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The Rationale Behind Soaring App Development Prices

Apr 05, 2:00AM

moneyapp During the last quarter of 2014, we were approached by a funded startup based in Boston to identify an app development company to build an app for their European launch. The skill sets were quite niche, and the yearly spend would cross $100K, so we had to approach platform evangelists to identify some development studios that they’d recommend based on first-hand experience. Read More



OnePlus Launches OxygenOS, Its Custom Version Of Android

Apr 04, 10:38PM

oxygenos Smartphone-maker OnePlus just released the initial version of OxygenOS, its forked version of Android Lollipop, optimized for its OnePlus One phone. News that OnePlus was working on the operating system broke in January, after a split with partner Cyanogen. Read More



The Work-Family Imbalance

Apr 04, 10:00PM

workfamilybalance I recently left my job primarily to spend more time with my two-year-old daughter. I didn’t want it to be too late before I realized that I had spent very little time with her; I was starting to establish some patterns that I wasn’t proud of, and it was stemming from my inability to balance work and family well. Read More



A Vision Of A Driverless Future

Apr 04, 6:00PM

driverlesscar One of the things I find most surprising about discussions concerning the advent of automated vehicles is that, besides predictable worries about the disappearance of jobs that currently require human drivers, there is a serious, and boring, lack of imagination. Most people seem to think the world will be the same as it is now, except that our cars will be driving us around. In this scenario,… Read More



Gillmor Gang: Watch Your Step

Apr 04, 5:42PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Kevin Marks, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, April 3, 2015. The one where we talk TV or Not TV: the intersection of live streaming, the Apple Watch, and the InfoRouter. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Francine Hardaway, Rebecca Woodcock, guest Lisa Padilla, and Tina Gillmor. @stevegillmor, @kevinmarks, @fradice, @kteare Read More



The Cloud Could Be Your Best Security Bet

Apr 04, 4:48PM

Clouds in sky with lock and words "cloud security" in clouds. In fact, if a cloud service has proper controls, it could be safer than running your own datacenter. Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Box to a company have much more at stake when it comes to security. A breach could prove devastating to their businesses. That could be why it’s hard to come up with a major security snafu involving a cloud provider. Other than the Jennifer Lawrence… Read More



Live Video Is The New Clickbait

Apr 04, 4:00PM

8472724456_4a52ebf1b4_k The arms race for eyeballs online has a new weapon: live video streaming, a la Meerkat and Periscope. This type of content is innately ephemeral. Blink and you’ll miss the stream. It absolutely demands you break away and gawp RIGHT NOW. It monopolizes your attention given its fleeting duration. Read More



Porn, Sex, Tech, And Cindy Gallop

Apr 04, 1:00PM

mlnp-3 “Most likely it will be amateur pornographers who make best use of Meerkat’s special features,” observes The Economist drily, ending an analysis of the battle between Meerkat and Periscope. “They have a long history of kick-starting new video technologies.” Indeed. Porn is always at the forefront of technology. But what about sex? Read More



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




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