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Shippable Raises $8M Series A For Its Docker-Based Continuous Integration Platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | If you have a startup that touches , chances are somebody out there wants to fund you. There is no other buzzword right now that seems to open up a VCs pockets so quickly. , which offers a containerized continuous integration and delivery platform based on Docker containers, today announced that it has raised an $8 m... |
Alcohol Scientists Exist And They Have An App | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | I wasn’t much of a wine drinker before moving to California wine country a few years back. Since then I’ve discovered I mostly like the red stuff and I like it to not burn while going down, but otherwise I’m still not sure what to choose among the myriad of options on the menu. is a new beer and wine recommendation ap... |
Tesla Delays Its SUV Yet Again | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | Once upon a time — way back in 2012 — Tesla announced that it was building an electric SUV. It would be called the Model X. It would launch in 2013! The world* rejoiced. [* ] Then they delayed it until 2014. The Model S was selling like hot cakes, Tesla said, and they needed to focus on that model. Then they delayed it... |
Lyft Accuses Former COO Of Stealing Confidential Documents Before Joining Uber | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | On-demand rides startup is taking its former COO Travis VanderZanden to court for breach of his confidentiality agreement and fiduciary duty weeks after the executive . In a complaint filed this afternoon in San Francisco Superior Court, Lyft claims VanderZanden downloaded a number of non-public company documents to... |
Concert Discovery Superstar Songkick Starts Selling Tickets | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | “The average American goes to one concert per year. If you double that, it has a profound impact on the lives of artists,” founder Ian Hogarth tells me. The problem is “It’s easier to buy a taxi to the concert than a ticket.” That’s why seven years and 10 million active users later, concert discovery app Songkick has... |
This Portable Raspberry Pi Console Will Bring Back The Arcade Games Of Your Misspent Youth | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | The hopes to capitalize on your misplaced nostalgia. Essentially a Raspberry Pi inside a cute case, the portable console promises to add online multi-player to classic games, thereby allowing you to Joust with players around the world or Mario Brothers your friends across town. The console is 3D printed and contains ... |
Nintendo Announces Zelda: Majora’s Mask Remake For 3DS, Coming Spring 2015 | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | Were you one of those kids who never got to play Zelda: Majora’s Mask for the Nintendo 64 because it required that damned expansion pack? Good news! Because everything old is new again, Majora’s Mask is coming back to the shelves 14 years later, but this time, it’s being remade for the Nintendo 3DS. Fans of the series ... |
Cloud Encoding Startup Encoding.com Gets Strategic Investment From Harmonic | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | Cloud encoding startup has gotten some validation from one of the big players in the more traditional video processing world. That’s because Harmonic has made a strategic investment in Encoding.com, which could lead to closer integration between the companies as more video processing moves to the cloud. Encoding.com ... |
TC Cribs: Indiegogo’s Colorful And Crowd-Pleasing Abode | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | Today’s episode of Cribs brings us to the neighborhood of San Francisco, which is where the popular crowdfunding platform calls home. The company has just recently unveiled a new rebrand that was meant to focus on all the many varied projects that use Indiegogo to raise money, and its office definitely reflects tha... |
To Create A Habit, Focus On The Reward | Nir Eyal | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | On May 1, 1981, American Airlines launched its frequent flyer program AAdvantage. Since then, a flood of loyalty programs have attempted to bring customers back through rewards. Today, you can become a card-carrying member of just about anything: hotels, supermarkets, drugstores and pizza chains. If you’re in a store... |
The Department Of Energy Needs Your Help To Cut The Soft Costs Of Solar | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | In recent years, incentives from the government to American solar startups combined with tough competition from Chinese manufacturers led to a steep drop in the price of commercial solar installations — roughly 50 percent since 2010, according to Victor Kane, manager of the within the Department of Energy’s . The in... |
VCs Look To The Future As IoT Investments Soar | Christine Magee | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | : From personal mobility device to wireless power transmitter , Internet of Things startups are amassing millions in venture dollars to make their way out of the conceptual future and into our homes, cars and offices. Crowdfunding platforms have made popular hits out of and , but the top venture-backed companies ... |
Announcing The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards | Susan Hobbs | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | It’s that time of year again. One of Thanksgiving and … nominations for the . Once again TechCrunch writers will step away from their keyboards to celebrate the best of technology. As in years past, the tech community will give awards to the best and brightest startups, founders, investors and thought leaders in our i... |
Facebook Open Sources Its Proxygen HTTP Framework And Server | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | Facebook today that it is open sourcing , the C++ HTTP libraries — including an HTTP server — that it uses internally. The company has quite a bit of its code in recent months, much of it on mobile developers. In many ways, today’s launch is more interesting, though, as it’s likely to reach a far wider number of... |
Google Guarantees Inbox Invite By 5 PM PT If You Ask During Today’s ‘Happy Hour’ | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | Google is expanding its Inbox invite program, having issued another collection of invites to existing members already today, with a new ‘Happy Hour’ taking place between 3 p.m. PT and 4 p.m. PT today. If users email them at inbox@google.com asking for an invite during that window, they’ll get access guaranteed by 5 p.m... |
A New Bullet Can Make 3D-Printed Guns A Reality | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | 3D printed guns aren’t very compelling right now. Because of the vagaries of plastic and the methods used to manufacture weapons like the , your gun can turn itself into a hand grenade if you’re not careful. But might have a solution. He’s created a new type of bullet that essentially uses the case as a barrel reinf... |
Google Drive Now Works Better With Desktop Applications | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | Google today a new feature for its online storage service Google Drive that will allow users to more easily launch the files they have saved in the cloud using their preferred desktop applications. The feature is not rolling out to the core product, however, but is instead available as . Once installed, users will b... |
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Publicis Snaps Up Sapient For $3.7B To Build A Digital Media Powerhouse | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | Global ad giant Publicis is spending big to position itself as the top agency for brands riding the digital wave, after it announced ( ) a deal that sees it acquire Sapient for $3.7 billion. Publicis is paying $25.00 per share in an all-cash transaction at a total valuation that is a 44% premium to Nasdaq-listed Sapien... |
Meetup Gets Into Crowdfunding With Launch Of “Contributions” | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | Longtime social site for groups has been steadily rolling out new features to its service over the course of the year following of a secondary round earlier in 2014. This summer, the company , and now Meetup is rolling out its own crowdfunding platform called “ .” The new feature allows Meetup group members to fun... |
Bharti SoftBank Acquires 36.5% Stake In Indian Media Startup ScoopWhoop | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | Bharti SoftBank, a joint venture between business group Bharti Enterprises and SoftBank Corp., announced today that it has acquired a 36.5 percent stake in , an Indian-focused media startup. Though financial terms were undisclosed, the deal is interesting because it’s the latest in a series of investments by SoftBank ... |
Google’s Maps App For iOS And Android Gets Material Design And Uber Estimates | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 5 | Google has to keep with the visual theme introduced with Android 5.0 Lollipop, which it calls material design. The new mobile apps now feature bold headers of solid flat colors and animations that evoke pieces of paper sliding over one another. The apps also offer new features, including reservations you can make at ... |
APUS Wants To Make Your Android Phone An iPhone With Its Launcher App | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | has been heralded by many as a sign of the increasingly sophisticated design of Android, but despite that advancement there still exists a feeling that Apple’s iOS is on the planet. But, with a new iPhone 6 costing upwards of $750 off-contract, many consumers — and particularly those in emerging markets where operat... |
Nintendo Slowly Modernizes Its Online Strategy | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | In a released last week, Nintendo publicly discussed its evolving digital strategy. The Japanese video game hardware and software developer has spent years playing catch-up with rivals Microsoft and Sony, and it was good to see the company acknowledge some of its shortcomings and show that it is looking to improve. I... |
Is Mobile Gaming The New Core Gaming? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | Let’s talk about perspective. People’s understanding of “the games industry” is usually much smaller than it actually is. They tend to think in terms of the platforms that they play as the heart of everything and then extrapolate outward. And the groups of people who do that tend to clump together, forming subcultures.... |
[Update] Bitcoin Brothers Aim To Disrupt Bitcoin Mining With New, More Powerful, Supercomputers | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | After over two years in stealth mode, the bitcoin mining supercomputer manufacturer, is launching its hosted bitcoin mining services, powered by what are better, stronger machines to make the mining of bitcoin more efficient. is the process by which a transactions are approved in the bitcoin ledger known as the bl... |
ThriveTracker Gamifies Mood Tracking With Real World Rewards | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | Depression plays tricks on your mind, even when you are well. I’ve dealt with episodes of major depressive disorder since I was teenager and one thing I’ve noticed is that when I’m depressed, I find it almost impossible to remember what being well feels like, which makes me feel trapped and hopeless. On the other hand,... |
So You Want To Fix The Housing Crisis | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | So in the country are all in the San Francisco Bay Area, with Palo Alto topping the list, according to from Lovely that came out last week. Part of this is cyclical. We don’t know where we are in the cycle or when it definitively turns. However, there are lots of structural forces at play that have accumulated over... |
How We See Google Glass Around The World | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | is as common as a Tesla motoring down the 101 here in Silicon Valley, but it’s a novelty only read about through media outlets in most of the rest of the world. Sophia Dominiguez knew that novelty was wearing off fast in our city by the Bay, so the 22-year-old recent NYU grad says she decided to take Glass where most ... |
Thoughtful.org Is Now A Crowdfunding Platform For Medical Costs And Emergencies | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | As part of the founding team at , Derek Rey helped build one of the first businesses focused on social media advertising. Now he’s doing something pretty different — his company recently relaunched as a crowdfunding platform for medical, memorial, and emergency costs. We wrote about the site two years ago, when it w... |
Defakto Detail Struktur Review: A Watch Designed With Design In Mind | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | German watchmaker that creates the cases for brands with more recognition and history, but which focuses on classic, modern designs for its own imprint. The case shapes themselves are largely traditional and without flourish, with smaller diameter faces that look good on most wrist sizes. Defakto’s watch faces are exe... |
Fundraising Acceleration Is The New VC Investment Thesis | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | There was a quite a jolt on Friday from the news that Slack, a company whose eponymous enterprise communications platform was , from KPCB and Google Ventures. Even more eye-popping was the valuation: $1.12 billion. Although Slack pivoted from an earlier incarnation as a games company called Tiny Speck, such a growth... |
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This Device Could Make It Easier To Find Your Veins | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | Scientists have discovered a way to find your veins before poking around half a dozen times to find the spot. Now the is using the near infrared light device that locates blood to study whether being able to locate hard to find veins will result in reduced anxiety and thus make it more likely these types of donors wi... |
Building A Better Version Of Capitalism Is A Massive Startup Opportunity | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | Why, on a philosophical level, has Facebook been so staggeringly successful? A startup that swelled into a multi billion dollar revenue generating business in a relatively short span of years, one which every month? According to writer and philosopher the company’s success can be explained by the fact it tapped int... |
Be Smarter Than That, Uber Users | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | Uber surprised a 26-year-old Baltimore woman with a spooky Halloween bill that hit $326 on a routine ride, resulting in her inability to pay her rent and general Internet outrage. Gabrielle Wathen , saying that she went out for her 26th birthday on the night of Halloween and, after taking an Uber an approximately 22-m... |
Google’s Copresence Looks Like A Cross-Platform AirDrop | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 2 | Google has a new service in the works that could allow users of Android devices to share media with others nearby, even if those users are rocking iOS devices like iPhone and iPads instead of gadgets running Google’s mobile OS. The so-called Copresence feature, revealed by an source digging around in the latest Googl... |
Nintendo 3DS Finally Hacked After 3 Years On The Shelves | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKjuy3-z054&w=854&h=510] It’s been well over 3 years since the Nintendo 3DS hit the shelves — and in that time, the device has proven itself remarkably resistant to hacking and modification. Until now. This evening, a hacker going by Smealum released an exploit that seems to all... |
Singapore Will Introduce New Regulations For Taxi Booking Apps In 2015 | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | Singapore will next year introduce new regulations to manage the numerous taxi-booking app services that are available in the country. The country’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) today a framework to “safeguard commuter safety and interests” in response to the rapid rise of apps like Uber, Hailo, GrabTaxi and Rocket... |
Social Betting App Youbetme Raises $2.7M | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | , the startup behind the social betting app of the same name, announced today that it has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding. Youbetme says it launched the app in January. The company bills itself as a way to “bet on anything, at any time,” either through its iOS app or it’s website. To be clear, it doesn’t suppor... |
China Tried To Get World Internet Conference Attendees To Ratify This Ridiculous Draft Declaration | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | This week, China hosted its first in Wuzhen. The irony of a country with holding an event with the theme was underscored yesterday, when the events’ organizers made a pro-forma attempt to get attendees to approve a draft declaration by slipping it under their hotel room doors late at night. TechCrunch has obtaine... |
Dyson Invests $2.35B In R&D, Aims To Launch 100 New Products Over The Next Four Years | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | Dyson is spending big on new products and product categories, the today. The maker of vacuums, fans, heaters, hand dryers, robots and more announced today that it would be spending a total of $2.35 billion across a UK tech campus, expansion of its manufacturing efforts, investment in British universities to foster ta... |
VideoBlocks Launches New Stock Video Marketplace Where All The Money Goes To Contributors | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | Stock video company is expanding beyond its subscription business model with the launch of a new marketplace for contributed content. The company has already built a library of 115,000 video clips, backgrounds, and effects, which it either created itself or licensed from others. Customers can use any of the content i... |
How Limited Edition Scarves Fit Into Ryan Leslie’s Plans To Take His Music Straight To Fans | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | In about how the business model for musicians and other creative artists , one of the commonly repeated ideas is that you no longer have to reach a mass audience in order to make money — instead, you just need a small group of devoted fans. Musician Ryan Leslie told me he’s been pursuing that idea since he left his ... |
About Those Uber Revenue Numbers | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | Uber generates lots of revenue. Everyone knows it. The company’s roughly 20 percent cut of ride spend on its platform adds up to big numbers. How big, of course, is the real question. New helps put Uber’s revenue into perspective. However, before we get to the new sums, let’s rewind. Here’s , reporting on leaked Ube... |
KinectKannon Is A Robotic T-Shirt Cannon That Can Track Your Movements And See In The Dark | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VG13IH3CSU&w=560&h=315] You can run. You can hide. Hell, you can even . Do what you want, but this thing get you… a complimentary t-shirt. Meet the KinectKannon, a semi-autonomous t-shirt cannon that can track your movements, go into night vision mode, and fire t-shirts into... |
This Week Some Japanese Startups Battled It Out At TechCrunch Tokyo | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | Every year, our sister publication has its own tech conference called to bring together local investors and entrepreneurs and to introduce that crowd to some of the more successful startups from the U.S. and Europe. This year, speakers visiting Japan for the event included Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky and Product Hun... |
Healthcare’s Big Data Opportunity | David Richards | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | The hospitals where my grandchildren are born will be unrecognizable to those we know today; they’ll be safer, cleaner and more efficient. And what is considered world class in 2014 will tomorrow be viewed with the same disdain we reserve for medical practice in the Dark Ages. Global healthcare is at a pivotal moment... |
GoPro Craters 9.3% After Pricing Its Secondary Offering At A Discount | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | GoPro fell more than 9 percent today, after it priced its secondary , a discount to its market price. The company ended regular trading today at $71.74 per share, or a several dollar negative delta to the proposed price. The company will sell 1,287,533 itself, while prior shareholders will sell 9,072,967. Underwriters... |
PCH International In Talks To Buy Fab For $15 Million | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | Multiple sources have confirmed that is in talks to sell to for $15 million, in a half cash and half stock deal. Another source put it at possibly as much as $50 million. Contractual agreements are in the very early stages between the two companies (and these things could always fall apart). However, if it does hap... |
Heirloom App Preserves Print Photos With A Single Snap | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | My mom, ever the scrapbook aficionado, has documented every birthday, Halloween, dance performance, first bike ride and baby eats dirt moment me and my brothers have endured since I can remember. She hand-scanned every last one of those hundreds of pictures a few years back and then organized them into neat little labe... |
Don’t Expect Urban Drone Delivery Soon | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | and might be chest-thumping about their respective drone delivery programs but the technology is still years out from being feasible in dense urban environments. Dr Mirko Kovac, director of ‘s current aerial robotics lab, suggests it could be as far out as a decade. “Drone delivery in cities is still something that... |
The CIA’s Review Of Glenn Greenwald’s Snowden Book Is Hilarious | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | Earlier this year, journalist Glenn Greenwald released a book titled chronicling the Snowden leaks, and on the NSA itself. The book garnered a grip of positive reviews upon publication, and has a 4.5 star rating on Amazon. Not bad, all told. But the most recent review of the book is by far the best. Hayden Peake, l... |
Twitter Now Lets You Share Public Tweets Via Direct Messages | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | Earlier this month, where it discussed changes to the platform and revenue streams. One of those touted features – the ability to privately share (aka “direct message”) a tweet – has now gone live. “with today’s update you’ll be able to share a Tweet privately with any of your followers.” On the desktop web and in ... |
Beats Solo2 Wireless Review: Bluetooth Adds Considerably To The Solo Appeal | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | Beats is taking its Solo line wireless, with a new set of Bluetooth cans that match the wired Solo2 almost exactly in terms of external design. Surprisingly, they also match their wired counterpart in terms of sound, both when used with the included aux cable with inline remote, and when they’re used with the Bluetooth... |
Technics Revived As High-Res Music Download Service | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | Famed turntable brand Technics plans to launch a high-resolution music download service. For what it’s worth, the service, unlike Neil Young’s high-res service Pono, will not hit the states. Starting in January, the platform will spin (get it?) 24-bit tracks to users in UK and Germany. Called Technics Tracks, it’s said... |
Seed Lab Creates A Seamless Connection Between You And Your Kettle | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 20 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6K_ErRNOMY] A few months ago, the guys at showed me an Internet of things product that piqued my interest. While the product isn’t quite fully-baked, it was essentially a low power Bluetooth chip that could fit into any device – a lightbulb, a kettle, a toaster – and report, ... |
Restaurant Discovery Service Zomato Raises Further $60M | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | , the restaurant search and discovery service, has closed a further $60 million in funding, giving the company a post-money valuation of $660 million. Investment comes from India’s Vy Capital, and Info Edge, and Sequoia Capital. It takes total funding to over $113 million. “We will use the funding to go into hyper-dr... |
Xiaomi And Shunwei Capital Make $300M Strategic Investment In iQiyi, One Of China’s Largest Online Video Platforms | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | , which announced earlier this month that it plans to invest $1 billion in online video content, has been very busy spending that money. The hardware maker confirmed today that it and Shunwei Capital have together made a $300 million strategic investment in , the video platform that is majority-owned by , China’s lar... |
Coin Is Finally Shipping To Early Backers | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | One year after exploding on the scene, it looks like , the YC-backed startup that wants to replace all your bank cards with a universal card, is finally shipping its product to some early backers after a long, long wait. The company previously said shipments would begin this summer. It is now the middle of November. C... |
Smart Pipe Just Might Be The Best Waste-Based Startup Video Ever | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ] Have you been concerned about your waste? Is it full of enough protein? Full of too much weird stuff like metal shavings or cat hair? Now there’s Smart Pipe. The system connects to your plumbing and allows you to sense all of the good stuff leaving your body. It soc... |
Uber Says It Won’t Look At User Data Except For “Legitimate Business Purposes” | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | While much of from has focused on vice president Emil Michael’s suggestion that the company could dig up dirt on critical journalists, the story included something that could be equally concerning — the fact that Uber’s New York City manager accessed the profile of a BuzzFeed reporter without their permission. On s... |
Merkle Acquires Loyalty Startup 500friends | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | Customer relationship management company announced today that it has startup . The startup’s LoyaltyPlus platform allows businesses to run customer loyalty programs in stores, online, and on mobile. It also allows them to . 500friends co-founder and CEO Justin Yoshimura told me he was gearing up for the company’s... |
A Gift Guide For The Novice 3D Printer | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | This is the year you and yours should take up 3D printing. Why? Because it’s cool, because 3D printing is the future, and machines have fallen in price and risen in quality. In short, 2015 will be the year of 3D printing. Here are some amazing printers to help you ring it in in style. An inexpensive, European-made 3D p... |
NSA Reform Dies In The Senate | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | Well shit. A vote to proceed with the USA FREEDOM Act failed in the Senate after it did not collect the 60 votes that it needed. It failed 58 to 42. Before the vote, I noticed a slight change in the tone of people that I had on the phone: There was optimism that it could make it. It didn’t. You can stick a fork in NSA ... |
Yet Another Reminder To Mind Your Words | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | “You can’t post that photo,” said the founder and CEO of a prominent, exited startup. He was talking to his PR agent in a W hotel suite in Times Square. I had just taken a selfie with the two of them, at the publicist’s request, and then excused myself to use the restroom. “Seriously, you can’t post that,” said the CEO... |
U.K. Government Funds Free Online Courses Teaching Startup Skills | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | A tech industry-backed, U.K. government-funded initiative offering free online courses to those wanting to learn commercial digital business skills goes live today, aiming to upskill Brits to work for tech companies or even start their own startup. The wider narrative here is of course the need to reconfigure the skill... |
Ad Optimization Startup Boost Media Raises $19M More | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | announced that it has raised $19 million in Series C funding. The company allows advertisers to find the best version of their search ad — it tests variants created by a network of freelance copywriters and designers, identifies the versions with the most clicks or highest conversion rates, then promotes them in a b... |
As BranchOut Team Goes To Hearst, 1-Page Buys BranchOut’s Assets For $5.4 M In Cash And Shares | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | Another chapter closed in the life of , the failed startup that attempted to create a “LinkedIn within Facebook” with . The company’s assets have been acquired by , an HR software company based out of San Francisco but listed on the Australian stock exchange. Based on today’s stock price, 1-Page is paying around $5.... |
TC Cribs: Famo.us, The Startup Office That Feels Like Home (Because It Used To Be One) | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | In this episode of Cribs, we headed over to , the startup that’s built a web platform for developers and designers. A lot of tech companies try to make their offices feel as homey as possible for the comfort of their employees, but Famo.us just might take the cake. That’s because Famo.us is actually headquartered in w... |
Bipsync Has A Research Management Tool For Hedge Funders | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | Danny Donado spent years working for a hedge fund bemoaning the lack of a good document and research management tool that he could use to organize and share the copious notes he was making on potential deals, so finally he built one. Donado launched so other hedge funders wouldn’t have to. The former employee initia... |
Netflix Will Expand To Australia And New Zealand In March 2015 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | In its last quarterly earnings video streaming service Netflix teased that it would be soon launching in more countries and today comes confirmation of that: the company will be expanding Down Under, to Australia and New Zealand, in March 2015. “Internet-connected users in Australia and New Zealand will be able to subs... |
Far Cry 4 Review: A Quirky Open-World Shooter You’ll Want To Explore | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | Launching today, is the latest in Ubisoft’s franchise of first-person shooters set in exotic locales. It takes place in a big, beautiful open world roughly based the area around the Himalayas in Nepal. As a player, you’re free to explore this environment through a variety of means, including driving ATVs, cars, and... |
Uber CEO Says Exec’s Threats To Journalists “Showed A Lack Of Humanity” But Doesn’t Fire Him | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to the suggesting the company , including PandoDaily’s editor Sarah Lacy. In a tweetstorm, he said that “Emil’s comments at the recent dinner party were terrible and do not represent the company…His remarks showed a lack of leadership, a lack of humanity, and a departure from our values an... |
Senate’s NSA Reform Bill Heads For Uncertain Vote | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | So much for bipartisanship. Earlier today, Senator Mitch McConnell attacked the USA FREEDOM Act, intimating that supporting it would harm the nation in its current struggle with terror-state ISIS. Also today, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Ron Wyden, from the other slice of the aisle, indicated that they would vote for ... |
BuzzFeed Jumps Aboard The Messaging App Train, Starting With WeChat | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | is a modern media empire that moves, or at least tries to move, with the times. The company was initially famous for its easily shareable stories and listicles, but these days it is more sophisticated than that, mixing Pulitzer Prize winning authors and serious journalism with the cats, dogs, and lols on its platform.... |
Nearly Half Of The Operation Onymous Takedowns Were Scam Or Clone Sites | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 18 | While the FBI was able to take down a number of popular Dark Web sites including the , it seems the wide-ranging attacks targeted mostly fake sites. Friend of has taken a closer look at the sites the FBI attacked and found that 153 of the 276 them were spam sites or clones. “Of the 153 clone or scam sites, 133 were ... |
MOCAheart Makes Keeping Track Of Your Heart’s Vital Signs Easy | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | wants to make keeping track of your cardiovascular health as easy as pressing a button. The device, which is , was developed by a team led by Naama Stauber and Dr. Daniel Hong, who was a physician at National Taiwan University Hospital, one of the country’s top teaching hospitals, before becoming an entrepreneur. The... |
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The Uber Supper | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | As we in the U.S. sit down to holiday dinner tonight, we are reminded that we have oodles to be thankful for. For one, I am grateful that the news cycle is now slow enough that I can post stunning image of the infamous , depicted as Leonardo Da Vinci’s “ .” In addition to Emil Michael, Ben Smith, Michael Wolff, the ... |
Thankful | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | Everything is awful. Terror is on the rise, the oceans are threatening our shores, humans are heartless, pitiless, and endlessly greedy. If we keep going the way we’re going we will be hollow ghosts haunting a corn husk moon, our civilization returned to dust.
 We fear. We long for escape. We all succumb to fire, di... |
A Gift Guide For Watch-Loving Ladies | Contributor | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | While almost anyone can wear any watch – some watch companies aim traditionally female watches at men with small wrists – a dedicated woman’s watch is beautiful, well-made, and timeless. Here are some of my favorites for the past year. Legible and elegant, the PrimaLuna collection by historic Swiss watch maker longines... |
Startup Weekend On The Turkish Border Unites Two Countries’ Entrepreneurs | Elmira Bayrasli | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | It’s not unusual to encounter a Startup Weekend somewhere in the world. The trademarked event that brings together individuals eager to build and present it before a panel of entrepreneurship experts and investors is well known and widely replicated. Yet, when a Startup Weekend involves Armenia and Turkey – known adver... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: BlackFriday! | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | We’re bringing this podcast to you a little early so you can arm yourself before going into Black Friday! Join Greg Kumparak, Matt Burns, and Darrell Etherington as we skewer Zelda and talk about the best laptops for your money!
We invite you to enjoy our every Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern and noon Pacific. And fe... |
Spend Your Black Friday Funds Helping Crowdfund A Mission To The Moon | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | You have enough already. And owning more gadgets just means more under-utilized stuff gathering accusatory dust. So why not spend the Black Friday funds you’d set aside to spend on sales tomorrow helping to instead? Yes, this is one very ambitious crowdfunding mission — with an estimated delivery schedule of, ooooh... |
Identity Wars: Why Apple Pay Is About More Than Payments | Patrick Salyer | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | There’s been no shortage of attention paid to the launch of the new iPhones, with their array of shiny new features, bigger screens and better hardware. Early reviews seem to indicate that the company has, yet again, come through with another massive success. Many of those who stood in around-the-block lines or refresh... |
These Aren’t The Drones You’re Looking For | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPf95aPMTWE&w=560&h=315] As we approach the holiday season, San Francisco startup has been getting a lot of attention from the press — after all, by , rather than when it’s convenient for the delivery service, Doorman should reduce the risk that your gifts will get stolen whi... |
Twitter Experiments With Engagement Stats Directly In Tweets | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | Want to know just how many people actually care about what you’re tweeting? A new Twitter experiment spotted by ex-Twitter platform head Ryan Sarver will show many you how users are clicking on the links in the updates you post, with a handy link directly in the expanded Tweet view in the iOS application. As usual with... |
Windows Phone 8.1 Finally Breaks The 50% Market Share Threshold | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | Windows Phone 8.1 accounted for more than 50 percent of all Windows Phone usage in November. It . Windows Phone 8, its predecessor, still controls 33.5 percent of the Windows Phone base. That amount will decline as more carriers update phones that were initially sold with an earlier version of the Windows Phone platfo... |
The Black Friday Survival Guide | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | research data displayed in the following guide. I saw horrific sights working retail for seven long years in both a big box electronic store and a major shopping center. I saw things that will haunt me the rest of my days. I watched two kids get trampled by what I call Double-Wides because Circuit City clearanced-out ... |
We’ll Get Our First Look At Windows 10 Consumer Features In January | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | Windows 10 is already a known quantity to some degree thanks to the , but Microsoft is holding an event late in January to present its consumer features properly, according to a new report from . The January event will include discussion of new features for end-users, including an all-new touch input interface called... |
Bio-Fuel Powered Electric Triplane Launches On Kickstarter | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | We thought Triplanes disappeared after World War One. But a new startup aims to bring them back in a new hybrid electric aircraft, powered by biofuel. FaradAir is now to achieve its initial funding goals for its plane. The Bio-Electric-Hybrid-Aircraft or BEHA for short, aims to be the world’s first ‘Hybrid’ eco-frien... |
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The Most Popular Enterprise Sync and Share Product Might Surprise You | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | released a report this week with details on the enterprise sync and share market and what they found may surprise you. It certainly surprised me. That’s because the most popular sync and share tool in the enterprise today is not Box or even Microsoft OneDrive. It’s Dropbox, the The report, which surveyed over 1000 IT... |
Zano Is A Sky Selfie Micro-Drone That Flies Itself | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | Holy autonomous micro-drones batman! Wondering how you’re going to line up your next ? Aka a selfie taken from up high by a passing UAV so you don’t get a photo of yourself remote controlling a drone… Well, never fear: a U.K.-based firm is building a micro-drone that flies itself so you can stand around looking noncha... |
Le Wagon Is An Impressive French Coding Bootcamp For Entrepreneurs | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | Coding bootcamps are nothing new, but they have always been more popular in the U.S. than in Europe. Last year, when started, it was a breath of fresh air. The team not only wanted to bring the concept back to Europe, but also wanted to add its own flavor. Le Wagon is a coding school specifically targeted towards en... |
Space Age Is An Old-School Adventure Built For Mobile | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | is an old-school adventure game built for the iPhone and iPad by the developers of It takes place in an alternate timeline where humanity (in 1976) has achieved the fantasy of the 50s: putting people on another planet. It’s almost overwhelming with the amount of nostalgia it inspires, an impressive feat considering t... |
European Parliament Backs Investigation To Split Google Search From Its Other Businesses | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | A little from the European Parliament today: they support the idea of breaking up Google. While the search giant was not mentioned by name, members voted 384 to 174 (with 56 abstentions) in favor of a set of measures encouraged to drive more tech growth across the European Union. Among those measures: a resolution to... |
Goldman Sachs Invests $36M In Korean Food Delivery App Baedal Minjok | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 27 | Seoul’s startup industry has been awash with major funding news over the past few weeks. Earlier this month, and game developer each disclosed that they had raised $100 million or more. Now Seoul-based startup , which operates food delivery app , has announced that it has raised a 40 billion won (about $36 millio... |
Xiaomi Partners With Youku Tudou, China’s Largest Internet TV Company | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Just last week, fast-growing Chinese hardware maker Xiaomi . Now we’re getting a glimpse of how Xiaomi plans to use the money. , China’s largest online video company, . According to the companies, Xiaomi will invest in Youku Tudou by purchasing its stock on the open market, though it did not disclose how much. Other... |
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