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Today's Acqui-Hires Will Become Tomorrow's Innovators
Jun 23, 1:00AM
Editor's note: Peter Relan is a former programmer and Internet executive, as well as a successful serial entrepreneur, Silicon Valley executive, angel investor, and technology veteran. There is no doubt about the unprecedented wealth of talent in Silicon Valley, both technical and entrepreneurial. The area has become known as a mecca, and for some the Wild West, of digital innovation. So many entrepreneurs migrate to the Valley in hopes of building the next Facebook or Twitter, and technical talent and engineers are the bread and butter making this possible.RIP Snapjoy: The Dropbox-Acquired Photo Service Is Shutting Down
Jun 22, 11:51PM
Snapjoy, the online photo storage service that Dropbox acquired in December, has some bad news today for its users: it is shutting down. The company noted the information in a blog post, as well as in an email it's currently sending out to users (I am among them: I'm copying the text below).CrunchWeek: Instagram Video; 3D Printing Startup MakerBot's Big Exit, And More Cash For Fab
Jun 22, 10:00PM
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. This week you'll notice that we decided to shoot the show from the middle of the TechCrunch office in San Francisco for a change of scenery.Stripe's Payments Payout Technology For Collaborative Consumption Startups Now Processing Up To $500K Per Day
Jun 22, 9:00PM
A few weeks ago, payments startup Stripe made it significantly easier for collaborative consumption startups to take and process payments. The company's new technology allowed for payments to be distributed to multiple bank accounts, which is an issue for startups like Lyft, which are attempting to pay drivers with different accounts from the accounts of users. Stripe says that the service has taken off, and the company is now paying out up to $500,000 per day in these payouts to collaborative consumption startups alone.RSS Readersplosion Shows A Lot Of Skating To Where The Puck Has Been
Jun 22, 7:00PM
Google Reader is turning off the lights in just over a week's time, but people will have no shortage of alternative options when it does die, since everyone and their brother is building an RSS reader to fill the perceived gap. It's hard to blame them; when Google announced the shutdown of Reader, it was as if millions of voices on the Internet suddenly cried out in terror, and were not silenced. If people are literally asking for a product en masse, that's probably something a product team in search of a project is going to hang their hat on.Facebook Adds Like Button To Mobile Messages, A One-Touch "OK"
Jun 22, 6:01PM
"Alright", "Yes", and the much-hated "k" just got a visual redesign. Facebook's iOS and Android apps have rolled out the option in messages to reply with a one-tap thumbs-up Like button sticker. It's a highly-functional flourish that replaces the greyed-out Send button when you haven't typed anything. And while it seems simple, I'm finding it quite satisfying.FTC To Review Google's Waze Acquisition On Antitrust Grounds
Jun 22, 5:15PM
Google's $1.1 billion acquisition of social mapping startup Waze has drawn the attention of the Federal Trade Commission after all. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Google has been contacted by FTC lawyers intending to conduct an antitrust review of the acquisition. Google declined to comment but did confirm to the WSJ that it has been contacted by the FTC over the deal.Gillmor Gang: Mo' Beta Blues
Jun 22, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — welcome the summer solstice with a dip in the gene pool. With Google Glass two months new and iOS7 in developers' hands, the stage is set for the unification of app notifications across OS and device. Microsoft releases Office for the iPhone, and Facebook Snapchat's Instagram. But to quote Miles, it's kind of blue, and so what. Meanwhile most of Glass functionality is already working on iOS7, with just a few weeks (?) until an official launch. With competitors like these, we can look forward to harvesting the fruits of this incredible mobile shift.Rapiro Kit Robot For Raspberry Pi Gets Funded On Kickstarter In Two Days
Jun 22, 2:33PM
Meet Rapiro, the kit robot with a space inside its kawaii head to accomodate the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. The gizmo is the creation of Shota Ishiwatari, the Japanese gadgeteer who came up with a brain-wave controlled cat-ear headband and a heart-rate controlled wearable wagging tail, among other 'only in Japan' creations.The Technical Interview Is Dead (And No One Should Mourn)
Jun 22, 1:00PM
Allow me just a little self-congratulation. Two years ago I wrote "Why The New Guy Can't Code," about my contempt for the standard industry interview procedure for software engineers, condemning Microsoft and Google in particular for their brain-teasing riddles and binary search questions. And lo and behold, this week Google's head of HR admitted: "Brainteasers are a complete waste of time." But wait. Let's just unpack that interview a little further:Here's The Security Breach Email Facebook Is Sending To 6M Users
Jun 22, 9:27AM
Facebook has started sending out warning emails to users whose personal information has been compromised by the security bug uncovered yesterday. The bug exposed some six million Facebook users' email addresses and telephone numbers to other site users because Facebook had "inadvertently stored [it] in association with people's contact information as part of their account on Facebook".CloudUp Is A Fast, Dead-Simple Way To Share And View Files On Any Platform (Without The Folders)
Jun 22, 6:49AM
In today’s world of email, social networks, SMS, chat applications and cloud services, there are plenty of ways to share share a file, folder, photo or video. And as intelligent devices and cloud computing infrastructure proliferate, and processing power and capacity improve, we expect file transfer and sharing to be speedy — and simple. Everything is about “realtime” and accessibility these days (not that we’re complaining, but thanks Twitter). Yet, file-sharing still isn’t quite there. Even with all the options — whether it be the Skypes, Facebooks, Google Drives, WeTransfers and YouSendIts of the world or the Dropboxex, etc. — we’ve still got one eye out for a better way. (Here’s xkcd putting a fine point on it.) The file sharing service to end all file sharing services. Dropbox has gotten the closest, gobbling up a ton of mindshare as a result, but its layout and presentation are more storage service than simple sharing tool. In other words, you may store your photos there, but it’s probably not where you’ll go if you want to show them off. This week, CloudUp became the latest to join a younger group of services that are pushing the conversation forward when it comes to speed and simplicity — and nibbling at the heels of the incumbents. Sharing the mantle (most closely) with services like DropLr, CloudApp, Ge.tt and perhaps biz collaboration and sharing services like Dropmark, CloudUp aims to a new spin on file-sharing by creating a tool to make sharing images, links, documents and videos as simple as humanly possible for both the sharer and the viewer. In practice, that means that CloudUp has a clean, minimalistic look that makes it feel like it’s made for designers, yet is easy enough to use that your mom could get excited about it. CloudUp enables users to share files by dragging them and dropping them into their browser, automatically generating a link which they can then share on email, Twitter, Facebook and so on. Like Dropbox, the link-centric service is available for free on the Web or as a native OSX app, the latter of which puts CloudUp in your menu bar for easier drag-and-drop sharing. However, CloudUp wants the similarities to end there. Although the service is offering up to 1,000 uploads for free — that’s the equivalent of about 200GB of storage — CloudUp doesn’t want to just be a storage lockerOld Ideas Are Better Than The Idea You Just Thought Of
Jun 22, 6:30AM
Editor's note: Jake Knapp is a design partner at Google Ventures. It drives me crazy every time I hear about Mailbox, the fancy-pants email app that Dropbox bought for a gazillion dollars. I mean, come on, it's such an obvious idea -- the app's killer feature is "email snoozing." It's basically organized procrastination, and it's been around since David Allen's Getting Things Done, if not longer. There's even been a plug-in called Boomerang for years that allows you to snooze your email in the browser. I could have taken that old idea, quit my job and made my own beautiful email-snoozing iPhone app. And then I would have been rolling around atop piles of thousand-dollar bills in Dropbox's fancy headquarters. It's aggravating.Meet Cody, The Casual Fitness Coach And Social Discovery Tool For Everyone Else
Jun 22, 1:00AM
Rather than simply adding another me-too product to an already-crowded space, two former Microsoft product managers launched Cody earlier this year to offer an experience they think has been missing from the world of mobile fitness. Co-founders Pejman Pour-Moezzi and Paul Javid tell us that the majority of fitness apps today tend to cater to hardcore fitness enthusiasts, who get a lot of mileage out of wearable gadgets and obsessive data-tracking.Thanks To A Six-Figure Purchase By Reputation Changer, Brand.com Is A Thing Now
Jun 22, 12:03AM
My boss Alexia Tsotsis is going to love this one. With a name like Reputation Changer, you can imagine that an online reputation management company would be stuck in the shadow of Reputation.com (which itself was formerly known as Reputation Defender). The solution? It's changing its name, and purchasing a memorable URL of its own — Brand.com.Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday
Jun 21, 11:20PM
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer, its Azure chief Satya Nadella and Oracle's president Mark Hurd are holding a joint press conference next week, just two days before Microsoft's Build developer conference is scheduled to kick off in San Francisco. The press event follows Oracle's earnings call that featured remarks by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison about a series of major partnership announcements next week, including one with Salesforce.com.France's Dailymotion Finds Stateside Tech Partner In Video Editing Service Givit
Jun 21, 11:20PM
In other video news this week, the video editing app Givit has announced its integration with Dailymotion, the second largest social video site globally after YouTube. It is the first U.S. app to be built into the France-based Dailymotion's API.Edward Snowden Charged With Espionage
Jun 21, 11:04PM
According to the Washington Post, the U.S. government has brought the hammer down on NSA leaker Edward Snowden, charging him with one of the most serious offenses: espionage. Snowden, who is holed up in Hong Kong, is currently searching for asylum with the help of fellow leak-enthusiast, Julian Assange of Wikileaks.Ask A VC: Mayfield Fund's Navin Chaddha On The Consumerization Of Digital Health Care
Jun 21, 9:40PM
In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Mayfield Fund Managing Director Navin Chaddha sat down in the hot seat to answer reader questions.Facebook Security Bug Exposed Personal Account Information, Emails And Phone Numbers, Six Million Accounts Affected
Jun 21, 9:03PM
A Facebook security bug exposed users' personal contact information (email or phone number) to other users who were connected to them; the bug has affected six million accounts.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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