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MediumSounds Mashes Up Medium And SoundCloud To Feature Audio On Your Post

Jan 17, 2:18AM

Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 4.38.05 PM Medium does a lot of things well. Its easy-to-use interface for composing blog posts creates a clean, distraction-free environment for the reader. But one thing it doesn’t do well is audio. Music, radio shows, and podcasts aren’t a featured part of the product. London-based developer Roman Mittermayr put together MediumSounds so he could mash together what he liked about the… Read More



Faraday Is Letting Bay Area Cyclists Try Its Pricey But Stylish E-Bike Before They Buy

Jan 17, 1:00AM

faraday I’ve been a big fan Faraday Bicycle‘s $3,500 electronic bicycle ever since I first learned about it. Over the years, I’ve watched and waited until the bike finally made it into production and started shipping to pre-order customers. And last year, I got a chance to try it out for myself. Read More



The Hypocrisy of U.S. Cyber Policy

Jan 17, 12:55AM

Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command, Watchfloor The breakneck growth in internet usage over the past two decades has forced policymakers to confront a host of challenges, from how to regulate the sharing economy to who owns the infrastructure behind the “tubes” themselves. While tempers have flared on a number of these issues, I tend to give the benefit of the doubt to policymakers. The transformation of our society has been… Read More



The Seed Bubble Has Popped

Jan 17, 12:49AM

Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 4.48.23 PM New data published today by Mattermark CEO and co-founder Danielle Morrill concerning the venture capital industry paints a relatively stiff picture: Seed rounds are taking it on the chin. More precisely, according to Mattermark, the number of seed rounds in 2014 fell compared to 2013, and the trend is accelerating. Read More



CrunchWeek: Facebook Goes Corporate, Box Prices, And Glass Skids To A Halt

Jan 16, 11:48PM

It’s Friday and that means CrunchWeek. This week Colleen Taylor, Kyle Russell and myself sat around the Small White Table to discuss Facebook’s new corporate communication product, Box’s IPO price and Google’s big changes to its Glass hardware program. Read More



13 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week

Jan 16, 11:44PM

TC-weekly-roundup It was a big week for Google, Elon Musk, and the UK Prime Minister. We took a look at Xiaomi’s new phablet and learned what a real teenager actually thinks of social apps. These were our best stories of the week (1/10-1/16). Read More



As It Seeks New Regulations In NY, Airbnb Estimates It Would Collect $65 Million In Taxes There

Jan 16, 11:00PM

airbnb-new-york Airbnb has been trying to win over regulators and lawmakers in New York by pledging to crack down on illegal hotel operations and collect taxes from rentals that happen on its platform. In an effort to get new regulations passed to legitimize its service in NY, the company put an estimate of just how much the city and state is missing out on by not allowing it to collect taxes there. Read More



Bitcoin Will Fix Remittances With Or Without The Western Unions Of The World

Jan 16, 11:00PM

bitcoin-hero In the late 90s, as personal computers and the Internet were increasingly finding their way into American homes, there were those who either didn’t recognize the disruptive power or potential they would have, or they felt threatened by their emergence (e.g “I’ll never quit reading the newspaper!”). Read More



AstroPrint's Cloud Platform Lets You Manage 3D Printing From Anywhere

Jan 16, 10:49PM

astroprint ipad 500 Startups-backed AstroPrint has made a combination of cloud platform, local software and hardware to enable the management of 3D printing from any device that can connect to the web with a modern browser. Read More



Justin Timberlake's AfterMaster Chip Makes Any Device Sound Better

Jan 16, 10:43PM

AfterMaster Feature AfterMaster is like having a team of audio experts come in a fine tune your home stereo, TV, or headphones. The new AfterMaster chip optimizes the sound quality outputed by any device, enhancing its fullness and clarity. Essentially, it makes audio sound much richer, like you were listening to uncompressed master recordings on super high-fidelity audio equipment, even if you’re just… Read More



TC AppleCast 1: Watch Out For The Apple Watch

Jan 16, 10:15PM

TC-applecast-post It’s our first ever TechCrunch AppleCast, and we’re starting things off with a long look at the Apple Watch and its companion app, as well as a discussion on the (still theoretical) 12-inch MacBook Air. We also dive into Swift, Apple’s new programming language, which is really heating up in terms of developer interest, and touch on App Store discovery and what could still be… Read More



Author Nicholas Carlson Tells Us What Startups Can Learn From Marissa Mayer

Jan 16, 9:49PM

marissamayerbook There are few figures in the tech industry today who are more compelling than Marissa Mayer. So it’s not surprising that she makes for a very compelling subject in Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo, the new book written by Business Insider’s Chief Correspondent Nicholas Carlson. So we asked Carlson to swing by TechCrunch HQ while he was in town this week to chat a bit about… Read More



Google Is In Talks With Mobile Payments Company Softcard

Jan 16, 9:49PM

Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 21.34.23 Apple has Apple Pay, and now it looks like Google may be fattening up its own wallet. According to people familiar with the situation, the search giant and maker of Android is interested in buying Softcard, the mobile payments company formerly known as Isis. The price may be under $100 million, according to our sources. That is either a huge bargain or a testament to Softcard’s… Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 01.16.14

Jan 16, 9:07PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern. Gillmor Gang on Facebook here Live Friendfeed chat during live show broadcast here Check out our sister show, G3, on Ustream here Read More



Here's The GOP's Net Neutrality Bill

Jan 16, 8:02PM

capitol hill The text of the proposed GOP net neutrality bill is out. The larger technology community is still digesting its various proposals. Here’s what I got from a first read. Read More



This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Post-CES Blues

Jan 16, 8:00PM

gadgets140116 (1) We’re all still exhausted after CES, but we love you so we decided to put together a podcast anyway. This week we discuss the selfie stick (really) and Natasha tells us about what happened from her vantage across the Pond while we were raging in Vegas. Read More



Sprint Says Strict Net Neutrality Rules Won't Disrupt Its Infrastructure Investments

Jan 16, 7:46PM

sprint-logo As you must have heard, if the FCC institutes strict net neutrality regulations, and especially if it uses its authority under Title II of the Communications Act, investment in Internet service infrastructure will catastrophically decrease, gutting improvements of our nation’s private data backbone. Read More



Memo Brings Anonymous Group Sharing To The Enterprise

Jan 16, 7:30PM

Memo Over the last year, we’ve seen a bunch of anonymous (or anonymish) apps crop up on mobile phones, allowing users to share messages with people nearby or those in their social circles. To date, though, most of those apps have been focused on the consumer market. A new app called Memo hopes to capture some of the enterprise market, enabling employees to share anonymously and privately… Read More



Google Glass Is Not Dead

Jan 16, 6:41PM

Frodo_lives Google ending its Glass Explorer program yesterday sparked a round of eulogies for the oft-ridiculed face computer. That’s premature at best. In its current form, Glass is undoubtedly dead, but there’s no reason to believe Google won’t relaunch it with a new version in the coming month — likely around its annual I/O developer conference. Read More



Stride Health Launches A New Mobile App For Its Healthcare Recommendation Service

Jan 16, 6:31PM

Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 1.19.32 PM Stride Health has launched a new mobile-focused version of its healthcare recommendation engine targeting the beleaguered workers who comprise the nation’s 1099 laborers. Essentially Stride acts as a private competitor to the federally funded healthcare.gov. The company says its service provides a high-tech recommendation engine for healthcare coverage that’s tailored to suit… Read More




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