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Tencent Focuses On Free Calling With New Standalone WeChat VoIP Apps | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Chinese telecom operators have long resented , the country’s top messaging app, for the pressure that its hundreds of millions of users place on their data networks and the lost revenue they incur. There have even been . But now things just got a lot more serious after Tencent, the company behind the hit service, rel... |
Cloud HR Startup Zenefits Opens Scottsdale Office, Plans To Hire 1,300 Employees Over Next 3 Years | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Fast-growing cloud HR startup has seen its customer base and revenues ramp up dramatically since launch, and it’s looking to aggressively expand its headcount to keep up with demand. To do that, the company is opening a gigantic, 100,000 square-foot office in Scottsdale, Ariz. and plans to hire 1,300 full-time employ... |
Snapchat Wants Its Users Who Still Use Third-Party Apps To Give Them Up Already | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Having already its users that connecting to a third-app gives “a developer, and possibly a criminal” access to their intimate selfies, Snapchat is taking new steps to safeguard their privacy in the wake of hundreds of thousands of ‘snaps’ leaking out last month. The company says it will notify users that are still us... |
Singles’ Day Underscores The Importance Of Mobile And Lower-Tier Cities For China’s E-Commerce Companies | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Major Chinese e-commerce companies like , , and all achieved record-breaking sales yesterday during Singles’ Day. That’s not too big of a surprise, considering the increasing importance of the event for Chinese consumers and businesses alike (for those of you still scratching your heads over what the big deal is, S... |
Google Music Download Sales Miraculously Growing Despite Their Death Everywhere Else | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | We’re in a , so it’s no surprise ‘s on-demand streaming service subscriber numbers are growing. But somehow, Google’s download sales growing too, Google’s VP of Global Music Partnerships Zahavah Levine said today at the conference. She refused to reveal any concrete subscriber numbers when I asked, but said “Not on... |
Steve Ballmer Spends 3.8% Of His Total Tweets Dismissing Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Chalk up one tech exec to the ‘less is more’ view of net neutrality oversight by the FCC. Steve Ballmer, most recently the long-time CEO of Microsoft, tweeted today that extending FCC oversight over Internet competition is not needed. Ballmer’s 25th tweet (out of 26!) says the following: https://twitter.com/stevebmicro... |
Hampton Creek Plans To Counter-Sue Unilever Over Mayo Fight | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Plant-based food startup is readying a response and planning to counter-sue major food corporation Unilever over the meaning of ‘mayo.’ Unilever filed a lawsuit against Hampton Creek this weekend, involving its “Just Mayo” product. Unilever’s two main concerns are over market share for its Hellmann’s mayonnaise produ... |
RelayRides Challenges the Sharing Economy | OneLap | Rob Coneybeer | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Sharing economy companies like are a lot harder to build than they appear. They’re similar to peer-to-peer product marketplaces, but transactions are based on temporary usage rather than an exchange of physical ownership – which adds significant complexity. Scheduling, insurance, dispute resolution and pricing are ... |
Should Microsoft Build Hardware? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | So what’s this new Microsoft strategy you’ve been hearing about? According to CEO Satya Nadella, : Office 365, Windows and Azure. “That’s it,” the executive recently quipped. Given that narrow focus, how do the company’s massive and recent bets on hardware fit into the picture? Microsoft has in its Windows Phone pro... |
Confirmed: Yahoo Is Acquiring Video Ad Company BrightRoll For $640M | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Yahoo just that it’s acquiring video ad company for $640 million in cash. We , with a price of around $700 million, but both companies declined to comment. In , Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said that video is one of the company’s key growth areas (along with mobile, social and native advertising), and that the acquisi... |
Amazon Is Expanding Its R&D In Cambridge, U.K., With A Focus On Prime Air Drones And Speech Tech | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Amazon is expanding its R&D operations in Cambridge, U.K., with a plan to staff out a large research lab — expanding on the foothold it acquired when it two years ago, TechCrunch has learned. Cambridge is feted for its world-class university which, in turn, acts as a hub for concentrating science and technology talen... |
The Psychology Of Online Customization | Liraz Margalit | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | E-commerce firms are discovering the value of online product customization and the additional revenue potential that can be generated from it. Over the last few years, product customization has burgeoned in the online space, as consumers look to buy a plethora of differing mass customized goods from suits to handbags a... |
TC Droidcast Episode 26: Moto Rules With Droid Turbo And Nexus 6 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | This week’s Droidcast features Darrell Etherington, Chris Velazco, Greg Kumparak and Kyle Russell, and we discuss the looming Nexus 6, as well as more Motorola with the Verizon-exclusive Droid Turbo. Also up for debate are the merits of Samsung’s own-review of the Gear S, which heralds a new low in content marketing, a... |
Android User Takes Apple To Federal Court Over Undelivered Text Messages | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Apple will soon face a federal lawsuit brought on by a woman named Adrienne Moore, who, like many former iPhone users who have switched to Android, is upset that she did not receive text messages after switching platforms. She is seeking unspecified damages, and to make the lawsuit a class action. Since the release of ... |
Formation 8 Adds Shirish Sathaye As Its Newest Partner | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Formation 8 has been busy lately, as the relatively new venture firm has been adding team members and (reportedly) is in the midst of . Today the company announced the hiring of its newest team member, former Matrix and Khosla Ventures partner . Formation 8 was founded just a few years ago by Joe Lonsdale, Jim Kim an... |
Flux’s 3D Printer Is Also A Scanner, Laser Engraver And More Thanks to A Modular Design | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 11 |
3D printers are at a bit of a crossroads – after a lot of initial promise, they seem to have hit a roadblock between early adopter zeal and general consumer interest. A new entrant called Flux should at least reinvigorate hobbyist excitement, thanks to a modular design that makes it a veritable all-in-one maker ... |
A Gift Guide For On-The-Go Bloggers, Students And City Dwellers | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | The life of a blogger can be nauseating. You’re a rolling stone and wherever you lay your laptop is your home. Your laptop bag is essentially your corner office and must contain everything needed for a day’s work. What follows is a gift guide for your favorite blogger, but can easily apply to college students, city dwe... |
Dropbox Updates Web Interface For Easier Sharing | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | Dropbox today it’s adding a new feature designed to make sharing easier on its service. On the Dropbox website, logged in users will now see a new sharing button that allows you to quickly add people who are allowed to view and sync your shared files and folders with their account, and a new “send link” option for ad... |
Calling All Angels, Executives, VCs And Everyone Else To Write Guest Columns For TechCrunch | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 11 | 11 | The heart of any website or blog is its community of readers, contributors and commenters. At TechCrunch, part of that has been the guest columns that we publish each week. We have provided space for contributors to enlighten the tech community with their industry insights. And now, things are changing. We’re building ... |
The Social Psychology Of The Naked Selfie | Sean Young | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | If you’re building a tech product that has anything to do with photos then you’re probably feeling an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu lately, and it has to do with data security. It had become so routine that throughout the fall it was hard to imagine a Monday without hearing about another set of photos that been hack... |
A Digital Healthcare Argument For Net Neutrality | Matthew Douglass | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | The federal agency regulating communications is at a crossroads in establishing the rules of the road for how the Internet operates. Many commentators are rightfully concerned that the FCC could adopt rules that will give cable and phone companies the opportunity to discriminate against website providers and/or conte... |
Bullying The Bullies | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | Humans haven’t quite gotten the hang of human rights, let alone social media. Combined ignorance of the two leads people to spew hate from the safety of an Internet connection, writing their bigotry into the public record. Now these moments are being put display for public shaming by a seeking justice against racists... |
Clime Stickers Are Up For Pre-Order, Will Tell You (And Baby) If It’s Cold Outside | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | I first covered when they were little more than 3D-printed nubbins. Now these nubbins have brains. Essentially they are tiny indoor/outdoor thermometers. You can put them anywhere and then check your mobile device for the temperature. You may have something similar in your home – they used to called them weather ther... |
Peering Into The Minds Of The 4.3 Billion Unconnected | Hassan Baig | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | In a on TechCrunch, I wrote about the mental challenges faced by the world’s offline population of 4.3 billion when trying to use the Internet for the first time. After all, they’ve never experienced the Internet before, lacking what UX experts call a ‘mental model’ of how basic Internet services work or why to eve... |
The Mexican Valley Of Startup Death | Jorge Rios | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | The startup universe revolves around Silicon Valley, but there is life on the other planets, too. Long has the entrepreneur community been used to the term “startup valley of death” and come to fear it. As most accelerators claim, once you make it out of the ditch, you’re on your way to fame and glory. But not in Mex... |
Gillmor Gang: Basement Tape | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, November 28, 2014. @stevegillmor, @scobleizer, @dbfarber, @kteare Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor I stopped writing a few years ago, mostly because I felt the form was too much a parlor trick. ... |
Penguin Hatches A Cloud Reader For Pelican Books | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | It likely hasn’t passed you by that traditional book publishers aren’t having the best of times these days. Indeed, when it comes to reading you could say it is the best of times and the worst of times. (TC’s Jon Evans — also a , so in a prime position to comment on the matter — made just that Dickensian point, in fac... |
Mo’ Data Mo’ Problems | Jon Evans | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | The most exciting promise of Big Data–and if you hate that term, you’re not alone, but I think we’re stuck with it now–is this: the data collection happening on an increasingly gargantuan scale, run through modern data-processing and pattern-recognition algorithms, will unearth powerful new insights into our world and,... |
Mainstreaming The Smart Grid | Takafumi Arai | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | The October anniversary of Hurricane Sandy — which knocked out power in over 8,100,000 homes in 17 and was the second-costliest hurricane in U.S. history — has served as an opportunity to reflect on how we view our power grid. The practice is important. Stephen Lacey provided some of the of what caused the storm ... |
The Lesson Of Monument Valley | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 11 | 16 | I’m fascinated by the reviews left by players in the wake of the decision by the game’s developer (ustwo) to price a recent content update at not-free. Ustwo had released the original game at $4 featuring 10 levels. The game was a labor of love and earned many just awards. It also went to sell in excess of 1.4 millio... |
Lazada, Rocket Internet’s Amazon Clone In Southeast Asia, Raises $250M Led By Temasek | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 29 | We don’t often see companies announce funding rounds on the weekend, but that’s not stopping , the Rocket Internet-backed e-commerce firm in Southeast Asia, from today that it has pulled in €200 million (around $250 million) in fresh capital. The round is lead by Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, which manages a $100-bi... |
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A Gift Guide For The Core Gamer Who Wants It All | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 16 | Do you like games? Do you also like playing them, regardless of surroundings, access to power, Wi-Fi or a clean water supply? We’ve got you covered, with a list of must-haves for those who’d rather play in virtual worlds than exist outside them. Strap in and prepare your hands with ample stretching, because what follow... |
Apple Adds UnionPay, China’s Largest Bankcard Network, To App Store Payment Options | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 16 | App Store customers in China can now link their debit or credit cards to their Apple IDs for purchases, announced today. This is significant for Apple and Chinese consumers because China UnionPay, a bankcard network approved by China’s State Council and the People’s Bank of China, enjoys a virtual monopoly. It has ... |
Panasonic Partners With Photon To Build Smarter Signs In Stores | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 16 | , a company that’s been focused on building mobile experiences for large brands, is teaming up with Panasonic to bring what they say will be a more personalized experience to the digital signs you see in stores. The goal is to combine Photon’s software with Panasonic displays, so that those displays will know more abou... |
Netflix Kills Off Its Public API, Takes A Few Applications Down With It | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 16 | Are you a developer? Do you have a brilliant idea for the next Netflix-powered app? Too bad! Netflix’s public API is now dead. If you’ve previously built something that tapped Netflix for its data, it’s probably dead now too. The move isn’t surprising – just disappointing. , barring any newcomers from gaining access. ... |
Disney, A Mobile Company | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 11 | 16 | In the central corridor of the animation building at Disney Studios there is a gold-leafed cupola hovering directly over a marble inlay of Steamboat Willie, the movie considered to be the debut of Mickey Mouse. If you stand under the dome and speak, you’ll hear your voice reverberate. To everyone else standing outside ... |
Pitch Your Startup On TechCrunch Radio On Sirius XM | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 16 | After a highly successful 6-week pilot, and a brief hiatus, is returning and settling in for a much longer stay. We’ll be returning very soon for our usual hour-long show on Sirius XM 102 Indie, and like usual, we’ll be holding our rapid-fire startup pitch-off. If you’re new to the program, TechCrunch Radio is a new ... |
Why Did Google Decide To Split Inbox From Gmail? | Marat Ryndin | 2,014 | 11 | 16 | A couple of years ago, right around the time Google’s Gmail team decided to start working on a standalone email app — the recently announced Inbox — a major redesign of Gmail was launched. As is the case with all Google products it was first released internally as “dogfood” to let Googlers themselves digest all the n... |
Meet Your New Boss, Mr. Algorithm | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 11 | 16 | new boss. It’s flexible, willing to change work schedules so you can work when you want, and not when you don’t. It’s reasonable, providing you honest feedback without the politics of your last human boss. And Algo will find new projects for you to complete, so you always have something interesting to work on while re... |
What’s Next For Firefox? | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | When historians look at the history of the Web ten or twenty years from now, chances are they will point to Firefox as one of the most important products of the . But right now, it’s hard not to look at Firefox and worry a little bit about its future. At the height of its success, , Firefox owned more than a quarter ... |
Series B Fundraising For Your Enterprise Startup | Glenn Solomon | 2,014 | 11 | 16 | After a seed round of $1-2 million helps build a working prototype and a $5-10M Series A enables a successful beta and launch, what comes next? Lots of entrepreneurs have reached out to me recently to discuss what it takes to raise a successful Series B, and luckily, for many enterprise companies, a similar pattern eme... |
IBM: Black Friday Online Sales Up 8.5% Over Last Year, 20% Of Sales Came From iOS | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | Online retailers had a decent Black Friday, with sales up over 8% from a year ago, and nearly 47% of online traffic coming from mobile devices throughout the day. Mobile played a big role this year in terms of both traffic and sales, and yesterday was especially notable for being . Today, those figures dropped a bit, ... |
A World Without Net Neutrality Already Exists | Jeff Lawson | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | People have wondered how an Internet without net neutrality would work. Net neutrality is more than just a debate, it’s not a hypothetical, and it’s real and alive today with SMS. It is currently hypothetical that on an Internet without net neutrality, companies would need to “pay to play” and live by arbitrary, ISP-... |
Too Many Droids | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | This morning’s trailer and Adult Swim’s are, obviously, the most important videos of the millennium (falcon.) What happens if the two were to hang out one night, share a bit of wine, and maybe make a lil’ video-baby? This happens. Introducing , a wonderful remix cut together by our own video producer in response... |
A Gift Guide For The Starter Smart Home | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | The proliferation of smart home products means there’s never been a better time to get on board, even if you’re not that tech crazy or familiar with the market. Here’s the list of things to get you rolling with your own basic setup, plus a few nice-to-haves in case you want to go the extra mile. Connect lightbulbs now ... |
Preparing For An Acquisition | Amit Paka | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | Silicon Valley is ground zero in the fight for technology talent and market share, and acquisitions are a great way to fuel that growth. Small acquisitions can help fill a business need quickly and are easier to close than big deals. Flockish, my previous startup, was purchased by StubHub (owned by eBay) in an asset ... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 11.28.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. |
Mophie Powerstation Plus Review: Integrated Cable Is Both Blessing And Curse | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | Mophie has a , and it aims for compact, all-in-one design that should reduce bulk and complication when you’re searching for supplementary power. The new design builds a cable right into the power pack, which holds a battery powerful enough to charge your iPhone up to eight extra times, depending on the capacity you c... |
PayPal’s Bitcoin Integration And The Future Of Digital Currency Adoption | Ken Miller | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | Recently, PayPal several partnerships aimed towards enabling certain PayPal merchants to be able to accept bitcoin as a form of payment from their customers. This was a significant announcement on multiple fronts as many had wondered if and what PayPal’s foray into the cryptocurrency space would be. As further vali... |
The E-Label Act Will Remove Those Silly FCC Symbols From The Back Of Future Gadgets | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | You know all that crap that’s listed on the back of your smartphone and tablet? It looks something like this: A jumble of letters and words, an FCC symbol, and instructions to not throw your electronic equipment into the trash. It’s ugly, and generally a waste of space. But luckily for us, it’s time to say goodbye to t... |
About That Enterprise File-Sharing Study | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | Earlier this week, on a report concerning the current popularity of various enterprise cloud file sync and share products, a group of services usually shortened to the acronym ‘EFSS.’ Dropbox was far and away the leader, finding a home within nearly 45 percent of responding enterprise IT pros’ businesses. Microsoft’s... |
Find Your Zen With Desert Golfing | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | If you’re looking for something to do while sitting around with family as you all process the remainder of the Thanksgiving meal still working its way through your digestive tract, I’ve got something for you that will take very little effort but still provides hours of entertainment. It’s , a simple game for iOS and A... |
Here, Star Wars, I Fixed Your ‘Force Awakens’ Lightsaber Crossguard For You | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | The first Star Wars: The Force Awakens features all kinds of things that make my diehard Star Wars soul quiver and dance, but the crossguard on the dark side lightsaber spotted in the teaser, while initially cool, increasingly isn’t one of them. It looks ultimately very impractical, and I couldn’t help but to offer so... |
Digiarty Is Giving Away 1,000 WinX DVD to iPhone Ripper Software Licenses | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | Our friends at Digiarty are giving TechCrunch readers access to their WinX DVD to iPhone Ripper. This software offers an alternative to purchasing movies from iTunes, and makes it so you don’t have to worry about format compatibility between devices. The ripper compresses and converts DVD to iPhone and iPad MP4 H.264 v... |
Best Buy’s Website Crashes Hard On Black Friday | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | WHOOPS. Seems Best Buy was ill-prepared for today’s post-Turkey shopping madness — at least online. BestBuy.com has been down for nearly an hour now (since roughly 6:15 AM Pacific), on a sales day that the company likely hoped would be one of its best. It’s unclear whether the outage is due to a technical screw-up or t... |
Let’s Make Bitcoin The Biggest Humanitarian Tool The World Has Ever Seen | Lorelei Kelly | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | News junkies of the world may be forgiven for becoming the latest tech skeptics: 2014 has been a year of global mayhem. Instead of creating a connected civic safety net, it seems like tech platforms simply amplified messages and images from ungovernable parts of the world. Boko Haram kidnapped girls in Nigeria, and we ... |
Watch The Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Right Here | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOVFvcNfvE&w=854&h=510] If you aren’t heading to the movies today, you still won’t miss out on the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer – it’s over at iTunes to watch. The highly-anticipated sequel to the sci-fi trilogy from the late 70s and early 80s (and maybe also a decade... |
Line Purges Its Games Platform Again, Removing 15 Titles From Its Messaging Service | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | Today may be holiday time in the U.S., but it also seems to be a time for cleaning in Japan. , the messaging app company with 500 million registered users, just announced the closure of 15 of its third-party games, that’s nearly half of the titles on its games platform and its second purge in six months. In an announc... |
Nintendo Patents Game Boy Emulation For Use In Mobile Devices, In-Flight Entertainment | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | A new patent published by the details an invention by Nintendo that would allow it to emulate its mobile game consoles, including the Game Boy line of devices specifically, in other settings, including on seat-back displays in airplanes and trains, and on mobile devices including cell phones. The patent is an updated... |
Sony E-ink Watch Aims To Make Low–Power Screens The Next Big Thing In Fashion Fabric | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 28 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLBCVhZ4J7E&w=1023&h=575] Almost every tech hardware maker is basically racing smart watches out the door, but Sony is looking at how it can re-invent the basic timekeeping device itself with a new special project that was only just now revealed to be associated with the Japanes... |
Alibaba’s Payment Services Affiliate Alipay Opens An Office In Australia | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | Earlier today, Ant Financial, the Alibaba Group affiliate that operates Alipay, China’s largest online payment platform, . Just a few hours later, Alipay to help promote Australian products to Chinese consumers. Alipay already has presence in other countries including South Korea, Singapore, London, Luxembourg, U.S.... |
Path Talk Places Launches In The UK, Ireland, Australia And New Zealand | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | Path, the messaging/social networking company, made a major move towards commerce when it . One important component of that app, ‘Places’, lets businesses and customers connect and communicate via text — and that service has now expanded outside of the U.S., hitting the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand today, .... |
Cabs Cause Gridlock At SFO To Protest Uber, Lyft And Sidecar | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | It’s a great day for . At San Francisco International Airport this evening, a large group of Bay Area taxi drivers has decided to make picking passengers up nearly impossible in an effort to protest the airport’s recent decision to allow ride-sharing companies to operate on its premises. But , the protest has not o... |
With $5M In Funding, Tinder-Like Paktor Wants To Get Southeast Asia Using Dating Apps | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | When it comes to mobile dating apps, Tinder defines the market. The startup, which from users, pretty much owns its space in North America, but things are different in other parts of the world. , a Singapore-based company, believes it has the answer for Southeast Asia, and it has just announced a $3 million-plus fun... |
Uber Won’t Investigate Journalists, Company Says After Exec Suggests It Investigate Journalists | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | On-demand transportation company today said that it hasn’t and won’t investigate journalists in an effort to dig up dirt that could be used against them. That’s great I guess, except that the company’s stand against vicious, unethical, and dubious smear tactics comes just a few days after one of its top execs was hea... |
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Google Play Services 6.5 Adds New Features To Maps, Drive, Wallet, And Fit APIs | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | The will include several interesting new features in Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Wallet, and the Google Fit. The rollout will be made in the next few days. In Google Maps, the API now includes a default toolbar that makes it quicker to get directions and navigation by automatically giving turn-by-turn directi... |
Alibaba’s Ant Financial Takes Minority Stake In Security Software Maker V-Key To Beef Up Alipay | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | , a security software maker for mobile apps, has raised $12 million from affiliate Ant Financial Services and IPV Capital, a venture capital firm based in China. The Series B round means that Ant Financial now has a minority stake in V-Key, which is based in Redwood City, California. V-Key’s V-OS technology is suppos... |
Source: Facebook Is Testing ‘Facebook At Work’, Separately Hosted Version To Roll Out In A Few Months | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | This afternoon an industry source confirmed for me that Facebook is indeed piloting ‘Facebook at Work’ a product aimed at enterprise collaboration and the source told me such a product will be rolled out in a few months. Back in June, TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden reported that ‘, and (registration required) and specul... |
Students Build Objects With Metal Using A MIG Welder And An Off-The-Shelf 3D Printer | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dy-2F81DWA] Today in the Department of Overkill Department we present who have built a metal printer using a basic Prusa 3D printer – essentially a hobbyist printer – and a MIG welder. The system extrudes and melts a length of wire which is then laid down just like it is in p... |
Snapcash Could Bring Real Identity And Ad Targeting Data To Snapchat | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | Snapchat doesn’t ask for your real name, but its on the debit card you use for its new . That could prove very lucrative for the ephemeral messaging service. Snapchat has just to allow it to collect additional identity information about users of Snapcash. We’ve also discovered code showing the feature can run an ide... |
The Drop Connected Kitchen Scale Is Not As Easy As Apple Pie, Yet | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | The next frontier of hardware is in your kitchen. hopes to be a part of that connected experience with a kitchen scale and an that uses Bluetooth technology to take you step-by-step through hundreds of curated recipes. It’s an Irish invention that has been on pre-sale all summer long. It’s now in the U.S., the U.... |
inMarket Says Its Beacon Platform Reaches 18% Of US Mobile Shoppers | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | Looks like I might have to revise my perception of in-store beacons as technology that won’t matter until a year or two or three from now (at best). I don’t have industry-wide numbers, but on its own, startup says it’s already reaching a significant percentage of US consumers — 31.5 million of them each month. If you... |
White House Says It “Strongly Supports” The Senate’s NSA Reform Bill | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | The White House this afternoon saying that it “strongly supports” the Senate’s USA FREEDOM Act, which could see a vote this week. The bill would curtail some practices of the United States’ surveillance apparatus. Congress, in this lame duck session, only has so many hours and days to conduct its final business. Befo... |
Hands-On With Super Smash Bros. For Wii U | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | Later this week, Nintendo launches , the fifth game in the wildly popular fighting game franchise that brings together all the company’s biggest characters. We’ve had a chance to play through some of the game this weekend and wanted to share some quick thoughts before our full review. From the first time you boot up... |
Goat Simulator Satirizes World Of Warcraft With An MMO Expansion | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | Back in September we took a look at , a that let you run rampant as an invincible goat in a small rural town. It’s a great game that’s easy to get into if you’re the kind of gamer who likes to be thrust into a world without being told what to do, discovering fun opportunities as you go. Unfortunately, the game world... |
EyeEm’s Algorithms Are Learning What Makes A Photo Great | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | When most people think of stock photography, they picture poorly-framed pictures with generic-looking subjects doing everyday activities with an unnatural amount of enthusiasm. With its , photosharing startup has blurred the line between professional photography and the casual shooting we all do that most smartphone... |
For Windows 10, A Feedback Test | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system is a , and one that is being built partially in plain sight. The software company, leaving behind its former ways, is working to integrate its community into the development process, even when it results in new features and changes that were sourced from people outside the fir... |
SourceLair Lets You Code Right In Your Browser | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | Editing code isn’t that hard. A terminal, a little Vim, a little PHP, some beer, and maybe a few Google searches and you’re off and running. But what if you want to work on a project without compromising your personal server or don’t really have an environment for coding? is one answer. The freemium service lets you ... |
Intel’s MICA Smart Bracelet Will Be In Stores Before Christmas For $495 | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | , which was developed in collaboration with Opening Ceremony, the CFDA and sold exclusively at Barneys. The company also announced that it will go on sale in time for Christmas, and will retail for $495. That price includes at AT&T Sim card, complete with data and SMS messages, for two years. However, the company cou... |
Built In Brooklyn: HowAboutWe Is An Online Dating Service With An Offline Focus | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 17 | There’s a good chance you’ve already heard about , the latest startup featured in our TechCrunch TV series — not just if you use the service yourself, but also because it was a few months ago. To be clear, this episode won’t tell you what the company has been up to post-acquisition, because we actually recorded ... |
SpaceX Will Announce Micro-Satellites For Low Cost Internet Within Three Months | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | , Elon Musk’s startup, is committed to bringing space travel to the masses. Now Musk has also confirmed on Twitter that SpaceX is working on a fleet of “advanced micro-satellites operating in large formations,” which will be officially announced in two to three months. The micro-satellites will be used to enable unfett... |
Xiaomi Made $250M Selling 1.16M Phones On China’s Singles’ Day | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | Singles’ Day, the largest online shopping day in China/on the planet was yesterday, and — as many predicted — a spate of companies set new sales records for the shopathon. Alibaba, the retail giant most synonymous with the 11/11 bonanza, matched its revenue from last year with 10 hours still remaining, and Xiaomi — the... |
Korean Mobile Media Company Yello Mobile Raises $100M From Formation 8 At A $1B Valuation | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | Korea-based startup has raised $100 million from Formation 8 at a $1 billion valuation. You probably haven’t heard about Yello Mobile if you live outside of Asia, but the startup has set its sights on becoming one of the region’s largest mobile media companies through a series of acquisitions. Its latest funding puts... |
Microsoft’s New Lumia 535 Costs $140 And Is Its First Non-Nokia Smartphone | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | the imminent arrival of the first non-Nokia Lumia last week, and now it has the Lumia 535, a budget device priced at €110 (that’s just under US$140) with improvements across the board. The phone looks much like previous Lumia incarnations with an obvious branding difference. Gone are the Nokia logos, replaced instea... |
Alibaba Smashes Its Record On China’s Singles’ Day With $9.3B In Sales | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | that its total sales on Singles’ Day — China’s largest online shopping festival — reached a record $9.3 billion. In case you missed the media hype and have no idea why November 11 (11/11) is significant, it’s China biggest e-commerce sales day. Think of it as an amalgamation of all of North America’s biggest online re... |
AOL Drops ALEC, The State Lobbying Group ‘Lying’ About Climate Change | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | Sometimes, some days, I get to be proud of the company that pays my checks. Today is one of those days, as joins the ranks of the sane and dropped its support for the , an industry lobbying group that has been the subject of much scorn these days. (Although that good-will is leavened by a .) Last week, from , Jo... |
AppDirect Acquires Data Visualization Company Leftronic | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | Business app marketplace today that it has acquired , . Leftronic allows businesses to . AppDirect co-CEO Daniel Saks told me that by integrating Leftronic’s visualizations, AppDirect can give its customers a dashboard for monitoring the status of their apps. At the same time, Saks said that Leftronic will cont... |
DSTLD Is Everlane For Jeans | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | As it becomes ever easier to build a commerce brand from scratch online, we’re beginning to see upstart companies eat the luxury high-end mark-up right up. Notable examples include Warby Parker, Everlane and Jason Goldberg’s furniture store Hem. With retail prices reaching upwards of $200, it’s hard not to imagine some... |
New Relic Files To Go Public | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | New Relic, a company that provides app-monitoring on a SaaS-basis, . The company intends to use the ticker symbol “NEWR” in the flotation, and its offering is underwritten by Moran Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and four other groups. The company’s financials appear to be strong, . In the first 6 months of 2014, the company h... |
Built In Brooklyn: Gotham Greens Turns Rooftops Into Urban Farms | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | For our latest episode of , we went to — which might seem a little strange, but that’s where you’ll find urban agriculture startup . Specifically, the company runs a greenhouse growing pesticide-free produce on the store’s roof, and that produce is sold in the Whole Foods itself. (To be clear, Gotham Greens has t... |
Chinese Programmer Sticks Windows 95 On An iPhone 6 Plus | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | Today in “putting stuff onto things on which they don’t belong,” we present a user, , and his exciting admission that he installed Windows 95 on a brand new iPhone. He used a tool called , an open source DOSBox-like app to install the OS. He found that most of it worked fine but he was unable to upgrade to Windows XP... |
Hortonworks First Hadoop Vendor To File S-1 | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | , the big data processing platform built on top of the open source Apache Hadoop filed its S-1 paperwork today as its first step toward an initial public offering. In doing so it beat competitors Cloudera and MapR to the punch. Hortonworks offers a big data processing platform that includes the ability to process vario... |
United States Postal Service Hacked | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | It seems like 2014 has been one endless series of massive hacks. Home Depot. Target. Neiman Marcus. Michaels. JPMorgan Chase. It’s been one hack after the other, each dumping anything from customer credit card numbers to mailing addresses into the wild. The latest one is a big one: the United States Postal Service. So ... |
Google Takes Over Operations Of Moffett Airfield From NASA, Will Invest $200M Into The Site | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | After years of using Moffett Field as the home and launch pad for the private jets of Google’s founders, the company has agreed to a deal in which it will lease the airfield from NASA for the next 60 years. As part of the lease, Google will take over operations of the airfield while the U.S. government retains ownershi... |
The President’s Net Neutrality Proposal Draws Opprobrium, Praise And Threats Of Legal Action | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | Earlier today, President Obama that called for reclassification of broadband under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. The , saying, in effect, that it wasn’t quite as simple as the president seemed to intimate, and that it needed more time to work on the matter. All the while, comments from extra-governmental p... |
Instagram Launches A People Discovery Tab To Fill Your Feed With Fresh Creators | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | Your friends may not be the best photographers, so that highlights great Instagrammers and three of their recent pics. Instagram also now lets you edit old captions in case you had a typo or want to be more poetic. While photos from people you know are inherently the most interesting, YouTube, Vine, Snapchat, and oth... |
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Hacker Emails Testing Service BrowserStack’s Customers, Says Company Lied About Security | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | Is there anything worse than being hacked? How about a hacker that manages to acquire your customers’ contact information, emails them that the service is shutting down, and that the company has been lying to everyone about its security? That’s what happened to , the makers of a popular browser-testing service that al... |
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