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This Industry Is Completely Ridiculous. Let's Hope It Stays That Way.
Mar 01, 2:00PM
OK. Let's take a step back from all the recent tech news, look at it with fresh eyes--and try not to burst into slightly hysterical laughter. In Japan, some half-billion dollars' worth of cryptocurrency vanished from a site founded to trade Magic: The Gathering cards. In New Zealand, the world's greatest Call of Duty player has launched a political party to revenge himself on those who had him… Read More
Indian Business Angel Network Makes First Investment, In UK's SwiftShift
Mar 01, 9:47AM
India’s largest business angels group has made its first investment in a UK start-up, investing in a London-based company SwiftShift. The amount was not disclosed. The Indian Angel Network (IAN) is Asia’s largest angel network of over 250 investors spread across 10 countries. Effectively, this is an Indian angel network investing in a UK company run by an Israeli in London. SwiftShift… Read More
Dattch, The Dating App For Gay Women, Launches in San Francisco
Mar 01, 9:17AM
Aimed exclusively at lesbians, bisexual and/or bi-curious women, the Dattch dating app ought to be a shoe-in for the large San Francisco market. So it's no surprise that the startup - after raising money and honing its product in London - has now launched into the California city. You can download it for iOS here. Read More
E-Cig Maker NJOY Raises $70 Million
Mar 01, 2:23AM
Puff puff pass the $1 billion valuation because e-cigarette maker NJOY has raised $70 million from Brookside Capital and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, at least according to a NYT report. The company's early investors included Sean Parker, Peter Thiel, and Douglas Teitelbaum. Read More
Sailfish OS Maker, Jolla, On Questing For Scale In The Age Of Android
Mar 01, 1:59AM
"It's not every day that a new mobile operating system is born," says Jolla's Marc Dillon preaching to a congregation of the curious from atop a stool at Jolla's booth at the 2014 Mobile World Congress. This is the world's largest mobile device-focused gathering. The show which annually transforms Barcelona into a city of suits and queues and shiny things. Read More
A Few Thoughts On Free Windows
Mar 01, 1:50AM
Hot damn, changes. ZDNet and The Verge reported on a story that, at first blush, sounds downright strange: Microsoft may do away with charging for Windows in the future. Microsoft selling Windows to OEM partners is even more entrenched than apple pie is to Americanism. No more of that? It’s almost unthinkable. However, once you get past the oddity of the concept, it can make sense if you… Read More
TSA Reportedly Demands To Inspect Man's Luggage For Bitcoin [Updated]
Mar 01, 1:37AM
Davi Baker wasn't quite sure how to comply with the TSA's demands to inspect his bags for Bitcoin. Baker had found himself in a testy exchange with airport security personnel during an enhanced screening, and they wanted an additional search of his belongings. Read More
Google Sets Example By Trying To Offset Perils Of SF Gentrification
Feb 28, 11:53PM
San Francisco's gentrification problem isn't all tech's fault, but the industry should still be helping communities impacted by the influx money and people its brought to the city. Today's donation by Google is a great example of looking out for one's neighbors. It's given $6.8 million to fund two years of the Free MUNI For Low-Income Youth program that gives kids free bus passes. Read More
These Tire Caps Change Color When Your Car's Tire Pressure Gets Low
Feb 28, 10:49PM
Quick! How's your car's tire pressure? Don't know? Better go check. Which, if you're like most people, means going out, kicking the tire, saying "seems good" and forgetting about it until something is clearly wrong. Here's a damned clever alternative: tire caps that change color when the pressure gets too low. Read More
If You're Going To Watch One Video Of A 3D-Printed Clock That Writes The Time, Make It This One
Feb 28, 10:40PM
The machines. They are learning. The Plotclock is a small, 3D-printed clock that forgoes the traditional gears and springs for servos and an Arduino microcontroller. It writes the time. And then erases it. Then writes the time again, continuing forever even though the white board will quickly descend into a smudgy mess of partially erased ink. It’s a simple device: One servo lifts the pen… Read More
Ask A VC: Merus Capital's Sean Dempsey On The Role Of Corp Dev And More
Feb 28, 10:30PM
In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Merus Capital’s Sean Dempsey joined us in the studio to give us an inside look at corporate development, and how that translates into investing. Dempsey was previously a Principal of Corporate Development at Google, where he helped lead the acquisitions of YouTube, Android and Postini. He also spent over six years at Microsoft in the Corporate… Read More
Google Adds Full Restaurant Menus To Its Search Results Pages
Feb 28, 9:23PM
Here is a small but nifty update to Google Search: if you ask it to find a restaurant menu for you, it will now often just show you the menu right on the search results page. Try this for a search like “show me the menu for fogo de chao” and the menu will be right there. As far as I can see, this doesn’t work for every restaurant yet and it’s unclear where Google is getting… Read More
Miley's Lawyers Want "Flying Cyrus" Off The App Store
Feb 28, 9:09PM
Israeli company Talo Games has been asked by Miley Cyrus’s legal team to remove “Flying Cyrus – Wrecking Ball,” currently the fifth most popular free iPhone application in the U.S., from the iTunes App Store, we’ve learned. According to Cyrus’s lawyers, “Flying Cyrus” infringes on their client’s rights, and represents an “unauthorized… Read More
Gillmor Gang Live 02.28.14 (TCTV)
Feb 28, 9:02PM
Gillmor Gang - Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. Chat found here http://friendfeed.com/realtime-network/c31ffbd8/gillmor-gang-recording-live-today-1pm-pt Read More
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: All MWC Everything
Feb 28, 8:00PM
Reporters are drunkenly finding their way home from a long week in Barcelona, where the Mobile World Congress conference yielded a number of exciting new phones and tablets. Most notably, Samsung launched the Galaxy s5, Nokia launched a new Nokia X line of Android/Windows Phone hybrid devices, and we finally got up close and personal with the BlackPhone. We discuss all this and more on this… Read More
With Mt.Gox In Flames, A Lesson: When Building A Company, First Do No Harm
Feb 28, 7:56PM
The collapse of Mt.Gox this week has sent shockwaves through the early-adopting tech community. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins have been lost, and account holders are justifiably angry about their missing balances. It is easy to heap blame on Mt.Gox's founders and call this a once-in-a-lifetime calamity, but the context behind the company's demise is far more pernicious and… Read More
Meet Rebump, The New Worst Thing About Email
Feb 28, 7:40PM
Email is probably the bane of your life. There is too much of it, and there's a special hate reserved for people who selfishly fill your inbox with balderdash. Read More
A Year From Launch, Skillshare Lands $6M From USV, Spark To Double Down On Project-Based, Online Classes
Feb 28, 7:36PM
Skillshare launched its online classes to give those interested in continuing to learn outside the classroom a place to go for classes that took place both online, and in their local hoods. Since then, the New York-based startup has moved towards the massive, open online course approach, giving teachers and subject experts the opportunity to create courses and students the opportunity to take… Read More
Reddit To Give 10% Of Its 2014 Ad Revenue To Non-Profits Picked By Its Users
Feb 28, 7:32PM
Do you block the ads on sites you love? Would you be less likely to do that if you knew a chunk of ad revenues were going to a good cause? That’s (at least part of) the thinking behind a new idea that reddit — a site that’s so big at this point I honestly feel like explaining what it is on TechCrunch would be stupid — is playing with. At the end of 2014, they’ll be… Read More
The Ring Input Device Puts Gesture Control And Home Automation On Your Finger
Feb 28, 7:13PM
There was once a rumor that Apple would actually use a ring device for input to an Apple television. Neither of those gadgets exist yet, of course, but Ring is a Kickstarter project trying to fund a finger-based wearable that could enable the kind of controls envisioned in that Apple flight of fancy. The Ring is a hardware device that resembles an ordinary (if slightly chunky) ring, filled with… Read More
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