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Competitive Ruling Will Bring New Generation Of Swiss-Made Smartwatches
Nov 03, 12:06AM
The Swatch Group has long been the primary movement supplier to the majority of Swiss (and non-Swiss) watch manufacturers. These movements - essentially the guts of the watch - have powered 60% of the world's watches in the past decade. That's about to end. 
Chippy Is A Fish & Chip Shop Simulator For iOS That Puts The Fun Into Deep-Fat Frying
Nov 02, 8:00PM
Simulation video games are often purposefully, gloriously mundane. But they can also make the quotidian highly entertaining. And that's certainly true of this U.K.-made example of the genre. Meet: Chippy, a fish & chip shop simulator game for iOS that's plenty of fun to play -- partly because its subject matter is so spectacularly mundane (frying fish and chips), but also because it turns that mundane task into an addictive game of time management.
Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups
Nov 02, 6:00PM
Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies. Why do investors seem to care about "billion dollar exits"? Historically, top venture funds have driven returns from their ownership in just a few companies in a given fund of many companies. Plus, traditional venture funds have grown in size, requiring larger "exits" to deliver acceptable returns. For example - to return just the initial capital of a $400 million venture fund, that might mean needing to own 20 percent of two different $1 billion companies, or 20 percent of a $2 billion company when the company is acquired or goes public.
Delta And JetBlue Now Let You Use Your Gadgets During Taxi, Takeoff And Landing
Nov 02, 5:30PM
It's been a long time since flying was fun (unless you are reading this on the upper deck of a 747, of course). This week, however, things got a bit more bearable thanks to the FAA's decision that airlines can now allow their passengers to keep their gadgets on – in airplane mode – during taxi, takeoff and landing. The first two airlines to actually put this into practice are Delta and JetBlue.
Gillmor Gang: Dynamic Clusters
Nov 02, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — move further and further toward the Golden Age of Push Notification. What some see as a fragmented sea of apps, others see as a ripe opportunity to unify notifications as the successor to email, social streaming to the core. As Windows gets sucked into the tidal wave of mobility, it's up to individual apps to intermediate themselves into the relentless flow.
Women 2.0, A Media Company Built Around Female Entrepreneurship, Gears Up For Las Vegas
Nov 02, 4:15PM
Over the past few years, Women 2.0 has become one of the most reliable places to find stories from female entrepreneurs, successful and otherwise. It has also, according to co-founder and CEO Shaherose Charania, become a profitable business. That's particularly surprising since the Women 2.0 site doesn't run any advertising. Not that Charania said she's completely opposed to the idea ("Maybe we will [run ads] eventually, but it will be thoughtful"). However, she sounded more excited about the company's conferences, and about the different membership plans that it's experimenting with, where readers pay a monthly or annual fee (currently the lower-priced plan costs $20 a month) for access to a combination of online and offline features, such as conference discounts and virtual happy hours.
Dear Google, What's Wrong With You?
Nov 02, 1:00PM
Dear Google: What's wrong? I ask because last weekend, while in San Francisco, I asked Google Maps for "hot chocolate mission" -- and was promptly directed to an ARCO station in Fremont, 40 miles away. Similarly, last month I searched for "coffee" while in the Embarcadero Center, one of the denser coffee hotspots in America, and was sent to a Starbucks more than two miles away. And it hasn't escaped my notice that you keep highlighting faraway places with Zagat listings over much closer places without. Now, sure, if you're thinking "hey, you're just abusing your position as a highfalutin tech columnist to make anecdotal complaints here!" -- well, you're not entirely wrong.
Snowden Is Not Going To Work At VKontakte
Nov 02, 10:34AM
Despite having a very public job offer handed to him last August, Edward Snowden will not be joining Russian social networking website VKontakte, its founder Pavel Durov has confirmed to TechCrunch.
11 Or 12 Things I Learned About Life From Day Trading Millions Of Dollars
Nov 02, 9:00AM
I was a day trader for many years, and it almost killed me. I made money by making profits on my own money and also taking a percentage of the profits for the people I traded for. I traded up to $40 million or $50 million a day at my peak. I did this from 2001 to 2004. I learned about day trading but I also learned a lot about myself and what I was good at, what I was horrible at, and what I was psychotic at. Things that had nothing to do with day trading.
Britain's GCHQ Collaborated With Other EU Nations To Enable Broad Internet Surveillance
Nov 01, 10:13PM
Today The Guardian reported that the GCHQ, Britain’s NSA equivalent, worked with several foreign governments to help them tap Internet traffic and phone communications. The Swedish, French, Spanish, and German governments are said to be involved. It has been known for some time that the United States and British governments, through a number of programs such as the UK’s Tempora effort, directly tap the fiber-optic cables that are the backbone of the Internet, collecting data in massive quantity. That four other countries do the same is, therefore, not surprising, but it is dispiriting. It will be far harder than we initially perhaps hoped to end this sort of mass surveillance. That the GCHQ was willing to provide what is described as “a leading role in advising its European counterparts” in how to get around legal restrictions is simply depressing. The NSA acts in a similar fashion. After it was banned from collecting data sent in between data centers of private companies on the country’s soil, it started doing so overseas. Problem? Solved. Presumably the GCHQ, close cousin and partner in crime to the NSA, is teaching similar methods. Previously, James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, joked that furor over news of NSA’s spying on the phone of the German Chancellor was asinine: “Some of this reminds me a lot of the classic movie ‘Casablanca’: ‘My God, there’s gambling going on here!’” Clapper is correct, it appears. The losers here are the regular folks who are having their Internet traffic and telephony data absorbed by more than just their own governments, but by apparently a cadre of nations working in concert to ensure that digital privacy is kaput. The GCHQ is zealous in its will to help allies get around their own law. The Guardian’s quote about Holland is downright depressing: “The Dutch have some legislative issues that they need to work through before their legal environment would allow them to operate in the way that GCHQ does. We are providing legal advice on how we have tackled some of these issues to Dutch lawyers.” Frankly, I think that at this point it is reasonable to state that wholesale monitoring of the raw data that flows through the trunk cables of the web will not stop. The only solution is some sort of new encryption technique that is unhackable – though the NSA is working on ending that protection as well.
Google's Barges Likely Glass Exhibition Spaces, Lease Indicates
Nov 01, 10:00PM
The furor over Google's mystery barges in San Francisco and Portland has reached a fever pitch over the past week. According to our sources the various reports about the barges being showcases for Google's Glass retail efforts are correct. Today, a report by The Los Angeles Times’ Chris O’Brien notes that most of the reporters going after this barge story have been looking at the wrong San Francisco lease. O’Brien notes that the correct lease’s purpose is the “fabrication of a special event structure and art exhibit only and for no other purpose.” The sources we spoke to were still uncertain about the exact uses that all of the barges would be put to in the end, but aiding Google in showcasing Glass for its eventual retail run is the likeliest fate of the units docked behind San Francisco's Treasure Island. A story from CBS KPIX yesterday, which we mentioned earlier today, outlined a luxury showroom with a 'party deck' up top and spaces below for retail stores that could showcase Glass and other Google products. This report was said to be 'pretty accurate' by our sources. The barges are composed of shipping containers stacked together, with cutouts that have had large bay windows put in place and then covered up. The shipping container is already a favored construction block of Google, which has used them for years to house data centers that can be easily expanded. The rationale behind using containers in this instance is that the barges likely won't be a permanent home for the showcases, which could theoretically be disassembled and moved wherever Google needs them to be, on land or sea. Lack of retail stores in which to demonstrate Glass effectively and publicly has always been a concern with regards to making the head-mounted computers available widely at retail. In my time with Glass, it became incredibly evident that people had no idea what they really did, how to use them or what the value proposition was. Poor demo conditions in many places that I showed them to other people limited them to what amounted to a head-mounted video camera. A proper mis-en-scène for Glass will be all-important for having people 'get' the thing, and apparently Google is working to provide just that. News of the barges, which are being built by a shell company called 'Buy and Large Llc‘ (an apparent Wall-E reference) was broken widely by
OS X Mavericks Is Now Installed On More Than 10% Of Macs, Smashing Mountain Lion's Adoption Rate
Nov 01, 9:17PM
If Apple decided to make updates to its OS X operating system free in part to drive more rapid consumer uptake, it was a great decision: Market adoption of its new OS X Mavericks operating system has beaten adoption of the preceding Mountain Lion version by a large margin.
Bing Renews Its Firehose Deal With Twitter
Nov 01, 8:38PM
Microsoft today announced that it has renewed its partnership with Twitter, giving Bing access to all of the public content Twitter’s users create. The terse three-sentence announcement is short on details, but a Microsoft spokesperson told us it extends, for an unspecified amount of time, the deal the two companies made four years ago. “The past four years partnering with Twitter have been great, and we're excited to continue that relationship in order to help deliver the best possible search experience,” the spokesperson told us. Unlike Google, Bing has made social search a cornerstone of its strategy. Its close relationship with Facebook has long given it the ability to highlight posts from the popular social network, as well as from Twitter, LinkedIn, Quora, Foursquare, Klout and other services in its social sidebar. With Bing’s latest redesign, which dropped the number of columns on its search results pages from three to two, the social sidebar now features even more prominently on the site. Twitter itself started giving access to its public firehose feed to partners in 2010, and it continues to keep a very tight grip on who gets access to this information. It’s providing a full feed to large partners like Microsoft, Google and others, though a small number of select resellers like Gnip and DataSift can provide anybody with the right resources (both financial and technical) with access to this data.
A Love Story That Spawned A Hardware Revolution In The Kitchen
Nov 01, 8:32PM
Neither of them had any entrepreneurial history before they met. Abe Fetterman was a plasma physics Ph.D. at Princeton and Lisa Qiu had worked in hospitality at Jean-Georges and Mario Batali before entering the magazine world. But while watching Top Chef episodes during their first week of dating, they clicked.
Gillmor Gang Live 11.01.13 (TCTV)
Nov 01, 8:14PM
Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. Live chat at http://friendfeed.com/realtime-network/5d54b6dd/gillmor-gang-recording-live-today-1pm-pt Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/GillmorGang
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Disrupt Europe Aftermath, The iPad Air, And Google's New Nexus
Nov 01, 8:05PM
It’s been a long road home for the TechCrunch Gadgets team, but the lure of new hardware was too much to resist so we huddled around our microphones on a dreary Friday morning to gab about them all. So what’s on the docket this time around? Some choice hardware highlights from Disrupt Europe start things off on a positive note, and since Apple’s iPad Air went on sale earlier today, we felt compelled to dig into Cupertino’s latest (and apparently greatest) fondleslab. Meanwhile, Newton’s Third Law of Gadget Dynamics (that’s a thing, right?) ensured that Google had a new hardware announcement of its own to counter with this week. It wasn’t much of a surprise when Google pulled back the curtain on the Nexus 5 yesterday, but we managed to express some love for the smartphone in our own peculiar ways. Join John Biggs, Matt Burns, Darrell Etherington, and me, Chris Velazco, as we enter the hardware breach once more, won’t you? We invite you to enjoy our weekly podcasts every Friday at 3pm Eastern and noon Pacific. And feel free to check out the TechCrunch Gadgets Flipboard magazine right here. Click here to download an MP3 of this show. You can subscribe to the show via RSS. Subscribe in iTunes Intro Music by Rick Barr.
Exactly What It Sounds Like, Sizem Made A Fit Calculator To Find Your Correct Bra Size
Nov 01, 8:02PM
If you're a lady, you're probably well aware at this point that you're wearing the wrong bra size. Which is a bummer, because as women's magazines and lingerie companies will tell you, the right bra is like an unlimited month of pilates class for your boobs. 
JD Power Explains Why Samsung Beat Apple In Its Latest Tablet Study: Price
Nov 01, 7:21PM
Yesterday, JD Power released its newest tablet satisfaction study and the Internet went a bit nuts. For the first time, Samsung had edged out perennial favorite Apple in customer satisfaction on tablets. This was a stark change from volume one of the study which had Apple handily beating its competitors. There was outcry about how close it was, about how the JD Power chart and scoring (835 to Samsung, 833 to Apple) simply didn't add up. I have to admit, I was fairly curious about that, and supposed that it had to be about price. So I reached out to JD Power and spoke to Kirk Parsons, senior director of telecommunications services.
The First Instagram Ad Has Been Spotted In The Wild
Nov 01, 7:03PM
About a month after Instagram announced that it would start running Sponsored Photos and Sponsored Videos, and about a week after it published previews of those ads, it looks like Instagram ads have arrived. The first ad comes from designer Michael Kors, and as promised, it's a regular Instagram photo, but it's also showing up in the feeds of users who don't follow the Michael Kors account, albeit with a "Sponsored" label. Instagram has said that users will be able to tap a button with three dots under the ad to hide it and provide feedback.
Windows 8.1 Doubles Its Market Share In October To 1.72%, Handily Beating Windows 8′s Initial Rollout
Nov 01, 6:55PM
Microsoft's Windows 8.1 grew quickly in the first month of its general availability, outpacing the launch of its predecessor, Windows 8, according to numbers out today from NetMarketShare. In October, Windows 8.1 doubled its market share to 1.72 percent, up from 0.87 percent in September, which is a precise 97.7 percent in the month-long period. Yesterday, I guessed that the end-of-October figure would be around 1.5 percent. Keep in mind that this is not 1.72 percent of Windows machines, but all desktop-based computers. For comparison, Apple's OS X controls 7.73 percent of the global PC market.
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