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iPad Animation App Loop Captures The Fun Of Making Doodled Flipbooks
Aug 23, 5:27AM
Remember turning the corners of your class notes into flipbooks with a sequence of tiny drawings? iPad app Loop recreates the glee of watching your doodles come to life by making it easy to create frame-by-frame animations.Google Ventures Puts $258M Into Uber, Its Largest Deal Ever
Aug 23, 2:34AM
A Certificate Of Incorporation unearthed by AllThingsD today shows that Uber has closed $361.2 million in its latest round. It's unknown why TPG, who picked up 775,092 shares, paid a lower per-share price than the other participants. The late-stage investor plunked down a total of $88.4 million in Uber. Existing investor Benchmark put in another $15 million in this round.Video Site Chill Offers New Tools For Giving 'Insider Access' To Fans
Aug 23, 1:41AM
Chill, the Kleiner Perkins-backed site where independent filmmakers and other content creators can sell directly to fans, has some new features for engaging those fans even before the movie (or other project) has been completed. You can see these features in action in the page for Camp Takota, an upcoming film featuring YouTube stars Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart. In exchange for providing their contact information, fans get access to behind-the-scenes videos, photos, and blog posts before anyone else.Salesforce + Zillow? RealScout Lands $1.1M From DCM, Formation 8 For More Personal, Collaborative Real Estate Search
Aug 22, 11:30PM
RealScout, a new real estate technology company based in Sunnyvale, is the latest to join a growing list of startups operating on the premise that the tools we use to search for local real estate are outdated and broken. As such, companies like Redfin, Zillow and Trulia, for example, have found success by focusing on improving consumer experience, bringing simpler, user-friendly tools to the opaque and confusing world of real estate search. However, while this shift in focus to the end-user has been a boon for the space, improving the consumer experience by leaps and bounds (and minting a few IPOs in the process), RealScout CEO Andrew Flachner believes the change has come at cost, which few are talking about.Why Obama's Radical Education Plan Could Finally Disrupt College
Aug 22, 10:41PM
For the first time in American history, colleges could be judged on how their graduates perform in the real world and give the private sector a way to compete on a common metric. Later today, President Obama will unveil a new plan to overhaul college ratings, funding requirements and loan repayment, as well as promote innovations in online learning. If the still-vague plan is implemented with teeth, it could lead to a radical overhaul in the educational establishment, since few universities are currently structured to impart job-relevant skills.Google Search Gets Improved Dictionary Definitions With Sample Sentences, Synonyms, Translations And Usage Stats
Aug 22, 10:36PM
Here is a small but cool update to Google Search: Google's dictionary definitions - which you can invoke by using a query like "define crunch " - now feature significantly more information about virtually every word in its catalog. This update, Google says, is meant to "give you more information about these words beyond just their definition."The Form 1 3D Printer Gets An OS X Update
Aug 22, 9:57PM
The software package that comes with the Form 1 3D printer, which I reviewed a few months ago, has gotten a much-needed update. First, the new software, called PreForm is now compatible with OS X, which means more users can use the system natively on their machines.Pandora Plans To Lift Its 40-Hour Free Mobile Listening Cap On Sept. 1
Aug 22, 9:33PM
During this afternoon's earnings call, Pandora executives said that they would lift for the 40-hour monthly cap on free mobile listening that was announced back in February. This is actually the second time Pandora has instituted a free cap and then lifted it again — it last lifted the cap in September 2011. CFO Mike Herring said the decision was based on two factors. First, he described the cap as a "blunt tool" for limiting usage and costs, and in the time since, the company has developed more "surgical techniques" (such as skip limits), that control costs without affecting the listener experience as obviously. He also said that due to improvements the business, particularly in the advertising business, Pandora can now "monetize those hours from 41 onward at a much higher rate."Apple Acquires Embark, Another Mapping App With Transit Information
Aug 22, 8:18PM
Apple has acquired yet another transit mapping application reports Jessica Lessin, this time it's Embark, a Silicon Valley-based startup that builds apps for different cities to provide information about routes and stops. This acquisition follows the purchase of HopStop, another app that offers transit directions to users.Pandora Revenue Beats The Street, Grows 58% To $162M For Its Last Quarter Before iTunes Radio
Aug 22, 8:17PM
Streaming radio platform Pandora just released its second-quarter earnings, and it largely beat the street’s expectations. Total revenue increased 58 percent year-over-year to $162 million. The company reported non-GAAP EPS of -$0.04, a $7.8 million net loss. Analysts expected revenue of $156 million and non-GAAP earnings of $0.02 per share. Pandora managed to beat on revenue but was disappointing on earnings. Now 71.2 million users strong, the company reported 3.88 billion listening hours over the quarter, representing an 18 percent year-over-year increase. Yet, Pandora reported 4.18 billion listening hours last quarter. Even though revenue is increasing, people are listening less to Pandora. Moreover, it is still losing money. Pandora is careful with its Q3 estimates, as it expects between $174 million and $179 million in revenue with non-GAAP earnings per share between $0.03 and $0.06 after three quarters in the red. Yet, the big elephant in the room is iTunes Radio. Over the past seven days, most analysts expected Pandora to report stronger revenue and profit than anticipated. It was indeed the case, but this second quarter is the last one before the introduction of iTunes Radio and Pandora’s future looks gloomy. As the company notes, $116 million out of its $162 million reported revenue, or 71.6 percent, comes from its mobile apps. iOS is one of the two major platforms for Pandora, and it will now have to compete with a very similar product offering in the ‘Music’ apps. Even more worrying, advertisers could move from Pandora to iTunes Radio ads, effectively menacing Pandora’s bottom line. Apple’s streaming service is supposed to stream an audio ad for every 15 minutes of music, whereas Pandora streams an ad for every 30 minutes. Apple will release iTunes Radio in iOS 7, which should be released shortly after the rumored September 10 press event. It will be available in iTunes for Mac and Windows, as well. The company is still focused on mobile revenue as it increased 92 percent year over year. It remains to be seen whether the company will be able to hold the same trend in the coming quarters as more players are providing a customized radio experience. Over the past three months, Pandora got involved in heated debates over royalties. Many artists accused the streaming company of not paying enough royalties to music companies. The company had to defend its stance. Once again, most of the profit of thisThe Disrupt SF Hackathon Is Almost Here! More Tickets Available Now
Aug 22, 8:00PM
Two. more. weeks. In just a little over two weeks, our annual Disrupt SF conference is rolling back into town, and with it, one of our legendary Hackathons. We've released most of the hackathon tickets already, and each batch has gone faster than the last. Here — have another batch.Circle Gives You Distributed Control Of Your Family's Internet So You Can Be Human To Each Other
Aug 22, 7:50PM
Let's not kid ourselves: We don't control the Internet, the Internet controls us. Any notions to the contrary are foolish at best, but a new Kickstarter project called Circle wants to help families fight back against the Internet's omnipresence with hardware and software that allows individual control of devices connected to a local network.FullContact Automates The Tedious Task Of Adding Business-Card Data Into Salesforce
Aug 22, 7:46PM
TechStars alum FullContact has a new service for integrating contact information from business cards into all versions of Salesforce.com. With the latest version of the FullContact software, a customer can take a picture of a business card with the FullContact reader and see the leads in Salesforce Group, Enterprise or Professional Edition.Keen On… Brewster Kahle: How The Internet Archive Is Fighting Our Orwellian Government
Aug 22, 7:30PM
Even if he hadn't founded the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle - the co-founder of Alexa and Thinking Machines - would still be a first-round inductee in the Internet Hall Of Fame. But with the Internet Archive, Kahle has established himself in the pantheon of the true greats of the Internet. The Internet Archive stands as the web's largest library, with 3 million users every day. It houses two million books and has collected two petabytes of data just in the last couple of months.HP Is Back In The Acquisition Game For Targets Between $100M And $1.5B After Cutting Net Debt
Aug 22, 7:19PM
Yesterday HP reported mildly disappointing earnings, and after an earnings call that was more a request for patience than a rallying call, investors sent the company's shares down heavily. HP is trading more than 12 percent down today. However, despite repeating a declared internal zeal for cost cutting, a balanced plan between revenue growth and margin pressure, and the goal of zero net debt, HP's Meg Whitman today stated that the company is in the acquisition game, and for big targets to boot.Nudge Is Like Reddit For Social Activities
Aug 22, 7:02PM
Social planning continues to be a hot topic for developers, and the latest new service out of San Francisco is taking a different approach to the whole thing. Nudge, a mobile and desktop web app, crowdsources activities from people in the area and surfaces the best ones to the top of the list. The app is centered around inspirational and motivational activities, like bike rides, hiking trips, sunset watching, etc., as opposed to other social-planning apps that focus on restaurants and bars.TechCrunch Meetup. Tonight. San Diego.
Aug 22, 7:01PM
We're here, San Diego. And it is sunny. And hot. We love it. Tonight, at 6:00, TechCrunch is taking over the Block 16 on 7th for an evening of good times and startup pitches. After sorting through over a hundred applications, we selected 20 companies to take part in a rapid-fire pitch-off competition to be judged by TechCrunch editors and local VCs.New Update For Find My iPhone Locks Out Non-Developers Without iOS 7 Beta [Update: Working Again]
Aug 22, 6:02PM
A new update for Apple's Find My iPhone app seems to have been pushed out a little early. It changes the icon to a flatter design, which is more in keeping with iOS 7's aesthetics. Unfortunately, it also locks out users on iOS 6 who don't have a registered developer account or iOS 7 installed and configured on one of their devices with their iCloud account.Windows Phone Takes Second Place In Latin America, Validating The Nokia-Microsoft Relationship
Aug 22, 5:48PM
Microsoft announced new data from IDC indicating that Windows Phone is the second-most-used mobile platform in Latin America. It would be simple to dismiss it as a minor victory in a secondary market, but the news is in fact a validation of Windows Phone's strategy to grow its install base and accelerate its unit shipment growth. Microsoft, obviously proud of the silver medal, reported the data, saying that "in one year, the operating system went from fourth to second place," and that "there was 12 percent growth compared to the previous quarter."Bunkr Is The PowerPoint Killer We've All Been Waiting For
Aug 22, 5:48PM
French startup Bunkr is focused on one simple task: killing PowerPoint. To achieve this goal, the company’s well-designed web app will help you collect visual content and organize it into slides. The result is a very visual HTML5 presentation that works on your computer, phone or tablet. You can export your work in PDF or PPT as well. “We realized that we spent a lot of time putting together beautiful PowerPoint presentations instead of searching for information and content, analyzing and providing strategies for our clients,” co-founder and CMO Édouard Petit told me. “That’s why we asked ourselves how we could become faster at formatting presentations,” he continued. The answer lies in the two main components of the products — collecting content and creating a presentation. In order to do a PowerPoint presentation, you have to spend a large chunk of time searching for good images and videos on the web, downloading them and adding them to your presentation. You could use Evernote or a similar data capturing service. Instead, Bunkr chose to take care of this part of the process. It is not only a presentation maker, it is an Evernote-like service for your presentations. Whenever you see something that you want to add to your presentation, just click on the bookmarklet and it will be in your Bunkr account. Users can collect images, videos, websites, articles, notes or quotes. Bunkr doesn’t reinvent the traditional slide metaphor. PowerPoint users won’t feel lost. With Bunkr, you create your own Pinterest-like content database. Whenever you need to add an image or a quote, you tap into this database. You can easily reuse catchy quotes and inspiring images and save some time. That’s why Bunkr will appeal to executives who make presentations everyday — in other words, hardcore PowerPoint users. “The idea behind Bunkr comes from our previous jobs,” Petit said. “With Alexis, we worked in an advertising agency and we spent most of our days doing presentations,” he continued. When it comes to the presentation structure, Bunkr doesn’t reinvent the traditional slide metaphor. Compared to competitor Prezi, it is very conservative. PowerPoint users won’t feel lost. But the main difference with Prezi is that it’s all HTML5. You don’t have to use Flash in your browser, you don’t have to install an app on your smartphone. You can just send a link to your presentation, and it will work in whateverIf 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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