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Google Hangouts In Gmail Gets New Presence Indicators, Improved Search
May 12, 6:26PM
Google is updating Hangouts in Gmail today. While it's not a major new release, but the update brings back the green "availability" bubbles that Google did away with when it replaced Google Talk in Gmail with Hangouts. Instead of the bubbles, Hangouts in Gmail would show a very subtle green line underneath a user's profile picture when they were available for chat. Read MoreShortwave Shows Off Anonymous Chat As Another Consumer Use Case For iBeacons
May 12, 6:12PM
Apple’s iBeacons are being trialled and demoed in retail settings all over the place, but they’re slowly becoming more interesting to average users, too. A new app called Shortwave offers up an everyday use case for iBeacon tech that could prove either terrifying or exciting, depending on your perspective; the software uses iBeacon protocols to turn your iPhone into a location-based… Read MoreTech Puts Points Back On The Board As Twitter, FireEye And Netflix Surge
May 12, 6:12PM
The recent decline in tech stocks has led to a broad narrative: The market's appetite for young tech stocks in late 2013 and early 2014 led to valuation excesses, and the ensuing declines have all but closed the IPO window. Today, in a nice bucking of that trend, beleaguered companies that posted large declines are picking up big gains. Read MoreVery Foundation, Much Wow: A Conversation With Dogecoin's Jackson Palmer
May 12, 6:00PM
In my latest Foundation interview, I sit down with entrepreneur Jackson Palmer. Jackson is the brains behind the fast-growing cryptocurrency known as Dogecoin. We discuss the Dogecoin community’s ability to raise money for good (like sending the Jamaican Bobsled team to Sochi), and Jackson’s views on what digital currency will look like in five years. Jackson on how to grow the bitcoin… Read MoreJason Hirschhorn Goes From Teen Concert Promoter To Internet DJ
May 12, 5:50PM
Former president of Myspace Jason Hirschhorn is no stranger to media. But before selling his company Mischief New Media in his twenties, and before stints at Viacom, MTV, News Corp, and Sling Media, Hirschhorn was a 17 year-old club promoter of the alcohol-free NYC dance club “The Saint.” “Club promoting was my first curation job,” Hirschhorn — who once unsuccessfully… Read MoreHeading For A Vote, The FCC's Spectrum Auction Plan Draws Mixed Reactions
May 12, 5:37PM
AT&T might not be a big fan of the FCC’s plan to reserve some spectrum for smaller carriers in the coming 2015 auction, but that doesn’t mean the effort doesn’t have supporters. Recently, ten Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter endorsing the proposal. In their words, the “proposal to reserve a portion of the available licenses for… Read MoreTwitter Officially Introduces The Mute Button For Android, iPhone And Web
May 12, 5:34PM
Twitter has officially announced “mute,” a new feature for its Android, iPhone and web clients that lets users selectively turn off the posts of certain users they follow, without unfollowing them. Muting the users will stop their posts from showing up in your timeline, including their own posts and native retweets, and it also means you won’t get push notifications or SMS… Read MoreResearchers Teach A Robot To Catch Flying Objects Like Yogi Berra
May 12, 5:32PM
When the robot uprising begins, don't try to take on our new overlords by throwing assorted household items at them. It won't work, man. IT WON'T WORK. Read MoreAllTheRooms Lets You Look At All Available Rooms At Your Destination
May 12, 5:12PM
Air travelers have Kayak to aggregate flight deals but once you land you need AllTheRooms. Founded by a former Travelocity exec and Morgan Stanley trader, the company has raised $1.1 million to help find all the rooms in a particular city. Read MoreSquare M&A Lead Rishi Garg Joins Twitter To Head Corp Dev
May 12, 4:51PM
Twitter is bringing on a new head of corporate development--Rishi Garg. Garg joined the company from Square, where he headed corporate development for the payments company. Read MoreSalesPredict Lands $4.1M In Series A Funding
May 12, 4:00PM
SalesPredict, a company that helps sales teams find the best customers using predictive analytics, announced $4.1M in Series A funding today. The chief funders in this deal are Yandex and KGC Capital. SalesPredict CEO Yaron Zakai-Or says the two-year-old company was started by himself and Kira Radinsky, who is chief technology officer. The two had previously worked together for several years… Read MoreNvidia Shield Gets Half-Life 2 And Portal As Valve Classics Get Their Android Moment
May 12, 3:47PM
Nvidia’s Shield mobile gaming console has two powerful new titles under its belt today – Half-Life 2 and Portal, both from celebrated developer turned platform creator Valve, and both appearing for the first time on Android. Nvidia worked on these ports with the guidance and blessing of Valve, so they’re understandably exclusive to the graphics company’s unique Shield… Read MorePinterest Launches Paid Ads With Select Brands In Form Of Promoted Pins
May 12, 3:01PM
Last fall, Pinterest announced it would begin experimenting with advertisements on its service in the form of “Promoted Pins,” which would be featured placements from select retailers and other businesses. Today, the company says that it’s expanding on these earlier tests with the rollout of a paid test of Promoted Pins. These pins will only appear on the search and category… Read MoreMicrosoft Previews ASP.NET vNext
May 12, 3:00PM
At its TechEd event in Houston today, Microsoft talked about the future of its .NET and ASP.NET frameworks. While the company isn’t quite ready to announced .NET 5 just yet, it’s clear that Microsoft is pretty close to launching the next version of its standard development framework. As Microsoft’s Brian Harry, the corporate vice president in its Developer Division, told me… Read MoreThis Is How iPad Multitasking Should Look
May 12, 2:38PM
Even after Jony Ive took the helm of the entire user experience at Apple and redesigned iOS, multitasking has remained an area that leaves us wanting. But a new jailbreak tweak brings all the brilliance of OS X multitasking may be just the ticket. After jailbreaking your iPad and installing the "OS Experience" tweak from Cydia, you'll be able to run two apps simultaneously on the same screen,… Read MoreMicrosoft Azure Gets New Tools For Hybrid Clouds And Simplified Cloud Storage Service For Businesses
May 12, 2:15PM
Today is a big day for Microsoft. It’s making a large number of announcements around its developer tools at its enterprise-centric TechEd event in Houston today and in addition, it is also bringing a number of new features to its Azure cloud computing services. Among these are the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute for creating private connections between Azure and on-premise… Read MoreMicrosoft's Visual Studio Adds Support For Building Cross-Platform Hybrid Apps With Apache Cordova
May 12, 2:00PM
At its TechEd event in Houston today, Microsoft is launching the latest update to Visual Studio. There are no massive changes here compared to the release candidate the company announced at its Build developer conference last month, but the company did make one announcement that will surely take some by surprise: as part of its recent push to making cross-platform development with Visual Studio… Read MoreLG Teases The Android Wear-Powered G Watch, A Smartwatch "Ready For Anything"
May 12, 1:45PM
LG is showing off a new teaser video (via 9to5Google) of its G Watch, the Android Wear device it’s launching later this year. Android Wear is the operating system that Google has created for smartwatch devices, which exists essentially as an extension of Android to deliver notifications and other information from smartphones running its mobile OS. The G Watch is one of the first entrants,… Read MoreBrain-Linked Prosthetic Arm Wins FDA Approval As Our Bionic Future Looms
May 12, 1:13PM
DARPA’s initiative to build a prosthetic arm that’s fully controllable via a wearer’s mind has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (via Verge), a key green light that will let it edge closer to wide-scale production and distribution. The next step is to find someone to build the device, and then it can start helping amputees cope with the loss of their limbs.… Read MoreWochit Raises $11 Million For Text-To-Video Content Creation Platform
May 12, 1:04PM
Media companies looking for a way to ride the wave of customer demand for online video content may have found their vessel with the new $11 million financing for New York-based Wochit. The company, founded by two serial Israeli entrepreneurs, has raised fresh capital to roll out its text-to-video technology to any publisher that’s looking for more ways to put more video in front of their… 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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