of preferred and common stock of LinkedIn on ... |
The Kno Textbook App Hits The iPad | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | Last night, quietly released its first digital for the iPad. It includes its own store of “over 70,000 titles at 30% to 50% off list” price. And the app is a full textbook reader. Kno, whose CEO previously founded textbook-rental service , originally developed its for textbooks. But once the iPad and Androi... |
Daily Crunch: Falcon Edition | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 6 | 4 | |
Lady Gaga, Eric Schmidt And Others Invest Over $1M In Backplane | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 5 | What do Lady Gaga and Google Executive Chairman have in common? Well according to a in the by former TechCruncher Evelyn Rusli, they’ve both invested in , a new startup founded by Lady Gaga’s business manager Schmidt’s and Gaga have partnered up to finance Cartier’s still in stealth startup, with Gaga being a ... |
Instagram Turns Your Likes Into Photo Albums | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 5 | Social photo app pushed out a new today on the iPhone. The first thing you notice is that uploads are a lot faster. Speed, quite frankly, is one of Instagram’s competitive advantages. But the update also includes some new features, the most important of which is the ability to see all the photos you’ve liked in ... |
Eric Schmidt And Others Invest In Rich Media Display Ad Startup Spongecell | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 5 | a startup that places rich media ads in display advertisements, has raised a new round of financing led by and , Chairman and Managing Director of Raptor Group. Participating in the round are Brian Rooney, Board Member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and . The amount of the round was not disclosed but we heard from pe... |
Moshi Monsters, The Social Networking Game For Kids, Passes The 50 Million Users Mark | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 5 | Two years ago, was just another online gaming company. It had some minor success with interactive puzzles and an alternative reality game called , but the future wasn’t exactly bright. As entrepreneurs are wont to do, Mind Candy CEO Michael Acton Smith made one and created a virtual world game for kids called . ... |
Is This iOS 5? Dunno, But It's Likely The Right Idea | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 5 | Could it be? Is this it? iOS 5?! I honestly have absolutely no clue. But it certainly seems like it at least have the right idea. Tomorrow morning, Apple is set to preview iOS 5 for the first time during the WWDC keynote. It’s likely that developers will get access to the initial build as well, so they can start work... |
Will Airbnb Ever Be "The Airbnb For X"? | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 5 | “If your company is ever used as the subject of the “X for Y” analogy, that’s success. AirBnB used to be the eBay for vacation rental. Now other companies are the Airbnb of things.” — , With Airbnb about to enter the , we’ve seen an influx of “X is Airbnb of Y” headlines. While the trope is extremely common in the... |
The Power Of Online-To-Offline Is Moving Beyond Local Commerce | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 5 | While the idea of for purchasing is proving to be powerful in the , the trend of linking the physical world to the web is producing a number of startups that are innovating beyond just purchasing from local merchants or finding a product nearby. Many of the most interesting startups that have emerged over the past y... |
Making Time | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 6 | 5 | Why Netflix rocks is the same reason that tomorrow’s iCloud announcements will rock. It’s not about the technology, it’s because of the technology that counts. You can feel it if you make the time to. Making time means what? One evening last week we sat at the bar downstairs at 1 Market after a long workday. John Tasch... |
Domain Dollars: Pay.com Now Up For Sale | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 5 | We just which will auctioned off this week at DOMAINfest Barcelona with an opening bid of a whopping $5 million. The current record holder for the highest sale of a domain is Sex.com, which sold for . And today, we hear a new domain is on the market which could also bring in millions. is now exclusively for sale ... |
Spark, Lightbank And Yuri Milner Get In On OnSwipe's $5M 'Series Awesome' | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | Tablet publishing platform is announcing a $5 million round of “Series Awesome” funding today after their one million in seed funding in January. The round will be led by and followed on by , investment badass , , , , , and . And they’re really calling it a Series Awesome; Co-founder Jason Baptiste explai... |
Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal | Mark Suster | 2,011 | 6 | 5 | I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. I’ve stopped talking about this as much publicly because it’s such a heated, emotional topic where the points-of-view are strictly subjective and for which the answers wi... |
One More Thing, The Rap Song | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | Apple’s , WWDC, is coming up next week, and what better way to prepare than with a rap song? , the man who brought us featuring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, now has one for Apple. It is called , and I’ve embedded it below. Here is a sample (see what I did there?) of some of the lyrics: Phil Schiller told us
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Juice In The City Reels In $6 Million To Help Moms Take On Groupon | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | , a site that pairs moms with local businesses and daily deals, announced tonight that it has raked in $6 million in seed funding from and HU Investments. The startup will use the infusion of funding to continue pushing into new markets and to create jobs for moms across the country. Founded in 2010, Juice In The C... |
Limited-Run Solar OLED Lamp From Toshiba Distributed In Japan's Quake Zone | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 2 |
Toshiba is distributing to quake-stricken areas of Japan. The device is powered by either four AAA batteries or a rechargeable battery pack that can be powered up with solar or USB power. It produces 53 lumens of light at 100% and will last two hours on AAA batteries, twenty if you take the brightness down, and seve... |
New Records In Cleantech Offer Hope For More Affordable Solar Power, LED Lights | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | Cleantech companies— especially in solar— love to talk about how they’re breaking records. They issue press releases left and right about the most efficient this, that and the other. Such claims fizzle if they haven’t been verified by a third-party lab. They can also feel like greenwash, or Cola War style . Broken re... |
Delays? Fragmentation? Advertising? Some Overcast Appears Ahead Of iTunes In iCloud | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | Once far off in the distance, iCloud is now quickly approaching. It will be a new service that Apple will first unveil on Monday during the keynote at WWDC. But the most interesting layer, at least from a consumer perspective initially, is the music one. And the details continue to emerge about what’s likely coming. ... |
This Time It's Sony Pictures Being Hacked: Another Huge Data Breach | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | I guess once it became clear that web infrastructure is , every hacker and scripter out there is looking to get a piece of the glory. The latest to fall to the black hats is Sony Pictures, which was breached by a simple SQL injection. The group responsible for the attack, Lulz Security, summarizes the hack: We recen... |
Apple Attempting To Patent IR Receiver For Device That Could Enable (Or Disable) Features | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 2 |
Given that many of the filed by never end up in products and are merely exploratory or the result of internal research, I won’t dwell too long on this one. But it is a bit freaky to think that your phone could see something in the background and go “Whoops, better turn off. I’m not allowed here!” . |
Microsoft's Wireless Desktop 2000 Encrypts Your Keystrokes | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 2 |
If you’re concerned about keyjacking attacks, in which a wireless keyboard’s signal is intercepted and information extracted from the stream, this might be of interest to you. has 128-bit AES encryption built right in. Not much help if someone’s looking over your shoulder, but at least they can’t snatch your credent... |
CodeGuard Raises $500K To Monitor And Protect Websites | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | CodeGuard, a startup that last week, has already raised a round of funding. The company has just announced a $500,000 round from . CodeGuard, which was the audience choice winner from Startup Alley, helps protect and monitor websites from attacks and data thefts. The startup provides a virtual version control system... |
Review: Psyko Carbon Surround-Sound Headset | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 2 |
: While the technology is interesting and unorthodox, the Carbon seems to miss out on the most important role of a headset: sounding good.
: : : As you might have read over the last couple years (Psyko’s first headset debuted way back in 2009), Psyko set out to revolutionize gaming audio by turning the headset pa... |
Apple iCloud's Icon Is A…. Cloud! | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 2 |
Apple is launching next week. managed to resolve one of the last questions about the service — besides what the hell it actually is. The icon! Somehow they snapped a rather clear image showing what are already confirmed as the three big announcements next week: OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud. And the icon is a cloud... |
Groupon's IPO Filing Reveals Incredible Growth And $2.6 Billion Revenue Run-Rate (Charts) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | Groupon finally today and now we can see it’s (click for full financial table). Groupon has been growing at an astounding rate. Last year, it’s revenues grew more than to $713 million. And in the first quarter of 2011 alone, it nearly matched all of its revenue from last year with $644 million in sales, up 13,... |
All's Well That Ends Well: Kid Whose Code Was Stolen By Ad Firm Releases iPhone App | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | Remember the kid who wrote a little asteroids game that lets you ? And then remember how BBDO in Denmark stole the code and made an M&Ms game? Well, it looks like open source is alive and well because Erick, the creator, is (it basically lets you blow up web pages on the iPhone). Best of all, BBDO, the advertising a... |
MeeGo Hacked Onto The Nook Color | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 2 |
Getting Android on a isn’t so much hacking anymore. It’s pretty damn easy at this point. But MeeGo, well, MeeGo is a different story. It apparently took one week of work to get the mobile OS onto the Nook Color, but the results are pretty impressive. It looks stable, quick and mighty sexy. Video after the jump. [you... |
Idea Flight Turns iPads Into Presentation Platform | Scott Merrill | 2,011 | 6 | 2 |
Condé Nast has unveiled a new iPad app called that they claim “is a new tool designed to share ideas, presentations, documents and designs easily and effectively.” One iPad user is a the “pilot” for a presentation and up to 15 “passenger” iPads can follow along via WiFi or Bluetooth. Idea Flight isn’t a general purp... |
Startup Canada: FounderFuel Launches Accelerator Program In Montreal | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | Today, another early-stage accelerator program hits Quebec’s largest city, joining and others in an effort to support and grow Canadian entrepreneurship. was created by the team behind , a venture investor that has backed and the recently-launched , a $50 million seed-stage venture fund. Today, Real Ventures a... |
Sony Announces NGP/Vita Will Be Back-Compatible With All PSP Games | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 2 |
Sony’s NGP, or “Vita” if the leaks are accurate, just went up a notch in my opinion. Although that it’s never going to make the splash that “lighter” game systems will make (an issue the 3DS shares to some extent), they seem to be doing this one right at least. They’ve just announced that the NGP will be . That’s a... |
Note to Self: If the Halls Clear at Conferences, IPOs Are Near | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | In Silicon Valley the terms of venture capital deals, the prices of valuations and the real stories of ousters are routinely dished, whether they always show up in the press or not. Sure it’s all off the record or on background or whispered at a coffee shop, but people who live here love what they do and when companies... |
You said what? Brandwatch brings its social media monitoring search to Seesmic | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 6 | 2 | , the UK social media monitoring startup, has released a free search plugin for , the desktop client for companies who want to manage their social media presence. Aimed at users who want to monitor a particular brand or topic across the whole of the Web, not just the services that Seesmic supports out of the box, the ... |
MyGengo Raises $1 Million To "Own" Translation | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | Translation service has raised one million in seed financing from , and Prior to today’s investment, the platform had raised $750k from . Along with the funding MyGengo is also announcing the hiring of Kenji Yamamoto as Chief Revenue Officer and Jeff Binstock as Chief Operating Officer. MyGengo is like Mechan... |
Apple's SaaS: Software as a Soul | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a piece entitled . In it, author Steve Lohr looks back at the past 100 years of IBM and points out the keys to their longevity: shifting and adapting to new markets and times. He then lays how three tech powers today — Microsoft, Google, and Apple — may make similar moves to we... |
Finally, A Solar Powered Netbook Comes To The US | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | It seems like when I’m outside the US, all I see is solar-powered netbooks. Solar powered netbooks here, solar powered netbooks there. Cafes brimming with them, streets littered with them, babies babbling into their solar powered netbooks issued at birth. Okay, maybe not. But this one from Samsung, which has no special... |
Seedcamp named top European accelerator, with Startupbootcamp closing in | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | , the London-based startup accelerator program which has been operating in Europe for the past four years, has been named the top European startup accelerator by a year-long independent study. However programmes run by in Europe took three of the remaining positions in the top eight named in the study. And three of t... |
Those Black MacBook Airs? An Experiment Gone Wrong, Says Apple Source | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | It’s okay to be excited by the idea of a Blackbook Air. It would be nice, right? But as it turns out, the pictures and rumors going around the net are no more than an internal experiment that didn’t turn out so well, according to an Apple employee who : “We tried to powder coat the Air’s (and Pro’s for that matter) in... |
Onswipe Wants To Make Slate, Forbes And Your Website Feel Like A Native Tablet App | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | [vimeo http://http://vimeo.com/25372812 w=620] , the publishing platform that allows any content site to create an app like experience on the iPad and other tablets, is coming out of beta this week and will be available to the public tomorrow at 3:00pm EST. With the launch Onswipe will also be adding former CNN preside... |
Acer's 7" Iconia Tab Appears In Walmart For $349 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | Just because it’s a new doesn’t mean it has to have a big opening gala like the Xoom or Optimus Pad. No, sometimes they just with a price tag and everything. Such is the case with the Acer Iconia A100, the 7″ cousin of the we’ve been seeing around. At $350 (with the stats you see there) it seems like a pretty goo... |
anaPad iPad Toy Teaches Children To Retreat Socially From Boring Situations | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | Kindness, sociability, affection, appreciation of others: those are the things your child could be learning if we didn’t just slap down an iPad in front of them every time life gets a little crowded and they get a little bored. But what about the smallest of the younglings? What can they do to have a good time while we... |
Behind The Scenes At The Impossible Project's Resurrected Polaroid Facility | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmmLGTRAdx0&w=640&h=390]
Although we weep for the of yesteryear, the world of instant film . As we’ve over the last couple years, Dutch company has taken it upon themselves to keep the old Polaroid film factory running — no small task. This little 10-minute documentary sho... |
Hackers Grab 1.3 Million Logins From SEGA | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlulSyBI2aY&w=640&h=510] Games makers can’t get a break. First had their buttocks offered up to them and now SEGA has lost 1.3 million sets of user data, a fairly large breach for a fairly small company. Names, birthdates, email address, and passwords (encrypted) were lost alth... |
No Native Email On Playbook Due To Blackberry Restrictions And Poor Planning By RIM | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 20 |
The is a study in missed opportunities. The sexy form factor, interesting new UI elements, and distinct, recognizable branding should have set it apart and made it a real player in the tablet game. Instead, it’s a mishmash of consumer and pro features, and missing things that would give any shopper pause. Why would ... |
Dropbox Security Bug Made Passwords Optional For Four Hours | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | This morning a post on outlined a serious security issue that was spotted at Dropbox: for a brief period of time, the service allowed users to log into accounts using any password. In other words, you could log into someone’s account simply by typing in their email address. Given that many people entrust Dropbox with... |
Canon's T3 Gets A Tiny Bit More Colorful With Red, Brown, Grey Options | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 20 |
In order to extend the news cycle a bit, companies tend to release variants of their gadgets on an extended schedule. Case in point: , and we are supposed to believe they just now achieved the level of technology required to paint them colors other than black! I kid, I kid. But only kind of. Yes, Canon’s entry-level ... |
Like+1 Turns Facebook Likes Into Google +1s | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | As what exactly the Google +1 Button does continues to , security researcher and former Googler and the mind behind , have decided to kill two buttons with one browser extension, creating . Unlike the , which allowed you to Facebook Like Google search results, Like +1 turns all offsite Like Buttons into hybrid... |
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Rejoice, For Your Zune Apps Will Come To Windows Phone 7 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | Can’t live without your Goo Splat or Castles and Cannons, those instant classics that appeared on the Zune HD? You’ll be happy to hear that Microsoft is planning on puffing up the WP7 app catalog with ported versions. “The apps that we have built internally for Zune, we’re actually looking at porting those over to Wind... |
Even Seesmic Bails On Blackberry. Who's Next? | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | http://twitter.com/#!/loic/status/82918813775048704 might have the Twitter app for Blackberry, but the Blackberry’s appeal isn’t sweet enough. Seesmic is for its Blackberry app on June 30. Research in Motion, the company that makes the Blackberry, is going through a right now. But things must be pretty bad if ... |
Color Me Badd | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | Come inside, take off your coat
I’ll make you feel at home
Now let’s pour a glass of wine
‘Cause now we’re all alone. The opening lines of Color Me Badd’s seminal “I Wanna Sex You Up” sort of perfectly encapsulates — the company/photo-sharing app, not the band. After one of the in recent memory, it was supposed ... |
Groupon Responds To IPO Backlash With A Cheeky Feline | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | If you’ve been following TechCrunch and the tech press at large in the weeks since Groupon filed its S-1, you’ve probably come across quite a few articles criticizing the company. Groupon may, according to various posts, consumer protection laws, , get in China, and lead to bouts of over the coming months. ! Yo... |
Verizon HTC Thunderbolt To Get Android v2.3.4 (with Skype, Amazon App Store, gTalk) on June 30th? | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | Start the countdown clock, Verizon Thunderbolt owners: has it on good word that your handsets are just days away from an update to Android v2.3.4. If their tipster’s tips hold true, the update should starting hitting handsets come June 30th. And the internal memo they brought along as proof? If that one’s legit, this ... |
Windows SkyDrive Says Sayonara To Silverlight, Embraces HTML5 | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 20 | We’ve been hearing a lot lately about consumer cloud services. There’s Apple’s recently-announced Amazon’s , Google’s (which is your music in the cloud) and, of course, Microsoft’s . All of these to one extent or another are moving away from simple online lockers, and we see that today with the release of the la... |
The Rib Man's Response To Groupon Bashing | guest series | 2,011 | 6 | 18 | I’ve been reading a on TechCrunch lately coming down hard on Groupon and, like other happy Groupon merchants, wasn’t going to comment because I thought it was a with one author’s thoughts. However, after seeing after trying to pick apart every single piece of Groupon, I felt it necessary to write about my exper... |
Mark Suster: Raise Money Now So When The Party's Over You're Sitting Pretty | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 18 | [vimeo http://vimeo.com/25219791 w=620] Earlier this week and VC blogger gave the keynote talk at the Founder’s Showcase on Suster began the keynote with the declarative statement that we’re in a bubble, “We’re in a bubble, you can quote me on that and I generally haven’t been saying that publicly,” he affirmed... |
New Health-Focused Startup Accelerator Rock Health Debuts Inaugural Batch | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 18 | If the numbers shared by are any indication, Venture funding has stormed back to where it was before the financial collapse in 2008. The amount of capital invested is on the rise, and the current climate is providing an excellent opportunity for startups looking to raise money. at his talk at the Founder Institute... |
Is The World Crazy For Bitcoin, Or Has The Bitcoin World Gone Crazy? | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 6 | 18 | I less than a month ago. (If you’re one of the people who admitted in comments “I still don’t get it,” here’s a from .) Since then the value of Bitcoins has —and then . The founder of Sweden’s Pirate Party moved into Bitcoin (which disappoints me; I had hoped they were buried on ) just as US Senator Charles S... |
Groupon For Nightlife 'Poggled' Expands, Hits Up New York And Denver First | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 27 |
, the daily deals service that boasts Groupon investors , and is expanding to other cities today, first on the list being New York and Denver. Poggled is an interesting take on the daily deals model, with 50-70% off “evergreen” services at nightclubs, bars and music venues available every day without daily expir... |
Want To Play With A TouchPad? Get Thee To Best Buy (Or Wal-Mart) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | HP’s webOS tablet, the , doesn’t officially hit until , but that hasn’t stopped some of the big retailers from for the public to fondle. Sure, you could just watch the , but nothing beats actually seeing something in action. Or seeing someone else see it in action, as in taken at a Kansas Wal-Mart. No sign of th... |
Opera Hits 200 Million Users; Debuts A New Featherweight Look And More In Version 11.5 | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | When you’re in fifth place in the browser races, there’s room to be a little goofy. That’s why it can be a pleasure to read the releases coming from , the quirky Oslo-based company responsible for the eponymous Opera browser — the underdog share of the browser market behind IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Which is... |
Daily Crunch: Moon Phase Edition | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 6 | 18 | |
Google Quietly Rolls Out WDYL.com: A Range Of Google Product Results On One Page | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | This morning, we got tipped to check out wdyl.com. The tipster noted that it was apparently a new Google site attempting to “create a unified UI to search in multiple channels”. Sure enough, visiting the URL brought up a Google page — but it was a 404 page. Turns out it needs the “ ” in order to work. Yes, wdyl.com is ... |
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Frenzapp Takes On SoundTracking With A Social Music Discovery App For iOS | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | Last winter, Singapore-based launched a new app into the marketplace called that enables users to share their favorite iPhone apps with friends, joining a taking on Apple’s Genius in the attempt to make app recommendations even better. Frenzapp approached this by cutting out manual search for apps, automatic dis... |
On-Ramp's Super-High-Range WiFi Could Go 40 Miles – At 50 Bytes Per Second | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 27 |
When you think of wireless networks, you generally think either of a personal wi-fi network like that at your house or a cafe, or the cellular networks that power our phones. Both these are consumer networks, intended for delivering things like media and instantaneous communication. But not every network has the same ... |
Sony Officializes Its New Z Series Laptops, With Quasi-Light Peak-USB Port | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 27 |
Last month saw the introduction of a new Sandy Bridge-enabled from Sony, and now we see their more powerful, full-on Z series get a boost. The new Zs have a standard (not low-voltage) Core i7, 256GB SSD, and a 13.1″ screen at 1600×900 (interesting resolution!). They tip the scale at just over 2.6 pounds and are 16.6... |
T-Mobile: MyTouch Slide 4G Has “Most Advanced Camera Of Any Smartphone”, Coming In July | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | We knew that the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide was on the way — or, at least, we had a pretty darn good reason . Sure enough, it’s the real deal: ol’ Magenta has just painted it up with a proper press release, announcing that it’ll it the stores sometime in July for an as-of-yet-undisclosed price. T-Mobile’s decided to ta... |
Smartfish Pouchpad For The Traveling Mouse Lover | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 27 |
So it looks like a pita pocket. So what? If you’ve got a nice little wireless for on-the-go gaming or productivity and don’t want it clattering around your bag, this thing sounds great. And it turns into a tiny mousepad! How can you say no? How, I ask you? . Get one, even though it looks like robot food. |
DIY All-Terrain Roomba | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNgpl1TL4xg&w=640&h=390] The isn’t brand new but recent updates have made it a formidable opponent to stairs, lumps of dirt, and other obstacles that stand between you and a completely clean Martian surface. The DIY kit uses a modded Roomba and unique chassis to offer stability... |
Nikon Displays Mysterious Prototypes At French Exhibition | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 27 |
These concept cameras, or whatever they are, probably aren’t indicative of any future Nikon products, but it’s always fun to see what imaging companies have cooking deep in the labs. caught a few at Paris’s Cité des Sciences et Industrie over the weekend. There sure as hell isn’t a lot of info, but I like the modula... |
Anonymous Declares War On The City Of Orlando | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | The hacktivist group Anonymous may be setting its sights on the city of Orlando, Florida next, if an anonymous press release which has landed in our inbox is to be believed (see below). The group is threatening to take down a different city-related website every day, starting with , which doesn’t even appear to be ow... |
Acer's Chromebook Arrives This Month – 3G Version Soon | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 27 |
While Samsung’s sexy little Series 5 is , a lot of people (“the people” meaning “people interested in Chrome OS,” which probably isn’t many people right now) are probably waiting for the cheaper AC700 from Acer. You can pre-order one now, of course, but shipping date was pretty much a mystery… until now.
Actual... |
Super Talent's RC8: Thumbdrive Looks, SSD Power | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 27 |
If you’ve ever wondered why they can’t take these tiny SSD units and just pack ’em into a thumbdrive case, this one’s for you. The new is in every way a real SSD, except perhaps that it’s not sitting in your PC’s case with a SATA connection. This one’s USB 3.0 and it appears to really cruise. We’re looking at over 2... |
The HP TouchPad Will Come With Its Own Facebook Tablet App (Leaked Pics) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | The world has been waiting for an official Facebook tablet app, and , and . But that app may not appear on the iPad first (although Facebook is working on an ). Instead, Facebook’s first tablet app will appear on the HP TouchPad, which and runs the WebOS it . Unless the iPad app also launches this week, the Touc... |
Myspace Expected To Lay Off At Least 150 Employees On Wednesday | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | We’ve confirmed the with our own inside source; From what I’m hearing the company expects to lay off at least 150 of its around 400 employees tomorrow (37.5% of its staff). According to the source, another group of around 150 employees will be put on a transition plan, where they will still be laid off but can work w... |
Check your skin for a melanoma? Yes, there's an app for that too | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | How would you feel about an iPhone app that claimed to be able to tell if that mole on your arm was not looking too healthy? That’s the claim of , an iPhone medical app available now on the Apple App Store. The startups has secured €50,000 Euro in seed funding from . Either Skin Scan is going to get people to see a d... |
A Massive Solar Flare Of Activity Pushes Tumblr To 400 Million Pageviews A Day | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | Last month, founder that was now seeing over 250 million pageviews a day. , that was incredible since as recently as July of 2009, they were seeing 250 million pageviews for the . But it turns out that the numbers are much more incredible than they first appeared. I noticed this when Tumblr President earlie... |
IBM "Buildings Whisperer" Dave Bartlett On The Dumb Ways We Waste Energy | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 6 | 27 | IBM’s Smarter Planet division released a new solution recently that can make buildings energy efficient— even if they are huge and 100 years old like the company itself. Vice president of the Smarter Buildings division at IBM, Dave Bartlett, visited TechCrunch TV to talk about the stupid ways that people waste energy... |
Sweet-Looking Bike Tool Roll Made From My Favorite Material, Waxed Canvas | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 27 |
Fellow Seattlite and Etsy seller Erica Hanson has put together a great little tool bag for discerning bikers: . It’s waxed canvas and consists of ten of little pockets for you to put your patch kits, hex wrenches, spare tube, and all that jazz. Then roll it up and strap it to your frame. Hell of a good-looking thing,... |
Checking Out The New Diablo Gear And 7XB Headset From SteelSeries | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 11 |
We ran into Kim Rom from at E3 and he gave us a little tour of their newest gear. I’m pretty pumped about the headset, which we’ll be reviewing soon — I travel with a headset a lot, and the flexibility and breakdownability make it an attractive option. I also get a surprise from a lady in red right at the beginnin... |
Fight Mike Arrington, Bing Gordon And More With GraFighters | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | [vimeo 24841889 w=620] The tale of is one of a Kickstarter project that and then went oh so right. Last fall founders Eric Cleckner and Dave Chenell tried to raise $20K on Kickstarter for the “first online fighting game for your sketches,” but barely raised $3K. Luckily for them, a German investor poking around Kick... |
New Nook Hacked Further, Gets Launcher, Bluetooth, And… Kindle | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4dMZvff9qg&w=640&h=390]
Just last week we posted a video of the new (which we just ) . Not exactly the best match for an e-paper display, but it does show that the underlying Android install is sound and functional. Further proof comes this weekend, with installing the h... |
Review: L.A. Noire (And Giveaway) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 11 |
: An original, immersive, and fully-realized crime adventure that suffers from a few control and technical issues, and (perhaps purposefully) vague interrogation segments. The accomplishment and authenticity of the city and your work in it, however, is beyond a doubt worth the price of admission.
The world of LA ... |
A Look At The Three Startups That Wowed The Judges At Plug And Play’s Summer EXPO | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | Like , is a startup accelerator located in the heart of Silicon Valley, although you may not have heard quite as much about Plug and Play as you have its counterpart. Nothwithstanding, the five-year-old business accelerator has built a community of over 280 tech startups, across a number of verticals, including Web ... |
The Music Runs Through Our Veins | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 6 | 11 | Guest author is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. Shah is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter Many years ago, as an avid fan, I would use a handheld cassette recorder to record the audio portion of the show so I could hear it on road trips. Pret... |
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