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Brad Feld Is Looking For Founders To Live And Work Rent-Free In His New Kansas City 'Fiberhouse'
Feb 13, 7:54PM
Brad Feld, the Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur and early stage investor, is well known for helping to jump start new tech and entrepreneurial ecosystems in areas outside of the well-trodden Silicon Valley region. The most recent place on which he's set his sights? Kansas City. The Kansas City metropolitan area (which spans both the states of Kansas and Missouri) is of course home to the first implementation of the Google Fiber Internet service provider project, which purportedly brings TV and Internet service that's 100 times faster than what Americans typically have today thanks to a 1-gigabit fiber optic cable installation. Google began rolling out Fiber in Kansas City late last year. This obviously gives Kansas City a big boost in its potential to be the home for new startups.TV Maker Loewe Shares Jump 45 Percent After Apple Buyout Rumors
Feb 13, 7:53PM
German luxury brand Loewe experienced a roller coaster day. A trader commented that "Apple supposedly wants to bid 4 euros a share for Loewe," which sent Loewe shares up as much as 44.5 percent to 3.93 compared to yesterday's closing price of 2.72. The German stock exchange closed today with Loewe shares trading at 3.35, representing a one-day increase of 23.16 percent.InstaThis Prints Out Your Instagram Photos On Wood Or Acrylic
Feb 13, 7:36PM
Printing out your Instagram photos isn't all that revolutionary. We've seen countless companies do this: CanvasPop puts your Instagrams on Canvas, Printstagram turns them into calendars, minibooks, and stickers, while Kanvess will hook you up with 3x3-inch Instagram prints for 25 cents a pop. But a new service called InstaThis is taking it to a whole new level, letting users print their Instagram photos onto either wood or acrylic. "There's a bit more craftsmanship in what we do," said founder Nate Larkin.Postmates Launches Its 'Get It Now' On-Demand Delivery App In Seattle
Feb 13, 7:24PM
After operating for about 18 months in San Francisco, urban delivery startup Postmates is finally ready to expand into its second market. The company recently opened up deliveries in Seattle, allowing residents there to get food, groceries, and other products delivered from restaurants and other shops throughout the city in less than an hour.Autodesk Releases 123D Creature, A Tool To Design, Paint, And Print Your Own 3D Monsters
Feb 13, 7:08PM
As a fan of monsters and 3D printing, in that order, I was intrigued by Autodesk's new iOS app, 123D Creature. Aimed at beginning 3D modelers, the app allows you to build cute (or scary) monsters right on your screen by pinching, grabbing, and rotating a lump of virtual clay hanging on a skeleton.Analyst: Apple Could Finally Be Opening Up Apple TV To Developers At An Event In March
Feb 13, 6:32PM
The Apple TV could finally be getting a developer SDK that would allow third-party apps to appear on the platform, according to an analyst note from Jefferies analyst Peter Misek today. The note cites channel checks as the source of the info that Apple will hold an Apple TV-related event in March, at which time it may introduce an SDK for "iTV" development.Cleverbug's Personalized Birthday Card App Downloaded 25K Times In First Three Weeks
Feb 13, 6:24PM
Cleverbug, a smartphone app that uses social network data to improve printed birthday cards, first launched in mid-January. The company tells me that as of early February, the app was downloaded 25,000 times by users in 89 countries, with 2.5 million birthdays now in the system. The app integrates with your Facebook account, so it can remind you when people's Facebook friends' birthdays are coming up. Then it's easy to create a personalized card — Cleverbug recommends different designs and Facebook photos that you can include, and you add or edit the text as well. Then you can print and send a card from more than 70 partner locations around the world, for $2.99 plus postage.Twitter's Crashlytics Enterprise Features Are Now Available To All Developers For Free
Feb 13, 6:18PM
Twitter surprised some folks when it acquired a mobile analytics firm called Crashlytics, but it’s clear that Twitter has an idea of what it would like to do with the firm. Step one since acquiring the company is opening up all of its enterprise features to developers for free, with no limits. Here’s what the company posted on its developer blog: You may know that a couple weeks ago, Twitter acquired Crashlytics, a mobile crash reporting solution. Today, we thought mobile developers would like to know that Crashlytics is folding its Enterprise features into its main product. This means that developers can now use Crashlytics with no usage costs or limits. Here at Twitter, we love using Crashlytics for mobile crash reporting, and we think that you will too. You can read more about their announcement on their blog. On the Crashlytics blog, the team goes into more detail on what’s changing for the better for developers using its free offerings: With Crashlytics Enterprise, there are no usage costs, fees, or limits when it comes to your app's performance monitoring. The features and usage we used to charge for based on limits are now unlimited across the board. This means that you no longer need to worry about numbers like monthly active users, disk space or API limits. And since Crashlytics Enterprise has no limits, you can add as many apps and developer seats as your team needs. In the future, all new Crashlytics accounts will be automatically upgraded to the unlimited, free version of the product; existing users have already been transitioned. And the capabilities of Crashlytics Enterprise don't stop here. Working with Twitter, we'll continue to develop new features even faster. The service allows companies to get real-time analytics for their mobile apps, which is something that has benefited Twitter’s own app and userbase quite a bit. Pouring through crash data is time-consuming and by acquiring Crashlytics, Twitter has helped its project flow for itself as well as others. Crashlytics says that it can process crash information in 18 milliseconds. That allows companies to make decisions on the fly. Opening up its feature set to developers is an added bonus. The biggest apps using the analytics suite are Twitter, Vine, Yelp, Kayak, TaskRabbit, Walmart, Groupon and Waze. It’s nice to see that this acquisition didn’t drift off into the ether, which doesn’t appear to be how Twitter handlesYou May Take Away My Freedom, But I'll Always Have My Crunchie!
Feb 13, 6:06PM
On June 14th, 2010, Michael Arrington awarded a Crunchie to two members of Goatse Security via a blog post for discovering, publishing and trying to fix a pretty egregious security flaw that they discovered on AT&T's public website. Before going to jail, Andrew Auernheimer's (aka "weev") bucket list of what he wanted was the Crunchie that TechCrunch awarded to him.Microsoft CFO Peter Klein: Bing Is An Important Strategic Asset, "Makes All Of Our Services Better"
Feb 13, 5:57PM
At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference this morning, Microsoft's CFO Peter Klein was asked about the importance of Bing for the company. According to Klein, Microsoft decided to launch its own search engine because it saw it as a "massive business opportunity," not only as a stand-alone search engine, but also to help it improve other parts of its business.Apple Loses iPhone Trademark Exclusivity In Brazil As Regulator Delivers Its Ruling
Feb 13, 5:14PM
Apple has officially lost exclusive rights over the use of the iPhone trademark in Brazil, according to the BBC. The news was telegraphed earlier via a leak that said Brazil's regulatory body was planning to side with IGB Electronics S.A. in the case and revoke Apple's exclusive ownership of the term "iPhone" as it relates to electronic devices.Leanplum Raises $825K Angel Round For Its Mobile A/B Testing And Optimization Tool
Feb 13, 5:01PM
Leanplum, a TechStars Seattle 2012 alum that wants to make A/B testing easier on iOS and Android, just announced that it has closed an $825,000 angel round from TechStars, Kima Ventures, VoiVoda Ventures, and several "high-profile individuals." The service, which was founded by ex-Google employees Momchil Kyurkchiev and Andrew First, allows developers, product teams and product managers to optimize their apps in real time. Leanplum is still in private beta and the team remains relatively tight-lipped about how who its beta testers are and how exactly the service works, but the idea here is to give developers the tools to understand how small changes in their apps affect how users interact with it.Khosla-Backed Hampton Creek Foods Launches Beyond Eggs, A Genuinely Convincing Egg Replacer
Feb 13, 5:00PM
Josh Tetrick, founder and CEO of Hampton Creek Foods, isn't the first person to try to convince people to eat fewer animal products (after all, someone manufactured the Tofurky that I eat every Thanksgiving), but he's not satisfied with what's already out there. "Let's face it, a lot of vegans have low standards," Tetrick said — and he's a vegan himself. His point: There are plenty of meat and animal product substitutes available, but people usually eat them because they're vegan/vegetarian, not because the food is particularly good. Tetrick, on the other hand, is hoping to create plant-based foods that are actually better than the animal products they replace. And his company just launched its first product, Beyond Eggs.AOptix Lands DoD Contract To Turn Smartphones Into Biometric Data-Gathering Tools
Feb 13, 4:44PM
Smartphones may be invading pockets and purses across the world, but AOptix may soon bring those mobile devices to some far-flung warzones. The Campbell, Calif.-based company announced earlier today that it (along with government-centric IT partner CACI) nabbed a $3 million research contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to bring its "Smart Mobile Identity" concept to fruition.Firebase Opens Its Real-Time App Infrastructure To All Developers
Feb 13, 4:39PM
When Y Combinator-backed Firebase first announced its app infrastructure service last April, it saw 4,000 developer sign-ups in the first week and raised a $1.1 million round shortly afterwards. Since then, co-founder James Tamplin said the company has been quietly bringing on more developers and improving the technology — and today it's launching its public beta, giving any interested developer access to the service. Firebase grew out of the chat service Envolve. Tamplin told me last year that he realized there's a bigger opportunity in making the real-time infrastructure used by apps like Envolve available to all developers, so they can "build apps really, really fast without worrying about servers or writing server code."GroupTalent Grabs $1M From Founders Co-Op, Menlo & Others To Help Businesses Connect With Top Technical Talent
Feb 13, 4:30PM
Today, it seems that everyone you know has their own startup. While this might be good for the economy long-term, it also has the makings of a talent drain. As more and more startups hit the scene, companies find themselves in a war for talent -- especially of the technical variety -- making it seemingly impossible to secure those top engineers, designers and data scientists. GroupTalent launched in December 2011 to help provide a solution. To help simplify the job search for the technically proficient (and the companies that want to hire them), GroupTalent has developed a matching engine that automatically pairs talent with relevant projects, and vice versa.As Competition With Streaming Services Heats Up, Amazon And CBS Expand Content Licensing Deal
Feb 13, 4:28PM
Literally days after Amazon announced a unique content deal with CBS for in-season streaming of Stephen King's "Under the Dome" series this summer, the company today added that now has an expanded relationship with CBS for additional content. Previously, Amazon had access to much back catalog content from CBS, in a deal similar to the one Hulu finally closed this November.A Digital Guide To A Sexy Valentine's Day
Feb 13, 4:24PM
Depending on where you're at in life, Valentine's Day can be one of the best or worst days of the year. If you're with someone, then just go ahead and tick off February 14th as one of those obligatory gift days alongside birthday, christmas, and anniversary. However, the chances that you'll have a nice meal, a stiff drink, and get laid are quite high, so that's a plus. On the other hand, if you're alone, be prepared for a lot of pink, red, white and flowers being delivered to your co-workers and a pinching sense of loneliness that only shows its face once a year.Skype Adds E-Gifting To Its Mac And Windows Applications
Feb 13, 4:01PM
Microsoft-owned Skype is rolling out updates today to both its Mac and Windows desktop applications, which introduce the ability for Skype users to send each other gifts in the form of Skype credit Gift Cards. The feature ties in nicely given Skype's Facebook integration, as users already receive alerts on the platform when one of their Facebook friends is having a birthday.Incubated By Siri Birthplace SRI, Tempo Launches A Calendar App With The Info You Need For Any Meeting
Feb 13, 4:00PM
Even if you're not as laughably disorganized as I am, I'm guessing you've had a few of those "oh, crap" moments before a meeting or a phone call. You've sat there desperately trying to remember why you're meeting with someone, or the exact address that you're supposed to drive to, or some other important piece of information. A new startup called Tempo aims to eliminate those situations with a smart calendar app launching today. The company spun out from SRI International, the research institute that also incubated the voice-powered assistant Siri (which was acquired by Apple and is now a key part of the iPhone). Like other recent SRI projects, Tempo is type of personal assistant, but of a very different sort than Siri.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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