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StartX, The Stanford-Affiliated Startup Accelerator, Kicks Off Spring 2013 Demo Day With 10 Company Debuts
May 31, 1:05AM
StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, is just about to kick off Demo Day for its Summer 2013 startup class at AOL's Silicon Valley headquarters in Palo Alto this evening. The non-profit StartX program, which was launched in 2010 as SSE Labs, aims to provide Stanford students with entrepreneurial ambitions the tools and connections they need to bridge the gap between dreaming of a concept and creating a real company. This evening at Demo Day, 10 companies are making their debuts, while five StartX alums will be returning to provide updates on their companies' progress.With $200K In New Funding, Photo-Centric Rental App RadPad Comes To Austin
May 31, 12:57AM
RadPad is one of those startups that comes from a founder's real-world experience — specifically, Jonathan Eppers (a former product manager at eHarmony and Myspace) said that he was trying to find a new apartment in Los Angeles, and he was frustrated to discover that the process is still more complicated and painful that it needs to be.Apple's New Product Strategy
May 30, 11:09PM
Apple appears to be on a kick of delivering product refreshes to punctuate its major release cycle, with changes to devices and tweaked versions that go beyond what it has done in terms of spec refreshes in the past. It looks like we could see a new era of light changes in direction to cater to market trends and optimize product viability under Tim Cook, which in many ways makes sense for a man known as a supply chain maestro.Wise.io Debuts Machine Learning Service That Offers To The Public What Google Builds For Itself
May 30, 10:00PM
Google, LinkedIn and Amazon have thousands of engineers who point their work inward to build better recommendations, search and other Internet-scale features. Wise.io is launching today to offer a similar form of machine learning that does the inverse by pointing its technology outward for people to use. It's not to say that Wise.io will necessarily compete against these companies. It's just to point out the company's machine learning as a service is something that can be used by anyone to solve problems that now takes hundreds or thousands of people to do.
It's the kind of company a scientist studying the great beyond would start. Someone like Joshua Bloom, the founder of Wise.io and a former professor of astrophysics from the University of California at Berkeley who launched his company today at the Alchemist Accelerator Demo Day. The company will now join the Citrix Startup Accelerator program and receive seed funding as well an undisclosed investment from the Alchemist group.Google Loses Key Maps Engineering Director Raj Shah To Microsoft's Online Services Division
May 30, 9:45PM
Microsoft just made a key hire that could help it re-energize its online mapping services. Raj Shah, who was previously heading up Google's worldwide maps operations as the Engineering Director for Maps, will join Microsoft's Online Services Division, where he will likely work on Bing Maps and its related products. Microsoft confirmed to us that Shah is indeed joining Microsoft, but declined to provide any details beyond this.SuperCalendar Aims To Fix Your Scheduling Woes With A Mix Of Tech And 'Superhuman' Power
May 30, 9:45PM
Even though every major tech company in the world, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, has tried to tackle scheduling, the reality is that the options suck. If we can't afford a real personal assistant to bug us about every step we're supposed to take on a given day, we're not doing a great job of keeping our schedules straight.SoftBank Capital Raises $50M To Invest Exclusively In New York Startups
May 30, 8:58PM
Good news, everyone! Well, everyone who's trying to raise capital in New York, at least. SoftBank Capital, the investment arm of Japanese mega-carrier Softbank Corp., has just announced that they've raised $50 million that they plan to invest entirely into early-stage New York startups.GumGum's New 'Canvas' Ad Unit Takes Over Publisher Images
May 30, 7:15PM
In-image advertising company GumGum has launched a bigger, more attention-grabbing ad unit — one that it says is the industry's first in-image takeover. The company is calling the new unit the Canvas, and it's launching the first ads with digital agency Moxie as part of a campaign promoting The Rocket Mascara from L'Oreal's Maybelline unit. When an image first loads up with the ad, the mascara actually flies across the picture, then there's a quick ad that takes over the entire image space, and it finally settles into a more standard GumGum banner at the bottom. You can see a sample ad here.How Adzerk Made It Big (With Reddit's Help)
May 30, 6:50PM
When James Avery of Adzerk met Alexis Ohanian in New York at an online advertising conference last year, he was ready. He had been angling to work with Reddit, the popular sharing site Ohanian had co-founded, for two years. After a brief exchange, Ohanian introduced Avery to the programming team in a few short months the deal was done.Fan TV Is A Next-Generation Set-Top Box For Live TV, DVR, VOD, And Streaming Services Like Netflix
May 30, 6:10PM
Video discovery startup Fanhattan is getting ready to change the way that viewers watch TV, with a new streaming set-top box that combines all of the best parts of TV, DVR, and VOD, while also giving users access to all their favorite streaming services. The box powers a universal search across all those things, and is powered by a beautiful, trackpad-like remote control.SuccessFactors Founder And SAP Exec Lars Dalgaard Joins Andreessen Horowitz As General Partner
May 30, 6:00PM
Andreessen Horowitz is boosting its investing team today with the addition of SuccessFactors Founder and SAP Exec Lars Dalgaard as General Partner.Tumblr Brings More Ads To Users' Dashboards, Rearranges Buttons & Teens Freak Out
May 30, 5:46PM
A month after Tumblr introduced sponsored posts into its native mobile applications, the company is today bringing those same brand advertisements to its web dashboard. Launch partners for these new "Sponsored Web Posts," as they're called, include Viacom, Ford Motor Company, Universal Pictures, Capital One, AT&T, Denny's and Purina. Tumblr users will be able to reblog, like, follow and share these ads and the brands themselves directly from their web dashboard, which of course, is what we know all the Tumblr-lovin' teens are just dying to do. Like Tumblr's sidebar "Radar" ads, the new sponsored posts will be marked with an animated dollar sign icon to indicate that they are paid placements.Edukart Raises $500K To Bring Better Online Education To India And The Developing World
May 30, 5:43PM
Launched in late 2011 by Stanford grad and ex-Facebooker Ishan Gupta, Delhi-based EduKart is on a mission to bring online education to India and the developing world. Today, the startup announced that it has raised $500K in seed capital from a handful of institutional and angel investors. Participants include Kima Ventures, AKM Systems, Vibhor Mehra and Stanford alumni. The investment adds to the $500K the startup had previously raised from One97 Communications founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Providence Capital Director Manish Kheterpal.The Double Robotics iPad-Equipped Teleconferencing Robot Is Shipping
May 30, 5:22PM
It's impossible to be in two places at once. But Double Robotics, a wheel-equipped robot with an iPad for a face, has finally made that possible. The company has begun shipping units of the Double to customers who pre-ordered and coughed up the $2,000 to get one. In fact, the first hundred are already safely in the homes and lives of their new owners.Grouper Talks Competition, Partnerships, And Why Group Dates Offer Built-In Credibility
May 30, 5:07PM
Grouper has been around since 2011, breaking into the world of online dating by forcing a group situation. The service matches you with singles you may enjoy canoodling with, but asks that each party bring two of their friends for a group date-style situation. But the past year has brought a fierce new round of competitors to the online dating space, such as Tinder and Lulu. We caught up with founder Michael Waxman at Time Inc.'s 10 NYC Startups To Watch party to discuss competition, the value of partnerships, and how Grouper deals with transparency between users.Twitter's Mobile Crash Reporting Tool Crashlytics Arrives On Android
May 30, 5:04PM
As promised at the time of its acquisition by Twitter, mobile crash reporting tool Crashlytics has not stopped development. In February, it opened up its enterprise features to all for free, and today the company released the long-awaited solution for Android devices with the launch of the Android SDK.Google Makes Its First Renewable Energy Investment In Africa, Puts $12M Toward South African Solar Plant
May 30, 4:38PM
Google today announced that it is investing $12 million in a 96 megawatt solar photovoltaic plant in South Africa. This marks Google's first renewable energy investment in Africa and its 12th overall renewable energy investment. Once it's completed, Google says, the Jasper Power Project, which is situated in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, will generate enough power for 30,000 South African homes. In total, Google has now committed more than $1 billion to green energy projects.Google's Sundar Pichai Says Google Play Music All Access Is Coming To iOS In A Few Weeks
May 30, 4:10PM
Google has made a number of its apps and services available on multiple devices. Sundar Pichai, Google's SVP of Android, Chrome, and Apps, announced at the D11 Conference that there's another service that'll soon be available on iOS: the Google Play Music service. Google's answer to iTunes and Spotify was previously only available on the web and Android. According to Pichai, it will launch on Apple's operating system in "a few weeks."Gillmor Gang Live 05.30.13 (TCTV)
May 30, 4:05PM
Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording for today has concluded.Telly Releases Android Tablet App As It Approaches 70K Likes Per Week On Google's Mobile OS
May 30, 4:00PM
Video discovery service Telly is launching its social video app on Android tablets today, a key step for the company as Google's mobile OS becomes more important to its overall strategy and audience. Android engagement is growing quickly, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively, with Likes per week growing at a rapid pace, jumping from below 50,000 the week of May 17, to over 70,000 during the week of May 24. Telly also had 4.8 million views across all mobile platforms last week, which was up from 3 million the week prior.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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