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Bitcoin’s Value Falls 10% As Faltering Mt.Gox Exchange Continues To Implode | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | Mt.Gox , and get back to the Bitcoin community and its users today. It , but didn’t open up withdrawals, or set a firm timetable as to when users might be able to get their currency off the exchange. In response, the price of Bitcoin on Mt.Gox has cratered, again. It now rests . That’s down from around $260 the day ... |
White House Unveils Patent Protections, Including Crowdsourcing, To Help Find Prior Claims | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | The White House for Congress to enact new intellectual property laws. President Obama to go after so-called “patent trolls,” businesses that hoard legal ownership over inventions but don’t actually produce products. The latest series of executive orders is aimed at helping small businesses fight patent lawsuits, gi... |
Steve Jobs Is Getting A Postage Stamp | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | There are few canvases harder to find yourself portrayed upon than the US postage stamp. Unless you’re a state bird, a beautiful wild flower, or a historic/cultural icon, it’s pretty unlikely that your mug will ever act as proof-of-payment on a piece of mail. Joining the ranks in 2015: the late Steve Jobs. According t... |
King’s Forthcoming IPO Shows That Mobile Gaming Is Staggeringly Large, But Mature | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | The $1.8 billion in annual revenue that the Candy Crush Saga-maker earned last year was about $600 million or $700 million more than the whisper numbers I had been hearing at the end of 2013. It signals just how large free-to-play mobile gaming has become compared to older parts of the gaming industry, which deliver ti... |
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Viki To Launch In Japan, 5 Months After Acquisition By Rakuten | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | , a streaming video platform that crowdsources translated subtitles, will launch a tomorrow. The announcement comes five months after Tokyo-based Rakuten , which is based in Singapore. In a press release, Rakuten said: “The launch is a natural transition of the company’s acquisition by Rakuten in September 2013, and... |
YouTube Gets Google’s Card Design And Puts Stronger Focus On Playlists | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | is rolling out a new design to its users that takes its cues from the “card-like” design Google uses on many of its other web and mobile apps. The aim of the redesign, Google tells me, is to emphasize playlists by putting them front and center in the left sidebar. In addition, however, the company also center-alig... |
Content Creation Startup Tackk Expands Its Visual Library With 500px Integration | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | is announcing that it has partnered with photo-sharing startup and making a wide variety of photos available to Tackk users. Tackks are basically pieces of content combining text, images, video, and other media. The company but it now it “allows anyone to create anything, and share it anywhere.” And the content ... |
Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Arrested By The FBI | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | Jon Mills, the founder and former CEO of real-world analytics startup , has been arrested by the FBI, the bureau has confirmed. The arrest follows allegations that Mills lied to investors about an acquisition of his company, all while spending lavishly on private jets, expensive dinners, and parties with celebrities. ... |
SV Angel-Backed Benchling Is Modernizing Software For Biotech Labs | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | After the last two decades of consumer Internet and mobile innovation, is biotech or bioinformatics the next wave? There are a handful of San Francisco-based startups that cross the bridge between the worlds of biotechnology and computer science. is one of them. Backed with about $900,000 from YCombinator, SV Angel, F... |
HP Posts Modest FQ1 Beat With Revenue Of $28.2B, Adjusted EPS Of $0.90 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | Today after the close, HP a slight beat in its fiscal first quarter, including net revenue of $28.2 billion, and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.90. Investors had expected $27.19 billion in revenue, and $0.84 in per-share profit, excluding items. HP’s revenue fell 1 percent year over year in the period. How might t... |
Service That Lets You Order Food Naked, GrubLess SeamHub, Quietly Files For IPO | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | In May of last year, we — two of the largest players in the online and mobile food delivery space and “arch rivals” — were coming together as part of a blockbuster merger. My, how fast they grow up. Not nine months later, the merged food-ordering giant has begun to take the next step in its development. The this mo... |
Hubub Raises $8.5M To Be The New Home For Conversations On The Web | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | On the web, no one can hear you converse – or perhaps they can, but it’s not terribly easy to surface them and have a sustained, engaged dialogue around any particular topic. Threaded comment streams do this to some extent, as do forums, message boards, and even social networks like Facebook and Twitter. But none do th... |
How Facebook Can Supercharge WhatsApp | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | will “operate independently” doesn’t mean Facebook won’t put its 6,000-employee muscle behind its . We’ve heard a lot about how WhatsApp will save Facebook from losing the international messaging war, but sources close to the parent company tell me it actually did a lot to help Instagram. Here are the ways you can ex... |
Problem In Tinder Dating App Leaked User Locations | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | Tinder, one of the hottest dating apps, is making headlines for more than making matches. A security firm, IncludeSec, recently revealed a major problem in Tinder’s app that could allow hackers to accurately pinpoint users geographically using high school math. Tinder is used to find people in your area looking to meet... |
Real-Time Mobile Analytics Platform Amplitude Takes On Flurry & Mixpanel | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | , a Y Combinator-backed mobile analytics service aiming to take on the likes of Flurry and Mixpanel by offering advanced features at more competitive prices, is officially making its public debut today ahead of YC’s Demo Day. And the company has actually gone through this process before, as it turns out – it’s the same... |
Namecheap Is In The Middle Of A DDoS Attack | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | If any of your favorite sites don’t seem to be working right now, don’t panic — it’s not just you. Namecheap, the host of some 3 million-plus domains, is reporting that they’re currently undergoing a Distributed Denial Of Service attack of unknown origins. If that sounds like a bunch of mumbo-jumbo to you, here’s all y... |
Twitter Announces Its Marketing Platform Program, A Rebranding Of Its Ads API | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | Twitter a year ago today, allowing advertisers to run their campaigns through API partners like Adobe and Salesforce. Now it’s — the Twitter Marketing Platform Program — as well as . Why the change? In , Twitter says, “We expanded this network of partners beyond advertising alone, and today we’re pleased to intro... |
Groupon Skyrockets After Hours On Q4 Beat With Revenue Of $768.4M, EPS Of $0.04 [Update: Following Enthusiasm, Investors Turn Sour] | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 20 | Today after the close Groupon its financial performance, including non-GAAP earnings of $0.04 per share on revenue of $768.4 million. In the , Groupon had revenue of $595.1 million, earning $0.02 per share. For the fourth quarter reported today, Groupon to earn $0.02 again, on sharply higher revenue of $719 millio... |
AWS For Life Science? With $4.1M In The Bank, Transcriptic Wants To Reinvent Scientific Research And Bring Labs Into The Cloud | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | As a biomedical engineering student at Duke, Max Hodak became intimately familiar with the sterile tedium of life in a research lab. Like many others who’ve wasted hours of their lives in white coats, he found the fact that most labs still look and operate as they did thirty years ago frustrating. Beyond the fact tha... |
Cloud Security Startup Elastica Comes Out Of Stealth With $6.3M From Mayfield | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | , a cloud security startup launched in 2012, is coming out of stealth mode with $6.3 million in Series A funding from the Mayfield Fund. The startup is also that offer real-time threat detection and even post-incident forensic analysis. As more enterprises embrace SaaS and other cloud-based services, they are increas... |
Rakuten Opens Its First European R&D Center In Paris | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | Rakuten, the Japan-based Internet services company, . Called the Rakuten Institute of Technology, this is Rakuten’s third R&D center in the world. The other two are in Tokyo, with 40 employees, and New York, with 10. Rakuten’s Paris R&D center will combine with its big data group there, adding a total of 20 new employ... |
Atlanta’s Got The Fever For Early-Stage Deals | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | Atlanta’s investment community thinks early-stage deals in the region are just peachy. As the TechCrunch Express this evening, folks can expect to see an investment scene that’s been holding steady since 2010. Deals in the “peach state” have remained pretty constant, according to data from , with the number of deals... |
Snapchat Hires Googler, “Pisses Off” His Googler Friends | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | This morning ephemeral messaging app Snapchat that it had poached a Googler, in addition to an Amazonian and a Facebooker. The company will be bringing Google App Engine director on board as VP of Engineering. The announcement in the WSJ, however, did not sit well with Magnusson’s former colleagues at Google App En... |
White House: Without Net Neutrality, The Internet Would Be An Inaccessible “Toll Road” | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | In case you wondered whether the White House , the President’s Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park, in support of net neutrality. “Absent net neutrality, the Internet could turn into a high-priced private toll road that would be inaccessible to the next generation of visionaries,” wrote Park about the contentious la... |
Mayfield Raises Second, $108 Million Fund To Back Startups In India | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | Mayfield Fund has announced that it has closed its second , totaling $108 million raised to invest in startups in the region. Mayfield India II is managed by Mayfield India II Management, including the firm’s managing director , and partners Vikram Godse, and . The fund itself focuses on early-stage investments in I... |
Dear Car Makers: Please Hire People Like This | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | The interfaces in modern cars are, with rare exception, awful. It’s almost absurd, really. The car is one of the most expensive things that people buy for themselves. It’s massive. It’s got a power supply that lasts for days… and yet, it’s one of the least “smart” devices in our lives. A three-year old tablet headed fo... |
Advertisers Not Thrilled With Apple’s Practice Of Protecting Its Users’ Data | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | Apple has a lot of knowledge regarding its users, which it uses to improve its services and offerings, including names, addresses, locations and purchase histories. But what it doesn’t do with that data is share it with advertisers very freely. That makes Madison Avenue very mad, according to a new detailing why Appl... |
Kimono Is A Smarter Web Scraper That Lets You “API-ify” The Web, No Code Required | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | A new Y Combinator-backed startup called wants to make it easier to access data from the unstructured web with a point-and-click tool that can extract information from webpages that don’t have an API available. And for non-developers, Kimono plans to eventually allow anyone track data without needing to understand AP... |
Roku Adds Cable App Showtime Anytime To Its Content Lineup | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | today announced another big cable network is making its content available on its streaming video devices. This time, , which will enable cable viewers to login and catch up on previous episodes of shows like Homeland, Ray Donovan, Dexter, and Nurse Jackie through a new Roku Channel. Showtime Anytime can be downloaded... |
Bitstrips Is Raising $15 Million | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | Bitstrips, an app for building personalized comic strips, is raising a hefty Series B. We’ve heard from sources familiar with the matter that is taking the lead. The deal hasn’t yet closed, so the amount isn’t confirmed, but we’re hearing that the Toronto-based company is looking to secure $15 million. This would bri... |
On-Demand Food Startup SpoonRocket Brings Its $6 Meals To San Francisco | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | , the Y Combinator-backed startup that hopes to provide healthy, fast, and cheap meals to hungry customers, is now available in San Francisco. Or at least, part of San Francisco, for a few hours a day. The startup , offering up meals for $6 each before taxes and tip. The service is also designed to be ultra-fast, deli... |
Selfie360 Turns Your Face Into A Gif | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | What’s better than a selfie? A selfie that is a gif. Meet Selfie360, the newest, and most aptly named, app from the . After building an app that , the Cycloramic team leveraged the technology in a brand new way. A narcissistic way, you might say. The Selfie360 app gives you three options for a selfie: portrait, ... |
AT&T Releases Transparency Data On Government Requests For Customer Data | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | Today AT&T in concerning government requests for its customer information. Verizon released similar data in January. A host of technology companies have done the same. In 2013, AT&T received between 2,000 and 2,999 National Security Letters, impacting 4,000 to 4,999 customer accounts. Verizon, for comparison, recei... |
12 Of The Top 15 Data-Using Countries Are Predominantly On Android, Mixpanel Says | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | In their first annual global mobile data report, analytics firm reveals that Android is the originating platform for the lion’s share of app data generated from the top 15 countries as measured by active mobile usage. 64 percent of all the mobile data from the top 15 data generators came from Android devices, and onl... |
Whisper, The Sequoia-Backed Secret Sharing App, Makes A Move Into TMZ Territory | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | , the popular anonymous social sharing startup that’s from venture capital giants including Sequoia Capital, may have just gotten its big break into celebrity gossip territory that’s typically dominated by the likes of TMZ and the National Enquirer. Neetzan Zimmerman, the Gawker alum for his midas touch in driving ... |
Watch Ukrainian Police And Protesters Clash In A Live Stream | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | The revolution will be live-streamed. , tens of thousands of citizens have taken to the streets to protest the policies of President Viktor Yanukovych, who is accused of close ties with the Russian government. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_LFrMcoEm4] Technology has had a unique role in the Ukrainian protes... |
Deepak Chopra Talks About Mindfulness And The Future Of Government | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | Deepak Chopra believes we can have it all. Through a melding of science and spirituality, this author, guru, and speaker has worked tirelessly to create new methods for mindfulness. He shared a few with us at TC HQ where we got the opportunity to talk about the future of democracy, the global citizen, and our own abi... |
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The World’s First Carbon Fiber 3D Printer Is Now Available To Order | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 18 | Just in case you have $4,999 lying around and have a hankering to print in carbon fiber, the for pre-order. When first announced last month, the Mark One was going to be available to order in March, but today is your lucky day. Named aptly for its creator, Gregory Mark, who also owns Aeromotions, this desktop printer... |
Camera360’s Latest Version Is Streamlined But Packed With Features | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | , which now claims more than 250 million users, is one of the world’s most successful photo apps. But Camera360 still faces plenty of competition from other apps like and and . Its latest version, which is now available for both and users, combines a streamlined flat design with new features that help users save... |
What Can Indian Startups Learn From The Facebook Acquisition That Didn’t Happen | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | was not the only acquisition Facebook was chasing in India last year. , a social media analytics startup that had raised $3.5 million in Series A from Inventus Capital Partners and Nexus Venture Partners in November 2011, was approached by Facebook in October last year. But by December, the acquisition talks were sta... |
No, Google’s Sundar Pichai Didn’t Say Android’s Openness Makes It Less Secure | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | This morning at Mobile World Congress, Google’s discussed Android’s security and the impact of its ‘openness’ thereof. A quoted Pichai as indicating that Google’s Android operating system was, to quote of the comments, “not designed to be safe, it was designed to be open.” Naturally, something of that nature caus... |
Now Serving 4M Downloads Daily, The Windows Store Has Grown 135% Since October | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Buried in its MWC slides, Microsoft announced that it now serves 4 million application downloads daily from the Windows Store, the application marketplace for Windows 8.x. Four million downloads per day works out to 120 million per month, or around 1.4 billion per year. The number essentially slipped past the larger me... |
IAC-Backed Skyllzone Launches A New Fantasy Sports App That Lets You Play “The Machine” In Quick, Byte-Sized Contests | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Spurred on by its entry into the digital and mobile age, the fantasy sports world is booming. From the fact that a hilarious and increasingly popular is about to enter its sixth season to Yahoo’s in fantasy sports products as part of a new mobile strategy that , the signs are everywhere that fantasy sports is turn... |
Hulu Says Sayonara, Sells Off Japanese Unit To Nippon TV | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Video streaming site is doing away with its Japanese subsidiary, the company , selling the unit to Nippon TV. The sale might mark the end of the company’s international ambitions, as Hulu focuses more on its catchup TV service in the U.S. Hulu has been operating in Japan since 2011, when it service there. Over the... |
Gaming Veterans Start Midverse To Bolster App Marketing, Engagement on Android | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Riz Virk and Mitch Liu have been through pretty much every wave of the shift to free-to-play mobile and social gaming. They had an early mobile gaming hit called Tap Fish ( ). They . Virk was also an early investor in Tapjoy, which became one of the better-known players in app distribution. Now they’re back at it agai... |
California Court Rules In Favor Of Using Cellphone Maps While Driving | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Good news, Californians. You can now, once again, use Google Maps on your phone while driving. That is, legally. Until , map use was in a shady legal gray area. This comes two years after a Fresno, Calif., man was ticketed for looking at a map on his iPhone while stuck in construction. He was looking for an alternativ... |
After Being Acquired By Yahoo, Personal Assistant App Donna Shuts Down | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | We knew the day was coming, but it’s probably worth pointing out all the same: Mobile personal assistant app Donna will cease working tomorrow, about one month after the company behind it — Incredible Labs — was . In an email to users, the anthropomorphic app said she was “retiring as an assistant,” and “mov[ing] on ... |
Awesome Netflix/Fitbit Hack Detects When You’ve Fallen Asleep, Auto-Pauses Your Movie | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Done right, internal hackathons are awesome. They encourage company developers to build all the crazy stuff that they’d normally never dabble with, be it for lack of time, fear that their co-workers/bosses would think they’re nuts, or because their ideas are just too far from “the company vision” or whatever. When all ... |
Google Redesigns Hangouts For iOS, Adds Video Messages And Animated Stickers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Google today launched a new version of its . This new version is the first to be fully optimized for iOS 7, with a new loading screen and menus, cleaner look, different typography and a couple of new features, too. It’s no secret that Hangouts is now one of the more important products in Google’s portfolio. While it g... |
Investors Yawn Following Salesforce’s Q4 Earnings Beat With Revenue Of $1.15B, Adjusted EPS Of $0.07 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Salesforce its fourth quarter and full fiscal-year 2014 financial performance today. In the fourth quarter, the company had revenue of $1.15 billion, up 37 percent year-over-year. On an adjusted (non-GAAP) basis, Salesforce earned $0.07 per share. Analysts had expected $0.06 in adjusted earnings per share and revenue... |
Mojang In Talks With Warner Bros. To Make A Minecraft Movie | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Mojang game studio founder Markus Persson, who was the main creative force behind worldwide indie game hit Minecraft, revealed via his Twitter account today that his company has been in discussions with Warner Bros. Studios to make a movie based on the popular world-building sim. Someone is trying leak the fact that we... |
Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Millions and millions of people use iMessage every day. But how many people know what’s going on behind the scenes, or what happens to a message once you send it? Maybe a handful. Up until now, the vast majority of what we knew about iMessage’s inner workings came from reverse engineering and best guesses. This week,... |
Cool People Play Their Music With An Electric Plasma Spark, Not A Normal Speaker | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 27 |
How do you listen to your music? Headphones you say? Sometimes on an Airplay or Bluetooth speaker? Oh. That’s pretty cool. I just listen to mine on plasma. Dancing electrical sparks that leap between two electrodes and produce a small amount of ozone. No big deal. Just, you know, how cool people do. Actually tha... |
Groupon’s Stock Rises Following Positive Analyst Comments About Future Growth | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Groupon’s stock picked up more than 3 percent in regular trading today following positive analyst comments regarding its future growth potential. Deutsche Bank a positive rating on the company, which throughout the day. It neared a 5 percent gain midday, but pulled back mildly in later trading. Following its most ... |
Surf Air Founder Wade Eyerly Steps Down, Replaced By Former Frontier Airlines CEO Jeff Potter | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | The management team has hit a bit of turbulence, with founder and CEO Wade Eyerly officially stepping down, according to an email sent out to members. He’s being replaced by someone who has had experience both in the membership and airline industries — former Exclusive Resorts and Frontier Airlines CEO Jeff Potter. F... |
Keen On… Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers In The Age Of (Nearly) Perfect Information | Andrew Keen | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | How do we decide what to buy? According to and , the authors of , we used to make buying choices based on brand. It was guesswork, they say. And often we were duped by sexy advertising campaigns that presented bad products in a good way. And then the Internet came along. Simonson and Rosen say that the Internet a... |
8tracks Reaches 8 Million Monthly Active Users, Launches Xbox 360 App | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | Music startup just released a new for the Xbox 360. Live Gold subscribers will be able to play 8tracks playlists for free on their consoles. In other news, the service just reached 8 million monthly active users, representing 30 million hours of music streamed per month. As a reminder, its competitor announced du... |
Snapchat Hacked By Fruit Smoothie Enthusiast | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | If one of your friends randomly sends you a photo of a smoothie on Snapchat, don’t go to the URL on the picture. It’s a hack that has affected several accounts, as a . Wired writer Joe Brown . A Snapchat spokesperson told him that the startup did not see any evidence of “brute-force tactics,” and that someone had lik... |
Fast-Growing Duolingo Caps Off A Big Year With The Crunchie For “Best Education Startup” | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | Language learning software has never been particularly “sexy,” nor have its makers managed to produce a bounty of memorable user experiences, for that matter. While it might not be quite ready for the former, Duolingo is fast-becoming the poster child of a new generation of language learning products that are actuall... |
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen: Fed Has No Authority To Regulate Bitcoin | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 27 | If you were worried about the Federal Reserve trying to step in to regulate Bitcoin, breathe easy: Its leader doesn’t think that the Fed has the authority to do so. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen was : “The Federal Reserve simply does not have authority to supervise or regulate [B]itcoin in any way.” She went... |
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Social Commerce Site Tapiture Raises $2.25M In Seed Funding | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | , a site where users can share content and buy related products, is announcing that it has raised $2.25 million in seed funding. That amount consists of $1.25 million in new capital, as well as a $1 million convertible note from last year. The funding was led by JUMP Investors, with participation from Barry Sternlicht,... |
India Raises Concerns On Bitcoin’s Credibility, But Doesn’t Call It Illegal Yet | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | Bitcoin traders are having a everywhere, and India is no exception. After that saw several Bitcoin exchanges emerge in India, the Reserve Bank of India last year. Now, Raghuram Rajan, the RBI’s new governor, has reiterated the central bank’s concerns about the credibility of Bitcoin. Addressing a technology confe... |
IBM’s Watson Group Makes First Startup Investment In “Social Health Management” Pioneer, Welltok | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | Remember ? Yes, the artificially intelligent, question-answering computer system developed by IBM that like they were a couple of kindergartners. Watson. ( .) While IBM has since looked expectantly to Watson to become its next cash cow, it appears the brainy computer is still . To fix that, the Watson Group, a ... |
Facebook’s Sandberg And Ebersman Say They’re Not Planning To Flood The News Feed With Ads | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | Judging from , Facebook’s mobile ad strategy is paying off, but CFO David Ebersman said that doesn’t mean you’ll see an ever-increasing number of ads in your News Feed. Ebersman and COO Sheryl Sandberg spoke this evening at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, where they were asked about the amount of... |
Cloud Accounting Company Xero Adds A New Chairman, Director, And CEO Of North America | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | New Zealand-based cloud accounting software company Xero is looking to step up its game in the U.S., and to do so it’s boosting its board and senior management ranks. That includes adding former Microsoft and GM CFO Chris Liddell as non-executive chairman of the board, bringing on HP exec Bill Veghte as director, and h... |
CEB Acquires Indian Talent Analytics Startup Talent Neuron for $15M | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | , the U.S.-based member advisory company Indian talent analytics startup, , for around $10-$15 million. This is the third acquisition in the talent management space for CEB, which , and . Talent Neuron was incubated by , a management consulting firm based in Bangalore, two years ago. Since then, the startup has a... |
Oculus VR’s Co-Founders On Winning A Crunchie, Getting To Launch Day, And Their Favorite VR Apps | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | Are you excited about the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset? Because a whole lot of folks are. So much so, in fact, that the tech community picked Oculus VR of 2013 at the 7th Annual Crunchies Awards — and that’s without the team even having shipped their first consumer-ready product. I grabbed two of Oculus VR’s f... |
NSA Protest Day Drives More Than 200K Emails And Calls To Congress | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | A planned day of protest against the NSA’s surveillance efforts called “ ” got off to a strong start. So far, more than 69,000 phone calls have been placed to Congressional representatives, along with more than 140,000 emails as part of the effort. In-person protests are planned, as well, both in the United States and ... |
The Flappy Bird Craze Continues – Now Appearing As HTML5 Web Games | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | The proliferation of Flappy Bird clones following the abrupt departure of the game from iTunes has reached an all time high. The Apple App Store and Google Play – even the Pebble Appstore – are now filled with clones of the game. Phones with the original game still installed are . There are now 81 Flappy clone develop... |
We’re Hiring! TechCrunch Is Looking For A Product Leader | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | We rarely do this but we want you to work for us. We’re looking for an SF-based Product Manager to help lead the site into the 22nd century using best-of-breed tools, HTML codes, and the magic of programming. And we need that person right now. Here’s what’s up: The product leader of TechCrunch.com should have consider... |
Now Seeing 600M Swipes Per Day, Tinder Looks Serious About Expanding Beyond Dating | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | , the simple and addictive matchmaking app that launched just 16 months ago at a University of Southern California party, took home the Crunchie award for best new startup last night. I pulled aside Tinder’s co-founders Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, and Jonathan Badeen for a brief interview to discuss the massive success... |
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Twitter’s Web Presence Might Soon Break Away From The Vertical Timeline Flow | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | There’s a new Twitter redesign making the rounds, first spotted by , and it changes things considerably. Tweets no longer flow vertically in a single column like they do now, instead they spread out with a tile-style layout similar to what you might expect from a Pinterest or . A separate new feature offers pop-up no... |
Revel Systems Adds Native Bitcoin Transactions To Its POS Offering | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | Hey do you like Bitcoins? Yeah. I thought you might. Well you can use all those coins to buy things at stores running -powered point-of-sale terminals starting right now, as the company has rolled out native support for transactions made using the very much in-vogue cryptocurrency. Previously, Revel customers could ac... |
A Thousand Words About A Shaving Kit | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | gone from oil trading to hawking shaving cream in six years. As an economics major at Stony Brook University in Long Island, Walker — who was at the top of his class — became enamored by New York City’s flagship industry: finance. “I knew I wanted to try it,” he said. Walker liked how quantitatively the finance indust... |
Thrive Capital Founder Josh Kushner On The Power Of Oscar | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | Last week, we sat down with Thrive Capital founder Josh Kushner at Rock Health’s Digital Health CEO Summit in San Francisco, to talk about his venture into the healthcare industry through the launch of . Kushner co-founded Oscar to take on the world of health insurance, and to actually create a better, more modern, ... |
Dropbox Outlines Its Principles For Handling Government Data Requests | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | Joining other leading technology firms, Dropbox the number of national security requests it received in the preceding 12 months for user data of its customers: 0-249. While Dropbox the recent legal change that allows it to disclose that number in increments of 250, it stated in a blog post today that the now allowe... |
The Dash Builds Wearable Fitness Sensors Into The Headphones You’re Using Anyway | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 11 |
We’re finally starting to see some real consolidation around wearable tech, and Kickstarter project is a great example of that trend in action. It’s a pair of Bluetooth in-ear headphones that also offer up performance tracking via in-built health and body sensors. With passive noise cancellation, pass-through ... |
Chairman Of The Bitcoin Foundation Talks The Future Of Cryptocash | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 11 | After Bitcoin’s fine showing last night , we took a moment to talk to Peter Vessenes, Chairman of the Foundation. Vessenes accepted the award and assured me multiple times that he was not, in fact, secretive BTC creator Satoshi Nakamoto in disguise. My biggest question to him is when my mom would start using Bitcoin... |
Shutting Down Blurtt | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 16 | Blurtt, which in its current form back in 2012, was a mobile app that allowed you to create their own digital expressions by allowing you to choose an image, add text and share either anonymously or to your network. Now in 2014, my beloved startup Blurtt is dead and all the assets are for sale. As one of the cofoun... |
With $770K In Seed Funding, Playbasis Wants Businesses In Asia To Gamify | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 2 | 16 | , a Thailand-based gamification startup that helps companies engage with customers and employees through cool rewards and social games, has raised $770,000 in seed funding from Ardent Capital, 500 Startups and Axis Capital. The startup plans to use this funding to expand its footprint in Asia this year. Gamification — ... |
Basis In Acquisition Talks With Everyone | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 2 | 16 | Looks like Google might be ticking off a box on , or someone else might be. , the company behind the Basis Health Tracker Watch, is on the market, according to two people familiar with the matter. We’ve heard that the company has been shopping itself around over the past few weeks and has spoken to Google, Apple and ... |
Ok Google | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 16 | I also went to see a screening of over the weekend, a 2013 documentary about Google’s controversial book-scanning project. The only person Google made available for the film was Amit Singhal, a Google VP and the head of its core ranking team. In the movie, Singhal doesn’t actually mention Google Books, but instead he... |
A Low-Key Launch Can Still Bring Long-Term Success. Y Combinator Is Living Proof | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 16 | Blackwell reviewing applications for the first YC class in 2005 But it’s worth remembering that a splashy launch doesn’t always bring long-term success. In fact, some of tech’s strongest startups, apps and organizations started out . Take . YC Demo Day is now one of the buzziest events in Silicon Valley — but in a re... |
TC Droidcast Episode 22: Nokia Goes Android While HTC Plays The Customer Care Card | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 16 | On this week’s Droidcast, me and Chris Velazco get tough on smartwatches, but first we discuss device plans and other infertile hybrid animals, and HTC’s renewed commitment to customer care and how that might affect its fortunes. Finally, we talk a bit about Chromecast, Google’s mobile-to-big screen media streamer an... |
As Mt.Gox Implodes, Rival Bitcoin Exchanges Remain Surprisingly Stable | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 16 | Watching the gyrations in the price of Bitcoin has been the past several days. However, unlike with prior busts and races, the price of Bitcoin has . This has led to the Bitcoin market itself becoming siloed. Bitstamp, BTC-E, and Mt.Gox of Bitcoin from their exchanges for varying amounts of time due to a potential... |
Stack Overflow Goes Down, Programmers Around The World Panic (It’s Back Up Now) | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 16 | , the coding-focused Q&A site that’s proven to be an essential tool for professional and amateur programmers alike, had an approximately hour-long outage Sunday morning that affected a number of users. According to Stack Overflow’s parent company Stack Exchange, the cause was against its . The issue has been “parti... |
Google Acquires SlickLogin, The Sound-Based Password Alternative | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 16 | SlickLogin has been acquired by Google, just five months after . Word of the acquisition is confirmed by a notice on the , where they say that they’ll be joining Google in their efforts to “make the Internet safer for everyone”. We’ve also confirmed this news with Google. Exact details of the deal are still under wra... |
An iPhone Loyalist’s First Few Weeks With Android | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 2 | 16 | TechCrunch A year ago, I wrote a post titled “ .” Recently, I purchased a Nexus 5 as we develop and begin the , and I wanted to share some of my initial user experiences carrying phones on both mobile platforms. What I want to focus on in this post are the elements of the Android experience I enjoyed and the elements ... |
Sailfish OS Maker, Jolla, On Questing For Scale In The Age Of Android | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | “It’s not every day that a new mobile operating system is born,” says Jolla’s Marc Dillon preaching to a congregation of the curious from atop a stool at ‘s booth at the . This is the world’s largest mobile industry gathering. The show which annually transforms Barcelona into a city of suits and queues and shiny thin... |
E-Cig Maker NJOY Raises $70 Million | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Puff puff pass the $1 billion valuation because e-cigarette maker NJOY has raised $70 million from Brookside Capital and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, at least according to a . The company’s early investors included Sean Parker, Peter Thiel, and . Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, the company previously raised $7... |
A Few Thoughts On Free Windows | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Hot damn, changes. and reported on a story that, at first blush, sounds downright strange: Microsoft may . Microsoft selling Windows to OEM partners is even more entrenched than apple pie is to Americanism. No more of that? It’s almost unthinkable. However, once you get past the oddity of the concept, it can make ... |
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TSA Reportedly Demands To Inspect Man’s Luggage For Bitcoin [Updated] | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Davi Baker wasn’t quite sure how to comply with . Baker had found himself in a testy exchange with airport security personnel during an enhanced screening, and they wanted an additional search of his belongings. “We saw in your bag and need to check,” he recalls the TSA agent saying in a lengthy about the ordeal. ... |
Google Sets Example By Trying To Offset Perils Of SF Gentrification | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | While San Francisco’s gentrification issues aren’t solely caused by the tech boom, the tech industry should aim to help the communities impacted by the influx of money and people it has brought to the city. Yesterday’s donation by Google is a great example of looking out for one’s neighbors. Google has given that pro... |
If You’re Going To Watch One Video Of A 3D-Printed Clock That Writes The Time, Make It This One | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | The machines. They are learning. The Plotclock is a small, 3D-printed clock that forgoes the traditional gears and springs for servos and an Arduino microcontroller. It writes the time. And then erases it. Then writes the time again, continuing forever even though the white board will quickly descend into a smudgy mess... |
Ask A VC: Merus Capital’s Sean Dempsey On The Role Of Corp Dev And More | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Merus Capital’s Sean Dempsey joined us in the studio to give us an inside look at corporate development, and how that translates into investing. Dempsey was previously a Principal of Corporate Development at Google, where he helped lead the acquisitions of YouTube, Android and Post... |
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