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Windows Phone Marketplace Hits 50,000 Published Apps | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | With Microsoft and Nokia making a pronounced push to expand Windows Phone’s reach, they need the support of their app developers to give the platform some staying power. Fortunately, it looks like Windows Phone is picking up steam on the app front — reports that 50,000 apps have been published in the Windows Phone Ma... |
Italy Fines Apple $1.2 Million Over AppleCare Sales | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | Today, Italy’s antitrust body has fined Apple, Inc. $1.2 million (900,000 euros) for pushing customers to buy its without adequately disclosing the support that already comes with their device. In Italy, companies are actually by law to provide two years of free support to customers, which, according to the Italian... |
Airtight Is Airplay For Your Google TV | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | Proof of concept though this is, purports to be the first app that will enable Apple’s Airplay on the Google TV. Priced at a mere 99 cents, the app allows you to stream non-DRMed movies to your TV via any Airplay-enabled device like an iPad or iPhone. Music and mirroring are not yet supported and you have to have an ... |
Fire Emblem: Nintendo Announces First 3DS Game With Paid Download Content | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | They have been fighting against the concept of making customers pay for extra game content for years, but as previously , has now changed its strategy. According to a report by Japanese business daily The Nikkei, Nintendo has chosen Fire Emblem as the first game on the 3DS to offer paid download content. , the lates... |
Google+ Launches 3 New TV Ads Featuring Muppets, Bill Walton & Some Engaged Chick | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | What do you do when your ? Advertise! That strategy has seemingly been working well for the Google Chrome web browser ( ), so Google may as well give it a shot with Google+. Google has released a trio of new TV commercials promoting its fledging social network, featuring Hangouts with celebrities like the Muppets as w... |
The Avengers: A True Tale Of Bad Customer Service | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | With all this talk of 360-degree customer service and Zappos ninjas who help babies out of burning buildings while taking orders for clogs, it’s nice to remember that for every heartwarming tale of customer satisfaction there is a dude like Paul Christoforo. The tale begins with a controller accessory. It’s called the ... |
A Geek’s Guide to China’s Silicon Valley | Kai Lukoff | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | Twenty years ago, Zhongguancun was but farming fields and small houses, far from the city center of Beijing. The ‘cun’ at the end of Zhongguancun literally means “village.” As with much else in China, the change has come lightening fast. Today, Zhongguancun is China’s closest equivalent to Silicon Valley. It’s host to ... |
Spire: A New Legal Siri Port For Any iOS 5 Device | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | Well-known iOS hacker (aka Grant Paul) along with have a new tool for installing Siri on jailbroken phones. The Siri port, called “Spire,” works on any phone that can run iOS 5. However, because Apple only officially supports Siri requests coming from the iPhone 4S, a proxy server address is still required. Oh, t... |
Social Censorship in India: Much Ado About Nothing | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 12 | 11 | TechCrunch Another year, another attack on the Internet. Lately, though, it’s not a loose collective of individual hackers sitting in dark rooms trying to wreak havoc. This time, stronger forces and vested interests are stepping into the game. In the U.S., bills that threaten how content is shared online surfaced in C... |
The $99 TouchPad Sale Overwhelms Ebay As Consumers Snatch Up The Discontinued Tablet | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 11 | And like that they’re gone. $99 TouchPads hit ebay right on schedule and were gone within minutes. But that’s to be expected, really. It’s not often that a solid piece of hardware like the TouchPad is available for so cheap. And thanks to , the tablet’s operating system, webOS, will be around at least in some capacity... |
Sean Parker And Shervin Pishevar At Le Web: “If You Don’t Fail, You Haven’t Tried Hard Enough” (Video) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 11 | [youtube=http://youtu.be/jxNhc64b_po&w=640 &h=400] Last week at , Alexia interviewed and onstage in what turned out to be one of the most-buzzed about sessions. Here is the full video for your weekend watching pleasure. It’s a great discussion that ranges across the state of startups, venture capital, music, and ... |
Navarrow Wright: There Is A Diversity Problem In Silicon Valley | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 11 | Race and Silicon Valley has been in the news lately, especially after CNN used an of TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to promote a documentary on the subject. Lost in that was a more substantive discussion of the issues. Namely, is Silicon Valley a true or does it have a diversity problem? , the co-founder ... |
comScore: U.S. Online Holiday Spending Surges 15 Percent To A Record $25 Billion | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 11 | comScore just its U.S. online holiday spending numbers for the season to-date, and as predicted, consumers continued to spend online in record amounts. For the first 39 days of the November to December 2011 holiday season, $24.6 billion has been spent online, which is a 15 percent increase compared to the same days l... |
Google’s 3 Top Executives Have 8 Private Jets | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 12 | 11 | A surprising piece of news was buried in an article this week. Friday, the three top executives at , , and , are offering to pay $33 million to finish the restoration of the historic airship hangar at Moffett Field. The giant structure, built in the 1930s and called , sits a few miles from the Googleplex and i... |
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Verizon Cuts $50 Off The Droid Xyboards On-Contract Price But They’re Still Too Expensive | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | It seems that Verizon (or Motorola) got the message: The Droid Xyboards when tied to a 2-year commitment. Until today, Verizon was selling the 10.1 Xoom 2 for $529 and required a 2-year contract. Ludicrous. Well, after today’s price cuts, the prices are less absurd, but just slightly. Verizon lopped $50 off the on-c... |
The Gizmon iCA Might Be The Ultimate iPhone Camera Case | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | There are iPhone cases and then there are…more iPhone cases. There are probably close to a gazillion different iPhone cases available now. But none are as elaborate as the — at least none I have seen. The case — if you call it just a case — is made of 32 different polycarbonate parts, it features a conversion lens mo... |
Google Testing New Email Subscription Ad Format | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | Google is experimenting with its Google Adwords offerings, attempting to go beyond regular text ads with Google Email Subscription Ads, allowing companies to buy ads that automatically fill in a “Subscribe to newsletter (or whatever, I’m assuming)” slot with a given searcher’s Google email address during a search. Emai... |
Could ‘Watched On’ Facebook News Feed Stories Save Netflix? | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | After a , Netflix stands to replace some of the 800,000 subscribers it lost. It’s savior? The Facebook news feed. Earlier this month, the House of Representatives of 1988 to allow people to opt in to having their movie rental activity shared. This Act had ‘s launch in the US. Now the Facebook news feed is beginning... |
Tiny Flashlight Illuminates The Kindle Fire’s Appstore Impact | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | Early this year, Amazon made a : it took advantage of the open nature of Android to launch an Android Appstore — one that serves as a direct rival to Google’s official Android Market, which comes installed on many Android devices. Thus far, Amazon’s early traction hasn’t been particularly strong, primarily because the... |
Update: Facebook Officially Releases “Messenger For Windows” Desktop Client Following Leak | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | : Facebook tells me it has now made the Messenger for Windows in its . Users can also learn details about the client there. Still no sign of a Mac version, though.] The test group for “Facebook Messenger for Windows” just got a whole lot bigger. Israeli blog has leaked a Facebook CDN for the desktop chat client ... |
600,000 Calls Later, Callin’ Oates’ Developers Share Their Code | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | When called me up to talk about his new project, Callin’ Oates, I laughed it off and called it “silly”. Built with the help of a friend to satisfy the new-hire requirements at Michael’s new job (at Twilio, where every employee has to build an app with their cloud-based telephony API) it’s an on-demand Hall & Oates ho... |
comScore: Apple Grows Mobile Marketshare From 9.8% To 11.2%, But Samsung’s Still Top OEM | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | comScore has its latest numbers regarding the mobile landscape here in the U.S., finding that Samsung is still the top OEM with a 25.6 percent marketshare, up just .3 percentage points from the three month period ending in August. Meanwhile, Apple’s price drop on the iPhone 4 along with the introduction of the iPhone... |
7moments Is A Beautiful New Way To Share Private Photos In A Group | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | We’re all familiar with the pain of having to share photos with people. I’m not talking about the staff party album on Facebook, I’m talking about moments that matter – the family holidays, the weddings, big days like those. And this remains an ongoing issue. We can share Dropbox folders all we like. Everything still h... |
Burned By Fleeing Customers, GoDaddy No Longer Just ‘Doesn’t Support’ But Actually “OPPOSES” SOPA | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | Just in time for the aptly named day, our favorite PR piñata just emailed a number of press, with a fresh statement from new CEO . From the email … The statement is from our newly appointed CEO, who makes it clear, we don’t just ‘not support SOPA,’ Go Daddy “We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, whic... |
Facebook Started Saturating The US Market In 2011 | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | Most third party web measurement firms have provided a steady drumbeat of positive growth news for Facebook over the years, as the company has gained tens of millions of users in the US and around the world. But now the social network appears to be reaching market saturation among internet users in some of its early ke... |
LTE-Capable Windows Phones Should Ship In The First Half Of 2012 | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | There are a lot of naysayers out there when it comes to the Windows Phone platform, but as many haven’t really given the OS a fighting chance. Some of it has to do with the fact that people often equate cost with quality, and most Windows phones are (at the moment) rather inexpensive. But Redmond apparently has plan... |
How to Survive Your First Year As An Entrepreneur | James Altucher | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | I loved talking to the skankiest prostitutes at three in the morning with a camera crew around me, fires burning in the street, sad, abused people clinging to scraps of life for their pleasures, bailed out prisoners and the drug dealers waiting for them to be released, homeless addicts with nowhere to go and they only ... |
Good Luck Occupiers, But Here’s Why “Facebook For Protesters” Won’t Work | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | Members of the Occupy movement are building a “Facebook for protesters” called The Global Square, . Less than a traditional social network, it’s an international collaboration network. While a valiant effort, I see 3 big problems with the project’s concept that will limit its success and impact. The Global Square is d... |
Tubalr Is Like Having Your Own Personal 80’s MTV | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | Say what you will about YouTube’s affinity for cats or their audience’s collective inability to write insightful comments, but there’s one thing that YouTube really just doesn’t get enough credit for: saving the music video. As MTV losts its original love in favor of and re-runs of , music videos went without a prop... |
Tampa’s TechStars Network Member Gazelle Lab Opens 2nd Location In Orlando | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | , the brand-new Tampa Bay-based member which just held in November, is expanding its operations. The accelerator has just announced the opening of second location in Orlando, Florida, where it will be working with local academic institution Rollins College. The Orlando team will be led by founder , CEO of Florida’... |
Holiday Shopping Wrap-Up: Apple Makes Top Performing E-Commerce Site List, Amazon Excels On Mobile | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | According to the end-of-season benchmarks from web performance division, Apple.com was among the top three best-performing retail websites during the 2011 holiday season. Meanwhile, Amazon made the list for the top m-commerce sites. The sites were ranked from November 21st through Christmas Day using Compuware’s wh... |
Is Verizon Joking? Paying Online/By Phone Will Soon Cost You An Extra $2 | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | Yesterday obtained a leaked internal document from Verizon that had a surprisingly annoying little tidbit within: “Beginning 1/15/12, there is a $2 ‘convenience fee’ for making a credit or debit card bill payment online or via call-in channels.” Sometimes leaks are faked or forged, and I hoped against hope that this... |
Keen On…. Kurt Andersen: Why 2011 Has Only Just Begun (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | While 2011 is almost over, the year has only really just begun in terms of determining its historical significance. 2011 wasn’t, of course, just another year. Like 1989, 1968, 1917 and 1848, 2011 was a revolutionary year, one that – from Cairo to Athens to Tunis to Wall Street to Moscow – may have changed the world for... |
Kicksend Goes Mobile With A New iPhone App For Instant, Asynchronous Sharing Of Big Files | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | , the Y Combinator-incubated web file-sharing tool for the non-technical crowd, had just raised $1.8 million in funding from True Ventures, with participation from Digital Garage, SV Angel, Start Fund, and Milo Founder and CEO Jack Abraham. The team was heads-down fixing, tweaking, and developing some new features for ... |
The Most Important Gadgets Of 2012 | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 29 | Rather than looking back (which I’m sure we will), I thought it would be nice to look forward to 2012 and beyond and note some of the gadgets that will change the world in the next few years. I’ve included mobile, gaming, and computing gadgets but I think 2012 will also be the year of Windows Phone, 3D printing, and fi... |
“Goodbye, With. Hello, Path 2.” Morin Migrates Users to New App | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | Dave Morin and Path’s secondary standalone app “is winding down”, according to a tweet, email, and . “Now tweet who you’re with directly from Path”, the email explains. The encouraged migration signals the end of Path’s experiment with a stripped down, single feature experience. : A from With confirms that it will... |
A New Path: Path Grows Daily Users 30x Since Relaunch | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | There is something about waking up day after day to write about people who take risks; You end up rooting for some of them. This is the case with photo-sharing underdog . Almost every investor I’ve talked to loves founder and wants him and his talented team to succeed. Morin has managed to hold on to top talent like... |
AskAMEE is like Google meets WolframAlpha for carbon footprints | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | , backed by O’Reilly and Union Square Ventures among others, set out in 2008 to map, measure and track all the carbon and energy data on Earth. That’s a big job, and competes with others like to do it. It’s since won contracts with the likes of the UK Government, CNN, Google, the list goes on. But what it hasn’t crac... |
Aetna Reveals It Acquired Healthagen, Developer Of The #1 Mobile Health App iTriage | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | At an yesterday, health insurance and tech giant revealed that it acquired , though it did not disclose the price. Aetna’s Chairmen, CEO, and President Mark Bertolini told investors “About a month and a half ago we bought at little company called iTriage…the fastest growing consumer application in healthcare today... |
Healthtech Accelerator Rock Health Peels Back The Curtain On Its Second Batch Of Startups | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | , the healthtech space is heating up, and a lot of serial entrepreneurs with consumer web experience are turning their focus to fixing some of the big problems inherent in the legacy health systems we have today in the U.S. and abroad. Yet, in spite of the $1 billion pool VCs have poured into startups last year, for ex... |
SOPA Delayed – But Not For Long | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | The extremely unpopular bill was supposed to be the last order of business today as the House Judiciary Committee prepared to break for the holidays, but a parade of objections and amendments (over 50) kept the bill in discussion and at last the committee adjourned without resolving the issues. What was expected in t... |
MyYearbook Hits Half A Million Daily Mobile Users, Launches iPad App | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | It’s hard being a social network not called Facebook, but isn’t one of those erstwhile rivals being sold off for assets. Instead, it’s been seeing strong mobile growth and revenue growth over the last year, building on its in July. Expect both to accelerate with the launch of its new iPad app today (available ). T... |
Review: Grand Theft Auto III 10th Anniversary for iOS | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | In October of 2001, Rockstar Games dropped a bomb on the gaming world. That bomb was called Grand Theft Auto III. In just one release, Rockstar shifted their flagship 2D series into a 3D world, introduced an enormous chunk of the population to the concept of massive sandbox games, and stirred up of many controversies... |
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OkCandidate Snags OkCupid’s Approach, Tells You Who To Vote For | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | While I wouldn’t expect it to fly with its current name for very long, check out this project that came out of (where it walked away as runner-up). Called , it’s OkCupid… for voters. Instead of finding you the best romantic candidate to date and make beautiful love babies with, it tries to determine which presidenti... |
Little iPads, Little Pixels, And Resolution Independence (An Apple Rumor Medley) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | Another crop of Apple rumors has grown up under our feet, and it seems a little reaping is in order. Two rumors are making the rounds, both of which warrant a little consideration but should, as usual, be taken lightly until more substantial evidence appears. Both have their origins in Digitimes, which prides itself on... |
TC Gadgets Weekly Webcast: The iPad Mini, CES, And A Coffeemaker | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | This week the lads and I talk about the iPad Mini, our huge booth at CES, and my new . We also discuss how much it’s going to cost us to interview 50 Cent at CES this year, which is pretty darn wild. Want to hear this in audio form? I’ve extracted the audio from the video webcast and saved it to a that you can o... |
Your Nexus S Could Taste Ice Cream Sandwich As Early As Today | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | Nexus S owners rejoice! While your Galaxy Nexus-toting friends have been rubbing a bit of Ice Cream Sandwich in your face, the year-old Nexus S will soon get its own taste of Android 4.0. According to the , the rollout to Nexus S users will begin today and will continue through “the coming month.” Ah, but there’s a bi... |
Sprint “Disabling Use” Of Carrier IQ On Affected Devices | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | Just a day after Minnesota Senator Al Franken published reports on , Sprint seems to be taking steps to distance themselves the mobile monitoring company. According to , Sprint has confirmed that they will be disabling their use of Carrier IQ software on affected devices. They’ve got a lot of them too: in response t... |
Gillmor Gang Live 12.16.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | The Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor – are recording live today at 1pm PT. Recording is concluded. The show will be available 10am Saturday morning Pacific time. |
T-Mobile’s White Samsung Galaxy S II Is Going For $99 This Weekend Only | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | The is a very special phone. Even though it’s been on the market for quite some time now, it’s still one of the more beastly competitors on Android-flavored shelves. Of course, it’s always had the price tag to prove it, going for between $230 and $250 just about everywhere. But T-Mobile has a pretty sweet deal going... |
Keen On… Walter Isaacson: Was Steve Jobs a Tyrant? (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | At the heart of the enigma of Steve Jobs lies a riddle about authority. On the one hand, Jobs was an intrinsically anti-authoritarian figure whose life was a litany of rebellions against every kind of convention. On the other hand, however, Jobs often seemed to run Apple like a personal fiefdom, shaping products and ... |
Mark Your Calendars—In 2012, TechCrunch Will Bring The Crunchies, Disrupt, And More Events | Susan Hobbs | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | We are gearing up for 2012 and getting ready to bring you some major events you will want to put on your calendars. Our dates are already locked in for the Crunchies, Disrupt NYC and SF, and our annual summer bash at August Capital. International events are also in the works. TechCrunch will kick off 2012 with along ... |
Goodbye, Heather | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | , the business brains behind TechCrunch, will be stepping down at the end of the year as general manager of AOL’s technology properties (including TechCrunch, Engadget, Joystiq, and TUAW). AOL GM Jay Kirsch, who oversees Autos, Finance, and Industry on the business side, will be adding Tech to his responsibilities. Edi... |
Nerds Rule, Help TechCrunch Beat Maxim In A Turntable.fm Battle For Charity Now | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 16 | “I’m a nerd, and I’m here today to stand up for the rights of other nerds.” Right now, TechCrunch is in a charity Turntable.fm DJ battle vs. Maxim magazine. Help me win it for the nerds, and the kids. Go to the MaxCrunch Turntable.fm room and click the “Awesome” button while DJ TechCrunch plays to help us win. Money ra... |
Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | The Gillmor Gang goes enterprise in a conversation with Paul Greenberg, the eminence grise of the CRM, now Social CRM world. Gangsters John Taschek and Steve Gillmor decrypt Paul’s latest from the front. Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor. Recorded live Wednesday, December 28, 2011. @stevegill... |
Bank Shuts Down Local Online Advertising Company WebVisible For Not Paying Debts | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | Local interactive advertising firm has shut its doors. According to a note sent from the company’s CEO to employees, WebVisible ran out of cash, and Silicon Valley Bank is shutting the company down. WebVisible’s software allowed advertisers to manage local online campaigns on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. The comp... |
Why We Should All Give Google+ The Finger | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | “Google+ is about sharing the right updates with the right people – making sharing online just like sharing in real life. Hanging out on Google+, with your family, your friends, or new friends you don’t yet know, is more than just multi-user video chat. It’s about eliminating borders and bringing people together arou... |
Fab’s Fabulous Year—Now Doing Over 100,000 Orders A Month | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | In many ways, 2011 was the year of the pivot. One startup that successfully switched gears was , which started the year as a gay social network and ended it a design-oriented e-commerce site. Founder Jason Goldberg created the below to illustrate all the changes the company has gone through, from its pivot in Februa... |
Find Out Which Brands Are Winning On Google+ With ZoomSphere (Hint: Android is #1) | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | Facebook has AppData, Twitter has Twitaholic, and now Google+ has its own independent brand page rankings site: . It shows which brands have the most followers, activity, +1s, shares, and comments, and slice the data by time, page category, and country. Oddly, the site doesn’t rank user profiles like does — just bra... |
Blip.tv Just Raised $6 Million, But Where Is The Audience? | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | Blip Networks, which operates , is raising more money. According to an the New York City company sold $6 million worth of stock beginning on December 22, 2011 in an offering that could expand to as much as $11.1 million. Presumably, this is part of a Series D offering, since Blip raised a Series C in May, 2010, al... |
CrunchDeals: Get Yourself A Thing-O-Matic For $999 | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | is pretty pricey – $1,299 for the kit and $2,500 for the assembled kit – but (and this is my professional opinion) it is amazing and everyone in the world should own one. That said, Fab.com has a special deal on Thing-O-Matics this week – $999 for the kit and $2,000 for the assembled device – one of the first and bi... |
Will UK Prime Minister get an iPad app for work? Unlikely. Here's why. | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | According to some today the British Prime Minister, David Cameron is to get “his own personalised iPad app” to stay on top of Government business. Cameron is known to use an iPad to read newspapers and catch up on media generally, as evidenced by taken at a party conference last year. But this report sounds just a... |
Taleo’s Recruiting Solution Processed 15% of Last Year’s US Hires | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | Other than Salesforce, no cloud SaaS provider handles more transactions than . The stats the company revealed to me about its 2011 are staggering. The Taleo talent and recruitment solution helped enterprises hire 3.1 million people, roughly 15% of the year’s US hires. It had 50 to 60 million visitors to the job listin... |
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Khan Academy Jumps To 4M Uniques Per Month (Up 4X From Last Year) | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | Oh, how I love Reddit AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) posts. In almost all cases, the inherent down-to-earth nature of a community-driven interview leads the most interesting of people to open up in genuine, honest ways that they otherwise might not in a one-on-one interview. Plus, they’re almost always jammed with all sorts of ... |
Subpug RSS Reader Looks To Pull You Away From Google Reader | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | As far as web sites go, there’s only one site I look at more than Google Reader. You’re on it right now. There’s nothing technically “wrong” with Google Reader, but when you look at it every five minutes, every day of your life, another RSS reader option is super exciting. Enter . It’s a new RSS reader that just laun... |
Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | A made the rounds earlier today, and if its contents hold true, then Microsoft will be going big on hardware when it comes time for Windows Phone Apollo to take the stage. Even though the budget-friendly Tango update will hit devices first, Microsoft has apparently made the development of “superphones” a priority for... |
23andMe Snags GeneticScreening.com For A Mere $2200 | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | Quick, how many pairs of chromosomes do you have? If your mind just drew a blank — or an image of Ethan Hawke fiddling around with tweezers in GATTACA — then you probably aren’t alone. The answer, of course, is 23 pairs, for a total of 46 chromosomes. And it’s what the name of well-funded genetic testing company , whi... |
Geico Turns One Man’s PR Trash Into Their Own PR Gold | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | And that, friends, is what we call (Meme-ment?) For those left wondering why Geico suddenly forgot how to type coherently, here’s . The TL;DR version: one brazen marketer got a bit too cocky in his (typo-riddled) responses to a customer, word spread, and the acrid wrath of the Internet rained down like hellfire. Gei... |
Crazy “Spam” Email About Print Cancellation *Is* Actually From The New York Times | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | If you’re a subscriber — or — you may have received that following email this morning, implying that you have cancelled your subscription. Many many people did, it’s all Here is the text of the email in question: Dear Home Delivery Subscriber, Our records indicate that you recently requested to cancel your home de... |
Kindle Accessory Maker Files Suit Against Amazon | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | M-Edge, a small Maryland-based company responsible for many popular Kindle cases, last week filed suit against Amazon. According to the , M-Edge claims that Amazon has repeatedly tried to change the terms of a contract put into place all the way back in 2009, and has bullied the accessory maker each time it fights bac... |
Verizon Customers Dealing With Third Data Outage In One Month (Update) | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | It seems like December just can’t end soon enough for the folks at Verizon — we’re getting reports that Verizon’s data network is on the fritz. Like both other times this month, not everyone is affected, but I can safely say my little part of New Jersey is without data. Users on have reported similar issues in par... |
Keen On… Kurt Andersen: Why Nothing Much Has Changed In The Last 20 Years (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 12 | 28 | We all know that not much happens in the week between Christmas and the New Year. But less well know is how little has happened culturally in the last twenty years. Indeed, so little has happened in this time (except, of course, for all the all-important caveat of technological change), according to the writer and br... |
Verizon’s Next DROID RAZR Already Spotted In Their System | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 17 | Because the name “Verizon DROID RAZR by Motorola” seemingly isn’t long enough, it looks like Verizon’s already planning another RAZR . I kid, of course (does the name even matter? Everyone outside of the tech scene just calls every Android phone “the Droid” anyway), but I pick on the name because it’s pretty much the ... |
Facebook For Android Finally Has More Daily Active Users Than Facebook For iPhone | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 17 | For the first time, the Facebook for Android mobile app has eclipsed the daily active user count of Facebook for iPhone. The Android app launched in September 2009 more than a year after its iPhone sister and has been playing catch-up ever since. Both are developed internally by Facebook. This week the two were briefly... |
Zynga COO John Schappert On Going Public, And What’s Coming Next | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 17 | Zynga is still in its quiet period for another 24 days after going public yesterday, so chief operating officer wouldn’t answer my more specific questions about the company’s future plans when I talked to him last night. After opening up at an , the company had a before closing down 5% yesterday. But as Schappert ... |
This Is Not The Net You Thought You Knew | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 12 | 17 | You know how the Internet works, right? Of course you do: you’re a TechCrunch reader, a power user. You know what that “HTTP” means in your address bar (if you’re not using Chrome.) You know that behind the scenes, the Domain Name System translates your requests for domain names like to numeric addresses like , and ... |
Gillmor Gang 12.17.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 17 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — celebrate the freeing of Heather Harde, the health of realtime, the obsolescence of Office, and the gamification of deep enterprise apps. It never ceases to amaze how some people rescue defeat from the jaws of victory, but Techcrunch’s l... |
Facebook Shareholders Suck…(Or, Why This Is Not Bubble 2.0) | James Altucher | 2,011 | 12 | 17 | Facebook shareholders suck. I know this because this past week I tried to help someone sell about 30 million shares of Facebook for $31 a share. These are weird transactions because never before in history has a private company so large ($80 billion in value) had so many random people buying and selling shares of it. O... |
Google’s Winter Easter Egg: Let It Snow In Search | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 17 | Google is full of hidden within search queries. Remember the Here’s one more that’s been discovered, just in time for the holiday season. Type in search, and you’ll see snowflakes falling down the page. The first hit is the Christmas carol ‘let it snow’ by Dean Martin (which we’ve embedded below). Eventually your ... |
Daily Crunch: Low Tech | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 12 | 17 | Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets:
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Toshiba Thrive 7″ Review: Cute, But Clunky | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 17 | While the 7-inch Toshiba Thrive is much more comfortable in the hand than , many of the best features in big brother never migrated over to the 7-incher. That said, this still may be the slate for you if gaming and web-surfing take precedence over e-reading. Otherwise, I’d point you to the Amazon Kindle Fire. Despite... |
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Backed By Tandem, UpOut Launches A ‘Realtime Yelp’ For Spontaneous Local Event Discovery | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | This summer, raised a $40 million fund to continue investing in its incubator and capital fund, both focused exclusively on startups building solutions for the mobile space. One of the four companies (which includes JungleApps, GimmieWorld, and Flit) funded in Tandem’s most recent batch is coming out of private beta ... |
Louis CK Sells Latest Film, DRM-Free, For $5 Per Download | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | Following into the wild world of micropayments, comedian Louis CK is offering his latest concert film, , as a DRM-free download or stream for $5. Once payment is tendered, downloaders can both stream and download the movie twice. Once those four chances are used up you have to pay again, although because the MP4 fi... |
How Can Local Businesses Avoid The Horror And Structure More Effective Daily Deals? | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | Couponing has been around forever, but the popularity of digital offers, daily deals, and group buying is fairly new. We’ve gone through the honeymoon period, watched the meteoric rise of Groupon, its overvaluation, IPO — and thankfully, through it all, we’ve seen increasing scrutiny on the space, especially over just ... |
Catching Up With IntoNow Before The Republican Debate (Video) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | Social TV these days usually means a companion app on your iPad that lets you Tweet along with your friends and fellow fans while you are watching TV. These apps work best for live events (the one remaining time in the age of the DVR when a large mass of people actually watch an event at the same time). , which was ... |
Get Your Nominations In Now For The 2011 Crunchies Awards | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | There are only a couple days left to nominate your favorites for this year’s . Already, we’ve received over 150,000 nominations from the tech community, with hundreds more trickling in every couple hours. Coming this January 31st at 7:30pm PT, we will be hosting the 5th Annual Crunchies Awards with and . The ceremon... |
Double Hubble Bubble Trouble | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | OK, I’m worried. Here’s why: Lo these many years ago, in the long-gone spring of 1996, I set out to San Francisco to make my software fortune, armed with a freshly minted degree from . The second of the interviews I’d arranged via email — a radical notion, then — consisted mostly of playing with my potential emplo... |
TC Gadgets Webcast: Jakarta Blues | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | This week HP open-sourcing, RIM’s problems in Jakarta, and giving away a few Speck iPhone cases. Join us, won’t you, in the TC Gadgets Webcast? This week we have a special giveaway. We’ll pick for commenters at random below to win a of your choosing. There is a whole slew of them available, so winners will be abl... |
Today Amazon Will Give You $15 To Use PriceCheck and Screw Local Retailers | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | Today, December 10th, Amazon is offering a you’re going to love and your local brick-and-mortar retailer is going to hate. Use its and get 5% off your purchase, up to $5 at a time, as many as 3 times. Why the discounts to use PriceCheck? The app is designed to get you to visit local shops, try out a product, submit... |
Tagged buys Topicmarks to help discover people easier | cloudbrows | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | The social discovery service, , has announced an acquisition of , which uses semantic engine to summarize content. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. At the time of the acquisition, Topicmarks was used in over 160 countries, and was especially popular where English is the second language. Now, Topicmarks is ex... |
Health Conscious Mom Commerce Site Ecomom Raises A Healthy $4 Million | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | Mom commerce site has raised $4 million in a Series A financing round lead by . The round was followed on by investors , , , , , , , , , , , Ed Wilson, , Zac Zeitlin, and Bruce Leak. Cue Ball’s John Hamel will be joining the board. ecomom CEO tells me that what sets ecomom apart from other mom-targe... |
Fly Or Die: The New Xbox “Metro” UI | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | Erick isn’t much of a gamer, which is why he’s particularly suited at assessing the new 360 UI, dubbed by those in the know. Aside from the obvious changes in design, the UI actually makes it easier for guys like Erick to use the Xbox to watch movies, Youtube videos, UFC fight, and other media ephemera that thus ... |
Michael Moritz On Klarna’s $155M Round: “This Is The Public Financing Of Twelve Years Ago” | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | On Friday, a little-known Swedish ecommerce payments company called raised a massive from DST and General Atlantic. Its previous round was a scant $9 million in May, 2010 when it was discovered by Sequoia Capital and superstar partner Michael Moritz took a board seat (yes, he actually flies to Sweden for the board ... |
Daily Crunch: Arena | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 12 | 10 | Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets:
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With 1.6 Million Daily Users, Cut The Rope Launches A Comic Series | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | Cut The Rope is popular. Anyone who’s ever spent 30 seconds looking at the App Store’s Top 10 list could tell you that. But just popular is it? How many people do you think are actually playing with that little candy-obsessed green dude each day? That’s how many. 1.6 million unique users, daily. Ridiculous. Lookin’... |
Interview: Cornell’s Dean Huttenlocher, On Expanding Into NYC And Building A Tech Ecosystem | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | to build the big new technology campus on Roosevelt Island that New York City has been looking to create. The plan is to foster a strong technology ecosystem by bringing in lots of talented technical people and have them focus on building innovative businesses on top of the traditional industries in the city. So I got... |
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