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JD.com Beefs Up Its Imported Food Business To Compete Against Alibaba

Jan 27, 6:52AM

jd jd.com JD.com, the second-largest e-commerce company in China after Alibaba, has unveiled a major push to grow its imported food business. The program is significant because imported food is one of China’s fastest-growing markets and therefore an important vertical for Alibaba, JD.com, and other e-commerce companies. Read More



Facebook And Instagram Go Offline, Taking Facebook Log-In Services Down Too [Now Back]

Jan 27, 6:52AM

nooo Gather yourselves, important news incoming… both Facebook and Instagram are down right now. Read More



Amazon Pilots Visual, Mobile-Only Affiliate Product To Rival Skimlinks and VigLink

Jan 27, 6:07AM

amazon-earnings-alt Amazon is testing a new service that could help it and its publishing partners drive more traffic (and, importantly, purchases) from customers on mobile devices. The pilot software is called ‘Mobile Popover’, and it is a mobile-only rival to top affiliate services Skimlinks and VigLink. Read More



Becoming An Engineering Manager

Jan 27, 2:00AM

Over the last few years I’ve gotten the pleasure to work with a large number of really talented engineers — some of whom I’ve asked to make the leap into management. Like any individual contributor moving into a new role, they’re asked to fundamentally change the way they approach their day. As I’ve done my best to coach them through this experience, I wrote down… Read More



Here's What You Need To Know From Microsoft's $26B Quarter

Jan 27, 1:08AM

microsoft-data Microsoft reported its fiscal second-quarter financial performance today, laid out its forecasts for its future performance and took questions from a number of analyst. It was a flurry of data, so let’s take a moment and dig through the big points that matter. Read More



Galvanize's New Nonprofit Foundation Will Give Out Scholarships For Code Schools

Jan 27, 12:17AM

galvanize Tech education startup Galvanize is bolstering its efforts to get people into tech with the launch of the Galvanize Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that will fund scholarships to code schools and other programs that promote diversity in the tech industry. Read More



Dropcam Stops Selling Its Cheaper Model, The Dropcam HD

Jan 26, 11:49PM

Screen Shot 2015-01-26 at 3.42.31 PM For the past few years, Dropcam’s product lineup has been a bit… confusing. Since October of 2013, Dropcam has sold two products: the Dropcam HD, and the Dropcam Pro. Which one were would-be buyers supposed to see as the “better” one? That won’t be a problem anymore. Read More



Oculus' First In-House VR Film "Lost" Is Cute, Immersive, But Hardly Interactive

Jan 26, 11:38PM

Lost Poster Oculus just premiered its Story Studio’s first virtual reality cinema experience “Lost” that’s designed to demonstrate the narrative potential of VR to filmmakers. The experience features a massive robotic hand traipsing around a darkened forest in search of its body. It proves that a simple, character driven story can be told in an immersive environment. Yet while… Read More



Dropbox Acquires Pixelapse, A Startup Building Collaboration Tools For Designers

Jan 26, 10:46PM

pixelapse dropbox Pixelapse, a startup incubated by Y Combinator and StartX, has been acquired by cloud storage company Dropbox. The news was announced on the Pixelapse blog, and Dropbox has confirmed it. Read More



Surface And Lumia Clock Record Numbers For Microsoft During Holiday Season

Jan 26, 10:23PM

msft-sun1 In its most recent quarter, Microsoft sold 10.5 million Lumia handsets, and the Surface line generated $1.1 billion in revenue. Both figures are all-time highs. Microsoft did break out total phone revenue — $2.3 billion, down from $2.6 billion in the sequentially preceding quarter — but that figure includes the sale of tens of millions of dumbphones, so it’s slightly… Read More



Facebook Censors Blasphemous Pages To Comply With Turkey's Demand, But Won't Publish It

Jan 26, 10:15PM

Turkey censorship protests When Google and Twitter receive legal threats from countries to censor controversial content or have their services shut down locally, they often publish them on ChillingEffects.org for transparency. But today when Facebook followed Turkey’s legal order to block Pages that defamed the Prophet Muhammad from Turkish users, it kept the demand private. Rather than get banned, Mark… Read More



Have An Old Dropcam? It'll Stop Working Soon, But They'll Give You A New One For Free

Jan 26, 10:06PM

dropcam hd2 Do you have an old Dropcam? As in, one of the boxy-lookin’ ones from when they first launched the company back in 2009? Bad news: it’s about to stop working. Good news: Dropcam will give you a newer one for free to make up for it. Read More



Winter Is Coming For Wearables

Jan 26, 10:00PM

wintertundra Remember wearables? Those wristbands and glasses that were going to take over our lives? This time last year, many of us had high hopes that 2014 was (finally) going to be the year of the wearable. Whoops. The wearables revolution didn’t come to pass in 2014, and it’s not going to happen in 2015, either. Why? Read More



Microsoft Faces Stiff Mobile Challenge

Jan 26, 9:50PM

Lumia 1520 Microsoft had a heck of week last week, didn’t it? It actually felt like it got its groove back with HoloLens, its holographic virtual reality glasses, which I have to say looked way cool. It also got our attention with the Windows 10 mobile strategy, and it showed off the desktop version of Cortana, something Siri can’t do. In spite of its good, dare I say, great week, I have… Read More



Mass Surveillance Threatens Digital Security And Human Rights, Says European Report

Jan 26, 9:30PM

edward-snowden-nova-1024x575 A 32-page report into mass surveillance by a top European rights body has warned that digital dragnets set up by U.S. government intelligence agencies, and some of the U.S.’ allies in Europe and elsewhere, are endangering fundamental human rights — such as the right to privacy, to freedom of information and expression, to freedom of religion and the right to a fair trial. Read More



Microsoft Slips 2% After Reporting $26.5B In FQ2 Revenue, $1.1B In Surface Revenue

Jan 26, 9:21PM

microsoft-earnings Today after the bell, Microsoft reported the financial performance of the second quarter of its fiscal 2015, including revenue of $26.47 billion and earnings per share of $0.71. The financial markets had expected the company to earn $0.71 per share on revenue of $26.33 billion. Down less 1 percent in regular trading, Microsoft is down 2 percent after hours. The company’s… Read More



Pitch Your Startup On TC Radio On Sirius XM Indie 102

Jan 26, 7:45PM

techcrunch-radio1 “The show must go on.” That’s what they’re telling us as a blizzard pummels the northeast. So if we can make sure that TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM Indie 102 carries on, we will. We simply ask that you apply to be a part of the show and be around to call into the show on Tuesday at 6pm ET/3pm PT. TechCrunch Radio is an hour of geeky bliss as John and I go through… Read More



Favado's New App Helps You Find The Best Grocery Deals

Jan 26, 7:44PM

Image of grocery cart full of products in supermarket In my house, I have a small stockpile of shampoo and other health and beauty products that I’ve acquired for almost nothing, thanks to coupon stacking techniques that let you go into stores and walk out with vastly discounted products. I’m disappointed if I don’t save at least 50% of my grocery bill using coupons, if not more. But working the system to your advantage in this… Read More



OftenType's iOS 8 Keyboard App Wants To Save You Some Taps

Jan 26, 7:17PM

OftenType Tired of retyping stuff like your name, email and physical address when using iOS devices? A new keyboard app for iOS, called OftenType, has a quick fix for this type of personal data-related typing fatigue: it’s added custom shortcut keys to the standard iOS keyboard to save you some taps. Read More



Data And Commerce Elope, Birth Unicorns

Jan 26, 7:00PM

rings First we went online to learn. Then we naturally started buying stuff. Smart retailers learned to target us based on our behavior. We searched and they reacted through PPC and display. Then folks like Amazon used purchase history data to get smart about predicting what else we’d buy (based primarily on other’s purchase data, not our own). Read More




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