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Hover For A Rec: Google Updates +1 Button To Show Related Content On Your Website
Jun 27, 2:03AM
Well it looks like Google just can't wait for the start of its Developer Conference tomorrow to begin sharing news. It's been a while since we've seen any development of the company's now ubiquitous "+1" button, but beginning soon, your +1s are going to get a whole lot more useful (and creepy?). Tonight, Google announced via the Google+ Developers Blog that it is rolling out a new feature in "platform review" -- from now on, when users hover over a +1 button on your website, they will see recommendations for other related content on your site.The Latest Project From Siri-Creator SRI: Lola, An Intelligent Banking Assistant
Jun 27, 1:20AM
I just got out of a meeting at SRI International, where representatives from both SRI and international banking group BBVA showed off something they've been working on for the past couple of years. Currently, SRI is best known as the research institute where Siri was developed before spinning out into a separate company and eventually being acquired by Apple, where it powers the Siri feature on the iPhone. SRI and BBVA have been collaborating on a new project, Lola, which they're pitching as a successor of sorts to Siri. Bill Mark, SRI's VP of Information and Computer Sciences, calls it "the next generation personal assistant."Amidst Yammers & Asanas, YC Alum Siasto Finds Revenue By Streamlining Business Collaboration
Jun 26, 11:18PM
Forget Yammer, forget Asana. In April, Y Combinator grad Siasto launched a streamlined project management solution for teams and small businesses that syncs with Google Apps and allows users to create tasks, events, and documents all from the inbox. Since then, the project management and collaboration startup has continued making inroads against competitors like Yammer, Basecamp, and good old email.A New Chapter For Yahoo Music: A Deal With Spotify, Replacing Rhapsody
Jun 26, 9:33PM
Here's an interesting twist for Yahoo, the beleaguered internet company, and Spotify, the upstart streaming music service that is taking the market by storm: today the two have announced a global deal, in which Yahoo will integrate and promote Spotify's music service on the Yahoo Media network; and Spotify will get a Yahoo app on its platform. The move shows how Spotify is teaming up with a big, old-school internet player in an effort to ramp up its user numbers, and how Yahoo is looking to new blood to rejuvenate itself. But it is also a big blow for Rhapsody, which Spotify will now be replacing as Yahoo's music streaming partner, a spokesperson has confirmed to TechCrunch. The deal will see Spotify first rolling out to Yahoo Music. Later it will also start appearing in other verticals within the media network, including Yahoo Movies and omg!, says Yahoo. That represents a much wider-ranging agreement than the one Rhapsody had with Yahoo since 2008.This Extended Galaxy S III Ad Will Pull On Your Technological Heart Strings
Jun 26, 8:18PM
The Samsung Galaxy S III is the phone you've been waiting for (per our review), and you may be waiting a bit longer due to some slight shortages on GSIII supply, but luckily this extended version of the ad can coddle us through this very difficult period. This is the most emotional portrayal of gadgetry I've ever seen out of Samsung. We've watched the Galaxy Note turn life into a party, and snickered at Apple fanbois. Most recently, we even saw Samsung go a little more bare bones, simply talking up features, kind-of-sort-of-maybe conjuring up images of Apple's iPhone commercials? Maybe?Y Combinator-Backed Clever Launches A Twilio For Educational Data
Jun 26, 8:00PM
We're all a bit tired of the "X is Twilio for Y" brand of analogies (though it's refreshing to see more of Twilio in this equation than Airbnb these days), but if ever there were an industry in need of some modern, standardizing APIs it would be education. Thankfully, Clever, a San Francisco-based startup and member of Y Combinator's current batch, is today launching a solution that brings some of the Twilio vision to education.Pew: 17% Of U.S. Cell Phone Users Now Mostly Use Their Phones To Go Online
Jun 26, 7:59PM
For most of us, our cell phones are now a convenient way to get online while we're on the go (or on the couch). According to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life project, however, 17% of U.S. adult cell phone owners now mostly go online using their phones rather than desktops, laptops or tablets. That's the number for all cell phone owners in the U.S, including those with feature phones. Just looking at those who already use their phones to go online (55% of all cell phone owners), a whopping 31% now say they mostly use their phones to use the Internet.Wall Street Winces At Zynga Event As Shares Tumble Nearly 5%
Jun 26, 7:39PM
It's been a super tough few months for Zynga and internal morale at the company. After Facebook's lackluster IPO and the lock-up period for employees broke, Zynga shares have slipped more than 30 percent since May. Today could have been a reprieve for the company, which had its big semi-annual launch event today in San Francisco. Shares were up early in the morning, but they dramatically sold off around 11:30 a.m. Pacific time by about 5 percent to $5.79. I'm not sure exactly why this happened -- as no one can ever fully understand the logic (or illogic) of the market -- but it was around the time that the company talked about casino games.This Fanless Heatsink Is The Next Generation In CPU Cooling
Jun 26, 7:07PM
CPU fans have a certain steampunkian quality to them. They're loud, annoying, and collect all sorts of debris as they run, whirring endlessly and eventually failing. This new heatsink - more like an impeller coupled with a brushless motor - is the latest in heatsink technology and promises quiet and efficient heatsinkery in the future. Built by Sandia, this cooling system could cool CPUs or even lighting. Because it consists of only three pieces - the fins, the base, and a motor - the headsink could offer maintenance free cooling for years. It actually blows dust out of its own crevices as it spins and with the right calculations you could make this bigger or smaller for various implementations.Zynga Reaches 22 Million Daily Active Users On Mobile, Announces Partners Program
Jun 26, 6:47PM
Zynga's chief mobile officer David Ko said that the company has reached 22 million daily active users on mobile. If you consider that Zynga has about 53 million daily active users on Facebook, it's a pretty strong sign that the company is diversifying on the Facebook platform (although we can't deduplicate these figures for players who use Zynga games on multiple platforms). On top of that, the company announced a new partners program that will let third-party developers reach its network. Atari, Phosphor Games, Crash Lab and others are initial partners. "It's easier than ever to create an app and yet harder than ever to find an audience," Ko said. "We want to create an ecosystem with best-in-class mobile developers and best-in-class mobile games."The Secret To Apple's High Retail Sales? People, People, And People
Jun 26, 6:22PM
The inimitable Horace Dediu has run the numbers and it's clear: Apple is great at retail and, over the past five years, the company created 35,852 retail jobs. NYT hit pieces notwithstanding, it's clear that Apple is getting things right when it comes to retail sales.Zynga Boosts Support For Synchronous Multiplayer Mode In Several Games
Jun 26, 6:15PM
Zynga said it is boosting support for synchronous multiplayer tournaments in its games. The company's starting with its recent arcade title Bubble Safari, which is a Match 3-type puzzle game where players have to match up three types of fruit in a row by shooting a cannon. Synchronous multiplayer basically means two or more people can compete with each other in real-time. Historically, Zynga has focused on asynchronous (or turn-based) play because it's easier for casual gamers to fit gameplay into their daily lives. In the new mode, you can either play with Facebook friends or strangers. Each game is 90 seconds. There's also chat so players can trash talk each other on the side. Developers also can tap into this platform, and offer special prizes on a leaderboard.Apple Quietly Releases Their Standalone Podcasts App Ahead Of iOS 6
Jun 26, 6:03PM
It wasn't long after the iOS 6 developer beta first started hitting devices that people started noticing something peculiar about its iTunes app — the iTunes U, Audiobooks, and Podcast sections had disappeared. That prompted quite a bit of speculation that each of those content types would get their own standalone app when the update launched, and now Apple has seemingly confirmed those inklings by releasing a new Podcasts app for iDevices running iOS 5.1 or later.Zynga Launches Cross-Platform "Zynga With Friends," Multiplayer, New Chat Features, And More Games
Jun 26, 6:00PM
Big news out of Zynga HQ today. The company is launching what it calls a "social lobby" for all players to meet and play across all social networks and platforms, broadly called the "Zynga With Friends" network. Key features include activity feeds, a new chat interface, multiplayer (which Kim-Mai has covered more here), leaderboards, and a variety of other additions designed to unify the company's titles.Zynga Plans Game Launches, Shares A Minute Of Vanity Metrics First: 64k Words, 140k Total Turns, Etc.
Jun 26, 5:56PM
We're here at Zynga's big press event today at the company's headquarters in San Francisco. Mark Pincus is on stage, sharing a few new stats about the company -- with more news to come about game launches, he says. But first, this post about the stats. He's not sharing daily active user numbers (which are at 53.3 million today, according to AppData), ARPU, ARPPU or other industry measures.Wanted: Charlotte Sponsors For The TC Southeast Mini Meetup Tour
Jun 26, 5:47PM
The TC Southeast Mini Meetup Tour is mere weeks away, and we're in the final stages of preparation. This is set to be our biggest meetup tour yet, hitting five cities over the course of a week, and with that comes quite a bit of planning. That said, we're looking for a couple more sponsors for our Charlotte Meetup to make sure the event goes off without a hitch and everyone gets a hefty serving of alcohol. We'll be taking both $500, which includes logo appearances on all TechCrunch meetup-related posts and on our meetup banners, and $800 sponsorships, which includes everything in a logo sponsorship plus a demo table at the event itself. To become a sponsor, email john@techcrunch.com using the subject line "CHARLOTTE - SPONSOR".Celtra Revamps Its Mobile AdCreator With 70+ New Features
Jun 26, 5:47PM
Celtra, which offers tools for creating rich media mobile ads, is launching version 3 of its AdCreator today. Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Matevz Klanjsek claims this isn't just an incremental improvement, but rather a "totally different" version of the product, with more than 70 new features and new architecture. Klanjsek and his co-founder/CEO Mihael Mikek gave me a rapid-fire tour of AdCreator 3 yesterday. They emphasized the fact that you can create an ad without doing any coding, and indeed, they pulled something together using the AdCreator's largely drag-and-drop interface. They also touted the fact that AdCreator is completely platform agnostic.Now Everyone Can Make Marketing Videos: PowToon Launches DIY Presentation Tool
Jun 26, 5:40PM
We're so over PowerPoint presentations, right? Well, that's the common refrain, at least. And we haven't even been super-enthused about the new-fangled PowerPoint alternatives in a while - not since companies like Prezi, Animoto, and (VMWare-acquired) SlideRocket were making the rounds in the startup scene, that is. Even SlideShare, the service that made presentations social, launched a web meetings service Zipcast last year in order to bring a little video-enabled pizazz into things. Long story, short. We like videos now. Please, more videos. So that's exactly what newly launched (still private beta) startup PowToon is offering: more videos, which are more easily made.Anybots Names Former Cisco Exec David Rogan CEO, Company Enters Into 'Rebuild Mode'
Jun 26, 5:28PM
It's a time of transition for Anybots, the 11-year-old Silicon Valley company which makes remote-controlled robots that are meant to serve as "mobile telepresence systems." Trevor Blackwell, who served as Anybots' CEO since he founded the company way back in May 2001 and is also a partner at famed startup incubator Y Combinator, has been replaced in the CEO role by former Cisco executive David Rogan, the company has announced.Pulse Adds Premium Subscriptions, Launches Innovative Partnership With WSJ
Jun 26, 5:13PM
Yesterday, we heard that the New York Times was partnering with Flipboard to make its content available to its own paying customers on a new platform. Today, Flipboard competitor Pulse is launching its new Premium Sources feature in partnership with the Wall Street Journal to make some of the newpaper's content available on its platform through in-app subscriptions. Pulse users will be able to subscribe to three WSJ channels for the time being: a tech and a politics section for $3.99/month each and an editorially curated feed called the Water Cooler for $0.99/month. For the Wall Street Journal, which has been using a paywall on its site since 1997, this is the first time it is unbundling its content and reselling it this way.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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