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Google Gives Street View A 250K-Mile Update Across 17+ Countries, Its Biggest Update Ever, Plus Timezone Changes
Oct 11, 7:38AM
Google is continuing to gain points on the mapping front, today launching yet more features for the product at a time when Apple's offering continues to appear weak by comparison. Today it announced that it has given Street View, which lets users see photographic images of particular locations, its biggest update yet, covering 250,000 miles of roads across more than 17 countries. The news follows an update from last Friday that saw Google update Google Maps for mobile browsers, giving iOS users a way of accessing maps on their iPhones and iPads while Google continues to work on a new, native app for that platform. Part of that update included the ability to use StreetView on iOS devices, and now that looks like it was laying the groundwork for today's news.Bridging The Gap Between Pawn Shop And Bank, Borro Raises $26M Led By Canaan Partners
Oct 11, 7:01AM
Borro, a personal asset lending platform, has just received a massive $26 million funding round led by Canaan Partners. The service essentially classes up the idea of collateral loans, offering up to $1 million secured against high-end personal assets.Meet The Three Most Fund-able Health Companies From The DC To VC Showcase
Oct 11, 6:55AM
Today, Morgenthaler Ventures and Health 2.0 concluded its "DC to VC" startup showcase, a nationwide contest that aims to find the most promising and "fund-able" young businesses in health IT looking for funding. From hundreds of applicants, twelve finalists were chosen to pitch their ideas on stage at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco in front of a crowd of 350+ VCs, angel investors and entrepreneurs.Google+ Mobile Apps Now Support Pages, iOS App Gets iPhone 5 Support And Finally Lets You Edit Your Posts
Oct 11, 4:13AM
Google just launched the latest version of its Google+ apps for Android and iOS. The most important new feature in this update is support for Google+ pages. Page owners can now view, post and comment from their mobile devices, something quite a few Google+ users have been asking for ever since Google first launched pages last November.Good News For Brands, Managing Pages With The Google+ App Is Finally Here (Kind Of)
Oct 11, 4:12AM
As I've mentioned before, Google+ has become a place for businesses and brands to set up shop and interact with their customers. Google is making sure that these folks have everything they need to not only engage with fans, but eventually turn the actions into actual sales and traction. Today, the company has announced a pretty long-awaited feature for both versions of its Google+ mobile app, Page management for administrators. Finally. But it's not perfect, more on that later.RockMelt For iPad: A Browser Built For Touch That Turns The Web Into A Feed So Content Comes To You
Oct 11, 3:59AM
Surfing the Internet can feel like you're running in circles, constantly checking your favorite sites for updates. The RockMelt team believes that content should be delivered, not hunted, so its new browser app for iPad is built around a stream instead of a blank window. Check out my video demo and interview with co-founder Eric Vishria, where we discuss the next generation of user interface."Bounce" Along To Apple's Latest iPod TV Ad
Oct 11, 2:12AM
If iPods could dance, it would look a lot like this new commercial Apple has just posted to its website. The ad shows a plethora of colorful iPod touch, iPod nano, and iPod shuffles bouncing around. In fact, the ad itself is called "Bounce."Silvercar Lands $11.5M From CrunchFund, Dave Morin & Others To Reinvent Airport Car Rental
Oct 11, 1:20AM
One piece of the car puzzle that is often left out of discussions about the new generation of car rental, ridesharing and taxi businesses: The pain in the ass that is the airport car rental experience. That's where Silvercar comes in. The Austin-based startup, which will launch officially this winter, announced today that it has raised $11.5 million in series A financing to help it fuel a transformation of airport car rental. The round was led by Austin Ventures, with participation from CrunchFund, SV Angel, along with angels like Hunch's Chris Dixon and Path's Dave Morin.Nokia's Not-So-Shy Lumia 822 Caught On Camera Clad In Verizon Branding
Oct 11, 12:31AM
AT&T and T-Mobile have already pulled back the curtains (well, mostly) on their stock of Nokia Lumia Windows Phones, but rival carrier Verizon has remained awfully quiet on the matter. That may soon change though, as a pair of newly leaked images point to the existence of a Lumia 820 variant meant for Verizon's airwaves.Grantoo Nabs $1.7M, Steals EA Canada CTO To Help Students Pay Tuition By Playing Social Games
Oct 10, 11:07PM
I don't always play social games, but when I do, I like them to help me pay for my education. If "The Most Interesting Man In The World" were to endorse Grantoo, this might be his conclusion. Grantoo is a social gaming platform that allows college students to compete against each other to win tuition grants and donate to charity in brand-sponsored gaming tournaments.Google Updates The Business Rating Scale On Google+ Local, Numbers Be Gone
Oct 10, 10:48PM
Google rolled out its own integrated, social review system for businesses with Google+ Local in May of this year. Not only was this a nice addition for Google+, but it finally utilized Google's acquisition of Zagat. Having said that, I haven't used the service all that much, because there are some usability issues there.Oyster Raises $3M From Founders Fund To Finally Create An Unlimited Subscription Service For Books
Oct 10, 10:34PM
You can call Oyster the Netflix for books, but founders Eric Stromberg, Andrew Brown and Willem Van Lancker want to bring something more to ebook reading. The startup aims to be the first real subscription service for books. When it comes to digital entertainment content, you can either buy everything you want or subscribe to an unlimited service. Yet, ebook offerings are still behind. Oyster will fix that.Don't Call It WAC! Telefonica Adds Telenor To Its BlueVia API Platform, Carrier Billing Now Covers 460M Customers Worldwide
Oct 10, 10:25PM
Telefonica today has announced a deal with Telenor as its first carrier partner to the BlueVia API platform -- one of the Spanish company's many efforts, via Telefonica Digital, to create new lines of revenue around its operator assets. In this case, it's a platform that it opens up to developers to incorporate different carrier-based actions into their mobile apps, such as messaging and billing services, which they can in turn offer to Telefonica's 311 million customers. (Think Twilio but run by a carrier.)Grouper Teams Up With Airbnb & Hipmunk To Offer Engineers & Designers A Free "Hackation" In New York
Oct 10, 8:53PM
Great design and developer talent is, as so many know, hard to come by. So online social club Grouper is launching what it calls a "Hackation" in which it plans to offer select developers a free, week-long trip to New York City. On this week-long trip, thanks to partnerships with Airbnb and Hipmunk, developers and designers will get the opportunity to visit NYC (which means free airfare from anywhere in the continental U.S.), free accommodations for six nights (from Airbnb), they get to work out of the Grouper offices and either hack on a Grouper project or one of their own. Oh, and they get to go on a free Grouper, too.Kickstarter Crosses The Pond With UK-Based Projects, Simplifies International Shipping
Oct 10, 8:49PM
Kickstarter today announced it will begin making it possible for projects to be based in the U.K. on its crowdfunding site beginning October 31. This marks the first time Kickstarter projects will be able to be built around bank accounts located outside of the U.S., and it should help the company continue to grow as it looks to refine its existing model and project preference.Swarm, A Mobile Tool For Retailers, Raises $1M From Nas, ShoeDazzle Founder Brian Lee, And VICE Co-Founder Gavin McInnes
Oct 10, 8:18PM
Swarm, a startup that helps retailers connect with in-store shoppers through their smartphones, has raised $1 million in seed funding from an ... eclectic list of investors (more on that in a second). Co-founder and CEO Rudd Davis says brick-and-mortar retailers don't have a clear idea about who's in their store, and they don't have an efficient way to engage with each customer personally — giving them another disadvantage against e-commerce sites like Amazon. So Swarm provides those retailers with data about their customers and what they're actually doing, so the store can then reach out with personalized deals and rewards.Facebook Cuts Back On Open Graph Actions, Automated Wall Spam
Oct 10, 8:11PM
Facebook giveth and Facebook taketh. When the company first talked about the Open Graph at the last f8 developer conference in San Francisco last year, there was the promise of a whole slew of apps that would have many types of actions feeding into the ticker and news feed. The company demo-ed social cooking apps and running apps (like what you see to the right). But after more than a year, Facebook is cutting back on the types of actions that are allowed (presumably due to spam or messy use cases). Now apps will have to use only authorized actions like 'Listen,' 'Read,' 'Watch,' 'Like,' or 'Follow.'Department Of Defense To Private Sector: We Need Your Help With Mobile Innovation
Oct 10, 7:41PM
On stage at the second-day keynote, Major General Robert Wheeler talked about the changing role of industry and enterprise as it relates to technological innovation, and how where once the military led in that department, now the vast majority of advances are being driven by advances made in the private sector. And that means the DoD is in a position of asking for help from a variety of sources.Facebook Starts Showing Birthdays And Selling Gifts At The Top Of The Mobile News Feed
Oct 10, 7:26PM
Facebook Gifts could make a lot of money on mobile by getting you to buy presents for friends, but birthdays were buried in Events and celebrations weren't shown on mobile. So today Facebook for iOS and Android began displaying birthdays and celebrations atop the mobile news feed for users in the Gifts Beta, Facebook has confirmed. You'll be able to click through these alerts to buy Gifts.At Long Last, RIM Starts Taking BlackBerry 10 App Submissions
Oct 10, 6:38PM
BlackBerry 10 is still a ways away (exactly how long is a topic of hot debate) but RIM has been busy laying the groundwork for it for months now. Aspiring BB10 developers have seen that work firsthand, and now it's apparently their turn to contribute. RIM announced earlier today that developers can up submit their BlackBerry 10 apps for inclusion in the company's App World when the new platform launches in Q1 2013. Even though the company plans to out both full-touch and QWERTY keyboard-packing BB10 devices, these first submissions are strictly for touch-only apps.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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