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Analyst: No Angry Birds Space On Windows Phone Will Cause Others To 'Think Twice' About Nokia's Recovery
Mar 23, 10:43AM
Yesterday, the day that Rovio launched its newest game, Angry Birds Space, it also said it has no plans to develop the game for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform. An analyst today has taken that news one step further to suggest that the impact of this decision will be far greater than WP7 users missing out on this one game. Richard Windsor, a mobile analyst with Nomura, calls Rovio's decision a "worrying development" for Windows Phone because it suggests a lack of confidence in the future of the platform from a key influencer in the industry. That, he says, will have an inevitable knock-on effect, not just for Microsoft but for its biggest and most crucial platform licensee, Nokia.Luluvise And Badoo Talk Social Discover Apps At London Web Summit [TCTV]
Mar 23, 9:57AM
Suddenly 'social discovery' is all the rage with apps like Highlight and Glancee being thoroughly tested during SXSW by 30,000 hot and sweaty social media gurus. But the past-masters at this for the last couple of years has been Badoo, which long ago created a location-based app and now has more users than any of the newcomers behind. Meanwhile, brand new startup Luluvise has created a (somewhat controversial, but all the same fascinating) niche social network built around so-called "girl time". And they too now plan a mobile app. At London Web Summit I caught up with Alexandra Chong (Luluvise) and Jessica Powell (Badoo) to talk about this new wave of apps and also building a startup outside Silicon Valley from London.Disconnect: Ex-Googlers Raise Funding To Stop Google, Facebook & More From Tracking Your Data
Mar 23, 3:38AM
In the age of endless sharing, super cookies, social search results, and that ever-present social graph, it's comforting to know that there are some who are still prioritizing privacy. (And a few of them are former Googlers no less!) In October 2010, Google engineer Brian Kennish created Facebook Disconnect, a Chrome extension that disables all traffic from third-party sites to Facebook servers but still allows you to access Facebook itself. The extension was an immediate hit, racking up 50K active users in two weeks (it now has 200K+), prompting Kennish to leave his job at Google to focus full-time on helping the average web user take back control of their data.Scoople Turns Reading The News Into A Game
Mar 23, 1:54AM
If you're a news junkie who wants to make the experience a little more active, Scoople may be the iPhone app for you. The app was created by a startup called Dygest. When you're using it, you get a stream of news stories, and each story has an associated poll. For example, you can read a story about the iPad's new retina display, and then fill out a poll about whether you've preordered the iPad already, earning points in the process. You can also vote on what you think the majority of Scoople users will say. There's even a leaderboard of those who do the best job of predicting the the larger response.And Now There's An Ad Network For HR Bloggers
Mar 23, 1:16AM
To some TechCrunch readers, a blog post about human resources may sound like a bit of a snooze (well, unless "talent war" is in the headline). But for others, it's the heart of their business, and of course there's a big industry built around HR services and products. That's why there's a community of blogs devoted to the topic, and it's also why marketing agency The Starr Conspiracy and ad company Retargeter.com have teamed up to create an ad network aimed specifically at HR bloggers — called, predictably, The HR Blogger Network. There are 50 sites in the network at launch, including The Women of HR, Jennifer McClure, Charlie Judy, Lance Haun, Steve Boese, and Laurie Ruettimann.Glassdoor: Google Overtakes Facebook For Employee Satisfaction For The First Time In Four Years
Mar 22, 11:48PM
Glassdoor has taken a look at how Google and Facebook compare in the eyes of employees and job candidates, and has extracted a number of interesting data points related to CEO approval, benefits, perks and more. For background, Glassdoor is a jobs and career community where employees can anonymously rate companies and CEOs. First, Glassdoor says that so far in 2012, Google has overtaken Facebook in employee satisfaction company ratings. In fact, this is the first time Google has overtaken Facebook in the past four years, says Glassdoor. In 2012, Google's company rating reached a 3.9, surpassing Facebook's 3.7 rating. From 2009 through 2011, Facebook received a higher company rating from its employees (2009: 4.4; 2010: 4.7; 2011: 4.2), than Google did from its employees (2009: 3.8; 2010: 3.7; 2011: 4.1).Build A Beautiful Data Dashboard With Leftronic
Mar 22, 11:46PM
Y Combinator-backed Leftronic is launching a new service allowing companies to create custom dashboards that visualize all of your company's important data. With Leftronic, you can pull data from a number of services, including Google Analytics, Twitter, Chartceat, Mixpanel, and Zendesk, and then customize the layout with a drag-and-drop interface. These dashboards are designed for large screens, so companies can set up a display that's visible to everyone in the office — that way, everyone knows when traffic spikes, or when the website goes down, or whatever. For example, there's a Leftronic display in Y Combinator headquarters with stats from YC's Hacker News website.Updated Kindle Android App Supports KF8 Files (Which Means More Pretty Pictures)
Mar 22, 11:10PM
Amazon's Kindle team seems have had their hands full these past few days -- a Retina Display-friendly update was just pushed to the iOS App Store last week, and now the Android version is getting a nice little bump too. One of the biggest additions to this build is support for Amazon's relatively new KF8 ebook file format. Originally revealed back in October 2011 (and officially released this January), KF8 allows publishers and content creators greater flexibility when it comes to text formatting and image integration into ebooks.What The Senate's Crowdfund Act Means For The Tech Industry Right Now [TCTV]
Mar 22, 10:56PM
The Crowdfund Act, a bill to reduce restrictions on regular people investing in privately held companies, passed through the United States Senate today with flying colors in a 73-26 vote, after passing through the House of Representatives this past fall. But legislative matters are by definition quite complex (which is, of course, ostensibly why we elect people to deal with them on a full-time basis.) So we talked to Chance Barnett, the founder and CEO of Crowdfunder.com, to get an idea of what this could really mean for startups, potential investors, and the technology community at large.CrowdFlower Co-Founder Lukas Biewald Becomes CEO (Again)
Mar 22, 10:01PM
CrowdFlower, a startup that helps businesses manage crowdsourced labor, has named a new CEO — co-founder Lukas Biewald. The company, formerly known as Dolores Labs, launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009. Biewald actually served as CEO for most of its history, but in August of last year, Woody Hobbs was named CEO, and Biewald stepped down to become executive chairman (a job that seemed to mostly involve evangelizing for CrowdFlower, while also building iPhone apps as a hobby).Don't Have An HTC Vivid? These AT&T Devices Are Getting ICS In "Coming Months"
Mar 22, 9:52PM
Those of you dutifully carrying around your HTC Vivids have probably already heard AT&T has officially started pushing out the handset's Ice Cream Sandwich update. For all you other AT&T customers, fear not -- the nation's second largest wireless carrier has also announced which of their other Android handsets will be getting the Ice Cream Sandwich treatment. There aren't many surprises on the list (which can be found below if you'd rather not wait), but a few fairly recent devices have been don't seem to have made the cut yet.Kiip Lets Any App Reward You With Real-Life Prizes
Mar 22, 9:32PM
What if you won prizes for getting Likes on Instagram, listening to songs on Pandora, or making Highlight connections around town? Today Kiip expands its real-world rewards platform to allow giveaways in any type of app, not just games. Since Kiip-client brands pay developers to promote through them, today's launch will give lots of devs a new way to monetize without traditional display ads. In an exclusive launch with TechCrunch, Kiip is kicking off its utility app rewards by helping Pepsi surprise users of fitness apps including MapMyRUN, Nexercise, LoloFit and Gym-Pact with free Propel Zero Enhanced Water. Soon Kiip will formally support other app verticals, but with its new self-serve platform developers of all sorts can start hacking rewards into their apps right now.Are You Building A Company, Or Just Your Credentials?
Mar 22, 9:20PM
Y Combinator recently announced that for the next batch, the incubator will accept applications from groups and individuals without an idea. That same night, I received a breathless call from a friend currently finishing up his MBA at an elite east coast business school, asking me for help putting together his "Without Idea" Y Combinator application. This friend is smart, dynamic, and an all-around great person. But he's not someone I consider to be entrepreneurial. He was a management consultant at a big firm for years before business school, and loved it. He's the first to admit that his interest in startups conveniently coincided with the premier of The Social Network a few years back. So on the call, I asked him, "why jump into entrepreneurship now. You are someone who likes to be on a stable path. Why do you suddenly want to start a startup?" His answer: "Even if the startup ends up going nowhere, graduating from Y Combinator would be such a great credential."Primary Coffee's HotPad App Makes Your Overheating New iPad Useful
Mar 22, 9:14PM
Is your new iPad as hot as a tabletop grill? Why not put it to use as a warming pad? Yeah, just navigate Safari to this little web app and the script takes care of the rest! The new iPad is truly a magical device. What will Apple think of next? A Siri-controlled RC car that can open a can of beer? Oh...yeah.eBay Sells Off Real Estate Listings Site Rent.com To Primedia
Mar 22, 8:44PM
eBay has sold off one of its properties today, real estate listings site Rent.com. The buyer is Primedia, which helps people find apartments, houses for rent or new homes for sale through websites, mobile and print publications. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. eBay originally bought Rent.com for $415 million in 2004. At the time, Rent.com fit in with eBay's classifieds and listings business. Obviously, as the company as shifted towards a focus on e-commerce; classifieds, and real estate listings in particular, are no longer of major interest to eBay. Rent.com also partnered with eBay to help build a new shipping platform for eBay Motors.Taking On Rival Jumio, Payments Startup Card.io Adds Web Support
Mar 22, 8:08PM
Card.io, the mobile payments startup which recently partnered with PayPal on the company's new Square rival PayPal Here, has some big news: it's no longer a "mobile" payments startup. That's right - Card.io is now available for the web, too. With the launch of Card.io Webscan, as it's being called, web developers can access the company's card-reading technology which "sees" your credit or debit card when held up to a computer's webcam.Context Is King: OneReceipt's Chrome Extension Sheds More Light On Your Bank Statements
Mar 22, 7:48PM
I'm going to admit something right here for everyone to see -- I like buying things, a lot. Perhaps too much. I really don't think I'm alone on that front, but it's still a bit of a puzzle trying to work out exactly what I bought on Amazon for $62 three weeks ago from my online credit card statement (as it turns out, a memory card, a GalNex screen protector, and a LensPen). Thankfully, there's no shortage of help out there. OneReceipt is one such assistant -- they launched their receipt tracking service back in November and now with between 50-75 million transactions tracked, they're looking to use their new Chrome extension to bring some much-needed context to users' online bank statements and Mint accounts.ShareThis Names The "Most Social" Travel And Sports Publishers
Mar 22, 7:32PM
ShareThis, the company behind the ubiquitous sharing widgets of the same name, is rolling out a new way for publishers to see how their social sharing strategy stacks up — and it's sharing a list of the top publishers in two categories. ShareThis first announced its Social Quality Index back in November, and it's going live for publishers next month. The SQI assigns each publisher a score between 1 and 10 based on how much their content is shared on social networks. Scores are assigned in 27 different categories, and multi-category publishers receive multiple scores. ShareThis looks at all the sharing data on any page with its widget, which means that sharing through things like the Facebook Share button are included too.TCTV: In the Studio, Stipple's Rey Flemings Wants to Turn Pictures into Dollars
Mar 22, 7:00PM
"In the Studio" this week welcomes an entrepreneur who, while working for a major Hollywood celebrity, saw first-hand just how explosively engaging online images could be, an experience that provided him with the key insight into his current venture and why, even today, he has signs in the office that read "it's the photos, stupid" as a fun, constant reminder to keep focus on their mission to help turn online pictures into a dynamic business engine. Rey Flemings, the founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Stipple, couldn't have timed his venture more perfectly. Two of today's hottest consumer startups are all about, at their core, images. We all had some sense that pictures would provide one of the most attractive, thinnest edges of the wedge to create new networks, contexts, and experiences, and in a short period of time, both Instagram and Pinterest have, in their own ways, helped users create, enhance, share, and discover engaging images. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a successful photo-sharing startup is potentially worth half a billion dollars in private valuations, perhaps even more.Get Ready to Rumble With the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt New York
Mar 22, 6:19PM
As TechCrunch Disrupt New York fast approaches, Startup Battlefield applications are open and running. For the past few weeks, hopeful entrepreneurs have been submitting their new, unseen startup companies for the opportunity to launch on technology's biggest stage in front of an all-star panel. The Startup Battlefield judging panels consist of the biggest innovators, angels, VCs and influencers in the tech community. Up for grabs is the opportunity to gain exposure on a worldwide platform and to some of the best investors in the business, a $50,000 prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup. Past winners include: Mint, Yammer and RedBeacon from our TechCrunch 40 & 50 days. Soluto, Qwiki, GetAround have each hoisted the Disrupt Cup. Most recent winners, Shaker and OrderWithMe, our first international conference winner, will both be on hand in New York to share their seasoned Battlefield knowledge with this year's contenders.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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