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Fly Or Die: Rithm
Aug 05, 2:00AM
Mavensay has been cultivating a community of recommendations for quite a while now, but only recently has the company taken its userbase's disposition towards music recommendations and turned it into a brand new app: Rithm. Rithm pulls from many of the messaging and social apps we love today, like Snapchat, Vine, and basic messaging apps like Whatsapp and Viber and applied that logic to music. The app lets users send music messages, along with a picture, video or dancing animated cartoon.Lync, Azure, Office 365 And The Shifting Center Of Microsoft's Gravity
Aug 05, 1:59AM
You might have missed it, but Lync, Microsoft's enterprise-focused communications suite brought its parent company $1 billion in revenue during its 2013 fiscal year. That a milestone of that sort could all but slip through the news coverage of Microsoft's earnings report is almost interesting. The reason for the mild coverage of Lync and its performance is in fact a non-puzzle: One billion dollars in revenue stacked next to Microsoft total fiscal 2013 top line of $77.8 billion isn't much, and enterprise-facing products from incumbent firms aren't sexy, thus often getting lost in the press mix. However, the Lync number, when placed next to two other figures helps to draw a picture of Microsoft that details a company in transition. As Windows slips in the face of a sliding personal computing market, hurting OEM revenues for the company, new business products at Microsoft will command increasing internal primacy as its business adapts to current and future market conditions. Or, more simply, the core fiber of Microsoft is changing. Microsoft estimated that the larger PC market contracted by 9% during its fiscal year, stating that declines in its revenue relating to sales to OEM partners was due to "the impact on revenue of the decline in the x86 PC market." That's correct, Microsoft. A few numbers: Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing product, recorded $1 billion in revenue over the past 12 months, it was reported in April; Office 365 is currently generating revenue at a run rate of $1.5 billion per year at the end of Microsoft's fiscal fourth quarter, up 50% from the number quoted at the end of the company's fiscal third quarter; Lync grew 30% in the fiscal fourth quarter, and brought in $1 billion in revenue for the fiscal year. These are numbers that Microsoft is proud of, not because in terms of relative scale they are tectonically impressive – the Windows division’s fiscal fourth quarter revenue alone totaled $4.4 billion – but more that the represent the fact that it has business units in the pipe that can replace other incomes that are aging; Microsoft can, therefore, at least in theory, continue revenue growth even as its core Windows operations atrophies during the opening chapters of the post-PC era. Office 365's $500 million yearly run rate change in a single quarter is impressive, but Lync's most recent quarters detail that it too can put points on theWhat Happens At DefCon Stays With Us All
Aug 05, 1:40AM
There's nothing like attendance at the annual Black Hat and DefCon security/hacker conferences to hike your paranoia into the red zone and keep it there forever. You come away with the sense that nothing, anywhere, ever, is safe--and that's just from talks given by people willing to publicize their work. Compared to the secret legions of the NSA and other governments' equivalents, and invisible armies of mercenary black-hats selling zero-day exploits to the highest bidder, DefCon may well only be the iceberg's tip. What follows is a brief and highly subjective summary of the talks that people seemed to be talking about most, and/or the ones I found most interesting:TV Expert: Time Warner Cable-CBS Blackout To Result In 'Best Of All Possible Worlds' For Cable Subscribers
Aug 05, 1:00AM
Subscribers to Time Warner Cable might not be able to watch CBS shows over the next few weeks, as a result of the latest contract fallout between a network and a pay TV operator. But at least one expert believes that the blackout, while disruptive in the short term, is actually good news for those who pay TV viewers, whether they're Time Warner Cable subscribers or not.Who Will Disrupt Real Estate?
Aug 05, 12:00AM
I don't even want to imagine what looking for a house was like in the 80s. Over the last few years, Zillow, Trulia, Redfin and others have done a lot to make more information available to those who want to buy and sell their homes. Today, I can easily get an alert on my phone when a house comes on the market. Indeed, I'll probably know about it long before our real estate agent does. In a competitive market, that can be a big advantage over less tech savvy buyers. It's just as easy to look at comparable and figure out if a price has any wiggle room for negotiations or if a house is badly overpriced for its neighborhood.Taking A Roundtrip With Facebook
Aug 04, 11:30PM
It's finally happened. Some fourteen and a half months after its IPO, Facebook shares closed on Friday above its IPO price of $38/share for the first time since the date of its IPO. Investors who bought shares in Facebook's IPO and held until now are a whopping 5 cents in the money, with Friday's $38.05 closing price.How Data Changes Preconceptions About NFL Football, The Weather And The Parallel Universe
Aug 04, 11:00PM
Cloudera's Jesse Anderson wanted to know if weather changes the outcome of NFL football games. He was also curious if player arrests were linked to their team winning or losing. And finally, he was curious how this might all play out in a parallel universe.LearnXinYminutes Is The Occasional Coder's Best Friend
Aug 04, 10:40PM
If you've never written a line of code, let me let you in on a not-so-secret secret: once you're pretty good at one programming language, picking up others becomes a whole lot easier. That's why LearnXInYminutes exists.The Series A Crunch Is Over. Consumer Internet Is Back, Baby!
Aug 04, 10:00PM
Remember exactly a year ago when I said that Facebook will be fine but Zynga won't be? Turns out I was right. Remember three years ago when Naval Ravikant of AngelList and I declared that Twitter was massively undervalued? Also correct. So I'm ready to make my next bold prediction: The Series A Crunch is over.What Games Are: The Win Imperative
Aug 04, 9:00PM
Many readers will be familiar with the idea that games and reward go together. Yet reward by itself isn't rewarding. The reason is that it's not the reward that's interesting, but rather what it signifies: satisfaction of a job well done, a stroke of luck, a problem solved, a situation overcome, an enemy defeated. In short, it's about winning. All games are played to win.Can An Algorithm Be Empathetic? UK Startup EI Technologies Is Building Software That's Sensitive To Tone Of Voice
Aug 04, 8:00PM
Don't give up hope of being able to mock your future robot butler with a sassy response. UK startup EI Technologies, one of 17 in the current Wayra London incubator cohort, is developing a voice recognition platform that can identify emotion by analysing vocal qualities with an accuracy rate it says is already better than the average human ear.Review: Exo, A Cricket-Based Protein Bar That Won't Destroy Your Productivity
Aug 04, 6:45PM
My sweet tooth is the enemy of productivity: sugary snacks are a way ticket to midday brain fog and squishy love handles. As TechCrunch's resident healthnut, I regularly get pitched by food startups claiming to solve the workplace snacking problem, but their "healthy" alternatives invariably raise my blood sugar like Snickers bar fried in Pepsi.With Findery, Caterina Fake Wants To Create A Lasting Community Around Stories
Aug 04, 6:01PM
When Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield founded Flickr in 2004, creating a community around photos was a huge challenge. "There were very few people on internet to begin with, and within that group, there was a small group of people who engaged in social networks," explains Fake. With Fake's newest startup, Findery, she has been embarking on the same challenge she faced nearly ten years ago: creating a community around user-generated content. "Growing a bona fide community, even now, from scratch is difficult," she tells me.>From Fail Whale To Uncaged Bird, Twitter's IPO Drumbeat Will Get Louder
Aug 04, 5:00PM
Do you hear that faint drumbeat? In the background. Barely noticeable, amid the frenzy around Facebook's stock price resurgence, or the noise of your Twitter stream, there is a slow, steady drumbeat afoot looking out to 2014 and the public offering for the microblogging platform. In the rocky year since Facebook's much-discussed IPO, the rollercoaster of the stock price has highlighted both challenges and opportunities facing Twitter as it prepares itself for the next test. Perhaps from this post onward, prepare yourself to read a lot more posts leading up to this event, even more Twitter icons on television, even more Twitter handles in the mainstream media, a mainstream book on the formation and early days of Twitter by a New York Times writer, and a sharp hum of increasing chirping among the chattering classes all the way to the scrappiest of incubators. The drumbeat to Twitter's IPO has begun.
After Skeuomorphism
Aug 04, 4:00PM
When I was working on my review of Logic Pro X something struck me - where were the sliders? Historically, pro audio software has tried hard to mimic analog - and digital - workstations used by audio engineers. Those boards made you press buttons, twiddle knobs, and plug in patch cords. Logic X hid those. They were there, certainly, because the outcry would be heard around the blogosphere: Where are the sliders!Hell No Moto X
Aug 04, 3:00PM
Motorola unveiled its Motorola X smartphone last week, and our own Chris Velazco found the phone impressive enough. But the more I think about it, the less impressed I am by Motorola's big brand relaunch under the Google banner. The Moto X never really excited me to begin with, and it's likely not meant to, with a slew of options squarely aimed at shoppers who value surface-level customization over the latest and greatest specs and mobile tech. Even beyond personal appeal, though, I think the Moto X falls flat, and ultimately wastes a chance that a once-great company had to really make a dent in a market that has become somewhat boring.Examining The Effects Of Patent-Troll Legislation On Startups
Aug 04, 6:00AM
Non-practicing entities (NPEs), or patent trolls, have largely stayed off the political radar for the 12 years since the term "patent troll" was coined. But the political winds have changed in the last year, as NPEs have now become a favorite whipping boy of Congress -- and the president, the Federal Trade Commission, the State of Vermont and the International Trade Commission. There are six bills in committee in the House and Senate, with a seventh bill currently under discussion, all aimed at curtailing various practices by NPEs.A Year Of Spam: The Twoo Experience
Aug 04, 1:00AM
Twoo, "the fastest growing place to meet new people," has been spamming people for over a year. Users have been complaining that they get unsolicited mail from the app, that the app emails all of their contacts without their understanding, and that it's unclear how to delete their accounts.IBT Media Buys Newsweek From IAC
Aug 03, 10:27PM
I guess today is the day for announcing the sale of struggling media properties: IBT Media just said that it has reached an agreement to acquire Newsweek from IAC. Back in 2010, Newsweek merged with IAC-owned website The Daily Beast. (The magazine subseqeuntly ceased print publication and went digital-only.) However, earlier this year, IAC Chairman Barry Diller said that buying Newsweek was a mistake, one he would correct by selling it off.CrunchWeek: MotoX Says Hello, Ridesharing Regulation Wars, More Google Surveillance Suspicions
Aug 03, 10:00PM
Another seven days have come and gone, July has turned into August, summer is closer to its end than its beginning, and precious time is just as fleeting as ever. The good news is that it's time once again for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers together to run our mouths about the most interesting tech news stories from the past week. Silver linings!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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