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The Obvious Corp. Takes Backseat As Ev Williams, Biz Stone, And Jason Goldman Shift Focus To Individual Startups
Apr 05, 10:02PM
The Obvious Corporation, the startup incubator and investment vehicle headed up by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman that has become an umbrella company of sorts to a number of buzzy startups including Medium, Branch, and Lift, is shifting gears, according to a blog post written today by Williams.Ask A VC: MkII Ventures' Ron Palmeri On The Rise Of Company Builders And More
Apr 05, 10:00PM
MkII Ventures' Ron Palmeri joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series.Heroku Launches 2X Dynos With 1GB Of RAM For Increased Concurrency, More Memory-Intensive Applications
Apr 05, 9:50PM
Cloud application platform Heroku is coming off a streak of bad news after it was accused of misleading its customers about how some aspects of its service worked and potentially costing its users quite a bit of money in the process. Today, Heroku is putting the spotlight back on features again, with the launch of the public beta its larger 2X dynos, which, in some ways, will also help alleviate the job queuing issues that sparked the recent debate. The 2X dynos (dynos are basically the containers that run an application process on Heroku) will offer exactly what the name implies: twice the memory (1GB instead of 512MB) and also twice as many CPU shares as the basic dynos (now called 1X). During the beta phase, the 2X dynos will cost the same as $0.05 per hour as the 1X dynos. After that, they will cost, as their name implies, $0.10 per hour. Heroku is also exploring the option to launch even larger dynos (4X+) in the future. Heroku argues that these larger dynos will allow for increasing concurrency on single-threaded Rails apps using the Unicorn HTTP server for Rack applications. Heroku also says that the larger dynos will work well for JVM languages that can take advantage of the vertical scale the 2X dynos provide. In addition, the company says, this should help with performing memory-intensive background jobs for image processing and geospatial processing.Goodbye Ugly Forums! Moot Is A Flexible And Modern Platform For Online Discussion (And It's Free)
Apr 05, 9:36PM
Moot, a startup offering a new take on commenting and forums, is launching today after three and a half years of development with the goal of bringing these key pieces to Internet discussion into the modern era. Unlike many of the options for online discussion that exist today, Moot is designed to be very flexible and customizable, according to a site owner's needs, while also being clean, simple, realtime, embeddable, and cross-platform. It even works on mobile devices like iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.Gillmor Gang Live 04.05.13 (TCTV)
Apr 05, 8:26PM
Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live today at 1pm Pacific.Readability Launches Top Reads, An Online Magazine Aggregating The Platform's Most-Read Content
Apr 05, 8:12PM
Reading app Readability once butted heads with Apple on subscription rules, but more recently its friction points have been in competition with apps like Instapaper, Pocket, Pulse, and Flipboard, who all present consumers with ways of aggregating and making it easier to read the vast sea of content available online. Now Readability, with has 5 million monthly active users stripping out and reading tens of millions of articles each day, is launching Top Reads, a reading aggregation service of its own based on the most read stories on Readability, to get more people to spend more time on its platform.Crowdfunding Industry Celebrates First Anniversary of JOBS Act Despite Delays
Apr 05, 7:22PM
Editor's note: Danae Ringelmann is a co-founder of Indiegogo. Prior to that, she was a securities analyst at Cowen & Co. where she covered entertainment companies, including Pixar, Lionsgate, Disney and Electronic Arts. One year ago, U.S. lawmakers joined together with overwhelming bipartisan support to pass the JOBS Act. It was an exciting moment in history — one that my co-founders and I at Indiegogo didn't expect to see for many years, especially not within just five years of launching our perks-based crowdfunding platform in 2008.PETMAN Is A Humanoid Robot That Could Probably Walk Big Dog
Apr 05, 7:18PM
PETMAN is a humanoid robot made by Boston Robotics. BR also created Big Dog, the quadrupedal, brick-throwing robot that haunts our dreams.
This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Facebook Phone AKA The FF
Apr 05, 7:00PM
This week on the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast we talk about bold moves by Verizon and T-Mobile and the Facebook Fone and Facebook Home.DoorJamz Is A Doorbell With Custom Tones You Can Control With Your Smartphone
Apr 05, 6:53PM
I have two problems with doorbells. First, they sound incredibly annoying. Secondly, there isn't an easy way to turn them off. DoorJamz provides a solution for both of these problems. It's still a doorbell, but instead of the consistently infuriating "ding-dong", you can choose to have it play whatever you like. If can have Led Zeppelin's Kashmir play whenever your guests or the Jehovah Witnesses announce their presence. That's pretty cool.The Breathometer Will Ensure You Don't Drive (Or Do Video Interviews) While Drunk
Apr 05, 6:53PM
There's a new handy little device for people who like to drink but want to be safe about it. The Breathometer, which is currently for sale through a campaign on Indiegogo, was built to use the processing power of your mobile phone to provide an affordable way to allow users to check their blood alcohol content. And I got to take it for a spin.Giveaway: New Relic Has Four Free Disrupt NY Tickets Plus Free RC Helicopters #Nerdlife
Apr 05, 6:46PM
Disrupt NY is less than a month away. Tickets are still available at the early bird discount, but only for one more week. Or you can save some cash and win a ticket here thanks to our partner New Relic. Fresh off of raising $80 million at a near-billion dollar valuation and announcing its mobile app monitoring offering, New Relic is footing the bill for four lucky winners this week. If that wasn’t enough, New Relic is also giving away free RC Helicopters to any developer who sets up their web or mobile monitoring on their applications. Want in? Here's all you have to do to enter. To win a free ticket to Disrupt NY: 1) Retweet this post making sure to include the #Nerdlife hashtag in the tweet. We will post the winners at the bottom of this post on Monday after 7:30pm PT. Please only tweet once, or you will be disqualified. New Relic will make sure you follow the step above and choose the four winners once the giveaway is over. Please note the free Disrupt tickets are for one ticket per winner only and do not include airfare or hotel. To get a free Remote Control Helicopter from New Relic: 1) Follow this link and try New Relic's Web Monitoring service or their newer Mobile Monitoring service (some basic dev skills required). You'll get data on your web apps with your New Relic account and 14 days of their best PRO level of service for free. No worries, no obligation to buy whatsoever. About New Relic: New Relic is a fast-growing SF SaaS company that serves over 300,000 developers worldwide and collects over 100 billion metrics every day for sites like Groupon, Wanelo, Kickstarter, Nike and Comcast. They also are the first nerdy systems management company to get over 300,000 views on a rap video celebrating the #nerdlife. Watch it below. MC Frontalot FTW.Drawbridge Partners With TRUSTe To Let Consumers Opt Out Of Its Cross-Device Ad Targeting
Apr 05, 6:42PM
Mobile ad startup Drawbridge offers technology that helps identify when multiple devices are being used by a single user — something that's pretty appealing to advertisers, but could also have significant privacy implications. Drawbridge is announcing today that it's partnering with privacy management company TRUSTe so that people who see Drawbridge-served ads can opt out of the targeting. We hear about companies working with TRUSTe all the time — there are enough of them that announcements can start to feel pretty ho-hum. But the Drawbridge partnership seemed worth pointing out because it's another sign that TRUSTe's AdChoices model, where consumers can opt out of data collection and targeting, is spreading to mobile. And it's also the first time that opting out has applied across multiple devices.Sneak Peek: Babblr Readies A Real-Time Chat Client For Tumblr
Apr 05, 6:26PM
If Tumblr is more of a social network than a blogging platform, then Babblr may be just the thing that its users are clamoring for: It's an integrated chat client for the platform that lets you communicate with your Tumblr friends and followers and organize your community into groups.Meet Penguin Random House, The World's Largest Book Publisher That Will Counter Amazon
Apr 05, 6:10PM
After the U.S. cleared the deal, the European Commission has officially approved the proposed merger between two of the biggest book publishers in the world, Random House and Penguin. The two owners Pearson and Bertelsmann announced the new venture back in October. As it is seeking "new digital publishing models," the merger has been widely commented on as a way to counter Amazon's influence on the ebook market.Audi And T-Mobile Bring New Data Plans To Drivers As Low As $15/Month
Apr 05, 5:57PM
T-Mobile has always been the data provider behind Audi’s Connect infotainment system, which some would call the best connected car system on the market. But the two companies have announced some new data plans which could help Audi owners save a buck or two on connectivity. The new plans let customers purchase unlimited data for $30 month-to-month, or sign up for yearly contracts at a discount — $324 for a year, $600 for two years, or $450 for 30 months. That last one brings your monthly cost as low as $15 per month, and even less if you count the 6-month free trial the car comes with. Previously, Audi Connect owners were limited to a $30 month-by-month payment. This is yet another step toward connected car ubiquity. Almost every car manufacturer is looking at how they can better integrate our digital lives with our driving lives. And though it’s changing rapidly, the car industry isn’t going anywhere. Companies like Ford and BMW have already opened up their systems to third-party developers, and more OEMs are sure to follow suit. But before developers can start thinking past the mobile ecosystem, and even past wearables like Google Glass, into the future of the connected car, more OEMs need to take a note from Audi and ensure that wifi-enabled drivers are getting the most bang for their buck. Audi’s system includes SiriusXM radio, Google Earth and Google Voice, and a full host of apps like weather, news, etc.Zuckerberg's Political Lobby Has Nothing To 'Regret' In Leaked Memo
Apr 05, 5:56PM
The leader of Zuckerberg's high-profile immigration lobby has already a statement of "regret" for ambitious language in an early prospectus on its goals and tactics, "Given the status of our funders and quality of our team, we will drive national and local narratives to properly frame our agenda," reads the leaked memo, obtained by Politico.Pegleg Wants To Help You Find All Those Free, Full-Length Movies On YouTube
Apr 05, 5:45PM
One of the worst kept secrets about YouTube is that it's just teeming with full length movies, and I'm not talking about the ones that Google wants you to pay for. They're not all that hard to come by despite the fact that uploaders presumably don't want them getting yanked immediately, but those movies are there if you know where to look. Thanks to a new (well, new to me anyway) web app, finding them just got a whole lot easier. Say hello to Pegleg, a simple, smart, and terribly handsome way to dig up those flicks on YouTube.Lightbank-Backed SunnyBump Is A Pinterest For Baby Products
Apr 05, 5:45PM
As a recent new mom, I make finding the best products, toys, food, and more for the baby a full-time job. For example, when I was shopping for baby strollers, I emailed anyone and everyone who had a baby in the past two years and created a Google spreadsheet of all the top strollers, with prices and ratings and reviews from friends. The fact is that product recommendations from fellow parents are invaluable. SunnyBump, a new Chicago-based startup that has been incubated by Lightbank with $375,000 in funding, wants to bring these conversations online. The site is essentially a Pinterest for expecting/new parents where you can actually purchase items straight from the site.Copyright Holders Ask Google To Take Down Their Own Takedown Notices
Apr 05, 5:32PM
In a bit of copyright irony, companies like NBC Universal and Lionsgate have started targeting Google and the DMCA request clearinghouse ChillingEffects.org in their robotically-generated takedown orders simply because the site contains URLs that have been previously taken down. It is, in short, takedowns all the way down.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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