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How The Sharing Economy Will Impact Marketing

Jan 18, 2:00AM

share It’s hard to find a space the sharing economy hasn’t touched. We find people “sharing” accommodations and cars, dog sitters and personal assistants, bikes and even wardrobes. The sharing economy allows people to conveniently access goods and services in sustainable ways, to engage in new experiences, and to capitalize on greater economic efficiencies. And this trend… Read More



Texting Is Familial Glue For The 21st Century

Jan 17, 11:00PM

textingfamily Complex communication is one of the bedrocks of human civilization. The tools we use – voice and face muscles, smoke signals, quills and ink, emojis – start out as delivery systems for existing ideas. Without exception, those tools end up influencing the ideas themselves. For proof, look no further than the impact of technology on the nuclear family over the past hundred year Read More



How This Teen Turned Her High School Internship Into A Game Design Career

Jan 17, 10:11PM

Paulina Raguimov Paulina Raguimov never expected to get paid to make video games when she walked into her high school’s career fair at 16. Read More



How Yello Mobile Ate 61 Startups In One Year

Jan 17, 8:11PM

6280510901_d4347874ff_o So many eyeballs, so little growth. Or so Yahoo’s recent performance under Marissa Mayer could be summarized. Joining Yahoo as its head in 2012, Mayer quickly made a splash with a rapid series of acquisitions, from the billion dollar purchase of Tumblr to the $30 million acquisition of Summly. The performance of that strategy has been lackluster. While Yahoo has acquired nearly 50… Read More



Apple's Well-Crafted Vanishing Point

Jan 17, 8:00PM

Edge comparison, 2011 MacBook Air and 2012 iMac It’s a standard Apple play to shave a few atoms off the waists of its gadgets come refresh time — allowing the company’s marketing department to crow about thinner flagships that also pack more power and boast better screens, or both. Read More



Every Song Evan Spiegel's Ever Tweeted, In One Playlist

Jan 17, 7:15PM

Snapjams Share or subscribe with this link: Snapjams from Evan Spiegel Snapchat wants to be a music app. Leaked emails from the Sony Pictures hack and news reports indicate Snapchat’s been talking with music companies like Sony and Vevo to potentially play songs or music videos in its app. The startup already takes great care in choosing songs for its promo videos, leading me to discover… Read More



Gillmor Gang: Dog Ears

Jan 17, 6:00PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include the Nesting of Google Glass, Neil Young’s Pono and mixing to the car radio, why Selma got shortchange in the Oscar nominations, Facebook @ Work or not, and some tough notification talk to wind it up. If you miss Scobleizer, watch him join our sister show G3. Read More



All That Glitters Is Not Gold

Jan 17, 5:21PM

goldglitter The latest viral sensation on the world wide web has lost some of its sparkle. ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com (yes, this is what we’ve come to) is up for auction on Flippa with a current bidding price of $61,000. When I first heard about a “Glitter thing” on the internet, I tried to ignore it as best I could. At best, it was the name of a new Sean Parker startup. At… Read More



The Robots Are Coming — Aren't They?

Jan 17, 4:00PM

gp-robot Rosie, C3PO, HAL, WALL-E, Bender, Optimus, Asimo. Our obsession with robots propels them to the single name status normally reserved for pop icons like Sting, Madonna and Oprah. The media has a long history of shaping our view of what robots are – we have seen them in movies and TV shows and read about them in books. In fact, the term “robot” was first coined by Karel Capek… Read More



Foundation And Big Data

Jan 17, 2:00PM

absolutism The Internet has become the world’s Sorting Hat: it identifies, and increasingly defines, the subculture(s) to which people belong. Does your Facebook feed feature Mother Jones or Fox News? The Guardian or The Telegraph? GamerGate vs Social Justice Warriors. Civil libertarians vs. terror-thumping authoritarians. r/parenting vs. r/childfree. Second Life vs. Digital Detox. Read More



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




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