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The Final Seven Disrupt SF Startups: Expect Labs, Gyft, Lit Motors, Prior Knowledge, Saya, YourMechanic And Zumper
Sep 12, 5:58AM
This year's TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has been the biggest yet. Nearly 3,000 people poured in to watch a wonderful keynote by top product CEO Jack Dorsey, talks with legends like Reid Hoffman and Ben Horowitz, and they were standing in the aisles during Michael Arrington's historic post-IPO interview with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg today. Tomorrow, we end on a high note with the Startup Battlefield grand finale....Social Finance Lands $77M From Baseline, Renren To Help Solve The Student Debt Crisis
Sep 12, 5:31AM
Student debt is a very serious problem that can no longer be ignored. Recently, student debt in the U.S. topped $1 trillion, eclipsing both national credit card and car loan debt. Naturally, a debt crisis of this proportion didn't grow over night; it's been coming for years. So, in 2011, a group of Stanford business school grads decided to start Social Finance, with the goal of transforming the student loan industry. Many companies are addressing this problem, with varying degrees of success. But today, the young San Francisco-based company got a big vote of confidence from investors, as the company announced that it has raised $77.2 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Baseline Ventures, with participation from DCM and Renren, one of China's largest social networking sites.Pagoda Box Is Easier Than Amazon Web Services, But More Customizable Than Heroku
Sep 12, 5:00AM
I've had a sense for a while that infrastructure-as-a-service (like Amazon Web Services) and platform-as-a-service (like Heroku) are converging. Developers love the idea of using a PaaS to speed up provisioning and deployment, but don't necessarily want to completely give up control of their environments. One sign of this convergence is Pagoda Box, a PaaS that provides a deeper level of control over infrastructure while still abstracting away all the hard stuff.Technicolor And Dreamworks Joint Venture M-Go Strikes UltraViolet Deals With 5 Hollywood Studios
Sep 12, 4:00AM
M-Go, which seeks to launch a digital storefront for movies online, has just announced deals with five of the top six Hollywood studios that will allow it to sell UltraViolet-enabled movies and play them back on a number of connected devices. The deals were done with NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, and will include rental and purchase of new films on the same day and date that they become available on Blu-ray and DVD. M-Go is a joint venture between Technicolor and Dreamworks, and was shown off earlier this year at CES and SXSW. The idea is to create apps that will work across multiple devices, including tablets and smart TVs. Already, M-Go has struck deals to have its apps loaded on Samsung and Vizio TVs, Blu-ray players, and tablets. It'll also be available on Intel ultrabooks and other devices.Startup Alley Day 2 — More Companies Than You Can Poke A Mic At [TCTV]
Sep 12, 2:33AM
Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt tricky enough to navigate when you're being pitched every few feet by hungry young startups. So we've harnessed that energy into a fast run through of some of the companies out there today. One of the major themes is that social is by no means over. Plenty of startups are still mining that rich seam and it's interesting to see the sheer variety of firms tackling the issue. Companies featured in the video include:Evergram Founder Pitches His Meaningful Message Packager Wearing A Wedding Dress
Sep 12, 2:18AM
Think about when you go to a wedding (in my ripe old age, I have been to one) and you jot down a note in a big book for the couple. Imagine if instead you could record a video or audio message (or be boring and stick to the text) for them. That's what evergram offers.The Amico Bracelet: Restoring A Little Mystery To Meeting People
Sep 12, 2:17AM
Do you remember life before the Internet? Can you recall a time when meeting someone new took place serendipitously and was uncluttered with all the profile searching and stalking? A time when there was a little mystery in taking weeks or months to uncover the contents of a new friend's music collection? A time where, when you did meet someone interesting, you didn't have every bit of information about them instantly available — where they studied, where they work, what food they like. Let me be clear, the Amico Bracelet would not restore this earlier era. But this concept could possibly restore just a little bit of mystery to meeting people — when you are actively trying to meet people, that is.Startup Alley Day 2 — So Many Companies, So Little Time [TCTV]
Sep 12, 2:09AM
Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco is full of disruptive companies, and it's hard to pick a favorite. But to give you a sense of the craziness, you need to tune in for just 5 minutes and check out these companies. There's plenty more where these came from and some more videos coming, including the country Pavilions. Stay tuned. The companies covered here include:Hugh MacLeod Comes Back With More Drawings Of The Second Day Of Disrupt
Sep 12, 2:00AM
Yesterday, famous cartoonist Hugh MacLeod started drawing all the action taking place at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. We present you the second batch of drawings. In these cartoons, you will see overheard conversations, a quote from Michael Arrington, what it feels like to be an entrepreneur at TechCrunch Disrupt and general thoughts about our industry. Check back tomorrow for another batch of scribbles. Click "Read more" to see the drawings.Quora Co-Founder Charlie Cheever Steps Back From Day-To-Day Role At The Company
Sep 12, 1:51AM
Quora co-founder and early Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever is stepping back from a day-to-day role at the company after starting the site in 2009. He'll be taking time off after a very long stretch of work, building and scaling Quora (after building and scaling Facebook). He most recently oversaw the launch of the company's native Android app a week ago with designer Anne Halsall and a handful of other engineers. No word on whether he'll remain on the board yet, but we're checking.Startup Alley Day 2 — From Mixer To Murally To Floost And The Rest
Sep 12, 1:49AM
It's Day 2 in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, and the startups just keep coming. This year's Alley is bigger than it's ever been, so it's pretty tough to get through all the companies. Indeed you could spend all day going through every single one, but we do our best to give you a flavour of the companies in a few bite-sized TechCrunch TV videos like this one. Enjoy! The companies covered here include...Here Are Your TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield Startups From Day 2
Sep 12, 1:48AM
What a day! TechCrunch Disrupt SF day two kicked off with super angel Ron Conway and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Then we had Kevin Rose, Marc Benioff, Aaron Levie and many others. Not to mention Mike Arrington's epic chat with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. Be sure to check out all of our live coverage of Disrupt SF day two here. Yesterday, 15 companies presented in the Startup Battlefield competition and today we had 14 companies who took the stage to fight it out for the ultimate prize of the Disrupt Cup and $50,000. All of the companies who presented today are below. Who do you think will win? Make sure to tune in tomorrow for the finale.Spinlister Makes It Into Disrupt Battlefield With It's 'Airbnb For Bikes'
Sep 12, 1:13AM
Peer-to-peer bike rental service Spinlister was chosen by the audience from amongst the Startup Alley companies today to pitch on stage as part of the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco this week. There are over 100 million bikes in the US and over a billion on the planet. But most bikes are not used daily, meaning there's plenty of opportunity to meet demand. Normal bike rental from a store costs about $16 a day. On Spinlister you can rent a bike from $5 a day up to about $100 for a really nice bike. They are now in 275 cities in 40 countries with over 2,000 bikes listed.Pathmapp Launches An A/B Testing And Visual Analytics Service For Mobile Developers
Sep 12, 1:00AM
As Eric Ries pointed out in a TechCrunch post last year, although many may be familiar with "A/B testing" as a direct marketing technique (what it was initially developed for), it can be an even more powerful tool when used in product development. Of course, while A/B testing has long been an integral part of web development, for native mobile apps, utilizing the process to test new designs and updates is a bit trickier. Because of Apple's approval process, it can take weeks for developers to push out an update and for users to download that update. So Pathmapp, a startup launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, wants to change that by giving mobile developers the ability to test updates and push them live in realtime -- just by implementing one line of code.The Kindle Fire HD Is Amazon's Lean, Mean, Content-Selling Machine
Sep 12, 1:00AM
The Kindle Fire is Amazon's digital strategy incarnate. When it launched a year ago, the Fire seemed almost rushed. It looked like RIM's failed Playbook tablet and it worked, at best, like the low cost tablet it was. But, in the end, it was the best device ever made to access Amazon's own content. It delivered a seamless read experience, a compelling video collection, and enough apps to keep casual users happy. Fast forward almost exactly a year and here is the Kindle Fire HD. It is as different from the original Fire as the first, clunky Kindle was from original, clunky, doorstop Kindle. It offers improved speed, improved screen resolution, and a superior industrial design. In short, the Fire HD is the Fire reborn and at $199 it gives most similar tablet devices a serious run for their money.Fly Or Die: Amazon Kindle Fire HD
Sep 12, 1:00AM
The Kindle Fire HD is a big deal. Big. It has rather excellent specs — a 1280x800 7-inch display, TI OMAP processor, dual stereo speakers, and dual-antennae Wifi (with MIMO) — and it comes at a ridiculously low price: $199.Zuckerberg Shows He's The Right Man For The Job. Now That Job Needs Doing
Sep 12, 12:49AM
This was no sweaty, hoodie-clad boy genius. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated he's a business man, a mobile product visionary, and most importantly, a leader Facebook's employees can look up to. Speaking quickly but confidently, he admitted mistakes. But Zuck's accomplishment today was meeting his biggest questions and criticisms head on. With the smile of man holding a royal flush, he laid out his vision for the next phase of Facebook's evolution: a mobile-first product we love to use but that gives advertisers unique ways to reach us through the devices we can't put down.Time Tracking App Chronos Shows You How You Spend Your Days – And How Your Friends Do, Too
Sep 12, 12:48AM
Debuting at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, Chronos is a new time-tracking application for iPhone that shows you how you spend your time as well as who you're with, where and when, so you can set goals for yourself. Using the built-in sensors on the iPhone like the compass and accelerometer, for example, in combination with location databases from Google and Foursquare, Chronos can track whether you're at the office, at home, at the gym, a restaurant, a bar, or anywhere else. The clever thing here is that the app tracks your activity passively by simply running in the background on the phone, then automatically categorizing the hours you log appropriately ("work," "exercise," etc.). You can also optionally connect with Facebook to compare your activity with select friends.Maluuba Wants To Challenge Apple's Siri With Its "Do Engine"
Sep 12, 12:33AM
Ever since Apple launched its voice-driven personal assistant Siri, a slew of clones have appeared on the scene. Most of these, however, clearly show that Siri was the result of a massive research project that isn't easy to replicate. Maluuba, which is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt today, is the closest thing I've seen to a viable Siri competitor on Android. In many ways, Maluuba is actually more reminiscent of Siri before Apple bought it, as the company describes it as a "do engine" that ties in with numerous third-party services. Maluuba, just like Siri, also allows you to set up meetings, alarms and location-based reminder and the app ties in tightly with your Google Calendar account, for example.INRFOOD's New Mobile App Shines A Spotlight On What's Actually In Your Food
Sep 12, 12:22AM
North Carolina-based INRFOOD aims to add some much-needed context to the food we eat every day by highlighting all the (occasionally funky) ingredients that tend to appear in it. To that end, the bootstrapped startup just launched its iOS and Android app on the TechCrunch Disrupt SF stage and it's clear that the team wants to bring that age-old adage about watching what you eat into the 21st century. "There's so much misinformation when it comes to diet," founder Keval Mehta told me. "And it all depends on who you listen to."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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