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Google Exec Departs Amidst Rumors Of Tangled Love Quadrangle
Aug 29, 3:08AM
We've confirmed a report today that Android VP Hugo Barra is leaving Google for "Apple of China" Xiaomi. The report was timed to coincide with another story about the dissolution of Google co-founder Sergey Brin's marriage to 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki. And revealed that a person whom Hugo Barra had been in a previous relationship with was now dating Brin.With New Funding In Tow, Lendio And Creditera Are Helping Small Businesses Secure Loans And Avoid Bad Credit
Aug 29, 1:48AM
Brock Blake and Levi King have founded more than six companies between them. Over the course of their various entrepreneurial endeavors, like many other small business owners entrepreneurs, Blake and King applied for dozens of business loans -- and received dozens of rejections. When they did receive approvals, they usually came with terms, rates or amounts that made the loan more of a hassle than a help.The GMax Large-Format 3D Printer Is Far, Far Bigger Than A Breadbox
Aug 29, 1:41AM
Given that the average breadbox is 12 inches wide by 6 inches high and deep, we can safely say that the GMax 3D printer, a Kickstarted large format printer can print one. The printer, which is available for a pledge of $1,000 for an entry-level model or $1,200 for a nicer model with LCD screen.Mailbox Adds Cloud Search For Gmail And Opens Links In Chrome
Aug 29, 12:35AM
Dropbox-owned Mailbox has just added a couple of nice features, including the ability to search all of your Gmail messages in the cloud and locally on your device. Previously, you could only dig through messages that had already been downloaded, which was one of the big flaws that stopped me from continuing to use the app. Searching is quick and happens in two stages. Type your query and you’ll get an instant list of local results. Mailbox polls Gmail in the background and begins filling out results from the server as soon as it has them in a list. At some points in my testing, I did get a gray overlay that said ‘no results’ while it was still searching the cloud. I’d love to see this better indicate that you might have results, they’re just on their way — especially when you have a poor network connection. Most of the searches were quick enough to fill out the list fairly swiftly. In addition to the new cloud search option, you can now also attach signatures to individual emails based on the address that you’re using to send them. So if you’re replying to an email from your work address, they’ll see the signature you use for work, not the pocket robot joke you use on your personal account. In what is a growing trend with apps on Apple’s iOS platform, the new Mailbox also allows you to toggle an option to open links inside Chrome, Google’s alternative browser. Google’s apps have, of course, been making a habit of this. That includes Gmail, which now makes it possible to open links in Chrome and almost all attachments in their corresponding Google apps like Drive. Mailbox, in what is an unsurprising but nice little synergistic move, continues to give away 1GB of free space on Dropbox when you link your account up to Mailbox. Mailbox recently added Dropbox integration for attachments, and this is a great way to drive people to the settings menu to toggle that option on. Mailbox continues to iterate on its initial promise, especially in terms of thinking outside of the device itself and into the cloud. Which is, pretty much, the exact reason why you’d be excited about being acquired by a company like Dropbox.Singaporean Accelerator JFDI.Asia's Latest Intake Brings Together Entrepreneurs From 9 Countries
Aug 29, 12:00AM
Singapore-based accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia) has announced the 10 startup teams in its latest class. Modeled after TechStars, JFDI.Asia looks for founding teams who are ready to take their startups from concept to early-stage investment in 100 days.Test Driving The Evelo Aries, An Electric Bicycle For Commuters From A Bootstrapped Startup
Aug 28, 11:14PM
When co-founder Boris Mordkovich and his team at Evelo were ready to launch their electric bicycle company in April 2012, they took an unusual approach: They rode electric bikes from New York to San Francisco, stopping frequently along the way to demo their bikes to prospective bicycle dealers and customers. Now, the bootstrapped startup is on track to exceed $1 million in revenue.Three Becomes The Fourth Carrier To Throw Its Hat Into The LTE Ring, Will Offer Price-Busting 4G On 3G Tariffs Starting In December
Aug 28, 11:03PM
On the heels of Vodafone and O2 this evening turning on their LTE networks to compete against EE in 4G services in the UK, Three has confirmed its roadmap and pricing for 4G services. The UK's fourth-largest carrier, owned by Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, will start offering LTE beginning December 2013, starting first in London, Birmingham and Manchester; then going to 50 cities in 2014; and finally extending to 98% of the population by the end of 2015.This Week On The TechCrunch Droidcast: Samsung's Galaxy Glut, Nexus Price Cuts, And HTC's Next Step
Aug 28, 9:55PM
Is it Wednesday already? It must be, because we've got yet another edition of the TechCrunch Droidcast to carry you the rest of your day (or least the next half hour).This week it's just Darrell Etherington and I shooting the breeze about the goings-on in the Android world, but there's plenty to for us dig into. Samsung has a new tablet for kiddies and confirmed it'll show off the Galaxy Gear smartwatch next week for starters, and Google has just priced its 8 and 16GB Nexus 4s to move. Meanwhile, poor old HTC may be trying to put together a mobile operating system of its own so it can make some inroads into the Chinese market (and hopefully secure itself a future).Come To The Disrupt Hackathon, Leave Smarter - Here Are The API Workshops (And More Tickets!)
Aug 28, 9:46PM
We're just over a week away from the Disrupt SF Hackathon, where hundreds of devs will be locked in a battle to build the coolest thing they can build in a single 24 hour stretch. The prize? Fame. Glory. Oh, and a nice stack of cash. Even if you don't win, you'll probably walk away with the most important prize of all: knowledge*. (Psst, we've also got some more Hackathon tickets in here..)If Tinder And Snapchat Shacked Up And Had A Baby, It Would Be Called Swipe
Aug 28, 9:16PM
Swipe is the latest in a series of "people discovery" apps to pop up over the last year or so, connecting users who have expressed interest in one another. In that way, it's not that much different from apps like Tinder or Let's Date. But GameChanger Labs, the startup behind the Swipe app, hopes to provide a bunch of features that will keep users coming back for more, even after their users meet one another offline.Udacity And San Jose State See Improvement In Their Online Education Experiment [Updated]
Aug 28, 9:00PM
Experimentation is a roller coaster. San Jose State University suspended its controversial experiment in online courses last spring after disappointing results. But the university and its platform partner, Udacity, bounced back on their second try, improving students outcomes in four of five summer courses, compared to their traditional online counter parts.You Can Bet On Who Will Be Microsoft's Next CEO (Marissa Mayer Pays Out 33 To 1)
Aug 28, 8:46PM
A betting service has compiled a list of potential candidates for Microsoft’s soon-to-be-vacant CEO role that you can wager on. It’s a partially serious, partially silly list. Microsoft COO Kevin Turner as CEO? Perhaps. Apple CEO Tim Cook as the new Microsoft boss? Probably not. But Turner pays out but 6 to 1 while Cook is a 100 to 1 longshot, so place your bets accordingly. In the thinking of betting group Ladbrokes, Steven Sinofsky might make a return to Microsoft (8 to 1 odds), Stephen Elop might leave Nokia to run his former employer (5 to 1), Marissa Mayer might ditch Yahoo for Big Redmond (33 to 1), and Jack Dorsey might head up a company whose products he likely hasn’t used in years (40 to 1). Yes, you can bet that Bill Gates will come back to Microsoft as its chief, but it pays out 50 to 1, which is a pretty decent indication that the boys at Ladbrokes aren’t utterly silly. But they have “Cheryl Sandberg” [sic] on the list at 40 to 1, so I doubt their savvy. CNET jokingly notes that “bookie’s algorithms are more finely tuned than a first violinist’s Strad,” which makes the above fun, as the bookies in this case have created a few bets that they know won’t pay out. Hell, they could offer Cook at 1,000 to 1 and it would still be a decidedly negative EV bet for the average piker. We here at TechCrunch recently played Ballmer Bingo ourselves, noting that Google’s Vic Gundotra might be in play. Ladbrokes will pay out 25 to 1 if that happens. In reality, a short list of candidates has not been leaked yet, probably because Microsoft is early in the process of picking its next CEO. Who will it be? I know it’s not me or you. The list of candidates — people with enough experience and knowledge and charisma to run a technology company at the scale of Microsoft — is small, but not vanishing. For now, bet away — current Windows boss Terry Myerson pays out 12 to 1. Top Image Credit: Aanjhan RanganathanOnline Ad Company Turn Launches In Japan
Aug 28, 8:43PM
Turn, which offers advertising tools in areas like real-time bidding and analytics, is announcing today that it has opened its first office in Japan. This is part of a larger move into the Asia-Pacific region, said CEO Bill Demas — the company expanded in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia in the past year, and it also has a data center based in Hong Kong. "We know we need to be in population centers, there are certainly users [in Japan] who are immersed in the Internet, and it has an active and thriving advertising community," Demas said. "The inbound interest in Turn relative to other markets is just about as high as I've seen anywhere."Obama's NSA Panel Is Dead Before It Even Starts, Lacks Tech And Telco Execs
Aug 28, 7:47PM
As part of his promises regarding better oversight of the National Security Agency, President Obama called for expert external opinion on where the lines of privacy should be drawn: "...We're forming a high-level group of outside experts to review our entire intelligence and communications technologies. We need new thinking for a new era. We now have to unravel terrorist plots by finding a needle in the haystack of global telecommunications. And meanwhile, technology has given governments -- including our own -- unprecedented capability to monitor communications."Twitter Reverses The Flow Of Its Timeline In Effort To Humanize It For Newbies
Aug 28, 7:46PM
Twitter just flipped the format of its timeline with a new conversation view. The full timeline will still show in the traditional ‘newest stuff at the top’ view, but now there are linked conversations which display tweets in an easier-to-understand format. At first glance, this might seem like a simple update that links related tweets together with a thin blue line and a fancy expandable box. But the reasons for this go deeper than just making it easier to read. It’s also making it feel more human and less Twitter. The new view is rolling out on Twitter.com, as well as in the iPhone and Android apps and features an ‘old’ tweet first, with newer replies to it in order afterwards. Here’s an example of an expanded conversation in a timeline (only a couple of the replies are visible until you spread them out): Note the timestamps along the side. Instead of the traditional ‘countdown’ as you go up, the tweets actually get older, not newer. This is a reversal of the way that Twitter has worked before. And, at least to my eye, it’s much easier to follow conversations when you’re reading them chronologically from the oldest tweet through replies that add to the discussion. From the beginning, Twitter has had its own system of communication. Third-party developers helped define the conventions like the @ symbol, the RT and more, but that system has grown increasingly opaque to new users of the service. As with any network, the conventions grow organically to include in-jokes, little nooks of oddness and big swaths of unintelligible conversation. Twitter had backed itself right into a similar situation by letting the audience define those conventions for so long. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, Twitter wouldn’t be half of what it is if those early enthusiasts hadn’t stretched and pulled the SMS messenger into its current shape. But, if Twitter wants to execute on its plan of embracing media companies and new users that will actually interact with and engage, it now needs to make things simpler and more coherent. Recently, at the D11 conference, CEO Dick Costolo indicated that Twitter need to address this communication issue: As far as what Costolo says that Twitter is missing, he says "simplicity". "Bridging the gap between the awareness of what Twitter is and…going in and understanding what it is right away." That gap is what happens when you haveFounder Stories: Zendesk's Mikkel Svane On Applying Customer Service To Business
Aug 28, 7:31PM
Can you measure corporate performance based on customer happiness? According to my Founder Stories guest this week, Zendesk's Mikkel Svane, happiness is actually an important metric in the business of customer service. Zendesk produces a customer service platform that is used by more than 30,000 businesses worldwide. Started five years ago in Denmark, the once "virtual bootstrap" startup now has 400 employees and is experiencing at least 100 percent growth year over year. In our conversation, Mikkel and I discuss why he decided to move Zendesk to the U.S., how to create corporate culture when a third of the company works locally, and why Zendesk is opening an office in Madison, Wis.Twitter Updates Android, iOS And Web With New Conversation View, Abuse Reporting
Aug 28, 7:07PM
Twitter has just released an update for iOS, Android and the web application with a brand new interface for conversations, as well as enhanced sharing and abuse reporting capabilities. According to the official blog post, the idea is to make it easier to follow and discover conversations. With the updates, users will see full conversations between people they follow in their timeline as opposed to standalone @replies that may be sent hours or even days after the original tweet (the conversation starter) was sent.ShopPad Raises $500K To Instantly Turn Online Shops Into iPad-Friendly Websites
Aug 28, 6:47PM
ShopPad, an e-commerce platform that turns retailers' desktop websites into tablet-optimized experiences, is today announcing $500,000 in seed funding for its software-as-a-service technology now used by more than 10,000 online merchants. Angels in the round include Mashery co-founder and CEO of MyBlogLog, Lookery and Lumatic, Scott Rafer; Arik Keller (Director of Product at PayPal); Peter Horan (President of Answers.com); Allen Morgan (previously GP at Mayfield Fund, and Fab.com board member); Walt Doyle (previously GM PayPal Media); and others.With Trendrr Acquisition, Twitter Continues To Beef Up Its Social TV Efforts
Aug 28, 6:44PM
Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a company that tracks social media engagement around TV content, as announced in a Trendrr blog post and confirmed in a tweet by Twitter. Trendrr says it's "excited to be joining Twitter's world class team, enabling us to realize bigger opportunities that drive better experiences for users, media and marketers – across Twitter and around the globe." It also says it will continue to honor its existing contracts but will not be signing new ones.Fuse Streamlines Your Social Networking Into One Mobile App
Aug 28, 6:38PM
Fuse, a new mobile application that aggregates your social networking activity into one "fused" feed that you can then interact with, search, reply to and more, recently got an overhaul making it a more stable product - and one that's now ready for the forthcoming iOS 7 operating system thanks to an upgraded look-and-feel.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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