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And The Crunchie Goes To…Pinterest, Best New Startup Of 2011
Feb 01, 9:11AM
Online pinboard Pinterest, the hot new startup that's growing at a phenomenal rate, won the Crunchie for the Best New Startup of 2011 at this year's Crunchies. (This, despite the fact that it actually launched in 2010). The reason? Crazy, crazy traffic and growth. In November, the site had reportedly seen a 2,000% increase in pageviews, according to comScore. That wasn't year-over-year growth, mind you, but the increase Pinterest had seen since June. At 421 million pageviews, the site had already surpassed more established players, like Etsy, for example. But co-founder Ben Silbermann stayed tight-lipped on the hard metrics behind Pinterest. In an interview backstage after the win, he declined to provide the number of users or even the number of pins. (There were "a lot," he demurred.)Jack Dorsey Defends Twitter's Tweet-Level Censorship
Feb 01, 8:42AM
After Twitter creator, executive chairman, and product lead Jack Dorsey accepted the company's award for Biggest Social Impact at the Crunchies, TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis asked him about a recent, controversial decision to block individual tweets on a country-by-country basis. Will that hurt Twitter's ability to make a positive impact on the future?Imgur Wins Best Bootstrapped Startup, Sees 1 Billion Pageviews Per Month
Feb 01, 8:39AM
Here at the 2011 Crunchies, Imgur, the photo-sharing site made popular by the Reddit community, won the category of "Best Bootstrapped Startup." And given the traffic numbers the startup is seeing, it's easy to see why. According to Founder Alan Schaaf, the site sees 30 million uniques per month and a billion pageviews. (Yes, a billion!)Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Dropbox Is The Best Overall Startup
Feb 01, 5:32AM
This year's fifth annual Crunchies Awards have just finished up at the classy Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and it was a smashing success. We poked fun #humblebraggers, got cussed at by Siri, honored former TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, and gave wild monkey trophies to tech's greatest innovators. If you missed the event or our livestream, check out the full list of nominees and winners below.Omniture Co-Founder's Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Lands $20M From IVP
Feb 01, 4:58AM
Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $20 million in new funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). This round brings total investment in Domo to $63 million. Previous investors include Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway and David Lee of SV Angel, and Hummer Winblad. As you may remember, Omniture is a web analytics SaaS company that went public and was subsequently bought by Adobe in 2009 for $1.8 billion. Last year, James debuted his next project, Domo, with $33 million in funding from Benchmark, and aimed to tackle the business intelligence space. Domo purchased a company called Corda, and started accepting customers on a selective basis to test out the platform.Crunchies Introduction by Host Harris Whittels
Feb 01, 4:31AM
Watch The Crunchies Awards Live [Video]
Feb 01, 3:14AM
We're live at The Crunchies Awards at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Once again we've partnered with fellow blogs VentureBeat and GigaOm to celebrate the best technology achievements of 2011. Those of you at home can watch the live stream here. The show starts at 7:30 pm.
What Recession? Razer's $2800 Blade Gaming Laptop Sells Out In 30 Minutes
Feb 01, 2:12AM
For months we've been waiting on Razer's Blade notebook, a $2800, 17-inch beast that we weren't sure whether to laud or mock. It's just that it's kind of a strange thing to see making a big debut when people are more cautious than usual with their money, and PC gaming (as ever) is being declared dead. But after our hands-on at CES, we were convinced that it was at the very least impressive and well-built, and apparently enough other people thought so that Razer sold out almost immediately.Years After Being Dropped, ZFS Finds Its Way Back To The Mac
Jan 31, 11:31PM
Two weeks ago, the excellent Building Windows 8 blog posted an in-depth look at the upcoming operating system's new file system, ReFS. It reminded me of the promise of so many years ago that OS X would be changing its file system from HFS+ to ZFS. Not a promise many remember or even cared about at the time, but it was, in fact, important. ZFS support was dropped amid development and legal problems, but Don Brady, who was heading up the file system transition team at Apple, left to pursue it independently. And now he's releasing a piece of software, Zevo, which finally adds ZFS support to any Intel Mac running 10.6.6 or later.CFO Defends Amazon From Analyst Skepticism
Jan 31, 11:15PM
Investors seem pretty disappointed with Amazon's fourth quarter results (as of 3pm Pacific, the company's stock is down 8.6 percent in after-hours training), yet for most of this afternoon's analyst conference call, that disappointment was largely hidden in the normal stream of numbers and financial terminology. Finally, a few minutes before the call ended, one analyst asked CFO Tom Szkutak to directly address the concern that earlier questions had hinted at — namely, that the company seems to be seeing "diminishing return" on its spending. Szutak's initial response? "I'm not sure how to answer that." Yes, he said Amazon is investing heavily (for example, hhe said Amazon had opened 17 fulfillment centers during the quarter, bringing the total to 69), but that's because the company is seeing so much growth — in its own retail business, in fulfillment for third-party retailers, in Amazon Web Services, and so on. As evidence, he pointed to Amazon's 46 percent growth in overall unit sales. (He talked in more detail about media sales earlier in the call.)Amazon: Video Game Revenue Down, Physical Book Sales Up
Jan 31, 10:55PM
Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak offered more details this afternoon during an analyst earnings call about the company's disappointing fourth quarter When it comes to physical media, Szkutak said the biggest hit to revenue came in the area of video game sales, which includes both console and game sales (but not games sold digitally, say from Amazon's app store). Even though he didn't offer specific numbers on that front, he noted that video games sales are seasonal and normally take a big leap in the last quarter of the year — and that did indeed happen this year, but not enough to match 2010 revenue. In part, that's because more of those sales are going to Amazon's third-party sellers, rather than Amazon itself. So video games units were up, while revenue was down.Self-Guided Bullet Could Strike Laser-Designated Targets From A Mile Away
Jan 31, 10:26PM
You might remember the scene in The Hurt Locker where some soldiers are ambushed by a sniper and must do a little return sniping. That process of spotting, adjusting the sights, and altering the bullet's ballistic trajectory bit by bit and degree by degree may soon no longer be necessary: Sandia Labs has developed a bullet with a built-in processor that guides its own flight via tiny adjustable fins. The idea is that the bullet would go exactly where it was meant to go, and not deviate from the target because of wind, gravity, or other factors. They say that at the range of a kilometer, a normal bullet might be off by almost 10 yards, while this guided bullet would get within 8 inches.Apple Is Totally Serious About That Stuff They Put At The End Of Their Emails
Jan 31, 10:03PM
Welcome, kids, to TIL - Today I Learned. Today's TIL is "Don't post your correspondence with AppleCare representatives or Apple will totally tell the government on you." David Boles had a nice Apple monitor that died on him. He had a little trouble transferring AppleCare coverage to his new monitor after it pooped out and so he posted some advice on his blog. Nothing major, just "don't forget to connect your AppleCare accounts." Very innocuous.Reuters: Facebook IPO To Raise $5B, Filing Wednesday, Morgan Stanley In Lead
Jan 31, 9:55PM
The drip-drop of financial news about Facebook's impending initial public offering is starting to turn into a downpour. The company is planning to file its initial prospectus on Wednesday morning, Reuters is reporting, with the intention of raising a conservative $5 billion. The report, through Reuters subsidiary International Financing Review, also answers the question of which bank will lead -- Morgan Stanley. The others will include Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs, which had appeared to be in the lead position last year after it helped Facebook raise a $1.5 billion late-stage round. However, issues around that funding may have contributed to Morgan Stanley getting the top spot.Steam Mobile Apps Graduate From Beta, Now Open To All Gamers
Jan 31, 9:41PM
I know I say this a lot, but man that was fast. Valve's new pair of Steam mobile apps have been in their respective marketplaces for less than a week, and already they have graduated from beta status. That means that you, Mr. or Mrs. Game Enthusiast, will be able to sign into your Steam account on your iOS or Android device right now and begin chatting your far-flung friends or ogling new deals.Peavey Builds An Auto-Tuning Guitar
Jan 31, 9:18PM
Guitar-maker Peavey has teamed up with audio electronics experts Anteres to create an auto-tuning guitar. While these things aren't new - Gibson has had robotic tuners for a while - this system is unique in that it senses and corrects the pitch of the strings regardless of tuning, which means you can do all sorts of interesting tricks with vibrato even in what would amount to be an untuned guitar.Amazon Misses; Q4 Net Income Down 58 Percent To $177M; Sales Up 35 Percent
Jan 31, 9:10PM
Amazon has just released fourth quarter 2011 earnings, missing sales expectations but beating earnings estimates. Net income decreased 58% to $177 million in the fourth quarter, or $0.38 per diluted share, compared with net income of $416 million, or $0.91 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2010. Net sales increased 35% to $17.43 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $12.95 billion in fourth quarter 2010. Analysts are expecting earnings of $0.17 cents a share on revenue of about $18.3 billion. "We are grateful to the millions of customers who purchased the Kindle Fire and Kindle e-reader devices this holiday season, making Kindle our bestselling product across both the U.S. and Europe," said Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. "Our millions of third-party sellers had a tremendous holiday season with 65% unit growth and now represent 36% of total units sold."FlatFrog Offers Up A New Multitouch Table
Jan 31, 9:01PM
We saw a few touch-tables at CES, and while the Surface remains the gold standard, not everyone loves the price, form factor, or size. There's room for competition, and FlatFrog, based in Sweden, is hoping to break into the market with a new 32" device. When it comes to touch, there are a few different methods of detecting fingers and objects. Most common now is capacitive, which is on most smartphones. Then there's resistive, which isn't quite as responsive. Samsung created one for the new Surface that embeds tiny photosensors between image pixels. And FlatFrog uses yet another method.Facebook News Feed Bug Announces "This Group Is Scheduled To Be Archived"
Jan 31, 8:59PM
Wait, what group? A bug has caused a significant percentage of Facebook users to see a message atop their news feed announcing "This group is scheduled to be archived". But don't worry, your news feed is safe. The alert shouldn't have appeared there, and only belongs on old groups set up prior to October 2010 which Facebook is migrating to the new format used today.London Implements "Smart Bins" Before 2012 Olympics
Jan 31, 8:52PM
I'm not sure how I feel about this. The object you're looking at right now is what the city of London calls a "smart bin." Built by Renew, the smart bins are being installed on the streets of London and have two massive LCD screens slapped on the sides. According to the Daily Mail, the screens will display news from the Economist and stock quotes.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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