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Tim Draper-Backed Nutmeg Opens For Your Investing Business: Now Anyone Can Be Warren Buffet
Oct 08, 6:59AM
Nutmeg, the UK-based online investment management service that earlier this year raised $5.3 million from Pentech, Tim Draper, Spotify board member Klaus Hommels and Armada Investment Group chairman Daniel Aegerter, opens its doors for business today. It is coming to market armed with a concept it hopes will grab consumers at a time of disillusionment with banks and existing investment models: the idea that any one of us can be a superstar investor.iPad Mini: Apple Orders More Than 10 Million Units For Q4, Says WSJ
Oct 08, 6:58AM
Following its story last week that suppliers to Apple had kicked off production of a smaller iPad -- the so-called 'iPad mini' -- the Wall Street Journal is now reporting Apple has ordered more than 10 million units for the fourth quarter of this year. The figure comes from Asian component suppliers to Apple -- also the source of last week's iPad mini story.Tech Companies Try, And Fail, To Inspire With Recent Commercials
Oct 08, 6:00AM
These days you can't fully understand consumer Internet technology unless you watch TV. Between entreaties to Like brands on Facebook or use hashtags interspersed between segments on your local news shows to the use of stuff like Instagram in commercials for stuff like Doritos Locos tacos, television is going out of its way to tie itself back to the social Internet.In A Keyboard-Free Future, What Happens To All The Writers?
Oct 08, 6:00AM
I wrote this post with my voice. I made no changes, save for a few typo corrections, and used no keyboard. That's probably why it's so bad. It's an experiment of mine. The hypothesis is whether or not a keyboardless world will change writing. And make no mistake, at some point we will live in a keyboardless world.Hey Girl: Meet Juniper, The Monthly Subscription Of Must-Haves For That Time Of The Month
Oct 08, 5:00AM
It is starting to seem like there's a startup providing subscription delivery services for just about everything: Razors, snacks, kids items, makeup, underwear, DIY craft tools, even condoms and sex toys.Alteryx Opens Big Data-Analytics Apps Studio For The Rest Of Us
Oct 08, 4:56AM
Alteryx has opened a big data-analytics apps studio for people who do not necessarily have a deep knowledge of data science. The service is available as part of Alteryx 8.0, the analytics provider's latest release. The intent is to make data analytics as accessible as a consumer application makes its service.Escape From Message Hell
Oct 08, 4:00AM
Editor's Note: Nir Eyal blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. We are caught in an endless cycle of messaging hell and the pattern is always the same. First, a new communication system is born -- take email or Facebook, for example. Ease-of-use helps the product gain wide adoption and reach a critical mass of users. That's when things turn ugly.Survey: Patent War Paints Apple 'Leader' And Samsung Challenged, But We Might All End Up Losers
Oct 08, 3:00AM
With Apple and Samsung still duking it out in the patent courtroom, a survey of U.S. consumers conducted by Morpace has taken a look at how the dispute is playing out among the gadget-buying public. Apple, it found, comes out pretty rosy, but ultimately the survey delivers some discouraging conclusions about where cases like these are taking the mobile industry overall.Why You All So Kiasi?
Oct 08, 2:08AM
Editor's note: Scott Rafer is CEO of Lumatic, a company that believes Cities are Humanity's Future so they must be easier to love. Maps are really hard, but the industry aspects are even rougher than the technology. That's why it's time for mapping people to quit apologizing and go for the throat.
SpaceX Successfully Sends Its Dragon Spacecraft On Its Maiden ISS Resupply Mission
Oct 08, 1:47AM
PayPal co-founder Elon Musk's SpaceX sure has come a long way since its rocky beginnings -- a string of early launch failures threatened to ground the project permanently. Thankfully, they soon gave way to smooth sailing for the skyward venture, and today marks yet another successful launch to add to the SpaceX scrapbook. Just a little while ago, the company's unmanned Dragon capsule (perched atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, naturally) blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on the first of twelve missions to resupply the International Space Station.How France's Government Screwed Its Entrepreneurs So Hard They Became Pigeons
Oct 08, 1:00AM
It's ironic that for a country that invented the word entrepreneur, France has gained such a reputation for being frosty towards startups. Take French culture, where talk of money is generally frowned upon in favour of which École you went to, or your opinion on philosophy or politics. Of course, this is a huge caricature, but it's the kind of background noise against which many French startup entrepreneurs have to battle, despite their increasingly healthy numbers in recent years.Google Launching AdWords Business Credit Card To Boost SMB Search Ad Spend, Starting First In UK, Extending To U.S.
Oct 08, 12:38AM
When small businesses need to make investments in IT or other operations, it's often the companies selling them the goods that help with financing solutions. Now it looks like Google is using that model to help drive more dollars to AdWords search advertising. Google says that from Monday it is launching a new service in the UK, AdWords Business Credit, which offers credit to companies specifically in the SMB sector to boost their online ad spend with the company.The Story Of Lockitron: Crowdfunding Without Kickstarter
Oct 08, 12:22AM
Editor's note: After a rejection by Kickstarter, the co-founders of Lockitron, Cameron Robertson and Paul Gerhardt, decided to follow in the footsteps of App.net and take pre-orders for their innovative deadbolt add-on directly. This gamble paid off. Big time. I'm still having a hard time believing that only a few short days ago, my co-founder Paul and I refreshed our homepage, anxiously waiting to see if anyone would subscribe to our vision for Lockitron and help us climb towards our lofty $150,000 goal. With reservations now exceeding 1,000% of our original target and most of the time left in our campaign, we are immensely thankful to our 10,000+ backers who have made this possible.Like-A-Hug Facebook-Connected Vest Lets The Wearer Know They Are Liked
Oct 08, 12:00AM
Only weirdos enjoy hugs in real life. These people, likely hopped up on some sort of drug or whatnot, actually enjoy the physical embrace of another human being. But that's gross. The touching, the emotion, the germs. Traditional hugging is just ridiculous in the age of the internet. It's obsolete. For the rest of us there's the Like-A-Hug wearable social media vest. For each "like" you receive on Facebook, this vest inflates a little big, giving the wearing a little squeeze of comfort.Reader's Digest Is Alive And Growing In The Digital World
Oct 07, 11:18PM
Hey, remember Reader's Digest? It's a magazine that I can saw on lots of shelves when I was growing up. Now Editor in Chief Liz Vaccariello tells me that the magazine has undergone a "digital transformation", especially this year, and it's finding a growing audience on tablets, with digital sales set to exceed newsstand copies by December. As with other large, general interest publications, Reader's Digest has had a bumpy few years. Back in 2009, it went from 12 issues a year to 10, as well as cutting the guaranteed circulation from 8 million to 5.5 million. It even filed for bankruptcy.The Forgotten Half Of Social
Oct 07, 11:16PM
Editor's note: Jack Krawczyk is head of monetization at StumbleUpon, the discovery platform. Jack was a founding member of Google+ and tweets about stuff. Have we forgotten that being social means connecting with the people in your life? In today's world of growth hacking and viral marketing, we have taken social to mean acquiring likes and followers so that we can post a photo to Facebook or a quip to Twitter. Most often we forget the forgotten half of being social: intimate conversation.Backed Or Whacked: Press Enter vs. Presenter
Oct 07, 9:00PM
Editor's note: This weekend we're running a new column called Backed or Whacked by Ross Rubin. Cloud-connected smartphones and tablets have become vast repositories of our information. Still, there's more to be done to facilitate getting data into and out of them, at least according to a couple of Kickstarter projects having different degrees of success.Come On, Comcast… You've Gotta Be Better Than This
Oct 07, 8:30PM
For the first time in years, I've made the decision to pay for cable. I'm not the first to try this experiment recently, but the experience has already reminded me, why I didn't want to pay for cable TV to begin with. After offering me the opportunity to upgrade, I'm met with all the same poor service and confusing contract terms that I've come to expect.5 Ways To Manage App Development On The Android Platform Without Going Nuts
Oct 07, 7:51PM
The fractured state of the Android platform can make it difficult to manage app development. Testing can be a bear but cloud-based services are providing new ways for developers to quickly see how their apps look on any type of device.Remembering Your First Computer Is For Old People
Oct 07, 6:00PM
Because we just experienced the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing, I began to think about how technology has impacted my life, and how different it is for today's children. I thought about my first computer, what computing was like back then and what it's like now. And it hit me: stories where people recount tales of their first computer will become something only the old people talk about. Don't laugh, I've been fooling myself for some time that I'm not one of those "old people." After all, it's not like I remember punch cards.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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