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The SocialRank Index Shows Companies How They Stack Up On Social Media
Jan 14, 1:41AM
Social media analytics startup SocialRank released a new tool earlier today called the SocialRank Index — aimed at tracking and aggregating the performance the biggest brands in the world. This seems like a natural evolution of SocialRank, which started out as a side project for identifying your “most valuable follower.” Not surprisingly, it expanded with new data points… Read MoreBlaBlaCar Expands Beyond Europe
Jan 14, 1:30AM
After raising a massive $100 million round last summer, BlaBlaCar is opening its first market outside of Europe with India — if you count Turkey and Russia as part of Europe at large. This country marks the 14th market for the company. Read MoreThe Hovertrax Is Like Two Dumb Little Segways For Your Feet
Jan 14, 12:54AM
If laziness was a sport, the equipment would be the Hovertrax. You step up onto the foot pads, tip your feet forward, and two motorized wheels carry you around while gyroscopes auto-balance the Hovertrax so you don’t fall off. What’s hilarious is just how casual you look riding it. You’re basically standing upright while cruising up to 8 miles at 5 miles per hour on a… Read MoreU.K. PM Backpedals On 'Encryption Ban', Sort Of
Jan 14, 12:04AM
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has been weathering a Twitter storm of mockery for comments he made yesterday in which he appeared to suggest it would be the intention of a future Conservative government to ban strong encryption. Read MorePayPal Here Adds Windows Support, Will Launch An EMV Card Reader Later This Year
Jan 13, 10:59PM
The PayPal Here card reader, PayPal’s hardware device that lets merchants accept credit and debit card payments through a dongle attached to their iOS or Android device, is being updated with support for EMV and contactless transactions, the payments company announced today at the National Retail Federation conference taking place this week in New York. An alternative to competitors… Read MoreOnline Gaming Giant Kixeye Holds Large Scale Layoffs, Cutting As Much As 25% Of Staff
Jan 13, 10:59PM
Kixeye, the San Francisco-based online gaming giant, held layoffs yesterday as part of a larger reorganization of the company, sources tell TechCrunch. According to two sources, more than 100 people representing as much as 25 percent of Kixeye’s staff have been let go. The layoffs were conducted across the board, we’re told, and included entire teams in the engineering department. Read MoreThe New IBM z13 Is Not Your Father's Mainframe
Jan 13, 9:30PM
In a time when IBM has been dumping its x86 server business, and the mainframe would seem a relic of a bygone day, Big Blue took five years and invested a cool $1B to develop a new mainframe beast for the modern mobile era. You want a high-end computing system for a contemporary company, the new system dubbed the z13, is smokin’ and has been designed specifically to handle… Read MoreApple Watch Companion App Features Said To Include Activity Reminders, Phone Unlock
Jan 13, 9:18PM
A new leak of details from within the upcoming companion app for the Apple Watch claims to show some unannounced features we can expect from the wearable when it arrives sometime early this year. The dump of the app’s settings screens from 9to5Mac show panels that let users tweak how it handles Activity, Accessibility, Messages, Motion and Fitness and more on the watch, with plenty of… Read MoreWhy Is Apple Going To Have A Better Time Launching A Wearable?
Jan 13, 9:01PM
At some point in the next few months (“Early 2015″ can’t push much past March, can it?), Apple will release its Watch, likely defining the high end of the wearable category. The Apple Watch is, in hindsight, exactly what Apple would make when entering a new category: a general purpose computer trimmed down to the essentials needed for its particular form factor. It shares… Read MoreApple Patents A Wireless Action Camera And Wrist-Based Remote
Jan 13, 8:48PM
Apple has been awarded a patent by the USPTO based on IP it acquired from Kodak in a deal from 2013, which details a remote digital camera system that can be controlled from a smartwatch (Apple Watch fantasists should note that this patent was originally created in 2012). The Apple patent specifically seeks to address flaws identified in the design of competitors including the GoPro HD… Read MoreClinkle Pivots From Its Soured Brand To "Treats" For Sharing Discounts
Jan 13, 8:44PM
Not since Color has a startup been as widely laughed at as the troubled Stanford payments startup Clinkle. So it’s little surprise that the company has changed the name of its app to “Treats”, as well as its direction. After seeing the company’s site had rebranded, I spoke with 23-year old CEO Lucas Duplan to find out how Treats will work. The private beta product… Read MoreCarrot Hunger Is An App That Shames You Into Eating Healthier
Jan 13, 8:03PM
Brian Mueller’s Carrot suite of apps have become popular by sadistically pushing users into better behaviors. The latest is Carrot Hunger, an artificially intelligent calorie counter that will shame or reward you for your eating habits. The app lets you scan food bar codes and log what you’ve had for the day to keep an accurate account of what you’re stuffing your face with. Read More500 Startups-Backed Italist Is Like Shopping The Streets Of Italy, But Online
Jan 13, 7:26PM
Despite the brand recognition of Italian luxury fashion brands like Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, and Valentino, there is no online aggregation of exclusively Italian luxury fashion. 500 Startups-backed Italist is trying to change that. The Italian luxury fashion retail market is worth $21 billion, according to Italist founder Raffaele Giovine, and a third of that comes from independent… Read MoreElectronic Invoicing Startup Taulia Hires Silicon Valley Finance Veteran Rik Thorbecke As CFO
Jan 13, 7:00PM
Fast on the heels of raising a $40 million Series C round of funding, electronic invoicing and supply chain financing startup Taulia has hired a CFO. Today the company is announcing that former Meltwater Group CFO Rik Thorbecke to handle all finance, legal, HR, and accounting operations and ahead of its ambitious plans for overseas expansion. Read MorePlayStation Now's All-You-Can-Stream Game Subscriptions Available On PS4 Today
Jan 13, 6:48PM
Sony’s streaming PlayStation Now service is available beginning today via PS4 in two subscription flavors starting at $20 a month, and $45 per quarter (or a discount of $15 vs. paying monthly, for those who like math). Sony’s subscription plans for Now are available in North America, and provide access to the service’s entire library of more than 100 PS3 titles. Previously,… Read MoreGoogle Opens Its Cloud Monitoring Service To All Developers On Its Platform
Jan 13, 6:32PM
Last year, Google acquired the cloud monitoring service Stackdriver. Within weeks, Google had launched a private beta of its own cloud monitoring service based on Stackdriver’s technology and now — eight months later — everybody on Google’s Cloud Platform can finally use this new service. As the name implies, Google Cloud Monitoring lets developers access… Read MoreVideo Selfie App Dubsmash Proves To Be A Smash Hit
Jan 13, 6:00PM
When Dubsmash founders, Jonas Drüppel, Roland Grenke and Daniel Taschik, created a new mobile app that lets you record a video of yourself, synced to a preselected sound clip, such as a well-known quote from a movie, they had an inkling they were on to something. But, after failing to conquer the iOS app store twice before, they couldn’t have known for certain that they had a smash hit… Read MoreThe PC Market Stabilizes
Jan 13, 5:46PM
Is the PC market growing or shrinking? It depends on who you ask. As TechCrunch wrote yesterday, tracking firm Gartner reports that PC sales were up 1 percent globally in the final quarter of 2014. However, IDC, another company that keeps tabs on the sales of electronics, noted a 2.4 percent decline. I highlight both numbers as they are essentially a wash — Gartner claims 83.75… Read MoreFirefox 35 Launches With Simplified Hello Video Chat Service
Jan 13, 5:42PM
Mozilla today launched the latest version of Firefox — that’s version 35 if you are still keeping track. Besides numerous minor updates, including support for MP4 video on OS X Snow Leopard, Firefox now features a simplified version of the free WebRTC-based Firefox Hello video chat service. Just like before, you can start these plugin-free video chats by sharing an… Read MoreElon Musk Talks Seattle Satellites For Mars, Teases Model X Autonomy Features
Jan 13, 5:41PM
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk held a press conference today at SpaceX HQ (via Bloomberg) to discuss a number of his company’s upcoming initiatives, including a new engineering office in Seattle, as well as next-generation autonomous driving features for Tesla, and the progress of SpaceX’s reusable rocket program, in light of a near-successful recapture of the stage 1 rocket… 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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