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Google Wallet's Founding Engineer, Product Lead Already at Work on Next Startup, Tappmo
Mar 17, 5:11AM
More people leaving Google Wallet means more founders for mobile payments startups! Jonathan Wall, a founding engineer on Google Wallet, and Marc Freed-Finnegan, its product lead, are already heads down on their next venture Tappmo after having their last day at Google on March 5. They're not saying too much about what it is aside from saying it's about revolutionizing offline payments. (No surprise there.) "We think the next few years will bring groundbreaking developments in mobile commerce and we are excited to dive in with our new venture," Freed-Finnegan says.Tim "The Freak" Lincecum Co-founds Stealth Startup 12Society, More Celebs To Come
Mar 17, 3:52AM
Back in October 2010, billionaire tech investor Mark Cuban jumped into the daily deals game with a $1.5 million seed investment in gift online shopping deals startup JungleCents. Because the startup took a somewhat alternative approach to daily deals, using a lead generation model to give publishers supplemental revenue streams, today, JungleCents has seen some pretty good traction, as its deals are now reaching 2.2 million email addresses (publishers included), and its sign-up rate tripled in the last three months of 2011. However, at the beginning of this year, Cuban acquired all of the JungleCents assets, allowing the startup's co-founders, Sameer Mehta and Nadir Hyder, to take off to found a new venture. Today, we're getting a bit of a glimpse into what the guys have been working on, as they are officially ready to announce a new startup, called 12Society. Joining Mehta as co-founders of the new venture are Chirayu Patel, a former solutions architect at VMWare, and one slightly more well-known name: San Francisco Giant and two-time Cy Young Award winner, Tim Lincecum.The Agony And Ecstasy Of Mike Daisey
Mar 17, 1:06AM
It seems that noted firebrand Mike Daisey's story - the one about the crippled, underaged factory workers who unspooled tales of woe and torture at the hands of their evil Foxconn masters at Apple's behest - was at least partially fabricated. He was outed as, at best, a bad journalist and at worst a fraud. To be clear, he's a monologist and playwright and had no business telling this story (just as he really had no business telling Amazon's story way back when) but he, like so many creatives, riffed on science and technology for popular effect and got both drastically wrong.Getty Images CEO On Building A Company That Lasts [TCTV]
Mar 17, 12:35AM
Some people are surprised when they find out that Getty Images is just 17 years old -- its brand name has become such an institution in the image licensing and stock photography space that many people assume it's been around for decades longer. But starting in 1995 just at the dawn of the Internet age does make it a veteran in many ways, compared to its much younger peers in the web photo space. So we were pleased to have the chance to interview Getty Images' co-founder and CEO Jonathan Klein while he was at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas this week to get his insights on how his company has grown up until this point and where it is headed in the months and years to come.Developers: Quick! Get "Retina-Ready" Or Risk Abandonment
Mar 17, 12:05AM
I just got the new iPad in the mail, and naturally the first thing I did was load up a few of my old apps and throw some content on there. Oh god! Oh no! One of my favorite apps, GoodReader, which opens a great variety of files and which I use to consume the enormous PDFs from Google Books, is a patchwork of pixels. My go-to Mahjong game, aliased to hell! Muji notebook - my pencil leaves a chunky trail! Developers, I just want to tell you how critical it is that you upgrade your app to look at least passable on the new displays. The full-on big update can come later. But Apple has thrown your standard-def apps under the bus, and you need to drag yourselves out before your capricious iPad users lose faith.TechCrunch Giveaway: A New iPad! #TechCrunch
Mar 16, 11:43PM
Happy new iPad Friday! All of the new iPads are shipping already and for those of you who ordered a new one online, you should be getting them soon (if you haven't already). So in light of that, and also because it's St. Patrick's Day weekend and what better way to send you off than this -- we have a brand new iPad to give away. Thanks to our friends over at Kabam, we have a new 32GB WiFi Black iPad. The contest will start now and go through this weekend, ending this Sunday at 9:30pm PT. That gives you three days to enter. Once the giveaway is over, we will make sure our winner followed the rules and contact them this weekend. Everyone can enter, as long as you can receive deliverable packages.iPad Launch Brings Back Familiar Faces, "Changes Lives"
Mar 16, 10:18PM
If you're reading this right now, you already know what day it is: iPad day. We headed down to the 5th Ave. flagship store in Manhattan this morning to see just how crazy things would get, but truth be told, the mood was quiet. In fact, the media seemed to be the most raucous, while soon-to-be iPad owners simply tried to keep warm in the freezing mist.Explore 13.7 Billion Years Of Cosmic History In Your Browser With ChronoZoom
Mar 16, 10:17PM
Sometimes I feel like we of the tech community tend to get bogged down in the little stuff. Hardware specs, OS choices, rumor after endless rumor -- it can be nice to just take a step back and stop sweating the small stuff. For a bit of perspective, why not take a few minutes this fine Friday afternoon and explore the nearly 14 billion year history of the cosmos as we know it? There are plenty of ways to do it — randomly clicking through Wikipedia could get the job done — but why not do it with a little pizzazz? With ChronoZoom, we can do just that.Flipboard Gets Retina-Ready, But Will Users Spend More Time In-App?
Mar 16, 8:47PM
Good news, new iPad users: everyone's favorite iPad news magazine Flipboard (OK, my favorite, but I hear the Flipboard / Zite battles get fierce) is now Retina-ready. I know, we all thought the enhanced app would be approved by tonight, but, as it turns out, the update was shipped a bit earlier. Consider this your PSA. However, in the brief note Flipboard sent me about the update, something struck me as interesting: company co-founder Evan Doll casually speculated that the Retina Display would lead to longer Flipboard reading sessions. Will that actually be true, though, in the long-term?Gillmor Gang Live 03.16.12 (TCTV)
Mar 16, 8:00PM
Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording has concluded.Fab: In 2 Years, iPad Users Will Account For A Quarter Of Our Revenue
Mar 16, 7:34PM
There's something interesting going on over there on Fab. The design shopping site found that some of its best customers - that is, those who convert to paying customers the quickest, those who spend the most, and those who return the most often - are mobile users. The company has known about this data for some time, but wanted more in-depth analysis, so it hired software-as-a-service firm Custora to help them dive in and figure out the lifetime value of the mobile customer, specifically those using the iPad. The results are impressive.Bizdom Accelerator Is Looking For Startups In Cleveland, Detroit For April 2012 Session
Mar 16, 7:31PM
Here at TechCrunch, we live, eat, sleep and breathe startups. But sometimes we can get a little too focused on Silicon Valley and forget that there are startup scenes blossoming all over the country and the world. Two up and coming startup states just so happen to be Michigan and Ohio, and one accelerator, Bizdom, is looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs. The accelerator is accepting applications for its April 2012 accelerator session, which will last three months. The program offers seed funding and mentoring to help young founders and creators leverage their talent as much as possible within Detroit and Cleveland.Facebook Bans Source Code Extraction In Proposed Governance Changes
Mar 16, 7:14PM
Facebook has proposed several changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and is asking the public for feedback until March 22nd. The most important changes are the prohibition of extracting source code from its downloadable software, and a clear explanation that friends can share your information through applications. The changes are necessary since Facebook released its first download "Messenger For Windows" this month, and because it has come under greater scrutiny from government privacy offices. You can see the full track changes version of the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities below and go here to leave your comments. The changes aren't very controversial, but if they receive enough comments, Facebook will open them to a vote.Aetna: The Company Scaring Its Competition And Delighting Startups
Mar 16, 7:10PM
Whither health insurance? A former medical advisor to the Obama Administration who happens to be the brother of former Presidential Chief of Staff predicted in the New York Times that by 2020 health insurance companies will be extinct. Nearly two years ago, I penned a piece entitled Health Insurance's Bunker Buster. It outlined two key reasons that health insurance -- as we have known it the last couple decades -- will cease to exist.Samsung And RIM Rumored To Be Tied Up In BB10 Licensing Talks
Mar 16, 6:46PM
How does that old saying go again? "Everything old is new again?" That exactly how I feel about the RIM rumors that have been making the rounds today. According to a bit of analyst chatter, Samsung has their eyes on Waterloo-based RIM, and more specifically the new mobile operating system they've got cooking in the oven right now. If these reports hold true, then Samsung is ultimately after a minority stake in RIM and access to BB10, which they will load onto some of their forthcoming handsets.How The JOBS Act Could Change Startup Investing Forever
Mar 16, 6:45PM
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the JOBS Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at supporting small businesses by making it easier for them to access capital. A key feature of the bill enables crowdfunding, the process by which small companies raise growth capital from a large number of individual investors. While many people are debating the impact of the bill on investors, what seems lost in the debate is what types of businesses are likely to benefit, and how crowdfunding can change the way we all think about early stage investing.This American Life Retracts Mike Daisey's Piece On Foxconn For "Significant Fabrications"
Mar 16, 6:09PM
At over a million digital listens, "Mr. Daisey Goes To The Apple Factory" is This American Life's most popular episode. That's no small feat for one of the world's most well-known radio shows. When it aired, it set off yet another firestorm of controversy regarding the ethics of Apple (and other large tech companies) using cheap Chinese labor through major manufacturers like Foxconn. Mr Daisey, who has been touring for years with a monologue about his visit to the factories there and the moral implications thereof, provided details to This American Life to put together what was really a powerful and attention-grabbing piece. Unfortunately, in the words of This American Life host and producer Ira Glass, "We've learned that Mike Daisey's story about Apple in China - which we broadcast in January - contained significant fabrications. We're retracting the story because we can't vouch for its truth." This week's show will take a full hour to detail the errors and fabrications in Daisey's report.Sir Richard Branson & Flipboard Investor Jerry Murdock Put Nearly $1M Into MySocialCloud
Mar 16, 5:47PM
MySocialCloud is a new, and somewhat stealthy, startup that aims to organize your online life through bookmarking, stream consolidation, filtering and auto-login capabilities. The service, which until now has only been available to users at a handful of colleges out in California, has some pretty impressive backers, too. The startup has raised "just shy of a million" from Sir Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock, also an investor in Flipboard and Twitter.Keen On… Bruce Schneier: How The Internet Allows Us To Scale Trust [TCTV]
Mar 16, 5:36PM
Trust me on this one. There are few people who have given trust and reputation more thought than security expert Bruce Schneier. His latest book, Liars And Outliers, asks the question of how society functions when we can't trust each other. And Schneier has spent a lifetime thinking through the relationship between trust and reputation in our information economy.How Facebook Got Its Green Back [Sustainability Infographic]
Mar 16, 4:57PM
Today Facebook released an animated infographic about its ongoing journey to sustainability, explaining "2010 marked an awakening for Facebook's sustainability efforts". As viewers scroll past green stats like that 47% of Facebook employees commute via alternative methods, birds flutter and bikes whiz by. Designed by digital consultancy Beyond, the new graphic also notes Facebook's sustainable data centers, efficient photo storage, and solar-powered campus. The infographic quietly implies that before 2010, Facebook was too focused on scaling to make going green a priority. But by touting its new commitment to the environment, Facebook could boost its public image and bolster recruiting efforts with eco-aware talent.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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