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Rocket Lawyer Acquires LawPivot To Add A Quora-Like Q&A Platform To Online Legal Services Site
Jan 14, 12:30PM
Online legal platform Rocket Lawyer is acquiring legal Q&A platform, LawPivot. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but we're told that the acquisition was an all stock-deal.Report: Flagship Apple, HTC, Samsung Phones Gobbling More Mobile Data Than Tablets
Jan 14, 11:16AM
Smartphones including the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy SIII and HTC Sensation XL are consistently consuming more mobile data than tablets, according to a new report by mobile data analytics company Arieso. The firm looked at the data demands of more than one million distinct subscribers over a single, 24-hour weekday in November 2012. The data was taken from a tier-1 UMTS network in Europe.Janrain Raises $33M From Salesforce, And Others For Social Log-In Management Platform
Jan 14, 11:00AM
Janrain, a company that develops a social log-in management platform for developers, has raised $33 million in funding led by Millennium Technology Value Partners with Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventures, Salesforce, as well as existing investors Emergence Capital, RPM Ventures, DFJ Frontier and Anthem Venture Partners participating. This brings the company's total funding to $53 million.Shpock Sees 120K Downloads, 60K Items Listed As Competitors Start Their Photocopiers
Jan 14, 10:50AM
Shpock, the local classified mobile app (or flee market in your pocket) is reporting some decent progress today. Three and a half months after launch, the iOS and Android app has seen 120,000 downloads, and 60,000 items listed in its marketplace; up from 10,000 downloads, and 3,000 items listed last November. That's probably testament to the simple solution that Shpock provides and the high quality design of the app itself. But with that simplicity comes low barriers to entry -- so it's not surprising that Finderly, the Austrian startup behind the app, is bracing itself for plenty of European competition, with co-founder and CEO Armin Strbac noting that he's already seen ads on Odesk looking for developers to "copy" Shpock.Gartner Says Q4 PC Shipments Down 5% To 90.3M Units, HP Edges Out Lenovo, And Windows 8 Fizzles As Multiscreen Theory Fails To Materialize
Jan 14, 9:44AM
If the huge profusion of mobile handsets, phablets and tablets on display at CES weren't enough of an indicator, we now have some numbers from Gartner that spell out how the PC industry continues to decline in the face of smaller, cheaper, more portable, and more popular computing devices. Total worldwide PC shipments for Q4 totalled 90.3 million units, a decline of 4.9% over Q4 2011's 95 million units, according to preliminary figures out today from the analyst group. Other key points: HP has regained its lead over Lenovo, with 14.6 million PCs shipped, giving it a 16.2% share of the market. And Windows 8 has so far had very little impact on things.Twitter-Owned TweetDeck At Risk Of Being Struck Off U.K. Business Register For Failing To File Accounts Again
Jan 14, 9:11AM
Back in December Twitter and its subsidiary TweetDeck were fined for late accounts filing by the U.K. registrar of companies, Companies House. Since then Twitter has filed its accounts but TweetDeck has not and Companies House has now put forward a proposal to strike it off the register. It now has 99 days to file up-to-date accounts or face being dissolved and struck-off.Chartburst Wants Your Vote To Help Connect Unsigned Bands To Record Label Scouts
Jan 14, 9:00AM
It's never been easier for a musician or band to record a track, while the Internet offers virtually no barriers to distribution. But, arguably, with supply outstripping demand, it's also becoming harder to be discovered by fans and record labels alike. Today sees the Beta launch of Chartburst, a simple take on solving the discovery problem which employs the crowd to help the cream rise to the top and put it in front of the ears of major record label scouts.Baidu's Mobile Browser Steps Out Of Asia And Into Africa With Exclusive France Telecom Deal
Jan 14, 8:55AM
A big step forward for China's search giant Baidu as it looks to raise its international profile and credibility in mobile: the company has inked an exclusive deal with mobile carrier France Telecom/Orange to co-brand and pre-load its new Baidu mobile browser on Android smartphones sold in Africa and the Middle East, covering 19 countries where Orange operates in the region.Samsung's Galaxy S Smartphone Series Passes 100M Channel Sales, Driven By Flagship Galaxy S3
Jan 14, 7:12AM
Samsung just announced another smartphone sales milestone: its Galaxy S series has passed channel sales (or sales to retailers, not end users) of more than 100 million units since launching in May 2010, the Korean conglomerate announced via its Flickr stream. The sales were driven in large part by the series' flagship Galaxy S3Anonymous Appears To Have Hacked MIT Website, Leaves Swartz Tribute
Jan 14, 6:03AM
Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, appears to have hacked MIT's website and left a tribute page to the late Internet activist, Aaron Swartz. "We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this temporary use of their websites," writes a postscript to a memorial note posted by Anonymous on a subdomain of the official MIT.edu website. "We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened, but call for all those feel heavy-hearted in their proximity to this awful loss to acknowledge instead the responsibility they have — that we all have — to build and safeguard a future that would make Aaron proud".Tongal Raises $15M For Platform That Lets Anyone Compete To Make Branded Video Campaigns
Jan 14, 5:06AM
Tongal has raised $15 million for its video content and social platform, which rewards people for making video advertisements for consumer brands. With the investment, which was led by Insight Venture Partners, Tongal plans to build out its global creative community.Apple Cuts Orders For iPhone 5 Components, Reports WSJ
Jan 14, 4:03AM
Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 components due to weaker-than-expected demand, reports the Wall Street Journal. The article said that "Apple's orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order, two of the people said." In addition, orders for other components have also been reduced. Suppliers were notified last month.GetGlue-Viggle Merger Called Off
Jan 14, 3:33AM
GetGlue today announced that it is not merging with Viggle, though the social TV app maker said in a statement on its blog that "the two companies remain friendly and think highly of each other."PDF Tribute to Aaron Swartz Attracts Roughly 1,500 Links To Copyright-Protected Research
Jan 14, 3:16AM
An online tribute to Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old activist who helped create RSS and committed suicide this past week, has attracted more than 1,500 links to research and academic papers. The site with the full list of links and research is here. It’s an effort to honor Swartz, who faced up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines after he downloaded 4.8 million documents from JSTOR. He had wanted to make them more freely available before he took his life this week. Micah Allen, who researches brain plasticity, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive science, suggested the idea on Reddit earlier this weekend: “A fitting tribute to Aaron might be a mass protest uploading of copyright-protected research articles. Dump them on Gdocs, tweet the link. Think of the great blu-ray encoding protest but on a bigger scale for research articles.” Two acquaintances of Swartz, Eva Vivalt and Jessica Richman, picked up the call and ran with the idea. “Open access is something he was and we are really passionate about,” said Richman, who also co-founded Science Citizen, a non-profit that encourages academic scientists to include citizen science in their research. “Imagine you’re a musician and you have to pay someone to produce your music, and then your can’t even access your own music unless you pay them again,” she added. Swartz wrote a Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto five years ago, in which he criticized research journals for locking up valuable scientific knowledge and history and urged people to engage in civil disobedience to make these works more widely available. “The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations,” he wrote. “Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.” Richman says she hopes that maybe this nascent effort to help lead to the creation of a repository, where research that is funded with public money and grants be available and openly accessible. JSTOR said four days ago that it was making the archives of more than 1,200 journals available for limited free reading by the public. This didn’t happen in connection with Swartz death, however.Participating In Hackathons Is the Best Way To Become Pitch Perfect For VCs
Jan 14, 3:02AM
The proliferation of organized “hackathons” has been a big story over the past few years. Quite a few developers that I’m friends with see them as a way to keep themselves sharp on their own products and ideas, especially when a different company is the one putting the event on. I recently attended, and judged, a Foursquare hackathon in San Francisco, and saw about 20 presentations from some pros and beginners alike. Usually the participants hack away on an idea, or series of ideas, over a 24-hour period. During the hacking, teams are built, careers can be made, and new features and companies can be found if people are paying close enough attention. At the Foursquare hackathon, where the participants hacked away on Foursquare’s API, as well as some other sponsors’, I found the things you’d expect at a hackathon – stickers, beer, pizza and geeks. After attending quite a few of these hackathons in San Francisco, New York City, Philadelphia, Seattle, Mexico and Israel, I’ve found that this is a great testing ground to get ready for pitching VCs for the product you want to spend all of your time working on. Most of the projects aren’t ready for prime time, but facing judges and an audience with a five-minute presentation is a great way to sharpen your pitch skills. Some of these things might seem obvious, but they can serve as a reminder for you. Have something finished There are only so many hours in a day – and in a hackathon. Sometimes, you don’t get your project finished, and you go ahead and present anyway. That’s pretty cool, but it’s a good idea to focus on having something finished. Even if you have to divert from your original idea, showing something that works is putting your best foot forward. If there are recruiters at the hackathon, they want to see nimble teams that can move and shake in any situation. Simply “running out of time” isn’t an excuse, it’s a hackathon after all, so hack your way through the stumbling blocks. Even if you don’t win, you’ll show your peers that you can get shit done. At the Foursquare hackathon, there were a few teams that said that they didn’t realize how hard their idea was until the first few hours of hacking on it. When you say that to yourself, it’s time to start on somethingPentametron Is A Twitter Poet That Gives Bots Some Literary Cred
Jan 14, 3:00AM
If you're reading this post, chances are that you use Twitter as a place to chat about, link to, search, debate and debunk the big and little things going on in tech. But as you know (and as Twitter likes to remind us again and again and again) Twitter is also home to a lot of other kinds of conversations. And bots. And spam (boo). And some creative types, too.Shenzen New Degree's Touch Panel Tech Doesn't Mind The Rain And Still Delivers Killer Input Detection [Video]
Jan 14, 2:00AM
Shenzen New Degree Technology was one of the companies showing its stuff in the Eureka Park portion of CES 2013, and this China-based hardware startup had some impressive tech to show off related to touch input. Combining capacitive and resistive touch-based input with a means to make it work even on solid stainless steel surfaces, Shenzen New Degree hopes to pave the way for a wide range of new products with built-in controls that are highly durable, retaining their touch sensitive abilities even after considerable wear and tear.MIT.edu Currently Down Following Investigation Into Swartz Tragedy
Jan 14, 1:07AM
Following calls for an investigation into the prosecution and recent suicide of internet activist, Aaron Swartz, MIT's website is currently down. MIT's President L. Rafael Reif today called for an investigation into the handling of the case brought against Swartz for his release of pay-walled academic papers from popular database, JSTOR.Never Lose Your Keys Again Thanks To StickNFind's Bluetooth Stickers
Jan 14, 1:04AM
Here's a novel way to keep track of your wallet, your cat, or, yes, your keys. Jimmy Buchheim stopped by the the TechCrunch booth at the Consumer Electronics Show to demo StickNFind, a bluetooth sticker technology that you can use to track almost anything. Once you've attached the sticker to an object of your choice, you can track it down again using the StickNFind iOS and Android apps, which tell you whether you're getting farther from or closer to the object in question — basically, it's the tech version of that that hotter/colder game.The Best And Worst Of CES 2013
Jan 14, 12:36AM
CES has come and gone, but the memory of this year's show will live on forever. Not necessarily because the 15-20 TechCrunch staffers who attended will remember it — chances are the night-time debauchery has wiped away all recollection of the past week — but because this post exists. We met a bunch of celebrities. We discovered a phone with an e-ink display on the back, a giant spider walking vehicle, and a fork that tells you when you're eating too fast.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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