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Microsoft Challenged A National Security Letter That Included A Gag Order — And Won | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | Microsoft challenged a National Security Letter from the FBI last year — . The documents relating the case were recently unsealed, making the effort public. The gist is simple: Microsoft received a National Security Letter requesting “ The letter banned Microsoft from disclosing to anyone that the data had been reques... |
The Era Of Good-Enough Smartphones | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | market remains quite peculiar. Despite a plethora of inexpensive models from other companies, Apple and Samsung remain the dominant manufacturers that collectively take about 68 percent of the market and whose iPhones and Galaxies are among the most expensive options available. And they aren’t just getting affluent co... |
Airbnb Now Waiving Charges For Those Displaced By The Floods In Southeast Europe | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | Whenever disaster hits an area that Airbnb covers, the company works with local hosts to try to offer free housing for those who’ve been impacted. In response to the (which have killed nearly 50 people and displaced hundreds of thousands), Airbnb has enabled their “Disaster Response Tool” for people looking for a pla... |
Netflix Is Bidding Big On New Original Series The Crown, Which Could Cost More Than House Of Cards | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | Netflix is close to reaching a deal for what could be its next big original series. Called The Crown, the latest in a string of exclusive new TV shows will likely cost more than House of Cards, the series that got it started in originals. Netflix has been investing heavily in new original content as a way to differenti... |
Notifyr Is A Nifty Little App That Sends Your iPhone Notifications To Your Mac | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | lets you receive iOS notifications on your Mac. When I work, I put my iPhone on the table next to my Mac. Every time it buzzes, I look away from my screen to see whether it’s an important notification. I get quite a lot of notifications, and most of the time it’s not important. But it can become problematic if I’m try... |
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JD.com’s IPO Lands Strongly, With Shares Currently Up Over 8% | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | After , JD.com’s IPO has , with its shares currently up more than 8 percent from its $19 per share debut. JD.com popped higher this morning in its first moments as a public company, but it’s evened out to the $20 to $21 range for now. Is an 8 percent jump modest? Perhaps, but in the current, choppy market, pricing ab... |
AppGyver Launches Composer, A Drag-And-Drop Tool For Building HTML5 Apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | Until now, was mostly known for its and Steroid.js, a command-line based tool for quickly building HTML5 apps. Today, the company is bringing both of these ideas together with the public beta launch of , a drag-and-drop HTML5 app builder that can work with data from any REST API and integrates with popular backend... |
Metaio’s Thermal Touch And The Future Of Augmented Reality User Interfaces | Jay Donovan | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | [youtube=http://youtu.be/t1HmYNqp8NM&feature=player_embedded] is demoing a new possible future in the evolutionary path for input control of wearable computing devices and it should be no surprise that Augmented Reality plays a role. There is a known UI problem with which many software and hardware makers have grapple... |
Finding Game Design | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | Let’s talk about game designers. The “game designer” is the powerhouse, the visionary, the one who’s going to change up games. “Game designers” represent a cause, an idea, a vision of what games will be. “Game designers” set the next stage of the games industry’s evolution. “Game designers” live exciting lives of talks... |
Ebay Says Lists Of Stolen Customer Data Now Appearing Online Aren’t Legit | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 22 | Following of a cyberattack which compromised a “large number” of eBay users’ personal information, several lists purporting to contain that illegally acquired information have now shown up online. On anonymous data-sharing site Pastebin, for example, there are at least a of to provide “full eBay database dumps,” ... |
Kakao And Daum To Merge, Creating One Of South Korea’s Largest Internet Companies | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | and that they will merge through an equity swap, creating a company with a 3.4 trillion won (about $2.9 billion) market capitalization. Kakao is the maker of KakaoTalk, South Korea’s top messaging service, while Daum is one of the country’s largest Internet portals. If the deal goes through, the combined company w... |
The Crazy Genius Behind Solar Roadways | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | Here’s an idea crazy enough that it just might work: Pave the streets with solar-powered panels that have their own built-in heat and LED lights. That’s what hope to accomplish with their ongoing project, which they just funded through a hugely popular crowdfunding campaign. The husband-and-wife team has spent the... |
Getting In Bed With Mattress Startup Casper | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | Earlier this year, I wrote about , a Lerer Ventures-backed startup that . Since then, the company actually , so I decided to swing by Casper’s office in the Noho neighborhood of New York to try the mattress out for myself. In the video above, you can see the mattress, the material it’s built from, and the packagin... |
R.O.W. With Butch: Despite A Dark Past, Sarajevo’s Tech Scene Emerges | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | At the height of the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995, some 8,000 grenades a day would rain down on the capital city of Sarajevo, while snipers plied their deadly trade from the hills above the city. The internecine warfare between Bosnia’s different nationalities, religions and ethnic groups – a result of the breakup... |
Founder Stories: Guy Goldstein’s Make-Or-Break Bet With Check | Contributor | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | Six years ago, Goldstein helped found what is now Check, a mobile payment company that helps people track their finances and do payments, moving about $500m in payments a year. But, the path to get here wasn’t linear and required a big, make-or-break bet. Check started out as a web company, but Goldstein quickly re... |
#Love: Wanderlust | Contributor | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | Over the years, I’ve run my passport ragged, each foreign visa and customs stamp an inked reminder of life experiences. I travel as much as possible, sometimes for weeks or months at a time. And even though I often wander solo and choose erratic destinations, I generally don’t get too lonely because I’m constantly enco... |
Apple’s Expanded ‘Your Verse’ Campaign Pitches iPad As Mobile Creation Tool | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | Apple is releasing two new TV spots today, along with . The spots will continue its ‘Your Verse’ advertising, which attempts to demonstrate the ways that the iPad can be used to create and ‘do’. The campaign consists of two new ‘Your Verse’ TV spots. The first focuses on , the principal conductor of the Philharmonia ... |
Now 100 Cities Strong, Startup Grind Aims To Spread The Entrepreneurial Bug Worldwide | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | One thing I often hear when talking to entrepreneurs who live outside of the San Francisco Bay Area is that it’s hard for them to connect with other entrepreneurs nearby. It’s not that there are no startup-minded folks in Boise, Idaho or Guatemala City, Guatemala. There are just fewer events to bring them together in o... |
From The Ivy League To State Schools, Demand For Computer Science Is Booming | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | For years, people in the tech industry have more young people in the United States to become interested in studying computer science. It now looks like they’ve finally gotten the message. Demand for computer science classes and programs is booming at universities across the U.S., according to this past week at the... |
Women Vs. Women, Or The Ugly Side Of Feminism | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | With the birth of the new feminist narrative sweeping popular culture, it is bound to enter its awkward teenage phase. And just like a teenage mean girl, the new feminism is growing unwieldy before gracefully settling into something we can agree on. But before it makes it there, I hope it doesn’t tear us all down in th... |
Long-Delayed Connected Device Tile Finally Starts Shipping | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | The Bluetooth-powered lost item finder called , which last summer raised , has finally begun shipping, the company . Early backers may be a bit skeptical, given the delays the company experienced since raising a significant round of funding many months ago, then not being able to deliver in a timely manner. But over... |
The Internet Is Now Part Of The Crime Scene | John Biggs | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | Elliot Rodger, a young man with some horrible ideas and serious mental problems, . He left pages of digital photos and hours of video detailing his pain and his envy. In the voice of an entitled boy not given what he wants, he talks about being alone while others are together. He became a misogynist through his own tw... |
How Cloud Startups Are Changing The Face Of Innovation | Pete Sonsini | 2,014 | 5 | 25 | After more than a decade of hype and billions of dollars of value creation, it would be reasonable to expect investors to start losing interest in cloud-related startups. In the venture business, me-too investors reap ever-diminishing returns compared to early entrants in a new sector. And while the sweeping transfor... |
StumbleUpon and Uber Founder Garrett Camp Is Raising $75 Million For Company-Building Venture Expa | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Garrett Camp, co-founder of both StumbleUpon and Uber, is looking for help in funding his new company-building venture . According to an SEC filing, Camp is looking to raise up to $75 million to bring about a portfolio of innovative new ideas. When Camp first last May, he told my boss Alexia that the holding company... |
Getting Girls Into Programming, One Children’s Book At A Time | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | [kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindaliukas/hello-ruby width=640] I normally dislike writing about the issue of women in the technology industry. The media either ends up treating female entrepreneurs with kid gloves or the conversation ends up in some emotionally charged place where people feel an... |
Twitter Is Hiring Commerce Specialists | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Twitter has not responded to reports, from and , that it is building a marketplace-style platform where users can buy things, but the social network appears to be quietly building it out anyway. The latest development is that Twitter has posted job ads for people to work on a commerce service — one of the rare times... |
Those NSA Transparency Reports From Google Aren’t So Transparent | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Google, Facebook, Microsoft and LinkedIn all made headlines today for releasing “transparency” reports about the number of users for which the U.S. government has requested data. We now know that major Internet companies have given up personal information from between 0-15,999 user accounts, but we don’t know what exac... |
Dropbox Is Spilling Over To A Humongous Second SF Office | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | is growing so fast it will soon run out of room at its San Francisco headquarters. That’s why it’s just signed a 12-year lease on a second office a 10-minute walk away at 333 Brannan to house spillover of its 500 employees, sources close to the company tell me. put out a press release bragging about leasing the spac... |
Democrats Introduce Open Internet Preservation Act To Restore Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Democrats in the House and Senate today introduced the Open Internet Preservation Act, a bill that would reinstate now-defunct net neutrality rules that were . Net neutrality, in its most basic form, is the idea that ISPs must treat all Internet data the same. Under its regime, ISPs are not allowed to selectively spee... |
Valve Adds In-Game Music Controls & Playback To Steam | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | What fun is playing your favorite game if you can’t blast your favorite tunes? Today, Valve announced a pretty great new feature for its fledgling SteamOS and Big Picture interfaces: in-game music controls. (Wondering what the heck “SteamOS” and “Big Picture” are? SteamOS is a Linux-based operating system Valve is buil... |
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California State Agency Tells Google To Move Its Mystery Barge | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Sometimes move fast and break things ends with broken things. Today that the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), a state agency, has told Google that it must move its infamous mystery barge. The company appears to lack proper authorization to have started the construction. According to t... |
Encrypt All Your Shared Data With nCrypted Cloud | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Enterprise users who want to use common file-sharing services like and Google Drive have a big problem: their IT guys will always be worried that one hacker will be able to bring down their internal network. A new service called is trying to assuage this fear by encrypting everything, everywhere, and offering an au... |
A Tale Of Two ‘Papers’ | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | most people forget about the story of David and Goliath: both sides were at war. Facebook, our very own Goliath, and FiftyThree, the David-size company responsible for a design app called Paper, are well aware of this. Until today, was the first app shown when you search for “Paper” in the iPad App Store. But , als... |
Adobe Photoshop Veteran John Nack Moves To Google To Work On Digital Photo Team | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Adobe’s John Nack is leaving the company after 14 years to work at Google. Nack was on the Photoshop team for 8 years, working on features like Camera Raw, Smart Objects and Adobe Bridge. He’s been acting as Principal Product Manager at Adobe since then, focusing on its mobile app efforts like Photoshop for tablets. In... |
Tumblr Adds Support For SSL But Doesn’t Turn It On By Default | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Like the numerous tech companies that have come before it, including big names like , and , Tumblr has today (finally) support for SSL security on its blogging platform. One big caveat, though: it’s not switched on by default. You have to DIY. For security-minded users – which these days should mean just about ev... |
Skryf, The Robot That Writes Poetry In Sand, Reminds Us Of The Ephemerality Of Art Or Whatever | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Let us go then, you and I, to meet , a robot created by Dutch artist Gijs Van Bon. The robot uses a repurposed CNC machine to spray out a thin layer of sand in the shape of letters and Van Bon uses it to print out lines of temporary poetry on sidewalks. As the robot writes, the feet of passersby spread the sand far an... |
Anonymity’s Moment: Secret Is Like Facebook For What You’re Really Thinking | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | In the mid-90s, it was all about . Then a decade later, Facebook conquered the web, becoming the dominant identity provider on the web. Mark Zuckerberg himself was a lack of integrity. But perhaps the pendulum swung a little too far. on his original point, apps centered on ephemerality and anonymity are now the ra... |
As Windows 8.1 Overtakes Vista’s Market Share, Update 1 Leaks Online | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | In January, , taking the fourth-place slot behind 7, XP, and 8. In the month, Windows 8.1 picked up moderate market share, and Windows 8 eased as expected, meaning that Microsoft’s new platform is seeing slow total growth. In fact, Windows 8.x — both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 — gained a mere 0.09 percent market share ... |
Facebook “Paper” May Beat Trademark Complaint As Drawing App Is Registered As “Paper By FiftyThree” | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | There’s a whole stack of apps named “Paper” in the App Store, but may come out on top despite a requested name change from drawing app maker FiftyThree. One problem is that FiftyThree registered its app’s trademark as not “Paper”, and while it’s a lame legal loophole, it may be enough to let Facebook keep the name.... |
YC-Backed DataRank Raises $1.4M For Its Online Analytics Platform For Brands | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Recent , which helps companies track online conversations related to their brands and perform other competitive analysis, has closed on $1.4 million in seed funding, the team is announcing today. The funding is led by New Road Ventures, and also includes participation from FundersClub and other angel investors. Foun... |
Heroku Introduces More Powerful Dynos For Large-Scale Apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | , the cloud platform Salesforce acquired in 2010, today a new class of dyno that has 12 times the RAM and 40 times the CPU power of a regular dyno. In Heroku’s world, are the containers your applications run in, with the most basic ones costing 5 cents per hour. The new performance dynos, which are part of the Hero... |
Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google And Yahoo Join Apple In Revealing More On NSA Requests | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | All the big tech companies are opening up a bit more about requests made by the U.S. National Security Agency, with , , , and detailing new info included in their respective transparency reports today. The new reports now include how many requests for the data of its members it has received from the government, ... |
How To Get Facebook Paper If You’re Outside The US | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 3 | Facebook’s super pretty new standalone app, Paper, . For some crazy reason, it’s only available if you’re in the US. That restriction is a pretty easy thing to workaround. (If you’re just looking for the Paper download link, ) If you’ve ever had to work around the App Store’s geographical restrictions before, this’... |
Komli Media Launches Remarketing Platform To Take On Google, Facebook | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | It’s been a roller-coaster ride for so far, the Indian digital ad network that has raised around $97 million from investors including Peepul Capital, Norwest and Nexus Venture Partners. Within few weeks of raising its biggest funding of $30 million in October last year, Komli’s CEO, Prashant Mehta, quit the company, ... |
Sherpa Ventures Closes On $87 Million Of $150 Million Fund | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | , the “ ” investment group founded by Shervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford, has made its first close on a planned $150 million fund. As , the first $87 million of its raise has come in, with investors including TPG Capital. Pishevar declined to comment on the raise, citing SEC restrictions, but we’re likely to see more... |
Scott Guthrie To Take Over Satya Nadella’s Microsoft Role On An Interim Basis | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Who will take over for Satya Nadella’s , helming the Server and Enterprise Group? It’s longtime Sofite Scott Guthrie, a respected technologist. TechCrunch confirmed with Microsoft that Guthrie will take the position on an interim basis, maintaining his current job title of corporate vice president. In the Microsoft hi... |
Fair Competition Or Foul Play? Rival Car Service Fires Back At Uber Over Alleged Attack | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | If we’ve said it once, we’ll say it again: Competition can get pretty fierce in the world of on-demand transportation. Consumer demand for better, faster and more convenient car services has exploded and top startups are racing to meet the opportunity. As an early mover in the space, is used to pushing back against u... |
Google Extends Security Rewards Program To Cover Its Own Chrome Apps And Extensions, Ups Reward Level For Open-Source Patches | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Google has long run a rewards program for security researchers who find vulnerabilities in its software. Today, the company is program to also cover its Chrome apps and extensions. These include extensions for Hangouts, Screen Capture, Google Translate, PageSpeed Insights and . The rewards for developers who find se... |
Inside Satya Nadella’s CEO Comp Package From Microsoft | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Through a , Microsoft has revealed the compensation package for its new CEO. In short, Satya Nadella is buying all the beers for the next few years. In numerical terms, Nadella will pick up a $1.2 million yearly cash salary, with installments doled out twice monthly. Nadella is also eligible for a cash bonus of up to ... |
Apple And Others Fund $750 Million In Education Gadgets And Internet Broadband | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Major tech companies $750 million worth of products to help bridge the digital divide. During a speech earlier today, Obama gave details about the pledges from the tech companies, along with a commitment to connect more schools with broadband Internet. : During the State of the Union, Obama that Apple, Microsoft, S... |
TrackMaven Lands $6.5M From NEA And Others To Bring Better Competitive Intelligence To Digital Marketers | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | As content marketing becomes an increasingly significant part of the digital marketing arsenal, it it brings with it new opportunities, both allowing marketers to expand beyond traditional approaches to advertising and tap into new revenue channels. However, it also comes with a downside, as digital marketers are becom... |
Sources: Munchery Raising An Additional $20M For Its Gourmet Meal Delivery Service | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | San Francisco-based , the startup that offers prepared gourmet meals on demand, is in the process of raising a new $20 million funding round, multiple sources familiar with the deal have revealed to TechCrunch. The new round adds to its existing , and $700,000 in seed funding. The startup currently counts Sherpa Vent... |
A Facebook Life | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | begins at conception. “We’re expecting!”, your parents post. You don’t have fingers but you’re already accruing likes. A shared sonogram means hundreds have seen you before you’ve even opened your eyes. You have a Facebook presence despite lacking a physical one. Think about that for a second. Like it or not, in 10 ye... |
PillPack Takes On CVS And Walgreens By Mail, Launches A Full-Service, Subscription-Based Online Pharmacy | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | , more than 20 percent of Americans take more than five prescription medications each day. This fact goes a long way to showing how big of a role the pharmacy has come to play in millions of lives. While managing prescriptions, medications, and one’s healthcare is critical, it also happens to be far from easy. No one ... |
Hey, Big Spender! Venture Investment Soars In January | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Holy shit did venture capitalists spend a lot of money in January. Investments in new companies shot to $5.8 billion by the end of the month up from $3.5 billion over the same period last year, according to data from . It’s only one month, not a full quarter, but it seems like venture investors are setting the stage f... |
Unified Adds Business Intelligence To Its Social Marketing Tools | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Social advertising company just launched the new version of its “social operating platform” today, and it sounds like the biggest change is the addition of business intelligence — basically, more customizable, big-picture data to help advertisers see how they’re doing. The company already offers ad-buying tools, as w... |
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Flipagram Raising $50-$60M At A $300M Valuation From Sequoia | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Buzzy mobile video app is raising $50 to $60 million in funding at a $300 million valuation. We’re hearing from sources that Sequoia is in the round. The WSJ recently that Flipagram, which creates short video sets from photos set to music, was raising cash at a $300 million valuation. Here’s an of a Flipagram. Fl... |
YoVille Creator Seeks To Avoid The Game’s Death By Buying It Back From Zynga | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Zynga when it announced it would be shutting down , a virtual world online game that’s been running since 2008. The game’s players have been building their simulated communities for many years now, but they only have until March to say goodbye. Unless, that is, YoVille’s original creator and his new game studio have... |
What Could Go Wrong For Satya Nadella? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Microsoft , with Satya Nadella taking over the reins from exiting CEO Steve Ballmer. Bill Gates will spend a portion of his time at the company assisting with product choices. While Nadella was essentially the unanimous choice of those outside the company — your humble servant included — his clippings have become too ... |
Sony Reportedly Seeking To Sell Its PC Division | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Sony is apparently looking to shed the dead weight that is its PC business. , relaying a report by Nikkei, Sony is in talks to sell its personal computer business to investment fund Japan Industrial Partners for up to 50 billion yen ($490 million). A new company would be formed to sell the computers, with Sony retaini... |
FarFaria Raises $3.25M To Bring Children’s Books To The iPad (And Eventually Other Devices) | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | , which has , is announcing that it has raised $3.25 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Inventus Capital Partners, with Inventus’ Manu Rekhi joining the board of directors. The firm, which recently , touts its ability to connect Silicon Valley entrepreneurs with “India’s natural advantages,” but in thi... |
YC-Backed Taplytics Lets You Run A/B Tests On iOS Without Waiting For App Store Updates | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Y Combinator-backed is launching its A/B testing platform for iOS applications today, which allows app makers the ability to test different experiences and quickly push out minor fixes, like visual bugs or typos, without having to wait on the App Store’s slower release cycle. The company was founded around nine month... |
Myntra Confirms $50M Fund Raise Led By Premji Invest | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | As , Indian fashion portal Myntra has just confirmed raising $50 million in fresh funding from investors led by Premji Invest. The new funding comes after Myntra preferred to invest in its own growth and did not pursue a merger offer from India’s biggest e-commerce company Flipkart. “We are confident of achieving $1 b... |
White House Conspicuously Silent As It Attacks A Bill To Make Spending Transparent | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 4 | Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to usher in a new wave of data transparency. And, with the exception of the NSA, the administration has pioneered groundbreaking open government initiatives, from maps of stimulus spending to the vaults of consumer energy use. But, as the Senate pushes to make federal spending tra... |
Lyft Announces Rideshare Insurance Coalition And Additional Coverage For Its Drivers | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | is seeking to combat questions about insurance and liability today, with the introduction of a new Peer-to-Peer Rideshare Insurance Coalition, as well as the announcement that it will be providing additional insurance to drivers on its platform. In a , the ride-sharing startup announced the formation of a working gro... |
MissionBit’s Volunteer Hackers Close The Computer Science Education Gap In SF’s Schools | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | A couple days a week, 25-year-old (pictured above to the left) takes the Muni’s T line in from Bayview, where he lives in a house full of other founders through . Yes, he’s a pretty recent computer science graduate from University of Michigan. Yes, he’s new to San Francisco and just moved here six months ago from De... |
Amazon Acquires Video Gaming Studio Double Helix Games | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | Amazon has acquired a gaming studio called , TechCrunch has learned, and Amazon now confirms. The deal was for both talent and IP, we understand. Financial terms have not been disclosed. The Irvine, California-based company, founded in 2007 through the merger of two well-known game development shops, The Collective, I... |
Don’t Like Your Facebook “Look Back”? You’ll Be Able To Edit It Soon. | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | For the past 24 hours, my Facebook newsfeed has been predominantly filled with just two things: 1) People sharing those cutesy automated “Look Back” videos that Facebook made for most of its users to celebrate the company’s 10th anniversary 2) People complaining that they hate their Look Back Don’t like yours? Too many... |
AOL Quietly Changes Our 401(k) Employer Match Program | Chris Nesi | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | Starting this year, AOL has changed how it distributes its matching 401(k) contributions for all employees, which could put a sizable dent in the retirement accounts for workers who part ways with the company before the end of 2014. The company, which owns TechCrunch and, it goes without saying, employs me, matches 50 ... |
Twitter Data Grants Program Gives Access To Historical Tweets To Researchers | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | Twitter wants researchers to turn its mountains of data into insights, from to New Years celebrations, that could delight and help the world. So today it announced the program. Researchers can to get free access to Twitter’s public tweets and historical data through one of its . [Correction: Twitter tells researc... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Vegas Tech Fund’s Jen McCabe | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | This week, Jen McCabe is joining us in the TechCrunch TV studio to talk hardware and more. You can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. McCabe, who leads the new hardware arm of Tony Hsieh’s seed stage investment fund, VegasTechFund; previously joined Romotiv... |
Mozilla And EverythingMe Preview “Firefox Launcher”, An Android Homescreen That Fights App Overload | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | Mozilla wants to help you find new apps and rediscover those you downloaded but forgot. So today it previewed , a homescreen replacement powered by Israeli contextual computing startup that will become available for download “in the coming weeks”. Firefox Launcher gives you suggestions of apps you’re most likely to ... |
Dick Costolo On User Growth: Twitter “Will Reach Many More People” In 2014 | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | Twitter CEO Dick Costolo answered repeated questions this afternoon about the company’s user growth. His big point seemed to be that (despite ), “We feel very well-positioned for growth,” and the company “will reach many more people” this year. For one thing, Costolo offered some justification for the 7 percent quarte... |
My Favorite Companies From The Seventh 500 Startups Accelerator Class | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | It’s demo day again for the crew, as the seed stage investment firm and accelerator is showing off the latest batch of companies that have survived its three-month accelerator program. Those companies are presenting their products and services to investors and press for the first time in Mountain View, Calif. There a... |
Media Queen Gerry Laybourne Joins Betaworks Board | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | Betaworks’ John Borthwick has today announced, via the company blog, that Gerry Laybourne will be joining the board of directors. Alongside co-founding Kandu, a betaworks-backed technology company for kids, Laybourne is also known as one of the most . She started out at Nickelodeon in the 80’s and 90’s, conceiving of ... |
Instaradio Debuts Android App, Aims To Be The SoundCloud For Amateur Live Audio Broadcasts | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | Toronto-based startup and Extreme Startups grad is unveiling a brand , and is also updating its iOS application with a significant overhaul. The app provides instant live audio streaming broadcasts for users, via their smartphone device and using nothing more than their built-in mics, unless they opt to add their ow... |
Pandora Falls After Hours On Weak 2014 Revenue Guidance Despite Strong Q4 EPS Of $0.11 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | Today Pandora its fourth-quarter financial performance, essentially matching revenue expectations, and beating on earnings per share. For the period, Pandora had non-GAAP revenue of $200.8 million, and non-GAAP earnings per share (diluted) of $0.11. Investors had $0.08 in earnings per share and revenue of $201 mill... |
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Materialise Buys Polish 3D Prototyping Firm e-Prototypy | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | , a 3D-printing products and services company, has acquired for an undisclosed sum, a move that further consolidates the 3D-printing space in Central Europe. Materialise, based in Leuven, Belgium, also owns Czech prototyping firm Usti Nad Labem CR. “Thanks to the acquisition, Polish customers will be gaining access t... |
Twitter Stock Down 18 Percent After Earnings Show Disappointing User Numbers | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | You’d think investors would be happy. Twitter just released as a public company, with . And yet, as of 6:02pm Eastern time, Twitter’s stock had fallen 18 percent in after-hours trading. What happened? Well, the company also said that it now has 241 million monthly actively users — up 30 percent year-over-year, as th... |
Twitter’s Mobile Business Now At 184M Monthly Actives And 75%, $165M Of All Ad Revenues | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | Twitter today reported its first quarter as a publicly listed company, and while the market may be it a for slower overall user growth (despite ), Twitter’s mobile story continues to be a strong one. Twitter said that mobile monthly active users stood at 184 million for Q4 2013, up 37% on a year ago. Given that ov... |
My Not-On-Facebook Life | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | , I wake up with Northern Europe’s low winter light filtering through the blinds in my bedroom. The silence is near perfect. It’s too early to hear the week-day procession of parents ferrying their kids to the neighbourhood school. The slamming concert of car doors and tearful wails of protest at another day wrenche... |
What Happens To California If Silicon Valley Became A State, In 7 Charts | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | At least one wealthy tech investor wants to encourage California’s latent separatist tendencies and , including one State of Silicon Valley. Per California law, no matter unlikely or odd a proposed ballot proposition is the Secretary of State and the Legislative Analysts Office release a report to voters on a bill’s p... |
Twitter Crushes With Q4 Revenue Of $242.7M, But Shows Slow User Growth To 241M Actives | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 5 | In regular trading, Twitter eased just over a percent in a mixed session for the major indexes. In after-hours trading, following the release of its financial performance, Twitter is sharply lower. For the period, Twitter reported 241 million monthly active users. The service also reported monthly mobile active users o... |
Neo4j, A Graph Database For Building Recommendation Engines, Gets A Visual Overhaul | Alex Williams | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | Part of the problem with any powerful technology is how it is perceived. It might be something that is too early for its time or it may just need those years of development and use for the market to catch up to its potential. That is true of graph databases like which now has a new graphical interface that helps peop... |
Fly Or Die: LG G Flex | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | The is one of the most hyped phones of the year. Granted, it’s only January and granted, LG isn’t the most exciting Android manufacturer around, but ! Curved, I say! And LG even says it can heal itself if you scratch it. For these reasons, we couldn’t resist getting this thing into the studio for a Fly Or Die, and... |
GoldieBlox’s Super Bowl Ad Is A Counterbalance To Rampant Sexism | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXbQ4PeNLI&w=640&h=360] On Sunday night, about 110 million people turned on their TVs to watch a series of lavish, expensively produced 30-second skits interspersed with live footage of men throwing a ball around. Fox Sports for each ad spot this year, with companies like Anhe... |
TC Droidcast Episode 20: Motorola Goes To Lenovo, Google Loves Nexus And Ouya V2 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | It’s a brave new dawn for the TechCrunch Droidcast as I take over hosting duties from Chris Velazco… who returns temporarily from the distant lands of Engadget to share his insights on , the Nexus program at Google and what’s next for hardware there, and the new, slightly improved Ouya Android console. Remember that y... |
Meet Carrot Fit, Your Own Personal Sarcastic AI Weight Loss Coach | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | There are countless weight loss apps available out there. Some pair up with dedicated activity-tracking devices, while others count calories, and yet still some . Or . Or it. In today’s edition of , I bring you , the humorous weight-loss app. laughing burns calories, you know. Carrot Fit, the latest in the , is... |
What Games Are: Flappy Bird, Patterns And Context | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | It’s nice to know that the games industry can still surprise you and that – just when everybody thinks it’s been figured out – there’s room for a . , if you don’t know, is the latest game-from-nowhere that’s taken over the App Store. It’s another , , , or . The game that seems to just pop, leaving many heads sc... |
PSA: Missed Call From A Mystery Number? Be Careful. | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | The people who read our site are a pretty savvy lot. You know not to accept checks from . You can spot a from a mile away. But here’s one that might be new for you: scammers are apparently trying to exploit your “missed call” screen, now. The scam, simplified: They call you, but immediately hang up. You see a missed... |
Unpacking Facebook’s Mobile Strategy: Paper, All The Mobile News That’s Fit To Print | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | TechCrunch In the world of mobile apps, the biggest news from this week was the announcement, by Facebook, of a new app, built by the social network, to read news and stories: . Make sure to watch the , which is very Apple-esque in its elegance and emotion. When Facebook announces these kind of apps, it evokes memori... |
Releasing Ads Early Pays Off For Super Bowl Advertisers, According To Visible Measures | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | If you’re watching the Super Bowl today, some of those brand new ads may feel awfully familiar — a growing number of them are being released online ahead of time, either in their entirety or as a partial teaser. A spokesperson for video advertising and analytics company , told me that his team looked at every Super Bo... |
In Praise Of Metro | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | It looks like Microsoft has finally that Metro (or the Modern UI or whatever else they call it these days) wasn’t right for the desktop. If the rumors are true, it’ll continue to de-emphasize Metro with the first major Windows 8.1 update later this year. No doubt, that’s exactly the right thing to do. Metro is actual... |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Economies Of Scale In Tech | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 2 | When I joined the Industry Analyst community in 2000 the industry was much smaller. For those in the business and analyst community who were in the field decades prior it was even smaller still. Early in my career as an analyst I was studying the semiconductor industry as it related to markets like PCs, mobile phones... |
Apparently Students At Tim Draper’s “University For Heroes” Are Selling Sex Toys For Class | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | Well, that’s an unusual school assignment. , who says he’s a student at the , emailed TechCrunch earlier today to inform us that he’s selling Jimmyjane sex toys on Indiegogo as part of class. Apparently, today’s assignment in the entrepreneurial training program (organized by venture capitalist Tim Draper) involves sa... |
With $8M In Fresh Funding, Ezetap Is More Than Just A Square For Emerging Markets | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | There are almost 900 million active cell-phone users in India now, and from newer startups to some of the biggest companies in the world, everybody is chasing the next mobile disruption that could potentially result in a business model for all of the emerging markets. One such startup is , a mobile payment company bac... |
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