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Handybook Secures $2M From Highland Capital Partners And General Catalyst For Its 'Uber For The Home'
Oct 16, 8:25AM
Handybook spun out of Harvard's Innovation Lab earlier this year and is a platform to allow users to instantly book professional home services, like handymen and cleaners, online. Today it has confirmed over $2 million of investment from VCs including Highland Capital Partners and General Catalyst. "If Taskrabbit is like Lyft or Zimride then we are like Uber." That at least is the pitch of Handybook CEO, Oisin Hanrahan.Infogr.am Launches To Kill The Careers Of Struggling Infographic Designers
Oct 16, 8:08AM
Infogr.am wants to create a sort of Adobe Illustrator in the Cloud, allowing anyone to create cool info-graphics on the fly. Back in February European accelerator HackFwd invested in the startup from Riga, Latvia, and now it's fully launched its service. It's competing in the space with Piktochart and Easel.ly. And not to mention one or two infographic designers out there...Path Might Get A Bit Noisier, It Now Lets You Import Things From Facebook, Foursquare And Instagram
Oct 16, 5:28AM
Remember when Path was super quiet with your nice group of fifty people? That's all going to change now. As I broke at TNW, Path has been tinkering with the notion of importing items from other social networks. The feature has now been released in the latest update to the app. You can now import Facebook status updates, Instagram photos and Foursquare check-ins right to your Path stream. Is this something that you really want? We'll get to that.Gridstore Raises $12.5 Million In Series A Financing For Grid-Based Scale-Out Storage
Oct 16, 4:20AM
Gridstore has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding for its scale-out storage offering. The round was led by GGV Capital with participation from Onset Ventures and existing investors. The investment brings the company's total venture funding to $15 million.What Would Paul Graham Do? — A Search Engine That Teaches You The Ways Of Y Combinator's Boss
Oct 16, 12:19AM
"When should I raise money?" You might not be able to ask startup sage PG in person, but new search engine "What Would Paul Graham Do?" will point you towards the YC co-founder's most relevant essays and Hacker News comments. In this case, you'd be directed to "A Fundraising Survival Guide", and "The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups". The site turns Graham into a one-man Quora.Teen's iPod Exposes Violence And Racial Profiling In NYPD's Stop & Frisk Interrogations. Watch The Video
Oct 15, 11:20PM
"What am I getting arrested for?" said Alvin, a 17-year old New Yorker. "For being a fucking mutt", the NYPD officer can be clearly heard saying on the recording from Alvin's iPod, the only known audio from the 1,800"Stop & Frisk" interrogations New York Police do each day. Watch the video within that demonstrates the power mobile devices give citizens to keep law enforcement in check.ZocDoc CEO Cyrus Massoumi On Making Medicine More Tech-Savvy, One Appointment At A Time [TCTV]
Oct 15, 10:48PM
ZocDoc is certainly not the new kid on the startup block. The company, which is best known for making a web-centric booking platform for medical appointments, originally launched way back in 2007 at the TechCrunch 40 conference -- the earliest iteration of what is now known as Disrupt.Google Opens The Doors A Bit Wider For Gmail Results Within Its Main Search Experience, Adds Google Drive And Calendar
Oct 15, 9:54PM
A few months ago, Google announced a new field trial for a search experience that rocked my world. Basically, you could search within your emails by using the regular old Google.com, if you were logged into your account. For me, this has been awesome for finding flight information and meeting requests within my email, of which I have a lot.Tweetie Creator Loren Brichter's Next Act: Atebits 2.0 To "Make Fun And Useful Things" [Like Games]
Oct 15, 9:49PM
Tweetie creator and UX prodigy Loren Brichter has just announced a new project, Atebits 2.0. Atebits was the name of his previous company that was bought by Twitter in 2010. He announced as well that his first project will be a game.The Voice Gets A Mobile Karaoke App, Thanks To StarMaker
Oct 15, 9:33PM
If you've ever watched The Voice on TV and thought, "Hey, I could do that," well, now you've got your chance to show off your singing skills in a new iOS app, The Voice On Stage. The app was developed by a San Francisco startup called StarMaker, and its CEO Jeff Daniel stopped by The TechCrunch office to show it off. You just turn on the app, select the song that you want to sing, and then off you go. The app scores you based on the accuracy of your singing, and it can also auto-tune your voice as you sing. The basic functionality is the same as StarMaker's own karaoke app, but it has been given a Voice-themed facelift. For example, during a song, the app shows judges with their backs turned toward you, and if you do well, they turn their chairs around as the song progresses — just like in the show.Keen On… The Daily Dot: Does The Internet Really Need A Daily Newspaper About Itself? [TCTV]
Oct 15, 9:28PM
If New York has The Times and San Francisco The Chronicle, then the digital world has The Daily Dot - the first online newspaper exclusively dedicated to news about the Internet. Backed by the Los Angeles based investor Nova Spivack, the Daily Dot was founded in August 2011. As CEO Nick White told me, the "core job" of the Daily Dot is to "tell the story of the Internet." And, so far, they seem to be doing a fairly credible job. Indeed, with $3 million "committed" in funding, over a million uniques a month, a staff of around 15 editors, White claims that the Daily Dot is covering news "relevant" to users. Perhaps. But, as White acknowledged to me, the free paper needs to get to three or four million monthly uniques by the end of its second year if it is to generate the advertising revenue necessary to become a viable business. So the bigger question remains: Does the Internet really need its own daily newspaper? Or is the Daily Dot just one more online journalistic start-up doomed to failure?GoodBlogs Allows Companies To Effortlessly Maintain A Blog About Their Industry To Drive Traffic
Oct 15, 9:15PM
When it comes to maintaining a corporate blog, you may consider writing general thoughts on your industry and talking about more subjects rather than using it solely for your company's announcements. It will drive traffic, and potential customers, to your website. That is what GoodBlogs is all about — except that you don't have to hire a blogger.Esri Acquires Location Platform Geoloqi, Plans To Launch Alternative iOS Mapping Library Soon
Oct 15, 8:58PM
Geoloqi, the Portland, Ore.-based location-based platform that helps developers add location-based features to their apps, today announced that it has been acquired by Esri, a long-established GIS company that provides online mapping solutions for developers and geographic intelligence for business analytics systems. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.Luxury Smartphone Brand Vertu Keeps Current CEO, Names Nokia Alum Anssi Vanjoki Chairman
Oct 15, 8:51PM
Nokia finally managed to offload its luxury-oriented Vertu brand to private equity firm EQT-VI late last week, but the parties involved seemed content to keep quiet at the time. Not so anymore — Vertu has just issued an official statement on the matter, and shed a bit of new light on its executive structure going forward.Hipster Coffee Lovers Rejoice, Blue Bottle Coffee Raises $20M
Oct 15, 8:45PM
I drink a lot of coffee, if you can't tell. I love coffee so much that I make it a point to hit all of the best spots in every city that I visit. One of my favorite joints in San Francisco is Blue Bottle Coffee. It's so good that words can't describe the taste of its coffee. It looks like the company will be around serving us great coffee for a long time, and perhaps in cities all over the world. According to a SEC filing, Blue Bottle Coffee has raised close to $20M. Along with founder James Freeman, people listed on the board include Index Ventures' Mike Volpi, True Ventures' Tony Conrad, and serial entrepreneur Bryan Meehan, who founded the popular Fresh and Wild organic stores in London, and the all-natural Nude skincare line of products.Apple Taps Amazon Search Exec To Helm Siri, Signals A Move To A Smarter Personal Shopping Assistant
Oct 15, 7:58PM
Apple has poached an Amazon exec to take over its Siri department, according to a new report from AllThingsD's Kara Swisher. The move brings William Stasor, a former AltaVista executive who was in charge of Amazon's independent A9 retail search subsidiary to Cupertino, and indicates we'll see Siri get some stronger search chops as a result, especially with regards to online retail.Streak Raises $1.9 Million For Gmail-Based CRM App
Oct 15, 7:54PM
Streak has raised $1.9 million for its CRM service to share your email and track deals through your GMail inbox. Battery Ventures, Chris Sacca, g Lowercase Capital, Redpoint, Floodgate, Crunchfund, and a host of VC partners and angel investors such as David Tisch and Michael Birch. Streak will use the funding to expand its team and focus on building out its mobile efforts.Meet The New Foursquare, The One That You've Helped Build And Continue To Power
Oct 15, 7:41PM
As I've said before, I'm an avid user of foursquare, and it has become the de facto service for me when it comes to finding new places to grab dinner or just chill out with a drink. I've been using the service since it launched in 2009, and I've found it to be a fun way to chronicle the vast world that I live in. One day, I will be able to show my kids the history of check-ins and information that I've built up on the service and they'll get an idea of how wild my traveling days were. I really believe that, and that's why I use it religiously. I'm not sure if others use the service in the same way, but for those of you who really love checking in and leaving tips about venues on foursquare, your "hard work" has paid off. Today, the company has launched a new homepage experience for those people who aren't logged in or signed up. It feels a bit like Google search, I think.The Hidden Radio: A Bluetooth Speaker With Cloistered Virtue And Some Obvious Flaws
Oct 15, 7:37PM
Many of my Kickstarter dreams have come tumbling down in disappointing or non-shipping products, which isn't a knock against the site; that's a risk I fully accept and take with every project. But without a doubt, the Hidden Radio Bluetooth speaker was one I was really looking forward to. Now, I've spent some time with it, and I find myself with mixed feelings about this portable audio accessory.Dropbox's "Great Space Race" Lets College Students Win Up To 25GB Of Free Storage Space For Two Years
Oct 15, 7:37PM
If you are a college student anywhere in the world, Dropbox just launched an interesting new program, The Great Space Race, which will run for the next eight weeks and allow college students to get up to 25GB of free Dropbox storage for the next two years. To qualify for the extra space, students have to register here with their school email addresses and the more students at each school sign up, the more storage space they will get.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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