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Like Elephants, Search Engines Never Forget
Feb 17, 8:00PM
Editor's note: Hunter Walk was most recently Director of Product Management at YouTube. Search engines have long memories. I think about this whenever reading new coverage of some immoral, misanthropic or illegal act. The kids who tweeted racist statements about Obama on Election Day, the college student whose secret videotaping of his gay roommate helped lead to the young man's suicide, the catfishing of Manti T'eo. Years from now it's possible, even likely, that when the perpetrators' names are Googled, these histories will be what surfaces first for them. An employer, a girlfriend or boyfriend, a neighbor will find out about what they once did years agoFly Your Flag — Let's See Some European Country Pavilions At Disrupt In New York
Feb 17, 7:30PM
This year we want to make it very, very obvious that TechCrunch events are open to all. In the past we've had startups appear from everywhere from Tokyo to Russia to Ghana, Africa. And this year we want to see a great turn-out from Europe, so we're specifically inviting European startups to Disrupt NYC held on April 29-May 1. After-all, there's a growing European startup scene in New York, so this is very much the right time. You can apply for the upcoming Battlefield competition at Disrupt New York and also apply to be part of the 'pavilions' in Startup Alley, our demo area for newly launched startups. Please apply to be part of the Startup Alley here. Apply for the Battlefield here. Get a taster for the Alley in the above video.Google May Open A String Of Retail Stores, But What Does It Hope To Gain?
Feb 17, 7:01PM
Microsoft and Apple already have their own physical retail stores, but thus far Google has managed to resist that particular temptation If a recent report from 9to5Google is to be believed though, that may not be the case much longer. According to a single "extremely reliable source," Google will erect its own standalone stores by the holidays in an effort to more effectively push its hardware to consumers.Iterations: How Founders Can Fight Through The Great Fragmentation Of Talent
Feb 17, 6:00PM
The #1 request I hear when talking to founders in San Francisco is: "We are hiring engineers. Know any?" We all know this is a big issue that's only getting worse, and so do most of the investors. But, I'm now starting to hear this so often, I'm beginning to worry that all the conventional tactics simply won't work. Early-stage startups that don't start experimenting with new ideas to source, recruit, and close engineers and other technical hires may end up running out of money or never achieving the product traction they need to get to the next level. I don't have data to support this, but my intuition is that technical talent is so fragmented right now, all options need to be reexamined and placed on the table.CrunchWeek: Elon Musk Vs. NYT, The Uber For Private Jets, Zynga Settles With EA, Everyone Harlem Shakes
Feb 17, 5:00PM
Congratulations! You've managed to avoid the intergalactic debris that's been flying around to survive another action-packed week in the tech industry. And you know what else that means? It's time for CrunchWeek, the weekly show where a few of us writers hang out in the TechCrunch TV studio and dish on the biggest stories from the past seven days.There's Already An Apple In The Games Industry: The Games Industry
Feb 17, 4:00PM
There's a funny thing about the way proponents of Apple (I say this without denigration) cheerlead their champion as it enters (supposedly) the gaming world. In a lot of ways, there's already an Apple in the games industry: it's the games industry. Apple is filling the position in the games industry that Android fills in the mobile world.Where You Can Go Right, And Wrong, With Native Ads
Feb 17, 3:00PM
Editor's note: Dan Greenberg is the founder & CEO of Sharethrough, the native video advertising company. James Navin is the Vice President of Strategic Operations for Sharethrough. There has been lots of talk in the digital media trade press about "native advertising" and the opportunities for advertisers. Yet, much less has been written about the opportunities and implications for digital publishers. Native advertising follows the format, style, and voice of whatever platform they appear on.Backed Or Whacked: The Eyes Have It
Feb 17, 2:00PM
Editor's note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. In last week's Backed or Whacked, I discussed watches, one of the mixes of fashion and function that many wear every day. Another example of such a combination is eyewear, where crowdfunding endeavors have taken approaches that range from high art to high volume in pursuit of recreational glasses.Want Better Personal Video? Think Underwater Tech And Free Cloud Storage
Feb 17, 7:00AM
Editor's note: Michael Chang is CEO of YesVideo, a video-transfer and sharing service. There are three trends in the world of personal video, and they have one common theme: answering the call of the consumer. Here's how personal video tech is being affected by consumer demand and what companies like Apple and Google are doing about it.A Whole New World Of Mobile Markets: Cars, Photos, TVs, Wallets And More
Feb 17, 5:00AM
Editor's note: Doug Renert is a co-founding partner of Tandem Capital, Silicon Valley's first and largest mobile accelerator fund. Mary Meeker explains in her oft-cited report that the world's 1.1 billion smartphone users still comprise only 17 percent of mobile subscribers. Yet, these users have tripled mobile Internet access over the last two years. This points to enormous continued growth in the mobile space over the coming years, and countless droves of mobile-focused startups are emerging to reap the rewards.As Patent Drama Continues, 3D Printing Provides A Way Out For Mashup Creators
Feb 17, 2:00AM
Editor's note: Michael Weinberg is vice president at Public Knowledge where he focuses primarily on copyright, issues before the FCC and emerging technologies like 3D printing. Mashups are one of the great art forms of our time. Although remixes, mashups, sampling, and collage predate the Internet by decades (if not centuries), easy and accessible digital tools have allowed anyone to remix videos, music and photographs into their own original works. Mashup culture has produced fantastic music, critical video, and delightful cultural artifacts of all kinds.Facebook's Never Had A Big User Data Breach, But May Never Recover When It Does
Feb 16, 11:14PM
It's not if, but when. Between crooks, hackers, and foreign governments, Facebook probably can't avoid a serious user data breach forever. When it happens, Facebook may never be able to quiet fears that "personal data isn't safe there". That could cause a chilling effect on sharing, jeopardize its future in commerce, and cut its lifetime short.First-To-File Patent Law Is Imminent, But What Will It Mean?
Feb 16, 11:00PM
Editor's note: Leonid ("Lenny") Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA, focusing on patent prosecution and intellectual property transactions in computer-related technology areas. One of the main changes resulting from the passage of the America Invents Act (AIA) is the transition of U.S. patent law from a "first-to-invent" system to a "first-to-file" system on March 16, 2013. With this transition date a mere four weeks away, it is important to understand what this change to the patent system means for inventors and companies.Palantir Acqhires Team Behind YC Voice Email Startup Voicegem
Feb 16, 9:14PM
Palantir just scooped up some fresh minds to aid its mission of analyzing the world's information. Today Y Combinator Summer 2012 startup Voicegem announced its team is joining Palantir, and it will shut down its voice email service in mid-March. Voicegem had delivered over one million seconds of voice recordings, but now its makers are moving to a team that's "truly changing the world."Disrupt Darlings GTar Talk About What Happens After You Succeed On Stage, Raise $350K, And Have To Ship Product
Feb 16, 9:00PM
Last May, Incident Tech launched the gTar, a guitar with real strings that connected to a smartphone for some amazing sound processing. In the last few months, the founder, Idan Beck and his team have been busy preparing the 800 guitars he pre-sold on Kickstarter for shipment. Theirs is a story of creativity, cool, and the next generation in music technology. I spoke with Idan briefly about his Disrupt experience and how it felt to go from zero to shipping in less than a year.The Rise Of Company Builders
Feb 16, 8:00PM
Entrepreneur-turned-investor is a classic story arc in Silicon Valley but recently the plot has earned a twist. Certain operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operation. By doing so, they remain engaged with the grit and grassroots challenges of building a startup. They remain company builders.What "Disrupt" Really Means
Feb 16, 7:00PM
Editor's note: Andy Rachleff is President and CEO of Wealthfront, an SEC-registered online financial advisor. Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley love to talk about disruption, though few know what it really means. They mistake better products for disruptive ones. Silicon Valley was built on a culture of designing products that are "better, cheaper, faster," but that does not mean they're disruptive.Gillmor Gang: House of Bacon
Feb 16, 6:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — pondered the debatable relationship between Netflix' House of Cards and the tech community. From HBO's Jeff Bewkes calling the Kevin Spacey series "pretty good" to Comcast buying the rest of NBC/Universal from GE, the economics of streaming TV took a big leap forward. Not so much email, which @scobleizer defended with filters, smart labels, and Sane Boxes. We heard about smart calendars and DM suckage and Apple spoilage, but no matter: it's all about finding more time to devote to binge viewing and meteor dodging. More bacon please.How Do You Scale Social Innovation Startups?
Feb 16, 6:00PM
Editor's note: This guest post is written by Erica Kochi, the co-lead of UNICEF's Innovation unit. Her team started UNICEF's open source RapidSMS platform which has been adopted in developing countries worldwide. She co-teaches a class "Design for Unicef" in NYU's ITP Program, is a global partner of Stanford's New Product Design Innovation course, and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia University on leveraging technology and design to improve international development. She previously wrote on TechCrunch about how the future of mobile lies in the developing world. All views are her own. You can follow her on Twitter. You’re a social entrepreneur wanting to change the world, but are having a hard time scaling your promising idea and achieving lasting impact. In my job as UNICEF Innovation co-lead, I come across hundreds of promising and not so promising technology and social innovation startups every year. While this is an emerging space, many social innovation startups face similar challenges. In this piece I want to provide some practical advice for how social innovation startups can increase their chances of success. To frame this advice, let's first take a look at what the terms scale and impact mean. Scale implies that your idea is reaching a large percentage of your target audience. For example, the mobile money transfer and microfinance service M-Pesa serves over 26 million people across East Africa who could not otherwise easily transfer money to relatives and pay businesses. Another example would be that during the 2011 drought across the Horn of Africa, UNICEF and partners provided access to safe drinking water for 3 million people. Impact implies that your product or service has a positive and transformative effect or prevents a negative effect on even the poorest parts of society. An example of this is Tostan's work, which has led to over 6,000 communities in eight countries to abandon the harmful practice of female genital cutting. Another example is the effort by a multitude of partners to eliminate measles throughout the world. This effort has led to a 74 percent reduction of measles deaths in the past 10 years. The true skill of a social innovation startup is not just in choosing the right idea, but in using finding and working with the right partners, aligning with priorities and funding, and continuously delivering and communicating impact along the way. 1. Work with the right partners In the social space, there areThe Real Battle At Dell
Feb 16, 5:00PM
Editor's note: Roman Stanek is CEO and founder of GoodData. Private or public - either scenario for Dell will be interesting to watch. One of the most difficult skills I've worked hard to master as an entrepreneur is the ability to see the world six months out. Even more difficult is finding that balance between pleasing shareholders and driving innovation forward, which is why I respect any moves management takes that are aimed at improving innovation.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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