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GoodRx Grabs $1M+ From SV Angel, Founders Fund & More To Help You Find Cheap Prescription Drugs
Feb 19, 2:16AM
Like many other services, goods, and commodities, prescription drug prices can vary widely depending on location and what particular vendor is offering them. Launching last September at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco was GoodRx, a service that's aiming to bring some transparency back to prescription drug purchases by bringing some sophisticated price comparison technology to the everyday consumer. GoodRx was co-founded by Scott Marlette and Doug Hirsch, both early employees of Facebook. Hirsch was VP of Product at Facebook back in 2005, and Marlette, one of the company's first 20 employees, was an engineer who worked on, among other things, Facebook's photo application. The culture of transparency, openness, and focus on the big picture, Marlette says, had a lasting influence on him after Facebook, leading he and Hirsch to apply some of that psychology to building a better way to serve consumers with the latest pricing info from the prescription drug market.Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks
Feb 18, 11:30PM
With the pending public offering of Facebook anticipated to be the largest tech IPO in history, it's an interesting time to think about where we go from here. Some say "social is done," Facebook is all the social media anyone would ever want or need. Unquestionably, as it nears one billion accounts, in the solar system of social media, Facebook is the Sun -- the gravitational center around which everything social revolves. But while some may pronounce that Facebook is all the social we'd ever need, users clearly haven't gotten the memo.Mobile Advertising Is The Baby Huey Of The Media World (And Apple Is Taking The Low Road)
Feb 18, 10:30PM
I had dinner last week with a senior exec from a global advertising holding company who asked what I often get asked these days, "What's going on with mobile advertising?" it's a timely question as last week Apple announced they were lowering the buy-in price for iAds from $500,000 to $100,000 and increasing the publisher revenue share from 60% to 70%. The move seems innocent enough, but with a little inspection is actually very worrying for a segment still struggling to shake off it's inferiority complex, and potentially chilling for many innovators and entrepreneurs.Seize Your Opportunities Like Jeremy Lin
Feb 18, 9:35PM
Last week, Forbes contributor Eric Jackson published a list on the 9 lessons that Jeremy Lin can teach you; number 2 on his list was "Seize the Opportunity". Lin's not the first, and he won't be the last, but his meteoric rise has reminded us once again that anything is possible if you seize the opportunity. In this article, we'll expand on that and discuss how you can seize your opportunities. It is, after all, easier said than done.The Forest, the Trees, and the Next Big Thing
Feb 18, 8:05PM
They say hindsight is 20/20. By now, everyone knows about the fastest-growing site on the web. Yet, for a period of time in 2011, despite all the signals pointing toward the phenomena, most in Silicon Valley weren't able to sniff out the trend even though, looking back, the clues were right under our noses. I wanted to write this post to offer a theory as to why the Valley, at large, missed this trend. Additionally, I want to underscore that this post is less about Pinterest, and more about how even the most focused, attentive audiences can miss the forest for the trees.>From College To Silicon Valley: Tips From A Veteran
Feb 18, 7:17PM
Looking for internships and jobs after college can be exhilarating, especially for people with engineering and other technical expertise. In an otherwise tough job market, demand for software engineers is higher than ever right now. You may find that companies are actually competing to pay you for the knowledge you worked so hard to acquire in school. But as pumped as I was when I started out, I also felt a lot of stress: the uncertainty of facing an interviewer; the big differences between companies; the difficulty of deciding which company would be best for me.I Have Seen The Future, And Its Sky Is Full Of Eyes
Feb 18, 6:11PM
Allow me just a little self-congratulatory chest-beating. Four years ago I started writing a near-fiction thriller about the risks of swarms of UAVs in the wrong hands. Everyone I talked to back then (including my agent, alas) thought the subject was implausible, even silly. Well, it's not like I'm the next Vernor Vinge -- it always seemed like a pretty blatantly obvious prediction to me -- but I am pleased to see that drones and drone swarms have finally become the flavor of the month. In the last month, the Stanford Law Review has wrung its hands about the "ethical argument pressed in favor of drone warfare," while anti-genocide activists have called for the use of "Drones for Human Rights" in Syria and other troubled nations; the UK and France declared a drone alliance; and a new US law compels the FAA to allow police and commercial drones in American airspace, which may lead to "routine aerial surveillance of American life."Gillmor Gang: Apple's High Definition Anxiety
Feb 18, 6:01PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — inaugurated a new title format where the topic replaces the date of the show release (it's in the URL). Today's topic: what it always is, Apple's relentless march toward encircling Windows in a sea of HD-quality iOS devices. In the latest update to OS X, push notification, the Twitter social bus and AirPlay come to the TV by way of the full complement of iOSish devices, now including the Mac. With iPad 3 just weeks away, Apple has made it retinal clear that the company has no intention of allowing anybody to catch up to the economic juggernaut where premium products sell out at prices that can't be undercut. The realtime global social network fuels demand for the iOS pervasive screen architecture (and coopetive partners such as Android and Amazon) to such a viral extent that the resulting momentum keeps competitors from realizing Apple's supply chain economies of scale.New Hope For Open Source Textbooks
Feb 18, 5:36PM
A college textbook can cost a staggering $200. Over four years of study, students can easily spend thousands of dollars on books on top of a hefty tuition. The situation is not much better in public elementary, middle and high schools, where taxpayers pick up the bill. California spends around $100 on every math and science book for its 2 million high school students, for example. But textbooks don't have to be such a financial burden.Android Breathes New Life Into "Made in China"
Feb 18, 2:01PM
How do you end up with millions of new sales overnight with low development and implementation costs? In the case of Chinese electronics companies Rock Chips and Box Chips the answer has been simple – hitch a ride on Android. China's economy is booming thanks to low cost assembly, the country's key advantage when competing on the global playing field. Manufacturers deliver low cost laborers who are able to follow processes and procedures to a reasonable degree of accuracy at very reasonable rates, and thus gain an edge over Western manufacturers.Groupon On A Shopping Spree: Buys Mobile Payment Specialist Kima Labs
Feb 18, 9:42AM
Another acquisition for Groupon, and a sign of how the e-commerce company is getting more focused on mobile as a route to future growth: it has picked up Kima Labs, which makes mobile barcode reading app Barcode Hero and mobile payment app TapBuy. The terms of the deal were not disclosed; we're trying to find out. The news comes just hours after news broke that Groupon had bought another mobile startup, Hyperpublic, which makes geolocation technology.Daily Crunch: Rectangle
Feb 18, 9:00AM
Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Motorola Droid 4 Review: This Keyboard Rocks, But That's About It Review: The Playstation Vita, Sony's Portable Powerhouse More Backpedaling: Netflix Brings Back the $7.99 DVD-Only Plan ProView Is Suing Apple Over The Rights To An iMac Clone Foxconn Increases Wages, Raises Pay By 16-25% For Chinese WorkersPinterest Is Not "Playing Dumb" About Making Money
Feb 18, 3:14AM
It seems like everyone's discovered Pinterest this week! Alongside the countless posts dissecting its userbase over, sideways, and under have been a series of stories about how it's "secretly" "monetizing" -- a fact unearthed when LLSocial revealed that the startup was using a service called SkimLinks in order to drive affiliate revenue from purchases that originated on Pinterest.CrunchBase: Social, Mobile And Deals Categories Led 2011 Private Tech Investments
Feb 18, 12:33AM
In case it wasn't already clear to you that later-stage social, mobile and deal-oriented companies led venture fundraising last year, here's some analysis of CrunchBase data that drives the point home, courtesy of Alexey Tolkachiov at BuzzSparks.org.Purported Next-Gen iPad Display Caught And Examined; 2048×1536 Resolution Confirmed
Feb 18, 12:10AM
MacRumors has done something very bad - they went and got themselves an iPad 3 display module. Actually, it's not so bad when you can apparently just order one online. Normally this part even being online and available ahead of launch would suggest it was a scam, but what matters isn't the name of the part (could easily be a scam) but the part itself. They took a microscope to it, see — and it appears to have exactly four times the pixels of an ordinary iPad screen. It's really just the latest in a long line of "confirmations," but it's nice nevertheless to see the thing itself.Groupon Acquires NYC-Based Startup Hyperpublic
Feb 17, 11:55PM
Groupon has just acquired Hyperpublic, a NYC-based startup that's spent the last two years building technology related to geo-location and the layers of information — like deals and events — that live on top of it. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, but CEO Jordan Cooper describes it as a "huge win for our team and our investors". He adds that Groupon was after Hyperpublic's technology — this isn't a case of it acquiring the team alone.Keen On… Pomplamoose: How Nataly And Jack Are Reinventing The Music Business (TCTV)
Feb 17, 10:03PM
So maybe there really is a sensible middle ground in the music business - somewhere between David Lowery's pessimism and Bram Cohen's blind faith in our digital future. That future may be the pop music band Pomplamoose. Its members are Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte, two young musician-entrepreneurs who are not only making a living marketing and selling their music online, but who even own a "nice house" with two recording studios. Nataly and Jack, I suspect (and hope), are the viable future of the music industry - one that will neither revolve around Platinum records nor completely free online content.Irrationally Paranoid? AdiOS Shows Which Apps Access Your Address Book
Feb 17, 9:48PM
Does Address-gate have you terrified that your mobile apps are secretly slurping up your address book? AdiOS is a free new Mac program that in seconds detects which of your iOS apps have the ability to access your phone numbers and email contacts. AdiOS doesn't indicate if or how the apps are transmitting your address book, but you should still delete any that access it. No. That was a joke. This has all gotten ridiculous.Google Under Fire For Circumventing Safari Privacy Setting
Feb 17, 9:38PM
It's a tense time for Google: controversial policy and user-experience changes are combining with a growing distrust of tracking and advertising to produce something of a toxic atmosphere. Not the moment, then, you would want a minor scandal to erupt in the form of Google circumventing, intentionally or unintentionally, the privacy settings of millions of Safari users. The allegations have their source in a report by Stanford grad student Jonathan Mayer, who showed that using Safari triggered a special behavior in the normal cookie-creation process; his report was later played up by the Wall Street Journal. This behavior deliberately goes around the default Safari behavior of blocking all third-party cookies — like one from Google when you're visiting TechCrunch. Google says it's a side-effect from something else, but even if that's true, it's still ugly.Fundraising Platform For Startups ProFounder Shuts Its Doors
Feb 17, 9:29PM
ProFounder, a startup that offered entrepreneurs ways to raise money for their startups and ideas, is shutting its doors, according to an announcement on the company's site today. ProFounder, which is the brainchild of Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley and fellow Stanford Business School alum Dana Mauriello, allowed entrepreneurs to share a percentage of their revenues with investors (their friends, family, and community) over time in exchange for an investment.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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