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Remember When Google Was A Search Engine?
Jul 05, 12:48AM
It's not exactly clear when Google ceased to be a search company. It became more like a company that wanted a finger in every pot in order to protect its future as a search company; Perhaps it was the early acquisition of Google Earth? Perhaps, but, if it only counts when viewed as a defensive effort, my guess would be the later acquisition of YouTube. Anyways, what is clear after this io is that Google is now a hardware company, a social company and a mobile company; And it's a company destined to be at war with other companies.Refer.ly Lets You Earn Cash For Recommendations (And Now, Donate It To Charities)
Jul 04, 10:49PM
Refer.ly, a Y Combinator-backed startup that makes it easy for people to earn affiliate revenue every time they recommend a product or book, is now allowing its users to donate their earnings to charity. The company, which only just launched six weeks ago, is syncing up with about 100 charities or so including the March of Dimes and American Heart Association. All proceeds can go to a user's charity of choice. Refer.ly takes no cut. The company also started a summer reading campaign on behalf of Room to Read, which builds libraries in the developing world. The company is donating $1 for every book purchased through Refer.ly this month.Cloud Vertical Lets You Track Your Infrastructure Spending on Amazon Web Services And More
Jul 04, 10:29PM
Now that there's Google Compute engine, there is yet another infrastructure service that IT managers and startups have to consider. So how do IT managers decide to how to efficiently spend on cloud services? A Dublin-based startup called Cloud Vertical is stepping in with analytics that measure everything from everyday spending to EC2 instances, Amazon S3, Elastic Map Reduce and more. "With the old model, you never had to track flexible capacity," said chief executive Ed Byrne, who sold his last company Hosting 365 to Sungard for an undisclosed amount in 2010. "But in the new model, you can always add more capacity. Capacity can be infinite."Microsoft's Azure Accelerator In China Debuts Inaugural Class
Jul 04, 9:30PM
As you may recall, Microsoft recently got into the startup accelerator game, launching its first self-directed and self-run accelerator in Israel. The program is different from Microsoft's Kinect Accelerator, for example, because Microsoft is the owner and operator of these new programs, which are now rolling out elsewhere in the world, including India and China. Unlike your typical YC clone, Microsoft is not snagging an equity stake nor providing funding for the startups it hosts. But it also doesn't plan to run out of cash for its programs, either. (See Mike's deep dive into the Israel-based incubator here). This Friday, the Chinese accelerator will announce its inaugural class of startups, a unique group because of Microsoft's focus on cloud computing businesses which already have products and end users.Three Startups Defending Democracy In America: Votizen, Memeorandum, and NationBuilder
Jul 04, 8:51PM
The USA was founded by entrepreneurs who said "England has become bloated with bureaucracy. Let's disrupt it by starting our own agile, more innovative nation." But on the country's 236th birthday, we find some democracy's machinery needs a tune up. Political news, campaigns, and voting itself require an update for the 21st century. Considering our roots, its only fitting that entrepreneurs would be the ones to rise to the occasion and use technology to make this great nation greater. Here a look at five bold startups putting the power of democracy back in the hands of the ordinary person.Virtual Currency Monetization Company Sponsorpay Gets 32M Uniques In June, 300% Mobile Growth This Year
Jul 04, 8:39PM
Sponsorpay, a leading cross-platform mobile app monetization and user acquisition company, told us today that they have seen 300% growth in mobile business since January of 2012. Janis Zech, co-founder and chief revenue officer, also said Sponsorpay had 32 million unique visitors on mobile products in the month of June. While declining to share the exact user growth rate, Zech said there has been a faster growth rate for users than for the mobile platform revenues.Dick Figures: Funding A Full-Length Animated Movie On Kickstarter
Jul 04, 7:24PM
These days, it almost seems like a foregone conclusion. If you've got a popular web series and want to do something more ambitious (i.e., costly), but you're probably not going to get funding from the Hollywood studios, where do you turn? Kickstarter, of course. The series in question is Dick Figures, which has received a total of 125 million views across 40 episodes since launching in November 2010. Dick Figures and its stick-figure stars Red and Blue are the creation of Ed Skudder and Zack Keller, and the show is produced by Los Angeles animation studio Six Point Harness, with distribution by Mondo Media.SparkTruck Is A Force For STEM Education On Wheels
Jul 04, 6:11PM
Budget cuts and bureaucracy have kept engineering equipment from our nation's schools, so a scrappy Stanford team is taking a truck chock-full of fun tools to the students themselves. SparkTruck literally parks a engineering bench outside of schools, let's students play with the latest in maker technology, and has managed to have a measurable impact on students' path towards a career in science.Over 1 Billion (Hours) Served: Netflix, Big Cable, And The Innovator's Dilemma
Jul 04, 5:45PM
Netflix yesterday announced that its viewers watched over 1 billion hours of video over the course of June, which comes down to about an hour of video per subscriber per day. At the time I wrote about it, I pointed out that chances are, each hour of Netflix viewing means one less hour being watched of regular old live TV. BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield extrapolated that data and declared Netflix the "most viewed cable network on television." (Free registration required) It's an imperfect comparison for a number of reasons, in part due to the number of accounts that Netflix subscribers share per household. But it's indicative of the shift in attention that's occurring, as viewers begin to watch less broadcast and cable television, and move toward on-demand shows that are streamed online.London, Paris, Berlin and Beyond — A Plea For Europe's Tech Events To Sync
Jul 04, 4:44PM
A couple of years ago I was a tad depressed. Let me tell you why. Covering the European tech startup scene was a mess. Every local Tech God was trying to re-create their version of "The" European tech conference without any idea of the synergies going on in Europe. What was interesting was that many had not factored in that the VCs, investors and press - hunting for deals and stories across Europe - were criss-crossing the continent attending startup meet-ups and conferences, only to find the events crashing into each-other. I'd regularly bump into a VC going somewhere that I'd just been, and vice versa. Happily things are starting to get a lot more co-ordinated. As an example, check out the upcoming Campus Party and Tech Open Air events in Berlin soon.A Very Giveaway Fourth: Win One Of Four 7-inch Samsung Galaxy 2 Tablets From Rebtel
Jul 04, 3:02PM
The charming folks at Rebtel wanted you and yours to have a great July 4th (even if you're British, South African, Chinese, or any other nationality that doesn't celebrate the Fourth). That said, they're offering four 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2 tablets with $100 in calling credit from Rebtel. Fireworks!Tudo Bem? Disrupt SF to Feature Both Israeli AND Brazilian Pavilions, Vamos?!
Jul 04, 2:44PM
It was at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in 2011 where a fine tradition began, namely, the Israeli Pavilion. No less than 20 early-stage Israeli startups flew-in from Israel to demo and network themselves to the bone for three non-stop days. The inaugural Pavilion was such a success, we decided to have another one at the past Disrupt in NYC. It too was a huge success with yet another 20 Israeli startups hitting the Big Apple disrupt-style. So we thought to ourselves, 'Hey, you know what rhymes with Pavilion? Brazilian!' That's right, at the upcoming Disrupt in San Francisco we're not only going to have our staple Israeli Pavilion, we're going to have one for Brazilian startups as well!Failed Anti-Oatmeal Lawyer Says "Mission Accomplished"
Jul 04, 1:58PM
In what appears to be a final burst of notoriety-seeking and odd behavior, Funnyjunk's crack lawyer, Charles Carreon, told Ars that he had won because now he was "famous" and "notorious". "Mission accomplished," he said, apparently without irony or self-awareness.Happy Independence Day: SOPA's Cousin ACTA Fails To Make The Vote In Europe, But Is This Really The End?
Jul 04, 12:08PM
A big day today for those who have been opposed to measures like SOPA that are aimed at stronger, government-imposed measures to define and prevent counterfeiting and copyright infringement on the internet: the European Parliament has rejected the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), by a nearly-unanimous margin of 478 votes against to 39 in favor. The rejection means that the European countries that have signed the treaty may have been overruled in putting it into ratified effect; and the lack of global agreement could also make it hard to enforce ACTA in other countries where it has been approved but not yet ratified: these include Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and the U.S.Late, Expensive And Probably Redundant: YouView Finally Launches UK Digital TV Service
Jul 04, 10:41AM
Two years after it was meant to go live, and with a list of backers that includes the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva, BT and TalkTalk, YouView today finally crashed the UK TV party. Available by the end of July with a selection of major retailers, the service is based around an all-in-one set-top box that you can use without a subscription, which includes 100 digital TV and radio channels, catch-up and on-demand services, as well as the ability to record programs. But with a price tag that will begin at £299 ($469) without the required broadband thrown in, and competing against a host of existing services, is this a case of too-little, too-late?TextMaster Rolls Out API For Its Copywriting, Translation And Proofreading Platform
Jul 04, 10:06AM
It's not a spelling mistake, it's a typo. That's my line and I'm sticking to it. But what if proofreading, along with copywriting and translation, could be offered akin to a Software-as-a-Service, API included? That's the ambitious aim of TextMaster which this week uncloaked its technology stack to enable third-parties to start building apps that integrate the full functionality of its service. TextMaster offers a platform for content creators to crowdsource their copywriting, translation and proofreading needs via its community of 'professionals' who have each gone through a quality vetting process and are paid per-word. One way to think of the service is a Mechanical Turk for a very specific niche, while the bigger vision is to disrupt the respective copywriting, translation and proofreading industries. As an example, the translation industry is thought to be a $20B market. To that end, some of TextMaster's competitors include Greatcontent, and Textbroker (copywriting), Wordy (proofreading), and Gengo (translation), which already offers an API.MOVE Guides Secures Seed Funding To Revolutionise International Relocations
Jul 04, 8:43AM
MOVE Guides, which competes with Moveline (a TechStars company), is about moving people and families for work internationally - business relocation in other words. The market is - according to MOVE Guides - worth more than £40bn annually. That means that if expats were a country, that country would be one of the most wealthy and mobile in the world - international business moves are rarely done on the cheap. So today MOVE Guides announces it's raised £400,000 seed funding - all while founder Brynne Herbert successfully completed her MBA at London Business School. Not bad.Sorry IBM – A Big Box Is Not A Platform As A Service
Jul 04, 8:29AM
In April, IBM rolled out a big new machine called IBM PureApplication Systems, a member of the PureSystems technology family. At the time, I called IBM out for calling it a "PaaS in a Box." It reminded me of Larry Ellison calling Oracle's hardware a "cloud-in-a-box" back in 2010. Well, IBM is continuing its PaaS washing. Krishnan Subramanian just tweeted about a new IBM post that went up today that's titled:"Open 24x7x365: The IBM open PaaS and private cloud platform."Song Pop Hits 2 Million Daily Active Users, Many Of Them Probably Flirting
Jul 04, 2:45AM
Call it the way we flirt now. Facebook games like Song Pop and Draw Something and apps like Pair are discovering novel ways to get you to FunnyJunk Attorney Charles Carreon Drops Lawsuit Against Oatmeal Creator
Jul 04, 2:24AM
Charles Carreon, the attorney with the the infamous lawsuit against The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman, has withdrawn the suit. The news was announced by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which also posted Inman's "notice of voluntary dismissal". (I would embed the document below, but there's basically no text, aside from "plaintiff dismisses the action.") The EFF was representing Inman in the lawsuit, and the announcement included this statement from Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl: "Matthew Inman spoke out against Carreon's threat of a frivolous lawsuit, in a very popular and very public way. This was nothing more than a meritless attempt to punish Inman for calling attention to his legal bullying. We called him out on this in our briefs, so it's no surprise that Carreon was left with no choice but to dismiss."
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