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Ask A VC: Comcast Ventures' Michael Yang On What's Next In Digital Healthcare And More
Mar 22, 9:30PM
In this week's Ask A VC, Comcast Ventures' Managing Director Michael Yang sat in the hot seat to talk about his passion for digital healthcare, and much more.Thanks To Poor Holiday Sales, B&N Will Give Away A Free Nook Simple Touch With Every Purchase Of A Nook HD+
Mar 22, 9:06PM
There's been nothing but bad news coming from Barnes & Noble lately, and it seems as though the company has decided to resort to the desperate measure of giving away Nooks for free. Reuters is reporting that customers who purchase the $269 Nook HD+ will receive a $79 Simple Touch free of charge as a limited offer. It's a great deal if you've been looking for both a tablet and an ebook reader, but I can't help but feel a little sad that this is what it's come down to. Nooks have always been solidly designed products, it's just that they were never able to catch on with consumers after being doubly sucker punched by the iPad and the Kindle. In January, Barnes & Noble revealed its plans to close nearly 20 of its retail locations over the next decade, which was followed by news last month that Nook revenue had dropped 26 percent YOY.Backed By Kickstarter And Full Of Tech Cameos, 'The Startup Kids' Movie Debuts On iTunes
Mar 22, 8:57PM
From an economic perspective, the fall of 2008 brought dark days all over the world. But one of the hardest-hit places was Iceland, the Nordic European country whose entire financial system went into a deep freeze after a rapid and systemic collapse of its banking system. But two young Icelandic entrepreneurs Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir found a silver lining in the situation. With an absence of traditional job prospects, the two young women decided shortly after the 2008 economy crash to start their own boardgames company -- and it turned out to be a big success. After that, they were motivated to spread the word about entrepreneurship to more people by making a documentary film about startup life.Google Reader Who? Feedly Became Top News App On iPhone, iPad & Android This Week; New App Now Awaiting Approval
Mar 22, 8:41PM
Where are the users headed following news of Google Reader's shutdown? To Feedly, it seems. We already heard the company announce it had passed half a million users, but more importantly, Feedly is now winning on mobile, too. According to new U.S. App Store and Google Play data, Feedly is leaving competitors like Newsblur and Reeder far behind. Even though Google Reader will remain for a few months more, Feedly became the number one news app across all three top mobile platforms (iPhone, iPad and Android) this week. It even climbed into the "Top Overall" section within all three stores.One Notion Under Jobs: Newly Unearthed Videos Show 1984 Steve Wozniak Speaking On Pranks, Probation, And Apple's Early Days
Mar 22, 8:25PM
Damn it, Internet. I had things I needed to do this afternoon. So much for that. A VHS recording of a 1984 Apple enthusiast meetup was recently rediscovered, and it had at least one very special gem tucked inside: footage of a 34-year old Steve Wozniak giving a speech on just about everything you'd want to see 34-year old Steve Wozniak talking about. Pranks. The decision to quit everything and start Apple. Changing the friggin' world.Gillmor Gang Live 03.22.13 (TCTV)
Mar 22, 8:19PM
Gillmor Gang - Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording for today has concludedTC Makers: A Walk Through Adafruit Industries With Limor Fried
Mar 22, 8:14PM
Since we started Makers I've made it a priority to try to visit Adafruit Industries, the amazing Manhattan-based electronics shop run by Limor Fried. Fried started her company out of her dorm room at MIT, building cool electronics kits for her friends. She slowly expanded into other hobbyist realms including Arduino add-ons, how-to books, and cases. Now her store is bustling with 1,302 items for sale with about 600 orders per day.Heyzap Introduces Ads To Its Mobile Gaming Network
Mar 22, 8:12PM
Heyzap, a Y Combinator-incubated social platform for mobile games, is releasing a software development kit today allowing developers and publishers to introduce Heyzap ads to their games. Basically, it's turning Heyzap's social network into an ad network too. Developers can use it to make more money, or to promote their games in other Heyzap games. You can see a sample ad to the left, highlighting one of Heyzap's big advantages as an ad platform: The company knows what games users have played (since they're sharing that information with friends on Heyzap), and it can make a reasonable guess as to other games you might be interested in.Albumatic Photo Sharing App Is Raising $4.5 Million, Says SEC Filing
Mar 22, 7:25PM
Albumatic, the latest venture photo-sharing from Devon Gundry and Vine investor Adam Ludwin, is raising a $4.5 million round in funding, according to a recent SEC filing. Adam Ludwin, co-founder and principal at RRE Ventures, Devon Gundry, and RRE managing partner Stuart Ellman are all named in the filing.Ride-Sharing Startup SideCar Opens For Business In Washington, D.C.
Mar 22, 6:57PM
Residents of our nation's capital will now get to see what ride-sharing is all about, as San Francisco-based startup SideCar announced today that it is making its service available Washington, D.C. The launch there marks the ninth market that SideCar has launched in, as the company is aggressively expanding across the country.CEO Marc Benioff Says Chatter Will Become Primary Interface For Salesforce, A Bold Yet Risky Move
Mar 22, 6:52PM
Chatter will become the primary interface for Salesforce.com, CEO Marc Benioff said today at the kickoff of a national tour for the company's new "customer," focus. Benioff, speaking in Boston, provided his usual context for discussing Salesforce.Apple Adds In-App Purchase Notice To Free Apps With Paid Upgrades, Could Curb Accidental Spending
Mar 22, 6:19PM
Apple has made a tweak to the way it shows that free apps that have in-app purchases, the Guardian noted today. The new notice appears under the price bar and the app icon in app listings on iTunes on the desktop, though it doesn't yet appear in the mobile App Store or on the web-based iTunes application pages. The change comes after a number of high-profile complaints re: accidental spending on the App Store.Betaworks Kicks Off Its 'Openbeta' Initiative To Turn Early Product Testers Into Design Partners
Mar 22, 6:10PM
There's something very thrilling about getting to play with something before everyone else does (that's at least partially why I fell in love with tech journalism), but opportunities for that sort of early access can be hard to come by unless you've got an in. The folks at New York-based accelerator/app foundry betaworks are looking to change that, though. It announced a new initiative called Openbeta that will let average users play with their work-in-progress products.72% Of Professors Who Teach Online Courses Don't Think Their Students Deserve Credit
Mar 22, 5:41PM
This is not a good sign for online education: 72 percent of professors who have taught Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) don't believe that students should get official college credit, even if they did well in the class. More importantly, these are the professors who voluntarily took time to teach online courses, which means the actual number of professors who discount the quality of MOOCs is probably much (much) higher. The survey reveals the Grand Canyon-size gap between the higher-education establishment and the coalition of tech companies and lawmakers that are mandating college credit for online courses.HBO's Richard Plepler Weighs In On Game Of Thrones Piracy, Says 'Maybe' On Broadband-Only HBO
Mar 22, 5:32PM
When TechCrunch attended the San Francisco premiere of Game of Thrones Season 3, we didn't just ask the cast members about their smartphones. I also had a few minutes to talk to HBO CEO Richard Plepler, when I asked him about the show's status as the most-pirated program of 2012. "Well, look, it's the good news and the bad news, right?" Plepler said. "The good news is that a lot of people want to see it. Over 12.5 million people are watching it legally. And most of that pirating is occurring overseas. We're going to do what we can to bring that down, and we're going to do what we can, obviously, to bring that down in the United States as well."Canonical Is Building A Standardized, Open-Source OS Specific To China
Mar 22, 5:20PM
Canonical announced via its blog yesterday that it will be building an Ubuntu-based open-source OS for China, in partnership with the Chinese government and members of the Chinese developer community. The joint-venture, which will produce a version of the Linux-based Ubuntu called "Ubuntu Kylin" for an April 2013 release date, is said to "go beyond localization," and include specific features and applications geared towards the Chinese market.Rovio Opens Angry Birds Space Encounter Exhibit After Announcing Global Theme Park Plans
Mar 22, 5:15PM
Rovio is yet again breaking into new businesses with the introduction of the first Angry Birds interactive attraction, as the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is opening an Angry Birds Space Encounter Exhibit. The whole thing measures up to 4,500 square feet of pure Angry Birds wonder. Six stations are set up to let visitors interact with Angry Birds space-related activities and games. This is part of a slow build into Angry Birds-themed consumer attractions for Rovio, who has gone from a mobile game maker to merchandise phenom, with a newly released animated cartoon series being distributed through the games themselves.BlackBerry CEO Talks Testing Smartphone-Powered Notebooks and Tablets, Will Share More Info In May
Mar 22, 5:09PM
BlackBerry is launching the Z10 today in the U.S., but it's already looking ahead to what comes next, according to an interview between ABC's Joanna Stern and BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins. The company is working on ways that BlackBerry software can power your laptop or tablet, too, and all from your smartphone. Heins sounds like he's describing an Asus PadFone, and revealed a dream of a personal computing world focused on just a single device.Posthaven Launches In Public Beta, Has Saved 850K Posts Since Posterous Announced Its Shutdown Date Of April 30th
Mar 22, 4:59PM
Once Twitter acquired Posterous, we knew that it was going to shut down at some point, as there was no way that the micro-blogging service would support a fully featured alternative platform. Once we found out the date it was shutting down, then things felt real. If you were using Posterous to post pictures, video or random thoughts, you’d have to find somewhere else to put them. That somewhere else was Posthaven, set up by Posterous co-founders Garry Tan and Brett Gibson. The day that Posterous and Twitter announced the shutdown date, Posthaven jumped into action. At the time, Tan told me that the timing was completely serendipitous, as he had no insight as to when the decision would be made to shut down shop. Immediately, the service signed people up without even fully launching, even having problems handling the traffic at times. Today, Posthaven is launching its public beta and is available to anyone who would like to pay $5 a month to host their Posterous data forever. Yes, Tan and Gibson have promised to keep the service running as long as it has users. The best part about Posthaven is that you can continue to use it just like you did Posterous, so it’s not merely storing your old posts. You can keep going. Its creators are also inspired by Google Reader’s recent demise and hope to set a good example for how to continue a service for the folks who really love it. Tan and Gibson describe Posthaven as “the only safe and complete importer option available for Posterous blogs.” This makes sense because, well, Posterous’ co-founders would know the system better than anyone else. When I spoke with Tan about the public beta launch, he told me that since launching on February 15th, Posthaven has imported 850,000 posts, including photos, videos, documents and audio files. Tan promises zero corruption for the files that you’re bringing in as well, a pretty worthwhile reason to spend the $5 a month. Some of the other Posterous importing options have suffered issues like loss of original file names and even names from commenters, which Posthaven pulls in without a problem. The service is as simple as it gets right now, but Tan and Gibson are working on adding new features. For example, you can now create up to 10 blogs with one account, and they’re working hard to add post-by-email,Local Search Service Roamz Shifts Again – Now "Local Measure," Startup Brings Geo-Based Data To Businesses (& Gets Them To Pay)
Mar 22, 4:53PM
Roamz, a local search and discovery startup which has been struggling to gain traction as a consumer-facing service, is shifting its focus again. This time, it's shopping its aggregated location-based data to businesses and retailers under new branding "Local Measure." And though only a few weeks old, Local Measure already has paying customers, the company says.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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