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The YouTube Paradox And The Off-YouTube Solution
Jun 17, 2:00AM
A growing number of YouTube creators and multichannel networks are beginning to grumble about the revenue share that the site has with its partners and their inability to monetize their huge audience of viewers on the site. And, increasingly, they're looking for off-YouTube solutions to better distribute and monetize their videos.Apple Is Building A Beautiful New Store To Overshadow Microsoft In Palo Alto [Images]
Jun 17, 12:34AM
Apple is building a big, visually stunning store in the Stanford shopping center. A few hundred yards from the construction site sits a small, modest Apple location. Last spring, Microsoft opened a flagship spot right next to the small Apple store with a free Maroon 5 concert. This new flagship location offers enormous space for testing new retail products.U.S. Government Denies Reports That NSA Listens To Domestic Calls Without Legal Authorization
Jun 16, 11:54PM
Yesterday, a CNET story that alleged that the NSA disclosed during a secret Capital Hill briefing that its analysts can listen to domestic phone calls "simply based on an analyst deciding that," got a lot of play in the tech and political blogosphere. Today, however, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a statement that denounces this story as "incorrect."What Games Are: E3 Was Wild, But AAA Games Are Still A Mess
Jun 16, 9:00PM
E3 was wild and loud, and Sony seemed to rise while Microsoft fell low. Yet it doesn't really change anything as regards the long-term future of big budget consoe games. With costs continuing to escalate and the break-even point passing 5,6 or 10 million copies, the next generation will be the last for some.Speed And Automating The Connections Between Humans And Machines In The API Economy
Jun 16, 8:22PM
This coming Friday night, I'll be at the API Days conference in San Francisco to talk for a few minutes about my perspectives of the API economy. I am not a developer -- just an observer -- so my views are not deeply technical. That just means I have to ask more questions and talk to more people about APIs and what they represent.
But then I have to simmer it down, collect my thoughts, and then ask some more questions. Here are two themes I am picking up on from all these conversations.Mayor Bloomberg Tells Stanford Graduates To Go To NYC For Tech
Jun 16, 6:38PM
No other university in the world has so profoundly shaped our modern age," New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today in his commencement speech at Stanford University. Bloomberg's speech was relevant to both the tech and Stanford communities, and often self serving, as he touched on entrepreneurship, immigration reform, and marriage equality.Google Pledges $5M To Fight Online Child Exploitation
Jun 16, 5:47PM
The Internet has plenty of dark corners, but one of the darkest is surely the growing number of sites that traffic in child pornography. Google, which has no interest in surfacing any of these sites and images, has long worked with numerous non-profit organizations and law enforcement agencies to help protect children online and keep these sites out of its index. The company has, however, recently been criticized by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and others for not doing enough to fight child pornography online.Iterations: Man Vs. (The Government) Machine
Jun 16, 5:00PM
In 2013, we have seen a reincarnation of "man vs. machine," except this time, the machines aren't algorithms -- the machine is government. Within a few months, various levels of government across the United States have made headlines with respect to new technologies, products, and services. Unmanned aerial drones, which have a touchy relationship with citizens worldwide already, present complicated scenarios. The Texas state government, for instance, recently banned drones for most private use; the state of North Carolina is considering a ban on direct sales of Tesla vehicles; Airbnb was deemed illegal in New York state by a judge; ride-sharing startups like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar face constant threats and hurdles as they expand outside of the Bay Area; and of course, there's Bitcoin, where Mt. Gox suffered a recent Fed crackdown as the most active exchange for the popular crypto-currency. The ways things are going, 3-D printers will be banned because some fanatic will hack software that lets him print a 3-D gun.
A Handy Guide For Comparing Spying Vs. Terrorism Disaster Scenarios
Jun 16, 4:19PM
The week’s news has been a fear-mongering marathon between civil libertarians who are convinced we’re on the road to becoming North Korea, and security hawks who are building bunkers for the inevitable post-cyberattack hell scape. Unfortunately, because the most important facts about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs are top secret, the entire debate has consisted of fear-driven hypotheticals. We can’t change that fact. But! We can make NSA disaster scenarios easier to compare by detailing the relative harms of privacy invasion vs. terrorist threats in a handy guide on their probability and scope. In ascending order of paranoia, I compare privacy vs. security trade-offs, and conclude with a section that makes sense of why some people fear surveillance more than terrorists. Paranoia Level: Reads A Newspaper - Defense Tax Bill Vs. Fear Staycations Cost Comparison: $85 Billion Vs. $75 Billion We know for sure that both defense and fear of terrorists is burning a hole in America’s pocketbook. Terrorist-driven aversion to flying and tourism has resulted in an estimated $85 billion in lost revenue, according to Eli Berman, an associate professor of economics at University of California, San Diego. In a bit of delightful parity, the combined cost of the U.S. intelligence apparatus is $75 billion, including $1.7 billion for the NSA’s massive new 1-million-square-foot Utah campus, which houses all the servers it needs to retain America’s vast collection of porn, Justin Bieber tweets and cat videos. Paranoia Level: Has Purell on a keychain - Stealing Company Secrets Vs. Self-Censorship Cost: Innovation Vs. Open Dialogue "Surveillance inclines us to the mainstream and the boring," wrote Washington University law professor Neil Richards, who argues that the watch-tower effect of omnipresent government spying throttles open dialogue. Personally, I do find myself avoiding the word “terrorist” in emails because I have a vague sense I’ll get flagged by some government agency. On the security side, some are reasonably worried about theft of company secrets. We know that Chinese hackers are fans of corporate espionage; in one instance, stolen data from Coca-Cola preceded their failed $2.4 billion acquisition of the China Huiyuan Juice Group. According to security firm Mandiant, the Chinese top-level hacking unit, was "busy rummaging through their computers in an apparent effort to learn more about Coca-Cola's negotiation strategy." It’s just as possible that the Russian and Middle Eastern terror cells being tracked by the NSA are also stealing corporate secrets, which could cause more widespread piracy and throttlingSciencescape Wants To Solve Academic Research Discoverability, Deal With The Noise Problem
Jun 16, 3:30PM
Toronto-based startup Sciencescape came about because of a problem that was significant enough to lure co-founder Sam Molyneux away from a bourgeoning career as a cancer researcher, and into a new venture that wants to tackle the bigger picture issue of fixing the entire system of academic, medical and scientific research. It's a system that's incredibly outdated, the Sciencescape team believes, and one that's ripe for change.Up Close With Casio's Latest Edifice Surf Watch
Jun 16, 6:30AM
With summer coming and surf season in full swing, I thought I'd take a closer look at the Casio EMA100-1AV Edifice watch with tide graph and moon-phase data. Casio is best known for their G-Shock line of beefy (and some would say ugly) plastic sports watches so this steel-cased model is a departure for the brand. Casio announced the watch in April and it is on sale now for $250.The Curse Of The Network Effect
Jun 16, 4:00AM
Editor's Note: Nir Eyal writes about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business for Dashboard.io and on his blog NirAndFar.com. Ethan Stock lived the Silicon Valley dream. He had recently sold his company to eBay and emanated the tanned skin and relaxed composure you'd expect of someone who just cashed a big corporate check. But as we sat across from one another in a Palo Alto coffee shop, I was surprised by what he said next. "Mediocrity is worse than failure, you know?" For seven years before the acquisition, Stock served as the founding CEO of Zvents, an online guide for local events. Though he was successful by anyone's standards, I could tell he was a guy who, like me, had learned some hard lessons.For Some Reason, Square's Hiring Page Listed Chirply And SeatMe As 'Potential Acquisitions'
Jun 16, 3:08AM
So, this is weird. Earlier today, if you visited the Square's hiring page on Jobvite, there were two unusual job listings, one for "Chirply — Potential Acquisition" and another for "SeatMe — Potential Acquisition." If those were accurate statements, well, that's a pretty strange way to announce a pair of pending deals. But before you start sending out those congratulatory tweets and emails, I should note that a source with knowledge of the matter told me that Square is not pursuing an acquisition of those companies. (A company spokesperson declined to comment.)The Secret Science Behind Big Data And Word Of Mouth
Jun 16, 1:00AM
Editor's note: Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School and author of the New York Times bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch On. Why do some companies, products and services get more word of mouth than others? It's not luck. There's a science behind it. Social media gurus always preach that no one talks about boring products or boring ideas. So you would think that more interesting products and brands get talked about more. Surprisingly, novel things get brought up more than mundane ones.Hampton Creek Foods Shows Off Its Egg-Less Scrambled Eggs
Jun 15, 11:40PM
Hampton Creek Foods, a food tech startup backed by Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, is getting ready to expand beyond its initial product Beyond Eggs — though it's not leaving eggs behind entirely. The company recently released the YouTube video embedded below, which gives a brief glimpse of its upcoming scrambled egg replacer. And founder/CEO Josh Tetrick told me that he just got off-stage at TEDxEdmonton, where he gave the full demo.Tristan O'Tierney, Square's Co-Founder And Early iOS Engineer, Leaves For Destinations Unknown
Jun 15, 10:11PM
Tristan O'Tierney, a co-founder at payment company Square, announced via tweet that yesterday was his last day at the company. O'Tierney is less well-known than his co-founders, particularly the company's CEO Jack Dorsey, but according to his LinkedIn profile (where he describes himself as an iOS engineer), his accomplishments include building the original iPhone app, as well as being a "large contributor" to its first iPad app, the first Pay with Square product, and the Register app.Blue Apps Are All Around But Blue Tones Get Less Of A Role In iOS 7′s Psychedelic Redesign
Jun 15, 10:00PM
Why are so many apps blue? The obvious answer is many tech brands contain blue in their logo or tradedress. But why? What's with the love of blue tones? I ask because the number of blue icons on my phone has reached a kind of tipping point where I'm often firing up the wrong (blue) app. Apple's iOS 7 redesign is also pushing away from using lots of blue, towards a more balanced multicoloured look.Doing Mobile Monetization The Right Way
Jun 15, 9:00PM
Editor's note: Chris Moore is a partner at Redpoint Ventures where he focuses on making investments in consumer Internet, online marketing and SaaS companies. This year alone, there is an $11.4 billion mobile advertising opportunity, which means there is tremendous upside for nimble and innovative startups with disruptive mobile-first models. As we saw from Facebook last year, the company was able to turn around and actually make something of its mobile business – a business that didn't exist at the time of IPO. However, despite the potential of the market, and Facebook's early success, we're still a long way from realizing the promise of the mobile medium.CrunchWeek: Path's $1B Valuation, Google's Waze Buy And The WWDC Recap
Jun 15, 8:08PM
It's that time of the week for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the weekly show where three of us writers plop ourselves down in the TechCrunch TV studio for some real talk about the most interesting stories from the past seven days. Colleen Taylor, Greg Kumparak and I chatted this week about private social network Path's rumored $1 billion valuation and the company's growth to 12 million users, which has been questioned over the past few months.Silicon Valley Real Estate Update: The Craziest Market In The U.S. Just Got A Little Less Crazy
Jun 15, 7:00PM
Editor's note:Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin, a technology-powered real estate broker backed by Madrona Venture Group and Greylock Partners. Well what do you know! After writing on TechCrunch for the past year about how Silicon Valley's Gatsbyesque wealth couldn't find much real estate to buy, Bay Area inventory is up. Bidding wars are down. And rising rates are squeezing buyers who have to borrow money. Below is Redfin's quarterly rundown of what's happening in Silicon Valley real estate.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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