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Backed By Andreessen, Virtual Workforce MobileWorks Completes 1M Tasks For Startups In 1st Year
Aug 15, 5:20AM
MobileWorks launched last summer with a simple, yet big mission: Build a viable alternative for Amazon Mechanical Turk and in so doing create a motivated, happy and accurate virtual workforce. To be the anti-Turk, the startup set out with a novel approach (and a social mission) -- to pay workers fair wages and create a collaborative online work environment in which microwork would become less anonymous, believing that this could lower the cost of obtaining quality results, allow them to pay fewer workers more and tap into the non-enterprise market. So far it seems to be working, as the company announced today that its workers have collectively completed one million commercial tasks since launch. What's more, companies have effectively outsourced five continuous years of work in the last year by hiring its cloud-based crowd, with this traction leading to seed investment from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Recruit Strategic Partners, Bee Partners, FirstLight Ventures, Hub Ventures, Y Combinator and SV Angel.Office Politics Really Is About Actual Offices
Aug 15, 4:24AM
Warning: There's no real tech news reason I'm writing this, other than the fact that it's sort of ridiculous that humans are this way and maybe that's an opportunity for some startup to tap into. I arrived at the Aol 770 Broadway offices on Thursday and was met with the above glass situation at the TechCrunch NYC JiWire Aims To Improve Mobile Ad Targeting With Its New Location Graph
Aug 15, 4:10AM
Location-based ad company JiWire is announcing a new service today that's supposed to connect user behavior and location — perhaps inevitably, given the trendiness of building an this that graph, it's called the Location Graph. Even prior to the Location Graph, interim CEO David Staas says JiWire had already created more than 3 billion location tags. The new initiative is basically an attempt to draw more meaningful insights from all that data.Critical Skills Education SaaS EverFi Raises $10M From Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Ev Williams And Others
Aug 15, 3:12AM
Washington D.C.-based education technology company EverFi has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Jeff Bezos, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Rethink Education, New Enterprise Associates, Tomorrow Ventures (the investment arm of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt), Allen and Company, and Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen. EverFi previously raised $11 million in 2010. EverFi has created a SaaS application for schools to help educate young adults on financial literacy, student loan default prevention, filing taxes, credit card debt and other critical life skills. The application's curriculum incorporates virtual worlds, gaming, social media and videos to help teach children these life skills.Pinterest Goes Big On Mobile: Rolls Out First-Ever Native iPad App, Makes Its Android Debut
Aug 15, 2:25AM
In a big push to go mobile, Pinterest today rolled out an all-new update to its iOS app, Version 2.0. This includes an all-new version of Pinterest customized for the iPad. The company has also debuted its first ever native app for the Android operating system. The updates come just on the heels of Pinterest opening up its service to anyone -- previously, people needed an invite to be part of the site.Social Video Company Unruly Triples Annual Revenue To £17.6M And Opens New US Offices
Aug 15, 1:59AM
Unruly, a social video distribution platform whose technology helped power viral campaigns like Evian's Roller Babies and Old Spice's "Man Your Man Could Smell Like", just released its results for the fiscal year ending on March 31. The company says it tripled revenue from £6.0 million to £17.6 million (at current conversion rates, that's about $27 million). The Unruly platform is called MEME, which stands for Media Engagement and Measurement Engine. Brands and agencies come to Unruly with videos that they're hoping to turn into viral hits. Unruly distributes the video to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, influential blogs, and other sites — the goal is to target the audiences that are most likely to help a video spread. The company says it has now delivered more than 2,000 social video campaigns and that comScore's Media Metrix report for April pegged Unruly's reach at 917 million unique monthly visitors.Tigerlabs Accelerator Showcases Its First Batch Of Startups At Princeton Demo Day
Aug 15, 12:53AM
Today, seed fund and startup accelerator Tigerlabs hosted its first Demo Day in Princeton, New Jersey. Co-founded by Jason Glickman (co-founder of Tremor Video) and Bert Navarrete (long-time investor) and with James Smits (recent Princeton graduate) as program director, it provides a 3-month summer accelerator program with $20,000 in funding. Seven teams of first-time student entrepreneurs presented their work today. They all had a live product to demo after the presentations. During the summer, Tigerlabs offered the traditional features of a startup accelerator: seed funding, a co-working space that happens to be in a frat house, mentor and advisor meetings, speaker series from VCs and entrepreneurs and a final Demo Day in front of investors and tech reporters. When we talked with the entrepreneurs after their presentations, they were all satisfied by their experience of the past three months. Even if Tigerlabs is located in Princeton, Glickman told us that he did not expect the graduates to stay there. Most of them will relocate to New York, San Francisco or another big city in the coming months. Of these seven companies, two will be selling a hardware device. Here’s a look at the seven graduating companies: Eko is a cross platform mobile app that makes communications between groups of people more intuitive and enjoyable by organizing conversations into threads. Its two main assets compared to well-known competitors are its threaded view and its interface. The app will be available on iOS, Android and BlackBerry. FlavorTech is a company dedicated to making communication and sharing experiences easier and more enjoyable by building electronic gadgets. The first product is JoinMe, a smartphone-based tele-presence robot. It uses the phone camera and connectivity. That is why it only costs $80. They will launch a Kickstarter campaign soon to raise some money and to deliver their first production batch. Mapsaurus is a service that allows users to easily find great Android apps by exploring a graphical representation of the app market. They are trying to fix the Google Play experience and have already encountered impressive usage statistics in only a few days. For every 1,000 users, 750 apps were installed. Panther is a platform that makes competitive intelligence dead-simple and affordable. It is an inexpensive and good-looking service to monitor your competitors on different social networks, in the news and on their website. It is currently in private alpha testing and will be available forTwo Months After Failing To Go Viral, Airtime Bets Video Posts and Twitter Will Help It Take Off
Aug 15, 12:09AM
Airtime planned to reach millions through real-time Facebook Chat invites to video calls. But private messages can't go viral, so two months after launch it's hoping for growth through public video posts to Twitter and Facebook. Since AppData shows Airtime as having just 1000 daily and 90,000 monthly actives, finding a distribution method that snowballs is crucial to the company making good on the $33.5 million fronted by its investors. With this "limited public release" of video posts, its first Twitter integration, and an enhanced buddy list, Airtime users gain ways to tempt more friends to hop aboard, and not just one at a time.Oddly, RetinaMacApps.com Lists All Retina-Ready Mac Apps
Aug 14, 11:57PM
Are you readyyyy to retina!? Sure you are, so if you've got your retina MacBook at hand, hop over to RetinaMacApps.com and see all of the apps that are currently retina ready. It's just that simple.After Privacy Uproar, Quora Feeds Will No Longer Show Data On What Other Users Have Viewed
Aug 14, 11:45PM
Updated. Earlier this month, Q&A site Quora unveiled a new feature, Views. One of the most noticeable aspects of Views was that it displayed information about the exact posts that other users of the site had looked at in its user feeds. At the time, we noted that it could certainly rub some folks the wrong way -- Quora is a site that definitely plays into natural human curiosity, but what you view on the web is a pretty personal thing. After a significant uproar from users (documented quite well on Hacker News) Quora has opted to shut off the feature in Views that shows data about what others are viewing in the main Quora feed. Other parts of Views, such as viewership data inside posts themselves and analytics reported to post authors, will remain active.MetaLab Relaunches A Sexy New Ballpark, Officially Becomes A "Design Capital" Investor
Aug 14, 11:35PM
You may not be familiar with MetaLab, but you've probably seen their work, as the Canadian design firm has designed for Google, Disney, TED, NBC, CBS and many more. Fluid, the company's Tumblr theme, has become one of the most popular themes on the platform, for example. The company initially started out doing web development and design consultancy, but, over time, has diversified into digital goods and software. Its task management tool, Flow, launched last March and was a near-instant success. And today, MetaLab finally announced a return to its first product, Ballpark, completely redesigning the app from the ground up with some cool new features and a spiffy new iPhone app.Six Really Useful Apps For NYC
Aug 14, 11:04PM
Like everyone else in New York, I tend to have strong opinions on what places my friends (and foes) should or should not frequent while in NYC. While I don't claim to know everything about this city and what treasures, I've learned a thing or two about differentiating the good from the awesome and bad over the last 6+ years. A recent influx of friendly faces from San Francisco has prompted me to compile a list of apps to make the transition that much easier for those new to the city. Time is money and we definitely don't have enough of it here. So here are a handful of iOS apps for everyone and anyone but mostly for Alexia to which this list is dedicated. Hopefully others find this useful and feel free to add your own recommendations.Twitter Co-Founders Preview Medium, Their Publishing Platform That Gives Anyone An Audience
Aug 14, 10:26PM
Obvious Corp has just unlocked Medium.com, revealing that its a publishing platform that collects submitted text and images into themed collections so you don't need a following to be heard. Anyone can read and give feedback on Medium entries starting today, with publishing access to roll out from friends and family to more people soon. Backed by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone plus the rest of the Obvious crew, Medium could democratize distribution. The way Twitter's retweets gave anyone with 140 characters of brilliance a way to spread across the web, Medium could do the same for longer thoughts.Back To School: Five Gadgets To Help You Get Your Game On Between Classes
Aug 14, 9:58PM
Once school kicks into high gear it may seem like there's no end to all the work that needs to be done, but rest assured — there will come a time when you won't find yourself buried in a textbook or furiously writing papers. The question then is, well, what do you do with yourself? Sure, you could go out, meet new people, and generally expand your horizons, but there's something to be said for the simple pleasure of vegging out with video games. That said, here are a few gadgets that should help fill those brief, wondrous moments between exams and assignments.Facebook Tries Letting Pages Show News Feed Ads To Non-Fans
Aug 14, 9:54PM
Facebook seems determined to impress investors, as today it begins testing an aggressive web and mobile news feed ad unit that lets Pages pay to show their posts to people who didn't subscribe to them. Previously, Pages could only reach people who weren't fans with ads in the web sidebar or through Sponsored Stories noting someone's friend had interacted with the Page. These new non-fan news feed ads will let Pages push their best content all across the social network, but could lead businesses who've spent years earning and buying Likes to ask "What was the point?"Nielsen: More Teens Now Listen To Music Through YouTube Than Any Other Source
Aug 14, 9:25PM
According to Nielsen's latest "Music 360" report, 48% of consumers in the U.S. still see radio as the dominant way to discover new music. For almost two-thirds of U.S. teenagers, however, Google's YouTube is now a more important source of music than radio (54%), iTunes (53%) and CDs (50%). Despite the growing popularity of Internet music services among teens, about a third of them still bought a CD in the last year and among all respondents, 55% said physical CDs are still a very or fairly good value.G+ Posts Show Your Exact Location On A GMap, And That Shouldn't Scare You
Aug 14, 8:55PM
As the lines between Google and Google+ grow blurrier, so do privacy norms. Today we're posed with whether we want our location made abundantly clear to anyone we share G+ posts with. Now when you post to G+ from mobile and you enable automatic location sharing or geo-tag yourself at a local spot, a big Google Map of your exact location is shown in the G+ stream on the web. The combination of exact geo-tagging and these maps give Google+ much more aggressive location sharing than Facebook or Twitter. It certainly enriches the feed, but injecting maps into G+ requires us to be more conscious of what we expose.ParStream Raises $5.6 Million For Big Data Analysis
Aug 14, 8:55PM
Par Stream has raised $5.6 million for furher extending its big data search engine technology that uses in-memory and massive parallel processing to do real-time analysis. The Series A financing was led by Khosla Ventures. Additional investors include Baker Capital, Crunch Fund, Data Collective, Tola Capital and private individuals.The YC-Backed Coco Controller Will Turn Your iPhone Into A Gaming Powerhouse
Aug 14, 8:33PM
Roll over, Sony, and tell Nintendo the news. The Coco Controller is a Kickstarter project that adds directional controls and game buttons to almost any phone, including the Galaxy SIII, iPhone, and most standard Android handsets. Created by Harvard drop-outs Connor Zwick and Colton Gyulay, the project aims to be a usable, useful addition to the mobile gamer's arsenal. The guys are YC-backed and they've opened a $150,000 convertible note. The Kickstarter project, however, is looking for $175,000 to build and distribute the controllers. They've raised $12,000 so far. A black or white Coco will cost $42 while a color Coco will cost $50.Tinyview Launches As A Frictionless Browser For Mobile Shopping
Aug 14, 8:15PM
With mobile commerce ripe for disruption, we're seeing a growing number of startups aiming to help consumers shop and purchase more efficiently on their mobile phones. The latest company to join the mix is Tinyview, which aims to be the go to "mobile browser" for product search and shopping. Tinyview is the brainchild of Raj Lalwani, who earlier this year sold his startup birthday and holiday reminders Facebook app, Social Calendar to Walmart. The iOS app aims to solve the pain point of mobile purchasing via search remove friction in mobile commerce when it comes to search and checkout.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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