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Job Outsourcing Marketplace Freelancer.com Files For $14.2M IPO
Oct 14, 7:21AM
Freelancer.com announced today that it has filed for its initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange. The company aims to raise $15 million AUD (about $14.2 million USD). Thirty million new shares will be offered to the public at $0.50 AUD per share. Its IPO values the online services marketplace at $218 million AUD (about $206 million USD).LG May Fire Back At Samsung With Its Own Curvy Smartphone Next Month
Oct 14, 6:59AM
And the seemingly age-old war between LG and Samsung continues. This time the battle is centered around curved displays on smartphones -- Samsung has already shown its hand with the curious Galaxy Round, and now some newly-disseminated images seem to indicate that LG is going to return fire in short order.Facebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo, Reportedly For Up To $200M… And (Finally?) Gets Its Office In Israel
Oct 14, 6:41AM
Big news for a Monday morning/late Sunday night (depending on where you are): Onavo, the Tel Aviv-based mobile analytics company, has just announced that it has been acquired by Facebook. Onavo will become the anchor for Facebook in Israel -- its first office in the country. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed; we are trying to find out. Right now we're seeing reports of between $100 million and $200 million.Atlassian Earned $150M In Revenues Last Year But Competition Intensifies With Collaboration Providers
Oct 14, 6:10AM
Atlassian makes tools for software teams to collaborate that it sells pretty much entirely over the Internet. It's a low-overhead business and the model works. For its 2013 fiscal year, Atlasssian had $150 million in revenues, having posted $110 million in fiscal 2012.
Netflix Reportedly In Negotiations With U.S. Cable TV Providers
Oct 14, 5:07AM
Netflix is in the early stages of negotiating with U.S. cable providers to make its online streaming video service available as an app through their set-top boxes, says a Wall Street Journal report. If a deal goes through, it will mark a major victory for Netflix, signifying that it has changed viewer habits so much that cable TV operators can no longer afford to ignore it. We've emailed Netflix for comment.Of Course Harvard's Larry Summers Hates The Thiel Fellowship
Oct 14, 4:00AM
So, the former President of Harvard doesn't like the Thiel Fellowship. In his shoes, neither would we. A program that asks the best and brightest from top Universities to pursue their interests outside Harvard's hallowed campus walls? Larry Summers' critique of The Thiel Fellowship as "single most misdirected bit of philanthropy in this decade" is predictable and thick with vested interest.The End Of The Library
Oct 14, 1:45AM
A simple link. That's all it took to unleash a hailstorm of angry emails, messages, tweets, and comments. Why? I dared wonder if libraries will continue to exist in the future. I mean, it's not that crazy a notion, right? (If you're a librarian, you're not allowed to answer that.)Woojer Is A Wearable Audio Accessory For Bass Junkies Who Want To Feel The Noise
Oct 14, 1:00AM
Woojer is a wearable mobile accessory designed to allow its wearer to feel what they're listening to on their mobile device -- via the medium of haptic feedback -- rather than simply having banging tunes inserted into their earholes. It's also being aimed at gamers who want a more immersive in-game experience, or for watching movies or other audiovisual content on a mobile device.Magnify Is Buying Waywire To Build A Consumer-Facing Video Curation Powerhouse
Oct 14, 12:58AM
New York-based video startup Magnify is in the process of acquiring Waywire, the company that Cory Booker founded, to build a consumer-facing business around the curation of videos online. The deal isn't quite done yet, but is expected to close early this week. When it closes, it will give Magnify access to a whole bunch of content deals to go after the nascent curation space.Microsoft: Yeah, The Surface RT's Name Confused Consumers
Oct 13, 10:48PM
In its new generation of tablet hybrid hardware, Microsoft renamed its lower-end, ARM-based Surface device, calling it the Surface 2. It kept its prior Surface Pro branding in place. Why ditch the original Surface RT name? As you expected, consumers didn’t get what it meant. Speaking recently with ARN, an Australian publication, Jack Cowett – a Microsoft employee who works on Surface marketing – stated that there was “some confusion in the market last year on the difference between Surface RT and Surface Pro.” That’s correct. To combat that issue, the Surface RT has been rebranded as the Surface 2. Frankly, I wonder why Microsoft didn’t just call it the Surface. There isn’t, so far as I can tell, any ‘connection’ between the phrases ‘Surface 2′ and ‘Surface Pro.’ It can be said that Surface 2 is a more consumer-friendly name that Surface RT, given that the public is very accustomed to sequentially numbered products (films, albums, etc). And, Microsoft had done reasonably well with its Surface Pro set of devices, meaning that it likely didn’t want to disturb a working brand. Calling the Surface 2 just the Surface would negate the RT entirely, which – as it continues to sell old Surface RT stock – might have been even more confusing. As you can read between the above, the core confusion is that the Surface 2 depends on Office, and the Windows Store for all its applications, while the Surface Pro does not. You can’t bridge that gap in a name, I don’t think. So the tension will remain. The Windows Store has improved, the core set of Windows applications has been extended, and Windows 8.1 brings with it an expanded set of Office products. Is that enough for the average consumers is the remaining ARM-based Surface question. And let’s be frank ,’RT’ was an ugly sounding creation. Microsoft’s candor in this is nice – we knew that the Surface RT had branding issues, but it remains slightly refreshing to hear a company cop to past errors. As Tom Warren of The Verge notes, Windows RT has been essentially abandoned by every OEM that isn’t Microsoft. This means that if Microsoft can’t make the Surface 2 work, Windows RT is essentially over. So the name change, and the new hardware come as package to save a large slice of Microsoft’s vision for what Windows should look like over theWhat Games Are: The Nintendo Difference Still Exists
Oct 13, 9:00PM
There are three kinds of articles that regularly get written about Nintendo. The first article says Nintendo's hardware business is doomed. The second laments the state of the company's games. The third article, including this one, says that only a fool bets against Nintendo. Nintendo, it says, is different. Because it is.Xero Zeros In On Another $150M To Do Battle With Intuit In The World Of Online SMB Accounting Software
Oct 13, 8:11PM
Nearly a year after Peter Thiel, Matrix Partners and others put an extra $49 million into Xero, the online accounting software company is adding yet more capital to its coffers. Today the New Zealand-based startup announced that it has raised $150 million (NZ$180m), led again by Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures and Matrix Partners. Xero says it will use the funds to continue building out its business targeting small and medium businesses, and their accountants, with its cloud-based software globally. This brings the total amount raised by the company to over $230 million.Fifteen Years On, Pokemon Still Holds Power Over This Thirty-Something
Oct 13, 7:00PM
While iPhone launch days and big gadget reveals represent some of my most anticipated events because I'm a tech blogger, a day like today can still awaken just as much excitement. Today is the launch day of a new Pokemon game, you see – the newest installment of the "Catch 'Em All" franchise, Pokemon X/Y for the Nintendo 3DS, hits store shelves and is being delivered to pre-order customers everywhere. Kids are choosing from three new starter Pokemon, and beginning a familiar adventure all over again. And a fair amount of adults like me are, too.Fly Or Die: Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Oct 13, 6:00PM
Samsung's third generation phablet is here. If you haven't met her already, say hello to the Galaxy Note 3, a barge of a phone with incredible processing power and no fashion sense whatsoever. There's no question that the Galaxy Note 3 is a powerful device. It's the first smartphone to come with 3GB of RAM under the hood, and it also packs a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor. The phone is noticeably snappy, and even though Samsung sadly felt the need to inflate the phone's speed, rest assured that this mammoth phone will be able to handle anything you throw at it.The Precise Art Of Mobile Push Notifications
Oct 13, 5:00PM
I may sound like a broken record when I consistently reference this phrase in my weekly column: "mobile is the only under-hyped thing in tech." Yet, it is hard to argue with, and if we agree to agree, then within a mobile context, almost everything we can do with our phones and apps is under-hyped, as well. Take mobile push notifications, for example. As entrepreneur Ariel Seidman writes, "it's hard to over-hype the power of mobile push notifications. For the first time in human history, you can tap almost two billion people on the shoulder."
Flipcase Adds Some Fun And Games To Apple's iPhone 5c Case
Oct 13, 4:00PM
Apple may not have hit a home run with its iPhone 5c case, which in my view would've been better off without the cut-out dots on the back, but those holes have proven inspiring for at least one enterprising game-maker. Flipcase, a new game from Australia's Dave McKinney and Stuart Hall, who created the Discovr music inspiration app, uses the case to its maximum advantage.Shouts And Murmurations
Oct 13, 3:00PM
Why do we have comments? It seems like a simple question. And indeed, there is a simple answer: So that people can express themselves regarding the topic or article to which the comment section is appended, or peruse the expressions of others. But that's not exactly correct. True, that is what comment sections are for, but why do we have them?Study: Facebook Comments Are More Civil Than Newspaper Website Comments
Oct 13, 2:53PM
Hypothesis: A person is less likely to accuse a complete stranger of being a socialist demon hell-bent on killing babies with free health insurance, when their friends can see him being a complete asshat.CrunchWeek: Facebook And Google's Big Privacy Changes, Zulily's IPO, And All The Latest Twitter Talk
Oct 12, 10:00PM
Need a 12 minute break from raking leaves, drinking cider, and carving pumpkins (and whatever other autumnal chores are taking up your Saturday)? Well I've got just the thing for you! It's time for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show that brings a few of us writers together for talk about the most interesting tech stories from the past seven days.Ditto Defeats Patent Claim After Teaming Up With A 'Troll'
Oct 12, 9:08PM
Earlier this year, I wrote about a startup called Ditto, which launched a campaign on Indiegogo to fund patent battles against 1-800-CONTACTS and Lennon Imaging Technology — or, as Ditto characterized it, to "save" the startup from "patent trolls." Since then, Ditto's story has taken a couple of turns. Over the summer, the company partnered with IPNav and its founder Erich Spangenberg. Spangenberg is an odd ally, since Ditto co-founder and CEO Kate Endress described him and IPNav as "one of the largest patent trolls in the country." However, as outlined in an IndyStar article, he reached an agreement with Endress where IPNav is paying for Ditto's legal costs, and if it wins, it gets a $1 million stake in the startup.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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