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OUYA One Year Later: 840 Games, 36K Developers, And A New Console In The Works
Jun 24, 8:39PM
Since launch, OUYA has continued to grow its user base, thanks to sales and distribution both in-store and online. The startup has expanded the number of locations in which the console is available. At launch, OUYA was sold in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., while today it’s also now available in Western Europe and Brazil. Read MoreTwilio Partners with Google And LiveOps To Launch A Chrome OS-Based Call Center In A Box
Jun 24, 8:30PM
Setting up a call center is a major undertaking, and by the time it is up and running, the hardware that powers most of the phone connections is already out of date. Twilio, which has long offered the kind of APIs and services that allow companies to recreate their physical communications hardware in software, today launched a new service for call centers in partnership with Google and LiveOps. Read MoreOculus Acquires Carbon Design, The Team That Designed The Xbox 360 Controller
Jun 24, 7:55PM
Since the Facebook acquisition, Oculus has already snatched up just about all of the biggest names in virtual reality. Their next move? Grabbing amazing hardware designers. Oculus has just announced that they will acquire the Seattle-based Carbon Design studio. Even if you don’t recognize the name, you’ve almost certainly seen (or, more likely, used) one of their products. The Xbox… Read MoreStudy Finds Teens Using Facebook More
Jun 24, 7:54PM
In quite the turnaround, it seems Facebook is gaining popularity with young users again. Forrester Research surveyed 4,517 teens, between the ages of 12 and 17, about social media usage and nearly half said that they were using Facebook more than a year ago. Read MoreMicrosoft's Top Lawyer Calls On Congress To End The NSA's "Unfettered Bulk Collection Of Data"
Jun 24, 7:35PM
Earlier this morning, Microsoft executive vice president and general counsel Brad Smith made the case against pervasive government surveillance, arguing that reform is needed of this nation’s security apparatus. At a talk this morning, the general counsel couched his larger remarks in the historical context of general warrants, the use of which led to the political climate the out of… Read MoreSocial Shopping Site Svpply To Shut Down, Nearly 2 Years After Selling To eBay
Jun 24, 7:24PM
Svpply, the curated social shopping site meant to replicate the experience of traditional window shopping online, announced today that it will shut down on August 31. The shutdown will occur just a week short of the two year anniversary of its acquisition by eBay, which occurred in September 2012. In the months immediately following the eBay deal, Svpply continued to iterate and launch new… Read MoreMadeSolid's New 3D Printing Material Is Meant To Be Burned Away
Jun 24, 7:09PM
When you’re looking into what materials to use for 3D printing an object, the last thing you usually expect to hear is “this one burns really well!” MadeSolid, a 3D printing materials team out of Emeryville, CA, has just released a new resin specifically engineered to burn well. But why? Why would you want to burn your shiny new 3d-printed doodad? Lets say you’re a… Read MoreReadyForZero Hooks Up With Banks To Help Users Wipe Out Credit Card Debt
Jun 24, 6:44PM
In a minute, some product news. But first, a confession: Count me as part of the 50 percent of Americans with outstanding credit card debt. Then about two years ago someone introduced me to ReadyForZero, which is a site for helping consumers pay down their debt. That started with credit cards, but has gradually expanded to other forms of debt, including student loans and mortgages. And,… Read MoreApp Store Policy Of Rejecting Apps With Rewarded Video, Social Sharing Gets Rolled Back…With A Few Caveats
Jun 24, 6:36PM
A recent policy change floated by Apple caused a flurry of discussion – and concern – among mobile app developers. According to several public forum postings and other industry sources, we learned that Apple had begun to reject apps that included “incentivized” video ad viewing and rewarded social sharing. Now we’re hearing that things have changed. Read MoreWith Google Domains, Let's Raise Prices And Make SSL Certificates Free
Jun 24, 6:30PM
Domain registration is a bit like renewing license plates at the Department of Motor Vehicles. It’s the annual tradition for web developers to secure their address on our public Internet by filling out a bunch of paperwork, such as giving contact information for the registrant, administrator, technical contact, and billing contact (even the DMV doesn’t require four copies of… Read MoreAirBnB Tests Group Travel Partnerships With London's Citysocializer
Jun 24, 5:34PM
AirBnB has signed what appears to be a new deal to offer ‘social group travel experiences’ to independent travellers. It’s partnered with citysocializer, and app and web platform which, like Meetup, helps organise real-world social events for new groups of people in cities, by charging a monthly fee. The partnership appears to feed into the initiative AirBnB is testing out… Read MoreWithings New Smartwatch Looks Good Playing Dumb
Jun 24, 5:28PM
Here’s a curveball for you: Withings, which is an excellent fitness-based electronics company with all kinds of fun products like trackers and smart scales, has just bested all the smartwatch makers out there with the new Activité watch. At first glance, it looks like any other old analog watch. It has a clean white face, a leather band, and all the class and glamour of a night at… Read MoreNew Lowdown Productivity App Wants To Take On Refresh And Tempo
Jun 24, 5:16PM
Lowdown is a new startup now launching its app globally on the Apple App Store from today. It’s part of a new wave of ‘holistic’ apps that pull various services together to aid your productivity. It competes with refresh which does people search and some of the calendar aspects of Tempo, Sunrise and Magneto. So far the startup has raised £260,000 in seed funding from… Read MorePebble Teams Up With Misfit For Standalone Activity Tracking App
Jun 24, 5:00PM
Smartwatch maker Pebble aims to be a lot of things to a lot of people, and today it’s deepening its appeal thanks to a new partnership. The hardware startup is teaming with another young gadget company: Misfit, maker of the smart activity and sleep tracking wristband Shine. Misfit has created a Pebble app for the smartwatch that can track a user’s activity – independent of… Read MoreFAA Bans The Use Of Drones To Deliver Packages
Jun 24, 4:55PM
The FAA made it plain this week that Amazon, or anyone else for that matter, won’t be able to deliver packages using a drone in the near future. In a document soliciting feedback regarding drone policy — a “Notice of Interpretation with Request for Comment ” — the FAA calls “delivering packages to people for a fee” a non-hobby or recreation-based… Read MoreRegard Is An Analytics Startup That Says Asking Users For Data Is Better Than Taking Everything
Jun 24, 4:43PM
The dream of big data has led to the nightmare of mass surveillance. But perhaps there’s a better way to gather intelligence from user data: namely with consent. The four-man Cambridge, UK-based team behind a new product called Regard, certainly believe so. They’ve set out to build a new kind of analytics platform which puts openness and transparency at its core. Read MoreSoundHawk Unveils A Wearable For Your Listening Pleasure, Partners With FoxConn
Jun 24, 4:39PM
Somewhere in the midst of too many rock concerts, loud dance clubs and blasting Spotify right into our eardrums, some of us have lost a bit of our hearing – and we’re never gonna get it back. But we’re not deaf, we just can’t pick out certain sounds as articulately as we once could. Read MoreTwitter Is Experimenting With A New Way To Retweet
Jun 24, 4:34PM
The best thing about Twitter is that it forces users to embrace brevity thanks to its 140-character updates. It’s also the worst thing about Twitter, turning loquacious tweeters into Twitter stream hogs – as with the disaster that is the multi-part running commentary known as the Tweetstorm. But now Twitter is experimenting with a new feature called “retweet with… Read MoreYC-Backed ClearTax Tackles India's Fast Growing Online Tax Filing Market
Jun 24, 4:30PM
ClearTax is not the typical Y Combinator launch. Founded in 2011 and based in Delhi, the startup already has a strong presence in India, where it automates the income tax filing process for workers. Last year, over 300,000 people used ClearTax to file their taxes. Furthermore, the company is also the first one focused specifically on the Indian market to join Y Combinator (though the program… Read MoreEpoxy Raises $6.5M From Upfront Ventures And Time Warner To Connect YouTubers With Fans
Jun 24, 4:00PM
First there was YouTube. And from YouTube came an ecosystem of video creators who could use the platform to freely distribute their content and maybe make money from it. Then came the YouTube multichannel networks, which herded up all the creators in hopes of creating a giant mass of subscribers and video views. 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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