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Apple’s Terrific And Tumultuous 2011 | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Those words seem to encapsulate Apple’s 2011 perfectly. The year saw the company both became the most valuable company in the world and lose its founder, savior, visionary, and leader. Earlier, Erick published his . Topping that list is the , a story so big that it... |
Knight Of The Round Tablet? UK Gov Honour for Ive Heralds New 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... |
A Web Of Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | It is remarkable to think that we’re in the early days of the app era, when there are already close to 600,000 iOS applications and nearly 400,000 on Android (source: ). The growth of these app ecosystems has been rapid, exponential and shows no signs of slowing down. As well it shouldn’t: the untapped, involves hun... |
RED Sues Arri Over Email Hacking, False Advertising In HD Camera Dust-Up | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | Upstart digital cinema company , which has been the bane of many established camera companies for several years now, has filed suit against Arri, a leading camera manufacturer. They allege that Arri employed one Michael Bravin, a former employee of camera kit maker Band Pro, who hacked the email account of his former ... |
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Aol Employees Make Zombie Video About Talent Exodus | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04rNzIf6bIs&feature=g-upl&context=G2bf1639AUAAAAAAAAAA&w=630] In case you ;), it’s an especially slooooooooooooooooooooow time for the tech industry. So slow that some Aol employees — the only one I recognize is — made a video about the recent Aol talent exodus, using ZOMBIES... |
A New Era For Social Interest Sites: Twitter, Tumblr And Pinterest Go Big In 2011 | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | One of the most interesting trends in is the new growth of social sites that cater to users’ interests, rather than their real-life social graphs. In particular, according to comScore data, microblogging platforms and have had break-out years, and they’ve been joined by new online pinboard site . But all this gr... |
Verizon Wireless Cancels Plans To Charge $2 “Convenience” Fee | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | Well, that didn’t take long. Less than 24 hours after word got out that Verizon Wireless planned to introduce a painfully ironic “convenience” fee of $2 for anyone paying their bill online, the carrier has just officially confirmed that such plans have been cancelled. Why? Because the Internet more or less exploded in ... |
Damn It Google, Where Are My Magic Android Lightbulbs? | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | Back at Google I/O in May, members of Google’s Android team a new initiative that’s going to extend the mobile OS beyond smartphones and tablets — and take us one step closer to Back to the Future II. Dubbed Android@Home, the project aims to bake special hardware and software into a variety of gadgets, which will all... |
2011: The Year In Tech | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | Okay, last workday of the year. It’s nostalgia time. Let’s take a quick glance in the rearview mirror at the year in Tech, before we speed forward again in 2012. There were defining moments, epic battles, new product introductions, and major corporate screw-ups. Mobile and social drove many of the changes in tech, and ... |
AngelPad Looks Back: 37 Companies, 31 Funded, $25 Million Raised | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | , the startup incubator launched by seven ex-Googlers in August 2010, is taking a look back at how far it’s come in the months since and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. So far, AngelPad has helped 37 companies get off the ground, but it wasn’t until this year that things really got going: 29 of those 37 star... |
Shock horror! Berlin VC invests in Italian startup. Is this the start of something? | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | has made a seed investment into , an Italian startup which operates a popular iPhone application that makes it easy to find the best restaurants in Rome, Milan, Florence and other cities in Italy. Fabio Pezzotti, one of Italy’s more successful Internet entrepreneurs and angel investors, also participated in the round... |
Keen On… Marian Salzman: What Were The Top Trends in 2011? | Andrew Keen | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | It’s the last Friday in 2011 and the new year is imminent. So what were the top technological, cultural and economic trends in 2011? What shaped a year that some are is one of the most significant in the last couple of centuries? The queen of trendology is Marian Salzman, a global marketing executive, who publishes... |
LG To Debut Second Intel-Powered Smartphone At CES 2012 | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | It looks like LG and Intel have taken that old adage to heart, if a new report is to be believed. The reports that LG will debut an Intel-powered smartphone at CES 2012, but the bigger question is whether or not the device will ever make it to market. LG and Intel’s first mobile partnership yielded an Android smart... |
Gillmor Gang Live 12.30.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | The Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor – are recording live at 9am PT. Recording has concluded. |
Insync (“Dropbox For Google Users”) Gets Major Revamp, Goes Free | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | File synchronization and sharing platform has been around , and today, the eponymous startup has rolled out a totally revamped version of its “Dropbox for Google users”. Insync 2.0, so t speak, is more focused on Google Docs as ever, removed registration and sync limits, streamlined the user experience, and is now f... |
Dropbox Automator Is Like IFTTT For Dropbox | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | Thirty-six hours ago, the recently founded software development firm Wappwolf launched , which is sort of like an for Dropbox. IFTTT, for those of you not up to speed on the latest Internet trends (where have you been?!), is that automates tasks to trigger when a particular action has occurred. For example: etc.... |
As Millions Of Consumers Unwrapped Kindle Fires Over Christmas, Mobile Ad Impressions Spiked 261 Percent | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | In November, Mobile ad network Millennial Media that Amazon’s new tablet devices Kindle Fire, was seeing ad impressions grow at an average daily rate of 19% since its in the middle of the month. Millennial says it’s not just seeing millions of impressions and the device is on a monthly run rate of hundreds of milli... |
This Cat Might Be Better At Fruit Ninja Than Your Kids | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | iOS devices are generally very accessible for most people. But for felines? Apparently so according to the video recently tweeted by Halfbrick Studios, the developer of Fruit Ninja. It’s clear within seconds of the video starting that the cat has done this before. This cat slashes fruit like a boss. As , the cat displ... |
Photo Organization Service Everpix Launches Public Beta | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 30 | Photo organization service (and ) has just launched into public beta, bringing with it a number of changes to its backend infrastructure, web interface and its desktop software. The service, for those unaware, automatically organizes and combines all your photos, whether they’re stored on your computer or in the clo... |
European Payment Service Klarna Raises A Whopping $155 Million From DST And General Atlantic | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | European e-commerce payments provider just raised a huge, pre-IPO round of $155 million. The round was led by General Atlantic and Yuri Milner’s DST Global. Sequoia Capital led its last $9 million round in May, 2010. ( : Sequoia did not invest in this round). At that time, Sequoia partner Michael Moritz (he of Google... |
Fownd Launches A Free Service To Reunite You With Lost Phones, Gadgets, Keys & More | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | Do you lose things? Despite being meticulous about personal hygiene and a snappy dresser, I tend to misplace things. I blame it on bad parenting, of course. But, we all lose our personal items — and as much as it pains us — our gadgets are often the victims. Smartphones, especially iPhones, have been known to surreptit... |
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Gogobot Partners With Flipboard To Turn Your Travel Photos Into A Digital Magazine | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | Since launching early last year, young social travel site has been off to a pretty good start, or at least it has, shall we say, been hitting all the stops. , it was named one of Time’s top sites for 2011, won a Crunchie for best design in 2010, and brought its total funding to just under $20 million with a series B... |
Ticket Search Engine FanSnap Acquired By Shopping Site NexTag, But Employees May Get $0 | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | Comparison shopping site has made its in 15 months, buying event ticket search engine FanSnap. Unfortunately, FanSnap employees and any other common stockholders won’t get anything out of the deal, according to a source close to the transaction. Apparently the purchase price was low, and primarily from . That me... |
Groupon In Talks To Acquire Clever Sense, The Startup Behind ‘Alfred’ | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | Groupon is in late-stage negotiations to acquire Silicon Valley-based startup , we’re hearing from a source. Clever Sense is the company behind , a popular ‘butler’ app for iPhone that makes restaurant and activity recommendations based on your taste preferences. The company was founded in 2008 and has raised around ... |
2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Nook Tablet And Kindle Fire Accessories That Are Must-Have | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | These new e-reader-tablet hybrids are shaping up to be the hottest gifts of this year. Amazon’s Kindle Fire is and Barnes & Noble has offered up a worthy opponent in the form of its . But even at their relatively low prices, these e-readers might still be a bit pricey. That’s why we’ve laid out some of the best acc... |
Mark It Down: June 6, 2012 | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | “Six months from now you’ll say the opposite. Because ultimately applications vendors are driven by volume. And the volume is favored by the open approach that Google is taking.” That was Google Chairman speaking at LeWeb a couple days ago. Specifically, he was addressing a question from the audience wondering why mo... |
Ness Adds Social Sharing To Its Mobile Restaurant Recommendation App | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | has just launched a new version of its that takes its existing recommendations technology and adds in new sharing services. Yes, there are plenty of restaurant recommendations apps out there, and social tie-ins are increasingly common on mobile devices. But what Ness does is already special, and getting better with ... |
Exploring Some Implications Of Driverless Cars | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | have been a popular and fertile topic for research and discussion for years. From the first high-profile Grand Challenge to the more recent work by Google, there has always been activity, though it’s rarely applicable to everyday life. But a few years from now we’ll really need to start pondering the potential effects... |
Up Close With A 3D-Printed Card Skimmer | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | I’ve recently fallen into the habit of pulling and tugging at ATM slots before I slide my card through because I fear that someone nefarious has stuck one of these 3D-printed card skimmers over the opening. This skimmer, found in California, was 3D-printed to resemble the real Chase ATM slot almost perfectly. Wildly en... |
Facebook One-Ups Twitter With Subscribe Button That Tells Friends When You Click | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | Facebook wasn’t kidding when it yesterday that an embeddable button allowing people to subscribe to someone’s public updates was on the way. Today it , noting that when clicked “The subscribe action is also shared — allowing others to subscribe directly via the News Feed stories, and further increasing viral distrib... |
Jawbone Cancels All Pending Up Orders, Refunds Unhappy Owners (Even If They Keep It) | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | For a company that generally sticks to fancy-pants Bluetooth headsets and speakers, Jawbone has done a surprisingly good job of making their into a rather trendy item. Alas, there’s another trend going around that’s not nearly as beneficial: complaining that the UP is broken. Looking to fix things before the UP’s rep... |
T-Mobile Offers Square Mobile Payment Readers With Smartphone Upgrades | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | T-Mobile is unveiling a promotion with mobile payments company this week. Basically, T-Mobile is offering its business users an upgrade plan where they can get a 4G Pro smartphone, and an unlimited data, talk and text plan for $69.99 with a two-year contract extension. But along with all of the above, T-Mobile is chi... |
Google Currents: First Impressions Of Google’s Flipboard Competitor | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | Google has just its much-rumored Flipboard competitor, Google Currents. The service is available for both iOS and Android — including support for phones and tablets — and you can download it . But only if you’re in the US (sorry international readers). The gist of Currents is simple: it’s a clean, touch-friendly way... |
Twitter As Discovery Platform: Redesign Adds Personalized Stories, Inline Media, Embeds | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | While Twitter is already a leading platform for information distribution, a few aspects of its redesign today show how it’s strengthening itself in this area. It’s improving inline media viewing and tweet embeds to aid viewing and sharing, and adding a personalized Stories section to help users more easily explore the ... |
Facebook Confirms Corporate Reorganization, Focusing On Mobile, Ads, Product, Engineering, Profile | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | Facebook has confirmed with me that it has undergone a corporate reorganization. “We can confirm that in order to streamline the product development process, we have reorganized our technical teams into product groups that report into Mark. These groups will be lead by Bret Taylor, Chris Cox, Greg Badros, Mike Schroepf... |
The New Twitter Brand Pages, With Bold Banners And Pinned Videos | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | Twitter unveiled a which will be rolling out slowly. We’ve covered some of the already such as the new timeline and discover features, as well as how Twitter is trying to and accessible. One major change for brands, however, is new brand pages. Not everyone can see what these look like yet, so I’ve pasted some scr... |
Scottish Startup Sensewhere Promises Accurate Indoor Location-Tracking | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | As location gradually becomes more important to the on-the-go consumer, what with daily deals, check-in coupons, and local promotions, so that consumer’s fine location becomes more important to merchants. GPS and wi-fi can only get you so far, though, and inside a mall or airport it’s much more difficult and inefficien... |
TC Gadgets Needs Interns In Sin City | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 8 | Heyo! CES is right around the corner and we need some interns to work with us in Las Vegas after the holiday. If you like gadgets, think you can write/edit video, and are free January 10-13 and live in or around or can get to LV, we want to talk to you. Email me, john@beta.techcrunch.com with the subject line “INTERN” ... |
Theicebreak For iPhone Wants To Make Your Already Great Relationship More Awesome | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | In the same space as and , social “network” for couples is now available on the iPhone — for those that want to stay hyper-connected to their SOs via mobile. Upon opening theicebreak gives you two options: First is the option to answer an “icebreaker” or a question related to your partner, your relationship or you... |
Overview: 11 Startup Demos From The TechCrunch Tokyo 2011 Conference | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | organized [JP] on Tuesday, a one-day event that attracted a total of 600 people (and will hopefully be organized next year again, possibly as TechCrunch Disrupt Tokyo). The crowd was a mix of people from the local web and mobile industry, Asia, and the US (including TechCrunch’s very own Erick Schonfeld who came to ... |
Dijit’s Universal Remote Control App Gets Revamped For The iPad | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | The social remote control app Dijit has certainly been getting around lately: it started off on iPhones, made the leap onto not long ago, and now the company has announced that an of the app is in the works. According to Jeremy Toeman, Dijit’s Chief Product Officer, one of the company’s big focuses was to make effe... |
Apple Sends Match.com’s App To The Dog House For Untaxed Subscription Payments | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | Those looking for love won’t find it in the App Store. Apple has removed ‘s iOS app because it allowed the lonely to pay for Match subscriptions with a credit card through an external link rather than using the in-app purchases system. That meant Apple wasn’t getting its 30% cut. In June Apple to state that “Apps ca... |
Google Mulling Quick-Shipment Partnerships For Online Shoppers | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | With online retail shopping growing every year, it’s no surprise that practically everyone wants in. Web-based companies are falling over themselves providing recommendation engines, web storefronts, payment systems, and backend management. Google is in most of those fields already, but it’s probable that they feel som... |
AT&T’s 4G/LTE Network Already Live In Parts Of NYC | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | Early in November, AT&T exec Larry Solomon mentioned that their 4G/LTE network would be extending its reach to New York City sometime “soon.” Turns out, “soon” means “sometime around December 1st” — as of this evening, reports started coming in that some devices within the Big Apple’s limits were lighting up with 4G/LT... |
Real Simple Teams Up With Punchbowl To Offer Digital Greeting Cards | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | Start to finish party planning site and digital greeting card company has announced a technology-licensing agreement with magazine Real Simple to allow the publication’s readers to create and send free digital greeting cards for all occasions. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As we’ve written in the pa... |
TechCrunch Moscow, 5th December | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | I’m looking forward to , on 5th December. Conveniently it is just before . Hope to see you there. Here’s the schedule: Schedule, 5 December 2011 9:00
Welcome coffee 10:00
Intro
Mike Butcher , Edward Shenderovich 10:10
What’s Next? Creating the Big Picture.
The tech world undergoes rapid changes that bring unfor... |
LG Nitro HD For AT&T: Hands-On | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | Tonight at LG’s media event in New York City, we were lucky enough to get some quality time with the . The third in AT&T’s line of LTE-capable phones, the Nitro HD was announced earlier this week with a launch date of December 4 for AT&T. Some of its spec highlights include a 4.5-inch 720p display (like the HTC Rezoun... |
Vitrue 1st To Let Brands Offer Mobile Access To Their Facebook Page Tab Apps | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | Facebook’s mobile apps and websites don’t support access to Page tab applications, which let brands host signup forms, coupons, sweepstakes, games and more. Considering roughly 40% of Facebook’s users are accessing the site via these mobile interfaces, brands are missing out on serving their content to hundreds of mill... |
2011 Holiday Gift Guide: iPhone Accessories For Every Type | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | Apple has sold over in this past quarter alone, so chances are that someone you’ll have to buy a holiday present for will already have one. Instead of the usual “cheesy card and sweater” combination, why not give them something that takes advantage of their constant electronic companion? Here are a few iPhone-friendl... |
Solving Email Overload With A Company-Wide Ban | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | The CEO of a large European-based tech firm hates email and wants his 74,000 employees in 42 countries to stop using it. , CEO of , wants his “zero email” policy to be in place within a year-and-a-half. He told the only 10% of emails turn out to be important and that “email is no longer the appropriate tool. It ... |
YouTube’s New Homepage Goes Social With Algorithmic Feed, Emphasis On Google+ And Facebook | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | is what the company calls the biggest redesign in its history today, including sweeping changes to its homepage and channel pages. The goal is better personalized video discovery and viewing, with a notable emphasis on social features. Think of the changes as the latest example of Google’s campaign to create a unifi... |
Dwolla Drops Fees For Transactions Under $10 In Prelude To Larger Announcement | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | Online and mobile payment service Dwolla has announced that . This is of course great news for small businesses and merchants whose average transaction is below that. Anything above still carries the flat $0.25 fee. The company has , and the payments space is certainly ripe for disruption from any number of angles, b... |
Phonedeck turns your phone into a cloud app – 500 invites | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | appeared last year at Le Web. At the time it seemed very much like a beta project to manage calls from a computer. But we’ve long had the position that real social graph is in your phone – the people you text and call – and Phonedeck has now come on leaps and bounds. Today it’s releasing 500 invites for TechCrunch rea... |
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Apple: We Don’t Use Carrier IQ… In Most Of Our Products… Anymore. | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | The tech world is up in arms this week about , the mobile data logging software that comes pre-installed (and rather well hidden) on an increasingly huge number of handsets. It’s still entirely unclear as to what’s being logged and, more importantly, what (if anything) is being sent off the handset — but one thing’s f... |
With Facebook At Its Core, Color Will Relaunch As Champion Of The Video Status Update | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | is almost ready for round two. The company — which famously raised $41 million and launched last spring only to watch its bomb (which in turn spurred plenty of Schadenfreude) — has spent the last eight months trying to figure out what went wrong, and where it’s headed next. And now it’s back with a product that has ... |
Rumble To Build and Publish Games Using $15M Series A From Google Ventures and Khosla | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 1 | “We’re a developer and a publisher trying to make triple A games that fit the digital lifestyle, are instantly accessible from anywhere, free to try, don’t require a PhD to control, and that you can play for a short session length. It’s an Activision Blizzard meets Zynga model.” That’s how CEO describes his new gamin... |
Facebook Memology 2011: Osama’s Death Is Top Status Update, Rihanna Is Most Listened To | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Facebook tonight released a wealth of data about , both globally and for specific countries. Across the world, Osama Bin Laden’s death was the most popular status update topic, followed by the Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl win and the Casey Anthony trial. When compared with the of the year, differences between Twit... |
Microsoft Dangles Carrot In Front Of Developers With Windows Store Economics, But Will It Be Enough? | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Tonight Microsoft revealed that the public release of its Windows 8 Beta will be taking place sometime in late February of 2012. Along with Windows 8 Beta, Microsoft will also be launching its “Windows Store”, which was announced back in September. ( .) In previewing the new app store, Microsoft also revealed some det... |
SoundTracking’s New Android App Has Spotify And Rdio Integration (So Yes, You Can Listen To Full Songs) | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Launching today at the in Paris is the long-awaited SoundTracking Android app. What makes this app special is that goes above and beyond the — taking full advantage of Android capabilities in order to integrate popular music services Spotify and Rdio (for users of Spotify and Rdio). Which means, yes, you can now l... |
DreamIt Graduates 14 Startups in Philly, Including 5 Minority-Led Companies | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | On Wednesday, startup incubator is graduating fourteen new companies from its Philly 2011 class. It’s the fourth program from DreamIt in Philadelphia, and the fifth graduating class for the accelerator overall. ( this year, too). This year’s group is notable for featuring several minority-led startups thanks to a co... |
PSA: 3.1 Update Reportedly Rolling Out To Logitech Revue Google TV Boxes | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | The Logitech forums are alive with music, or rather screenshots, or rather, if I’m honest, . Yes, one user has reported that the 3.1 software has appeared on his Revue box. Users of Sony Google TV products more than a month ago, so Logitech users are probably foaming with righteous anger and expectation. But the scr... |
Archos G9 Tablets To Taste Ice Cream Sandwich Early Next Year (Video) | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | I wouldn’t be shocked to hear that you had perhaps forgotten about the Archos G9 tablets. They haven’t seen much coverage of late, though we did get our hands on one back in October. In our review we found them to be , with various ports and a somewhat untrustworthy build quality, though solid enough for casual use. ... |
Verizon Planning Netflix Competitor For 2012 Debut | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Cable TV and internet giant Verizon is planning a streaming media service similar to , . The service is in the planning stages and people close to the matter, but apparently not that close, described it to Reuters variously as limited in scope, focused on movies, and focused on children’s programming. While it can’t ... |
Facebook Timeline Rollout Starts Today, First In New Zealand | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Facebook that it will begin rollout of Timeline, starting with New Zealand. If successful there it will release the profile redesign elsewhere. The country was likely picked because it speaks English, which eases feedback processing, and isn’t as interconnected with the rest of the user base as some other countries. ... |
After The Regretsy and Diaspora Account Freezes, We’ve Lost Confidence In PayPal | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Hey PayPal, do you realize people no longer trust you? By heartlessly freezing the accounts of legitimate causes, you’ve shaken our confidence. By releasing the funds only in response to public pressure, you’ve shown that your policy enforcement is erratic and our money can disappear on a whim. The account freezes have... |
Starbucks Mobile App Does Good Business, But When Will They Double Down? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | It may still be a , and mobile payments are a work in progress, but the big movers in the space are happy to be the guinea pigs, knowing it will pay off down the line. Starbucks has been doing the mobile payment thing for a good now, and the app has grown from a simple gift card frontend for the iPhone to a more ver... |
Already On Everything Else, Angry Birds Ported To Rovio Exec’s Wife’s Dress | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Going to a fancy State Gala? Married to a Rovio executive? Angry Birds dresses are this season. If you’ve ever met Rovio CMO Peter Vesterbacka, you’ve probably learned two things: 1) Peter is good people, and 2) he really, likes his Angry Birds sweatshirt. It’s rare to see him wearing one. I’m convinced he travel... |
Not Just For Kids Anymore: Major League Gaming Hits 3.6 Million Viewer Hours Per Event | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | I sat down with Sundance DiGiovanni, CEO of Major League Gaming, who had some alarming and interesting statistics to share. First, the championships saw viewerships of over 3.6 million while fans watch 15 million hours of video during the Pro Circuit leading up to the championships. “Our viewership numbers this year... |
Junaio And Kreativagentur Thomas Launch AR Scavenger Hunt – Win An iPad | Jay Donovan | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Another example of creative use of Augmented Reality rears its head in the form of an online scavenger hunt with a chance to win an iPad 2. The team at who created the and German creative shop have partnered to create a scavenger hunt where you can use Junaio to scan special images hidden around the web to unlock... |
The Top Spiking Tweets Of 2011 | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Which event caused a greater spike in tweets this year, the Japanese earthquake, Steve Jobs’ death, or Beyonce’s pregnancy announcement at the MTV Music Awards? Yup, it was Beyonce. Twitter just released the top for the year as part of its ongoing . Yestreday it revealed the and other topics). The Beyonce announc... |
Verizon Couldn’t Be More Full Of It | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Yesterday news that Verizon would be blocking Google’s flagship Galaxy Nexus phone from including Google Wallet, the NFC-based system that will let you tap your phone against special sensors to pay for goods and services. The decision was almost certainly spurred by Verizon’s support of a rival NFC-based payment solu... |
CMU Researchers One-Up Google Image Search And Photosynth With Visual Similarity Engine | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | To these days is really an incredibly service-intensive process. Whereas before, to search something meant you had to through its drawers or folders by hand and inspect things by eye, now it means simply to produce a query and allow the vast computational engines of cloud services to exert themselves in parallel, sif... |
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Try, Try Again: The XYBOARD Tablets Make All The Same Mistakes | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Listen, I’ve yet to play with the new Xoom 2 models — or, as the new devices are called at Verizon, the . I’m sure both the 8.9 and 10.1 models are fine tablets. They probably power through the hundred or so Honeycomb apps like a championship thoroughbred. But it doesn’t matter. No one is going to buy the new-ish tabl... |
MoPub’s Ad Server Now Supports Mobile Games, Signs Up Ngmoco’s Mobage Gaming Network | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | , a mobile advertising startup founded by ex-AdMob and Google employees, is launching support for in-game ads and is also announcing a deal to power advertising in DeNa-owned ngmoco’s Mobage gaming network. MoPub, which is and others, develops a self-serve ad serving platform for mobile applications and websites that... |
CrunchBase Reveals: Most New US Startups Founded In Silicon Valley, Followed By… New York City | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Lots of US cities they’re the best place to do a startup. So where are entrepreneurs actually starting companies these days? TechCrunch reader took a at CrunchBase to try to answer the question. His most surprising result is that New York has been getting quite a few more startups than other cities outside of Sil... |
UXPin Instantly Converts Photos Of Offline User Experience Prototypes Into Digital Wireframes | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 6 | Bootstrapped Polish startup is about to revolutionize the user experience design process. Typically, building a project requires a steady hand, paper and pencil prototyping, and then a redundant, painstaking manual conversion of offline designs into digital wireframes. It’s slow and hinders startups from rapid iterat... |
In Today’s Competitive VC Holiday Video Climate, Better Step Up Your Game Scale Venture | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SB9laSv0OfY&w=630] The video above came to me in a message from an entrepreneur, “ does an awesome holiday video — and this is what sends out …” I thought perhaps he/she was being unfair, and then clicked on the link: Snowflakes! Mittens! “Wishing you a... |
Why Hasn’t Safari Skyrocketed Like Chrome Has? | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | The past few days, there’s been a lot of talk about web browsers. The that Google will be paying Mozilla close to one billion dollars over the next three years to ensure that their search engine remains the default for Firefox is . The biggest is that Google now makes a Firefox competitor, Chrome. And it got me thin... |
Dropbox For Android Gets A Major Revamp, New Features | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | The new year is right around the corner, and many of us are in dire need of some organization. Luckily for all you fandroids out there, DropBox 2.0 has finally made its way onto the Android Market. The app has brand new features and a totally revamped layout. You’ll find a little arrow to the right of each file in the... |
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas (Revisited) | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not an was whirring, not a .
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
With hopes they were stuffed with . The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of danced in their heads.
And ma in her ‘kerchief, and I with my ,
... |
Speaking Of Christmas Miracles… This Guy Can Fly (Almost) | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Mind control would be my answer (I hope to be an evil genius when I grow up). But it seems the most popular answer to that question is the ability to fly. Jarnos Smeets, a mechanical engineer from the Netherlands, is working really hard to . How, you ask? Well, he’s... |
Gillmor Gang 12.24.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — took a WiFi stroll through the forest that is Hollywood’s attempt to lock down our TVs. And by stroll, this one features @stevegillmor at a leisurely somewhat brain-cell challenged pace. You can almost see him think, except that there’s ... |
Secrets Of The Accidental Entrepreneur | James Altucher | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | I was in a meeting with . You know who he is. He’s the psychic that bends spoons. He’s been doing it since he was a kid. Marvel Comics even did an issue once where Uri Geller was helping out Daredevil. The cover has Daredevil wearing an extremely tight uniform where you could see the outline of his genitalia (putting ... |
A Christmas Miracle! Facebook Chat (Kind Of) Supports Extended Rage Faces | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | First, if you want to get right down to it, here are the codes you type into Facebook chat to get various faces: Huzzah! We are truly living in an age of wonder! Second, why does this work? There are various ways to bring Facebook content into chats. For example, you use Facebook Pages like a little TC by typing [[tech... |
Watch Out Yammer And Jive, Google Is About To Enter The Social Enterprise Space | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | The social enterprise has been growing as more and more companies look to incorporate Facebook-like communications among workers. Jive (which just ), , and are all betting on the social as an integral part of productivity and business processes in the future. And it looks like Google will be entering the space soon... |
The Decline And Fall Of The Appian Empires | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | A couple weeks ago, MG : . Which took me a bit aback. I’ve developed numerous Android and iOS apps (though not games, so I can’t speak to the differences there) over the last few years, and neither set of developer tools seems to me to be hugely superior: both have their strengths and their really irritating failings... |
Siri, What Were Your Top 5 Hacks And Mods Of 2011? | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 24 | 2011 saw the rise and fall of Siri. What was as something just short of the savior of mankind turned out to be . Apple insists Siri is still a beta product. They say it will get better. But some out there couldn’t wait for Apple. And so, with a little imagineering, people made Siri do all sorts of unconventional tas... |
Shaker Is Going To Have A Rockin’ New Year’s Eve | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | TechCrunch Disrupt winner is already getting ready for New Year’s Eve. The Facebook app creates with your friends and meet new people. The startup is partnering with Dick Clark Productions to create a virtual loft where a pre-party will take place right before the “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacr... |
Ron Paul Is The Second Most Popular Republican Candidate On Facebook (And He’s Gaining) | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | I know there are lots of people out there who have passionate feelings about Ron Paul. He’s a principled and independent for old-time American values, or a , or someone who let get published in his newsletters decades ago… or whatever else it is that you see about him that makes you react. I’m not here to take sid... |
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Facebook Subscriber # > Twitter Follower # ? | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | Where do you publish first if you have more than Twitter followers? That’s a question more and more journalists are going to be asking themselves. This is just 3.5 months after the launch of Facebook’s late entry into asymmetrical following (I follow you, you don’t have to follow me back). Many individual content pr... |
New startups pitch in Berlin at HackFwd Build event [TCTV] | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | , the pan-European accelerator created by Lars Hinrichs, the founder of LinkedIn competitor XING, recently held its open session, where startups are invited to enter the programme. It’s a sign that HackFwd, one of the few accelerators in Europe to stress the need for technical co-founders, is opening up to new teams.... |
Flurry: Largest Addressable Markets For Mobile Developers In 2012 Include India, China, Japan & U.S. | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | Mobile analytics firm Flurry is closing out the year with into the forthcoming shift in mobile installed bases expected in 2012. Using data from the firm’s dataset of over 140,000 apps running worldwide, it was able to calculate smartphone penetration in established markets like U.S. and Europe. Then, using additiona... |
Spare some idle CPU cycles for charity this season | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | Well, it’s that time of year again when families come together to stare moodily at each other over lunch and, in theory at least, we’re supposed to be thinking about others less fortunate than ourselves. To that end, stay you hand before you switch off the office PC and head off for some seasonal shopping. For those CP... |
Gillmor Gang Live 12.23.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | The Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor – are recording live at 1pm PT. Recording has concluded. |
GoDaddy CEO: “There Has To Be Consensus About The Leadership Of The Internet Community” | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | In a brief interview with TechCrunch, GoDaddy’s new CEO, Warren Adelman, did a little damage control relating to the company’s of its position on . GoDaddy had previously issued a strong statement of support for the controversial bill, . The last day has seen a growing grassroots rejection of the company and its po... |
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