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Optimizely Brings Its A/B Testing Platform To iOS Apps
Apr 17, 5:20PM
Optimizely, the popular service for testing out different variations of your website, today announced the launch of Optimizely for iOS. The company says its new mobile tools allow customers to try out different interface and content changes to their iOS apps in real-time, without going through App Store approval. Thanks to the Optimizely Visual Editor, no coding is required to make these… Read More
Snowden Asks Putin About Surveillance On Russian TV, Everyone Promptly Loses Their Minds
Apr 17, 5:17PM
Earlier today on a call-in program on Russian television, infamous NSA leaker Edward Snowden questioned the country’s President Vladimir Putin about his government’s surveillance activities. Snowden, after the United States revoked his passport, kept house in a Russian airport for weeks until he was granted temporary asylum in the country where he currently resides. It’s… Read MoreGoogle Launches Home Try-On Program For Glass
Apr 17, 5:14PM
Interested in owning Google Glass, but not sure how it will look on your face? Google now has an in-home try-on program that lets prospective buyers try all four colors of Glass and the entire Titanium Collection in different colors, for free. Read MoreDropbox Acquires Cloud Photos Startup Loom, Service To Be Shut Down As Users Transferred To Carousel
Apr 17, 5:12PM
Only days after revealing its first dedicated photo management and sharing application Carousel, Dropbox is announcing it has acquired cloud photo storage and sync service Loom, a favorite among iOS users. The company, which currently offers apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, as well as an online experience, says it will no longer be enrolling new users, and will work to transition existing customers… Read MoreFacebook Launches "Nearby Friends" With Opt-In Real-Time Location Sharing To Help You Meet Up
Apr 17, 5:00PM
Today Facebook begins rolling out a new opt-in feature called Nearby Friends. It lets friends see approximately how far away you are from them, and you can share your exact, on-going location with them for a limited time. While it's sure to stir privacy concerns, Nearby Friends could get people spending more time with friends in the real-world instead of online as it hits iOS and Android. Read MoreDigital Display Startup Enplug Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round
Apr 17, 5:00PM
Digital signage is increasingly being used by businesses as a way to promote new products, engage with customers, and serve up ads. Los Angeles-based Enplug thinks it has a better way to do digital displays, with a software-driven offering that allows businesses to download and customize a wide range of social apps that customers can interact with. Read MoreLinode Invests $45M To Switch To SSDs, Double RAM
Apr 17, 4:29PM
Thanks to new entrants like Digital Ocean, the competition in the hosting space has been heating up for the last few months and for the most part, it's the users who are reaping the benefits of this. In what is surely a reaction to pressure from its competitors, Linode, the established cloud VPS provider, today announced that it has invested $45 million to improve the hardware and networking… Read MoreA Million Little Facebook Pieces
Apr 17, 4:11PM
Facebook, massive and successful as it is, is no longer a company that defines new social experiences. It either copies them outright or it just buys them. (See also: $19 billion for WhatsApp). Read MoreData Analytics Startup Beckon Raises $8M As Marketers Look Beyond Generic Tools
Apr 17, 4:04PM
Beckon, a California-based startup that helps marketers track their spend using data analytics, has raised $8 million in Series A funding from August Capital and Canaan Partners. The latest funding brings total capital raised by Beckon to $10 million to date (including $2 million seed round from August). As we wrote earlier this year, Beckon helps marketers consolidate all data and insights… Read MoreHealth Startup Healthberry Soft Launches Beta To Measure Patient Feedback
Apr 17, 3:24PM
UK-based health startup HealthBerry has soft launched its beta. Pitched as a “better way to engage with patients” the startup uses social media as a way for national health services to measure patient feedback and thus inform improvements to services. It’s trailing with the UK’s National Health Service. The platform engages with patients, monitors programmes, syndicates… Read More
Airbnb Offers To Pay Hotel Taxes In NY, Hotel Lobby Says 'No Thanks'
Apr 17, 3:13PM
After years of complaining about how Airbnb doesn't compete on a level playing field, apparently the hotel lobby in New York now wants to ensure that the peer-to-peer hospitality startup isn't held to the same standards, especially as it relates to taxes. Airbnb has taken steps to ensure that it will be able to begin collecting hotel occupancy taxes, possibly as soon as this summer. It's just… Read MoreWatch Out Moves And Human — Now RunKeeper Releases A Movement App
Apr 17, 3:01PM
By now may are familiar with the smartphone apps that track your movements via the accelerometer. There are multiple pedometers on all the apps stores for instance. But a more intriguing sector has emerged in the shape of apps like Human and Moves. Both not only track steps but give you feedback on reaching goals, in a very light-touch manner. The beauty of these apps is that they gradually… Read MoreIn Today's Messaging Wars, Platform Makers Apple And Google Are Coming Up Short
Apr 17, 2:59PM
The $19 billion WhatsApp acquisition by Facebook is nothing if not a signal of the significant importance that messaging has in this new phase of online connectivity, in the world where people's "first computers" are their mobile handsets. Dozens of new messaging apps launch every day, each with a core set of functionality and a few tricks of their own, ranging from the practical (calendar… Read MoreTactus Taps Wistron To Bring Its Magical Physical Touchscreen Buttons To The Masses
Apr 17, 2:35PM
Tactus makes keyboards that appear out of seemingly flat glass touchscreen surfaces, thanks a fluid-based layer that reacts to electrical signals to create rises and bumps that serve as keys and buttons. It’s a magical technology, and one that you can see demoed on video in the clip below from CES this year. Soon, you’ll be able to get that tech on a range of devices thanks to a new… Read MoreNever Let The Internet Spoil Your Favorite TV Show Again
Apr 17, 2:32PM
There are Game Of Thrones spoilers in this post. If you click through, you will see them. Do not click through if seeing them will upset you. This is your only warning. Read MoreUnion Offers A Professional Image Blending Tool That's Actually Easy To Use
Apr 17, 2:30PM
The team at Pixite, known for making high-quality photo applications for iOS, including things like Unbound, Fragment, Tangent (an “App Store Best” in 2013), and more, is now revealing its latest creation: a photo-blending application called Union. The app lets you easily combine photos to make superimposed, silhouetted and double image exposures, as well as remove backgrounds, blend… Read MoreLending Club Raises $115M In Debt And Equity, Buys Financing Company Springstone Financial For $140M
Apr 17, 2:28PM
Peer-to-peer lending marketplace Lending Club is announcing new funding and an acquisition this morning. The company raised $65 million from T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Wellington Management Company, LLP, BlackRock and Sands Capital, and $50 million in debt. And Lending Club acquired financing company Springstone Financial for $140 million in cash and stock. Read MoreHack Siri To Control Spotify, A Nest, A Tesla, And Give Directions Through Google Maps
Apr 17, 2:15PM
A team of University of Pennsylvania freshmen have turned Siri into the useful companion she was always meant to be. Their creation, GoogolPlex, routes Siri commands through a proxy, allowing their system to add custom commands. Ever want Siri to play a certain Spotify song on demand? Or control a Nest Thermostat? Or unlock your Tesla? GoogolPlex can do all of that. Enabling GoogolPlex is a… Read MoreMIT's FingerReader Helps The Blind Read With A Swipe Of A Digit
Apr 17, 2:01PM
At MIT’s Media Labs, researchers Roy Shilkrot, Jochen Huber and others are working on the “FingerReader,” a ring-like device that straps itself around your finger and reads printed text out loud with a synthesized voice, thanks to a mounted camera and heavily modified open source software. The FingerReader’s voice is clipped and metallic – what one might liken to… Read MoreComparison Engine Versus Launches Its First App To Grow Its 3.5M Monthly Uniques
Apr 17, 2:00PM
Versus IO, a consumer electronics product comparison engine startup based out of Berlin that's attracted backing from Dave McClure's 500 Startups (among others), has launched its first app as it seeks to continue growing its user-base. Read MoreIf 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.
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