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Microsoft's Next Era
Aug 26, 3:52AM
Moments like this happen only once a generation in the technology industry. The announcement of Steve Ballmer's retirement from his post as CEO of Microsoft puts an end to one of the most powerful and interesting "regimes" in technology history. Symbolically, this is likely the closing chapter of an era that was led by Bill Gates, then collectively by Gates and Ballmer, and then more recently just Ballmer. We think of these as distinct periods, but while Ballmer may not have had the technology visionary chops that famously defined Bill, much of what we saw from Microsoft in the 2000's was a continuation of the strategy that defined the company in the 90's.When Apple Did Color Because It Was Delicious, Exciting, And Human
Aug 26, 3:23AM
You know what they say about trends: wait five years and they'll swing back around again. With confirmation that a a gold iPhone 5s will indeed break onto the scene in September to throw a crimp into Apple's monochromatic streak (madness! Gold rush jokes!), let's take a look back at all those times that the company did color and did it well.Dispatch From The Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google
Aug 26, 1:00AM
July 25, 2023 -- Local transportation and delivery giant Uber announced its biggest bet on autonomous vehicles yet, saying it would purchase 2,500 driverless cars from Google. In addition, the two companies have agreed to a deal in which Uber will share data from its local transportation services with Google, which will use it to further improve its own autonomous car-routing algorithms.The Board Of The Borg
Aug 26, 12:31AM
On April 17 of this year, I wrote a post that I never published. The following day, Microsoft was set to release their Q3 numbers and I wanted to see what they looked like before I ran my piece. I wanted to see if the implosion of the PC industry would start to show up in that quarter, or if it would take another quarter before we saw how dire things really were. Then life got in the way. I never ran the post. But given this week's news of Steve Ballmer vacating his CEO position sometime in the next 12 months, I figured it was just as timely, if not more so.Mozilla's Firefox OS Gives The Open Web Top Billing On Mobile
Aug 26, 12:00AM
Mozilla was late to mobile and now it's trying to catch up. For a while now, the nonprofit has been releasing mobile versions of its Firefox browser for Android, but its most ambitious project to date is its Firefox OS mobile operating system for smartphones. Earlier this month, the Chinese handset manufacturer ZTE made the first set of its entry-level unlocked $80 Firefox OS phones available in the U.S. and the U.K. and quickly sold out the first batch of about 1,000 devices in each country. In Europe, the devices were already on sale through Deutsche Telekom in Poland and Telefonica in Colombia, Spain and Venezuela.Naughty NSA Agents Spied On Lovers
Aug 25, 11:02PM
Note to self: do not cheat on employees of the National Security Agency. The NSA is in more hot water after it was revealed that a few heart-broken agents spied on their lovers. The violation is apparently common enough to earn its own bureaucratic code, "LOVEINT"AWS Server Issues Take Down Instagram, Vine, Airbnb And IFTTT
Aug 25, 10:04PM
Those of you looking to spend the rest of today watching people do other things on Instagram or Vine probably just had a rough time trying to do it -- both services went offline for over an hour, most likely because of issues with Amazon Web Services. Instagram was the first of the two to publicly acknowledge its issues on Twitter, and Vine followed suit half an hour later.What Games Are: The March Of The Muggles
Aug 25, 10:00PM
It's easy to consign tablet and mobile gaming to the lamestream and feel that there's a detente between that and the more core gaming platforms. However this is both shortsighted and naive. There's a deep reason why users are moving over to simpler platforms, one that can't be ignored. For game developers, for everyone really, learning how to engage with a more "muggle" next generation is vital.Say Something Is An App For Singles To Get Better At Dating Small Talk. But First It Needs To Attract Women
Aug 25, 9:00PM
Say Something is an app in the making that wants to inject some fun into online dating by letting you practice your small talk with real people before you actually go on any first dates -- thereby giving you the chance to make all those awful first impressions somewhere where they won't count against you. It's crowdsourced dating advice."You Should Probably" Reminds You To Stop Wasting Your Life On The Internet
Aug 25, 8:41PM
We all have our e-vices. The sites that you catch yourself browsing with a half-focused gaze. The ones that nibble away your time and leave you wondering what you did all day, and how you ended up with pages of purple links but not a thing scratched off your to-do list. "You Should Probably" is an extension that tries to wean you off those sites by nagging at you with better uses for your time.10 Startups In The VMware Universe Worth Tracking This Week At VMworld
Aug 25, 8:00PM
The VMworld annual virtualization geek out begins this week in San Francisco. The big topic that will dominate all others: the radical transformation of the data center as a flood of data makes the old IT ways just seem antiquated and ill-fitted to the reality of a new mobile-first world. A host of startups are emerging that leverage VMware's dominant position in the enterprise. Here are ten worth tracking this week and the months ahead.The NSA Reportedly Bugged The UN's New York Headquarters
Aug 25, 5:51PM
As tensions mount between the United States and other countries over the NSA's once-secret spying programs, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported earlier today that the NSA has been spying on the goings-on at the United Nations' New York headquarters for nearly a year.A Story About Threading The Needle On Mobile
Aug 25, 5:00PM
As some of you may know, I've been lucky to be a small part of the team behind Swell, a new kind of radio experience built initially for iPhone. After spending many months in stealth mode leading up to our public release at the end of June 2013, I finally had some perspective to look back and reflect on all the little product and strategic decisions the team made to deliver what is, in my (biased) view, a great V1 product in a crowded, competitive, and noisy consumer app marketplace. About two months into the wild, we are fortunate to have received some nice feedback and organic mentions on Twitter, where much of our core audience resides.The Maginot Line
Aug 25, 12:20PM
I'm sorry to say that I have succumbed to something like schadenfreude. It's not that I really enjoy what is happening these days, what with institutions of the web shutting down, basic civil rights being ignored, and all the rest. It's just that it's all a little poetic.Weekend Watch Review: Grappling The Girard-Perregaux Chrono Hawk
Aug 25, 5:05AM
Girard-Perregaux, to those not familiar with watch lore, is a watchmaker founded in 1791 and that now produces handmade, manufacture pieces in the mid- to high-level range. I've been a longtime fan of the brand - they usually come up with designs that are timeless and more classic than, say, Concord, and less fuddy-duddy than IWC and other traditional makers. The watch we're looking at today, the Chrono Hawk, is G-P's lower-end addition to their catalog (if "lower end" and G-P can ever appear in the same sentence.)As Wix Heads Toward IPO, Weebly Looks To Expand With Big New SF Headquarters, Plans To Add 500+ Employees
Aug 25, 4:04AM
Weebly, the service that lets you, your grandma and anyone else build a website for free, is growing fast. The startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2007 and today hosts over 15 million sites, which together see more than 100 million unique visitors each month. But they also expect this growth to continue, as Weebly co-founder David Rusenko tells us that his company has signed a lease on 36,000-square feet of a historic warehouse in SOMA in downtown San Francisco, which will become its new headquarters. Not only that, but as the anchor tenant of this new space, the company has the option to expand to 50,000-square-feet, which Rusenko says the company plans to do. As a comparison, Weebly’s new office will be nearly five-times the size of its current space in Pac Heights, which is a puny 11,000-square-feet. Besides the fact that the warehouse that will play home to their new headquarters is apparently the “last brick-and-timber warehouse in SOMA to be converted to a more modern setup” — and is where many of the grapes would be shipped from Napa to make wine in San Francisco, Rusenko says — the reason for the move is that Weebly plans to hire hundreds of new employees and it’s going to need somewhere to put them. Weebly plans to move into the new space sometime in early 2014 and over the next couple of years plans to grow to up to 600 employees globally — most of whom will be located in San Francisco, the co-founder tells us. When Weebly moved into their current offices in 2011, the company was just 19 employees, a team which today has grown to 80. Yes, that means beginning soon Weebly is going to begin a long-term push that will add over 500 people to its staff, many of whom will be engineers and designers. When asked how Weebly is making this possible, the co-founder says that the company has been profitable from “very early on” and is backed by VCs like Sequoia, so that help build confidence among potential recruits that the company is actually going to be around in a year. It sounds a lot like Dropbox’s big move and growth spurt in 2011, doesn’t it? But how does it plan to pay for all that? Although the company won’t share specifics on its financial performance or how much it raised fromGillmor Gang: Watching the River Flow
Aug 24, 11:57PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor — digest the resignation of Steve Ballmer and its potential impact on the direction of the Post-PC Era. Whether he was pushed by Bill Gates or what, it's clear something changed in the last few days. Just how or who can do better will soon be apparent, as Ballmer's lame duck term has been accelerated by a cheering Wall Street.CrunchWeek: Ballmer's Classy Exit, Our Picks From YC's Demo Day, And The Gold iPhone
Aug 24, 10:00PM
Are you feeling like you're ready to kick off the weekend, but could just use three more opinions on the biggest tech news stories of the week before you really get the party started? Well you came to the right place, because it's time for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show where three of us writers plop ourselves down in the TechCrunch TV studio for some real talk about the most interesting stories from the past week.The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business
Aug 24, 8:00PM
This is going be a bullet FAQ on starting a business. No joke. If you're a lawyer, feel free to disagree with me, so you can charge someone your BS fees to give the same advice. If you can think of anything to add, please do so. I might be missing things. If you want to argue with me, feel free. I might be wrong about any of it.Doximity, A LinkedIn For Medical Professionals, Now Reaches About 30% Of Doctors In The U.S.
Aug 24, 7:32PM
Doximity, which is like a LinkedIn for physicians that lets them share patient data in a HIPAA-compliant way, said that it’s now reaching about 30 percent of doctors in the country. They’ve got about 200,000 licensed physicians on-board across the U.S. in every major city and sub-specialty. Two hundred thousand users isn’t a grand number in the scheme of most apps. But in the case of a highly-specialized vertical like medicine, it is. “It took LinkedIn many times longer to reach that level of penetration in the white-collar workforce and Doximity has accomplished this in about three years,” said Jeff Spain, a general partner at Emergence Capital Partners who backed the company. The CEO Jeff Tangney is a second-time founder whose previous medical software company Epocrates went for an IPO in 2011. He founded Doximity a few years ago as a way to attack how doctors share medical data on their patients. Hand-offs between doctors are an eternal source of mistakes that can cost patients their lives. “The current system is positively Medieval in terms of how we ask doctors to communicate,” he said. “I saw how much time was wasted with fax machines. There are 15 billion faxes a year sent in the U.S. healthcare system and it’s because there is no other legal way to send your lab report from one office to the other. It’s not HIPAA compliant.” So they built Doximity as a social network for doctors where physicians could look up other colleagues or physicians. Tangney says the platform is speeding up the process with which doctors can find relevant specialists for patients. In one case this week, he said a doctor treating a patient with a tear in their retina was able to find an eye surgeon in the same day. That speed potentially saved the patient’s eyesight. Doximity has a freemium model with two revenue streams at the moment. One is charging for sending patient files above a certain limit, and the other is for honoraria or consultations. For example, an analyst on Wall Street might want to reach out and ask a physician about a potential healthcare investment. They would pay the doctor and Doximity would earn a cut. The company is not yet cash-flow positive, however. The service grew slowly at first, but they’ve started to pick up momentum with doctor-to-doctor referrals generating 80 percent of new users. It helps thatIf 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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