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Keen On… The Second Machine Age: Will Humans Still Have A Role In Our Economy Of Brilliant Technologies? | Andrew Keen | 2,014 | 2 | 6 | The hot new about the digital economy is and ‘s . It’s amongst the first books to seriously address the fundamental question of our digital economy: what will be the economic role of human-beings in an age of artificial intelligence, 3D printers and an Internet of things? While McAfee and Brynjolfsson acknowled... |
Hungry For New Deals, Latin American Wireless Co. Movile Doubles Down On Delivery | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 6 | Brazil’s mobile content developer Movile is on the hunt for new investments after committing a fresh $2 million to its online delivery service company iFood. That recent investment is a sign of just how spicy food delivery companies have become in recent weeks. announced that it is doubling down on its bet in – Braz... |
Google Launches Chromebox For Meetings, A $999 Videoconferencing System Based On ChromeOS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 6 | At a small media event in Mountain View today, Google the launch of , a $999 Core i7-based ASUS Chromebox setup with a remote, camera and microphone for conference rooms. The system uses Hangouts in the backend and is also compatible with existing conferencing setups from and (for ). The system includes all the... |
Paul Graham Shares Lessons Learned From 630+ YC Startups, But Don’t Expect Him To Launch His Own | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | After a long tenure at the helm of — during which a turned into a Silicon Valley institution, pioneering the “seed accelerator” model and inspiring a new league of tech-focused business incubators — Paul Graham that he will soon be passing the baton to the next generation. Taking the reins from Graham is Loopt co... |
Bloomthat, the “Uber-For-Flowers,” Pulls In $2M From SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 6 | , the in San Francisco Bay Area in less than 90 minutes, just picked up $2 million in seed funding. Their new backers include SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s A-Grade Investments, Joe Montana, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Y Combinator partner Garry Tan, Ron Rofe, Oliver Jung and Baron Davis. The San ... |
Telegram Saw 8M Downloads After WhatsApp Got Acquired | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | The App Store is a strange and whimsical bedfellow. It is a kingmaker, but with that comes the tears of the anointed, the displaced and the never-rans. As an example of the store’s fickle nature, Flappy Bird held the Free App pole position for so long that it , committing . Almost immediately three clones popped up t... |
The Dark Legacy Of @Facebook.com Addresses: They Poisoned iOS Contact Sync | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | Facebook may be killing off its email address feature, but their uselessness will live on in iOS contact books around the world. You see, right before iOS 6 and its Facebook contact sync feature came out, Facebook forcibly hid the real email addresses everyone shared with their friends. It only left the @facebook.com a... |
HackerEarth Raises $500K To Help Startups Find Great Programmers | Pankaj Mishra | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | , a Bangalore-based startup that helps other startups hire programmers through , has raised $500,000 in seed funding from incubator. Launched in late 2012 by former Google engineer Sachin Gupta and his IIT batch mate Vivek Prakash, HackerEarth helps India’s growth-stage startups find technical talent they so despera... |
Report: NSA Bugged Top German Officials After Obama Ordered Cease Of Spying On Chancellor | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | The National Security Agency been surveilling senior German officials after it was ordered by President Obama to cease spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel. The report comes from German paper , which claims its informant is a “high-ranking NSA employee in Germany,” as described by UK Reuters, which translated the orig... |
Corporate Investors Move Into The Accelerator Market | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | Big banks , big , and even do it: After years of neglect, the world’s biggest companies are throwing their weight (and a few dollars) behind new technology startups. It wasn’t always this way. Historically there’s been one big backer of early-stage companies and that’s the investment arm affiliated with the sulta... |
Ahead Of Stephen Elop’s Return, Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green Picks Up New Internal Role | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | Microsoft Executive Vice President Julie Larson-Green announced today in an internal memo that she is changing roles at the company (memo below). Leaving her role leading Microsoft’s hardware efforts, Larson-Green will now lead the My Life & Work group inside of the Applications and Services Group, which is in turn run... |
Google’s Eric Schmidt Will Give $1 Million In Tech-For-Good Grants | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said he is donating $1 million to help solve global problems through technology. “I think I should put my money where my mouth is,” Schmidt CBS, in a promotion for , his book co-written with Jared Cohen. “We identified a whole bunch of companies all over the world trying to solve oppress... |
LinkedIn Goes East For Growth, Opens Its First Site In China, “领英”, Teams Up With Sequoia And CBC | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | Big international news today for LinkedIn, the social media site for professionals to network with each other: the company is launching its first official site in China — in Simplified Chinese, in beta. Derek Shen, president of China for LinkedIn, in a blog post that the site will be branded “领英” and will aim to offe... |
Qualcomm Cuts $100 Off Its Toq Smartwatch | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | Watch out below! Falling prices! As the dust settles over Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm just announced for its Toq smartwatch from $350 to $250. With the , the , and the updated Sony SmartWatch, the Toq has stiff competition. It’s a fine device, although Darrell would argue otherwise. It’s comfortable to wear, ha... |
Monster Acquires Recruiting Startups TalentBin And Gozaik | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | Monster Worldwide today that it has acquired and , two startups offering tools for recruiting on social networks. “The acquisition of TalentBin and Gozaik completes one key component of a larger strategy designed to help our business grow,” said Monster CEO Sal Iannuzzi in the acquisition release. The company says... |
It’s The End Of The @Facebook.com Email Address As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | Facebook is putting an end to its email project, which means your life will probably go on exactly as it had been with no discernible changes whatsoever. For future reference, don’t email me at darrell.etherington@facebook.com, unless you want to receive no response, which is exactly what would’ve happened before thi... |
The Epic App Brings Kids’ Books To The iPad — And Makes Them More Fun, Too | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | Adults have great digital reading experiences thanks to iBook and other apps, but such programs are not exactly kid-friendly. So for many kids under the age of 12 or so, the iPad is for games and movies, and reading is mostly done on physical books. A new startup called aims to finally bridge that gap by bringing a... |
Chewse’s One-Click Catering Grows Recurring Revenue By 10X In Six Months | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | While the , there are a bunch of next-generation food and catering startups that are aiming to fix meal delivery. is focusing on the enterprise market. They handle one-click catering for offices throughout Los Angeles and San Francisco. Their meal ordering platform lets office managers quickly pick and pay for meals ... |
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Moviefone Is Killing Off Its Namesake Phone Number | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | ! The early 90’s was a strange time. Computers were becoming fairly commonplace, but the Internet still wasn’t. We pumped out new technology that defined our lives for a week, only to be forgotten the next. We were still trying to figure out what the future looked like. So many things seemed brilliant at the time, only... |
Know Thy Selfie | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | , or happy, or looking into the eyes of your sweetie, do you know what your face looks like? Probably not, according to Dr. James Kilner, neuroscientist at the University College London. that you know very little about what your face looks like most of the time, though you probably believe you look much more attractiv... |
Hands On With Reporter, An iOS App That Wants To Help You Understand Your Daily Life | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | If you are like me, life speeds by and you cling for something like normalcy as work and everything else swirls. Want a better grip on your daily activities, and how your habits are changing over time? , a new application for iOS, wants to help. Built by , a former Facebook designer, Reporter helps you craft a set of... |
Video Discovery Specialist Rovi Acquires Voice Search Startup Veveo For Up To $69 Million | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | has announced that it will soon add advanced voice search to its portfolio of tricks, through the acquisition of video discovery startup . Rovi will pay $62 million in cash for the company and its IP at closing, and up to $7 million in additional payments based on certain performance milestones. With Veveo’s technolo... |
WinZip Moves To The Cloud With Launch Of ZipShare, A Way To Zip, Manage & Share All Your Online Files | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | , makers of the file compression utility first launched in the that still sees north of 30 million downloads per year, is today making a shift to the cloud. The company is launching , a file zipping, management, encryption, and sharing service that works with the major online file hosting platforms. Currently, ZipSh... |
It’s Not Magic, It’s Talent And Sweat. Ha, If Only Silicon Valley Worked That Way | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 24 | That HBO Silicon Valley show has a new trailer out, which you can watch above. (Or, go to YouTube and . I don’t care, either way.) Anyway. This time we learn a little bit more about what’s happening with the group of engineers in the show. For instance, we learn that what they’ve built is some sort of a compression ... |
Square’s Latest TV Ads Focus On Attracting New Merchants | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | Payments company Square is debuting six new TV ads today, in a big marketing push towards attracting merchants on the platform. A spokesperson for Square tells us the ads will air on national cable channels (including during primetime hours). Some of the channels include Fox Business, CNBC, Discovery Health & Fitness, ... |
Nokia Forks Android In Mobile Services Push — $122 Nokia X Will Also Be Lumia “Feeder” | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | More proof, if proof were needed, that Android won the smartphone OS wars: Nokia, the former world No.1 smartphone maker and, nowadays, the primary OEM for Microsoft’s third-placed Windows Phone platform has just announced a new family of smartphones built upon the — confirming a slew of earlier rumours that Nokia wa... |
Sony Taps Its Display, Gaming, And Photography Might For Latest Mobile Flagships | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | Meet Sony’s Xperia Z2 line. With the and smartphone, Sony clearly hopes impressive specs and waterproof technology will help the company gain market share in 2014. The tablet and phone are refreshingly similar. Qualcomm’s 2.3GHz 801 Snapdragon powers both devices. They both have class-leading cameras and displays. ... |
Sony’s Waterproof Wearable To Be Available Worldwide In March | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | Sony introduced the . The diminutive wearable is part of Sony’s push into an ever-connected experience centered around its Xperia products. Sony was mum about the release schedule back at CES, but today, at Mobile World Congress, the company announced that the device will be available in 60 markets next month. The Sma... |
Mt.Gox Resigns From Bitcoin Foundation’s Board, Clears Twitter Account | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | Mt.Gox has resigned from the Bitcoin Foundation’s board of directors. The foundation after the news was . In addition, Reddit users also from its . We’ve emailed Mt.Gox for comment. Mt.Gox CEO Mark Karpeles was one of three elected industry members who held seats on the board. The Bitcoin Foundation said that wou... |
Next-Gen YotaPhone Follow-Up Unveiled, With Full-Touch E-Ink Rear Screen | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | Russian mobile-making startup has just unveiled the next generation of its dual-screen smartphone, the YotaPhone. As with the , which in Russia and select European markets (Austria, France, Spain and Germany) last December costing €499/$684, the handset’s flagship feature is that it’s two-sided — with a full colou... |
Microsoft’s Aggressive Platform Push | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | Microsoft recently announced a number of changes to its Windows 8.x and Windows Phone platforms that underscore it is doubling down on Windows. Breaking Friday was the news that Microsoft will lower the per-device cost to OEMs to ship Windows 8.x on less expensive devices. Bloomberg’s for devices that sell to consu... |
Android Remains The Outsized Giant At 70% Of Smartphone Sales, Phablets And iPhone 5c Make Waves: Kantar | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | When it comes to sales of smartphones, Android is the green giant that continues to tower over the competition. In the last three months that ended in January 2014, the Google-developed operating system accounted for around 70% of sales across 12 key markets, according to the latest figures from WPP market research div... |
Technology Unlocks “Economies Of Unscale” For Small Businesses | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | It’s been an exhilarating time for small business owners. Twenty years ago, they lacked the tools to expand outside of their niche markets. Today, the Internet opens a flourishing global market of consumers ready and willing to engage with businesses of any size. As Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe, once told me,... |
Someone Is Remaking Classic Zelda… in First Person 3D… in Virtual Reality | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | Ready for a trip down memory lane? A nice little hike up Mount Nostalgia? Someone has set out to rebuild . As in, 8-bit, 1986, “It’s Dangerous To Go Alone” Legend of Zelda. But with a twist! These guys are recreating the game in 3D. And, in one of the world’s finest examples of “because we can” hackery, they’re buil... |
U.S. Investments Surge For African Tech Entrepreneurs | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | From the to , American high tech companies and venture capitalists are increasingly supporting startups across the African continent. Whether it’s the in Botswana that Jim Goetz mentioned in his take on ; the launch of IBM’s new innovation centers in Lagos and Casablanca; in Africa, or the on how to engag... |
Cleaning Startup Homejoy Opens An Office In New York City | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | offers its home cleaning services in , but it managed to expand without opening any offices outside of its San Francisco headquarters — until January, when it opened an office in New York City’s financial district. It’s been almost exactly a year since , following the same system it has used in other geographies — a... |
Relive The Magic Of The ATL Meetup + Pitch-Off | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | Oh, what a night! For the second time in as many years, TechCrunch hit the streets of Atlanta this week to find some of the best and brightest startups that the south has to offer. Over 1,000 people attended the event, with 15 startups giving a sixty-second pitch to a packed house. Female-friendly wearable company ... |
Retail Software Company Ecommera Raises $41M From Dawn Capital, WPP And Others | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | a software company that helps retailers use their customer purchasing data and more to improve the retail experience, has secured $41 million in Series C funding led by Dawn Capital together with investors ePlanet Capital, Frog Capital, Westcoast Capital, WPP and WTI participating. This brings the company’s total fund... |
Netflix Reaches Direct Access Deal With Comcast [Updated] | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | Netflix has with Internet service provider, Comcast, to gain direct access to deliver streaming video through its network. The deal will cut out third-party transit providers and enable Netflix to more efficiently stream video to Comcast subscribers. Netflix eats up an incredible amount of global bandwidth. In 2012, ... |
Mobile Is From Mars, Facebook Is From Venus, And WhatsApp Is Ephemeral | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | You can only admire Mark Zuckerberg. If the game is Whack-A-mole he is prepared to whack them, small, medium or large – no matter the cost. Whacking moles is the only way to earn points and points translate into life. Think about it. Would you give up 20 percent of your worth and 35 percent of your cash if you got to l... |
Wearables Attack! Huawei Announces A Fitness Band That’s Also A Bluetooth Headset | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | Your fitness band got into my bluetooth headset! No, your bluetooth headset got into my fitness band! Stop! You’re both right! In what I suspect will be a minor blip in the interstitial wearable world, China’s Huawei has announced a Bluetooth sports band complete with pedometer and calorie counter called the . Why is ... |
The WhatsApp Story Challenges Some Of The Valley’s Conventional Wisdom | Semil Shah | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | TechCrunch Silicon Valley and the tech world at large are filled with a variety of conventions. These conventions are now created, captured, and shared ad nauseam disguised as blog posts, tweets with links, and countless message boards. The benefit of such a canon is we all have access to a rich repository of knowledge... |
Opera Launches Its Max Data-Savings App For Android | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | About a week ago, Opera its new and allowed users to pre-register. Starting today, Opera will roll out Max to these pre-registered Android users in the U.S. on a first-come, first-served bases. Pre-registered European users can also install it today (there doesn’t seem to be a cap for them). Opera Max effectively t... |
MEMI, Because A Purse Is Where Phone Calls Go To Die | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 23 | A while ago, HTC came up with this , which had a little charm that hung out of a purse and notified women when they were getting a phone call or alert. The idea — that purse-carrying females need something besides their phone, packed deeply in their black hole of a purse, to alert them to incoming notifications — wa... |
Kickstarter Coins | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | B. Levine is the Editor-in-Chief of the , an independent, original content platform focused on the future of money. He is also the Chief Visionary Officer at , a consortium working with brands and individuals to build customer cryptocurrencies for good. Contact Adam and follow him on Twitter . Crowdfunding has be... |
Kickstarter Hacked, Customer Addresses and Other Info Accessed | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | These days, it really seems we can’t go a week without some big site getting hacked. The latest target? Kickstarter. Kickstarter announced on its blog (and via an email sent to customers) that hackers had found their way into certain parts of their database. The good news: No credit card information was accessed — and ... |
Daemon And Influx Author Daniel Suarez On Why Innovation Has Stalled | Klint Finley | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | self-published his first novel, , in 2006. The book and its sequel chronicled the rise of a botnet that uses self-driving cars to kill humans, crashes the stock market, and creates a new society in its own image. His next novel, , published by Dutton in 2012, was about aerial drones that could decide when to use l... |
CrunchWeek: Comcast’s $45B Time Warner Cable Bid, Bye-Bye Flappy Birds, Snapchat’s Smoothie Hack | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | In this episode, Leena Rao, Ryan Lawler and I discuss Comcast’s to buy its fellow cable behemoth Time Warner Cable, the of the simple and addictive mobile game Flappy Birds (and the shocking decision of its creator to at the height of its success), and how the latest Snapchat hack by an shows the importance o... |
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With Hackathons Taking Center Stage, The Coming Transformation Of The Computer Scientist | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | moved to the University of Michigan from his home in South Florida in the fall of 2011, he brought the standard equipment every freshman college student needs -– clothes, shoes, books, and a backpack. One item, though, was missing. “I didn’t own my own laptop,” he said. That didn’t stop him from attending his first ha... |
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Apple & Google Begin Rejecting Games With “Flappy” In The Title | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | The Flappy Bird phenomenon shows no signs of slowing down, despite the fact that the original title was of the App Store by creator Dong Nguyen, whose newfound fame apparently became too overwhelming. But though “Flappy Bird” itself may be gone, the App Store’s that mimic the addicting, frustrating game that became t... |
Despite High IPO And Solid First Quarter, Chegg Plummets As Investors Worry Over Long-Term Prospects | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | In November, eight-year-old education company under the ticker symbol “CHGG.” In the days prior, Chegg had priced its initial public offering at $12.50/share, high above its expected range of $9.50 to $11.50, and raised about $187.5 million in total at a valuation of close to $1.1 billion. One of the first to bring... |
Square Cuts More Custom Pricing Deals For Merchants And Ramps Up Sales Hiring | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | This past week brought the news of a — the rollout of Square Stands in bars, Whole Foods restaurants, and other venues. This comes a year-and-a-half after the huge deal the payments company inked with the coffee and beverage giant Starbucks. The lengthy wait between these big deals was a signal to some in the payments... |
Gillmor Gang: Lip Sync | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | The Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — Boy, the way Glenn Miller played, those were the days. The Gang was a deck stacked against the Gillmor young versus old, Lorde versus The Stones. Just when we finally convinced everybody Beatles was spelled with a Capital T. T... |
Was Y Combinator Worth It? | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | Almost any time someone asks about the Y Combinator experience they ask, “Was it worth it?” It’s a difficult question to answer concisely given the complexity of such a program. During Y Combinator we had a chance to make a lot of friends, learn from experienced entrepreneurs, pitch to investors, and even sign up val... |
Is Tech Money Good For San Francisco’s Middle Class? An Economist’s Perspective | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | The liberal wonderland of the San Francisco Bay Area has one of the highest concentrations of wealth in the country. . But, are the local residents catching any of the dollar bills being shaken from the post-IPO money trees? It’s been hard to decipher the broader impacts of technology on the average San Franciscan bec... |
Dosomething.Org Taps Snapchat For Teen-Centric Valentine’s Campaign | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | , a not-for-profit focused on making volunteer work and social change exciting to people under 25, is going after its key demographic where they’re comfortable: Snapchat. The company used the photo-sharing platform, which has yet to launch a formal advertising or brand program, to run a Valentine’s-themed campaign in ... |
On-Demand Ride-Sharing Startup Lyft Is Raising Another Big Round Of Funding | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | is raising yet another big round of funding, according to sources. The company, which is seeking to make ride-sharing mainstream in cities across the U.S. and around the world, is expected to use the new cash to fund expansion into new cities and territories. We’ve heard Lyft has pitched a number of venture firms and ... |
VCs On Inequality, Unemployment, And Our Uncertain Future | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | The Great Bifurcation is underway. The American economy is polarizing between the minority rich and the majority poor; technology is a major cause of this; and the rest of the world will soon follow, if it hasn’t already. been , and by now you’re probably sick of my perspective — so I went to tech VCs and ... |
This iQi Hack Shows Why Apple Hasn’t Bothered With Wireless Charging | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 2 | 15 | iQi is a hardware add-on that brings the tech Apple hasn’t — wireless charging (using the ) — to your iPhone without the need to put it in a bulky case. Think of it as akin to Bill Gates’ quest for sensation enhancing . Or, er, having some cake and eating it. The slender iQi gizmo is designed to work with soft cases,... |
Comcast Makes Bid To Acquire Time Warner Cable For $45 Billion | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | The Time Warner Cable sweepstakes might be over. Just a few months after it was that the second-largest cable firm in the nation was looking to be acquired, Comcast, the number one cable provider, has made an for the company. According to , the deal is set to be officially announced Thursday, with Comcast offer... |
White House Unveils Cybersecurity Plan For Big Firms, Looks To Silicon Valley Next | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | The Obama administration unveiled Wednesday a long-awaited plan for bolstering the cybersecurity of critical-infrastructure providers — including big information technology and communications companies — and is gearing up to try to enlist smaller Silicon Valley shops in its battle against hackers. Top officials at the ... |
Uber Beefs Up Its Background Checking System | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | said today that it has expanded its system for conducting background checks on the drivers in its on-demand ride service network. In a on the company’s official blog, Uber said it will now perform federal and county background checks on all new drivers in all American markets. The company will also run federal and c... |
Marc Andreessen: Tech Is Still Recovering From A Depression | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | Venture capitalist , Palantir co-founder and Goldman Sachs COO sat down today at the Goldman Sachs conference in San Francisco, to talk about the thing investors always talk about: Tech. The Netscape founder, taking the same stance he’s had for years, was ever the ebullient optimist. (Because what else are VCs pai... |
Creators Of ‘Super Hexagon’ and ‘Canabalt’ Build Fantastic Tributes To Flappy Bird | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | I told myself I was done writing about Flappy Bird. Really. I’m sort of sick of hearing about it too. But this… this is something special. The creators of Canabalt and Super Hexagon — two very loved games that helped pioneer the whole “simple yet absurdly difficult” category that Flappy Bird took to a whole new level o... |
Mt. Gox’s Original Creator Is At Work On A Secret Bitcoin Project | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | In what should be one of the greatest and weirdest pivots of all time, Jed McCaleb transformed Mt. Gox (short for Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange) from a card-trading platform into what became the world’s one-time leading Bitcoin exchange. Not wanting the legal hassle of operating a crypto-currency exchange, McCal... |
Keen On… The Hippies: How The Counterculture Ruined The Internet | Andrew Keen | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | The Internet has been getting a lot of lately. But there are few people better able to coherently explain what’s gone wrong than the Stanford University associate professor of communication, . As the author of two important books, and the recently released , Turner has spent much of his academic life studying th... |
Please Come Pick Up Your Award, Edward | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | and he can’t even give us the courtesy to show up and accept it. Sure, he’d be jailed upon entering US soil and set on a pretty much pre-determined course for life in prison. But, still, it’s a tiny statue of a monkey smashing a TV. We question his priorities. Accepting on his behalf was Trevor Timm, Executive Direc... |
Y Combinator-Backed Beacon Offers A New Approach To Crowdfunding Journalism | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | , part of the current batch of startups incubated by Y Combinator, gives readers another way to support (and get access to) high-quality journalism. Two of the company’s co-founders, Dmitri Cherniak and Adrian Sanders, told me that they previously worked together on a photo storytelling app for the iPhone, where they w... |
Meet Rise, The Diet App That Helped Me Lose 20 Pounds (And Keep It Off During The Holidays) | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | In fact, it’s pretty damn hard. Most diet plans have strict guidelines that are difficult to stand by. Hiring a nutritionist can be effective, but the cost is generally out of reach for most people. , a new , aims to connect users with their own personalized diet plans and daily feedback from nutrition coaches for a ... |
Secret To Launch A Bug Bounty Program As Soon As Today | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | Today, for a brief time, a post on the secret sharing app Secret and an image on Twitter caused a twinge in the cockles of every user’s heart. The image appeared to indicate that your email — and therefore your identity — could be tied to your Secret posts. Given that the vast majority of posts on Secret are stuff that... |
Yahoo’s Contextual Homescreen App Aviate Adds A Smart “Listening Space” For Music Lovers | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | , the contextual Android homescreen application Yahoo in January, has rolled out an update today which introduces a smart “Listening Space” that allows users to more easily find their music applications in one section, while also being pointed to relevant information about their music, including bios and recent tweet... |
Fwd.us Adds A Paid Membership Model, With Access To Talks From Thiel And More | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | Fwd.us, the advocacy group initially backed by tech luminaries like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, is . The move is a bid to attract broader support from regular tech industry workers and people living in cities like New York and San Francisco who care about immigration reform and political issues affecting knowledge... |
Zillow Reports Record Q4 2013 Earnings, Relaunches NYC-Focused StreetEasy As Free Service | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | today its Q4 2013 earnings. The company booked $58.3 million in revenue (up 70% year-over-year) for a GAAP earnings per share of $0.07 and non-GAAP EPS of $0.20. Net income was $2.7 million. In the year-ago quarter, Zillow reported earnings of $34.3 million and net income of $500K. For all of 2013, the company repor... |
Disney Is Launching Its Own Startup Accelerator, With Help From Techstars | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | The Walt Disney Company is getting into the startup incubator business with the launch of a new program called . Disney says it’s looking for 10 “early-stage companies with innovative consumer media and entertainment product ideas.” Those startups will receive a $120,000 investment and mentorship from the tech and ent... |
Mobile Game Developer Supercell Made $892M Last Year (Oh, And They Paid $345M In Taxes) | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | Here’s what a top mobile game developer can make in a single year: $892 million off two games across Android and iOS. That’s what Finnish developer Supercell said on a call last that night that it earned last year. Although Supercell is privately held, it still has to report earnings once a year in accordance with Finn... |
MyHealthTeams Lands $3.3M To Bring Mobile-Friendly Social Networks To Those Living With Chronic Health Conditions | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | Today, that there are more than 130 million Americans currently living with a “chronic disease” — in other words, the many types of long-lasting conditions that “can be controlled but not cured.” With Alzheimer’s Disease, cancer, arthritis diabetes and heart conditions among the most common (and costly) examples of c... |
CircleUp Lands Virgin America Partnership | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | , a crowdfunding service for startup consumer goods companies, has landed as a partner for the food and beverage companies it backs. It’s the latest example of how corporations increasingly are embracing the wisdom of crowdfunding. The U.S.-based airline, which has a minority investment from Sir Richard Branson’s Vir... |
Tocomail Debuts An Email Service Designed For Kids | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | , a new iPhone and iPad application launching today, aims to be kids’ first email service. The app was designed not only with children in mind, but also in collaboration with kids who provided input as Tocomail’s early adopters. But more importantly, Tocomail offers parental controls that allow mom and/or dad to design... |
Google And VMware Make Accessing Windows Apps, Desktops From ChromeOS Easier | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 12 | Google and VMware today announced that they are to make it for Chromebook users in the enterprise to access Windows apps and the Windows desktop on their machines. Using VMware’s (DaaS), which uses ‘s HTML5 Blast protocol, it will now be easier for Chromebook users to connect to a traditional Windows experience.... |
Japanese Internet Giant Rakuten Acquires Viber For $900M | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | , one of Japan’s largest Internet companies, has that it will acquire Cyprus-based messaging platform and app maker Viber for $900 million. The deal is the latest and largest in an aggressive acquisition spree by Rakuten as it seeks to “become the world’s No. 1 Internet services company,” it said, and marks its entry... |
Secret Launches Bug Bounty Program For Hackers Who Find Vulnerabilities In Its App | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | , which has fast become everyone’s favorite way to with , has launched a new program that is designed to find — and squash — bugs in its mobile app before being exposed to the general public. The launch of the program comes less than a day-and-a-half after a photo began making the , which appeared to link a user’s ... |
Xiaomi Sets Singapore Launch Date As It Prepares For Global Expansion | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | just announced that it will launch in Singapore on Feb. 21. This is a significant move because it marks the company’s first expansion beyond China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan six months after . The company earlier this week. The only product currently featured is the Redmi, Xiaomi’s cheapest Android phone, which will co... |
Aerohive Networks Files For $75 Million IPO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | , a company that sells Wi-Fi products to enterprise customers, has today . The company’s proposed $75 million public offering is not unexpected. It about a future flotation when it raised its Series E round of capital ($22.5 million) in 2012. Aerohive went back to the well a final time, picking up $10 million as a S... |
Twitter’s Dick Costolo On What It Takes To Be A Good CEO | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | Backstage at the show, TechCrunch co-editor pulled Costolo aside for a quick interview to talk about Twitter’s success over the past year and what it means to be a good CEO. When Panzarino asked Costolo to share his “playbook” for leading Twitter, he had a really thoughtful response. He said: “I’ll say two things. ... |
TC Cribs: Zoosk, Where A Tunnel Of Love Leads To Coders, Cupcakes, And Puppies | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | It’s just about Valentine’s Day, which means love is in the air, even here among the workaholics in the tech industry. So for this episode of we headed over to the San Francisco headquarters of , the startup that started out as a dating-focused Facebook app and has grown into a full on matchmaking service. Zoosk’s o... |
Yahoo Acquires Technical Recruiting Startup Distill | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | Yahoo just acquired a San Francisco-based startup called , which and programming challenges. They had raised $1.3 million in funding from investors including Felicis Ventures, China’s Innovation Works and DN Capital. The startup’s two founders, and , came from Tapjoy, StumbleUpon and Google. They created Distill ... |
Citia Raises $600K To Power “Card-Based” Websites And Content | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | The Internet is “melting,” according to Linda Holliday, founder and CEO of startup Citia. “I’ve been watching this movement from solids and pages to liquids and flows,” she told me. “Everything’s becoming atomic.” Holliday argued that when you look at sites like Pinterest, you can see how the web is shifting towards a ... |
TechCrunch Giveaway: A Bouquet Of Flowers | Elin Blesener | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | What is everyone doing tomorrow? You do know that tomorrow is one of the most romantic days of the year, right? Do you have plans? Dinner? A trip? Is dessert made? Well, thanks to , you don’t have to add flowers to your checklist! BloomNation has agreed to give a romantic bouquet of flowers to five lucky people. They ... |
Silk Road 2 Hacked, Over 4,000 Bitcoin Allegedly Stolen | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | Silk Road 2 moderator Defcon reported in a forum post that hackers have used a to hack the marketplace. The hackers stole over 4474.26 worth $2,747,000, emptying the site’s escrow account. UPDATE – Fixed estimate. The site used a central escrow service to send bitcoins from buyers to sellers. The hackers exploite... |
Apartment Listing Startup RentHop Opens Up Nationwide | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | Who likes Craigslist? No one! Who wants to see a startup succeed in providing a better alternative when searching for an apartment? Pretty much everyone! Will be that startup? I dunno, maybe. RentHop, which launched in 2009 and has spent the last several years refining its marketplace for apartment rentals, is now mo... |
Microsoft Has Sold More Than 200 Million Windows 8 Licenses | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | Microsoft’s executive vice president Tami Reller announced today that the company has sold more than 200 million Windows 8 licenses. TechCrunch confirmed the data point with Microsoft. The company provided greater detail on the figure, stating that it does not “include volume license sales to enterprise,” while it does... |
Kinvey Launches Dedicated Backend As A Service Platform For Enterprise Developers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | , the enterprise-centric backend as a service (BaaS) platform for mobile apps, is launching a new feature today that will allow its customers to run their apps in a dedicated private cloud or on-premise instead of on Kinvey’s regular multi-tenant platform. While BaaS platforms like Parse or StackMob (which is about to ... |
Betaworks Takes Another $10M In Funding Led By Japanese Incubator Digital Garage | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | NYC’s betaworks has taken $10 million in additional investment from Japanese digital media incubator and Twitter investor , which is tagged on to the round the company received in December. According to betaworks founder John Borthwick, Digital Garage is very similar to betaworks. “They’re a builder and an investor,... |
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Wikileaf Is Like Yelp For Kine Bud | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | Dan Nelson has a dream. His dream is to offer an easy way to find the cheapest chronic in your pro-ganja neighborhood. While you could simply ask your buddy Badger how much he pays, Nelson thought, why not create a website? And is a price comparison engine for pot dispensaries. You put in your location and how far yo... |
True Ventures Is Raising $250M For Its Fourth Fund | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | An details that True Ventures is looking to raise a new $250 million fund, its fourth. True Ventures’ last fund clocked in at $205 million, . According to the filing, the raise is fresh. However, given the track record that True has racked up recently, I doubt that it will have too much trouble filling out the fundi... |
Meet Bellabeat, The Quantified Self Startup That Wants To Be The Fitbit For Pregnancy | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | If there’s ever a time in a person’s life when she wants to keep tabs on everything that’s going on with her body, it’s while she’s pregnant. Every inch added to her waistline, pound gained, heartbeat she hears, and kick she feels is something to be monitored and celebrated. But even as the quantified self movement ha... |
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