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More Patent Trouble For Google As BT Alleges Infringement | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | The world of patent litigation seems less and less connected to the real world as the rate of change and development outpaces the rate at which companies can patent new technologies, or even, as BT shows, sort through their existing ones. The amount of infringement lawsuits in play right now is mind-boggling, and while... |
Eventasaurus raises Angel round for one-click events creator | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 19 |
, a startup still in private beta, has raised an undisclosed angel round to create a dashboard for event managers. You know all those separate events you have to create on Eventbrite, Meetup, Facebook, Plancast, Lanyrd etc? With Eventasaurus you create and manage the event on one place under one single interface. Lau... |
Germany's clone kings lose yet another key executive | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | Last week we broke the that , the incubator in Berlin best known as the epicenter of Germany’s clone/copycat startup culture had hit the rocks. It recently lost at least 20 of its key staff – including at least two CTOs. The timing is bad for Rocket’s founders, the three Samwer brothers (Oliver, Marc and Alexander) ... |
Sprint Exults After AT&T Abandons T-Mobile Bid | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | With the AT&T-T-Mobile merger , Sprint is taking a moment to reflect on their own wisdom in opposing it from the beginning. lauds the retraction of the bid as “the right decision,” says that success would have meant “an undeniable duopoly,” and commends the DoJ and FCC for a job well done. Very effusive, as they have... |
How RockMelt Will Battle Chrome In 2012: Identity, Apps, Communication | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | 6 months after its public launch, the social web browser now has 1.4 million registered users and several hundred thousand weekly active users, CEO and co-founder Eric Vishria told me this morning. With Internet Explorer and Firefox on the decline, RockMelt’s 2012 will be defined by competition with Chrome. Google’s ... |
Let's not lose Paul Jozefak, one of Europe's best VCs | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 19 |
I’m late to this news, but it is worth logging that one of Europe’s better VCs, ( ) last month parted ways with his firm in Hamburg. I’ve known Paul for a few years now, but I’ve always found him to be one of the best European VCs: a straight talker, quick to respond and combative – in a good way. Consider his a... |
Ad platform Struq is negotiating an $8 million financing round says CEO | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | , a retargeting ad platform is currently in negotiations to close an $8 million financing round, according to CEO Sam Barnett as quoted by the Financial Times over the weekend. Competitors include , and have similar platforms, which ‘re-target’ ads based on a user’s behaviour online, but Struq has grown form a bo... |
IdeaPlane thinks it has a new take on the enterprise social network | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | is a new “enterprise social network” platform set up by , one of the founding team behind MySpace International. But this is no flaky platform for young bands as MySpace was. Aiming at highly regulated industries, it’s launching with two top-ten global investment banks as founding clients, though these remain unnamed... |
Stanford Law Review: SOPA Unconstitutional, Would Break The Internet | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | The Stanford Law Review has posted , the bills currently creeping their way towards votes in their respective legislative bodies. They make many of the same objections I brought up in my article , but with fewer words and more authority. The piece was authored by Mark Lemley, David S. Levine, and David G. Post — from... |
Silicon Island: What Cornell’s New York City Tech Campus Will Look Like [Images] | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | New York City refers to its tech scene as “Silicon Alley,” but now it’s getting a giant new Cornell tech campus… on an island, between Manhattan and Queens. I’m going to leave the naming issue for the locals and share some images from the new campus — which is going to be quite impressive, judging by the few details av... |
The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Is Dead | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | We heard earlier today that AT&T and T-Mobile that could help make their merger a reality, but now there’s no need to worry about it: AT&T has just announced that the deal is officially dead. In a recent release (reproduced in full below), AT&T lays the blame on the FCC and the U.S. Department of Justice and states th... |
Dave McClure And Blumberg Capital Drop $1 Million Into mygola For Easy, Personalized Travel Planning | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | India and U.S.-based is that it has received $1 million in seed funding from of , , and several other angel investors. With social travel startups popping up every other day, , what is it about mygola that’s getting McClure and others excited? For starters, the service’s value proposition starts with the fact... |
Bonnes Nouvelle! Word Lens Parle Français | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | Remember ? That crazy, awesome mobile application that translated words inside of images, like road signs, posters, menus, and the like, from Spanish to English (and vice versa)? Well, now the app has added a third language to its repertoire: French. With the most recent app update, Word Lens can translate from Englis... |
Backed By Collaborative Fund, Quarterly Launches A Subscription Service “For Wonderful Things” | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | What if you could subscribe to your favorite bloggers, writers, and designers, and they would send you a heartfelt gift every three months? You probably wouldn’t enjoy my packages, because I would just send you those small M&Ms packets. And let’s be honest, there’s nothing fun about fun-sized candy. But, in most cases,... |
CrunchDeal: Jetpack Joyride For iOS Goes Free For A Day | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | While we couldn’t possibly cover every app that does the whole free-for-a-day thing, this one is particularly good. Jetpack Joyride, the stupidly addictive side-scrolling action game from Halfbrick (the folks behind Fruit Ninja), is until the clock strikes midnight tonight. So, what makes this one particularly worthw... |
Today In Wishful Thinking: Dogbnb | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPsSWWZy2lc&w=630] Like most people, I love dogs. But also like most people I am completely irresponsible — Like, I can’t even keep my iPhone consistently charged let alone take care of another creature (Yeah I know, I’d be a great mother, ). This being said, wouldn’t it be so c... |
Quora Expands Beyond Q&A, Launches ‘Boards’ — A Way To Personally Curate Information | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 19 | is taking a step beyond Q&A this morning with its latest product launch, boards. Users can now set up their own personal-themed bookmarking boards, sort of like a Pinterest for text-based information. Writes Quora CEO in a , “As Quora has grown, we’ve learned that people want to read the most interesting content r... |
Guy Retweets Particularly Entitled Christmas Tweets, Becomes A Phenomenon | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwwWqRV2RsI&w=630] This is the first Christmas where I didn’t get a single gift. Because I had to take care of a bunch of logistics issues, I decided not to celebrate “the holidays” this year, and you know what? It was awesome. It’s amazing not having any expectations about what ... |
5 Simple (But Hidden!) Tricks All The New iPhone/iPad Owners Should Know | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | Once upon a time, the iPhone was a simple thing. You flipped it on, slid the unlock switch, and what you saw was what you got. Since then, things have gotten a bit more… layered. That’s not to say they’ve gotten any harder to use; iOS just has a ridiculous number of hidden bonus features now that are in no way immediat... |
GoDaddy Responds To Namecheap Accusations, Removes “Normal” Rate Limiting Block | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | You know who got in their PR stocking this year? Domain registrar GoDaddy. Its most recent stumble? The company’s presence on a SOPA supporter list sparked an impromptu user exodus last week, with being transferred in the fall out. Sensing a communications disaster (GoDaddy has gotten really good at this) the new C... |
The Threat And Opportunity Of Mobile: How Physical Retailers Can Fight Back Against Amazon | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | As online retail sales continue to soar, brick and mortar stores are seeing margins dissipate. Online holiday sales are expected to grow this season while retail sales in physical stores are only expected to increase by to $469.1 billion. Best Buy recently a in profits because of discounts and sales of top gros... |
Video: Android 4.0 Hacked Onto The Kindle Fire | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | You wanted an Android tablet for Christmas… and you got one! Alas, it’s a Kindle Fire. While the Fire is technically well within the realm of “Android tablet” (and a mighty fine tablet, for the price), it’s not quite the tried-and-true vanilla Android experience you were looking for. Wait! Don’t go requesting that re... |
TechCrunch Moscow – All the on-stage video | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 26 |
On December 5th, 2011 TechCrunch Europe came to Moscow . Co-organized by TechCrunch Europe, Digital October and Kite Ventures, the second TechCrunch Moscow showcased several early stage startups and hosted panels on emerging technology trends in Russia and abroad. The event, held in English, proved to be a smashing s... |
Apps Are Media | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | Apps have taken over the world. If you doubt that just take a look at this app map by Horace Dediu at which shows the 123 countries in the world where iPhones are available. Of course, anywhere you can get an iPhone, you can get an iPhone app. Like the Web, apps are distributed globally. But when it comes to “media” ... |
Microsoft Is Way Overdue In Leaving CES Keynote – More Room For Companies That Ship | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | The topic around the olives and cheese plate last week at an extended family Christmas gathering was, interestingly enough, Microsoft distancing itself from CES. My family, not ordinarily given to tech gossip, was alarmed, thinking that perhaps there was a grand re-ordering of things that they should know about. It’s a... |
LG Prepping Ice Cream Sandwich Update For Q2 2012 Release | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | Most of the big name Android smartphone vendors have already laid out their Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade plans, but LG has been notably absent from the list of companies offering an update schedule. Well, a brief announcement on the company’s has remedied that — Android 4.0 will be coming to select LG handsets as early... |
Cooklet Aims To Disrupt The Stodgy Cooking Scene With Gingerbread Carp | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | , a Poland-based cooking site founded by Grzegorz Trubiłowicz, features a lot of what you’d expect – lots of recipes, a few pictures of happy-looking skinny people who you know don’t eat much food, and some international flare. However, the rise of sites like Cooklet point to a change in the way people find recipes and... |
People Spend Twice As Much Time On Netflix Than On Hulu | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | Netflix and Hulu are the two leading video streaming services on the Web when it comes to mainstream TV shows and movies. More people , and have since about . In November, 2011, comScore estimates that Netflix.com attracted 26.6 million unique visitors, versus 20.2 million for Hulu But a better metric to compare the ... |
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Tango Card Aims To Make Gift Card Giving A More Personal Experience | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | While gift cards are certainly a useful and practical gift, the act of giving a gift certificate to a store can be construed as impersonal. One startup is trying to change this. which offers a gift card program for consumers, is launching a new personalized experience, called ‘What I Got.’ For background, here’s how ... |
TechCrunch Moscow — All The On-stage Video | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | On December 5th, 2011 TechCrunch Europe came to Moscow . Co-organized by TechCrunch Europe, Digital October and Kite Ventures, the second TechCrunch Moscow showcased several early stage startups and hosted panels on emerging technology trends in Russia and abroad. The event, held in English, proved to be a smashing su... |
55 Inches: LG To Showcase World’s Largest OLED TV AT CES 2012 | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 12 | 26 | We’ve been waiting for large-sized TVs at least since Sony rolled out the cool (but too small) in 2007. Various and have made the news in the years after that, and now LG says it’s ready to showcase the world’s biggest OLED TV at (which kicks off on January 10). Sized at 55 inches, the panel has a contrast ... |
Citi Survey: 27 Percent Watch Netflix Online Versus 15 Percent For Hulu | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | Both Netflix’s brand and shares have been battered this year after price hikes last summer and the botched attempt to the DVD rental business. Netflix was roundly criticized for its miscommunication with customers, but what’s been the actual effect? Citi analysts Mark Mahaney surveyed almost 10,000 former and current ... |
Aol Shareholders Freak Out Over Exec Departures — As They Should | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | More than a fair amount of business success hinges on telling stories about the future. The reason Yahoo’s market cap is down to $19.83 billion from a high of $55 billion is because shareholders don’t believe that it has a future. The reason Aol for $850 million (a little over half of Aol’s current market cap!) is th... |
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Fly Or Die: The Mid-Size Tablet Revolution | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | There’s been a recent interesting trend in the tablet market: devices 8 inches and smaller that are as powerful as their bigger cousins but considerably more portable and convenient. In this episode of Fly Or Die we talk about the mid-size trend and decide whether a smaller tablet makes for a better tablet. The devi... |
Last-Minute Gift Guide 2011: Things For The Audio Lover In Your Life | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | You’ve got a few hours left before all of the free “Get it before Christmas!” shipping deals come to a close, and you’ve still got people left gift-less. What ever will you do? Give’m the gift that just about everyone would love: the gift of music! We’ve had all sorts of aural accessories come through our office in... |
Facebook Snubs Zynga’s CityVille As Most Popular Game Despite 5X Users Of #1 Gardens Of Time | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | Playdom’s Gardens of Time took the #1 spot of Facebook’s . But wait, Zynga’s CityVille was ranked #3 despite peaking at over 100 million monthly active users and 21 million daily active users — far more than Gardens of Time’s peaks of 17 million MAU and 4 million DAU, . That’s because Facebook’s list was mostly based... |
Actually, Searches For “Google+” Are Petering Out | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | Just last week, Google was promoting the fact that “Google+” was the of the year in its annual Zeitgest list. And it did have an amazing pop when it hit “ ” a couple weeks after last summer. People wanted to know what this new Google+ thing was all about. And since it didn’t exist the year before, on a percentage b... |
The Other Side Of Open | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Every chance they get, someone from Google brings this up as a huge advantage of Android over rivals like iOS. Never mind the fact that a good percentage of the time — why exactly isn’t Google Wallet on Google’s own Galaxy Nexus device? — even when it’s true, ther... |
It Had To Happen Eventually: Hasbro Sues Asus Over Transformer Name | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | Call me naive, but I just assumed that when Asus showed off a device called the , they had some sort of deal to license or at least provide some kind of royalty to the Transformers franchise. Apparently not, as Hasbro has just alleging that Asus is infringing on the Transformers trademark. Now, if the device were ju... |
Flickr Updates Its iPhone App, But Where’s Flickr For iPad? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | Flickr has just pushed out an update to its iPhone app, easing the batch upload process and making some UI tweaks. It will surely be welcomed by the many Flickr users who use iPhones, but Flickr’s continual reticence to develop for new platforms remains a problem. It took them more than a year to produce a , about the... |
45 Privacy Changes Facebook Will Make To Comply With Data Protection Law | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | In 2012, Facebook will be making 45 privacy-related changes to comply with the recommendations of an (DPC) released today. Below I’ve compiled a roadmap of all the changes Facebook will implement based on the the 149 pages of and how the social network says it will address them. First, read my . It explains why th... |
HP Sends $19 Refunds To Overcharged TouchPad Sale Partakers | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | If you were one of the lucky few that managed to snag a during HP’s (maybe) final two weeks ago, you might be receiving a little present soon via PayPal. It seems that some people were charged quite a bit extra for shipping. It seems a bit fussy to complain about when you’re getting a device like this for such a rid... |
Samsung Teases Android-Controlled Smart TVs For CES 2012 | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | Smart HDTVs at CES 2012. Nearly every major brand will release major updates to existing lines along with completely new products. However, Samsung has long sold a successful line of smart TVs, but a just-released CES 2012 teaser video shows the upcoming models will be a bit different. They’re going to ditch remotes. ... |
UP Maker Jawbone Bites Into Another $40 Million | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | The future of technology software is contingent upon the capabilities of the hardware that it powers. That’s why , a company that makes pretty and pretty useful hardware like the Jawbone UP, the Jawbone ERA and the Jambox speaker is on my shortlist for startups that will be huge huge huge in 2012 — despite some alon... |
Intel Shows Off Smartphone Reference Design, Claims Performance Gains Over ARM | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | We’ve been waiting for Intel’s smartphone effort for a long, long time now. The few desultory pushes by the likes of Acer and niche OEMs has done little to dent the dominance of rival ARM, whose low-power chips have become an indispensable part of smartphone architecture. Just last week, though, Intel gave a private ... |
Swype Learns To Listen Better, Type More Accurately | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | If you haven’t taken the time to play with Swype (the trace-to-type mobile keyboard alternative), you’re missing out — and I’m not just saying that because . As evidenced by the fact that it’s now built right into a ton of Android handsets, it’s pretty damn good. This morning, it’s getting even better. Swype has just ... |
ComScore’s 2011 Social Report: Facebook Leading, Microblogging Growing, World Connecting | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | You already know that social networking sites have been getting huge around the world, but an annual report out today from shows what exactly is going at a wonderful new level of detail, with surprises for even long-time industry watchers like me. 1 in every 5 minutes of time online is now being spent on social netwo... |
No Boys Allowed: Women Innovate Mobile Accelerator Is Just For Women | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 21 | Today, a new startup accelerator for women, the , is opening its doors for applications. The program will start off small, offering two to five companies seed funding of $18,000, plus mentoring, support, and free office space in New York during the course of its three-month program. The company was founded by Veronika... |
Eric Schmidt’s Le Web Keynote Video: “Android is Ahead Of The iPhone” | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | [youtube=http://youtu.be/t02iJn5Ypio&w=640 &h=400] Google chairman Eric Schmidt spoke yesterday at Le Web in Paris, and now the entire interview is on (thank you, Loic!). Schmidt talks about , and Google’s (one a week). The hour-long interview is punctuated with bon mots like: “It is much easier to start a revolut... |
Unstuck Helps Turn Your iPad Into An On-The-Go Life Coach | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | Innovation and management consultancy is debuting its virtual on-th-go life coach, this evening. Unstuck, which is an iPad app, allows you to get on-demand coaching whenever you need it. First, the app helps you diagnose what’s really going on in your stuck moment. Using a game-like interface, Unstuck tried to teas... |
Happtique Brings Secure, Branded App Stores To Hospitals And Healthcare | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | Just as consumers are adopting smartphones (to the tune of ) and tablets at a breakneck pace, an increasing number of clinicians, healthcare administrators and staff are using mobile devices to manage patient care, communicate within the workplace, and carry out their day to day work. Nearly 80 percent of physicians w... |
Verizon And RedBox Planning Major Partnership For Early 2012 Launch | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | Yesterday, it was that Verizon was planning a Netflix competitor and in talks with various content producers to provide the streams and downloads. TechCrunch has obtained additional information on this story that makes the concept a bit more realistic and should alleviate some of the concerns noted by critics and con... |
Instagram not just a photos and filters app insists Systrom at Le Web | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 7 |
Interviewed on stage at Le Web by our very own , Kevin Systrom, CEO , said the photo app is hitting a new watermark in adoption “every day”. Now on 14 million users , the app is now generating “60 photos per second” and “We’re only at the tip of where we want to be,” said Systrom. As a former member of the Odeo podc... |
Publishing To Facebook Subscribers Shouldn’t Make Us Spam Our Friends | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | I have one major gripe with Facebook’s Subscribe feature: I have to publish to all my friends to reach my Subscribers. In September, Facebook launched Subscribe, its Twitter-esque option that lets people receive the public updates of other users without being their friends. But I don’t publish my articles to my Subscri... |
Fly Or Die: Flipboard For The iPhone | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | Last night, released its long-awaited . The app is a companion to its popular iPad reader which renders feeds and realtime streams into a magazine-like experience. The iPhone app is already so popular that it earlier today. In this episode of , John Biggs and I take the iPhone app through the paces. (You can wa... |
Onlive Now Beaming Console Games From The Cloud To iOS/Android Devices (Hands-on Video) | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | The claims are magnificent: “The latest, top-tier, high-performance games…on over 500 million mobile devices.” The results are slightly less than spectacular, but still impressive enough to completely shake up the mobile gaming scene. For the first time, you can play real games (as in titles previously only available... |
Transistor Tech Startup Takes On Intel With Powerful New Chip Creation Technique | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | One of the true giants in the tech industry is Intel. Despite the ascendance of their rival, ARM, in the mobile sector, Intel is unmatched in processor and molecular-level computing R&D. They are years ahead of others in the business and likely will be for some time. But that doesn’t mean that an occasional upstart can... |
Quick PSA: MacBook Air For $699? Don’t Fall For it | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | Apple has just reduced the price of the lowest tier of refurbished MacBook Air to — I’ve just seen it pop up on a couple news sites. One would think that the option of getting for such a low price what was a year ago an object of envy would make it a no-brainer. But it is the old version of the famously flat laptop, ... |
At Le Web, Crowley hints at Foursquare's future in recommendations for everything | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | At Co-Founder and CEO Dennis Crowley expanded on the future direction for the company and product, signalling how check-in data is becoming less important than the recommendations it is capable of producing for users. Interviewed on stage by blogger Robert Scoble, Crowley went in to the Explore feature of the produ... |
CompactFlash Announces XQD Medium For High-Performance Cameras | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | In most consumer cameras, an SD card is used for image storage. But it wasn’t so long ago that CompactFlash (CF) cards were the standard for anything better than a point-and-shoot. Many cameras still use the format, despite the higher capacity and lower price of SD, but such models have grown fewer and further between ... |
Verizon Confirms Widespread 4G Outage, Still Scrambling For A Fix | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | Just in time to throw a wrench into people’s wireless shopping plans, Verizon has announced that their much-vaunted 4G LTE network is experiencing a few hiccups. And by hiccups, I mean that their 4G network is currently undergoing a widespread outage that’s affecting customers across the country. According to a recent... |
Video History Bill Passes House, Struggling Netflix Could Finally Stream On Facebook In US | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | Netflix is building an app for Facebook that would let its users see what movies or shows their friends are watching, then click to watch them without having to leave Facebook. But when the two companies announced the app in September, Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings said it because of a law from the 1980s that... |
US Virtual Goods Market To Hit $2.9 Billion In 2012, With Facebook Games Maturing, Mobile Booming | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | The business of selling virtual goods in games has been around for a decade, but it only came into its own in this country when developers started building social games on Facebook’s developer platform in 2007. Since then, it has been one of the fastest-growing types of businesses online. But it may be maturing, accord... |
Forget An IPO For Now, LivingSocial Raises Another $176 Million. Total Could Reach $400 Million. | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | In a sign that it may be pushing off an IPO after Groupon’s lackluster performance, rival LivingSocial has raised $176 million in a new round of funding, according to a new . Reports of the new funding first surfaced in the a few weeks ago. reports that the new round values the company at $6 billion. While the SEC... |
Design-Focused Flash Sales Site Fab.com Raises $40M From Andreessen Horowitz, Ashton Kutcher | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | Design focused flash sales site Fab.com has raised $40 million in series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with existing investors Menlo Ventures, First Round Capital, Baroda Ventures, SoftTech VC, and Ashton Kutcher’s A-Grade Investments participating. We originally ago that Fab was in the process of raising a ma... |
Twilio raises $17 million Series C funding to boost ambitious Europe expansion | vaughn597 | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | really is on a roll this year. The cloud communications platform today announced it has raised a $17 million Series C round of funding from and . The funding will mainly be used to boost the company’s expansion plans. To sum it up, Twilio allows web developers to quickly integrate phone calls, IP voice communicatio... |
Facebook For Android Gets An Overhaul, Now Looks Just As Good As Its iPhone App | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 7 | Back in October — after many months of speculation and rumors — Facebook launched its long-anticipated . The app was notable for two reasons: first, it was the first time the social network offered an official app for Apple’s tablet, and second, because it included an overhauled UI for Facebook’s immensely popular iPh... |
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Apple Made A Deal With The Devil (No, Worse: A Patent Troll) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | Over the last two years, Apple has been engaged in vicious legal battles over smartphone patents, many of which are aimed at squelching (or squeezing money out of) manufacturers of devices running Android. And now, for some reason, it has given valuable patents to a patent troll — which is using them to sue many of the... |
GAIN Fitness Raises $650K From Keith Rabois, YouTube & Google Angels For Personal Training 2.0 | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | , a startup that creates personalized workouts based on certified trainers’ expertise, that it has raised $650K in seed funding from , Slide COO and angel investor , Former Director of Platform at Facebook and Director of Partnerships, Content and Platforms at YouTube, , , early founding YouTube team member , ... |
Sean Parker: "There's something wrong with our music distribution system" | vaughn597 | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | What’s the music industry’s biggest problem? Big questions for today, interviewed by TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis onstage at . His appearance attracted the biggest crowd of all sessions at the three day conference. As usual, he was asked where the social web was going and approached by a member of the audience . But... |
Back To Its Roots, Facebook Tests .edu-Exclusive Groups | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | Long ago, signing up for Facebook required a university email address and many users shared openly with everyone in their school’s network. In an effort to revive the feeling of safe sharing within an exclusive community, Facebook has begun testing a new “Groups At [University]” feature. It allows users to create Group... |
Tablet Zero | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | The global slapfight between Apple and Samsung shows no sign of abating – a victory here, an injunction there, a ruling here, a reversal there – like Aesop’s goats, neither will give way and chances are they’re both going to end up the worse for it, though not likely at the bottom of a ravine. It doesn’t mean that the ... |
It Begins: Coby Preparing Five Ice Cream Sandwich Tablets For CES | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | are already coming out of the woodwork, and it looks like at least a few of them will be ready for CES 2012. The folks over at Coby Electronics have just revealed five, count ’em Android 4.0 tablets that will soon be making their Las Vegas debut. As you can probably imagine, Galaxy Tabs these things ain’t. What Coby ... |
Apple’s Jam-Packed Grand Central Store (Video) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | Apple finally opened up its biggest store yet in today. Since I was passing through, I decided to take a quick walkthrough with my iPhone. The results are the two videos and other images below. The store covers two balconies which wrap around a corner of Grand Central, with different products laid down on tables and ... |
Tagged Acquires Topicmarks To Improve Friend Suggestions With Natural Language Processing | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | Tagged’s mission is to help strangers meet each other online, so it has to offer friend suggestions of people you’ll like and who’ll like you back. That’s why it , a natural language processing and machine learning company. will allow Tagged to analyze the profiles of its 100 million registered users and match them ... |
Justice Department Wants To Postpone AT&T/T-Mobile Antitrust Case | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | When AT&T and T-Mobile decided to regroup and withdraw their merger application a few weeks back, I’m not sure they expected it to backfire the way it just has. According to the , the Department of Justice is looking to postpone (or possibly withdraw) its antitrust case because the was summarily yanked off the FCC’s... |
Indonesian Government Threatens BlackBerry Services Over “Security Reasons” | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | Indonesia’s telecoms regulatory agency, the BTRI, has that they may have to shut down RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger and Internet services after the company declined to establish BBM servers within the country. RIM opted to put its servers in neighboring Singapore, for reasons not described in the article. BTRI says it m... |
Is December 15 Verizon’s New Galaxy Nexus Launch Date? | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | The Galaxy Nexus, while something we’ve been super excited about, is turning out to be a real pain. Why? Because we can’t seem to figure out when the bleep this thing is supposed to launch. We heard it was supposed to be around today, and then we heard it wasn’t, and then we heard so many different dates it started to ... |
After YC And Square, Paul McKellar Becomes Founder In Residence At SV Angel | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | As the new founder in residence at SV Angel, is part of the next layer of web and mobile entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. People who have come here and been through a couple startups over the last several years – in his case, his own company, then Square — and are now moving into financial and advising roles. That is... |
Watch Out Zynga, Japanese Gaming Company GREE Is Aggressively Hiring In Silicon Valley | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | It’s no secret that Japanese mobile social gaming company GREE is aggressively pursuing the U.S. markets, especially with the of mobile gaming platform OpenFeint earlier this year. Now with sights set on establishing a large engineering and development presence in Silicon Valley, the company has added a new billboard... |
HP’s Whitman: We’ll Make WebOS-Powered Tablets In 2013 | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman finally announced the fate of operating system WebOS this morning, after the company previously announced that it was of all smartphones and tablets running Palm’s webOS platform. The actual software’s fate was HP today that it will be We sat down with Whitman and HP board member ... |
Adzerk Launches AdOS, An App Store For Ad Tech | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | , the ad-serving technology startup which this July, is launching its next phase, called . The new platform is intended as an evolution of its current product, and is offering improved ad-serving code plus a marketplace where publishers can find third-party apps to install. Yep – it’s an app store for ad tech. For p... |
Keen On… Gina Rudan: How To Find Your G-Spot (TCTV) | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | Did you know that you were a genius? Yes, we are all geniuses, every one of us – at least according to the author of . As Rudan told me when she came into our San Francisco studio, she is democratizing genius so that we can all embrace our emotional intelligence and realize our talents. Real genius, what Rudan cal... |
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In An Internal HP Email, Meg Whitman Assures webOS’ Best Days Are Still Ahead | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | HP just took to the wire and announced to the tech world that as an open source project. Shortly thereafter, Meg Whitman informed HP employees about the decision. The internal email I obtained, which is included in its entirely after the jump, gives a bit more insight than HP’s public press release including Meg’s fe... |
YouTube Acquires RightsFlow To Help Artists License Music And Make Money | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | YouTube has just a startup that manages music licensing and payment services. Launched in 2007, RightsFlow helps online music services, record companies, distributors and artists license music and lyrics while also managing royalty payments for the rights-holders. The company’s proprietary licensing technology an... |
Facebook’s Mobile App Has A Big Holiday Week On iPhones, Bigger On Android | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 31 | Millions of new iPhones and Androids during and after Christmas this year — and what have people done with their new devices? They’ve downloaded Facebook’s mobile apps, of course. I’ve been watching this trend for a few years, and the past week has been the biggest yet, based on the numbers visible in the app track... |
Facebook Speeds Development With “HipHop Virtual Machine”, A 60% Faster PHP Executor | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 9 | “Consider that many Facebook engineers spend their days developing PHP code in an endless edit-reload-debug cycle. The difference between 8-second and 5-second reloads due to switching from HipHop interpreter to the HipHop Virtual Machine makes a big difference to productivity.” That’s how Facebook explains the signifi... |
Watch Livestream’s Commercial-Free Broadcast Of NYE In Times Square | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 31 | At home and want to watch the classic New Years Eve celebration in Time Square commercial free? Well, . has partnered with the organizers of the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration to bring you just that: A six-and-a-half hour commercial free webcast of the evening’s festivities. The livecast will include a bunc... |
Nearly 20 Million People Read Google’s Blog In 2011; @Google Now Has 4 Million Twitter Followers | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 31 | In terms of regularly posting news, Google has been one of the more frequent bloggers out of most of the major technology giants, often forgoing releasing press releases in favor of posting on the company’s blog. And Google’s blog is probably one of the most visited company blogs in general. So it’s interesting to see ... |
Want To Know How (Not) To Pitch Your Startup? Look No Further. | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 31 | In order to get startups and entrepreneurs thinking about the most effective ways to pitch their businesses, of Founder Institute has been encouraging his founders to boil their mission statements down to one sentence, . of Charles River Ventures asked Ressi to come up with a format for startup pitches, because he... |
Making Jony Ive a Knight sends UK Gov signal: 2012 is the year of tech | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 31 | Honours and medals from Queens and Kings may be an alien concept in Silicon Valley, but they are a delightfully steam-punk tradition, still continued in a Britain which long ago said goodbye to its Empire, yet still has Knights and ‘Commander’ orders to hand out. Thus, Apple’s chief designer, Jonathan Ive, has been kni... |
Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 31 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — wound up the Old Year and previewed the next one. In fact, we are already well into Social Spring, what with SOPA, Go Daddy, the media scramble, Louis C.K. and the $5 download, Spotify and the independents, Apple AlmostTV... |
My Last Death Threat In 2011 | James Altucher | 2,011 | 12 | 31 | I got this email the other day:
It was signed and he was referring to a recent TV appearance I made where I was bullish on the economy in 2012. I don’t know a kosoverh@bellsouth.net so it was effectively anonymous. This is why the Internet is great. I am particularly ugly when you see me on TV. Everyone is very bea... |
Late-Stage Web Companies Took In The Largest Tech Investments Of 2011 | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 31 | One of the defining trends of modern web companies is that the top ones have been choosing to raise giant, private late-stage funding rounds instead of going public. In 2011, some of these rounds got so big that they passed the other types of companies that typically raise the biggest fundings each year — manufacturing... |
Freight Train Kept A-Rollin’ | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 12 | 31 | 2011 was the year of Android. A little over a year ago Andy Rubin that 300,000 Android devices were being activated each day. In January we that Android had surpassed iOS in terms of US smartphone market share. In June Android’s activations-per-day 500,000; this month they 700,000. That’s the rate at which it... |
Keeping Up With The Normals | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 31 | The holidays for most people who read this site involve answering a cornucopia of tech support questions for their relatives. Honestly, I’ve watched friends field the most frustrating 45 minute IT department-level questions during holiday time with the family, which inevitably devolves into more of those types of conve... |
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