Hi there!
Here's the latest feed from TechCrunch.
Add feeds@feed2email.net to your contact list to make sure you receive all your emails
Make sure to visit feed2email.net to get more feeds sent to your inbox.
To find out which feeds you are subscribed to, or to get further help, just reply to this email.
Apple Inc., Made In America
Mar 03, 2:01AM
There are two sayings on the back of every Apple product: Designed By Apple in California and Assembled in China. These statements attempt to say that even though the products might be assembled in a different country, Apple is an American company -- a fact Apple proclaimed loudly today with a new web page titled Creating jobs through innovation. Apple has been under fire lately regarding its overseas manufacturing partners. Apple hired the Fair Labor Association to conduct voluntary audits of the final assembly partners, including Foxconn's massive Asian facilities. But consumers and activists alike aren't buying it. It's a smokescreen, they say. Foxconn will just hide the children and give everyone a new pillow prior to inspector's arrival. This has rightly put Apple on the defensive.PlanGrid Builds A New Market For The iPad: The Construction Industry
Mar 03, 1:25AM
Mark this up as one more crucial chapter in the much-thumbed book called "The Consumerization of IT": a new app has launched from a Y Combinator-backed startup that offers builders the ability to store, manage and view blueprints on and iPad tablet. The unique selling point for PlanGrid, as the app is called, is that it promises to present building blueprints in a far more efficient way than they have been presented before. But on a more general level, PlanGrid is a sign of how the iOS platform is maturing and attracting a new wave of developers who target specific enterprise verticals with solutions tailored to their business needs.Playdom Says Marvel Superheroes Are Super Viral (Among Men)
Mar 03, 12:57AM
Social game-maker Playdom officially launched Marvel: Avengers Alliance on Thursday, and executive producer Chia Chin Lee says the title is already disproving some of the common assumptions about social games. The big assumption: that men don't like to share their activity in social games the way that women do. That could be a problem for Avengers Alliance, since a game about superheroes would probably skew male. But during the beta test period, when the game was played by tens of thousands of users, it actually saw 45 percent more viral installs compared to most Playdom titles, and in fact men were four to six times more likely to send in-game messages.Necessary Evil? Random House Triples Prices Of Library E-Books
Mar 03, 12:52AM
Random House, the world's largest publisher of the kinds of books you and I read, has made some adjustments to the way it sells e-books to libraries. Notably, they have tripled the price of many titles. Librarians across the country are expressing their discontent. The changes were telegraphed by an announcement a month ago that suggested prices would be going up soon, and most expected significant increases — but across the board popular genres and titles have gone up as much as 300%. Nothing is offered below $25, and some common titles are going for above $100. As Kathy Petlewski, a librarian in Plymouth, puts it: "The first thing that popped into my mind was that Random House must really hate libraries."Google's Plan To Compete With Apple's Multi-Platform Siri? Google "Assistant"
Mar 03, 12:15AM
The tech world woke up today to reports of an imminent Apple TV, as Apple works to solidify deals with content providers. The rumored television product could indeed be ground-breaking, not just for television, but for computing as a whole. We're hearing exactly what Nick Bilton reported earlier this year, that Apple is going to integrate Siri into Apple TV as well as other iOS devices. In fact a multi-platform Siri could be unveiled as early as next week, when Apple announces the iPad 3.Video: Dennis Crowley Says Half Of Foursquare's Users Are Outside The U.S. [TCTV]
Mar 02, 11:41PM
When I was in Barcelona this week, I met up with Dennis Crowley, the CEO of Foursquare, just after he had gotten off stage from a keynote presentation with the CEOs of Nokia and HTC at the Mobile World Congress event. The check-in app that was once little known outside of the world of tech early-adopters may only have around 15 million users, but that number has actually made it a leader in its field, and that has amplified the company (and Crowley).MySpace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe Explains SGN's New Name, Multi-Platform Plans
Mar 02, 11:28PM
MindJolt, the gaming company led by MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, recently announced that it's changing its name to the Social Gaming Network. DeWolfe spoke to me earlier this week about the name change, and about his plans for the coming year. The new company name may sound familiar, because MindJolt actually acquired SGN last year. (SGN founder Shervin Pishevar is now a managing director at Menlo Ventures.) DeWolfe says the SGN name is a better reflection of what the company is doing.How BranchOut Hit The Tipping Point and Grew From 1M to 5.5M Actives In 2 Months
Mar 02, 11:23PM
At the start of 2012 BranchOut had just 1 million monthly active users. Then the professional networking app hired a dedicated growth team, launched a mobile web app, and hit the network effect tipping point. According to AppData, by February it had 2.7 million MAU. Now the Facebook-based BranchOut is blowing up, riding the employment needs of blue-collar workers past the 10 million registration mark to reach 5.5 million MAU, half from overseas. Take heed entrepreneurs, this is how you concoct a startup growth formula...Yelp Closes 5-Star IPO Day With $1.47 Billion Valuation
Mar 02, 10:31PM
For Yelp, this has been a very good day. The restaurant review site was received exceptionally well by Wall Street during its first day as a publicly traded company, closing at a price of $24.58 per share, up a full 63 percent from its $15 IPO price.Why You Should Treat Your iPhone Like a Toddler: The State of Mobile App Security [TCTV]
Mar 02, 10:26PM
Privacy and security issues have been at the forefront of tech news this week, with recently exposed loopholes in Apple's iOS and Google's Android indicating that apps can access much more content on our smartphones than most users realize. Superstar security researcherAshkan Soltani came by the TCTV studio to dig a bit deeper into how safe smartphones are today and whether things are getting better.DealBoard For iPhone Finds Offers You Like, So You Can Kill The Daily Deal Emails
Mar 02, 9:36PM
DealBoard, a recently launched iPhone app from Seattle and London-based nFluence Media, has just emerged as a new player in the crowded "daily deals" space. But this app isn't yet another Groupon clone, it's a daily deal aggregator. However, what makes dealBoard unique - and why the company has $3 million in funding - is how the app goes about aggregating those deals for you. Instead of just rounding up a list of all the deals in the area, dealBoard personalizes the experience based on your interests.NASA: We've Been Hacked Thousands Of Times Because Of Inadequate IT Infrastructure
Mar 02, 9:10PM
Paul Martin, NASA's Inspector General, gave written testimony in a House committee earlier this week detailing the security threats faced by their IT infrastructure. The thrust of the document is that NASA needs to double down on cybersecurity but, naturally, needs more money to do so. Their IT budget is $1.5 billion, but of that only $58 million was spent on security. Considering the enormous network of datacenters, laptops, operations centers, and research labs scattered around the world, this may not be nearly enough. As it is, in the last two years NASA has been hacked thousands of times. In one instance, the hackers gained full access to some NASA systems and credentials for 150 employees.Keen On… Richard Bronson: Why America Should Legalize Online Poker [TCTV]
Mar 02, 9:00PM
I'm not a big fan of online gambling, particularly poker. I think it preys on weak, addictive personalities and all too often can destroy innocent lives. And my feelings are shared by the U.S. government which has made online poker illegal. But not everyone agrees with either me or the U.S. government about banning Internet gambling. Richard "Skip" Bronson, for example, the co-founder and chairman of U.S. Digital Gaming (USDG), a company that provides a suite of products for legal online gambling, is - not surprisingly - a leading advocate of legalizing online poker. Bronson wants to change the law and transform online poker from what he says is a murky offshore business into a highly regulated industry.Gillmor Gang Live 03.02.12 (TCTV)
Mar 02, 9:00PM
Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor . Recording has concluded.A Year Later, Asus Is Still Waiting For The "Right Time" To Launch Windows Phones
Mar 02, 8:57PM
As Microsoft's Windows Phone platform continues to pick up steam and hardware partners, one company has managed to stay out of the Windows Phone game despite their long relationship with Microsoft. Taiwan-based Asus has created developer units for the platform in 2010, and leaks indicate that they haven't managed to get Microsoft's mobile platform off their minds. So with all that said, what on earth is taking the Taiwanese company so long to officially throw their hats into the Windows Phone arena? According to a brief interview with Pocket-Lint, Asus GM of Mobile Devices Benson Lin says it's only a matter of time. The thing is, it's been a matter of time for over a year now.Philadelphia Vigilante Doesn't Want To Hear Your Public Phone Calls
Mar 02, 8:32PM
A man named Eric who (uselessly) refuses to give up his last name (which I swear isn't Eldon) has taken it upon himself to rid the world of annoying public cell phone conversations. But how, you might ask, is Eric X doing this? Just through the illegal purchase and use of a wireless jammer, of course. "I guess I'm taking the law into my own hands and quite frankly, I'm proud of it." Ah, the glorious naïveté of vigilantism.Giant Bing Search Box Appears On Facebook's Logout Page
Mar 02, 8:30PM
Soon when you logout of Facebook, you could be greeted with a full recreation of the Bing home page, complete with pretty photo and an active search box. Facebook has wasted no time launching the new logout page ad unit it unveiled on Wednesday. This morning TechCrunch reader and MyJobLinx co-founder Raj Singh's Facebook logout page featured a Bing search box that when used opened a Bing search results page in a separate tab. [Update: Facebook has confirmed that Bing is the first advertiser to use its new logout page ad unit.] The new featured placement for Bing is likely an extension of Facebook's partnership Microsoft, where Bing powers the social network's internal search engine.Female-Focused Accelerator "Women Innovate Mobile" Announces Its First Participants
Mar 02, 7:57PM
Women Innovate Mobile (WIM), the new accelerator aimed to help promote companies started by female entrepreneurs, is ready to debut its first class. Like other incubators, WIM provides mentoring, support, free office space, and seed funding. Participants in the program receive $18,000 to help get their companies get off the ground. Except unlike the majority of other programs, WIM requires not only that the companies focus on mobile, but also that one of the co-founders must be a woman.Etsy iPhone App Hits 1 Million Downloads in Under 4 Months
Mar 02, 7:32PM
Etsy, online seller of various hand-made hipster goodness, has reached a major milestone today. After less than four months on the App Store, the Etsy for iPhone app has surpassed 1 million downloads. The app launched in mid-November 2011. But that's not all Etsy has to celebrate. Since the release of the app, it's seen 25-60 percent growth in visits month-over-month, and is seeing an average of 30 pageviews per visit.Disrupt NYC Is Back! Battlefield Applications Open And Tickets Now On Sale
Mar 02, 7:03PM
Thanksgiving is over, Christmas has come and gone, a New Year has arrived, and spring flowers are starting to bloom. Hopefully you know what that means. That means it's almost time to disrupt the technology industry yet again. Disrupt NYC is back and bigger than ever. We will be taking over New York City this May for our incredibly popular Hackathon, and our world-renowned Disrupt conference. We will have more guests and speakers than last year, more hackers from all around the world, more topics to dive into about the technology industry, and more twists, turns, and surprises than we have ever had before.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.
To stop all future emails from feed2email.net you can reply to this email with STOP in the subject line. Thanks
