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AOL Aims To Unify Its Programmatic Efforts With A New Ad Platform, ONE
Mar 26, 4:12PM
AOL's Tim Armstrong and Bob Lord are taking the stage at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco today where they're announcing a new platform called ONE for ad campaign planning and management. I met with Armstrong (CEO) and Lord (CEO of AOL Platforms, which is the new name for AOL Networks) earlier this week to discuss the news. Armstrong said ONE represents the company's work to "fully… Read More
Garmin's Vivofit Has Some Neat Features, But How Does It Compare To Other Wearables?
Mar 26, 4:12PM
Garmin had the world by the tail. With their amazing in-car GPS devices and great sports watches, it looked like things could only go up. Until every phone on the market got a GPS chip and Google mapped the world. Now, Garmin has to play catch-up and they're coming after one of the most popular wearables to date - the Fitbit. Their new band, called the Vivofit, looks like a less-expensive… Read More
BlackBerry Gets Tough On Remaining Fans With Legal Action Against Leakers
Mar 26, 4:01PM
BlackBerry, this is not how you handle a zealous fan base. CEO John Chen published a blog post today in which he promised that the company would pursue legal action against a “party who stole confidential information about a future BlackBerry product and made that information public.” Ugh. This is tiresome because it represents the company taking an inexplicably tough stance against… Read More
Despite A Low Stake In Box, Aaron Levie Has A High Influence On Silicon Valley
Mar 26, 3:55PM
Box CEO Aaron Levie made enterprise startups sexy again, though this week’s Box IPO announcement revealed that Levie only owns 5.7% percent of the company. (Levie sold off stock to raise the money he needed to punch through the enterprise space). But 28-year-old Levie, who has been credited with building a big company that genuinely makes life easier for people and companies, may take take… Read More
LoopMe Closes $3M From Holtzbrinck, Open Ocean For Its Mobile Ad In-Box
Mar 26, 3:09PM
So, we know developers and publishers make money from apps and other mobile content often via advertising. But smartphone screens are small, so ads have to be small. And ad formats vary widely. LoopMe solves this problem by creating an “ad inbox” that users access through a small button, instead of having to display the ad over the content of the app. Users – and now investors… Read More
TouchBistro Closes An Additional $1.5M In Funding, Bringing Seed Round Total To $6M
Mar 26, 3:03PM
Toronto-based iPad POS startup TouchBistro has raised an additional $1.5 million in funding, adding to its existing seed funding and bringing the total to $6 million raised to date. TouchBistro’s new funding comes from Walden Venture Capital and Kensington Capital Partners, and should help the startup expand its offerings, with a planned office opening in San Francisco in 2014. The company… Read More
Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon's Cloud Desktop Service, Launches To Public Along With New Sync Client
Mar 26, 3:00PM
Amazon WorkSpaces, the company’s virtual desktop computing environment introduced last fall at the AWS re:Invent conference, is today available to the public. Up until now, Amazon was testing the service in a “Limited Preview” with select customers large and small, including Peet’s Coffee & Tea and ERP and CRM solution provider WorkWise. Now, any AWS customers can… Read More
Indix Raises Additional $8.5M From Avalon, Nexus To Build World's Largest Product Database For Brands
Mar 26, 2:55PM
Indix, a big data startup building an index for over 1 billion consumer products in the world, is raising $8.5 million in Series A-1 funding from Avalon Ventures and Nexus Venture partners to achieve that goal. Indix is among a growing breed of startups that are helping consumer brands tackle the challenges of real-time commerce. On one hand, online retailers such as Amazon are pushing the limits… Read More
Pedius Lets Italy's Deaf Make Phone Calls, With More Countries To Come
Mar 26, 2:47PM
Pedius is a four month-old Italian start-up that has an app currently available for Android that enables the deaf to make phone calls. The user texts a message, and that text translates to speech at the other side of the phone call. There is also a clean-looking website to accompany it, and, although it is currently available only in Italian, it is soon set to expand to Brazil, the United States,… Read More
VMBeacon Is Wearables For Mannequins, Sends Clothes Info To Customers
Mar 26, 2:46PM
It’s not iBeacon, but uses a mix of Apple’s iBeacon technology plus their own “secret sauce,” whatever that is. What is it? VMBeacon is a new product enabling store mannequins to transmit information to shoppers about the clothes on display, via their smartphones as they browse in store or through a shop window. In other words, we are talking Wearables for mannequins… Read More
Jawbone Sends The Up24 Abroad
Mar 26, 2:35PM
The Jawbone Up24 is no longer exclusive to the U.S. market. The wireless Jawbone fitness tracker is now available in 29 markets around our blue marble including in the UK, China and Japan. Previously, only the company's original Up was officially available outside the U.S. Read More
Bitcoin Gets Another Boost As Circle Internet Raises $17 Million
Mar 26, 2:23PM
After a stormy few weeks, the ship of bitcoin seems like it's beginning to right itself. Regulators are beginning to refine their thinking around the currency, and new startups based on the cryptocurrency keep raising money. The latest of these is Circle Internet Financial, which has raised $17 million in a Series B round of funding and just launched a limited release of its first products. Read More
Chris Burch & Others Put $1 Million Into Split, An App For Avoiding Your Exes And Others You Don't Want To See
Mar 26, 2:11PM
Split, a newly launched “anti-social” application and competitor to the recently buzzed about app Cloak, is offering yet another way for users to tap into their social networks in order to avoid other people, instead of connecting with them. The app is backed by $1 million in seed funding, which includes an investment from entrepreneur and fashion mogul Chris Burch. (Wonder who… Read More
NewsCred Unveils Content Marketing Partnerships With Getty Images, Visual.ly, Others
Mar 26, 2:10PM
Content marketing startup NewsCred isn't just connecting marketers with freelancers anymore — through a new partnership program, it allows them to commission work from organizations like Getty Images and Visual.ly. The goal of these content marketing programs is to help companies build their presence online and awareness among consumers, often with content that doesn't directly promote the… Read More
King.com IPO Does Not Crush It: Shares Open At $20.50, Down Nearly 9% On $22.50 Pricing
Mar 26, 2:00PM
King Digital, publisher of the popular mobile game Candy Crush Saga, began trading as a public company today on the NYSE not with a pop but with a drop. The stock, trading as KING, commenced trading at only $20.50, down nearly 9% on the $22.50 per share it announced on Tuesday. Read More
Shyp Officially Launches Its Mobile Shipping Service In San Francisco
Mar 26, 2:00PM
Shyp wants to ease the pain of shipping by providing a mobile app and pickup service for anyone who needs to send items by mail. Customers who wish to use the service need only take a photo of the item they're shipping, enter their address and the address that the items are being sent to, and what level of service they require. Read More
The 'European FreeWheel' Videoplaza Claims 50% Of Europe's Broadcasters
Mar 26, 1:54PM
Earlier this month FreeWheel, which had become the go-to ad-serving platform for many TV networks that stream their content online, was acquired by Comcast for an amount in the region of $320 million. In a similar vein Adobe acquired a similar company Auditude for $120 million. And last year TechCrunch-owner AOL acquired video advertising platform Adap.tv in a deal that should be worth around $405… Read More
Twitter Files For Lawsuits In Turkish Courts To Challenge The Country's Access Ban
Mar 26, 1:49PM
Twitter has just announced that it has formally joined the cause of those defending use of its service in Turkey, by filing petitions for lawsuits in a number of Turkish courts after working with its Turkish attorney over the course of the past few days. The petitions ask that the ban be lifted formally, and join the existing chorus of Turkish legal community members, citizens and journalists who… Read More
Scribd's Subscription E-Book Service Moves Into Travel With The Full Lonely Planet Library
Mar 26, 1:30PM
Subscription e-book startup Scribd is announcing a deal with famed travel publisher Lonely Planet. Scribd started out as a service where users could share different types of written content (writers at TechCrunch still use it to share documents that we want to embed in our posts), but last year the company announced its intentions to become a Netflix-style style subscription service, where… Read More
Lemnos Labs Raises $20M, Opens 8,000 Sq. Ft. Warehouse To Support Early-Stage Hardware Startups
Mar 26, 1:30PM
Hardware continues to be a hot sector in the startup community, with a number of investment firms backing startups that make physical goods to change the way we live. Lemnos Labs is one of those firms, and it has raised a $20 million fund and opened up a huge new warehouse space to exclusively support early-stage hardware startups. Read More
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