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Meet Tickengo, The Ride-Sharing Service That's Already Available Throughout The US
Feb 18, 8:00PM
Ride-sharing is becoming increasingly popular, and more widely available, as San Francisco-based startups Lyft and SideCar have both begun expansion into new cities. But what if I told you there's a ride-sharing company that already operates in all the cities that those companies are just now starting to enter? The company is Tickengo, and it claims thousands of drivers in more than 900 cities.The Agony Of The Fanboy
Feb 18, 6:00PM
Every few months I'm reminded of the intensity of feeling some technologies - be they physical objects (they usually are) or web services - engender in a certain subset of the human population. It's a well-documented effect: The object of desire is courted for months before launch, then at launch it is defended to the death, and then, when it is obvious that said object is a success or failure, they react with righteous jubilation or, barring that, a muted boosterism seen in people who play the same numbers in the lotto day after day.Hackers Turn Burger King's Tweet Stream Into A Whopper Of A Mess
Feb 18, 5:43PM
About 40 minutes ago hackers took over the official Burger King Twitter account, changing the branding to feature McDonald's fish nuggets prominently on the top and noting that Burger King "just got sold to McDonalds because the whopper flopped =[ FREDOM IS FAILURE℠."Google's Consolidated Privacy Policy Draws Fresh Fire In Europe
Feb 18, 5:43PM
Google is facing a privacy policy probe in Europe. Last year it consolidated more than 60 separate product privacy notices into one unified policy. The move drew criticism from European privacy regulators -- which last October called for Google to give users more control over their data. Today they said Google had failed to respond to their suggestions and would face fresh action.Tutorspree Adds $800K From Resolute.VC & Others To Help Students Find Better Local Tutoring
Feb 18, 5:00PM
Tutorspree has been quiet of late, but that doesn't mean it's not still plugging away on its mission to make high-quality, local tutors in any subject accessible to any student -- or finding continued interest from investors along the way. According to its Form D filing with SEC, Tutorspree recently closed on a new round of financing that appears to add an additional $1.9 million to its coffers. Co-founder Aaron Harris tells us that, in fact, the startup has closed on a new $800K in financing, which is part of a larger, ongoing round that will see it add approximately $2.2 million in new capital.Tumblr Is Not What You Think
Feb 18, 5:00PM
Editor's note: Adam Rifkin is co-founder and CEO of PandaWhale, an online network of interesting things and people. Pop quiz: what is the favorite social networking site of Americans under age 25? If you guessed Facebook you are way behind the eight-ball, because Tumblr now enjoys more regular visits from the youth of America. That figure struck me while reading Garry Tan's January 2013 survey and I wondered why? So I delved deeper; this article describes what I discovered while exploring the Tumblr network.Participation: The Trend That Is Bigger Than The Harlem Shake
Feb 18, 4:51PM
Global audiences of prosumer video producers will create content that is viewed by global audiences in numbers far in excess of traditional TV. TV will enter the era of "participation" and when the medium changes from one-way broadcast to the millions to the ability to interact with each other through video it is unlikely that the future will resemble the past. Why would it? Read on ...HotelTonight Brings Last-Minute Hotel Bookings To Android Tablets
Feb 18, 4:39PM
HotelTonight, the startup that lets users make same-day reservations at nearby hotels, just launched a version of its app that's optimized for Android tablets. When they're thinking about tablets, startups are usually focused on the iPad, and indeed, HotelTonight launched its iPad app nearly a year ago. However, HotelTonight said that it's responding to customer demand, and that the Android side of things is "a significant growth market," pointing to a Gartner report last year saying that there will be 665 million tablets in use by 2016, and that Android will account for 37 percent of them.Affectiva Inks Deal With Ebuzzing Social To Integrate Face Tracking And Emotional Response Into Online Video Ad Analytics
Feb 18, 4:35PM
Last August, Affectiva, developer of a new way to track facial responses to online content, raised $12 million from KPCB, Horizon and others to take its tech to a wider market. Today comes one of the fruits of that effort: the company is announcing a deal with the Ebuzzing Social video advertising platform for the company to integrate Affectiva's Affdex facial coding software into the Ebuzzing Social platform.China Passes U.S. As World's Top Smart Device Market
Feb 18, 4:31PM
In November, mobile app services company Flurry announced that China was on track to top the U.S. and Android install base at some point in the first quarter of 2013. Today, Flurry says that has happened. China has passed the U.S. to become the world's top country for active Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, a year after the country became the fastest-growing smart device market in the world.Automatic Album Maker Moment.me Arrives On Android, Adds A "Manual Mode" Mode To Boost Engagement
Feb 18, 4:11PM
Moment.me, a startup that debuted its automatic, social albums application for iPhone this past fall, has made its way to Android. The app allows users to combine not only photos, but also video, as well as updates from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram and Google+, into one album. These albums are also augmented with content shared by friends and others who posted content at that same place and time.Appealing To Our Egos Worked – Over 80,000 People Bragged On Twitter About Having One Of The Most-Viewed Profiles On LinkedIn
Feb 18, 2:30PM
Did you happen to get an email from LinkedIn recently, which congratulated you on having one of the most popular profiles on the site? Then, good news - you're special. Just like millions of others. The campaign, which ran this month in celebration of LinkedIn's 200-million-users milestone, involved these ego-boosting emails sent to the network's "top" users, which urged them to share the good news on Facebook and Twitter. You might be surprised how many took the bait.No Cute Android Pins, No Schmidt, No Slide: Google Tones Down Its Presence At MWC This Year
Feb 18, 2:22PM
We're now about a week away from the start of the Mobile World Congress, the large, annual European mobile event put on by the GSM Association that has served as a barometer of the progress of the wireless industry. In planning out what TechCrunch will be doing and seeing during the week in Barcelona, we've noticed a gap: Google, and specifically its mobile OS Android, is largely absent.Opera Shrinks In-House Developer Team As It Prepares Shift To WebKit
Feb 18, 2:13PM
Opera has been making a lot of headlines of late -- with last week's announcement of its big strategic shift to WebKit. Followed hard on the heels by the news of its $155m purchase of Skyfire. But the Norwegian software maker's decision to abandon its own web-rendering engine in favour of WebKit, has had another, less visible impact: it has reportedly dismantled a core in-house developer team.The Post Post-PC Era: Will Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon Or Microsoft Win?
Feb 18, 2:00PM
Editor's note: Peter Relan is a former developer and Oracle's former VP of Internet Division, a serial entrepreneur since 1998, and a Silicon Valley angel investor. Relan founded YouWeb Incubator in 2007, spinning out a string of successful mobile and gaming companies. Follow him on Twitter @prelan. Even before Apple's 10 percent stock dip, it was clear that one battle was already over. Put down your arms – Android has won the smartphone OS marketshare war. The competitive drama of the smartphone battle has already unfolded to a large extent and is well understood: Android dominates unit shipment volumes, while iPhone dominates profits associated with smartphones. It may seem like too early a claim, but history tells us Google's Android distribution model puts the large part of the smartphone market in its corner. No other OS has seen a reversal of fortune this late in the game (think Windows in the early ’90s and Nokia with feature phones in the early aughts). And yet, many unknowns remain in the larger post-PC-era war, which has only just begun and has already seen an explosion of devices and form factors, all competing to fill the void of the now-ancient desktop computer: tablets, smartphones, minis, phablets, ultrabooks, hybrid laptops. As the market evolves, these devices will be competing to fulfill niche needs, with certain devices bound to flourish and others bound to fail. A number of factors will influence which device types will survive through 2015: Consumer and worker choice Device distribution channels Platform ecosystems Technology advances Economic development in BRIC 1. Consumer And Worker Choice So what happens to PCs and laptops? The obvious answer is that the tablet will take over, but there are multiple form factors. Current designations include the large tablet, the mini tablet, and the hybrid tablet (think the Microsoft Surface — a tablet with a removable keyboard and OS designed for both leisure and productivity). Consumers will be sticking to their large and small tablets for email, Facebook and watching movies; let's call them leisure activities requiring a light and easy-to-use second screen. These home consumers don't need a physical keyboard nor do they want it, and at a $250-$600 price point, tablets are hard to beat. Hence the success of the iPad. And the iPad mini with a Retina display could even be the "next big thing." The Nexus 7 is already in the 7.X-inch form factor, so the mini tablet wars are justBusiness Of Fashion Gets $2.1M Seed Funding From Index, LVMH And More For Its No-Nonsense B2B Fashion Blog
Feb 18, 1:04PM
We've seen a lot of fashion tech and fashion e-commerce startups pick up steam in the form of users, revenues, and venture backing. But because content remains king, less tech-heavy sites, working in the area of amassing intelligent data, are also growing: Business of Fashion, a London-based B2B blog that chronicles the ins and outs of the fashion industry, is today announcing that it is picking up a seed round of $2.1 million.Site Builder Wizard Infinite.ly Leaves Incubation
Feb 18, 1:01PM
Another service has jumped on the “easy” site creation bandwagon, this time a small startup out of the Philippines, called Infinite.ly. The company competes with players like Wix.com to offer the HTML-challenged a way to get a website up and running, and offers a number of drag-and-drop widgets to do so. Users are started off with a selection of templates which they can customize. Once created, a site can be previewed and published to the Web, as well as a separate version for mobile browsers. The site publishes a Facebook-friendly version of itself too, but is restricted by Facebook to hiding in a tab in a company’s page. When I tried it, the site ran quickly and smoothly on a cellular data connection. The site also has a tie-up with a domain registrar to allow users to sign up for a custom domain within its interface. In October last year, Wix started opening up to third-party developers by offering an SDK that would allow them to offer their content for Wix’s platform. The service had 25 million users at the time. Infinite.ly’s founder, Luis Buenaventura, acknowledged that the company has stiff competition in the market in the form of Wix, but said that he’s eyeing some of the newer users in emerging markets such as his home country. The company is in the midst of talking to one of the larger banks in the Philippines, and might strike up a deal to cross-sell Infinite.ly to new small business owners when they open bank accounts. Infinite.ly has a team of four full-time staff, and started in 2010 with $500,000 in seed funding from Filipino investor Winston Damarillo. The latter owns LA-headquartered cloud infrastructure company Morphlabs and Exist, a software development company in the Philippines.Amazon's Jeff Bezos Doesn't Want An Empire, He Wants The World
Feb 18, 11:00AM
Editor's note: John Geraci is head of marketing for innovation agency faberNovel, where he and his colleagues help organizations think and act like startups. Two years ago, faberNovel published a study called "Amazon.com: The Hidden Empire." Detailing the strategies by which the company had gone from a scrappy startup to a world-dominating e-commerce site in the course of 17 years, the study generated a lot of discussion.LG's 5.5″ Optimus G Pro Phablet Confirmed Headed To The U.S. In Q2
Feb 18, 10:17AM
LG's forthcoming flagship, the 5.5 inch Optimus Pro G, has been confirmed for the U.S. market. Writing in a release on its website (translated from Korean by Google Translate), LG said the device will be released in international markets including North America and Japan in the second quarter of this year. Pricing has not been confirmed.DealAngel Launching API To Let Other Sites Build Hotel Pricing Intelligence Into Their Wares
Feb 18, 10:00AM
DealAngel, the site that lets you search for hotels and compare prices based on their historic and broader market value to ensure you really are getting a good deal, has launched a private beta of its API -- essentially adding a B2B element to its otherwise consumer-facing offering. It's a move that makes quite a bit of sense, too, potentially opening up DealAngel's data to additional use-cases and giving the startup an alternative revenue stream. The API should go fully public by April, while Social trip planner Gogobot is the first to add such integration. It also comes at a time when the San Francisco/Prague-based company is ramping up its European expansion: DealAngel is now able to apply its hotel pricing intelligence to hotels in the UK, Germany, and over two dozen "strategic" cities elsewhere in Europe such as Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, and Prague, in addition to major cities in Russia and Israel. It also targets much of North America.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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