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DeNA CEO Moriyasu On Breaking Into The U.S.: "Positive Results" But Not "Completely Happy" Yet
Nov 16, 9:18AM
Even though they just bought a baseball team, The Yokohama Baystars, and have gleaming new offices in a skyscraper peering down on Tokyo's famous Shibuya Crossing, DeNA still feels like it has so much to prove outside of Japan. The $4.4 billion company and its Japanese arch-rival GREE have spent close to $1 billion on acquisitions, hiring and marketing in the U.S. over the last two years to grow outside of their home market. "What will it take for DeNA to change perceptions, so that people will see us as able to succeed globally?" CEO Isao Moriyasu asks me through a translator near the end of an hour-long interview.2U One-Ups MOOCs, Coursera, Now Offers Online Undergrad Courses From Top Schools For Credit
Nov 16, 7:54AM
Four years after it announced its first graduate program with USC, 2U today has announced its foray into undergraduate education through a new program called Semester Online. The company will be powering a virtual classroom environment and interactive platform for a consortium of 10 top universities, including some it's already been working with (Duke and UNC) -- along with newcomers like Northwestern, Emory and Brandeis -- to name a few.Ev Williams Takes To Medium To Discuss The True Purpose Of His New Publishing Tool
Nov 16, 4:39AM
You might have heard a few things about Ev Williams and crew's new product, Medium. To some, it seems like "just another blogging platform," but if you think about where Ev and Biz Stone come from, these folks are pretty hip to next-level publishing. I don't have to remind you that Williams' company Pyra Labs sold a little product called Blogger to Google, which basically helped revolutionize and democratize publishing on the Internet. Then, Williams teamed up with Jack Dorsey and Biz on a little product called Twitter. You've probably used it a few times; I know I have.Whill, The Electric Wheelchair Add-on, Takes Home TechCrunch Tokyo's Grand Prize
Nov 16, 4:17AM
Bucking the trend of more software-centric winners at TechCrunch Disrupts in the U.S., a hardware startup named Whill took home TechCrunch Tokyo's grand prize this week. Whill, an electric add-on that wheelchair users can use to go longer distances, picked up the grand prize of 1 million yen (or about $12,500). It turns a regular wheelchair into an electric vehicle or something like a Segway that goes around 12 miles per hour. The company is one of a handful of promising hardware startups that are emerging in the country while venerated hardware giants of the past like Sony and Panasonic see waves of layoffs amid competition from Korea, China and the U.S.Wantful Goes Beyond Gifting With A New iPad App And Personalized Print Magazine
Nov 16, 2:43AM
About a year ago, Wantful launched a gift-giving website offering product recommendations based on the information you provide about the person you're shopping for. Today, the company is moving into what it calls the second phase of its vision, which is less about gifting and more about personalized e-commerce. The company's new products and services are being shown off tonight at an event in San Francisco, but Wantful gave me an early peek. CEO and founder John Poisson said the company isn't abandoning its gift-giving roots, just expanding beyond them. After all, Wantful already helps people discover cool new products, and in that process, users discover goods that they want to buy for themselves, not just their friends and family.3 Pillars Of The New Business World: APIs, Identity, and Data
Nov 16, 1:58AM
At the Defrag conference in Broomfield, Colo., this week, three themes came in the forefront: APIs, identity and data. The themes reflect the tenor of the times, which can be summed up in the turmoil at Microsoft this week: Microsoft President Steve Sinofsky left the company.Facebook Gifts Available To Tens Of Millions Of Users In Time For The Holidays — Fab, Lindt, Pandora And Others On Board
Nov 16, 1:48AM
Tonight at the Facebook Gifts event at giant toy store Fao Schwartz in New York, the company announced that Facebook Gifts is available to tens of millions of users starting today. Many new partners are on board, as well: babyGap, Fab, Brookstone, Dean & Deluca, L'Occitane, Lindt, ProFlowers, Random House, Inc. and NARS Cosmetics, as well as subscription services Hulu Plus, Pandora and Rdio. Wines from Robert Mondavi Winery and Chandon will come in a couple of weeks.KISSmetrics Launches Power Reports — A Friendly Interface For Asking Data-Heavy Questions
Nov 16, 1:32AM
Analytics company KISSmetrics has launched a new feature that should make it easier for customers to answer complicated questions that usually require lots of database queries and technical implementation. Large companies usually have huge stores of customer data, but in order to create comprehensible reports from that data, KISSMetrics says enterprises hire a team of technical consultants or devote lots of their technical team's time to "enormous SQL queries and manual data pulls." The Power Report, on the other hand, requires zero setup and presents a non-technical interface for identifying the data that you need.3Scale Discounts Cost Of Managing APIs Through Nginx Open-Source Server, Gives Developers Access, Services, Quality
Nov 16, 12:41AM
3Scale has discounted the cost for managing APIs in the enterprise through a new plug-in it has added to Nginx, the open-source web Server technology.Hands On With Spotify For The Browser: Speed Sizzles, But Discovery Fizzles
Nov 16, 12:37AM
It's speedy, and for a streaming music service like Spotify making the jump from desktop software to the browser, that's of the utmost importance. This is just an early beta of what will roll out next year, so I'll forgive the missing features and say I was impressed with the feel. But discovery still has a long way to go to unlock the potential of near infinite music.Apple's Stock Price Crashes To Six Month Low And There's No Bottom In Sight
Nov 16, 12:26AM
The good times can't last forever. Eventually the music dies off, the balloons pop and everyone goes home. Without sounding the hyperbole alarm, let's look at the facts. Apple's stock price has declined steadily since September 19, two days before the iPhone 5 was released. Shares are off 25 percent since September. The stock price closed at a six-month low today. The price is still up 30 percent on the year but far from its 74 percent increase a few months back.Mozilla Launches Experimental Browser-Based Simulator For Firefox OS
Nov 15, 11:37PM
Mozilla's Firefox OS (also known as Boot to Gecko), a mobile operating system that focuses on web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, is quickly moving through its development stages. While it's already possible to install Firefox OS on many phones, the Firefox OS team today launched its Firefox OS Simulator. The simulator, which is still considered "experimental," is basically a Firefox add-on that should run on Windows, Mac and Linux (though there are currently some known issues with Linux and Windows XP).Twitter Breathes More Life And Context Into Search, Discover And Apps With Media First, Headlines And More
Nov 15, 11:31PM
As Twitter tries to surface more content from its network, it continues to beef up tweets and its Discover section of the site. Today, the company announced a few new features to make sure that you know the context behind a story so that you can figure out why it's being shown to you within another big feature, Search. Context has been the missing piece to Twitter all along and the company is trying to change that.Lytro Reinvents The Camera Once Again, Now Lets Photos Change Perspective Along With Focus
Nov 15, 11:30PM
Lytro is on a roll. After launching manual controls just last month, the company today release a real treat. The Lytro desktop software just received an update that brings two new features into the mix: perspective shift, which slightly adjusts the perspective of the camera after the picture's been taken, and living filters. Best of all, these new features work with previously taken Lytro photos.The .Co Domain Launches Membership Program With Free Events, Classes, And Consultation
Nov 15, 11:15PM
To most companies, the two or three letters coming at the end of their URL probably don't make a huge difference (with exceptions). However, the company behind the .co domain has been working to change that. In the words of vice president Lori Anne Wardi, it's trying to turn .co into "the domain about innovation." The company is taking another step in that direction today with the launch of its membership program. Most top-level domains, said CEO Juan Diego Calle, don't offer "any value whatsoever other than the utility." Calle wants .co to be more than that, so his team worked with partners to put together a package of benefits that companies get for setting up shop on .co.EveryBlock Founder Adrian Holovaty Debuts Soundslice, An App To Take The Pain Out Of Transcribing Music
Nov 15, 10:49PM
If you've ever tried to look up guitar tablature on the Internet, you know how impossible it can be to find good stuff. A slick new web app called Soundslice could finally be the answer to those woes. Soundslice is the latest project from Adrian Holovaty, the Chicago-based developer and entrepreneur known for being the co-creator of the Django web framework and the founder of EveryBlock, the hyperlocal news site which was acquired in 2009 by MSNBC. Holovaty had help on building Soundslice from designer and visualizer PJ Macklin.Twitter Adds "Share Tweet Via Email" So You Can Loop In People Not On Twitter And Drive Signups
Nov 15, 10:44PM
Not to be outdone by Facebook's new mobile share button, Twitter has just added an option to "Share this tweet via email" so you can send content to less tech savvy folks. The button appears in the 'more' menu alongside reply, favorite, and retweet. It could be a powerful way to spread the service and convince new people to sign up. It's rolling out over the next few weeks.Flash Sales Site For Moms, Zulily Raises $85M From Andreessen Horowitz; Valued At $1B
Nov 15, 10:41PM
Zulily, a private-sale shopping site targeted at busy moms and their kids, has raised $85 million in Series D funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Fortune reported that the site, which launched in 2009, was valued at $1 billion. This brings Zulily's total funding to $139 million.Always Prepped Grabs $650K From True Ventures, Former Blackboard EVP To Launch A Mint.com For Education
Nov 15, 10:36PM
In what is the most-watched TED Talk to date, Sir Ken Robinson makes a convincing case for why the educational system in the U.S. needs to be torn down and rebuilt: It stifles creativity. Robinson is not alone in his belief that the current system revolves around inflexible curricula and churning out standardized test-taking drones, rather than free-thinking individuals. It's for this reason that personalized learning has become one of the hottest topics in education and is often cited as the key to re-humanizing education.After Launching It In SF, eBay Brings Same Day Delivery Service To New York
Nov 15, 10:32PM
After launching its same day delivery service in San Francisco a few weeks ago, eBay is debuting "eBay Now" in New York City. Users in the area can download the new app here. The service offers customers in Manhattan (as far north as 125th Street) and the western edge of Brooklyn access to the same day delivery inventory available at hundreds of local stores, including Macy's, Target, Walgreens, Toys R Us, and Best Buy.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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