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10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech
Oct 09, 12:30AM
On September 20th UN Women announced the HeForShe campaign, an effort to invite men and boys to join in advocating for gender equality. Actress and UN Women Ambassador Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame gave a moving speech to launch the campaign, which has been met with both cheers and criticism from the media. Read MoreVivian Schiller Steps Down As Twitter's Head Of News
Oct 08, 11:48PM
Just short of a year since starting at the company, Vivian Schiller is stepping down as Twitter’s Head of News. Schiller just announced the move in a series of tweets, where she also announced that Twitter VP of Global Media will take up the role. Read MoreThe Manual For Verizon's Next Flagship Droid Phone Just Leaked
Oct 08, 11:22PM
Word around the ol’ phonegeek rumor mill was that Verizon and Motorola were prepping to release a new high-end Android phone to freshen up the Droid lineup — and whatdya know? The entire manual for just such a phone has leaked. Read MoreOffice's Place In The New Microsoft
Oct 08, 11:03PM
In a recent Vanity Fair feature on Microsoft that you should certainly read, a comment from former CEO Bill Gates is worth considering: “[T]he original idea of having great software people and broad software products and Office being the primary tool that people look to across all these devices, that’s as true today and as strong as ever.” Read MoreChromecast Now Lets You Use Your Own Photos As Its Wallpaper
Oct 08, 9:56PM
Remember back in April when hidden code spotted in the Chromecast implied that things like custom wallpapers and weather forecasts were coming soon? Sure enough: Google has just pushed an update to its iOS and Android Chromecast apps, and these things (and more!) are now live. Read MoreGo To TechCrunch Disrupt Europe: London For Free #TCDisrupt
Oct 08, 9:05PM
Haven’t gotten your tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt Europe yet? The hottest tech conference of the year is coming to London this October, and to celebrate we’re giving away another free pair of tickets to the main event. All you have to do is enter to win. We’ll randomly select the winning entry, and the winner will be notified by email. About TechCrunch Disrupt: Disrupt is… Read MorePlease Stop, HTC. Please.
Oct 08, 8:45PM
Have a new phone? Better use fashion models to show them off. Because real people wear outfits that look like monochrome jellyfish and never smile and they want… no, need… your products. That’s just what HTC did today in an industry that is plagued with gender inequality and “booth babe” marketing. They had models of both sexes strut around with phones designed… Read MoreHTC Just Launched RE, A Flip Camera For Your Smartphone
Oct 08, 8:35PM
HTC is indeed launching a camera, as the rumors suggested. The new RE (just RE) resembles a tiny periscope, and it’s not quite a GoPro, but it’s not quite a Flip camera, either (but it really seems like one). Instead, it’s designed to be a solution not unlike a mobile smartphone camera, albeit without the screen attached. HTC CEO said that today marks a “new milestone… Read MoreHTC's Desire Eye Puts Selfie And Back Cameras On Equal Footing
Oct 08, 8:25PM
HTC’s new Desire Eye is a brand new camera that includes two 13 megapixel cameras, with the same capabilities front and back. Each has a dual color LED flash, similar to that found on the iPhone, and they come in two-color plastic unibody designs. It has IPX67 waterproofing, (which is the same as that found in the Samsung Galaxy S5) and is good for quick submersion in shallow water,… Read MoreHTC Debuts The "Auto Selfie," And Duplicates Frontback With New Eye Photo Software
Oct 08, 8:14PM
HTC is debuting its new “Eye experience” camera software suite. The new camera software has an auto selfie feature, which automatically takes the photo once the phone has been held steady for a couple seconds, and voice commands including “Say Cheese” and “Action” will snap a photo or start recording video automatically. Read MoreBelkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working
Oct 08, 8:14PM
Yesterday morning, Belkin routers stopped allowing users from accessing the Internet. In a statement provided to TechCrunch Belkin identified and outlined steps it will take to prevent it from happening again. “One of our cloud services associated with maintaining router operations was negatively impacted by a change made in our data center that caused a false denial of service.… Read MoreAirbnb and Uber Face Some Harsh Realities
Oct 08, 7:42PM
Airbnb and Uber are maturing startups both facing some hard realities as they grow. While they have found a loyal and happy user base, they are facing tough resistance from not just the taxi and hotel industries they are disrupting, but also political and social resistance from quarters they probably never imagined when they started their businesses. In Europe and the US we are beginning to see… Read MoreCould A Nobel Prize-Winning Innovation Have Almost Been Overlooked By Silicon Valley?
Oct 08, 7:32PM
I want to congratulate Shuji Nakamura (pictured above), the founder of Khosla Ventures portfolio company Soraa, and his fellow collaborators who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday. They join an esteemed group of Nobel laureates that includes Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Niels Bohr, all of whom have changed the course of human history. Read MoreWatch HTC's 'Double Exposure' Phone (And Camera?) Event Live Right Here
Oct 08, 7:09PM
HTC has an event today, kicking off at 4 PM ET, and it’s called “Double Exposure,” which has led everyone to logically conclude that it’s camera-related. The rumor mill has been actively trying to anticipate what’s coming, and it seems highly probable we’ll witness the introduction of new selfie-specific smartphones based on the HTC One M8, and the… Read MoreSlack Changes Sign-In Process On Desktop To Remove Team Names [Updated]
Oct 08, 6:00PM
Slack says the visibility of team names is not entirely its fault. In a statement, the company points out that team discoverability via email domain is a setting team owners and administrators can control. It can also be set so that users can join by invitation only, which Slack says will not make team names visible to all. Read MoreJimmy Buffett Asked Spotify's CEO For A Raise
Oct 08, 5:23PM
At today’s Vanity Fair Summit in San Francisco, musical artist Jimmy Buffett made a quick appearance to ask a question from the audience to Daniel Ek, CEO and founder of Spotify: “When can we get a raise?” Read MoreMobile Dossier Startup Refresh Finds A Revenue Model With Its Salesforce App
Oct 08, 5:20PM
Refresh is making all its insights available where many salespeople do their work — that is, within Salesforce. With a new product available on the Salesforce AppExchange, customers will be able to integrate Refresh’s data on top of their Salesforce dashboard. Read MoreFCC Slams AT&T With $105M Settlement For Bogus Customer Charges
Oct 08, 5:20PM
The FCC slapped AT&T with the largest “enforcement action” in its history, the agency announced today. The total bill, $105 million, will include $80 million in payments to scammed AT&T customers, $20 million to “state governments participating in the settlement,” with the last $5 million going to the FCC itself, it said today in a statement. Read MoreA Brief History Of Tesla
Oct 08, 5:17PM
When Tesla went public in 2010, it became the first American car company to do so since Ford Motor Company in 1956. Since then, Tesla’s stock has soared as the company keeps rolling out new features and models while simultaneously capturing the imagination of a curious public. What follows is a brief history of Tesla starting at its founding not by Elon Musk, but Martin Eberhard and… Read MoreGoogle Launches New $50/Year Chromebooks For Work Subscription Option
Oct 08, 4:32PM
Google today is launching a new subscription service for businesses that use Chromebooks. For $50 per year and device, businesses can now subscribe to get access to Google’s advanced Chrome OS management features and support. 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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