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MuckerLab Launches New $20 Million Seed Fund | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | MuckerLab, a in Los Angeles, has raised a new seed fund, We hear the total amount of the fund is $20 million to $25 million. MuckerLab launched a few years ago as a three-month accelerator based in L.A. The incubator provides selected startups with $21,000 in seed funding, plus the typical incubator benefits like s... |
Radical Transparency And How Buffer Is Changing The Game On Startup Culture | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | [tc_5min code=”518122316″] As a social-media focused startup in San Francisco that has raised a , you might think that would be . Instead of being something to forget, however, Buffer is one of the most interesting young companies in technology today. Unlike other companies of its age that closely guard their finan... |
Facebook Opens Up LGBTQ-Friendly Gender Identity And Pronoun Options | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 13 | Facebook has to let users choose the gender pronoun they associate with. Aside from the usual “male” and “female” options, users up to 10 different gender definitions to describe themselves out of more than 50 options, including “cisgender,” “transgender” and “intersex.” Not only will this show up on the user’s Abo... |
RocksBox Gets A $1.5M Seed Round For Valentine’s Day | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | wanted to be a thing so badly that she singlehandedly built a WordPress site for the idea, and stocked it with her own jewelry. She sent out boxes of samples from her own closet so friends who wanted to participate could try on different looks. Rose and RocksBox have come a long way since the company’s beta launch du... |
HTC Confirms That Windows Phone 8.1 Exists, Shocking Precisely No One | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | In a , HTC employees confirmed that the company’s will receive future firmware updates. This indicates that the company is working with Microsoft to bring Windows Phone 8.1 to the device. Windows Phone 8.1, also known as Windows Phone Blue, is a to the Windows Phone platform expected to land in April. The as-yet u... |
Ask A VC: Comcast Ventures’ Dave Zilberman On SaaS Enterprise Adoption And More | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we hosted Comcast Ventures’ Dave Zilberman to talk about mobile enterprise, corporate VCs and much more. Zilberman, who joined Comcast Ventures in 2006 and focuses on enterprise IT investments, talked about the rise of adoption of SaaS within the enterprise, and also tackled quest... |
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs… | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | Hello, true believers. It’s amazing that today is Valentine’s Day potentially the day the robots rebel. Luckily, the robots are all still pretty small and not at all mean. Take this little fellow, for example. Created by cartoon villian Dr. Guero, the guy can drag oranges behind him like a sad-eyed citrus sherpa and ... |
Why Fads Fade: The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird | Nir Eyal | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | On February 8, 2014, an app called held the coveted No. 1 spot in the Apple App Store. The app’s 29-year-old creator, Dong Nguyen, a day from the game. Then, the Vietnamese developer sent a shocking message. In a tweet many dismissed as a publicity stunt, Nguyen wrote, “I am sorry ‘ ‘ users, 22 hours from now, I wi... |
Ronny Conway Closes His Over $51 Million Early Stage Fund | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | Solo investor Ronny Conway has the early-stage fund he had left Andreessen Horowitz last year to raise. Last September, Dan Primack that the fund was at least $30 million in size, but it’s $51 million, according . We are hearing from a source that the fund has closed. It also seems like Conway is raising parallel ... |
TrueVault Launches To Bring Easy HIPAA Compliance To Startups And Health Apps | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | It was the best of times, it was the : In an effort to jumpstart the U.S. economy amidst the runaway blight of the “Great Recession” and financial crisis beginning in 2008, Congress scrambled to enact and then distribute its unprecedented and controversial $787 billion economic stimulus package. Among other things, th... |
Gillmor Gang Live 02.14.14 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | Gillmor Gang – Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/gillmorgang |
Instapainting Turns Your Photos Into Hand-Painted Oil Paintings On The Cheap | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | Surprise! It’s Valentine’s Day, the stealthiest of all the holidays. Sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? If you’re trying to get a gift today, you… might be a bit short on options. Will you go with the gas station teddy bear? The twice-crushed box of chocolates? A bouquet of acceptable-looking roses for $200? If your nearly-... |
The Nokia-Microsoft Deal Is Still A Go For Q1 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | The that will see the former’s handset business find a new home at the latter is still a go, and should wrap in the first quarter of this year. That gives the deal around 1.5 months to get itself over the finish line. Nokia today released a to that effect, emphasizing that a tax squabble in India would not impact t... |
Pinterest For iPad Adds Place Pins, iOS And Android Apps Get Animated GIFs | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | Pinterest isn’t just for elaborate napkin crafts for your book club soiree, or for bragging about inhuman feats of supernatural cupcakery; it also makes a pretty stellar travelogue. A new update for Pinterest for iPad adds Place Pins to the tablet title, as well as animated GIF support for both iOS applications and the... |
French Startups Can Now Raise Up To $1.4 Million In Crowdfunding And Syndicates In France | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | The crowdfunding rules in France will become startup-friendlier in the coming months. The government announced today that companies will be able to raise up to $1.4 million (€1 million) per Kickstarter-like crowdfunding campaign. The same limit will apply to equity crowdfunding (also known as AngelList-style ) — start... |
Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Social Marketing Startup Little Bird Raises $1.7M More | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | , the startup led by former tech writer Marshall Kirkpatrick, is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in new funding. Kirkpatrick, formerly an editor at ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite) and before that a writer at TechCrunch, in October 2012. He told me then that his goal was to help companies find people who are i... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Android-Flavored Nokia Phone, LG G Flex, And The Crunchies! | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | Happy Valentine’s Day, lovebirds. We’ve got quite the treat for you. This week, rumors spread that , to be released later this month. Meanwhile, LG has been making waves with the new . And finally, we all returned from a super fun, , where Kickstarter won best overall startup. We discuss all this and more on this we... |
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As Exchange Withdrawal Restrictions Ease, Bitcoin’s Price Snaps Northward | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | It has been a for Bitcoin , as three major exchanges halted withdrawals in the face of an issue that could impact the perceived integrity of exchanges of the currency. Mt.Gox, a long-running but controversial exchange was first to halt Bitcoin withdrawals. With the currency inside Mt.Gox effectively trapped, the pri... |
Predicting Love And Breakups With Facebook Data | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | Does it matter that the love of your life doesn’t like your friends? If you hit the one-year anniversary mark, are you more likely to get married? Smitten worry warts are often obsessed with comparing their partners’ behavior to other couples to see if a dreaded breakup is headed their way. Now, with the magic of big d... |
Thanks, New Orleans: The Meetup Is On! | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | Good news, everybody! Everything is really looking up in New Orleans and we’re on track to at least beat a few of the smaller cities we’ve visited in terms of tickets sold. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t buy your pass to the big show early, however, and we still want you there. so we can get an accurate headcount fo... |
Twitter Stock Faces Early Test As First Insider Shares Unlock Tomorrow | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | Tomorrow the first traunch of insider stock at Twitter will unlock, allowing non-executive employees to sell a portion of their shares. Nearly 9.9 million shares will be set free on Saturday, worth around $565 million. The February unlock pales in comparison to the much larger one coming in May, making tomorrow’s sale ... |
How To Cope with Your Insane Jealousy Of The WhatsApp Deal | Nir Eyal | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | Wednesday was my birthday. It should have been a great day. My wife and daughter had prepared a delicious breakfast, I had lunch with close friends, and I finished up some writing and client work. At the end of the day I headed to San Francisco to enjoy a swanky scotch tasting at a friend’s house. Then I heard the news... |
A Look At Marvin’s Malton Military Cushion Watch | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | In the interest of expanding our general knowledge of all things hardware, I present another of my occasional weekend watch reviews, this time featuring Marvin’s Malton Military Cushion watch, an automatic three-handed timepiece made by a fairly small brand based in Vaumarcus, Switzerland. I’ve been following for a w... |
A Week With The LG G Flex | John Biggs | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | reviews of the have already gone up, but since the phone is slowly percolating out in the U.S., I thought I’d give it a full week of use to see just what the fuss was about. If you watched our Fly or Die, below, you’ll know that I’m excited by the phone but consider it a novelty, and it may be too pricey for most us... |
How The World Butchered Benjamin Franklin’s Quote On Liberty Vs. Security | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 14 | One of America’s favorite liberal phrases has been sent through the political spin machine and polished into a Frankenstein of sorts, thus rendering it inaccurate and far from its original intention. You might have heard that American founding father Benjamin Franklin said something like “Those who give up liberty for ... |
When Founders And Investors Split Over An Acquisition Offer | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | For one founder who recently sold his startup, it was the culmination of a long journey. At the same time, the founder, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, had problems during the acquisition process, feeling bullied by a venture investor. The investor argued against a sale of the startup, and then after a... |
CrunchWeek: Facebook’s Epic, $19B Acquisition of WhatsApp | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to chat about the most fascinating stories of the past seven days in tech. This week, Colleen Taylor, Aex Wilhelm and I sat down to talk about this week’s biggest story: Facebook’s of messaging app WhatsApp. ... |
[Updated] Apple Fixed A Bug In iOS 7. It’s A Doozy | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | On Friday Apple to a security bug in its iOS 7 system. Saturday Web security experts have parsed the patch to figure out what exactly the problem was… And apparently it’s a doozy. has all of the gory details: The culprit of what may be one of Apple’s biggest security snafus is an extra “goto” in one part of the auth... |
WhatsApp Is Down, Confirms Server Issues [Update: It’s Back After A 210-Minute Outage] | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | Update: WhatsApp experienced an outage for around 210 minutes today from 11am to 2:30 pm PST. Users around the world reported that they were unable to send messages, and these problems at 12:16pm PST with a tweet stating “sorry we currently experiencing server issues. we hope to be back up and recovered shortly.” Wha... |
Meet Oren Zeev, Silicon Valley’s Builder-Investor | Leena Rao | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | You probably have not heard of Oren Zeev, and he would prefer it that way. There’s a small breed of early investors in Silicon Valley who primarily invest their own money, but who want to have an active role in building a company. This model isn’t for everyone. It’s a hybrid of a traditional VC with a dash of the early... |
The Google Smartwatch Is Real, And It’s Coming Soon (But Maybe Not Too Soon) | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | Google’s long-rumored smartwatch is real, and still “officially” expected to begin shipping in mid to late March. However, many members of the smartwatch team inside Google believe that date will either be pushed back to June, or the watch will end up shipping incomplete with a smaller feature set than originally inten... |
Gillmor Gang: WhatsApp, Doc | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — bask in the afterglow of the 19 Billion Dollar Bash. The reasons for the WhatsApp deal are many: taking the rapidly growing messaging app off the table, turning Facebook into an appregator, introducing the med... |
Line To Open Its Sticker Market To All Designers, Launch Skype Competitor | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | announced today at a press conference in Tokyo ( ) that it will open its sticker marketplace to all designers and companies. The platform was previously available only to Line’s partners. The open marketplace, called the Line Creators Market, will launch in April. Revenue will be divided evenly between designers and L... |
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The Next Revolutions: Drones Vs. Phones | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | It’s been a hell of a week worldwide. : “What had been a slow-motion unravelling that had stretched out over many years went kinetic all of a sudden.” : “Dozens dead as protesters regain territory from police.” : “Four people have been killed and more than 60 injured after a gun battle erupted between police and ant... |
Obamacare Spurring A New Generation Of Startups | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | Spurred by , the American healthcare system in 2014 has entered a period of titanic change. The process will be messy and disruptive – it already is. While challenging for consumers of healthcare services, the shifting landscape provides tremendous opportunity for entrepreneurs, setting up the potential for an accel... |
Hedge Fund Rising | Contributor | 2,014 | 2 | 22 | Scrolling through reports of recent venture financings, the names of the firms involved has changed quite a bit over the past few quarters. Of note, hedge funds have entered the later-stage, pre-IPO investment arena in a meaningful way. Firms like Coatue Capital (Snapchat, Box), Valiant Capital (Pinterest, Evernote) ... |
Paramount Afraid Tweeted Stills Of ‘Top Gun’ Compete With Actual Movie | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | Clever Twitter user delighted their followers by tweeting the entire Top Gun film through subtitled still frames, at a rate of about 2 frames an hour. The account’s roughly 5,200 followers got bite-sized shots of 80’s nostalgia until the fun police at Paramount and was suspended. explained: No one is authorized ... |
Google Lobbying To Block Distracted Driving Laws Against Glass | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | Google is swinging its hefty lobbying power at state lawmakers who could ban Glass while driving. Google is lobbying officials in at least three U.S. states (Illinois, Delaware and Missouri) to stop proposed restrictions on driving with headsets such as Google Glass, “marking some of the first clashes over the nascent ... |
Aereo Gets A 14-Day Stay Of The Injunction Against Its Service In Denver And Salt Lake City | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | Over-the-air broadcast streaming startup has good news for its customers in Denver and Salt Lake City: They can continue using the service for now. The federal judge who handed down an injunction in those markets today issued a reprieve, granting the startup a 14-day grace period (via ). The stay is only temporary, ... |
Connect Debuts A “Living” Address Book That Maps Your Nearby Friends | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | , a new location-based address book and friend-finder utility launching today for both web and iPhone, will tell you who’s nearby, allowing for more “serendipitous” encounters. If that idea sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because a crop of location-based social apps, including Highlight, Banjo, Glassmap and , caught the... |
Opternative Is The First Online Eye Exam That Writes You A Prescription | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | “Do I need glasses?” is a question you usually have to get an in-person eye test to answer. But today, online eye exam provider is coming out of stealth to get you a doctor’s prescription for glasses straight from your computer or phone. Opternative’s test takes five to 10 minutes and costs around $35 — 75 percent le... |
Black Tux Raises $2.6M So You Can Rent That Suit And Tie | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | on the rental tux market with a higher-quality, lower-priced , Black Tux has raised $2.6 million in its first institutional round of funding. It’s the latest brand to come to market with funding led by Lerer Ventures, which has backed everything from and to a company that wants to take everyone to the . Lerer is... |
With Box, Yelp And Palantir On Board, Piazza Lands $8M From Khosla To Bring Recruiting To Its Social Q&A Platform For Students | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | As free online social tools now play a central role in how we communicate, interact and manage our interpersonal relationships, and as consumerization sweeps through IT and learning, the traditional boundaries between the tools we use to learn, for work and to socialize are becoming increasingly blurry. It’s only natur... |
Hands On With Meta Pro, The Augmented Reality Glasses With 16X More Screen Than Google Glass | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | , the augmented reality technology company, has captured the attention of the gadget world with the launch of the , the $3,000 headset that aims to bridge the gap between fully immersive virtual reality tools such as the Oculus Rift and (relatively) more subtle wearable devices such as Google Glass. You can read muc... |
Rolls-Royce’s Drone Shipbots Will Rule Tomorrow’s Oceans, Shipping Containers | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | If you’re rooting for the drone team, then chalk up another win: that would roam the Earth’s oceans packed with crates of goods, controlled by captains safe on shore using virtual reality facilities to pilot their fleets. In other words, tomorrow’s salty tales of ghost ships with no one left on board could be all too... |
Google Quietly Begins Pushing Its Photo Backup Software To Google+ Users | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | Google has begun pushing its “Auto Backup” photo archival software to Mac and Windows users via the company’s social networking platform, Google+. The promotion is new, we’ve confirmed, though the software itself was first launched back in December. At that time, the desktop utility as a part of its older Picasa phot... |
Microsoft Adds Full TypeScript Support To Visual Studio | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | About a year and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its to help programmers write large programs in JavaScript. Starting today, with the arrival of the first release candidate of TypeScript 1.0 and the latest , it’s becoming a fully supported language in Microsoft’s IDE. That’s a strong commitment by Microsoft to TypeSc... |
Box Picks Up Former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem As Special Adviser On Its Road To IPO | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | Today Box that it has picked up another Adult In The Room, increasing its leadership depth as it ramps towards a widely leaked, forthcoming initial public offering. Former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem will take on the role of Special Adviser to the growing company. According to Aaron Levie, Box’s CEO, Salem will help “... |
Minuum Shows Off Just How Smart A Smart Keyboard Could Be On A Smart TV | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQoXajSCi4&w=1168&h=657] Typing using any kind of remote control that doesn’t include a full QWERTY keyboard is a nightmare, and everyone knows it. I still enter text into my Xbox One using the gamepad, despite its support for external keyboards and despite the availability of t... |
Fast-Growing 2U Files For $100M IPO, But Is It Poised To Be The Next Big Education Company? | Rip Empson | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | When emerged in 2008, online education was still struggling to be taken seriously. Despite steadily , many remained skeptical. Both fairly and unfairly, online education was seen as a world of simple micro-correspondence courses, limited in quality, incapable of producing outcomes truly commensurate with on-campus e... |
Motorola Confirms Development Of Another Smartwatch | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | Motorola held a decided low-key press conference today at Mobile World Congress. It was a snoozer. But! But Rick Osterloh, Motorola SVP, confirmed that the brand is still working on smartwatch development and there is another one on the way. Motorola was in fact one of the first firms to attempt a smartwatch. Way back ... |
Here’s What The Upcoming Xbox One Dashboard Update Looks Like | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | Slowly but surely, Microsoft is making up for shipping the unfinished console that is the Xbox One. In February, the company shipped an update that brought many an earth-shattering feature, from “Telling how much space you have left on the hard drive” to “An icon that tells you if your controller is about to die.” Anot... |
Google Expands Underwater Street View To New Locations | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | Google today a couple of new locations to its , including a number spots , Cancun and . Google unveiled underwater Street View and has been ever since. The company has partnered with the on this project and uses a number of special underwater cameras to capture the panoramic images its uses for this project.... |
Mt. Gox’s Demise Marks The End of Bitcoin’s First Wave Of Entrepreneurs | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | When in early 2013, there was something that was just about half of the founders I met. “I consider myself psychologically unemployable,” CEO Charlie Shrem told me in a phone interview last year. He described how he built BitInstant with whom he had never met in real-life. The call was full of bizarre clicking ... |
Visualizing 15 Years Of Acquisitions By Apple, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, And Facebook | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 2 | 25 | , you slow down, and you die. That is, unless you can inject some fresh blood. After watching the last generation of tech giants wither or stagnate, today’s juggernauts are . Check out the interactive infographic below to compare the size, frequency, and focus of the last 15 years of acquisitions by Apple, Amazon, Goo... |
Xiaomi To Invest $1B In Online Video Content | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | just that it plans to invest $1 billion in online video content to support its smart television ecosystem. The investment will be overseen by two Xiaomi executives who have considerable experience building online content. They are Chen Tong, the former editor-in-chief of news portal Sina.com, who Xiaomi hired away l... |
Disney And Google Partner Up For Disney Movies Anywhere Access On Google Play | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | Disney and Google have teamed up to let you watch Disney, Pixar and Marvel movies on any device via “We want to make it easy for movie fans to enjoy all of their past and future digital purchases across all of their devices,” says Google’s head of Google Play Movies partnerships Jonathan Zepp. Disney has some deep r... |
More Yahoo Restructuring As Offices, Sales Teams Get Cut Across Europe And Asia | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | It looks like is laying off more people in its international operations as it rethinks business outside of its core market of North America. In Asia, a source tells us that the company is laying off sales people in Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia, affecting around 25, 50 and 15 people respectively. And in Singapore, ... |
We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together (Spotify Remix) | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | Saying, “This is it, I’ve had enough,” ’cause like We hadn’t seen each other in a two years When you said you needed to stream my music for free. (Sometimes.) Then you and say “Baby, I miss you and I .” Remember how ? I say, we break up, you call me, Ooh, But ooh, this time I’m telling you, I’m telling you We... |
Tom Magliozzi, Co-Host Of NPR’s Car Talk, Dead At 77 | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | Before laptops, before cellphones, and before computers, hackers hacked machines. For most of the last century, the machine of choice was the car. Car repair, like chess, took a day to learn and a lifetime to master and the tricks we use today – 3D printing, tag-team programming, agile design – were born in the garages... |
Built In Brooklyn: Maker’s Row Bets On US Manufacturing | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | For the first episode of , we took the “built” part of the title pretty seriously. I mean, we here at TechCrunch think it’s pretty meaningful to build a great website or mobile app — but there’s some extra cool about visiting the manufacturers who are actually building or assembling physical goods. I got to see some... |
iCracked Technicians Have Made $6M This Year | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | You’d think that competing directly with Apple for its own customers would be a losing game, but ‘s iOS repair service continues to grow as Apple approaches 1 billion mobile devices sold — a threshold the company could pass this quarter. In a phone interview last week, iCracked founder and CEO AJ Forsythe told TechCru... |
Check Out This Amazing Transparent Car | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDk5HdGfuVI] has posted some amazing video of a “transparent” car created by Japanese researchers. The car uses projectors, cameras, and special mirrors to reflect what’s outside the car onto the surfaces inside. The resulting images allow you to see what’s going on all around ... |
HomeAway Sues San Francisco To Block So-Called ‘Airbnb Law’ | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | Vacation rental marketplace is looking to block legislation designed to make short-term rentals legal in San Francisco. To do that, the company has filed a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment against the city, claiming that its new “Airbnb law” violates the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause. Last month, the San ... |
VC Points Out That VCs Might Have A Burn Rate Problem Of Their Own | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | Your startup loses too much money, but even worse, the people supplying you with cash might be running a bit light themselves. Following commentary burn rates, and Fortune’s Dan Primack that some venture capitalists are investing faster and spending more on non-essentials than before. Maybe the venture capitali... |
Paracosm Raises $3.3M From Atlas, iRobot To Turn Our World Into A 3D Holodeck | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | The rise of immersive headsets like the Oculus VR, innovations in gaming and mapping, and advances in robotics have put a spotlight on three-dimensional technology, whose algorithms and visualizations will be a key to whether all this new hardware and video-based software is realistic and useful enough to win over user... |
A Maturing OpenStack Prepares To Take On New Challenges | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | , the fast-growing open source cloud computing platform that now has the backing of more than 200 companies, is holding its semiannual developer conference in Paris this week. With over 4,500 attendees, it’s the organization’s largest event so far. While this illustrates the interest in the platform, the project is als... |
Google Calendar App Gets Smarter And Prettier | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | Google is to go along with the out today. Both the Nexus 6 and the Nexus 9 run on Google’s new Lollipop 5.0 operating system. The new Calendar app works on Lollipop 5.0 and all Android 4.1 or newer devices. The old app was pretty much manual entry for events. You had to scroll times and dates, enter an event name, ... |
Parse Rolls Out A/B Testing For Push Notifications | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | Facebook subsidiary is rolling out , a new feature aimed at marketers and developers whose apps use the Parse SDKs that let them A/B test different messages and times for push notifications that go out to mobile devices. The update works with apps that already use the latest versions of the Parse SDKs with no change... |
Microsoft Now Lets Developers Run IE On Android, iOS And OS X | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | You can now run the latest version of Internet Explorer on your Android, iOS, OS X or non-Windows 10 Windows machine. Microsoft has something it calls RemoteIE, which allows developers to run the company’s browser preview builds without requiring them to be on the most current version of Windows. Microsoft wants deve... |
Is Samsung Sliding Into Home Or Just Sliding? | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | is a mobile behemoth — with a bit of an earnings problem. The in three years, a drop of 60 percent to $3.9 billion. It’s a huge stumble but, as the astute among you will note, it’s still $3.9 billion dollars in profit. Two things are happening at . We forget that in 2009 Samsung was a minor contender in the mobile ... |
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Googlers Say Their New “Material Design” Guidelines Will Unify Apps Across Android Devices | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | With the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, we should also be getting the first big wave of Android apps using the company’s “material design” principles. over the summer, and , published after the company released more details last month, has some specifics about what material design actually ent... |
Android 5.0 Lollipop Review: Tablet Edition | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | operating system is now available to consumers, as new Nexus hardware (starting with ) begins to make its way into the hands of pre-order customers. Version 5.0 of Android continues the candy naming tradition with “Lollipop,” and despite the fact that ‘L’ is just next in the alphabet, something about the name seems t... |
Nexus 9 Review: Google’s First Lollipop Tablet Gets The Recipe Mostly Right | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | Nexus tablet, and it’s made by HTC. The Taiwanese device maker has spent some time away from building tablets, so this return is significant not just because it’s a Nexus, one of Google’s stable of devices blessed with stock Android (and the first to ship with ), but also because it’s the first slate in years from th... |
Viddy, Once Touted As ‘The Instagram For Video’, Will Shut Down On December 15 | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | Remember Viddy? The one-time red hot mobile video app is closing down. That’s according to Fullscreen, the company that bought it for — a snip of its — earlier this year. — first spotted by — explains that the Viddy app was removed from the App Store and Google Play on November 4. Anyone who already installed ei... |
Google’s New Nexus Player Talks A Big Game But Isn’t A Winner Yet | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 3 | streamers. I’ve tried ’em all, from Boxee to Apple TV to the Fire TV to my current set-top box of choice, the Roku. Now I can add one more to that mix, the new . So how does this latest addition to the set top box world match up against the competition? Not so well. The has a few really good things going for it. On... |
Puzzle Piece Updates Its Line Of Inexpensive Tablets And Apps For Autistic Kids | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | TechCrunch first profiled , a startup that makes affordable tablets and apps geared toward children with autism, . Though educational apps are helpful for teaching autistic kids social skills and helping them with their schoolwork, many families a tablet. Puzzle Piece wants to make tech accessible to all families, ... |
Revo Tech Wants To Be A Leader In Myanmar’s Growing Startup Ecosystem | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | After years of dealing with slow and expensive broadband connections, many Myanmar Internet users finally got access to affordable 3G thanks to recent service rollouts by telecoms Telenor and Ooredoo. A Yangon-based mobile app company called hopes to take advantage of the country’s speedier Internet by becoming a “fi... |
Jawbone Goes After The Entry-Level With UP Move, A $50 Fitness Tracker With A 6 Month Battery Life | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | Jawbone’s might be the company’s priciest fitness tracker yet — but that doesn’t mean it’s not interested in the entry-level. Quite the contrary, in fact. Jawbone has just announced a new fitness tracker this evening — and this one comes in at just $50. Why? Because there’s a massive group of people out there who’v... |
Small Businesses Have A Free Credit Management Service With Creditera | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | The credit and information provider for small and medium-sized businesses, , has launched a new free membership service today at Money20/20 in Las Vegas. The company’s new service provides access to personal and business credit information through a comprehensive integration of available financial information, the com... |
In Europe, Spotify Royalties Overtake iTunes Earnings By 13% | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | may be from the removal of Taylor Swift’s music catalogue from its platform, and Taylor Swift may not care, since she is riding a sales blockbuster in the form of her new album 1989, but it turns out that in the bigger picture, Spotify’s streaming service continues to gain an edge over downloads, specifically via iT... |
Google And LG Strike 10-Year Global Patent Agreement | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | Fresh from in the last quarter of business, that it has struck a 10-year global patent agreement with Google. The company says that the arrangement enables cross-licensing of all existing patents between the duo, as well as new additions filed over the next decade. “LG values its relationship with Google, and this ... |
Dropbox’s Drew Houston Responds To Snowden’s Privacy Criticism: It’s A Trade-Off | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden sparked controversy when he advised consumers ( ) to “ ” if they want to protect their privacy. Today, Drew Houston, CEO of the cloud storage startup, responded to the accusations. People can do more to encrypt their data, he admitted, but It’s “a trade-off between usability/convenience... |
Jawbone’s UP3 Crams More Sensors Into A $180 One-Size-Fits-All Band | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | Almost exactly one year after , Jawbone is back with the successor: the UP3. So what’s new this time around? Most immediately obvious is the design. Gone is the signature, mostly-rigid design of all UP bands prior — instead, the UP3 is more like a watch without a watch face. Gone is the annoying little plastic cap tha... |
StubHub President Chris Tsakalakis Leaves Months After Company Reorg | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | Longtime StubHub president has stepped down from his position and left the company, StubHub has confirmed to TechCrunch today. His resignation, which comes just months after StubHub over the summer, is effective immediately and the company is undergoing a search for a replacement. Tsakalakis had run the StubHub bus... |
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Grand Theft Auto V Gets A Huge Update For Xbox One, PS4, And PC | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | Today Rockstar Games unveiled some new footage of Grand Theft Auto from the version set for release on the PS4 and Xbox One on November 18 and the PC on January 27. The biggest reveal: There’s now going to be a mode where you play as if it’s a giant open-world first-person shooter. This mode will be customizable, so yo... |
TC Droidcast Episode 25: The Sweet Song Of Android Lollipop Lures Us Back | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | The Droidcast is back, after a lengthy hiatus. It was summoned to life by the fact that there’s a lot to discuss this week, thanks to the release of the Nexus 9 and Android Lollipop, as well as the Nexus Player. We’ve got TC alum and current Engadget Associate Editor Chris Velazco back on board to help out, as both he ... |
New Technology And Big Data Help You Breathe Fresh Air | Ben Heubl | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | was conceived because CEO Ran Korber wanted to buy a house. He knew that air pollution caused health problems and he knew that in his native Israel — as with most developed countries — pollution is measured in real time, often at a street-by-street level. Yet, while local school and tax information was available in ex... |
Criteo Beats Estimates With €194M In Revenue | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | Ad tech company posted today, with revenue of €194.4 million (excluding traffic acquisition costs it was €77.6 million) and earnings per share of €0.18. That comes in well ahead of of €72.7 million in revenue (excluding traffic costs) and €0.08 EPS. It also shows revenue growth of 70.9 percent year-over-year, or ... |
Nearly 40 Years Later, Steve Wozniak Still Brainstorms Ways The Apple II Could Have Been Better | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | The Apple II may be one of the most important systems in the history of personal computing — but that doesn’t mean it was perfect. Nearly 40 years later, Steve Wozniak is coming up with ways he could have done it better. The detail comes from a between Woz and a deeply devoted Apple I reproduction expert, Mike W. M... |
How Much Would You Pay For An “Undo” Button On Tinder? | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | forward with a testing plan for Tinder Plus, a new paid version of the app that brings premium features to users and finally starts a revenue stream for the growing IAC-owned dating company. With the paid version, users will have access to two new central features of the app, Undo and Passport. Undo lets people go bac... |
Ex-Beats Music CEO’s New App “Chosen” Is A Mobile-First American Idol | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | Sing, yodel, or shred guitar into your phone, and get famous. That’s the idea behind , founded by former Gracenote, MOG, and Beats Music CEO David Hyman. The since its formation late last year, but Hyman agreed to give me the first details about what Chosen’s actually up to. First off, Chosen’s just raised $5 millio... |
Facebook Asks People To Vote And Tell Friends, Shows Nearest Polling Place | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | Facebook reaches around 150 million users per day in the United States, and today it’s using that immense power to get people to vote in the mid-term elections. As it’s been doing since 2008, Facebook is showing a “megaphone” announcement atop the News Feed telling people to vote, with a list of friends who said they’r... |
SoundCloud Confirms Licensing Deal With Warner Music Group | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | The deal is a signal of both how traditional labels are willing to play ball with the new guard of digital music companies if the terms are right. WMG has also signed licensing partnerships with others including Shazam and Clear Channel. “This leading-edge partnership reflects WMG’s commitment to establishing new and a... |
Limdesk Is A Customer Support Center In A Box | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 4 | Okay, not really in a box because that would be cruel to the support personnel but still putting customer support people in boxes would probably be more efficient if you put some holes in the box and fed them. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about . Based in Poland, the software allows you to cr... |
Malware Discovered In China Could Herald ‘New Era’ Of iOS And Mac Threats | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | Conventional wisdom suggests that the vast majority of mobile malware cases impact Android devices. Or at least that those who do not jailbreak their iPhones are safe from most threats — even for “dominating” the mobile malware market. Yet a new virus found in China by U.S.-based researchers could herald the first se... |
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