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Google Said To Be Planning Android TV Launch At I/O In June

May 30, 7:17PM

android-tv Google has long been rumored to replace Google TV with Android TV, a new crack at the home media market with more roots in its mobile OS and less of a separate focus, but a new report from GigaOM today suggests we’ll see it very soon; in fact, it’s apparently set to make its debut at the I/O developer conference taking place at the end of this month. The Android TV platform… Read More



This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Apple/Beats, LG, And A $200 3D Printer

May 30, 7:00PM

gadgets140530a Apple bought Beats, for $3 billion. LG released the next generation of the G2, which is aptly named the G3. Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel had a few old emails leak that don’t paint him in the best light, and we stumbled across a new 3D printer that is available at the low, low price of $200. Read More



Google's Rumored Stars Bookmarking Service Gets A Bit More Real As Chrome Extension Leaks

May 30, 6:20PM

2014-05-30_1054 We’ve been hearing rumors about Google Stars — a new bookmarking service from Google — for quite a while now, but today, the project got a bit more real thanks to an extension the well-known Google watcher Florian Kiersch found earlier today. German blogger Carsten Knobloch has made the extension available for download and you can find a link to it at the end of his post… Read More



CluckCluck Helps Busy Parents Book, Pay And Message Their Children's Caregivers

May 30, 6:13PM

CluckCluck Heather Joyce and Erin Matzkin, hard-working technology attorneys who also happen to be moms with a total of five kids between them, spent many years helping companies build websites and apps, but were frustrated that there was not a decent application that addressed their own needs when it came to balancing their work and family lives. So they decided to build one themselves. Today,… Read More



Arts And Tech Non-Profit Gray Area Is A Symbol For A Changing City

May 30, 6:09PM

josette All great art institutions were once startups too. I was wandering around the U.S.’s largest art museum, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the other week (on one of those #museumhack walks) when I learned that the institution’s very first acquisition in 1870 was a lowly unused and unfinished Roman sarcophagus dug up from what is now modern Southern Turkey. Basically,… Read More



Swivl CEO Brian Lamb Talks About Life After Crowdfunding

May 30, 5:54PM

Brian Lamb started Swivl with a vision: he wanted to make it easier for videographers and presenters to film themselves live. Using a clever little dock that panned around to follow a Bluetooth remote control, the Swivl raised $157,000 on Kickstarter and was released in 2012. Read More



Bitcoin Crosses The $600 Mark As Its Rally Endures

May 30, 5:54PM

banker-bitcoin After a flat period, bitcoin is back, rallying through the $600 level today. The cryptocurrency, which had zipped north of $1,000 in late 2013, fell under the $400 mark this year on lessened media interest and the implosion of Mt.Gox, an exchange, among other issues. Even at the $600 mark, bitcoin is down nearly 50 percent from its 52-week high. Coinbase has the current price at $613,… Read More



Microsoft, Salesforce Partnership Is Proof That Business Makes Strange Bedfellows

May 30, 5:43PM

Frenemies It’s often been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows, but the same could be said for business. If you want proof, look no further than yesterday’s partnership announcement between Salesforce and Microsoft. These are two companies that compete fiercely for the same customers in the CRM space, suddenly making nice. If you look closely at the deal, you’ll see… Read More



House Votes To Fund Intelligence Programs Through 2015

May 30, 4:49PM

Screen Shot 2014-05-20 at 1.25.52 PM While there is some appetite for reform of the intelligence activities of the United States government in the House of Representatives, votes to not fund the NSA and other agencies remain slim. Read More



Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Donate $120M To Bay Area Schools

May 30, 4:36PM

zuckpriscilla At a time when the boy kings of Silicon Valley are making the worst possible names for themselves, the original boy king, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan are setting a good example with a $120 million donation to Bay Area schools. The couple’s donation is part of a $1.1 billion pledge to the nonprofit Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which is roughly 3.7 percent of… Read More



Visually Will Tell Marketers Whether People Actually Cared About That Infographic

May 30, 4:33PM

visually analytics Infographic and “visual content” marketplace Visually is the latest startup trying to take a new approach to measuring the effectiveness of content marketing. In the past month or so I’ve written about new analytics tools offered by Contently, Chartbeat, and Sharethrough, all based on the idea that content marketers and native advertisers need new sets of data to tell… Read More



Motorola Mobility's US Moto X Assembly Plant To Close By End Of Year

May 30, 4:32PM

moto-x01 Part of the sales pitch for Motorola Mobility’s (then Google-owned) Moto X smartphone was that it was partly U.S.-made; an assembly plant to put together the Moto X opened in Fort Worth, Texas in May 2013. That plant will close by the end of this year, Motorola confirms to TechCrunch, however, as sales of the smartphone and operational costs have made continuing operations there… Read More



MIT Researchers Create An App That Turns Selfies Into Works Of Art

May 30, 4:26PM

Screen Shot 2014-05-30 at 9.13.17 AM Sure you can add filters to your Instagram pictures to make that shot of your dog sitting near a puddle look like some kind of lobotomized-Ansel-Adams gelatin plate but can you make your head shots look amazing? YiChang Shih, a researcher at MIT, has figured out how. Read More



Apple Streams WWDC Platform State Of The Union, Design Awards To Developers For The First Time

May 30, 4:23PM

wwdc14-home-branding iOS developer Patrick McCarron spotted something interesting in the original press release for Apple’s WWDC event next week from back in April – for the first time, the company will be streaming live video of both the Platforms State of the Union and the Apple Design Awards for registered developers. The State of the Union is arguably the more important keynote for a developer… Read More



HelloWallet, A One-Time Mint Competitor, Acquired For $52.5 Million

May 30, 4:22PM

hellowallet Personal finance software provider HelloWallet, a one-time competitor to Intuit’s Mint, has been acquired by investment research provider Morningstar, which was already a minority investor in the company. The acquisition sees HelloWallet sold for $52.5 million. However, Morningstar will pay $39 million because of its previous investment, now valued at $13.5 million, in the company.… Read More



WeddingChannel Co-Founder Jenny Lefcourt Joins Freestyle

May 30, 4:00PM

jenny lefcourt It was 1998, and Stanford Business School student Jenny Lefcourt and her fellow female co-founder wanted to raise money for an e-commerce-meets-retail idea they had around weddings. They were thrilled when they convinced a well-known VC at a Sand Hill firm to hear their idea. Before meeting, Lefcourt and her co-founder worked tirelessly on their pitch, hoping to win this VC over and leave the… Read More



Spor Solar-Powered Battery Charger Wants To Kickstart A Cooler Clean-Energy Ecosystem

May 30, 3:49PM

Spor Spor is a portable solar-powered battery charger that wants to shake things up with its fuss-free, compact form factor that’s still capable of delivering a power punch. It’s also aiming to look a lot less boring than the generic competition — with a shell that can be customised via home 3D printing, if that’s your bag Read More



TrueCrypt, An Open-Source Whole-Disk Encryption System, Leaves Users High And Dry

May 30, 3:18PM

High-Dry1 Users of TrueCrypt, the open source whole-disk encryption solution for Windows and Mac, should probably find something else ASAP. Ostensibly attributed to Microsoft’s decision to stop supporting Windows XP, the app and website have been pulled from the Internet leaving thousands of users in a lurch. Read More



What To Expect At Apple's WWDC 2014

May 30, 2:51PM

Starting Monday, Apple will be unloading a week’s worth of news and resources for software makers at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. Apple always kicks things off with a keynote at the beginning of the show, wherein it reveals new and exciting things for both developers and consumers alike. This year will be no exception, but what… Read More



Nokia Buys Desti To Add AI To HERE Maps, Will Shut App Down

May 30, 2:15PM

desti1 Nokia, now lightened of its handset load thanks to Microsoft, has made an acquisition to expand its HERE mapping business, one of the assets that has remained with the Finnish company. It has bought Desti, a mapping startup and app maker that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to help people find what they are looking for. Desti is a spin-out from SRI International,… Read More




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