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Earlybird closes Hamburg office to double-down on Berlin | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | If there’s been a theme for the year it’s that Berlin has emerged as a full-blown startup hub to rival London in terms of sheers number of companies. I know for a fact that all the major VCs, from Accel to Index to Balderton and others are in and out of the city on a regular basis. There’s also a rumour Wellington will... |
The Congressional Grill: House Co-Sponsor Defends SOPA (TCTV) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | The Internet is about the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and for good reason. It could potentially block and censor sites for alleged copyright infringement without full due process. Companies that support the bill are facing boycotts (GoDaddy just for this reason). But people on the two sides of the de... |
UC Berkeley Picks Google Over Microsoft In Battle Over Campus Cloud Services | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | When you’ve got a campus with 70,000 students and staff on it, all requiring some form of integrated cloud service, be it for email, scheduling, documents, or what have you, the decision-making process over which service to use is not a trivial one. Fortunately, UC Berkeley considered it not only necessary, but a duty ... |
Last-Minute Gift Guide 2011: iOS Apps | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | Looking for a quick last-minute gift? Not feeling up to fighting the holiday traffic, crowds and checkout lines? Just too busy to shop? Then you may want to consider giving the gift of an iOS app. You can gift any paid app from iTunes on your computer or from the app’s description page on your iPhone, iPad or iPod To... |
GoDaddy No Longer Supports SOPA | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | Surprise! GoDaddy has just recanted their support of SOPA, issuing a press release and blasting out a of tweets on the matter. This comes just hours after they were seemingly their position, shrugging off the boycotts as something that had yet to cause “any impact to [their] business”. For those who somehow missed ... |
Forget BBX: RIM Faces Legal Woes Over BBM Trademark | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | I swear, it never ends — not long after a U.S. court passed down a judgment that saw RIM change the name of their new operating system, the company has once again gotten themselves into . This time, the name in question is “BBM,” RIM’s preferred shorthand for their popular BlackBerry Messenger service. The lawsuit com... |
A Very Merry Giveaway: Galaxy Nexus #TechCrunch | Elin Blesener | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | You spoke and we listened. The holidays are upon us and yesterday we asked all of you what you would want as a gift out of six different options. Those options were: iPad 2, Canon S100, Kindle Fire, Galaxy Nexus, Boxee Box, and last but not least, a Kinect for Xbox 360. , all of you wanted an iPad 2. Then we asked , ... |
LogMeIn Remote Control iOS App Goes Freemium | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | Users of are in for a pleasant surprise this holiday season. The once paid — and quite expensive — app is now migrating to a freemium model. That said, users who paid for Ignition won’t have to cough up the dough for a LogMeIn Pro subscription, but they will get the added premium features including HD remote control... |
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.... |
£1,275 BlackBerry Porsche P’9981 Will Launch In U.K. By Year’s End | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | Pop quiz, phone fans: what device will you soon be able to buy in the U.K. that costs nearly twice as much as a Galaxy Nexus and looks three (maybe four!) times stranger? Well, if you’ve read the headline, you already know the answer: it’s the . reports that high-end retailer Harrod’s will be carrying the love-it-or-... |
How Best Buy Stole Christmas | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 23 | “I wouldn’t touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.” There’s a bit of inherent risk when shopping online. You’re handing over your credit card to a retailer that promises to ship you something in return. Most of the time transactions are completed without issue and orders are fulfilled as promised. Sometimes... |
Fotopedia Shifts From iPad Books To Photozine With “Wild Friends” App | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | Digital media is just more compelling when it is updated on a regular basis. That is what keeps people coming back. It’s as true for blogs as it is for apps. has built a nice little franchise putting out digital photo books re-imagined for the iPad. After 9 apps and 6.2 million downloads, with 1.4 million active use... |
Want A Piece Of Founders Fund’s Latest $625M Fund? Start By Trying To Change The World | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | Some call , others visionaries, however any way you slice them the — consisting of Partners , , , , , , , and others — is definitely an unconventional lot. There is a well-worn saying that the only difference between a crazy person and an eccentric is money. Well, perhaps as a clue as the where the VC industr... |
SigFig Shows Its iOS-Owning Investors Big on AAPL, Its Android-Owning Ones Not So Big On GOOG | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | A study by investment analysis startup suggests that iPhone-owning investors are 20% more likely than the average investor to also own Apple stock, while investors with Androids are 25% less likely to own Google than average. This is just one startup’s limited data, so don’t get all excited and assume that this is th... |
Did You Review Your Whole Facebook Timeline Before Publishing It? | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | Really? The whole thing? You probably didn’t, but you should because there are things you posted long ago that you might not want people to see. I sincerely worry that all over the world, this is happening right now: “Oh look, a new Facebook profile design. Grrr, I dislike change, but it looks cool. There’s a 7 day pre... |
Rocket Misfires — Samwers lose key people ahead of huge fund raising to clone globally | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | The three Samwer brothers (Oliver, Marc and Alexander) founders of the incubator in Berlin, are the most successful Internet entrepreneurs in Germany and possibly Europe. After launching and exiting multiple businesses, many of them clones/copycats of US startups, they are multi-millionaires. Indeed, their Groupon cl... |
The New ZangZing Will Never Keep Your Photos Hostage | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | I don’t know about you, but when I hear about another photo sharing app or website, my eyes roll back into my head, and I reflexively go into “screen saver mode”. There are just way too many options. How about Shutterfly, Kodak, Flickr, Instagram, Path, Twitter (TwitPic, Yfrog), Facebook, Google+, App Trover, GLMPS, Tr... |
Bye Bye Netbooks: Dell Kills The Mini 10 As It Shifts Focus To “Thin And Powerful” | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | Once upon a time netbooks ruled the land. But with the rise of tablets and miniaturization of traditional x86 CPUs, the mini notebooks are quietly dying. The latest victim is the Dell Mini. discovered by way of that the products are no longer listed on Dell.com. They’re dead, my friends, and it seems ultrabooks and ... |
Fly Or Die: The Leapfrog LeapPad | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | Erick and I are both parents so we know from tablets. The $99 LeapPad from Leapfrog is cool, to be sure, and fun if junior’s aunt or uncle is picking it up, but we both found it lacking, especially when compared to other devices. Obviously if you don’t want the wee ones slobbering all over your iPad, this is a huge w... |
If Freemium Is In, Then Why Do Paid Apps Still Reign Supreme? | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | Earlier today, we posted on some that shows that free-to-play online games, often overlooked in the hype around social and casual games, are growing just as fast and as furiously around the globe as their counterparts. Obviously, much of this has to do with the industry’s transition from paid to freemium models — the... |
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From RIM’s Conference Call: CEO Pay Cuts & Dual-Core LTE BlackBerrys | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | Well now, this call turned out to be much more interesting than I expected. First, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie has just announced that he and partner Mike Lazaridis will be cutting their annual salaries down to $1. According to Forbes, currently receive $1,175,664 per year. While they don’t appear to receive annual b... |
Quickly Tag Photos With Locations, Assist Ad Targeting With Facebook’s New Timeline Map | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | There’s one big new feature in today’s . Facebook has enhanced the Timeline Map with a wizard that lets you rapidly tag your existing photos with locations. You can also now type in a location and share rich stories about whether you’ve been, took a trip, or lived there. The Map feature could seriously advance Faceboo... |
Save the date: TechCrunch Baltics event, Feb 9th in Riga | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 15 |
We’ll we’ve run a lot of TechCrunch meetups all over Europe since 2007, getting to most of the major European cities. But there’s one place we haven’t got a chance to hit and that’s the tiger economies of the Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The latter is of course where, famously, Skype was largely devel... |
Zynga IPO Prices At $10, The Upper End Of Its Range, But Under The Last Private Round | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | Zynga priced its IPO at $10 a share, according to and CNBC (bankers love to leak). The IPO, which is set for tomorrow, will be in the upper end of the the company indicated previously in SEC filings. Zynga will sell at least 100 million shares, raising $1 billion at a $7 billion valuation. The valuation is about h... |
RIM’s Rough Ride Reflected In Q3 Earnings | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | RIM has just released , and the figures are about as rough as we expected: the Waterloo-based company pulled in $5.2 billion during the past quarter — a considerable bump over their Q2 performance, but still a 6% drop year-over-year. Nearly 80% of the company’s revenue came from hardware sales, with RIM shipping 14.1 m... |
Galaxy Nexus Gets Launch-Day OTA Update To Squash A Few Bugs | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | The Galaxy Nexus has been , and it’s already getting its first refresh. But reports are bound to come in over the next week or so, but it looks as though Google had a few things that still needed fixing upon release. In Android 4.0.2 build ICL53F, you’ll see improvements to your 3G/4G connection, your Wifi connection... |
The Top Gadget-Related Search Query Of 2011: “iPod” (But “iPhone” Isn’t In The Top 10…) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | It’s Google Zeitgeist day — the annual event where Google rounds up the year’s top search queries and trends to present a data-centric recap of the last twelve months (minus, ahem, any adult searches). Most of the Zeitgeist data went live — see our for the top trends overall. Spoiler: Rebecca Black took the top spo... |
Salesforce Buys Social Performance Platform Rypple; Will Launch ‘Human Capital Management’ Unit Successforce | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | Salesforce.com has just the acquisition of social performance platform Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close early next year, were not disclosed. Rypple, which has raised $13 million in funding, is a web-based social performance management platform that helps managers and employees improve perfor... |
DumpTruck Is A File Storage System With Roots In Usenet | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | If you’re familiar with , you’ll be well aware that the newsreading platform is, well, not longer about newsreading. In fact, most Usenet providers are, by necessity, experienced data storage providers. That being said, has just announced DumpTruck, a WebDAV file-sharing resource that, in the wrong hands, could end ... |
Sony Tablet S Review: Slick, But Somewhat Slow | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | The Sony Tablet S is actually a pretty hot 9.4-inch slate, and doesn’t look like every other Android tablet out there (thank goodness). On the performance side, however, I found myself frustrated on more than one occasion. The design is everything I’ve been wanting from Android tabs, but unfortunately I just couldn’t i... |
Quora Now “Charges” You To Show Questions To Topic Followers | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | You know what I’m into? ‘s . Because listen, and could have chosen to devote their youth to anything on earth and they have chosen to build a database of . Valid. Also, last night I was searching the Internet for info for a story on why SF cab drivers are so averse to using credit cards, and wondered if there was ... |
Backed By Angels, Antengo Takes On Craigslist With Realtime Mobile Classifieds | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | You may not have heard of it, but San Diego has its very own tech incubator, called , a product of the non-profit industry association, which provides startups with access to capital, talent and business development. One of the companies we wrote about recently, , has just been accepted into the incubator. And, tod... |
The Louvre Scores 5,000 Nintendo 3DSs To Spice Up Their Audio Tours | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 15 | What’s a museum to do when they want to offer a richer art experience for guests but no one wants to use an audioguide? Why, give Nintendo a ring of course. Nintendo will be providing this March as part of the museum’s push to appeal to a more modern audience. The Louvre is clearly gunning for appeal with the touchsc... |
Gowalla Went For $3M In Facebook Shares, And Many Investors Were Cool With That | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | What the headline says, basically, according to two sources. That and multiple sources are telling me that a majority of investors were cool with the deal being entirely in Facebook shares, because those are likely to be more profitable moving forward — as Facebook approaches IPO. Other sources are saying that the ... |
The Real Reason Twitter Employees Are Leaving—So They Can Sell Their Stock | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | People are —executives, engineers—this happens at large companies with more than 700 employees. , as does every other tech blog. Nicholas Carlson at Business Insider put forth a based on a single interview with a former employee that range from the engineers not being rockstar enough to jealousy over a party in Las... |
WellnessFX Grabs $4 Million From Javelin, Floodgate To Give You A Personal Health Team | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | Back in September, WellnessFX launched a platform that is designed to help people take charge of their health. And today, the startup is adding to its own financial health, announcing that it has raised $4 million in series B funding. The round was led by a new investor, , with participation from the startup’s existin... |
PsychicsLive.com Sees Video Chat As The Future Of The $2 Billion Psychic Market | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | Whether you believe in psychic consultation or not, the industry pulls in $2 billion a year and is primed for disruption. Pay-per-minute phone calling still dominates the market despite being around for decades. Launching today, is a new psychic consultation video chat site designed to give people a face-to-face conn... |
Fast Society Deadpools Its Messaging App, Preps Cameo For Launch | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | it will shut down its group messaging app and instead devote resources to its new app that will launch next month. Group messaging seemed like such a big opportunity a few years ago. But that was before Apple launched , , and Facebook . Suddenly, there wasn’t much to add by being a mobile group texting app without... |
Kiersten Hollars Moves From Aol Comm VP To Andreessen Partner | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | PR guru is moving from AOL VP to Partner at , we’ve confirmed with Andreessen. From her former boss ; “Kiersten is a rock star… ran all of PR and marketing for the entire mobile, apps & commerce team. [She was] a loved manager of the team and cultural ambassador of what the AOL culture *should* be!!” Come January, ... |
WordPress 3.3 Released To The Masses; Includes iPad Optimization, Tumblr Importer And More | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | After 14 million downloads of , WordPress 3.3 is being today. Codenamed “Sonny” in honor of the jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, WordPress 3.3 is available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress, which had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, has a number of new features ... |
Enterprise Software Company Jive Prices IPO At $12 Per Share, Valued At Over $600M | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | Social enterprise giant Jive has just priced its IPO, which is set to debut on the public markets tomorrow morning. Jive priced at this evening, above the expected range. The company originally set the range between At $12 per share, Jive is valued at over $600 million. Jive, which will list on the Nasdaq under t... |
Review: Fujifilm X10 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | A stylish and fun alternative to the likes of the Canon G12 and Nikon P7000. It’s not the quickest on the draw, and the build quality is obviously a step down from its elder brother, the , but image quality is good and operation is straightforward. It’s got a great lens and after a little familiarization could be quit... |
How Zynga Won The Facebook Platform In 2009 | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | Zynga is about to go public at a valuation that , so the press is busy looking back at how the social gaming leader came to be this successful. There’s lots of discussion around its , its with Facebook, its , its currently — or basically everything, if you read this by my former colleague Dean Takahashi at Ven... |
Gillmor Gang 12.12.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Laura Fitton, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — questioned the sanity of several industry players in a lively @scobleizer-shortened appearance. Robert had just enough time to reiterate his distaste for the new Twitter UI and Eric Schmidt’s predictions of Android and Goog... |
“I Work For The Internet” — Show Congress How You Really Feel About SOPA | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | Congress is moving ahead with trying to pass SOPA — the so-called “Stop Online Piracy Act” that includes that would stifle free expression as we know it. Here’s a simple action you can take to tell everyone how you feel about that. A site called “ ” lets you upload a photo and first name, and what you do for a living... |
One More Day To Nominate Startups For The Crunchies! | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | The are just around the corner (January 31, to be exact). for Silicon Valley’s co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch end tomorrow at midnight PT. So this is your last chance to tell us who is worthy of a Crunchie for , Best Mobile App, Best Design, Best Technology Achievement, or any of the other categ... |
Kickstarter: Meet Eyeboard, A Low-Cost Open Source Eye Tracker | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | I’m a little ashamed to admit that I spent the tail end of my high school career goofing off and trying desperately to appear cooler than I actually was. Fortunately for our future, people like Luis Cruz exist: this recent high school graduate designed , a low-cost, open source eye tracking solution meant to make commu... |
Archimedes Labs Launches As An Incubator For Mobile Startups | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | , a new incubator and investment vehicle focused on mobile, is today. The incubator is co-founded by , a serial entrepreneur and a co-founder of TechCrunch. Teare previously co-founded RealNames Corporation, and The EasyNet Group. Teare explains that the thesis for the incubator is based on the premise that the futu... |
NSFW: When Good Search Engine Placement Goes Bad | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | It’s been nearly two decades since the launch of the Internet’s , and search engine placement is still king. Own the relevant terms for your industry, and you’ll pretty much drown in traffic. Great search engine placement isn’t a good thing, though… especially when your user created content comes into play. Today’s... |
News Aggregator Thoora Shuts Down After Taking 2 Years To Launch | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | Just 3 months after its public launch following 2 years of private beta, content discovery engine that it will shut down. Thoora’s website, Android tablet app, WordPress plugin, and all user data will be blinked out of existence on December 15th. Its failure to get a working smartphone app out the door allowed serv... |
BBC launches BBC iPlayer app for iPhone/Touch and 3G mobile streaming | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 12 | The BBC has just released a BBC iPlayer app for Apple iPhone and iPod touch ( ), and introduced 3G streaming across all mobile networks. The mobile app is a big improvement on the mobile web app, which we’ve had to content with, offering better features. With ‘Live Channel Hopping’, users can switch between live channe... |
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College Tips By Google: You’ll Fail Without These 16 Google Products | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | Without Google, no one ever graduated college. At least that’s the message of “ “. It’s a new site where Google shamelessly suggests its products as the answer to all the problems facing today’s students. Follow these tips, and you’ll become a healthy, productive cog in Google’s advertising machine. Yes, you could fol... |
Facebook, Google, Apple And Rackspace Rated Best Places To Work in 2012 | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | a jobs and career community where employees can anonymously rate companies and CEOs, has just released its fourth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, listing the top 50 “Best Places to Work,” based on surveys collected from U.S. employees in 2011. The top five Best Places to Work, according to employees, are: Bain & Comp... |
TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M For “Aggressive” Expansion, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | Ebay for real world labor has seen lightning fast growth in the past couple of months, and has taken advantage of that growth by raising another $17.8 million in Series B funding. Participating in the round are existing investors , , , , and , in addition to new partners , , and former Disney CEO Michael Ei... |
Lookout’s 2012 Mobile Security Threat Predictions: SMS Fraud, Botnets And Malvertising | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | a company that for a number of smartphone platforms, is releasing its 2012 Mobile Malware Predictions, based on data collected from its Mobile Threat Network, a cloud-based network which constantly analyzes global threat data to identify and quickly block new threats with over-the-air app updates. The network includ... |
How Pixiv Built Japan’s 12th Largest Site With Manga-Girl Drawings (Redesign Sneak Peek And Invites) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | Unless you live in Japan, chances are you've never heard of . Even if you do live in Japan, unless you are young and really into drawing manga characters, chances are you’ve still never heard of Pixiv. But its 3.6 million visitors a month generate an astounding 2.9 billion pageviews. According to comScore, Pixiv is... |
16-Year-Old Programmer Raises Seed Round From Billionaire Li Ka Shing To ‘Summarize The Web’ | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | Launching today on the App Store is a new application called that, in short, attempts to summarize the Web. The app was formerly known as Trimit ( ), before Founder (and 16-year-old programmer) Nick D’Aloisio raised a seed round from billionaire Hong Kong investor and his investment vehicle, . Horizons encouraged ... |
Think Openspace Launching A Brick And Mortar App Store Is A Silly Idea? Think Again. | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | Yes, when you think of an “app store”, you probably picture iTunes, the Android Marketplace, or even the Chrome Web App Store or GetJar. That’s because apps live in our browsers and on our mobile devices, right? Sort of. , the Co-founder and CEO of looks down the road and sees the app-ification of everything — a tim... |
Chat Service Meebo Launches New Version Of Site Designed Around Competitive Sharing (!) | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | You probably know Meebo as a service that lets you easily chat with friends across different IM services, but the company is now rolling out a new version of it’s site that’s designed around sharing. Think competitive sharing, like who can get the most traffic from their articles. It’s a big switch from the former Meeb... |
Google Makes Street View Images Of Post-Tsunami Japan Available On Custom Site | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | In July, Google announced that it would be sending its Street View cars through the areas of Japan stricken by the March earthquake and tsunami. Today the work of stitching and annotating is finished and like any other Street View location on a special website they’ve called “Build the Memory,” though it is also labe... |
New Tweets Per Second Record — 25,088 TPS — Set By Screening Of Japanese Movie “Castle in the Sky” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | Move (sigh, I can’t believe I’m writing this), a new tweets per second record has been set. According to a statement by Twitter, the Japanese television screening of hooked up 25,088 Tweets per second, more than twice the previous TPS record, on December 9th. https://twitter.com/#!/twittercomms/status/1467519749043... |
Evidence Supports Facebook’s Plan To Monetize Mobile With Sponsored Story News Feed Ads | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | For the first time, Facebook may start showing ads in its mobile apps and HTML5 site, sources close to the company’s ads team tell me. The ads would come in the form of mobile news feed Sponsored Stories — social ads that show a friend’s interaction with a brand rather than traditional display ads which don’t fit on mo... |
Battle Of The Browsers: iOS 5’s Browser Is Still (Slightly) Better Than Android’s | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | Alright, fanboys: get your flamethrowers ready. HTML5 framework development house has just put a wide array of performance tools to use to answer one of life’s geekiest questions: Who’s got the better browser, Android 4 or iOS 5? I’d save the answer until the end, but I suppose the headline gives its away: while Andr... |
Startup Trials: Quipol Looks To Disrupt Online Polling In A Crowded Market | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | It’s a tender situation, being a startup, isn’t it? Here you have what you think is a great product, maybe it’s even a little disruptive, but you’re not naive enough to think that you’re the only one who’s ever thought of this idea/product. At any moment, some giant or more well-funded startup could make your idea/widg... |
Microsoft Kinectimals Appears On The iPhone, As Cute As Can Be | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | Microsoft has ported Kinectimals, the Xbox 360 game that involves the care and feeding of dangerous animals in the wild, to the iPhone, suggesting that (at least in the short term) even Microsoft sees the value of releasing on iOS. The $2.99 game recreates the Xbox version fairly faithfully but without the Kinect motio... |
Investors Were Kicked Off The Twitter Board “For The Good Of The Company” | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | In digging around trying to investigate rumors that VC lost his at Twitter two weeks ago, I came across the information that almost all investors including Doerr were told to stop coming to board meetings in late August/September, when that and had left. The thing that’s hard to understand here is that Doerr... |
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Other OS Class Action Case Against Sony Dismissed | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | The “Other OS” controversy is one of those things that, while in a way trivial, is really a proxy battle over a much larger problem. Briefly stated, Sony upset some users by removing the ability to install another OS on their , an option that allowed the powerful console to be used as a PC, media center, or pretty muc... |
Destroy Your Friends With FaceInvaders | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | Do you hate your Facebook friends? Do you want to blow them all up in fiery blasts of laser light? Sure, we all do. FaceInvaders allows you to shoot down your social graph. The game is a simple Space Invaders clone with a twist – each alien is a face randomly selected from your Facebook account. You shoot down friends ... |
Luluvise goes live, but will this girl-only site attract more legal ire than eyeballs? | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 13 |
is a social and communications platform aimed at young women and their best friends where they can hand pick their best pals and network privately. Online pyjama party? I’ve no idea, I’m a guy. However, the idea here is to re-create the patterns of close female friendship online, and they’ve raised a $1 million in e... |
Paul Allen And Burt Rutan Launch Stratolaunch Systems, Plan To Build World’s Largest Aircraft | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 13 | Having conquered the terrestrial realm, today’s big money is looking to the skies for new regions to subjugate. And what was a lark ten years ago now appears to be a common hobby among a certain ambitious type of mogul not given to the habit of collecting megayachts. Their millions have produced results, however, and w... |
Accel Leads $14M Round In Cloud-Based, Visual Presentation Software Prezi | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | Cloud-based presentation software has raised $14 million in Series B financing led by Accel Partners with Sunstone Capital participating in the round. Accel’s will be joining Prezi’s board of directors. Prezi, which was founded in Budapest, Hungary in 2009 by Adam Somlai-Fischer, Peter Halacsy, and Peter Arvai, ess... |
Smule’s Newest Musical Brainchild: Magic Guitar for iOS | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | Just when I was beginning to think that would be the only brand new product we saw come out of mobile musical masterminds Smule in 2011, they’ve just squeaked one out in the final round. Not that only launching one product in a year would be a bad thing, mind you — especially since they’ve been busying themselves rai... |
A Look At The Organizations That Grabbed $115 Million In Grants From Google In 2011 | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | As you may have heard, Google is getting into the holiday giving spirit these days, as it that it has dished out an additional $40 million in philanthropic grants, targeted at science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), girls’ education, and even fighting slavery. (You can read more in Google.org SVP Sh... |
At Least The Stock Market Is Liking Google Lately | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | We’ve been with the things Google has been saying lately, but it’s worth looking at how people with money on the table are feeling about the company. Which is, compared to most other tech rivals, including Apple in the post-Steve Jobs era. Google stock is up 16.16% in the past three months. The only other company... |
Kickstarter: Cam Crate, A Simple, Rugged, Waterproof Camera Case | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | The last few times I’ve brought my camera out into the wilderness, I’ve had a few fears regarding its safety. Sure, a foam case will prevent the lens from getting scratched and so on, but what it is mauled by a bear, or we are attacked by werewolves? Most hard cases, like those from Pelican, are reliable but bulky, des... |
Gumroad Lets You Sell Anything You Make | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | The guy who helped bring you , a dead simple file-sharing service, are now testing something called , a way to ask folks to pay for downloads. The site is very basic – you enter a URL, a price, and share the link. Users are asked for a (don’t buy that, it’s ) to buy the item and sellers pay 5% plus 30 cents for ea... |
Have yourself a merry little christmas card. Song included. | vaughn597 | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | Aren’t Christmas eCards lame? It’s not just me, right? The annual holiday greeting efforts from those in my family who think they have figured out the digital world by renouncing handwritten letters are not just cheesy, they usually get lost in my spam folder, too. Turns out has a nice little alternative to that. The... |
First Android Dedicated GPS Unit Actually Looks Pretty Decent | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | Considering Android is getting on in age, it’s surprising it hasn’t been featured on more “miscellaneous” devices. Phones and tablets, sure, but we haven’t seen many, say, DVD players or PMPs using the OS. And certainly not GPS devices, whose proprietary libraries and interfaces were developed at great cost, leading th... |
Zazzle Launches AR Technology To Let You See How Art Looks On Your Wall Before You Buy | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | It’s been a while since we’ve written about DIY online shop, . But the company has grown to be one of the largest customization companies out there, with 20 million unique visitors a month. And today the company is pressing forward with developing its own innovative new ways to help users more accurately customize and... |
Come On, Microsoft: Siri Is Making You Look Terrible | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | Last week, Microsoft overhauled the . The update brought dozens of new features, but there was one I was particularly excited about: when paired with a Kinect, the new interface was said to pack voice recognition support pretty much everywhere. As I noted in my well over a year ago, the Kinect’s voice system was th... |
Samsung Adds An Appolicious-Powered Social Mobile App Directory To Galaxy Tab Devices | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | After landing a , social mobile app directory has announced another partnership—with Samsung. Currently, a Samsung-branded social mobile app directory is preloaded on Samsung Galaxy Tab Android Tablets. The mobile app directory, which is located on the home screen of the tablet as ‘Samsung App’, designed to make it ... |
“If I Were A Poor Black Kid” Inadvertently Touches On Sad Education And Tech Truths | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | You may have read the recent Forbes editorial by Gene Marks, entitled (hilariously, the slug reveals it was originally “If I Was”), which entered instant infamy as a textbook example of a failure to comprehend privilege, or at least failure to communicate that comprehension. The internet has taken him to task for his... |
Duedil secures a second round of Angel investment | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | , which is building out free database around company financials in the UK and Ireland, has today announced a second round investment from Jonty Hurwitz, the founding CTO of . Terms were undisclosed. The startup previously raised seed financing from Passion Capital and prominent angel investor Federico Pirzio-Biroli. D... |
CarWoo Raises $6 Million To Spare You The Car Dealership Blues | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | Buying a car doesn’t have to be such a nightmare, after all. That’s the promise of , a startup that looks to take the stressful negotiation tactics and pushy salespeople out of the equation, allowing consumers to buy their car online with a relatively small amount of hassle. Today the company is announcing that it’s c... |
It’s Official: Verizon Galaxy Nexus To Launch On December 15 For $299 | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | Well it’s about time — after months of breathless waiting, Verizon has finally confirmed that the LTE-capable Galaxy Nexus will indeed launch on December 15 (i.e. tomorrow). The word comes courtesy of , who received a release from Big Red themselves celebrating the device’s long-awaited release. As expected the device... |
[Update] Website Visitor Opt In Rate To Facebook Integrations May Be Closer To 40%, Much Higher Than 2.8% | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | Many websites include Facebook integrations in hopes of offering quick sharing or personalization that can increase referral traffic, conversions, and page views. 56% of users who view a Facebook authentication step will accept it, according to a new study by . That means users aren’t actually as scared of the Faceboo... |
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Overwolf Partners With TeamSpeak To Give Online Games A Social Boost (And In-Game Voice Chat) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 14 | A slice of good news for gamers: Today, , a company which makes voice communications systems to let gamers chat while playing games, has partnered with to begin offering gamers some serious suped-up social and voice communications functionality during gameplay. TeamSpeak users can install a simple widget to get in-g... |
Over 40 Internet Companies Come Out Publicly Against SOPA (Including Us) | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | Since the hit the Internet yesterday, the lines have been drawn; People are to pull thousands of domains from domain registrar Godaddy after it appeared on the list as a supporter. Other people are calling those people Whether you’re for or against it SOPA has become somewhat of a pain point amongst techies, with th... |
Facebook Opens Mobile News Feed As Viral Channel For Games | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | Once upon a time, Facebook game companies like Zynga fattened up their user counts thanks to viral distribution to non-gamers through the news feed. Facebook later curtailed this channel, forcing developers to concentrate on paid marketing and true word of mouth to grow. A new boom period could be coming, this time for... |
Codecademy Builds ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | Smoking hot startup , a service which teaches you how to program online has launched its feature today, as a sign of things to come. Codecademy founder tells me that Codecademy, and specifically new hire , built the feature because it wanted people to be able to play with what they’ve learned on Codecademy withou... |
In confidential email Samwer describes online furniture strategy as a 'Blitzkrieg' | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | , the Berlin-based incubator best known for German-language clones of US startups like Zappos and Groupon, , especially in the online furniture space according to information passed to TechCrunch Europe. In a confidential email sent by Oliver Samwer which we have confirmed is genuine, the head (with his brothers Marc ... |
Y Combinator Startup Priceonomics Tells You How Much To Pay For Any Used Product | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | You want the best price on things you buy second hand, but finding out how much you should pay is a hassle. Removing this friction from a lucrative part of the purchase funnel is the goal of . The first startup out of the winter 2012 Y Combinator batch, Priceonomics has crawled the web to compile its next-generation p... |
Cheezburger’s Ben Huh: If GoDaddy Supports SOPA, We’re Taking Our 1000+ Domains Elsewhere | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | And the anti-SOPA rallying of the tech world’s best continues. Just minutes after Ycombinator’s Paul Graham disclosed that SOPA-friendly companies , Cheezburger (as in I Can Has Cheeseburger, FAIL Blog, Know Your Meme, etc.) CEO Ben Huh has announced that they will be moving their array of over 1,000 domains away fro... |
ComScore: Google+ Grows Worldwide Users From 65 Million In October To 67 Million In November | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | There are lots of third-party guesstimates floating around about Google+ traffic. Are users losing interest like search trends ? Has the service grown to 150 million active users like this research firm ? I’ve gotten new numbers from , which is arguably the best third-party measurement firm for web traffic in the wo... |
In A Reversal, Intuit Will Make Quicken 2007 For Mac Work With Lion | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | has just released some good news for “Quicken for Mac” users. The accounting software company says they will have a solution that makes Quicken 2007 for Mac “Lion-compatible” by early spring 2012. Yes, irony alert. Back in July, facing those users, because Apple Lion OS was dropping support for Rosetta. Without ... |
OnLive Now Playing Friendly With The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 22 | Does anyone out there actually own Sony Ericsson’s handset-formerly-known-as-Playstation-phone, the Xperia Play? I’ve never seen one in the wild. Not once. If any Play owners out there reading: A) raise your hand, and B) know that your device learned a cool new trick today. That fancy slide-out gamepad built into you... |
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