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Inside Microsoft's Cauldron Of Ideas: From Kinect, Bing And Killing The Blue Screen Of Death, To Code That Can Learn, Pixels You Can Hold And Drugs Compiled From DNA
Nov 17, 10:00AM
Far from being chained to the product pipeline, Microsoft's research labs operate more like university research departments -- with a remit to be the "farseeing eyes" of the company, says Andrew Blake, lab director of Microsoft Research Cambridge. Projects bubbling away in this "cauldron of ideas" may never end up on a shelf -- giving Redmond's researchers the freedom to think way beyond the box.Twitter Does A Lot Of Different Things For Different People, Deal With It
Nov 17, 8:42AM
Today, Dalton Caldwell, founder of things that have pivoted called out Twitter in a blog post for well...pivoting. His post received many "kudos" on blogging software Svbtle, which amounts to those fake points that Drew Carey used to give out on "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" Caldwell is currently working on App.net, the pay-to-post service that I can't get a straight answer out of anyone on, when it comes to how it's doing or whether anyone really likes it. When I hop on the service, yes I paid for an account to support it, all I see is cross-posts from other services, and well...you might know how I feel about cross-posting.Twtrland: A Social Analytics Tool And Simple Way To Discover New People In The Twitterverse
Nov 17, 7:41AM
Twitter does a lot of things well, but it hasn't really nailed context yet -- or search. After you first join the service, it takes a significant amount of following and unfollowing before you settle on a stream (or Twitter hose, as some call it) that works for you. Search, too, is noisy and generally unhelpful. In May, Twitter started to test some personalization features to start making better suggestions in terms of who to follow, etc., and it continues to improve search and "Discover."The Most Important Offseason Acquisition For The San Francisco Giants Could Be Hadoop
Nov 17, 5:00AM
Editor's note: Barry Eggers is a managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he focuses on information technology infrastructure, with a specific interest in cloud computing, big data, storage, consumerization of IT, and networking. While the technology that enables big data is quite technical, the direct impact on the average consumer is clear. Baseball, more so than other sports, is known for its massive data collection, complex statistics and informed managerial decisions. So it should be no surprise that, just as corporate enterprises are going through a big data revolution, so will the sport of baseball. And Hadoop, with its ability to manage massive data sets, is ready to play.Ruckus Wireless Closes IPO Day At $12.25 Per Share, 18% Below IPO Price
Nov 17, 1:34AM
Wi-Fi equipment maker Ruckus Wireless held an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange this morning at a share price of $15. It raised $126 million. While it was a nice move for the company, as well as its venture capital investors (Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and others had provided some $54 million in funding for the eight-year-old company), its reception on the stock market on its first day of trading was lackluster.Diaper Deals: Huggies Maker Says SocialTwist Campaign Saw Highest Digital Engagement Rates Ever
Nov 17, 1:19AM
Personal care company Kimberly-Clark is ready to share some of the results it's seeing from a campaign for its Huggies diapers that it ran with social marketing company SocialTwist. According to Dan Kasten, who leads shopper marketing at Kimberly-Clark, the campaign resulted in the company's highest digital engagement rates ever.Sphero's New Augmented Reality App Allows You To Walk A Beaver Around Your House
Nov 17, 1:15AM
Meet Sharky the Beaver, Sphero‘s first augmented reality character for their little robotic spheres. Over the past few months, Orbotix has been developing many new ways to use the toy. With this new app, the company is making its first step into the world of augmented reality. As a reminder, Sphero is a ball with an internal motor. You can control it using a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone or tablet. It also has a built-in gyroscope, accelerometer and compass. Now they’re working on Augmented Reality with Sharky the Beaver. It will transform your sphere into a cute walking 3D character that you control with your phone or tablet. In order to see the character, you have to keep the sphere in sight and look at it through the camera of your device. You can throw virtual cupcakes and the little beaver will run toward those cupcakes. In the real reality, the sphere will roll toward an invisible cupcake. The virtual character was really smooth and everyone seemed to love the idea, if not the toy. Sharky is just the first augmented reality application, with new characters and games potentially coming soon. With regular firmware updates, more than 20 apps, and an SDK that fuels Sphero hackathons — and sometimes even result in a Kickstarter campaign – it looks like Sphero is here to stay.>From Sand Hill Road To The City: Inside Kleiner Perkins' New San Francisco Outpost [TCTV]
Nov 17, 12:45AM
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers this week officially opened the doors to a brand new office in the heart of San Francisco. It's interesting news from the now 40-year-old venture capital firm, because Kleiner Perkins has always been so strongly associated with the iconic Sand Hill Road stretch in Menlo Park, some 40 miles south of the city.42Floors Raises $5M From Dave McClure, Alexis Ohanian, Others, Expands Office Search Site To New York
Nov 17, 12:29AM
Ask any founders or CEO how they feel about the process of searching for office space for their companies, and the majority of them will shake their heads. Some may even lash out. There is a prevailing sense that searching for office space is, if not horrible, at least somewhat broken. Part of the reason for this is that the industry itself, writ large, remains offline. If you want to find great space, you have to go to a broker. Brokers have long horded their "proprietary data" keeping it offline as a result, but visit a handful of them and there's a good chance you'll find some overlap in their listings result.SEC Watch: Video Conferencing Startup Vidyo Raises Another $10
Nov 17, 12:01AM
You'd think, after raising nearly $100 million over the course of the last seven years, that video conferencing specialist Vidyo would be all set for cash. But apparently not, as the company has raised even more money, according to a new SEC filing.Meet The 6 New Startups Launched Out Of JOLT, The Toronto Tech Incubator
Nov 16, 11:29PM
A group of us TechCrunchers bundled up and headed to the Great White North last week to kick off our three-city Northern Meetup tour with a stop in Toronto. While we were in town, we visited the MaRS Discovery District, a non-profit entity focused on tech innovation and entrepreneurship headquartered in a massive building right across the street from the University of Toronto.Facebook And Games: Can The Social Network Turn All Of Us Into "Gamers," Or Are We Already?
Nov 16, 10:48PM
Yesterday, I sat down with the folks who bring games to life on Facebook. Love 'em or hate 'em, there are a lot of people who like to hang out on the social network and play turn-based games. Sure, it can get annoying, with all of the notifications and requests, but Facebook is apparently trying to do something more than annoy you. Actually, it's quite the opposite. Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that games weren't doing as well as he'd like on the platform, but all hands are on deck to change that.NuOrder Raises $3M From CAA, Rachel Zoe, GRP To Bring The Wholesale Fashion Business Online
Nov 16, 9:50PM
NuORDER, a new L.A.-based startup that aims to bring the wholesale fashion business online, has raised $3 million led by GRP, with Greycroft, Aileen Lee, David Tisch, Creative Artists Agency, Brian Spaly, Mortimer Singer and Rachel Zoe participating in the round.The Kive Company Raises $500K To Help Parents Save Their Kids' Art
Nov 16, 9:16PM
The Kive Company, the startup behind the mobile art app ArtKive, says it has raised $500,000 in seed funding. The ArtKive iPhone app allows you to take photos of your kids' art, then tag it with their name, grade, date, and title. You can share the art with other ArtKive users, and eventually the company says you should be able to turn the photos into a printed book. So instead of feeling obligated to cover your refrigerator with every piece of art that your children create, hiding the art away in boxes, or losing things that have sentimental value, you can save and share the art digitally. And if you want something to browse through and get misty-eyed about in the future, the physical album could be both easier to store and offer glossier presentation than the original art.Glocal, Local Video News Aggregator, Launches Out Of Beta With A Bang
Nov 16, 9:05PM
The revolution has already begun. Television video content, notably news and live TV, are no longer relegated exclusively to the TV screen, and a new startup called Glocal is doing its part by being a hub for local news videos. The company just launched out of beta with a handsome website that scrapes all local news content and categorizes it by location.Facebook Explains The Four Ways It Sorts The News Feed And Insists Average Page Reach Didn't Decrease
Nov 16, 8:58PM
Today Facebook addressed the controversy surrounding the news feed and a reduction in reach for some Pages. It outlined the four main factors that determine if a post shows up in the news feed, and insisted Page reach didn't decrease overall. However a news feed algorithm change did start reducing reach for Pages that get complaints and that successfully cut total complaints by a double digit percentage.BarkBox, The Birchbox For Dog Lovers, Launches Companion Mobile App
Nov 16, 8:31PM
BarkBox, the subscription-based service that sends pet owners a box of goodies on a monthly basis, has launched a companion mobile application. The app isn't merely a mini version of the online service, but is meant to compliment Barbox.com by offering unique features like the ability to buy individual items, rate and revies the items in your current box, buy gift subscriptions, read BarkBox news, and more.Apple And Motorola Mobility Looking At Arbitration For Patent Dispute Resolution
Nov 16, 8:24PM
In a court filing this week spotted by Bloomberg, Apple indicated that it is "interested in resolving its dispute with Motorola completely and agrees that arbitration may be the best vehicle to resolve the parties' dispute." Motorola Mobility had discussed the possibility of arbitration back on November 5, when a federal judge tossed a case Apple had filed saying Motorola was abusing standards-essential patents.A Trip To MaRS, Downtown Toronto's Massive Tech Hub [TCTV]
Nov 16, 8:17PM
If you harbored any doubts about Toronto's seriousness about being a major center of technology and innovation, they'd probably be quickly put to rest with a look at MaRS Discovery District. Housed in a massive historical building -- a former hospital that was the site of the first administration of penicillin -- MaRS opened the doors to its 700,000 square foot centre in 2005 to be a non-profit center for all things tech, science, and medicine.MakingView Brings 360-Degree Video Full-Circle With The Mountable ViewCam Camera
Nov 16, 8:00PM
Welcome to the future of 360-degree video. MakingView, a company out of Norway, has created a camera called the ViewCam, an ultra lightweight camera that can be mounted almost anywhere and take full 360-degree video. Unlike the Dot or GoPro, however, consumers can't purchase the ViewCam, as it's only available as proprietary technology, licensed out to companies like RedBull. But that doesn't mean it isn't cool, or that we won't see it (or something like it) on consumer shelves in the coming years.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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