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A Tour Through Autodesk's Pier 9 Workshop, The Fabrication Facility Where Out-There Ideas Turn Into Reality
May 11, 5:10PM
Autodesk is, of course, known primarily for enterprise software. They make great stuff and make a lot of money doing it, but it’s not exactly the type of company you might expect to have an especially fun office space. But for months now, people have been telling me that Autodesk’s new “workshop” that opened this past fall on Pier 9 on the San Francisco waterfront is a… Read MoreWhy I Go To Disrupt
May 11, 2:07PM
It's never good for someone inside an organization to defend its actions to the outside. It smacks of self-serving and one-sided debate, and, as the Bard wrote, "the lady doth protest too much, methinks." Be here I go protesting too much. Read MoreAdform Raises $5.5M To Expand Its Rich Media Ad Business In The US
May 11, 1:00PM
European ad-tech company Adform is announcing that it has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding. The company was founded more than a decade ago, in 2002. Chief Marketing Officer Martin Stockfelth Larsen told me it sells its technology to both advertisers and publishers, with products including a demand side platform for ad-buying from multiple sources. Read MoreSketchVid Turns Your Doodles Into Eye-Catching Animations For Instagram
May 11, 8:53AM
SketchVid is a cool new iOS app that lets even the most ham-handed doodler make striking animations for Instagram. Read MorePeople Go Bananas Over MonkeyParking
May 11, 3:24AM
It was inevitable. In a place where you could pay for almost anything to come to you via mobile, to have empty parking spots eventually come to you via mobile. That is the premise behind Italian app MonkeyParking, which allows you to "sell" your parking spot (or rather, the inside information about whether your parking spot will be available shortly) starting at $5. Read MoreFjuul Activity Tracker App Measures Exercise Intensity, Not Just Steps
May 10, 10:00PM
Finnish startup Fjuul is tackling activity tracking with an iOS app aiming for mainstream users that can track the intensity of activity. It's been backed by €400,000 ($550,000) in funding thus far from VC Vision+ and local public funding agency, Tekes. Read MoreQ: Why Did Quora Join Y Combinator? A: It Was Almost Free
May 10, 9:26PM
Quora has plenty to learn from Y Combinator about growth and monetization, but it's not giving up the traditional 7% equity share to join the accelerator. Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo tells me "YC invested an amount that was similar to their standard $120k. They invested as part of the Tiger round." That $80 million round valued Quora at $900 million, so the startup only traded away around 0.013%. Read MoreWe're Still Traveling Like It's 1996
May 10, 9:00PM
Travel still provides some of the highest human anxieties of anything we do on a routine basis. There are countless variables when it comes to travel: weather, mechanical issues, overbooked flights, traffic, human delays and so much more. But if we could combine all of our intelligent data in a way that it works together, travel disruptions could be corrected automatically and efficiently. Read MoreGillmor Gang: Eat Your Beats
May 10, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Josh Miller, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — welcome the latest Jobsian takedown of the music cartel, the presumed acquisition of the Beats hardware/streaming empire by Apple. How the Gang winds its way through the leaks and feints of BigTech is left as an exercise for you. As one Ganger channeled John Lennon early in the chat: "I don't… Read MoreTechCrunch Is Invading Austin And Seattle In June, Pitch-Off Applications Are Open Now!
May 10, 2:27PM
Fresh on the heels of TC Disrupt NY, we're already thinking about our next events. Austin and Seattle, are you ready to get down with TechCrunch? Our tour will take place the week of June 10, but we want to open up applications to the Pitch-Off as soon as possible. What is the pitch-off, you ask? Read MoreGoogle Maps Has Forsaken Us
May 10, 1:00PM
Once upon a time, in the days of yore -- meaning, in hyper-fast-forward Silicon Valley, five years ago -- there were things you could count on, evident truths on which you could rely, cornerstones on which you could construct your mental model of the world; and high on any such list would have been "Google will provide you with relevant search results." Yeah, well, that was then, this is now. Read MoreFacebook Is Down For Many
May 10, 12:12AM
Facebook’s website is down for many. The voluminous reports on Twitter, and corroborating evidence, are pretty plain: For many, Facebook is not working at the moment. Young services are infamous for having extensive outages. Twitter, for one, when small, was down chronically. Facebook going down, given how mature it is as a platform and public company, is a larger issue. Developers take… Read MoreAs Mobile Roars Ahead, It's Time To Finally Admit The Web Is Dying
May 09, 10:26PM
While discussions about tech bubbles have been heated, few commentators seem to be targeting their invective at the real underlying bubble: the World Wide Web itself is crumbling. Like any outmoded technology, the Web is rapidly losing users as it fails to adapt to disruption from mobile apps and continues to perform poorly – despite incredible optimization efforts – due to a bloated… Read MoreManilla, The Hearst-Backed Service For Managing Bills, Is Shutting Down On July 1
May 09, 10:01PM
Account management startup Manilla says that it will be shutting down on July 1. We received several tips about the shutdown today, then when I visited the site and tried to sign up, I was directed to this announcement, which says that the service will continue to operate as normal until June 30. After that, users will no longer be able to upload new documents, and it will not retrieve any new… Read More10 Senators Blast FCC-Proposed Internet 'Fast Lane' Net Neutrality Rules
May 09, 9:51PM
Ten U.S. Senators, including Sens. Wyden, Warren, Franken, and Booker, today published a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in opposition to his proposed rules-changes to net neutrality that would create so-called Internet ‘fast lanes.’ As we’ve covered a half-dozen times, the proposal cuts at the heart of net neutrality’s bent on non-discrimination, by allowing by… Read MoreAsk A VC: Google Ventures' Rich Miner On Android Growth And More
May 09, 9:46PM
In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Google Ventures’ Rich Miner joined us in the studio to talk about Android’s massive growth, and more. Miner, who was the co-founder of Android and helped lead the development of the Android platform and ecosystem at Google following the acquisition, talked about his view on “alternative” Android outgrowths, app discovery, and much… Read More
Jawbone's Newest Investor Is Rizvi Traverse
May 09, 9:20PM
Back in February, Re/code reported that Jawbone was nearly finished raising a $250 million round of funding led by Rizvi Traverse Management, the investment firm that has backed Twitter, Square, Flipboard and a number of others of late. Read MoreGearing Up To Raise More Capital, TrackVia Is On Pace For 100% Revenue Growth In 2014
May 09, 8:04PM
After booking 50% revenue growth in 2013, TrackVia is looking to grow its top line 100% in 2014. The company is on track to meet that benchmark, it told TechCrunch. TrackVia is an interesting company, selling a product that lets companies quickly build mobile applications for their employees to use. Instead of hiring an application development team internally, TrackVia helps firms quickly build… Read MoreGillmor Gang Live 05.09.14
May 09, 8:04PM
Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Josh Miller, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. Click here for the live chat that accompanies the show. Read MorePrintToPeer Networks Your 3D Printer So You Can Build Your Own Bot Farm
May 09, 7:40PM
Calgary-based PrintToPeer is a crowdfunded project aimed at networking open-source and commercial 3D printers in one location or around the world, thereby allowing users to send jobs to distant printers. It's not something you'd think you'd need, but if you harken back to the old days of central laser printers, you can understand the value of having one expensive, high-maintenance printer queuing… 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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