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In Europe, Spotify Royalties Overtake iTunes Earnings By 13%
Nov 05, 2:37AM
Spotify may be smarting from the removal of Taylor Swift’s music catalogue from its platform, and Taylor Swift may not care, since she is riding a sales blockbuster in the form of her new album 1989, but it turns out that in the bigger picture, Spotify’s streaming service continues to gain an edge over downloads, specifically via iTunes. Kobalt, a company that helps… Read MoreGoogle And LG Strike 10-Year Global Patent Agreement
Nov 05, 2:00AM
Fresh from announcing record shipments in the last quarter of business, LG has revealed that it has struck a 10-year global patent agreement with Google. The company says that the arrangement covers all existing patents between the duo, as well as new ones filed over the next decade. Read MoreDropbox's Drew Houston Responds To Snowden's Privacy Criticism: It's A Trade-Off
Nov 05, 1:08AM
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden sparked controversy when he advised consumers (twice) to “get rid of Dropbox” if they want to protect their privacy. Today, Drew Houston, CEO of the cloud storage startup, responded to the accusations. People can do more to encrypt their data, he admitted, but It’s “a trade-off between usability/convenience and security,” he said. Read MoreStubHub President Chris Tsakalakis Leaves Months After Company Reorg
Nov 05, 12:50AM
Longtime StubHub president Chris Tsakalakis has stepped down from his position and left the company, StubHub has confirmed to TechCrunch today. His resignation, which comes just months after StubHub laid off 100 employees over the summer, is effective immediately and the company is undergoing a search for a replacement. Read MoreGrand Theft Auto V Gets A Huge Update For Xbox One, PS4, And PC
Nov 05, 12:08AM
Today Rockstar Games unveiled some new footage of Grand Theft Auto from the version set for release on the PS4 and Xbox One on November 18 and the PC on January 27. The biggest reveal: there’s now going to a mode where you play like a giant open-world first-person shooter. Read MoreCriteo Beats Estimates With €194M In Revenue
Nov 04, 10:05PM
Ad tech company Criteo posted a strong earnings report today, with revenue of €194.4 million (excluding traffic acquisition costs it was €77.6 million) and earnings per share of €0.18. That comes in well ahead of analyst estimates of €72.7 million in revenue (excluding traffic costs) and €0.08 EPS. It also shows revenue growth of 70.9 percent year-over-year, or 65.8 ex-TAC. Read MoreNew Technology And Big Data Help You Breathe Fresh Air
Nov 04, 10:00PM
Breezometer was conceived because CEO Ran Korber wanted to buy a house. He knew that air pollution caused health problems and he knew that in his native Israel — as with most developed countries — pollution is measured in real time, often at a street-by-street level. Yet, while local school and tax information was available in exhaustive detail for property buyers, there was no… Read MoreTC Droidcast Episode 25: The Sweet Song Of Android Lollipop Lures Us Back
Nov 04, 9:58PM
The Droidcast is back, after a lengthy hiatus. It was summoned to life by the fact that there’s a lot to discuss this week, thanks to the release of the Nexus 9 and Android Lollipop, as well as the Nexus Player. We’ve got TC alum and current Engadget Associate Editor Chris Velazco back on board to help out, as both he and myself reviewed the Nexus 9 hardware from HTC. Though it… Read MoreHow Much Would You Pay For An "Undo" Button On Tinder?
Nov 04, 8:59PM
Tinder is moving forward with a testing plan for Tinder Plus, a new paid version of the app that brings premium features to users and finally starts a revenue stream for the growing IAC-owned dating company. With the paid version, users will have access to two new central features of the app, Undo and Passport. Undo lets people go back on the person they just swiped left on, a highly common… Read MoreSoundCloud Confirms Licensing Deal With Warner Music Group
Nov 04, 8:54PM
SoundCloud, the user-created audio streaming platform currently used by 175 million unique listeners each month, confirmed today that it has inked its first licensing deal with one of the major record labels: the Warner Music Group — whose roster includes David Guetta, The Flaming Lips and Sheryl Crow — will partner with the streaming company around its ad-supported, creator… Read MoreNearly 40 Years Later, Steve Wozniak Still Brainstorms Ways The Apple II Could Have Been Better
Nov 04, 8:51PM
The Apple II may be one of the most important systems in the history of personal computing — but that doesn’t mean it was perfect. Nearly 40 years later, Steve Wozniak is still coming up with ways he could have done it better. Read MoreEx-Beats Music CEO's New App "Chosen" Is A Mobile-First American Idol
Nov 04, 8:50PM
Sing, yodel, or shred guitar into your phone, and get famous. That’s the idea behind performance competition platform Chosen, founded by former Gracenote, MOG, and Beats Music CEO David Hyman. The startup’s been in stealth since its formation late last year, but Hyman agreed to give me the first details about what Chosen’s actually up to. First off, Chosen’s just raised… Read MoreFacebook Asks People To Vote And Tell Friends, Shows Nearest Polling Place
Nov 04, 8:15PM
Facebook reaches around 150 million users per day in the United States, and today it’s using that immense power to get people to vote in the mid-term elections. As it’s been doing since 2008, Facebook is showing a “megaphone” announcement atop the News Feed telling people to vote, with a list of friends who said they’re voters and a heat map of voter activity… Read MoreLimdesk Is A Customer Support Center In A Box
Nov 04, 8:03PM
Okay, not really in a box because that would be cruel to the support personnel but still putting customer support people in boxes would probably be more efficient if you put some holes in the box and fed them. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about Limdesk.com. Based in Poland, the software allows you to create a simple client-management system,… Read MoreNvidia Promises Android 5.0 Update For Shield Tablet This Month
Nov 04, 7:10PM
Android rollouts always have fans vying to see who gets a taste first; generally speaking, the Nexus faithful are rewarded for sticking to devices Google has committed to updating swiftly. Nvidia, which has begun making a fair number of Android devices beyond the scope of the smartphone category, has also been quick to offer its users a path to the next generation, and with Android 5.0… Read MoreProposed Changes To Emoji Standard Would Allow For More Diversity, Increased Selection Of Skin Tones
Nov 04, 7:07PM
Last summer, an article on Fast Company asked an important question related to the increasingly popular picture-based character set called emoji, now found on the majority of modern smartphones: Are emoji racist? The problem, the post pointed out, is that the people characters in the emoji set based on the Unicode standard tended to be overwhelmingly white. Where was the diversity? Where… Read MoreSpying And Police Requests For Facebook Data Up 24% Since 2013
Nov 04, 6:33PM
Facebook continues to fight dragnets for private data by governments, but the combined number of requests from local law enforcement and federal spy agencies like the NSA went up 24 percent from the last half of 2013 to the first half of 2014, according to Facebook’s new government requests report. In the U.S., Facebook received 15,433 data requests about 23,667 accounts, and was forced… Read MoreLondon Startup CheckoutSmart, A Grocery Cashback App Similar To Groupon's Snap, Scores £1.5M Funding
Nov 04, 5:55PM
London-based CheckoutSmart, a cashback app for UK supermarket shoppers — and similar to Groupon’s Canada and U.S.-only Snap — has raised a £1.5 million round of funding. Not only is the startup founded by Chris Howarth (who previously founded and exited retail analytics company Retail Insight) but the list of backers is also noteworthy, given their experience in the… Read MoreAmazon's Prime Members Start To Get Benefits From Other Digital Stores
Nov 04, 5:26PM
Amazon is truly committed to pushing Prime membership to stratospheric heights, and a new expansion that sees it bringing benefits to Prime customers from e-commerce websites beyond its own walls should prove its commitment to the program. Prime members can now get free, next-day shipping on purchases made at British retailer AllSaints’ online store (via Re/code). The arrangement also… Read MoreThanx Gets $4.7 Million From Sequoia, Partners With Visa And MasterCard
Nov 04, 5:16PM
Customer loyalty program startup Thanx launched today with both a Visa and MasterCard partnership and $4.7 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. An earlier seed round from SoftTech VC of $1.3 million brings the total funding raised to $6 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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