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Daily Crunch: Cheap 3D
Feb 29, 9:00AM
Here are some recent Gadgets posts: Is The $300 3D Printer Finally Here? Makible Thinks So TC@MWC: The Huawei Ascend D Quad Is One Of The Nicest Phones You'll Never Buy LTE-Packing Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Hits VZW Shelves On March 1 HBO GO Finally Lands On Xbox 360 On April 1 (And No, It's Not A Joke) iPad 3 Rumor RoundupThe Man Who Predicted the Yahoo/Facebook IP War on Why Patents Still Matter [TCTV]
Feb 29, 7:59AM
When news broke this week that Yahoo is accusing Facebook of violating as many as 20 of its patents, it took some people by surprise -- but at least one patent expert saw it all coming from a mile away. Erin-Michael Gill first publicly predicted a Yahoo/Facebook patent battle back in November 2011, so TechCrunch TV reached out to Gill to get his insights on the situation, now that things have finally started to come to a head.Charts For Everyone: Cloud-Based iCharts Picks Up $3.1 Million For Consumer Push
Feb 29, 7:51AM
This is another one for those who love to mark the consumerization of enterprise technology: iCharts, the cloud-based charting service that once described itself as the "YouTube for interactive charts", has now picked up $3.1 million in funding to try to do precisely that: make its platform something used by the public at large. The Series A round comes from a group of private equity investors that include German super-angels Regehr Capital Management Group; Saeed Amidi, founder and CEO of Plug N Play; and Lorenz Graef, founder and former CEO of Globalpark.Esprit De TechCrunch
Feb 29, 7:20AM
If there's anything to be learned from the past year, it's that media people are mostly power vultures -- pulling out their forks and knives at the slight sign of vulnerability from those that have influence. Oftentimes some are so eager for the kill that they slip up and impale themselves on those very knives -- the pattern repeats over and over again. Earlier this month, after being beat up by news cycle after news cycle about my -- yes, struggling, beloved company -- I asked my investor friend why tech bloggers* were so petty. He responded with an adapted Wallace Sayre quote, "Because the stakes are so low."ReportGrid Launches Precog To Help You Turn Big Data Into Smarter Apps
Feb 29, 6:40AM
Back in October, ReportGrid raised $750K from investors like Launch Capital, David Cohen, Walt Winshall, Doug Derwin, and Ed Roman -- not long after it graduated from TechStars' summer program in Boulder. The interest in ReportGrid was due to the fact that the company offers data analytics as a service (or DAaaS, if you prefer), providing companies with nifty scalable cloud database and visualization engine. In this way, it's meant to be a turnkey, hosted alternative for developers to save them from having to build their own.EmployInsight Grabs $1M For Its Employee Measurement Platform (And NYSE As Its First Client)
Feb 29, 5:00AM
EmployInsight, a web-based platform for measuring and quantifying employees' "soft skills" in the workplace, has raised $1 million+ from Founder Collective, Launch Capital, Sean Glass, Phil Bronner, Jarrod Yuster, David Cohen, Gus Fuldner and other angels, the company is announcing today. The startup is also revealing one of its first enterprise clients, and it's a big one: the New York Stock Exchange is up-and-running on EmployInsight's first product, a hiring application called HireInsight.Tello Raises $2.7M From True Ventures To Give Businesses Consumer Feedback On The Fly
Feb 29, 5:00AM
Tello,, a SaaS and mobile app that allows customers to give businesses realtime feedback on customer service, has raised $2.7 million in new funding led by True Ventures and Bullpen Capital. The company, which debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, previously raised $1 million in seed funding from Dave McClure, True Ventures, Founder Collective, Chris Sacca, Aydin Senkut, Russ Siegelman, Marc Goines, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, and Shervin Pishevar. On the consumer side, Tello is a free web and mobile service that aggregates ratings for businesses (business listings are aggregated from Localeze) from across the web and allows users to post comments about their experience at a business. Users can provide feedback on specific employees, recommend an employees and share a positive or negative story about the employee. Via iPhone and Android apps, users can select a specific business, choose and employee at the business and rate the service with a thumbs up or a thumbs down.Sonastand Is A Stunning Aluminum iPhone 4 Amplifier Dock You'll Actually Want
Feb 29, 4:36AM
Kickstarter is seemingly a place where people go to make iDevice accessories. Some are hits, most are not. The Sonastand is clearly the former. Apple's Johnny Ives would probably even approve of this one. The story goes that the Sonastand's creators are, as one of them puts it on Reddit, two normal nerdy dudes trying to do their thing. To be honest their creation is not very novel but it's still rad as hell. All the Sonastand does is prop up the iPhone 4 in a way that connects the dock's passive speaker horn to the phone's tiny speaker. But it's not just empty claims compensated by sexy looks. The creators tested the Sonastand and found its passive horn significantly boost mid and high-end frequencies. TWiT will never sound the same.iPad 3 Rumor Roundup
Feb 29, 12:20AM
Unless Apple is conning the world, the iPad 3 should be announced next week. It, like its forbears, is the subject of many a rumor, some more likely than others. We've collected most of them here in this post with arguments for and against, for your convenience and flaming pleasure. Of course, we'll be there to cover the event live, and will (if past events are any indication) get a nice hands-on as well.Why Google+ Doesn't Care If You Never Come Back
Feb 29, 12:07AM
Ad targeting. Google+ is designed to power ad targeting, and for that it only needs you to sign up once. This lets it combine the biographical information you initially enter such as age, gender, and places you've lived with your activity on Search, Gmail, Maps and all its other products to create an accurate identity profile. And this powers targeting of more relevant ads it can charge more for. So despite comScore showing that the average Google+ user only spends 3 minutes per month on Google+, VP Bradley Horowitz wasn't lying when he told the Wall Street Journal "We're growing by every metric we care about".Vocus Buys Email Marketing Company iContact For $169 Million
Feb 28, 9:18PM
Big M&A news in the email marketing world. Vocus, the publicly-listed provider of cloud-based marketing and PR software, has acquired iContact, a company that provides email marketing services for small and medium sized businesses. The total acquisition price is $169 million. iContact's email marketing software automates the process of creating, sending and tracking email communications for businesses. iContact, which has raised over $50 million to date, also allows users to track email campaign effectiveness, accessing data around opens, clicks and more.Startups: Durham Wants You In Their Smoffice
Feb 28, 8:54PM
Durham (a city in North Carolina) is looking to vitalize their already burgeoning startup scene by giving away the "World's Smallest Office," a moniker I once reserved for my attic bathroom but can now be rendered unto a bit of space in the front of a Cafe in Durham's beautiful Downtown. Although the office shown above appears to be more like a monkey cage than a formal workspace, the Smoffice (as it's called) will be available to one small startup for six months. The startup will also receive living space in downtown Durham and (this is just conjecture) a supply of Scuppernong grapes, known also as North Carolina's state fruit.Groupon Acqhires Uptake To Build Out Palo Alto Office
Feb 28, 8:48PM
Groupon is acquiring travel startup Uptake. Liz Gannes at AllThingsD broke the news. We spoke to a source with knowledge of the deal who confirmed the details of the AllThingsD report. The purchase price was apparently between $10 and $20 million.Twitter's Promoted Tweets & Accounts Arrive On Mobile Apps
Feb 28, 8:43PM
Twitter announced today an update which will impact its mobile applications on iPhone and Android: it's bringing additional "Promoted Products" to the mobile platform, specifically Promoted Accounts and Promoted Tweets. The Promoted Products suite of advertising products, which includes Promoted Trends, Promoted Tweets (in search and in the timeline), and Promoted Accounts, have been available on the web for some time, including the mobile web interface at m.twitter.com. In select cases, they've also been available within the native applications. However, with the recent app updates being launched today, Promoted Accounts will now be added to both Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android, with Promoted Tweets to soon follow.What's Happenin' Youse East Coast Staaht Ups? We Want To Hear From You!
Feb 28, 8:31PM
With all this fuzz and fizzle going down with TC inside politics, departures, and whispered depictions of TC as a sinking ship populated by the shambling walking dead, rats clawing through our brainpans and dropping out onto our laps as our fingers shamble across our filthy, befouled keyboards, low groans of agony and anger gurgling out of our deepest, darkest spaces, I thought it would be a good idea to go over some of the things we're focusing on here on the site and offer a bit of guidance for start-ups looking to make it in Boston, DC, NYC, and Hilton Head, North Carolina. We're a very SF/Valley-centered blog, but what are New York, Washington, Virginia, and/or Florida? Chopped liver? I think not. What about Chicago, Atlanta, and Scranton? They may not have In-N-Out, but by gum they do have hamburgers just as good as those found in Palo Alto.Apps Round-up From The Streets Of Barcelona
Feb 28, 8:12PM
We've been trawling Barcelona for apps and startups during Mobile World Congress, so here's a little round-up of some of those that have been plying their wares - many of whom don't have the cash to exhibit at the official Congress, but who are pitching like mad in the hotel bars of Barcelona. BearCare from Tagofjoy is an Augmented Reality game with a freemium business model. In the game you have to protect your beloved helpless Teddy Bear and cuddle him to keep him happy (go with it, it gets better). The fun part is that it takes place in a real environment, which is blended with lively and playful 3D bears. The games ha two modes. One is a fast-paced action game, in which you have to protect your helpless bear from unearthly, evil toy bears. Another mode lets you take care of him and keep him happy by cuddling him, playing with him and feeding him when he gets hungry. It's a Tamagotchi basically, but re-done for a new world. PlayTales is a an interesting virtual store and publishing platform. It publishes interactive children's ebooks in 7 languages on Android, iPad, iPhone, Windows Phone and soon a flash web site. It's basically a dream come true for parents who want to read stories to their kids on an iPad. Mafuta Go! is a one from left field for you. Coming out of Uganda, this is an app that lets users find the nearest gas station with the cheapest prices. Should you need that. It's worth also pointing out that Swiftkey, which we've covered before, won the official GMA award for most innovative app, beating Google Wallet. Here's a few others:Google's Schmidt: If Google Gets It Right, There Will Be An Android In Every Pocket
Feb 28, 7:32PM
The number of people in the world has now reached 7 billion people, but the number that have been online are only at 2 billion, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, said today at a keynote presentation at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. "We need to be realists about technology," he said. The future, most easily, belongs to "ultra connected people" who can embrace the future of technology, but the majority of people do not fall into that category, he said as he kicked off a speech about what he sees as the role of technology in the world today, and carefully suggested what role Google could play in the game.ASO (App Store Optimization) Is The New SEO, And Here's A Tool To Do It
Feb 28, 7:25PM
What's the hardest thing about building a successful mobile app? If you answered "building a mobile app," you're wrong. It's getting your app found. With over 600,000+ iOS applications, and now some 450,000 on Android, the real challenge for developers is having their app surfaced higher than hundreds of other competitors in the app store search results. Doing this correctly involves ASO, or app store optimization. It's basically SEO repurposed for mobile, and because we're still in the early days of the mobile ecosystem, it's simpler to optimize apps than webpages. But developers are often lacking knowledge, and especially tools, to help them out on this front. That's where the newly launched App Store Optimization Keyword Volume estimator (whew!) comes in.ClassPager Lets Teachers Quiz and Remind Students Via SMS
Feb 28, 7:21PM
Why ban phones from the classroom when you can harness them? Bootstrapped startup ClassPager today launches its Twilio-powered SMS system that lets teachers and professors efficiently send their students quizzes and reminders, and receive answers and feedback. ClassPager can re-engage bored or shy students, and show teachers who's falling behind. The 30-second set up provides a classroom code students can text to participate, so teachers and students don't actually have each other's phone numbers. That means better grades with no prank calls and no inappropriate advances.Keen On… Cary Sherman: The RIAA Needs To Give Music Consumers What They Want (TCTV)
Feb 28, 7:15PM
So has the Internet been the best or the worst of things for the music industry? Some musicians, like Camper Van Beethoven's David Lowery, argue the latter; while some technologists, like BitTorrent's Bram Cohen think the former. And this all important question - the real impact of the Internet on both musicians and music consumers - is one that I asked Cary Sherman, the Washington DC based CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), when we Skyped yesterday.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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