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Facebook Says Paper Users Browse 80 Stories A Day, Updates It To Be A More Complete Replacement
Apr 18, 5:24PM
Facebook just released Paper 1.1, an update that adds features and notifications to make it a more comprehensive subsititute for Facebook for iOS. It alsp gave the first momentum update on Paper, saying "people have explored an average of 80 stories a day". It didn't release a user count, though, and some critics are calling it a flop due to low App Store chart rankings and anecdotal evidence. Read MoreWho Wants A Ticket To The Disrupt NY Hackathon?
Apr 18, 4:27PM
Ready. Set. Go. Our events team just released another batch of tickets to the Disrupt NY Hackathon. You can grab one below. Last year using the Foursquare and Plaid APIs, a credit card transaction tracker took home the top price. Teams are forming now so grab a ticket while they're still available. Read MoreTaking On Amazon, Target Expands Online Subscriptions Program To More Categories, Lowers Prices
Apr 18, 4:22PM
Target has significantly expanded its subscription-based e-commerce service, first launched last fall as a response to Amazon’s popular “Subscribe and Save” program, by increasing the number of online items available for subscription purchase from just 200 to now 1,500. While the company’s original focus was on baby-care items, the now revamped service offers similar… Read MoreTelerik Open Sources Most Of Its Kendo UI HTML5 Framework
Apr 18, 4:15PM
Telerik, the company behind the popular Kendo UI library, this week announced that it is open sourcing the vast majority of Kendo UI's tools and JavaScript framework features. This new Kendo UI Core package is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows developers to use it for both commercial and non-commercial projects. Read MoreLa Belle Assiette Launches Its On-Demand Chef Service In Belgium And The U.K.
Apr 18, 3:50PM
French startup La Belle Assiette just opened shop in Belgium. La Belle Assiette is a sort of on-demand chef service. You can browse the site, find your chef and book a meal directly from the service — a chef will then come to your home or office. The startup will also roll out its offering in the U.K., Switzerland and Luxembourg in the next six weeks. Here’s how the service works. Next… Read MoreAbout.com CEO Neil Vogel Discusses The Challenges Of Evolving An Established Brand
Apr 18, 3:14PM
About.com has never been the coolest website on the internet. With a grayish background and an ugly logo, it was the place you landed when you searched for help with something, but you rarely went there on your own. This is the product that Neil Vogel took over one year ago, when he was made CEO of About.com. Not much has changed on the outside, save for a few subtle design tweaks and the… Read More
Google Trends Debuts Email Notifications For Search Topics, Hot Searches And More
Apr 18, 3:07PM
Google Trends, the informative resource that shows you what’s currently popular around the web right now in and in the recent past, now offers email subscriptions, Google announced this morning. The new feature will allow you to subscribe to any search topic, plus Hot Searches for any country, or any U.S. monthly Top Chart, says Google via a blog post detailing the feature. However, though… Read MoreWith $4.6M In New Funding, Preact Helps Software Companies Keep Customers Happy
Apr 18, 2:39PM
Startup Preact is officially launching today with a product that it says can help companies increase customer spending and reduce churn. It's also announcing that it has raised a $4.6 million Series A led by Trinity Ventures. CEO Michael Geller said the Preact system looks at a variety of signals and uses data science to help subscription software companies identify when their customers are… Read MoreApp Search Engine Quixey Acquires Competing Service Kite.io
Apr 18, 2:21PM
Mobile app search engine Quixey, backed by $75 million from Alibaba, Innovation Endeavors, Translink Capital and others, has put some of those dollars to use by acquiring a smaller, competing app search startup, San Francisco-based Kite.io. The deal was more of a talent grab, we hear, bringing Kite.io’s founders to Quixey where they’ll continue to help the company build out its… Read MoreLinkedIn Hits 300 Million Users
Apr 18, 1:40PM
LinkedIn announced this morning that the company now has 300 million registered users worldwide, over half of which come from outside the U.S. Stateside, the site has 100 million members, its says. LinkedIn revealed these and other figures via a company blog post, in addition to laying out its vision for growing its presence through strategic initiatives on mobile, in Asia, and beyond. These… Read MoreNest Uses Its Data To Turn Electric Utilities Into Cash Cows
Apr 18, 11:56AM
When Google acquired smart thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, the startup quickly stated that it would never share its user data with other Google services and outside companies. But according to a recent report by Forbes, the company is taking advantage of its data to create a lucrative revenue stream from electric utilities. “Our privacy policy clearly limits the use of customer… Read MoreThe Xbox One Still Lags Behind The PS4
Apr 18, 10:52AM
Titanfall was supposed to change it all, but it didn’t work. So far, Microsoft announced that it has shipped 5 million Xbox One units to retailers. In comparison, Sony has sold 7 million PS4 units to customers. It doesn’t look good for Microsoft as the company doesn’t even say how many people actually bought an Xbox One. Microsoft’s announcement fits well with NPD’s… Read MoreThe Rufus Cuff's Size And Features Lord Over Puny Smartwatches
Apr 18, 6:29AM
With its three-inch screen, the Rufus Cuff thumbs its nose at smartwatches with their tiny faces and dainty wristbands. The wearable device, which bills itself as a “wrist communicator” and runs on Android, has access to the full Google Play store; a built-in mic, speaker, and camera; a full Web browser; accelerometer and gyroscope; touchscreen keyboard; and attaches to a switchable… Read MoreGuides.co Aims To Be The Hub For Companies' White Papers And How-To Content
Apr 18, 12:27AM
There are plenty of how-to sites on the Internet, but sometimes, in the words of Guides.co CEO Scott Annan, you need to look up something "more complicated than tying a tie or stuffing a turkey." When you do, Annan is hoping you'll visit the Guides.co website. He argued that most forms of content have been reinvented for the digital world, but not instructional, how-to books — which, unlike a… Read MoreFounder Stories: Serial Entrepreneur Karl Jacob Is Up At The Plate Again With Hangtime
Apr 17, 11:28PM
If Bo knows football and every other sport, Karl Jacob knows startups. Depending on how you count it, Jacob, a former Apple intern and Benchmark EIR, is on his sixth (or seventh?) startup: Hangtime, which aggregates future events in a single app and database. In his career, Jacob has raised over $200 million in venture capital across the companies he’s founded, and in this discussion, he… Read MoreAs Food Delivery War Heats Up, Sprig Plans To Serve Lunch
Apr 17, 10:35PM
SpoonRocket is about to have some competition in the lunch on demand market. Sprig, currently dinner-only, will soon start serving lunch, according to a source who said Sprig now delivers 1000 meals per day. Sprig just raised a $10 million Series A two weeks ago, and is wasting no time in ramping up the fight for our stomachs. Read MoreTuition.io Picks Up A New Investor, As It Manages Over $1 Billion In Student Loans
Apr 17, 9:41PM
In the year since its launch, Tuition.io, the company billing itself as the Mint.com for managing student loans, has grown to manage over $1 billion in loans. The company, which provides a monitoring and management service for student loan payments, has just picked up an investment from Raj Date, the former second-in-command at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Agency, through Fenway Summer,… Read MoreI Hijacked The Startup Alley Application System To Extend The Deadline, So Apply Now!
Apr 17, 9:10PM
Attention, startups! This is a code red situation. I have infiltrated the Disrupt Startup Alley application system and left registrations open. (Cue evil laugh.) Read MoreGet Poached
Apr 17, 9:00PM
The tech/startup industry is about as incestuous as it gets, and that's without any clear tools to help people switch from one moonshot to the next. So imagine a world in which there are two! Allow me to proudly introduce PoachBox, the anonymous employee auction site, and Underdog, the NY-based site for finding your next employer. Read MoreInstacart Could Raise A Big New Round Of Funding Valuing It At $400 Million
Apr 17, 8:58PM
On-demand grocery startup Instacart is working on raising a big new round of funding, according to sources. The new financing, which we've heard is being led by non-VC investors, would value the company at $400 million. 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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