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Microsoft To Fold Yammer Sales Team Into Office 365, Identity Surfaces As A Core Focus
May 09, 11:55PM
Microsoft today announced that it will fold about 100 sales people from Yammer into the Office 365 team. Microsoft also is making a point to focus on identity management and other issues as part of its road to full integration. The news follows the road map that Microsoft set at its SharePoint Conference last November. In March, Microsoft detailed the transition and how Yammer will co-exist with Office 365 and Sharepoint.State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed
May 09, 11:46PM
Well that was quick: The State Department has demanded that new blueprints for a fully 3-D-printed gun be taken offline just a week after they were posted. The Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance is forcing outspoken Second Amendment crusader Cody Wilson to remove the downloadable 3-D printer files from Defcad.org under expert laws known as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).YouTube Tiptoes Toward Paywalls With The Launch Of Channel Subscriptions, But The Ads Play On
May 09, 11:06PM
In an effort to provide its partners with an alternative revenue stream, YouTube announced today that it is officially launching a pilot program that enables its video stars to charge subscription fees to access their channels. Subscriptions will begin at $0.99/month, and every channel will be able to offer a 14-day free trial and discounted yearly rates. YouTube gives the examples of Sesame Street, which will offer full episodes through its paid channel, or UFC fans getting to watch classic fights. YouTube's list of its 53-odd pilot channels here.OpenTable For Android Gets Better Google Maps Integration, Booked Reservations To Calendar And Improved Navigation
May 09, 10:44PM
If you've been using OpenTable to reserve tables at your favorite restaurants, the latest update for Android will help you discover new places to eat a little better and keep track of everything you have going on. It also got some of that Holo design lovin'.Backed With $1.4 Million, Plated Adds A Social Spin To Its Ready-To-Cook Meal Delivery Service
May 09, 9:50PM
For the past several years, my New Year's resolution has been some version of "cook more often" or "try a new recipe every week." But it never really lasts. As much as I love the act of actually cooking, so much about it is a huge hassle -- choosing a recipe, shopping for all the ingredients (and paying for a whole bottle of a spice I only need a tablespoon of), ending up with a bunch of leftovers. A New York City-based startup called Plated feels my pain -- and has raised a $1.4 million seed round led by ff Venture Capital along with angels including TechStars, Manischewitz Company CEO Alain Bankier, Facebook vet Andrew McCollom, and LA-based "adrenaline-fueled" investor Paige Craig.Web Clipping Service Clipboard Acquired By Salesforce For $12M, Will Be Shuttered On June 30th
May 09, 9:44PM
Today is just jam-packed full of acquisition-shutdowns. Just hours ago, word broke that Yahoo! had acquired both MileWise and GoPollGo, with plans to discontinue both. Next up on the happy-now-sad-users-later train: Clipboard, the web clipping service we covered previously here. According to an email to its users, Clipboard has been acquired by Salesforce and will be shutdown in a bit over a month.Actually, Snapchat Photos Are Just As Deleted As Any Other File You Trash
May 09, 9:36PM
Though Snapchat has been picked on, picked apart, and blown up in the media, the technical aspects of the service are still somewhat mysterious to the average user. A new research report from a company called Decipher Forensics is looking to shed a little light on how the service "deletes" photos you send through Snapchat. According to Decipher, Snapchat photos are renamed with a .jpgnomedia extension to hide that photo from your phone, under /data/data/com.snapchat.android. The computer forensics company claims that they can retrieve these photos both before and after they've expired within the app.Matrix Partners Closes On Tenth Fund; Raises $450 Million For Early-Stage Investments
May 09, 8:46PM
Matrix Partners just announced the close of Matrix X, the venture firm's tenth early-stage technology-focused fund. As Fortune's Dan Primack reported in a scoop in April, the firm raised $450 million for this fund.Say Media Lays Off 10 Percent Of Staff, Aims For Profitability In Second Half Of 2013
May 09, 8:13PM
Matt Sanchez, co-founder and CEO of Say Media (which owns sites like xoJane, ReadWrite, and Dogster), just told me that the company has laid off about 10 percent of its 400-person staff. Sanchez described this as part of Say's transformation from an ad network to "a digital media company." The company isn't getting out of the ad network business completely, but that part of Say is relatively mature and that the company's focus should be on the content side. The layoffs, Sanchez said, were really about looking "at all parts of the business except for sales and our content organization" and bringing them in line with that vision.BDC Venture Capital Partners With Government-Funded Accelerators To Inject More Canada Into The U.S. Startup Scene
May 09, 7:48PM
BDC Venture Capital, the leading major investment firm for accelerators in Canada, announced today that it would add its financial and expert support to ongoing Canadian Technology Accelerator programs being run in the U.S. by the Canadian government. The programs, spread across various major tech hubs including Boston, Philadelphia, New York and San Francisco, give Canadian startups the U.S. face time they need to make connections and product sales.Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo
May 09, 7:36PM
It's only been a few weeks since the folks behind music charting app We Are Hunted confirmed that it was acquired by Twitter, and it seems that Twitter isn't done snapping up startups just yet. Ubalo CEO Jacob Mattingly and CTO Ian Downes announced earlier today via blog post that the folks at Twitter have agreed to acquire the scalable computing technology they've been working on for the past two years, and that the four person Ubalo team would officially join the Twitter flock.The Google Glass Wink Feature Is Real
May 09, 7:29PM
Rumors have been circulating that Google Glass may have a feature that lets you wink to take a picture. Within the kernel source code, developers have discovered that the feature does exist deep in the code, but for most users of Google Glass, this feature is not an option on the front-end. However, TechCrunch has confirmed with multiple sources, who wish to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, that the wink feature is indeed real and being used by a small number of engineers who were seeded with the original developer units of Google Glass. In other words, those who are developing for Glass as a part of the second wave of units (#ifihadglass) are not privy to the feature, as far as we know.Box Acquires Crocodoc To Add HTML5 Document Converter And Sleek Content Viewing Experience To Cloud Storage Platform
May 09, 7:00PM
Cloud storage company Box has acquired HTML5 document embedding service and Y Combinator alum Crocodoc, both companies announced in a press briefing today. Financial terms of the deal, which was a cash and stock transaction, were not disclosed; however, Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie said that it was a successful exit for investors. Crocodoc has raised a little over $1 million funding from Y Combinator, SV Angel, Paul Buchheit, Joshua Schachter, Dave McClure, Steve Chen and XG Ventures."In The Studio," ScaleArc's Varun Singh Builds Database Infrastructure From India And The Valley
May 09, 7:00PM
This is the penultimate episode of "In The Studio." The show, which features developers and entrepreneurs working on enterprise technology, will be ending. This week's guest is Varun Singh, CEO and founder of ScaleArc, a young startup which began in India but registered as a US-company with designs to expand to this country once it got off the ground in Mumbai. ScaleArc operates in the space of database infrastructure and sits between apps and database services, what Singh calls as SQL/NoSQL hybrid. Whereas Amazon Web Services would require integration and does not allow for multiple masters across multiple zones, ScaleArc offers a more distributed approach, especially in an age where certain sites (such as gaming portals) cannot afford even the slightest cloud outage.Facebook Previews New Features For Home, Which Is Near 1M Downloads And Increases Users' Time Spent On Facebook By 25%
May 09, 6:26PM
"Home is the first product we've released that's really about 'mobile-best' and the transition beyond 'mobile first'" said Facebook's Cory Ondrejka. To further that, Facebook previewed some new features Home will get eventually including a "Dash Bar" buddy list for starting chats, an improved "Dock" for your favorite apps, and a better "new user experience" onboarding flow.Amazon Making Smartphone With 3D Screen, Dedicated Audio Streaming Device, WSJ Reports
May 09, 6:05PM
Amazon offers a range of hardware, including its Kindle e-readers and tablets, but now it's looking to expand the line with two new smartphones and an audio-only device that streams music, according to the Wall Street Journal. The phones include a high-end one with a glasses-free 3D screen, as well as another about which details were not included in the report, which presumably would be a more traditional design.Mozilla Starts Doling Out Phones To Developers With Brilliant HTML5 App Ideas
May 09, 6:01PM
Just a week after rolling out the latest version of its Firefox OS simulator, Mozilla has announced that it's offering a nifty new proposition to would-be FFOS developers. If you've got an idea for a killer HTML5 application and the technical chops (or at least the drive) to make it a reality, Mozilla wants to give you a Firefox OS developer device.Your Bitcoins Are Finally Worth Something
May 09, 5:30PM
Bitcoins are nominally worth $113 as of this very moment. That means very little in the real world. As Forbes writer Kasmir Hill notes, it's pretty difficult to go up to the McDonald's cashier and offer an invisible cryptocurrency that resides entirely on the Internet in exchange for a Big Mac. She's survived a week using nothing but Bitcoins and, although she's still alive, her experience wasn't friction-free.Google's New "Save To Drive" Button Lets Website Visitors Save Files To Google's Online Storage
May 09, 5:28PM
Google announced today an expansion of its online storage efforts with the release of a "Save to Drive" button that can be added to any website, allowing visitors to click and save files hosted on the site to their personal Google Drive accounts. The button is already being used by Bigstock, Delta Dental, Fotolia, O'Reilly, Outbox and Zen Payroll, Google notes.How Obama's Open Data Order Could Save Lives, Energy Costs And Make Cool Apps
May 09, 5:04PM
Readers may have noticed this morning that their geekiest politically oriented friends are freaking out like teenage girls at a Justin Bieber concert. Today, the big man in the White House signed a rare executive order that all federal data be made freely accessible in a form that can be utilized by software developers, lovingly known as "machine-readable format." We compiled a list of some of the coolest applications developed with government data and, below that, a brief explainer why this new initiative matters.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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