Hi there!
Here's the latest feed from TechCrunch.
Add feeds@feed2email.net to your contact list to make sure you receive all your emails
Make sure to visit feed2email.net to get more feeds sent to your inbox.
To find out which feeds you are subscribed to, or to get further help, just reply to this email.
U.K. Internet Of Things Startups & Projects To Get £46M More Government Cash By 2015
Mar 10, 3:15PM
The U.K. Prime Minister is clearly a fan of the HAPIfork. At a speech at Europe's CeBIT tech conference yesterday David Cameron announced an additional £45 million in funding for research in areas linked to the Internet of Things. Read More
Watch The Live Stream Of Edward Snowden's SXSW Talk Here
Mar 10, 3:14PM
Edward Snowden is set to give his SXSW talk at 12:00 EDT. Thanks to the Texas Tribune, the interview will also be live streamed and the video is embedded below. Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist of the American Civil Liberties Union, will interview Snowden on the impact of the NSA’s spying efforts on the technology community, and the ways in which technology can help to… Read More
EBay Asks Shareholders To Vote Against PayPal Split While Icahn Claims CEO 'Incompetence' Cost $4B
Mar 10, 3:13PM
The war of words between eBay and its new shareholder Carl Icahn continues to rage on. Today, eBay issued a notice of an upcoming annual meeting, in which the company asked shareholders flat out to vote against Icahn's proposal to spin off PayPal. Meanwhile, Icahn issued yet another open letter against current eBay management, in which he accused CEO John Donahoe of "inexcusable incompetence" that… Read More
LinkedIn Touts Citi's Success As The Networking Site's Content Marketing Ambitions Grow
Mar 10, 2:59PM
There's been a lot of discussion and debate around the benefit to brands of building a presence on Facebook and Twitter. At the same time, LinkedIn has been ramping up its efforts to get brands to create content and promote it through advertising. To illustrate the benefits of building a successful sponsored group, LinkedIn pointed me to Connect: Women's Professional Network, which was… Read More
Drifty, Makers Of The Ionic Mobile Framework, Raise $1 Million
Mar 10, 2:39PM
Drifty, a participant in the TechStars Cloud 2013 incubator, and makers of a suite of tools for mobile developers building apps and websites, most notably, the Ionic framework, has closed on a million in seed funding, the company is announcing. The funding comes from Arthur Ventures, and will help the company grow its team and continue development on the Ionic framework. The startup was founded… Read More
Myo's Developer Alpha Teaser Compilation Video Showcases Gesture Control Potential
Mar 10, 2:15PM
Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs is shipping out its Myo gesture control band alpha units to developers to get them building software compatible with the new hardware, and it’s already resulting in some incredibly impressive early demos. The Myo team compiled a few of those together into a single short teaser video, but it’s enough to spark the imagination and whet my appetite for when… Read More
This Isn't The Next iPhone, But It Easily Could Be
Mar 10, 2:10PM
In the space between one iPhone launch and the next, a number of things happen: rumors abound, analysts throw out predictions on sales figures, specs trickle out slowly, and most entertainingly, designers build out concepts for us to drool over. This is one such concept design, from Sam Beckett, which is actually quite realistic. Meet the promising, yet entirely imagined, iPhone Air. Read More
BBC Releases 30th Anniversary Edition Of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Text Adventure Game. You Have Died (And Gone To Gaming Heaven)
Mar 10, 2:08PM
You are on a blog. The latest news is at the top and scrolls down infinitely. The first story is about the 30th Anniversary Edition of Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game. There is also a story about Kantar here. > READ STORY Read More
Free-To-Play Games Company Kabam Buys Phoenix Age As It Pushes For $650M In 2014 Sales
Mar 10, 1:53PM
Kabam, the free-to-play gaming company that has raised some $125 million in venture funding and looks to be among those weighing up an IPO, has acquired Phoenix Age, a games studio based in San Francisco. The deal was done for diversification: it will give Kabam some strong franchises, and games developing talent, specifically in the area of role-playing games. Read More
Comcast Subscribers Can Now Watch "House Of Cards" Without Netflix
Mar 10, 1:30PM
With a click of a button in the Xfinity Store, Comcast subscribers will soon be able to purchase access to House of Cards — Netflix is not required. The option should hit the service soon. Only the first season of the show is currently available. Variety is reporting today that the Emmy-winning series is available through a deal Comcast struck with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The news… Read More
Mophie Space Pack Review: Have Some Extra Storage With Your iPhone Backup Battery
Mar 10, 1:08PM
Apple offers the iPhone in a number of different storage capacities, ranging from 16GB to 64GB, but it doesn’t offer expansion storage options to let users add their own via micro SD or any other format. Mophie has spent years building backup battery packs for iPhone devices, and now it’s adding additional space to store your files, too, with the appropriately named Mophie Space Pack.… Read More
Months After Appointing A New CEO, Bitly Gets A New CTO And VP Of Marketing, Too
Mar 10, 1:00PM
Link shortening and analytics company Bitly is announcing the hire of two new executives — Chief Technology Officer Rob Platzer and Vice President of Marketing Melissa Wallace. The company's current CEO, Mark Josephson, only joined last summer, at the same time as Chief Revenue Officer Andrew Beranbom. He told me that Platzer (who previously worked with Josephson at local news startup… Read More
Unwired Planet Files Mobile Patent Suits Against Google, Samsung, Huawei, HTC In The UK, Germany
Mar 10, 12:41PM
While existing Android patent suits between the likes of Samsung and Apple continue to drag on in Europe, Unwired Planet, the patent enforcement entity that acquired 2,400 wireless patents from Ericsson last year, looks like it is putting its IP to work. Today it announced that it has filed parallel infringement actions in the Patents Court of the High Court of Justice, London, United Kingdom and… Read More
Samsung Demos The Galaxy S5 And Gear Watches With These Boring Official Videos
Mar 10, 12:24PM
Get a cup of coffee. You’re going to need it. These official Samsung videos show off nearly every feature and function of the Galaxy S5 and Gear watches, but they’re rather mundane. Dull would be another word. The videos do, however, make up in info what they lack in excitement. They run through everything: From the heart rate sensor to the TV remote control to how to customize the… Read More
Samsung Working With Startup Partners To Add Gesture-Based Smart Home Control To TVs
Mar 10, 12:01PM
Samsung is reportedly (via WSJ) preparing for a smart home control interface that uses your smart TV to recognize basic hand gestures, directed at the objects you actually want to control. So, for example, it would allow you to point at a lamp to turn it off or on, or to other nearby objects to affect them in different ways. The shift is a bit of an extension of what Samsung already offers, which… Read More
McAfee: Cybercrime-As-A-Service Led To Credit Card Breach, While Mobile "Malware Zoo" Grew 197% In Q4
Mar 10, 10:58AM
It looks like the rise of the "as a service" model, where people can buy software, platform access, security and more from a cloud-based provider for a fixed term, may have spawned its Damien: cybercrime as a service. The latest report from McAfee notes that the rush of point-of-sale credit card breaches that hit consumers in Q4 of last year -- most notably at Target but other retailers as well --… Read More
Android SDK For Wearables Coming In 2 Weeks, Says Google
Mar 10, 9:40AM
Google is readying a version of its Android OS tailored for wearable devices. Google’s Sundar Pichai told the SXSW conference Sunday that it would be releasing an SDK for makers of wearable devices such as smartwatches in two weeks’ time. The SDK will be aimed at other makers of smartwatches and wearables, even though Google itself is thought to be working on building wearable… Read More
TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Comes To London, 18-21 October
Mar 10, 9:00AM
For the last few years TechCrunch Disrupt, our headline conference, has become a staple of the industry calendar in both San Francisco and New York. Last year we brought this incredible event to Europe, where Berlin was our first destination. Read More
Lowdown Is An iOS App To Help Busy People Prepare For Meetings
Mar 10, 7:30AM
Apparently, preparing properly for meetings -- the who, what and where -- is a pain-point for some. This is especially true for sales people who have to hold a lot of meetings and where preparation can make the difference when trying to push a prospect over the line. That's the problem Lowdown is setting out to solve. The UK startup has created an iOS app that automatically pulls together… Read More
Car Rental Startup Drive.SG Lands $790,000 For Asia Expansion
Mar 10, 5:45AM
Drive.SG, Singaporean car rental portal, has raised a SGD $1 million (or about USD $790,000) Series A from Insas Berhad, a Malaysian investment holding company. The startup will use the capital to expand its online car rental platform to the rest of Asia. Read More
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.
To stop all future emails from feed2email.net you can reply to this email with STOP in the subject line. Thanks
