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One Year In, Keepy Reaches 500K Users And Introduces Video To Its Family Timelines

Oct 18, 12:00AM

One year since launch, Keepy is announcing that more than 500,000 users are sharing content with their families on its service. In a phone call with TechCrunch, Keepy CEO Offir Gutelzon said that the company hit the 500,000 figure within the last few weeks. He also gave numbers on how the company is doing at bringing in international users and getting its families to convert to its premium… Read More



Bitcoin 2.0 Crowdfunding Is Real Crowdfunding

Oct 17, 11:00PM

bitcoin-mountain-rise In the past few months we’ve been hearing a lot about how bitcoin’s underlying technology is going to revolutionize not only our monetary system, but also notary services, DNS, authentication, intellectual property ownership and data storage. While most of the amazing products and services that were supposed to emerge on top of the bitcoin protocol have yet to see light,… Read More



Bag Week: Herschel Little America Mid-Volume Select Backpack

Oct 17, 9:22PM

IMG_9852 The new Herschel fall lineup includes the Heritage we reviewed earlier in bag week, but there are also new looks for the Little America. The smaller mid-volume version of this bag, in a Select color and material finish combination, might be more the speed of those with smaller backs, or who just don’t need a massive amount of storage space, and the signature Little America… Read More



Watch TechCrunch Play Bayonetta 2

Oct 17, 8:03PM

bayonetta 2 wii u In about an hour, TechCrunch is officially launching our new Twitch channel by streaming Bayonetta 2, the somewhat controversial action game that’s coming exclusively to Nintendo’s Wii U a week from today. Read More



CrunchWeek: Apple Releases New Stuff, HBO Streaming And The Gang Talks Dreamforce

Oct 17, 7:42PM

Screen Shot 2014-10-17 at 12.29.04 PM This week we discuss all the iPads and other announcements out of Apple, the shows we are excited to watch on HBO sans cable and that time we met will.i.am and when Arianna Huffington told us to do a “digital detox” at a technology conference. Our video producer Felicia Williams joins Kyle Russell and myself this week on Crunchweek for her second appearance on the show. Read More



Odrive Offers A Dropbox-Style Interface For Browsing Your Online Photos, Documents, And More

Oct 17, 7:11PM

odrive billboard If you’re tired of logging into different websites every time you want to access your Facebook photos, your Google Drive documents, your Instagram photos, and so on, odrive may be the application for you. It’s a desktop app created by startup Oxygen Cloud — it uses Oxygen Cloud’s file syncing technology, but odrive differs in that it’s built for consumers, not… Read More



Watch These Tiny Robots As They Fly Well With Others

Oct 17, 6:58PM

wall-e-audience-storytelling The quadccopters at the University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab are truly trained to follow the golden robot rule: fly with others as you’d fly with yourself. Thanks to researchers Yash Mulgaonkar, Gareth Cross and Vijay Kumar, we can see how close these little flying robots are to their noble goal. Read More



One Year Into Title II Of The JOBS Act

Oct 17, 6:00PM

506c Editor’s note: Rob Leclerc is the CEO of AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture and agtech opportunities. The first rule of raising capital is: you do not talk about raising capital. That was the de facto credo of nascent startup companies looking to secure investors before the fall 2013. Then on September 23, 2013, the SEC promulgated the new Title II rules of the… Read More



ModCloth Hit By Second Round Of Layoffs

Oct 17, 5:08PM

1394452_10151930984197171_1471872186_n E-commerce retailer ModCloth has laid off additional staff across engineering, creative, product, producer, social teams and more in a second wave of layoffs. The news follows earlier cuts confirmed back in July which, at the time, affected around 70 employees, or a little under 15 percent of its then 500-person-plus workforce. Read More



Tumblr Debuts Its First Desktop App On The Mac App Store

Oct 17, 4:47PM

screen800x500 On the heels of the release of Apple’s new Mac OS, OS X Yosemite, blogging platform Tumblr has just rolled out its first official desktop application with the launch of a Tumblr app for the Mac App Store. The app allows users to post to their personal Tumblr blogs from anywhere on the Mac, whether that’s content like links, images or videos you stumble across online, or files you… Read More



Twitter's Music Strategy: No App, Just Better Listening

Oct 17, 4:33PM

beats-studio-wireless-review-macro-enclosure-1500x1000 Done Music is a special kind of content, and people discover it on Twitter. That’s why building a music experience outside the main Twitter app was a boondoggle, and treating music like any other piece of media within Twitter sells it short. These insights have led Twitter to a better strategy since killing off the Twitter Music app, according to a source at the company: Just improve the… Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.17.14

Oct 17, 4:10PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang on Facebook Live FriendFeed chat during the show broadcast Our “Sister Show” G3 on Facebook Read More



Apple Begins Taking Pre-Orders For iPad Air 2 And Mini 3

Oct 17, 3:09PM

Screen Shot 2014-10-17 at 11.07.17 AM Apple revealed new iPad models on Thursday, and they all go on sale starting today via Apple’s online store. Today is just the beginning of pre-sales, with iPads officially shipping to pre-order customers and arriving in stores sometime “late next week,” according to Apple. Pricing for the new iPad mini, which is essentially the same as the existing model with Touch ID added… Read More



Jolla Does Angry Birds Themed Android Launcher To Fling Its Sailfish OS Further

Oct 17, 2:24PM

stella_press_landscape Jolla, the Finnish smartphone startup that expanded the MeeGo open source project into its own Sailfish OS, has released its first Android launcher — to give users of Google’s mobile platform a taster of what its alternative OS has to offer. Read More



Amazon Brings Grocery Delivery To Brooklyn

Oct 17, 2:13PM

logo-amazonFresh-splashLanding Amazon announced this morning it’s bringing its grocery delivery service AmazonFresh to Brooklyn, confirming earlier reports of a New York area expansion. Initially, the service will be available to Prime members in Park Slope, but the company says it will soon expand the service to additional ZIP codes in Brooklyn. There’s no word yet on when AmazonFresh will arrive elsewhere in… Read More



MasterCard Will Borrow A Touch ID Trick For Fingerprint Scanning Credit Card

Oct 17, 1:50PM

Payment card  ISO format available 2015 Apple isn’t the only company using biometrics to authenticate payments and purchases – Apple Pay partner MasterCard wants to make fingerprint scanning something even people without an iOS device can use to digitally ‘sign’ for contactless transactions. The credit card company is launching the “world’s first” fingerprint-enabled credit card with… Read More



Google And Microsoft Battle For Market Cap Supremacy

Oct 17, 1:44PM

microsoft-earnings Update: Microsoft pulled it off, and at the time of writing (2:45 pm London, 9:45 am New York), Microsoft is worth more than Google. We’ll check back in at the end of the day: – Google and Microsoft are currently locked in a dogfight to be the second-most valuable technology company in the world. Following Google’s less-than-awesome earnings report, combined with a… Read More



With $2M In Funding, AirMedia Aims To Be The Syndication Platform For Premium Video

Oct 17, 12:51PM

airmedia With more viewers than ever tuning into digital video services, premium publishers are looking for more ways to get in front of those audiences. With a syndication network built specifically for video, a startup called AirMedia hopes to find new distribution for premium publishers. Read More



The Spirit Of Coopetition Is Alive And Well In The Cloud

Oct 17, 11:37AM

Book with cover: Frenemies a love story Increasingly, companies that compete directly with another have been announcing major partnerships, and we saw a couple of good examples this week with Microsoft and Salesforce and IBM and SAP. Not coincidentally in my view, they both involved the cloud. That’s because companies may want to compete, but customers want their technology vendors to just get along. They need products to… Read More



Blog So Hard MotherF'ers Wanna Distribute Premium Digital Content, Connect With Advertisers, And Engage With An Audience At Scale

Oct 17, 11:28AM

Screen Shot 2014-10-17 at 12.25.24 PM So I’m currently hanging out in the AOL offices here in London, prepping for Disrupt. To their credit, the AOL and Huffington Post crew have been great. I have a nice desk, a coffee machine nearby, and even a can of cold Coke to drink. Sitting at this fine desk, however, I ran into a bit of sticker shock. Read More




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