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YouTube's 'As Seen On': Watch What We're Linking To | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Looking to kill some time? Check out the new feature just launched by YouTube, which they’re calling . The gist is simple: YouTube is crawling blogs and other websites to see which YouTube videos linking to, and has compiled all of the linked videos into an easily-browsable list. You can find the TechCrunch version ... |
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Cafepress IPO Filing Gives A Glimpse At A Crowdsourced Business Model | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Another day, another tech company is filing for a public offering. This time it’s , which allows users to design, buy and sell merchandise such as t-shirts, hats, bags, mugs, bumper stickers and more. The company just filed its
today, and aims to raise as much as $80 million in an IPO. Cafepress, which launched in ... |
Foursquare (Finally) Checks In To Its Very Own SOMA Office [Pics] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | As Steve Jobs has proven this week, if you want your employees to feel great about working for you, give them a great office. ‘s San Francisco outpost has amazingly enough shared space with mobile payments Square when it got too big for the Square offices and bumped itself up to another floor in the same building. ... |
Favorite Moments From Disrupt NYC Day One | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Day One of was packed with all-star speakers and interviews. All of the videos from Disrupt can be found and pictures , but we wanted to do a quick breakdown of videos and pictures of our favorite moments from Day One. When Erick Schonfeld sat down with , we weren’t really ready for what was about to be said. Whe... |
Rumor: Sprint iPhone Being "Actively Tested" | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 6 | 10 | Sorry, folks: we’re still too burned out from all the pre-release, back-and-forth rumor mongering that went down with the Verizon iPhone to really weigh in on this one, so we’ll just pass on the details. Could it happen? Sure. Could it all be a bunch of conjecture? Absolutely. But, hey: at this point, Apple has no re... |
The Bitcoin Trials Continue: Mt. Gox Exchange Collapses Due To Compromised Account | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 19 | It seems that is experiencing the same fits and starts that any new currency undergoes early in its history. Though , the mainstream press discovered it much more recently, and since then, Bitcoin has experienced some schizophrenic volatility — you can read Jon Evans’ . Yet, absent from Evans’ post is the very lat... |
VillageVines Relaunches As Savored, Expands Discount Dining To 10 Cities | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 19 | New York City-based dining deals site VillageVines is now . In addition to the name change, it launched a redesigned site, is doubling its cities to ten, and added Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow as an investor and board member. The company raised last January. Savored focuses on high-end dining discounts at top-r... |
Yup, YouTube Counts Video Ads As Regular Views | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 19 | Movie trailers are among the most popular videos on YouTube. A typical movie trailer gets millions of views, but how many of those views are natural and who many are pushed as paid-for ads? Yes, movie trailers are all ads in a sense. But people seek them out just like any other 2-minute video. That is not what I am... |
Netflix.com Website And Streaming Services Go Down | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 19 | Thinking about catching a movie with your loved ones for Father’s Day, or just because its Sunday? Well it’s not going to be on as it online services including the $7.99 a month streaming feature and the ability to order DVDs are down for some users. Right now users have been unable to access the website or the strea... |
Google Reminds You That Today Is Father's Day (And To Call Dad From Gmail) | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 19 |
Google really wants you to use Gmail to call your dad to wish him a Happy Father’s Day. On the front page of (which features a Dad-themed Doodle), Google has a message underneath the search box “Dad. Father. Pops. No matter what you call him, call your dad from Gmail.” If you click on the message, you are taken to a... |
Good World Games' MyConservationPark Helps You Save Endangered Species | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 19 | Combining social games with a cause has become a popular way to engage game players on Facebook with raising money for various philanthropic causes. For example, Zynga has raised funds via its games for the earthquake relief efforts in both and over the past few years. Startup is developing Facebook games devoted... |
The Celebrity Moment | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 26 | Earlier this week crossed a milestone. No, it wasn’t hitting a one month after launching, nor was it being to the list of portfolio companies for l (granted it was just a logo refresh from the company’s previous product incarnation, ). In fact, the ultimate sign that the crowdsourced music service had arrived w... |
RunKeeper Adds New Integration To Its Health Graph In Hopes Of Building 'The Facebook Of Fitness' | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 26 | You may have heard about the social graph and the interest graph, but what about the health graph? Thanks to , this term may soon become an oft-used part of your vocabulary. RunKeeper, for those unfamiliar, was founded three years ago as a simple iPhone app and a small online fitness community designed to help runner... |
OMG/JK: The iPhone Empire Strikes Back? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 26 | This week’s episode of is a long one — the longest yet, in fact, at 30 minutes. Jason and I apologize for going on and on but we had a lot to talk about. It’s been roughly three weeks since we last recorded an episode and a of stuff has happened. And while we don’t even come close to getting through all of it, we... |
The Case for Silver Lake Not Being Evil Incarnate | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 26 | When an employee cries foul against a big tech company or its greed-driven investors, it’s easy to take the side of the employee, especially when an employee comes forward on the record to state his or her case. A wronged employee is inherently more sympathetic than a big, greedy private equity firm or a faceless corpo... |
Foursquare and seven years ago | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 6 | 26 | Sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives the other day, we saw the Speaker accept the report of the resignation of the gentleman from New York, as Boehner called Weiner. Yet another knee-drop to the power of Twitter in a city that produces laws like the Valley does startups. Security forbids cameras and t... |
Revolutions On The Road | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 6 | 26 | I almost miss the bad old days. When I first started wandering around some of the more obscure of this planet, lo these many years ago, Internet connections were rare and wonderful discoveries; now I just get annoyed when I can’t get online. The last decade-and-a-half of innovation has completely transformed the expe... |
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Skype's Worthless Employee Stock Option Plan: Here's Why They Did It | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 26 | Skype is being immediately prior to the closing of the Microsoft acquisition, and people are assuming they’re doing this to keep the value of those employees stock options. Skype’s response boils down to saying that the employees were fired because they weren’t good employees, and that the value of the stock is negli... |
Watch Conan O'Brien Do The Lark Dance | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r4jOVyr0vE&w=630]
, the vibrating wristband alarm clock that at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco last September, has had quite a year: From being given by Homeland Security because it was an “unidentifiable product,” to being in the Apple Retail store in May and even rec... |
Yeah, That Flickr iPhone Data Is Way Off — It's Far More Dominating Than It Seems | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | Earlier today, that according to Flickr’s , the iPhone 4 is now the most popular camera across the site. Yes, it has overtaken all those professional cameras, all the point-and-shoots, etc. That’s huge. But the news came with a caveat. And it’s actually a big one. As TUAW notes at the bottom of their post, the cavea... |
Suppliers Claim Amazon Tablet Coming In Late Summer | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | Not a lot of information here to go on, but it jives with and over the last year that Amazon would be putting out a full-on tablet of their own. that the tablet is poised for an August or September launch, and millions of units are expected to be sold by the end of the year. A TI processor and standard OEM touchs... |
Distimo: China Now The Second Largest iPhone App Market After The U.S. | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 21 |
After reporting the Android Market’s in April’s research, app store analytics company is releasing a new study that focuses on Apple’s App Store development in Asia. The company at iOS app data in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwa... |
That Apple Television Is Coming This August Alongside The iPhone Nano (And Santa) | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | I wanted to do the headline without the Santa bit, but I didn’t want to be that much of an ass. Regardless, let’s see how many people report this as fact just from the headline. In other words, let’s catch who doesn’t bother reading beyond the headline — or even the entire headline. In other words, let’s see who is a... |
Firmware Fixes On The Way For Fujifilm X100 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | I’d like to say I’ve had my problems with the , but since inventory is so tight, they haven’t had a chance to get us one to review yet. But from everything I’ve heard, it’s a great camera with some really half-baked firmware. Fujifilm is hoping to address this with an update that makes some functions harder to acciden... |
InfluAds launches its crowd-sourced ad network to try and de-clutter the web | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | We’ve had crowd-sourced book reviews (Amazon), crowd-source location (Foursquare, Waze), so why not a crowd-sourced advertising network? Sounds crazy? Well the fact is display banner ads have been just a tiny bit dissappointing and basically create clutter on the real estate of the web. At the same time companies try ... |
Source: This Hulu/Yahoo Story Is BS | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | Interesting breaking that Yahoo put an unsolicited bid in to acquire Hulu. For all I know it’s completely true. But I’ve just received an unsolicited message from a source close to Yahoo that says it’s completely untrue (probably because of all my digging the last week on ). Yahoo hasn’t had any meaningful conversat... |
Lytro Launches to Transform Photography with $50M in Venture Funds (TCTV) | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | Love photos but utterly bored by of iPhone photo sharing apps? is the company for you. This is also the company for anyone who thinks Silicon Valley has fallen into a rut of innovation-less posing. And it’s the company for anyone who complains that the Valley is more about media and marketing than brass-knuckles, h... |
I Could Definitely Use This Fold-Out Field Kitchen | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 21 |
While I feel there is a little danger of singing the wood in this Field Kitchen contraption, I love the idea. It’s the perfect size for a Colman stove, and they even sell two different kinds with it. Plus there’s room for silverware, plates, salt and pepper, the works. The legs are optional, and the whole thing is mad... |
WordPress.org Forces Password Resets Due To Compromised Plugins | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | WordPress.org has just posted the following on : “Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) containing cleverly disguised backdoors. We determined the commits were not from the authors, rolled them back, pushed updates to the plugins, ... |
"Magi-Cam" Uses Mirrors As Camouflage To Spy On Vigilant Animals | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfGVJMSJQDQ&w=640&h=390]
One of the hardest things to do when filming a nature documentary is convince the animals you’re not there. Sometimes it means constructing an elaborate blind and waiting for hours, days, or even months. Sometimes you have to send a remote-controlled pro... |
Daily Deal Aggregator Yipit Raises $6 Million Series B | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | Daily deals are growing like crazy, and it’s not just Groupon and LivingSocial. Daily deal aggregator just raised $6 million in a series B led by Highland Capital Partners. RRE, DFJ Gotham and IA Ventures also participated. I caught up with co-founders Vin Vacanti and Jim Moran (pictured) today in New York City. ... |
Day 1: My Week In The Nissan Leaf | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 21 |
A brand new Nissan Leaf rolled out off a car carrier and into my life earlier today. I plan on spending a good deal of time with this red devil over the coming week. You see, here at CrunchGear, there’s been a raging format war of sorts. Devin, a hipster of a moderate degree, is very fond of the . He’s proclaimed on ... |
Yahoo's 360 Degree Turnaround | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | Oof, Yahoo. The , just the most recent Yahoo trainwreck, is still a fresh wound for shareholders. And things are getting worse. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has long promised a turnaround at the lagging company. But we’ve been digging for new information about the state of Yahoo in advance of the annual later this week, an... |
Apple Releases iTunes Festival App For iPad And iPhone | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | Since 2007, has hosted the Festival in London. And why wouldn’t it? For most, iTunes is the go-to one-stop shop for all the music we could ever want, so an annual music festival in its honor is only fitting. If you’re interested in checking out the show, or simply just want to keep up with the festival, Apple has j... |
To 4G Or Not To 4G? Consumers Don't Give A Hoot. | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | There’s been a lot of hype around 4G of late, with talk about how the new network standard provides increased speeds, better device functionality, and all that jazz. But is 4G a term that actually has real world meaning, or is it just some place-holding buzzword used by marketers to stoke consumer excitement over buyi... |
TechCrunch is heading to MLOVE, the TED for Mobile | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | I’ve been to just about every tech conference in Europe now (bar the dull corporate IT ones, which I avoid) but one I haven’t hit yet is (June 29th to July 1st). This is held just outside in Berlin, at 19th century castle in the former Eastern Germany. This year there is more incentive for TechCrunch to cover it, sin... |
Samsung's LCD Fridge With Apps Is A Fridge That Has An LCD And Apps | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 21 | Food aside, what’s missing from your fridge? As long as it keeps food cold, and hooks you up with some cold water or crushed ice from time to time, there’s really nothing more we can ask from our fridges. At least, that’s how I felt before I went to ’s appliance line unveiling and met my new favorite home appliance: t... |
Review: Klipsch S5i Rugged In-Ear Headphones | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 21 |
: A solid pair of headphones with some token efforts towards ruggedness. Aside from an increased resistance to water, they’re not remarkably tough, but the sound is good and the remote is nice and chunky.
: : : : Klipsch’s in-ears have a long, illustrious history, so I won’t bother you with it. I’ve enjoyed their... |
Virtual Storage Company Virsto Raises $12M, Buys VMware Virtualization Startup EvoStor | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | , a virtual machines storage company, has raised $12 million in Series B venture capital funding led by InterWest Partners with August Capital and Canaan Partners also participating in the round. This investment brings Virsto’s total funding to Virsto develops an hypervisor-based storage solution that can anticipate t... |
CrunchGear Is Streaming Live From Showstoppers @ E3 | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | [ustream cid=177851 w=640 h=370]
Watch us interview people while drinking! Here we go again: talking to the exhibitor’s at this year’s Showstoppers at E3 where we can sit down and get up close and personal with a few fascinating tech companies. We’ll be streaming for about an hour and then we’ll start up again at 10... |
Actually, Sony Won E3 With The Vita | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 7 |
Matt may that the is the E3 champion, but I’m not convinced. It looks like a fun and versatile device, but I’m not sure it’s as accessible as the Wii, which focused on motion and a few primary buttons to make gaming as simple as possible. The Wii U is clearly powerful in some ways but not nearly the breakthrough d... |
This Is Where The Magic Happens | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | Seventeen years ago published Neal Stephenson’s magisterial epic “ ”, about the web of undersea fibre-optic cables being built to connect all of humanity. Well – all. Africa, again, was left behind. Until 2009, all of East Africa could only connect to the Internet over slow and hugely expensive satellite links. Fin... |
Founders Den: First Class — 11 Startups Emerge From The Non-Incubator Incubator | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | This past January, , a new shared office space based in the SoMa district of San Francisco. The idea was to create a private clubhouse where invited entrepreneurs ( ) could come to hang out and small, referred startups could rent space. Today, the don’t-call-it-an-incubator incubator had its first demo day. Overall, t... |
Nox Audio Walks Us Through Their Updated Admiral Headset, And It Looks Great | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 7 |
Nox’s Admiral headset has been around since CES, in a way — it’s still not quite final, and by “not quite final” I mean “not final at all.” But it’s still awesome, and once you get over how… shall we say, not lightweight it is, you can kind of see just how great it could be. They’ve changed a bit since CES so we dropp... |
Nyko Zoom Makes Your Kinect Work In Small Rooms | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | The Nyko Zoom is a great idea. It’s basically a lens set that sits over your Kinect that reduces the space the Kinect needs to sense you in three dimensions. That way you can feasibly stand just a few feet from the Kinect and do all your running and jumping without fear of falling into furniture. Specifically, the devi... |
E3: Super Mario 3DS Trailer | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYTcm5oH20M&w=640&h=390] It’s Mario! In 3D! |
appMobi Acquires Hosting Platform; Launches Tech To Speed Up HTML5 In Mobile Gaming | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | appMobi likes HTML5-based mobile games, and it wants you to like them, too, which is why is focused on giving developers the tools required to make HTML5 and JavaScript mobile applications that run smoothly across platforms and browsers. Of course, many loudly pronounced HTML5 the new heir to the throne, as it would... |
Boxee Adds BBC iPlayer And Previews The Upcoming Blink Box App | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | Boxee owners in the UK are feeling the live right about now. The company an updated that added an updated BBC iPlayer to the little streamer. The company also pre-announced that Blink Box, the UK’s largest online and movies TV website, is hitting the Boxee Box sometime by the end of the year. The Blink Box app will s... |
Razer's Old Republic Mouse, Headset, And Keyboard Are Sithy (With Hands-On) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 7 |
The Old Republic is, potentially, every Star Wars-loving gamer’s dream. Own your own ship, travel the galaxy, pick a side in an epic conflict… if they pull it off. Razer’s taking the chance they won’t, though, and have put out a few peripherals customized for the Old Republic experience. First you’ve got , which has ... |
The Gresso iPhone Case Has Six Stupid Little Watches Embedded Into It | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | Oh, Gresso, you and your ridonkulous iPhone accessories and attempts to bejewel our phones. This $6,000 case features six goofy little watches embedded into its face, allowing you to tell the time at a glance. Or you could just start up your iPhone clock and go at it that way. It adds 1mm to the phone, which is why I s... |
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The Nintendo Wii U Won E3 2011 | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 7 |
Alright, everyone. You can go home. E3 2011 is a mainly bust besides Nintendo’s amazing Wii U. Microsoft added Bing to the 360 and Sony announced the name of the NGP, the Vita. Sure, there are several clever games like Battlefield 3, Modern Warfare 3, and several new Zelda games. But there really isn’t anything new pe... |
Makerbot's Bre Pettis Will Be On Colbert Report | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | One of our own, Bre Pettis, will appear on the Colbert Report tomorrow night to talk about 3D printing, his handsome glasses, and new . This is some seriously exciting news in that it proves that the geeks will inherit the earth.
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Toshiba Tablet Gets Formal Introduction, And A Name | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | Today the highly anticipated Tablet got a formal introduction into the market, and finally, a name: the Thrive. Rather than trying to put out the “thinnest” or “lightest” tablet on the market, Toshiba’s Thrive is all about usability, according to the manufacturer. Sporting a 10.1-inch display, the Thrive will ship wi... |
Jawbone Makes A Promo Music Video That Isn't Horribly Embarrassing, Hides A (Ridiculous) New Product Within | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | I like Jawbone. They’re one of the few companies out there that consistently surprises me which each step they take. Finding a sustainable business model in selling a series of expensive Bluetooth headsets with marginal, almost-entirely-intangible improvements between iterations? Surprise! Launching a somewhat niche p... |
CleverSense's Seymour Takes A Different Approach To Local Recommendations | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | Between Yelp, Foursquare, Facebook, Google and countless startups, there’s no shortage of services looking to offer you restaurant and activity recommendations while you’re on the go. But there’s a reason there’s so much competition: as smartphones become increasingly common, this market is going to be absolutely massi... |
Twitter Now Automatically Shortens Links | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | In another step towards filling all its holes, Twitter has just announced which starts rolling out today. The Twitter link shortening service will pass through t.co and shorten links to 19 characters, still allowing users to see what site the links are pointing towards (see above). From Twitter support, on the new... |
Square Raising New Round, Joining Billion Dollar Valuation Club | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | There are a bevy of startups in the process of raising big rounds of capital at billion dollar or higher valuations – something that was a rare occurrence even a few months ago. We’re tracking most of these deals (and have written about ). Now, we’ve confirmed via multiple sources, is payment startup turn. The compa... |
Jobs To Cupertino: We Want A Spaceship-Shaped, 12K Capacity Building As Our New Apple Campus | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 7 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuz5OmOh_M&feature=player_embedded#at=92&w=630] After having a banner start yesterday, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs humbly his idea for a new Apple campus at the today. Jobs wants to build one building that will hold 12,000 Apple employees on a former Hewlett-Packard p... |
Apple Just Handed Twitter The Keys To The iOS Kingdom — Here's Twitter's Take | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | When that iOS 5 would come with Twitter integration, I wasn’t thinking big enough. Based on the fairly vague (but credible) information I had, I figured it was mainly based around the Twitter Photos product which Twitter was rushing to get out in time. Turns out it goes much, much . Apple has essentially baked a “Tw... |
Interview: Martin Rae, President Of The Academy Of Interactive Arts And Sciences | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 9 |
At , we had the opportunity to talk with Martin Rae, who is the President of the , an industry group akin to the more well-known that puts on the Oscars. The idea is the same, but the industry is younger, and although their conventions and yearly awards are less well-known, they are gaining popularity and are part... |
Mubi signs deal with Sony Bravia to be inside its connected TVs | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | has signed a deal with Sony Bravia to be inside its connected TVs. The announcement was made by Efe Cakarel, Founder & CEO, Mubi, at the annual European-focused near London. This is significant as Sony alone expects to sell 24m connected TVs this year and they are not even the market leader, Samsung is. Mubi bills i... |
Coder Recruiting Platform CodeEval Now Out Of Beta | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 9 |
Just in time for the impending Silicon Valley , a platform that uses coding challenges to help recruiters find and filter the best programming candidates for the job, is launching today to the public. CodeEval takes some of the guesswork that happens when a technical recruiter is not actually technical, pushing onl... |
Facebook Buys Sofa, A Software Design Team That Will Help Make Facebook More Beautiful | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | The talent acquisitions continue for Facebook. The social network has just bought the software design company , we’ve learned. The Amsterdam-based company was founded in 2006 and is known for its Mac applications and e-commerce products on the web. Notably they do all their own designs including art, icons, and interf... |
Google Instant Mix Just Got Better, But Is It A Genius? | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | Google announced its new beta music service, , at I/O 2011 last month. The service, as it stands right now, is basically just cloud storage for all your music files that users can access through the web app. Users can stream their cloud-based music libraries to any device via a web browser. It even technically works ... |
Team Europe's early-stage fund becomes Point Nine Capital, Christoph Janz joins | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | , the of German incubator Team Europe, is being rebranded as (PNC). Additionally, serial entrepreneur and angel investor is joining its leadership team. To date, the fund, which focuses on early-stage companies in the Internet and mobile space, has invested in over 10 startups, including inFakt, Lieferheld, Madve... |
Looking For Some Eco-Friendly Lighting? There's A Lamp For That | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | To most of us, broken tree branches are a pretty useless find. Unless, of course, you’ve made a habit out of hunting for your own firewood. But to designer , they are the most important component of her snazzy-looking eco-friendly lamps. Since 2004, Finkel has gone out after big storms searching for broken tree branch... |
Watch Some Dude Jump Off A Mountain With A Casio Strapped To His Wrist | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | [vimeo 24794264 w=640 h=360] from on . To celebrate the launch of the Casio GDF-100, some dude jumped off a mountain with the tri-compax watch strapped to his wrist. What does this have to do with watches? Well, presumably a) this watch can survive falls and b) you probably shouldn’t try this stuff at home. |
Good News: The Vita Is Region-Free | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 9 |
Although region locking doesn’t affect the majority of gamers, among the hardcore it tends to be a sticking point. Some games have better or earlier releases in other countries, and the ability to import and play them is an important one for, say, JRPG fans or expats. Fortunately, , meaning you won’t have to worry wh... |
AlterGeo, the Foursquare-of-Russia, raises $10m from Intel Capital and others | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | Russian geolocation service has raised $10m from and – a 25% share increase – and values the company at around $20-25m. Serial investor , who has a track record in Russia, having previously invested in Russian search engine Yandex (a ‘s), is also said to have participated. The company plans to use the new fin... |
Embedly Raises Another $450K, Launches One API To Rule All Embeds | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | Big news today for , the service that makes it easy to embed content from nearly any site on the web. Today the company is announcing that it’s raised another $450,000 in a round that includes Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage, Venture 51, Adam Schwartz and follow-on investments from Betaworks and Chris Sacca, who in ... |
Dell Confirms Streak 10 Pro To Launch In China First | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | If the Streak 7 didn’t quite provide enough real estate, I have good news: Dell has a larger tablet model in the works that should bring all the awesomeness of the Streak 7 to a bigger screen. Dell today confirmed the that Dell Streak 10 Pro is on its way, and also confirmed the existence of another mysterious tabl... |
Google vs Apple: The Cool Factor [Video] | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | Earlier today I was invited to do a quick guest spot on CNBC’s Power Lunch, where we discussed a question that’s fundamentally important to the future of Silicon Valley: Who is cooler, Google or Apple? Okay, so the topic was a bit goofy. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to it: after all, public perception can play... |
Google Acquires AdMeld For $400 Million | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | , an advertising optimization platform for publishers, has been acquired by Google for around $400 million according to multiple sources. The company, which launched in 2007, has raised just in venture capital from , , and . This is a sweet comeback for CEO . As I noted in our about AdMeld in 2009, Barrett wa... |
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Airbnb Freaks Out Over Samwer Clones | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | You know what they say about imitation being the most sincere form of flattery? Well sometimes, like in the case of Groupon and its many imitators , this type of flattery is also a huge business risk. The latest victim to get bombarded by an “attack of the clones”? Billion dollar Obviously feeling threatened by its r... |
Square's remarkably similar Chinese competitor appears | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 9 |
While Square is $50 million or more, say sources, at a valuation of $1 billion plus, and processing more than $3 million per day in mobile payments, others are noticing their traction. In China. To that end is advertising its development of a “free mobile payment platform”, although it doesn’t appear to be on sale... |
MovieClips Raises $7M To Curate And Mashup Scenes From Movies | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | Online movie clips site has raised $6 million out of a $7 million round, according to a recent . The startup has We’ve confirmed the new funding with the company. UPDATE: MovieClips has submitted a new SEC filing indicating the company has raised a total of $6.9 million in the round. Movieclips.com, which in 2... |
Apple Switches Up In-App Purchase Policy For Publishers | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 9 | has been busy this week revising its App Store guidelines, first with the , and now switching up the guidelines for in-app purchases. Section 11.13 of Apple’s App Store guidelines has been angering quite a few publishers as of late, forcing them to offer subscriptions through in-app purchases. In other words, Apple g... |
Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow Joins SavingStar Board of Directors | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | , the national paperless grocery coupon service, announced today that , the founder and CEO of Buddy Media, has joined the company’s board of directors. Launched in April 2011, SavingStar provides digital coupons to more than 24,000 stores and over 100 supermarket and drugstore chains across the U.S. SavingStar’s eC... |
Behold: Path Comes To Android In Public Beta | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | Well, well, well. It looks like everybody’s favorite limited social networking and photo-sharing app has finally come to Android. That’s right, has announced that, beginning today, its app will be available in the Android Market. . But, while the app is officially on Android, this is apparently not a finished pro... |
IBM Takes Another Step Towards Reliable Phase-Change Memory | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | Although the world is currently enamored of flash memory, today’s standard for solid-state storage, companies like IBM need to think a few years ahead. One of the technologies they’re looking at is called phase-change memory, in which a memory cell changes from a crystalline to amorphous phase, changing its resistance.... |
Turn Google+ Into Facebook | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 30 |
The social networking wars have dialed it , with Google unleashing its highly anticipated (and highly leaked) Google+ social initiative upon the world on Tuesday — to not a bad response, to be honest. So it’s not that surprising that today Facebook countered the + hubbub with its own unveiling planned for next week... |
A startup called Huddle legally ponders the Google+ Huddle feature | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | As part of the new Google+ service , a group texting app available to Android users. This makes mobile group collaboration easier, says Google. So far so good. Except… There’s already a five-year-old group collaboration startup , which has to date raised $14.2m in venture capital and has office in San Francisco and... |
Bing Gordon: Every Startup CEO Should Understand Gamification | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | [scribd id=59090152 key=key-29whnbnfh22l3hvr4dhc mode=slideshow] Former EA executive, sFund lead and all around inspiring person led a talk today at the sFund Gamification Summit. In his talk Gordon broke down platitudes like “gamification is important” into key actionable takeaways on how succeed with gamification... |
Want To See Which Ads Perform Best? YC-Backed MixRank Is A Spy Tool For AdSense | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | Online advertising is growing, and much of that growth . While search ads still make up 46 percent of the total over display’s 38 percent, display grew twice as fast as search in 2010. Many online businesses rely on advertising as a supplemental revenue stream in support of their business model — if not the sole sour... |
Sanyo's XX Eneloop Rechargeable AAs Are Clearly XXtreme | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | Rechargeable batteries aren’t exactly headline news these days, but Sanyo seems so excited about that it would be cruel of me to post them. The XX series stores 2500mAh per battery and maintains a , stable voltage all the way down to the end of the charge. They’ll cost $25 for four. |
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 8.9 Hits The FCC | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | We caught a brief glimpse of the about a month ago, but it’s just now for all its tests, readings, and diagnostics. The new Tab is much the same as the old Tab (i.e. the 10.1) but packed into a smaller package. I’m excited for better pixel density, though Samsung is also working on a . The 8.9 has a 3G radio commu... |
Tictacti secures funding to take on Heyzap in game aggregation | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | A lot of companies would like to get on the flash games bandwagon but have no core competency to do it. Out of Israel is a new white label solution called . The startup has also now raised a $500,000 round led by Kima Ventures and other undisclosed investors. To date the startup has pulled in $1.6m in funding so far.... |
What's Facebook Releasing Next Week? Not Project Spartan. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | Apparently, Facebook is gearing up to show off something “awesome” next week. At least, that’s what CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters while he was visting the Seattle Facebook offices yesterday. that whatever it is, it has been developed by the 40-person team based in Seattle. And they think it might be in the mobil... |
Student-Designed Micromechanical Dragonfly Is One Millimeter Wide | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | The winners of the the yearly MEMS (Microelectromechanical system) design competition held by Sandia National Labs were announced a short time ago, and they’re pretty impressive. : the Texas Tech team built a set of millimeter-wide dragonfly wings, and CMU made an electrostatically-activated microvalve. These things a... |
How Secure Is Your Laptop Lock? This HP One Can Be Cracked In Seconds | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPDgX9P8xLQ&w=640&h=390]
You guys might remember a few years back when someone demonstrated that many tubular locks, like those use on many Kryptonite bike locks, could be opened with a common Bic pen. That someone was Marc Weber Tobias, and he’s back now to warn you again that ... |
Pool Party: Google Has Their Own Secret Photo-Sharing App Too — Built By Slide | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | Back in March, we , a that the Slide team within Google had built. And that’s not all they’ve been working on. Say hello to , another secret project by the same team within Google. We don’t know much about Pool Party other than it’s a photo-sharing app that the Slide team has built. The emphasis is said to be on ... |
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Steam Summer Camp Sale Now Underway! | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 30 |
Steam’s big starts today! Not that you can buy anything right now, since the store is buckling under the weight of the traffic. Reddit user Remmib has put together a nice little listing of most of the deals , but you might want to wait an hour or two before trying to get in there. Some standouts: Valve Complete Pac... |
How to hack Google+ to send your friends invites (maybe) | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | Here in Europe we woke up to find Google had to Google +. So after a bit of testing I’ve found out the following how to bring your friends in to it while Google has a lock-down on the service. If you have an invite to join Google+, right click on the invite link you were sent on email and save the URL. Paste that URL... |
How Making Can Help Our Economy, Improve Education, And Make Us Happy | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWv48nhUR0&w=640&h=390] PBS NewsHour sent their tech reporter Miles O’Brien to Maker Faire where he found the weird, wonderful, and wild arrayed before him. In an excellent few minutes O’Brien experiences the wonder of making and posits that DIY could help us out of a number of ... |
Video: An Extremely Short Hands-On With Sony's S2 Folding Tablet | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 30 | The unique form factors and Playstation branding of Sony’s have us fairly excited to test them out, but Sony hasn’t been very obliging on that front. Luckily, German tech site Golem had a bit more luck. Sadly, the hands-on is only 18 seconds long, and it’s not exactly action-packed. But you get a feel for the size of... |
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