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Apple's Jony Ive Is Not Flattered By Xiaomi
Oct 10, 12:32AM
At the Vanity Fair Summit, Jony Ive just have his much-anticipated panel, “Genius by Design.” Ive spent a significant chunk of his time on stage talking about Apple’s design process in broad strokes, touching upon the evolution of ideas and the process by which the team makes decisions on when to make changes to their designs. Read MoreBattery East Group Wants To Help Early Shareholders Cash Out As Startups Put Off IPOs
Oct 10, 12:00AM
The Battery East Group is a small confab in San Francisco that specializes in secondary offerings, the sale of stock from inside shareholders, early employees and the like that want malleability for their equity before a traditional liquidity event. In human terms, it means that the Group helps people sell their startup stock either before their company goes public or is purchased by a… Read More
Microsoft CEO Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot On Gender Pay Gap
Oct 09, 11:29PM
Today at the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hit the skids after Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd — an institution known for its prominence in STEM fields — asked him how young women should ask for a raise. Nadella replied that not asking for a raise can in fact be “one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don’t… Read MoreSound And Architectural Vision
Oct 09, 11:00PM
In the race to build the newest, coolest and greenest tech offices, architects and their clients are sparing no expense on the best materials and features. Curved glass? Check. Rooftop parks? Check. But many of these buildings omit one of the most important architectural materials of all time: sound. As sound expert Julian Treasure says, architects are designing buildings with their eyes, but… Read MoreHubSpot Spikes 20% Over Its IPO Price In Strong Debut
Oct 09, 8:44PM
HubSpot is having a hell of day. After raising its IPO price range, the company pulled the trigger above that level, selling its shares for $25 each. That’s a far cry from the original low-end of its first proposed price range of $19. The markets welcomed the company’s offering, pushing its shares up more than 20 percent at the time of writing. Yahoo Finance lists… Read MoreNvidia Shield Tablet Review: A Great Android Tablet, With Big Bonuses For Gamers
Oct 09, 8:20PM
Nvidia is deepening its bench in terms of gaming devices, and the new Shield Tablet is an impressive new addition to the roster. While you’ll note some trade-offs in terms of the size and weight of the device versus the trend towards ever-slimmer, lighter gadgets, it’s a powerful tablet, and a powerful value proposition, even if gaming isn’t your central concern. Basics… Read MorePioneering App Mag, The Magazine, Is Shutting Down In December
Oct 09, 7:41PM
The Magazine, an app magazine founded by Marco Arment, is shutting down in December. The magazine, which carried tech stories from prominent authors, is now owned by writer Glenn Fleishman who explained that the title, while profitable from day one, just wasn’t picking up subscribers fast enough to remain viable. Fleishman wrote: The sad truth has been that, while profitable from… Read MoreAmazon's Fire HD 7 Is A Low-Priced Tablet For The Avid Reader
Oct 09, 7:24PM
The Fire HD 7 is the latest in the long-running Fire line of LCD ereaders. Amazon has taken great pains to make this new model lighter, smaller, and more robust and, for my money, I’d say that this $139 reader is the best dedicated reader on the market, barring the e-ink Kindle line. Let’s look under the hood. Basics 7 inch 216 ppi 1280×800 pixel display 11.9 ounces Up to… Read MoreThe Key To Raising Your Seed Extension Round
Oct 09, 6:00PM
Given the growth in seed funding driven by the combined forces of the “Micro-VC glut” and increasing activity by angel investors (often via crowd funding), it’s become increasingly common to meet so called “Seed Orphans” looking to raise seed extension rounds. These companies often have good teams that have achieved solid initial traction, but were asked by Round… Read MoreWith Its iOS Update, StumbleUpon Becomes A Mobile Chat App
Oct 09, 5:50PM
StumbleUpon, an older web brand still best known for its content discovery service that helps introduce web surfers to new and interesting websites (or maybe for getting bought, then sold again, by eBay), is now taking a big step to make its app more relevant for the mobile era. In an update to the StumbleUpon iOS app out now, the company is introducing social chatting. The chatting aspect is… Read MoreFacebook Mobile's New Collage Design Highlights Your Best Photos
Oct 09, 5:43PM
Not every photo is worth exactly 1,000 words. That sweet pic of you skydiving is a lot more interesting than your lunch. So today Facebook profiles on iOS and Android apps are getting a new collage design for photos that enlarges your most-Liked pics, Facebook tells me. There’s also a new “Uploads” tab that shows all the photos you posted in one place so your friends… Read MoreBox Acquires Y Combinator-Backed MedXT To Bolster Its Healthcare Push
Oct 09, 5:33PM
Box, an enterprise-focused cloud storage and productivity company, announced this morning that it has acquired Y Combinator-backed MedXT, a firm that provides a cloud-based file storage system for medical imaging. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition fits into Box’s recently announced strategy to pursue a number of industry verticals, which it calls Box for Industries. Read MoremParticle Raises $1.5M, Aims To Become The Platform For Mobile Data Integration
Oct 09, 5:27PM
Mobile data startup mParticle has raised $1.5 million in an additional round of seed funding. The company, which says it previously raised $4.5 million, is working to become the data integration platform for mobile developers. In other words, instead of installing a bunch of different SDKs to collect data, app developers can just integrate with mParticle. Read MoreChildren's Clothing Marketplace Totspot Raises $1.8M
Oct 09, 5:13PM
500 Startups graduate Totspot is announcing today that it has raised $1.8 million seed funding to expand its mobile marketplace for parents to buy and sell children’s clothing. Read MoreMobile Ad Startup AppLovin Acquires German Ad Network Moboqo
Oct 09, 4:53PM
AppLovin is setting up its European expansion by acquiring German-based mobile ad network Moboqo. Palo Alto-headquartered AppLovin helps mobile developers find new customers by targeting ads at people similar to the existing user base, then it continues engaging those customers with personalized, retargeted ads. Co-founder and CEO Adam Foroughi told me a few months ago that the… Read MoreInternet.org Offers $1M Prize For Apps That Make People In India Want The Web
Oct 09, 4:26PM
“A recent survey that we did shows that 69% of people in India who are not connected, if you ask them why they’re not connected, what they say is that they don’t know why the Internet would useful for them”, Mark Zuckerberg explained today at the Internet.org summit in New Delhi. That’s why Internet.org is launching a contest to build apps that convince Indian… Read MoreMicrosoft Promises Its Surface Project Is Here To Stay
Oct 09, 4:07PM
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made the pitch this morning that his company’s Surface project is here to stay, hoping to convince potential business customers that investing in the tablet-hybrids won’t leave them in the lurch. Out this morning from Microsoft’s chief is a quote calling the Surface Pro 3 an “enterprise-class device,” saying that the company is… Read MoreFirechat Gets Verified Accounts As Usage Skyrockets During Hong Kong Protests
Oct 09, 4:05PM
Firechat, Open Garden’s mobile chat app that uses a mesh network to let you chat with the people around you even when there is no Internet connection, has seen a huge uptick in usage wherever there is a government that wants to suppress free speech. In Hong Kong, for example, the company saw 460,000 downloads in the last week and the service hosted over 5.1 million chat sessions in the area. Read MoreSpring Moves Scores $1M Seed To Pair Your Music With Your Pace
Oct 09, 4:05PM
When you’re out on a run, on the last leg of an exhausting day, the right song can make all the difference. But figuring out what music you need, and when, isn’t something anybody has the mental capacity for in the middle of an energy-draining workout. This is where Spring Moves comes into play. Read MoreBrightFunnel Raises $2.5M For Its Marketing Prediction Software
Oct 09, 3:56PM
Marketing startup BrightFunnel is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. I last wrote about the company in January, after it raised an “advisory round” totaling what co-founder and CEO Nadim Hossain said was just under $1 million. 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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