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California Democrats .Whine Over Proposed .Wine Domains
Jul 03, 8:18PM
Let’s see if we can do this without making any puns. In May, California Democratic Congressman Mike Thompson sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers (ICANN), asking that .wine and .vin domain not be assigned to “any applicant,” provided that worries concerning protections against cybersquatting can’t be resolved. Congressman… Read MoreMusic Streaming Eats Downloads With On-Demand Up 42% Over 2013, Digital Sales Down 12%
Jul 03, 7:55PM
Nielsen’s music report on the first half of 2014 shows digital music consumption rapidly shifting from downloads to streaming. On-demand streaming was up 42% over the first half of 2013, racking up 70 billion play in the first half of 2014. Meanwhile, digital track sales fell 13% to 593.6 million and album sales fell 11.6% to 53.8 million. The report makes Apple’s acquisition of… Read MoreSouth Park, Now In Virtual Reality
Jul 03, 7:50PM
Ready to head on down to (virtual) South Park, and have yourself a (virtual) time? Looking to brush up their virtual reality skills, a team of designers has recreated everyone’s favorite quiet little mountain town for exploration with the Oculus Rift. Read MoreMobile Accelerator Tandem Announces Four New Startups As It Prepares To Double In Size
Jul 03, 7:09PM
Tandem, a Silicon Valley-based accelerator for mobile startups, is unveiling its latest group of companies. The firm says this is its “largest startup class ever” — though that’s not quite as dramatic a change as you might think. In the past, Tandem has accepted three startups in each class. This time, there are a grand total of four. Read MoreWindows Phone's Market Share In The United States Isn't Growing
Jul 03, 6:56PM
The latest data from Comscore regarding the United States smartphone market isn’t great for Microsoft. The company’s Windows Phone platform managed no growth, ending the May period with a 3 month market share average of 3.4%, the same level that Comscore reported for the platform in February. Android was flat, Apple picked up 0.6%, and Blackberry lost 0.6%. Android and Apple,… Read MorePeter Thiel Is Returning To Disrupt SF
Jul 03, 6:49PM
We’re thrilled to announce that legendary founder and investor Peter Thiel will be joining us on stage at Disrupt SF 2014. From PayPal to Founders Fund, Thiel has set the bar for success in Silicon Valley, and this will be the second time he’s spoken at our conference. We’re glad he’s back. Thiel made the first outside investment in Facebook in 2004, and was an early… Read MoreBonobos Raises Another $55 Million To Expand Its Online-Offline Shopping Experience
Jul 03, 6:32PM
Online clothing retailer Bonobos has raised a $55 million Series D round of funding led by Coppel Capital. With the funding, the company plans to expand its offline presence as a way to introduce new customers to the style and fit of its clothes, while also showing off new offerings to existing customers. Read MoreeBay-Owned E-Commerce Platform Magento Shuts Down Services Aimed At Smaller Retailers
Jul 03, 5:14PM
E-commerce platform Magento, owned by eBay’s Enterprise division, is closing down two of its products designed to reach small to medium-sized online retailers: Magento Go and ProStores. The company has posted notices and informational guides on both product websites, directing current customers to “Migration Center” dashboards and various FAQ’s that will help them… Read MoreAtlassian Expands Its Enterprise Offerings With JIRA And Confluence Data Center
Jul 03, 5:00PM
Atlassian, the company behind developer collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence and HipChat, has long had a strong presence in the enterprise, but the company today announced two new products specifically geared at this market. Next week, Atlassian will launch JIRA Data Center, the latest version of its JIRA project management software with high-level customer support offerings and… Read MoreAfter Closing $49 Million In Funding, TeleSign Pushing Authentication Services
Jul 03, 4:16PM
In the age of email spoofing, identity theft, and the myriad sorts of virtual chicanery and flim-flammery, having a service that can verify a person’s identity is vital. As demand for identity verification and and authentication grows, TeleSign is looking to capitalize on its latest round of funding, shopping for technology acquisitions and new markets for growth. Read MoreApple's Hamid Mohammadinia Joins The Vessyl Smart Cup Team
Jul 03, 4:00PM
Mark One, the makers of the Vessyl smart cup, have brought on Hamid Mohammadinia as the new VP Engineering. Mohammadinia comes from Apple where he led Design for Manufacturing, with specific participation in the DFM of the iPod and the iPad, as well as other projects from Apple. Read MoreReelagram Turns Instagram Photos Into View-Master Reels
Jul 03, 3:38PM
Before there was Oculus Rift and Cardboard, there was View-Master. Children who grew up in the analog era will have special memories of this stereoscopic viewer and its accompanying cardboard disks featuring images of their favorite characters and scenes from books, TV shows, and movies. Now, a company called Reelagram is tapping into our collective nostalgia for this simpler time by… Read MoreFacebook Messenger Finally Gets An iPad Version
Jul 03, 3:17PM
Three years after Facebook acquired Beluga and turned it into Messenger for smartphones, its dedicated chat app today got a version specially designed for iPad rather than just running as an enlarged iPhone app. Messenger for iPad features a multi-window interface showing a list of threads and your current conversation at the same time. Messenger had over 200 million users as of April… Read MoreOnline Reputation Startup Traity Raises $4.7M
Jul 03, 3:00PM
Traity, an alumni of Europe’s Seedcamp and Silicon Valley’s 500 Startups, has big ambitions. It wants to become the standard for online reputation, an opportunity surely missed by eBay’s reluctance to make its reputation scores transportable back in the Dot Com days. Read MoreLua, The Mobile-First Comms Tool For Any Workforce, Launches Insights Metrics Product
Jul 03, 2:30PM
Lua, the mobile first communications platform for any workforce, has today launched a brand new feature of the product called Insights. Insights is a metrics platform that will allow clients to see in real-time the way that their employees are communicating and gauge that against the success of the company. Lua launched back in 2013 out of TechStars to bring better communication tools to… Read MoreHow A Former Google Data Guy Could Change What We Eat For Breakfast
Jul 03, 2:25PM
Hampton Creek, the plant-based egg startup known for its product “Just Mayo,” launched in Dollar Tree this week and is expanding its operations to a 90k square-footfacility in the heart of San Francisco in the next few months. On top of that, it just lured away Google’s main data guy, Dan Zigmond. The reason? To turn the food industrial complex on its head. Read MoreAndroid Wear Gets Its Own Companion App, Plus A Dedicated Section In Google Play's App Store
Jul 03, 2:01PM
Android Wear, Google’s new smartwatch platform powering wrist-computers like the LG G, Samsung Gear Live, and Moto 360, now has its own companion application. The app, also called Android Wear for simplicity’s sake (?), is available from the Google Play app store, allowing watch owners to configure various settings and voice actions on their device. The app today offers some… Read MoreStreamfully Turns Web Links Into Personalized Content Previews
Jul 03, 1:11PM
Startup General Cybernetics is offering an unusual twist on the web browsing experience with a new product called Streamfully. Once you install the Streamfully extension for Google Chrome, you can start hovering over links that you see on the web, then Streamfully will display previews of the page that you’re about to click to. For example, if you visit the TechCrunch homepage, you can… Read MoreCan Content Pay Its Way Through Social Shares And Tailored Email Newsletters?
Jul 03, 12:14PM
Publications like The Times of London, the FT and the New York Times have been hammering away at paywall-based business models that let them make money not just from traffic-based advertising but getting users to pay for the content they read, while newspapers like The Guardian have eschewed the idea on their website but opted for apps where payments are in place. While the basic… Read MoreCitizenme's iOS App Performs A Personality Test On Your Social Data
Jul 03, 10:25AM
Data privacy and “owning your own data” online is a rather hard concept to get across to the average person. But increasingly it’s a fundamental part of our existence online. One or two startups have tried to crack this idea. Datacoup in New York has a data-exchange platform for consumers to aggregate and sell their own anonymous personal data for instance. Now Citizenme… 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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