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Will Apple Sideline Siri Before She Kills Google?
Jul 01, 2:28AM
Editor's note: Dan Kaplan is a freelance Content Strategist and armchair futurist. He has worked in marketing for Asana, Twilio and Salesforce. In the wake of Apple's big iOS 7 reveal, there has been much hoopla and quibbling. The bulk about it has centered around the design choices made by Jony Ive, his team and (apparently) some icon designers in marketing.Mark Zuckerberg 'Likes' SF LGBT Pride As Tech Companies Publicly Celebrate Equal Rights
Jul 01, 12:00AM
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook employees celebrated the San Francisco LGBT pride parade from a decorated trolley today, as tech companies across the country very visibly supported equal rights. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook had over 700 employees at pride. Here are some of our favorite photos of tech companies celebrating equal rights at Pride…Looking For A Show? Preamp.fm Builds A Music Video Playlist Of Bands Playing Nearby
Jun 30, 11:58PM
Oh, my. I think someone has actually done it. Someone has built a system that promises to help me find fun things to do near me that.. actually makes me want to do fun things near me. Like many a concept before it, Preamp.fm is so simple, yet so clever, that it drives me crazy that I didn't think of it first. Preamp.fm finds a bunch of artists playing shows in venues near you, then builds an old-school MTV-esque video playlist with one video for each band.Paul Graham's Prescription For VCs: Move Fast, Take Less Equity
Jun 30, 11:00PM
At the 500 Startups PreMoney Conference last week, Y Combinator's Paul Graham gave a presentation in which he suggested a new way for Series A investments to get done. Graham provided a few suggestions for innovative early stage investors to differentiate themselves. It basically comes down to: move fast, and provide more favorable terms to startups looking to raise money.Developers Are Lifting The Cloud, Not The Other Way Around
Jun 30, 10:30PM
For all the attention this week about the cloud, it's evident that it is pretty much a distraction when considering what is really happening. Developers are lifting the cloud, not the other way around. The big guns of tech are aligning because they have to. It's a defensive move to serve their existing customer base. It's not like the old kings are showing substantial revenue increases for new software licenses. But consolidating power to offer legacy technology does show that the cloud is anything you want to call it.The Plasticky BlackBerry Q5 Is Not The Mid-Tier Hero Handset BB10 Needs To Save It
Jun 30, 10:00PM
In some ways the Qwerty-packing Q5, with its throwback BlackBerry looks, is a far more important device for BlackBerry than its current flagship, the all-touch Z10. The mid-tier Q5 should be priced to shift -- because that's what BlackBerry needs to happen to start regaining the ground it lost when it was forced to pause and reboot its OS. That's what the Q5 should do, but will it?What Games Are: The Ludophile Mindset
Jun 30, 9:00PM
Like the audiophile who spends serious money on her music, the ludophile spends aplenty on games and consoles. Both want perfection. The question for the games industry, however, is whether perfection is really the goal any more. To chase that market is very expensive, and although gamers may not like to hear it, good-enough seems like a better goal industry-wise in the long run.Why Facebook Needs Trending Links
Jun 30, 8:26PM
Facebook is not working on an RSS product, we hear, but it still has a huge and truly social opportunity in news discovery. Facebook could turn what links we share with friends into an automatic Digg for the world. Over a billion people are on Facebook, and many share links to news stories and offsite content along with their commentary. Yet rather than post publicly like on Twitter, most posts are shared semi-privately with friends and acquaintances.Why Obama Was Never Going To Be A Civil Liberties Champion
Jun 30, 6:40PM
Barack Obama was never going to be a champion of civil liberties; he leads a very old and quickly growing strain of the Democratic party that prioritizes the collective good over individual rights. This coercively inclusive worldview feels that every business, government agency, country, and citizen has an obligation to contribute to the greater good.The Rise Of The Ephemeralnet
Jun 30, 6:00PM
In the aftermath of the dot-com crash, a new era for the web began to take hold - a turning point whose seismic shift was hyped under the moniker "Web 2.0." The concept referred to the web becoming a platform, a home for services whose popularity grew through network effects, user-generated content and collaboration. Blogging, social media sites, wikis, mashups, and more reflected a changing consciousness among the Internet's denizens - one which Tim O'Reilly, whose Web 2.0 conferences helped solidify the term as a part of our everyday lexicon, once described as a "collective intelligence, turning the web into a kind of global brain."PandaWhale's Slow And Steady March To Relevance
Jun 30, 5:00PM
There is an interesting shift occurring in consumer websites and apps where users perform micro-work that reshapes experiences. Classic examples of this are how Pinterest users are grabbing images from the web, personally reorganizing them, and, in the process, building a new image search engine, much like Google Images. And some would argue even better and more relevant. Or consider Instapaper and Pocket users who grab content to read later, stripped free of bloated ads and other unnecessary information. There are more and more services fitting into this trend, which I've called a "web of extraction," and one emergent property that's doing this in a novel way is one you may not have heard of: PandaWhale.EU 'Deeply Worried' Over Report That NSA Bugged Its Offices, Wants Clarification
Jun 30, 4:47PM
The NSA/Prism controversy rumbles on. Today the European Parliament President Martin Schulz said there could be a severe impact on EU-US relations if the claims that the US had bugged EU offices in America and accessed computer networks turned out to be true. He's said he's 'deeply worried' about the issue and called for clarification from the US over the stories that have appeared.Dejamor's "Sexy Tales" Let You Have "Choose Your Own Adventure" Phone Sex
Jun 30, 4:00PM
Observe, ladies and gentlemen, the lyrics of true seduction. Dejamor, a startupthat creates subscription romance-filled boxes to help couples spice up sexy time, has now launched a new product called Sexy Tales — yes, Sexy Tales — which lets you leave a sexy play-by-play recording for your partner.Can Google Really Crack The Game Console Market?
Jun 30, 2:59PM
Look, we've all heard the rumors that Google is toiling away on a smartwatch, and the company has said the Nexus Q isn't completely dead, so part of that recent report from the Wall Street Journal doesn't completely out of the blue. That said, Google is reportedly also working on an Android-powered game console in response to murmurs of a similar Apple gaming push in the works. Pretty ballsy, if you ask me.Benchmark's Eisenberg And Face.com's Shochat Raise $120M+ For Aleph, An Early-Stage Fund For Israeli Startups
Jun 30, 10:08AM
Two veteran investors who have been integral in the development of a new generation of Israeli startups are on a mission to reverse a trend in a country that has traditionally favored later-stage and enterprise-skewed venture capital. Benchmark's Michael Eisenberg and Genesis Partners' Eden Shochat are teaming up to create Aleph -- a new fund that aims to bring some much-needed local, early-stage support to Israeli startups. TechCrunch hears that the VC's first fund is nearly closed and is in the region of $120 million.Startups Compete To Win The Mobile App CRM Battle
Jun 30, 4:00AM
Editor's note: Ankur Jain is a venture investor at Nexus Venture Partners. Nexus invests in early and early growth stage companies across sectors in India and the U.S. The rapid growth of mobile device usage has created major gaps in CRM capability; as smartphone adoption has exploded, companies have scrambled to launch mobile apps, many of which are disconnected from an organization's broader CRM capabilities.As IPO Nears, Twitter CEO Says "We Think Of Revenue Like Oxygen"
Jun 29, 11:09PM
As Twitter nears its IPO, CEO Dick Costolo seemingly refuses to focus on the money. "We think of revenue like oxygen. Essential to life but not the first thing you think about in the morning," he told Katie Couric at The Atlantic's Aspen Ideas Festival. "I don't try to get caught up in short-term thinking about the company." Given the impending IPO, this is likely Costolo's last interview, so these quotes will haunt them as the $10 billion IPO frenzy ramps up.CrunchWeek: Sean Parker's TechCrunch Post, VCs Get Into PR And Journalism, SnapChat Snaps Up $80 Million
Jun 29, 10:00PM
Whatever happened to the slow and lazy summer news weeks of yore? This past week certainly wasn't one of them, as evidenced by all the fun stuff we had to talk about during this episode of CrunchWeek. Leena Rao, Anthony Ha and I piled ourselves into the TechCrunch TV studio to discuss some of the most interesting tech news stories from the past seven days: Sean Parker's epic guest post on TechCrunch in which he tackled the criticism of his wedding and the larger state of modern journalism, venture capital firms such as First Round Capital expanding into publishing their own content, and SnapChat's $80 million round of funding ($20 million of which went straight to the app's two young cofounders.)You Can't Quit, Google Reader, Because I Already Fired You
Jun 29, 9:00PM
Google Reader is dying come Monday, and the whole Internet is sad. I'm not sad. I won't miss it at all. I used to use Google Reader a lot, as in every day, and it was once a key component of my arsenal of work tools, too. Reader was the pulse of the Internet, my way of staying up to date with everything that happened while I was waking or sleeping. In tech news, having a resources like Google reader is important. Or wait no: was. Was important.IE11 Gives Microsoft A Shot At Browser Redemption
Jun 29, 8:00PM
Internet Explorer is a hard product to love. It was so bad for so long and Microsoft abused its position of having the dominant browser for so many years that even today, with a few solid releases under its belt, IE still feels like the browser you should hate. But with IE11, which just launched with the Windows 8.1 Preview, Microsoft is finally stepping up its game to the point where there's a reason to take IE seriously again. And it deserves another look from both developers and users.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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