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Cloud Service Architecture Will Power New Era Of Intelligent, Automated Applications
Aug 18, 1:00AM
The new way of the world for most web software development is the assembly of applications from cloud based APIs. Developers are saving loads of time by pulling in various cloud services and focusing their attention on the novel business logic of their solutions.CrunchWeek: BlackBerry Puts Itself In Play, Google's Geeky Easter Eggs, Mobile Ad M&A
Aug 17, 10:00PM
The great thing about CrunchWeek is that when a few of us writers gather to muse about the most interesting stories from the past seven days in tech news, it's never the same thing twice. It's like the special unique snowflake of TechCrunch TV!DO-RA Is An Environmental Sensor That Plugs Into Your Phone & Tracks Radiation Exposure
Aug 17, 9:00PM
DO-RA is a personal dosimeter-radiometer for measuring ionizing radiation that plugs into a smartphone and works in conjunction with an app to allow you to quantify your exposure to background radiation. The device, created by a Russian startup, is due to go into production this autumn and will cost around $150.AngelList Tells SEC New Fundraising Rules Will Kill Startups
Aug 17, 8:16PM
Startups could face a "death sentence" one year ban from fundraising if they violate awkward new general solicitation fundraising rules, AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant wrote in a letter to the SEC this week. Ravikant says the Regulation D and Form D changes that go into effect soon are designed for Wall Street, not Silicon Valley, and must change or they'll harm rather than help startups.How LinkedIn Became A Wall Street Juggernaut
Aug 17, 8:00PM
In 2010, had you suggested to the smartest Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors that LinkedIn would have a larger market value in 2013 than Groupon, Zynga or Twitter, you would have been laughed at. Had you hypothesized that LinkedIn would be worth more than Groupon, Zynga and Twitter combined and worth nearly one-third the value of Facebook, no one would have believed you. LinkedIn just wasn't as exciting as the internet darlings of the day, and, as a result, there were many LinkedIn doubters at that time, myself included.Formvertise Launches With Form-Based Mobile Ads And 'Sue Me' Campaigns Offering A Guaranteed ROI
Aug 17, 7:00PM
Startup Formvertise is committing financially to the effectiveness of its mobile ad campaigns. It's is actually a spinoff from another company we've covered, Adlibrium, which offered mobile marketing tools for small businesses and nonprofits. The problem with that approach, as explained to me by CEO Shaunak Khire, is not hugely surprising — many of those organizations don't have significant budgets.Gillmor Gang: Drunken Avatars
Aug 17, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — turned what seemed like a slow news week into a tour of emergent hardware and big tech ideas. A Down-Under visitor to Robert Scoble's studio showed us how he used a 3D printer to prototype a Steadicam-like handheld image stabilizer. Closer to home, we handicapped Elon Musk's HyperLoop project, the possibility of using wearable computers to detect an interest in donuts from eye movements, and the timing of the end of Apple's year-long drought of new product. As the new school year approaches, even a slow week turns out to be bursting with promise.Why Venture Will Abandon Seed Investing
Aug 17, 3:00PM
Five years ago, I noticed a growing gap between angel and venture investing. Venture was getting bigger and writing bigger checks, while angel checks were getting smaller and their process was becoming more cumbersome. Since it had also become exponentially easier to launch a web, and later mobile business, entrepreneurs had ideas that needed a million dollars or less to launch, but no clear path to funding. This gap which I and a few other early adopters wanted to fill is now called "seed investing."Waywire CEO Nathan Richardson Departs As Company Shifts Focus From Content Creation To Curation
Aug 17, 4:11AM
The CEO of Waywire -- the startup co-founded by Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker -- is stepping down, TechCrunch has learned. The resignation comes as the company is in the midst of a strategic shift from content creation to content curation, according to a source familiar with the company's strategy.Lessons From Monks About Designing The Technologies Of The Future
Aug 17, 4:00AM
"The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body," William S. Burroughs once said in a Nike commercial, of all places. But things haven't worked out that way, at least not for most of us. Our technologies are designed to maximize shareholder profit, and if that means distracting, confusing or aggregating the end-user, then so be it.Beddit, The Sleep Sensor You Tape To Your Bed, Looks To Build Cloud App With Indiegogo Stretch Goal
Aug 17, 3:05AM
Smart pedometers are just the beginning. Sensors of all kinds are emerging to track the way we move, what we do at home and the way we sleep. Last week, I wrote about a Helsinki-based company called Beddit that ran an Indiegogo campaign for a sleep sensor you attach to your bed. They say it is so sensitive, it can pick up a person’s heart-rate. After making devices like this for medical professionals for a couple years, they are looking at the consumer market with a cheaper product for $149. They quickly reached their goal of $80,000 in about a week and are looking to tack on more. The company’s pledging to build a web app called Beddit Cloud for backing up and sharing sleep data if they can reach $200,000. The original Beddit already syncs to a mobile app through Bluetooth. But if they build Beddit Cloud, then a person can automatically upload their sleep measurements to a private web account. This will include visualizations for looking at long periods of sleep data, spreadsheet exports and an anonymous aggregated comparison of your sleep data with other Beddit Cloud users. They’ll also make the data easily shareable to social networks, putting in some of the social features that are common in more generalized activity trackers like the Jawbone Up. There will also be an open API for third-party apps. They’re planning to have it out by the second quarter of next year if they make this stretch goal.FundersClub Ditches Dumb Money By Going Invite-Only
Aug 17, 12:52AM
"Democratizing venture capital" sounds great until equity crowdfunding fills startup financing rounds with amateur angels who don't add value. So while other funding platforms open the floodgates to any accredited investor, and eventually anyone if the JOBS Act goes into full effect, FundersClub will now only accept investors who've been invited by existing members.Fox Invests In Vice, A Media Company That Makes Money Being Terrible And Brilliant
Aug 17, 12:45AM
21st Century Fox has invested $70 million in youth-focused media company Vice, giving Fox a 5 percent stake in the company and valuing Vice at $1.4 billion, according to a report in the Financial Times. I emailed a company spokesperson to confirm the funding but they have not responded. Still, the news has been widely reported enough that it seems pretty solid.Despite Flaws, Ashton As Jobs Is Worth Seeing
Aug 17, 12:33AM
When Ashton Kutcher was first tapped to play Steve Jobs in the movie Jobs, which opened in theaters today, I was nervous. Mostly for Ashton. In addition to being a friend, I'm also Ashton's fan, and celebrate his entire oeuvre. But most of his roles thus far have been lighthearted (Dude Where's My Car? for one). Portraying Steve Jobs is his most ambitious career move yet and an impossible situation. Here we have a very well-known actor, known for a specific type of work, playing a very well-known, and very serious, public figure.Rep. Himes Points Out That The Intelligence Community And The President Lied To Him
Aug 17, 12:31AM
Irked that the government lied to you about the privacy abuses of the National Security Agency (NSA)? You're not alone. Today, Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut published a statement on the recent revelation that the NSA had breached privacy laws thousands of times in a one-year period. The Washington Post, which broke that story, also reported that the NSA kept news of such encroachments from Congress, and that the rate of abuse was increasing.The Problem With The Lean In-tern
Aug 17, 12:01AM
I am a college student in a field that traditionally offers unpaid internships. If you were to ask me two years ago to work for a big-name publication with no pay, I would have jumped at the chance. But this year, while browsing internship listings for this summer, I had no interest in unpaid positions. I considered them a last resort, only applying to a few in case I had no other choice. But really, no internship was more appealing than an unpaid one. I considered traveling, waiting tables and a couple other alternatives I thought would be more rewarding than working for someone for free.Taxi E-Hail Startup Flywheel Launches In Los Angeles To Take On Uber, Lyft, And SideCar
Aug 16, 10:44PM
Flywheel is growing fast, doubling its number of rides over just the last two-and-a-half months. And with new funding in place, it's looking to enter new markets to provide a way for passengers to hail a cab from their mobile phones. The next big market it's launched in is Los Angeles, where it already has 300 drivers lined up to start accepting rides via the app.Startups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better
Aug 16, 10:09PM
In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: "Android is Better." His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the next generation of mobile applications still heavily prefer the iPhone, not only as their personal smartphone of choice, but also as the launch platform for their latest creations.Ask A VC: Floodgate's Ann Miura-Ko On Rajeev Motwani's Legacy And More
Aug 16, 9:30PM
In this week's episode of Ask A VC Floodgate's co-founding partner Ann Miura-Ko joined us in the studio. Miura-Ko and I chatted about her role at Stanford, where she is a lecturer in the school of engineering, and where she received a PhD focused on mathematical modeling of computer security. Miuro-Ko recalled how impactful and important the late Rajeev Motwani, a Stanford professor of computer science, was to Ph.D. students in her program who wanted to found companies based on their research. As Miura-Ko explains in the video above, Motwani served as a mentor and advisor for Larry Page and Sergey Brin during the formative years of Google.Toutpost Wants To Turn Online Debates Into Shopping Advice
Aug 16, 9:27PM
I'll just throw this out there right now: I am known around TechCrunch for making, let's say, unwise purchasing decisions. Whereas my problem stems mostly from making those choices without much forethought, others suffer from the reverse. Some people will do research until they're blue in the face, and they still can't make a decision. That's where Amir Elaguizy, Alex Morse and Paul DeVay come in. The trio has formed a Y Combinator-backed startup called Toutpost that wants to make it easier to figure out what you should buy. How? By basically harnessing the passion and ire of fanboy throwdowns in order to give people actual, valuable purchasing advice.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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