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Singtel, Sony And Warner's New Video Streaming Service Beats Netflix To Asia
Jan 30, 7:18AM
Telecom giant Singtel is planning to beat Netflix to the punch in Asia after it announced it has partnered with Sony Pictures and Warner Brothers to introduce a video streaming service in the region. Read MoreProduct Hunt Adds Direct Messaging To Founders
Jan 30, 7:09AM
There are various ways to get a contact for the stories we write here, but it’s not always easy. The reasons can vary from the wrong contact info listed on a site to simply no contact info listed anywhere on the web. Product Hunt, the product aggregation site, is hoping to make it a bit easier to contact founders and makers of listed products with the roll out of a new direct… Read MoreWhat (Some) Silicon Valley Women Think Of Newsweek
Jan 30, 4:33AM
Tech has some issues. You read trade pub stories about sexual harassment and assault allegations so often it’s absurd. Newsweek, which just discovered there are only a few women in tech, sent accomplished author Nina Burleigh to investigate tech gender politics. She did an adequate job in her piece, “What Silicon Valley Thinks Of Women.” Read MoreSecret Co-Founder Chrys Bader-Wechseler Steps Down Because It's Not About Design Anymore
Jan 30, 4:01AM
One year after founding anonymish app Secret with fellow Googler David Byttow, Chrys Bader-Wechseler is leaving the company on amicable terms. He cites that Secret isn’t about design and curation as much now since it redesigned recently, dropping the artful photo squares with overlaid text in favor of a sterile text feed that looks just like competitor Yik Yak. Below you can see the… Read MoreOnePlus Will Reveal Details Of Its 'Oxygen' Android ROM On February 12
Jan 30, 3:29AM
OnePlus introduced its own version of Android for its One smartphone earlier this month in response to its standoff with Cyanogen, and now the company has revealed it will unveil its own ROM that can be installed on to third-party Android devices on February 12. Read MoreThe Startup Advice You Don't Hear Inside The Echo Chamber
Jan 29, 11:00PM
When today’s most successful founders are asked why they started their companies, they often give some version of the answer that they were “scratching their own itch.” Airbnb founders Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky were renting out their floor space to help cover their rent. Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook to help Harvard students find one another. Nest co-founder Matt Rogers… Read MoreSnapchat Outgrows The Friend Zone
Jan 29, 10:47PM
Discover is Snapchat’s big new play in the world of media. It’s a special tab in the app powered by content publishers like ESPN, Yahoo, etc., offering daily long-form content with videos, articles and, of course, advertisements. Brands can buy advertisements against these Discover “Editions,” which play every three or four swipes. It’s really not all that bad. Read MoreTesla's P85D Will Get Even Faster Thanks To A Software Update
Jan 29, 10:30PM
Tesla’s P85D is already fast. Really, really fast. Push the button to put the car into “Insane” mode (really — that’s what it’s called) and it’ll do 0-60 in 3.2 seconds. Now it’s about to get even faster. And get this: It’s getting faster because of an over the air software update. Musk confirmed the change in a tweet: Tesla P85D 0 to… Read MoreGoogle CFO Calls Glass A Case Where The Company Needed To "Pause" And "Reset"
Jan 29, 10:08PM
Google’s Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette wasn’t too optimistic about the future of Google Glass on today’s Google earnings call for Q4 2014. The executive took some time to highlight the project as an example of when Google is willing to take a step back and rethink something that isn’t working out, even when they’ve made a considerable investment in… Read MoreThis Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: An Interview With Luis Buenaventura Of Rebit
Jan 29, 9:39PM
Welcome back to TCBTC, TechCrunch’s weekly podcast on the cryptocurrency bitcoin. This week Alex is on vacation so I recorded a short interview with Luis Buenaventura Of Rebit, a major Bitcoin remitter in the Philippines. Luis gave us a quick look under the hood of his growing business. Click here to download an MP3 of this show. Subscribe on iTunes. You can subscribe to the show here. Read MoreGoogle Misses On EPS Of $6.88, Revenue Of $14.5B For Q4 2014
Jan 29, 9:14PM
Google reported its third-quarter earnings after close of market today, offering up gross revenue of $18.10 billion, revenue net of traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC) of $14.5 billion, and non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $6.88, with GAAP EPS of $6.91. Wall Street watchers had anticipated $7.13 non-GAAP EPS, with revenue of $14.8 billion. One of the key metrics to watch this quarter was… Read MoreAmazon's Mixed Q4 2014 With $29.33B Revenue, And $0.45 EPS
Jan 29, 9:03PM
Amazon just released its fiscal Q4 2014 earnings, reporting $29.33 billion in revenue, $214 million in net profit representing $0.45 per share. According to CNBC/Thomson Reuters, analysts expected the company to report earnings of $0.17 per share on $29.67 billion in revenue. While the company largely beat the expectations on earnings, it fell a bit short on revenue. For the past two… Read MoreIn Communications, Privacy And Security Are Illusions
Jan 29, 9:00PM
President Obama has tried for three years to persuade Congress to pass a cybersecurity bill. The president went so far as to highlight his cybersecurity proposals to a prime-time audience during his recent State of the Union address. And in the wake of the massive Sony hack, the political climate may finally have shifted in his favor. Read MoreSocial Shopping App Depop Raises $8M, Hires Ex-Reddit GM To Break Into US Market
Jan 29, 7:38PM
While eBay tries to get more social and local, and Pinterest deepens is position in e-commerce, a new mobile app out of London is building out a platform that combines all of those experiences together natively. Depop, a mobile app for iOS and Android that is part Instagram-style social network and part eBay marketplace, has raised an $8 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital… Read MoreWith $1.75M In Funding, MaestroIQ Promises Smart Recommendations For Mobile Marketers
Jan 29, 7:05PM
When you talk to ad tech and analytics companies, one thing you hear over and over again is the promise to deliver recommendations that marketers can act on, rather than overwhelming them with data and graphs. MaestroIQ is the latest startup to make that pitch, but it looks like it has the team and investors to back up that claim. The company is announcing today that it has raised $1.75 million… Read MoreWhy The Least-Talked-About Aspect Of The Dish Sling TV Is The Most Important One
Jan 29, 7:00PM
Among the many new technology products and services revealed at this year’s CES, perhaps none has gotten more press coverage than Dish’s new Sling TV service. As multiple outlets have reported, this $20 per month subscription service gives subscribers access to TNT, TBS, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, the Disney Channel, ESPN and ESPN2 — without the… Read MoreSwipe Raises $6.5M To Combine Tinder And Photo Sharing Clichés Into Something Cool
Jan 29, 6:47PM
What if you swiped through Instagram rather than scrolling? What if posts were anonymous until you commented and the author replied? What if you’re already too old to know what kids like? Swipe raises these questions, and it’s that last one that may have prompted top early-stage firms Sherpa Ventures, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital and Binary Capital to invest $6.5 million… Read MoreReddit Complied With 58% Of User Info Requests, 31% Of Takedown Notices In 2014
Jan 29, 6:00PM
Reddit just released its first transparency report, outlining the requests for user information and for content takedown that it received in 2014. Not surprisingly, the report doesn’t go into detail about individual requests, but it does break things down by category. It also notes how many of those requests the news and content-sharing site actually complied with and offers some… Read MoreNow You Can Order Postmates From Your Browser
Jan 29, 6:00PM
Today, instant-delivery startup Postmates brought its app from mobile to the web. The move helps those on Windows Phone, BlackBerry, iOS and Android who are too lazy to pick up their phones to order. (Several TechCrunchers in the office have done this multiple times. I may or may not be one of them.) Read MoreFullContact Raises $7 Million, Rolls Out A New Universal Contacts App For iOS
Jan 29, 6:00PM
FullContact, a company offering a range of solutions for contact management for both consumers and developers alike, has raised an additional $7 million in Series B funding, it announced this morning alongside the launch of a new universal contacts app for iOS. The round was led by prior investor Foundry Group, and included participation from another earlier investor 500 Startups as well… 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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