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New Yorkers Get Free Power In The Parks
Jun 19, 1:38AM
Months after Hurricane Sandy left New York scrambling for power, the city is unveiling 25 solar powered charging stations in parks and public spaces throughout the five boroughs, starting today. The pilot project between AT&T and the city of New York is officially called AT&T Street Charge. (DUMBO firm pensa handled design, and Goal Zero provided the solar technology, AT&T handled the cash.) The stations will move to new locations at the beginning of July, rotating throughout the city until September. After that, we'll see what becomes of them.Vine Will Survive!
Jun 19, 12:23AM
Instagram is planning to launch video functionality in two days. But don't go deleting Vine just yet. Before shoving Vine's into the deadpool, let's just calm it down a second. Vine has been declared by many as the "Instagram for Video." Instagram's own video product is likely already too late to squash Vine like a bug. Heck, Facebook couldn't even get Poke and Messenger off the ground after incumbents clobbered the space. What makes anyone think Instagram video would be any different?Facebook iOS 6.2 Lets You Easily Change Who You Just Shared That Racy Pic With
Jun 18, 10:19PM
It happened to me. Yes, I once uploaded a pic of my friend to Facebook from my phone, forgot to change the setting from "Public" to "Friends" and had the friend get told that day by a random person: "Hey I just saw a picture of you on Alexia from TechCrunch's wall!" So now I'm circumspect. Apparently this social media disaster was happening to more people, because Facebook just fixed it -- at least on iOS. (Foiled again Android!)TC Cribs: Quirky, The NYC Startup Where Unique Inventions Are Brought To Life
Jun 18, 9:53PM
More and more jobs deal in the virtual realm, and are done by people sitting down at desks at computers. Desk work can be made interesting in its own ways, but it's always fun to visit a company that's actually making physical stuff. So for this episode of TechCrunch Cribs, we jetted over to New York City to check out the headquarters of Quirky, a startup founded back in 2009 with the aim of "making invention accessible." Quirky is a company that crowdsources ideas for unique physical products -- gadgets, kitchenware, furniture, and the like -- and manufactures them at large-scale production so that they can be actually sold in stores.Google Fights Spying Gag Order, But Key Details Would Be Missing Even If Successful
Jun 18, 9:34PM
As it promised it would, Google is fighting the government's gag order on releasing how many users are monitored by the National Security Agency. Unlike Facebook and Microsoft, Google and Twitter publicly rejected a government deal to disclose the total number of spying warrants for user data, which would include (but not detail) the number of requests coming from the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA).The Series A Round Is The New Series B Round
Jun 18, 9:11PM
Editor's note: Jeff Jordan is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and is on the boards of Airbnb, Belly, Fab, Circle, Crowdtilt, Lookout and Pinterest, as well as Wealthfront and Zoosk. The venture industry is awash with talk of the "Series A Crunch." In my short two-year tenure as a full-time investor, I've seen this crunch hit very hard at a number of quality, early-stage consumer companies. Why is this happening?GameStick Android Console Ship Date Delayed Until August To Refine UI
Jun 18, 8:37PM
Android home gaming consoles are nearly arriving for the consumer market, but one at least needs a little more time in the oven to bake. It's the GameStick, the super portable USB-stick style device that plugs into an open HDMI port on your TV to turn it into an Android-powered gaming machine, and its release schedule is being pushed back another month until August, with a retail launch to follow after that, because of a need to gather more feedback related to the GameStick UI so that it can be refined prior to wide release.The Offline Glass Ensures You Talk, Not Text, At The Bar
Jun 18, 8:14PM
Tired of your friends texting on their phones while they should be getting schnockered? This clever hack is called the Offline Glass and it's designed to ensure that you and your friends don't sit at the bar checking Wikipedia for who starred in The Greatest American Hero and whether Tabitha will totally come out tonight oh my god she won't she and Christian just broke up oh god she's with Raul and Paula and maybe she'll come in an hour! In fact, you can't hold your phone because of the unique shape of the glass' bottom.Adobe's Q2 Earnings Beat Street With $1.011B In Revenue, $0.36 EPS, 700K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers
Jun 18, 8:08PM
Adobe just reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2013. The company reported revenue of $1.011 billion and non-GAAP operating income of $247.3 for an earnings per share of $0.36 (though diluted GAAP earnings were only $0.15). That's a little bit better than most analysts expected, especially with respect to the company's earnings per share.Please Join Us For The 8th Annual August Capital Party: July 26 In Silicon Valley
Jun 18, 7:44PM
It's that time of the year again for us nerds to infiltrate Sand Hill Road, let loose, and enjoy some good food and libations. We've been hosting the TechCrunch summer party with VC firm August Capital since 2006. This year, as in years past, we'll be partying on August Capital's beautiful, sunny Sand Hill balcony on Friday, July 26. The party starts at 5:30 p.m. and goes til 9:00 p.m.Kazam Is Another European Startup Hoping Against Hope To Inch In To The Smartphone Hardware Market
Jun 18, 7:05PM
Hardware is so hot right now. So hot, in fact, that another European hardware startup is formulating an attack on the smartphone hardware space -- joining the likes of Finland's Jolla and Spain's Geeksphone to have a go at handset making. The newest comer stepping in with a plan to shake up the "status quo" is called Kazam: a startup co-founded by a pair of former U.K. HTC execs.Weather Could Be Next On The Auction Block For Crowdsourced Data
Jun 18, 6:09PM
Waze's big exit to Google proved one thing: if companies can harness the power of the crowd to deliver real-time, granular data, big tech corporations will be watching them closely as potential acquisition targets. There's another category ripe for the picking, even if the problem being solved isn't as apparent or immediately useful as traffic and navigation data: weather. A few apps are trying to harness the crowd to provide accurate, ground-level forecasts and conditions, and they're catching on with consumers, too.Google Updates Local Search Results On Desktop With Carousel Design
Jun 18, 5:45PM
At the end of last year, Google introduced a new design for some local search results on tablets that put a carousel with the top results at the top of the page. Today, it's bringing this design to the desktop, too. This new feature can be triggered by searches for restaurants, bars and other local places, Google says, and it's currently rolling out in English in the U.S. and should roll out for other languages in the future.Amazon's New Social Gifting Service "Amazon Birthday Gift" Leverages Facebook, Competes With Facebook's Own Gifts
Jun 18, 5:28PM
Stealing a page right out of a startup called Aggregift's playbook, Amazon today launched a new feature called "Amazon Birthday Gift," which allows a group of Facebook friends to go in on an Amazon.com Gift Card together. That gift isn't posted to the recipients' Facebook Timeline until their big day arrives.Torch Browser Passes 10 Million Monthly Active Users, Adds Download Accelerator, Updates Torch Music Service
Jun 18, 5:07PM
The world of alternative browsers is littered with also-rans like Rockmelt, but there are also companies that have managed to make a name for themselves in the shadow of Microsoft, Mozilla and Google. One example of this is Maxthon, but another browser that's quietly gaining a following is Torch, which the company tells us just passed 10 million monthly active users on Mac and Windows after about year on the market.Rounds Brings Co-browsing To Mobile To Let Friends Surf The Web Together During Live Video Chats
Jun 18, 5:00PM
Rounds, the video chat app and Israeli startup backed by $5.5 million in funding from Verizon Investments, Rhodium and DFJ's Tim Draper among others, has been slowly expanding across platforms. Originally built as a Facebook-centric experience, Rounds expanded to the desktop last summer, launched Mac and Windows apps to allow its users to send and receive video calls without using their browser or signing into Facebook. A few months later, Rounds went mobile, officially debuting its first native apps for iOS and Android.Homejoy Announces A Perks Program, So Companies Can Pay To Clean Their Employees' Homes
Jun 18, 4:37PM
As startups compete for the best talent, Homejoy is announcing a way for companies to offer employees an additional perk — a clean home. Home cleanings may not be a standard perk yet, but they're not an entirely new idea, either. Last fall, The New York Times wrote that in Silicon Valley, "the employee perk is moving from the office to the home," with both Evernote and the Stanford School of Medicine experimenting with offering housecleaning to their employees. That can be especially appealing when startups ask teams to work long hours, so they don't have time to clean their homes themselves.TheLadders Debuts Its First-Ever iOS App, As It Aims To Make Being 'Mobile Last' Also Mobile Best
Jun 18, 4:15PM
The mobile wave has been cresting for several years now, so when a decade-old web company is only now debuting its first ever native mobile app, it's a little late to the game. The folks at TheLadders, which is launching its first iOS app this morning, understand that -- but they are angling to make their "mobile last" strategy work in their favor in the long run. It is indeed a beautiful app, and you can see it demonstrated by TheLadders' co-founder and CEO Alex Douzet in the video embedded above.Developers Can Now Ship Hard Drives To Google To Import Large Amounts Of Data To Cloud Storage
Jun 18, 4:07PM
Google just added a new service to Google Cloud Storage that will allow developers to send their hard drives to Google to import very large data sets that would otherwise be too expensive and time-consuming to import. For a flat fee of $80 per hard drive, Google will take the drive and upload the data into a Cloud Storage bucket. This, Google says, can be "faster or less expensive than transferring data over the Internet." The service is now in limited preview for users with a U.S.-based return address.GetGlue Hires Digital Media Veteran Evan Krauss As President To Boost Monetization Of Its Second-Screen Apps
Jun 18, 3:45PM
Second screen startup GetGlue just keeps on trucking. Originally launched as an app for checking in to your favorite TV shows and collecting stickers, the company has been steadily expanding its business to include content discovery for shows on the iPad or on your TV. Now it's hired longtime digital media exec Evan Krauss as President to help with that.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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