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Announcing The Agenda For TechCrunch Disrupt Europe
Oct 07, 7:01AM
On October 26th, TechCrunch Disrupt hits Europe for the first time and we’re excited to announce the full agenda. The event spans four days, featuring industry titans, noted thought leaders and experienced entrepreneurs. There will be a hackathon, a hall full of young companies, and of course, Startup Battlefield where 15 startups will launch and compete for the vaunted Disrupt Cup and the grand prize of $50,000. Founders like Alexander Ljung, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Nate Blecharczyk will speak alongside venture capitalists eager to fund European startups. Christophe Maire, Brent Hoberman and Reshma Sohon will be onstage talking about how they make the European startup engine hum. ResearchGate founder Ijad Madisch will be joined by Benchmark Partner Matt Cohler, an early ResearchGate investor and board member, to speak about how to get funded in Europe. And that’s just the beginning. Running alongside the conference, Startup Alley and Hardware Alley will house hundreds of young companies vying for attention. General admission tickets are still available and there are also spots available for developers and designers looking to participate in the Hackathon. We’d love to see you there. Have a hardware product? Join us in Hardware Alley on Tuesday. Email john@techcrunch.com if you have any questions about Hardware Alley. If you're interested in sponsorship opportunities, please contact our team. As always, we want to hear from you. Tell us what you’re looking for and we’re happy to help. Questions? Comments? Email us at tips@techcrunch.com. AGENDA Saturday, October 26th 12:30pm Hackathon begins Sunday, October 27th 2:00pm Hackathon concludes Monday, October 28th 10:00am -10:10am Opening Remarks by TechCrunch 10:10am – 10:35am Fireside chat with Marc Samwer (European Founders Fund) 10:35am – 11:00am Fireside chat with Marco Boerries (NumberFour) 11:00am – 11:25am Crossing the Enterprise Chasm: Andy McLoughlin (Huddle), Sebastian Siemiatkowski (Klarna), Mikkel Svane (Zendesk) 11:25am – 11:45am BREAK 11:45am – 12:10pm A World of Play: Jens Begemann (Wooga), Misha Lyalin (Zeptolab), Rina Onur (Peak Games) 12:10pm – 12:35pm Founders Stories with Nate Blecharczyk (Airbnb) 12:35pm – 1:00pm Is Bitcoin the New Euro?: Michael Jackson (Mangrove Capital), Shakil Khan (Coindesk), Nejc Kodric (Bitstamp) 1:00pm – 1:30pm Fireside Chat with Benchmark Capital: Matt Cohler, Peter Fenton, Bill Gurley, Mitch Lasky 1:30pm – 3:00pm LUNCH 3:00pm – 3:25pm Fireside Chat with Tim Armstrong (AOL) Startup Battlefield with Mike Butcher 3:25pm – 3:30pm How the Startup Battlefield Works 3:30pm – 4:30pm Startup Battlefield Session One – Access 4:30pm – 4:40pmTextTeaser Lets Developers Integrate Text Summarization Into Their Apps And Sites
Oct 07, 6:41AM
TextTeaser is a service that creates tl;dr (too long; didn't read) summaries for lengthly online articles. Available as a Web service and API on Mashape, TextTeaser's developers also want to turn it into the "imgur of text summarization" by making a platform for users to upload summaries of their favorite articles. The service was created by Jolo Balbin as part of his graduate research.Nielsen Preps Its Twitter TV Report, While Facebook Extends Data Partnership To Foreign Networks
Oct 07, 4:01AM
Nielsen is set to publish its first report with TV rankings based on data from Twitter. The report, which comes out on Monday according to the Wall Street Journal, will look at the number of tweets about a show and the size of the audience that sees them.There's Life Left In Delicious Yet
Oct 07, 1:00AM
For a long time, the web-based social bookmarking service Delicious was a poster child for the Web 2.0 movement. It was open, collaborative and full of the tags and user-generated content that made VCs instinctively open up their checkbooks at the time. It's been 10 years, since the service opened to the public – then still running on the del.icio.us domain – and while it's changed owners a few times since, it's still up and running and its original concept hasn't changed all that much. But the site did give itself a fresh new design for its 10th birthday, so it's worth taking another look.What Games Are: The Unfulfilled Promise Of Videogames
Oct 07, 12:00AM
Growing up in the age of computers and technology we can almost taste the promise of videogames. We don't just like to play videogames, we like to imagine what they might be and how they might influence society. We like to think of the 21st century as the "ludic" century. We're all in agreement that games are on the rise. Yet, frustratingly, we sense that they have stalled. Are we the problem?LG's New Nexus Phone Gets Detailed In Leaked Service Manual
Oct 06, 11:30PM
There's been no shortage of leaks that claim to show off Google's next Nexus smartphone (including this not-so-subtle nod from Google itself) over the past weeks and months, but we may have just hit the mother lode this weekend. The folks at Android Police have gotten their hands on a hefty, near-final draft of a 281 page service manual for the forthcoming device, which still technically bears the LG D821 model number.In Russia, Olympics Watch You
Oct 06, 11:29PM
The ever-curious Russian government is reportedly going to monitor "all communications" during the Winter 2014 Olympics. A Guardian newspaper investigation found authorities are hard-wiring the game's Black Sea resort of Sochi with pervasive surveillance.Seedrs Lets Armchair Investors Take A Punt On WebStart Bristol's First Incubator Cohort
Oct 06, 11:00PM
If the premise of equity-based crowdfunding is to enable a greater range of individuals to take a punt on a startup, while oiling the wheels of investment overall, then a natural evolution of the model would be to enable would-be investors to place bets on a group of promising startups in one pool. The UK's Seedrs has done just that by offering investors the chance to take a stake in ten companies with a single investment.The Already Abysmal NSA Surveillance Panel Is Now On Hold Due To The Government Shutdown
Oct 06, 10:20PM
Under-promise, and then under-under-deliver is the name of this game. The panel to vet the NSA set up by President Barack Obama, and nurtured by current Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, is now on hiatus, its funds being frozen as part of the larger governmental shutdown. The panel, one of the president’s small promises in the wake of sweeping leaks concerning the actions of America’s intelligence and surveillance apparatus, was to contain outsiders who could take a critical look at the actions of the NSA, investigating their legality and relationship to personal privacy. Instead, the panel was a miasma of what I called “insiders, former insiders, and a previous colleague of the president's.” For example, one member is Michael Morell. He was the CIA’s director until August. I’m sure he is bursting with enthusiasm for change. Following the revelation that the makeup of the panel itself left it neutered out of the gate, it later became known that Mr. Clapper’s offices house the group and manages its public relations operation. The panel, at that moment, moved from potential laugh to utter farce. And now it’s iced until Congress kicks off again. According to Politico, who broke the news of the panel’s shuttering, the funds in place to allow for travel to Washington for its members are now unavailable. Given that the participants, it points out, work for free, they can go on if they wish, but it’s effectively on hold for the time being. What will the result of this be? That our impending disappointment at the panel’s future set of recommendations will disappoint us a bit later than expected. Oh, and don’t forget that whatever the panel does produce, the White House has to approve it for public distribution. So, we might get nothing at all, slightly later. Progress! Top Image Credit: ttarasiukMeet Piena, A Hassle-Free Baby Formula Maker Developed By Two Ex-Samsung Engineers
Oct 06, 10:08PM
Any parent who has used powder formula to feed your baby knows that measuring the formula, making sure the water is clean and at room temperature, and mixing the formula and water is a challenging task. Especially when it is 3 am, and you have a hungry, screaming baby in your arms. Piena is a new gadget that basically takes some of the hassle out of mixing baby formula.Airport Car Rental Service Silvercar Is Headed To LAX In November
Oct 06, 9:00PM
Silvercar continues to expand its tech-focused airport car rental service into new markets, and in a few weeks will be making its biggest debut yet. According to an email sent to customers late last week, Silvercar said that on November 4 it will be launching at LAX, which will soon house its largest fleet of Audi A4s.Glass Theft Auto: Google Glass Hack Beams Grand Theft Auto's GPS Straight To Your Eye
Oct 06, 8:59PM
You know, it's been a while since I've written up some some clever Google Glass hack simply because it was awesome. Lets fix that. Looking to test the concept of using Glass as a second screen, Android developer Mike DiGiovanni has managed to capture Grand Theft Auto's oh-so-crucial in-game GPS interface, beaming it to the player's eyepiece in real time.Fly Or Die: iPhone 5s
Oct 06, 8:00PM
What's there to say? It's the flagship iPhone 5s. To say that it won't be wildly successful would be silly. We already know that Apple sold 9 million units of the iPhone 5s, alongside the more colorful iPhone 5c, in the very first weekend of availability. That's more than any previous generation. So instead of asking ourselves whether this finger print-reading, awesome picture taking, gold-clad phone is a viable product or not, we should ask ourselves if it's worth upgrading from the iPhone 5 or the iPhone 4S before it.Why Tech's Hottest Companies Want To Hire More Female Engineers
Oct 06, 7:29PM
Judging by the job fair section at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing held this past week in Minneapolis, it was very clear that all the hottest companies in tech are working as hard as ever to hire more engineers -- and if they happen to be female, all the better. After all, though women make up half the population, they are notoriously under-represented in science and engineering jobs. So TechCrunch TV took a lap around the job fair at Hopper to talk to a number of the companies there about why they'd like to see more women in their engineering ranks.Student Tablet Hardware Melts, District Suspends $30 Million Amplify Program On Safety Concerns
Oct 06, 7:09PM
A North Carolina school district has suspended the use of 15,000 tablets after reports of multiple hardware issues, including the device’s charger melting at home. Guilford County Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green has suspended the $30 million program on safety concerns. The recall is a major sting for NewsCorp’s Amplify, which released details of its digital-first education initiative back at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012. Directed by former New York City education chancellor, Joel Klein, there are high hopes that Amplify can help bring K-12 education into the 21st century. But, melting tablet accessories aren’t a good sign. “We recognize that suspending the program on short notice is going to be disruptive to students, staff and parents," Green Explained. "My decision was made out of an abundance of caution, and I decided to err on the side of safety.” Apparently, that’s not the only problem. As reported by News & Record, “Parent Linda Mozell said her daughter and other students at Southeast Middle School had repeated problems connecting to the Internet with their tablets. And even though her daughter got one of the "hard shell" protective cases, that caused its own set of problems, she said. The keyboard's hard-shell case kept rubbing against the tablet screen in a way that could scar it, she said. In addition, the cord connecting the tablet and keyboard broke easily, the stylus was too big for easy use, and the equipment came home without a user's manual.” Amplify has given us a response (pasted in full below) and tells us that the breakage rate of screens is around 3%, which compares to Asus’s industry average, around 2.5%. An Amplify spokesperson says the melting charger is (so far) an isolated incident. Amplify and Guilford County aren’t the only ones experiencing hiccups with tablets. Los Angeles Unified suspended it’s 1-for-1 iPad program after students hacked through the filters, granting them full-fledged access to the bountiful wonders of the Internet. Presumably the next round of Amplify’s tablets will not pose a safety risk to children. Amplify’s response is below: “This week our largest customer, Guilford County Schools, informed us that a tablet charger, which was manufactured by ASUS, was partially melted while charging a student’s tablet at home overnight. We are working to determine whether the issue was caused by an electrical problem in the student’s home or because of a manufacturing defect. While the problem occurred with only oneSamsung's Galaxy Gear Ads Show A Dated Device, Not A Futuristic One
Oct 06, 5:59PM
Even Samsung thinks its Galaxy Gear is anachronistic – at least if the commercials are to be believed. New ads for the new Samsung Galaxy Gear that popped up on the company's official YouTube page this weekend are supposed to be an exercise in wish fulfillment, but they end up showing off a company and design mentality that's been stuck in the same gear for 20 or 30 years.The Future Of Mobile Taps And On-Demand Services
Oct 06, 5:00PM
One of the hottest trends in "mobile consumer tech" is the idea where one can simply just tap their phone and receive a range of services in the form of on-demand labor. While many services are in this crowded space, there is one which exemplifies the trend: Uber. As we all know by now, launch Uber, wait for it to grab your location, request a car, and you're on your way, with the payment automatically charged. Consumers love the ease and simplicity of these check-out and delivery service flows, so it's no surprise legions of entrepreneurs are riding on the back of the mobile wave and Uberizing other daily tasks.
My Response To Dick Costolo: Twitter Must Lead Silicon Valley On Diversity
Oct 06, 4:29PM
Twitter has taken a lot of fire for having an all-male board, almost all-male management team, and all-male investor group. The root of this problem is arrogance and a "don't-care" attitude. This was exemplified by a response by its CEO Dick Costolo to comments I made in a New York Times article—about Twitter's gender imbalance. Instead of responding to the issue that was raised, he tweeted "Vivek Wadhwa is the Carrot Top of academic sources." In follow-up conversations on Twitter, he continued to hit below the belt rather than address the problem.Transactional Big Data Startup ERN Raises Another $1M As It Sets Targets On Asia
Oct 06, 4:00PM
In what feels like an ever so slightly protracted seed round, fintech startup ERN has raised a further $1 million in seed funding, bringing the total raised by the London-headquartered company to $5.6 million. This time the fresh injection of capital is pegged to finance its expansion into Asian markets as ERN is also announcing that it's hired Brian Thom as its President for Asia.PureVPN Hit With A Zero Day Exploit, But CEO Says Email Alleging Data Compromise Was Fake
Oct 06, 1:52PM
Earlier today, VPN service PureVPN was dealt a double blow by malicious hackers: a zero-day exploit; and the mailing of a subsequent, fake email alleging account closure and a data compromise. Uzair Gadit, the founder of the VPN tunneling service -- which assigns new IP addresses to users' connected devices, enabling them to access the Internet in firewalled countries or to use services that are usually geo-restricted at their current locations -- tells us that there is no issue with PureVPN. "Our VPN service is functioning 100% fine and there is no interruption whatsoever," he wrote in an email.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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