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Google Glass Updated With HDR Photography And Voice-Powered Photo Captions
Jun 05, 12:16AM
Are you part of the lucky bunch that got offered a pair of Google Glass and had $1,500 bucks to kick down? Good news! The camera on your set just got a whole lot better. Following up on their promise to update Google Glass every month, Google has just released a patch that brings two important photo-centric features to their robo-eyewear: HDR photography and on-the-fly photo captions.TC Cribs: Asana, Where Zen Yoga And Knife-Wielding Drones Are All In A Day's Work
Jun 04, 11:30PM
Summer is just about here and the time is right for another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the tech industry's most buzz-worthy companies to see what it's really like for the smarty pants people who work there. This time we headed over to the San Francisco headquarters of Asana, the company that makes cloud-based task management and collaboration software. You might not think that building and selling enterprise technology products is a relaxed business, but Asana's office really lived up to its zen name.With $12M Burning A Hole In Its Pocket, London's YPlan Wants New York To Be More Socially Spontaneous
Jun 04, 11:01PM
Yplan, the London-based startup that's building a platform for selling last-minute event-booking on mobile, has closed a $12 million (£7.9 million) Series A, led by General Catalyst Partners. Existing investors Wellington Partners and Octopus Investments also participated in the round, plus a group of co-investors, including A-Grade, Kevin Colleran and David Morin's SLOW Ventures Fund.DC Says Readers Are Downloading 1M Digital Comics Each Month, Announces New Interactive Features
Jun 04, 10:49PM
DC Entertainment is announcing two new technologies today that should give readers more opportunity to interact with their digital comics. The company is also sharing some numbers about the growth that it's seeing on the digital side. Co-Publisher Jim Lee told me that the new features are "the next evolutionary step in our digital publishing program." There's DC², which adds dynamic layers to a panel. Readers can swipe through multiple elements (like word balloons) and images within a single panel, giving the writer and artist an opportunity to pack more story and content into a given space and, in Lee's words, "explore and bend the rules of traditional storytelling."U.S. ITC Finds Apple Violates Samsung Patent, Issues Limited Import Ban On AT&T iPhone 4, 3GS And Some iPads
Jun 04, 9:23PM
Apple has been found to be in violation of a Samsung patent, which has resulted in a limited import ban on certain products, including the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, original iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G, all only for AT&T-specific models. More details are emerging about the ruling, but it's likely this affects only older devices on AT&T because it relates to a specific component used before wider release of the iPhone with multi-band support.Atlassian Bitbucket Passes 1 Million Users, Another Validation Of The Fast-Growing Developer Market
Jun 04, 9:00PM
In September 2010, Atlassian acquired Bitbucket, the service for code collaboration, similar to GitHub. At the time, the service had 45,000 users. Today it has 1 million users, a validation that the market for developer tools in the enterprise is growing fast. We know that GitHub has had tremendous growth. In January, the service passed the 3 million user mark. But with such growth also for Bitbucket, it's apparent that code collaboration is going mainstream.Facebook To Webcast Its First-Ever Stockholders Meeting June 11th
Jun 04, 8:49PM
Facebook's board of directors and stockholders will convene on June 11th, and anyone will be able to virtually sit in as Facebook today announced it will webcast its first stockholder's meeting. The move will likely set a precedent for webcasting future Facebook stockholders meetings, similar to how Google does, but in contrast to Apple's un-streamed assemblies.Google's New Content Experiments API Turns Google Analytics Into A Full-Blown A/B Testing Platform
Jun 04, 7:20PM
Google today launched its new Content Experiments API, a tool that allows developers to easily test their sites' content with programmatic optimization. The new API is deeply integrated with Google Analytics, so developers can use all of Analytics' power to measure their different optimizations. Indeed, as Google describes it, "this API makes Google Analytics a full-blown A/B testing platform where developers of all types can leverage the power of Google Analytics to run their experiments."3 Silly Abuses Obama's Patent Troll Executive Order Could Stop
Jun 04, 6:45PM
Allowing for the legal ownership of ideas has some silly unintended consequences. "Dumbass patents are crushing small businesses," Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban once told me. Roughly a third of startups have been threatened with patent violations, often by entities built solely to scare small businesses into settling (so-called "patent troll"). President Obama has decided to go after the universally loathed business entity with a few very specific executive orders.Amazon Reportedly Looking To Expand Grocery Business, Roll Out AmazonFresh Beyond Seattle
Jun 04, 6:41PM
Amazon has had an ongoing experiment for the past half-decade called AmazonFresh, which offers grocery service and delivery of fresh produce to customers in its home base of Seattle. That program is on the verge of a significant expansion, according to a new report from Reuters today. Amazon is looking to offer AmazonFresh-type services in markets outside of Seattle later this year, including LA and San Francisco, with 20 other new markets on the roadmap for 2014, including some beyond U.S. shores.Berlin's Network Effect Will Make It A Global Startup Center
Jun 04, 6:30PM
Editor's note: Matt Cohler is a General Partner at Benchmark and was the lead investor in Asana, Instagram and Quora among others. Throw a dart at a map. There's a pretty good chance it'll hit near someplace hoping to become the "next Silicon Valley." I'd bet on Berlin. I believe Berlin has the best shot in the Western world outside of Silicon Valley at becoming a place with a true tech startup ecosystem. I don't just mean a place where one or two great companies are born — that can happen pretty much anywhere. I mean a place with an enduring ecosystem powered by a network effect that gets stronger over time. Like what Hollywood is for entertainment, London and New York are for big finance, Milan and Paris are for fashion, and Silicon Valley is for technology.Bose Reveals SoundLink Mini Bluetooth Speaker And QuietComfort 20 In-Ear Headphones With "Aware Mode"
Jun 04, 6:19PM
Today Bose is announcing two new products to its lineup, with the introduction of the SoundLink Mini Bluetooth speaker and the QuietComfort 20 In-Ear headphones. Both offer the same high quality audio Bose prides itself on, and the company claims that the in-ear headphone in particular required more patents than any headphone in history. Let's just get down to brass tax, then, yes?Google Updates Gmail For iPhone With Support For New Auto-Categorized Inbox And Improved Notifications
Jun 04, 6:07PM
As promised, Google today launched the latest version of Gmail for iPhone. Just like the new Android version, which rolled out yesterday, the iOS version now offers support for Google’s new auto-categorized emails for updates, promotions, newsletters and messages from your social networks. If this new feature has already been enabled for your Gmail account, you will now be able to see a summary of these updates in your inbox and you can access the different categories from the app’s slide-out sidebar menu. The app adheres to the categorization settings you set on your desktop, so if you activate or deactivate a category there, it’ll also disappear on Gmail’s mobile apps. As Alex Gawley, Google's product manager for Gmail, told me when the company first announced this feature, Google is using slightly different approach to how it displays these notifications on Android and iOS. The implementation, he told me, should feel native on both operating systems. On Android, the notifications show up in the stream with their respective labels, but on iOS, the message in the inbox just says “New categorized email” with a brief summary underneath it. Also New: Improved Notifications, Open Links With Chrome, Maps And YouTube With this update, Google is also introducing an improved notification system. You can now choose if you just want to get notified of messages that go into your primary inbox. This means you won’t get notifications for all of the social notifications, updates, promotions, etc. that Gmail now automatically moves to the other categories. If you get a lot of those kinds of messages, that’ll definitely cut down on the noise. Of course, if you want to see those notifications for all messages, you can do that, too – or you can just turn off all notifications. This feature, it seems, will only work for users who have also enabled the new inbox. Also new in this version is the ability to set Gmail to open links with its own Chrome, Maps and YouTube apps if available, as well as the ability to swipe left and right to move from one message to the next.Twitter Redesigns #Music To Further Highlight Charts, Offering A Hint Of What's To Come Site-Wide
Jun 04, 6:01PM
As we noted a few weeks ago, Twitter introduced charts for its #Music product. The company's intentions for the service aren't known, and it seems like they're taking somewhat of a public beta approach with it. Having said that, before the service launched, I noted that it could be the next "Top 40" phenomenon.With ExactTarget Acquisition, Salesforce.com Has Spent Close To $3.5 Billion To Get Into The Chief Marketing Officer's Suite
Jun 04, 5:26PM
Salesforce.com added more marketing power to its arsenal today with the purchase of ExactTarget for $2.5 billion. It is the company's largest acquisition to date, second to Buddy Media, which it bought last year for $689 million. In 2011, the company purchased social-monitoring platform Radian6 for $276 million in cash plus additional stock.Scripted Gets $4.5M Series A To Build Out Its Online Marketplace For Freelance Writers
Jun 04, 5:00PM
Freelance writing doesn't always have the reputation for being a hugely lucrative endeavor. But it looks like investors are seeing some bright spots there -- at least when it comes to technology platforms in the space. Scripted, the San Francisco startup that runs an online marketplace to connect freelance writers with companies who need written content, has raised $4.5 million in a new round of Series A funding led by Crosslink Capital and Redpoint Ventures.Playtox Raises $3M From Runa Capital To Take Its App Store-Shunning Mobile Browser MMOs Global
Jun 04, 4:58PM
Playtox, the Russian developer of free-to-play mobile browser-based games, has closed a $3 million Series A round of funding from VC firm Runa Capital. The company said it will use the funding to expand on the startup's massively multiplayer online (MMO) titles "globally," including the U.S., as well as in emerging markets.Google Will Soon Launch Google Web Designer, A Free HTML5 Development Tool For Creating Web Apps, Sites And Ads
Jun 04, 4:35PM
Google will soon launch Google Web Designer, an HTML5 development tool for "creative professionals." The service, Google says, will launch within "the coming months" and is meant to "empower creative professionals to create cutting-edge advertising as well as engaging web content like sites and applications - for free."To Reach A Different Kind Of Shopper, Men's Styling Service Trunk Club Arrives On iPhone
Jun 04, 4:18PM
Personal styling and retail platform Trunk Club is going mobile. After finding that around 40 percent of its website traffic is now coming from mobile devices, and around 75 to 80 percent of that comes from iOS devices in particular, the company is today introducing its first consumer-facing native application for iPhone. The app will allow users to access its personalized clothing service while on the go, and it also introduces a number of new features exclusive to mobile customers.Bill Gates, Benchmark And More Pour $35M Into ResearchGate, The Social Network For Scientists
Jun 04, 4:00PM
Ijad Madisch started ResearchGate in 2008 to change the scientific method, and depending on where you sit, that either is or isn't as ambitious as it sounds. Madisch isn't on a crusade to overturn the techniques scientists use to investigate and systematically observe phenomena, so much as the tools. Today, there's an incredible amount of scientific research taking place, whether it's in chemistry, physics, biology or any of the umpteen disciplines in between. However, typically, scientists, especially those who work in or around academia, live mostly in an offline world.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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