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Sonos Urges Users To Install A Security Update To Protect Their Private Data
Jan 24, 8:00AM
Sonos this morning sent out an email to users advising them to immediately update their wireless music system software with a security "enhancement" in order to plug a hole that "in rare cases" could have been exploited by malicious people to gain access to sensitive, personal customer data. In the message, which was also posted on its forum, Sonos says it is not aware of any breaches so far:Chart: Android Is Catching Up To iOS In Mobile Video Views
Jan 24, 7:31AM
A year ago in January, 2011, Apple dominated mobile video views, with iOS devices accounting for 87 percent of all mobile views, according to data from video encoding and short-url service Vid.ly. Android had a scant 5 percent. By December, 2011, Android's share of mobile video watching grew to 32 percent, while Apple's shrank to 52 percent.Mark Zuckerberg Spray Paints Graffiti On Real Facebook Wall (Video)
Jan 24, 6:49AM
Mark Zuckerberg added his touch to a graffiti wall at Facebook's new headquarters. In the video above, graffiti artist David Choe, who was commissioned to paint the wall, incorporates a stick figure painted by the Facebook founder into a mohawked trollish creature wearing a wife beater with a raised fist. It's quite a transformation. Zuckerberg needs to practice first, admitting: "I've actually never spray painted anything."
MusicShake Brings Its Music Creation Tool For Novices To The Classroom
Jan 24, 5:15AM
At some point, you may have found yourself bored out of your mind by your current music selection, and resisting the urge to try one of the eleventy million music discovery services out there, you think, "By God, I'm going to do it myself." You rush home, download a music suite, start furiously clicking and recording, only to be sooner or later confronted by the reality that you have no idea what you're doing, and reprimand yourself for turning down those music lessons in fourth grade. The Korea-based, VC-funded MusicShake launched back at TechCrunch40 in 2007 to solve these woes, allowing users to create their own music in a fun an intuitive way.tumblecloud Unveils A Collaborative Take On Slideshows
Jan 24, 5:01AM
An startup called tumblecloud is launching the public beta test today for its easy way to create high-quality slideshows. Founder and CEO Brian Andreas (an artist who also runs the boutique publishing house StoryPeople) describes the company's "clouds" as a new form digital storytelling, but they're probably easier to think of as multimedia slideshows. tumblecloud breaks the process down into three steps — grab, mix, and share. You can pull photos, music, and other media from your computer or from other online services; use a simple drag-and-drop interface to assemble everything into a presentation; then share it with other users.PowerVoice Launches New Social Media Marketing Platform, Pays Users To Post Ads On Twitter, Facebook
Jan 24, 5:00AM
PowerVoice, a new social media marketing company founded by former federal consultant at IBM Ryan Landau and ex-Googler (and brother) Andrew Landau, is launching today. The service compensates users for sharing brands' messages on social networks in a somewhat similar fashion to Adly. However, unlike Adly, it's not focused solely on enabling celebrities and other public figures to earn additional income through recommendations. Instead, on PowerVoice, anyone can sign up and get paid to promote brands' ads.Home Furnishings And Design Site LuxeYard Adds Concierge Buying To Flash Sales Model
Jan 24, 5:00AM
LuxeYard, a luxury home furnishings and decor site, is launching its e-commerce platform today, but adding a twist to the flash sales model. Similar to sites line One Kings Lane and Gilt, LuxeYard offers up to 70 percent discounts on furniture, home decor and other accessories in daily sales. However, LuxeYard also offers what it calls 'concierge buying,' which allows members to request items they would like to purchase at a discounted price by posting photos to LuxeYard's Facebook page. The most popular product will be voted up by members, and the startup's experts will attempt to source either the exact product, or a similar product and offer this on sale to membersCEO Invests Another $500K In CrowdOptic's "New Social Medium"
Jan 24, 3:02AM
Jon Fisher, co-founder and CEO of startup CrowdOptic, just told me that he has invested another $500,000 so the company can build out what it's calling a "new social medium." The idea is to create automatic clusters of people based on their location and line of sight. I met with the CrowdOptic team this weekend — they demonstrated the technology by whipping out their phones and taking photos of the same spot off San Francisco's Embarcadero. CrowdOptic can detect when people are all looking at the same thing, and it sends a notification asking whether they want to form a discussion group, where they can share photos and comments.Federal Judge Rules You May Be Forced To Provide Decryption Password
Jan 24, 2:42AM
In July, we wrote about an ongoing case wherein a woman accused of fraud was being asked by the prosecution to provide the password to access her computer's data, which otherwise would remain encrypted and unreadable, weakening their case. They got permission to compel her to reveal the password, but the defense said that it was unconstitutional to do so, as providing that information was essentially self-incriminating testimony. The defense and the prosecution disagree, there is no single compelling precedent, and even the Supreme Court, which has weighed in on a similar topic, isn't quite sure what to make of the situation. So, doing what Judges are made to do, Judge Robert Blackburn made a decision: "the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents of the Toshiba Satellite M305 laptop computer."SigFig: CES Gets Public Investors Excited About Companies, But Stock Prices Don't Go Up
Jan 24, 2:05AM
The Consumer Electronics Show, the turgid January gadget fest in Las Vegas, has been widely seen in the industry as a great place to show off your wares if you're not Apple. But is that true? SigFig, the stealth investing startup that's growing out of stock portfolio manager Wikinvest, has run some numbers on the market performance of the show's big-company attendees during the event. The main trend is pretty clear: there's lots of buying and selling, but no significant gains. And actually, losses are not uncommon.Microsoft To Ditch "Microsoft Points"? Oh, Please Let It Be True.
Jan 24, 1:52AM
Microsoft Points are dead! Or, they're dying. At least according to InsideMobileApps. Dead, dying, being taken to a farm, whatever — but man do I hope it's true.Early Facebook App Causes Is Being Reborn As A Polished Web Site For Good
Jan 24, 1:27AM
Causes launched with the Facebook Platform back in 2007 as a way to help friends more easily campaign for the social causes of their choice. The app benefited from getting in early on the platform, being the only one in its category (other developers were building poking apps or games at the time), and from having a tight relationship with Facebook via cofounder Sean Parker. The product, though, has lost some momentum over the years -- at least until a multi-part revamp that the company is in the middle of pushing through. Most strikingly, the Facebook canvas app no longer exists. As of this past fall, everything is now on Causes.com.With Self-Serve Ads On The Way, Twitter Adds Security Startup Dasient To Its Ad Product Team
Jan 24, 1:14AM
In preparation for a ramp up of its monetization efforts and its first beta phase of self serve ads, Twitter has bought security startup Dasient, which specializes in malware and fighting spam. The team will be integrated into "revenue engineering," a.k.a the ad product team under directors Kevin Weil and Alex Roetter.Kickstarter: eye3, An Affordable Aerial Photography Drone
Jan 24, 12:16AM
A couple years back, I got to take part in the production of a music video being shot locally on a RED and filmed partially on board a custom helicopter build. It was interesting watching the operator and director work using the rig, but I was struck by how very specialized the copter was. Built from scratch by AerialPan Imaging, it was far from a personalized or affordable solution. A new Kickstarter project called eye3 intends to make just that: an affordable aerial platform that can be automated and controlled from afar, yet is robust and customizable enough to meet the demands of serious photographers.Megaupload Bust Causes Cyberlocker Panic – But It's Only Temporary
Jan 23, 11:45PM
Oh god! Megaupload has fallen and its brethren are dropping like flies! The age of the cyberlocker is passing. No longer will we be able to host a large file somewhere for free and have someone else download it. Actually, it's not quite so dire, but it's true that a number of major file hosts have either shut down, closed part of their service, or changed the way they operate. It's not the first time that file-sharing tools have received a shock to the system, though, and this little contraction is less the end of an era and more a winnowing of the herd. That's a good thing.A Tale Of Two Cities: Silicon Valley And Hollywood
Jan 23, 11:27PM
Silicon Valley and Hollywood: so close geographically, yet so distant digitally and philosophically. You would think we'd understand each other better. In the Valley, we circulate pitch decks. In Hollywood, they shop around scripts. We strive for exits, while they sell distribution rights. They have record labels, we have venture capitalists. They have agents, we have recruiters. People on Sunset Blvd. obsess over the next "hit" that will draw viewers, ears, or butts in seats. On Sand Hill Road, we toast to market disruptions and business model innovations. Ultimately, both are working towards bringing transformative experiences (content and apps) to market. Yet for all the apparent ecosystem similarities, our two worlds are surprisingly at odds. Hollywood's creators and the Valley's innovators could achieve so much together. Instead, we're clashing, and neither viewpoint is wrong.5 Things RIM's New CEO Absolutely Must Not Do
Jan 23, 11:04PM
Whenever a company appoints new leadership here in the tech world, the blogosphere seems to unanimously post about what the new top dog needs to do to make his or her company better. I promise, you'll see dozens of headlines today talking about what Thorsten Heins must do in order to save BlackBerry. In many cases, I agree with what's being said. RIM's in trouble, and without a new vision the company risks slipping even further behind the competition. You know... "the other fruit company." So rather than list out all of the things Heins needs to do to save the company (which, we can all agree, would take a really long time), I'm going to tell you guys the five things that Mr. Heins absolutely must not, without a doubt, under no circumstances... do. That is, if RIM wants to keep selling smartphones.Gobbler Grabs $1.75 Million To Help Musicians Keep Track Of Their Files
Jan 23, 10:44PM
In the same digital asset management space as ResourceSpace and Northplains, Gobbler -- sort of like a fancy Dropbox built specifically for backing up, transferring and organizing high bandwidth media files like music, videos and photos (Mike writes a lot about why it's cool here) -- has raised another $1.75 million in financing. Investors include ff Venture Capital, Black Ocean Group, Mindjolt CTO Aber Whitcomb, Facebook VP Dan Rose, Former Googler Jermey Wenokur, Science's Mike Jones, and LowerMyBills founder Matt Coffin among others. This new money brings the LA-based startup's total funding to just over $3 million.The TechFellow Awards: Nominate Innovators To Win $100K Angel Funds
Jan 23, 10:29PM
The TechFellow Awards is different. Rather than just recognizing outstanding innovators, each of its 20 winners receive $100,000 to invest in a startup of their choice. Its purpose? To fund the next generation of high-tech entrepreneurship. Today, Founders Fund, TechCrunch, and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) announce the opening of nominations for the third annual TechFellows Awards. From now until February 17th, visit the new TechFellows website and click "Nominate a TechFellow". There you can submit the name of a great leader, disruptive visionary, product genius, or engineering wizard who deserves a greater chance to shape the future.Virtual Styling And Fashion Community Polyvore Raises $14M From DAG Ventures, Goldman Sachs And Others
Jan 23, 10:28PM
Polyvore, the startup lets web shoppers pull their favorite items any online store and mix and match to create personalized outfits online, has raised $14 million in Series C financing led by DAG Ventures and with participation from Goldman Sachs, Vivi Nevo (NV Investments), Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners. This brings the company's total funding to over $22 million. The funding was originally reported by the New York Times. Polyvore allows users to create fashion "sets," which are digital collages that users create by combining their favorite products from across the web. The site says it has 13 million unique monthly visitors, an 80% increase over last year. And the Polyvore user community creates on average one Polyvore set every two seconds, a total of 1.4 million sets per month.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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