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CrunchWeek: The Latest Tinder Drama, The New New Microsoft, Lyft's Struggles To Launch In NYC
Jul 11, 9:00PM
It’s time for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers together to talk about the most interesting news stories from the past seven days in tech. This time, Ryan Lawler, Anthony Ha and I discussed the latest installment in the ongoing story about trouble between the co-founders at Tinder, the new vision for Microsoft’s future from new CEO Satya… Read MoreInvestments In The UK Surge To Nearly $1B As London Is Calling
Jul 11, 8:32PM
London’s TechCrunch invasion is coming to an end, but the rollick wrought by our roving band of reporters is nothing compared to the party that startups and investors are having in Shoreditch and Camden town these days. For the first half of the year, investors have poured nearly $1 billion into UK-based startups. In all $911 million has been invested in the UK, up from $362 million in… Read MoreRap Genius Raises $40M, Changes Name To Genius, Launches Embeddable Annotations
Jul 11, 8:18PM
Rap Genius made three big moves today to further its goal to annotate the world. The founders tell me it’s raised a $40 million Series B led by Dan Gilbert and joined by previous investor Andreessen Horowitz at a valuation under $1 billion. It’s changed its name to Genius.com. And it’s launching embeddable annotations so any website can hover over text and see explanations… Read MoreYahoo Acquires Video Streaming Platform RayV
Jul 11, 7:50PM
Following rumors of talks going as far back as May, we’d been hearing whispers all morning that Yahoo had finally acquired the video broadcasting platform RayV. Sure enough, it’s just been made official. Built in 2005 as something of a Joost competitor, RayV’s specialty lies in delivering high-quality video streams to a lot of people. Yahoo is in the middle of a huge effort to… Read More
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Misfit, Android Wear, And Samsung Earnings
Jul 11, 7:00PM
After taking a week off for the holidays (sorry about that), we’re back to chat up the latest news in the Gadgets world. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much. That said, Samsung had some disappointing earnings, and Misfit forged a partnership with Beddit to get into the platform space. Plus, we simply can’t help ourselves from talking about smart watches, including the latest… Read MoreApple Opens Up With A New Blog About Swift, Its New Programming Language
Jul 11, 6:49PM
Apple just launched a blog about Swift, its new programming language that makes it easier to build applications for iOS and Mac OS X. This is a first for Apple, and marks a new period of openness for the famously walled-in tech giant. Read MoreXKit, The Tumblr Client For Power Users, Arrives On iOS
Jul 11, 6:03PM
A well-liked Tumblr extension called XKit, which adds more functionality to the social blogging service, has just made its way to mobile in the form of a paid iOS app. Though there have been some reports of flattening Tumblr traffic following its acquisition by Yahoo, the platform today hosts close to 200 million blogs, which are updated over 94 million times per day. Among these bloggers is… Read MoreTwitter's New Analytics Tell Advertisers And Publishers How Many People Actually Saw Their Tweets
Jul 11, 5:59PM
If you’re looking for more details about how all of your tweets are doing, Twitter today released a new analytics dashboard for advertisers, Twitter Card publishers, and verified users. The company already gave its advertisers data about tweets that they’d paid to promote, covering things like impressions, replies, and link clicks, but there was nothing equivalent for… Read MoreFCC Approves Billions To Bring Wi-Fi To More American Schools
Jul 11, 5:50PM
American schools are set to receive billions in federal dollars to bring wifi to more kids. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today approved, by a 3-2 vote, a new plan that will deploy $2 billion over a two year period to bring increased wireless Internet capabilities to schools. The program will impact at least 10 million kids each year. The larger E-Rate program that helped… Read MoreDeveloper Predicted LeBron's Move To The Cavs With Website Analysis
Jul 11, 5:34PM
LeBron James is going home. Sports Illustrated just announced that the king will once again don a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey. The move was predictable yet few people knew for sure that he would leave Miami — except LeBron’s web developer. Yesterday, a web developer ran Firebug on LebronJames.com. The results revealed several new unpublished pages built the day prior. The pages… Read MoreMicrosoft Acquires Disaster Recovery Service InMage
Jul 11, 4:22PM
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired InMage, a business continuity service that helps enterprises migrate their data between public and private clouds, replicate their on-premise assets in the cloud and recover their data in case things go awry. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Read MoreChinese State Media Renews Anti-Apple Rhetoric, Calls The iPhone A "National Security Concern"
Jul 11, 4:16PM
Apple has faced a fair amount of state-sponsored criticism in China, a market where the prevailing powers have a stated goal of promoting more home-grown network and IT solutions. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple’s iOS 7 poses a threat to national security because of its ‘Frequent Locations’ feature, which identifies and provides users a map of their oft-visited… Read MoreThe PC Market Has Its Strongest Quarter In Recent Memory
Jul 11, 4:08PM
Personal computers, long an ailing member of the larger technology market, had a strong second quarter. After consistent quarters of decline, the worldwide PC market was either up 0.1 percent, or down a modest 1.7 percent in the period, according to Gartner and IDC, respectively. In the United States, the PC market was up around 7 percent in the quarter, again according to the two firms. Read MoreLoverly Gets Editorial With Launch Of New Content Hub
Jul 11, 3:30PM
Loverly, the one-stop online shop for brides planning a wedding, has made an investment in its editorial content with the launch of a brand new content hub on the website and mobile app. For the past six months or so, Loverly has been testing editorial content on the website with great success — the company says that 20 percent of the site’s traffic comes from editorial content. Read MoreCEO With A Heart Of Gold, Neil Young Takes The Reins At PonoMusic, Tech Vet John Hamm Remains Investor
Jul 11, 3:21PM
A changing of keys and tempo, at PonoMusic, the venture founded on the premise of a high-fidelity digital music service and music-playing device. Neil Young, the iconic musician who founded Pono and saw it raise over $6.2 million on Kickstarter after aiming for only $800,000, is stepping in as its new CEO as John Hamm steps down. Hamm will remain an investor in the company, the company noted in… Read MoreDigg Relaunches News.me As A Personalized News Alerting Service, "Digg Deeper"
Jul 11, 3:19PM
Betaworks-owned Digg.com expanded its product lineup today with the launch of a new service – well, technically, an older service that’s been retooled and rebranded – called “Digg Deeper.” While Digg.com’s main page helps to surface the best of the web, including the top articles and videos Digg’s editors and users like, Digg Deeper is designed to offer… Read MoreSalesforce Buys Big Data Startup RelateIQ For Up To $390M
Jul 11, 3:05PM
The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can’t beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com’s $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of unstructured data from email, social networks, and calendars to automate large portions of the sales process. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company raised a significant $40 million… Read MoreScience Inc. Acquires Armenian Mobile App-Maker Inlight
Jul 11, 3:00PM
Looks like Science Inc. is getting more serious about mobile development — the startup studio is announcing that it has acquired an eight-person company based in Yerevan, Armenia called Inlight. That company developed the iOS app of the same name, a social newsreading service targeting women. Science CEO Mike Jones and Chief Business Officer Peter Pham (pictured above at TechCrunch… Read MoreAmplitude, The Analytics Startup Undercutting Mixpanel, Raises $2 Million Seed Round
Jul 11, 2:29PM
Y Combinator-backed Amplitude, a startup taking on big-name analytics providers like Mixpanel, Kontagent, Localytics and others, has raised $1.975 million in seed funding from a number of investors, including SV Angel, Charlie Cheever, Dave Morin, Quest Venture Partners, Data Collective, Merus Capital, BoxGroup, Adam Draper and several more. Read MoreMIT Researchers Build Drones That Automatically Provide Picture Perfect Lighting For Photographers
Jul 11, 2:13PM
The intrepid researchers at MIT never fail to impress, and a new system they’ve designed that uses fleets of drones to automatically light a shoot for photographers is no exception. The prototype of the system will be on display at the International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization and Imaging happening in August, and uses a single lightweight UAV to… 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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