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Foundation: Evan Williams on Hatching Big Ideas
Jun 29, 12:00AM
In today's episode of my Foundation series, serial entrepreneur Evan Williams talks candidly about his experiences building Blogger, Twitter, and his latest project, Medium. Ev recounts the early days of Twitter, shares what he's learned about how to scale fast-growth products, and explains his philosophy about the power of collaboration.Drew Houston And Bryan Schreier On Dropbox's Future As An Enterprise And Consumer Company
Jun 28, 10:30PM
Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston and Sequoia Capital partner Bryan Schreier joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Houston and Schreier work together on recruiting, growing as a CEO, and building the company.Co-Founder "Who Made Numbers God" At Zynga Joins Bee Cave Games As Advisor/Investor
Jun 28, 10:23PM
Zynga co-founder and godfather of metrics-based game development Eric Schiermeyer quietly slipped out of the company, is working on a new startup, and today announced he's become an investor and advisor to Bee Cave Games. Bee Cave Games CEO Erik Bethke tells me Schiermeyer's advisor role is a weekly commitment and his investment is part of a forthcoming funding round in the low millions.Ask A VC: General Atlantic's Brett Rochkind On Spotting Startups That Have IPO Potential
Jun 28, 9:30PM
In this week's Ask A VC episode, General Atlantic Managing Director Brett Rochkind joined us in the studio to talk about international investing and more.Yahoo To Sunset AltaVista, Axis, RSS Alerts, and Nine Other Products, Some As Soon As Today
Jun 28, 9:09PM
Yahoo under Marissa Mayer is taking a page from her old employer, Google, and sunsetting 12 products, with some starting as soon as today. Included are Alta Vista and other search products like its experimental Axis extension, as part of "an ongoing effort to sharpen our focus and deliver experiences that enhance your daily lives," in the words of Jay Rossiter, EVP of platforms.Google+ Tries To Gain Photo Sharing Ground By Making It Easier To Move, Download, And Upload Your Pics
Jun 28, 8:04PM
Photo sharing just got a little better on Google+, as the social network has made it easier for users to move, download, and upload their pictures. Google+ engineering manager Jon Emerson wrote today that the new features came from user feedback. Users can more easily move batches of photos between albums, use a new download option to quickly save photos, and upload large sets of photos faster.YouWeb Founder Peter Relan Sunsets His Gaming Incubator, Will Open A New Company Building Studio Soon
Jun 28, 7:45PM
Peter Relan is best known for his gaming and mobile incubator YouWeb, which spawned Crowdstar, Agawi, Spaceport, OpenFeint and others. Today, the serial entrepreneur is announcing that YouWeb will no longer be incubating any additional companies, and Relan will be moving on to a new venture.This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Bye Bye BlackBerry And Vanilla Android On The HTC One/GS4
Jun 28, 7:00PM
BlackBerry is "circling the toilet," as Chris Velazco puts it so eloquently. Meanwhile, Google is now offering stock Android versions of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. We're also mildly interested in Hyundai's new infotainment system, Blue Link, (especially given Apple's foray into the car with iOS 7). Just as you'd expect, we discuss all this and more during this week's TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast.UK's BSkyB Wins Case Against Microsoft Over Use Of "SkyDrive" Name In Europe; May Have To Drop Name Or Pay Fines
Jun 28, 6:30PM
Microsoft went big on pushing cloud services this week at its Build conference, but today it was dealt a blow for how it might get to market them in Europe. BSkyB, the pay-TV broadcaster part-owned by News Corp., won a judgement in the England and Wales High Court against the U.S. software giant, for infringing the "Sky" trademark.Google+ Turns 2, Rolls Out Redesigned Follow Buttons And Badges, Introduces Badges For Communities
Jun 28, 6:22PM
Google+ turned two today. To celebrate, Google's social network didn't just dress up Mr. Jingles, but it also launched a redesign of its Google+ plugins for websites, including its Follow, +1 and share buttons, as well as its badges for pages and profiles.With All That Developer Mojo, Google Is Like An Ass-Kicking Octopus
Jun 28, 5:55PM
For James Governor and the RedMonk crew, craft beer is a metaphor for talking about developer communities, the cloud and all that goes with them. It's something these guys do every day, providing their own independent analysis about the millions of programmers who RedMonk Co-Founder Stephen O'Grady calls the new kingmakers.Facebook Announces New Review Policy To Prevent Ads From Running On Controversial Pages And Groups
Jun 28, 5:31PM
Facebook just announced a new review policy for Pages and Groups, a policy aimed at reducing cases where ads run alongside content that the advertiser or their customers might find objectionable. Earlier today, a BBC report stated that Marks and Spencer and BSkyB had pulled "all or part of their spending" on Facebook after a BSkyB ad (which was "promoting an M&S voucher") was shown alongside a Facebook Page that was titled "cute and gay boys" and included photos of teenage boys. The story said Facebook was going to make an announcement to address these types of concerns later today.Labster Gamifies Bio-Tech Teaching So Students Can Use Their iPads To Blow Stuff Up
Jun 28, 5:15PM
Educational games to make learning more engaging for students are nothing new, but Labster, a bio-tech education startup founded back in 2011 and just now coming out of stealth, has gone further than most by creating an entire virtualised laboratory for teaching bio-tech students without the need to purchase expensive lab equipment or conduct potentially hazardous experiments for real.CE Week's Startup Pavilion Serves Up Bikes, Hydroponics, And Rotary Phone Photo-Sharing
Jun 28, 4:39PM
In the Startup Pavilion at CE Week, there's just as much diversity as there is similarity among the new flock of products and services hitting New York. We saw a number of bikecessories, bike services, and reached the other end of the spectrum by visiting a cloud-based hydroponics monitoring solution and a nice twist between new-school photo-sharing and old-school phones. Join us, won't you, as we journey through Startup Pavilion?Mozilla Opens Its Firefox Social API To Developers
Jun 28, 4:37PM
With the release of the first public beta of Firefox 23, Mozilla didn't just introduce a new logo and kill the <blink> element, it also opened up its Social API for developers. This feature allows them to create new ways for users to interact with their favorite web apps through a persistent sidebar, notifications or toolbar buttons in the browser. With this release, Mozilla also adds a share panel to the mix.Mozilla first launched this feature in cooperation with Facebook in Firefox 17 last year. Since then, it added a number of new partners, including Cliqz, Mixi (for users in Japan) and msnNOW.
Google Trekker Gets You Off-Limits Access To Exotic Locations Like The Island From Bond's Skyfall
Jun 28, 4:22PM
Google Trekker just announced the expansion of its street view hiking map project to outside organizations, and today it's revealing another aspect of the program's broadening: Getting virtual tourists behind velvet ropes at completely unique, remote destinations. On the Google Maps blog today, the team showed off a virtual tour of the island of Hashima, in Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture, which providing the setting for Bond villain Raoul Silva's hideout in Skyfall.Music App Songza Goes Ad-Free With A New Paid Service, "Club Songza" For $0.99 Per Week
Jun 28, 4:00PM
Songza, the music streaming and recommendation service that has picked up some 4.8 million monthly active users with its free, ad-based service, is turning on a feature now that it hopes will convert some of its most loyal listeners into more monetizable ones. It is launching "Club Songza," a subscription-based service that is priced at $0.99 per week for users to get an ad-free experience.Maker Nabs A 3D Model Of Marcus Aurelius With Google Glass
Jun 28, 3:31PM
In what looks to be a first for the technology, designer and engineer Todd Blatt took 30 pictures of a bust of Marcus Aurelius with Google Glass and created a downloadable 3D model that you can grab and print.Big Labor's Anti-Immigration Rumor Machine
Jun 28, 3:30PM
Editor's note: Vivek Wadhwa is a fellow at Stanford Law School, Director of Research at Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, and VP of Innovation and Research at Singularity University. The passage of immigration reform by the Senate was a big step forward. The bill is far from perfect, but goes a long way towards solving Silicon Valley's talent shortage -- and America's immigrant exodus. But big hurdles lie ahead as anti-immigrant groups regroup. Extreme elements of the right will be fighting to close the borders while their counterparts on the left -- Big Labor in particular -- work to undermine high-skilled immigration.First Round Capital Debuts Original Content And Knowledge Hub For Startups, Review
Jun 28, 3:00PM
First Round Capital has been one of the few firms who started providing compelling services for startups before the agency model became popular. For example, the firm created a Yelp-like database of business providers for its startups, which includes 1,500 ratings and reviews for over 500 service providers, including those in payroll, phones and more. First Round also launched HackPR, a platform for companies and reporters to quickly and efficiently connect on press coverage. Today, the firm is debuting another interesting service for startups, First Round Review.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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