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SaaS Companies Look To Change The Interface Of Web Design

Apr 04, 9:30AM

webdesignsimple Code-free web design platforms are an increasingly popular tool among web designers. Companies behind these tools promise a design experience that doesn’t require any coding skills, or the need for an expensive third party developer. Read More



The Promise Of Outsourcing To Vietnam

Apr 03, 11:00PM

IMG_2936 It’s no surprise that Vietnam is being talked about as an alternative, amid rising costs and attrition rates in popular offshoring destinations like China and India. The General Statistics Office of Vietnam reports growth of almost 6 percent in GDP during 2014. Tech giants like Samsung, Microsoft, LG and Intel have invested in large operations in Vietnam, and a growing number of… Read More



Publicize Aims To Turn Its New "Reporter-In-Residence" Program Into A Bigger Trend

Apr 03, 10:52PM

Rebecca Grant Startup PR firm Publicize is launching a new program for what it calls Reporters-in-Residence. Publicize founder and CEO Conrad Egusa said he was inspired by the Entrepreneur-in-Residence programs offered by venture capital firms, where former startup founders and execs are put on the payroll to help the firm’s portfolio while also coming up with new ideas. Read More



CrunchWeek: Shyp's Fundraising, Microsoft's Surface 3 And GoDaddy's Massive IPO

Apr 03, 10:19PM

crunchweek-4-3 Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek — a special one, as our brand-new reporter Matt Lynley joins us for the first time. We’re incredibly happy to have him on the team and the set. Aside from newkid and myself, Sarah Buhr were on hand to dig into the biggest stories of the week: Shyp’s massive capital raise, Microsoft’s new Surface device and GoDaddy’s… Read More



15 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week

Apr 03, 10:19PM

TC-weekly-roundup This week’s tech headlines saw a mega-roundup of April Fool’s Day tech pranks, Jay-Z’s new music streaming service and much more. These were our best stories of the week (3/28-4/3). Read More



Apple Watch Demo Videos Put Potential Buyers Behind The Wheel

Apr 03, 9:01PM

Screen Shot 2015-04-03 at 2.00.00 PM Apple has released a series of four videos today that show — explicitly — exactly what the Apple Watch can do, how it will do it and why you might be interested in buying one. If it seems to be a bit late in the cycle to get something like this out, I agree. Apple’s early marketing around the Watch has focused mainly on its construction, originality and possibilities for… Read More



Microsoft Is Saying Exactly "Nothing" About The Surface Pro 4

Apr 03, 8:57PM

Screen Shot 2015-04-03 at 1.45.55 PM On the heels of announcing the Surface 3, Microsoft trotted over to Reddit for its now-traditional AMA dance with the folks. The Surface 3 is a smaller, less expensive iteration of the Surface Pro 3, which was released last year. The Pro 3’s commercial performance has been superior to its predecessors, making its successor all the more interesting as a potential. In the AMA, Microsoft… Read More



Apple Watch Pre-Orders Will Start Just After Midnight Pacific On April 10th

Apr 03, 8:55PM

watch We knew the date; now we know the time. Apple Watch pre-orders will officially begin at 12:01 a.m. PDT on April 10th, according to a just updated Apple Store front page. Want an Apple Watch and live in New York? Hope you like staying up ’til 3 a.m.! Why might Apple fire sales up at such a late hour? The company generally doesn’t explain its reasoning for anything, but we can make a… Read More



Tinder's First Advertisement Is One Big Experiment

Apr 03, 8:38PM

Screenshot 2015-04-03 16.23.40 This week, Tinder unveiled its first ad in the form of a video promoting Budweiser’s next #Whatever, USA campaign. The video ad will show up for Tinder users the next time they open the app, but much like Instagram’s foray into advertising, Tinder ensures that rolling out advertising on the platform will go slow. Within a few swipes, users will land on Bud Light’s profile with… Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 04.03.15

Apr 03, 8:06PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, 04.03.15, at 1pmPT/4pmET. Gillmor Gang on Facebook LIVE FriendFeed chat during the live broadcast only (and for the very last time on FriendFeed) Our sister show, G3 on Ustream Our sister show, G3, on Facebook Read More



Why Your Favorite Snapchat Apps No Longer Work

Apr 03, 7:53PM

Snapchat Outside of a mobile application’s official product, there tends to exist a broader ecosystem catering the wants and unmet desires of its user community. For Instagram, there are apps to boost your followers; Tinder users could once peer into who likes them and undo their accidental swipes; and dozens Snapchat apps bloomed, allowing users to automatically save incoming photos or… Read More



Do Something Epic With Everfest's Festival Finder

Apr 03, 7:31PM

Everfest No one on their death bed says “all the things I could have owned?!” It’s “all the things I could have done?!” The world is shifting from a material culture to an experiential culture. Many of our most prized possessions like photographs and music have become digitized. We now have the Internet to find experiences, devices to capture them, and social networks to… Read More



Dropbox Is Testing An Online Note-Taking Service With "Project Composer"

Apr 03, 7:08PM

dropbox-biz1 It appears that Dropbox is bringing back HackPad, the collaborative documents service the company acquired a year ago. The Y Combinator-backed startup had grown to become a popular tool for taking quick notes at conferences, events, as well as in the classroom, due to its simple design, ease of use, and real-time nature. Now, a service called Composer, which looks remarkably like HackPad,… Read More



Bill Maris To Talk Longevity At Disrupt NY

Apr 03, 5:50PM

BillMaris At just 40 years old, Bill Maris is on a mission to save the world — with his investments. Bloomberg recently highlighted Maris’s quest to improve the quality and longevity of human life. This quest is evident in Google Ventures’ growing biotech portfolio, which now includes 36 percent health and life science investments. Read More



There's A $10 Billion Opportunity As Marketing Hits The Big Time

Apr 03, 5:00PM

money cash Marketing is no longer the forgotten stepchild of enterprise software. Traditionally underserved and under-penetrated, marketing is finally receiving its fair share of attention by technologists, founders and investors alike. Gartner famously predicted CMOs would spend more on IT than CIOs by 2017. IDC estimates $32.4 billion in marketing technology spending by 2018, growing at 12.4 percent CAGR. Read More



Pinterest Acquires Team From Hike Labs, Including Google Reader, Blogger Veteran Jason Shellen

Apr 03, 4:59PM

pinterest Pinterest today scored two notable new hires with the acquisition of a small, two-person startup known as Hike Labs, which had been developing a mobile publishing application called Drafty. But Pinterest says this was not a technology deal – rather, the company was interested in gaining the expertise of Hike Labs’ co-founders Jason Shellen and Mike Demers. Shellen, you may… Read More



Microsoft Will Remove "Do Not Track" As The Default Setting In Its New Browsers

Apr 03, 4:39PM

12196229744_5f6fabd4e6_k Microsoft today announced that going forward, it will not turn on the “Do Not Track” feature in the upcoming versions of Internet Explorer and Spartan by default. The “Do Not Track” setting in many popular browsers tells websites and their advertisers that you want to opt out of third-party tracking for advertising purposes. All of the major browser vendors,… Read More



Weekends Are The Best Time To Promote Most Apps, Study Finds

Apr 03, 4:07PM

apps According to a new report released today, the best time for mobile application developers to promote or launch a new application across a number of categories tends to be on a weekend, as it turns out. In fact, even if you do well with a weekday release in terms of download numbers, the weekend may be the better time to run an ad campaign that promotes purchases, the report found. This… Read More



A Taste Of TechCrunch Radio On Sirius XM

Apr 03, 3:49PM

techcrunch-radio1 TechCrunch has a radio show on Sirius XM. John Biggs and I host the show, which airs every Tuesday at 6pm ET on Sirius XM Insight 121, and each week we have cool guest interviews with some of the brightest minds in tech. Because Sirius XM requires a subscription, some of TechCrunch’s most loyal readers don’t actually have full-fledged access to the show, so we thought we would… Read More



Reedsy Launches Behance-Like Profiles To Let Authors Showcase Their Books

Apr 03, 2:50PM

IMG_0614 Reedsy just launched author profiles on its website where writers can collect and showcase their work on a single page. This way, Reedsy provides a simple way to share your profile on the web, much like an About.me link. As a reminder, Reedsy unbundles the good old publishing company and provides all the services you need to self publish a book. The startup helps you find an editor, copy… Read More




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