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Google Adds Full Restaurant Menus To Its Search Results Pages | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Here is a : if you ask it to find a restaurant menu for you, it will now often just show you the menu right on the search results page. Try this for a search like “show me the menu for fogo de chao” and the menu will be right there. As far as I can see, this doesn’t work for every restaurant yet and it’s unclear where... |
Miley’s Lawyers Want “Flying Cyrus” Off The App Store | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Israeli company has been asked by Miley Cyrus’s legal team to remove “ ,” currently the fifth most popular free iPhone application in the U.S., from the iTunes App Store, we’ve learned. According to Cyrus’s lawyers, “Flying Cyrus” infringes on their client’s rights, and represents an “unauthorized use” of Cyrus’s nam... |
Gillmor Gang Live 02.28.14 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | – Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. |
With Mt.Gox In Flames, A Lesson: When Building A Company, First Do No Harm | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | The has sent shockwaves through the early-adopting tech community. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins have been lost, and account holders are justifiably angry about their missing balances. It is easy to heap blame on Mt.Gox’s founders and call this a once-in-a-lifetime calamity, but the context behind... |
These Tire Caps Change Color When Your Car’s Tire Pressure Gets Low | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Quick! How’s your car’s tire pressure? Don’t know? Better go check. Which, if you’re like most people, means going out, kicking the tire, saying “seems good” and forgetting about it until something is clearly wrong. Here’s a damned clever alternative: tire caps that change color when the pressure gets too low. While ... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: All MWC Everything | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Reporters are drunkenly finding their way home from a long week in Barcelona, where the Mobile World Congress conference yielded a number of exciting new phones and tablets. Most notably, Samsung launched the , Nokia launched a new line of Android/Windows Phone hybrid devices, and we finally got up close and persona... |
A Year From Launch, Skillshare Lands $6M From USV, Spark To Double Down On Its Project-Based, Online Classes | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | launched in 2011 to give those interested in continuing to learn outside the classroom a place to get real-world skills from both online and offline classes. Over the past year, the New York-based startup has moved towards the massive, open online course approach, connecting subject experts across industries with anyo... |
Reddit To Give 10% Of Its 2014 Ad Revenue To Non-Profits Picked By Its Users | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Do you block the ads on sites you love? Would you be less likely to do that if you knew a chunk of ad revenues were going to a good cause? That’s (at least part of) the thinking behind a new idea that reddit — a site that’s so big at this point I honestly feel like explaining what it is on TechCrunch would be stupid — ... |
The Ring Input Device Puts Gesture Control And Home Automation On Your Finger | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 28 |
There was once a rumor that Apple would actually use a ring device for input to an Apple television. Neither of those gadgets exist yet, of course, but trying to fund a finger-based wearable that could enable the kind of controls envisioned in that Apple flight of fancy. The Ring is a hardware device that rese... |
Meet Rebump, The New Worst Thing About Email | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Email is probably the bane of your life. There is too much of it, and there’s a special hate reserved for people who selfishly fill your inbox with balderdash. Email is broken because it’s far easier to send someone a message that creates work for them than it is for them to do that work. So you can quickly make the l... |
Lerer Ventures To Join Us Onstage At Disrupt NY | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | We’re thrilled to announce today that the entire partnership will share a stage at Disrupt NY. Lerer Ventures is one of the most prolific venture capital firms in New York City, and its partnership is unique. Started by father and son Ken and Ben Lerer, the team also includes former HuffPo CEO-turned-Lerer Ventures m... |
Apple Made Over $1B On The Sale Of Around 10M Apple TV Units In 2013 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Apple’s TV business still consists only of an over-the-top streaming media box, and not a proper TV set despite longstanding rumors that kind of hardware was on the way – but it’s showing impressive growth nonetheless. The company sold approximately 10 million Apple TV units last year, according to estimates based on f... |
Language-Learning Platform TutorGroup Raises $100M From Investors Including Alibaba | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | English-learning platform announced that it has raised a $100 million Series B round from investors including Chinese Internet giant , Singaporean investment firm , and . TutorGroup says it plans to use the funding to grow its business in Asia and expand in the Americas. Its massive Series B will help TutorGroup c... |
With $225M Raised Across 400K+ Campaigns, DonorsChoose Is Using Data To Illuminate Educational Inequity In The U.S. | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | There’s a lot of debate swirling these days over the best and most effective ways to fix the U.S. education system. With high costs, disappointing outcomes and high drop out rates now rampant across age groups, at the very least, it’s become clear that something needs to be done. Many circles are looking to technology ... |
UPDATED: Fin, The Bluetooth Ring That Turns Your Hand Into A Wireless Controller, Hits Its Funding Goal | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | Back at CES in January, , the Bluetooth ring that went on to become one of our Hardware Battlefield finalists. Fin, which turns your hand into a wireless controller for smartphones, TVs, and other connected devices, just . Now Fin is aiming for its stretch goal of $150,000, which will make the ring available for a di... |
Dragdis Takes Its Simple Drag-And-Drop Bookmarking Service Out Of Beta | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 28 | Bookmarking just got interesting again. , a slick Chrome extension that lets you quickly save anything, including text, photos, videos, links and more just by dragging and dropping, is now taking its service out of beta, and introducing support for a number of social networks and cloud services. The idea behind the to... |
A Networking Protocol For Labor | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | The core advancement of the Internet was the capability to move information very quickly across a decentralized network of nodes. That advancement was predicated on the development of protocols like HTTP, SMTP and Bitcoin that codified how such data should move to accomplish our tasks. Despite this level of progress, w... |
70,000 People Are Playing Pokemon Collaboratively – And You Can Watch Live | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | There are things on the Internet that we humans were not built to understand. Over on Twitch, the largest platform for livestreaming esports and other gaming content, 70,000 people are playing Pokemon in unison and the world is watching. The host cooked up a script that takes game commands from the stream’s chat interf... |
Despite Protest, The USA Freedom Act Remains In Holding Pattern | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | Coming off a — both offline and off — that sent tens of thousands of emails and phone calls into the United States Congress, it appears that the USA Freedom Act hasn’t budged on Capitol Hill. According to The Hill, . Despite the recent protests dubbed “The Day We Fight Back” that argued in favor of the Act, Congress... |
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Next World Capital’s Ben Fu And Translink Capital’s Jay Eum | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | This week, we have two VCs who will be joining us in the studio (separately) for Ask A VC— Next World Capital’s Ben Fu and Translink Capital’s Jay Eum. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or and we’ll ask them during the show. At Next World Capital, Fu recently helped l... |
PIXEL Brings Old School Video Game Art To Life In Your Home | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 17 |
Take your old Lite-Brite and turn it up to 11. Add Bluetooth, tuck in animation support, and let people draw their designs via smartphone. What do you get? Something like PIXEL. The (aptly named) PIXEL is a display built specifically for showing off pixel art. A pixel art photo frame, if you will. Want an animat... |
Fly Or Die: Beats Music | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | is the latest of many streaming music services to hit the scene, pulling from some of the best parts of competing products to offer an excellent internet radio experience. Once you offer up some likes and dislikes on various artists and genres, Beats then offers four separate menus for finding something to listen t... |
Fly6 Cycle Camera Lets Drivers Know It’s Watching Them So They Drive Better | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | In London’s accident & emergency hospital departments, among some more black-humored staffers, cyclists are colloquially known as ‘organ donors’, or so the story goes. Running the gauntlet of HGV lorries and angry four-wheeled commuters is no joke though. Many urban cyclists in the U.K. capital and elsewhere already ar... |
TrackDuck – A Tiny Web Site Build Tracking Startup – Appears To Be On A Roll | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | Web development can be a complicated process which can go on too long because so much of the time is spent on really poor communication and mis-understandings. Project managers, designers and developers have to approve lots of detail while also incorporating feedback. is a visual feedback and issue tracking startup ... |
Microsoft Launches Smart Visual Studio Add-On For Code Snippet Search | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | Whether you are a seasoned programmer or a beginner, chances are you spend a lot of your time looking for code snippets on Stack Overflow and similar sites. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel, after all. Now, a team from Microsoft Research in Cambridge wants to streamline this process and bring it into the IDE. The ... |
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Through Its Network Of Mentors, HackHands Offers Live Help For New Programmers | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | With sites like and , there are plenty of ways to learn programming and get help online — but there’s nothing like a live human being who can answer your questions and look at your code, according to the co-founders of a new website called . One of those co-founders, Forest Good, described the site as an “Uber for ... |
Microsoft Partners With DocuSign To Bring eSignatures To Office 365 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | Microsoft and eSignature service today announced a long-term partnership that will make it easy for Office 365 subscribers to submit and sign documents without leaving Microsoft’s Office apps. This new solution, the two companies announced, will be available in the early next month and was built on top of Microsoft... |
Pan-European Rail Travel Booking Service, Loco2, Gets Renfe On Board For Full Spanish Coverage | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | Pan-European train travel booking startup, , will add another chunk of coverage to its website tomorrow, when a partnership with Spanish state-owned rail carrier Renfe goes live — enabling users to book any Spanish rail tickets via the service and print them at home. This also applies to advanced discount fares, known... |
Buildit Is A New Hardware Accelerator Based In Estonia | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | Europe has gotten itself another hardware-based startup accelerator; this time Estonia is flying the hardware flag. Focusing on hardware in combination with software, is a new 3 month accelerator program based in Estonia’s Tartu Science Park, plus a 1 month Seedcamp-style investor “roadshow” in the U.S., China and UK... |
Tidy Organizes Your Smartphone Photos Into Albums With Just A Swipe | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | A new application called wants to help you better organize the photos you have stored on your smartphone, by grouping them into albums by time, distance, or even by “shapes,” meaning type of photo – panoramas, squares, screenshots, portrait or landscape, for example. The app doesn’t do the groupings automatically, bu... |
Player.me Wants To Be The About.me For Gamers, But It’s Going To Be Tough | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | You’ve heard of About.me for profile pages. Well, there are plenty of gaming communities out there, but hopes to be the “about.me for gamers”. Obviously is a pretty big competitor but it would appear Player.me is trying to create a more open network that links to social more broadly. The new privately funded gaming... |
Plant-Based Food Startup Hampton Creek Foods Raises $23M Round Led By Horizons Ventures | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | It looks like investors think there’s a big opportunity in ‘ mission of creating tasty, affordable alternatives to animal-based foods — the company is announcing that it has raised $23 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Hong Kong businessman Li Ka-shing’s investment firm Horizons Ventures, with particip... |
Anonymous Messaging App Blink Arrives On Android | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 17 | , a mobile application that allows users to send each other self-destructing messages, has now . The app, which first , lets you share text, photos, videos, sketches, and even voice messages with your friends, though the company has found that the majority of its users are using Blink for “ephemeral” texting purposes... |
Congratulations, Crunchies Winners! Kickstarter Wins Best Overall Startup | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | It was a night for the ages. At the 7th Annual Crunchies Award show, Kickstarter beat out CloudFlare, Snapchat, Twitter and Uber, and walked away with the Crunchie for Best Overall Startup. Chris Sacca won the Crunchie For Angel Of The Year, Dropbox’s Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi won Founder of the Year, and Tinder ... |
Tech Industry, Activists Talk Past Each Other At The Crunchies | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | Inside San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall was a packed hall with hundreds of tech’s well-to-do in ties, slacks and cocktail dresses for the so-bad-it’s-good awards show, . Outside, there were about 50 protesters, beating drums and awarding toilet plungers as trophies to activists posing as Ron “The Con” Conway and M... |
Kickstarter Wins The 2013 Crunchie For “Best Overall Startup” By Leveling The Maker Playing Field | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | The category was CloudFlare is a silent partner to the modern content delivery system of the Internet. Snapchat is a young but powerful entry into the consumer Internet market, and Twitter has enabled global real-time conversations without any filter — for better or for worse. But Kickstarter has done something spe... |
Dropbox’s Cloud Storage Kings Drew Houston And Arash Ferdowsi Win Founder Of The Year Crunchie | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | You know you’re doing something right when Silicon Valley rock stars are ditching cushy jobs at Google and Facebook to join your startup. This year’s Founder Of The Year Crunchie goes to the talent magnets at Dropbox, CEO Drew Houston and CTO Arash Ferdowsi. From an MIT dorm room to rejecting huge acquisition offers an... |
Peter Fenton Named “VC Of The Year” At The Crunchies | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | Benchmark’s Peter Fenton just won the award for VC of the Year at the Crunchies. Fenton is probably best-known for backing and continuing to serve on the board of Twitter, which . He’s also an investor/board member at Yelp, New Relic, Hortonworks, Zuora, and Polyvore, among others. (If that didn’t keep him busy enough... |
Early Twitter Investor Chris Sacca Wins Crunchie For Angel Of The Year | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | In the year in which Twitter went public, it’s hard to bet against one of the company’s earliest and most influential investors. Which is why it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that founder has won this year’s Crunchie for Angel of the Year. Sacca put some of the earliest money into Twitter, betting on the micro-b... |
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Snapchat Wins ‘Best Mobile Application’ At The 2013 Crunchies, Award Disappears In 10 Seconds | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | This year’s best mobile app is Snapchat, at least according to the 2013 Crunchies Awards. The ephemeral photo and video messaging app beat out a tough crowd this year, including Mailbox, Tinder, VSCO Cam and WhatsApp. This is Snapchat’s second Crunchie, since it won for its speedy early user growth. Snapchat began in... |
Edward Snowden’s NSA Revelations Win Crunchie For Biggest Social Impact | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | Tonight at , Edward Snowden’s massive leak of NSA material won the Biggest Social Impact category. Besting rivals like Code.org and CrowdTilt, Snowden’s successful efforts to demask the mass surveillance undertaken by the National Security Administration on both global and United States citizens has ignited a worldwid... |
Oculus Rift Takes Home The Crunchie For Best Hardware Startup | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | It’s hard for me to imagine a hardware startup that is more exciting, more fascinating, and that has more potential to ripple out into a million amazing things than Oculus and their Rift virtual reality headset. Many of you, it seems, would agree. After weeks of voting, our readers and this community have chosen Oculus... |
Watch The 7th Annual Crunchies Award Show Right Here | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | The Super Bowl. The Winter Olympics. The Grammys and the Academy Awards. ‘Tis the season for live spectacles, and as such, I’m pleased to welcome you to the 7th Annual Crunchies Awards where TechCrunch, Gigaom and VentureBeat join together and award the best technology of 2013. To start, we have John Oliver hosting... |
Radiator Labs Is Crowdfunding Cozy, A Smart Radiator Cover | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | Radiators are amazingly old technology and steam heat, while oftentimes charmingly anachronistic, is also horribly inefficient. Luckily, Radiator Labs is working on , a radiator cover that turns “dumb” radiators into smartphone-controlled climate systems. The system is fairly simple: a cover traps the warm air generat... |
Here Are The Tech Companies Goldman Sachs Wants You To Meet | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | The isn’t the only star-studded tech event in town this week. On Tuesday kicks off its “Technology and Internet Conference” and the attendees read like a who’s who of the industry biggest and brightest public and private companies. Goldman’s tech version of hot-or-not includes presentations from Marissa Mayer at ;... |
Let’s Go, New Orleans: We Want You At Our Meetup Next Week | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | Hey, NOLA. What’s up? Listen, we have a problem. While we know that is a startup hub and we’re already oversold in Georgia and , we’re having trouble filling seats in your home town. While we’re happy to come down for some hurricanes and dark and stormys, how about we have a few dozen more people show up? so we ca... |
Bitcoin Wins Best Technology Achievement But Satoshi Doesn’t Show | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | Eyewitnesses at the Crunchies tonight reported seeing a shadowy figure hiding in the eaves of the opera hall, watching the proceedings with a gimlet eye. Perhaps, in light of the Best Technology Achievement going to Bitcoin, Satoshi himself was lurking in the gloom? GigaOm’s Tom Krazit and Khosla Ventures Keith Rabois ... |
If You Watch One Video Of A Robot Playing Air Hockey Today, Make It This One | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | As a fan of robots, videos, and pucks, I was mesmerized by this project. It’s a a cool 3D printer hack that allows you to play a robot in a rousing game of air hockey. The system uses a computer vision component to see where the pucks is, send it back to the opponent, and even set up shots when it loses. The creator ... |
What’s Going On With Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox? | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | Mt. Gox, one of the original Bitcoin trading sites, has shut down its withdrawals system, citing problems related to (more on that shortly). Mt. Gox that this problem has forced them to shut down their withdrawal services: “We apologize for the sudden short notice. All bitcoin withdrawal requests will be on pause, ... |
Tech Billionaires Made Up 75% Of 2013’s Most Philanthropic People Under 50 | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | Young tech billionaires gave generously in 2013. , only 4 were under the age of 50 and 3 of those were in the tech industry: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan (Facebook, $992M), Pierre and Pam Omidyar (Ebay, $225M) and Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki (Google, $219M). The one non-techie philanthropist joining their yout... |
Microsoft May Dole Out More Free Storage To Users In OneDrive Rebrand | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | Microsoft will soon rebrand its SkyDrive cloud storage service OneDrive. The currently reads “Coming Soon.” It now appears that there is more to the coming OneDrive rollout than a simple name change. According to leaked , Microsoft will roll out a number of incentives for users in an effort to boost their usage of t... |
Google Wins Right To Lease Moffett Field, Will Restore Hangar One | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | Google’s executives have long operated their fleet of private jets out of NASA’s Moffett Field thanks to a long-standing deal with the U.S. government, but it looks like Google is ready to expand its presence at the Silicon Valley airfield. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and NASA today that Planetary ... |
Strevus Raises $ 5.6 Million For Financial Compliance Software | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | With new compliance requirements looming , startup software developer has raised $5.6 million for its risk and compliance service. The company raised its first institutional round from lead investor Blumberg Capital and U.S. Venture Partners after picking up seed investments from a who’s who of the technology commun... |
Stealthy Security Company Apprity Raises $8 Million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | The stealthy business security company Apprity, launched by two former Oracle employees, has raised $8 million in its first institutional financing. For its first venture round, Apprity turned to seasoned security technology investors Promod Haque, a senior managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners, and Gaurav Garg,... |
Facebook’s WhatsApp Acquisition Leaves Snapchat Hanging | Billy Gallagher | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | With Facebook’s massive earlier today, any possible marriage between Facebook and Snapchat appears to be dead. WhatsApp co-founder and CEO, Jan Koum, will join Facebook’s Board of Directors as part of today’s acquisition deal. At first glance, it seems like Acton doesn’t really understand Snapchat’s appeal or value ... |
How Things Change | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Four years ago, Brian Acton was looking for a job. His job at Yahoo, where he’d filled many engineering roles over 11 years, had come to an end. He was networking with recruiters: networking with recruiters, venture capitalists, playing ultimate frisbee — Brian Acton (@brianacton) He met with Twitter. Twitter said no:... |
Kik Founder On Facebook Buying WhatsApp: Mobile Messaging Now “Table Stakes” | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Mobile messaging consolidation is coming fast and heavy recently, with the and today’s . Another contender in the space, Waterloo-based Kik, has also seen good traction and growth (though admittedly not on the level of WhatsApp). Kik founder and CEO Ted Livingston tells TechCrunch that this is a clear message that, ... |
Zuck Says Ads Aren’t The Way To Monetize Messaging, WhatsApp Will Prioritize Growth Not Subscriptions | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Facebook won’t be throwing its advertising weight behind its like it did with Instagram. But WhatsApp also won’t be focusing on rolling out the $1 a year subscription fee it currently charges in some countries. Instead, with the financial security Facebook brings, it will dedicate itself to growth. Monetization was t... |
Sequoia’s A Big Winner In Facebook’s WhatsApp Acquisition, With Its Stake Worth About $3 Billion | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Facebook today announced its . Obviously WhatsApp has a lot to cheer about, having grown to 450 million active users over the course of the last five years. But from a pure venture perspective, the purchase represents another huge win for Sequoia Capital and partner . ( After talking with more sources, we’re able to... |
Facebook’s $19 Billion WhatsApp Acquisition, Contextualized | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Facebook just announced it’s , a global messaging platform with 450 million MAUs, for approximately $19 billion. It’s one of the biggest tech acquisitions since HP bought Compaq for $25 billion in 2001. It means that WhatsApp, which raised a comparatively measly $8 million since its 2011 launch, is now worth nearly $2... |
Facebook Stock Falls 5% After Hours Following WhatsApp Purchase [Update: Now Down Only 2.64%] | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Facebook today announced that it will acquire WhatsApp for a combined $16 billion in cash and stock. WhatsApp’s employees pick up an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units as part of the deal. Wall Street investors are seemingly not pleased and have sent Facebook’s shares down 5 percent in after hours trading.... |
Super.cc Launches To Bring Calendaring Into Your Email Inbox | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 10 | You know how you spend multiple emails trying to set up a meeting time, and a meeting place, and once it’s all done you then have to leave your email and head into your calendar and add an entry and it’s a big first-world problem? Well, now you don’t have to, thanks to the beauty of . The product adds an automated way... |
Apple And Tesla Had A Spring Fling | Greg Barto | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Reports are out today in , and just about publication, that Apple be in preliminary talks to buy electric automobile manufacturer Tesla. With the mobile phone and tablet markets becoming increasingly competitive, Apple is interested in expanding to other markets to increase growth. But would Apple want to buy ... |
Yik Yak Is An Anonymous Messaging App Aimed At College Campuses | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | What happens when you combine anonymous messaging with college campuses? You get 100,000 users in three months. knows all about it. The startup was launched by two Furman University students, Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, aiming to connect people through anonymous, location-based posts. Within a five-mile radius,... |
Facebook Buying WhatsApp For $19B, Will Keep The Messaging Service Independent | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Facebook is purchasing messaging giant WhatsApp for $16 billion in cash and stock, according to a . The deal is being cut for $12 billion in Facebook shares, $4 billion in cash and an additional $3 billion in RSUs for employee retention. A termination fee is attached to the deal that would cost Facebook $1 billion in ... |
Google I/O Developer Conference To Be Held June 25-26 This Year | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | The dates for this year’s are June 25 and 26, Google’s Android and Chrome boss Sundar Pichai just announced on (via ). The annual event offers up sessions on a number of topics of interest to developers, including how to maximize revenue from mobile apps, how best to use specific apps, and more. The registration f... |
CrowdTwist Brings On Two New Board Members, Coca-Cola’s Carol Kruse And Visa’s Shiv Singh | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | , a social loyalty rewards platform, has today announced two new heavy-hitting board members, and . Kruse spent nearly 10 years at Coca-Cola, where she led the interactive marketing team as global vice president of Digital. She then went to ESPN and served as a senior vice president and then CMO. Currently, Kruse ho... |
Tesla Beats In Q4 With Adjusted Revenues Of $761M, Expects 35,000 Car Deliveries This Year | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Today after the bell, Tesla reported its fourth quarter financial performance, including non-GAAP revenue of $761 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.33. In the period, the company delivered , a figure that it pre-announced in January. The company’s revenue grew 26% from the preceding, sequential quarter. Th... |
Belkin Fixes WeMo Vulnerabilities With Firmware Update | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Fear not, owners of Belkin WeMo devices: you no longer have to lose sleep over the possibility that your smart plug will be hacked. Belkin has rolled out an update that patches the five vulnerabilities listed by FEMA’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team. This security hole affects up to 500,000 WeMo devices, and as CERT... |
How One Scammer Manipulated Apple’s Top Charts To Earn Tens Of Thousands Daily Using A $10 GameSalad Template | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Something fishy has been going on with Apple’s App Store top charts. No, I’m not talking about “Flappy Bird” (well, maybe too), but rather how on earth two different developers used a $10 GameSalad to send their respective apps — one , and one — into the App Store’s top charts. And more importantly, how did that... |
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The Surface 2 With AT&T LTE Inches Closer To Release | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Last October, Microsoft announced that it would roll out an LTE-enabled Surface 2 for AT&T’s network. Sometime. The announced time frame was early 2014, and, sure enough, the device has in the public FCC database, which means it’s nearing release. This will be the first Surface tablet that ships with built-in cellula... |
Venmo Now Lets You Find And Pay Other Nearby Venmo Users | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | Venmo, the mobile payment app, has had a wild few years. They shook up their industry so hard that they were acquired within 4 years of launch; once by Braintree for $26.2M, and again when Paypal acquired Braintree for $800M. Their trick? Make paying your friends easy and (mostly) free. Today, they’re making it even... |
MakerBot Starts Taking Pre-Orders For Their Itty-Bitty 3D Printer | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Back at CES 2014, MakerBot : one small (Replicator Mini), one huge (Replicator Z18), and one that’s about the same size as the one they’ve sold for years (now just the “Replicator”). With a new smart leveling system and built-in webcams for monitoring prints, these new models pack a few tricks that the older Replicato... |
Entrepreneurship Barbie Isn’t A Bad Idea Actually | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 2 | 19 | It’s 1992. I am ten. I want to be an advertising executive when I grow up. I am watching a TV news segment about Barbie, “ ” specifically. Teen Talk Barbie says “Math class is tough” among other things like “Will we ever have enough clothes?” and “I love shopping!”. In that TV news segment I learn that math class is su... |
Sony To Close Two-Thirds Of Its US Retail Stores | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Sony today that it is shuttering 20 of its 31 retail stores located throughout the States. The 11 remaining stores are located near major markets. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. As the company’s press release states, this move is designed to place Sony in a more competitive stance. The Sony of today is in... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, friends, but we’ve got a few robots that will eventually take control of our lives and lead us into a bright, strange future. First up we present the “A Pruning Robot With a Power-Saving Chainsaw Drive,” by Yasuhiko Ishigure, Katsuyuki Hirai, and Haruhisa Kawasaki. What does that m... |
Apple Makes Big Improvements In iOS Management Tools For Enterprise And Education | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Apple has been busy in the IT department. Today, it released a slew of improvements and alterations to its large-scale deployment tools for education and enterprise customers. Some of the tweaks get way out in the weeds of deployment strategies, so they’ll only be really exciting for the actual pros who deal with this ... |
Meet Oppia, Google’s New Open Source Project That Allows Anyone To Create An Interactive Learning Experience | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Google has become an increasingly active participant in the world of education, particularly when it comes to exploring the role technology can play in re-imagining the way we learn. With , for the classroom and its work , the company is expanding its presence both in traditional academic spaces classroom and outsi... |
HTC Teases The “All New HTC One” In New Promo Video For BoomSound | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0brzd7BfM4] HTC is proud of its smartphone speakers, especially on the HTC One – but it appears to be even more proud of the so-called ‘BoomSound’ (ugh) speakers on its upcoming flagship smartphone, which it pretty clearly seems to have named the “New HTC One” unless it’s trolli... |
Gravity’s Amit Kapur Says Personalization Is Going To “Explode” This Year | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Following of content personalization startup last month, co-founder and CEO Amit Kapur stopped by the AOL office in Manhattan to discuss where personalization technology goes from here. When Gravity was founded four years ago, Kapur said its founders thought it was “inevitable” that the web would become more pers... |
Workday Acquires HR Predictive Analytics Company Identified | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | After releasing , Workday has announced that it acquired , a company that offered predictive analytics human resources software. In a statement, Workday said the company’s “product development team is expected to enhance search capabilities and accelerate the delivery of predictive analytics and machine learning thro... |
Connected Car App Automatic Gets Even Smarter With IFTTT Integration | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | driving assistant, which combines a small hardware device with a mobile application in order to track, analyze, and even potentially improve your driving capabilities, is getting a whole lot smarter today with new support for technology. That’s the online service where you can create simple “recipes” to kick off spe... |
Google’s Project Ara Modular Smartphone Gets Its Own Developer Conference This April | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_uwDqLsZY?feature=player_embedded] Google is not abandoning , after taking over the ambitious experimental smartphone design concept along with the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group from Motorola. ATAP only just announced , and now it’s revealing a two-day at the... |
Samsung Galaxy S5 Breaks Records With Over 100K Pre-Registrations At T-Mobile In Under Two Days | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | T-Mobile CMO Mike Sievert is pumped about Samsung’s new Galaxy S5 smartphone: Today, the executive tweeted that Samsung’s latest flagship is a record-breaker at the carrier, with over 100,000 pre-registrations in under 48 hours since . 100,000+ pre-registrations in 2 days is a new record at !! — Mike Sievert (@Sie... |
Apple Details Touch ID And The A7’s Secure Enclave In Updated iOS Security Document | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Apple has shared some information around how Touch ID and its Secure Enclave keeps information private in an newly posted to its “iPhone in Business” microsite. The new info provides an inside look at how exactly the Secure Enclave generates and communicates encrypted and temporary identification information to the r... |
CamioCam Turns Any Web Or Video Camera Into A Smart, Cloud-Based Monitoring Device | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | What if you could get an alert to your phone anytime someone left a package on your doorstep? Or, if you could track whether your elderly parent took her medication in a given day? intelligent, video-monitoring service wants to be able to accomplish these tasks and more. The startup, which is launching at the LAUNCH ... |
Only 24 Hours Left To Apply To TechCrunch Battlefield! | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Listen up, future entrepreneurial superstars! are due tomorrow, February 27th at 5pm PDT. Do NOT miss out on this once-in-a-six-month opportunity! Why , you ask? I could list for you the many ways TechCrunch will work to get your company in front of the brightest and most influential people in tech, if that would he... |
Wacom’s New WILL Project Aims To Make A New Universal Computing Language Out Of Digital Ink | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Leading digital graphics and input company Wacom has launched an ambitious new project that aims to universalize digital ink across platforms and devices. (Wacom Ink Layer Language) wants to codify digital inking around a single digital standard that will ignore any boundaries set by things like OS, hardware and clou... |
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Need A Quick Answer? Pop Lets You Take Two Photos, Poll Your Friends | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Do you have trouble making decisions? Do you have to get your friends’ input on a bunch of things? Are you 15 years old? Then you might like , a new iPhone application today making its official debut, which lets you quickly ask your friends for feedback by sending them two photos. Basically, Pop is a simple voting app... |
Fred Wilson, Niklas Zennstrom, And Secret Co-Founders David Byttow And Chrys Bader-Wechseler To Speak At Disrupt NY | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | . On May 5-7, the show will once again takeover The Manhattan Center in New York City. This year marks the 6th year TechCrunch has held Disrupt in New York City. And we say this every year, but this show is going to be the best yet. We’re pleased to announce that New York’s own Fred Wilson will take the Disrupt stage. ... |
Threadless Launches An iPhone App, Takes Its E-Commerce Shop Mobile | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Crowdsourced e-commerce company has existed on the web seemingly forever, connecting T-shirt and hoodie wearers with interesting designs submitted by members of its community. Now it’s taking its shop and its design voting platform mobile with , enabling customers to let it know which designs they like the best and ... |
Google Now Launcher Comes To Play Store, With Always-On ‘Ok Google’ And Swipe For Now | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Google reconfigured the Android home screen launcher somewhat with the Nexus 5, but that redesign didn’t make its way out to other Nexus or Google Play Edition hardware when they received the Android 4.4 KitKat update. Today, Google has released the new (via ) to bring that modified home screen goodness to a wider a... |
BarkCare Brings On-Demand, In-Home Veterinary Care To NYC, And Soon, San Francisco | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 26 | Bark & Co., the doggie-themed technology company that currently offers a subscription service for dog treats and toys called , is expanding its service in New York. Last month, the company quietly launched on-demand vet appointments where customers can order a vet to come to their home as easily as they order an Ube... |
Visionect Is A Low-Cost Platform For Building E-Paper Applications | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 21 | Building hardware projects has become immensely simpler thanks to and Raspberry Pi. But scratches a far more-intersting itch: e-paper interface design. At its core the device is a very simple cased or uncased e-ink reader. It consist of a very simple, waterproof device with an e-ink screen and allows programmers to... |
Facebook Tests Mobile “Highlights”, A Cheat Sheet To Your Friends’ Lives | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 21 | Facebook said there were just big fixes in its it released yesterday, but actually there’s a big new feature it’s testing called Highlights. Inside the People tab you’ll see Highlights including friends’ Life Events and people you’ve interacted with recently. If you’re bored of News Feed and want to know what do next... |
Meet Hyv, A Startup That Can’t Wait For Phone Unlocking To Be Made Legal | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 21 | . On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will vote on legislation on phone unlocking (H.R. 1123). In January 2013, a decision by the Librarian of Congress made it a crime to unlock your phone, with either civil or criminal penalties. Since that time, the resale market has been significantly impacted and websites h... |
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