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Zenefits Lands $2.1M From Venrock, Maverick, Aaron Levie, Charlie Cheever And More To Automate Startup HR
Jul 27, 12:46AM
For small businesses, managing health insurance and payroll services can be a huge pain and time-sink. They probably don't have someone on staff dedicated to these issues, and they themselves would rather be dedicating that energy to building a company. Zenefits launched out of Y Combinator this winter to remove the friction of setting up and managing group health coverage and payroll by automating the process and bringing it online -- for free.Y Combinator Backed DoorDash Delivers Food Quickly In South Bay, Hopes To Expand Beyond Food
Jul 26, 11:18PM
DoorDash, a Y Combinator summer '13 company, delivers food from restaurants in Palo Alto and Mountain View in an average time of 45 minutes. Sound familiar? It's a crowded space, but DoorDash hires and manages its own drivers, so it can bring you food from restaurants that don't have their own delivery drivers.Someone Please Actually Hack Chipotle's Twitter Account
Jul 26, 11:10PM
For whatever reason, this week has felt particularly long. It might be some astrological reason like Mercury rising. Or it might be just the emotions that are a package deal with being a woman at the end of a month. Or it might be that Chipotle fake-hacked its Twitter account on Sunday, and the stunt has left a bad taste in my mouth.Get Ready For TechCrunch TV's Tour Of The New Hollywood, Starting Next Week
Jul 26, 11:00PM
Over the last several years, we've seen a new group of digital media companies emerge in Los Angeles, driven by the growth of YouTube as a platform for distribution of video content. On Mondays and Wednesdays, we'll have a series of videos showing off all the best from the new L.A. digital media companies to show what each has to offer and what creators can expect when they sign up.Apple's Developer Center Is Back After Over A Week Offline
Jul 26, 9:57PM
Apple's Developer Center is finally back online, after taking a break for over a week. The developer site went down after a hacking attempt mid-week last week, and stayed down without any kind of return for multiple days. The hack was reportedly one that only affected developer accounts, after an intruder attempted to secure personal information.Google Asks Glass Developers To Start Working On Android-Based Apps Ahead Of Glass Development Kit Launch
Jul 26, 9:37PM
It looks like Google is about to unleash a new wave of more powerful applications for Google Glass. Currently, Glass developers can only build apps that are essentially web-based services that talk to the user's hardware through a set of relatively limited APIs. At its I/O developer conference earlier this year, Google announced that it would soon release its so-called Glass Development Kit (GDK), which would let them build Android-based apps for Glass that can run directly on the device.Ask A VC: Lightspeed Ventures' Bipul Sinha On How The Enterprise Sales Model Has Changed
Jul 26, 9:35PM
On this week's Ask a VC show, Lightspeed Ventures' Partner Bipul Sinha joined us in the studio to field reader questions and talk about enterprise investing.Mailbox's First App, Orchestra To-Do, Is Shutting Down
Jul 26, 8:31PM
Before being acquired by Dropbox for $100 million, before its app became one of the buzzier startups of 2013, the team at Mailbox had been known for Orchestra, a simple to-do list app with tasks you could assign to others, or pull in via email. Now that app is shutting down, and will be removed from the App Store on September 6th, the company says.Mobile Payment At U.S. Starbucks Locations Crosses 10% As More Stores Get Wireless Charging
Jul 26, 8:11PM
Starbucks is seeing impressive adoption of mobile payments in its U.S.-based store locations, the company revealed during its quarterly earnings conference call last night (via WSJ). Mobile payments crossed the 10 percent mark in the U.S. as a percentage of in-store purchases, indicating efforts like the Starbucks mobile app, Apple's Passbook and Square Wallet are popular among users.Gillmor Gang Live 07.26.13 (TCTV)
Jul 26, 8:07PM
Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording session for today has concluded.FindIt Launches A Universal Search App For iPhone With A Visual Twist
Jul 26, 8:04PM
FindIt, a new mobile application offering universal search across emails and files stored in the cloud, is today making its official debut. With the FindIt app for iOS, you can quickly connect your Gmail, Dropbox and Google Drive accounts, and then proceed to search by keyword, person, time or file type. But the ability to search for items is not what makes FindIt interesting - it's how you search that makes FindIt unique.After Losing Nearly Half Its Users In A Year, Investors Dock Zynga's Valuation By $400 Million
Jul 26, 7:22PM
Comparing yesterday's closing price of $3.50, Zynga's current price of $3 is a just over a 14% decline. In dollar terms, Zynga today shed around $400 million of market capitalization. As you will recall, this is not the first time that Zynga has suffered from this sort of gut punch to its stock price.This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Nexus 7, Cheap iPhone 4s, And Chromecast
Jul 26, 7:00PM
Does the high-res Nexus 7 beat out the iPad mini? Why has Apple's average selling price gone down? Is Google's new Chromecast dongle an Apple TV/Airplay killer?Come Hack At The Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon - Tickets Now Available!
Jul 26, 6:40PM
Hey, you! On the computer! You want fame? You want glory? You want more free pizza than any human should consume in a single night? Come build with us. We like to start off each of our conferences with a 24-hour hackathon, and we're continuing that tradition at Disrupt SF in September. It's going to be crazy.A First Look At Younity, The App That Lets You Access All Your Files All The Time
Jul 26, 6:16PM
Younity, which is in the current class of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator MuckerLab, purportedly creates a "personal cloud" for the files shared on all of your various devices to let you access them anytime, anywhere. I met Younity co-founder Erik Caso while we were in L.A. visiting MuckerLab earlier this month, and his pitch was quite interesting -- from the looks of it, I'd be able to access vacation photos that are on my home computer from my phone in a snap (that is, if I had an iPhone.) Essentially, it makes the experience of the cloud come to you, rather than the other way around.Pinterest Adds Support For "Do Not Track" As It Begins To Personalize Its Service For Users
Jul 26, 6:01PM
Pinterest announced today that it will add support for Do Not Track, the web browser mechanism that allows users to opt-out of having their personal data and activity collected by websites and third parties. It's not the first social media company to make this move - Twitter, for example, announced last year that it would also support the Do Not Track technology.Inside Tesla's Supercharger Partner Program: The Costs And Commitments Of Electrifying Road Transport
Jul 26, 5:56PM
Tesla is building a nationwide network of Supercharger stations in the U.S. to help give its growing fleet of consumer vehicles the juice they need to conquer the nation's highways, and now we at TechCrunch have an inside look at how they're approaching partners to help them expand. Tesla's footing the bill for the Supercharger spots, asking only for time and access from partners with parking lots, and promising the keys to the future in return.Google Axes Shopper Price-Comparison Apps For iOS And Android To Focus On Google Shopping
Jul 26, 5:50PM
It looks like Google is starting to cut back on some of its less successful mobile apps. Earlier today, we reported that the Google+ Local app has disappeared from the App Store a few weeks ahead of its planned shutdown, and now, the company has announced that it is going to shut down the standalone Google Shopper app for iOS and Android on August 30.Hey San Francisco, Your Rep. Pelosi Saved The NSA Phone Metadata Program
Jul 26, 5:48PM
Congress almost cut off funds for an NSA spying program, until San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi stepped in to save it. Rep. Pelosi, of California's 12th district, worked to kill the Amash amendment to the 2014 Defense Appropriations Bill. Amash's amendment would have defunded the NSA's domestic phone record program, which collects metadata on every call placed in the United States.Stick It To The Military-Industrial Ink Complex By 3D Printing Your Own Printer Cartridges
Jul 26, 5:47PM
This has to be one of the most uniquely disruptive uses of 3D printing I've seen: an ink refill company has successfully 3D-printed a Kodak ink cartridge, refilled it, and printed with it. Using a Makerbot Replicator 2 and some PLA, the company created an exact replica of the Kodak cartridge casing and stuck in an ink bladder of their own devising, thereby creating a sort of Frankenstein's monster of ink delivery.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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