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TC Cribs: Lending Club's Hole-In-One San Francisco HQ
Sep 06, 12:17AM
Welcome to another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that gets nosy and tours the inside of tech companies’ offices. This time, we headed over to Lending Club, the startup that’s built an online marketplace for financial lending. Lending Club is a company that straddles the worlds of tech and banking, and that duality is pretty apparent when you go inside their San… Read More11 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
Sep 06, 12:10AM
On the eve of Disrupt, we reflect on the top stories from 8/30-9/5. Here are the 11 best stories from the past week. We announced the full agenda for Disrupt SF. We also put together a massive gallery of speakers attending the event. We’re kicking off Disrupt with the Hackathon on Saturday. A bunch of celebrity nude pictures (including Jennifer Lawrence) surfaced this week after… Read MoreYahoo Acquires, Shuts Down Luminate, An Interactive Image Platform
Sep 05, 11:49PM
Another acquisition today from Yahoo to beef up its advertising and media business. It is buying Luminate, a startup founded by LiveOps, Netscape and Yahoo alums that has created a platform for interactive, tagged images — or, as we have called it in the past, an AdSense for images. Terms of the deal, which was announced on Luminate’s homepage, have not been disclosed. Read MoreCrunchWeek: Samsung's Gadgets, iCloud Hacks, And Sarah Goes To Burning Man
Sep 05, 10:08PM
Happy pre-Disrupt Friday, everyone, I hope you are well rested for next week’s fun. Today on CrunchWeek Sarah Buhr, Jordan Crook, and myself sat around the white table to dig into the biggest stories of the week: Samsung’s raft of new hardware, the issues with cloud security and iCloud itself, and, of course, Sarah’s recent expedition to the desert. Read MoreAlibaba Proposes To Go Public For As Much as $66 Per Share, Valuing The Firm At More Than $160B
Sep 05, 9:41PM
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant run by Jack Ma, has submitted F-1 paperwork to the SEC with the expectation that it will go public on September 8 under the NYSE symbol BABA. The filing appeared on SEC.gov today. 20.1 million shares will be on offer. Japanese investor Softbank currently owns 34 percent of the company while Yahoo owns 22 percent. The initial price is expected to hit at… Read MoreThe One Where Grover Norquist And I Decompress From Burning Man
Sep 05, 9:12PM
The Libertarian-leaning Republican leader of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist went back to Washington, D.C. this week after his first visit to Burning Man. The two of us were able to catch up this week and decompress – a word burners use to describe how they adjust back into life after experiencing Black Rock City. This was both our first time at Burning Man. This is our… Read MoreGoogle Starts Selling Glass 'Explorer Edition' On The Play Devices Store
Sep 05, 9:07PM
Google is selling the Glass Explorer Edition on its Play devices store, still for $1,500, with your choice of a free frame or sunglass shade in the mix. The Glass model listed is still very much Google’s experimental product, but the descriptions in the listing make it sound more like falling into the category of an “Explorer” is now more about how many extreme sports… Read MoreIt's Time For VCs To Run To Their Bubble Bunkers
Sep 05, 9:00PM
Techstars, one of the most prominent accelerators in the world, announced yesterday that it was introducing what it called “an equity back guarantee.” The idea is that founders who join the program can ask for their equity to be returned (or a percentage of it) shortly after their Techstars batch ends if they feel that the accelerator didn’t provide them with sufficient… Read MoreThe ATLAS Bipedal Robot Is Ready To Build Your Warehouse/Battle Station
Sep 05, 8:32PM
We’ve been following MIT’s ATLAS, the bipedal robot, for a while now. We’ve seen the cute little guy walk, toddle, and climb over obstacles but now he can reach down, grab a heavy metal girder, and drag it around like a beast. Our little robo-monster is growing up! The demo, which was presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Hong Kong,… Read MoreShutterfly Brings Its Online Boutique Tiny Prints To The iPad
Sep 05, 8:22PM
Shutterfly is expanding its lineup of native iOS applications today with the launch of Tiny Prints for iPad, a mobile version of the online stationary boutique the company acquired in 2011 for $333 million. Like its web-based counterpart, the app allows customers to create and customize stationary, cards and other gifts via a variety of personalization options, including by occasion, paper… Read MoreGillmor Gang LIVE 09.05.14
Sep 05, 8:09PM
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. Read MoreFarming Startup FarmLogs Triples Market Share In Last Six Months
Sep 05, 7:31PM
Michigan-based FarmLogs is announcing today a significant milestone in the young company’s history. In just two years since its founding, the company has seen incredible growth and now counts customers in all 50 states and over $11 billion worth of crops under its management, a number that has tripled in the last six months. FarmLogs estimates 15% of the farms within the United States… Read MoreMillennials Are The Largest Group Of Smartphone Owners, And Adoption Is Still Growing
Sep 05, 7:10PM
Millennials, one of the largest generational groups in the U.S., on par with the Baby Boomers, are also the largest group of smartphone owners, says Nielsen in a report out today. And their adoption of the devices is still growing: by the second quarter of this year, 85% of those aged 18 to 24 owned a smartphone, and 86% of those aged 25 to 34 did. That’s up from 77% and 80%,… Read MoreAttend TechCrunch Disrupt For Free #TCDisrupt
Sep 05, 7:09PM
Good news! You still have a chance to win a ticket to Disrupt San Francisco with our next giveaway. You can earn extra entries to the contest by sharing the giveaway link with friends and following our social accounts. This weekend’s contest ends on 9/7 at 11 AM PST – so you have a few more days to enter and share with friends to increase your chances of winning a ticket to… Read MoreGoPro Fetch Review: You Will Envy Your Dog's Work/Life Balance
Sep 05, 6:56PM
For you today, we have a video a little over six minutes long of a dog experiencing a happiness more pure than you or I will ever know. Please enjoy. Seriously, though, this footage caught using the new GoPro Fetch mount for canines during a holiday weekend cottage trip was only one small part of a much longer series that kept me and my family entertained for far, far too long. I’ve… Read MoreA User's Guide To Disrupt SF 2014
Sep 05, 6:50PM
Hard to believe that Disrupt SF is just around the corner! As always, TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of folks who promise to make your experience at the conference better than ever. Party with TechCrunch and New Relic: Join us on Monday for the Official After Party at Mighty, sponsored by our friends at New Relic. Custom Disruptor Awards, yes plural: This year, five sponsors… Read More
Pinterest's Latest Chrome Extension Lets You Decorate Your New Tab Page With Beautiful Photos
Sep 05, 6:16PM
Pinterest wants to insert itself further into its users’ everyday workflows, so the company has rolled out today a new way to jazz up your Google Chrome web browser with a little bit of “inspirational” imagery. With its second Chrome extension, Pinterest can now insert a full-color Pin onto your New Tab page, which you can click on to be redirected to Pinterest’s website… Read MorePeer-To-Peer Auto Marketplace Beepi Adds A 'Prime' Option, Now Shipping To 140 Cities
Sep 05, 6:00PM
Beepi is opening up its marketplace to a wider area of buyers, introducing a “Prime” option for buyers in states neighboring California to have cars shipped to them for $999. Read MoreAndroid Wear Will Soon Get Offline Music Playback, GPS Support And Downloadable Watch Faces
Sep 05, 6:00PM
We’ve already seen a flurry of announcements around Android Wear hardware this week, but Google also has some software updates in the works that it will release over the course of the next few months. As the company announced today, a first update will bring offline music playback and GPS support to Android Wear. A second update later in the year will also enable downloadable watch faces. Read MoreChina Telecom Posts iPhone 6 Pre-Order Page, But Don't Trust Its Pics And Info
Sep 05, 4:46PM
China Telecom has a new pre-order page up for the iPhone 6, despite the fact that it’s still not official, and likely won’t be until Apple’s big unveiling event on September 9. The website depicts high-quality renders of a new iPhone model as viewed from the side. The images are in line with what we’ve seen before, showing an iPhone with contours that resemble the iPad… 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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