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TechCrunch Moscow, 8-9 December - Take The Temperature Of Russia's Tech Scene
Nov 08, 9:18AM
TechCrunch International City events are 1-2 day events that TechCrunch does in conjunction with partners. Coming up this December will be TechCrunch Moscow. Since the first TechCrunch Moscow in 2010, the event has gained a great reputation, creating a major splash in the up-and-coming Russian venture industry. 
HTC Channels Crazy With $8,000 Gramohorn Smartphone Trumpet
Nov 08, 6:00AM
Smartphone maker HTC is going through a tough time -- and having something of an identity crisis that's playing out as a rebranding exercise. That's why it's spent millions hiring Robert Downey Jr to spice things up with its Here's To Change campaign. It's also, apparently, got a few other attention-grabbing tricks up its sleeve. Such as the gizmo pictured above.
BitNami Launches MongoDB Stack To Develop Apps As Demand Scales For AWS-Based Services
Nov 08, 3:55AM
BitNami has added a MongoDB stack for developers to build web apps on the popular NoSQL database. The stack, available next week, allows developer to deploy and manage either on-premise, through Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Windows Azure. The Y combinator alum's new stack will come integrated with Node.js and available for free from the BitNami app store as a native installer or virtual machine for local development, or as a cloud template for the Amazon and Windows Azure cloud computing platforms.
Obama's Interview: Most Important Quotes On Healthcare.gov And NSA
Nov 08, 1:40AM
President Obama sat down for an extended interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd about the epic failure of the healthcare website and National Security Agency spying. The video is embedded below. I’ll get right to the quotes and add context: – “I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.” Obama was referring to the hundreds of thousands of people who are receiving health insurance cancellations from plans that do not conform to rules under the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a “Obamacare”). –“Kathleen Sebelius doesn’t write code, she wasn’t our IT person”, on the Secretary of Health and Human Services, related to ongoing issues with Healthcare.gov, the new federal healthcare insurance e-commerce website. –“In some ways, the technology and the budget and the capacity have outstripped the constraints, and we’ve got to rebuild those,” on the reach of National Security Agency spying. –“This idea, that somehow every president is looking at the raw intelligence and figuring out what sources those are, is just not the case,” on whether he knew that the National Security Agency was monitoring the phone calls of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He would not give a straight answer on whether he knew the NSA was monitoring her calls. –“When it comes to my campaign, I’m not constrained to a bunch of federal procurement rules,” on how federal contracting rules makes the government far less efficient than his tech-savvy campaign. Notably he says he wants to review federal procurement for all of the federal government. There you have it, folks. Convinced?
AOL Asks AOLers To 'Disrupt AOL'
Nov 08, 12:56AM
In an internal message today, our AOL Global CTO Curtis Brown announced an "exciting event" that will be taking place next month in AOL campuses around the world. In an "exciting twist" on the TechCrunch-branded Disrupt events, the company will be running an internal "Hackathon" and "Idea Battlefield" in which participants will be able to "pitch their ideas" in front of "judges." Winning ideas will be "considered for actual development."
Newsle Lands $1.8M From Media Giant Advance Publications, Bloomberg Beta & More To Be The News Reader For People You Care About
Nov 08, 12:56AM
Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon began building Newsle as undergraduates at Harvard to fill a nagging gap among today's news aggregators. The idea being that, as popular as Google Alerts may be, people want to read news based on who their friends and colleagues are and who they want to know more about. But, from Varon and Hansen's vantage point, the existing options didn't go far enough, so they decided to build one that would. 
A New $1 Million Prize Competition Aims To Fight Gun Violence With Tech
Nov 08, 12:12AM
Mass shootings have become unfortunately common in American life, so a few Silicon Valley's investors are launching a $1 million competition to see if technology can reduce firearm violence. With the help of early Facebook investor Ron Conway, the Smart Tech Foundation is soliciting ideas on everything from biometric locks to crime-predicting algorithms.
Meet Context, The New Photo Texting App All The Cool Kids Are Using
Nov 07, 11:00PM
There are a number of apps out there seeking to displace SMS as the primary mode of communications between mobile users -- there's MessageMe, Line, WeChat, WhatsApp and others. And, of course, there's Snapchat, which has built a big, booming following around photo messaging. Well, there's another new messaging app out there called Context, which seeks to streamline the way users communicate what's going on around them through that it calls "Simple, Fun Photo Texting."
Apple Rolls Out Patch To Fix Mavericks Gmail Issues
Nov 07, 10:30PM
Apple’s newest version of OS X debuted to generally positive feedback a few weeks back… unless you were an Apple Mail user trying to use the app to check your Gmail. Then you probably had to deal with syncing headaches, incorrect unread email counts, and plenty of other miscellaneous unpleasantness (Joe Kissell has a pretty comprehensive breakdown of the big issues on his site if you’re feeling morbidly curious). Thankfully, after a handful reports indicating that Apple was testing a patch to fix those sticking points, the company has finally started pushing it out into the wild… also known as the Mac App Store. According to Apple’s changelog, the patch addresses “an issue that prevents deleting, moving, and archiving messages for users with custom Gmail settings”, along with tackling the cause of those pesky errant email counts. Throw in a handful of minor (apparently so minor that Apple doesn’t bother delineating them) stability tweaks meant to make the experience that much smoother and you’ve got yourself Apple’s first Mavericks patch in a nutshell.
To Buy Or Not To Buy? The Twitter Question
Nov 07, 9:07PM
As the offering date for Twitter approached, the bankers could not seem to make up their minds on the pricing, with the offering price rising from $17-$20 barely two weeks ago to $23-$25 last week to $26 yesterday. The stock opened today, about an hour later than expected, at an eye-popping $45.10 a share, up 73 percent from the offering price. As you watch this process unfold, with a mix of wonder, greed and cynicism, the question that is begging for a response, is whether you should try to partake in this frenzy.
Groupon Q3 Misses On Sales Of $595.1M; Announces Acquisition Of Ticket Monster For $260M To Boost Mobile Business In Asia
Nov 07, 9:04PM
Fresh from celebrating its fifth anniversary last week, Groupon today reported its Q3 earnings: it's a mixed picture but shows that Groupon continues to make good on its commitment to take its business beyond daily deals and into a wider marketplace for location-based and mobile commerce. Groupon reported revenues of $595.1 million with EPS of $0.02, missing on sales but beating on EPS estimates, and it announced an acquisition: Korea's Ticket Monster, for $260 million, to build out its mobile commerce operations in Asia through event ticketing and other commerce services. 
Meet The 9-Year-Old Who Rang The Opening Bell For Twitter's IPO
Nov 07, 8:54PM
Before Twitter stock started trading this morning, journalists assumed that we'd see the company's founders and/or executives ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. And indeed, there were excited whispers as we spotted folks like Dick Costolo and Biz Stone on the floor. But the figures who actually took the stage weren't immediately recognizable. Finally, someone asked, "Is ... is that Patrick Stewart?"
Path Loses Biz Head Amid Rumors Of Over $7M In Funding From Dustin Moskovitz
Nov 07, 8:47PM
It's been a long hard road for Dave Morin's Path, as it has seen lagging growth in a tough ("fruit fly experiments" anyone?) social market. These data points mean that it's had to trim down staff -- and that it took awhile to raise its latest Series C funding round. 
With 220M Downloads And $12M From Qualcomm, Magma, TabTale Is Quietly Becoming One Of The Top Children's App Makers
Nov 07, 8:19PM
With a suite of over 240 apps that have more than 220 million downloads between them, TabTale wants to strike while the iron is hot. The startup announced this week that it has raised $12 million in Series B financing, led by Qualcomm Ventures and Magma Venture Partners, with contributions from Vintage Investment Ventures and existing investors. 
Checking Up On Monkey Inferno, The Tech Incubator Where Bebo Is Working On Its Rebirth
Nov 07, 8:13PM
Everyone loves a “where are they now” story — whether it’s about teen idols or once-hot tech apps. Bebo, the social networking startup that famously sold to AOL for a staggering $850 million in 2008 only to be offloaded for $10 million two years later (and ultimately bought back by its original founders Michael and Xochi Birch for just $1 million earlier this year), is no exception. Michael Birch said in July that his plan is to “reinvent” Bebo at the Monkey Inferno personal incubator the Birches founded and self-funded in San Francisco, and have “a lot of fun” in the process — but we haven’t heard many updates about the plans since then. And people are clearly curious: A Reddit “Ask Me Anything” about Bebo held a couple of weeks back by Monkey Inferno’s CEO Shaan Puri garnered hundreds of questions and made it to the website’s front page. So TechCrunch TV headed over to Monkey Inferno to see first-hand how Bebo is coming along. We also got a look at some other projects that the team at the Inferno are working on. Check it all out in the video above.
Espresso Logic Raises $1.6M To Make APIs Using The Data Logic That Comes With Reactive Programming
Nov 07, 8:10PM
Espresso Logic received $1.6 million in seed funding today for its backend as a service to connect web and mobile applications to external databases including MySQL, Oracle Server and Microsoft SQL Server. Inventus Capital led the funding along with angel investors including Gokul Rajaram, lead product engineer at Square and one of the creators of Google AdSense. 
Twitter's Strong IPO Leaves The Company More Richly Valued On A Per-User Basis Than Facebook At Its Debut
Nov 07, 7:54PM
If you were holding Twitter stock yesterday and didn't sell today, congrats. You can now afford an extra bedroom in your house in Pacific Heights. Or maybe a baby. But not both. Anyway, Twitter's IPO pop has the world losing its collective marbles, so let's take a look at how the market is currently valuing Twitter in comparison to a few decent analogs.
Ibotta Expands Beyond Mobile Coupons, Now Lets You Earn Cash Back From Restaurants, Fast Food & Home Improvement Stores
Nov 07, 7:36PM
Denver-based mobile couponing application Ibotta, which pays you cash back for items you buy in grocery stores by simply scanning your receipt, has today debuted its iOS 7-optimized version 2.0 that now brings its shopping discounts to a number of new stores, including home improvement stores like Lowe's and Home Depot, as well as national restaurant chains like Chili's, Burger King, Smashburger and more.
Healthcare.gov Could Only Handle 1,100 Users On The Eve Of Launch
Nov 07, 7:06PM
Recently released documents reveal that the failed federal insurance e-commerce website, healthcare.gov, could only handle a measly 1100 users the day before it launched [PDF]. It has long been suspected that the White House prioritized politics over technical realities in the launch of the healthcare website, but this some of the best proof that officials were burying their heads in the sand.
Behavioral Health Startup Sessions Launches To Provide Personalized Fitness Programs To All
Nov 07, 7:00PM
Sessions is seeking to provide a more personalized approach to fitness, by connecting users with individual trainers who work with them to set realistic long-term goals and follow up to see how things went day-to-day. By finding out more about a user -- including fitness goals, relative starting level of fitness, schedule, exercise interests, etc. -- the health coach can work to develop a personalized program for each person.
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