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Healthy Consumers And The Future Of The Patient-Physician Relationship
Oct 06, 5:00AM
Editor's note: Michelle Snyder is executive in residence at InterWest Partners focusing on the transformative role that mobile, social, and data can play in the healthcare industry. You can follow her on Twitter. It's hard not to read an article about the healthcare system these days without some reference to the demise of the patient-physician relationship and the risk this poses to us as individuals and the collective health of our nation. Unfortunately this is old news.Esther Dyson At Medicine X: Welcome To The Era Of "Homebrew Health"
Oct 06, 2:29AM
As the amount of digitally collectable data grows, we've entered a period of homebrew health, investor Esther Dyson said when being interviewed by the New York Times' John Markoff at Stanford School of Medicine's emerging tech conference Medicine X on Sunday morning. "People are buying FitBits but writing their own software," she said, "and as we can make much better predictions, there's a sea change" in consumer and employer involvement in wellness.TechCrunch Giveaway: One VIP Ticket To Box's #BoxWorks Event
Oct 05, 11:25PM
Last week, we gave away 20 tickets to Box's annual BoxWorks event that's happening October 7th-9th in San Francisco. There will be incredible speakers going, some of which include: Box CEO Aaron Levie, Andreessen Horowitz's own Marc Andreessen, eBay CEO John Donahoe, Mozilla's Brendan Eich, Nest Labs' Tony Fadell, and many more. You can view the whole list of speakers and the event agenda here. Not only will there be amazing speakers and discussions, with any event, of course there will be after parties. So, the special winner of this giveaway is going to win a free ticket to the event, plus a VIP ticket to the after parties. A fun fact about this VIP ticket means -- Weezer will be at a party. The winner will get to party, meet, and hang out with them.Lytics Unveils Real-Time Analysis For "Moneyball" Results
Oct 05, 11:18PM
Lytics made its debut today at the PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) Demo Day with the unveling of its real-time analytics service. Lytics, which is in the process of finalizing a seed round of funding, tackles the problem that comes with getting value out of data from multiple sources such as mobile environments, the web, email, social, third-party APIs and commerce environments.It's "D-Day" For Twitter's "Display Requirement" Changes, And Guess What? Nothing Happened.
Oct 05, 10:45PM
It's been exactly one month since Twitter announced the 1.1 version of its APIs and the fact that some things were going to change for third-party developers. A lot of folks, including me, took that to mean that the stuff was about to hit the fan for anyone who has spent time building something cool on top of TwitterTrinity Ventures Is Raising A New $325M Fund
Oct 05, 10:35PM
Early-stage investment firm Trinity Ventures is raising a $325 million fund, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm was founded in 1986, and says it makes seed and early-stage deals on companies in cloud and mobile infrastructure, digital media, software as a service, social commerce, and entertainment. This is Trinity's 11th fund. When it last raised $300 million in 2009, general partner Fred Wang said the firm didn't raise a bigger fund so that it could "continue our strategy of investing selectively in capital-efficient, early stage companies and our commitment to being accessible and responsive board members."Done Dressing Like A Slob? Proper Suit Will Make You A Custom Suit For When Snarky T-Shirts Aren't Enough
Oct 05, 10:26PM
Every once in a while, you attend an event that calls for a special suit. Leveraging technology and applying lean startup techniques to custom suits is what Proper Suit is all about. After having contacted the company, you will meet someone to measure you. An AutoCAD blueprint of your suit is then uploaded to the cloud and will be used to manufacture your suit and potentially other suits in the future. The custom suit is then delivered to your home.Why Zynga Failed
Oct 05, 10:22PM
The year was 2008 and Zynga had it all figured out. Facebook became a portal to games for those who had never played. Viral growth there was unchecked. Facebook ad rates were low, so buying traffic was cheap. And most games were played on the desktop. But soon everything changed, and Zynga never recovered. Here's a look at four big shifts that caused Zynga's power and share price to plummet.Now You Can Embed ROCKZi's Socially Curated News Pages On Your Own Website
Oct 05, 8:49PM
ROCKZi, the social news service launched in July by search startup Blekko, has released a new feature allowing users to embed their "news boards" on other websites. VP of Marketing Mike Markson describes this as a way for people to showcase their knowledge in a given field, without actually having to constantly hunt down new content. For example, EarthEcho, the environmental nonprofit founded by Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau, has embedded a ROCKZi board that highlights marine science and conservation news.After Early Boom, New Numbers Suggest iOS 6 Adoption May Be Reaching A Plateau
Oct 05, 7:51PM
Apple's iOS 6 adoption got off to a quick start, but now, two weeks on, it looks like it may be evening out. New data from Chartboost today, covering the time between iOS 6's launch and Wednesday, suggests that user uptake of Apple's latest mobile OS might be levelling off after an initial rush. Adoption looks to be plateauing shy of 50 percent in the last week.LG's First Nexus-Branded Smartphone Reportedly Set For A Late October Unveiling
Oct 05, 7:47PM
There's been no shortage of LG Nexus phone rumors these past few days, but it seems the time for speculation may have come to an abrupt end. CNET has apparently confirmed with sources close to the matter that Google's next Nexus smartphone will indeed be based on LG's new Optimus G handset, and is slated to be officially revealed at the end of this month.Report: Bing Users Disproportionately Affected By Malware Redirects
Oct 05, 6:03PM
Using search engine optimization (SEO) to get unsuspecting web surfers to go to malicious websites isn't exactly new and it's a problem that Google, Bing and other search engines are very aware of. According to new data from online security firm Sophos, however, Bing is apparently not doing a great job here, as the majority of SEO redirects affect Bing users.Meet The Next Five Companies To Join Toronto-Based Accelerator Extreme Startups
Oct 05, 6:00PM
Toronto-based accelerator Extreme Startups was first announced in January, with a $7 million fund to invest in early-stage companies, and its first cohort took place during the late spring and early summer. Of the five startups participating in that group, two raised seed rounds of $1 million or more from Canadian and U.S.-based VC firms. Here are the next five to participate.The End Of Glasses? Eye-Shaping Contacts Might Prevent Nearsightedness
Oct 05, 5:45PM
Unless you're a Hipster, eyeglasses are a major pain: kids wearing them get bullied, they're expensive, they don't play well with sports, and they can't make up for perfect 20/20 vision. Finally, there may be a cure for nearsightedness ("Myopia") on the horizon. Biomedical scientist David Trolio has experimented with a new contact lens that prevents the eye from malforming in the first place, by refocusing light as it hits the eye. He and his colleagues at State University of New York (SUNY) College of Optometry "successfully reduced the elongation of the eye that causes myopia progression."Starbucks' Square Rollout Gets A Launch Date; No Loyalty Card Integration (Yet)
Oct 05, 5:37PM
At its three-day Global Leadership Conference this week, Starbucks announced further details about its planned rollout and support for Square's mobile payments platform. First revealed in August, the deal will allow iPhone and Android users to pay using the Square mobile app at Starbucks' 7,000 U.S. locations. Now, we have a more exact timeframe for that launch: early November. (Previously, the company had said "before the holidays.") But Starbucks has also been busy updating its own native mobile applications, which allow customers to pay with their Starbucks card via an app. And now that app supports Passbook on iOS, too. While it's good that a company like Starbucks is embracing mobile payment innovation, in the immediate future, mobile payments are going to get a little messy.Public Citizen Raises Alarm (And A Petition) Against eBay's Updated Policy On Class Action And Litigation
Oct 05, 5:32PM
If you are a regular eBay user, chances are that you are not constantly getting burned in your sales transactions, but for those who do run into trouble, it's good to know that you have options for how to deal with it. That appears to be changing, though. The site in August updated its user agreement and privacy policy, adding in new clauses that change to how users can bring lawsuits related to eBay sales -- in particular restricting the ability for users to bring class action lawsuits against eBay.Study: Users Both Mostly Positive And Inconsistent In Reviewing iOS App Store Titles
Oct 05, 5:13PM
Some interesting new stats from a study shared with us by Russian consulting firm Empatika provide a picture of how some of the most popular apps in Apple's App Store are reviewed, and what strategies seem to work best in securing positive feedback. App reviewers rating the top apps seem to want to share only positive things, and often, a review's words don't match its star rating.Twitter's Elizabeth Weil Joins Andreessen As Partner, Will Set Her Sights On Social
Oct 05, 4:58PM
Andreessen Horowitz continues building its arsenal. Days after the announcement that it had invested $15m in innovative hip hop annotations startup Rap Genius, we learn that it's hired Elizabeth Weil away from Twitter.Bing Adds Journalists To Its Social Sidebar
Oct 05, 4:54PM
Microsoft's Bing just announced that it is adding a section for news authors to its social sidebar. "Much of the information we consume and search for relates to current events," says the Bing Team, "and the most recent and accurate information often comes from news articles." Starting today, Bing will highlight these authors in the "People Who Know" section of the sidebar.AffinityLive Sync Creates A Giant Shared Inbox For Your Entire Team Or Company
Oct 05, 4:53PM
One of the most frustrating things that can happen at work is finding out that an important email is locked away in a colleague's inbox, and you can't get a hold of some crucial information until that colleague comes back online. That's a problem that startup AffinityLive is trying to solve with its new product AffinityLive Sync. CEO Geoff Mcqueen describes Sync as "Yammer combined with Dropbox combined with Splunk," all on top of a giant shared inbox. As analogies go, it's a bit unwieldy, but the idea is that Sync serves as storage, while also allowing users to search for, interact around, and analyze data about relevant emails.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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