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Flipkart's New Silicon Valley Hire Shows India's Startup Scene Is Really Taking Off
Mar 05, 7:00AM
We don’t often write about appointments, but sometimes they capture industry trends and are noteworthy in that respect. That’s the case for India’s billion dollar e-commerce firm Flipkart, which has landed a senior exec from Silicon Valley, after former Googler and Motorola VP Punit Soni agreed to become its new Chief Product Officer. Read MoreImgur Finally Has A Proper Mobile App For Its Trove Of Funny Images
Mar 05, 5:50AM
Imgur has returned to mobile apps after it launched a new iOS app for its library of addictive photos and GIFs. The company released native apps for iOS and Android in the past, but they were shuttered due to limited success. Read MoreAnalyzing Postmates' Growth
Mar 05, 12:50AM
Postmates, a startup that allows users to order nearly anything in their city and have it delivered in an hour for a fee, is growing quickly. The company’s CEO, Bastian Lehmann, tweeted out a graph yesterday detailing how quickly the firm has scaled its delivery service. Read MoreTwitter In Talks With Live Streaming App Periscope
Mar 05, 12:36AM
If you looked at this week’s sudden Meerkat phenomenon and thought “hey, Twitter should buy this,” then you’re on the right track. According to sources we’ve spoken with, Twitter has been in talks to purchase live streaming app Periscope, which many private beta users have compared to Meerkat. The talks are in early stages, but it’s clear that Periscope… Read MoreEven With Delays, Building A 12.9-Inch iPad Could Be The Easy Part
Mar 05, 12:32AM
Rumors of an iPad with a larger screen simply will not die. Bloomberg is today reporting that a 12.9-inch iPad will hit manufacturing lines in September. That is later than previously speculated, and the screen is to blame according to the report. But building the larger iPad could be the easy part. Apple then has to convince people that they actually want a tablet that large, which is a… Read MoreDesigning Animation For Mobile
Mar 05, 12:00AM
It’s easy to forget that it was only eight years ago that the first iPhone introduced the world to the idea that you could actually touch software. Graphically, the UI was filled with gradients, textures, and bevels that referenced real world objects to make the user interface look touchable and familiar — a term that we call skeuomorphism. Read MoreAppcelerator Slashes 30% Of Staff As It Pivots Away From Enterprise Sales
Mar 04, 11:57PM
App development platform maker Appcelerator is looking to change the way it does business. Unfortunately for many employees at the company, that meant a massive reorganization that saw about 30 percent of its staff let go last week. CEO Jeff Haynie confirmed to TechCrunch that last week Appcelerator reduced headcount by 30 employees, which he says included about 20 employees in the U.S. and… Read MoreUdacity Kicks Off Enrollment For Its Swift-Focused iOS Developer 'Nanodegree'
Mar 04, 11:53PM
If you’re looking for a way to gain the skills necessary to get a gig developing for iPhone and iPad, but unwilling to commit to a full-time college or university schedule, Udacity might have the answer. The online education platform debuted something called a “nanodegree” last year, and enrollment for the iOS developer edition of the same just opened to applicants today. Read MoreEtsy Officially Files To Go Public, Aims To Raise $100M
Mar 04, 10:50PM
Word started going around back in January that Etsy, the online market for handmade goods, was planning to go public. Sure enough, they’ve just filed the forms to get the ball rolling. Read MoreHow Game Historians Are Keeping Your Favorite Bits From Being Lost Forever
Mar 04, 10:47PM
Since 2013, the Internet Archive has provided access to old console games, arcade titles and even MS-DOS classics like Oregon Trail. In a talk at GDC, Internet Archive curator Jason Scott explained how and why the non-profit preserves history by making sure games from the past aren’t lost as we move on from old hardware and software platforms. “The thing about computer software… Read MoreYC-Backed Outbound Helps Businesses Message Customers Over Both Email And Mobile
Mar 04, 9:22PM
With the shift to mobile devices, businesses today have a need to reach their customers wherever they are – and that includes marketing to their customers outside of email alone. A Y Combinator-backed startup called Outbound wants to help today’s marketers run campaigns that go beyond just tracking “opens and clicks,” and can also reach customers using… Read MoreNextdoor Joins The Billion Dollar Valuation Club With New $110M Funding
Mar 04, 9:20PM
Nextdoor just became the latest private tech company to join the swelling ranks of the billion-dollar valuation club. The San Francisco startup, which runs a social network for people to interact with others who live in their physical neighborhoods, announced today it has raised $110 million in new funding. Nextdoor has confirmed that the raise was conducted at a $1.11 billion post-money… Read MoreVanhawks Raises $1.6M To Help Put The Valour Smartbike On The Road
Mar 04, 9:00PM
Smartbike startup Vanhawks, part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 class, has raised $1.6 million from Real Ventures, Olympic triathlon gold medallist Simon Whitfield, Brenda Irwin of Relentless Pursuit partners and various angels. The company will use the funding to help deliver its Valour smartbike, which raised over $820,000 on Kickstarter last year, to its first customers starting this spring. Read MoreGarmin Fenix 3 Review: For When You Need To Look Good Tracking Your Activity
Mar 04, 8:29PM
This is common and one of the chief concerns Garmin is addressing with the Fenix 3. It looks and works like a normal watch. Just don’t call it a smartwatch. It sports some basic smartwatch functionality, but it’s mainly a glorified activity tracker. And I like it. After two weeks, I’m still wearing it, which is one of the biggest endorsements I can give a product. Basics… Read MoreOculus CTO John Carmack Says Gear VR Gets A Full Launch With Samsung's Next Cycle
Mar 04, 7:58PM
Samsung and Oculus have been treating Gear VR and the Oculus Rift in a similar manner, meaning both pieces of hardware are clearly labeled as developer or enthusiast devices, and not meant for the general public. Oculus CTO John Carmack said Gear VR will get a proper, full consumer launch with Samsung’s next hardware cycle, however. This was Samsung’s desire with the most recent… Read MoreLiveblog: Xbox Head Phil Spencer Talks About The Future Of Gaming On Windows And Xbox
Mar 04, 7:16PM
Xbox head Phil Spencer is at GDC today to give a talk on the future of gaming and game development on the Windows and Xbox platforms. Read MoreGoogle's Cloud Pub/Sub Real-Time Messaging Service Is Now In Public Beta
Mar 04, 7:14PM
Google is launching the first public beta of Cloud Pub/Sub today, its backend messaging service that makes it easier for developers to pass messages between machines and to gather data from smart devices. It’s basically a scalable messaging middleware service in the cloud that allows developers to quickly pass information between applications, no matter where they’re hosted.… Read MoreNvidia's Shield Set-Top Box Could Finally Make The Stream Dream Real
Mar 04, 7:10PM
This new gadget is called simply the Nvidia Shield, which means the company probably wants it to lead the lineup that also includes the Shield Tablet and Shield Portable, and it’s powered by the new Tegra X1 processor Nvidia debuted at CES this year. More important than all that, however, is that it’s a delivery mechanism for Grid, the streaming game service introduced by Nvidia… Read MoreThe New Frontier Of Telemedicine Is Drug Stores
Mar 04, 7:00PM
Modern medicine has seen some amazing technological advances. Heart surgeries that used to be all day open-heart procedures requiring long hospital stays can now be performed as arthroscopic outpatient procedures in a few hours. Tattoos can monitor vital signs, and contact lenses can monitor glucose levels. In a third-world country, you can get the results of an AIDS test in minutes at the cost… Read MorePitch Your Startup In The TechCrunch Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
Mar 04, 6:25PM
Each week on Tuesday, John Biggs and I are lucky enough to get the opportunity to take over an hour of radio time on Sirius XM. We discuss the latest in tech news, chat with important people in the industry, and then get into the best part of all: The TechCrunch Radio Pitch-Off. Here’s how it works: After going through a quick application process, five companies are selected to… 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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