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Stitch Fix Gets $4.75M Series A To Scale Out Its Tech-Enabled Personal Shopping Service
Feb 28, 8:18PM
Stitch Fix, the San Francisco-based startup that provides a subscription-based personal shopping and delivery service for women's clothing, has closed on $4.75 million in new funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The round, which serves as Stitch Fix's Series A, was co-led by Baseline Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners with the participation of Western Technology Investment.John Battelle Returns As CEO At Federated Media, Deanna Brown Steps Down
Feb 28, 8:10PM
Online advertising company Federated Media just announced that current CEO Deanna Brown is stepping down, while founder and former CEO John Battelle will be taking on the role again. The company says that Battelle and Brown will be working together during March "to ensure a seamless transition." Brown joined Federated in 2009 as president and chief operating officer, and replaced Battelle as CEO a little more than a year later.The New Dyson AM05 Is The Darth Vader Of Space Heaters
Feb 28, 8:06PM
Beautiful design and utility are, in many ways, paramount when it comes to home electronics. That's why I was really impressed by the the new AM05 space heater/cooler from Dyson. It's a completely quiet, blade-less system that comes in a black and nickel color scheme that looks like it fell off of Boba Fett's Slave 1."In The Studio," Skillshare's Michael Karnjanaprakorn Talks Platforms And Marketplaces
Feb 28, 8:00PM
"In the Studio" welcomes a first-time founder with a diverse set of experiences -- ranging from economics to advertising, from product management to design, and from startup CEO to advisor of a venture capital firm -- who now is at the helm of one of the most interesting online education startups on the web today.Responsive Design Framework Foundation 4 Goes Mobile-First, Switches From jQuery To Zepto
Feb 28, 8:00PM
Product design company ZURB just launched the fourth version of Foundation, its responsive design framework that directly competes with Bootstrap. The new version, ZURB tells us, has been completely rewritten from a mobile-first perspective. The company says this "empowers a designer to reverse their thinking " and lets you "design for the mobile experience before you design for the desktop one."With "Millions" Of Users In 40+ Countries, European Messaging Startup Yuilop Prepares For U.S. Launch In "One To Two Weeks"
Feb 28, 7:33PM
Yuilop, a European free messaging startup which launched back in 2011 and has amassed "millions" of users of its apps, will be launching in the U.S. in the next couple of weeks. Although the startup has some users in the U.S. already, who have managed to acquire its app on the sly, it will be officially opening up to the U.S. in "one to two weeks", says co-founder and CEO Jochen Doppelhammer.Aol Talks About Us More Than It Talks To Us
Feb 28, 7:29PM
Aol is really into hiring boss's boss's bosses. We've had a couple in my brief sojourn in the Aol Brand Group. Now we've got another one, former Gilt CEO Susan Lyne, who just sent out the following memo to our Team about her new role, which she doesn't mention. She will be Brand Group CEO. I'm bolding the word "brand" in this letter because I hate it. It's one of those fluffy words people use without having much sense of what it means, like "content" or "friction." Okay, now I'm bolding those words, too.Google Updates YouTube iPhone And iPad App With 'Send To TV' Feature, The Google TV Equivalent Of AirPlay
Feb 28, 7:04PM
Google issued an update for its iOS application today that adds the "Send to TV" feature to its apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The feature allows you to quickly and easily pair your mobile phone with select TVs, making it possible to play and control video from the app on your television set.Yammer Taps Microsoft Translator To Bring Cross-Language Translation To The Enterprise Social Network
Feb 28, 7:00PM
Microsoft-owned Yammer has been relatively quiet since its acquisition by Redmond, but the company piped up today to announce plans to add instant message translation capabilities, which will allow multilingual collaboration on the “Facebook for the office.” The Yammer team is tapping Microsoft Translator to power the translations, which is yet another benefit of Microsoft’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer. It’s relatively simple, and much like current auto-translation services you’d find on Google Translate (built into Chrome) or Airbnb, which has auto-translation for over 20 languages. Essentially, any time someone yams in a language that is not your default language, a “Translate” button will appear below the post. Once you hit translate, the entire thread will be translated into your preferred, default language. This means that the initial post (whether it was a reply or a thread-starter) will be translated, along with any response messages that are added to that thread (past, present, and future). Here’s what Adam Pisoni, Yammer co-founder and GM of Engineering had to say: Removing language as a barrier to cross-company collaboration can be a competitive game changer for multinational organizations. It opens a world of possibilities. This is another example of Yammer's accelerated innovation following the Microsoft acquisition — we're able to use Microsoft Translator to quickly deliver additional value to customers. Microsoft Translator supports 39 different languages. The company also claims that 65 percent of Yammer’s 7 million users do not live within the United States. Though the service has long supported various languages, this will allow for cross-language collaboration for Yammer’s clients. Here’s a video of the translation in action:Fujitsu's Future Phones And Tablets Could Skip The Physical Keyboard And Watch Your Fingers Instead
Feb 28, 6:41PM
For better or worse, the advent of smartphones and tablets mean that we're rapidly moving away from the more tactile user experiences that were the hallmark of a bygone era in computing. As it turns out, the folks at Fujitsu are eager to close the book on the days of the physical keyboard if what they were showing off here at MWC was any indication. Tucked away in a corner of Fujitsu's booth here in Barcelona's Fira Gran Via was a gentleman typing out words onto a tablet via a keyboard for anyone who would watch him. It sounds like a completely mundane occurrence, except the keyboard he was typing on wasn't actually there.Bing Maps Now Shows Ocean Floor Topography, Gets Updated Base Satellite Image And Almost 14M Sq Km Of New High-Res Imagery
Feb 28, 6:30PM
Bing Maps just got a large update that brings a more detailed map of the ocean floor to Microsoft's mapping service. This new bathymetry data is based on the data compiled by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The update also introduces a new base satellite image from TerraColor with a resolution of 15 meters per pixel, as well as new high-res satellite imagery that covers a total of 13,799,276 sq km (Microsoft likes to be precise about these numbers).What I See In Your Future, Vine (Voiceover, Android, And Front-Facing Camera)
Feb 28, 6:30PM
Dear Vine, We've grown close over the last month. We've had so many great times together. You've helped me break news, have some LOLs, get creative, and even crowdsource information thanks to your awesome integration with Twitter.Apple Has Sold Over 8M iPads Direct To Education Worldwide, With More Than 1B iTunes U Downloads
Feb 28, 6:19PM
Apple announced a new milestone for its iTunes U online digital education outlet, which has just crossed the 1 billion download mark. Alongside the announcement, Apple has also informed us exclusively that the company has so far sold more than 8 million iPads directly into educational institution worldwide. iTunes U became a standalone app, complete with its own course marketplace and catalog in June 2012.Getaround Launches A New iPhone App To Simplify Peer-To-Peer Car Rentals
Feb 28, 6:00PM
Peer-to-peer car rental startup (and TechCrunch Disrupt winner) Getaround is built around the idea of helping customers to make use of cars they own, which are sitting around not being driven most of the time. Also, to help those without cars to quickly and easily gain access to one that's sitting around and actually use it.The Science Behind Why The White House Should Use Emoticons In Its Emails
Feb 28, 5:42PM
People who read my emails must think my parents are Mr. Rogers and double-espresso. For a very strategic reason, I write with more emotions, LOLs, and exclamation points than a Twilight chatroom: humans are prone to misinterpret text-only communications. A strategy of unmistakably positive emails could have saved the White House from its most recent crisis of having to prove it didn't send threatening emails to journalist Bob Woodward.VC-Backed Disrupt Alum Zumper Jumps Into The Chicago Rentals Market, Builds Out Pro Features
Feb 28, 5:18PM
Zumper -- the online home rentals startup and TechCrunch Disrupt alum that quickly raised a $1 million seed round from a list of top-shelf VCs that included Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, CrunchFund and more -- is growing. Today, it is announcing that it is adding Chicago as its next city, after debuting in San Francisco and expanding to New York last year.OUYA Android Gaming Console To Start Shipping To Backers March 28
Feb 28, 5:07PM
OUYA, the Kickstarter-funded Android gaming console, has already shipped developer consoles, but had yet to specify an exact date when backers could expect their production devices. Today, the company announced that it will be shipping the first OUYA consoles out to backers beginning March 28, ahead of a June retail launch.Facebook Gives Examples To Jumpstart Usage Of Graph Search, Which It May Have Spent Too Long Building
Feb 28, 5:00PM
Photos and the news feed are where people spend their time on Facebook. Yet its last two big products were relatively niche features, Timeline and the new Graph Search. Facebook today published examples of how to use Graph Search, which merely highlight that it's not part of day-to-day life. Yes, Facebook needed to fix search, but it may have prioritized an intellectual wank over user experience.Koozoo Aims To Build A Live Video Network With 24-Hour Footage From Old Phones
Feb 28, 5:00PM
Koozoo is launching today in San Francisco and Austin with a new twist on social video. The emphasis here is on utility, rather than performance and entertainment (though it can be entertaining, too). Wouldn't it be useful to know if the weather is nice at a nearby park (though I suppose that example is best-suited for cities with microclimates like San Francisco's). Or whether a nearby store or restaurant is super-crowded? Koozoo founder and CEO Drew Sechrist is trying to build up a network of live video streams that can give you that information.Local, Organic Food Delivery Service Good Eggs Launches In SF To Bring The Farmer's Market To You
Feb 28, 5:00PM
Good Eggs is a new service that delivers organic and sustainable meats, produce, and other goods from locally sourced farms and vendors. There are lots of delivery services that will bring groceries to you, and there are lots of Community Supported Agriculture programs around to connect residents with produce from local farms. But neither does a great job of getting users the stuff they want.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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