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HTC Appoints New U.S. Strategy Chief, Creates "Emerging Devices" Unit To Focus On Innovation And Global Sales
Jul 22, 3:16AM
After months of internal turmoil and struggling sales, HTC is trying to reboot its strategy by establishing a new unit to develop "innovative" products and putting its its global sales president back in charge of U.S. operations.When Zuckerberg Thought His Sales Guy Was 50 Cent
Jul 22, 2:21AM
In April 2005, current General Catalyst Partner (disclosure) Kevin Colleran replaced Eduardo Severin as Facebook's business development head and sales lead. He was Facebook employee number seven. And eight years ago around this time, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to fly out to New York to meet his new sales head in person at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square.Google's Revamped Nexus 7 Spotted In Newly Leaked Press Image
Jul 22, 1:09AM
In just a few days now, Google's Chrome and Android chief Sundar Pichai will be joined by a slew of journalists and media types to nosh on some breakfast and show off the newly-revamped Nexus 7. If you haven't yet had your fill of leaks, none other than @evleaks has come through with one final (seemingly press quality) image of the updated tablet and its gigantic bezels ahead of its July 24 unveiling.Touch: Where Microsoft Went Wrong
Jul 22, 12:00AM
Microsoft had a pretty bad week. The software giant announced disastrous earnings, which led its stock to tank over 11 percent the next day. One reason for the bad quarter was the $900 million charge it took against “Surface RT” inventory adjustments, but even without this writedown, its quarter still would’ve been pretty bad. If the earnings show one thing, it’s that outside of its business and enterprise offerings (which delivered relatively good results), Microsoft just doesn’t have any products right now that consumers want to buy. What happened to the company that not too long ago launched Windows 7, a product that many thought was Microsoft’s best operating system yet? At some point in the last few years, Microsoft decided that its consumer products had to be “touch first.” The first time Microsoft really stressed this was when it showed the first preview of Windows 8 two years ago at the D9 conference. “A Windows 8-based PC is really a new kind of device, one that scales from touch-only small screens through to large screens, with or without a keyboard and mouse,” Julie Larson-Green, then Microsoft’s corporate VP for Windows Experience, wrote at the time. Since the, Microsoft has been hoping for consumers to buy laptops with touchscreen – maybe even hybrid laptop/tablet computers like the Lenovo Yoga instead of a tablet. Problem is, people are really interested in these machines. Machines like the Yoga don’t, as Lenovo would like you to believe, combine “the intuitive touch experience of a tablet” to give you “the ultimate in versatility.” Instead, they are laptops (and often pretty good ones) which are held back by Microsoft’s Windows 8 touch interface that most users simply don’t care for. At some point in the past, Microsoft must have looked at the success of the iPhone, Android phones and to keep up with the times, somebody in the company made the prediction that going forward, all of our devices would soon be touch and Microsoft went all in with this idea. The company had previously toyed with touch, but now, it was going to bet its future – and that of its OEM partners – on it. The Surface RT is an ill-conceived device that confuses users, but Microsoft’s problem is that it believed users would soon be clamoring to touch their screens. If you’ve ever used a touchscreen-enabled laptop or maybe a Chromebook Pixel,Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Been Breached By Hackers
Jul 21, 10:43PM
After 3 days of silence as to why the iOS Developer Center has been down, Apple has just confirmed that they are investigating a security breach. Developers just began receiving the email below; Apple has confirmed to us that the e-mail is legitimate.Sports Illustrated's Peter King Aims To Create Appointment Reading With New MMQB Site
Jul 21, 9:56PM
Sports Illustrated is launching a standalone football website, MMQB, tomorrow morning. The site's name comes from star Sports Illustrated writer Peter King, who writes a weekly column, Monday Morning Quarterback. King says a range of NFL personalities, from Tom Brady to Joe Namath, and celebrity football fans like Olivia Munn will contribute to the site in the first few weeks.What Games Are: Apple Needs To Make An iJoypad
Jul 21, 9:00PM
The prospect of iPhones supporting game controllers is cool. But why is Apple giving away the opportunity to seize the initiative and make a new cool new add-on of its own? It feels like a big mistake, one symptomatic of a risk-averse sentiment growing around the company. For that and many other reasons, Apple should lead and make an iJoypad rather than wait for others.News360 Adds Edelman And Network For Good As Advertisers To Its New Sponsored Content Program
Jul 21, 7:00PM
Earlier this week, the makers of personalized news app News360 announced that they have launched their monetization efforts with a sponsored content program, where companies can pay to have their content promoted to relevant consumers. Even before the announcement, CEO Roman Karachinsky had already been talking about his plans to bring advertising to the app, and News360 had already run a pilot campaign for Cincom Systems. Now it has launched campaigns for two new advertisers, marketing agency Edelman and fundraising platform Network for Good.Blippar CEO Celebrates One Year In The U.S. With AR Advertising Demo
Jul 21, 6:00PM
Today Blippar, a two-year old AR advertising company out of the UK, is celebrating its one-year anniversary in the U.S. AR advertising sounds about as exciting API management, but 3 million users beg to differ. At its core, Blippar lets users scan Blippable content in the real world (think Ketchup bottles, packets of gum, train station posters, etc) to see extra digital content through augmented reality tech.We Need To Have A Debate About Growth
Jul 21, 5:00PM
In September 2012, Y Combinator's Paul Graham penned a widely-circulated essay titled "Startups = Growth." The message was clear -- startups are about growth. Once a startup stops growing, it gets busy dying. Since so much of the Valley hangs on Graham's words (myself included), this essay cemented what Andrew Chen proclaimed in his famous post earlier in 2012 "Growth Hacker Is The New VP Marketing," that the stakes for gathering huge crowds of users on new hyper-growth platforms was big business. All of this culminated in an event, The Growth Hackers Conference, which was inaugurated in Fall 2012 and convened again in May 2013.
Making Buying Decisions In A Data-Driven World Does Not Mean Digesting Old Reports
Jul 21, 6:00AM
It took a while for me this week to judge the news value of the G2 Crowd analyst report about marketing automation. I thought about it, took another look and concluded that yes, marketing automation has to be one of the most boring topics to write about. It's fascinating in its own way, right? No -- this stuff is as boring as hell if you don't get the right angle. More so, it gets confusing if you don't organize it right. Thoughts shoot around and land in mishmash pile of nonsensical crap.Google Surveys Can Make Anyone A Professional Pollster
Jul 21, 4:00AM
Nate Silver and I are big fans of Google’s Consumer Surveys tool. “Perhaps it won't be long before Google, not Gallup, is the most trusted name in polling,” wrote Silver, on how Google conducted one of the most accurate polls of the 2012 election cycle. But I didn’t know how useful they’d be for media outlets until I was able to identically replicate a non-election Gallup poll for a fraction of the cost. Last week, Gallup released an important poll on the (relatively) anti-immigration attitudes of Americans, which was one of the best pieces of evidence I had seen demonstrating why immigration reform has been so difficult to pass. It turns out that no one needed to wait for Gallup or any professional outfit to conduct these very important barometers of public opinion. It took me about 10 minutes to recreate Gallup’s own poll with Google’s Surveys wizard tool. For the question “In your view, should immigration be kept at its present level, increased, or decreased?”, Google was within a few percentage points for every single answer, except for two (it was off 15 percent for Republicans who wanted to decrease immigration and 12 for Republicans who wanted to keep them at the “present level”). And, here’s the detailed table Gallup Google Increase (Republicans) 16 16 Increase (Democrats) 29 28 Increase (Independent) 22 21 Decrease (Republicans) 46 61 Decrease (Democrats) 27 28 Decrease (Independent) 35 41 Present level (Democrats) 36 38 Present level (Republicans) 42 20 Present level (Independent) 41 34 It’s not clear whether Google was wrong for the answer on Republicans. Internet and phone surveys naturally have different responding populations, since the Internet skews younger and the phones skew older (people still have phones?). And some people may have an aversion to saying they want to decrease immigration over the phone, whereas they’re perfectly willing to let their inner xenophobe fly at a faceless computer screen. There’s still a lot more testing needed to see when Google can replace professional polling operations. But it looks very promising enough to start using it now. Every journalism school in the country should be teaching students the (very difficult) science of survey methods, so they can all start adding more objective evidence to their stories — because, thanks to Google, all of them have the capacity to be pollsters. Color this writer excited, more deliciously informative stats to come.How To Self-Publish A Bestseller: Publishing 3.0
Jul 21, 1:00AM
Every entrepreneur should self-publish a book, because self-publishing is the new business card. If you want to stand out in a world of content, you need to underline your expertise. Publishing a book is not just putting your thoughts on a blog post. It's an event. It shows your best curated thoughts and it shows customers, clients, investors, friends and lovers what the most important things on your mind are right now.MBank And The Future Of Responsive Banking
Jul 21, 12:12AM
I'm not a huge fan of banks, but when senior director Michal Panowicz approached me about mBank, my interest was piqued. How could a banking spin-off of BRE Bank and founded in 2000 create one of the coolest, most high-tech banking experiences I've seen? The more important question, however, was how could a Polish bank beat the big guys - the Chases, the Citibanks, and the Credit Suisses of the world - to the punch in terms of improved user experience and unique features?How This Kid Tossed One Raccoon In 43 Seconds
Jul 20, 9:40PM
Some days you're on call for weekend news duty and it's pretty boring and you get tired of just sitting around waiting for something to happen and you're just sort of hanging out and watching Twitter and HOLY SHIT IS THAT KEVIN ROSE TOSSING A RACCOON? Why yes, yes it is.Dropbox Acquires Mobile Coupon Startup Endorse A Month After Shutdown
Jul 20, 8:03PM
About a month after shutting down its app, mobile coupon startup Endorse has been acquired by Dropbox, the team announced on its blog today. The deal follows a number of other recent acquisition Dropbox has been making, as it looks to add headcount in an increasingly constrained talent market.Bay Area Tech Wages Are The Nation's Highest At $123K, But Should Entrepreneurs Look Elsewhere As Costs Rise?
Jul 20, 8:01PM
The San Francisco Bay Area pays the highest median tech wage, at $123,497, but comes with higher taxes and housing costs, according to data assembled by Good April, an online tax-planning startup based in SF. The median wage for tech workers in San Francisco, Marin, and San Mateo counties is nearly 21% higher than the second highest, Boston, at $102,230.Why 3D Printing Will Work In Fashion
Jul 20, 8:00PM
In case you haven't heard, 3D printing has entered the mainstream, and it will disrupt every industry's manufacturing processes slightly differently. Let's talk about why it will work in fashion. 3D printing is not entirely new to the fashion industry, as jewelry designers have for years outsourced quick modeling jobs to printing companies. But as 3D printed pieces begin to pop up on the runway and in presentations outside of fashion week as the finished product, it's worth asking why the method stands a chance of proliferating among designers.CrunchWeek: Microsoft Stock Nosedives, Path Raising Again, Netflix's Emmy Nods
Jul 20, 6:00PM
Welcome one and all to a brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers together in front of the TechCrunch TV cameras to dish on some of the more interesting stories from the past seven days.Will The Real Berlin Please Stand Up? - A VC Puts The City's Tech Boom in Context
Jul 20, 5:13PM
This is a guest post by Ciaran O´Leary, a Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital in Berlin. Earlybird manages €600m in funds and are investors in companies such as Carpooling.com, Peak Games, SocialBakers, The Football App, and Wunderlist. He usually blogs here. He'll be among those attending Disrupt Europe in Berlin in October.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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