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Eileen Pao Is Out At Kleiner Perkins: Tells Quora That She Was Fired, As Discrimination Case Continues
Oct 03, 7:55AM
Another dramatic turn of events in the case of Ellen Pao, who has been suing the VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers over gender discrimination. Pao was fired on Monday -- a development Pao herself revealed in a Quora post this week, picked up also by AllThings Digital. Up to now, KPCB had still employed her as an investment partner, something that Pao herself had confirmed, also in a message on Quora, back in June. KPCB, meanwhile, is still listing Pao on its site as an investment partner as of the time of this writing. Both Quora statements were made from Pao's verified Quora account.$45 Billion Later Larry Ellison Says No Major Acquisitions For Next Few Years
Oct 03, 6:53AM
Larry Ellison said today that Oracle does not plan to do any acquisitions in the next few years but would not rule one out down the road. He made the remarks in a CNBC interview at OracleOpenWorld in San Francisco. Ellison was also asked about a successor to the company he has run for the past three decades. He only said there are several who could take his place.Just Eat Buys Spanish Online Food Ordering/Delivery Rival SinDelantal For A Few Million Euros
Oct 03, 12:28AM
Just Eat, the multinational online food ordering and delivery company that raised $64 million in April from Vitruvian Partners, Index Ventures, Greylock, and Redpoint, is today announcing its first acquisition out of that cash injection: it is buying SinDelantal, its rival in Spain, to help give a quick boost to that country's operations and help Just Eat continue its international growth to do battle with the likes of Delivery Hero. TechCrunch understands that the price is in the range of a few million dollars, about 95 percent of that in cash.Changemakrs Looks To Reinvent Inspirational Quotes For A More Social Web
Oct 03, 12:26AM
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations." -- Steve Jobs A few months ago, former Facebooker Sacha Tueni and Matthias Wagner were working on a Twitter client. Yes, a Twitter client -- several years after Tweetdeck launched and Seesmic pivoted toward being a social media reader. While their app Zerobird was good at filtering interesting content, investors weren't biting. It was also going to be a long uphill battle in the app store and on Twitter's increasingly politically complicated platform. So they took some good advice to heart. Steve Jobs' advice, in fact. They built a tribute site to the late visionary. It was spartan, with that famous photograph of him sitting in an unfurnished house. They overlaid some of his best advice over that picture.Taploid Turns Your Social Feeds Into A Personal Gossip Magazine
Oct 02, 11:27PM
Everyday your friends are getting married, breaking up, and getting drunk, but it can be hard to follow along. So today The Taploid launches its web app that runs natural language processing on your Facebook feed to produce a gossip magazine of subtle trends and juicy tales. Taploid can tell you which of your friends are alcoholics, or who someone that just got out of a relationship will date next. Taploid was co-founded by Bay Area socialite Redg Snodgrass, a former VP for Skout and Alcatel-Lucent, who says "We want to take Silicon Valley technology and bring it to the Jersey Shore mass market."Google Apps Users Can Now Get 24/7 Phone Support For Chrome
Oct 02, 10:51PM
Google just announced that Google Apps for Business, Education and Government customers can now call and email the company with their questions about Chrome. Google, of course, has always been somewhat notorious for its lack of customer support options, but this is slowly changing. Last November, for example, the company announced that it would start offering 24/7 phone support for paying Apps for Business users. Starting today, Google Apps users can call and email Google for support with "Chrome installation, functionality, security, browser policy settings and Google Apps interoperability for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux."UK 4G Crunch Talks Between Carriers, Regulators Win Speedier Launch Of LTE Networks
Oct 02, 10:31PM
The U.K.'s telecoms regulator Ofcom has announced "significant progress" has been made to speed up the delivery of high speed LTE mobile network. The timetable has been accelerated by as much as five months -- enabling the launch of commercial 4G services across the country during the first half of next year. This has been made possible after an agreement was secured to speed up the process of clearing the spectrum (currently used by TV broadcasters).Need To Find And Book A Photography Class? Vimbly Is Like OpenTable For Activities
Oct 02, 10:30PM
When it comes to finding a cooking class or a tango lesson in your area for tonight, it isn't as easy as booking a table in a fancy restaurant. The newly launched service Vimbly acts as both a directory and a reservation service for activities and hobbies in New York City.Home 3D Printing Is Killing The Manufacturing Industry
Oct 02, 10:16PM
If you've followed the news, a collective of hackers recently rented a 3D printer to build a real, working gun. The group, Defense Distributed ,began the project but once the renter, Stratasys, discovered what they were building, they took the printer back. Writes the Danger Room: Cody Wilson planned in the coming weeks to make and test a 3-D printed pistol. Now those plans have been put on hold as desktop-manufacturing company Stratasys pulled the lease on a printer rented out for Wiki Weapon, the internet project lead by Wilson and dedicated to sharing open-source blueprints for 3-D printed guns. Stratasys even sent a team to seize the printer from Wilson's home.
After Saving Users $1M, BillGuard Integrates With Passbook To Track All Your Credit Cards In One Place
Oct 02, 10:05PM
With the launch of iOS 6, Apple added a new feature called Passbook, which will allow users to collect all of their loyalty, rewards, and payment accounts in a single virtual wallet. So far we've only seen a few companies take advantage of the app, loyalty rewards startup Kiip. But it's still a pretty fragmented market -- if you want to view your personal debit or credit card, you better hope that at some point your banking provider creates a compatible app. That is, until now. One of our favorite startups, BillGuard, has become one of the first financial applications to integrate with Apple's Passbook.Nokia Joins The iPhone 5 Bashing With This Clever Lumia 920 Video Ad
Oct 02, 9:58PM
Samsung loves to bash the iPhone and its legions of dedicated fans. And now Nokia has thrown down, too. Nokia announced the stunning Lumia 920 last month. In several ways, it's an anti-iPhone with a large screen, forward-thinking hardware features, and, yes like this ad brags, multiple color options.Deeyoon: A Site Where You Can Debate Anyone About Anything — On Live Video
Oct 02, 9:51PM
The Internet is a great place for arguments, and a new startup called Deeyoon aims to bring arguments to video. Of course, there are a bunch of other startups working on video chat. However, none of them seems to have become a huge, sustainable hit yet, and Deeyon CEO Joe Kalfa says he's taking a different approach — not just general, unstructured conversations, but "live, real-time video debates."Finally, A Dock That Doesn't Blink When Apple Changes iPhone Connectors Or Device Design
Oct 02, 9:02PM
The update cycle of consumer electronics can make a mess of your Kickstarter plans, but one new project that just launched is designed to provide a useful products that remains useful no matter what changes come down the road, in terms of modes of connectivity or hardware design. It's the CompleteDock, and I had the chance to sneak a peek at an early, functional prototype at Disrupt SF this year.Marc Andreessen On Facebook's Monetization Plans: Successful Companies Defer Gratification
Oct 02, 8:55PM
There's lots of criticism going around about Facebook's monetization strategy, and in a similar vein, it's pretty common to criticize startups that grow without worrying about revenue. But venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen said today that's looking at things the wrong way. In fact, he argued that great companies have one thing in common — "a willingness to defer gratification." Andreessen, along with Sheryl Sandberg, was interviewed on-stage by Charlie Rose at the IAB MIXX advertising conference. He said it's common to complain about Facebook and other new companies by saying that they're just run by "a bunch of kids," "Facebook will never be able to monetize," and that "it's all falling apart." Then these companies turn into big businesses, and the critics say, "Wow, that was a fluke."Scaring Users Into Buying Bogus AntiVirus And Porn Scrubbing Software Gets $160M Fine
Oct 02, 8:52PM
The Federal Trade Commission brought the hammer down on predatory advertisers who scare users into believing that their system is infected with virus and porn. The peddlers of so-called "scareware" are facing a $163 million fine for misrepresenting "expressly or by implication, that they had conducted scans of consumers' computers and detected security or privacy issues, including viruses, spyware, system errors, and pornography." Users who surf the internet enough will recognize scareware advertisements as the ones pretending to have found malicious content on their computer and then, conveniently, offer an expensive solution ($30-$100) to fix it.Sheryl Sandberg: We're More Afraid Of Losing By Standing Still
Oct 02, 8:30PM
In an interview at New York's IAB conference, Charlie Rose asked Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg if Facebook had ever made assumptions that weren't right. Sheryl Sandberg confirmed yes, and referenced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's comments about the failure of Facebook's HTML 5 efforts at TechCrunch Disrupt. Sandberg implied that these sorts of failures were part of the company's strategy: purposefully going big even if it means failure or slow monetization.Forget Saying Happy Birthday To Your Friends On Facebook, It's All About Gifts Now
Oct 02, 7:49PM
We know that Facebook is in full-gear when it comes to monetization. It was obvious the second that the company announced its "Gifts" offering, which lets you send a physical or virtual item to your buddies. It's kind of cool, and the first gift I've ordered is in the mail. One of the things that I enjoy doing the most on Facebook is saying "Happy Birthday!" to someone on their wall. Facebook had made this a super simple process by adding a quick link on your Newsfeed that said "Write on their Timeline." Well, that easy shortcut is gone now, and "Give them a gift" has replaced it.Developer Services Lumped Together In The Oracle "Cloud" With Everything But The Kitchen Sink
Oct 02, 7:49PM
Oracle made a gesture to developers today with a new platform play it unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld. But a closer look shows Oracle is lumping developer services with every possible "cloud" offering you can imagine that the company sells. It's all of course still on the Oracle cloud, a beast of sorts - part cloud, part hosted and something in between.Crowdsourced Music Streaming Service Jelli Raises $9 Million, Plans To Go International
Oct 02, 7:30PM
Jelli, the crowdsourced social radio platform, is today announcing $9 million in additional funding, in a round led by new investors Intel Capital and Relay Ventures. The round also saw participation from existing investor First Round Capital, as well as individuals including Roger Ames, former Chairman of EMI Music. Related to the funding news, Jelli also detailed its growth over the past year, saying that it has expanded its user base by 250% to reach 2 million listeners per month, and it has expanded its lineup of station partners, and is now delivering 500% more radio ad impressions than it did a year ago.Steam Starts Selling Windows Apps Just Before Windows Store Launch
Oct 02, 7:30PM
As anticipated in August, digital game seller Steam is now offering Windows non-game applications. It acts like a traditional app store. After the reviewing process, apps are available to purchase in a centralized store. Users can choose where to install their apps in the latest Steam beta. However, like Amazon's Appstore for Android, Valve can discount apps if it thinks that it would benefit the customer and the developer.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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