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Xiaomi Edged Out Samsung As China's Top Smartphone Vendor In 2014, Says IDC
Feb 17, 8:04AM
Xiaomi has taken the top spot in China’s smartphone market away from Samsung, says a new report by research firm IDC. Thanks to strong year-over-year growth in Q4 2014 smartphone shipments, Xiaomi achieved a market share of 12.5 percent in 2014, up significantly from 5.3 percent in 2013. Samsung’s share, meanwhile, dropped to 12.1 percent from 18.7 percent. Read MorePebble's Smartwatch Now Officially Supports Android Wear Apps
Feb 17, 6:01AM
Here’s good news owners for the Pebble, the original smartwatch, who also have an Android device. Now your watch can take advantage of apps that support Google’s Android Wear platform, in addition to those within Pebble’s own app store. Read MoreFacebook Patents Clever Way To Advertise Just To Important People
Feb 17, 5:54AM
Celebrities aren’t like you and me. They’re better. Or at least Facebook thinks they’re worth more money. Convince experts and influencers to like something, and everyone will follow their lead. The question is how to identify who these special people are, and Facebook’s just patented one of the trickiest ways yet. The idea is that Facebook could watch the rate at which… Read More1.2B Smartphones Sold In 2014, Led By Larger Screens And Latin America
Feb 17, 4:00AM
Apple is reaping the biggest rewards right now when it comes to selling its smartphones and other devices, but the overall picture for the smartphone market in the year ahead may be a little less rosy. 2015 will see a slowdown in growth as more countries reach a saturation point, putting the focus more on emerging markets where smartphone adoption is still in an early stage, and on… Read MoreGoogle Launches A Chinese Version Of Its YouTube Channel For Developers
Feb 17, 1:52AM
Google is continuing to open up its Android mobile platform to developers in China after it launched a localized version of its Google Developers YouTube channel for the country. Read MoreShort Surfaces Quick Reads To Help You Power Through Your Saved Article Queue
Feb 17, 12:54AM
A new app called Short from Enric Enrich, a developer at Todoist, and his friend Alex Muench aims to parse your endless queue of saved articles into something a little more manageable. Using popular services like Pocket or Instapaper that users are already working with to build up a list of reading material, Short sifts through saved items to bring out articles that require 10 minutes or… Read MoreSwap Your Glasses Anytime With Ditto's New Endless Eyewear Program
Feb 16, 11:21PM
Startup Ditto aims to help customers customers to find the right pair of eyeglasses. With that in mind, it recently launched a new “Netflix for designer eyewear” program called Endless Eyewear. Subscribers pay a monthly fee, choose a pair of glasses for delivery, then if they don’t like the pair or get tired of it, they can swap them out for anytime you want, with free… Read MoreExploitation By Consent
Feb 16, 11:00PM
The word exploit is harsh, even ugly. It suggests cynical manipulation, selfish misappropriation and even outright theft. And in fact, in the online world, an ‘exploit’ is all of those nasty things and then some. Yet for some reason, many startups and consumers don’t take even the most basic steps to stop their digital assets, and even themselves, from being exploited. Read MorePitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
Feb 16, 9:19PM
The TechCrunch Radio Pitch-Off gets better every week, and we’re more excited than ever to hear about the latest products in the tech world. The TC Radio Pitch-Off goes down every Tuesday at 6pm ET on Sirius XM, where five companies have the chance to pitch their product in sixty seconds or less. A panel of judges, including John Biggs, myself, and a guest VC, will ask a few questions… Read MoreAustralian Service Directory Oneflare Acquires Review Site WOMO
Feb 16, 9:00PM
Oneflare, a local services directory based in Sydney, Australia, announced today that it has acquired WOMO, which claims to be the country’s largest customer reviews site. The amount of the deal was undisclosed. Read MoreTailor Brands Raises $1.1 Million in Seed Funding To Build Out Its Automated Design Process
Feb 16, 8:26PM
The algorithmic logo design startup Tailor Brands has raised $1.1 million in seed funding from Disruptive Fund and various angel investors. We first wrote about the beta launch of Tailor Brands at Disrupt San Francisco this past fall. It tested various branding concepts in beta. It’s now ready to use the new funding to build upon those concepts and for the public to access its logo… Read MoreRise Of The Micro-Tinders
Feb 16, 7:54PM
Different strokes for different folks. But what about different apps? Tinder brought ruthless efficiency to online dating. Yet the same way people gravitate to distinct nightlife spots depending on their style, we’re seeing an explosion of niche dating apps all based on Tinder’s familiar swipes. No matter how special you are, they’ll help you find your special someone. This… Read MorePrivately Takes An Ephemeral Sharing Pitch To Telcos
Feb 16, 7:03PM
A Swiss spin-out startup from security firm Kudelski has relaunched its controlled social photo-sharing app, rebranding it as Privately. The earlier timebombing iOS app — called Secret.li — also let users share visually encrypted photos on mainstream social networks in an ephemeral way, choosing to have the photos disappear after a pre-set interval. Read MoreJulie Desk Is An Email-Based Virtual Assistant To Help You Schedule Meetings And Appointments
Feb 16, 5:50PM
From the same French startup behind WePopp, an app that makes it easier for friends to plan events together, comes Julie Desk, a new ‘virtual assistant’ to handle the back-and-forth typically associated with scheduling meetings and appointments. Read MoreFundraising Success Is A Celebration Of Mediocrity
Feb 16, 5:00PM
Last summer, Creditera closed a Series A round of financing with Randy Komisar at KPCB, a highly coveted investor at a kick ass firm, yet we were loath to announce the raise. We finally announced it recently as a footnote to a more important announcement, that we launched a free, three-bureau credit monitoring product for small businesses, which will increase the likelihood they succeed… Read MoreVLC's Media Player For iOS Sneaks Back Into The App Store
Feb 16, 4:28PM
VLC for iOS, a popular media player application that has had a shaky history with the iOS App Store, now appears to be returning to the mobile app marketplace following its removal around the time iOS 8 launched in September 2014. The app’s developers never officially commented on the removal, beyond stating that they would be “working with Apple on a solution,” and later… Read MoreFind Out If U.K. Spied On You Illegally Via NSA's Prism, Upstream
Feb 16, 3:54PM
Following a landmark legal ruling earlier this month that, prior to December 2014, the U.K.’s spy agency GCHQ acted illegally by receiving data from the NSA’s surveillance dragnets, privacy advocacy organization Privacy International has set up an online form where people can submit a request to be informed whether they were spied on in the past. Read MoreElemental Path Debuts The First Toys Powered By IBM Watson
Feb 16, 2:53PM
A company called Elemental Path is developing a new line of smart toys for children which will be powered by the super computing system IBM Watson, enabling the toys to engage in real and personalized conversations with kids, and evolve with the child as he or she grows. CogniToys, as the toy line is being called, is today introducing its first entry into this space, with a smart dinosaur toy… Read MoreManaging Your Restaurant Deliveries With Trackin Is Like Playing SimCity
Feb 16, 2:10PM
Meet Trackin, a complete software solution for restaurant managers to control your fleet of delivery persons in real time and easily accept online orders. Trackin provides a dashboard for your restaurants, a mobile app for your drivers and an online order widget for your customers. Thanks to this startup attending Y Combinator’s current batch, you will know when your driver is back and… Read MoreDrones To Get A Stadium Gig This Fall
Feb 16, 12:56PM
From military deployment as remote surveillance and killing machines, to hobbyist toys, future delivery bots and now, coming later this year, stadium rockers… Drones have quite the application trajectory. 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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