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10:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 29, 2013
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Generation Touch Will Redraw Consumer Tech
Ten years ago, young adults and those in their late teens were among the fastest and earliest adopters of new social networks -- Friendster, Myspace, and ultimately Facebook -- and many other products...
09:02 pm GMT - Sun, September 29, 2013
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The Harsh Realities Surrounding Mobile App Investing
Rohit Sharma from True Ventures likes to say: Mobile is the only under-hyped thing in tech. I think hes right. Yet, for mobile developers and mobile founders out there, an overheating iOS app ecosyste...
06:33 pm GMT - Sun, September 29, 2013
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VetCloud Hopes To Unlock The Dormant Data In Veterinary Clinics Around The World
Unlocking the value hidden in data that has long gone unaggregated and unanalyzed is a hugely attractive proposition of big data and cloud-based SaaS startups, and newcomer VetCloud is no exception. T...
04:40 pm GMT - Sun, September 29, 2013
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Peerby's Local Lending App Is Ready To Help Neighbours Participate In The Sharing Economy
You've got stuff, but not all the stuff you need. Dutch startup and TechStars London first cohort member Peerby is hoping to unlock the use value of that stuff with a collaborative consumption model t...
02:20 pm GMT - Sun, September 29, 2013
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After Near-$1B Inventory Write-Down, BlackBerry Starts Selling Unlocked Smartphones Direct To U.S. Buyers
Well that was quick: Not long after T-Mobile announced it would stop carrying BlackBerry hardware in its retail stores (but continue selling them online), the Canadian smartphone maker has revealed a ...
08:00 am GMT - Sun, September 29, 2013
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The Danger And Opportunity Of The Intermediate Metric
Are social media companies overvalued? The question is not just a matter of revenue multiples (low or high), but rather whether that revenue is actually generating new sales for advertisers. Google co...
05:00 am GMT - Sun, September 29, 2013
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The Science Behind Using Online Communities To Change Behavior
Is it just me, or is it impossible to talk to technology entrepreneurs without mentioning user engagement and behavior? Im a behavioral psychologist, so that might be why I keep having conversations a...
03:01 am GMT - Sun, September 29, 2013
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NSA's Targeting Prowess Doesn't Extend To Ads
If the NSA only invited TechCrunch to its birthday party, itd have to eat its cake alone. While we arent big fans of the NSA, it appears to fancy our readers, as it consistently advertises on our site...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, September 29, 2013
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CrunchWeek: Microsoft's New Surface 2, BlackBerry's $4.7B Buyout, Big Changes In Fundraising
Happy Saturday! It's time once again for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers together to chat it up about some of the most interesting stories from the past week in t...
01:00 am GMT - Sun, September 29, 2013
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Advertising's Logged-In User Revolution Is Brewing
Native advertising may be the buzzword stealing the attention of the advertising technology landscape, though a much quieter revolution is brewing around the space: the fight for the logged-in user ov...
11:42 pm GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Good News: We're Not Axing Net Neutrality. Bad News: US Gov Probably Shutting Down
The intersection of fiscal politics, national crisis, and technology regulation is a silly place, as there should be no overlapping space between the three issues. And yet. Good news: We’re not ...
11:14 pm GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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NSA Uses Facebook And GPS Data To Identify Suspects In Networks Of Americans
The National Security Agency has slowly been mapping it's own massive network of suspects with associations to US citizens. The New York Times obtained documents that reveals how the NSA is utilizing ...
10:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Should Facebook Start Its Own Version Of Google Ventures?
Over the past year, Facebook has seen its fair share of departures from employees and executives who are either starting a VC fund or camping out at a firm to figure out what their next startup or com...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Gillmor Gang: Sensorship
The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor new iPhone + new OS = continued Apple domination. Twitter vacillates between NYSE and NASDAQ. Age of Context...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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The Genius Of Twitter: A Paean
It's the first app I launch in the morning, and the first I install on a new phone, and my most-visited web site. Which is strange, because I don't much like most social media. I'm on Facebook only re...
03:46 pm GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Bizness Apps Launches DIY Website Builder, Looks To Become A Full-Service Digital Marketing Suite For SMBs
Once upon a time, if you wanted your own website, you either had to speak fluent Internet, or write a large check to someone who did. However, thanks to the laundry list of companies and services that...
10:55 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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It's Official, The Nirvanix Cloud Storage Service Is Shutting Down
It's official, Nirvanix is shutting down its business. The cloud storage company has scrapped its web site, replacing it with a statementand how to get in touch with customer support....
10:43 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Software For Auto Repair: With New Funding In Tow, Estify Sees Big Opportunity In An Unsexy Market
The collision industry probably doesn't rank at the top of the "Sexy Markets" list for startups, but sometimes the most obscure, fragmented and pulchritudinously challenged industries can offer the mo...
08:00 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Where Webvan Failed And How Home Delivery 2.0 Could Succeed
Webvan is well-known as the poster child of the dot-com "excess" bubblethat led to the tech market crash in 2000.Business schools study Webvans overly ambitious rush to the biggest IPO to date in Sili...
07:19 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Chasefuture's Platform Coaches Mainland Chinese Students On University Admissions
The allure of top-tier Western universities isn’t lessening anytime soon for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese high school graduates emerging out of the country’s best schools. ThatR...
06:53 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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JustFab's Checkout Tactics Are JustShady
This Hacker News complaint about JustFab scamming a user's girlfriend -- which gets resubmittedwhenever JustFab raises money -- is a little off, because JustFab is not a scam in the traditional sense....
05:13 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Palantir Raises $197M In Growth Capital, SEC Filing Shows
Palantir, the big data company that has counted the NSA, the FBI and the CIA among its clientele, has picked up $196.5 million in growth capital, according to an SEC filing. The company declined to sa...
05:13 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Palantir Is Raising $197M In Growth Capital, SEC Filing Shows
Palantir, the big data company that has counted the NSA, the FBI and the CIA among its clientele, is raising up to $196.5 million in growth capital, according to an SEC filing. The company declined to...
03:39 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Wish, The App For Logging What You Want, Launches A Complementary Gifting Feature
Well, folks, it’s September. The holiday gift giving season is ON! Wish, the mobile shopping app that lets users create lists of items they would like to purchase later, has launched Gifting, a ...
03:32 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Microsoft Extends Its Trade-In Program: $200Plus For Your Gently Used iPhone 4S, 5
Microsoft wants to take your Apple product off your hands, today expanding its trade-in programsto allow owners of dated iPhone hardware to cash in their now passelectronics. If you own an iPhone 4S o...
03:11 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Former Microsoftie And Googler Lucovsky Leaves VMware For New Project, No Word On Chairs Thrown
VMware VP of Engineering Mark Lucovsky is leaving the virtualization giant for a ‘new chapter’ he’s referring to as ‘#nine’ on Twitter. Lucovsky has been with VMware for ...
02:33 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Agolo Aims To Algorithmically Curate Your Twitter Feed
For all the good it's capable of, Twitter is all too often a cacophonous mess of marketers, celebrities, talking heads, and friends who all like to jabber at the same time. Sage Wohns and Mohamed Alta...
01:59 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Airbnb Victory In NYC: Environmental Control Board Reverses $2,400 Fine On Renting Out A Room In An Apartment
A big regulatory victory for Airbnb today: the company has managed to win an appeal in New York City over a fine against a host called Nigel Warren, whose landlord was fined $2,400 in June after Warre...
01:39 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Ask A VC: Emergence Capital Partners' Kevin Spain On The Next Disruptions In Health Tech And More
In this week's TechCrunch TVs Ask A VC show, we had Emergence Capital Partners Kevin Spain in the studio to talk about his perspective on investing in health tech and more.Spain, who has led investmen...
01:02 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Shyp Raises $2.1M To Pick Up And Ship Your Stuff
I don't consider myself a lazy man.To the displeasure of many a recent startup, I like to do stuff for myself. I like to clean my own house. If I want a Philly Cheesesteak from Philadelphia, I think "...
12:36 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Microsoft Increases Windows 8 And 8.1 App Roaming Limit To 81 Devices
At its Build developer conference earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it planned to increase the roaming limits for apps purchased in its Windows Store. As the company announced today, that li...
12:14 am GMT - Sat, September 28, 2013
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Gillmor Gang Live 09.27.13 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/GillmorGang...
11:47 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Ebay Acquires Men's Content Meets Commerce Shopping Site, Bureau Of Trade
Online marketplace for men’s shopping,Bureau of Trade, has been acquired by eBay, the company announced today. FounderMichael Phillips Moskowitz is joining the eBay Marketplaces team, where his ...
11:47 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Ebay Acquires Content Meets Commerce Shopping Site, Bureau Of Trade, As Its Personalization Efforts Heat Up
Online marketplace for men’s shopping,Bureau of Trade, has been acquired by eBay, the company announced today. FounderMichael Phillips Moskowitz is joining the eBay Marketplaces team, where his ...
11:43 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Swiftype Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smarter Search Engine For Web And Mobile Sites
Swiftype, a Y Combinator-backed startup that creates a smarter search engine for websites, has raised $7.5 million led by NEA, with angel investors participating. The startup previously raised $1.7 mi...
11:27 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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TechStars London First Cohort: Our Three Favorite Startups From Demo Day
The TechStars inaugural London Demo Day boasted an impressive group of companies, but we put our heads together and came up with a consensus decision on our top pick, as well as a couple of runners up...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Steam News Breaks While We Record, Surface Sequels And Adobe Gets Mighty
A rare treat this week as you can hear the TechCrunch team react to breaking gadget news (the Steam Controller, to be specific) live as it unfolds. It's like being inside our brains without the echoes...
10:33 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Evernote Updates Its Business Product With Social Features And Salesforce.com Integration
Evernote today announced version 2.0 of its business product, appropriately called Evernote Business 2.0.CEO Phil Libin introduced the product on-stage at Evernote's EC3 conference and said it will be...
10:24 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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A New Batch Of Socially Conscious E-Commerce Startups To Put On Your Radar
Is #FeelGoodFriday a thing? With the launch of e-commerce site Zady last month, we’ve been keeping our eye on other conscious consumerism startups in the pipeline.Here for your consideration, th...
10:05 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Microsoft Received 37,196 Gov Requests For Data Impacting 66,539 Accounts In First Half Of 2013
Today Microsoft reported the number of data requests it received from various law enforcement agencies around the world in the first half of (calendar) 2013: 37,196. Those requests dealt with, at most...
09:54 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Valve's Second Hardware Announcement Is The Futuristic Tactile Steam Controller
Nobody expected that, but Valve’s most exciting announcement of the week might be a game controller. The Steam controller is a futuristic touch-enabled gamepad with a small screen sitting right ...
09:49 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Canary Wants To Bring The Power Of The Desktop Calendar To Mobile
Building a better calendar for mobile is a challenge a number of startups have taken on lately, some with the goal of helping you fill a calendar with events, others with simpler interfaces or behind-...
09:27 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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The NSA Refuses To Deny That It Collected The Location Data Of US Phone Calls
During aSenate Intelligence Committee briefing, Gen. Alexander refused to state that the National Security Agency (NSA) had never in the past collected the location information of American phone calls...
08:28 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Telcos Like Telecom Italia Are Failing European Startups And It's Got To Stop
Italy, like many Southern European countries, is struggling with an economy in the doldrums. But the innovators in this proud and ancient country are not sitting idly by. As our Techcrunch Italy event...
08:24 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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GiPStech, A Radical Indoor Location Startup, Wins TechCrunch Italy Competition
The TechCrunch Italy conference featured a startup competition to showcase a number of new, early stage startups emerging from the growing startup ecosystem. In partnership with media company Populis,...
08:17 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Fluc, A Lyft For Food, Launches In San Francisco And Mountain View
Sinceits launch earlier this summer,Palo Alto-basedFluc, one of what's now many, many food delivery startups, has been targeting the majority of restaurants that don't offer delivery.Today, the compan...
07:46 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Flash Memory Provider Violin Memory Down 17% In Public Market Debut While Cloud Service RingCentral Up 45% In IPO
RingCentral is up 45% in early trading today, after pricing its IPO at $13 per share. Violin Memoryis down 17 % in its debut on the public markets.Violin Memory, a Flash-provider, priced its IPO Thurs...
07:21 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Study: Children Reading Fewer Books, Down 8% From 2012
The Harry Potter series is wildly entertaining, but so is Angry Birds, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube Justin Bieber re-enactments, texting, Halo, The Disney Channel, Transformers 3, and a consumer flying...
07:13 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Tinder's Sean Rad To Speak At Disrupt Europe About Expanding Overseas
Sean Rad's Tinder is growing rapidly and looking to Europe for new opportunities. With that we're excited to have him speak on expanding to international markets in a few weeks at Disrupt Europe.In 20...
06:51 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Organic Food Delivery Service Good Eggs Raises $8.5M Series A From Sequoia Capital
Good Eggs, the startup that brings farmers markets online, has closed a $8.5 million Series A round from Sequoia Capital with participation from Harrison Metal and others. Sequoia partner Bryan Schrei...
06:15 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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HTC To Sell Back Its Remaining Stake In Beats Electronics For $265M
The writing was on the wall. It was bound to happen. HTC has sold its remaining stake in Beats Electronics for $265 million. This is likely nothing more than a desperate bid to improve the battered ph...
06:05 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Liftopia, An E-Commerce Platform For Ski Resorts, Raises Additional $5 Million
Last year, online ski marketplaceLiftopia, which previously focused on offering skiers discounted lift tickets, launched an e-commerce platform for the ski resorts themselves called "Cloud Store by Li...
05:31 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Jeff Bezos, Switchboard Operator
I drive a rental car through the rich gray green of overwatered, undersunned Seattle suburbs that border a city rising like a prize at the end of the road. The trees are the color of dried oregano, th...
05:29 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Hotel Booking App JustBook Pivots Slightly Away From HotelTonight Model As It Aims To Conquer The U.S.
Is there enough growth in the last-minute or same-day hotel booking app space? With HotelTonight raising $45 million in Series D funding earlier this month, the consensus amongst the Silicon Valley in...
03:34 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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TechStars London's Debut Demo Day: Meet The Ten Startups Who Presented
TechStars London held its 2013 Demo Day today, with a cohort of ten startup presenting, having graduated from the bootcamp-style 13 week program. The startups presenting span a variety of industries a...
03:13 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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BlackBerry Reports $1.6B In Revenue And A $965M Loss In Q2 2014
Things have been looking awfully bleak for BlackBerry lately, and today the company revealed just how rough things have gotten in its newest earnings release. In fiscal Q2 2014, BlackBerry raked in a ...
02:26 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Minubo Raises 1M From Seedcamp, Tola Capital, HTG, And Others, To Help Online Retailers Become More Data-Driven
Hamburg-based Minubo offers aBusiness Intelligence as a Service that pulls in an online retailer's various data-points to present a holistic view of their analytics to enable them to make "better, dat...
02:02 pm GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Goldfinger 2: Asian Site Leaks Rumored Gold iPad Mini 2 With TouchID Sensor
It's not that much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that Apple might unveil gold, or "space grey," iPads in the upcoming month(s). That's why it's quite interesting that Chinese tech site Do...
11:14 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Payments Startup MobiKwik Launches Mobile Wallet As India's Central Bank Acts To End Country's Cash Dependence
In a move that could ease paper money's stranglehold over the Indian economy and society, Mobikwik is releasing a mobile wallet for the country's burgeoning Android smartphone-class to digitally buy g...
08:35 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Facebook Starts Up Its Mobile Ad Network Again, Focuses On Improved Targeting
After a nine-month pause, Facebook is taking its mobile ad network out for another spin. "We're running a second test to show Facebook ads off Facebook in mobile ads and on mobile sites. Our goal is t...
05:52 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Pin-Digital, The NSFW Startup Behind (Ahem) PinSex And PinGay, Raises $800K
Pin-Digital, a Barcelona-based startup that created PinSex and PinGay, says that it has raised $800,000 in funding.The names are pretty self-explanatory they're both Pinterest-style sites where users...
05:00 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Singapore App Maker MyHero Raises $10M Series A For Its Stock Market Trading Gamification App, TradeHero
An app that lets people play the stock market without the risk of losing any real money has turned its virtual cash game into a pile of actual Benjamins, by closing out a $10 million funding round. Th...
04:45 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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After Kickstarter Success, Ministry of Supply Lands $1.1M To Expand Its Tech-Savvy Men's Line
Founded by a couple of MIT grads in 2010, Ministry of Supply set out on a mission to breathe a little fresh air into the starchy world of business attire. Using some of the same technology found in NA...
04:29 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Cloud-Based Phone Service RingCentral To Debut At $13 On NYSE, Offering 7.5M Shares To Raise $97.5M
RingCentral, the cloud-based phone service, will open trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange at $13 per share, offering 7.5 million shares and raising $97. million. It will trade under the ti...
04:03 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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House Republicans Want To Kill Net Neutrality As Part Of Their Debt Ceiling Bill
Not sure what to make of this episode, but it matters and so here we are: A draft of provisions that Republican leaders in the House are attempting to demand in return for allowing the debt ceiling to...
03:44 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Microsoft's Mobile Platforms Suffer From Flagging Developer Interest
Appcelerator, a company that supports multi-platform development, released its quarterly developer report today that details Microsoft's difficult market position. Developers are far more interested i...
02:22 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Shutting Down The US Government Likely Won't Slow The NSA's Surveillance Activities
Shutting down the U.S. government wouldn't lead to the NSA halting its controversial, and broad surveillance efforts. Leaked documents by Edward Snowden recently detailed the financial cost of the NSA...
01:30 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Sudan's Internet Back Up After A Day In The Dark
The Republic of Sudan was digitally cut off from the world today, amid government protests. The government likely cut the cord to stem outrage over the termination of fuel subsidies, though they have ...
12:42 am GMT - Fri, September 27, 2013
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Two iPhones Diverged
What I'm about to say may be considered blasphemy amongst a certain group of my peers: I think I like the iPhone 5c more than the iPhone 5s....
11:59 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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3D Robotics Raises $30 Million To Legitimize Aerial Drones For Business
The very mention of the word "drone" often conjures up images of autonomous machines cruising over battlefields, but that's far from the future 3D Robotics has in store for its own aerial machines. An...
11:39 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Facebook Hires Data Privacy Litigator Ashlie Beringer As New Deputy Counsel
Between its struggles with the NSA and negotiations with privacy regulators, Facebook needs a lawyer that can fight to protect its data, and its ability to use yours. So today it announced that its ne...
11:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Google Research's Open Project Makes It Easy To Project Android Apps Onto Touch Screens
For the last year or so, Google Research has been working on a project that aims to make it easier to migrate tasks between different devices. The premise of this work is that you are currently using ...
10:35 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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DataSift Now Offering Historical Social Data Analysis Across Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Bitly & More Combined
Fresh on the heels of its deal with Tumblr for access to the Tumblr "firehose," social data platform DataSift is putting that data, and more, to good use with the launch of a new API that performs his...
10:28 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Microsoft Updates Windows Phone App Studio With New Graphics, SkyDrive Integration
This week Microsoft updated its Windows Phone App Studio services with new images and improved SkyDrive integration. It remains in beta. As a platform, the Studio won't change the short-term fortune o...
10:27 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, Hummingbird
Have you noticed recently that Google has gotten a bit better at offering up direct answers to questions? If so, there’s a reason for it: they recently flipped the switch on a new search algorit...
10:16 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Google Improves Knowledge Graph With Comparisons And Filters, Brings Cards & Cross-Platform Notifications To Mobile
Google is turning 15 tomorrow and, fittingly, it’s celebrating the occasion by announcing a couple of new features for Google Search. The mobile search interface, for example, is about to get a ...
10:12 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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(RED) Partner Apple Has Raised Over $65M For AIDS Research In Total
Product(RED) announced early today that its partner Apple had helped it raise more than $65 million. The announcement was made by U2 singer Bono at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting today. The $65...
10:12 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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(RED) Partner Apple Has Raised Over $65M For AIDS Relief In Total
(RED) announced early today that its partner Apple had helped it raise more than $65 million to finance programs which include prevention, treatment, counseling, HIV testing and care services. The ann...
10:09 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Facebook Lets You Edit Posts After Sharing On Android And Web Now, iOS Soon
Typo ruin your social media masterpiece? Facebook is starting to let you edit a post's text after you publish it. The feature comes to the web and Android in an update today, and to iOS soon. Previous...
10:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Google Updates Their iOS Search App With Google Now Push Notifications
This morning at an oddly mysterious* event in Mountain View, Google announced a minor, but not insignificant, update to their Google Search app for iOS: Push Notifications....
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Evernote Announces A Market For Physical Products, Including Post-Its And Socks?
Evernote, the popular note-taking app with 75 million users, today unveiled the latest chapter in its bid to become the go-to place for people to store all their memories a decisive move into physica...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Hands On With The New And Improved Screenhero, The App That Takes Screen Sharing To The Next Level
If you think screen sharing has already been mastered by the likes of WebEx and GoToMeeting, you probably haven't tried Screenhero yet. ScreenHero, which launched earlier this year out of Y Combinator...
09:48 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Microsoft Launches BrowserSwarm To Help Web Developers Test Their JS Frameworks And Libraries
Microsoft today launched BrowserSwarm, an open-source tool for testing JavaScript frameworks and libraries across devices and browsers. The aim here, Microsoft says, is to help developers "build great...
09:31 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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PayPal's David Marcus: Braintree Keeps Its Brand And Ops Intact; Venmo Will Be Used For Big P2P Push
Today's news that eBay's PayPal is buying Braintree for $800 million in cash will open the door to Braintree taking its developer-focused payments platform to more markets and with more services. PayP...
09:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Mesosphere Adds Docker Support To Its Mesos-Based Operating System For The Data Center
Mesos is an open source project that helps developers manage server clusters more efficiently while providing resource isolation. It's currently being used by the likes of Twitter and Airbnb, where mu...
09:12 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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VictorOps Raises $6.5M For A Twitter-Like DevOps Tool To Monitor The Always-On Cloud
VictorOps has raises $6.5 million for its platform that adds a bit of the Twitter lifestyle for the DevOps pro, that person who fille a role somewhere between the IT and developer world. TheSeries A f...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Quantified Work: Meet Stir, A Former iPod Engineer's Smart, Health-Tracking And Height-Adjustable Desk
If you're anything like me, you spend too much of your day at your desk, in front of your computer. During busy days -- especially once you go deep into "the zone" -- it's easy for a few hours to fly ...
08:59 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Apple Releases iOS 7.0.2 With Fixes For Lock Screen Bypass, Greek Passcode Keyboard
Apple has today released iOS 7.0.2 for iOS devices with a fix for the lock screen bypass vulnerability discovered this week. The issue allowed users to jump past lock screen passcodes to gain access t...
08:56 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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BlackBerry Will Release A Painful-To-Use BBM App For Desktops
Despite its recent acquisition, BlackBerry announced it will be releasing a desktop BBM app at BlackBerry Jam Asia 2013 this week. Unfortunately, the long-overdue app leaves much to be desired. BBM wi...
08:55 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Quantified Work: Meet Stir, A Former iPod Engineer's Smart, Health-Tracking And Height-Adjustable Desk
If you're anything like me, you spend too much of your day at your desk, in front of your computer. During busy days -- especially once you go deep into "the zone" -- it's easy for a few hours to fly ...
08:53 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Two-Factor Authentication For Windows Azure
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Windows Azure multi-factor authentication for IT pros and users. The new security capability is available for most any application used on the cloud...
08:25 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Meet The New Comprehensive NSA Reform Package That Could Actually Pass
With growing animosity toward the government's massive spying programs, some reform is going to pass. Yesterday, a bi-partisan group of senior members of Congressunveiled a package that combines the m...
08:03 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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WriteThat.Name's New Chrome Extension Updates Your Address Book Or CRM With Contact Info Found Online
After a little bit of a rough start, the automatic address book updating serviceWriteThat.Namehas become one of my preferred "set it and forget it" tools for keeping things organized. Built by Paris-b...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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With 28M Users, Art Community deviantART Gets Strategic Funding From Autodesk
Online art community deviantART is announcing that it has received a strategic investment from software company Autodesk.The financial terms of the deal aren't being disclosed, but deviantART co-found...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Mobile Browser Maker Dolphin Signs Strategic Partnerships With Yandex, Baidu, Yahoo! Japan And Duck Duck Go
Dolphin, the Sequoia Capital-backed mobile browser maker, has inked strategic partnerships with four search engines to drive its global expansion. They are Yandex in Russia, Baidu in China, Yahoo! Jap...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Apple TV Gets Live MLS Games And Disney Junior Kids Content Via New Channels
Apple continues to roll out its staged partner additions, with two new channels appearing on the streaming media player today. The Major League Soccer channel brings soccer (or "football," depending o...
07:59 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Ford Buys Automotive App Maker Livio Radio For Less Than $10M'
Ford Motors today is announcing the acquisition of Livio Radio, a maker of a platform for in-car apps, with a focus on audio and music services. This is the car-maker's first technology acquisition in...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Mobile Deal-Finding App Shopular Raises $6.4 Million Series A From Sequoia
While most mobile applications today are heavily concerned with getting users to remember to open them regularly, mobile deal-finding application Shopular has been content to run in the background, al...
06:57 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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MakeSpace, A Dropbox For Real Life Storage, Launches In New York Today, Having Raised $1.3M
The phrase “storage unit,” brings to mind one of two things: high-volume drug deals, or a huge hassle. Either way, not good. A startup called MakeSpace is launching in New York today with ...
06:55 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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This Week On The TC Europe Podcast: Paris Gets A Supersized Incubator, Tesco Does A Tablet & Valkee Flogs In-Ear Light
After a short hiatus, during which most of TechCrunch's Europe-based writers packed their laptops and took off for San Francisco (for Disrupt), the TechCrunch Europe Podcast is back to chew over a few...
06:23 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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At TechCrunch Italy, MUBI Launches Its Film Streaming Service In The Land Of Fellini
MUBI, the global curated film streaming service, has been in the process of rolling out its platform to multiple countries and today, at the TechCrunch Italy conference in Rome, it launches its servic...
06:13 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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The $400 Deltaprintr Is A Cheap Way To Make Really Big 3D Prints
Another day, another 3D printer. This time we have a model that comes from SUNY Purchase College where they are working on a laser-cut, compact 3D printer that can make extra tall models simply by swa...
06:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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How Twitter And Uber Backer Benchmark Is Winning At Early-Stage Investing And Staying Lean
Benchmark has stayed lean in a new world where Sand Hill Road is clamoring to offer its own value-added services. It seems like every venture capital firm is adding marketing, PR, recruiting, finance ...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Eniac Ventures Debuts Second, $12.9M Fund To Back Mobile-First Startups
Eniac Ventures is announcing its second fund to invest in mobile startups. The new fund is $12.9 million, significantly larger than the first $1.6 million fund. The company plans to use the new fund t...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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JumpCam, Backed With $2.7M, Debuts Its Snappy Mobile App For Making Collaborative Videos
If you've been to a nice wedding, anniversary, or milestone birthday party lately, you've probably seen this kind of video: A montage of friends and family from all over the world giving their congrat...
05:38 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Indie Bookstores Aren't Dead Yet
Something magical is happening: Indie bookstores are coming back for a few very interesting reasons. While the rise of digital books has definitely put a dent into the fortunes of bookstores - you can...
05:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Rent The Runway Begins Mobile Push With The Launch Of Its First App
Rent the Runway, the site that has been leasing designer dresses to women at a fraction of retail price since 2009, is launching its first mobile app today. With the understanding that their target cu...
05:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Image-Sharing Site Imgur Says It Reaches 100M Unique Visitors Per Month
Meme-heavy image-sharing site Imgur says that it has now grown 100 million unique monthly visitors. The company also says it's profitable, with paid Pro subscriptions and some promising-if-early resul...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Disposable Phone Number App Burner Grabs $2 Million In Seed Funding
Before the world was informed of the massive and invasive government spying programs run by the NSA and other countries, a mobile app called Burnerappeared on the scene offering users disposable phone...
04:50 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Admitted.ly, A College Counseling Service, Launches Today To Level The Admissions Playing Field
Applying to college is confusing. Straight up. Especially so when your only reference points are a copy of the Fiske Guide To Colleges and an over-booked guidance counselor. Admitted.ly, one of ten st...
04:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Motorola Hiring For New Engineering Office In Waterloo BlackBerry's Loss Is Google's Gain
Motorola is "ready to go on a hiring spree" in Waterloo, the home of BlackBerry HQ, according to a new report from the Financial Post. The Google-owned maker of smartphones already has an existing, sm...
04:03 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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EBay's PayPal Acquires Payments Gateway Braintree For $800M In Cash
Ebay's PayPal has acquired Chicago-based payments gatewayBraintree, in an all-cash deal worth $800 million. We had originally reported that Braintree was on the block, with Square and PayPal both in a...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Neurotrack Raises $2M From Founders Fund, SocialPlusCapital To Predict And Diagnose The Onset Of Alzheimer's Disease
I have two grandparents who are afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. Unfortunately, in both situations we didn't find out that they had the disease until they were both showing strong symptoms. In the ...
03:38 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Academia.edu, The Social Networking Platform For Researchers, Raises $11.1 Million
For about five years, Richard Price and the team at Academia.edu have been quietly building a social networking platform for academics and researchers. For years, it was slow going. It took three year...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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LeadPages Raises $5M From Foundry Group For Landing Page Service Powered By Data Analytics Engine
LeadPages, a Minneapolis company started less than a year ago, hasreceiveda $5 million Series A investment from the Foundry Group. The funding will help the company expand its service that provides cu...
03:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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JustFab Has Raised Another $40M Led By Hong Kong's Shining Capital To Take Its Fashion Subscription Commerce Model To Asia
Hot on the heels of its merger with rival ShoeDazzle (yes, pun intended), subscription-based fashion commerce site JustFab, now with 35 million users, is once again adding to its coffers, to pick up t...
03:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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JustFab Raises Another $40M Led By Hong Kong's Shining Capital To Take Its Fashion Subscription Commerce Model To Asia And Beyond
Hot on the heels of its merger with rival ShoeDazzle (yes, pun intended), subscription-based fashion commerce site JustFab, now with 35 million users, is once again adding to its coffers, to pick up t...
03:14 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Russian Health Advice Site VitaPortal Merges With Local Medical Platform ZdorovieOnline, Gets $1.35M Funding Injection
A spot of consolidation in the Russian online health services space today. Health advice portal VitaPortal, which raised a $2 million Series A last October from Prostor Capital and Esther Dyson, has m...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Hopster, The Netflix For Pre-Schoolers, Hits UK App Store In November With Babar, Madeline, SuperWhy And More
London-based startup and Netflix for small children Hopster is on the verge of launching its unlimited TV content app, the company announced today, with a UK iOS App Store debut planned for November. ...
02:53 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Siri Ex-Product Lead Who Quietly Sold Another Startup's Assets To Apple Raises $1M For Unsilo, A Semantic Search Engine
Apple's acquisition of Siri in 2010 gave the company the technology it needed to build a voice-activated personal assistant for its iPhone and iPad devices. A year later, Mads Rydahl -- one of the fir...
02:53 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Siri Ex-Product Lead Who Quietly Sold His Startup's Assets To Apple Raises $1M For Unsilo, A Semantic Search Engine
Apple's acquisition of Siri in 2010 gave the company the technology it needed to build a voice-activated personal assistant for its iPhone and iPad devices. A year later, Mads Rydahl -- one of the fir...
02:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Apple Could Bring Artist-Signed Copies Back To Digital Movies, Books And Music
Apple is working on a way to renew the autograph for the digital age, with a technology that would allow authors, artists and musicians to "sign" their work for customers via a dedicated iOS app as de...
02:13 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Charge It With Fire! FlameStower Turns Your Campfire Into A USB Phone-Charger
Charge your gadgets with fire! FlameStower, a startup that came out of Stanford's StartX Summer 2013 class, has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to get its alternative charger to market. ...
12:54 pm GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Google Hangouts And Google Talk Bug Resulting In Messages Going Out To The Wrong Recipients
A number of sources, including tipsters reporting directly to TechCrunch, as well as Google support forum posters and individuals on Twitter are reporting that Google's Hangouts service is having some...
09:53 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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BlackBerry Cancels Its 2Q2013 Earnings Call
BlackBerry has cancelled its second-quarter earnings call, which was scheduled to take place along with the release of its financial results on Friday. The company said the cancellation was because of...
06:05 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Elop Conspiracy? Not So Much
If you read the news yesterday, you might have run into a few articles discussing the exit of former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, the terms of his exit, the cost of said exit, and how he was a mole in the ...
05:33 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Mayday! Mayday! Amazon's On-Demand Support Could Be A Scaling Nightmare
What happens when it's easier to call tech support than to Google your problem? Amazon might discover the costly answer to that question depending on how much the owners of its new Kindle Fire HDX tab...
05:33 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Amazon Faces High-Stakes Challenge In Scaling Mayday On-Demand Support
What happens when it's easier to call tech support than to Google your problem? Amazon might discover the costly answer to that question depending on how much the owners of its new Kindle Fire HDX tab...
04:00 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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SecondMarket Launches A Bitcoin Investment Trust For Accredited Investors
As Bitcoin, the math-based currency that enthusiasts say could revolutionize online transactions, becomes more mainstream, its supporters have been looking for ways to make it more accessible to inves...
03:51 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Nest Labs To Open Up Its Learning Thermostat To Developers
The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a little smarter (and perhaps the forthcoming Protect). Speaking at CEDIA Expo 2013, Tony Fadell, the company's co-founder and CEO, just detailed an API th...
01:43 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Apple Turns Apple TV Into An iBeacon To Enable Touch To Set Up' Via iOS 7 Devices
Apple is leveraging the Bluetooth LE technology that it has been building into every iPhone since the iPhone 4S to enable automatic setup of an Apple TV 3G. Just touch a device running iOS 7 to a newe...
01:43 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Apple Uses Bluetooth LE To Enable Apple TV Touch To Set Up' Via iOS 7 Devices
Apple is leveraging the Bluetooth LE technology that it has been building into every iPhone since the iPhone 4S to enable automatic setup of an Apple TV 3G. Just touch a device running iOS 7 to a newe...
01:36 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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In Search Of The Perfect Polo: Hands-On With Vastrm's Home Try-On Service
Y Combinator alum Vastrm has been pretty busy lately. In addition to locking up another $1 million in seed funding from A16z, SV Angels, Ignition Partners, and Will Smith (to name a few), the startup ...
01:35 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: Amazon Outs New Kindle Fires While Samsung Goes For The Gold
What would a Wednesday afternoon be without the TechCrunch Droidcast? Don't answer that.Sadly, I couldn't be around to take part in this glorious meeting of the minds (I was checking out startups here...
12:45 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Target Launches Its First Subscription-Based E-Commerce Service, Focus For Now Is Baby-Care Items
As Amazon's online business continues to cut into traditional retailers' revenues, Target today makes a move to fight back. TheMinneapolis-headquartered retailer has just launched a pilot program for ...
12:04 am GMT - Thu, September 26, 2013
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Both Apple And EA Deny Money Exchanged To Keep Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Off Android
Apple and EA are both categorically denying a report that surfaced late yesterday that money exchanged hands to keep Popcap hit Plants Vs. Zombies 2 an exclusive to iOS. Reached for comment on the mat...
11:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Google Starts Supporting Google+ Hashtags In Search Queries
Google+ started supporting hashtags in May, and today the company announced that Google Search will now allow you to search for Google+ posts by using these hashtags. Given that there's a little bit o...
11:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Gmail For Android Updated With Card-Style Layout
Google's Gmail application for Android is being updated today with a new design which will bring Google's now preferred "card style" user interface to the Conversation View within the app. This layout...
11:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Automattic Acquires File-Sharing Service Cloudup To Build A Faster Media Library And Enable Co-Editing
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired file-sharing serviceCloudup, whichlaunched in beta in June. The acquisition will help Automattic improve two features of WordPress.com in ...
10:59 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Instacart, Growing Rapidly In Chicago, Adds Recipes To Its Grocery Delivery Service
Today Instacart, a grocery delivery service, added an initial set of recipes to its service, helping customers purchase groups of items that combine into finished dishes. For the non-chef among us (he...
10:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Apple Launches iOS 7 Tech Talks For Developers In SF, NYC, Tokyo, Shanghai, Berlin And London
Apple has just announced a series of Tech Talks for developers building apps for iOS 7. This is a relatively common occurrence as Apple likes to get evangelists out to talk to developers and help them...
10:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Google+ May Finally Matter Thanks To YouTube Comments
You didn't really need a Google+ account until now. You might have one whether you wanted it or not. But YouTube new commenting system requires a presence on Google+. And there's no real alternative t...
10:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Instagram Gets A Mild iOS 7 Redesign With Edge-To-Edge Images
Instagram has been updated for Apple’s iOS 7 today with a new design that puts photos front and center. The app has not been re-written or torn down for the logic of iOS 7 so much as trimmed and...
09:22 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Valve To Launch A Prototype Steam Box And Multiple Steam Machines In 2014
Following the announcement of SteamOS, Valve just unveiled the long-anticipated Steam Box — sort of. Instead of releasing a Valve-branded Steam Box, the company will actually work with multiple ...
09:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Social Events Platform DoubleDutch Raises $10 Million Series C Led By Bessemer
Rapidly growing mobile events application platform DoubleDutchraised $10 million in Series C funding TechCrunch learned, in an oversubscribed round led in large part by Byron Deeter of Bessemer Ventur...
09:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Wealthfront Debuts Wealthfront.org To Give Web-Based Investment Tools To Non-Profits
Automated investment services company Wealthfront has made its name as an alternative to traditional financial advisory services for individuals, especially "Generation Y" techies just starting to pul...
09:14 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Twitter Alerts Lets You Opt-in On Push Notifications From Emergency Organizations And NGOs During Crises
Twitter is rolling out a new system called Twitter Alerts today that lets you choose to receive special alerts from emergency accounts, government organizations and NGOs. The system is designed to exp...
08:57 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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YouTube Launches Free Audio Library With 150 Royalty-Free Tracks
YouTube currently offers more than150,000 audio tracks on its site that video producers can use as background music for their videos. Those tracks, however, can't be downloaded or remixed, which makes...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Zoho Goes For The Small Business Customer By Helping Them Organize And Share Their Contacts At A Price Of Their Choosing
Zoho has launched a service that centralizes contacts for customers, helps them share them across different groups and manage related tasks. As part of the effort to reach small business owners, the C...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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CardSpring Connect Lets Merchants Switch On Card-Linked Offers On Foursquare & Elsewhere With Just A Click
Many brick-and-mortar merchants in the real world just want customers, but don't have the time to learn the nuances of the various performance marketing tools and other programs at their disposal toda...
07:48 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Google Shopping Express Launches To All Of Bay Area, Debuts New Apps
After previously dogfooding and then beta testing itssame-day Amazon Prime and eBay Now competitorGoogle Shopping Express, Google says that today the service is launching to all those in its initial t...
07:48 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Google Shopping Express Launches In San Francisco Peninsula, Debuts New Apps
After previously dogfooding and then beta testing itssame-day Amazon Prime and eBay Now competitorGoogle Shopping Express, Google says that today the service is launching to all those in its initial t...
07:08 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Here's What We Saw At ERA's Summer 2013 Demo Day
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) held its Summer 2013 demo day today — its fifth demo day in two years — with a customary ten companies taking the stage to show off the fruits of...
06:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Carriers Increasingly Open To Working With Mobile Messaging Startups, Research Finds
Carriers haven't typically been friendly with startups, especially over-the-top messaging players that circumvent native phone comms -- viewing them as thieves of traditional voice and SMS revenues, a...
06:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Digital Gift Card Platform Gyft Raises $5 Million Series A
Gyft, a company building a digital platform to bring the plastic gift card industry to both web and mobile, has raised $5 million in Series A funding, in a round led by Karlin Ventures, with participa...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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15% Of Americans Don't Have Internet. 5% Think It's Irrelevant.
Five percent of Americans have resisted the siren song of cat listicles and hashtags. Specifically, they think the Internet is “irrelevant,” to use words of Pew, which just released a repo...
05:43 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Location-Based Photo And Video Discovery App Tapastreet Raises $500,000 Seed Round
Location-based photo and video discovery platform Tapastreet, which first unveiled its wares at our recent TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, has announced that it's closed a $500,000 seed round. Th...
05:39 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Chute Makes It Easy For Brands To Ask Fans For Permission To Use Their Photos
Chute is a startup aiming to become a "complete visual platform" for brands and publishers, initially by helping customers collect and publish user images and videos. Today it's taking an important st...
05:08 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Verdict On Pakistan YouTube Ban Delayed As Case Is Moved To High Court Full Bench
The year-long saga of the Pakistan government's YouTube ban has just taken another twist, as a case to unblock the website has been referred to a panel of Lahore High Court justices who will now decid...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Registration For Hardware Alley Berlin At TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Is Now Open
Hardware Alley is my favorite part of Disrupt and we're bringing the festivities to Berlin on October 29 when 30 lucky hardware companies can show off their wares. It is a crowd favorite and I'd love ...
04:37 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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DJ App Edjing Raises $2.5M From Entrepreneur Venture And Deezer Founder Daniel Marhely
DJ app edjing - which is available for iOS, Android, Amazon's mobile platform, and Windows -- has raised $2.5 million in funding led by Entrepreneur Venture, with participation from Deezer founder, Da...
04:33 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Hyperlocal Power: Urban Compass Raises $20M At A $150M Valuation; Adds Advance Publications And Marc Benioff As Investors
Urban Compass, the young New York startup that emerged from stealth mode in May with a home rentals platform and accompanying hyperlocal social network, has closed a Series A round of funding totallin...
03:58 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Of Course Samsung Is Now Making A Gold GS4
I'm going to try to write this without mentioning the gold iPhone 5s.Samsung just took the wraps off of two gold-themed Galaxy S4 smartphones: Gold Pink and Gold Brown. Both options are seemingly cosm...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Egnyte Sports A New Look And Adds Security To Share The Most Sensitive Files
Egnyte has a new look and with it a new platform that allows customers to share the most sensitive documents that historically file-sharing and storage services have not had thesecurityin place to man...
03:13 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Free's Xavier Niel To Launch 1000startups In Paris, The World's Biggest Incubator
While the name is very reminiscent of 500 Startups, 1000startups is a brand new crazy project from Free CEO Xavier Niel. With the help of the Caisse des Dpts, Niel wants to create the world’s bi...
03:03 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Cargo's Brewbot Makes You A Smartphone-Powered Craft Beer Microbrewery Starting At 1,500
All you really need to brew your own beer is a spare bathtub and some ingenuity, or so I believe based on long-held unsupported and unconfirmed opinion, but if you want to get fancy, a new Kickstarter...
02:45 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Price War? mPOS Startup SumUp Cuts Its 2.75% Per Transaction Fee Across Europe
Back in July, iZettle launched a reducing per transaction fee that could drop as low as 1.5% for U.K. business processing more than 15,000 per month via its mobile card readers. That move looks to hav...
01:35 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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African Accelerators Change Tack As Savannah Valley' Emerges From The Wilderness
Kenyan accelerators, following mixed results from their rookie season,have tweaked their strategies for mentoring and investing in local entrepreneurs, in a bid to produce more successful startups.Acc...
01:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Ahead Of Rumored Apple TV Refresh, Roku Updates Streaming Media Player Lineup And Launches Roku 3 In The UK
Streaming media hardware company Roku, which is holding it own in a market that includes tech industry heavyweights including Apple and Google, has just introduced new models of its streaming players....
01:13 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Rock Health Debuts Its Fifth Digital Health Class, Partners With AngelList To Let Investors Fund All 10 Startups Online
It’s been a busy last 24 hours for Rock Health — and last three years for that matter. Today, the San Francisco-based accelerator for digital health startups held its fifth Demo Day at UCS...
12:24 pm GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Amazon Continues To Quietly Build The Enterprise-Optimized Tablet With New Kindle HD And HDX
Amazon's Kindle line of Android-powered tablets, which sport a modified version of Google's OS that the online book seller is developing on its own, is looking more and more like a bunch of enterprise...
11:38 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Naveen Selvadurai Has Joined Oscar, The Startup Aiming To Simplify Health Insurance
Naveen Selvadurai, the co-founder of Foursquare who departed the company in 2012, has found a new role at Oscar, the health insurance startup founded by Thrive Capitals Joshua Kushner that just raised...
10:56 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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HotelQuickly Raises $1.16M Series A To Expand In Asia
Hotel booking app HotelQuickly has raised a series A round of HKD$9 million (about $1.16 million USD). Investors include Boon Hwee Koh, the former chairman of Singtel and Singapore Airlines. The start...
10:00 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Europe, Come Build With Us! Here Are The Very First Tickets To The Disrupt Europe Hackathon
Hey, Berlin! Come show us what you've got.In just over a month, we're bringing the TechCrunch Disrupt conference to Europe for the very first time and with it, one of our big ol' Hackathons. The very...
08:54 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Alibaba Group Acquires Kanbox, A Personal Cloud Storage Service
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group has acquired Kanbox, the personal cloud storage service sometimes referred to as "the Dropbox of China." This marks Alibaba Group's first personal cloud storage ac...
08:15 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Bitcoin-Infused Accelerator Boost.vc Gains Momentum With The Launch Of Stellar Second Batch
Last summer, Adam Draper and Brayton Williams launched Boost.vc, a 12-week accelerator program for early-stage startups. Taking a familiar approach to business incubation, the San Mateo-based accelera...
08:02 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Amazon Introduces Mayday, A Unique And Amazingly Useful Live Tech Support System For Kindle
Live support has always been a dream for major retailers. While chat solutions already exist, today Amazon announced a new support service available on Kindle HD products called Mayday. It is a single...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Amazon Announces The Kindle HDX 7- And 8.9-Inch Tablets With High-Res Screens, 2GHz Processors
Amazon has upped the Fire tablet ante with two new HDX models in 7- and 8.9-inch sizes with brand-new, high-resolution screens and running an updated Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor at 2GHz. Both m...
05:00 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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RealNetworks Bets On Cross-Device Video Sharing With RealPlayer Cloud
RealNetworks is announcing a big expansion beyond its RealPlayer media player today with the launch of a new service called RealPlayer Cloud, which is supposed to make it easy for users to access and ...
04:30 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Yahoo Will Offer Not My Email' Button To Report Mistaken Deliveries Due To Username Recycling
Yahoo will begin offering a new ‘Not My Email’ button this week that gives owners of newly claimed, previously dormant, user names the ability to ‘return’ messages that were no...
04:07 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Nest Labs' Next Product To Be A Smoke Detector, Per Reports
The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a sibling. The Protect. If this report is correct, the company behind the incredibly popular Learning Thermostat is prepping a smoke detector. Yep, a smoke...
03:54 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Now Processing $1B Annually, Swipely Announces A Partner Network To Support Growth
Today Swipely announced that the flow of payments through its system has doubled since April, with the firm now processing charges at a yearly run rate of $1 billion. With a fresh capital injection th...
03:02 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Elance, SkilledUp & Smarterer Launch New Learning Platform To Let You Learn, Validate & Find Work In One Place
Everyone knows that the educational system in the U.S. hasn't changed much in, oh, the last 100 years. And that there's a lot of inertia within the system, gumming the gears and slowing its transforma...
02:50 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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AppleCarePlus Now Covers Travelers' iPhones, iPads, Other Products In Any Country Where It's Offered
Apple made a change to its AppleCare+ plans recently, around the time that the new iPhones were announced. It now allows you to get your iPhone, oPad, Mac, iPod, Apple display or Apple TV serviced in ...
02:50 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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AppleCarePlus Now Covers Travelers' iPhones, iPads, iPods In Any Country Where It's Offered
Apple made a change to its AppleCare+ plans recently, around the time that the new iPhones were announced. It now allows you to get your iPhone, iPad, or iPods serviced in any country that offers Appl...
01:52 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Engine Yard Adds Java Support For PaaS And Availability On Oracle Public Cloud
It's Oracle OpenWorld this week and so it's a fitting time for Engine Yard to show its support for the Oracle Public Cloud and Java, the lingua franca of choice for the enterprise world.Oracle is an i...
01:51 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Lending Marketplace Prosper Locks Down $25M From Sequoia, BlackRock
Today Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending platform announced that it has raised an additional $25 million. The round was led by Sequoia, a longtime investor in the company, and was participated in by Blac...
01:43 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Petcube Opens Kickstarter Campaign To Let People Play With Their Pets Remotely
To combat the horrifying dearth of cute cat videos on the Internet, a startup called Petcube has launched a Kickstarter campaign today to manufacture a sleek box, tricked out with a laser pointer, wid...
01:24 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Marissa Mayer Says That She Won't Read This
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer seems to be on a bit of a press tour, and as result, a lot of her comments on-stage today at the IAB MIXX conference won't be a big surprise to folks who have been following he...
01:08 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Flywheel Launches A Premium WordPress Hosting And Management Service For Designers
Flywheel, an Omaha, Neb.-based startup, is launching a new WordPress hosting and management service today that was built specifically for web designers, freelancers and agencies.WordPress has come a l...
12:54 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Google Earth Meets The Body: BioDigital Gets $4M To Bring Its 3-D, Virtual Anatomy & Health Platform To Every Browser
While the film is extremely compelling, it turns out that there's actually a better way to learn about and visualize the human body than by watching Osmosis Jones on repeat. It used to be that student...
12:31 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Senators Demand Answers On NSA Snooping - By The End Of 2014
This week nine members of theSenate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the inspector general of the Intelligence Community,I. Charles McCullough III, asking him to conduct a full review of U.S. inte...
12:30 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Twitter Launches Personalized Recommendation Notification Based On @Magicrecs Experiment
Twitter has announced a new push notification in its twitter apps for Android and iPhone that will deliver personalized recommendations for tweets and accounts to follow. The new notification is based...
12:30 am GMT - Wed, September 25, 2013
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Twitter Launches Personalized Recommendation Notifications Based On @Magicrecs Experiment
Twitter has announced a new push notification in its twitter apps for Android and iPhone that will deliver personalized recommendations for tweets and accounts to follow. The new notification is based...
11:18 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Keen On Uproot Wine: How One New York VC Is Tipsy On Californian Sauvignon Blanc
One the one hand, Jay Levy , as a partner in Zelkovo Ventures, is a conventional New York City tech VC with investments in promising start-ups like Fab, Klout and Crimson Hexagon. But Levy, as the fou...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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In Its First Acquisition, StumbleUpon Buys Video Recommendation Startup 5by
Content discovery service StumbleUpon is announcing that it has acquired 5by, a video startup based in Montreal.The financial terms of the deal aren't being disclosed, but the companies say the entire...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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NoWait, A Mobile Replacement For The Restaurant Buzzer, Launches Its Consumer App
The Pittsburgh-based mobile waitlisting service for restaurants,NoWait, which raised $2 million in Series A funding just over a year ago, is now rolling out its first consumer-facing product with the ...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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YouTube Announces A New Commenting System, Powered By Google+, With Threaded, Ranked And Private Conversations
YouTube today announced a new commenting system that will be powered by Google+. The system, which is launching on channel discussion tabs this week before rolling out to all videos over the next few ...
10:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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A High-End Surface Pro 2 With Power Cover And Dock Will Cost $2,197
Yesterday Microsoft announced two new Surface tablets. They are now up for pre-order, though the Power Cover and dock will not be released until the early part of next year. Microsoft is selling its o...
10:11 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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On California's Bizarre Internet Eraser Law For Teenagers
California has passed a well-intentioned law allowing teens to scrub their youthful indiscretions from the Internet. Starting in 2015, any minor can request that a digital service provider delete pict...
10:07 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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WPP's Martin Sorrell Sees Growing Relevance For Ad Agencies In A Tech-Centric World
Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of ad holding company WPP, weighed in on the digital media landscape today at the IAB MIXX conference in New York. One of his main arguments: That tech companies are also in th...
09:14 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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AdStage Expands Its Cross-Network Ad Platform With App Partnerships And New Formats
When AdStage launched earlier this year, the big selling point was the ease with which small businesses could create ads that ran across Google, Bing, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Today it's launching what...
08:44 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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BabyWatch Health Tracker Lets Expecting Mothers Share Their Babies' Heartbeats
As evidenced by sonogram photos posted to Facebook and the apparent popularity of “ultrasound parties,” pregnancy is a time ripe for sharing. A new startup called BabyWatch is taking those...
08:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Emergence Capital Partners' Kevin Spain And Google Ventures' Krishna Yeshwant
This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Emergence Capital Partners' Kevin Spain in the studio. You can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ask them duri...
08:17 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Sold, The App That Sells Your Stuff For You, Arrives On Android
Too lazy busy to handle selling your stuff on eBay or Craigslist, or having a yard sale? Yep, same here. That's why a startup calledSold, launchedearlier this year, had me intrigued. Its big idea is t...
08:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Intuit Integrates Its QuickBooks Accounting Software With Square's Point Of Sale Products, Via An API Deal
Earlier today Intuit announced a completely new version of its QuickBooks accounting software, and to kick it off, it's also announcing a new, and rather groundbreaking, partnership. It is integrating...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Adobe Updates Its Primetime TV Publishing Platform With Improved Analytics And Cloud DRM, Signs Up Turner Broadcasting
Earlier this year, Adobe launched its Primetime TV publishing and monetization platform to facilitate TV Everywhere solutions for TV networks and other video providers. Today, the company is updating ...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Pinterest Appeals To Publishers With New Article Pins, Pushes To Become A Bookmarking & Read It Later Service
Only days after announcing the launch of ads, social networking site Pinterest is now making an appeal to publishers: the company is today rolling out an updated "article" pin type, designed to expand...
07:48 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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To Humanize Its Marketplace, Rakuten.com Teams Up With Tidal Labs For Rakuten Essential To Add Blog Posts To Buying
Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce powerhouse with ambitions to take on Amazon, is today kicking off a new feature on its U.S. site Rakuten.com that it hopes will help the company better differentiate i...
07:14 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Google Apologizes, Says Gmail Uptime Not Affected By Yesterday's Email Delivery Delays
Google has apologized and offered up an explanation of sorts for yesterday’s lengthy issues involving Gmail delivery delays. For those who receive so little email that you may have missed this (...
07:06 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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A Rare Launch In Europe - Big New Law Firm Dedicated To Tech Startups
We don't normally cover tech law firms, and fear not, we're not about to flood your feed with chatter about those guys. But the launch of a new firm specialising in tech is such a rare event (most law...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Discovr Delivers Total iOS 7 Overhaul For Its Music Discovery App With Streaming And Social Features
Discovr is one of those apps that has managed considerable success on the basis of doing one thing very well, in a number of different ways. The Australian startup behind the Discovr apps, Filter Squa...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Y Combinator Alum Strikingly Begins Marketing Its Mobile Site Builder In Southeast Asia
Strikingly, the mobile Web site builder we profiled when it was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2013 class, is honing in on the Southeast Asia market to leverage the region's rapidly increasing smartpho...
06:28 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Big Data Startup NGDATA Raises $3.3M For Lily, Its Real-Time Customer Offer Generator
Belgium-based big data startup NGDATA, which also has offices in New York and San Francisco, has closed a $3.3 million funding round, led by Capricorn Venture Partners. Existing investors also partici...
05:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Apple's iPhone 5c Build Costs Start At $173, Entry-Level 5s At $199, According To Research Firm IHS
Every time Apple builds a new device, search firm IHS takes a look at the parts and tries to estimate the bill-of-materials for the new gadget. The resulting price is a rough approximation of what it ...
05:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Causes Relaunches As A Social Network For Social Good Action, Not Shallow Clicktivism
Click a link, click a petition, feel better without making a difference. That was the old Causes. Today, the new Causes launches to reactivate its 186 million registered million users. It's an indepen...
04:47 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Apple Updates iMac With New Intel Processors, Speedy 802.11ac Wi-Fi And Faster Flash Storage
Apple has just released an updated version of its iMac all-in-one computer. The update is a minor one, unlike the considerable redesign it got at the end of last year, but it brings brand new improved...
04:27 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Developer Finds It Takes Just Under 4K Downloads To Break Top 10 Paid iOS Apps, Over 7K To Rank Fifth And Up
The App Store is somewhat shrouded in mystery, thanks a secret recipe that Apple uses to determine what apps shoot up the charts. Downloads play a big, influential role, but they aren't the only facto...
04:21 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Game Studio Total Eclipse Raises Seed Round From OpenFund To Expand Its Portfolio
Back at the beginning of this year the Openfund (a five-year-old investment fund out of Athens Greece) closed its second fund totalling 10 million under management. They set to work putting that to go...
04:18 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Meet Studio, The App That Launched A Million Designers And Counting
There's no doubt that photo-sharing is hot, but among the hundreds of services out there tackling the space, there hasn't been an app that has made a splash in photo-sharing in this post-Instagram wor...
04:11 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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With LiveAd, Ustream Customers Can Promote Their Video Content With Interactive Ads
Live video company Ustream has been quietly transforming itself, according to co-founder and CEO Brad Hunstable, who said the company has switched from being an ad-supported media business to a techno...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Looking Beyond Medical Records, Practice Fusion Lands A Whopping $70M To Bring A Big Data Cure To The Healthcare Crisis
The world of digital health startups has begun to explode over the last two years -- and innovation in healthcare along with it -- but nonetheless, the latest reports show a landscape that is still su...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Practice Fusion Lands A Whopping $70M To Bring A Big Data Cure To The Healthcare Crisis
The world of digital health startups has begun to explode over the last two years -- and innovation in healthcare along with it -- but nonetheless, the latest reports show a landscape that is still su...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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CloudOn Brings Its Mobile Productivity Suite To The Web
CloudOn, the popular iOS and Android app for viewing and editing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, is coming to the web today. After signing up more than 5 million users through its mobile a...
03:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Would-Be Alexa Killer SimilarWeb Raises An Additional $3.5 Million
A company out to topple the stronghold Alexa still has on web rankings despite serious questions involving accuracy isTel Aviv-basedSimilarGroup, makers of an online web measurement tool calledSimilar...
03:57 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Apple Swipe Keyboard Patent Shows Cupertino Knows Typing On iOS Is Tedious
Apple's iPhone needs a much smarter keyboard. I've said it before, but here's evidence Cupertino itself realises that hen-pecking individual letters is a "tedious task". Apple's US patent 8,542,206 de...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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With $3B Under Management, Simplee Lands $10M To Bring Medical Bill Payments Into The Smartphone Era
In 2009, Tomer Shoval went on vacation with his family to Mexico, which unfortunately ended on a sour note — and one with which many travelers can empathize — they all got sick. Back in th...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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With $3B Under Management, Simplee Grabs $10M To Carry Medical Bill Payments Into The Smartphone Era
In 2009, Tomer Shoval went on vacation with his family to Mexico, which unfortunately ended on a sour note — and one with which many travelers can empathize — they all got sick. Back in th...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Zoom Video Conferencing Adds $6.5M In Funding To Drive Expansion And Uptake In Education And Health
Zoom, the Santa Clara-based cloud video conferencing startup that last raised $6 million in January, has raised another $6.5 million in a Series B round of funding that has just closed. The new round ...
02:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Security Concerns Abound Over Unofficial Android iMessage App That Uses Chinese Servers To Process Data
An unauthorised app that lets Android users chat on Apple's closed iMessage network is causing a big stir. It's had viral downloads in the tens of thousands amid claims that it could be spreading malw...
01:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Spotify Launches In Taiwan, Argentina, Greece and Turkey
Spotify has launched in Argentina, Greece, Turkey and Taiwan, bringing its streaming music platform to a total of 32 countries. ...
01:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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EBay Bridges Online And High Street With Click And Collect Service In The UK, Argos First Partner
E-commerce giant eBay today made its latest moves to blur the lines between online and offline commerce, and it's chosen the UK to do it: it launched a new Click and Collect service, where shoppers ca...
01:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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EBay Bridges Online And High Street With Click & Collect Service In The UK, And eBay Now Goes Abroad
E-commerce giant eBay today made its latest moves to blur the lines between online and offline commerce, and it's chosen the UK to do it: it launched a new "Click & Collect" service, where shopper...
01:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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EBay Debuts Its Answer To Amazon Lockers: Click & Collect At Retail Stores, While eBay Now Goes Abroad
E-commerce giant eBay today made its latest moves to blur the lines between online and offline commerce, and it's chosen the UK to do it: it launched a new "Click & Collect" service, where shopper...
01:20 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Line Adds Vine-Style Clip Maker & Video Calling To Its Mobile Messaging Platform
The largest mobile messaging apps are increasingly social platforms in their own right. More evidence of that today as NHN Japan Corporation's Line has added yet another feature to its platform play....
01:12 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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IndieGameStand Launches Online Store And Steam Competitor With Democratized Access For All Indie Devs
Buying indie games online can be a hit-or-miss experience, often involving some hunting, but IndieGameStand has just launched a new centralized online store where you should be able to access just abo...
12:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Apple TV 6.0 Update Returns With iTunes Match In Tow After Buggy First Version Pulled
Apple has re-issued the 6.0 update for Apple TV devices it released last week, after the original version's many problems including slow downloads, library loss and even some apparent bricking led the...
09:28 am GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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China Reportedly Lifts Ban On Facebook In The Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, But Continues Crackdown On Internet Freedom
The Chinese government will allow access to some banned Web sites in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, including Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times, the South China Morning Post reports, citing anon...
07:39 am GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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FormaFina, A Fab For The New Rich Of South America, Raises $1.4M
For those who haven't yet heard of FormaFina, think of it as the Fab of South America. The ecommerce startup, which sells curated, limited-run collections of designer wares in Argentina and Brazil, ha...
06:27 am GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Surface 2: Repeat Or Redemption?
Myself and the inimitableChris Velazco took to the TechCrunch TV screens to dig into the new Surface hardware that Microsoft announced today. Chris and I are both long-time Surface owners and users, s...
05:00 am GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Source: Cella Irvine Is No Longer CEO At Vibrant Media
Cella Irvine has stepped down as CEO of ad tech company Vibrant Media, according to a source with knowledge of the company.I emailed and called the company earlier this evening, but I haven't heard ba...
04:51 am GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Digital Health Startups Get The Same Toys As Everyone Else
Until this summer, a significant subset of US-based healthcare entrepreneurs were unable to legally use one of the most fundamental, integral, and efficiency-boosting development tools out there: Amaz...
04:38 am GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Up Close And Personal With Microsoft's Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2
Now that the dust from Microsoft's Surface event has settled, we're left with two new tablets and one grand vision for the holidays -- with three Surfaces now on the market, Microsoft has carved out a...
04:09 am GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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C9 Hires A New CEO And Raises $12M For Sales Forecasting SaaS
C9 has a new CEO and $12 million in funding for its platform that helps customers forecast sales revenues. The Series D round was led by existing investors Mayfield Fund, InterWest Partners and Leapfr...
03:41 am GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Digital Chocolate, Which Nurtured Some Of Gaming's Best Talent, Sells Its Barcelona Studio To Ubisoft
Digital Chocolate, the long-troubled gaming company from original EA founder Trip Hawkins, has sold its 46-person Barcelona studio to France’s Ubisoft. The sale comes just months after the compa...
02:00 am GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Facebook Partners With PayPal, Stripe, Braintree To Autofill Billing Info In Mobile Commerce Apps
Facebook wants to put an end to typing billing details on the small screen, help developers and payment processors earn more money, and prove that its app install ads make money for ecommerce companie...
01:06 am GMT - Tue, September 24, 2013
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Betaworks And Tim Ferriss Among First Using General Solicitation To Ask Crowds For Investment
It's day one of the new general solicitation rules allowing companies to openly advertise that they're fundraising, and Betaworks is wasting no time. It's just emailed asking its thousands of Openbeta...
11:56 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Apple Froze App Store Rankings On Friday, And Odd Behavior Continues
In the last three years, the only times Apple has ever frozen its App Store rankings has been over the holidays, so it’s interesting to note that the company actually froze rankings for a total ...
11:40 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Gmail's Ongoing Email Slow Down Nearing Resolution
Good news! Today you can blame your non-responsiveness to all those important emails you’ve been ignoring on Google itself. The company’s online email service Gmail has been experiencing i...
11:40 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Gmail's Ongoing Email Slowdown Nearing Resolution
Good news! Today you can blame your non-responsiveness to all those important emails you’ve been ignoring on Google itself. The company’s online email service Gmail has been experiencing i...
11:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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SEC Allows General Solicitation, Effective Today: What Changed And What To Watch Out For
Today, the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission's final rules allowing general solicitation went into effect. In the fundraising context, general solicitation means publicly advertising the fact that y...
10:43 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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CloudBees Platform Now Connects To iOS Tool Chain For Enterprise Developers To Build And Test Apps
Developers are pushing to do more app development in the cloud, but IT has a history as a command and control environment that has focused on locking down infrastructure more than opening it up. Cloud...
10:42 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Google Will Start Blocking Most Netscape Plug-In API Plug-Ins In January 2014, Will Whitelist Silverlight, Unity & Others
The name "Netscape Plug-in API"(NPAPI) sounds like a relic from another age of browsers but Chrome, Mozilla and other browsers still support this architecture for writing browser plugins today. Its ti...
10:22 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Valve Introduces SteamOS, A Linux-Based Platform To Bring Steam To Your Living Room
Valve just announced the first part of its living room strategy with SteamOS, a free Linux-based operating system that takes the 'Big Picture' feature one step further. In addition to playing your gam...
09:59 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Flipboard's Mike McCue Confirms $50M Raise, Says Windows 8 App, More International Versions Coming By End Of Year
Flipboard, the mobile-first "social" magazine that lets people tag, assemble and then share collections of stories from around the web, has now raised another $50 million at an $800 million valuation ...
09:45 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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BlackBerry Signs Letter Of Intent To Go Private For $9 Per Share In Deal Valued At $4.7 Billion
Today BlackBerry announced a $9 per share offer for its outstanding stock, a deal worth around $4.7 billion. The $9 per share price is a slight premium over its current stock price, which traded at $8...
09:18 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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AngelList Beefs Up Syndicates With New Backers Model, Lets Accelerators Raise Funding Too
With the loosening of the SEC’s restrictions around general solicitation or public fundraising by startups, AngelList is launching a whole suite of products that could extend its influence (and...
09:05 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Backed By First Round's Dorm Room Fund, Addy Is A Location-Sharing Service That Goes Beyond Addresses
Khaled Naim, CEO of startup Addy, is hoping to create a new way for people to share their location.What's wrong with plain old addresses? Well, they usually get the job done, at least if you live in a...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Poor Indian Sales Force Sygic To Release Navigation App For Free
App developers are struggling to make money in India because of low credit card penetration, according to Michael Stencl, CEO of maps provider Sygic, which has now dropped the $5.58 fee to download it...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Poor Sales In India Force Maps Provider Sygic To Release Navigation App For Free
App developers are struggling to make money in India because of low credit card penetration, according to Michael Stencl, CEO of maps provider Sygic, which has now dropped the $5.58 fee to download it...
08:40 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Microsoft Introduces 200GB SkyDrive Storage Upgrade For $100 Per Year
With the launch of Windows 8.1 just around the corner, Microsoft today announced a new storage option for SkyDrive. The cloud storage service, which is now a built-in Windows 8.1 feature, now offers a...
08:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Twitter Unveils Comprehensive' Partnership With CBS For Its In-Stream Video Program Amplify
Twitter and CBS just announced what Glenn Brown, who leads Twitter's Amplify program, called "probably one of the most comprehensive partnerships that you will see coming out of Amplify."The program w...
08:07 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Threadflip Brings Its Fashion Marketplace To iPad
Online and mobile marketplace Threadflip, which lets you clean out your closet and shop those from others, is today publicly debuting its updated mobile application, now available for the first time o...
07:39 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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DogVacay, The Airbnb For Pets', Debuts Its Native iOS App For Booking Dog Sitters
DogVacay has been assigned a tagline by the press that sounds a little ridiculous when you hear it -- "the Airbnb for pets" -- but the business itself is actually a very practical one. The Los Angeles...
07:33 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Microsoft Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2 Pre-Orders Start Tomorrow Ahead Of October 22 Launch
So now that Microsoft has finally let its next-generation Surface and Surface Pro tablets out of the bag, there's only one thing left to dig into -- when can people buy them?Microsoft just confirmed t...
07:29 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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How AngelList Hacked Its $24M Round
AngelList, the mailing list that turned into one of the Valley’s most powerful fundraising channels for early-stage startups, just picked up $24 million of its own. Like we reported nine months ...
07:10 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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On The Record With Microsoft's Surface Bosses Panos Panay And Brian Hall
TechCrunch flew to Microsoft’s Redmond campus ahead of today’s launch of the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2. I sat with Brian Hall and Panos Panay, the two key leaders of the Surface team for...
07:05 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Raw Stats And Hands On Notes For Microsoft's New Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2
Today Microsoft announced the specifications and price points for its new Surface tablet hybrids. This post contains all pertinent statistical information regarding the Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2, as...
07:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Meet Microsoft's Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2
Today Microsoft took the wraps off its holiday hardware lineup, unveiling two new tablets, and a number of new and updated accessories. It's a lot of information to process, so let's go through each p...
06:57 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Smartphone-Powered Kid's Toy Ubooly Returns To Kickstarter For Version Two, International Rollout
The failures outweigh the successes on Kickstarter, but the Ubooly is one of those that have done well thanks to the crowdfunding platform. This kid's toy, created by Colorado-based husband and wife d...
06:54 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Mobincube, An App Builder That's Spawned 18K Apps, Raises $946K For U.S., Int'l Push
Spanish startup Mobincube has closed a 700,000/$946,000 seed round for its drag and drop, web-based app builder which lets non-developers build their own mobile apps using a series of templates. The r...
06:38 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Fitocracy Adds A New Revenue Stream With Group Fitness Plans
Fitocracy, the fitness gamification network with over 1 million users andmore user engagement than Twitter, is today launching a group fitness pilot in a big move towards monetization. A big part of F...
06:33 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Tim Armstrong To Speak At Disrupt Europe Conference
We're fast approaching Disrupt Europe, the first flagship Disrupt conference that TechCrunch will hold in this part of the world. And to help us land in Berlin with a bang, we've put together a killer...
06:12 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Sponsored Job Listings Now Appearing In LinkedIn's Main Feed, And On Mobile For The First Time
LinkedIn's Sponsored Jobs listings are getting increased visibility today, with a move that has them now appearing in LinkedIn's main feed on the member homepage. Before, Sponsored Jobs were only avai...
06:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Rampersand Launches A $6M Fund For Australian Startups
Rampersand is a new firm looking to invest in Australian startups and provide them with advice on sales, marketing, and pR>The firm is announcing that it has raised a $6 million fund for that purp...
05:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Apple's Share Price Opens Up Over 6% On Strength Of Opening Weekend iPhone 5s And 5c Sales
Apple’s stock was up 6.15 percent, or $28.74 at market open this morning, on the back of news this morning that its iPhone 5s and 5c have sold over 9 million units during opening weekend, which ...
05:08 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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MusiXmatch Puts Its Song Lyrics On Apple TV For Better Karaoke Experience
After seeing 15 million downloads of its song lyrics apps, musiXmatch is making its first foray into the living room. For premium subscribers to its newly updated iOS apps, the company has added suppo...
04:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Apple's iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend, Topping 5M For iPhone 5 Last Year
Apple has just issued a press release revealing it sold 9M iPhones during the launch weekend of its iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s. As is typical for the company with new hardware, it hasn’t broken out...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Visualead Raises $1.6M For QR Codes That (Kind Of) Blend In
QR codes (you know, those square images that can be scanned by your phone and point you to mobile websites) have never quite taken off with a mass audience, but some startups aren't giving up the tech...
03:47 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Snaps, An App That Lets Users Make Branded, Social Photos, Raises $2.3M From S2K, Google And Vevo Execs And More
Instagram has yet to make a formal push into using its platform for paid advertising and marketing purposes (although its co-founder is certainly putting out some signals for what it might do when it ...
03:47 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Snaps Lets You Mashup And Share Branded Photos, Raises $2.3M From S2K, And Google And Vevo Execs
Instagram has yet to make a formal push into using its platform for paid advertising and marketing purposes (although its co-founder is certainly putting out some signals for what it might do when it ...
02:25 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Retail Giant Tesco Follows In Amazon's Footsteps With Hudl, A Cut-Price, Own-Brand Android Tablet
Tesco, the UK-based retail giant with 20 million customers in 12 countries across Europe and Asia, today took its biggest step yet into digital commerce and content: the company launched Hudl, an own-...
01:39 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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With 45,000 Units Shipped, Valkee's Light-Emitting Medical iPod' Gets A Sleeker Look
After closing a $9.7 million round this summer, Finnish startup Valkee -- which makes a light-emitting pair of earbuds designed to counteract seasonal affective disorder -- has put some of that cash t...
01:36 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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64% Of Organizations Have Invested In Or Plan To Invest In Big Data Tech, But Only 8% Have Started Using It, Says Gartner
Businesses are eager to spend money on big data, but few have a clear cut plan for what they plan to do with the technology, according to a new Gartner report. 64% of organizations surveyed have alrea...
01:26 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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FaceTime Audio Is Apple's Biggest Little Feature Addition In iOS 7
Quietly, gradually, but clearly Apple is building platform lock-in into its iOS products, with some features that are deeper than just a rich third-party software ecosystem. FaceTime Audio is the late...
12:13 pm GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Already Make Up Nearly 1.5% Of Total U.S. iPhones Says Localytics, 5s Leads
Apple’s iOS 7 is really gaining steam when it comes to early adoption, with Mixpanel reporting that it has already passed iOS 6 in terms of traffic hitting its network of mobile sites and apps. ...
08:28 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Netflix Scores Its First Emmy With House Of Cards Directing Win
Netflix has won its first Emmy after House of Cards director David Fincher won the award for Best Director of a Drama Series, beating out directors from Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey a...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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VivaKi Partners With SparkReel To Help Marketers Manage Crowdsourced Videos
As the amount of user-generated video continues to grow, a startup called SparkReel aims to help companies harness those videos for their own promotional efforts. Now the startup should get a big boos...
07:00 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Hackathons And How To Find A Parking Spot In Rio De Janeiro With Team Rua Aberta
Im sitting in an office on the thirteenth floor of the Mayors headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. Ive come to speak with Pedro Paulo, the Staff Secretary who presided over Rios first city-sponsored hackat...
06:54 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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A Postmortem For Flud Social Newsreader
In late July, news broke that Flud, the social news reader for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, was headed to the deadpool. Startup failure is an all-too familiar, even cliche, story in Silicon Valley....
06:54 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Why Startups Fail: A Postmortem For Flud, The Social Newsreader
In late July, news broke that Flud, the social news reader for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, was headed to the deadpool. Startup failure is an all-too familiar, even cliche, story in Silicon Valley....
06:50 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Poshmark, The Mobile Marketplace For Women To Sell And Swap Clothes, Crosses 1M Items Sold So Far This Year
App downloads are key metrics for all mobile-focused startups, but not many early-stage companies in the space can cite revenue-generating figures alongside their user growth. But Poshmark, the mobile...
06:27 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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The Ambient Economy
Access to information is addictive. The moment we have more of it - and more of it available at opportune times - the more we crave. I learned this first-hand when I began wearing a Pebble smartwatch ...
04:29 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Vonkil's Batthead Is A Rechargeable, Remote Controlled AA Battery
I spent my formative years using up AA batteries at a frenzied pace, and I can't count the number of times my parents said they wished could zap my trusty Game Boy dead. While there's nothing they can...
03:48 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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The NSA Review Panel Is An Even Bigger Joke Than We Previously Thought
Today the AP reported that the President’s promised NSA review panel is channeling the entity that it is supposed to inspect, hiding behind layers of government bureaucracy and obfuscating its w...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Into the Gloss, An Editorial Beauty Site, Raises $2M To Build Its Team
Into The Gloss, an editorial beauty website based out of New York, has raised $2 million in venture capital funding led by Forerunner and Lerer Ventures, along with several angel investors. Since it w...
01:00 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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What Games Are: The Perplexing OUYA Reflex
With the extended overreaction to the Free The Games fund from the development community, the question to be asked is why do OUYA and the other microconsoles consistently draw a lot of negativity from...
12:32 am GMT - Mon, September 23, 2013
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Hackers Bypass Apple's Touch ID With Lifted Fingerprint
Fingerprint scanners have always been vulnerable to hackers who are willing to go the extra mile to bypass them. Over the years, we've seen everything from people using Gummy Bears, Play-Doh and more ...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Dattch, A Pinterest-Inspired Dating App For Gay Women, Closes $160K To Fuel Its UK Beta
London-based startup Dattch is a dating app with a difference. I don't mean the fact it's exclusively for lesbians, bisexual and/or bi-curious women -- though that certainly makes it stand out from th...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Betabrand's New Think Tank Mashes Up Kickstarter-Style Fundraising With Cult Clothing Manufacturing
San Francisco-based cult clothing retailer Betabrand is debuting a new way for customers to engage in developing new productsan online think tank....
09:55 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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BBM's Android And iOS Launch Weekend Going About As Badly As Possible
BlackBerry trumpeted its intention to deliver the long-awaited Android and iOS versions of its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service this weekend, and so fans around the world eagerly awaited the mobile ...
09:47 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Apple? They Make The Cheap Plastic Phones, Right?
Apple could learn a lot from the fall of Burberry. The once-exclusive fashion brand became associated with trashy youth by greedily licensing out its signature tan chequered pattern for use on basebal...
09:34 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Apple TV 6.0 Update Pulled After Users Report Bricking, Other Issues
On Friday, Apple launched its 6.0 software update for its Apple TV set-top box, but soon after, some users reported that the update bricked their devices while others were a bit luckier and just lost ...
09:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Mobile Apps, Card Interfaces, And Our Opposable Thumbs
This is a post about cards as an interface in mobile apps. I am not a designer. I am also unable to mention every single app that uses cards -- feel free to mention others in the comments. Additionall...
08:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Hands On With The Brooklyn-Made Makerbot Digitizer
The Makerbot Digitizer looked too good to be true. It was a solid, compact 3D scanner that could replicate a solid object without much fuss and had a level of detail unparalleled in the home scanning ...
07:59 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Introducing Apple's New Kids App Store
Apple has finally take steps to better cater to the children who have adopted its devices, and especially family favorite the iPad, with the launch of a Kids App Store. Arriving this week alongside th...
07:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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You Win, Republicans. My GIF Reaction To Their GIF OpED
GIFs are the hot new thing. News organization BuzzFeed.com, which has staked its future on dozens of GIF and listicle posts a day, now has a staggering 85 million unique visitors a month. Attention-st...
06:01 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Blippar AR Advertising App Launches Social Sharing, Improves Image Recognition Time
Blippar, the AR-advertising company that lets users scan real-world objects to bring up extended augmented reality content, has today released a huge update that not only increases the speed of the te...
05:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Fly Or Die: The UpDesk UpWrite
The human body wasn't meant to sit. Chairs are an invention of our own laziness. That said, UpDesk is here to swoop in and give you a nice, comfortable desk to both sit and stand at without a whole lo...
04:39 pm GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Lagoa Acquires 3D Editor 3DTin
Montreal-based Lagoa has acquired in-browser 3D editor 3DTin. The company announced its acquisition on its blog. 3DTin is used for 3D model and 3D printing....
08:02 am GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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Trainspotting: Hands On With The Mondaine Evolution Automatic Watch
This weekend's watch review is focused on the Mondaine Automatic, an older model that hovers right about the $500 price point - a rare departure into the bargain section for this series. The model I t...
05:00 am GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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BitWall Allows Publishers To Make Money Through Bitcoin Micropayments
Here's another way that digital currency Bitcoin could have a big impact, according to startup BitWall: it could give online publishers a real alternative to putting up paywalls or relying solely on a...
04:58 am GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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High-Skill Immigration Reform Likely Dead In 2013
After much speech and pomp, it appears that general immigration reform is dead in 2013, ending with it the chance of positive change to how we handle high-skill immigration. It didn’t have to en...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, September 22, 2013
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CrunchWeek: The iPhone 5s Cat Paw Test, Google's Calico And Bump's Exit
It’s been a week chock-full of news in the tech world, so what better way to cap it off than by watching a brand-new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers to...
10:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Atlantis, The Flashy Silk Road Alternative, Shuts Down
Atlantis was supposed to be an "better" alternative to popular, but hidden, Silk Road market. In short, it allowed the average user to buy and sell drugs, contraband, and whatever else using an encryp...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Gillmor Gang: Under My Thumb
The Gillmor Gang John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor collected iPhone 5's from the corners of the tech world. Danny Sullivan ordered the elusive gold one a...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Why You Need To Pay Attention To General Solicitation
On Monday, the legal framework for startup fundraising will change. Because of the JOBS Act, you will be able to publicly announce that youre raising. This is not crowdfunding -- you still have to rai...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Scuse Me While I Solve This Immigration Problem
There's a crippling STEM talent shortage out there, stalking the streets of Silicon Valley; just ask any Valley executive in the choir crying out for immigration reform. But the IEEE, PBS, and Fortune...
02:41 pm GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Spanish Pirate Site Owners To Get Six Years Jailtime, But Users Off The Hook
Spain has long had a difficult reputation as one of the heaviest users of file-sharing services, crippling music and entertainment sales in the country for years. That's the way the cookie crumbles, s...
02:41 pm GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Spanish Pirate Site Owners To Get 6 Years Of Jail Time, But Users Off The Hook
Spain has long had a difficult reputation as one of the heaviest users of file-sharing services, crippling music and entertainment sales in the country for years. That's the way the cookie crumbles, s...
11:57 am GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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FireEye Shares Jump 16 Points In First Day Of Public Trading As Interest Soars For Security Companies
FireEye made a debut on the public markets that any investor would be pleased to witness. In trading Friday, shares jumped 16 points for the security company. In total it raised early $304 million, gi...
11:57 am GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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FireEye Shares Jump $16 In First Day Of Public Trading As Interest Soars For Security Companies
FireEye made a debut on the public markets that any investor would be pleased to witness. In trading Friday, shares jumped 16 points for the security company. In total it raised nearly $304 million, g...
07:02 am GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Mozilla Launches Preview Of Firefox For Windows 8 Tablets
Mozilla's long-delayed Firefox for Windows 8 tablets has finally made its first public appearance outside of the relatively obscure and unstable Nightly development channel. As Mozilla announced today...
04:18 am GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Your Nosy Boy/Girlfriend Can Unlock Your iPhone 5s With Your Thumb While You Sleep
The passcode can't die yet. The iPhone 5s's Touch ID fingerprint security system can be unlocked with your finger even if you're asleep. That means a jealous lover could hold your phone to your thumb ...
03:00 am GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Illumio, The Stealthy Security Startup For The Anywhere App Universe
Illumio, the startup backed by a who's who of A-list venture capitalists and charismatic CEOs, tells a story about what we can expect to be a constant stream of companies with one thing in common: The...
02:00 am GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Ask A VC: Telefonica Ventures' Tracy Isacke On Corporate VCs And More
In this episode of Ask A VC, Telefonica Digitals Tracy Isacke joined us in the studio to talk about the telecom giant's venture arm.Isacke, who has led the companys acquisition of San Francisco-based ...
12:47 am GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Ad-Tech Company Rocket Fuel Nearly Doubles Stock Price In First Day Of Public Trading
Rocket Fuel's first day of public trading seems to have lived up to the company's name.The ad tech firm revealed its intentions to go public last month, and last night sold 4 million shares at a price...
12:11 am GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Gillmor Gang Live 09.20.13 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific....
12:07 am GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Yep, That's Really Apple CEO Tim Cook On Twitter
Yes, Apple CEO Tim Cook has started tweeting. The account, which we at TechCrunch (and everyone else following Twitter's magical recommendations service @MagicRecs) spotted this afternoon, is now conf...
12:00 am GMT - Sat, September 21, 2013
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Five Sites That Put The Human Back In Personalized Shopping
In the personal shopping category of startups, we've seen numerous apps and websites that will learn your style and spit out recommendations for things you should buy. That's helpful, but will an algo...
11:47 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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BlackBerry Confirms Massive Layoffs, Reveals ~$1 Billion Loss In Q2 2014
BlackBerry temporarily halted trading this afternoon to deliver some grim news. Today the company confirmed earlier reports of massive layoffs — some 4,500 employees will be let go by the end of...
11:07 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Everyone Should Be Welcome In Tech
Sexism in tech can be as subtle as a false assumption about engineering competence or as blatant as a couple of hackathon apps that made it onto our stage last week. Changing our hackathon rules will ...
11:04 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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NFL MVP Adrian Peterson Launches Fitness Training App
NFL running back Adrian Peterson has teamed with Driven Apps to release a new fitness and sports training app for aspiring athletes. This is the third time that Driven has paired with a professional a...
10:58 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: iOS 7, iOS 7, And A Hint Of 3D Printing For Good Measure
iOS 7 adoption is already reaching at least 35 percent of iPhone owners, and that’s just after two days. Themakeover has been a big one, with Apple promising 200 new features. The font is differ...
10:25 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Microsoft Updates Bing On iOS, Highlights Siri Integration
With the release of iOS 7 to the general public, Bing now has a prominent home inside of Apple's chief operating system. When you Siri, you will very often Bing. That might sound odd, but Apple is mor...
09:48 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Verizon FiOS Expands Mobile TV Support To Android & iPhone, Now Lets You Watch Live TV Outside The Home
For the first time ever, customers of Verizon’s FiOS TV service are being allowed to watch live television on their mobile devices when they’re out of their homes, and disconnected from th...
09:32 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Chipworks: Apple's A7 Chip Made By Samsung, M7 Co-Processor By NXP
Here’s a bit of supply chain nerdery for you on the iPhone 5s front. Teardown experts Chipworks have uncapped Apple’s A7 processor and discovered that it is indeed still made by Samsung. T...
08:47 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Microsoft May Pay Up To $200M For SF's Secretive Osterhout Design Group In A Wearables Bet
Google may have glasses and Apple may be rumored to be making a smart watch. Now Microsoft may be effectively buying itself a wearables play by paying up to $200 million for a trove of assets and pate...
08:38 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Bugsnag, The Error Reporting Platform Used By LinkedIn And Others, Raises $1.2M Seed Round
Crash detection and reporting are tough but important problems to solve, as companies look to increase the stability and reliability of their online and mobile applications. One newer startup taking o...
08:38 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Bugsnag, The Error Reporting Platform Used By LinkedIn And Others, Raises $1.4M Seed Round
Crash detection and reporting are tough but important problems to solve, as companies look to increase the stability and reliability of their online and mobile applications. One newer startup taking o...
08:38 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Bugsnag, The Error-Reporting Platform Used By LinkedIn And Others, Raises $1.4M Seed Round
Crash detection and reporting are tough but important problems to solve, as companies look to increase the stability and reliability of their online and mobile applications. One newer startup taking o...
08:31 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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iCracked Launches A Way To Uber' Someone Up To Buy Back Your Old iPhones
iCracked, the Y Combinator company that has quietly built up an empire on repairing broken iPhones and iPads, is launching a way to call someone up on demand to buy your old phones back. With the new ...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Meet Grove, Sequoia Capital's New Startup Events And How-To Content Hub
VCs are starting to get into content. First Round debuted its own version of Harvard Business Review. Andreessen Horowitz recently brought on Wired editor Michael Copeland to lead its content strategy...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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With 300K Downloads, London-Based YPlan Launches Stateside In New York
Countless social planning apps have tried and ultimately failed to capture the attention of users in a way that produces any real action, which in turn would result in partnerships with vendors and me...
06:32 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Receipt-Scanning Service Shoeboxed Launches Labs, A Place For Experimental Products, Starting With Price Drop Alerts
Receipt and business card digitization service Shoeboxed is now starting to do something with all the data it scans and stores online, which now includes tens of millions of receipts. The company this...
05:53 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Apple's iPhone 5s And 5c Launch Draws Big Crowds, Including Biggest Ever Line At NYC Flagship Store
Apple's iPhone 5s and 5c are now on sale at retail and online stores around much of the world, and the general impression from consumers is one of high anticipation. In North America, lines are being ...
05:12 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Bundshop Gives Contemporary Chinese Design A Worldwide Audience
The phrase "made in China" is often synonymous with "cheap knockoff" in Western countries, but Bundshop's mission is to change that perception. Based in Shanghai and named after the city's famous wate...
04:19 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Earlybird's Ciarn O'Leary To Speak At Disrupt Europe Last Chance For Early Bird Tickets
Berlin will see Disrupt Europe, our major conference, arrive this October, featuring some of the best known names from the Valley and Europe. Ciarn O'Leary will be among those speaking....
04:04 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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TechCrunch Italy Will Showcase The Best Of The Booming New Italian Startup Scene
Following an amazing event last year, which saw Italy suddenly ignite its startup scene, TechCrunch has created the TechCrunch Italy conference in partnership with media company Populis. Next week (Se...
03:07 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Add AirPlay To Your Old 30-Pin iPhone Dock With The Auris Skye Kickstarter Project
Old iPhone docks are a depressing sight in this world of Lightning cables and connectors, sitting with their 30-pin connector exposed and lonely. There are a number of Bluetooth accessories that you c...
02:18 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Crave, A Maker Of USB-Powered Luxury Vibrators, Raises $2.4M Series A
Crave, a San Francisco startup that creates upscale, tech-savvy sex toys, announced that it has closed a $2.4 million Series A investment from over 60 angel investors, many of whom it reached through ...
01:27 pm GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Apple Reportedly Increasing Gold iPhone 5s Production In The Wake Of Huge Launch Demand
The gold iPhone 5s (which still seems more "champagne" to me) was a phone that seemed improbable when it was first rumored, but Apple did indeed make it and consumers seem glad. A report from the Wal...
04:19 am GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Ballmer's Biggest Regret Is Missing Out On The New Device Called The Phone
Wrapping its analyst meetup, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer revealed his largest regret regarding product choices: Missing out on phones, which he claims has harmed Windows itself.If Gates was late to ...
03:01 am GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Microsoft's Office 365 Consumer Edition Doubles To 2M Subscribers Since May
Today at its analyst event, Microsoft announced a new milestone for its Office 365 Home Premium product, its cloud-based subscription-paid productivity suite, stating that it now has more than 2 milli...
03:00 am GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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WTF Is Calico, And Why Does Google Think Its Mysterious New Company Can Defy Aging?
The sad truth is that, if everyone on the Forbes 400 list simultaneously (and tragically) got Cancer, or Parkinsons (or any given disease for that matter), the world would probably be well on its way ...
02:34 am GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Microsoft's Business In Three Charts
Microsoft, like other public companies, doesn't like to disclose more about its business than it has to, but today, in the middle of a reorganization and a very public CEO search, a little openness co...
02:16 am GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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WSJ Confirms It's Parting Ways With All Things D, Adding 20 New Hires And International Conference
The Dow Jones-owned Wall Street Journal has confirmed today that it will part ways with All Things D. The media publication and conference powerhouse is still in talks with potential suitors but its...
01:48 am GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Playing Starcraft 2 Might Make You Smarter
This won't come as a surprise if you're familiar with the game's genre, but playing Starcraft 2 might make you smarter. Starcraft 2 is a so-called "real-time strategy game," a form of video game that ...
12:38 am GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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The Caktus Hug Sensor Makes Sure You're Drinking Enough Water
Summer's all but over, but it's no less important to stay hydrated. According to the CDC 43 percent of Americans drink fewer than four glasses of water a day, and while the actual amount you should dr...
12:25 am GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Why High-Skilled Immigration Reform Is Stuck
In April, the Senate put together a comprehensive immigration reform bill that was then sent to the House of Representatives where it currently languishes.Once wrapped into the larger comprehensive im...
12:24 am GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Announcing The First Hardware Startup Battlefield Where One Lucky Hacker Will Win $50,000
Hardware is king. VCs are investing, hackers are taking notice, and a subculture of "artisinal" design, prototyping, and manufacturing has grown almost overnight. And now we're looking for some of the...
12:24 am GMT - Fri, September 20, 2013
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Announcing The First Hardware Battlefield Where One Startup Will Win $50,000
Hardware is king. VCs are investing, hackers are taking notice, and a subculture of "artisinal" design, prototyping, and manufacturing has grown almost overnight. And now we're looking for some of the...
11:44 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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iOS 7 Lock Screen Vulnerability Discovered, Gives Access To Photos And Social Sharing
Vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS lock screens have become a fixture of new iOS releases over the past few years. And iOS 7 is not exempt, as a new method for bypassing the passcode on a lock scree...
11:44 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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iOS 7 Lock Screen Vulnerability Discovered Which Gives Access To Photos And Social Sharing, Apple Is Working On Fix
Vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS lock screens have become a fixture of new iOS releases over the past few years, and iOS 7 is not exempt. A new method for bypassing the passcode on a lock screen h...
11:32 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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15Five, The Employee-Manager Feedback Network, Launches 2.0 With Like Buttons, Private Messaging And More
15Five, a startup backed by the likes of 500 Startups and Yammer's David Sacks that provides a platform to help the working world communicate better with its managers, has had a dose of its own medici...
11:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Pinterest To Begin Experimenting With Promoted Pin Ads To Make Service Sustainable
After four years and massive growth, Pinterest is taking its first steps towards advertising and serious monetization. CEO Ben Silbermann today told users "we're going to start experimenting with prom...
11:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Pinterest Will Start Showing Promoted Pin Ads To Make Good On $338M In Funding
After four years and massive growth, Pinterest is taking its first steps towards advertising and serious monetization. CEO Ben Silbermann today told users "we're going to start experimenting with prom...
11:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Pinterest Will Start Showing Ads As Web Traffic Reportedly Declines
After four years and massive growth, Pinterest will take its first big steps towards monetization. CEO Ben Silbermann today wrote "we're going to start experimenting with promoting certain pins" becau...
11:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Pinterest Will Start Showing Ads As Traffic Keeps Growing But Shifts To Mobile
After four years, Pinterest is taking its first serious steps towards monetization. CEO Ben Silbermann today told users "we're going to start experimenting with promoting certain pins from a select gr...
11:28 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Branding Brand Rides M-Commerce Wave To $9.5 Million Series B
You may not be familiar with the m-commerce vendor known asBranding Brand, but you've likely encountered its work. The company, which is today announcing a $9.5 million Series B, powers the mobile e-c...
11:26 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Google Makes Its New Flat Logo And App Launcher Style Nav Menu Official, Will Roll Out Over The Next Few Weeks
Google just got a refreshed flat logo and the black navigation bar is gone. Earlier this morning, we reported that Google’s new “App Launcher” style navigational menu was just weeks ...
11:17 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Kamcord Brings In-Game Screen Recording Tools To Android
Just about every time I've spoken to Kamcord founder Matt Zitzmann in the year since the company launched, I've asked one question toward the end of our conversations to gauge the team's progress: "Ha...
10:54 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Google Makes Quickoffice For iOS And Android Free For Everyone
It's been more than a year since Google acquired Quickoffice, a mobile app for editing Microsoft Office files on tablets. Over the last few months, it has slowly expanded the tool's availability by ma...
10:48 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Why Zuckerberg Thinks Government Should Not Move Fast And Break Things
Silicon Valley has dramatically altered many aspects of our lives, but Congress still operates in the same way its horse-riding forefathers did. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not only optimistic...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Fly Or Die: LEGO Mindstorms EV3
LEGO Mindstorms EV3. Even the name is formidable, but just wait until you connect the dots and fire these dragon-esque robots up. The EV3 set of robotic, programmable LEGOs is the very best version of...
09:57 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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California Regulator Passes Ridesharing Rules, A Legal Win For Lyft, SideCar, And Uber
The California Public Utilities Commission has unanimously approved new regulations around ridesharing services such as Lyft, SideCar, and UberX (as initially noted in a number of reports on Twitter)....
09:57 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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California Regulator Passes First Ridesharing Rules, A Big Win For Lyft, SideCar, And Uber
The California Public Utilities Commission has unanimously approved new regulations around ridesharing services such as Lyft, SideCar, and UberX (as initially noted in a number of reports on Twitter)....
09:49 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Apple Adjusts App Resurrection' Policy, Will Allow Developers To Restrict Versions
Earlier this week, we noted that Apple’s new policy of automatically serving up old versions of apps to users was good for the downloader, but not so great for the developer. Today, Apple has ad...
09:49 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Apple Adjusts App Resurrection' Policy, Will Allow Developers To Restrict Versions Offered
Earlier this week, we noted that Apple's new policy of automatically serving up old versions of apps to users was good for the downloader, but not so great for the developer. Today, Apple has adjusted...
09:34 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Will Get $25.5M If The Microsoft Deal Closes
Today a Nokia filing detailed the compensation package that outgoing CEO Stephen Elop will receive as he transitions back to his former home, Microsoft, along with large chunks of the company that he ...
09:23 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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iOS 7 Adoption Already As High As 35% In One Day, Apple And Developers Reap The Rewards
Apple's big iOS 7 update rolled out to devices yesterday, around 1 PM ET, and while many users encountered a lot of frustrating server errors trying to get it, the numbers show that a lot of people we...
09:11 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Google's New App Launcher Style Navigational Menu Weeks Away From Launch
Google is reportedly making a change to its homepage and other online services which will see it dropping its horizontal, black navigational bar containing links to social, search, Gmail, images, news...
09:11 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Google's New App Launcher Style Navigational Menu Arrives [UPDATED]
Google is reportedly making a change to its homepage and other online services that will see it dropping its horizontal, black navigational bar containing links to social, search, Gmail, images, news,...
09:03 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Language Startup Busuu Breaks Livemocha's Records, Hits 35M Users, 20M Downloads
Busuu managed to build out and bootstrap it's way to a healthy audience by being a language-learning site offering direct interaction with native speakers. Last year it raised a Series A investment ro...
08:21 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Gecko Is One Small Step For The Internet Of Things, One Huge Leap For Your Smartphone
The Internet of Things like true mobile wallets or Internet-connected coffee makers is on the horizon. It awaits us, a world where all of our devices are connected and communicate with each other in...
08:19 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Unmetric Raises $5.5M To Help Companies Measure The Competition On Social Media
Social analytics startup Unmetric is announcing that it has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding.The company's website asks, "Is your brand social enough?" and Unmetric tries to answer that questio...
08:12 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Security Researchers Claim Apple, Others Technically Capable Of Intercepting iMessages
Two security researchers have posted an outline for a talk about Apple’s iMessage security to be presented next month. The report claims that Apple could but not that it does intercept iMessag...
08:12 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Security Researchers Claim Apple Technically Capable Of Intercepting iMessages
Two security researchers have posted an outline for a talk about Apple’s iMessage security to be presented next month. The report claims that Apple could but not that it does intercept iMessag...
08:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Artillery Teases Upcoming Game Atlas', An HTML5-Based Spiritual Successor To Starcraft'
Artillery, the HTML5-centric gaming startup from a team of former Googlers and Facebook engineers, just teased its first title. Codenamed ‘Atlas,’ the game is meant to be the “spirit...
08:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Artillery Teases Upcoming Game Atlas,' An HTML5-Based Spiritual Successor To Starcraft'
Artillery, the HTML5-centric gaming startup from a team of former Googlers and Facebook engineers, just teased its first title.Codenamed "Atlas," the game is meant to be the "spiritual successor" to S...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Plaid Raises $2.8M To Make Banking Data More Developer Friendly
A number of well-known venture firms are getting behind Plaid, a startup that describes itself as "the modern API for banking data."The company is announcing that it has raised $2.8 million led by Spa...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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With 2.5M Downloads, Activity Tracking App Moves Launches Its Software Alternative To Fitness Wearables On Android
Activity trackers are all over the place, except maybe on the wrist of the vast majority of the public. Moves is an app that launched with the goal of putting that power on devices people already carr...
07:52 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Google Wallet Comes To iOS After Dropping NFC Requirement On Android
Earlier this week, Google rolled out a new version of the Google Wallet app for Android, which dropped the requirement that phones had to feature NFC technology for in-store payments to run the app. N...
07:18 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Whitetruffle Switches Business Models And Launches A Free Version Of Its Job Matching Tools
It sounds like tech recruiting startup Whitetruffle has already seen some early success the company says that in its beta test, its network has already grown to more than 2,000 employers and 30,000 j...
06:38 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Shadow Is An App In The Making That Wants To Build A Database Of The World's Dreams
Shadow is an app for people to record their dreams. Currently seeking Kickstarter funding, it will incorporate an escalating alarm clock designed to wake sleepers gradually, to improve the ability to ...
06:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Music Service TastemakerX Relaunches, Allowing Fans To Show Off Their Taste With Artist Collections
Music startup TastemakerX has been described as a stock market or fantasy sports league for bands, but today it's launching version 2.0, which co-founder and CEO Marc Ruxin described as "a totally new...
06:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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GoDaddy Buys Afternic To Beef Up Its Domain Registry Marketplace
GoDaddy has made another acquisition, its fourth in 14 months: it has bought Afternic, a specialist in aftermarket domain sales -- that is, reselling domain names that are already owned. Afternic was ...
06:13 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Yahoo Resurrects The Personalized Homepage With My Yahoo Revamp
Yahoo's rollout of new products and redesigns continues today, with the release of an updated My Yahoo homepage featuring the same, more modern look-and-feel which accompanies all its online and mobil...
05:34 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Lionhead, A 3D Printer With Eight Extruders And Built-In Scanning System, Is Looking For $60K To Get Out Of Beta
As a fan of the noble Great Cat and 3D printing, I'm particularly interested in Lionhead, a $1,600 3D printer with built-in scanning facilities. The project, which just hit Kickstarter, is looking for...
05:23 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Amazon Adds iOS Support To GameCircle And Whispersync For Games For Cross-Platform Saves And Leaderboards
Amazon has announced an update for its GameCircle and Whispersync for Games services for mobile gaming apps today, which introduces iOS support. That means that Amazon's GameCircle, which offers achie...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Deliv Raises $6.85 Million To Bring Same-Day Delivery To A Store Near You
Investors have recently piled millions into same-day delivery startups such as New York's Zipments and San Francisco's PostMates, and now Palo Alto firm Deliv has become the latest beneficiary, with p...
04:43 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Says The Windows/Mac Comparison To Android/iOS Doesn't Fit
In a new interview published by Businessweek this morning, wherein Sam Grobart sits down with Apple CEO Tim Cook, and SVPs Craig Federighi and Jony Ive, Cook comments on a number of things, including ...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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DotCloud Pivots And Wins Big With Docker, The Cloud Service Now Part Of Red Hat OpenShift
DotCloud is a great example of a startup with a pivot that worked. The proof of that is in a new partnership that marries its Docker open-source app portability project with Red Hat and its OpenShift ...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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SnapKeys Updates Its Invisible Keyboard For Android So You Can Move Its Keys To Fit Your Fingers
SnapKeys, an 'invisible' touchscreen keyboard maker, has updated its Si Revolution Android keyboard app, adding the ability to position the keys anywhere on the screen. The size of the keyboard can al...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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With 700 Customers And 1.5B Uniques, Gigya Lands $25M To Help Businesses Manage Consumer Data
It’s no secret: With Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms now woven into the very fabric of the Web, the Share-pocalypse is well underway. Of course, while it’s easy to recognize t...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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GIF Marketing Platform Cinegif Raises $500K In Angel Funding
Cinegif, an Austin-based startup that makes it easy for companies to use GIFs in their marketing campaigns, has raised $500,000 in funding from Texas angel investors including the Baylor Angel Network...
03:03 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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First HP Computer With Embedded Leap Motion Tech Will Ship This Fall For $1,049.99
Hardware startup Leap Motion, which managed to sell an impressive number of pre-orders for its standalone Leap Motion Controller gesture control computer accessory, today announced that the first frui...
02:55 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Chirpify Drops Its Hashtag Commerce Consumer Marketplace To Focus On Big Brand Marketing And Actiontags
According to Chirpify founder Chris Teso, "hashtags are the new URL." Though more than a few people at Twitter are no doubt nodding their head vigorously in agreement, everywhere you turn in the tech ...
02:47 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Watch A Cat Unlock The iPhone 5s Using Touch ID And The Fingerprint Sensor
As you can see in the video above, Apple's new fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 5s isn't restricted to human users. Using a ready-to-hand pet cat, I tested the hypothesis that you could register the i...
12:23 pm GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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NewVoiceMedia Picks Up Another $35M Led By Bessemer As Contact Centers Take To The Clouds
With APIs from the likes of Twilio (and emerging Layer) fuelling a new concept of how cloud-based archictecture can be applied to the worlds of telephony and communications, UK startup NewVoiceMedia i...
11:44 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Gartner: 102B App Store Downloads Globally In 2013, $26B In Sales, 17% From In-App Purchases
Ongoing trends in smartphone adoption -- which this year finally outnumbered the amount of non-smartphones getting purchased -- will drive 102 billion app store downloads this year, 90% of which will ...
09:52 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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With 1M Users Now On Board, Learnist Brings Its Pinterest For Learning To Android As It Looks To Go Big Abroad
When Grockit first emerged back in 2008, it had set its sights on building a full-service, social learning service that would give students a better way to study for standardized tests, among other th...
09:52 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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With 1M Users Now On Board, Learnist Brings Its Pinterest For Learning To Android
When Grockit first emerged back in 2008, it had set its sights on building a full-service, social learning service that would give students a better way to study for standardized tests, among other th...
06:36 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Posthaven Rises From Posterous' Ashes To Launch E-Mail To Post As It Reaches Financial Sustainability
Posthaven, the blogging platform co-created by Y Combinator partner Garry Tan after his previous startup Posterous was bought and shut down by Twitter, has reached financial sustainability. They’...
04:35 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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FWD.us Gives First Clues To Its Impact On Immigration So Far
Is FWD.us really making a difference? Today it released its first hard numbers on its contribution to immigration reform, announcing that it drove 33,500 calls to Congress in August and September. Tha...
04:35 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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FWD.us Gives First Hard Numbers On Its Impact On Immigration So Far
Is FWD.us really making a difference? Today it released its first quantified stats on its contribution to immigration reform, announcing that it drove 33,500 calls to Congress this summer and a total ...
04:15 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Free Apps And Games On The App Store Are About To Test Your Data Caps
Apple has increased the size of its download limits on cellular networks to 100MB from 50MB. The change comes as iOS 7 launches to the public as a ~700MB over-the-air upgrade to iPhone and iPad users....
04:06 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Microsoft Isn't Axing Windows 8.1 System Builder SKUs (Completely) After All
Yesterday Microsoft announced the pricing scheme for Windows 8.1 and stated that, instead of selling "upgrade" and standalone versions of its operating system, all purchases of the new code will be co...
03:56 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Apttus Raises $37M For Platform That Automates The Quote To Cash Process
Apttus has raised $37 million for its platform that automates the "quote to cash" (CQT) process within Salesforce.com. The funding came from K1 Capital, ICONIQ Capital andSalesforce.com.Apttus is a se...
03:32 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Mullenweg Wants WordPress To Power A Majority Of All Websites
Just months after Tiger Global Management paid $50 million for a secondary stake in Automattic, the maker of WordPress.com, the investment management firm has done it again. We learned yesterday that ...
02:51 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Apple's iPhone Activation Servers Crumble Under The Weight Of iOS 7
Happy iOS 7 day! Except for me. And legions of other iPhone owners who, for various reasons, had to activate their iPhone in the iOS 7 install process. Our phones are stuck in iOS 7 activation limbo....
02:51 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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iPhone Activation Servers Crumble Under The Weight Of iOS 7
Happy iOS 7 day! Except for me. And legions of other iPhone owners who, for various reasons, had to activate their iPhone in the iOS 7 install process. Our phones are stuck in iOS 7 activation limbo....
02:41 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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What We Know About Selfie.com
Selfie.com. It exists... shrouded in mystery and excitement. In a world where photo-sharing reigns supreme, Instagram and its mighty legion of copycats, wannabes and tweaked iterations leading a massi...
01:30 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: Nvidia's Tegra Note, Cyanogen Goes Legit, And Nexus 4 Sold Out Forever
Back on schedule this week after TechCrunch Disrupt, me and Chris Velazco catch you up on the latest in Android news. We're somewhat distracted by another mobile operating system that has some news th...
01:23 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Rep. Goodlatte Demands Further Protections From NSA Snooping
Today Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, stated that he is "convinced that further protections" of the civil liberties of U.S. citizens are necessary following review of th...
01:03 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Facebook Doesn't Want To Be Cool, It Wants To Be Electricity
Critics say Facebook is doomed because it's not cool to teens anymore. But Mark Zuckerberg said he doesn't care about Facebook being cool because now its goal is to be a ubiquitous utility, "Maybe ele...
12:20 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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A Few Tricks All The New iOS 7 Users Should Know
At long last, iOS 7 has just arrived. That is, it just arrived for everyone who didn't say "Developer? Oh, yeah, I'm totally a developer. Cough." and wiggle into the Beta months ago.iOS 7 can be confu...
12:14 am GMT - Thu, September 19, 2013
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Twitter Revamps Its Apps For iOS 7, But Bigger Changes Are Yet To Come
Amid preparations for its forthcoming IPO, Twitter rolled out updated iOS applications today which feature several small changes, including of course an updated design to better reflect the new style ...
11:20 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Apple Reinvents Its Wheel With iOS 7, Takes Developers Along For The Ride
Today brings the release of the most dramatic iOS update that Apple has ever made. More people will experience this change in a shorter period of time than at any point in computing history. “Me...
11:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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BlackBerry To Cut Up To 40% Of Staff By Year's End
Hey BlackBerry fans, here's a bit of good news: BBM will officially land on Android devices starting on September 21, with the iOS version going live the next day. Hey BlackBerry employees, here's a b...
11:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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If You Watch One Partially Cacophonous NES Player Piano System Video Today, Make It This One
The folks at RoboBand have created a robotic band that plays the soundtracks to famous Nintendo games using a Raspberry Pi, a Yamaha Disklavier, and a robotic drum kit. The system took the audio outpu...
11:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Google Updates Chrome For iOS With Improved Voice Search And Google Apps Integration
When it comes to voice search, Google still runs circles around its competitors. Today's update to Chrome for iOS adds a new layer of intelligence to this feature and now lets you use pronouns. The co...
11:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Facebook's New Mobile Test Framework Births Bottom Tab Bar Navigation Redesign For iOS 5, 6, & 7
Facebook lost its ability to "move fast and break things" when it switched its apps from HTML5 to native. But it's got its mojo back. Today it announced a big iOS 7-style app redesign featuring bottom...
10:41 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Lively Raises $4.8M, Launches Sensor Network For Older Folks
"Help the aged," sang the bard, and that's what Lively aims to do. After all, one time they were just like you, drinking smoking cigs, and sniffing glue. This $150 device, on the other hand, ensures t...
10:31 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Pandora's Growth Challenges Remain Despite New Leadership, Legal Victories
It's been a turbulent few weeks for Pandora, with the company reporting earnings that included a net loss, appointing a new CEO, proposing a follow-on offering of shares to be sold, and today, winning...
09:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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GitHub Adds 3D Modeling Features That Make It A Printer-Agnostic Choice For Object Sharing
Github, everyone's favorite nerdery, added STL object file support - basically a system for uploading and rendering 3D models - in April. Now, however, they've improved their service with a system for...
09:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Twilio Adds Picture Messaging Into Its API Frame, Cuts Text API Pricing By 25% For U.S. Numbers
Photo-sharing services like Instagram have become some of the most popular of all mobile apps, and today Twilio launched a new service that could help a much larger swathe of developers tap into that ...
09:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Twilio Adds Picture Messaging To Its API Frame, Cuts Text API Pricing By 25% For U.S. Numbers
Photo-sharing services like Instagram have become some of the most popular of all mobile apps, and today Twilio launched a new service that could help a much larger swathe of developers tap into that ...
09:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Growing Payment-Splitting Platform PayByGroup Expands Internationally
PayByGroup, a 500 Startups-backed payments platform which lets friends split the cost of purchase on bigger items like vacation rentals, parties, trips, sports tickets and more, is now making its serv...
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Memoir, A Google Now For Photo Memories, Is An App That Helps You Remember The Past
Thanks to the ubiquitous spread of smartphones, and the ease of photo-taking they bring, our photo galleries have become filled with what are almost like disposable memories - we snap and share, but t...
08:57 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Apple's iOS 7 Update Now Available, All Eyes Turn To Adoption Rates
Get your motor running, head out on the highway and download some software. Apple's big iOS 7 update is now available to all, or at least to anyone with an iPhone 4 or higher, iPad 2 or above, iPad m...
08:40 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Twilio's Voice And Text APIs Now Reach 350M People, 4M Calls Each Day
Twilio, the Skype and telco competitor that lets developers incorporate voice and text services into apps and websites by way of a few lines of code, is taking its cloud-based communications platform ...
08:37 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Shadow Puppet Is A New Storytelling App For Sharing Narrated Slideshows Of Your Photos
Storytelling today means crowding around someone's phone as they describe their photos. Shadow Puppet bring that show & tell experience online by letting you share a voice-over with an animated sl...
08:06 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Cyanogen Mod Raises $7M To Find A Direct-To-Consumer Route For Android Firmware
While it’s been obvious for the last few years that Android and iOS have created a two-horse race in the world of smartphone OSs, is it possible that a third could emerge? Microsoft, especially ...
08:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Google's BigQuery Introduces Streaming Inserts And Time-Based Queries For Real-Time Analytics
Google today announced a major update to BigQuery, its cloud-based service for analyzing large amounts of data using SQL, making it more suited to analyzing real-time data. Starting today, BigQuery us...
08:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Apple Releases iOS 7-Ready iTunes 11.1, With iTunes Radio, Podcast Stations And More For Mac And PC
Apple has just released iTunes 11.1, the update to iTunes that brings iTunes Radio to its desktop music software. The Pandora-like streaming music service offers custom stations based on artists and g...
07:45 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Andreessen-Backed Tomfoolery Adds Box, Dropbox, Evernote And Android To Its Anchor Social App
Tomfoolery, the mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs committed to making enterprise solutions more consumer-friendly, is today launching a new, iOS 7-friendly version of its debut app, the...
07:38 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Swiss Company-Builder Centralway Opens $50M Fund, Invests $250k In Bitcoin Whitelabel Exchange Buttercoin
Swiss company builder Centralway is opening a new seed and early stage investment arm that will invest $50 million per year into 20 to 30 startups -- including both small seed-stage investment and lar...
07:33 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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The Flipped Classroom Boosts Grades 5%. Why That's As Big As We Can Expect.
Classrooms across the nation are adopting a new technology trend known as the “flipped” classroom, where students watch lecture videos as homework and teachers use class-time for discussio...
07:25 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Feedly, Now Powering 50 RSS-Based Applications, Opens API To All Developers
Feedly, a service making claims to the RSS reader throne Google abandoned by shutting down Google Reader, announced today that it's now opening up its API to all interested developers building RSS-bas...
07:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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NVIDIA Outs New Tegra Note Design For Low-Cost Tablets
Thanks to a slew of leaks and early appearances NVIDIA’s newest Tegra 4-powered tablet design has never really been a secret, but the company has finally confirmed what it’s been working o...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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In India, A Chauffeur Trumps Michelin-Starred Chef In List Of Start-Up Perks
In a bid to relieve the staff from one of the most stressful and lengthy parts of an Indian employee's day -- the commute -- the fast-growing e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal has hired drivers to chauf...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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In India, A Chauffeur Trumps Michelin-Starred Chef In List Of Startup Perks
In a bid to relieve the staff from one of the most stressful and lengthy parts of an Indian employee's day -- the commute -- the fast-growing e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal has hired drivers to chauf...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Classtivity Pivots To Subscription Model So You Actually Work Out
Classtivity launched out of TechStars back in June of last year with the promise to connect New Yorkers with any leisure or fitness class they could imagine, with expert reviews, pricing information, ...
06:58 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Microsoft Launches Internet Explorer 11 Release Preview For Windows 7
Just about two months after it announced the developer preview of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, Microsoft today launched an updated beta version of its browser. The so-called "release preview" w...
06:50 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Graphene Turns Light Into Electricity For Faster Circuits
Welcome to another episode of "Cool Science Stuff That Probably Will Have Some Effect On Our Lives Later But We Probably Won't Realize It." In this week's installment we present graphene photosensors....
06:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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StrongLoop Raises $8M For Mobile App Platform Built On Node.js
StrongLoop has raised $8 million in Series A funding for its backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) service that usesNode.jsas a platform for developing mobile apps in the cloud or in the data center. The fundi...
06:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Yahoo Updates Its Flagship iPhone App With Cinemagraphs, Read-Later Feature, Breaking News, And Tumblr
Project "Grand Slam", Yahoo's mission to "bring a more coherent look and identity to Yahoos pages" in the words of CEO Marissa Mayer, is today flying over one of Yahoo's flagship properties, the Yahoo...
06:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Yahoo Updates iPhone App With Cinemagraphs, Read-Later Feature, More
Project "Grand Slam", Yahoo's mission to "bring a more coherent look and identity to Yahoos pages" in the words of CEO Marissa Mayer, is today flying over one of Yahoo's flagship properties, the Yahoo...
05:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Now In 30KPlus Schools, Remind101 Lands $3.5M From SocialPlusCapital, Yuri Milner & More To Bring Texting To Teachers
While many industries in the U.S. have undergone massive changes in the last 10 years -- such that some almost seem unrecognizable -- the educational system appears much the same as it did 100 years a...
05:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Remind101 Lands $3.5M To Modernize Teacher Communication
While many industries in the U.S. have undergone massive changes in the last 10 years -- such that some almost seem unrecognizable -- the educational system appears much the same as it did 100 years a...
05:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Tapping Into The Maker Movement, Snapguide Picks Up Another $3M, Redesigns Its How-To iPhone App
Snapguide, the crowdsourced, how-to app founded by a veteran from Yahoo Pipes and another from Google's Chrome business, is not yet focused on generating revenue, but it's quietly building up a platfo...
05:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Snapguide Picks Up Another $3M, Redesigns Its How-To iPhone App
Snapguide, the crowdsourced, how-to app founded by a veteran from Yahoo Pipes and another from Google's Chrome business, is not yet focused on generating revenue, but it's quietly building up a platfo...
04:59 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Health & Bliss Is Raising $2M To Rethink Strep Testing
Memphis-based startupHealth & Bliss is hoping to save the medical system some time and money by developing a diagnostic solution for strep throat. The company, which graduated from the med-tech ac...
04:51 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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More Consolidation In Last Minute Hotel Booking App Space As Hot Hotels Acquires ReallyLateBooking
Hot on the heels of Groupon's acquisition of last minute hotel booking app Blink, another Spanish competitor has been gobbled up. Madrid-based Hot Hotels has acquired local rival ReallyLateBooking. Te...
04:51 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Hot Hotels Acquires ReallyLateBooking As Last-Minute Hotel App Space Further Consolidates
Hot on the heels of Groupon's acquisition of last minute hotel booking app Blink, another Spanish competitor has been gobbled up. Madrid-based Hot Hotels has acquired local rival ReallyLateBooking. Te...
04:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Edgertronic Kickstarter Project Makes Super Slow-Mo Video More Portable, Convenient And Affordable
Apple may have just introduced a very cool new Slo-Mo video feature with the iPhone 5s, but it only scratches the surface in terms of what's possible with high-speed video. A new Kickstarter project w...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Jumio Adds Facial Detection To Its Web & Mobile Identify Verification Service, Netverify
Jumio, a mobile payments and ID-scanning startup backed by $35.3 million in outside funding, is expanding its suite of identity verification tools with the launch of "Face Match," a feature which will...
03:58 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Groupon Buys SideTour To Add Local, Bespoke Activities To Its GrouponLive Events Business
A little over a week after Groupon announced the acquisition of hotel booking service Blink, today comes one more purchase that moves Groupon further yet out of the realm of daily deals. Groupon has b...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Video Conferencing Company Blue Jeans Network Raises $50M For Global Growth
Blue Jeans Network, a video conferencing company that plays nice with other services, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in new funding.The round doubles the amount that Blue Jeans has raise...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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App Annie Scores $15 Million Series C From Sequoia & Others For Further Global Expansion
Mobile app analytics and market intelligence serviceApp Anniehas long since established itself as a major player among app developers, publishers, enterprise customers, and even VCs digging in for due...
03:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Deal Closed - Pipedrive Raises Further $2.4M For Its CRM SaaS
Pipedrive, the SaaS to help small to medium size companies manage and increase sales, has closed another deal of its own. The Estonia/U.S.-based startup and AngelPad alumni has raised a further $2.4 m...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Armed With $14M In New Funding, Bright Wants To Take On LinkedIn With A Data-Centric Approach To Recruiting
Bright, a startup that is betting that data science and machine learning algorithms will be central to hiring and finding jobs, is announcing $14 million in Series B funding from Toba Capital and Pass...
02:15 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Stackdriver Raises $10M Series B Round, Launches Its AWS Monitoring Solution Out Of Beta
Stackdriver, a monitoring service for cloud-based applications, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B round led by Flybridge Capital Partners, with participation by existing invest...
01:08 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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BlackBerry Quietly Announces Its First Phablet - But Z30 Could Be Its Last Big Phone
BlackBerry has confirmed earlier rumours that it was flirting with building a phablet and quietly taken the wraps off its biggest phone yet: the all-touch BlackBerry Z30 packs a 5-inch Super AMOLED di...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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U.K.-Led MOOCs Alliance, FutureLearn, Launches First Batch Of 20 Free Courses As It Chases Coursera Et Al
FutureLearn, a U.K.-led MOOCs alliance, has launched its first set of free courses, nine months after announcing its intention to jump into the Massively Open Online Courses space. FutureLearn has gro...
12:23 pm GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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YouTube Will Enable Offline Viewing On Its Mobile Apps
YouTube has announced that it will launch a new feature on its mobile apps enabling viewers to watch videos even when they are offline. The new update will be available in November. ...
10:47 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Livefyre Opens London Sales Office To Expand Amongst European Publishers
Following it's acquisition of Storify just the other week, Livefyre a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, has announced that it's opened an office in London to serve the UK/Euro...
08:01 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Before & After iOS 7: How Your Favorite Apps Are Changing
Flat. With one word, Apple didn't just change its look on mobile, but mandated an industry-wide face-lift. With iOS 7's launch later today, chrome, navigation buttons, and textured title bars are gett...
06:59 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Smartsheet Adds Android App For Collaborative Spreadsheet Service As Enterprise Warms To The Mobile Platform
A growing list of SaaS providers are launching Android apps. iPhone apps still dominate but the shift to mobile is forcing companies like Smartsheet to extend their mobile reach as much as possible. S...
05:25 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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How To Decide Between The New Apple iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c
Apple is launching two new iPhones, the iPhone 5c and the iPhone 5s, and the big question for many is going to be which is worth their hard-earned clams. Both present attractive packages, as detailed ...
05:01 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Apple iOS 7 Review: A Major Makeover That Takes Some Getting Used To, But Ultimately Delivers
This is a big week for Apple; it has two new phones hitting store shelves, and a brand new operating system that becomes available tomorrow for compatible devices. The new mobile operating system is a...
05:01 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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iPhone 5s Review: Apple's Latest Smartphone Goes For (And Gets) The Gold
Apple's new iPhone 5s is set to go on sale this Friday, Sept. 20, and the phone is already generating a lot of buzz. The 5s is the more advanced of two new Apple iPhones, and offers a lot of technical...
05:01 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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iPhone 5c Review: Apple's Colorful Take On The iPhone Is A Refreshing Change Of Design Pace
Apple's iPhone release schedule has been predictable in the past when it comes to number of devices: each year, a single new smartphone. For 2013, that's changed with the iPhone 5c, as for the first t...
04:56 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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NSA Spying Justification Declassified
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC),America's super-secret spy court, has finally revealed the legal justification for the National Security Agency's phone record dragnet program. Accor...
04:09 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Kevin Systrom Sees Instagram Turning Into A Fashion Commerce Platform
Instagram is not yet launching ads on its photo and video-sharing network. But it has plans to in the next year, and this evening Kevin Systrom, its co-founder and CEO, made an appearance in London wh...
03:27 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Yep, Social Discovery Startup Sonar Is Dead (And Its CEO Explains Why)
So, uh, what's going on with Sonar? The startup, which promised to connect users with relevant people nearby (using data from Facebook, Foursquare, and elsewhere), seemed to have disappeared from the ...
02:26 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Inside Microsoft's New $40 Billion Stock Repurchase Program
Microsoft has announced a new $40 billion share repurchase authorization with no expiration date. With the move, Microsoft in effectgranted itself $40 billion in latitude to buy its own shares wheneve...
01:30 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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TC Cribs: eHarmony's Santa Monica HQ, Where Love Is Definitely In The Air
Welcome to a brand new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the walls of the tech industry's hottest companies to see what it's like for the smarty-pants staffers who work ...
01:03 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Google Expands Chrome Data Compression Feature On iOS
Google has begun expanding access to its Chrome data compression feature to more users, specifically those on iOS devices who have the company's mobile browserapp installed. The feature's existence wa...
12:40 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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EA Anoints Dark Horse Candidate And EA Sports EVP Andrew Wilson As New CEO
EA elevated Andrew Wilson, the company’s executive vice president overseeing EA Sports, to the top position as the company’s new CEO. The two widely rumored internal contenders COO Peter M...
12:30 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Apple's App Resurrection' Feature Great For Customers, But Opaque To Developers
In the early hours today, a user on Reddit discovered that Apple had updated the App Store to allow users on old iOS versions to download the ‘last known compatible‘ version of apps. At fi...
12:14 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Adobe's Creative Cloud Surpasses 1M Subscribers, But Q3 2013 Revenue Falls To $995.1M
Adobe today reported quarterly earnings for its third financial quarter of the year. While the company reported another decline in revenue and earnings per share to $995.1 million and $0.32 respective...
12:13 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Garmin's New Forerunner 220 & 620 Running Watches Are More Colorful And More Capable
There's plenty of commotion surrounding the smartwatch space these days, but let's not forget that some of us have essentially been strapping tiny computers to our wrists for years now. GPS-enabled ru...
12:05 am GMT - Wed, September 18, 2013
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Adobe Gets Serious About Hardware, Will Start Selling Its Mighty Digital Pen And Napoleon Ruler In The First Half Of 2014
Adobe’s first foray into hardware is about to become reality. When Adobe announced its thin-tipped Project Mighty digital pen and Napoleon digital ruler at its MAX conference earlier this year, ...
11:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Distill Raises $1.3M To Make Technical Recruiting, Hiring Dead Simple
With recruiters viciously competing for the best talent in the Valley, startups end up with plenty of paperwork and files to contend with. A San Francisco-based startup called Distill is looking to ma...
11:36 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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After Bono's Blessing, Ghana's MEST Moves Up A Gear With New VC Head
It's been fascinating to track what has become a groundbreaking non-profit project to teach tech startup entrepreneurship in Ghana. We first covered the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology ...
11:33 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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YouMagine Brings Some Heat To The Free 3D Model Space
Is the 3D modeling space big enough for multiple competitors? Martijn Elserman, Siert Wijnia and Erik de Bruijn sure think so. They're the founders of a new 3D object sharing site called YouMagine and...
11:11 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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CanvasPop Lets Any Photo App Sell Framed Prints To Make Money
There are over 30,000 photo apps, and many are dying a slow death with little way to make money. CanvasPop is about to give developers a hot cash injection by letting them earn 30% on framed photo pri...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Microsoft Leaves Windows 8.1 Pricing Unchanged From Windows 8 But Kills System Builder SKUs
Microsoft todayannounced the pricing structure for its upcoming Windows 8.1 operating system. Windows 8 users will receive the new code free of charge, but for those not currently on Microsoft’s...
09:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Longtime Microsoft Evangelist Jeff Sandquist Joins Twitter As Director Of Platform Partnerships
Jeff Sandquist, who's currently senior director of developer relations at Microsoft, just announced that he's be joining Twitter as director of platform partnerships."Change invigorates the soul," he ...
09:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Growing 10% Weekly, Grocery Delivery Service Instacart Expands To Chicago
Grocery delivery service Instacart today added its first new major market, expanding to Chicago. The company found its footing in the San Francisco Bay Area, growing its cadre of stores to include Cos...
09:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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A Visit To Goldbely, The Fancy Food Delivery Startup That Just Gobbled Up $3M Led By Intel Capital
Goldbely, the startup that delivers signature foods from regional establishments (think: Skyline chili from Cincinnati, Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza from Chicago, and so on) to hungry people througho...
09:23 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Disney Researchers Create A Way To Make Geared Figures That Look Amazingly Life-Like
For centuries the creation of geared automata has been sort of a dark art. To design a mechanical device to move like a human or animal was a trick in itself and to build the gears and rods necessary ...
09:12 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Stitch Labs Raises $3.5 Million As It Makes Plans To Address Inventory Management For Larger Business
Stitch Labs, the startup founded in 2011 to help small and medium-sized businesses manage their sales operations, has raised $3.5 million in Series A financing. Founder Brandon Levey said that Stitch ...
09:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Telefonica Digital's Tracy Isacke
This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we have Telefnica Digital's Tracy Isacke in the studio. You can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and well ask them during the ...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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CollegeHumor Founder Josh Abramson, Boomi Founder Rick Nucci Join FirstMark Capital
FirstMark Capital, investors behind major companies like Pinterest and Aereo, have today brought on two new partners at the venture firm: Rick Nucci and Josh Abramson. If the serial entrepreneur's nam...
08:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Occipital's New Structure Sensor Turns Your iPad Into A Mobile 3D Scanner
The folks at San Francisco-based Occipital are very much software people -- the company's RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Store days before the team sold it to eBay, as was 360 Panorama be...
07:43 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Firefox For Android 24 Launches With WebRTC Support, NFC-Based Link Sharing
Mozilla today launched the latest version of Firefox for Android. Version 24 introduces a number of new features, including tools for easier link sharing and support for WebRTC. With the introduction ...
07:36 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Apkudo Will Start Testing Accessories In A Bid To Bolster The Android Ecosystem
Baltimore startup Apkudo already helps mobile manufacturers and carriers test their new phones before release, and it works with developers to give them a better idea of how their apps run on a wide ...
07:32 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Google Wallet Takes On Apple's Passbook With Support For Loyalty Cards, Coupons, Offers & More
Google today announced a new version of its mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, which now allows users to send money to friends directly from credit and debit cards, or a bank or Wallet balance, ...
07:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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BitTorrent Goes For The Mainstream With Madonna As Centerpiece Of Its Latest Bundle
BitTorrent, the P2P network with 170 million users that has been building out a business as the go-to platform for writers, musicians and other media creators to share their content with each other an...
07:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Onefinestay, The Upmarket Airbnb, Expands Its Unhotel' To Paris & LA
Onefinestay, the self-styled ‘unhotel’ that can be described as an upmarket Airbnb offering a select portfolio of luxury, city-centre homes kitted out with fancy linens, towels and toiletr...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Etsy Debuts Pinterest-Like Curation Platform For Brands, Pages
Etsy, the marketplace for hand crafted goods, is adding a new feature today to engage brands with the its platform-Pages. The feature allows brands to create curated pages of items from Etsy, which us...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Porch Makes Home Improvement Data Available For 75% Of U.S. Homes, Launches Its Home Improvement Network
Where Houzz lets you find inspiration and contractors based on beautiful images,Porch is a Seattle-based startup that aims to do something very similar, but with the help of a massive amount of data a...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Porch Makes Home-Improvement Data Available For 75% Of U.S. Homes, Launches Its Home Improvement Network
Where Houzz lets you find inspiration and contractors based on beautiful images,Porch is a Seattle-based startup that aims to do something very similar, but with the help of a massive amount of data a...
06:54 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Farfetch's Jos Neves Joins Disrupt Europe, Early Bird Ticket Prices End Monday
Disrupt Europe, our major conference, comes to Berlin in October. Some of the best known names from the Valley and Europe are coming and the latest is Jos Neves, Founder of Farfetch. ...
06:50 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Google's Patent Search Engine Expands Global Footprint With Support For China, Germany, Canada & WIPO
As the scourge of patent trolls continues to take its toll on technology innovators, some, like Rackspace and now FindTheBest CEO Kevin O'Connor fighting back with lawsuits of their own, Google is mak...
06:35 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Ray Dolby, Father Of Modern Noise Reduction, Dead At 80
Ray Dolby, creator of the Dolby noise-reduction system that revolutionized recording, died on September 12, 2013. He suffered from Alzheimer’s and died of leukemia in his San Francisco home. He ...
06:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Surprise Freedom Is Short-Lived: Iranian Access To Social Media Was A Glitch'
Iranian Netizens were overjoyed yesterday after discovering that they had unfettered access to baby pictures and Justin Bieber updates (a.k.a. Facebook and Twitter). The glimmer of freedom, however, w...
06:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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News Curation Platform Paper.li Raises Further $2 Million
Smallrivers, the Swiss startup behind news curation platform Paper.li, has raised further funding: $2 million from Debioinvestment, and Polytech Ventures (co-founded by the Swiss Federal Institute of ...
05:47 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Amazon's Instant Video App Adds AirPlay Support For Streaming To Apple TV
Amazon rolled out an update to its Instant Video application for iOS which now introduces support for AirPlay, allowing users to stream movie and TV content from Amazon’s service to Apple TV. Th...
05:44 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Faced With Fierce Competition, Rhapsody Takes Significant Investment From Columbus Nova
Rhapsody International today announced that it would be taking a "significant", yet undisclosed, investment from Columbus Nova Technology Partners and Rhapsody president Jon Irwin will step down. More...
05:32 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Microsoft Initiates Massive $40 Billion Share Buyback Program
Shortly before market opening, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced a new massive buyback program as well as a dividend increase. The new buyback program comes after the expiration of a previous $40 bill...
05:29 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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With Paylib, French Banks Work Together To Compete With PayPal
Three major French banks have worked together on a new payment system for the web called Paylib. With a Paylib account, users will be able to pay on the web using a simple login and password instead o...
05:27 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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European OpenTable Competitor Restalo Raises $10M Series B Led By Seaya Ventures
Barcelona-based Restalo, an online restaurant reservation service similar to OpenTable, has raised a $10 million Series B round from Seaya Ventures, and existing investor Active Venture Partners....
05:21 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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PubNub Picks Up Another $11M Led By ScaleVP To Build Out Its API-Based Real-Time Services Network
PubNub, a provider of APIs that publishers, developers and others can use to implement messaging, video and other social services on apps and websites, has picked up an $11 million round of funding th...
05:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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BrandAds Aims To Measure The True Impact Of Video Ad Campaigns
Avi Brown, co-founder and CEO of BrandAds, said there are big challenges facing companies that want to know if their online video ad campaigns are actually paying off.On the one hand, they can look at...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Airbnb Enlists Former Hotel Exec Chip Conley As Its First Head Of Global Hospitality
Airbnb has hired Chip Conley, founder and former CEO of boutique hotel chain Joie de Vivre, to lead new efforts to improve the guest experience by educating and creating new standards for hosts.When I...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Polyvore Expands Beyond Fashion (And Into An Older, More Moneyed User Base) With New Home Decor Section
Polyvore has made its name as a site for creating collages that represent the lifestyles they want to lead, complete with beautiful outfits accessorized down to the right handbag and perfect perfume. ...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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XO Group Acquires Ambience Search Engine Hoppit
Hoppit, a search engine that lets you find restaurants based on their atmosphere, today announced that it has been acquired by the “lifestage media” company XO Group (formerly known as ...
04:58 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Appirio Buys TopCoder To Add More Crowdsourcing, And 500K Developers And Designers, To Its CloudSpokes Network
Appirio, the cloud services consultancy that last year raised $60 million from General Atlantic and Sequoia, is putting some of that investment into acquisitions to build out its business competing ag...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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On Eve Of iOS 7 Launch, Apple Starts Letting Users Install Last Compatible Versions Of Apps
iOS 7 is the biggest change to Apple's mobile OS since it was born all the way back in 2007. The risk for Apple now is that the redesign disrupts its own user-base, so here's one sign of how Cupertino...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Hightail Buys AdeptCloud To Add High Level Security And Privacy Features To File-Sharing
File-sharing company Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), has acquired startup AdeptCloud, a file sharing and collaboration company focused on security, control and privacy. Financial terms of the deal were...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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FuzeBox Raises $26 Million For European Expansion, Names Former Yammer Executive David Obrand As CEO
FuzeBox, which provides online collaboration and communication tools, has raised $26 million in Series B funding. Led by Hermes Growth Partners and joined by existing investors Index Ventures, Khosla ...
03:11 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Tictail Releases API And Internal Tools For 3rd Party Devs, Stores Numbers Take Off
Tictail is a more unusual e-commerce startup in that it is using its venture capital backing to power ahead on creating a platform which is super-easy to create a shop on. Now it's allowing third-part...
03:11 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Tictail Releases API And Internal Tools For 3rd Party Devs, Store Numbers Take Off
Tictail is a more unusual e-commerce startup in that it is using its venture capital backing to power ahead on creating a platform which is super-easy to create a shop on. Now it's allowing third-part...
03:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Dafiti, Rocket Internet's Latin American Fashion Portal, Gets $70M From Ontario Teachers
Earlier this year, when Rocket Internet announced a new injection of $500 million into its Germany-based startup incubator, co-founder Oliver Samwer told me that a large focus for it would be emerging...
02:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Nix Is A Smartphone Colour Sensor Plus App That Lets You Scan & Save Favourite Shades
The army of auxiliary hardware being built by hardware startups to extend the native capabilities of smartphones shows no signs of slowing its march. Meet Nix: a colour sensor that lets you scan an ob...
02:19 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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DeveloperAuction Rebrands As Hired.com To Make Recruiting Suck Less For Everyone
DeveloperAuction, which launched in 2012 to revolutionize the engineer recruiting market, is today rebranding itself as Hired.com, and putting its sights on a much larger target covering designers, da...
12:58 pm GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Cinemacraft Raises $1.5M From NTT DoCoMo, Turner Broadcasting's Media Camp And 500 Startups
Cinemacraft, a startup that wants to replace static video thumbnails with its interactive Videograms, has raised a $1.5 million strategic funding round from investors NTT DoCoMo, Turner Broadcasting's...
11:19 am GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Bing Reveals Its Redesign And Latest Improvements
Microsoft has redesigned Bing's logo and user interface as it seeks to position the search engine as a developer platform. ...
10:59 am GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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That's The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard Of.
When Twitter broke the news last week about its forthcoming IPO, I got a bit sentimental. In 2006, when Twitter was entering the world as a side project of the podcasting startup Odeo, I had just left...
04:07 am GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Valve CEO Gabe Newell Says Linux Is The Future Of Gaming, Hints At SteamBox Announcement
In his keynote today at Linuxcon, Valve CEO and Founder Gabe Newell said Linux is the future of gaming and hinted about the announcement next week of a gaming box built on the open-source operating en...
02:16 am GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Facebook And Internet.org Detail 1000X Technologies They Hope Will Bring Earth Online
Air Traffic Control, HipHop, WebP, and Supplemental Downlink are some of the futuristic technologies that will bring the Internet to the five billion people still disconnected. A 70-page whitepaper re...
02:16 am GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Reddit Bans Search For Navy Yard Gunman
Reddit has kept its promise to ban amateur manhunts. The sitehas banned a community forum, known as a subreddit, which attempted to crowdsource the search for the gunman who opened fire at the Washing...
01:50 am GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Secure Cellphone Maker GSMK Talks Cryptography In A Post-Snowden World
In a world where your every move is tracked, what would you pay for a secure cellphone? Dr. Bjrn Rupp is willing to bet it's about $3,500. His company, GSMK Cryptophone builds cellphones that are secu...
01:20 am GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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Splunk Acquires BugSense, A Platform For Analyzing Mobile Data
Splunk has acquired BugSense, a mobile analytics platform used by developers to improve app performance and improve quality.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close d...
12:27 am GMT - Tue, September 17, 2013
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iStoryTime Debuts A Netflix For Ebooks For Kids
If a startup called Oyster is the Netflix for e-books, then iStoryTime is the children's alternative. One of the oldest players in the kids' interactive e-books app market iszuuka(aka iStoryTime), a c...
11:39 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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The Uber App Now Lets You Tell Friends When You'll Get There With A Live ETA Map
The Uber app for iOS and presumably Android is getting a couple of new features centered around estimated times of arrival today. The app now lets you share your ETA with contacts from the app, lettin...
11:08 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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With New File Preview And Mobile Experiences, Box Highlights Recent Acquisitions
Box showed off new versions of its file preview feature and iOS apps at its BoxWorks conference this morning. In doing so, it was also highlighting what recent acquisitions have brought to the company...
11:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Keen On The NSA: Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Our Secrets?
Bestselling author James Bamford is one of the world's leading authorities on the NSA. At Disrupt SF 2013, he spoke on a great panel about online security and afterwards I had the good fortune to int...
10:32 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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SlideIdea Adds Interactivity, Polls & Feedback To Boring Presentations
A small, Shanghai-based startup called SlideIdea made its official debut at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Alley this past week, with a new take on presentation tools built for iPad first. Though this s...
10:25 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Box Will Add Metadata To Give More Context To Cloud Documents
Box announced on-stage at its BoxWorks conference that it will be making the documents stored in its cloud storage system smarter, thanks to upcoming support for metadata.At first glance, this might n...
09:55 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Ginger Software Adds Sentence Rephraser To Android Proofreading Keyboard To Reword Your Written English
If you're already worried that journalists are writing for robots, it's time to press the panic button: here's an algorithm that can apparently rewrite journalists. Israeli natural language processing...
09:47 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Hands-On With The botObjects ProDesk3D
After months of speculation and quite a bit of skepticism, we're pleased to report that the ProDesk3D is real, it works, and it really does print in color. How, exactly, is still under question - we w...
09:30 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Google Analytics To End Support For IE8 By Year's End
Internet Explorer 8, which launched in 2009, isn't exactly a modern browser by any standards and it's slowly turning into the new Internet Explorer 6. Google stopped supporting Google Apps on IE8 last...
08:32 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Luma For iPad Is A Personalized TV Guide For Streaming VideoWith A Few New Tricks
Movie and TV recommendations app Luma.tv has been working to solve the "what to watch" problem for years. The company first launched as Inveni.com, a free web service backed by nearly $2 million in fo...
08:15 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Wearable Baby Monitor Developer Sproutling Raises $2.6M From First Round And Others To Raise Parenting IQ
Werables aren't just for adults anymore. There's a new crop of startups that are hoping to give parents peace of mind, and deliver more insights about young children and their sleeping patters through...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Box Gets A Little More Palatable With Some Added Encryption From CipherCloud
Box appears on the verge of becoming a publicly traded company. It may not happen until next year but the file storage and collaboration company has as much momentum as any enterprise startup looking ...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Bump Mobile Contact Sharing App Acquired By Google, Will Stay Alive For Now
After raising nearly $20 million and becoming one of the most downloaded mobile apps but never finding real revenue, Bump Technologies has been acquired by Google. Its namesake app lets you physically...
06:11 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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PushPage Raises $1.7 Million For Its Q&A-Style Personal Homepage Platform
Cambridge-based PushPage is launching its personal homepage and Q&A platform today, backed by $1.7 million in seed funding. The product, live now on both web and mobile, offers users an online pre...
06:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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OLSET Matches Business Travelers With The Right Hotel In Less Than 10 Seconds
A new travel platform called OLSET is launching its public beta to streamline the hotel booking process, with an algorithm for matching user preferences to reviews from TripAdvisor. Instead of providi...
05:40 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Revel Goes Big With Full Stadium Deployment Of iPad Point-Of-Sale System At ASU
iPad-based point-of-sale market leader Revel has just completed its biggest single deployment to date, outfitting the entire Alabama State University stadium with Revel POS equipment. The brand new st...
05:08 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Withlocals Raises $500K For Its Local Travel Experiences Marketplace Targeting Southeast Asia
Withlocals, a peer-to-peer marketplace for locals to offer travellers various experiences, such as tours, home dining, and other local activities, has raised $500,000 in funding from startup builder a...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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BitPay Passes 10,000 Bitcoin-Accepting Merchants On Its Payment Processing Network
Bitcoin payment processor startup BitPay has exceeded 10,000 Bitcoin-accepting merchants using its services to take payments via the decentralised digital cryptocurrency. Around this time last year Bi...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Box Announces Box Notes: A Lightweight Editing Tool That Is An Opening Salvo Against Microsoft's Office
Aaron Levie’s Box is a quickly growing enterprise-facing file storage company that has accreted to itself enough in-house technical prowess to expand its feature footprint to new niches that fit...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Box Announces Box Notes, A Lightweight Editing Tool That Is An Opening Salvo Against Microsoft Office
Aaron Levie’s Box is a quickly growing, enterprise-facing file storage company that has accreted to itself enough in-house technical prowess to expand its feature footprint to new niches that fi...
03:24 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Video Site Upworthy Closes $8M, Will Build Revenue Through Sponsored Content
Upworthy, the website aiming to make meaningful videos go viral, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Spark Capital, an early investor in Tumblr and Twitter, along with Catamount Ventures,...
03:24 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Video Site Upworthy Closes $8M Round, Will Build Revenue Through Sponsored Content
Upworthy, the website aiming to make meaningful videos go viral, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Spark Capital, an early investor in Tumblr and Twitter, along with Catamount Ventures,...
03:15 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Convo Raises $5 Million To Double Its Staff, Work To Accelerate Modern Business
Yammer, Convo, and Jiveare among the business products seeking to provide collaborative enterprises with tooling to allow their respective denizens to work in better harmony and at a faster pace. Each...
03:10 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Original 3D-Printed Liberator Guns To Become Works Of Art At London Museum
The Liberator gun made headlines when its creator fired up his 3D printer and created them, building firearms that actually fire out of little more than plastic components that combined cost little mo...
03:05 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Jolla's Sailfish OS Now Android Compatible As MeeGo Startup Readies 2nd Pre-Sales Campaign To Tap Anti-Microsoft Sentiment
Jolla, the Finnish startup that's aiming to build a mobile ecosystem around its MeeGo-based OS, Sailfish, has announced the Sailfish OS is now compatible with the Android ecosystem -- on both a hardwa...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Zipments Closes $2.5 Million Seed Round To Speed Up Same-Day Deliveries
New York based Zipments, a same-day delivery marketplace that connects retailers with couriers, has closed a $2.25 million seed round to further build out its product and expand to new cities. It's fa...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Zipments Closes $2.25 Million Seed Round To Speed Up Same-Day Deliveries
New York based Zipments, a same-day delivery marketplace that connects retailers with couriers, has closed a $2.25 million seed round to further build out its product and expand to new cities. It's fa...
01:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Tumblr Inks Firehose Deal With DataSift To Tumble Further Into The World Of Big Media Advertising
When Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion earlier this year, Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer and CFO Ken Goldman both pointed out that advertising on the site (and revenues from those ads) would ramp up s...
01:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Google's Maps For Business A Key Ingredient For HALO Trust's Mine Clearing Efforts In Kosovo
Google's Maps and Earth products are a good way to pass some idle time, zooming around the globe, but they're also tools that can be put to use in scenarios with considerable social impact. The search...
01:16 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Conduit, Worth $1.4BN, Merges With Email Giant Perion (Worth $153M)
Conduit, the Israeli-based browser-toolbar and mobile startup estimated to be worth some $1.4 billion, has confirmed it is merging with Perion Network. Conduits Client Connect business and Perion wil...
01:16 pm GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Conduit, Worth $1.4BN, Merges With Email Giant Perion (Worth $153M) To Take Its Place On NASDAQ
Conduit, the Israeli-based browser-toolbar and mobile startup estimated to be worth some $1.4 billion, has confirmed it is merging with Perion Network. Conduits Client Connect business and Perion wil...
11:24 am GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Pakistani Activists Smell A Mole In Government's Proposed YouTube Filtering Plan
After ignoring repeated requests to appear in a court case challenging the Pakistan government's year-long YouTube blackout, the country's elusive IT minister is expected to appear at a hearing later ...
11:15 am GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Small, Stackable And Cheap, Microduino Puts Arduino In Your Pocket'
Microduino Studio wants to make Arduino more accessible by creating a smaller, flexible and cheaper hardware addition to the prototyping platform. All Arduino-compatible boards and extension modules c...
10:15 am GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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LinkedIn's Market Cap Passes Salesforce, Long The Bellwether Symbol Of Cloud Services
For the second week in a row, LinkedIn's market capitalization finished higher than Salesforce.com. Linkedin ended trading on Friday with a $32.56 billion market cap while the Salesforce market cap wa...
06:55 am GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Famo.us Finally Rolls Into (Very) Private Beta, Hires A Founder Of Facebook's Dev Platform
Back at TC Disrupt SF 2012, Famo.us announced a Javascript framework for building super complex yet still super-smooth HTML5 apps. They promised rich, 3D, Iron-Man-esque interfaces running in the brow...
06:55 am GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Famo.us Finally Rolls Into (Very) Private Beta, Hires A Founder Of Facebook's Dev Platform As VP Of Engineering
Back at TC Disrupt SF 2012, Famo.us announced a Javascript framework for building super complex yet still super-smooth HTML5 apps. They promised rich, 3D, Iron-Man-esque interfaces running in the brow...
05:00 am GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Google's Bet On Native Client Brings Chrome And Google+ Photos Closer Together
Google is betting big on photos on Google+. Indeed, most of the innovation on the company’s social network so far has been around photos, including the #AutoAwesome launch at I/O. Last week, Goo...
04:20 am GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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Dubb Wants To Expand Your Address Book By Connecting You With Friends Of Friends
For anyone who's had to text a friend for another friend's phone number so, all of us Dubb is an app that lets users request contact information from those in their extended friend network, who can ...
04:00 am GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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How Bluetooth LE And Crowdfunding Are Accelerating The Connected Hardware Boom
Its one trend thats been hard to miss, being mostly clipped and/or strapped in plain sight. To spell it out, hardware startups and the devices theyre making -- are having a moment, thanks in major pa...
01:00 am GMT - Mon, September 16, 2013
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What Games Are: The Marketing Squeeze
In case you didn't know, marketing games on mobile has become a big of a nightmare. In this article I talk about how this is part of a wider trend, a squeezing phase affecting many game makers in the ...
10:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 15, 2013
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Pebble's Eric Migicovsky Is Uninterested In A Potential Acquisition
When it comes to competition, Pebble has plenty to be concerned about. In an interview on-stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, founder Eric Migicovsky seemed unconcerned about questions on competition...
09:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 15, 2013
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For Mobile Developers, iOS7 Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts
Leading up last weeks Apple event and the unveiling of the iPhone 5s, the Internet may have led you to believe that Android is better. The reality for startups, however, is more nuanced. When it comes...
09:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 15, 2013
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For Mobile Developers, iOS 7 Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts
Leading up to last weeks Apple event and the unveiling of the iPhone 5s, the Internet may have led you to believe that Android is better. The reality for startups, however, is more nuanced. When it co...
08:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 15, 2013
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TechCrunch Droidcast Episode 6: Nokia's Experimentation, Sony's Kitchen Lunacy, And Android At Disrupt
Darrell and I pride ourselves on making the TechCrunch Droidcast a Wednesday staple, but alas, we just couldn't find the time at Disrupt to record the show. I know, I'm sorry.To make up for it, we rou...
07:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 15, 2013
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Apple's M7 Motion Sensing Coprocessor Is The Wizard Behind The Curtain For The iPhone 5s
Apple has a new trick up its sleeve with the iPhone 5s that was talked about on stage during its recent reveal event, but the impact of which won't be felt until much later when it gets fully taken ad...
02:53 pm GMT - Sun, September 15, 2013
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NSA Allegedly Spies On International Credit Card Transactions
Germanys Der Spiegel newspaper - increasingly joining the NSA revelations train - reports today that the intelligence agency is interested in international credit card transactions and may have found ...
04:00 am GMT - Sun, September 15, 2013
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Expedia And Zillow Founder Rich Barton Wants To Fund Power To The People' Startups
Rich Barton may still be best known for his role as a founder at pioneering web properties such as Expedia and Zillow, but in recent years he has emerged as an investor in some really interesting star...
02:44 am GMT - Sun, September 15, 2013
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Silicon Valley Luminaries Got Grilled On The NSA At Disrupt, Here's How They Responded
Over the course of the three day Disrupt conference, Michael Arrington interviewed 13 of the most influential people in the tech industry, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Yahoo CEO Marissa ...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, September 15, 2013
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CrunchWeek: The New iPhones, Twitter Preps For An IPO, And Tech Execs Talk NSA
What a busy week it's been for the tech industry -- and what better way to cap it off than by shutting down all your electronic devices and meditating alone in the forest watching a brand new episode ...
12:00 am GMT - Sun, September 15, 2013
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First-Time Chilean Entrepreneur Raises $16M To Disrupt Latin America's Insurance Market
Think about that pure, unbridled feeling when you knew you wanted to be an entrepreneur. Now think about the unsexiest business you could possibly start.Did you think of an insurance product and finan...
10:56 pm GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Naval Ravikant On How AngelList Syndicates Can Shake Up The World Of Venture Capital Scouts'
Since its inception in 2010, AngelList has steadily transformed the way people think about gathering funding for their technology startups. But so far, nothing AngelList has done has garnered as quick...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Gillmor Gang: Inch by Inch
The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor added up the Apple announcements, the Twitter IPO, and why Chromecast's Cloud-to-Device model will stick. No ...
08:46 pm GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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He's Electric - Will A Revolutionary Black Box Turn Dale Vince Into Europe's Elon Musk?
Dale Vince sits in a spartan office in the corner of Ecotricity, one of the UK's few green energy electricity networks, and taps away on an Apple Mac at his standing desk. The office is bare, other th...
06:42 pm GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Lays Out His Vision For Medium
Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intel...
06:42 pm GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Lays Out His Plan For The Future Of Media
Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intel...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Wait, When Did Software Become So Boring?
Maybe I'm just jaded and cranky. But as I wandered through Startup Alley at Disrupt this week, and even as I watched many of the Battlefield contestants, I found myself fighting eye-glazing ennui. App...
04:47 pm GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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The Zizz Is An Intelligent Sleep Mask Which Helps You Get Better Zzz's
At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 this past week, a Warsaw-based startup called IQ Intelclinic was showing off an intelligent sleeping mask which uses sensors to monitor the wearers' sleep cycles, includi...
04:47 pm GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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The Zizz Is An Intelligent Sleep Mask That Helps You Get Better Zzz's
At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 this past week, a Warsaw-based startup called IQ Intelclinic was showing off an intelligent sleeping mask which uses sensors to monitor the wearers' sleep cycles, includi...
06:29 am GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Tow Choice Wants To Take The Hassle Out Of Calling For Roadside Assistance
Once, on a brisk autumn night months and months ago, I went for a run around a park and promptly lost my car keys in the dark. The next hour was spent Googling local tow services and hoping that my ph...
04:43 am GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Harbingers Of Apps To Come, Here Are Four Google Glass For Fashion Hacks We Saw At Disrupt
With an abnormally high population of Google Glass owners in one convention center and ShopStyle’s API open to participants at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, it should come as no surprise tha...
02:10 am GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Microsoft's Now-Deleted Anti-iPhone Commercial Is The Funniest Thing From Redmond Since Windows RT
It’s Friday, kids, so calm down and have a laugh. Do this: Stop caring about Apple and Microsoft and Google and the phone in your pocket and the platform of your dreams and all that. Instead, gi...
01:35 am GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Ask A VC: Early Twitter Investor And Spark Capital Partner Bijan Sabet On Founder Personality, Investment Syndicates And More
In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Spark Capital founder and general partner Bijan Sabet joined us in the studio to talk about investment syndicates and much more.Sabet was one of the early backers o...
12:17 am GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Gillmor Gang Live 09.13.13 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang - Keith Teare, John Taschek, Dan Farber, Roberts Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific....
12:15 am GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Ark Launches Rapportive-Meets-Mailbox Email App In Pivot To Marketing Intelligence
Need to do some homework on who you're emailing? You could search their name on Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn, but on mobile that's a lot of taps, and it's hard to know if you've got the right John Sm...
12:00 am GMT - Sat, September 14, 2013
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Mailbox's Gentry Underwood Would Rather Move Slow And Get It Right
In an interview backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood said that the company is actively working on an Android version of the app, and mentioned that ephemerality ma...
10:18 pm GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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The Government Wants To Define Who Qualifies As A Journalist
Journalists and netizens have mixed feelings about a long-sought federal media shield law that is headed to a vote in the Senate. The Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 would protect designated jour...
06:54 pm GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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With Automatic Photo Import, Days Gets One Step Closer To Having Users Share Everything
Days by Wander launched back in May with a very difficult mission: to change the way you think about photo-sharing. While some think that pictures of your feet or coffee are too mundane for photo-shar...
06:02 pm GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Woot's Founding Team Returns As Mediocre Laboratories To Experiment With E-Commerce
A little more than a year after Woot founder Matt Rutledge left the revolutionary daily deals company he sold to Amazon, he's bringing the team back together to hack e-commerce once again. The new com...
05:52 pm GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Intel Has Acquired Natural Language Processing Startup Indisys, Price North Of $26M
Intel has made another international acquisition in its push into artificial intelligence technology: it has bought Indisys, a Spanish startup focused on naturual language recognition. The terms of th...
05:52 pm GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Intel Has Acquired Natural Language Processing Startup Indisys, Price North Of $26M, To Build Its AI Muscle
Intel has made another international acquisition in its push into artificial intelligence technology: it has bought Indisys, a Spanish startup focused on naturual language recognition. The terms of th...
04:33 pm GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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App Seenth.is Helps Music Fans Wrangle Their Favorite Artists' Multiple Social Media Feeds
Seenth.is lets music fans hone their obsession by making it easy for them to track the most interesting social media updates from their favorite performers. The iOS app (an Android version will be rel...
04:33 pm GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Seenth.is App Helps Music Fans Wrangle Their Favorite Artists' Multiple Social Media Feeds
Seenth.is lets music fans hone their obsession by making it easy for them to track the most interesting social media updates from their favorite performers. The iOS app (an Android version will be rel...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Chris Kemp Steps Down As CEO Of Nebula, The OpenStack Startup
Chris Kemp, a former NASA CTO is stepping down as CEO of Nebula, the company he founded to provide hardware and software systems for building OpenStack cloud services. Kemp will become the companyR...
09:15 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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iPad App mem:o Is A Simple Data Visualization Tool For Design Lovers
Technology makes it easy to turn the minutiae of our daily lives into useful data sets, but sometimes it feels bleak to see every experience or memory broken down into pie charts and bar graphs. mem:o...
06:37 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Facebook Sunsets Credits, Transitions To Local Currencies To Boost International Payments
Facebook launched its virtual currency Credits in June 2011 to simplify payments. In reality, Credits were a nightmare for international payments due to fluctuating exchange rates. But last night, the...
05:32 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Import.io Turns Web Pages Into Spreadsheets For Getting Out The Data That Matters Most
Import.io participated in the Startup Alleyat TechCrunch Disrupt, showing its service that makes data from a web site more accessible by turning pages into spreadsheets for pulling relevant informatio...
05:24 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Outgoing Turner CEO Phil Kent Sees Big Opportunities For The Company's MediaCamp Incubator
Before the five startups taking part in this year's San Francisco MediaCamp took the stage at Demo Day, the gathered investors, journalists, and tech/media industry folk were addressed by Turner Broad...
05:24 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Outgoing Turner CEO Phil Kent Sees Big Opportunities For The Company's Media Camp Incubator
Before the five startups taking part in this year's San Francisco MediaCamp took the stage at Demo Day, the gathered investors, journalists, and tech/media industry folk were addressed by Turner Broad...
04:50 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Free Massive Online Education Provider, Coursera, Begins To Find A Path To Profits
Online education providers may very well disrupt the higher educationestablishment, but, first, these for-profit companies need to find a way to finance the mammoth technical infrastructure needed to ...
03:34 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Twitter's New Verified Filter Lets Celebs Hob-Nob In Peace By Hiding @'s From Non-VIPs
Life is hard for famous people. You’re trying to @ reply with your celebrity friends on Twitter, but the conversation gets drowned out by rabid fans and spammers mentioning you. So Twitter’...
03:34 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Twitter's New Verified Filter Lets Celebs Hob-Nob In Peace
Life is hard for famous people. You’re trying to @ reply with your celebrity friends on Twitter, but the conversation gets drowned out by rabid fans and spammers mentioning you. So Twitter’...
03:33 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Microsoft Adds IMAP Support To Outlook.com To Entice Mac Users, Developers
Today Microsoft announced that it has added IMAP support to its Outlook.com webmail product. Outlook.com has over 400 million active users according to Microsoft, making it not only one of the most po...
03:06 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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CodeBender.CC Makes It Crazy Easy To Program Your Arduino Board From Your Browser
The official Arduino IDE is a dour piece of software designed for uploading code to the ubiquitous and super-cool micro controller. It is a standalone, non-networked app that isn't very pretty to look...
01:50 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Give Microsoft Your iPad, And They'll (All But) Give You A Surface
Happy Post-Disrupt Day, super troopers. I trust you are rehydrated and back at work. A pity. While we were watching Zuckerberg knock the U.S. government for misbehaving while others managed to toss th...
01:46 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Google Creative Labs Launches Coder To Turn Raspberry Pi Into A Basic Web Development Platform
Coder, a new project that’s coming out of Google’s Creative Lab, is an open source tool that allows you to easily turn a Raspberry Pi into a basic web server with a web-based development e...
01:46 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Google Creative Lab Launches Coder To Turn Raspberry Pi Into A Basic Web Development Platform
Coder, a new project that’s coming out of Google’s Creative Lab, is an open source tool that allows you to easily turn a Raspberry Pi into a basic web server with a web-based development e...
01:40 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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The Sixense STEM Brings Your Hands And Feet Into Virtual Reality
Oh, you thought virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift were already cool? The folks at Sixense are trying to take it to a whole new level, with a set of motion tracking controllers that bring y...
01:17 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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A Photographer's Take On The iPhone 5S Camera
The iPhone 5S announcement this week was punctuated with a lot of specs and buzzwords. Much of it centered around the new Touch ID fingerprint scanner and the 64-bit processor. But the most intriguing...
01:04 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Twitter Is Going Public, Files S-1 With SEC
Today Twitter confirmed that it has filed an S-1 with the SEC and is therefore on the road to going public. This is an important moment for Twitter, and for tech, as it shows that the IPO window is op...
01:00 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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Facebook Tests Silent Auto-Play For User Videos In Mobile Feed, Foreshadowing Video Ads
In a test that could make News Feed more engaging and pave the way for video ads, Facebook's mobile feed will start auto-playing user-uploaded videos in-line when they're scrolled over for a small sub...
12:58 am GMT - Fri, September 13, 2013
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SAP Big Data Bus Part Of Overall Effort To Build Developer Community
Big data is a catch-all term for describing any form of data analytics that requires the processing of data, be it by the gigabyte, terabyte or in the nose-bleed realm of petabyte-scale workloads. SAP...
11:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Nettlebox Is A $28,000 Hologram Rig That Lets You View Real-Time 3D From All Angles
Russian startup Nettle, which is based in the Skolkovo Tech City area, is showing off a $28,000 holographic gaming set-up at TechCrunch Disrupt SF's hardware alley. The Nettlebox rig consists of a 3D ...
09:44 pm GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Insightly Raises $10M For CRM Service Wrapped In An Email App
Insightly has raised $10 million for its CRM service that integrates with GMail, Outlook, Office 365 and other services. Emergence Capital Partners, Sozo Ventures and TrueBridge Capital Partners parti...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Mobile News App Circa Launches Its Web Platform For Browsing And Following Stories
Circa, a startup that offers quick and mobile news consumption, is expanding its services to the web by launching its online platform for following and sharing news. While the website does’t hav...
06:51 pm GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Fring, An Early Mover In Mobile Messaging And Video Apps, Sells For $50M To Genband To Build Out WhatsApps For Carriers
Fring, an early startup that focused on creating group messaging and video calling apps for mobile phones, competing against the likes of Skype and WhatsApp, is calling it a day as an independent enti...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Appcubator Helps Beginning Developers Easily Create Their Own Web Applications
There are quite a few steps between starting to learn to code and developing a web application, and a new Y Combinator startup is trying to fill in those gaps. Appcubator has launched to allow users t...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Semantic Startup Temnos Promises Publishers A Deeper Understanding Of Their Content, Raises $1.25M
Temnos is launching a new platform today that it says will give online publishers important data, which in turn will allow them to make their content more engaging. It's also announcing that it has ra...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Upfront Ventures Adds To Its Partner Ranks With Hire Of bLife And Moviepass Co-Founder Hamet Watt
Upfront has been adding new partners. In March, former Hautelook CMO Greg Bettinelli joined the firm as a partner focused on making investments in e-commerce, marketplaces, and consumer applications. ...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Maker Studios Raises Another $26 Million From CanalPlus, Singtel, And Others To Grow Its Business Overseas
YouTube network Maker Studios just closed out its Series C funding round, bringing on an additional $26 million from a wide range of international investors. The funding will bring the full amount of ...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Zynstra Closes $3.8M Series A Funding Found For Its Hybrid Cloud Platform
Zynstra, which runs hybrid cloud solutions for small and medium sized enterprises, has completed a $3.8 million Series A funding round, bringing the total amount raised to just over $6 million. It has...
01:50 pm GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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MyTAG Wants To Make Local Selling Safer And Simpler
Spotted in the Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, myTAG is a soon-to-launch online platform for local selling that aims to make the e-commerce experience more transparent between buyer and s...
10:49 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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WeatherSphere's RadarCast App Will Help You Navigate Around Upcoming Storms & Snow
WeatherSphere, a small Mountain View-based startup founded by former eBay engineer Raghav Gupta in fall 2012, is focusing on developing mobile applications that look at the weather space from the tech...
10:41 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Nokia Chairman Risto Siilasmaa Outlines Its Next Reinvention
In a blog post, Nokia chairman and interim CEO Risto Siilasmaa gave more details about the company's plans now that it has exited the smartphones business. This marks the most recent reinvention for t...
08:47 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Estimote Details iOS 7 iBeacon Support For Its Contextual Proximity Shopping Devices
Estimote, a Y Combinator graduate and Hardware Alley exhibitor here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, was able to talk about something today that it's never been able to before: how its product will work...
07:34 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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SnapEDA Wants To Help Fuel Hardware Startups With A Github-Like Community For CAD
There's a growing number of startups out there that are focusing on building new hardware, and that's an immensely different problem compared to building a software business, in terms of sourcing reso...
07:02 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Prep Pad Is A Connected Kitchen Scales That Quantifies The Nutritional Mix Of Your Meals
Cooking is set to get a whole lot smarter if connected kitchen device startup, The Orange Chef, pulls off its grand vision. Here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF's hardware alley it's showing off the Prep Pad...
06:18 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Is Layer!
After three days and some truly incredible pitches from each of our 30 Battlefield competitors, the time has finally come to crown a Disrupt Battlefield champion. Competition among this year's pack of...
06:16 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Estimote Wins Best Hardware Startup At TechCrunch Disrupt SF
Manufacturing and logistics giant PCH International alongside hardware incubator Highway1 have announced that Estimote, a tool for helping retail spaces interact with customers, has been chosen for Be...
06:14 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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An Apple ID Is Now Required For Online Genius Bar Appointments
Apple is now requiring that all users booking a Genius Bar appointment online sign in with an Apple ID. Previously, users could instead fill out a form with name, address and email in order to book an...
05:54 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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iPhone 5S And 5C Will Still Not Do Simultaneous Data And Voice On Verizon Or Sprint
One of the longest-standing gripes about the iPhone on Verizon and Sprint networks will not change this time around. The new models of iPhone for those carriers will still not enable you to use both v...
05:09 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Legislation Tracking And Prediction Startup FiscalNote Raises $1.2M From Mark Cuban And Others
FiscalNote, a startup that helps businesses stay up-to-date with state and local legislation, is announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from investor Mark Cuban, New Enterprise Ass...
05:01 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Zuckerberg's Manifest Destiny: Connecting The 5 Billion People Without Internet
Facebook's mission to connect the world didn't stop when it hit 1 billion people. And it won't stop if connects everyone with web access. 'To make the world more open and connected' really means the w...
04:40 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Box CEO Aaron Levie Says The Industry Needs A More Prosperous, Innovative Microsoft
After participating in a panel discussion at TechCrunch Disrupt SF about the enterprise market, Box CEO Aaron Levie said to me in an interview that the industry needs an innovative and more prosperous...
04:39 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Giving You A Flavor Of Startup Alley At TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco
It's not possible to cover every single company in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt. but we can give you a flavor of a handful with a quick run-though. Here's just such a selection in the video abo...
04:18 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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India Pavilion At Disrupt Showcases A Diverse Range Of Companies [TCTV]
TechCrunch is coming to India with a Techcrunch Bangalore Meetup in November, so it's only right that we ran though the companies on the India Pavilion at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. As you c...
03:58 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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As October Launch Approaches, BotObjects Releases Another Build Video
BotObjects is a 3D printer company that promises "full-color" printing in a system that uses a set of colored filaments to extract colored plastic in layers. Like the Makerbot, theProDesk3Ddeposits pl...
03:50 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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We Catch Up With Our TechCrunch China Partner, TechNode, At Disrupt [TCTV]
TechNode is TechCrunch's partner in China - translating many Techcrunch posts directly into Chinese on TechCrunch.cn. So during TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco we caught up with Kevin Chen of Tech...
03:41 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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VC Titans Tom Perkins And Don Valentine Articulate What Makes A Good VC
Today at Disrupt SF, venture capital pioneers Tom Perkins and Don Valentine shared their opinions about what makes a good bet when it comes to choosing companies to fund. As a reminder, Perkins co-fou...
03:13 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Zynstra Closes $3.8M Series A Funding Found For Its Hybrid Cloud Platform
Zynstra, which runs hybrid cloud solutions for small and medium sized enterprises, has completed a $3.8 million Series A funding round, bringing the total amount raised to just over $6 million. It has...
03:05 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Enigma Launches A New Developer Program That Gives API Access To Civic-Minded Hackers
It's been a very busy few months since the Enigma team took home the Disrupt Cup back in New York, and co-founder Hicham Oudghiri took the stage here in San Francisco today to deliver an update on the...
02:53 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Zuckerberg Says The Government Blew It On The NSA Scandal
"I think the government blew it," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bluntlysaidabout the NSA scandal today at TechCrunch Disrupt."We take our role very seriously," he said. "It's our job to protect everyon...
02:52 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Startup Alley Shows Its Diversity With Companies From Cairo To Moscow
Running across a tiny startup from Cairo or one from Moscow is part and parcel of Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt, which often has companies from the farthest-flung corners of the world. I came ac...
02:49 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Gyft Launches A Wish List For Gift Cards
The team fromGyft, an app bringing the gift card industry to your mobile phone,took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 today to introduce a new gift card registry option, which allows users to cr...
02:45 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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The New Nomad ChargeKey Is Like A Jumper Cable For Your Phone
A year ago the guys at Nomad released a small, portable USB cable for iPhones and micro USB devices. Now they've launched the ChargeKey, a super-small "cable" for charging your device via any USB port...
02:45 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Instagram And Third Party Content Is Coming To Facebook's Home Lockscreen Says Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg today said that Facebook is working on a new version of the Home lockscreen that will feature Instagram and third party content, based on requests from users. The comments came today a...
02:45 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Instagram, Other Social Content Coming To Facebook's Home Lockscreen Says Zuckerberg, As Home Rollout Slower' Than Hoped
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, today said that Facebook is working on a new version of the Home lockscreen that will feature Instagram and third-party social content, based on requests from use...
02:43 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Facebook's Platform Mission: Help You Build, Grow, And Monetize
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 this afternoon, spoke of his vision for Facebook, explaining that when he thinks about the company’s mission in conn...
02:26 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Zuckerberg Says He Was Too Afraid Of Taking Facebook Public
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that he was previously too afraid of taking Facebook public. "I've been very outspoken about staying private as long as possible", Zuckerberg said o...
02:08 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Irish Startups Hit Startup Alley At TechCrunch Disrupt [TCTV]
Ireland has a long history in technology and in recent years it's become clear that the country is able to push above its weight in the world of startups. We ran through some of the companies exhibiti...
01:55 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Like Us Network, A Pacemaker, Mark Cuban, And A Vending Machine: A Mobile Payments Journey
What is this? An ordinary vending machine you say? If that was your guess, you would be wrong, but it would be understandable why you might not know there is something special about it. That's because...
01:46 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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A Strong Microsoft Is Good For The Industry Overall, Says Marissa Mayer
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer detailed her views on Microsoft, and its coming executive shakeup. Her broad take is simple: “A strong Microsoft is good for the [technology]...
01:41 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Marissa Mayer: Yahoo Is A Personalization Company
At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer sat down with Michael Arrington to discuss the state of Yahoo. After touching upon the company's new logo and hires, Mayer talked a bit about the...
01:35 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Yahoo Now Gets 12k Resumes A Week, Says CEO Marissa Mayer, 14% Of Hires Are Boomerangs' Who Are Ex-Yahoos
Yahoo has picked up a bunch of new talent through the 20+ acqui-hires it has made since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO in 2012, but Yahoo's push to grow the company, apparently is also starting to wea...
01:31 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Yahoo Monthly Active Users Are Up 20% To 800M, Including 350M On Mobile, Says Marissa Mayer
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt that Yahoo monthly active users are up 20% to 800 million globally, including 350 million monthly active users on mobile. Mayer said those...
01:19 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Zynga Settles With Former Employee Over Allegations of Theft of Trade Secrets
Zynga has reached a settlement around a lawsuit last year that accused a former general manager of “wholesale theft” of the company’s trade secrets after he left for rival social gam...
01:18 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Apple's iPhones, Disrupt's Hardware Alley, And Greg's Birthday
Two very important events went down this week. The first was Apple's iPhone announcement, which we covered thoroughly (and perhaps exhaustively). The second was TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, which was p...
01:18 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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John Doerr On Zynga: We Have To Get Zynga's Stock Price To Where God Intended It To Be'
When all else fails for your company, look to the heavens. Zynga -- the social gaming company that has in the last several months changed its CEO, laid people off, pulled back from original strategic ...
01:09 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Pandora Names Former Microsoft Ad Exec Brian McAndrews As Its New CEO
Pandora just announced that it has appointed former ad executive Brian McAndrews as its new CEO, president, and chairman.The company announced in March that its CEO Joe Kennedy would be stepping down,...
01:08 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Health Tech Panelists Say VC Interest In The Sector Is Tentative But Growing
Consumers are showing an increasing interest in wearable health technology, and health tech startups offer an opportunity to cut on costs for a medical system that many would say is failing the countr...
12:50 am GMT - Thu, September 12, 2013
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Facebook Closes At All-Time High Of $45.05 Before Zuckerberg's Disrupt Interview
Facebook shares closed at an all-time high of $45.05 on Wednesday afternoon. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckeberg will be interviewed by Michael Arrington this afternoon. Arrington interviewed Zuckerberg at D...
11:40 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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GitHub Hits The 4M User Mark As It Looks Beyond Developers For Its Next Stage Of Growth
GitHub has made its name as an online repository for developers to post, borrow and collaborate on code together -- with active users now numbering 4 million -- but in the future it wants to take that...
11:24 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups
Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems who later went on to create Khosla Ventures, says that the vast majority of VCs aren’t in a position to offer decent advice to startups. ...
11:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Vinod Khosla: In The Next 10 Years, Data Science Will Do More For Medicine Than All Biological Sciences Combined
At TechCrunch Disrupt SF, TechCrunch and CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington and KhoslaVentures founder Vinod Khosla took the stage to discuss the areas Khoslais currently most interested in. Besides...
10:54 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Nest Buys Protection: Licenses Patents From Intellectual Ventures To Fight Honeywell, Others
This morning, intelligent thermostat company Nest struck a patent licensing deal with notorious patent hoarder Intellectual Ventures. There are a variety of reasons for the deal but the primary purpos...
10:53 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Two Booms, Two Busts: How Bitcoin Is Following In The NASDAQ's Footsteps
Yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt we hosted a panel discussing Bitcoin (a recap can be found here). During the course of that discussion, I noticed something interesting: The former boom in the price of...
10:06 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Kleiner Perkins Has Invested In A Stealth Startup To Improve Battery Power By 300%, Says Moore's Law Is Running Out Of Steam
Kleiner Perkins has invested in a startup that partnerJohn Doerrsays will improve battery power by 300% compared to the usual 1-2% improvements that we normally see in the industry....
10:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Google Expands The Chromebook Family With New Intel Haswell Hardware From Toshiba, ASUS And More
Google had some news to reveal at this year's big Intel Developer Forum conference today, including new Chromebook hardware from brand new OEM partners, as well as a few existing ones. The new devices...
09:47 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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We're Not Afraid Of Google Glass, Says GoPro Founder Nicholas Woodman
It's hardware day here at Disrupt SF and this morning's sessions kicked off with an interview with Nicholas Woodman, founder and CEO of action camera company GoPro. Woodman discussed how the GoPro evo...
09:43 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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In An Age Of Crowdfunding, GoPro CEO Nicholas Woodman Says Bootstrapping Is A Really Powerful Thing
Here's a question that more than few consumer hardware startups are struggling with these days: should they try and raise money from a slew of wary investors or bring their projects to the public in ...
09:43 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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In An Age Of Crowdfunding, GoPro CEO Nicholas Woodman Says Bootstrapping Is Still Really Powerful
Here's a question that more than few consumer hardware startups are struggling with these days: should they try and raise money from a slew of wary investors or bring their projects to the public in ...
09:38 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Not Shaken By Samsung Galaxy Gear And Smartwatch Competition
Founder of smartwatch startup Pebble Eric Migicovsky took the stage at Disrupt, interviewed by our own John Biggs. He addressed head on the recently revealed competition from smartphone giant Samsung,...
09:32 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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San Francisco To Test Online Participatory Budgeting
Online direct democracy is coming to America. San Francisco will be the first major city to allow citizens to directly vote on portions of budget via the web.While details are still coming together, S...
09:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Refram.it, TechCrunch Will Use Knight Grant To Develop Deliberative Polling For Tech Policy
TechCrunch will be the media partner on a $165,000 Knight Foundation grant to business consulting firm, Refram.it, which will develop a novel type of polling for media organizations. "deliberative pol...
09:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Reframe It, TechCrunch Will Use Knight Grant To Develop Deliberative Polling For Tech Policy
TechCrunch will be the media partner on a $165,000 Knight Foundation grant to business consulting firm, Refram it, which will develop a novel type of polling for media organizations. "deliberative pol...
08:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Watch The Live Stream For TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Here!
The last, and final, day of Disrupt SF 2013 is about to begin. Just like yesterday and the day before, today we have a jam-packed schedule, with some of the biggest names in tech making appearances. ...
08:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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The iPhone 5S-Class
The Mercedes S-Class has been the flagship of the German automakers sedan lineup since the early 70s. Its a car that provides the finest technology that the company has to offer with powerful engines,...
05:55 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Europe Lays Out New Reforms, Biggest In 26 Years': No More Roaming Premiums, Enforced Net Neutrality, And More
The European Commission has over the years been chipping away at how big carriers have milked European consumers in areas like international calling charges and broadband usage for certain content. No...
05:55 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Europe Lays Out Its Most Ambitious Reform Plan Yet: No More Roaming Premiums, Enforced Net Neutrality, And More
The European Commission has over the years been chipping away at how big carriers have milked European consumers in areas like international calling charges and broadband usage for certain content. No...
05:22 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Juengo Loyalty Platform Rewards For Actions Not Purchases
Greek startup Juengo (pronounced Joo-en-go), has an interesting spin on loyalty and are live with their concept in Greece.The concept which is on display at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 rewards consum...
02:52 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Apple Secures License For iPhone To Run On China Mobile's Network Standard
Apple has secured the final government license needed to run the iPhone on China Mobile's proprietary wireless network. After years of negotiations, this is the latest of several recent signs that App...
02:26 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Uni Messenger Is A Cross Platform, Cross Social Network Mobile Messaging App
Spotted in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, Uni Messenger is a new cross-platform mobile messaging application that lets you chat privately with friends on a variety of social networks, in...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Songdrop Brings Its Delicious For Music' To iOS As It Finds A Fan In Japan
Songdrop, the service that lets you bookmark, create playlists and stream music from the Web, has made good on its promise to launch an iOS app enabling curated music to be listened to on-the-go. The ...
12:21 pm GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Nubo Thinks It Can Solve Enterprise Mobile Problems By Virtualizing Android
Israeli startup Nubo is one of the companies at Startup Alley showing off their product at this year's TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. The company offers enterprises an answer to their mobile device...
10:45 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Google Expands Role In Digital Education, Teams Up With edX To Build A YouTube For Free Online Courses
It's turning into a busy week for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers, and the tech companies that love them -- particularly Google. On Monday, Udacity co-founder and CEO Sebastian Thrun and C...
10:19 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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TurnCast Is A Sat-Nav App With Predictive Weather Smarts To Reroute You Before A Snow Storm Strikes
U.S. weather app maker WeatherSphere is launching a new app called TurnCast which combines real-time and predictive rain and snow data with voice-prompted navigation -- so drivers can change their tra...
10:17 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Social Media Marketing Platform MarketMeSuite Raises $1.25M From Talus Holdings
Social media management and marketing platform MarketMeSuite has landed a new strategic investment of $1.25 million from Talus Holdings, a media technology holding company. The Cambridge, Massachusett...
09:48 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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The Final 6 Disrupt SF Startups: Cota, Dryft, Fates Forever, Layer, Regalii And Soil IQ
This year'sTechCrunch Disrupt San Franciscohas hit attendance records and been one of the most exciting we've ever had. Over the past few days, 3200 people have walked through the concourse to watch V...
09:17 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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TaDaweb Lets You Create Small Data' Mashups Without Writing A Single Line Of Code
There is much talk about "Big Data" and the power it can provide. But with Big Data can come Big Prices associated with the cost and complexity of wrangling all that information.According to TaDaweb ...
07:20 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Inbox Is An Elegant, Unified Mobile Messaging App That Wants To Be Mailbox For SMS
Is there room for another mobile messaging app? It's undoubtedly a very crowded space, packed with veteran behemoths and fast growing upstarts duking it out for users attention. But New Jersey-based ...
06:27 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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You Had Me At Vello
With short-form internet video reaching more and more consumers (Vine, Instagram), Vello's timing for bringing their video greeting card app to market is excellent. In short, Vello is an app that crea...
06:03 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Forget Cheap, The iPhone 5c Is Clearly The iPhone Jony Ive Wanted For iOS 7
The "c" in the iPhone 5c title doesn't stand for "cheap". It stands for "clueless".As in, we were all clueless in our speculation on Apple's motivations for creating this device....
05:30 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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eGood Is A Mobile Payment And Loyalty System That Helps Users Give Back
eGood, a new startup from Glendora, California, was chosen as one of the top startups to emerge out of Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today for its charitable spin on mobile payments and loyal...
05:29 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Soil IQ Makes A Smart Probe For Your Garden
Soil IQ is a company that’s bringing the “Internet of things” trend to urban and rural farming. They’re building a probe that streams soil fertility and weather data back to a ...
05:24 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Yoyo Raises $1.2m To launch New Kind Of Mobile Payment And Loyalty Platform
Roaming the noisy byways of TechCrunch Startup Alley I found a startup today which plans to create a new kind of mobile payment and loyalty platform. Yoyo has today - at Disrupt in SF - announced it's...
05:16 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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InsideMaps Uses 3D Home Models Captured In Minutes To Build The Future Of Furniture Buying
The InsideMaps team, which is launching its app today on the Disrupt SF 2013 stage, is applying 3D mapping and capture technology to an interesting problem: How do you visualize furniture purchases in...
05:02 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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The Russians Have Come Skolkovo Startups Hit TechCrunch Disrupt
Russia is a booming market for startups as the county's internet access and 4G networks ramp up. It's now the biggest single market in Europe, passing Germany a year ago. At the same time the governme...
04:53 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Tidepool Optimizes Your Workday For Cognitive Highs And Lows
Everyone has cognitive highs and lows. Some of us are night owls, while others are early birds. Tidepool is a mobile app that learns when you’re at your cognitive peak and makes recommendations ...
04:36 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Beestar Launches With Ultra-Precise Quantified Self Device Aimed At Pro Sports
In a world where the "quantified self" is now mainstream, Beestar is launching to offer one of the most precise location and activity trackers in the world. And not only that, the technology provided ...
04:23 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Crowdtilt Goes Mobile With First App, Will Soon Let Anyone Launch A Crowdfunding Campaign While On The Go
As we’ve discussed before, thanks to a handful of names, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo and the gaggle of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding is on the “Big screen....
04:23 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Crowdtilt Goes Mobile With First App, Will Soon Let Anyone Launch A Crowdfunding Campaign On The Go
As we've discussed before, thanks to a handful of names, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo and the gaggle of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding is on the "Big screen." Yet, the t...
04:02 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Trail's Platform For Teaching Digital Literacy Skills To U.S. Job Seekers Exits Beta & Launches In Spanish At TC Disrupt
Trail is a rare thing indeed: a startup not aiming to appeal to elite geeks. Quite the opposite in fact: Trail targets the circa 60 million Americas who aren't digitally literate and could benefit fro...
03:55 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Curiator Is A Pinterest-Style Marketplace To Help You Discover, And One Day Buy, The Art You Like
Curiator, a new app launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, is not the first website that aims for people to discover and buy art, but it hopes its beautiful design, interactivity, and intelligent a...
03:43 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Kickstarter Is Adding Australia And New Zealand To Expand Its International Crowdfunding Network
Today, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced that it is going Down Under. It is opening up its network to Australia and New Zealand-based projects "in the very near future." The move comes just ...
03:36 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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With Its New Licensing Service, Feed.fm Aims To Spread Music Across The Web
Feed.fm just launched at Disrupt SF as part of the Startup Battlefield and if the service takes off, you may soon be hearing a lot more music on your favorite websites and apps.Co-founder and CEO Jef...
03:22 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Bitcovery Brings A Desperately Needed Social Discovery Layer To The iTunes Store
We are seekers. We always want something new to experience, but the iTunes Store is sorely missing social ways to discover music, movies, TV, and books. Bitcovery fills the gap. Add friends whose tast...
03:08 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Your Board Game Is In My Video Game: Tangible Play Mixes The Real And Virtual
What do you get when you put a pair of board gaming geeks who have worked at NVIDIA, Google, LucasArts, and Ubisoft together in the same room? It probably looks like Tangible Play, debuting at Disrupt...
02:40 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Court: NSA Violated Privacy Because No One Understood The Rules
The National Security Agency improperly identified over 15,000 telephone numbers as “suspicious” because there was no one at the agency who understood the rules, according to a scathing co...
02:39 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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The NSA Isn't Evil, It's Trying To Protect Us, Says PayPal's Max Levchin
The NSA is designed to protect us from terrorism, so even if it oversteps its bounds, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin says we shouldn't hate it. That's diametrically opposed to the sentiment of many in ...
02:33 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Dude-Friendly E-Commerce Site BRANDiD Rolls Out Personal Shopping For Guys At TechCrunch Disrupt
BRANDiD, a personal shopping site that presented today on the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield stage, is hoping to catch the eye of that particular demographic of men who would rather do anything else i...
02:30 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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With Two Weeks Left To Live, FrontBack Got Hundreds Of Thousands Of Downloads
Today at Disrupt SF, Frontback co-founder and CEO Frdric della Faille took the stage to introduce Frontback to the world. After 200,000 downloads in a month, everybody is trying to answer this intrigu...
02:27 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Video Hands-On With The iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c
Shortly after Apple's event this morning, Darrell and I got to spend a bit of time with the just-announced iPhone 5s and its more wallet-friendly lil' brother, the iPhone 5c.While we'll wait until we'...
02:21 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Skaffl Launches To Help Teachers Get More Out Of Mobile Technology In The Classroom
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, a young, teacher-led education technology startup called Skaffl announced the impending launch of an iPad app that aims to help teachers make better use of technology i...
02:12 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Apple's New iPhones Will Support LTE In China, Putting A China Mobile Deal Into Sharper Focus
When Apple holds its iPhone event in Beijing tomorrow -- part of its push to simultaneously debut the product in multiple international markets -- it looks like Apple could use the opportunity of new ...
02:07 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Next Caller Integrates With Zendesk To Cut Call Center Costs And Reduce Customer Wait Time
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Next Caller, a customer service call center tool announced that it has integrated with Zendesk in a bid to expand its customer base. It also announced that it has acquired...
01:55 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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First Cut Pro Is A Cloud-Based Collaboration Tool For Distributed Video Teams
First Cut Pro provides editing teams with a cloud-based tool for collaborating and monitoring all the different changes that are made to videos during the post-production process. The tool allows for ...
01:55 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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TechCrunch Disrupt SF - The Israeli Pavilion Showcases Israel's Newest Batch [TCTV]
Startup Alley is a veritable cornucopia of new technology companies. The world's best descend on San Francisco annually for TechCrunch Disrupt. And this year, as in many previous, we had a pavilion fr...
01:44 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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CrunchBase Hits 400k Profiles And 45k Funding Rounds, August Excel Download Now Available
Quick update from the CrunchBase team. Our dataset has now grown to 400k profiles and 45k investment rounds thanks to our community of contributors and members of theCrunchBase Venture Program. WeR...
01:42 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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The Monsieur Drinks Automaton Roboticizes Bottle Service
Would you buy a robotic drink maker from these men? I sure would. These are the creators of Monsieur, a robotic bartender that will squirt out a great margarita or a nice Manhattan in about a minute u...
01:30 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Do I Like The iPhone 5c Case? Non
Apple introduced some cases to go along with both the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. The iPhone 5c’s case looks a lot like Crocs shoes. It also makes for one of the most annoying Apple design missteps...
01:28 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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Songza Raises $4.7 Million Funding Round To Develop Advertising You May Actually Enjoy
Mood-based music streaming service Songza has raised a $4.7 million funding round, their second since they closed $2 million in 2011. Songza did not name a lead for the round, the investors for which ...
01:14 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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TechCrunch TL;DR: Here's Everything Apple Announced Today
Apple's Cupertino keynote is finally over, but the ensuing sea of stories that emerged from the event can still be a little tricky to navigate. We've written plenty of full-length stories discussing w...
01:00 am GMT - Wed, September 11, 2013
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TC Startup Battlefield Alum Open Garden Launches Wifi Opener To Make Wi-Fi Password Sharing Easier
Open Garden, a former TC Startup Battlefield contestant, launched its latest product today. Wifi Opener, which is now available for Android, allows users to easily share the password to protected Wi-F...
11:47 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Adi Tatarko Of Houzz: Bootstrapping Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Us
Adi Tatarko, the CEO and co-founder of Houzz,the fast-growing online platform for home remodeling and design,took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF this morning to discuss the company’s past, p...
11:44 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Hands On With Apple's iPhone 5S: Focus On Photography And The Fingerprint
Apple's iPhone 5S is a major improvement over the iPhone 5, packing some changes to the hardware beyond the usual spec and performance improvements we see from "S" advances on iPhone. The big splashy ...
11:38 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Join Us For A Live Discussion Of The Apple iPhone(s) Announcement
Apple has finally unveiled the long-rumored iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. For the first time ever, the company released two separate iPhone models at the same time, one a high-end continuation of the iPhon...
11:38 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Inside Bitcoin, The Programmable Currency For Our Digital Future
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Naval Ravikant of AngelList, Balaji Srinivasan of genomics startup Counsyl, and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss took to the stage to discuss all things Bitcoin with TechCr...
11:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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AutoDesk Releases An Electronics Simulator Called 123D Circuits
Hardware hacking often seems like black magic to the uninitiated, which is why 123D Circuits is so cool: it allows you to learn electronics using a virtual Arduino board and breadboard without blowing...
11:17 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Apple Releases Gold Master Version Of iOS 7 To Developers
Apple has released the Gold Master (GM) version of iOS 7 to developers, according to reports from Twitter. This is significant because the GM version is likely the last official pre-release version of...
11:17 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Apple Solicits Developers For iOS 7 App Updates As September 18th Release Nears
Apple has released the Gold Master (GM) version of iOS 7 to developers, according to reports from Twitter. This is significant because the GM version is likely the last official pre-release version of...
11:16 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Houzz CEO Adi Tatarko On Building A Successful Marketplace
Scaling a marketplace is a huge challenge, but Houzz seems to have cracked the code in connecting customers who wish to remodel their homes with local professionals who can get the job done. Backstage...
11:15 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Hands On With Apple's iPhone 5C: Plastic Feels Pretty Fantastic
Apple today introduced the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, and though the iPhone 5C is the less expensive of the two, it's nonetheless very impressive hardware. I got some hands-on time with the 5C immediate...
11:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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AppDirect Raises $9M And Acquires Standing Cloud, An App Packaging Company
AppDirect has raised $9 million and is announcing the purchase of Standing Cloud, a Foundry Group investment. With the acquisition, Foundry Group is now the lead investor in AppDirect. iNova Capital a...
11:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Apple Raises AppleCarePlus Service Fees, Launches In Europe And Adds iPods
In conjunction with the announcement of two new models of iPhone today, Apple has also made severaladjustments to its AppleCare+ coverage. First of all, it has raised the service fees for accidental d...
11:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Actually, It's Better If Some VCs Hate Your Idea (According To Greylock's Hoffman And Sze)
In addition to announcing a new $1 billion fund, while on-stage today at Disrupt SF, Reid Hoffman and David Sze of Greylock Partners talked about how they actually choose the startups they back.In fac...
10:49 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Marc Benioff Says, There Would Be No Salesforce.com Without Steve Jobs'
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff spoke of his relationship with Apple founder Steve Jobs at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 conference this morning - on the same day that executives from Apple were introduc...
10:48 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Sequoia Made $400M From Meraki's Sale To Cisco, Says Key To Enterprise Investing Is To Stand Back But Stay Committed
Investing in enterprise startups is a long-odds game, but if you play your cards right you can hit the jackpot. That was one of the takeaways of a conversation today between Doug Leone, a partner at s...
10:44 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Sweet Deal: 3D Systems Buys LA-Based Sugar Lab
Sugar Lab launched last May with some fanfare. The company was founded to print 3D confections using crystallized sugar. They could make some amazing things with a sort of Willy Wonka meets M.C. Esche...
10:18 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Apple's iPhone 5C Will Run $549, $649 Off-Contract
Apple’s new iPhone 5C will run $549 for a 16GB and $649 for a 32GB model off contract, according to Apple’s store site. The iPhone 5C will be available for pre-order on September 20th and ...
10:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Apple's iPhone 4S Remains In Lineup As Free' Model, iPhone 5 Goes Away
Surprise! While the iPhone 5 won’t stick around, the iPhone 4S will still be available for free with a two-year contract. It’s an unexpected move as the iPhone 4S is now two years old. App...
09:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Apple's Touch ID Is A 500ppi Fingerprint Sensor Built Into The iPhone 5S Home Button
Remember those persistent rumors of a fingerprint sensor that would be baked into the iPhone 5S? Well, it's not a rumor any longer -- Apple has just confirmed that the iPhone 5S will feature a 500ppi ...
09:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S
World, prepare yourself for the next-generation iPhone. Rumors this season have included two new color flavors — gold and silver — along with the addition of a finger print scanner for add...
09:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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iPhone 5C Will Cost $99 For 16GB, $199 For 32GB On 2-Year Contract
Today at Apple’s iPhone event, Apple unveiled a cheaper iPhone: the iPhone 5C. While the device in itself is not really a surprise after countless of leaks, the price of the iPhone 5C was still ...
09:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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iPhone 5C And iPhone 5S Will Cost $99 And $199, Both Will Be Released On Sept. 20
Today at Apple’s iPhone event, Apple unveiled a cheaper iPhone, the iPhone 5C, as well as the iPhone 5S. While the devices in themselves are not really a surprise after countless of leaks, the p...
09:23 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Apple Introduces The New iPhone 5C With A6 Processor In 5 Colors
Today, for the first time in its history, Apple has expanded the iPhone line with a new model called iPhone 5C. The device will come in green, yellow, blue, white and red colors. Apple is also introdu...
09:21 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Apple Makes iLife And iWork Apps Free For Everyone, But GarageBand Won't Be Free
Today at Apple’s iPhone event, Apple updated everyone on iWork for its mobile devices. While the productivity suite is a big seller for Apple, the company has chosen to release iWork for free fo...
09:19 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Dell Reportedly Has The Votes To Close The $24.9B Michael Dell-Silver Lake Buyout Deal
The Dell deal is now all but done, according to Bloomberg who today reported that there are enough yes votes to ice the Michael Dell-Silver Lake proposal that will see the firm taken private for $24.9...
09:18 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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iOS 7 Will Be Available For iPads And iPhones On September 18
At its event this morning in Cupertino, Apple announced that iOS 7 will be available to everyone beginning on. iOS 7 was first announced back at WWDC in June, and has spent the last three months in a ...
09:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Apple Will Ship Its 700 Millionth iOS Device Next Month
Today at its iPhone event in Cupertino, Apple announced that it will ship its 700 millionth iOS device next month. The last numbers for Apple’s device sales came in June, when it had announced 6...
08:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Key Republican Changes Mind On Defunding The NSA
A key Republican leader in Congress wants to revisit defunding the National Security Agency’s surveillance authority. House Oversight Committee Chairman and technology enthusiast Darrell Issa in...
08:58 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Greylock's Smooth Operators Will Invest $1 Billion 14th Fund In The Many Any's
Running a great company is a lot different than starting one, and some lessons can only be learned with experience. If you're a founder, you could stumble by yourself until you figure it out. Or you c...
08:47 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Live From Apple's iPhone 5S Announcement
Here we go! After months of rumors and seemingly endless speculation, it's finally time for Apple to announce what they've been working on for the last few months. While we can never be completely sur...
07:57 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Check Out The TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Live Video Stream Here!
Day 2 of the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 conference is upon us. We've got a jam-packed schedule, with appearances by Reid Hoffman and David Sze of Greylock Partners, Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and K...
07:43 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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FoodieQuest App-In-The-Making Wants To Gamify Food Photos
FoodieQuest is an app in the making that wants to turn the craze for taking photos of food -- second only to the selfie in the photo-sharing hierarchy -- into a sticky social game. The app will let us...
06:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Live From Apple's iPhone 5S Announcement
Here we go! After months of rumors and seemingly endless speculation, it's finally time for Apple to announce what they've been working on for the last few months. While we can never be completely sur...
05:18 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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TapInfluence Raises $5M As It Launches A Marketplace For Influencer Marketing'
TapInfluence, a company that connects marketers with bloggers and other online influencers, is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series B funding.The round was existing investor Grotech Vent...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Datapipe Acquires Newvem, An Analytics Service For Monitoring AWS
Datapipe, a managed services provider, has acquired Newvem, a company that provides heat maps and other forms of analytics for AWS customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
03:21 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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R.I.P. Lazy Times: Exec Shuts Down Errand Service But Keeps Cleaning
You're going to have to do that chore yourself, because the venture capitalist won't pay for it anymore. Exec emailed customers tonight saying it would "sadly" be folding its San Francisco Errands on-...
03:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Amidst IPO Rumors, Outbrain Hires Its First CFO, Jeff Davison
Content discovery service Outbrain is announcing that it has hired Jeff Davison as its chief financial officer.The news comes about a day after multiple reports from Israel (where Outbrain has offices...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Mobile-First Banking App Numbrs Bags Further $3.8M For U.S. Launch
Numbrs, the mobile-first banking app founded out of Swiss company builderCentralway, has raised a further $3.8 million from its parent -- money that will be ring-fenced for a planned U.S. launch early...
11:15 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing Finalist Moglue Launches The Second Version Of Its Interactive E-Book Creator
Moglue, the online publishing platform that makes it easy to create interactive e-books, has launched its completely redesigned second version, which features a streamlined user interface and more des...
11:04 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Live From Apple's iPhone 5S Announcement
Here we go! After months of rumors and seemingly endless speculation, it's finally time for Apple to announce what they've been working on for the last few months. While we can never be completely sur...
10:47 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Diveboard Targets Highly Active Niche Diver Community For Ecommerce Opportunity
French startup Diveboard was at TechCrunch Disrupt SF for day one of Startup Alley today, demoing its social network and e-commerce platform aimed at the thriving and avid niche of community of divers...
10:01 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom On New Online Education Initiatives: If This Doesn't Wake Them Up, I Don't Know What Will
This morning, former San Francisco Mayor and current Lieutenant Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, and Udacity co-founder and CEO Sebastian Thrun took the stage to talk to TechCrunch co-editor Alex...
09:08 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Pplconnect Launches Its Private Beta For A Virtual Smartphone Platform You Can Use Anywhere
Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt this year is underway on day one, and pplconnect is one of the companies exhibiting today. This Montreal-based startup, co-founded by Jenviev Azzolin and Densil D'S...
07:24 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Joyent Co-Founder Jason Hoffman Steps Down As CTO Of The Cloud Computing Pioneer
Joyent co-founder Jason Hoffman is leaving his position as CTO of the pioneering cloud computing company. Hoffman said in a blog post that he will remain connected to Joyent as an advisor. We've reach...
07:23 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Medtech Startup Embrace Her Health Helps Women Track Their Pregnancies
Among the crowd showing at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley was Embrace Her Health, a two-year-old company at work on a suite of maternity apps that aim to enable women to manage their pre- an...
06:18 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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What's Ahead For Snapchat? CEO Evan Spiegel Drops Clues In Disrupt Talk
Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt and dropped a number of hints about Snapchat's future products, from wearable tech to social media feeds.What's part...
05:55 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Forget Quantifying Yourself, Driblet Wants To Help You Quantify Your Water Use
So our Hackathon technically ended yesterday, but that doesn't mean we're through shining the light on some of the great projects that presented on our stage.Take Mexican-based startup Driblet, for in...
05:33 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Outline Raises $850K To Make Public Policy Tools Accessible To All State Residents
Born at Berkeley as Politify, a fun app to compare the personal impacts of tax plans of then rival candidates for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, Outline is building a tool to demystify the p...
05:27 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Jack The Ripper Is A DIY, 3D-Printed DVD Ripper For Fans Of Optical Media
If you like DVDs but also like shelf space have we got a project for you. Called Jack the Ripper, this Raspberry Pi-powered system takes DVDs from one pile, drops them into a DVD drive for ripping, an...
05:20 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Zula's Mobile-First Teamwork Tool Lets You Spend More Time Outside Of The Inbox
Zula, a startup from Jeff Pulver, a co-founder of VoIP success story Vonage, and serial entrepreneur Jacob Ner-David, is hoping to make your life a little less reliant on your inbox. The app combines ...
05:14 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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SlickLogin Aims To Kill The Password By Singing A Silent Song To Your Smartphone
Launching into closed beta in the Disrupt SF 2013 Battlefield today, SlickLogin lets you log into a website on your computer by holding your phone within a few inches of it....
04:57 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Your Facebook Posts, Gift-Wrapped In Identity, Will Soon Be Given To Marketers
Facebook knows what you talk about, just like Twitter. But its edge is that it also knows who you are. Facebook's newest APIs let select news outlets view search and see your public posts, plus it tal...
04:51 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Shine Security Is Reinventing The Antivirus Company For The Age Of Zero-Day Attacks
Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Shine Security is reinventing the idea of what it means to be an antivirus company in an age of cyber-warfare and zero-day attacks. The company's t...
04:45 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Nexon Takes A Strategic Stake In Former Zynga, EA COO's New Gaming Startup
Nexon, the publicly traded free-to-play gaming giant out of Asia, is continuing its streak of strategic investments in promising Western studios by taking a stake in former Zynga COO John Schappert...
04:40 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Ansa Is A Messaging App That Lets You Talk Off The Record
Ansa is a new breed of messaging app, one that allows you to be yourself. Whenever you don’t feel like sending messages that will stay on your friend’s phone, you can go off the record. Ev...
04:30 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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LevelEleven Raises $2M For Sales Motivation App From Salesforce.com, A Former NBA Star And An NFL Offensive Tackle
LevelEleven, a developer of gamification apps, has raised $2 million from Detroit Venture Partners, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Salesforce.com and a group of investors, including two professional athl...
04:21 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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JumpCloud Unveils Service To Make AWS Cloud Servers Less Vulnerable To Attack
JumpCloud launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco today with a new way to secure the deep vulnerabilities that come with cloud servers, in particular Amazon Web Services (AWS).The service, in pri...
04:14 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Shasta Ventures' Rob Coneybeer On Why He's Betting Big On Hardware Startups
Shasta Ventures' managing director Rob Coneybeer likes the opportunity in hardware startups. A lot. And he's putting his money where his mouth is -- over the past year or so he's made investments in c...
04:08 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Hands On With The Anova Automatic Sous Vide System
Sous vide cooking is probably one of the most high-tech methods of food preparation that home cooks can perform without a degree in chemistry and/or killing themselves and those around them. That's wh...
03:55 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Voxel Virtualizes Mobile Apps To Create Truly Playable, Interactive Ads
Voxel, a startup aiming to make mobile ads genuinely representative of the apps they're promoting, just launched on-stage as part of the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF.The company's founding team i...
03:39 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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2600hz Launches Platform For Opening The Mobile Telco
The 2600hz team took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today, launching its service for disrupting the mobile telecommunications industry by opening its infrastructure through a set of open APIs that de...
03:29 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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CPUsage Makes It Easier To Harness The Cloud's Compute Power
The cloud computing services from Amazon, Microsoft and others make it possible for businesses to access a virtually unlimited amount of compute power for their applications. What’s hard, howeve...
03:24 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Hammer & Chisel Teases Upcoming Title, Which Aims To Revolutionize Core Gaming On Tablets
After selling early mobile-social gaming network OpenFeint to GREE for $104 million two years ago, lifelong gamer Jason Citron is now setting his ambitions on bringing core gaming to tablets. The iOS ...
03:24 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Fates Forever: The Creator Of The First Major iOS Gaming Network Brings MOBA To iPad
After selling early mobile-social gaming network OpenFeint to GREE for $104 million two years ago, lifelong gamer Jason Citron is now setting his ambitions on bringing core gaming to tablets. The iOS ...
03:16 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Massive Wave Of Twitter Phishing Spam Apparently Being Posted From HootSuite Users' Accounts
Over the past hour or so there has been a massive wave of spam related to a ‘free Groupon of pure garcinia cambogia‘ rising on Twitter. The tweets are coming hot and heavy every few second...
03:04 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Layer Brings A Scalable Communications Platform To Any Mobile Or Web App
Layer, a new startup launching at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2013 today, is ambitiously attempting to build a communications fabric - a "layer," if you will - for the Internet. The technology, i...
02:48 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Drew Houston Comments On Dropbox IPO Rumors, Security, Mobile Strategy And Enterprise Focus
Today at Disrupt SF, Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston took the stage to share his experiences and give his thoughts on the product, future prospects, competition and more. With 200 million user...
02:33 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Regalii Is Changing The Way People Send Money To Family Abroad, Using Mobile And Gift Cards
Regalii, a Battlefield finalist presenting today at TC Disrupt, has devised a way for people, via their mobile devices, to send remittances to their families abroad, which are received in the form of ...
02:29 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Take A Stroll Down Disrupt SF's Startup Alley
Startup Alley is a wondrous mix of foreign and domestic startups of all shapes, sizes and flavors. There are hundreds of companies pitching investors and media, demoing their products and fighting for...
02:29 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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The Zivix PUC Connects Any MIDI Device To Your iOS Device
Believe it or not, people still use MIDI. That said, wouldn't it be cool if you could connect your MIDI keyboards and drum machines to your iPad so you can add some serious breaks to your latest music...
02:22 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Dryft Wants To Reinvent The Way We Type On Tablets
Let's face it: tablets have grown to be tremendously popular (to the point where traditional PCs sales are slumping), but typing on them is still sort of a pain. After all, no matter how accustomed yo...
02:09 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Breeze Wants To Help Onsite Service Vendors Manage Their Businesses, Take Mobile Payments And Arrive On Time
Breeze, a new mobile app for iOS that's launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 today, wants to help onsite vendors like plumbers, locksmiths, dog walkers and personal trainers to manage their busines...
01:55 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Koality Helps Engineers By Eliminating Broken Builds And Making Test Suites Efficient
Launching at Disrupt SF, Koality is a development tool that fills an important gap for engineering teams. It’s a seamless server-side application that sits between your startup’s repositor...
01:41 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Cota By Ossia Aims To Drive A Wireless Power Revolution And Change How We Think About Charging
Wireless power. Its less sci-fi sounding than it once was, thanks to induction charging like that based on the Qi standard, but thats still a tech that essentially requires contact, if not incredibly ...
12:50 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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PayPal Debuts Its Newest Hardware, Beacon, A Bluetooth LE Enabled Device For Hands-Free Check Ins And Payments
One of David Marcus's biggest challenges when taking on the role of President of PayPal was extending the platform into point of sale, and making it easier to pay with payPal than swiping your credit ...
12:38 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Twitter Said To Acquire Mobile Ad Startup MoPub
MoPub, a startup that helps mobile publishers manage their ad inventory, may have been acquired by Twitter, according to sources familiar with the deal.We're hearing that the company was acquired for ...
12:38 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Confirmed: Twitter Ups The Ante In Mobile Advertising, Acquires Mobile Ad Startup MoPub
MoPub, a startup that helps mobile publishers manage their ad inventory, has been acquired by Twitter, giving the social network another route into building its advertising business, specifically on m...
12:38 am GMT - Tue, September 10, 2013
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Twitter Buys MoPub For $350M To Up The Ante In Mobile Advertising
MoPub, a startup that helps mobile publishers manage their ad inventory, has been acquired by Twitter, giving the social network another route into building its advertising business, specifically on m...
11:56 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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LinkedIn CEO Talks Evolution: Salesforce Is A Partner Today, Google+ Could Be Competition Tomorrow, And What About Yammer?
The market capitalization of LinkedIn ($32.6 billion) has now passed that of Salesforce ($29 billion), but as Salesforce makes increasing moves into social media, and LinkedIn makes more moves into se...
11:50 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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The Data Factory How Your Free Labor Lets Tech Giants Grow The Wealth Gap
You're the product, but when you're sold, it's only a lucky few who get rich. Technology lets big companies build tools that turn us into volunteers who contribute our time and data while they profit....
11:45 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Dick Costolo Warns Against Trying To Be Liked And Lionizing Silicon Valley Figures
Today at Disrupt 2013, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage to deliver some basic leadership tips. The presentation was brief, but seemed like good solid advice that he was directing at the young c...
11:15 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Japanese Recruitment Firm Recruit Co Wants To Buy Freelancer.com For $400M
Looks like Recruit Co, the Japan-based HR and recruitment site giant that has long been gearing up for an IPO, is on the acquisition trail again, just a month after buying NuGrid in India and a year a...
11:01 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Evan Spiegel: I Hope Snapchat Will Generate Revenue Before Our Next Funding Round
Today at Disrupt SF, Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel hinted at the company’s monetization moves. “The way that we think about monetization has changed substantially,” Spiege...
11:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Watch The Real-Life TacoCopter Drop Some Delicious Mexican Food From 20 Feet
When the inevitable happens and the robots take over the world, let's all hope that Skycatch's real, live Taco Copter will bring delightful Mexican treats over the fence to the last remnants of humani...
10:54 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Location-Based Marketing Startup Placecast Is Moving Into Mobile Ads (And AdTech) With PlaceAd
Placecast, a mobile marketing company that has built out a business around services like its ShopAlerts geo-targeted messaging notifications for people physically near locations like stores, is now ta...
10:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Snapchat Now Sees 350M Photos Shared Daily, Up From 200M In June
Snapchat users are sharing 350 million photos per day, according to CEO Evan Spiegel. That figure is up from 200 million in June, and Spiegel says a lot of the growth comes from Snapchat's Android use...
10:15 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Google+ Launches Embeds, Starts To Highlight WordPress.com And TypePad Authors Who Sign In With Google+ In Search Results
Starting today, Google+ users will be able to embed their postsanywhere on the web. The new feature provides its users with the code needed to embed posts, including a JavaScript snippet and the actua...
09:42 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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As Class Tensions Surface, San Francisco Adds More Than 45,000 Tech Jobs, Mayor Lee Says
As Google and Facebook buses continue rolling through San Francisco neighborhoods and as storefronts give way to sleek coffee shops and bean-to-bar chocolatiers, an undercurrent of class angst has bub...
09:29 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Livefyre Acquires Storify, Says The Social Curation Service Will Still Operate As Standalone Product
Livefyre, a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, is announcing that it has acquired social curation startup Storify.The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Livefy...
09:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Lyft's Founders: Ride Share Regulation A Changing Tide' In Their Favor
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Lyft co-foundersJohn Zimmer and Logan Green discussed the regulatory scrap they deal with when expanding to new cities, stating that despite headwind, there is a “...
09:17 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Carl Icahn Gives Up On Dell, Michael Dell Now All But Certainly Taking The Firm Private
Today investor Carl Icahn surrendered his bid to take Dell partially private in a leveraged buyout. Instead, Michael Dell, the company's founder, will now certainly win in his efforts to take Dell pri...
09:14 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Founders John Zimmer & Logan Green Explain How Lyft Was Born Out Of Zimride
Lyft founders John Zimmer and Logan Green shared the backstory of how they chose to sell off their original core business, Zimride, to focus on Lyft on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt."Lyft came out...
09:14 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Tech Titans And Online Education Orgs Team Up With The Open Education Alliance
Google, AT&T and a host of online education organizations are forming an alliance to develop standards for career readiness. Spearheaded by Massive Openly Online Course (MOOC) provider, Udacity, t...
09:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Snapchat Releases Snapchat Micro, An App For The Galaxy Gear Smartwatch
Remember the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch unveiled a week ago?Snapchat certainly does, and the ephemeral messaging app has released an app specifically for the wrist-worn gadget. Called Snapchat Mic...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Following Complaint, Microsoft Makes The Windows 8.1 RTM Build Available To Developers
Microsoft announced today that the Windows 8.1 RTM build is available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, approximately one month ahead of the general public.Previously, the company had stated that devel...
08:59 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Lyft President Says The Company Will Rely On Its Community To Beat Uber
Lyft President John Zimmer said the company will rely on its community, with its signature pink mustaches and fist bumps, to gain a large user base, even in the face of stiff competition from Uber and...
08:46 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Ron Conway: There Needs To Be More Silicon Valley Debate About NSA, But I'm Not The Guy Who Will Do It
Ron Conway, one of the most powerful investors in Silicon Valley, today defended his position of not getting involved in issues around national security and consumer privacy, saying that he was alread...
08:46 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Ron Conway: There Needs To Be More Silicon Valley Debate About NSA, But I'm Not The Guy Who Will Lead It
Ron Conway, one of the more powerful investors in Silicon Valley, today defended his position of not getting involved in issues around national security and consumer privacy, saying that he was alread...
08:14 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Frontback Update Adds User Profiles And Social Features
Fast-rising photo app Frontback just received its first major update in the App Store, bringing much-needed social features. Until now, the app didn’t have user profiles because the original ver...
08:11 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Yahoo Launches New Screen App And Viacom Partnership For Lean-Back Tablet And Smartphone Video
Yahoo launched a new mobile application this morning called “Yahoo Screen,” designed for Apple iOS devices, including iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The app is meant to serve as a mobile hom...
08:03 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Watch The TC Disrupt SF Live Stream Right Here!
And so it begins. The San Francisco Design Center is filling with investors, entrepreneurs, members of the media and general tech enthusiasts as the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 officially ...
08:01 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Microsoft Announces Surface 2.0 Event In New York City On September 23
Today Microsoft released invites to its forthcoming Surface 2.0 event in New York City. The shindig, taking place in Chelsea on the 23 of September, will show off new Surface hardware, though Microsof...
07:59 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Micro-VC Freestyle.VC Raises $40 Million For Second Fund
Freestyle.VC, the micro-VC firm founded by serial entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel, has raised $40 million for its second fund. The firm's inaugural fund, raised in 2011, totaled $27 million....
07:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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This Lego Robot Strips Kindle DRM One Page Turn At A Time
In another episode of "Sticking It To The Man Through Lego" we present a spider that manually clicks through the pages of a Kindle book and then signals a computer to take a picture of the e-ink scree...
06:27 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Desire2Learn Acquires Adaptive Learning And Analytics Startup Knowillage
Desire2Learn, the Ontario-based makers of one of the largest Learning Management Systems (LMS) that raised $80 million last year, has been going after M&A of late. Today, after buying student coll...
06:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Apple Falls Behind Samsung In Global Internet Usage On Smartphones, Pointing To A Low-Cost iPhone Opportunity Or Challenge?
Today, StatCounter -- the research group that tracks Internet usage by browser, platform and device, among other things -- has released some numbers that indicate that while Apple continues to keep it...
06:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Apple Falls Behind Samsung In Global Internet Usage On Smartphones, Pointing To A Low-Cost iPhone Challenge
Today, StatCounter -- the research group that tracks Internet usage by browser, platform and device, among other things -- has released some numbers that indicate that while Apple continues to keep it...
06:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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More Changes In European VC As Gil Dibner Leaves Index Ventures To Become Partner At DFJ Esprit
More changes of personnel in the London/European VC scene. Gil Dibner is moving from Index Ventures to join DFJ Esprit, the European VC firm that is also part of Silicon Valleys DFJ Global Network. At...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Opera Launches Coast, A Slick New WebKit-Based iPad Browser
About a year and a half ago, a small team at Opera started working on a new browser for tablets and today, it is launching the result of this project: Opera Coast, a new, almost chrome-less browser fo...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Clothing Startup Pistol Lake Launches A Crowdfunding Campaign To Bring You High-Quality Hoodies And Henleys
Pistol Lake originally kicked off a Kickstarter campaign for its first line of clothing last year, which consisted of crew- and V-neck T-shirts and polos. Now its looking to expand its clothing line, ...
04:49 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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iMENA Invests $8M In Foodpanda's Hellofood To Help Rocket Expand Take-Out Service In Middle East
Rocket Internet, the Samwer brothers' Germany-based e-commerce startup factory, has announced that its brought iMENA Holdings on as a partner and investor in Foodpanda's Hellofood Middle Eastern opera...
03:45 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Groupon Acquires HotelTonight Competitor Blink To Get In On The Last Minute Hotel Booking App Action
More acquisition news in the online travel space. This time it's the turn of Groupon, which this morning announced that it's acquired Madrid, Spain-based Blink, a last minute hotel booking app that co...
02:46 pm GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Mindsy Wants To Be The Netflix Of E-Learning
Launched publicly last month, Mindsy is a new UK startup that's building a Netflix-style service for consuming e-learning content, specifically online video courses. Instead of selling individual cour...
10:15 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Xbox Music To Launch Apps For iOS And Android
Xbox Music will be available for iOS and Android today, as Microsoft furthers its bid to take on streaming music services like Spotify. Xbox Music is the first entertainment service from the Microsoft...
10:03 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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CrowdStrike Raises $30M For Data Security Platform Built To Put Adversaries On The Defensive
CrowdStrike has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Accel Venture Partners for its security technology to identify advanced threats and put adversaries more on the defensive. Founding invest...
08:05 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Adobe Makes Life Easier For Web Designers, Adds Easy Export From Photoshop To Edge Reflow
Adobe is launching the latest update for Photoshop CC today. Besides numerous smaller feature additions, this new version adds a tool called "Adobe Generator" that is, among other things, deeply integ...
04:47 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Topping 150M Users, Instagram Promises Ads Within The Next Year
Instagram Director of Business Operations Emily White told the Wall Street Journal that Instagram will begin selling ads within the next year. Are we ready? White comes to Instagram from Facebook, and...
04:13 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Spruce Crowned The Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon Grand Prize Winner, Cloudiverse And AdFree Take Second And Third
TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013's Hackathon wrapped up today, with a demo session that spanned around five hours, after 24 hours of actually building hacks. We had a record 264 registered entrants this tim...
04:08 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Use Google Glass And New App Glashion To Buy Fashion Items You Spot On The Go
These days, there is more taking place at the intersection of fashion and tech than there ever has been. Of late, some of these synergies involve Google Glass. At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 hackat...
04:08 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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300ft Drone-Powered Hack Foresees A Future Stuffed With Eye-In-The-Sky All-Seeing Apps
Hackathon hacks can lead to fully fledged apps and companies. Other times they are intended to be nothing more than a great hack. 300ft is certainly that: a neat hack, built overnight at the TechCrunc...
03:56 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Introducing Disrupt Daily, TC's Daily Flipboard Magazine Covering The Best Of Disrupt SF 2013
There's a lot happening at Disrupt SF. So much so that it cannot be consumed on just one site. Produced daily at 6:00pm PDT (right after the last panel of the day) a new Flipboard magazine will be rel...
03:46 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Trance Wants To Make It Easy For Great Dancers To Show Off Their Moves
Dance is a creative art that has always had real mainstream appeal. But while big general platforms like YouTube and Twitter are decent for showcasing dancers, they're not ideal. Dance could certainly...
03:42 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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For The Rhythmically Challenged, Strumbot Will Strum Your Guitar For You
Yu Jiang Tham may not have rhythm, but that didn’t stop him from getting up on the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon stage and singing “Country Roads,” thanks to his self-strumming guitar...
03:38 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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An App For Social Change, Hot Mess Anonymously Tells Your Friends That They Have Gunk In Their Teeth
Neil Mansilla and Rob Zazueta got a lot of laughs this afternoon for their Disrupt Hackathon submission, Hot Mess. The app aims to solve the universal nightmare of unwittingly walking around with a pi...
03:26 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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SARAH Lets You Request Information From 21 Government Agencies At The Same Time
The federal government collects gobs and gobs of data on people, and thanks to a little something called the Freedom of Information Act, people can make requests to liberate some of it. It sounds simp...
02:32 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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An Apology From TechCrunch
Normally our hackathons are a showcase for developers of all stripes to create and share something cool. But earlier today, the spirit of our event was marred by two misogynistic presentations. Sexism...
02:20 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Context Lets You Search Across Dropbox, Evernote, Spotify & More, All From Google.com
For some time, Google has been experimenting with augmenting search results using personal data through its Search "field trials", but that's been limited to data stored only in Google's own services....
02:03 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Missing Disrupt? Follow The Action On These Social Channels
Disrupt Sf is bigger than one site can handle. Our Instagram, Flickr, Flipboard and Facebook accounts are packed with the happenings from Disrupt. If that’s not enough,we have accounts just for ...
02:03 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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An App For Kids, By A Kid: Meet The 9-Year-Old Co-Creator Of Super Fun Kid Time'
The best way to build a great product is to really understand the problem it is trying to solve. The latest awesome example of this is Super Fun Kid Time, an app made for scheduling kids' playdates th...
01:58 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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The Hackathon Hackers Code Straight On Til Morning
The TC Disrupt Hackathon is just as much about the journey as it is the destination. More than 1,200 coders showed up in the SF Design Center to build something awesome, make some new friends, and pre...
01:13 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Kovert Is A GPS That Lets You Keep Your Phone In Your Pocket To Foil Would-Be Muggers
When walking through a sketchy neighborhood that you don't know well, it doesn't always feel like a good idea to have your phone out. Disrupt Hackathon entrant Kovert is an app that allows you to keep...
12:59 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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SmartDrive Hack Creates A Real HUD For Your Car Via Google Glass
Today at the Disrupt SF Hackathon, Brent Bovenzi presented SmartDrive, a neat Google Glass app. Thanks to this hack, you get a true heads-up display to see how your car is doing — a kid’s ...
12:56 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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Kiwi Wearables Shows Off A Way To Use Its Personal Tracker Device To Make Music
Single-function wearable devices are old-school and a massive waste of potential, according to a new Toronto-based startup called Kiwi Wearable Tech that's building a hardware device as well as a clou...
12:22 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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RoadView Hack Is A Black Box App For Cars To Settle Insurance Disputes Or For Social Kicks
YouTube could be filled with a whole lot more Police, Camera, Action!-style videos if this hack, put together overnight here at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 hackathon, keeps on rolling. The app buffers...
12:17 am GMT - Mon, September 9, 2013
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TARGiT Is A Marauder's Map For Business Networking At Events
Have you ever wished you had something like the Marauder's Map from Harry Potter for businessnetworking at events? That's the promise of the app called TARGiT, emerging out of the TechCrunch Disrupt S...
11:24 pm GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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Secret Handshake Lets You Pay With Hand Gestures And Leap Motion No Phone Or Card Required
One of the TechCrunch Disrupt hacks this year is the brainchild of Matthew Drake, an Atlanta-based employee of advertising firm 22squared. Secret Handshake, Drake's hack this year, uses the Leap Motio...
11:06 pm GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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Alerter Is A Belt Buckle Wearable That Warns You If The Kids Leave The Yard
Alberto Garcia andTenoch Gonzalez came all the way from Mexico City to participate in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon for the first time. Their hack, called Alerter, is a hardware device whic...
10:13 pm GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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Live! Watch The Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon Presentations Live Here
It's time! After almost 24 hours straight of nose-to-the-grindstone coding, the developers and designers at our Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon are getting ready to debut their projects to the world. It's b...
10:05 pm GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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Tutorspree, The Tutor-Matching Startup Backed By Sequoia And YC, Shuts Down
Tutorspree, the New York-based tutor-matching startup that had been dubbed the "Airbnb for tutoring" when it launched out of Y Combinator's Winter 2011 class, is shutting down.The company's three co-f...
09:30 pm GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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Where The Coding Craze Is Going Overboard
This summer, I jumped on the learn-to-code bandwagon, spending a couple of weeks on an online course before becoming completely frustrated and quitting. But there are plenty of people singing its prai...
09:01 pm GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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The Scale, Competitiveness, And Industrial Strategies In Mobile Computing
I will admit upfront - I am finding it hard to keep up with all the major moves happening in mobile and among the top technology companies. I realize intuitively all these moves are critically importa...
08:38 pm GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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NSA Can Reportedly Hack Your Smartphone
The National Security Agency can reportedly spy directly on smartphones, according to leaked documents from Germany’s Der Spiegel. Der Spiegel reports that the NSA can “tap most sensitive ...
03:30 pm GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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Beer, Pizza, And Romance At The Disrupt SF Hackathon
It's after midnight at TechCrunch's Disrupt SF Hackathon Ryan Lawler and I just walked the floor, interviewing teams about their experience and the (maybe, hopefully) amazing projects that they're bu...
06:16 am GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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Monkeying Around At The TC Disrupt Hackathon
Its not often that we get to see the Crunchies Monkey. When hes not busy shopping at the Facebook Store or taking a Lyft from Square to the TechCrunch office, hes usually working hard to identify the ...
02:05 am GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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CrunchWeek: Samsung's Galaxy Gear, Microsoft-Nokia, And Braintree Acquisition Talks
It's that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers together in the TCTV studio to chat about the most interesting tech news stories from the past seven days...
12:01 am GMT - Sun, September 8, 2013
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The TC Disrupt Hackathon 2013 Is Officially Underway
The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon not only marks the beginning of Disrupt SF 2013, but it also marks the beginning of potentially hundreds of new products, services, and gadgets. ...
09:44 pm GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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The NSA Can Read Some Encrypted Tor Traffic
Security expert Robert Graham has done a bit of research and posts that the encryption standard used by earlier versions of the "secure" Tor protocol is most probably insecure and readable by the NSA....
09:16 pm GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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The Hash-Hole, And 6 Other People That Ruin Instagram
Facebook may have a billion users, and Twitter may be raking in the revenue, but if you were to ask the next young, hip person you saw which social network they love most, odds are they'll name Instag...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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Gillmor Gang: Running On Empty
The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor why September 10 will be a turning point for Tim Cook, why the Microsoft/Nokia acquisition/Ballmer resignatio...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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It's Almost Time To Throw Out Your Books
The near-unthinkable has happened. The dinosaurs are finally evolving. The publishing industry's long war against technology, the future, and its customers may finally be coming to a close....
08:00 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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What To Do If You Get A Patent Troll Demand
You have an idea for a product that is going to change the world. For years you work day and night, and over time, that hard work turns into a company. You have users, revenue and, finally, the busine...
08:00 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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VC, Startup Survey Addresses Whether Patent Assertions Help Or Hurt, And What To Do If You Get Hit
You have an idea for a product that is going to change the world. For years you work day and night, and over time, that hard work turns into a company. You have users, revenue and, finally, the busine...
06:44 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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Personalized E-commerce Startup Wantful Shuts Down
Wantful, a San Francisco and New York-based gift giving and personalized e-commerce startup founded in 2011 is shutting down after failing to secure follow-on investment as expected. According to foun...
05:40 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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Scholly Helps Students Find Their Ideal Scholarships On Their Smartphones
More and more of America's young people are coming to grips with a nasty truth: college can be incredibly, stupidly expensive. Drexel University student (and Philadelphia Dorm Room Fund member) Christ...
02:58 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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With 3X The Active Users From A Year Ago, Skout Launches A Feature For Traveling Vagabonds
Skout, the app for meeting new people that picked up $22 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz last year, is adding a feature for travelers who want to scope out people in new cities before th...
02:40 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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A User's Guide To Disrupt SF 2013
Disrupt SF kicks off on Monday, September 9th. TechCrunch has put together an incredible array of offerings from our partners to make your Conference experience even better. As always, Disrupt SF will...
01:53 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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Co-Ed Supply Whisks Curated Boxes Of College Essentials' To Busy Students
The days are getting shorter and the air is growing colder, which means that students across the country are trodding back to school once more. For a subscription e-commerce startup called Co-Ed Suppl...
01:30 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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Ask A VC: Trinity Ventures' Patricia Nakache On The Secret To Zulily's Success And More
It's time for another episode of Ask A VC, where we grill VCs in the TCTV studio! This week, Trinity Ventures Patricia Nakache joined us to chat about e-commerce, marketplaces and much more....
01:23 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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Ideal Media Takes A More Hands-On Approach To Combining Recommended Content With Ads
Here's another startup trying to turn content recommendation into a business: Ideal Media.Similar in concept to Outbrain and Taboola, Ideal Media works with publishers to add a recommended content uni...
12:56 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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Keaton Row, An E-Commerce Site That Pairs Busy Ladies With Personal Shoppers, Raises $1.6 Million In Seed Funding
The personal shopping site Keaton Row has raised $1.6 million in a second round of seed funding led by Menlo Ventures, an early investor in Fab and Warby Parker, with participation from Rho Ventures a...
12:19 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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CrunchBase Has A New Mobile Site, Is Bigger Than Ever
We have some updates today from the other side of the TechCrunch office. The growing team at CrunchBase, our free database of tech companies, has a new mobile site available for your browsing pleasure...
12:06 am GMT - Sat, September 7, 2013
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Gillmor Gang Live 09.06.13 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Keith Marks, John Taschek, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. ...
11:23 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Dots Implements Its First-Ever, In-Game, $ponsor$hip
betaworks-backed Dots has today announced its very first sponsorship/native advertising deal with GE. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the sponsorship, Dots is releasing a special ...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Disrupt
TechCrunch Disrupt starts on Monday, so that's on all our minds for this week's TC Gadgets Podcast. Hardware Alley showcases gadget startups on September 11, and if you're still looking for hardware f...
10:55 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Cory Booker Is Stepping Down From Waywire's Board As The Company Seeks A New CEO
Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker is announcing today that he will be stepping down from the board of the company that he founded last year, according to a source familiar with the campaig...
10:01 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Energy Excelerator, The Accelerator For Clean Energy Startups, Receives $30M From The Navy
Energy Excelerator, a Hawaii-based accelerator program for cleantech start-ups, has received an investment of $30 million from the Navy’s Office of Naval Research under the Asia Pacific Technolo...
09:45 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Microsoft Untethers OneNote For iPad From The PC, Now Lets Users Create New Notebooks On The Go
Microsoft's OneNote note-taking app for iPad and iPhone got a small but important update today that finally makes the iPad version a completely stand-alone experience. Until now, you couldn't create n...
09:23 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Now UK Nationwide, The 100M Angel CoFund Is Able To Super-Charge Angel Syndicates
UK startups raising financing have a new route to funds in the shape of a government-backed fund which can supercharge an Angel round with extra funds. The Angel CoFund is a UK government-backed 100m ...
09:22 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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OS X Mavericks Most Likely Arriving In October, Reports Claim, Perhaps Alongside Haswell MacBook Pros
Apple's next-generation operating system for desktops, OS X Mavericks, is already in the hands of developers, but we likely won't see version 10.9 make its way to consumer devices ahead of October. So...
09:01 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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That Was Fast: Nokia Draws Down The $2B In Convertible Bonds Offered By Microsoft Earlier This Week
If we needed some more confirmation of how urgent the financial situation was over at Nokia, we got a glimpse of it today. The company announced that it would be drawing down the 1.5 billion ($2 billi...
08:53 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Pinterest And Path To Battle Over Letter P Logo Trademark
Are the Path and Pinterest logos too similar? Path apparently thinks so. The mobile messaging startup is currently working to prevent Pinterest from acquiring the trademark to the letter "P" as a styl...
07:53 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Nokia's First Phablet, The Lumia 1520, Crops Up In Leaked Image - Won't Be Windows Phone's Savior
Nokia has been rumoured to be preparing a Windows Phone-powered phablet for months, with the aim of expanding the upper echelons of its smartphone portfolio and taking on Samsung's Galaxy Note line. I...
07:49 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Apple Gets Final Judgment In US E-Book Antitrust Case: New Compliance Officer' Will Watch Out For Pricing Monkey Business
Apple's long-running antitrust case over e-book pricing is finally coming to a conclusion, with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York releasing its final judgment in the case, ...
07:49 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Apple To Appeal Injunction In US E-Book Antitrust Case: The iBookstore Gave Customers More Choice
Update: Apple says that it plans to appeal the final judgment that was issued earlier today in a U.S. District Court over antitrust practices in e-book pricing, saying it "did not conspire to fix e-bo...
07:10 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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New Report On Apple's App Store Algorithm Change Shows How Even A Minor Ratings Shift Affects Top Apps
A new report released today confirms earlier findingsindicating a mobile app's ranking in the iTunes App Store is now taking into account ratings and other metrics in order to help determine its place...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Maxthon Inks Deal With Mobile Chip Maker MediaTek That Will Preload Its Browser Onto 100M Mobile Devices In 2014
Web browser maker Maxthon has announced a partnership with Rolltech, the value-added services arm of MediaTek, the third largest global supplier of chipsets used in Android smartphones. This means tha...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Front Desk Raises $3.2 Million To Help Businesses Manage Payments And Scheduling
Business management startup Front Desk has raised $3.2 million in seed funding, led by Second Avenue Partners and joined by Venture One Ventures, Rich Barton, Lloyd Frink and J.D. Delafield. Front Des...
04:49 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Let The Music Play: Spotify Is Raising Money Again At A $5.3B Valuation, Says Swedish Paper
Spotify, the very popular music streaming service, is moving ahead with its aggressive growth strategy, and it looks like it's raising more money to do it: a report today in the Swedish financial pape...
04:30 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Report: Europe Accounts For Just Over A Fifth Of Global App Production & Revenues
The growing importance of apps to Europe's economy is the subject of a new report which estimates that the 28 European Union member states account for more than a fifth (22%) of the global production ...
04:20 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Nexus 5 Could Get LTE, 5-Inch Display And Snapdragon 800 Processor, Per FCC Filing For New LG Device
Rumors about Google's next Nexus device are heating up in the wake of a perceived leak via the company's own promotional video for Android KitKat earlier this week. Today, a filing from the FCC (via E...
03:25 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Kapture Aims To Build A Wearable Mic That Can Always Capture Up To The Last 60 Seconds Of Conversation
A Kickstarter project that launched this week wants to put a mic on your wrist, for constant audio monitoring, in a twist on the wearable tech and quantified self movement. The Kapture, as it’s ...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Ad Optimization Startup BoostCTR Raises $8M, Hires Former StubHub Exec Shawn Kernes As CTO
BoostCTR, a startup that uses crowdsourcing and split testing to help businesses find the most effective words and images for their online ads, has raised $8 million in Series B funding.The round was ...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Xbox Partners With Tel Aviv Video Discovery Startup Jinni To Power Video Recommendations
After a successful pilot project, Tel Aviv startup Jinni, a provider of natural language processing-based video content recommendations, has been chosen by Xbox to power its Xbox content catalog recom...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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With Tablets And iPods Added, Apple Takes 3 Of Top 4 Mobile Device Spots Ranked By Ad Impressions, Says Millennial
Mobile ad platform Millennial Media has released their latest Mobile Mix report, covering Q2 2013, and the company is changing how things work this time around by changing its "Top 20 Phones" list to ...
10:21 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Salesforce Renames Chatterbox To Salesforce Files, Uses EntropySoft Acquisition To Add Support For Box And Other Services
Salesforce.com has renamed Chatterbox, the file sharing service it launched as a competitor to Box and other services. ...
10:01 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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ZappRx Lands $1M To Rethink Prescription Processing With A Pharmacy-Agnostic Mobile Checkout Platform
Today, technology is in the process of transforming healthcare. The whole nine years: From software, medicine and insurance to fitness, care delivery and the very science behind all of it. By now, thi...
05:34 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Elon Musk Shows Off His Crazy Iron Man-Inspired 3D Modeling Setup
Elon Musk, the world's busiest rich dude/mad scientist, has just posted a video showing off the Iron Man-inspired 3D modeling software he tweeted about last week. Because people don't compare him to T...
04:53 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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How To Get In On The New York Fashion Week Action, Techie Style
It's baaaack. New York Fashion Week, that is. And if you're a user of the Internet, it's pretty hard to miss this season. As Women's Wear Daily put it, ramped-up social media and live streaming have l...
04:19 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Hardware Is Eating The World
It's clear more than ever that hardware is in vogue. The rise of crowdfunding coincided with the shrinking of processors and sensors. It's never been easier to create a smart device. And on Wednesday,...
03:33 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Rotten Tomatoes Founder Positions New Site To Be Google News For Movies
Rotten Tomatoes founder Senh Duong has redesigned his new site, Movies With Butter, to be the "Google News for movies." Movies With Butter originally launched with more of a Digg/Reddit strategy, allo...
02:54 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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NSA Subverts Most Encryption, Works With Tech Organizations For Back-Door Access, Report Says
The National Security Agency’s most wanted man and newly minted Russian resident, Edward Snowden, has revealed new details about the ability of intelligence agencies to crack supposedly secret c...
02:27 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Get Your Friends, Co-Workers Out Of Password Remembering Hell With Matrix-Backed Mitro
At TechCrunch, we have a host of passwords for Twitter, Dropbox and so on that get shared amongst the staff. But inevitably, there’s always a scramble when a new employee signs up and doesn̵...
02:20 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Bislr's Autopilot Is A Drag-And-Drop Feature For Building Cross-Platform Marketing Campaigns
Bislr has launched a feature, calledAutopilot, that simplifies the process of creating and maintaining complex channel marketing efforts. SaaS providers and the growing list of companies that use subs...
01:58 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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Braintree Is On The Block, Had Acquisition Talks With Square And PayPal
Chicago-based payments gatewayBraintreeis currently shopping itself around to potential acquirers, TechCrunch has learned. The company has been on the block for some time, having previously tried to w...
12:19 am GMT - Fri, September 6, 2013
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The Data Visualization Technology That Makes The America's Cup Accessible To The Rest Of Us
The experience of watching televised sporting events has evolved dramatically in recent years, with data visualization technology making it much easier for spectators at home to understand what's real...
11:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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With 100K Titles In Tow, Oyster Brings Netflix To Book Lovers With New All-You-Can-Read Subscription Service
While the pace has slowed of late, thanks to Kindles, Nooks, iPads and the steady advance of mobile technology, the eBook market (and the demand for all manners of digital content) has grown steadily ...
11:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Evomail's Gesture-Based Email App Arrives On Android
Evomail, one of the many newer startups trying to rethink the email inbox for mobile, has now arrived on Android. Originally designed as a Gmail client for iPad, the service seemed inspired by a numbe...
11:22 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Insurance Zebra Launches A Kayak For Auto Insurance
Austin-basedInsurance Zebra, as the name implies, isn't exactly tackling the sexiest industry, but it's definitely one that's trying to help the everyday, mainstream consumer. The startup's goal is to...
11:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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How SocialPlusCapital Is Building The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs In Residence
Chamath Palihapitiya has been commonly referred to as the unconventional VC. And he's been open about his ambitions to turn his fund,The Social+Capital Partnership, into a vehicle that backs ideas and...
10:52 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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What Is The Future Of VC?
Many compare the process of picking a partner at a VC firm (or an angel) to back your idea to the process of getting married. You better be ready to be comfortable in the trenches with this person, be...
10:52 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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What Is The Future Of VC? Find Out At Disrupt SF
Many compare the process of picking a partner at a VC firm (or an angel) to back your idea to the process of getting married. You better be ready to be comfortable in the trenches with this person, be...
10:12 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Uber Strikes Back Against The Competition By Offering Free uberX Rides In New Lyft Markets
Just last week, ride-sharing startup Lyft announced that it was entering three new cities, launching in Indianapolis, St. Paul, and Atlanta ahead of the holiday weekend. Well, local incumbent Uber isn...
10:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Foursquare Automates Process Of Becoming A Superuser'
It's become clear in recent years that Foursquare's real strength is its database of more than 55 million places. Foursquare's database API serves as the "location layer" for many other apps, from big...
09:26 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Chrome's Native-Like Packaged Apps Come Out Of Dev Preview And Head To The Desktop, Now Called Chrome Apps
Google officially launched its Chrome Apps today, a “new” breed of native/web app hybrid for Chrome OS and Windows that isn’t actually all that new. Google’s Chrome offered so-...
09:16 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Rapt.fm Launches In Beta To Enable Live Rap Battles To Happen Anytime, Anywhere
We first met Detroit-based startup Rapt.fm back in November 2012, when we were swinging through town for the TechCrunch Northern Meetups. It's safe to say that Erik Torenberg was the first startup CEO...
09:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Parse Powers Up With Analytics, Background Jobs, And Web Parity With Its Mobile Backend Service
Today at Parse's first Developer Day conference, Parse announced five new features: background Jobs for running Javascript tasks, a big partnership with game engine Unity, better ways to manage images...
09:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Parse Fleshes Out Mobile Backend Service With Analytics, Background Jobs, And Web Parity
Today at Parse's first Developer Day conference, Parse announced five new features: background jobs for running JavaScript tasks, a big partnership with game engine Unity, better ways to manage images...
08:41 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Google Brings Its Card-Style Layout To Drive For iOS
Google uses its card-style layout across the majority of its mobile apps, but until now, the Google Drive app for iOS had lagged behind. Today, however, Google is launching a new version of Drive for ...
08:40 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Zeus, An All-In-One 3D Copy Machine, Grabs $100KPlus On Kickstarter In A Day
Meet AIO Robotics' Zeus "3D copy device": a 3D printer, 3D scanner and 3D object faxing machine that's blasted past its $100,000 Kickstarter funding goal after about a day on the crowdfunding trail. T...
08:27 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Yahoo! Looks Ahead With A New Logo, But Users Still Prefer The Older One More!
Yahoo! earlier today revealed the fruits of its month-long logo labor: a new, still-purple Yahoo! with an animated exclamation mark (H/T Tumblr), no more serifs (H/T Optima), jaunty curves (H/T humans...
08:14 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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HTML5 Gaming Startup Artillery Lures Starcraft Personality Sean Day[9] Plott Into Design Role
Artillery, the startup that’s looking to bring Starcraft-quality strategy games to web browsers, just poached one of competitive gaming’s better-known personalities. Sean “Day[9]R...
08:12 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Nitrous.IO's Packaged Chrome App Turns Chromebooks Into Full-Blown Developer Machines
With the right tools, Google's Chromebooks make for cheap Linux development machines, but it takes a bit of work to get there. Nitrous.IO, which offers a fully cloud-based development environment for ...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Simple.TV Is Looking To Invade Europe, With A New Box That Features A Dual Tuner And Cloud-Based DVR
Last year, Simple.TV launched a Kickstarter campaign for the first generation of its streaming DVR box, which it targeted at cord cutters watching television through a digital antenna. Since then, the...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Simple.TV Looks To Invade Europe With A New Box That Features A Dual Tuner And Cloud-Based DVR
Last year, Simple.TV launched a Kickstarter campaign for the first generation of its streaming DVR box, which it targeted at cord cutters watching television through a digital antenna. Since then, the...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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CRM Platform Omnistream Comes Out Of Private Beta To Help Luxury Brands Woo Shoppers In China
Omnistream, a Web-based customer relationship management software developed to help luxury brands boost retail sales in China, is exiting private beta today after finishing the Alchemist Accelerator p...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Last-Minute Booking App HotelTonight Raises $45M With An Eye On Continued Global Expansion
HotelTonight, the startup that allows users to find and reserve same-day hotel rooms from their smartphones, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Series D funding.The round was led by hedge...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Booktrack Gives Everyone The Tools To Add Soundtracks To Their Stories With Booktrack Studio
Ever want to add ambient mood music or sound effects to a piece of text? Now you can with the launch of Booktrack Studio, a new tool that enables users to build their own soundtrack-enhanced stories....
07:02 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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FishBrain Secures Seed Funding To Socialise Sport Fishing
Back in November last year Swedish startup FishBrainwon the startup competition at Slush in Helsinki. The startup is a social network that lets sport fishing enthusiasts share their fishing experience...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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PayPal Updates iOS And Android Apps With The Ability To Order Ahead, Pay Restaurant Bills, Access Bill Me Later And More
PayPal is announcing a major update to its iOS and Android apps today, creating a more seamless experience when paying for items in stores and retail outlets. Check out our video above for an in-depth...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Meet Ping, An App That Turns Your Emails Into Real-Time Conversations
Remember that time before smartphones, when people sent messages as individual texts, and had inboxes filled with little envelope icons? Then messaging transformed with iPhones and Androids into a sea...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Scoop.it Launches A Social Curation App For The iPad
Scoop.it, a startup that helps users highlight interesting content (and, implicitly, their own knowledge in the field), is bringing its social curation tools to the iPad today with the launch of a new...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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First Round's Student-Run Dorm Room Fund Has Backed 20 Startups; Adds Entrepreneur RAs' As Advisors
First Round Capital has made a big bet on students sourcing and making investments at colleges around the U.S. with its Dorm Room Fund. the idea behind the Dorm Room Fund is that if students are motiv...
06:59 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Twitter's Bulk Follow Clampdown Could Claim Another Victim, Follow/Unfollow Service ManageFlitter
Among the more recent changes afoot at Twitter, the company recently announced that it would no longer allow third parties to use Twitter's API for bulk-following or unfollowing Twitter accounts -- sp...
06:54 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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This Week On The TC Europe Podcast: Nokia Gives Up, Seedcamp Invests, Tado Heats Up
The biggest tech news of the week came from Europe! Microsoft is acquiring Nokia’s phone business for $7.2 billion, and we needed to process the news together. This is the TechCrunch Europe Podc...
06:48 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Meals Marketplace Munchery Adds New Series A Investors Menlo, Sherpa Ventures & More, Hires In-House Chefs
Munchery, the Bay Area startup delivering professionally prepared gourmet meals you can order from web or mobile, is announcing today it has closed on the remaining amount of its previously reported $...
06:27 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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iPad 5 And iPad Mini 2 Likely Arriving In Q4 2013, Per Analyst Report, With iPad 2 Remaining In Production
Apple's iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 (generational markers, likely not official names by the way) will probably arrive later this year, as has been reported previously, according to KGI Securities analyst M...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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The Eye Tribe Starts Pre-Orders For $99 Eye Tracking Developer Device For Windows PCs
Denmark's The Eye Tribe is not an indigenous group that worships the ocular organ, but a startup that works in machine vision, specifically developing eye tracking tech for use in consumer electronics...
05:56 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Elite Daily, Take Two
Just what is Elite Daily?The site portrays itself as "the voice of Gen Y" but it also comes across as a content farm, or even "an astounding troll-hole." It claimed to have grown to 8.5 million pagevi...
05:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Pakistan Government-Backed Incubator Seeds Local Investor Appetite
Ali Rehan and his university cohorts had just won Pakistan's inaugural Startup Weekend hackathon when they decided to quit their PhD research project to build a photography app. Weeks later they were ...
05:23 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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SingTel's Amobee Buys LA's Gradient X To Bulk Up Its Mobile AdTech With Real-Time Bidding
Amobee, the mobile advertising company bought last year by SingTel for $321 million, has made an acquisition of its own to build out its platform with more ad-tech features. It has bought Gradient X, ...
04:34 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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The Dextrus Robotic Hand Wants To Make Advanced Prosthetics 100X Cheaper Via 3D Printing
The Dextrus hand is the working prototype resulting from Joel Gibbard's Open Hand Project, an open source hardware initiative that aims to lower the cost of robotic prosthetics dramatically. Dextrus i...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Zuora Lands $50M From Next World, Paul Allen, Marc Benioff & More To Help Fuel The Rise Of The Subscription Economy
Over the last few years, Startup Land has played home to the dramatic re-emergence of a tried-and-true, familiar model: Subscription commerce. The rise of smartphones, tablets, “The Cloud,”...
04:04 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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BITalino Is A Low Cost, Modular Bio-Signal Sensor Kit That Makes It Quicker & Easier To Build Medical Devices & Health Tracker Apps
BITalino is a simplified system for makers, app developers and researchers who want to quickly start capturing bio-signals. The low cost kit of modular blocks includes a swathe of physiological sensor...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Smart Thermostat Market Heating Up As Tado Raises $2.6M For Its European Nest
With Nest, the smart thermostat startup founded by ex-Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell, seemingly getting closer to a UK launch, TechCrunch has learned that European competitor Tado has raised a further $...
03:59 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Russian Online Hotel Booking Site Oktogo.ru Gobbles Up Travel.ru For Up To $2 Million
Some further consolidation in the Russian online travel sector. Following last month's news that Russian travel startup OneTwoTrip had acquired the analytics-driven hotel price comparison site DealAng...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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AdYapper Raises $1.2 Million To Analyze Ad Viewability For Digital Campaigns
AdYapper, a real-time ad analytics service, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The round was led by KGC Capital and joined by angel investors, including David Cohen, Laurel Touby, Paul Sethi, Sa...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Hearsay Social Raises Another $30M To Help Businesses Grow Sales Through Social Media
Hearsay Social, a startup offering for reaching sales leads and customers on social networks, is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series C funding.CTO Steve Garrity told me Hearsay has had...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Dash Robotics Reveals A DIY High-Speed Running Robot Kit, Which Hobbyists Can Own For Just $65
Dash Robotics is using crowdfunding to help build its first hobbyist robot for home robotics enthusiast, with the aim of providing advanced tech for very little money thanks to a unique combination of...
02:08 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Elon Musk To Traverse The U.S. Using A Model S And Tesla Superchargers In 6 Day Trip, With Only 9 Hours Spent Charging
The Tesla Model S is doing remarkably well, despite the challenges it still faces in terms of convincing average consumers that it can meet their everyday needs. One of the big remaining question mark...
01:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Boticca Secures $4M In A Series A From MMC Ventures To Expand Internationally
When Boticca first appeared back in 2010 it might have looked a little like a normal commerce jewellery store. But underneath was an innovative layer of design, content and community features which ta...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Typeform Raises 550K Seed Round To Help You Build Beautiful Device-Agnostic Online Surveys And Forms
Typeform, the Barcelona, Spain-based startup that takes the heavy-lifting out of creating user-friendly surveys and other types of online forms, has raised a 550,000 seed round led by Berlin-based VC ...
11:01 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Path Monetizes With A $14.99 Per Year Premium Subscription And Introduces Private Sharing
'Private' social network Path is getting a little more intimate, with new features that will allow its users to share moments with specific friends rather than everyone in their network. It's also ram...
10:56 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Led By Pixar Alum, ToyTalk Debuts Its First Product: The Winston Show
Two years ago, Oren Jacob left his role as CTO at Pixar after working at the studio for over 20 years. After a brief stint as EIR at August Capital, he announced that he was off to start his own compa...
10:56 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Led By Pixar Alum, ToyTalk Debuts Its First Product: The Winston Show, A Game You Can Talk To
Two years ago, Oren Jacob left his role as CTO at Pixar after working at the studio for over 20 years. After a brief stint as EIR at August Capital, he announced that he was off to start his own compa...
09:08 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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AWS Adds Support For Redis But News Of Scalable Data Store Dampened By Microsoft Offering Of Its Own
Amazon Web Services has added support for Redis, an in-memory, key-value store, popular with developers for its superior caching and ability to support multiple data types. The news is significant for...
09:08 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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AWS Adds Support For Redis But News Of Scalable Data Store Dampened By Microsoft Offering Of Its Own
Amazon Web Services has added support for Redis, an in-memory, key-value store, popular with developers for its superior caching and ability to support multiple data types. The news is significant for...
08:46 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Yahoo Picks A New GeoCities Logo
After months of hype and countless dollars Yahoo! has unveiled the next big move in its ambitious transformation: a slimmed down logo....
08:04 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Stanford University Is Going To Invest In Student Startups Like A VC Firm
Stanford University is going to start directly investing in students companies. Stanford is also giving a $3.6 million grant to StartX, a non-profit startup accelerator for Stanford-affiliated entrepr...
07:59 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Pew: 86% Of U.S. Adults Make Efforts To Hide Their Digital Footprints Online; Fear Of Creeping Ads And Malicious Hackers Outweighs State Spy Worries
The ACLU is currently suing four officials in the Obama Administration, trying to get federal courts to put a stop to the NSA's metadata program and delete all existing records, but if you ask the gen...
07:59 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Pew: 86% Of U.S. Adults Make Efforts To Hide Digital Footprints Online; Fear Of Creeping Ads And Hackers Outweighs Spying
The ACLU is currently suing four officials in the Obama Administration, trying to get federal courts to put a stop to the NSA's metadata program and delete all existing records, but if you ask the gen...
07:24 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Federal Jury Orders Motorola Mobility To Pay Microsoft $14.5 Million In Patent Case
A federal jury has found Motorola Mobility failed to license standard patents at a reasonable rate and ordered the Google-owned handset maker to pay Microsoft about $14.5 million in damages, Microsoft...
05:49 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Square Opens Girls Coding Camp To High School Students
The good corporate citizens at Square are aiming to bring more bring more diversity to Silicon Valley by expanding their computer science education program for girls from college to high school. Twent...
05:48 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Secret-Sharing App Whisper Snags $21 Million From Sequoia, Adds Roelof Botha To Its Board
Secret-sharing app Whisper has closed a new round of funding, bringing in $21 million at a $75 to $100 million-post money valuation. The round, as originally reported by Om Malik, was led by Sequoia C...
04:26 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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From Jailbreaks To App Store Awards, Developers Grow Up iPhone
“This is going to sound a little odd,” Ari Weinstein says, “but when I was a kid coding…was a lot harder.” Ari Weinstein is just 19. He’s about to start as a freshm...
04:19 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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SourceAudio, A Platform For Selling Licensed Music, Raises $1.2M
SourceAudio, a startup aiming to connect buyers and sellers of licensed music, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding.Co-founder and CEO Geoffrey Grotz (who previously co-founded GameTrailers.com) sa...
04:12 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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The Bitcoin Revolution Hits TechCrunch Disrupt Next Week
Once a consuming hobby for a coterie of anarcho-libertarians and and others predicting an econo-apocalypse, Bitcoin started crossing over into the mainstream in a big way this year, attracting the int...
03:07 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Online Travel Marketplace Vacatia Raises $5M To Simplify Buying And Selling Timeshares
With Airbnb, HomeAway, Roomorama and plenty of others, there’s no shortage of vacation rental platforms for travelers to browse. Add to the listVacatia, a secondary marketplaceaimed at timeshare...
03:02 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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The Death Of Nintendo Has Been Greatly Under-Exaggerated
I love Nintendo. I love Nintendo. I love Nintendo.I feel the need to say that over and over again to begin with because this post will inevitably be read by some as some sort of anti-Nintendo screed. ...
02:37 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Samsung's Galaxy Gear Is Here And Better Than Expected
The first time I caught wind of the Galaxy Gear, I laughed heartily. Of course Samsung was trying to make a smartwatch -- what haven't they tried to make over the past few years? It didn't help that s...
02:24 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Says The Site Is Profitable, With 85M Uniques And 300Plus Employees
BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti published a memo to employees today that laid out some details about the site's growth, as well as its plans for the coming year.For one thing, Peretti said that...
01:30 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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TC Droidcast Episode 5: Samsung Galaxy Gear And Note 3, Sony's Crazy Cameras And The KitKat Crunch Heard Round The World
We're sure glad the weekly TechCrunch Droidcast falls on a Wednesday, because this was a big one for Android. Samsung and Sony both had events at IFA in Berlin and revealed new hardware, and we're joi...
01:13 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Topsy, Now With Every Tweet From 2006 On, Has Other Social Media Indexes In The Works
Twitter has established itself as top social networking destination, mentioned the same breath as sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, or YouTube, as well as a go-to destination for breaking news.But as a s...
01:08 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Skout Borks Its Code, Spams Its Users, Cops To The Error And Apologizes
Skout is a mobile app that wants to help you find fine folks around you. It's raised $22 million from Andreessen Horowitzand is more than half a decade old. It also had a recent spate of spamming-the-...
12:25 am GMT - Thu, September 5, 2013
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Groopt Revamps Its Collaboration Tools As It Shifts Focus To Nonprofits
Startup Groopt is hoping to become the platform that nonprofits use to both build their websites and communicate/collaborate with members.I actually covered the company about a year ago, and the visio...
11:40 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Party At Disrupt
As a man named R. Kelly once said, "After the show, it's the after party. And after the party, it's the hotel lobby." So goes the story of this year's TechCrunch Disrupt SF, where for the very first t...
10:33 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Your Turn, Apple
I'm sold. One picture did it. The one above by Josh Miller at CNET. I want the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch. It doesn't matter if the UI is sluggish. I don't care if it requires charging once a day....
10:32 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Adobe Launches $9.99/Month Photography Program With Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, Behance And 20GB Of Online Storage
Adobe today announced its Photography Program, which for $9.99 per month offers photographers who own a previous copy of Photoshop (starting with CS3) access to a “lite” version of Creativ...
10:27 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Samsung Updates The Galaxy Note 10.1 To Better Compete With The iPad
Today at Samsung’s Unpacked event in Germany, the company unveiled an updated version of one of its big tablets — the Galaxy Note 10.1. Until now, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Note 1...
10:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Sony's SmartWatch 2 Versus Samsung's Galaxy Gear: Two Very Different Smartwatches Face Off
Sony's new smartwatch, which is actually named the SmartWatch 2, has been a known quantity since its official announcement in June at the Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai, and now the Samsung Galaxy Gear ...
10:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Keepy Is An App That Wants To Be The Refrigerator Door To Your Kid's Macaroni Art
Nobody wants to throw away their child’s artwork, but when crayon drawings accumulate, finding a way to store the piles of 8.5″ x 11″s can be difficult. After dealing with this probl...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Mobeam Outs Beep'nGo Loyalty Card App For Galaxy S4 And Note 3, But Bets Its Future On Beaming Services
San Francisco startup Mobeam has been awfully quiet since it revealed a whopper of a smartphone partnership earlier this year, and today the reason for that relative silence has become clear. Mobeam a...
09:55 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Bing Improves Its Video Search With High-Res Pop-Out Previews, Improved Filters And Navigation
Microsoft's Bing today launched a major update to its video search experience that gives the service's video search results pagesa complete overhaul. The update, which Microsoft says was "designed fro...
09:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Amazon's Relational Database Service Adds High-Memory Instance With 244GB Memory
Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS), which gives developers access to MySQL, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database engines, added a new instance type for applications that need a lot of...
09:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Samsung Reveals The Galaxy Gear, Will Be Available Starting On September 25
Well, there we go ladies and gentlemen. After much anticipation, Samsung's Galaxy Gear is here and at first glance it's not quite as strange as some earlier reports made it out to be. In case you don'...
09:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Samsung Reveals The Galaxy Note 3, The Slimmer And Lighter Evolution Of The Phablet
Samsung's big Unpacked Episode 2 event is underway, and as expected, the company has used the venue to announce the Galaxy Note 3 smartphone. The Note is the original phablet, and the new version cont...
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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With $2M In Seed Funding, LittleCast Launches Direct-To-Fan Video Platform On Facebook
Direct-to-fan video distribution is all the rage these days, with artists and performers like Louis CK and Aziz Ansari foregoing all the usual distribution channels in an effort to engage with their f...
08:50 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Watch Samsung's UNPACKED 2013 Galaxy Gear And Galaxy Note 3 Event Live Right Here At 1PM ET
Samsung's hosting an event today at 1 PM ET/ 7PM CET/ 10 AM PT at which it will debut its Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, the new Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, and a potential bevy of other things covered...
08:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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SendHub Secures $3 Million Series A To Be The Mobile Alternative To Business Phone Systems
SendHub, a business-focused call and messaging solution with a long-term goal of replacing PBX systems with mobile apps and online dashboards, has raised $3 million in Series A funding, the company is...
08:13 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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The Google+ Photo Editor Has Been Down For Days, No ETA For A Fix
Google+ users are wondering what has happened to the service’s Photo Editor, which has been down for days. Specifically, users had previously been able to access an “Edit” button on ...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Clutter Just Made Self-Storage Super Simple
As the human race inches closer and closer to unadulterated consumerism, the need for extra storage space becomes imperative. But no one enjoys the process of packing up, renting or borrowing a truck,...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Uber Inks Its First Sports Deal, Partners With The NFL To Promote Safe Rides For Pro Footballers
Fresh from a $258 million investment led by Google Ventures and TPG, tech-powered transportation service Uber today is announcing a key deal that speaks to a few ways that it's hoping to grow in the f...
07:51 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Jumpstarter Pulls In $1.7M Seed To Re-Imagine The Dev Platform Invite Codes For Readers
Jumpstarter, based Stockholm claims to be a "disruptive new dev platform". So far so superlative. However, they may be on to something. With more and more of the planet's population learning to code (...
07:31 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Taboola Now Lets You Filter Out Content Recommendations That You Don't Want To See
Taboola makes more than 3 billion article and video suggestions daily, powering recommendations for a number of high-profile publishers like The Huffington Post, USA Today, and Weather.com. Now it's l...
07:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Meet The Sony QX10 And QX100, Smart Lenses That Turn Phones Into True Cameras
Smartphones have cameras. But they're mostly garbage when compared to a dedicated camera. Besides the Lumia 1020, of course. The cameras on smartphones have tiny image capture sensors and low-quality ...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Bugcrowd Raises $1.6 Million To Expand Bug Bounty Marketplace
Crowdsourced bug bounty marketplace Bugcrowd has raised $1.6 million from investors to grow the community of 3,000 vetted security penetration testers that can find vulnerabilities and weaknesses in a...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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WunWun, Because Everything Should Be Available On-Demand
On-demand television? You got it! On-demand radio? Sure! How about news on-demand? Or books? It's all at your fingertips, dear readers. But what if I told you that you could have literally anything th...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Set.fm Raises $1.2M To Help Artists Make Money By Selling Instant Live Recordings
Anyone who's ever aspired to be a professional musician (my 12-year-old self included) knows that it's a tough lifestyle with little guarantee of financial security. That's why a new startup,Set.fm, i...
06:52 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Mozilla Launches Phase Two Of Phones For Apps' Program, Giving Firefox OS Devices To Devs Who Port HTML5 Apps
Mozilla today is announcing the next stage of its efforts to get Firefox OS hardware in the hands of developers building software for it: the so-called “second phase” of the Phones for App...
06:50 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Sony Confirms Xperia Z1 Flagship Phone: 5-Inch 1080p Display, 20MP Camera
Sony has named a new flagship in its Android-powered Xperia smartphone line up which focuses on beefing up camera capabilities. The 4G Xperia Z1, roundly leaked under the moniker ‘Honami’ ...
06:50 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Sony Confirms Xperia Z1 Flagship Phone: 5-Inch 1080p Display, 21MP Camera & A Photo Apps Focus
Sony has named a new flagship in its Android-powered Xperia smartphone line up which focuses on beefing up camera capabilities. The 4G Xperia Z1, roundly leaked under the moniker ‘Honami’ ...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Visual Publisher Graphicly Raises $1.3M And Gets A New CEO As Co-Founder Steps Down To Focus On Product
The visual publishing house Graphicly, which makes it easy to distribute graphically rich content across a variety of platforms, has raised $1.3M from previous investors led by Mercury Fund and Dundee...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Livestream Brings Its Live Events And Archived Videos To Roku Streaming Boxes
Livestream is introducing a whole new app for Roku streaming devices that will enable viewers to watch its live events and archived on-demand videos from their big-screen TVs. The new app is actually ...
05:28 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Sony Hopes Sex Sells Smartphones
Remember that time Sony hired pretty ladies to swim erotically with its new smartphone? It's apparently happening at IFA. And while I admit I'm advancing their cause by posting this, it's worth noting...
05:12 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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SocialPlusCapital Founder And Former Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya To Join Us For Disrupt Europe
Are we at an Absolute low point in startup quality? Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and founder of investment firm The Social+Capital Partnership, thinks so. Which is why he is devot...
05:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Now At 10M Users, Check Lands $24M From Menlo To Become Your Go-To Mobile Money Manager
Check, the makers of a cross-platform mobile finance app that allows users to track their cash, bills, investments and credit cards and pay bills while on the go, announced today that it has closed a ...
05:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Xbox One To Launch In 13 Markets On November 22
Dig out your camping gear and stake your spot in line now, ladies and germs. The Xbox One is hitting stores on November 22. And for those keeping track, that's almost a full week after the PS4's Novem...
04:52 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Jawbone Announces The MINI Jambox, Its Third Portable Bluetooth Speaker
First came the Jambox. Then came its bigger, beefier brother, BIG Jambox. This morning, Jawbone is announcing a third addition to its lineup of portable Bluetooth boomboxes: Mini Jambox....
04:45 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Technicolor And Dreamworks Animation Joint Venture M-Go Brings Its Digital Movie Storefront To LG Smart TVs
Online movie storefront M-Go wants to be all the devices and screens where viewers plan to watch movies. To that end, it just struck a deal to get its video app embedded on connected TVs from LG, and ...
04:43 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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SwiftKey Raises $17.5M Series B Round Led by Index To Expand In The US
Highly downloaded keyboard app for Android SwiftKey has raised a Series B round of $17.5M (11.3m) led by Index Ventures to expand its product portfolio and do a major US push. Co-founder and CEO Jon R...
04:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Nova Is A Wireless External Flash For iPhone To Take Better-Looking Low Light Shots
It's no secret that the iPhone's flash has never been great. So step forward Nova: a wireless external flash, currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, that wants to help you snap better-looking photo...
04:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Watch Samsung's UNPACKED 2013 Galaxy Gear And Galaxy Note 3 Event Live Right Here At 1PM ET
Samsung's hosting an event today at 1 PM ET/ 7PM CET/ 10 AM PT at which it will debut its Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, the new Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, and potentially a bevy of other things cover...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Marketing Automation Platform SalesFUSION Hires New CEO And Lands $800K In Fresh Funding
SalesFUSION announced today that it has hired Christian Nahas, the former Vice President and General Manager of NCR Corporation, as its new CEO. The marketing automation software vendor has also raise...
02:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Twitter's Thin Blue Line Is Already Wavering: A Sign Of More Changes To Conversation Threads To Come?
It was only a week ago that Twitter updated its web, Android and iOS versions with a new feature -- a blue line -- that changed how Twitter presented you with conversations around tweets from people y...
02:01 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Robot Turtles Is A Board Game Designed By A Googler To Teach Kids Core Coding Principles
There are plenty of online resources aimed at teaching kids coding but here's an offline take that uses old school gamification to get kids engaged and learning programming principles while they're ha...
01:35 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Alleged iPad 5 Case Parts Leak In Video, Show Much Smaller Device Footprint Vs. Current Retina iPad
Apple's supposed next-generation iPad case components are on display in a new high-definition video from Unbox Therapy, showing a design that is clearly inspired by the iPad mini. This agrees with wha...
01:06 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Don't Install The Google Authenticator For iOS Update, Unless You Want Your Stored User Accounts Wiped
Google today pushed an update out for Google Authenticator for iOS, the two-factor authentication companion app that makes your Google account and services where you use it to login more secure. But i...
12:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Apple Sends Separate Invite To Chinese Media For Sept. 11 iPhone Event, Adding To Increased Focus On The Region
Apple has sent out a second round of event invitations to media today this time directed specifically at Chinese publications and journalists, for a follow-up event to their September 10 shindig at A...
10:44 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Chinese Internet Giant Baidu Enters The Smart TV Wars With Launch Of TVPlus
Baidu, the Internet giant that operates China's largest search engine, has launched its own smart TV to compete with rival platforms from Alibaba, as well as other companies including Xiaomi, Samsung ...
08:01 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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With New Business Suite & Samsung Partnership, Mobile Security Company Lookout Prepares To Take On The Enterprise
Lookout, a mobile security company which previously focused on consumer protections and anti-malware services, is today taking a step to expand its footprint further with the launch of a new, standalo...
06:44 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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In An Apparent Bug, Some Twitter Users Report Avatar Photos Being Replaced With Default Egg'
A number of Twitter users apparently noticed Tuesday evening that their personal photo avatars had been abruptly replaced by the default "egg" image that accompanies profiles from users who haven't ad...
04:51 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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RocketSpace CEO Duncan Logan Talks Expansion Plans And What Office-As-A-Service' Actually Means
RocketSpace, a San Francisco office company that has hosted companies like Uber, Zaarly, Podio, and Pocket Gems (though not always the main team), recently moved into a new, bigger space two spaces, ...
04:01 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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For Authors, Amazon's Kindle MatchBook Offers Plenty Of Upside
Today, Amazon introduced a brand new model of its Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader, which looks pretty nice. But the bigger announcement was a brand new program called MatchBook, which allows authors a...
03:05 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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GraphDive Raises $2M For Social Media Analytics And Targeting
GraphDive, a startup that uses Facebook Connect data to give businesses a better understanding of their online visitors, has raised $2 million in new funding.Co-founder and CEO Shahram Seyedin-Noor sa...
03:03 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Lithium Raises $50M In Mezzanine Round For Online Community Development Platform
Lithium has raised $50 million from a group of unnamed investors in what the company is calling pre-IPO mezzanine financing. Lithium will use the funding to further develop its technology platform and...
03:00 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Studio 9Plus Accelerator Raises $2.5 Million To Fund Its First Class of Entrepreneurs
YouWeb founder Peter Relan's new accelerator has raised another $2.5 million in funding from several angel investors, bringing total funding for Studio 9+ to about $4.6 million. The program is also ex...
02:48 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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LinkedIn To Raise Up To $1.15B To Fuel Acquisitions, Infrastructure Investments
LinkedIn has filed to raise more than $1 billion by selling stock in its company to both the public, and banks that will underwrite the issuance. $1 billion will be sold to common investors, and the b...
02:31 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Optimizely Co-Founder Pete Koomen On Using The Art Of A/B Testing
San Francisco startup Optimizely has had a lot of success in making A/B testing much more accessible to the masses. And along the way, Optimizely's co-founders Dan Siroker and Pete Koomen say that the...
02:14 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Amazon's AWS Command Line Tool Hits General Availability, Lets You Control 23 Services From Your Terminal
Graphical user interfaces are great, but sometimes, the good-old command line is all you need. Amazon today announced that its command line interface for AWS has hit general availability.For a while n...
01:58 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Announcing The Disrupt SF Hackathon Judges And A Ton Of New Prizes (And The Very Last Batch Of Tickets!)
The first batch of tickets for our Disrupt SF Hackathon (it's this weekend!) sold out so fast I thought something had gone wrong. We've released a few batches since, each bigger than the last and yet,...
12:49 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Sony Hopes You'll Carry A Lens In Your Pocket
Remember that time when your smartphone camera just wasn't good enough? That time when you wanted a picture that was just slightly better? You know, the time you lugged a pocket camera to your kid's k...
12:31 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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After $258M Google Ventures And TPG Investment, Uber Hires Finance, Business, And Growth Execs
After announcing a $258 million funding round from Google Ventures and TPG, Uber is revealing a number of new hires today in finance, business and international growth at the executive level....
12:29 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Mobile Calendar App Event Book Gets A New Design And Location Book' Features
While startups are trying to replace your mobile calendar by making it smarter, there's a new-ish iOS app called Event Book that seems to built around the belief that what calendars really need is to ...
12:05 am GMT - Wed, September 4, 2013
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Why Microsoft Had No Choice But To Purchase Nokia's Handset Business
The news that Microsoft has purchased substantial assets from Nokia came as a surprise, but perhaps it shouldn't have. The underlying reason that Microsoft had little choice but to buy Nokia is plain:...
11:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Announcing Your Disrupt SF Finals Judges: Marissa Mayer, Roelof Botha, Keith Rabois, David Lee, Chris Dixon And Michael Arrington
You'll see some startups trying to solve big problems in networking, business software and security next week during our Battlefield competition at Disrupt SF -- industries which at first glance may s...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Keen On Smart Machines: The Next Big Thing For Smart Human Beings
"Average is over", says economist Tyler Cowen in his new book of the same name. And success and failure in a world dominated by digital technology, he says, will be defined by our relationship to smar...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet And Trinity Ventures' Patricia Nakache
This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we are fortunate to have two guests in the studioSpark Capital's Bijan Sabet and Trinity Ventures' Patricia Nakache. You can submit questions for our guests...
10:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Burning Man Founder Is Cool With Capitalism, And Silicon Valley Billionaires
“We’re not building a Marxist society,” jokes Burning Man Founder, Larry Harvey, in response to a series of recent stories detailing the annual festival’s multi-million dollar ...
10:29 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Microsoft's Nokia Purchase Torches $16.6 Billion In Market Cap, Almost As Much As Ballmer's Exit Added
On the news that Microsoft will purchase substantial assets from Nokia, including its handset business and intellectual property, company investors have discarded the stock, sending it down 6 percent ...
09:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Meet Human, A Beautiful Fitness Tracking App To Help You Effortlessly Stay Healthy
Human is a newcomer in the crowded fitness space, but its take is different. Instead of being a stat-heavy activity app like RunKeeper or a life tracker gadget like Withings, Fitbit or Jawbone, Human ...
09:19 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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VEVO Hires Nielsen Digital Exec Jonathan Carson As Chief Revenue Officer
Ever since launch, music video distributor VEVO has been working to increase monetization of its digital properties, highlighting the pure volume of videos and high engagement that viewers have on its...
09:19 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Google Strikes Bizarre Licensing Deal With Nestl To Name Next Android Kit Kat
Google has apparently struck a wild licensing deal with Nestl to use the name ‘KitKat’ for its next version of Android. Though the announcement of the name by Google’s Sundar Pichai ...
09:03 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Amazon Launches A Home Automation Store Featuring Smart Locks, Sensors, Thermostats & More
Amid a bevy of Amazon-related announcements surrounding Kindle - some intentional (the arrival of Kindle MatchBook), some not (an updated Kindle Paperwhite leaked) - Amazon has also quietly launched a...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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OpenStreetMap Founder Steve Coast Leaves Microsoft For Telenav
Along with Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap (OSM) is one of the flagship crowdsourcing projects on the Internet, but unless you are watching this space closely, it may come as a surprise that Steve Coast, the...
08:51 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Google Announces 1B Total Android Activations, Names Next Version KitKat'
Apple made waves this morning when it announced its oft-rumored September 10 event, but Google isn’t giving up the day’s limelight without a fight — according to a post on Sundar Pic...
08:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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For Microsoft, Nokia Represents A Crossroads In Its Emerging Markets Strategy
Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's Devices & Services division for $7.2 billion is a bet on emerging markets and a continuation of Nokia's emphasis on "connecting the next billion" users. In order...
08:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Solar-As-A-Service Provider Sunrun And Smart Home Startup Nest Team Up To Help People Save Money On Energy
Sunrun and Nest have teamed up to help their users get more out of both their solar energy panels and home automation products. The partnership will give customers who choose to use both products $500...
08:04 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Apple's September 10 iPhone Event Now Official As Invites Sent To Press
Apple has just sent out invites for a September 10 special event focusing on iPhone. The event is set to take place at 10 AM PT on the 10th at the Apple Campus in Cupertino, according to the invite, w...
07:53 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Nymi Is A Heartwave-Sensing Wristband That Wants To Replace All Your Passwords & Keys
Passwords could be pass if this Toronto-based startup has its way. Bionym, which was founded in 2011 and closed a $1.4 million (CAD) seed round last month, has devised a biometric recognition system i...
07:53 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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E-Commerce Startup CouchCommerce Snags A Seed Round For Mobilizing Magento Shops
The move to mobilize e-commerce websites continues. Last week, a company calledShopPad, which turns Shopify andMagento sites into tablet-friendly formats,announced $500,000 in seed funding. Today, Han...
07:52 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Nokia's Licensing Its Name To Microsoft, But It's Free To Keep Building Hardware, And Could Even Dial Up To Mobile Devices Again By January 2016
Amidst the "sadness" of today's news that Nokia would be splitting up, selling its Devices & Services division to Microsoft for $7.2 billion, there is a little silver lining for the Nokia fanboys ...
07:49 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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WePopp Wants To Cut Down On The Back And Forth When Planning Nights Out With Friends
A neat iOS app called WePopp promises to do one thing only, and do it well: Help you plan events with friends in just a few taps with a simple way to poll the group to find a date, time and place that...
07:12 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Amazon's Next Kindle Paperwhite Outed Ahead Of Official Launch Via Amazon's Own Leak
Amazon is revealing a new Kindle Paperwhite soon, and the cat's out of the bag early thanks to an apparent accidental leak of product details by Amazon itself. Spotted by a forum poster from Zagreb, C...
07:12 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Amazon's Next Kindle Paperwhite Leaks Early, Now Available For Pre-Order For U.S. Shoppers
Amazon is revealing a new Kindle Paperwhite soon, and the cat's out of the bag early thanks to an apparent accidental leak of product details by Amazon itself. Spotted by a forum poster from Zagreb, C...
07:12 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Amazon's Next Kindle Paperwhite Leaks Early, Now Available To Pre-Order For U.S. Shoppers
Amazon is revealing a new Kindle Paperwhite soon, and the cat's out of the bag early thanks to an apparent accidental leak of product details by Amazon itself. Spotted by a forum poster from Zagreb, C...
06:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Nokia Shares Pop 47% On News Of Microsoft Deal
The deal hasn’t closed yet, but investors are already approving or penalizing Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia devices, depending on the company. Microsoft shares opened down 5.2 percent t...
06:33 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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AppoLearning For iPad Helps Parents & Teachers Find The Educational Apps Worth Buying
With an ever-expanding selection of apps on the market making educational claims, parents today have a tough time deciding which apps are worth their investment. Earlier this year, app search and disc...
05:21 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Amazon Now Offering Users Discounted Or Free Digital Versions Of Print Books Bought Through Its Site
Amazon announced a new program today called Kindle MatchBook, which offers digital versions of print books purchased through its online bookstore to customers for between free and $2.99, depending on ...
05:07 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Making Its First Acquisitions, Eventbrite Buys Ticketing Service Eventioz And Event Data Company Lanyrd
Ticket company Eventbrite is announcing what it says are the first two acquisitions in its seven-year history London-based event data company Lanyrd and Argentina-based ticketing service Eventioz.Eve...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Microsoft Brings New ESPN And NFL Experiences To Xbox One
When Microsofts next-generation video game console launches in the fall, it wants to provide users with plenty of reasons to buy one. And what better reason is there than sports? With that in mind, th...
04:15 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Fresh Startups Program Launches To Help Health, Food And Fitness Startups Grow Their Business
Toronto-based Kinetic Caf, a consulting firm aiming at startups and innovation-focused enterprises, has partnered with Freshii, a health food restaurant chain looking to shake up fast food while keepi...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Loggly, A Splunk Competitor, Raises $10.5M For Cloud-Centric Approach To Log Management
Loggly, the cloud-based log management service, has raised $10.5 million from new investors Cisco and Data Collective. Trinity Ventures, True Ventures and Matrix Partners also participated in the roun...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Sizing Up The Nokia That Remains, HERE Business A Bright Spot That Gains More Platform Freedom
Nokia is divesting itself of its hardware division, selling that business mostly off to Microsoft in a deal worth around $7.2 billion announced today. But it will continue to operate its own software ...
02:27 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Nokia's $7.2BN Devices & Services Exit Is Just The Latest Chapter In A 150-Year History Of Business Shifts
You don't get to be an almost 150-year-old company, as Nokia is, without being good at reinvention. The Finnish company's latest Houdini trick -- announced late yesterday -- is to exit smartphones by ...
02:13 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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A Trojan Horse Once Again? Stephen Elop, Now EVP Of Devices At Microsoft, Confirmed As An Internal' Candidate For CEO Slot, As He Lays Out Plans In His Own Words
Microsoft's landmark decision to buy Nokia's handset business for $7.2 billion will put Stephen Elop back into business working at the company where he was before he became CEO of Nokia -- he's now th...
01:57 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Apple Patents iOS Unlocking Methods That Determine Level Of User Access To Device Features And Software
A big request from parents regarding iOS has been that Apple implement user accounts on its mobile devices, in order to make it so that a parent can sign in with greater access to device features and ...
12:36 pm GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Like Apple, Microsoft Now Controls Every Aspect Of Its Smartphones, But Hasn't Shown Itself Ready For The Responsibility
Microsoft gains a key advantage with its acquisition of Microsoft's handset and devices division today: control. Microsoft itself says that acquiring the phones business helps it highlight "high value...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Acronis Offers A Way To Back Up The VMware vCloud
Acronishas launched a new way to back up the VMware vCloud, filling a needed space for any IT manager realistically considering the virtualization company's offerings....
08:45 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Vimeo Offers $10,000 For Exclusive Rights To Indie Films From The Toronto International Film Festival
Vimeo is seeking to add more exclusive content to its platform, offering some independent filmmakers a $10,000 advance to make their movies available online through Vimeo On Demand. The offer for dir...
08:26 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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The Mediated Life Is Not Worth Living
I spent last week in Black Rock City, where on Saturday night I and 60,000 others stood within a ring of hundreds of vehicles transformed into spectacular art, and watched a gargantuan wooden effigy e...
07:59 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Spotify Makes Its Biggest Hardware Play Yet With Spotify Connect, Synching Music At Home And Beyond
Spotify is today adding a new feature to itsiOS app that represents the streaming company's most ambitious move yet to position itself as the go-to music app on connected devices -- and in the process...
07:59 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Spotify Makes Its Biggest Hardware Play Yet With Spotify Connect, Syncing Music At Home And Beyond
Spotify is today adding a new feature to itsiOS app that represents the streaming company's most ambitious move yet to position itself as the go-to music app on connected devices -- and in the process...
07:29 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Microsoft Enters Into $7.2B Deal To Buy Nokia's Devices And Services Business And License Its Patents
In a surprise move, Microsoft announced Monday evening that it has inked a deal with Nokia to acquire "substantially all of Nokias Devices & Services business, license Nokias patents, and license ...
06:01 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Inside Hack Reactor, The Coding Bootcamp That Wants To Be The CS Degree Of The Future
At the same time that unemployment and low wages continue to plague the larger U.S. economy, Silicon Valley and the rest of the tech industry is having a hiring crisis -- many tech companies just can'...
06:00 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Online Marketplace GlobeIn's Network Of Artisans Has Grown To Nearly 30 Countries
Startup GlobeIn is building an online marketplace for artisans from around the world. When it first launched in February, it said it was working with more than 100 sellers in nine countries. Now the s...
05:14 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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With Time Warner Cable Deal, CBS Seeks To Ensure Its Digital Future
CBS and Time Warner Cable finally reached a deal today, ending a long, protracted blackout of the broadcast network on TWCs cable system. While getting the deal done will mean that Time Warner Cable v...
03:00 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Turning Apple TV Into Ouroboros
Apple has been ‘pulling the string’ on the Apple TV for seven years now. Think about that one for a minute, it’s had a set-top box since before the iPhone. During that time, the land...
02:00 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Apple, Microsoft And Google Could Learn Something From Mozilla's App Store Prototype
App Stores are broken. It’s virtually impossible to find the interesting apps among the thousands of low-quality offerings. If an app isn’t in the top 10 of its respective category, chance...
01:00 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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If You're Buying Textbooks This Week, Get Educated, Not Schooled
When a semester's worth of textbooks can add up to a couple (or three or four) hundred dollars, hitting the checkout line at the campus bookstore is a distressing experience for many students, to say ...
12:45 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Weiss On Why There Will Be 30 New Franchises In The Enterprise
The future of enterprise software is anything but boring. Andreessen Horowitz partner Scott Weiss aptly predicted his guest post titled 30 New Franchises a few weeks ago, there a massive opportunity t...
12:31 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Sebastian Thrun And Gavin Newsom To School Us At Disrupt SF
Former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun believes that in 50 years there will only be ten institutions in the world that offer higher education, and that Udacity — a startup that offers STEM-he...
12:30 am GMT - Tue, September 3, 2013
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Hex Airbot Shatters Crowdfunding Goal For Its Cheap, 3D Printed Drones
Hex's tiny Airbot drone first turned heads earlier this year at China-based hardware accelerator Haxlr8r's second demo day, and now the team behind it is finally pushing to bring the inexpensive flier...
11:13 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Security Researcher Discovers Bug That Would Let Hackers Delete Any Photo Off Facebook
In a nice example of how Facebook's bounty program should work (in contrast with that mess a few weeks ago), a security researcher has unearthed a bug that would let anyone delete just about any photo...
09:55 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Enfojer Wants You To Turn Your Instagram Snaps Into DIY B&W Prints
Enfojer is a photo enlarger that wants to make it (relatively) easy to translate digital photos from your smartphone into analogue black and white prints -- so you can stick a few choice Instagram sho...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Plated, The Startup That Delivers Fresh Ingredients To Your Door, Launches In SF
With the advent of online shopping and Amazon Prime 2-day shipping, humans are growing ever willing to pay for convenience and walk less. In the wake of this phenomenon, Plated has risen up out of Tec...
08:55 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Video Site Viki Had Talks With Google And Yahoo Before It Took A $200M Deal With Rakuten, Which Plans To Use The Translation Platform In E-Commerce
Rakuten's $200 millionacquisition of Viki -- the video streaming site where users worldwide contribute subtitles to premium content -- is a clear sign of how Rakuten wants to use digital content to bu...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Swayy Launches Into Public Beta To Curate Content For Your Social Media Audience
While managing social media for different organizations and brands, I’ve spent hours scouring the web for relevant content to share on Twitter and Facebook. It takes a long time to find the righ...
07:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Xiaomi's App Market Has Nearly 2X The Average Downloads Of Competitors, Could Help Boost International Success
Xiaomi, the break-out smartphone star of the Greater China market, is receiving lots of attention thanks to the somewhat salacious tale of ex-Android VP Hugo Barra and his recent move to the Chinese c...
07:33 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Vestiaire Collective Raises $20 Million From Cond Nast And Others To Fuel International Growth
Luxury marketplace Vestiaire Collective (ne Vestiaire de Copines) raised $20 million Series C funding from Cond Nast, Idinvest, and previous investors Balderton and Ventech — the magazine publis...
05:13 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Is That Really You? Face And Speaker Authentication Startup KeyLemon Raises $1.5M Series A
Swiss startup KeyLemon, which is a spin-off of the Idiap Research Institute and provides face and speaker recognition technology for the purpose of user authentication, has raised a $1.5 million Serie...
05:05 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Handshake Is A Personal Data Marketplace Where Users Get Paid To Sell Their Own Data
Handshake is a personal data marketplace startup aiming to cut out the market research middle man by building a platform where users can sign up to be approached by companies, negotiate a price for th...
04:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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With Twitterspirit, Twitter Gets Its Own Snapchat: A Disappearing Tweet Hack, Courtesy Of An Ex-Twitter Engineer
Twitter is working on ways of getting more juice out of its vast trove of user content -- that new "blue line" for conversation threads, for example, is a way for older conversations to resurface -- s...
03:03 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Samsung's Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Takes Shape Ahead Of Sept. 4 Event, Likely Won't Resemble Mini Phone
The good ship Galaxy Gear smartwatch is springing multiple leaks ahead of its official reveal this Wednesday, Sept. 4, and there are even leaks about previous leaks vying for attention. That said, the...
02:41 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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European Accelerator Numbers - Seedcamp Releases Its Data For The Last 6 Years
TechCrunch Europe was launched in September 2007, the same week Seedcamp - the European tech startup accelerator - also launched. So we've been on something of a journey together. That year and for at...
02:26 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Sooqini Raises $500,000 Seed Round For Its UK TaskRabbit'
With the heavily-funded and U.S.-based TaskRabbit having a few teething problems, the jury is still out on how much growth there is in a reverse-marketplace for 'tasks'. But that isn't stopping a few ...
01:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Kantar: Android Takes 65% Of Sales Across Major Markets; Windows Phone Grows By Tapping Dumbphone Users
The latest smartphone sales figures are out today from Kantar WorldPanel Comtech, and in case you needed one more metric to underscore the topline trend that's been the case for years, the WPP market-...
01:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Kantar: Android Took 65% Of Sales Across Major Markets In Last Quarter; Windows Phone Grew By Tapping Dumbphone Users
The latest smartphone sales figures are out today from Kantar WorldPanel Comtech, and in case you needed one more metric to underscore the topline trend that's been the case for years, the WPP-owned m...
01:28 pm GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Juicies Takes A Second Kick At The Kickstarter Can With JuiciesPlus, Aluminum-Tipped Charging Cables That Won't Tangle
When a Kickstarter project goes well enough to inspire a sequel a few years down the road, it's generally a positive sign. In the case of Juicies, a startup that originally built itself up on the back...
09:57 am GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Yahoo China Shuts Down Its Web Portal
Yahoo China, which is operated by Chinese e-commerce and Internet services behemoth Alibaba Group, has closed its Web portal. The site now displays a good-bye message before redirecting visitors to no...
09:03 am GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Japanese E-Commerce Giant Rakuten Confirms Acquisition Of Video Site Viki
Rakuten has confirmed that it will acquire Viki, a global video streaming platform that crowdsources translated subtitles. The Japanese e-commerce giant, which says it will sign an agreement to buy Vi...
07:10 am GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Mega Man's Creator Turns To Kickstarter To Fuel His New Game (Which Looks A Whole Lot Like Mega Man)
It's becoming almost formulaic: An iconic game designer, backed by a legion of dedicated fans, turns to Kickstarter to allow them to break out on their own. The latest gaming giant to turn to the crow...
04:00 am GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Why Internet Companies Don't Buy From The Enterprise Kings
Internet companies represent the world's fastest-growing markets and they cover the global economy. Every market imaginable is affected by Internet companies. They are cloud-centric by nature and come...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Mozilla Gets On The Web Components Bandwagon With Brick
Web Components will change how you build web apps in the near future. At its core, web components let developers create reusable custom HTML tags (think: <datepicker></datepicker>) for...
01:32 am GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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Samsung's Bizarre Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Gets Detailed Before Official Launch
Samsung is getting ready to pull the curtain on its curious Galaxy Gear smartwatch (well, among other things) in just a few days, but what's a major product unveiling these days without a slew of last...
12:00 am GMT - Mon, September 2, 2013
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What Google And Uber Have In Store For The Future
Last week's "Dispatch From The Future" got quite a lot of attention, in part because more than a few people got very excited about the prospect of driverless cars and the impact that they can have on ...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 1, 2013
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Fly Or Die: Motorola Moto X
The Moto X has caused a rift between the TechCrunch Gadgets family. Chris Velazco and I think it's just fine, whereas Darrell Etherington and John Biggs are rather unimpressed. But why? ...
10:19 pm GMT - Sun, September 1, 2013
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Verizon, Vodafone Reach Agreement In $130 Billion Verizon Wireless Deal
Verizon and Vodafone have reached an agreement on a $130 billion deal that gives Verizon total control of Verizon Wireless, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Verizon has taken Vodafone’s 45%...
09:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 1, 2013
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Five Forces Fueling FrontBack's Fame
Not another photo-sharing app! is an oft-heard or tweeted phrase. After Instagram combined the power of a networked camera, nostalgic filters, and snappy sharing to various networks to create a mobile...
08:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 1, 2013
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Cybersecurity, NSA Spying, And Silicon Valley To Take Center Stage At Disrupt SF
Strap on a tin foil hat and dust off your VHS tape of Hackers because a thrilling, civilized discussion of contemporary cybersecurity is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt SF. I'll be joined onstage by some...
05:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 1, 2013
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Watch Smartwatch Space For Continued Consolidation As Samsung Gears Up To Kick Off The Race
Last week, geek-focused early smartwatch player WIMM Labs was revealed to have been acquired by Google, lending strong support to earlier speculation that the search giant would enter the watch-based ...
02:17 pm GMT - Sun, September 1, 2013
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After Raising $10M, Customer-Funded Naked Wines Launches Investment Bond
Only this August, wine retailer NakedWines, the customer-funded online wine retailer, announced it had raised $10 million in a third round of investment from a German group of direct wine-selling comp...
12:22 pm GMT - Sun, September 1, 2013
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Shutterfly Has Acquired Photo Printing Company R And R Images
Shutterfly has acquired R and R Images. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The company announced that it gave an inducement grant to R and R Images' founder Rod Key. The grant consists of up to 38,4...
05:59 am GMT - Sun, September 1, 2013
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Stealth Startup Fantex Wants To Make It Possible For Celebrities To IPO
If corporations can be people, why can't people be corporations? A stealth startup called Fantex aims to allow celebrities and professional athletes to file for initial public offerings (IPOs).Fantex ...
05:08 am GMT - Sun, September 1, 2013
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Because Walking Saves Lives, Mobilizer Inc. Is A Startup That's Aiming To Get Hospital Patients Moving
For sedentary medical patients, one of the easiest ways to reduce the time of hospital stays and decrease the risk of complications like blood clots and pressure ulcers is simply to get up and walk ar...
02:00 am GMT - Sun, September 1, 2013
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CrunchWeek: iPhone Trade-Ins, The New New Foursquare, And Twitter's Blue Lines Problem
This weekend, summer is sadly coming to a close (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least.) But all is not lost! At least we still have CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers toge...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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India's Visa Maze Ensnares Foreign Entrepreneurs
Returning for his fourth and final visit to the Indian offices that would grant him a coveted five-year business visa, social entrepreneur Alex Stevens* was confident his wild goose chase was almost a...
10:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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How Amazon Is Tackling Personalization And Curation For Sellers On Its Marketplace
When it comes to personalization, Amazon has been one of the pioneers in mining and using data to create a more curated e-commerce experience for consumers. But by now, nearly all e-commerce companies...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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Gillmor Gang: Contextual Adults
The Gillmor Gang Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor settle in for the Labor Day weekend with a tour of a busy news week. Stops along the way include iBeacon in ...
07:32 pm GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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Coinchat Is A Chatroom Where Talking Sense Earns You Bitcoin
Coinchat is a Bitcoin-incentivised browser-based chatroom where you can shoot the breeze with strangers online and earn Bitcoin in the process. Where's the catch? Well, there isn't really one. The Bit...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story
It started with an idea: How can we get our drinks more quickly at the bar? Dreamed up at 2 a.m. in Coloft, a Los Angeles coworking space, future founder Mike Townsend doodled up an iPad application m...
03:10 pm GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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Google Confirms It Has Acquired Android Smartwatch Maker WIMM Labs
Google has confirmed it acquired WIMM Labs last year, a company that previously made an Android-powered smartwatch before shuttering operations in 2012. At the time a message on its website said it ha...
03:50 am GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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Former Waywire CEO Nate Richardson Joins AOL As President Of AOL Live
A few weeks ago we reported that Nate Richardson, the CEO and co-founder of Waywire, would be leaving the company as it makes a strategic shift from content creation to content curation. Well now we k...
02:30 am GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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Following Mobile Test, Facebook Tries Out A Trending' Section On Its Desktop News Feed
Back in June, Facebook said it would be rolling out a number of features for following public conversations, and it looks like it's holding true to that promise.Specifically, the company is testing a ...
02:18 am GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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Microsoft's Next CEO Will Not Spin Off Xbox, Unless They Abdicate The Company's Larger Strategic Direction
A story published by Bloomberg floats the idea that Microsoft might spin off its Xbox business, which it calls "more likely [following current CEO Steve Ballmer's] exit." The publication values Xbox a...
01:59 am GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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Target Ticket, Target's Video Download & Rental Service, Nears Launch
Target's answer to Walmart's Vudu, Netflix, and iTunes, is preparing to launch. Employees at the Minneapolis-headquartered retailer were told this week that Target Ticket, as the service is called, wi...
01:46 am GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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Ask A VC: Bessemer Venture Partners' Ethan Kurzweil On The Evolution Of Developer Platforms And More
In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil joined us in the studio. Kurzweil, who leads Bessemer’s roadmap on developer platforms and has led inves...
01:42 am GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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TechCrunch Giveaway: Win Disrupt SF Tickets And Fitbits From New Relic
You know what's cooler than reading TechCrunch every day? Diving into startup culture head first by attendingTechCrunch Disrupt SF.We're excited to announce that New Relic is giving away eight coveted...
01:05 am GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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As Ballmer Exits, Microsoft Inks Deal With ValueAct That May Lead To Board Seat
Today Microsoft announced that it has reached a “cooperation agreement” with ValueAct Capital, an investment company that had been a thorn in its side. It was said that ValueAct wanted a s...
12:09 am GMT - Sat, August 31, 2013
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Gillmor Gang Live 08.30.13 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific....