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Hashable, The App That Aimed To Replace Business Cards, To Shut Down On July 25
Jul 12, 3:31AM
Seems it's not time to throw those business cards out just yet. Hashable, the startup that launched back in fall 2010 with the aim of replacing business cards with mobile and web apps that helped people meet and exchange information, is shutting down its service. The company announced the move via an email to users sent this evening.Disruptive: uBeam Lands $750K To Let You Charge Gadgets Without Plugs
Jul 12, 2:53AM
This is what we talk about when we talk about Disrupt. uBeam, a small startup founded by Meredith Perry, a 22-year-old new graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, has taken on $750,000 in seed funding to build out its technology for wirelessly charging electronic devices. uBeam's investors include Founders Fund's angel investing arm, Andreessen Horowitz, Crunchfund, and a number of individual angel investors including Google's Marissa Mayer and Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh, uBeam's Meredith Perry told TechCrunch today in a phone interview.Facebook's "Boz" And Other Fancy Angels Back Joe Stump's New Startup, Sprintly
Jul 12, 2:11AM
SimpleGeo co-founder and former Digg lead architect Joe Stump has raised 500K in seed funding for his latest startup Sprintly. The project management and collaboration tool is one of the first investments from Facebook Director of Engineering Andrew Bosworth and has brought together bold-faced backers like Matt Mullenweg, Simple co-founder Alex Payne, Ooga Labs' Stan Chudnovsky, Twitter lead architect Blaine Cook, About.me's Ryan Freitas, Chartbeat's Tony Haile, Founders Dens' Michael Levit, Ross Dargahi, Engine Yard's Eamon Leonard, Brizzly's Jason Shellen, and The Barbarian Group's Rick Webb.Meanwhile, In Space: Asteroid Mining Startup Planetary Resources Inks Deal With Virgin Galactic
Jul 12, 1:42AM
When you're a tech startup attempting to do something as ambitious as mine asteroids in outer space, it's good to make some well-placed friends. So it makes sense that asteroid mining startup Planetary Resources has inked an agreement with private space flight company Virgin Galactic to utilize its new LauncherOne,Uber, Evernote, Cloudera And Nextdoor Are Sun Valley's "Newest Breed"
Jul 12, 12:39AM
Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley retreat definitely wins the prize for "Most Ironic Conference" as it is a media conference that very vehemently shuns media. Just this morning one intrepid reporter was told to stop harassing the guests as she walked down the rainy thoroughfare with her friend who also happened to be an attendee (and, no, it wasn't me). My boss and guest Tim Armstrong technically isn't allowed to talk to me about anything that isn't smalltalk (Hi Tim!). Really.Forget Real Life! New Study Contradicts Existence of 'Facebook Depression'
Jul 12, 12:30AM
Despite ominous warnings about "Facebook Depression," an allegedly new mental illness of depression and anxiety caused by overuse of social media, a new level-headed scientific study reveals that social networks have not made 27% of teenagers chronically depressed. Researchers Lauren Jelenchick and Dr. Megan Moreno concluded that there was no association between feeling blue and Facebook use -- even heavy facebook use -- contradicting last year's Academy of Pediatrics report warning parents to monitor their children's social networking activity. "Our study is the first to present scientific evidence on the suggested link between social-media use and risk of depression," said Jelenchick. The new findings are an important lesson to carefully review unscientific claims before freaking out.Judge Sides With Diller-Backed Streaming TV Startup Aereo Over Broadcasters On Injuction
Jul 11, 11:15PM
New York City-based Aereo got a big initial win in court today, as it will e able to continue operating while also fighting a lawsuit against some major broadcasters. According to Reuters, U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan denied an injunction sought by those broadcast networks, which would have shut Aereo down while the lawsuit was underway. Aereo provides a service that records and streams over-the-air broadcasts online, giving consumers access to them for a small monthly fee. It works by pulling signals from a number of small antennas, and then converting those broadcasts to digital streams that can be viewed on PCs, tablets, and a number of other devices.P2P Storage Startup Space Monkey Raises $2.25M Led By Google Ventures And Venture51
Jul 11, 10:05PM
Space Monkey, the startup offering a peer-to-peer alternative to cloud storage services like Dropbox, just raised $2.25 million in a seed round of funding. The company says that it's combining the benefits of both local storage and the cloud. Every Space Monkey customer gets their own storage device, so they can access their files without having to worry about download times (which can become an issue when you're talking about large media files like videos). Copies of those files are also distributed in chunks to other Space Monkey devices, allowing for remote access and backup.Andreessen-Backed LearnSprout Wants To Help Developers Unlock Educational Data
Jul 11, 9:38PM
APIs are marching into education, and it's about time. Education is rife with legacy infrastructure, with one of the primary offenders being Student Information Systems (SIS). Schools use these systems to store huge amounts of sensitive student information (class lists, attendance, grades and allergies, etc.), but they differ widely from school to school, which, among other things, forces developers to manually integrate with each unique system, making it difficult for their cool educational software or apps to achieve any kind of scale. LearnSprout, a recent graduate of the education-focused startup accelerator Imagine K12 wants to help both schools and developers unleash those opaque educational data silos with the help of a few clean, standardizing APIs. While the recently-launched startup is not alone -- Y Combinator-backed Clever launched a similar platform last month -- LearnSprout now has the benefit of some notable investors to help fuel its fires.Know What's Crazy? People Are Signing $100 Million NBA Contracts On An iPad
Jul 11, 9:37PM
For industry people who keep up with the daily technology news cycle of incremental feature updates, startup launches, and seed funding stories, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture of how tech has changed how the world operates. So sometimes, it's fun to just step back and realize how crazy something that's happening today would seem to someone who time-traveled to today from, say, 100 years ago -- or even how improbable it would seem to yourself just five years back. To wit: People are now signing $100 million contracts not with a pen, but with a finger. And it's not because they're signing in blood. It's because they're using an iPad.Twitter Turns Toward The Masses, Gets Serious About Reach Beyond iOS & Android With Latest Mobile Update
Jul 11, 9:37PM
Twitter finalized a major overhaul of its mobile site today aimed at users on feature phones and older browsers. In a blog post, the Twitter design team wrote that they built a "lighter-weight, faster client that looks and feels like twitter.com and our mobile apps." The new site is much cleaner and is very similar to the browser and app interfaces, allowing the company to deliver the best version of its product across more platforms. This comes on the heels of yesterday's release of new Twitter mobile apps for iOS and Android. The results of Twitter's nine week project brings mobile support to thirteen different browsers for thousands of different devices. On the blog, the team writes about working to provide users with a "consistent experience on any device." The new site can scale from screens as small as 240 x 240 pixels up to desktops. In an effort to accomodate slower networks and different browsers, the site is optimized for browsers with javascript turned off and offers page sizes that are up to 63% smaller than the old version.General Catalyst And Andreessen Horowitz Parlay $4 Million On X-Googler Startup Parlay Labs
Jul 11, 8:51PM
General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz have given $4 million in Series A to stealth startup Parlay Labs we're hearing, with General Catalyst leading the round. Notable angels also in the round include YouTube's Shishir Mehrotra, Drew Houston and Xobni founders Matt Brezina and Adam Smith. The newest member of the groundswell of enterprise communication startups, which includes TCDisrupt winners Yammer and UberConference, Palo Alto based Parlay Labs wants to "reinvent the way people are communicating at work" according to its website.Department Of Veterans Affairs Uses SaaS To Go Green
Jul 11, 8:44PM
Defining an energy efficiency strategy can be challenging for big organizations with multiple large buildings. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today that it has installed energy analysis SPARC520 equipment for its Washington, D.C. headquarters.DirecTV Spat Results In Takedown Of Full-Length Viacom Shows For Everyone Online
Jul 11, 8:43PM
The latest spat between a pay TV provider and a content company has gotten ugly, with both DirecTV and Viacom taking to the web, pointing fingers and calling each other names. That's to be expected, in this day and age, as cable and satellite subscribers become innocent bystanders in the big fight over how much money these corporate behemoths make. Usually, though, these fights only matter to the subscribers who pay a certain cable or satellite provider, and only really when their favorite channels go dark. In the case of DirecTV and Viacom, however, the carriage dispute has a lot more collateral damage, as it effects pretty much anyone who enjoys watching select MTV and Comedy Central shows online.Storyteller: Create A Website With Content From (Virtually) Anywhere
Jul 11, 8:40PM
As our content is scattered across sites like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, the idea of a single, standalone website is starting to feel a bit quaint. On the consumer side, we're seeing that with products like About.me and Flavors.me, which try to unify your various social identities in one place. Now a digital agency called Sparkart is tackling the problem from the brand and business side, with a product called Storyteller. Sparkart founder and CEO Naveen Jain says that Storyteller "is not a toy" — you need basic development skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to use it, because you're building sites that have the branding and functionality that you want. Right now, he says if website developers want to integrate content from other sites, they have to either manually integrate with the API of each and every site, or wait for their content management system to add the relevant upgrade or plug-in. Then, once they're integrated, they'd have to keep track of any changes to the API and its policies. With Storyteller, on the other hand, they can access data from other sites while the platform does all the "heavy lifting."Facebook Finally Redesigns Events, Adds Calendar and List Views So You Don't Miss Birthdays
Jul 11, 8:25PM
Facebook has finally redesigned Events so you don't miss another party, birthday, or cool get-together your friends are going to. Today the site launches the Events Calendar so you can see what coming up weeks in advance, and a List view that highlights each day's birthdays, RSVPs, and suggested events (though these links won't work until you get the rollout. The redesign started as a Hackathon project a year ago and will replace the old Events for all users over the next few hours. You'll access the new look the same as before, through the" Events" link in left-side navigation menu of your home page. Maybe Google+ launching a high-tech Events feature lit a fire under Facebook. In any case, the new Facebook Events straight up works without getting too flashy or complicated.FreedomPop Teams With Sprint To Broaden Reach Of Its Freemium Internet Service
Jul 11, 8:23PM
FreedomPop, the ambitious startup devoted to bringing freemium internet to the masses, has been awfully busy lately. The last time they popped up on our radar the company had just put its WiMAX-capable iPhone sleeves on pre-order, but the team has been up to more than just churning out data-friendly cases. In addition to working with Clearwire, FreedomPop announced earlier today that it has also inked a network access deal with Sprint, allowing their forthcoming devices to run on both the carrier's 3G and LTE networks.Stay.com Brings Its Social Travel Guides To Mobile, With Full Offline Maps
Jul 11, 8:13PM
Stay.com says it can now put a city in your pocket, and in fact, it kind of can. The Oslo, Norway-based company is launching mobile apps so users can access its social travel guides on their phones. And you won't have to worry about getting a huge data roaming bill or having to stand around an unfamiliar city while waiting for a map to load — before you leave for your trip, you can download the guide (including a full map) for any of the cities to your phone, then it's stored on your phone for whenever you need it.Demand Media Alums Invest $575,000 In iSpot.tv, A Platform For Social Marketing On TV
Jul 11, 7:33PM
Since more and more people are watching TV with their mobile phones and tablets in hand, brands and advertisers are increasingly faced with a big problem: How do you reach audiences that are turning to these second-screen devices whenever a commercial break comes on? To solve that problem, former Demand Media CTO Sean Muller founded iSpot.tv seven months ago, hoping to provide an elegant and mobile-first solution for reaching those audiences. The company is still in stealth mode, so without giving too much away, Muller said the company was trying to find out how to connect TV campaigns to social media. But he did say that the startup has built is a a platform for brands to engage with audiences both on the TV and on social networks.Facebook Releases Biggest iOS SDK Update Ever, Plus iOS 6 Hooks And iOS Dev Center
Jul 11, 7:15PM
Facebook released today a major overhaul of its software development kit (SDK) for iOS, including support for the forthcoming iOS 6, plus a new iOS Dev Center that includes documentation and resources for developers. Facebook promises the new features in the SDK will make it easier to develop Facebook-integrated mobile apps. Highlights include: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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