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Drupal.org Hacked, User Details Exposed And Reset
May 30, 12:50AM
Another day, another big site hacked. 2013 really just hasn't been a good year for web security. This time around, the site writing the email that noone wants to write is Drupal.org, home of the popular content management platform, Drupal. Though no exact number was shared, it appears that nearly one million user accounts are affected.Server Sales Are Down As Cloud Apps Abound At The Expense Of IBM, Enterprise Giants
May 30, 12:21AM
Gartner Research reports worldwide server sales are down 5 percent for the first quarter of the year, with IBM, HP and the other members of the top five taking the biggest hit. Server shipments declined 0.7 percent. But the drop in server sales is not at all surprising. Cloud apps are popping up by the thousands across the market, as the developer movement speeds up. But these apps are not surfacing from that souped-up x86 server made for big workloads.Yves Behar's August Smart Lock Lets Users Open Doors With A Mobile App
May 29, 11:53PM
The smart home has grown in importance over the years, with new technologies being used to connect users with what used to be dumb objects. A startup called August, which provides a $199 keyless lock system powered by a mobile app, was founded by tech entrepreneur Justin Johnson and industrial designer Yves Behar, who were searching for a new way to give users access to their homes.Motorola Mobility Confirms Upcoming Hero Device, The Moto X, Will Be Built In The U.S.
May 29, 11:13PM
Motorola has a new device coming out, which it thinks will change the game. In a discussion at the D11 Conference, Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside said the new mobile phone, called the Moto X, will be built in the United States in a factory outside Fort Worth. The facility that the new Moto X will be built in was once used to build Nokia phones.500 Startups Raises $10M '500 Durians' Micro Fund, Hires Khailee Ng As Venture Partner To Invest In SE Asia
May 29, 10:33PM
Dave McClure's 500 Startups is no stranger to investing in international startups, with about 100 companies in its portfolio hailing from outside the U.S. But it's now looking to make a bigger bet on Southeast Asia, with a $10 million micro fund devoted to the region, as well as the hiring of Malaysia-based entrepreneur Khailee Ng as its newest venture partner.Husband And Wife Architects Create The Sugar Lab, A Foundry For 3D Printed Sweets
May 29, 10:20PM
Kyle and Liz von Hasseln aren't your typical designers. Initially focused on architecture, the pair stumbled upon an interesting business idea when they wanted to make a special cake for a friend's birthday: the Sugar Lab.Windows 8.1 To Get A Start Button Because Windows Is Dumb Without One
May 29, 10:12PM
Good news! Microsoft super blogger Paul Thurrott details the return of the Start Button and the figurative demise of Metro/smart tile/Start Page thing with Windows 8.1's ability to boot right to Desktop sidestepping the worst part of Windows 8. Best of all, as previously reported, Microsoft isn't charging for these fixes. There's nothing better than the classics.Ben Silbermann On How Pinterest Will Translate User Aspiration Into Making Money
May 29, 10:09PM
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann says that the startup isn't making any money currently. However, he said the company is looking for ways to give marketers tools to help them understand what's happening on the platform -- and maybe, just maybe, make some money from them.Google Apps Admins Finally Get An Android App To Manage Their Users, Services And Devices On The Go
May 29, 9:55PM
Google has continuously made its Google Apps Admin Console for IT professionals who manage large Google Apps for Business, Education and Government deployments in their companies more powerful. But one thing it never offered these administrators was a mobile app to manage at least a subset of the Admin console's features. Today, however, Google finally released its first official Android app that allows admins to perform many common tasks right on their phones and tablets.Enterprise Collaboration Startup Bloomfire Takes On An Additional $2 Million From Silver Creek Ventures
May 29, 9:40PM
Bloomfire, the Austin, Texas-based startup that makes cloud-based content-sharing software for enterprises, has taken on an additional $2 million from Silver Creek Ventures as an add-on to its $8 million Series A funding round previously announced back in March. This brings the total investment into Bloomfire, which was founded in 2010, to $20 million. In addition to Silver Creek, Bloomfire's investors include Austin Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. The funding was disclosed today in a regulatory filing with the SEC, and confirmed by a Bloomfire spokesperson who provided the following statement:Meet Rhett, The Reason You Should Donate Money To Charity To Hang Out With A VC [TCTV]
May 29, 9:30PM
How much is a dinner with SV Angel's co-founder and managing partner, David Lee, worth? When you put it into the context of where the money will be going, the answer should be "it's almost priceless." Today, I got to sit down with Lee, and a special new friend of TechCrunch's that I'll introduce in a moment.Google Admits It Spams The Hell Out Of You In New Gmail Commercial
May 29, 9:02PM
Got so many Google+, YouTube, Google Offers, and Zagat emails you want to scream? Google's got you covered. No, it's not sending you less spam. It's organizing your spam into tabs! Google's blatant attempt to cross-promote its bevy of services in the video for the quite possibly awesome new Gmail inbox leaves it seeming like a sketchy foreigner who just needs $200 to wire you your lottery winningsBarry Diller Says Aereo Isn't About Charging For Something That's Free, But About Moving TV To IP
May 29, 7:14PM
Aereo investor Barry Diller says that the company isn't about taking free, over-the-air signals and charging for them, but is instead about moving TV from a closed system to IP. At the D11 Conference today, Diller defended the company's plans to build a more open video distribution platform.Numecent Raises $13.6M From T-Ventures For Push-Pull, Cloudpaging Service
May 29, 6:47PM
Numecent has raised $13 million from T-Ventures, the venture capital arm of Deutsch Telekom for its technology to "cloudify," on-premise or desktop apps. The Series B round brings the total raises to $15 million.
As Software Trumps Hardware In The World Of Payments, VeriFone Partners With CardSpring For Card-Linked Services
May 29, 6:33PM
The world of payments is being turned over by the likes of Square, PayPal, Stripe and others, which are tackling the idea of payments based on hardware terminals, and new services that focus on innovations in smartphones and tablets with functionality coming by way of software iterations. Not to be outdone, incumbents like point-of-sale device maker VeriFone are also cutting their own deals to keep up in the game. The latest is a deal with CardSpring, a payments startup founded by former Netscape engineers, which will allow thousands of merchants to enable loyalty programs, point-of-sale discounts, and more using customers' existing debit and credit cards.Roku Wants To Be Part Of Your Next Smart TV, Raises $60 Million To Do It
May 29, 6:25PM
These days, just about any cheapo Blu-ray player or game console can stream video from Netflix or Hulu, so what's a company that makes a slew of low-cost video streaming boxes to do to stand out from the pack? Well, if you're Roku, the answer is you raise a ton of money and set your sights on software too. AllThingsD reports that Roku has just raised another $60 million in funding in a round led by Fidelity, and ATD's Peter Kafka goes on to note that Roku is looking to use that infusion of capital to bolster its software partnerships with television manufacturers.Etece, A Spanish TaskRabbit, Raises €450K Series A To Expand To Four More Local Cities
May 29, 6:07PM
Etece, a Spanish TaskRabbit style startup offering an online platform for people who need a job doing but don't have the time to do it themselves, has just closed a €450k Series A funding round, with investment from Mola Capital, Faraday Ventures Partners and Starcaps Ventures. The company, which was founded in Madrid six months ago, had previously raised €500k from three European entrepreneurs.Twitter Doesn't Want To Become A Media Company, But Will Partner With Them, CEO Dick Costolo Says
May 29, 5:52PM
It's been a big year for Twitter, as the company has been aggressively trying to grow its ads business with broadcasters. It's doing that by partnering with big media companies for services like TV ad targeting. For TV, the company is hoping to drive tune-in by creating new ways for broadcasters to reach their audiences.People Actually Use QR Codes (In China)
May 29, 5:34PM
Mock the lowly QR code as you may. But people actually use it. In China. We already knew that QR codes were popular in Japan, but they never quite took off in Western markets. However, they are finding new life in the world’s biggest market as consumers scan codes to find friends on Tencent’s WeChat messaging app or follow accounts on Sina Weibo. Today in Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker’s always anticipated data dump, she had a few slides showing how QR codes are taking off in China. The number of codes scanned per month is up by fourfold year-over-year in China as people are using them to pay for goods, exchange information or redeem promotions and coupons. China is now seeing 9 million QR codes scanned every month up from two million per month a year before, according to a local QR code study Meeker cited. I myself witnessed such behavior in Beijing a few weeks ago. At first, I wanted to mock. But then after seeing QR code use in the wild several times, I stood corrected. Meeker showed how QR codes are even being used by the U.K. embassy in Beijing. People can scan them to follow the U.K. government’s account on Sina Weibo, the microblogging platform that has 46 million daily active users in China. Or more bizarrely, one cemetery in Shenyang has even proposed using QR codes on gravestones to call up people’s obituaries. QR code-focused startups like Israel’s Visualead have latched onto this trend by pushing more aggressively into Asia over Western markets.Facebook Unveils Verified Pages And Profiles, Takes A Page From Twitter's Playbook
May 29, 5:12PM
Facebook has just announced a new verified feature for pages and profiles, designed to give high-profile accounts an added level of authenticity. This is clearly a straightforward copy of Twitter's own verified accounts, and even features a similar, small blue checkmark to indicate that a person or business is indeed the legitimate account holder. The mark appears on the pages themselves, as well as in search results and throughout the site.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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