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As A Cohort of Bus Startups Emerge, Chariot Looks To Source New Routes Through Crowdfunding | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | After Uber and Lyft emerged to fundamentally challenge taxis and change on-demand transit, a wave of bus startups has cropped up to address group and scheduled transportation. , a bootstrapped San Francisco-based startup that got off the ground earlier this year with a line from the Marina to downtown, is taking a slig... |
Google’s Chromebooks Rule Schools As IDC Pegs Them As Top Sellers In K-12 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | Google’s Chrome OS may be a long-term sleeper hit thanks to a – IDC’s new figures for tablets and laptop sales in K-12 education finds that Chromebooks as a category constitute the best-selling device across the entire category in 2014. Chromebooks are probably succeeding in schools due to a few factors, including Go... |
UpWest Labs Nurtures Promising Israeli Startups In Silicon Valley | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 11 | 10 | was founded in 2012 with a simple idea. Israel has tons of startup talent, but much of the funding is in the U.S. The founders decided to put the two together and bring a small group of promising Israeli entrepreneurs to the U.S. for four months to meet customers, partners and investors. Today marks the 8th graduatin... |
Uber Wants To Replace India’s Iconic Auto Rickshaws With Chauffeured Hatchbacks | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | , but it continues to ramp up its efforts in India — its second largest market — where it a low-cost service aimed at beating the country’s icon auto rickshaws. The company said Uber Go, its new service that includes small vehicles like the (image below) and , is now available in all ten cities that it services in... |
Mattel Pulls Sexist Barbie Book “I Can Be A Computer Engineer” Off Amazon | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | The makers of Barbie seem to apologize A LOT for underestimating young women. This time the Internet’s buzzing over a pretty cringe-worthy Barbie book, “I Can Be A Computer Engineer,” published out of Random House. Barbie is featured in the book as a stylishly pink-clad computer engineer that somehow breaks everything ... |
Developers In China Can Now Make Money Via Google Play Apps (But Not In China) | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | that developers based in China can now make money from apps listed on the Google Play Store. The update covers 130 international markets but not China itself, however. Nonetheless, the move will give Chinese developers exposure to the hundreds of millions of Android devices on the planet, opening up opportunities to m... |
Motorola’s New $25 Dongle Helps You Find Your Lost Keys, Unlocks Your Phone | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | I don’t know what’s going on at Motorola lately, but I dig it. Between that looks like something straight out of and making temporary tattoos that , they’ve been getting all sorts of experimental as of late. Their latest random one-off project: a key fob that let you use your keys to find your phone, and vice vers... |
TC Droidcast Episode 27: Nexus 6 Is Too Big And Nokia N1 Is Too iPad | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | This week on the Droidcast, it’s Darrell Etherington, Greg Kumparak, and Engadget’s Chris Velazco, and we’re talking in more detail about the Nexus 6 now that the full reviews are out. Bottom line: It’s big. We also tackle Nokia’s return to hardware with an , and . Next week, we’ll have more to talk about in terms of... |
Tech Reacts To The Demise Of Partial NSA Reform In The Senate | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | The in the current Congress isn’t too popular with the technology community. The demise of the USA FREEDOM Act — a half-measure at best — in the Senate is another loss for the technology industry, which saw many of its leading companies repeatedly . The FREEDOM Act was aimed at ending the NSA’s collection of America... |
Senator Al Franken Asks Uber’s CEO Tough Questions On User Privacy | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | Senator Al Franken, Chairman of the Subcommittee On Privacy, Technology, and the Law, has posted a public letter to CEO Travis Kalanick in which he addresses many of the claims made over the past few days that the company has consistently compromised user privacy as a matter of course. “I am especially troubled beca... |
Researchers Train Computers To Make Up Magic Tricks | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic but what if the technology actually creates magic? A group of researchers at the Queen Mary University of London have trained a computer to create magic tricks using puzzle pieces and cards that are reproducible by humans. This isn’t HAL sawing a woma... |
How China Is Disrupting The Mobile And CE Markets | Noah Herschman | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | Anyone in the tech industry has heard of and by now. And if you have been in a media black hole, here is a quick education on these Chinese smartphone companies: Xiaomi has surpassed both Apple and Samsung as the No. 1 smartphone in China, and OnePlus this month announced U.S. pre-orders for its ultra-low-cost, h... |
Square Register, Sans Payments And Hardware, Now Works Globally On Android And iOS | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | Last week, when started pre-orders for to upgrade its older mag-stripe readers, we noted that it seemed only a matter of time before the company would finally turn on more international services, where the newer chip-based system reigns supreme. Now it looks like that’s just what Square has quietly started to do. U... |
Salesforce Slips On Weak Guidance, Despite Beating On Both Revenue And Profit In Its FQ3 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | In its fiscal 2015 third quarter, Salesforce revenue of $1.383 billion, non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.14, a GAAP net loss of $38.92 million, and a GAAP loss per share of $0.06. Analysts had $0.13 in adjusted profit on revenue of $1.371 billion. The percentage of its revenue that came from recurring, subscriptio... |
Nest’s CEO Calls Its Tech The “Conscious Home” Because “It’s Not Smarter Than You” | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | The leader of the “smart home” industry doesn’t want to call it that any more. Nest CEO says his company uses the term “Conscious Home” because its connected thermostat and smoke alarm create a two-way relationship with users where both help and teach each other. “We call it the conscious home. Smart is overused. It’... |
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Yahoo Will Soon Become The Default Search Engine In Firefox | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | Starting in December, Firefox in the United States on mobile and desktop. As a part of this five-year deal, Yahoo will also launch for Firefox users in the U.S., which should go live at the same time Firefox makes the switch away from Google. The new search experience will feature “a clean, modern and immersive des... |
Logitech’s New AnyAngle iPad Case Gives It A Surface-Style Kickstand | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | Logitech is slowly but surely turning the iPad into a Microsoft Surface – which is good news for those who envy some of the Windows device’s productivity features, but not its software or overall form factor. The new feels a lot like the keyboard included in the Microsoft Type Cover, and now there’s a stand/case call... |
Microsoft Updates How The Surface Pro 3 Handles Wi-Fi | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | Microsoft released a set of updates for its Surface Pro 3 tablet today, including fixes for the tablet-hybrid’s Wi-Fi connectivity, a part of the device’s performance that some have flagged as problematic. I’ve had some Wi-Fi issues with my loaner Surface Pro 3, but haven’t been sure if they stem from Windows 10’s nas... |
YouTube Adds Netflix Content Chief And Ad Exchange Architect To VP Ranks | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | YouTube is continuing the spate of recent executive-level hires begun under with two new additions to the top-level team today, according to sources familiar with the matter and confirmed by YouTube. The new hires include Netflix VP of Content Acquisition Kelly Merryman, who takes on the VP of Content Partnerships ro... |
Sproutkin Ditches Its “Netflix For Kids’ Books” Service, Moves Into Digital Subscriptions | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | Parents weren’t interested in , apparently. A company called , which launched in spring of 2013 offering shipments of just under a dozen books which parents paid for on a monthly basis but could return at any time for a new batch. The idea was that, in their younger years, kids quickly outgrew their books, and this w... |
HackerRank Expands Its Technical Recruiting Platform To Mobile With DroidRank | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | , a technical recruiting platform and former TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield finalist, today announced it is expanding into mobile with the launch of . Recruiters could already test for Java skills on the service (in addition to 15 other languages). While that’s the basis for programming Android apps, being able to wri... |
RelativeWave Gets Acquired By Google And Starts Giving Its $80 App Design Tool Away For Free | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | RelativeWave, creators of an $80 “interaction design and prototyping” Mac app called Form, has been acquired by Google. As a result, . In case you’ve never used it, Form is a visual editor meant to help designers/developers make visually-functional prototypes of apps without writing code. Form an app maker. That is,... |
Apple Relabels “Free” Download Buttons On iTunes And Mac App Store To “Get” Following Pressure from EC | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 19 | Across the iTunes and Mac App Stores today, a minor but also notable change is taking place with regard to how Apple is marketing its iOS and Mac applications. Instead of free apps being labeled as “FREE,” the download button now reads “GET.” The change likely has to do with increased pressures from the European Commis... |
Mobile Marketplace Carousell Raises $6M Series A Led By Sequoia Capital | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | , a mobile app marketplace that lets sellers upload items with a few taps on their smartphones, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. The Singaporean startup’s existing investors, Rakuten Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures, 500 Startups, and serial entrepreneur Darius Cheung, also returned for t... |
Tiger Global Raises $2.5 Billion For New Deals | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | Investment firm Tiger Global has been all year, and now it has a lot more cash to run down new prey. , the firm closed $2.5 billion in new funding, that comes a little more than 6 months after it in April. that the money will split between a new $1.5 billion ‘Global Internet Opportunities’ fund that launches in J... |
Microsoft Appears To Pre-Announce Its Purchase Of Email Startup Acompli | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | Whoops. Welcome to literal . A short, unfinished blog listed as written by Microsoft corporate vice president hit . Here’s what it looked like: It led to the following URL: . In case you missed it, the URL slug says “Microsoft Acquires Acompli.” Microsoft declined to comment. The chance that Microsoft wrote a bl... |
9 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | It’s been a shorter week because we’re heading out early for Thanksgiving festivities, but a newsworthy one nonetheless. We give you our best stories of the week (11/22-11/26). 1. Matt Burns wrote a piece about Comcast, and why the company is so largely disliked, arguing that . 2. We analyzed the , and why it seems p... |
The Snowden Effect, Quantified | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | The failure of the USA Freedom Act in the Senate earlier this month was a disappointment to many in favor of reforming the National Security Agency. The bill, far from perfect, and certainly incomplete in its scope was thought of by some as a possible first step. To others, it was a way for Congress to pass something t... |
Jigglist Lets You Find Places For Meetups Without Leaving Your Group Chat | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | If you’re regularly scheduling meetups with friends or colleagues you don’t see regularly in person, you know the routine: you either decide to go to the same bar, restaurant, or coffee shop every week, or the group relies on the one friend willing to use Yelp ahead of time. Launching today, is a group chat app cente... |
How To Opt Out Of Twitter’s New Thing That Tracks Which Apps You Install | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | Twitter is of which apps you have on your phone, and sending that data back to the mothership (birds nest?) Is it the worst offense in the world? Nah — they’re not exactly perusing your browsing history and sending it to your grandmother, here. But it’s still irksome, particularly given that Twitter pitches it as som... |
Twitter’s New App Tracking Capabilities To Help Personalize User Experience, Benefit Advertisers | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | Starting today, Twitter users on iOS and Android devices will be alerted to a change in the type of data the social network is collecting on them, and will be offered the option to opt-out by adjusting their settings. The data in question is a list of the apps you have installed on your mobile device – a collection of ... |
Cooling Tablet Market Turns To Low-End Devices For Growth | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | Never in tech history have so many bought so much in such a short time. Such was the market excitement for the category-creating device. The growth in the tablet market that followed was explosive. But then something odd happened: The tablet market matured all at once, and fresh consumer appetite for small, touch-based... |
Applause Raises $765K From Salesforce CEO For Its Revamped Weight Loss App | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | If you’re worried about blowing your diet over the holidays – or perhaps, thinking about making a New Year’s resolution to “eat healthy” (you know, again) – an app called , now seed funded by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, may help. The startup aims to bring to market a more lightweight food and activity tracking servic... |
Quikkly Wants To Be A Better QR Code | Steve O'Hear | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | You’ve all used a , right? Those weird-looking barcodes you’re supposed to scan using a mobile to open a related web link. Nope? I thought not. For one reason or another, the technology, which was originally developed for the automotive industry to track parts in vehicle manufacturing, has never really gained critical... |
Gift Guide: The Razor Crazy Cart | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | While it’s well worth a closer look if you have the space and safety equipment to send your kids careening around your driveway at about twenty miles per hour. That’s right: this is your dream go-kart from the folks who made the Razor scooters and, if you have the space and helmets it’s the best fun your kids will ... |
Expressiv Is An Irish MIDI Guitar With Some Groovy Light Effects, Man | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | Hey, man, is that a MIDI guitar with amazing internal lighting effects? Well turn it up! Hot on the heels of the and the we present the , a guitar designed by Rob O’Reilly. The Kickstarter, which ends today, sold the guitars for about $450 and aims to ship in March. Does the world need another MIDI guitar? Sure. T... |
GoPro Could Go Robo With Consumer Drones Launching Next Year | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | GoPro is working on a lineup of consumer drones to supplement its action camera lineup, according to the . The new product category would offer aerial drones like the and DJI Phantom and . The drones would reportedly retail in the $500 to $1,000 range, and come with GoPro action camera tech onboard, which is a natu... |
Unity Finally Releases Its Long Promised User Interface Creator | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | Good news, everyone! Once upon a time, Unity promised to overhaul the way developers would build user interfaces in their Unity-powered games. This was roughly around the time man discovered fire*. At long last, Unity has shipped version 4.6 of its visual game development system — and with it, the long promised UI edit... |
Firefox Redesigns Its Search Interface Ahead Of Yahoo Switch | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | Last week we that Mozilla had made a pact with Yahoo to switch Firefox’s default search engine to a yet-to-be launched new version of Yahoo’s Bing-powered search experience. At that time, we already noted how easy it is to switch between search engines in Firefox and now the organization is making it even easier with... |
Emojiary Is A Mobile Diary App Where You Visualize Your Feelings With Emoji | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | Regularly journaling your thoughts and feelings is a good way to “check in with yourself,” raise your self-awareness and connect with your intuition, but it can also be a time-consuming activity that most of us don’t have time for, given our busy lives. A company called wants to change that, by offering a quick and a... |
Google.com Domain Should Be Covered By Search De-Listing, Say European Regulators | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | Google has kicked against it. Eric Schmidt was doing so in public only . But European regulators are now stipulating the so called ‘ ‘ ruling should apply to search results displayed on Google.com, not just on European sub-domains such as Google.co.uk. The reason the regulators want this expansion is to avoid an easy ... |
iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Are Shifting Reading Away From iPad, Study Finds | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | When Apple unveiled the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, it seemed likely that the larger screens on the devices would naturally lead to them assuming some of the functions of the iPad, giving users fewer reasons to turn to their tablets. Now, data from save-for-later reading and video app that indeed, users of Apple’s newest, l... |
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15 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | This week’s tech news saw a new payments deal between Snapchat and Square Cash, the death of the Netflix API, the failure of the USA FREEDOM Act and a sexist Barbie book. Here are our best stories from this week (11/15-11/21). Following a PR disaster involving an Uber executive’s remarks about a Bay Area journalist,... |
Social Marketing Startup Tiger Pistol Raises $3.1M As It Plans For US Growth | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 26 | , a startup offering social marketing tools for small businesses, is announcing that it has raised $3.1 million in Series A funding. The company started in Melbourne, Australia, and I first covered it in 2012, when . Since then, Tiger Pistol (named after has moved its headquarters to Los Angeles, though it retains a... |
Makerclub Helps You Learn 3D-Printed Robotics | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | Want to make a giant 3D-printed spider robot? A humanoid help-mate? A robotic scorpion with a powerful, electrified tail? can probably help. Created as a place for makers to come together and discuss 3D printed robotics, the service is now part commerce site, part repository, and part educational resource. Interestin... |
Yahoo Acquires Photo Startup Cooliris | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | Photo app-maker just announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo. It’s been a long road to this exit. Cooliris was founded back in 2006 and was initially known for creating a “ ” for navigating photos and other media content. It also created a platform for mobile ads called Adjitsu, which in 2012. More recently,... |
Crunchweek: Uber, Uber, Uber And Barbie | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | Here’s a protip: Don’t do what . That’s the main topic of CrunchWeek this time around. Bad behavior, however, wasn’t just Uber’s purview: The corporate entity behind Barbie was exposed for that undercut the idea that women can be software engineers. So that wasn’t very good. Happily, TechCrunch’s and were on h... |
Mikme Is A Portable, Multitrack Recording Rig For Your Cool Band | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | If you got your first real six string at the Five and Dime and you and you and some guys from school got together to record some songs primarily during and around the summer of 1969, you probably could have used the . The Mikme is a box-shaped microphone that can sit anywhere in the room and record, the creator claims... |
Fire TV Stick Review: A Great Streamer For An Amazon Household | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | The Fire TV Stick works. That’s about all there is to it. It streams videos from Amazon, Netflix and more. It plays simple games and streams from local network shares. But it’s not for everyone. There are better products on the market for some users. That said, the Fire TV Stick is well worth its $40 price tag.
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 11.21.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Nokia N1, Intel MICA, And The New Parrot Drone | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | News is picking up in time for the holiday season, with Nokia . Meanwhile, Intel got into the fashion game with the new , complete with a Sapphire OLED touchscreen. Plus, Parrot just , and Matt can’t get enough of it. We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the featuring , , , and . Have a good... |
Leading Digital Transformation | George Westerman | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | . Digital technologies — from social media to mobile computing to big data to the Internet of everything — are transforming businesses in every industry. Do you want to have conversations with your customers in ways that surveys and focus groups never could? Social media can make that happen. Do you want to make your... |
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DataFox Brings Private Company Analysis And One-Pagers To Mobile | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | , the online research platform that allows anyone to track information about private tech companies, has now brought its service to mobile in the form of . The free app provides DataFox subscribers with access to over 500,000 company one-pager’s, private and public lists, and an events stream detailing recent news on ... |
Makerbot CEO Jenny Lawton On Ramping Up A Fast-Moving Company | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | 3D printer company experienced almost exponential growth. After a few years in a cramped Brooklyn warehouse, the team grew from 20 to 600 in a few short years and the company was bought by Stratasys, a major player in the professional printing space. Makerbot’s new CEO, Jenny Lawton, sat down with us to talk a bit ... |
FCC Expects Cable Companies To Fight Back Over Net Neutrality | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | The FCC anticipates that large cable companies will sue the agency after it votes into place net neutrality regulations. This would be a . It will have the clarifying impact of forcing hands: Companies that tried to split the fence will be decidedly on one end of it or the other. Here’s Chairman Tom Wheeler from earli... |
The Internet Is The Best Thing Ever To Happen To Songwriters | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | Ever since, , under the auspices of helping songwriters, there has been a conversation suggesting that there was somehow a golden age for songwriters when they controlled their own destiny –and the Internet killed all that. I’m here to tell you that there was never any such time and if anything, the Internet was the b... |
A Gift Guide For The Tech-Friendly Kitchen | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | Kitchen gadgets are always a good option if there’s someone on your list that likes to cook, craft, bake and do whatever else in the culinary way. There’s a lot out there that can help simplify the cooking process, enable the creation of new types of dishes, and just generally improve the overall quality and health ben... |
Photo-Sharing App Memoir Snags $5.5 Million To Help You Recall The Past | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | Photo-sharing application , a Timehop competitor that allows you to rediscover old photo “memories,” has raised an additional $5.5 million in a round led by Redpoint Ventures’ Ryan Sarver. Others participating included prior investors Founder Collective, Box Group, Lerer Ventures and Thrive Capital. The company had pr... |
Aereo CEO: Court Made Incredibly Wrong Decision, Cord-Cutting Is Inevitable | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | This morning, , marking the end of the road for the cloud-based TV startup. The company launched in 2012 using micro-antennas and cloud DVR technology to provide near-live TV access to 30 channels to subscribers for as low as $8/month. But after losing a fierce legal battle with broadcast networks, that went all the w... |
Ears-On With Spotify In Uber: Fast, Fun Backset DJing If Drivers Have It | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | Uber now lets you for your car’s sound system . On my demo ride-along, I was impressed by how easy and seamless it works, as long as the driver is equipped. Music selections made on your phone quickly start playing through the driver’s app connected to the stereo, and there’s no data cost to the passenger beyond the... |
Livefyre Studio Puts The Company’s Focus On User Generated Content And Social Media Curation | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | At this point, I should probably stop calling a commenting platform. Actually, the company has been expanding beyond comments for a while. It , which included more social media widgets, back in 2012. And it last year. But the company is taking another big step in this direction with the relaunch of its core platfo... |
A New App Called Milk Helps You Save On Groceries, Without Clipping Paper Coupons | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | The creators of , which helps online shoppers save at checkout, have now launched a new app called (mmm…milk and honey…) that lets you save at the grocery store. The app is now one of many aimed at helping consumers save on consumer packaged good purchases, even if they don’t have time for clipping coupons from a ne... |
Springleap Brings A New Model For Creative Design To Madison Avenue And Beyond | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | has traveled from its offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, to Brooklyn to set up its global headquarters and bring a new model for crowdsourced design to the “Mad Men” of Madison Avenue. The company started as a design competition website, allowing brands to post competitions and offer prizes to the be... |
ReservationHop Ditches Restaurant Reservations, Launches Scheduling Tool OK Shift | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | Hey, remember ReservationHop? You know, the much-criticized service that promised to sell restaurant reservations to users? Well, founder Brian Mayer is officially abandoning the idea. The service seemed to (or at least the ones I follow) back in July — in fact, it spurred our own Josh Constine to write a post asking... |
Drawbridge Now Supports Connected TVs With Its Cross-Device Ad Targeting | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | Ad tech startup has been for a couple of years, but now it’s adding another device to the mix — Internet-connected TVs. This follows Drawbridge’s earlier announcement that . Co-founder and CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan told me that while connected TVs are a “niche” platform for now and will only see “a fraction of... |
CrunchWeek: Taylor Swift Shakes Off Spotify, Sean Rad Gets Demoted | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | This week we diverted from our usual approach to filming CrunchWeek with three hosts from our San Francisco office. Instead, New York-based TechCrunchers and Skyped in to chat about and . Instead of meandering around topics for 15 minutes, we got right to the core of the issues this week: can artists push back... |
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week | Anna Escher | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | This week saw some major tech feuds: Uber vs. Lyft, Taylor Swift vs. Spotify, and Pirate Bay vs. the police to name a few. TechCrunch also brought you coverage of the new Amazon Echo, the latest from Tinder and the new Microsoft/Dropbox partnership. These are our best stories of the week (11/1-11/7). 1. , a connected ... |
Investors Are Backing A Recruiting Revolution | Christine Magee | 2,014 | 11 | 21 | : Hiring is going high tech thanks to a crop of new venture investments. Recruiting can be a nightmare for companies of all stages and sizes – it’s a time suck for current employees, often a shot in the dark in terms of candidate search and interview logistics, and if done haphazardly it can really screw up a company. ... |
Okta Catches SpydrSafe In Its Enterprise Web | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | , the enterprise startup whose cloud-based platform lets enterprises manage and authenticate user identity across multiple applications, may have quietly made an acquisition — its first, or at least the first that we have uncovered. It looks like it has purchased a company called , a mobile security startup that built... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: The Elvie, Nexus Player, And Parrot Headphones | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | It was a highly argumentative morning with the old gadgets gang, as we all have incredibly strong feelings towards media streamers and headphones, apparently. We start out with a relatively docile conversation about , which is surprising considering the Elvie is a pelvic fitness wearable for women to get more out of t... |
Accounts Launches A New Address Book For iOS That Tracks Your Many Identities | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | An application called , live now on iOS to start, is a new attempt at developing a universal address book. While many competitors that have gone before it have focused on aggregating user accounts from the major social networks – like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, Accounts is interesting because it’s trying to catal... |
Withings Activité Pre-Order Puts A New Price On The Undercover Activity Tracker: $450 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | French health and fitness device-maker Withings has kicked off watch/activity tracker, with a special pre-order page it publicized today to customers who registered interest in availability. The website is available to all, however, so head on over if you have an inkling for one of these beauties. Note up front that ... |
More Dark Markets Shut As Authorities Lead Crackdown | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | The UK National Crime Agency has posted a notice describing a series of six arrests that coincided with the takedown of the Silk Road 2.0. Authorities have also taken down two other dark markets, Hydra and Cloud 9, both hidden on the TOR network. The seizures are part of an effort called Operation Onymous (the ) and c... |
Google Brings Its Dart Programming Language To App Engine | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | Earlier this year at its I/O developer conference, Google quietly plans for supporting its Dart Programming language on . It’s taken a bit longer than many expected, but , developers can run their Dart server-side application on Google App Engine’s . Dart is often seen as Google’s answer to JavaScript and, hence, ... |
Mac Achieves Highest U.S. PC Market Share Ever In Q3 2014 According To IDC | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | Apple’s Mac marketshare hit record highs during the third calendar quarter of 2014, according to research firm IDC. Official numbers from the firm’s show that Apple’s Q3 shipments topped 2.34 million Macs moved during the quarter in the U.S., giving it 13.4 percent market share and putting it in third place behind HP a... |
Unfollow Your Most Annoying Facebook Friends And Pages With “News Feed Settings” | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | Face it. You’ve accepted friend requests from some weirdos and over-sharers. Luckily, today Facebook’s that shows the friends and Pages taking up the most space in your Feed, and lets you quickly unfollow them without unfriending. There’s also a new flow for hiding specific posts from your Feed that lets you tell Fac... |
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Biorobotic Roaches Can Use Microphones To Search Rubble For Survivors | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | Another day, another insectobot connected to a small, audio-sensing cyborg harness. Two researchers at the North Carolina State University, Dr. Alper Bozkurt and Matt Shipman, have mounted a small circuit board to a live cockroach and connected leads to the bug’s brain. By playing special tones, the board can trick the... |
FiLIP 2, A Smartwatch For Kids, Arrives Today At AT&T For $100 | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | Will Santa stuff children’s stockings with smartwatches this holiday season? That’s the hope for which is today launching its at AT&T stores and online at for the discounted launch price of $99.99. The watch, which is essentially a small smartphone strapped to the wrist, is one of the first “wearables” aimed at k... |
Rocket Internet-Backed Ride-Sharing Startup Tripda Comes To The US | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | It’s not often that you see European startup factory launch one of its companies in the U.S. More often than not, its businesses take ideas that have been successful here and then leverage its massive development and distribution network to bring them to markets where a U.S. version hasn’t yet launched. But that’s no... |
Confirmed: Yahoo Loses Amit Kumar, Its Small Business VP And GM | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | Yet more personnel changes afoot at . Amit Kumar, pictured here, the company’s GM and VP running its small business division, has left the company. first reported earlier today sources saying that he would be leaving, and now we have confirmed directly with Kumar that he has already left: “Yes, I have left Yahoo and... |
We Need Your Hardware Battlefield Submissions Right Now | John Biggs | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | Look, people, we’re giving you the chance of a lifetime here: this is where participating startups getting free exhibition space at the 2015 International CES and competing for $50,000 and the coveted Metal Man trophy. For the first time, TechCrunch has partnered with the CEA to be an official media partner of the tr... |
Asus To Begin Selling Android Wear-Powered ZenWatch In The U.S. Nov. 9 | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | The Android Wear smartwatch collection is expanding, with a host of new devices hitting pre-holiday season after their initial debut this summer. The will be the next to go on sale, with a street date of November 9 for Best Buy initially, with a later launch date on Google Play in the U.S., at a price of $199. We fir... |
Activate Your Red Zones: Verizon Has A Football Leather Moto X | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 7 | Just like the song says: Are you ready for several foot falls? Verizon’s ready, ready to snap your halfback some yards after carry with its new, exclusive . You heard right, Bob Dikta freaks and Peyton Randolph fans – the same material used to coat everyone’s favourite roughly ball-shaped professional athletics thing ... |
99.co Wants To Make Property Searches In Singapore’s Lucrative Real Estate Market Easier | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | Despite having a population of just 5.4 million, Singapore is one of the top 10 real estate markets in the world. New startup wants to grab a slice of the pie with a site that it says makes listings more transparent and navigable for potential renters and buyers. 99.co soft-launched last week, but had its beta launch... |
Evernote Raises $20M From Japanese Media Giant Nikkei, Forms Content Partnership For Evernote Context | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | announced today that it has raised $20 million in new capital from , the Japanese media conglomerate that publishes the influential financial newspaper Nikkei, as well English-language Nikkei Asian Review. In addition, the Nikkei will also start feeding articles into Evernote’s Context feature, which . Context bring... |
Digital News Asia Raises $300K To Bring Old School ICT Journalism To The Web In Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | A tech news site writing about another tech news site has the potential to get very insider baseball-ery, so I try to carefully pick and choose which of our peers to shed light on. With that in mind, (DNA) — a small but interesting collection of unashamed “old school” journalists — has as it aims to expand its bran... |
Momo, A Flirting App With 180M Users, Is Latest Chinese Tech Firm To File For A U.S. IPO | Jon Russell | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | This year’s been notable for Chinese tech IPOs in the U.S.. , close rival and — China’s Twitter equivalent — have listed on North American soil, but there’s another incoming. , China’s top hook-up app, has for a $300 million public listing, . The company intends to list on the Nasdaq. Earlier this year to be ... |
Here’s How To De-Register iMessage If You’ve Switched Platforms With Apple’s New Tool | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | Apple has added a to its website for removing phone numbers from iMessage registration, even if you no longer have the iPhone in question and can’t toggle iMessage off in settings. The website lets you simply enter a phone number, where Apple will send you a code via text message, which you then enter into a field on... |
NSA Reform Drifts Sideways In The Senate | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | According to , the White House would prefer not to pass NSA reform in the coming lame duck Congressional session. Current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, , is trying to press forward with a vote on the bill that he authored — the USA FREEDOM Act — this year. The legislation . A bill with the same name pa... |
What Is Journalism Anymore? | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | It’s weird how our sense of things change. In the early blogging days it was often apparent that the market was about personal branding, audience building, maintaining integrity within that audience (such as disclosing whether posts are sponsored), building authority and posting frequently. The exact same mechanics app... |
The Race To Zero Is Awesome | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | It’s Sunday, so let’s stretch our legs a little bit. Earlier today Julie Bort of Business Insider detailing the rapidly approaching end game of the storage wars: The prices consumers and businesses pay for cloud storage are racing to zero, and that’s forcing new jockeying inside the crowded industry. It’s a trend tha... |
Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free | Cory Doctorow | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | The technical implausibility and unintended consequences of digital locks are big problems for digital-lock makers. But we’re more interested in what digital locks do to creators and their investors, and there’s one important harm we need to discuss before we move on. Digital locks turn paying customers into pirates. O... |
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The MBAs Are Fleeing, Should SF Be Worried? | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | Bubble, bubble, bubble. Are we in one, are we already done with one, are we getting closer to one? These questions have the dual benefit of being completely impossible to answer while having a high enough salience to tech readers to ensure that the almighty advertising machine gets stoked for another cycle. Let’s throw... |
Early Warning Labs Partners With USGS To Create An Earthquake Warning App | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 11 | 9 | The ability to predict, detect and warn about an earthquake in time to save lives is in its infancy. But a small startup out of Santa Monica is apply modern cloud computing technology to do just that. Early stage earthquake detection startup has partnered with the to build , a system that can warn California resid... |
Taiwan-Based Educational App Developer QLL Raises $450,000 For International Expansion | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 11 | 30 | , a Taipei-based developer of educational mobile apps, has raised $450,000 in funding led by B Dash Ventures, with participation from Incubate Fund, Pinehurst Advisors, Viling, and Coent Venture Partners. The startup is an alumnus of accelerator program AppWorks. Since its launch in 2007, QLL has developed about 150 iO... |
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