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Aereo Amps Up Marketing Efforts Before Expanding To New Cities, Hires Former Apple Exec As CCO
Feb 08, 7:11PM
Aereo has been making headlines lately, not only for expanding its streaming cloud DVR service to 22 new markets in the coming months, but for being in active litigation with some of the nation's biggest and most powerful broadcast networks. But founder Chet Kanojia isn't going to let anything get the company down, which is why he's bringing Alex Moulle-Berteaux to the Aereo team as Chief Commercial Officer. Alex was head of marketing and PR at Rockstar and a former marketing exec at Apple before that, so he certainly has the tech-centric marketing game down pat.Sign Up Now For Hardware Alley At TechCrunch Disrupt
Feb 08, 6:15PM
Every Disrupt we run an amazing thing called Hardware Alley. For one day, Startup Alley becomes a haven for amazing hardware startups. We want you to join us.YCombinator-Backed Cube Goes Deeper Than Your Standard iPad Register
Feb 08, 6:00PM
With innovations like Square’s iPad register, small businesses and retailers face a slew of options for how to manage in-store sales without having to pay thousand of dollars for older point-of-sale terminals. But many of these newer offerings don’t do the tracking that many small retailers need after the transaction happens. That’s where a new YCombinator and Yuri-Milner-backed startup called Cube comes in. Calling itself the “Salesforce for point-of-sale,” it provides a suite of analytics that lets small business owners track their workers and manage their inventory and multiple business locations. First, it offers a basic credit card terminal that you can plug into your iPhone or iPad’s audio jack (like Square) and a free point-of-sale app. This does sound like Square, but co-founder Joel Christner say the company is focused on a different target market. “Those companies are really innovating on what I would call the very low-end. They started off as a replacement for a traditional credit card terminal, and on the other side of the market, with an iPad cash register,” he said. “Then on the high-end, there’s Micros and NCR, which everyone would agree are pretty stodgy. The challenge they have is that it’s very difficult for them to do anything that disrupts or cannibalizes their value chain.” These traditional point-of-sale systems can cost a few thousand dollars and they involve older, clunkier PC-era software. Christner said Cube is aimed at a middle demographic — the artisan store or coffee shop. The product is free to start using. You just download the app from the store, register your business, get a credit card reader and start going. Cube charges 2.5 percent per swipe (compared to Square’s and Intuit’s 2.75 percent per swipe) for a single location. They can also work out special enterprise plans, which could be a monthly fee or a percentage per transaction. Beyond the credit card reader and point-of-sale app, Cube offers a back office suite of software that produces payment and labor reports that show how much of each item a business has sold and how much it has made off each transaction. They’ll eventually offer deeper analytics, beyond tracking sales. Cube’s software can also connect to printers and the cash drawer for printing payment receipts and orders for the kitchen. We’ve seen a number of closely related competitors emerge over the past year including Revel’s iPad point-of-sale system and Square’s iPad Register.Kera Adds Subtitle Option And Analytics To Its Guided, Interactive Web Tool Tutorials
Feb 08, 5:55PM
Kera, a Toronto-based startup set to revolutionize the software product demo space with guided tutorials that are interactive and live on a site, instead of in a static video, has just launched new subtitle and captioning features, as well as basic analytics to help websites using its tech track user participation. This iteration on the company's platform adds considerably to its existing appeal, which has already attracted some good early traction for the young startup.TechCrunch Is Holding Pre-Meetup Office Hours On Tuesday In NYC
Feb 08, 5:51PM
The TechCrunch NY Meetup + Pitch-off is mere days away, and we're more excited than ever to hear about the latest and greatest startups in Silicon Alley. But we can't pack all the fun into one night, which is why we're also hosting Office Hours earlier that day. Matt, Chris, Anthony, John and myself will each hold ten minute sessions where we hope to hear about your Disrupt-worthy product in a one-on-one setting. We'll give feedback, and you'll prove to us why your product deserves a spot in the Disrupt conference, which is attended by thousands of investors and members of the media. Sound good?Spotify Lands On Windows Phone 8
Feb 08, 5:47PM
Spotify has just landed on the Windows Phone 8 platform, giving Microsoft's mobile users access to one of the world's largest music streaming platforms. Before today, the app was only available on iOS, Android, Symbian, and to legacy Windows Phone users, but Spotify has spread the love around to the newest version of the Windows Phone software.Edit Away, No Sign-In Needed With Microsoft SkyDrive And Office Web Apps
Feb 08, 5:31PM
A new feature from Microsoft allows people to share and edit documents from SkyDrive in Office Web Apps without the recipient having to sign in to their Microsoft account.TPB AFK, The Pirate Bay Documentary, Is Available Now On YouTube
Feb 08, 5:22PM
The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is now available for viewing on YouTube. The entire one and a half-hour movie just premiered in Europe and is also available for download on the Pirate Bay.Moot's New iPad App, DrawQuest Challenges Users Of All Ages To Create And Share Drawings
Feb 08, 5:00PM
4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) launched Canvas in 2011 as a place to remix images and reduce friction in the image creation process. But he found that unless you were an active member of the remixing community, it wasn't as natural to participate. So he decided to create an application that would serve the population that may not want to remix images, but instead would like to create their own art. DrawQuest, an iPad app and companion website, is launching today as a way for people to express themselves through drawing challenges.Former Kleiner Perkins Partner, Erly Founder And Hulu CTO Eric Feng Joins Flipboard As CTO
Feb 08, 5:00PM
Eric Feng, former Kleiner Perkins partner and Hulu CTO, is joining social magazine app Flipboard's executive team as CTO, running engineering and strategy.Finally, A QuantCast For Mobile Apps? Onavo Launches Insights
Feb 08, 4:30PM
One of the problems I’ve always run into as a reporter covering the app ecosystem, is that it’s so hard to find actual data about how well apps are doing. There are the top free and grossing ranks, but those tend to measure downloads or volume of in-app purchases. They aren’t good at displaying retention, or whether apps actually keep the users they attract. Then for non-gaming apps, the top grossing ranks are basically irrelevant because these apps tend to be pre-revenue, or earn money through advertising or other transactions that aren’t processed by Apple or Google. But now, a Sequoia-backed company called Onavo is launching Onavo Insights, which uses data to show real market share and active usage for apps. This product will compete against companies like AppAnnie, which shows live app rankings pulled from the Google Play and iOS charts. Onavo pulls its data from two consumer-facing products that help consumers manage their mobile data consumption. Those apps Onavo Extend and Onavo Count track and compress the flow of data in and out of third-party apps, so that people can save on their monthly mobile phone bills. Because Onavo sees live data out of these apps, they can infer which ones are being used or not every day. From that, they decided to create a monthly data service. They pull aggregated, anonymized data on app use from their consumer-facing products to profile how well other third-party apps are doing. “As we were distributing our own apps, we became acutely aware of the lack of actionable mobile intelligence to help companies understand how users are utilizing their smartphones in the mobile ecosystem,” said Guy Rosen, Onavo’s CEO. “Recognizing this gaping hole, we set out to create the most comprehensive market intelligence service in the mobile industry.” In Onavo Insights, you can look up apps and see how much marketshare they have in the U.S. (or what percentage of U.S. iPhone users actually use the app every month). Below, for example, you can see Snapchat’s rise and that it grew from being actively used on a single-digit percentage of phones last fall to more than 10 percent this past January. Or in this chart, you can see that while Path is actively used on between 1 and 2 percent of iPhone in the U.S., it has high user engagement. Or you can see that Rage of Bahamut, that trading-card gameAOL's Hyperlocal Effort Patch Misses $40M-50M Sales Target, Partly Because Of Sandy, Still Aiming For Profitability In 2013
Feb 08, 4:25PM
AOL's Q4 earnings today saw that company (which owns TechCrunch) finally make a turnaround, after 8 years of decline, into revenue growth, with overall sales of $599.5 million. But there are still a lot of areas that are seeing flat or declining revenues, and some that are loss-making: among those is AOL's hyperlocal effort Patch. On the investor call today, CEO Tim Armstrong admitted that the division had not reached its revenue target of $40 million-$50 million, and that it was still unprofitable (specific losses not released), but that the aim was for it to reach profitability by Q4 of this year.Everyone Stop DM-ing On Twitter And Start Using The Moped App Now, It's Way Better
Feb 08, 4:18PM
One of the great things about Twitter is that - unlike email - people are forced to get to the point by the limits on the medium. But unlike email, you can't CC anyone on a private communication. However, on Moped, a startup based out of Berlin, you can. In fact, Moped's iPhone and Android app is SO useful for sending private messages to individuals and groups, that I really do wonder why you people are still DM-ing on Twitter. You can also take photos and share them on Moped privately. Today they've released photos with filters. Photos are a big way of how we share our private experiences - look at the rise of apps like Path and Pair for that.The Wayki Toothbrush Has A Built-In Alarm Clock You Turn Off With Good Oral Hygiene
Feb 08, 3:45PM
More hardware startups are looking at everyday tools that have been relatively unchanged for a long time, like the HAPIFork we saw at CES this year. Today, a new startup called Wayki is adding its innovative toothbrush design to the list of gadgets hoping to improve the lifestyle of users by adding a modern tech spin to an age-old tool.Google Integrates Third-Party Web Apps More Deeply Into Google Drive
Feb 08, 3:44PM
Google just added the equivalent of an app store to Google Drive that lets you find Drive-enabled third-party apps like HelloFax, SlideRocket and the Open Office Document Reader right from within the service. Once installed, these apps now also live right in the Google Drive 'Create' menu. Until now, users had to go through the Chrome Web Store to find Drive-enabled third-party apps.Dogfish Accelerator Aims To Be The TechStars Of Indie Film
Feb 08, 3:25PM
Tech entrepreneurship isn't all that different from artistry. Founders create and build a product that will hopefully be enjoyed by millions of users, just like artists create work for consumers. But just like artists from all walks of life, there's a very high rate of failure among startups, which is why accelerators exist. But it turns out that other industries are paying attention to the way that tech accelerators help sort through the clutter to advance the very best startups, as a new accelerator in NYC is taking on the exact same model in the land of Indie film.LinkedIn Shares Soar 19.2% In The Wake Of Impressive Earnings
Feb 08, 2:58PM
Right after yesterday's earnings, LinkedIn shares (NYSE:LNKD) have popped 19.16 percent to 147.86. It is clearly linked to the company's earnings. Revenue is up 81 percent to $304 million and net income is following the same trend.Astronauts Will Tackle Your Questions In A Google+ Hangout From The International Space Station
Feb 08, 2:43PM
Getting a glimpse into the lives of astronauts in space has been de rigueur since the days of the Apollo program, but actually interacting with those busy space-dwellers? That's a much more modern trend, and one that NASA seems eager to continue. To that end, NASA recently announced that U.S. astronauts Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn and Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency would be fielding questions in what the organization is billing as the first Google+ hangout from the International Space Station at 11AM Eastern on February 22.Startup Founders: Chill Or Get Help
Feb 08, 2:41PM
There is a certain kind of Silicon Valley striver that I find abhorrent but, being separated by them by a full continent I feel I'm far enough removed to perhaps understand their wild-eyed efforts at self promotion and I often give the weirdos out in Palo Alto a pass. This time I can't.Kickstarter: The Hydra Is A Configurable Power Supply Perfect For Your Next Home Robot Build
Feb 08, 2:22PM
Often the stuff that gets press attention from Kickstarter tends to focus on the consumer market, but the Hydra is a new project on the crowdfunding site that could make big waves in everything from hobby electronics, to home robotics, to industrial manufacturing. It's a compact power supply with three outputs, each with completely configurable voltage. Put simply, the Hydra is almost like a Raspberry Pi for the power supply industry: small, customizable, and relatively inexpensive at $200.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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