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Adly Raises $2M More As It Expands Tools For Social Media Celebrity Endorsements
May 24, 12:43AM
Adly, a startup that connects advertisers with celebrities willing to post promoted messages on social networks, recently raised $2 million in additional funding. The new funding came from previous backer GRP Partners and new investor Siemer Ventures. Adly has now raised a total of $7.5 million.A Vibrator Called Limon
May 24, 12:04AM
No longer just an oddly flavored potato chip, the Limon is also a new sexy-time vibrator from a startup called Minna. The company is looking for backers for its "couples' vibrator", which just so happens to look like a pink lime-lemon hybrid. However, the Limon is no lemon or lime. It's an ultra-powerful bullet vibrator that is controlled by how hard you squeeze it. That is, the harder you squeeze the lime part of the Limon, the harder the lemon-style tip will vibrate.The Cryonic Bitcoin Mining Machine Is $15,000 Of Pure BTC Power
May 23, 11:50PM
It's almost impossible for the average computer to mine Bitcoins in any efficient way, hence the rise of Bitcoin mining machines so tuned to their specific purpose that they barely resemble PCs. To wit: the Cryonic Bitcoin FrostBit machine is a PC in name only and contains a liquid nitrogen generator, special ASIC chips, and a price tag that would make the Winklevii twins think twice.With $1.12 Million From Maveron And Others, Vaunte Aims To Define The Next Era Of Luxury E-Commerce
May 23, 10:17PM
As great as the web is, I still haven't been able to kick my habit for buying fashion and lifestyle magazines off the newsstand. One of the things I love the most about monthly glossies are features like Vanity Fair's My Stuff and Us Weekly's What's In My Bag, in which notable people reveal the exact products that they actually buy and use (celebrity chef David Chang uses Sensodyne toothpaste and wears Levi's jeans, FYI.) It's just compelling to find out more about people through their stuff. The folks at New York-based startup Vaunte think so too, and in fact, they think it could be the next generation of luxury e-commerce. Vaunte has created a web platform where notable people (think starlets, fashionable executives, designers, and socialites) show off the stuff in their closets -- and put things up for sale. Vaunte started off as purely a consignment market that takes 30 percent commission for photographing and shipping seller's items, but it has since expanded to also sell new versions of the items people show off.Report: Google Could Soon Face New FTC Antitrust Probe Into Its Display Ads Business
May 23, 9:41PM
Bloomberg today reports that Google could face a new U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust probe into its display advertising business. As Bloomberg's Brian Womack and Sara Forden note, the FCC is looking into whether Google used its strong position in this market to "illegally curb competition." The investigators, the report also notes, want to see if Google used its display ads business to "push companies to use more of its other services."Laptop Week Review: The Toshiba Kirabook
May 23, 9:39PM
Toshiba isn't exactly known for churning out attractive, high-end notebooks, which is why the company's new Kirabook is such an oddity. It's a handsome little thing if you're into very (and I mean very) understated designs, though I imagine at least a few people will think the Kirabook looks downright dull. The Kirabook is wedge-shaped like many of its other ultrabook brethren but it's thankfully very light on branding (save for a small, chrome-esque Toshiba logo slapped on a corner of the Kirabook's lid), and finish that comes as a result of the magnesium allow chassis is nice enough. Sadly, that magnesium frame doesn't mean the Kirabook is immune to scratches, something I quickly learned after stowing the thing in a checked bag while flying to Austin.Laptop Week Review: Lenovo Yoga 13
May 23, 9:01PM
Convertibles were all the rage back in the 1950s (thanks to tailfins and the Corvette) and in the early 2000s (thanks to Microsoft and Sony). In the 2000s, however, we saw convertibles in the form of laptops that could twist and turn themselves into tablets. The result, usually, was a not-very-good-laptop folded into a not-very-good tablet.Salesforce.com Meets First Quarter Earnings Expectations, Revenues Up 29%
May 23, 8:31PM
Salesforce.com met analyst expectations for its first quarter with non-GAAP earnings per share of 10 cents. Total first quarter revenues were $893 million, an increase of 28 percent on a year-over-year basis. Subscription and support revenues were $842 million, an increase of 29% on a year-over-year basis. Professional services and other revenues were $50 million, an increase of 25%. It had operating cash flow of $283 Million, up 33%. Salesforce also raised its 2014 fiscal year reenues to an estimaged $3.835 to $3.875 billion. Salesforce.com is on a bit of a roll. Gartner nmed it the number one CRM platform in the world this past quarter. CEO Marc Benioff said in the earnings call that it had a record number of SAP customers moving to Salesforce. (We will update the story as more information comes available.)Pandora Stock Jumps As Revenue Beats The Street, Grows 58% To $128.5M; Mobile Ad Revenue Hits Record High
May 23, 8:23PM
Pandora has had a busy quarter. In March, the social radio company saw its long-time CEO Joe Kennedy abruptly step down, leaving the board to scramble to find a replacement. On the bright side, Kennedy's exit, while likely a result of stress, followed relatively good times for Pandora. And it's continued to push forward since.On-Demand Delivery Startup Postmates Is Preparing For Launch In New York City
May 23, 7:40PM
Postmates is looking to expand its business and make mobile, on-demand deliveries a widespread thing throughout cities around the country -- that we already know. The company has been operating in San Francisco for a while, and launched in Seattle about three months ago. But where will it land next? All signs point to New York City.Homeland Security Reportedly Warns 3D-Printed Guns Are "Impossible" To Contain
May 23, 7:08PM
A new bulletin from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns that lethal, undetectable 3D-printed firearms may be "impossible" to contain. After a Texas law student designed and released digital blueprints for the world's first fully printable gun, the files have allegedly been downloaded more than 100,000 times, despite a domestic ban on distributing the files from the U.S. State Department.Google Starts Using Computer Vision To Let You Search Your Google+ Photos
May 23, 7:03PM
Google almost completely revamped the Google+ photo experience last week, but somehow the company didn't get around to announcing one of the coolest photo-related features in its repertoire: Google now uses computer vision and machine learning to let you search your photos for things like sunsets, food and flowers. I also tried terms like "cars," "beach" and "bikes" and Google consistently returned the right results. This search is built into Google+, but you can also use the regular Google search and use the query term [my photos of xyz] to find the right images.With Metrics Up Since Acquisition, Parse Could Get Developers Integrating Facebook And Buying Ads
May 23, 6:44PM
After being acquired by Facebook, the mobile back-end service Parse has been busy integrating itself into the company, as well as launching new services like web hosting for developers. The service has built tools to help developers focus on the front-end of their product, while handling all of the messy back-end things like cross-platform compatibility and testing. Naturally, Facebook integration is easier than ever for mobile developers thanks to the acquisition. Its been six years since Facebook's Platform launched, and during a whiteboard session at its Menlo Park headquarters, the company discussed just how far its come.Lambda Labs Is Launching A Facial Recognition API For Google Glass
May 23, 6:29PM
Lambda Labs, an early-stage startup out of San Francisco, is preparing to release a facial recognition API for developers working on Google Glass apps. The API will be available to interested developers within a week, company co-founder Stephen Balaban says. The move comes on the heels of a Congressional inquiry into Google's new wearable technology, which is still very much in the prototype phase.Box Buys French File Storage App Folders To Help Rebuild Its Mobile Apps
May 23, 6:18PM
It was just two weeks ago that fast-growing enterprise cloud storage company, Box, went out and acquired document embedding service and Y Combinator grad, Crocodoc. Apparently Aaron Levie sees what Yahoo is doing and he wants to show that Box is ready to do a little acquiring of its own.Ex-Googler Ben Ling Brings His Operations Experience To Khosla Ventures
May 23, 5:50PM
After just a year, Badoo COO Ben Ling is leaving the social networking site to join Khosla Ventures. Ling, who has formerly held senior executive roles at companies like Google, YouTube and Facebook, will join a growing team at Vinod Khosla's venture firm, as it has been adding operations executives as partners.Google Adds Notification Center And Rich Notifications To Chrome Beta 28, Will Work Even When The Browser Is Closed
May 23, 5:48PM
This isn't exactly the launch of Google Now for the desktop, which many of us have been patiently waiting for, but Google today announced that it is bringing a richer notifications experience to Chrome, starting with the latest beta. This definitely feels like it brings Google Now yet another step closer to the desktop.Doctors 3D-Print An Emergency Airway Tube To Save A Child's Life
May 23, 5:44PM
Score one for technology: Doctors 3D-printed an emergency airway tube that saved a 20-month old baby boy's life. After imaging the boy's faulty windpipe, doctors at the C.S. Mot Children's Hospital printed 100 tiny tubes and laser-stitched them together over the trachea (video below).Imonomy Raises $400K Seed For Its Visual Semantic Software That Adds Relevant Photos To Publishers' Websites, Monetised With Ads
May 23, 5:30PM
Imonomy, an Israeli startup which makes software that analyses webpages and automatically inserts relevant, copyright-free images to accompany the content, has closed a $400,000 seed round from a group of angel investors. Investors include Inon Axel, former CEO of Kasamba, Liron Rose, cofounder of AfterDownload, and Itai Levitan and Tal Shaked, partners at AfterDownload.MyShoebox Gets Social With Collaborative Galleries And A Dedicated iPad App With Version 2.0
May 23, 5:30PM
Toronto-based startup MyShoebox is facing a time in which photo sharing announcements are thick and deep; Google unveiled its updated Google+ photos experience last week at I/O, and this week we seen pretty big announcements from Yahoo! around Flickr. Does that intimate MyShoebox, a photo-focused startup launching its version 2.0 product on the tail of those bits of news? Not really, says MyShoebox founder and CEO Steve Cosman.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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