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Iterations: SnapChat's Success Challenges Many Silicon Valley Assumptions
Feb 10, 6:00PM
Yesterday, it was confirmed -- SnapChat raised a big investment round of funding. By now, everyone also knows that SnapChat is a new communication medium, a phenomena reflecting a desire for ephemerality, and the fastest-growing consumer app out there today. As I was drafting this post last night, Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers mentioned the service during the shows "Weekend Update" news segment.Fly Or Die: BlackBerry Z10
Feb 10, 6:00PM
The BlackBerry Z10 running the new BB10 operating system is a pivotal phone for the company formerly known as RIM. It's BlackBerry's flagship all-touch device, and while it has fine specs and cool features, the phone may not be enough to save the beleaguered Waterloo-based company. To be clear, the BlackBerry Z10 is not a bad phone by any means. According to various sources, the phone's launches in the UK and Canada were quite successful.CrunchWeek: Twitter's Purchase Of Bluefin, Perfecting Email With Mailbox, AOL, About.me And GDGT
Feb 10, 5:45PM
It's time for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers take a look back at the past seven days and talk about a few of the week's most interesting stories. In this edition, Anthony Ha, Colleen Taylor and I discuss Twitter's acquisition of social analytics company Bluefin Labs in its biggest purchase to date; the public launch of Mailbox, the email management app from the folks at Orchestra; and About.me's spin off from AOL, as well as AOL's rumored purchase of gadget review blog GDGT.
Dear Congressman Gutierrez, Please Lift Your Hold On Silicon Valley
Feb 10, 5:00PM
Editor's note: Vivek Wadhwa is Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University, Fellow at Stanford Law School, and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University. During this week's hearing at the House Judiciary Committee on immigration, at which I was asked to testify, you made some revealing remarks. You confirmed rumors that I had long heard: The reason we have not been able to resolve the visa nightmares of high-skilled immigrants is that you and other Democrats fear that if we do, there will be no urgency to deal with the plight of the millions of undocumented immigrants.Reminder: The New York Disrupt Pitch-Off/Meetup Is On Tuesday
Feb 10, 4:41PM
It's been a few months since our last NYC meet-up and, in an effort to find some of the best startups in New York for Disrupt this year, we're planning a 60-second pitch-off competition. The winner will get free tickets and a spot in Startup Alley at the event. One runner-up gets two free tickets to the event. Disrupt NY is being held on April 27 - May 1, 2013 in Manhattan.Nokia's Cheapest Windows Phone 8 Lumia, The 620, Gives The Budget Android Pack A Run For Its Money
Feb 10, 3:00PM
The Nokia Lumia 620 is an entry level Windows Phone 8 smartphone that puts a polished mobile computing experience in your pocket without breaking the bank or compromising usability with awfully underpowered hardware. Its performance beats plenty of budget Androids but the trade-off is far fewer apps.Careless Whisper
Feb 10, 2:00PM
It's funny to me when I see people my age and thereabouts clucking with disapproval at people who are somehow managing to, in their eyes (and my own, occasionally, I'll admit), misuse or abuse the tools of social media. It reminds me of my mother telling me how Nintendo is going to rot my brain. Is it possible we're becoming our parents in this as well as everything else?Backed Or Whacked: Revenge Of The Dumb Watch
Feb 10, 11:00AM
Editor's note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals. Last year, Kickstarter launched a bumper crop of smart watches that connect via Bluetooth to your smartphone. The field was led by the record-setting Pebble, but also included products such as Cookoo, the MetaWatch Strata, and Martian, all of which have shipped by now. Recently, though, a number of timepieces have surfaced that bring us back to basics when it comes to telling time.You Won't See Facebook's Graph Search On iPhone Or Android Anytime Soon
Feb 10, 7:00AM
Editor's note: Tareq Ismail is the UX lead at Maluuba, a personal assistant app for Android and Windows Phone that was a Battlefield participant at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012. The release of Facebook's Graph Search has raised much discussion among technology pundits and investors. One of the biggest questions surrounding the highly anticipated feature is its availability on mobile.We Made Every SugarCRM Employee A Salesperson – Here's How You Can, Too
Feb 10, 5:00AM
Editor's note: Clint Oram is the CTO and co-founder of SugarCRM. I have worked with companies that considered its customers to be obstacles to avoid or ignore: "If only we didn't have to deal with those pesky, complaining, customers," they'd say, "we'd have time to do really great work." Any company whose employees still cling to the "customer is always wrong" mindset can kiss success goodbye.Think Tracking DAUs Is Enough? Then You're Not Getting Your Whole Mobile Story
Feb 09, 11:00PM
Editor's note: Robert Weber is co-founder and senior vice president of new products at W3i. In the mobile world, companies often live and die by metrics: "How are your monthly active users doing? What's going on with your user retention? How many total downloads do you have?" These kinds of metrics, which can have widely different implications, can make or break developers.What Games Are: Why The Xbox's $5 Problem Is Great For OUYA
Feb 09, 10:00PM
The news that next-generation consoles may lock games to devices is not controversial by itself, but the willingness to price those games effectively is not historically a strength of Microsoft or Sony. More likely a have-cake-and-eat-it attitude is at play, but that risks driving away younger players to microconsoles like the OUYA.Google's AdWords Update: Are Desktops The New Fax Machines?
Feb 09, 9:00PM
Editor's note: Richard Zwicky is CEO of BlueGlass Interactive, a digital marketing agency and software provider. Does Wednesday's AdWords announcement mean Google is already acknowledging the end of the desktop? When AdWords was developed, people only worried about ads delivered from websites to people sitting at a desk in front of a computer. No one cared about phones, tablets were not on the market, and notebooks weren't useful Internet devices unless they were connected to a wall, just like a desktop.X-Wing Squadron Seeks $11M On Kickstarter For Measured Response To Funding Of Intergalactic Weapon
Feb 09, 8:23PM
The Death Star may be well on its way to Kickstarter success, with £224,596 pledged out of total £20,000,000 goal, but its construction won't go unopposed. Rebel forces have rallied to crowdfund a means to oppose Imperial tyranny, in the form of an X-Wing fighter and a pilot trained to use it to take down any moon-sized space stations that may end up floating around in the void.How Much Equity Do Your Employees Deserve? The Dynamic-Split Model Breaks It Down
Feb 09, 8:00PM
Editor's note: Mike Moyer is the author of Slicing Pie, a book about implementing dynamic equity splits. Few topics cause more rifts in startup teams than equity splits. Today, the vast majority of equity splits are fixed. For instance, two founders split the equity "50/50" and one does all the work. Then what? Unanticipated changes in the contributions of individual members or the addition and subtraction of employees put team members at odds, each one vying for the largest share they can get of the pie.Meet Kirsty Nathoo, Y Combinator's Secret Financial And Operational Weapon
Feb 09, 6:51PM
The back office is an unglamorous but crucial part of any venture firm. At Y Combinator, which has grown its seed-stage fund and incubator quickly in recent years, it also has to move at the pace of a young startup. The person who has made that happen is Kirsty Nathoo, a UK transplant with an accounting background. She joined a few years ago and has shepherded hundreds of companies from entry through incorporation, fundraising, and now even product development.Apple And Google Still Lead WebKit Development, But More Smaller Companies Contributing
Feb 09, 6:47PM
Apple and Google still represent the bulk of reviewed commits contributing to the ongoing development of WebKit, the open source web browser engine that powers Safari and Chrome, among others. Google accounts for the bulk of commits, having overtaken Apple in that regard back in 2009 (though Apple still does much more with fewer authors actually writing code), but the more interesting story here is that the impact of other parties is steadily growing.Gillmor Gang: Snow Kidding
Feb 09, 6:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — take advantage of the East Coast blizzard to toast some marshmallows on the fire. First up is the Series A drought and impact of the cloud on startup funding. Next, the big pivot to Spoilerland, aka Binge TV. House of Cards is having just that impact on the television industry, collapsing the mid tier pay networks into an environment much like planes stacked up over Newark. It's Breaking Bad followed by Mad Men followed by Arrested Development and so forth. How the broadcast networks get past the new air traffic controllers is anybody's guess, but Netflix continues to confound the experts and delight the customers.Microsoft's 128GB Surface Pro Sells Out At MS Online Store Just Hours After Launch
Feb 09, 5:02PM
Microsoft's 128GB Surface Pro has sold out in the online Microsoft Store in the U.S., just a few hours after going on sale today, February 9. The 64GB version is still available as of this writing, and the Surface Pro is still likely in stock at physical retail locations like Best Buy, where it also went on sale today, although checking the stock levels via their online tool reports the Surface Pro as "Unavailable" across the board.Mailbox's Virtual Queue Succeeds In The Waiting Game Where Peter Molyneux's Curiosity Stumbles
Feb 09, 4:35PM
Mailbox, the email inbox management app for iPhone that was released in beta this week, currently has around 700,000 users queuing up for access, at the time of this writing. That's according to the in-app counter that many of us have been staring at on and off for days now, which tells you how many people there are still ahead of you in line for the app, and how many people are joining up behind to wait their own turn.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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