The increasingly popular Sunrise calendar app faced a bit of a brouhaha last week, after a couple of well-respected developers (namely, Neve...
Friday, January 31, 2014
Ask A VC: Manatt’s Peter Csathy On The New Golden Age Of Content
In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Manatt Digital Media Ventures’ Peter Csathy joined us in the studio to talk about the return of content...
Airbnb Is Testing Out An Affordable Cleaning Service For Hosts In San Francisco
Peer-to-peer lodgings marketplace Airbnb has been focused on finding ways that it can help its hosts improve the quality of experience for ...
Apple Said To Be Focusing On Health With iOS 8 And iWatch, Following Exec Meeting With FDA
Apple’s plans for iOS 8 focus on redefining health tracking via mobile devices, according to a new report from 9to5Mac , which has a terrifi...
Keen On… Hacking Gender: How Women In Silicon Valley Can Become Jane Bond
Despite incremental improvements, the gender bias issue in Silicon Valley remains an important one. Last month, in response to the furor ov...
Coupons.com Files For $100M IPO On The NYSE, Trading As Coup
The march of the 2014 initial public offerings commences, with the latest one of the oldest brands on the internet. Coupons.com has just fil...
Gillmor Gang Live 01.31.14 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin MArks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific. Have...
BrightFunnel Raises Funding To Build Smarter Marketing Predictions
Marketing startup BrightFunnel is announcing that it has raised a small “advisory round” of slightly less than $1 million from some big-nam...
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Facebook Paper, Lenovo-Moto, Carbon 3D Printing, And Coffee!
Looking for a way to get through Friday? Here you go. Facebook launched a news reader app called Paper . (Teens will love it.) And Google so...
LXLE Gives New Zest to Old Machines
Just when you think you have found the sweet spot with an ideal Linux desktop distro, along comes yet another version to tug at your compu...
Aereo Sells Out Of Capacity In NYC
Aereo , a TV streaming service looking to change the way we consume media, has just sold out of capacity in New York City. Founder and CEO C...
Ouya Updates Hardware With $129 16GB Console, 8GB Edition Remains At $99
Ouya’s original hardware featured just 8GB of storage onboard, but a temporary Limited Edition all-white version launched during the holiday...
Departures, Arrivals, Surveillance: Canada Used Airport WiFi Snooparound
Canadian authorities used information culled from a free Internet service at a major national airport to track the wireless devices of sco...
To Counter Investor Signaling, YC Partners Can No Longer Be The First Money Into The Incubator’s Startups
Y Combinator has long allowed its partners to invest their own personal money in the’s incubator startups–often times partners put money in...
VC Lip Reading Video Is The Best VC Video You’ll See Today
If you’re familiar with the ‘Bad Lip Reading of The NFL’ videos on YouTube, you might get a charge out of this hilarious mashup created by ...
Purr Pebble Smartwatch App Vibrates Your Life Away In 5 Minute Chunks
Yesterday, a new faceless “watch” called Durr that simply vibrates every five minutes got a big feature over at Verge . It’s an interesting ...
At UC Davis, Amazon Demonstrates A Novel Way To Bypass College Bookstores
Why should college students waste their precious party days standing in line, when they can order Ramen from Amazon prime? The University of...
On Paper, Facebook's a Different Story
Facebook on Thursday announced next week's launch of Paper, a free app for iOS that combines user and curated content into a personali...
Publishing Platform Issuu Hires Jeremy LaCroix, Formerly Of AOL, To Lead Design
Online publishing platform Issuu is announcing that it has hired Jeremy LaCroix as its head of product design and user experience. Joe Hyrk...
Meet The First 10 Companies To Take Part In Founders Fund And SOSVentures’ LEAP Axlr8r
Late last year, a couple of venture firms sought to invest in LEAP Motion’s gesture control technology by helping developers to build busine...
Miggo Camera Strap Protects Your Gear, Too, So You Don’t Need A Bulky Camera Bag
A new Kickstarter project takes a useful thing and makes it even more useful, by offering a strap that not only carries your DSLR but also p...
Twitter Acquires Over 900 IBM Patents Following Infringement Claim, Enters Cross-Licensing Agreement
Twitter announced today that it has acquired over 900 patents from IBM , and that it has entered into a cross-licensing agreement with the I...
Box Said To Have Filed For IPO, Could Go Public As Early As April
Cloud-based storage company Box is said to have filed an IPO, according to an initial report from Quartz , later followed up by confirmatio...
Nintendo Makes Health the New Name of the Game
Nintendo is planning a new product offering that will take the company beyond traditional gaming and into the world of health, it announce...
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Inq Mobile, One Of The First Facebook Phone Makers, Shuts Down
Inq Mobile, one of the first companies to build a Facebook phone , announced that it has shut down with a message on its site (h/t Android P...
Viber's a Worthy Alternative to Outgoing GrooveIP
Google has been clamping down on third-party apps that ride piggyback on its Google Voice telephony service. A merger between Google Voice...
Founder Stories: Kakul Srivastava On How Tomfoolery Will Make Our Work More Social And Fun
Mobile messaging and mobile communications tools have grown like a weed on the consumer side — but what about in a work context? With more ...
Here Comes the Sun-Powered MacBook?
Apple wants to use natural energy sources to keep MacBooks powered while on the move. The company has won a patent for a laptop with a lid...
Clinkle Gets Hacked Before It Even Launches
Clinkle is the hottest app around to have done mostly nothing. The stealth payments service, which has raised $25 million from big-name inv...
Barry Sternlicht, Former CEO Of Hotel Giant Starwood, Invests In HotelTonight
Last-minute hotel booking startup HotelTonight just announced that it has landed a personal investment from Barry Sternlicht, founder of St...
CrunchFund Is Raising $40M For Its Second Fund, According To Filing
CrunchFund , the early-stage investment firm that’s basically one giant conflict-of-interest statement for TechCrunch, is raising $40 millio...
Google Pleased With Hardware And Nexus Performance; Talks Nest, Glass And Other Wearables
Google’s earnings call doesn’t feature CEO Larry Page this time around, which is a disappointment in terms of product discussion. But Chief...
Yahoo Detects Mass Hack Attempt On Yahoo Mail, Resets All Affected Passwords
The details are a bit sparse right now, but Yahoo has just disclosed by way of their Tumblr that they’ve detected what they’re calling a “c...
Zynga Lays Off 314 Employees, Or 15% Of Its Workforce
Paired with the news of a big half-billion dollar acquisition , Zynga is also laying off about 15 percent of its workforce, or about 314 emp...
Slipshod Security, Human Frailty Made @N Ripe for Plucking
GoDaddy reportedly has admitted one of its employees handed out customer information to a scammer who carried out a scheme to obtain a pri...
Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M, Signaling A New Tack For The Gaming Giant
Zynga has long been famous (or infamous?) for its data-driven approach to game design. The company never focused on building strong characte...
Equidate Launches A Secondary Market For Early Startup Employees To Sell Shares
It was once a rare practice, but employees are now finding more ways to unload vested shares in their startups along the way. While employer...
Snowden in the Running for Nobel Peace Prize
A group of Norwegian lawmakers nominated former NSA contactor Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize. Saying that his bottomless pit of ...
Foursquare Can Now Satisfy Your Appetite At Home With Integrated Seamless And GrubHub Ordering
Seamless and GrubHub have partnered with location-based check-in service Foursquare to help you retain your precious pear-shaped physique an...
Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before
Indie music? Pffft. Indie music is way too main stream, man. All the cool kids are into music that no one has ever heard. Meet Forgotify...
This Is Your Game on Glass
Google on Monday announced that it had hacked together five simple games that take advantage of the unique features of Glass. The company ...
Branch Founder Josh Miller Joins Betaworks As Part-Time Venture Partner
In a blog post today, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick announced that Branch founder Josh Miller would be joining the technology studio as a pa...
Human Revamps Tracking System For Its Fitness Monitoring App
Human is a slickly designed fitness tracking app that works without any hardware devices. You just launch the app, set it up and you’re all...
Canada’s Wind Mobile Offering Unlimited U.S. Talk, Text And Data Roaming For $15 Per Month
Roaming is the worst, but a new plan from Canadian network operator Wind Mobile , which is one of the few carriers not a part of Canada’s bi...
Flink Is An Addictive Mobile Fashion Experience To Discover New Looks
Meet Flink a brand new mobile app that will become the perfect time waster for fashion enthusiasts. It’s a well-designed app to browse new...
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