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App Install Ads Could Be The Growing Cash Calf Of Facebook's Earnings
Apr 30, 11:10PM
How do you get hundreds of millions of people to consider downloading your app? One of the only answers is Facebook's app install ads. With the app stores overrun and every company going mobile, app install ads are Facebook's big chance to monetize mobile. Companies like 1-800-Flowers and Poshmark say the ads are already a hit, and I think they could be the star of Facebook's earnings tomorrow.Anyone Can Become A Content Curator On Wiosio
Apr 30, 11:00PM
Wiosio is a Turkish company being featured at Disrupt NY's Startup Alley this year, and it's a little like what watching television would be like if your friends took over the programming. At first glance, Wiosio most closely resembles an everyday television programming lineup. There are a number of predefined channels that are organized by category, each of which streams a series of 15 minute "shows" that air one after the other on a 24/7 basis. And yet, you won't find any programming from any of the four major TV networks on Wiosio. Nor will you be able locate any shows from any of the major cable networks. Each 15 minute show is in actuality a running playlist of YouTube videos, photo galleries, songs, or blog posts that have been curated and packaged by Wiosio's users. Wiosio has a number of channels called "stages", that are defined by specific arenas of interest and location. For example, you'll find a "Music" stage for general music related content, and a "New York Music" stage for content specific to the New York music scene. You can also subscribe to the stages that most interest you, and thus create a specific channel that is tailored to the content you'd like to consume. But what if you want to do more than just consume? If you're looking to get your own curated content on Wiosio, it's a fairly simple process. When you first sign up with Wiosio, you're given 5,000 Wiosio points that you can use to bid for auctioned spaces of airtime. Airtime on each stage is auctioned off in 15 minute chunks, and the auction runs until the very second that slot of content is scheduled to begin streaming on the stage. The more people upvote your shows when they air, the more Wiosio points you obtain, increasing your influence as a content curator in the Wiosio network. “You can say that the media manufactures its own stars, news, and facts,” says Mujdat Ayoguz, founder of Woisio, “and imposes them on people.” Ayoguz believes that Woisio is a platform that truly democratizes content curation and distribution. Wiosio launched in the United States in December, and released their iOS app last Friday in an effort to expand their user base here. According to Wiosio, they've already established a presence in Turkey in the "tens of thousands" of users range, and are planning to launch inDavid Tisch Is Bored With His Smartphone's Apps
Apr 30, 10:49PM
David Tisch has made quite the name for himself as an investor based in NYC. Most notably, Tisch spent years at TechStars as the Managing Director, and has since left to co-found another investment fund called BoxGroup. We sat the man down backstage at Disrupt today to chat out his thoughts on the NY tech scene, trends he's excited about and his transition to BoxGroup.Disrupt NY 2013 Barrels Along For A Second Day
Apr 30, 10:47PM
And with the conclusion of the last Battlefield Startup presentation, the second day of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 has come to a close. The day kicked off with a talk between noted New York City venture capitalist Fred Wilson and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who recently become a VC himself. The two talked Bitcoins and traded VC stories with Wilson giving tips for pitching a venture capitalist. “Leave your backstory at home,” Wilson pleaded. Arrington quickly nodded and agreed. Mike Abbott then took the stage with Mailbox CEO and co-founder, Gentry Underwood. The two talked about the surprising pains in scaling Underwood’s hot iOS email application. It took engineers 24 hours a day for several weeks to keep up with the initial demand. And then Dropbox scooped up the company. Google’s Seth Sternberg, Director of Product Management for Google+, and Ardan Arac, Product Manager at Google, used the Disrupt stage to announce new Google + features. Simply put, Google +’s visibility is now supersized in Google Search. eBay chief John Donahoe explained to Bloomberg's chief content editor Norm Pearlstine about how the company screens its acquisitions and how he keeps founders from leaving after the acquisition — a trick that many companies fail to execute after buying a startup. Troy Carter is disrupting the music industry from within. And today he spoke with TechCrunch’s Josh Constine about his secrets regarding managing Lady Gaga’s online presence (she doesn’t use Facebook personally), where celebrities go overboard online, and why he thinks terrestrial radio will be the home of the next big disruption. When should an entrepreneur raise money, who should they raise from… and, well, should they even raise? These were some of the questions discussed on a panel with TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis at Disrupt NY 2013, which included participation from Mike Abbott of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Aaref Hilaly of Sequoia Capital, AngelList's Naval Ravikant, and Box Group's David Tisch. At TechCrunch Disrupt NY today, VP of Display Advertising Products at Google, Neal Mohan, Facebook Ad Products Director Gokul Rajaram and Twitter Senior Director of Product Revenue Kevin Weil took the stage to talk about the state of digital advertising — and they each had a unique take on the subject. In a chat with TechCrunch’s Leena Rao, representatives from PayPal, Stripe and Gumroad gave thoughts on the currency that has VCs emptying their bank accounts to invest afresh —ShipHawk Aims To Be The Only Retail Shipping Solution You Ever Need
Apr 30, 10:40PM
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 Startup Alley audience choice for day two is ShipHawk, a Santa Barbara-based shipping startup that launched this week at the conference. ShipHawk, co-founded by Jeremy Bodenhamer and Aaron Freeman, is a fully-featured online shipping platform that takes care of everything from providing shipping estimates to handling package pickup, delivery, packing, insurance and more for both residential and commercial addresses.UQ Life Is A Gaming Platform For Personalized Self Discovery, Learning, And Development
Apr 30, 10:26PM
UQ Life was founded as a smart platform for self-discovery and personal development, and it's designed to help kids learn through collaborative games. Today, as part of TechCrunch Disrupt NY's Startup Battlefield, the company launched with a couple of apps for child learning and development by personalizing games to match individual skill sets.Talkz, Because Messaging With Your Thumbs Is So 2000 And Late
Apr 30, 10:07PM
If email is first in line for disruption, messaging has to be second. But a new company launching out of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 has a fresh take on our most favoritest form of communication. Talkz asks you to stop typing and start talking. Or type. Or doodle. Or share music. Really, anything you want.Stop Forgetting The Important Stuff From Your Meetings, Thanks To Retrace
Apr 30, 9:59PM
It's possible that you are an incredibly organized person who remembers everything important from your meetings, and you're part of an incredibly organized team where every post-meeting task is communicated clearly. But ... maybe not. Maybe stuff slips through the cracks. That's where Retrace, an app that just launched at Disrupt NY's Startup Battlefield, comes in. Co-founder and CEO Austin Marusco told me that Retrace is "the best way to remember and organize everything about the meetings you have." It's an iPhone app that integrates with your Google Calendar or Calendars, creating a shared workspace around each meeting where participants can share notes, photos and tasks. It also displays contact information and profiles (you can pull in data from LinkedIn and Facebook) for everyone in the meeting.Mobile Enterprise Startup Workspot Lets Employees Securely Work From Whatever Device They Want
Apr 30, 9:41PM
Mobile enterprise startups are like unicorns. Nearly every VC I talk to wants to have a bet in this space, yet there really aren’t that many new candidates each year. Everyone knows that workers are bringing their own devices to work and want to use their personal tablets or phones instead of clunky, employer-mandated devices. Yet employers want to make sure that corporate data remains secure and trackable. Enter Workspot, a startup backed by Kleiner Perkins, Norwest Venture Partners and Redpoint, that’s debuting today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. “We’re simplifying bring-your-own-devices for the enterprise,” said co-founder Ty Wang. “The biggest problem that most companies have is that people love these devices. They’re bringing them into work, but they can’t get their work done because the apps the they need like Microsoft’s Sharepoint, are still behind corporate firewalls.” Wang said older competitors that do mobile device management have solutions that lock the entire device down, that make them unusable in other situations. Instead, Workspot’s solution is a consumer app that an employee can download through the regular iOS app store. It gives them streamlined access to all of their work apps, requiring just a basic log-in with password. (That’s after a one-time authentication with their work’s network security appliance.) The company supports four of the leading VPN providers like Cisco and Juniper, which cover about 80 percent of the market and let workers log-in remotely into corporate networks. Employers can easily add in new apps for their employees to use from a control dashboard. Wang said the process takes a few minutes. “With most of the solutions today, you’d need to set up this system, go through a whole new testing cycle and all kinds of process to add apps,” he said. The product is actually free for end-users, and Workspot monetizes through offering employers two paid services. One is something called Insights, which gives them analytics into how their workers are using their software and the other is called Events, which gives the employer total visibility into all end-user activity for compliance and auditing. For those two services, the company charges anywhere from $150 a month for 0 to 25 users to $4 per user per month for companies with more than 250 employees. The company has raised $1.9 million from Kleiner, Norwest and others and has 11 employees. Their team has a wealth of experience in enterprise.KISI Launches Its Keyless Home Access Management Platform On Indiegogo
Apr 30, 9:32PM
Munich-based startup and TechCrunch Disrupt NY Battlefield contestant KISI Systems is launching its Indiegogo campaign today. KISI and KISIBox together comprise a keyless entry solution that lets users provide timed, revokable access to their own apartments on an as-needed basis. It's the perfect complement to collaborative consumption services like Airbnb and TaskRabbit and in general a very useful addition to any household.Obama To Reportedly Nominate Former Telecom Lobbyist Tom Wheeler As FCC Chair
Apr 30, 9:18PM
The White House will reportedly confirm that former telecommunications lobbyist Tom Wheeler will be nominated to chair the Federal Communications Commission. Current FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn will act as interim chairman while outgoing Chair Julius Genachowski enjoys his luxurious new life as a fellow at the Aspen Institute policy think tank. A decade ago, before he was a venture capitalist at Washington D.C.’s Core Capital Partners, Wheeler helped telecommunications companies secure more wireless spectrum and protected them against lawmakers who wanted to ban cell phones in public areas for fear of radiation. “Tom Wheeler is the rock star of telecom,” said president of PBS Pat Mitchell. Years later, in 2008, he raised a cool million for President Obama’s campaign. Genachowski famously killed the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, and its questionable whether Wheeler would have done the same, given his background. In 2011, he wrote a cryptic blog post about the merger, but his confusing obsession with rhetorical flair and history make it hard to understand what he believes. So, instead of copying and pasting speculative opinion about Wheeler from the host of political lobbies looking for a quick press hit, we’ll wait for new information to surface and update readers as soon as we know more.GradFly Launches An Online Portfolio Platform To Let High School Students Showcase And Explore Technical Projects
Apr 30, 8:56PM
The resume is going the way of the dinosaur. In the not-so-distant future, it's easy to foresee a time when a one-sheet becomes a interactive, multimedia portfolio of your skills and greatest hits. And when we say the "not-so-distant future," really, it's already happening. LinkedIn brought the resume online, and, today, startups have begun to "vertical-ize" the online CV, helping to turn it into a souped-up portfolio and recruiting network. Designers and artists have Behance, doctors have QuantiaMD and Doximity, while students have Pathbrite and Seelio.Trulia Reports Slightly Larger Q1 Loss Than Expected, Revenue Grows 97 Percent To $24M
Apr 30, 8:56PM
Online real estate company Trulia just released its earnings for the first quarter of 2013, reporting that its revenue grew 97 percent year-over-year to $24 million. Despite the growth, the company still posted a net loss of $2 million. On a non-GAAP basis, it lost 2 cents per share. Analysts had predicted a loss of 1 cent per share with revenue of $21.08 million.HealthyOut Is Like A Personal Nutritionist For Healthy Food Deliveries
Apr 30, 8:42PM
New York-based startup HealthyOut already has a popular iPhone and Android app for quickly finding nearby restaurants and dishes that users can order and have delivered. Today at Disrupt NY 2013, HealthyOut is unveiling a new service, which will provide its users with personalized menus of food delivered to help them lose weight or just overall eat better.Google's Seth Sternberg And Ardan Arac On Getting Developers To Adopt Google+ Sign-In
Apr 30, 8:34PM
After Google’s announcement and demo of app activities being introduced into its Search product, I spoke with Seth Sternberg and Ardan Arac about how Google+ sign-in is coming along and what the company is doing to get developers to adopt the platform. The integration is yet another signal that Google is trying to unify all of its products, with Google+ being the glue that holds everything together. Arac explained how the Search team wanted to surface app activities once they were introduced to Google+ profiles.Overheating HTC Evo Shift Burns Owner
Apr 30, 8:32PM
A Columbus, Ohio woman found that her HTC Evo Shift had branded her after overheating while it was under her waistband. The woman, Jennifer Grago, reported that she was using the phone's FM radio while she did yard work.Donay Launches A New Way For Businesses And Users To Incentivize And Reward Open Source Programmers At Disrupt NY
Apr 30, 8:30PM
Donay, a Dutch startup that’s officially launching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 NY, wants to make it easier for companies and users to provide incentives to open source developers. Say your company is using a popular open-source application, but you find a bug or need a new feature. Currently, there is no easy way to pay open source developers for their work and, Donay argues, that makes it hard for companies that don’t have in-house development shops to get bugs fixed or new features added. The service, which was co-founded by Jan and Corne Blok, can already be integrated with a number of popular bug-tracking systems like JIRA and Bugzilla, as well as Redmine, Mantis, and Trac. In the long run, however, as the founders told me last week, the plan is to work directly with large sites like GitHub or SourceForge and open-source focussed organizations like Mozilla or even Google and have them put Donay’s incentive widget on their sites. Setting up an incentive on Donay is pretty easy. Users just add the incentive to the system and set the award amount. Optionally, the can also add an expiration date to their rewards. Once a developer has resolved the issue or added a fix, the bug tracking system will automatically notify the company and they will have ten days to inspect the solution. If the issue remains unresolved for 10 days, the money is released and put into the developer’s PayPal account. It’s worth noting that sites like Github could also use Donay to create a new revenue stream. They could, for example, put a Donay link on every issue page and then ask users to chip in to get this issue fixed, for example. To make this easier, Donay offers a link and widget builder for potential partners sites. One other option for Donay would also be a to partner with app stores and allow them to give their users an option to report bugs and maybe crowdsource funding for bugfixes. For now, the team is almost exclusively focusing on open source, but the company’s ambitions are obviously larger and will likely expand to internal bug tracking systems and maybe even commercially available software, too. By default, Donay takes a 6.9% cut from every transaction, but its partners will be able to set additional fees on top of this. As the founders told me, there is currently no single3DLT Launches The First Store For Printable 3D Objects
Apr 30, 8:22PM
Cincinnati, Ohio is best known for the Bengals, Bootsy Collins, and Skyline Chili but it's about to become famous as one of the first cities with a true market for 3D printable designs. 3DLT, a small company based in Cincy and founded by a team of programmers, is bringing the free-for-all world of 3D modellers into line and essentially making an Etsy for ABS.Traveling Abroad? EatWith Wants To Help You Break Bread With The Locals In Their Own Homes
Apr 30, 8:01PM
Nothing makes traveling to a new land more amazing than befriending a local or two. Meet the right person — someone outgoing, with a knowledge of the locale — and it's like punching in a cheat code. But finding that person can be hard. EatWith, a company presenting at Disrupt NY today, wants to make it easier. It's like AirBNB for breaking bread with locals in their own homes.Tell Silly Stories Together With Skit
Apr 30, 7:49PM
If Skit had existed in the early 1970s, there is a chance that the career of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam could have been stunted because Skit can produce videos reminiscent of the aforementioned great one's seminal work. And that example is what comes to mind as the easiest way to describe how this TechCrunch Disrupt NY Startup Alley participant's new app works and looks.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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