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With $5.5M From Google Ventures, Opus, Crittercism Launches An App Performance Management Solution
Jun 01, 10:48PM
Last summer, after graduating from AngelPad, San Francisco-based Crittercism announced that it had raised $1.2 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Opus Capital, Shasta Ventures, and AOL Ventures. Today, the startup has received further validation for its diagnostic and management tools for mobile developers, as Opus Capital, Shasta Ventures and Google Ventures have all re-upped, investing $5.5 million in the startup's series A financing.T-Mobile's Galaxy S III May Not Get A Facelift Before It Launches In The U.S.
Jun 01, 10:20PM
When the Galaxy S and the Galaxy S II made their respective journeys to the United States, they lost a little something that international customers have enjoyed since the beginning: the physical home button. According to some new images obtained by The Verge though, that era may be drawing to a close, as T-Mobile's GSIII variant may sport that home button after all. It may seem like a minor thing to get worked up over (because it is), but it's a considerable shift from the four-capacitive-button days of yore. Those design changes were mandated by carriers, and if true, these new images may mean that Samsung is flexing their muscle as the most prolific smartphone manufacturer in the world.Study: Yesterday's Facebook Outage Also Slowed Down Major Media And Retail Sites
Jun 01, 8:30PM
It's a testament to how important Facebook has become in the web ecosystem that the social network's performance issues yesterday didn't just affect the site itself but also a wide variety of other sites as well. Performance monitoring company Compuware APM, which analyses the performance of thousands of top sites, just sent us some interesting data about how Facebook's problems yesterday correlated with significant slowdowns across major U.S. media and retail sites.Gillmor Gang 06.01.12 (TCTV)
Jun 01, 8:02PM
Gillmor Gang - Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording has concluded.Leave Your Credit Cards At Home: iCache's Digital Wallet/iPhone Case Is Now Available
Jun 01, 7:47PM
Well, it's about time. Many of us were absolutely floored by the iCache Geode mobile wallet when it first appeared back in April, and now the company has announced that the hotly-awaited accessory is now available for $199. In case you missed it the first time around, the iCache Geode is an iPhone case with a particularly wonderful twist -- in addition to just wrapping a protective layer of plastic around your phone, it also sports a rewritable magstripe card on its rear end. Once the corresponding app has been installed on an iPhone 4/4S, users can store their credit card information on their smartphones and write it onto the so-called GeoCard.After Years Of Flirting, Facebook And Apple Set To Achieve Relationship Status In iOS 6
Jun 01, 7:41PM
There's been a lot of flirting going on in recent months between Apple and Facebook. In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook told a group of investors that Facebook was "the one company that is closest to being like Apple". Last week, Apple did a big App Store promotion for Facebook's new Camera app, and clearly knew about it well beforehand. Then, of course, there were Cook's comments at the D10 conference earlier this week. "Facebook is a great company." "And the relationship is solid." Not to mention the ever-provocative "stay tuned." Now the two sides appear on the brink of formalizing the relationship. After much speculation, Facebook integration will indeed be baked into the latest version of iOS, we've learned.I Want My Rockify.TV: Startup Launches New Personalized Music Video Service
Jun 01, 7:21PM
One interesting trend I've been watching over the last year or so is the intersection of social and personalization as a way to discover new videos. And, of course, how it helps users to discover new music videos. The latest entrant into the social music video discovery category is Rockify, which just launched its public-facing portal for music videos, Rockify.TV, in public beta. Rockify.TV is kind of like Pandora for music videos, but with social hooks to help users find interesting content based on their own musical preferences, and those of friends. Like most other video sites, it takes advantage of social networks by allowing users to share the videos they're watching with their friends, which is pretty standard stuff. The big difference comes in how Rockify displays videos to users -- like the way MTV used to do it. Once signed in, users get a stream of music videos, based on trending music, personal favorites, and personalized suggestions. The site serves up a continuous stream of content, meaning that users never have to stop and search for the next video they want to watch -- that is, unless they want to.HoozTrippin Helps You Find Travel Buddies
Jun 01, 7:03PM
If you've got a vacation coming up, a startup called HoozTrippin is aiming to make it more fun by connecting you with other travelers. Co-founder and CEO Steven Oh (who was formerly the head of product at Rotten Tomatoes and Movielink), describes the site as "Match.com for travelers," except broader: "We don't limit ourselves to just singles." In some ways, it sounds like a complement to a service like Triptrotting, which connects travelers to locals.Holy Strategic Partnerships, Batman! A Brief History Of Nokia's Batman Obsession
Jun 01, 6:25PM
The Nokia Lumia 900 The Dark Knight Rises Edition handset has made its way on the interwebs recently and it's nothing short of a beauty, with a black polycarbonate unibody frame and a laser-etched Batman logo across the back. Moreover, the phone — which is usually limited to either a black or white background and a handful of color themes like Nokia blue, teal, lime, mango, and pink — will also come with a black and grey theme. Of course, plenty of Dark Knight Rises content will come pre-loaded as well, including a game called Claim Gotham City and the Dark Knight Rises app. We had gotten a glimpse of the phone in what appears to be official press shots (or renders) a few days ago, but the first hands-on photos of the phone have surfaced, courtesy of Phonerpt.Zillow Completes Its $40M RentJuice Acquisition
Jun 01, 5:40PM
Zillow, the popular online real estate search engine, just announced that it has closed its previously announced $40 million acquisition of RentJuice. With RentJuice, Zillow now owns a rental relationship management service for landlords, property managers and rental brokers that helps them market their inventory and client relationships. RentJuice is currently being used to manage one million rental units and their rental listings.SeatGeek Signs Its First Big Music Partners, Including AOL Music
Jun 01, 5:24PM
Ticket search engine SeatGeek is best known as the place to find good deals on sports tickets, but it's working to dominate ticketing for any live events, including concerts. It just announced its first partnership deals on the music side, with AOL Music (which is, yes, owned by the same parent company as TechCrunch), Pollstar, and Emusic. Now, if you go to AOL Music, for example, and you're looking at Justin Bieber's tour dates, clicking on any of the "Get Tickets" buttons will take you to the relevant SeatGeek page. (For the record: Using Justin Bieber as the example was SeatGeek's idea, not mine.) The page includes a list of tickets available from a range of other sites including StubHub, eBay, and TicketsNow, and a map showing where all those tickets would actually seat you.Google Promises To Unveil The "Next Dimension Of Google Maps" Next Week
Jun 01, 4:40PM
The online mapping space is quickly heating up. What used to be a relatively straightforward competition between Google and Microsoft (with Openstreetmap and a few other smaller players standing on the sidelines) will likely become a far more complex scenario now that Apple is likely to reveal its own solution at its WWDC later this month. Google, it seems, is trying to steal some thunder from Apple and is holding an invite-only press event in San Francisco where the company promises to unveil "the next dimension of Google Maps."Merging Facebook With Search, Microsoft Rolls Out "New Bing" To All Of U.S.
Jun 01, 4:37PM
Earlier this month, Bing, the other Cyberwar Is With Us: Details Emerge About Use Of Stuxnet Worm In Iran
Jun 01, 4:30PM
In an excellent piece by David Sanger, the NY Times has confirmed what we all suspected: that the US deployed the Stuxnet worm, a powerful worm that targets very specific machines within Iran's nuclear enrichment program. Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran's Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet.
Facebook Forced By Privacy Activist To Put Policy Changes Up For Worldwide Vote Until June 8th
Jun 01, 4:00PM
Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook, has forced Facebook to put proposed policy changes up for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group to flood Facebook's Site Governance page with pasted messages, many more than 7,000 comments were received on the proposal -- the threshold for triggering a vote. Europe Vs. Facebook is demanding sweeping changes to Facebook's product rather than the small policy changes found in the proposal Today the one-week voting period opens on a set of a relatively benign changes and Facebook will notify users by web and mobile. If over 30% of Facebook's active users, or 230 million people, vote for the changes they'll go into effect, and if they vote against they'll be scrapped. Otherwise Facebook will take the changes "under advisory". Facebook's Chief Privacy Officer for Policy Erin Egan told me yesterday the company will consider changing its site governance voting system to discourage votes being triggered by low-quality comments and adapt to the growing size of Facebook's user base. Users can check out the proposed changes to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and its Data Use Policy, and an explanation of the changes, then vote until 9am PST on June 8th.GirlsInTech Pick Their Top 100 Women In Tech In Europe
Jun 01, 3:40PM
While in the US the visibility of women in technology startups is pretty well established, in Europe it's suffered a little from the more general problem of the fragmented nature of the European tech scene. Things have improved slightly in recent years (at least that's my impression, although who knows about the stats on the ground?), but it remains the case that there are far more men than women. So lifting the visibility of women in technology is no bad thing, especially if it encourages other women to pursue careers in tech startups, which are typically more about meritocratic, flat management that the traditional "IT" roles. So it's a welcome moment that the newly established Girls in Tech London group (@girlsintech_uk) has announced their pick of the Top 100 women in tech in Europe.Sick Of Daily Deal Emails? UnsubscribeDeals Is There For You
Jun 01, 3:31PM
Waxing for two at Take-It-Offs in Scranton? $100 worth of Polka lessons for 40 cents? An avant garde grilled cheese sandwich meal with metal shavings in it at Chez Naif for $60? You don't want any of those daily deals, right? But they're still coming. Two people (lovers, really), Edwin Hermawan and Lea Pische, wanted to fight back. And they did. With UnsubscribeDeals.com. "We stopped buying daily deals a long time ago, but the emails kept coming. We had to find a way to stop them," said Hermawan.Nokia & Microsoft Respond To Google's Complaint Over Patent Trolling, Call It "Desperate" & "Wrong"
Jun 01, 3:10PM
Happy Friday, here's some more patent trolling nonsense for you today: Google said on Thursday it had filed a complaint with the European Commission which claims cell phone maker Nokia is colluding with Microsoft to make money off their patents. The complaint states that the two companies are using proxy companies (read: patent trolls) to fight against Google Android. Nokia has since called the complaint both "frivolous" and "wrong," while Microsoft said it was a "desperate tactic."With The Prepaid Barrier Broken, The iPhone Could Land On Boost Mobile In September
Jun 01, 2:43PM
Cricket Communications made waves yesterday morning when they announced that they would be the first prepaid carrier in the country to offer Apple's iPhone, and now it seems that other contract-averse carriers may soon do the same. TechnoBuffalo purports that Sprint-owned Boost Mobile will soon enter the fray by selling Apple's little mobile juggernaut come "early September." Like Cricket, the Sprint subsidiary is said to sell the iPhone 4 and 4S, though there's currently no word on what kinds of plans will be available for it should this launch come to pass.23snaps Tries Its Hand At Being The Facebook For Families
Jun 01, 2:25PM
Another entry in the mobile-first, private social networking for families space (yes, apparently this is a thing now): 23snaps, a new iOS application that works like a mini-Facebook for posting status updates, photos and videos of your kids. The app isn't anywhere near as dazzling as current private social network darling Path, but it's a functional and easy-to-use alternative to the typical private sharing paradigm: the group SMS.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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