Hi there!
Here's the latest feed from TechCrunch.
Add feeds@feed2email.net to your contact list to make sure you receive all your emails
Make sure to visit feed2email.net to get more feeds sent to your inbox.
To find out which feeds you are subscribed to, or to get further help, just reply to this email.
EFF: Calling All Geeks – Help Explain To Judges Hearing Oracle v. Google Appeal Why Copyrighting APIs Is Such A Bad Idea
Nov 03, 6:06AM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking for help in explaining to the federal circuit why copyrighting APIs is such a bad idea. The EFF's request comes after a victory earlier this year when U.S.District Court Judge William Alsup ruled in the Oracle v. Google case that an API cannot be copyrighted.3 iPad Mini Design Considerations For Developers
Nov 03, 4:00AM
Editor's note: Boris Chan is a principal at Xtreme Labs who leads product development and innovation efforts. Apple finally unveiled the iPad mini last week. Perhaps its main selling point is that it runs the same apps as the iPad and works just as well with the same screen resolution despite its smaller size.After Hurricane Sandy, NY Startups Have To Find A Place To Get Back To Work
Nov 03, 12:36AM
Recovering from Hurricane Sandy is no small feat as most of Lower Manhattan is still in the dark without power. I talked with a couple of people working in startups who had to find a place to get back work. But the most difficult part was probably to set aside the devastation and get the businesses back on track. Those companies are fragile and can't risk a companywide blackout for a week.Sequoia-Backed Search And Social Marketing Company Kenshoo Raises Another $12M
Nov 03, 12:20AM
Digital marketing company Kenshoo has raised $12 million in new funding. The round was led by late-stage investment firm Tenaya Capital, with participation from all past investors, including Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Growth Fund, and Arts Alliance. A Kenshoo spokesperson told me this brings the company's total funding to $30 million.Where The iPad Mini Fits On My Digital Tool Belt
Nov 02, 11:03PM
Happy iPad mini day. Since my review a few days ago, by far the number one question I've been asked about the device is: how does it fit into my life? Do I really need another iPad — let alone a smaller, less powerful one with a non-retina screen? Will I use it alongside the regular iPad? What about alongside a MacBook? Instead of those devices? This question keeps coming up, of course, because everyone is trying to understand how the iPad mini might fit into their lives — or if it will at all. Granted, I've only been using one for a little over a week, but I think I already have a pretty good sense of where it will fit into my life.Adding Photo Filters Doesn't Mean That Twitter Will Cancel Out Instagram
Nov 02, 10:08PM
Nick Bilton of the New York Times is reporting that Twitter is working on adding filters for photos to its product. This is clearly an attempt to add to its current capability to upload photos. At first blush, you will think that this is purely a defensive move against Facebook and Instagram. While that might be partially true, adding filters to photos does not cancel out Instagram whatsoever.Foursquare Looks Into An Fourth Round At An Over $700M Valuation, Investors Skeptical
Nov 02, 10:01PM
Foursquare has been taking VC meetings recently, looking into raising a Series D round of funding of between $50 million and $100 million according to multiple sources. In previous rounds, the company has brought in over $71.4 million in financing from Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and others. >From what we're hearing the company seeks to flesh out this round at a pre-money valuation of between $700 million and $800 million, and that number has a few VC shops skeptical due to its growth trends, which have not gotten more inspiring after the company's recent June redesign, according to multiple sources. Foursquare raised a $50 million round at a $600 million valuation in June of 2011 and still has plenty of money in the bank as far as we know.It's Alive! Google's iOS Search App Shows Hints Of Self-Awareness
Nov 02, 9:58PM
It may not have a cool name like "Siri," but you can't accuse Google's Voice Search app of lacking personality. Or self-awareness, for that matter. In case you missed it, Google upgraded its iOS search app on Tuesday with improved voice search functionality - it's the closest iOS users can get to a "Google Now"-like experience. The new app can return information like weather, stock quotes, sports scores, flight details, language translations, YouTube videos, and any other fact-based answers which Google's Knowledge Graph can quickly deliver. And when an instant answer isn't available, the app simply launches a Google web search instead.Facebook Execs Start Selling Stock: Sandberg Cashes Just ~2% Of Her Stake For $7.4M But CAO Dumps Half
Nov 02, 9:52PM
Facebook's executives gained the right to sell stock this week and three are now starting to cash out. SEC docs show COO Sheryl Sandberg is selling 352,904 shares to pull in $7,474,506.72. That's just 1.91% of her current, massive stake. General Counsel Ted Ullyot is selling a little too. However, Chief Accounting Officer David Spillane is selling over 61%. That's 256,000 shares out of the 416,000 he was just awarded, which could worry Wall Street.iPad Mini Display Under The Microscope: Not As Good As iPad 4th Gen, But Much Better Than iPad 2
Nov 02, 9:29PM
The iPad mini may have a display that's being singled out in most reviews as below Apple's recent standards, but a look under the microscope by Repair Labs affirms what I've been noticing in person: while the mini definitely doesn't offer the same kind of quality as an iPad with Retina Display (3rd or 4th gen), its screen is a big step up from the 2nd-generation iPad.OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman Raises $4M For Picturelife, An App For Backing Up Your Photos In The Cloud
Nov 02, 9:11PM
OMGPOP founder Charles Forman has raised some money for his new venture Picturelife, according to an SEC filing. The startup, which is focused on backing up, storing, and providing access to all of your photos in the cloud, closed a $4 million in new funding. The app works by syncing photos from multiple devices, and giving users the ability to access them from anywhere. Users can also import and sync photos from a number of other social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and others.iOS 6.0.1 Already Accounts For 7.5% Of iOS Traffic 24 Hours After Release
Nov 02, 8:51PM
Apple's minor bug-zapping update for iOS 6, iOS 6.0.1, is already making up 7.5 percent of mobile web traffic as measured by ad network and analytics firm Chitika, just 24 hours after release. If you've been following, you'll note that that's just half of the 15 percent adoption rate iOS 6 saw a day after being in the wild, but this is a minor update, making that uptake rate impressive.Mobile Ad Exchange Nexage Opens Up To Third-Party Services With Nexage Connect
Nov 02, 8:07PM
Nexage is hoping to expand the capabilities of its mobile ad exchange with the launch of a new service called Nexage Connect. Mark Connon, the company's executive vice president of corporate and business development, said advertisers and publishers can do a number of things (largely related to targeting) in the desktop world that they don't have easy access to in mobile, due to restrictions on third-party cookies. So Nexage is taking a platform-style approach by integrating with outside services.Now Facebook Employees Have Had Their $3.1 Billion Stock Payday, Will They Quit Or Keep Hacking?
Nov 02, 7:55PM
Silicon Valley might be in for a big weekend. The Giants won the World Series. Oh, and quite a few new Facebook millionaires were minted. The social network's employees got a $3.1 billion bonus this week as their RSUs turned into shares they can actually sell. COO Sheryl Sandberg scored about $400 million herself, and just sold off $7.4 million. Now the question is whether Facebook employees will stay, or take off for a start up or Hawaii.Video: 4th Generation And 3rd Generation iPad Performance Compared
Nov 02, 7:30PM
Apple's 4th generation iPad boasts a faster processor, the new A6X chip, which makes it twice as fast as the 3rd generation iPad, based on benchmark tests, in terms of raw processing power and graphics. That sounds good, but what does it mean in practice? Well, there's a noticeable boost all around, but we've got a hands-on video with three scenarios where you can see the differences.Make It So: Ubi, The Ubiquitous Plug-in Computer Is Available For Pre-Order
Nov 02, 7:19PM
Originally a Kickstarter project, Ubi is a ubiquitous computing device. Designed to plug into your wall and remain dormant until you talk to it, this little computer can perform searches, wake you up, and even sense environmental conditions in every room.Longtime Wired Editor-In-Chief Chris Anderson Departing To Be Full-Time CEO At Robotics Startup
Nov 02, 7:17PM
Chris Anderson, the longtime editor-in-chief at Wired magazine, is leaving the tech journalism stalwart. The news was announced at an all-hands meeting held at Wired's offices this morning, we're hearing. It has also started to leak out on Twitter (you can't trust writers to keep anything secret, I tell ya.)The iPad Mini's Huge Potential For Retail, Customer Service And Industrial Applications
Nov 02, 6:11PM
The iPad mini hit store shelves today, and I got the chance to get one for myself. The device is a terrific consumer tablet, but it has a lot of potential to be an even more impressive player in retail, restaurant and industrial applications. The iPad mini's big brother has done a good job of making headway in businesses and customer service, but the iPad mini has a strong chance to help drive those accomplishments even further.Researchers Turn The Tables On A Hacker, Infecting His PC With Malware And Grabbing Video Of Him At Work
Nov 02, 6:04PM
In a cool report by the Georgian Government, Georgian CERT researchers claim to have nabbed a hacker by infecting his PC with malware and tracking him down by grabbing his files, photographs, and even viewing him at work. The hacker ran the Georbot Botnet, a botnet designed to spy specifically on Georgian citizens.Study: Want To Reduce Partisanship? Make Font Harder To Read
Nov 02, 4:52PM
A new study shows that the media can significantly reduce partisan bias by simply making the text more difficult to read. Researchers found that participants in two different studies became more moderate on issues of Muslim rights and capital punishment when they were forced to read an eye-straining, light-grey, vertically stretched front. “Not only are people considering more the opposing point of view but they’re also being more skeptical of their own because they’re more critically engaging both sides of the argument,” said University of Illinois psychology professor Jesse Preston. It is hypothesized that eye strain disrupted our natural tendency to quickly scan for ideas that confirm our pre-existing prejudices. “We showed that if we can slow people down, if we can make them stop relying on their gut reaction – that feeling that they already know what something says – it can make them more moderate; it can have them start doubting their initial beliefs and start seeing the other side of the argument a little bit more,” explained graduate student, Ivan Hernandez. The effect sizes of the intervention (more difficult text) are impressively large. In the study exploring capital punishment attitudes, those who were primed to have a positive bias toward the defendant, by reading more favorable materials, were 10 percent more likely to agree to a guilty verdict (48 percent vs. 58 percent) and those with a negative bias were 18 percent less likely to agree with a guilty verdict (78 percent vs. 60 percent). In the study on the right to build a Mosque near the World Trade Center, the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” attitudes of liberals and conservatives were judged on an 11-point scale, and the partisanship between the two decreased by 60 percent in the difficult-to-read portion of the study. So, to all those designers making websites prettier: stop it. You’re ruining America.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.
To stop all future emails from feed2email.net you can reply to this email with STOP in the subject line. Thanks
