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Gillmor Gang: Pattern Baldness
May 03, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include Twitter Dead media bait, FourSquare's move toward the new cross-app model championed by Facebook, the Google+ backslide, and Microsoft in the free lane. No matter how much the market wants to quantify the Twitter opportunity, the rest of the world is more concerned about… Read MoreManaging Growth In A Volatile Market
May 03, 3:00PM
Over the past several years, founders have been operating in a steadily improving macroeconomic environment. Stock market performance has mirrored the economic recovery, with the tech-heavy NASDAQ having posted meaningful gains in four of the past five years, with only 2011 posting a modest 1.8% loss. Leveraging this economic and stock market performance, venture capital firms have raised… Read MoreA User's Guide to Disrupt NY 2014
May 03, 1:56PM
The TechCrunch Disrupt Conference is almost upon us and we've partnered with some amazing folks to make your experience this year better than ever. Read MoreAfter Technology Destroys Capitalism
May 03, 1:00PM
In honor of May Day, let's think big for a moment. No, no, no. Bigger than that. Consider all the furious attention paid to economic inequality of late, courtesy of Thomas Piketty and Capital in the 21st Century. He argues that increasing inequality is an inevitable outcome of laissez-faire capitalism, and proposes we fix this with a global wealth tax. I humbly suggest that he's thinking… Read MoreCrunchWeek: Foursquare Splits Into Two Apps, Facebook f8, Twitter Stock Sinks To New Lows
May 02, 10:35PM
Most of the TechCrunch team has converged in New York City in advance of our annual Disrupt NY conference. So in this episode of CrunchWeek, we’re out of the TCTV studio and in a room at the historic New Yorker hotel, adjacent to where the Disrupt NY Hackathon is set to begin in less than 24 hours. If you pay close attention, you might just sense the spirit of former New Yorker resident… Read More
Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs…
May 02, 10:00PM
Good morrow, Bluffkin! How dost thou find thouself this good day? Not afraid of robots? You should be! Our first robots of the day are Avidbots, a swarming cleaning team that can fix messy floors or suck you up and turn you into pink slurry. Huzzah! Read MoreWith IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products
May 02, 10:00PM
Square and Box would seem to be the very epitome of every startup founder's dream of reaching the pinnacle of entrepreneurial success. Take a kernel of an idea and turn it into a massive, multi-billion-dollar company that publicly debuts in an IPO. For the founders involved, the exhilaration and elation of that drive to the top must be deeply palpable, and at times it probably seems as though… Read MoreMyFitnessPal Moves Into Asia With Localized Apps For China, Japan, And Korea
May 02, 9:49PM
MyFitnessPal, a nutrition and fitness startup that says it now has more than 50 million registered users, is announcing the last big piece in its international expansion. The company launched its first international apps back in June of last year, and this week, it released versions in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Co-founder Mike Lee told me that this brings the total to 14 languages. Read MoreSteve Ballmer Now Owns More Microsoft Stock Than Bill Gates
May 02, 9:08PM
Bill Gates sold 4.6 million Microsoft shares recently, an SEC filing released today indicates. That action lowered his holdings to 330,141,164 shares in the company. Former CEO Steve Ballmer owns 333,252,990 shares. The sale therefore dipping Gates' holdings under those of Ballmer, the second CEO of the company. Read MoreUgggghhhhhh
May 02, 9:02PM
At a time when Silicon Valley is facing increasing scrutiny over the treatment of women in technology, there emerges a website called Codebabes.com, where, as you may have already heard, involves women stripping as you learn to code and pass online tests. Yes, seriously. People have tried it and posted their results. To which I have to say only this: what in the actual f@ck. Read MoreGillmor Gang Live 05.02.14
May 02, 8:10PM
Gillmor Gang - John Taschek, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. Click here for live chat Read MoreFacebook Promotes VP Of Product Chris Cox To Chief Product Officer, But No Organizational Change
May 02, 8:01PM
Chris Cox helped invent News Feed and devised Facebook's "Social By Design" strategy, so now the company is recognizing his critical contributions by promoting the VP Of Product to Chief Product Officer. The new title won't come with any organizational change, but cements the 31-year-old Cox as a leader of Facebook alongside COO Sheryl Sandberg. Mark Zuckerberg delivered the news to the company… Read MoreMaking Child Support Easier, SupportPay Raises $1.1 Million
May 02, 7:47PM
Managing child support payments sucks. Even when divorces are amicable, the process of figuring out who pays for what when it comes to raising a child can be devastatingly difficult. Looking to make the process just a little bit easier, Sheri Atwood, a former executive at Symantec and the founder of Ittavi, has raised $1.1 million for SupportPay, a child support payment management service. Read MoreApple Acquires Power Efficient LED Tech Company LuxVue
May 02, 7:03PM
Apple has acquired LuxVue Technology, a stealthy company that had been working on micro-LED, screen technologies, we've heard from sources close to the transaction. The company had raised $43 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins, iD Ventures America and others. Apple has given us a statement which reads "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss… Read MoreThis Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: The Harman/Kardon HTC One, LumaFit, and TC Disrupt
May 02, 7:00PM
News was flowing this week, as HTC launched a new Spotify partnership alongside the ultra-premium HTC One M8 Harman/Kardon edition. Meanwhile, we took a closer look at the Lumafit health tracker, and as would be expected, we're all getting geared up for TC Disrupt NY next week. Read MoreAnnouncing Your Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield Final Judges: Borthwick, Botha, Dixon, Mayer, Pokorny And Wilson
May 02, 6:15PM
Welcome to sunny New York City, where people wear jackets to parties and time is of the essence! As you can probably guess, our whole team is here for the Disrupt NY conference at the Manhattan Center. We're really excited about this year's lineup, which includes Marissa Mayer, Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe, Sophia Amoruso and Mike Judge among others. Read MoreGoogle Buys Rangespan To Add Big Data Inventory Management To Google Shopping
May 02, 5:37PM
Google has made another move to build out its e-commerce business, and specifically its retail portal Google Shopping. It has acquired Rangespan, a London-based provider of back office services for online retailers, using data science to help them expand their product selection based on real-time sales dynamics. The company is based out of London, making this the third acquisition for Google out… Read MoreTweets Can Guide Emergency Responders Almost Immediately After An Earthquake
May 02, 5:30PM
Aggregated data from sites like Google and Twitter have given researchers new ways to track things ranging from diseases to emergency responses after a disaster. Now Stanford researchers are using tweets to supplement ShakeMaps, which are created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program to track earthquakes so quickly that data about affected areas is available almost in… Read MoreWhite House Report On Big Data Calls For Email Privacy Reform
May 02, 5:06PM
The White House this week released a report on big data in which it calls for an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The act, which should in fact be called the Electronic Communications Lack Of Privacy Act, is sorely in need of reform. Read MoreFoursquare Swarms Over Swarmly
May 02, 4:43PM
News that a major company or extremely well-funded competitor has launched a new product with a similar or identical name is certainly the kind of thing that keeps startup founders up at night. Well, the former has just happened to location sharing UK startup Swarmly 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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