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T-Mobile Coincidentally Testing "iPhone-Compatible" 4G Network Near WWDC
Jun 08, 1:35AM
Network testing is hard work. You need to ensure coverage, regular data rates, and spread. That's probably why T-Mobile happens to be testing their 1900 MHz HSPA+ signal around the Moscone Center in San Francisco just in time for WWDC.Facebook's Mobile Power: 83M People And 134M Clicks To iOS Apps In May, Plus Top Leaderboard Spots
Jun 08, 12:35AM
It's been anecdotally clear for months now, but Facebook has indeed found a place within mobile developer ecosystems. Today at its App Center launch, the company said it had sent 83 million unique users and a total of 134 million clicks to iOS apps over the course of the last month. Meanwhile, seven of the top ten iOS apps and six of the top ten Android apps have some form of Facebook integration.Facebook's Dilemma With Native iOS Apps: Relevance or Revenues
Jun 08, 12:22AM
Facebook revealed some healthy new stats about how it drives traffic to Apple's iOS ecosystem at an event today in San Francisco. The platform drove people to Apple's App Store 83 million times last month. On top of that, it sent people back to iOS apps they had already downloaded 134 million times. Facebook was also integrated into seven of the top 10 grossing iOS apps and six of the top 10 Android apps. The company's emerging power on mobile platforms has been very visible in the surprising rise of apps like SocialCam and Viddy. But the thing to keep in mind is how huge a strategic turnaround this is for the company. Last year, Facebook was all about HTML5. The company spent months unifying how they build and ship their mobile apps with HTML5 so that they didn't have to build seven different versions of Facebook for the desktop web and multiple mobile platforms. Then they spent months trying to lure top developers into building with HTML5.Facebook's New App Center Is Here: The Details
Jun 07, 11:51PM
Okay folks, we're live at Facebook's press event for... sure enough, its new mobile App Center, the one that started leaking out earlier today. The company shared most of the details about how the store will work during a May press announcement, but to review: it'll be one central store for finding any app across web, iOS, Android, mobile web, etc. You'll get app suggestions based on ratings and what your friends play, similar to previous recommendation features that Facebook has provided over the years. And, paid apps are also part of the deal.These Are The Guys That Will Take You To Space… In 2014… For $95K [TCTV]
Jun 07, 11:47PM
It's in every science fiction book and movie since forever. Humans — the ordinary non-astronaut kind, like you and I — going up into space like it's no big deal. And it's generally believed that one day, eventually, space flight will become mainstream. But alas, the day draws nigh. XCOR Aerospace and Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) have introduced the first aircraft that can endure frequent repeat trips to sub-orbital levels before tuckering out: the Lynx. Since the Lynx, a small fighter-esque plane that only holds two people, can make multiple trips a day back and forth to space, space flight becomes affordable enough for anyone to take the trip. Well, not necessarily anyone. By "affordable," I mean $95,000 for a ticket.Google Gets Better At Detecting Hacked Pages, Adds Golf Search Feature & More
Jun 07, 10:40PM
Instead of announcing every one of its many search tweaks individually, Google has lately taken to announcing all the changes it has made to its search engine once per month. Today, the company released a list of the 39 previously unannounced changes it made in May. Among these changes are basic tweaks to its search algorithm, including changes to its so-called Penguin algorithm, a change that should improve the relevancy of news content in Google's main search results, and some tweaks that will help the company detect link schemes that are meant to spam its search results pages.Fly Or Die: Parrot AR.Drone 2.0
Jun 07, 10:19PM
Let's just cut to the chase. The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 is awesome. Pricey? Sure — it's $300. It's a toy that costs as much as the smartphone you'd be controlling it with, but it's a grown-up's toy, and one that makes a jaded John Biggs very happy. This is far more than I can say for most of the gadgetry on the market today. But John's opinion aside, this thing just rocks. The quadcopter has a 720p camera that streams the feed directly to your smartphone, along with a QVGA camera measuring the terrain below. Plus, it comes with a built in GPS and allows you to store to a USB key on the device and upload the footage later. Oh, and it can do a flip.LinkedIn Working With Law Enforcement On Password Leak, Says User Email Logins Haven't Been Published
Jun 07, 10:01PM
It's been over 24 hours since LinkedIn revealed that "some" of their users' passwords were indeed compromised in that massive leak, and while the investigation is still on going LinkedIn director Vicente Silveira once again took to the company's blog to update their users on the situation. First things first, though there's still no word on how many users were affected, Silveira points out that as far as the team can tell none of the email addresses that correspond to those dumped passwords have been published.An Incubator Just For Media Startups: Turner's Media Camp Accelerator Gets Underway
Jun 07, 10:00PM
Earlier this spring, Turner Broadcasting announced that it would be launching an incubator, called Media Camp, specifically for startups in the media space. In March, it put out a call for applications, looking to find some startups to join its 12-week program. Now, after an extensive search, it's ready to announce the lucky six companies that will gain access to a bit of funding and some legal and administrative support -- but more importantly, they'll also get help from mentors in navigating the tricky media world. In most cases, Media Camp is no different from most other incubators: Companies accepted into the program get an investment of about $20,000 in exchange for a maximum 6 percent of equity. In exchange, they get 12 weeks of administrative and legal help, participate in weekly dinners, and get one-on-one mentorship from executives in the media industry.Dennis Crowley On Reinventing Foursquare: De-Emphasizing Check-ins, Digging Into Data, Moving Toward Revenue
Jun 07, 9:52PM
It has been a big day for Foursquare: The New York-based company finally unveiled the newest version of its popular location-based mobile app, Foursquare 5.0 -- the iOS version of the app launched at midnight Eastern Time, and the Android version was pushed out several hours later. It's a big overhaul for the now three-year-old Foursquare: The app was totally rebuilt from the top to bottom in a way that makes it both more simple and more fully-featured. Foursquare 5.0 is the company's biggest and boldest step yet toward becoming a complete recommendation engine and standalone social network, a bid to move well beyond its reputation as a fun "check-in" app. So TechCrunch TV was very happy to have the opportunity to snag the first post-launch interview with Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley to get the full scoop on how Foursquare 5.0 has been received by users so far and what's up next for the company...Bing Gets Smarter, Partners With Encyclopedia Britannica (But It's No Challenge For Google's Knowledge Graph)
Jun 07, 9:14PM
Microsoft today announced that it has partnered with Encyclopedia Britannica and will start to prominently feature answers from Britannica Online on the search results pages of Bing. As Franco Salvetti, the principal development lead for Bing, notes in today's announcement, Bing is "about delivering relevant information in a more organized way to help you find what you need more quickly and get stuff done." The search engine's answer feature tries to provide users with a snippet of useful information related to their questions and keywords without having to visit a webpage.Amazon Latest To Start Selling The Nest Learning Thermostat
Jun 07, 8:43PM
Never minding the legal wranglings with Honeywell, Nest Labs is on a roll lately and just announced Amazon as the latest retailer to sell the Nest Learning Thermostat. This follows similar announcements concerning Lowes and the Apple Store. Amazon is currently selling the product at its full $249 MSRP, but it is available through Prime, making it a little better deal than from other retailers.Songza, The Music Streaming Service That Does All Work For You, Launches An iPad App
Jun 07, 8:40PM
Music is as annoying as it is wonderful. I mean, the listening part is great. But taking the time to curate playlists on Spotify or conjure up the right artist to feed Pandora in exchange for a fresh playlist is tedious, at the very least. But Songza brings the expertly curated playlist straight to your smartphone with little to no work on your part, and today that magic extends to iPad land. That's right. Songza has just launched an iPad app, and let me tell you, it's beautiful.Thanks to YouTube, Netflix and Facebook, IPv6 Traffic Hits New Heights On IPv6 Launch Day
Jun 07, 7:43PM
You probably didn't notice, but yesterday was IPv6 Launch Day and thanks to support from major sites like YouTube, Netflix and others, it was quite a success. In 2011, a number of leading websites, ISPs and home router equipment manufacturers came together to test the successor of IPv4. This time around, the organizers were not just trying to get participants to test their systems but to fully deploy IPv6 on their services. Given the ever-shrinking numbers of available IPv4 addresses, moving to IPv6 is a necessity, but the move to the new protocol has been rather slow.Brands Start Automating Social Media Responses On Facebook And Twitter
Jun 07, 7:27PM
Bots in Facebook? Robots in Twitter? Pinterest Run by HAL 9000? It's all very possible. That's right, surprisingly. in the next phase of the social web, brands are applying analysis and digital intelligence to better reach us. Here's how it's gonna go down.... Companies are struggling to keep up with social media conversations, the growth in this channel has exploded, and will soon automate their responses, for better or for worse. Expect industries that have intense customer support woes like airlines like United Airlines and telecommunications like Comcast to be overwhelmed with angry customers spilling to social media sites to complain and demand fixes, and consumer companies like Coke, Pepsi, hospitality like Hyatt and Retailers like Best Buy to want to reach out and entice potential customers.Hark Strikes A Deal With Universal To Bring Your Favorite Movie Sound Bites Online
Jun 07, 7:00PM
Hark, the online repository for audio clips, is getting more studio content Thursday, with a deal that will bring sound bites from Universal's film library online. Hark will get access to about 100 Universal films, which it will cut up into bite-sized audio clips and add to its sound bite library. That will include memorable one-liners from movies like Animal House, The Blues Brothers, and The Breakfast Club -- satisfying the desires of all of us who still like to quote stuff from the 70's. So why would a studio agree to let Hark distribute its sound clips? For one thing, those clips are usually out there already in some way, shape, or form. But they're usually not accessible in a clean, well-lit place. And they're usually not being monetized. Hark allows studios to control some of the presentation for how those clips appear, and also to sell ads against them."In the Studio," Prismatic's Bradford Cross Wants to Reinvent Social News
Jun 07, 7:00PM
"In the Studio" continues this by welcoming an engineer who founded a company that predicted flight delays, has gone through Y Combinator, began his career building trading software for an asset management firm, and most recently, has helped cofound a new company with the ambitious goal of building a social newspaper for the modern world. Bradford Cross is not your average technical founder. As a heavy Twitter user, I've been skeptical about applications built on top of the feed for a few reasons. My belief is that most Twitter users are, by default, power users (relative to the population), and that they have been trained to view their newsfeed in a native format. Therefore, asking those users to jump from what's comfortable (native feeds) to an entirely new product or service that is built on top of their activity may sound nice but, in reality, impose deep, behavioral switching costs. (For a bit more on this topic and discussion, check out this topic stash on PandaWhale.)MakieLab Banks $1.4m To 3D-Print Avatars Into Real, Upgradeable Collectables
Jun 07, 6:32PM
Want a toy designed to look like your online avatar? That's what's possible with "smart toys" company MakieLab which quietly launched recently with its 3D-printed dolls based on an avatar you create on the site. But this is not just kids stuff. MakieLab just closed a seed round investment of $1.4 million. The round was led by early-stage investors Lifeline Ventures and Sunstone Capital and is joined by Anime and gaming industry veterans Matthew Wiggins, Daniel James and Cedric Littardi of superangel-fund Ynnis Ventures.Hey Bloomberg, HTC Is Not Being Shut Out By Microsoft
Jun 07, 6:31PM
At what point did Bloomberg start writing ridiculously sensationalistic and misleading headlines? It apparently started last night with the following: HTC Said To Be Shut Out Of Next Version Of Windows. Last I checked, HTC is in the business of making smartphones, not tablets. The four previous tablets built by HTC were likely built to appease the carriers. Regardless of whether or not HTC is allowed to build devices for Windows 8 proper, that won't be true for Windows Phone 8, say multiple sources. The writing's been on the wall. It's not rocket science.LevelUp Grabs $12M From Highland, Google Ventures To Take Its Mobile Payment Solution National
Jun 07, 6:11PM
At the beginning of the year, Square doubled its retail presence, landing in about 20K outlets nationwide. As Jack Dorsey's mobile payment system continues to find legs, all the major players have been rushing to bring their own solutions to market. Every day there's a new headline about mobile payments solutions, yet in spite of all the noise, no one in particular has all the traction. That's why Seth Priebatsch (of SCVNGR fame) and team launched LevelUp, a mobile payment and rewards network, into beta in July 2011. They wanted to create an easy, carrier, card agnostic payment and loyalty system that could be used everywhere. It's a lofty goal, but since launch, the mobile payment network has been growing fast. It now counts over 200K users and has partnered with more than 3K merchants in eight cities, including Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle and San Francisco. And, today, SCVNGR and LevelUp are adding more coin to their coffers to kick the payment network's expansion into high gear, announcing that they've collectively raised $12 million in funding.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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