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Yammer's David Sacks Departs Microsoft After Two-Year Tenure

Jul 24, 9:54PM

Screen Shot 2014-07-24 at 2.41.43 PM Today Yammer’s founder and former CEO David Sacks announced that he will depart Microsoft, the software company that purchased his social enterprise startup for $1.2 billion. His exit, which comes two years after the June 2012 acquisition of Yammer, follows standard timing. When companies are purchased, existing employees are often given two-year contracts, sometimes with earnouts attached. Read More



TechCrunch TV's New Show Incubated Is All About What It's Like To Be In A Tech Accelerator

Jul 24, 9:05PM

incubated3x4.jpg With our latest TechCrunch TV series, Incubated, we’re hoping to provide startup founders with all the info they might need before they make the decision to apply to an accelerator. Every Wednesday afternoon over the next 10 weeks, we’ll be releasing a new episode of Incubated, each of which will be focused on one of the top accelerators in the U.S. Read More



Samsung's VR Software Leak Shows Initial Apps, Ability To Switch Between Virtual And Real Reality

Jul 24, 8:59PM

samsung-vr-gear Samsung’s VR efforts are one leaky ship lately, with a report today echoing earlier rumors that the company would be partnering with Oculus VR for its own headset. Now, a leaked pre-release version of the Samsung VR software has made its way into the hands of SamMobile, apparently revealing some of the early functionality the head-mounted display will have, and detailing some of its… Read More



Amazon Remains Great For Customers, Not For Shareholders – Stock Drops 6% As Losses Widen

Jul 24, 8:52PM

amazon-angled Amazon‘s Q2 2014 earnings announced today made it more apparent than ever that Amazon remains a great business for its customers, but not so much for its shareholders. The stock, after the earnings were reported, was already down by 6% and falling in after-hours trading following Amazon reporting net losses that widened to $126 million in the quarter. Amazon has been stretching itself… Read More



Please Join Us For The 9th Annual August Capital Party In Silicon Valley

Jul 24, 8:46PM

9393142521_3dbc3b4d80_k TechCrunch’s annual summer soirée is almost here. As in years past, August Capital will host TechCrunch and hundreds of local investors, founders and developers at its sunny office on Sand Hill Road. All are welcome to the August 1 event, but space is very limited. Read More



Yeti Is Like Tinder For Places

Jul 24, 8:28PM

yeti-app-trifecta-skydiving-discuss-swipe-screenshot Sometimes searching for the perfect bar or a challenging hiking trail can be like searching for a mythological creature. Unless you’ve already found Yeti. Read More



Amazon Misses In Q2 With In-Line Sales Of $19.34B, Larger Than Expected Per-Share Loss Of $0.27

Jul 24, 8:24PM

amazon-earnings Following the bell today, Amazon reported its second quarter financial performance including a $0.27 per share loss on revenue of $19.34 billion. Analysts had expected Amazon to lose $0.15 on revenue of $19.34 billion. For the quarter, Amazon’s revenue grew 23% when compared to the year-ago quarter. It had operating income of -$17 million, down from its year-ago tally of $79 million.… Read More



Pandora Q2 Tops Estimates Slightly With $218.9M In Revenue, But Its Stock Is Falling

Jul 24, 8:15PM

pandora-earnings Pandora came in just slightly ahead of analyst estimates in its just-released second quarter earnings report. The streaming music company reported revenue of $218.9 million (up 38 percent on a non-GAAP basis) and non-GAAP earnings per share of 4 cents. Analysts had projected that the company would report revenue of $218.6 million and EPS of 3 cents. Read More



Your Smartphone Will Soon Know If You Have Bipolar Disorder

Jul 24, 8:01PM

8255829890_77ee29e0f7_z In the United States, 1 in 50 people over the age of 25 have some form of bipolar disorder. In fact, the United States has more cases of bipolar I and II per-capita than any other nation in the world. Researchers at the University of Michigan are now testing a new smartphone app for Android, code-named PRIORI, that can help detect if someone is having a bipolar episode. While the app still… Read More



Y Combinator-Backed Checkr Automates Background Checks For The New, On-Demand Economy

Jul 24, 7:30PM

Checkr Checkr enables clients to easily sign up and get background checks either via an online form, or by using its REST API to connect with their own hiring systems. Standard reports include one county criminal background checks for $25, while a premium report costs $35 and include county searches for every place that a candidate has lived in the past seven years. Read More



Chrome Android Beta Gets Single Sign-In For Google Sites And New Material Design Looks

Jul 24, 7:21PM

png;base64f0af219c77fb39c3 Google has a hit on its hands with Material Design in my opinion, which is why it’s great to see it already making its way into some products ahead of Android L’s general consumer launch. Today, Google updated the Chrome Beta for Android with some new features, including single sign-in for Gmail, Maps and Search so long as you’re signed into Chrome, but also introducing… Read More



Jimmy Kimmel Convinces People That An Old Casio Is Apple's iWatch

Jul 24, 6:58PM

Screen Shot 2014-07-24 at 11.54.13 AM Want to convince people that you’ve smuggled Apple’s top secret smartwatch out of the labs and onto your wrist? You could burn hundreds of man hours rigging up a semi-believable fake.. or, if you’re Jimmy Kimmel, you could just stick an Apple sticker on the back of an old Casio and call it a day. Read More



Lawn Love Wants To Bring The Whole "Software Eating The World" Thing To Your Own Backyard

Jul 24, 6:43PM

lawn love 2 Lawncare and landscaping are areas that have remained largely un-”disrupted” in the whole software eating the world trend that’s been going on in recent years. If you’re in one of the 80 percent of American households that have a lawn, chances are that you either take care of mowing and upkeep yourself, or you have hired a local lawncare provider you’ve found the… Read More



Fixed Raises $1.2 Million For A Mobile App That Fights Your Parking Tickets For You

Jul 24, 6:39PM

fixed Fixed, the clever mobile application that helps you fight your parking tickets just by snapping a photo of the ticket with your mobile phone, has now closed on $1.2 million in seed funding. Investors in the round include Y Combinator, Merus Capital, Scott Banister, John Cobbs, Mark Randolph, Matt Humphries, Eric Wu and David King. Headquartered in San Francisco, which also serves as its… Read More



Microsoft Brings OneNote To Amazon's Android App Store

Jul 24, 6:37PM

When Microsoft said that it wanted to take its products and services to other platforms, it appears that the company meant it: Today the software firm brought OneNote, its EverNote competitor, to Amazon’s Android App Store. So, if you have a Kindle Fire or a Fire phone, you can now take OneNote on the road with you. Microsoft recently made OneNote free everywhere. Before, it had a mixed… Read More



The Smart Key Chain Will Store Your Files, Check Your Email, And Find Your Keys

Jul 24, 5:23PM

Screenshot 2014-07-24 13.08.37 Because everything is getting smarter, it would be silly to think that keychains would be exempt. The Smart Keychain has four uses in one small package: USB file storage, upcoming calendar alerts, incoming email notifications, and a key locator. Read More



Instagram's "Bolt" Leak Could Be A New Facebook App Or An App Install Ad Test

Jul 24, 5:13PM

bolt Some Instagram users are reporting having briefly seen a banner advertisement within the Instagram application which pointed to a new app called “Bolt,” described as a “one tap photo messaging” app. Next to the app’s name and description, a download button linked out to a non-functional URL on the Google Play store. The current speculation being shared around the… Read More



Apple Makes OS X Yosemite Beta Download Available To Testers

Jul 24, 5:10PM

today Apple has flipped the switch on the OS X Yosemite Beta today as promised, and if you’ve already signed up and been accepted to the Beta program, you can head to the Apple site for the preview to get a Mac App Store redemption code for the new build now. If you haven’t yet signed up, you can try now, but remember that Apple has a ceiling of one million members for this all-new… Read More



Square Now Works With IFTTT

Jul 24, 5:07PM

sqwer Imagine a Venn diagram with two big circles: “People who use Square”, and “People who use IFTTT”. If you sit in the overlap between the two — Hurray! Today is your day. Square now plays friendly with IFTTT. If you’re left wondering WTF IFTTT is, here’s the tl;dr: IFTTT (short for If This Then That) lets you connect online services together to… Read More



Google Folds Its Workforce Management Tool, Maps Coordinates, Into Maps Engine Pro

Jul 24, 4:30PM

2014-07-24_0843 Last year, Google launched Maps Engine Pro, a service that aims to make it easier for businesses to create, manage and share maps to visualize their data. Until now, this offering was purely about map creation, but today, Google is adding Maps Coordinate into the $5 per month and user Maps Pro subscription service and is building it right into the existing Maps Engine Android app. Read More




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