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Disrupt Battlefield Finalist Zumper Reveals It Raised $1M Seed Round From Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Others
Sep 27, 7:00AM
Zumper, the San Francisco-based startup that's assisting apartment hunters find the most ideal abode, announced today that it closed a $1 million seed round. The announcement comes two weeks after launching into a public beta at SF Disrupt. The round, which closed in May, included Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, CrunchFund, NEA, Dawn Capital, The Experiment Fund, and the DeWilde family trust.Mimecast Raises $62M For Microsoft Exchange And Office 365 Cloud-Based Email Management System
Sep 27, 6:59AM
Mimecast, a startup that offers a email archiving, continuity, and security software for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has raised $62.15 million in Series C funding led by private equity firm, Insight Venture Partners, with existing investor Dawn Capital also participating. This brings Mimecast's total funding to over $80 million. Founded in the UK in 2003 by Peter Bauer and Neil Murray, Mimecast's cloud based platform extends the capabilities of Microsoft's email systems by integrating additional storage, archiving, and spam/virus protection. Mimecast's integrated security settings that the user can configure on a 'per-email' basis before pressing send, and real time archive search.Live From Rome — It's The TechCrunch Italy CrunchUp #TCItaly
Sep 27, 6:59AM
We're delighted to showcase Italian startups at our CrunchUp event in Rome today, which we've dubbed TechCrunch Italy. Check out the live stream. Our thanks to Populis and Mind The Bridge Foundation for putting this together. We have some great speakers, a great agenda, a startup showcase, an amazing venue and some great sponsors. We're also having a hackathon organised by Hackitaly. The live stream which starts around 9am Rome time:Hoover's Founder Launches Online Health Care Concierge Service, First Stop Health
Sep 27, 4:15AM
Hoover's co-founder Patrick Spain launched a new venture today, aiming to provide an online, subscription health care service to the U.S. First Stop Health provides individuals and families immediate, 24/7 phone access to its more than 250 on-call physicians.RIM Employee's OOO Reply This Week Is Both Epic And Inspiring
Sep 27, 4:08AM
RIM is holding its yearly developers conference this week, playing host to over a thousand developers still dedicated to the BlackBerry platform. The company detailed several novel features to BlackBerry 10 scheduled for release in early 2012. And yes, there was this bad music video, too. Anyway, a fellow TC editor strangely posted a RIM employee's OOO reply earlier tonight. He called it both epic and sad. He stated it was delusional, yet awesome. He then laid into this random employee for having a positive outlook and faith in his struggling employer. This RIM employee deserves better. Much better. He (or she) deserves a pat on the back for sticking to the mission in spite of all the mud that's been flung. Sure, the OOO reply was a bit over the top, but that's what it's going to take to save RIM. And RIM is worth saving.Zeebox Partners With Comcast, NBC Universal, & HBO To Launch Companion TV App In The US
Sep 27, 4:00AM
Since being launched in the U.K. last year, second-screen TV app Zeebox* has gradually been making its way to other geographies. About a month ago, I reported that Zeebox would be coming to the U.S. market with investment from Comcast, and today that's finally happening. The Zeebox companion TV app is now available to iOS and Android users in the U.S., and it's launching with strategic investment not just from Comcast, but also from NBC Universal.Errand Outsourcing Startup Exec Tests Out A Faster, More Expensive Cleaning Service
Sep 27, 2:11AM
Exec, the Uber-meets-Taskrabbit app that allows you to instantly hire people to perform basic jobs, is testing out a new version of its cleaning service. In the future, cleaning with Exec should be a higher quality, faster experience, and it will come with a higher price tag to match. Until now, everything in the app came at a standard price of $25 per hour. For the new cleaning service, the per-hour rate has more than doubled to $65. That doesn't mean you'll actually pay twice as much — Exec is now sending two people to do the job, so it should take less time.Poke War! Facebook Pokes Now Update In Real-Time
Sep 27, 1:28AM
In case Facebook Poking wasn't addictive enough, the Pokes page recently began updating in real time. That means you can leave your finger on the trigger and poke back the instant a friend pokes you. I've heard from a Facebook employee that the feature was built by an intern, and bless their soul. Or curse it if you have something important to do, because you'd be surprised how quickly you can get sucked into a real-time poke war.Airbnb Is Raising A Big Third Round, Aiming For A Valuation North Of $2B
Sep 27, 12:31AM
It's the darling of "sharing economy" startups, Y Combinator and a good portion of Silicon Valley's top investors, and a symbol of consumer web startups moving beyond entertainment to solve real life problems. Now we're hearing short-term room-renting site Airbnb is also something else -- one of the very few name-brand startups raising a massive new round of funding these days.Apple's A6 CPU Is Faster Than Previously Reported, Clocked At 1.3GHz With Latest Geekbench Build
Sep 27, 12:30AM
Speaking of trusting early reports, it seems that the A6 used in the iPhone 5 runs at 1.3GHz rather than 1GHz as previously reported. This comes from the latest build of the iOS benchmarking software, Geekbench, which just released its iOS 6 version today. Earlier builds clocked the iPhone 5 at 1GHz. But now that the software is compiled for iOS 6, it seems the A6 is slightly faster, and both CPU cores run at 1.3GHz.More Maps Backlash? Uber Tells Drivers To Hold Off On Updating To iOS 6 Until Next Week
Sep 27, 12:02AM
There's been plenty of complaining from consumers about the often-inaccurate new maps in iOS 6, and it sounds like Uber isn't too happy about the update either. Uber drivers tell us that the company sent out a text message telling them that if they haven't updated their iPhones to iOS 6 already, they should hold off until next weekRIM Employee's OOO Reply This Week Is Both Epic And Sad
Sep 27, 12:00AM
RIM is holding some sort of developer conference this week somewhere in North America. It's unclear what they actually announced or revealed because everyone keeps talking about this dumb music video. (If you're having a bad day, you should really watch it. But be warned, your ears will bleed and you may want to gouge your eyes out before/during/after.) Anyway, a friend of TC forwarded the following out of office reply from a RIM employee. I'm only sharing because it's quite possibly one of the most delusional yet most awesome OOO replies I've ever seen. Look, we all drink the kool-aid but this is neither funny nor accurate in any way.It's Official: Digsby, Owned By Social Network Tagged, Is Now Open Source And Living On GitHub
Sep 26, 11:52PM
A new chapter today for Digsby, the social/instant messaging client bought by social network Tagged in April 2011 and effectively put into an idle state soon after. It has now been taken open source, with its code now living on GitHub. The intention to make Digsby open source was first announced in July of this year, but TechCrunch understands that it's only been in the last day that the source code has been completely migrated. The move gives a new lease of life to Digsby, which integrates different messaging and email clients into a single, unified view. Back when Tagged bought the company -- the first-ever acquisition for the 330-million-member, 225-country social network -- it was intended partly as an aqui-hire and partly as a tech purchase. All seven employees of developer dotSyntax were joining the company and the idea eventually was to incorporate features of Digsby into Tagged, which, unlike, Facebook is primarily about meeting new people (similar to Badoo) than it is about reconnecting with those you already know.Details Of Sharp's Emergency Plan Emerge: The Company May Withdraw Solar Panel Unit From US, UK
Sep 26, 11:48PM
Times are tough at Sharp and the 100-year old company is desperate to turn things around. A Japanese news outlet revealed yesterday that massive layoffs are looming, and Sharp plans to relieve itself of several overseas ventures and manufacturing facilities. Reuters is reporting that part of the plan could be to shrink its solar panel business, closing assembly units in the US and Europe. It would also consolidate several Japanese production facilities into just one site.Snapjoy Prepares For Full Launch, Adds Brilliant "Copy" Feature To Its Photo Offering
Sep 26, 11:43PM
I'm a huge fan of taking photos. Let's just get that out of the way. The problem that I've always had is that I don't have one central place to put those photos. Sure, there's Flickr and iPhoto, but I haven't found a great solution that lets me host photos and share them in a useful way.YouTube Rolls Out Android Update, Offers More Features, New UI To Froyo And Gingerbread Devices
Sep 26, 11:30PM
Froyo and Gingerbread might be the Windows 98 and XP of the Android world, but Google has not given up on the aging, but still very popular platforms. The latest YouTube app serves up new features and a different UI to devices running older installs. And for good reason, too. Android's update scheme often older hardware running older software. Gingerbread, released 2010, accounts for over half of all Android devices with a 57.5% market share among the Android versions. Froyo comes in third with 14% as Ice Cream Sandwich accounts for 20.9%. But now, this update finally provides 71.5% Android devices with the latest YouTube UI.Myspace's iLike Rises From The Dead To Block An Apple Trademark Request
Sep 26, 11:12PM
The icon on the left represents iOS's music app. The icon on the right is for a now-shuttered Myspace service called iLike. Apple introduced the Music app to iOS in 2007 with the iPod touch. iLike was founded in 2006, granted its trademark 2008, acquired by Myspace in 2009 and then shutdown earlier this year. But in a recent decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Apple cannot trademark the icon for the iOS Music app. The reasoning? The marks and services are too similar and would likely cause confusion.Headshot Science: Faces Too Close Perceived As Less Attractive, Trustworthy, And Competent
Sep 26, 10:18PM
Your makeup, hair, and clothing look fabulous, and the lighting is just right. But that neatly planned headshot or cute self-pic may ignore an important factor in how people judge trustworthiness, attractiveness, and competence: distance from the camera. "It turns out that faces photographed quite close-up are geometrically warped, compared to photos taken at a larger distance," says graduate student, Roonie Bryan, who published the findings soon to be quoted in every campaign and cosmetic shop in the country in this week's issue of open-access journal, PLoS ONE.To Unlock A Full Price AT&T iPhone 5, Just Restore It In iTunes
Sep 26, 10:15PM
If you have bought an AT&T iPhone 5 without a contract over the past few days, chances are that you want to unlock it to use it on another carrier. The traditional process involves filling out an online form on AT&T's website, sending a fax (yes, a fax) to AT&T, waiting 5 to 7 days and restoring your phone. It turns out that it is much easier than that: just restore the phone in iTunes and it will be unlocked. We have confirmed the process with AT&T's technical support and successfully tried it with a T-Mobile SIM card. After restoring the device in iTunes, the user is prompted with the usual unlocking message: "Congratulations, your iPhone has been unlocked." This message wasn't enough for me though. I need more proof that I could use the iPhone on every carrier and abroad.Google Adds YouTube Support To Google Takeout, Now Lets You Download Your Original Video Files
Sep 26, 10:09PM
Google just added a nifty new feature to Google Takeout, the company's "data liberation" service for downloading your personal data from Google's various services. Starting today, you will also be able to easily download the videos you previously uploaded to YouTube. That in itself isn't really new, as you could already download your transcoded videos from YouTube. What's interesting here is that the files you download from Takeout are exactly the same files you previously uploaded.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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