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Japanese Court Orders Google To Delete Critical Reviews From Google Maps

Apr 10, 10:01AM

japan flag There’s troubling news in Japan today, after Google was forced to remove two critical customer reviews from its Google Maps service. Read More



Apple Watch Is Now Available For Pre-Order

Apr 10, 7:01AM

IMG_8950 Apple has flipped the switch for pre-orders for the Apple Watch, letting customers purchase their device in advance via the Apple Store website and the Store app for iPhone and iPad. Previously, customers could “favorite” their preferred selection, picking from the three Watch collections and the various bands available for each, but now they can actually order a device, with… Read More



Helmed By Line's Former CEO, Video Startup C Channel Launches With $4.1M In Funding

Apr 10, 4:36AM

C Channel studio Today marks the official launch of C Channel, the new video startup headed by former Line chief executive officer Akira Morikawa. So far, the company has raised 500 million yen (about $4.1 million) in funding from investors including GMO Venture Partners, i-Stye, Asobi System Holdings, Gree, Nexyz, B Dash Ventures, MAK Corporation, and Rakuten. Read More



Southeast Asian Telecom Giant Singtel Releases Wavee App, A Skype And WhatsApp Competitor

Apr 10, 3:21AM

Singtel Wavee Singtel, Southeast Asia’s biggest telecom with more than 500 million subscribers, has unleashed a new Skype and WhatsApp competitor called Wavee. Read More



In Depth With Portfolio, The App That Wants To Take On Yahoo Finance

Apr 10, 12:52AM

screen-shot-2015-02-20-at-3-18-26-pm There is more to mobile apps than games, and Portfolio, co-founded by TechCrunch alum Ben Schaechter, wants to upend the financial application space. The company launched its iOS application three weeks ago, and has seen quick early adoption, spurred on in part with App Store love from Apple. Portfolio is a simple way to track the American financial markets and individual trades. The app… Read More



Why Hollywood Needs To Make Technology A Priority

Apr 09, 11:00PM

hollywood-0-1 Every day, it seems there are new headlines on the strained relationship between technology and entertainment. Variety’s recent “Broken Hollywood” story was essentially a battle cry from entertainment heavyweights sounding off on the biggest challenges they’re facing in an industry undergoing a great deal of turmoil. In 2015, when we’ll see an estimated one… Read More



Jawbone Will Ship UP3 On April 20, Blames Water Resistance Problems For Delay

Apr 09, 9:22PM

video-mobile Jawbone has updated the ship date for the UP3 activity tracker, informing pre-order customers and prospective buyers that the wearable gadget will start heading out to U.S. buyers on April 20. The UP3 tracker, announced in November 2014, faced numerous delays, and cited manufacturing problems with an initial apology made back in February. Today, Jawbone cites problems with water resistance as… Read More



Condé Nast Hires Starwood's Arlie Sisson To Lead Its New Emerging Products Group

Apr 09, 9:22PM

arlie sisson Magazine publisher Condé Nast is hiring a new vice president to run its emerging products group — Arlie Sisson, who’s joining from Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Sisson led Starwood’s strategy for native apps on mobile, and before that, worked at mobile startup Silver Chalice New Media. Read More



TC Makers: We Learn How MarkForged Prints Unbreakable Objects

Apr 09, 8:59PM

MarkForged Mark One We first met the folks at MarkForged at CES where they showed us their printer that could create nearly unbreakable objects. By weaving carbon fiber between layers of plastic, the team made some of the coolest 3D printed objects we’ve ever seen. I went to Boston where we met MarkForged’s founder Greg Mark who walked us through his workshop from start to finish. There we saw… Read More



This Custom Apple II Watch Is My New Favorite Thing

Apr 09, 8:34PM

Screen Shot 2015-04-09 at 1.27.34 PM Damn. We see a lot of really cool DIY projects pass through these parts, but this one is probably the coolest I’ve seen in a long while. The Apple Watch is coming out in a few days. You knew that — you read TechCrunch/have the Internet/don’t live under a rock/etc. Looking to wrap something a bit more unique around his wrist, Instructables user Aleator777 put together a watch… Read More



FanBread Says It Can Help Online Celebs Make Money By Creating Their Own Websites

Apr 09, 8:30PM

fanbread If you’re big on YouTube or Vine or whatever, a startup called FanBread aims to help you make money — specifically by building and monetizing a website of your very own. The company is only emerging from stealth mode today, but founder and CEO Karl House told me he’s done something similar before, when he served as head of sales and business development at YouTube network… Read More



AWS Wants To Put Machine Learning In Reach Of Any Developer

Apr 09, 8:08PM

Amazon Machine Learning announcement at AWS Summit. Andy Jassy, senior vice president at Amazon Web Services, announced a new machine learning platform today at the AWS Summit in San Francisco. The Amazon Machine Learning service is designed to give developers without machine learning background the tools to build smart, data-driven applications that can not only analyze what’s happening in real time or what happened in the past, but… Read More



Envelop Is Building A Nightclub For Audio Nerds

Apr 09, 8:00PM

Ambisonic We’ve been stuck in stereo for too long. Ambisonics is the future of audio, where sound can come from any direction in a 3D space. But there are few places to listen to this type of music, and it’s even harder for artists to create it. That’s why a team of top-notch engineers are Kickstarting ‘Envelop’, an open source ambisonic music composition platform, and… Read More



Chris Dixon Is Coming To Disrupt NY To Talk About All The Weird Shit He's Investing In

Apr 09, 8:00PM

chris-dixon Today we’re pleased to announce that Chris Dixon, a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz, will be joining us at Disrupt NY. This is great news, and let me tell you why. Usually venture capitalists are pretty boring. They generally wear khakis while on the hunt for whatever the next Uber-for-X or Airbnb-for-Y will be. They know what all the hot new messaging apps are, and have… Read More



Examining Tech Solutions To Natural Disasters

Apr 09, 7:00PM

cyclonepam When Cyclone Pam hit Vanuatu, it struck a very vulnerable target. The Pacific nation is considered one of the world’s poorest and is ranked by the United Nations’ WorldRiskIndex as the most disaster-prone country. Yet for a storm significantly stronger than Hurricane Katrina, Cyclone Pam resulted in a relatively low number of casualties. Early warnings helped save scores of… Read More



Where Is The Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon Winner Now?

Apr 09, 6:50PM

Screen Shot 2015-04-09 at 10.43.06 AM With Disrupt NY 2015 only a month away, we thought it’d be fun to look back at the winner of the Disrupt NY 2014 Hackathon to see what they’ve been up to in the last year. As you may recall, the virtual reality app Vrban took home the grand prize. So, where is last year’s Hackathon winner now? Read More



Vulcun Takes On $12M To Grow The Fantasy Esports Market

Apr 09, 6:32PM

leagueoflegends Fantasy sports is big business. Fantasy esports is a smaller, but quickly growing younger sibling. Vulcun, currently boasting a multi-million-dollar prize pool, wants to make fantasy esports the next big thing, and now has the cash on hand to pull off its dream: A host of venture capital firms and angels just participated in a $12 million Series A round of capital for the company. I spoke… Read More



Amazon Launches New File Storage Service For EC2

Apr 09, 6:12PM

2015-04-09_1029 At its AWS Summit in San Francisco, Amazon today announced the launch of the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), a new storage service that provides a common file system for multiple EC2 virtual machines on AWS through the standard NFSv4 protocol. This new service will launch into preview in the “near future.” Read More



There Are Only 2 Days Left To Save $1000 On Disrupt NY Tickets

Apr 09, 6:03PM

14129380012_a57eb813a0_k The clock is counting down to Disrupt New York (May 4 – May 6, if we’re getting specific) and that means early bird pricing for tickets is about to expire. The window closes on Friday and once it does, prices will go up by $1,000 so consider this fair warning. Get out ahead of this. Disrupt New York is set to be TechCrunch’s best conference yet, with a speakers list that… Read More



Apple Watch Will Be Sold Online Only During "Initial Launch Period"

Apr 09, 6:00PM

apple-watch-event0396 Apple Watch buyers will have to queue virtually in order to buy the device, at least initially. A press release this morning from the company reveals that the first batch of Apple Watch orders will only be collected via the Apple Store application for iOS devices and the online Apple store site. Apple head of retail Angela Ahrendts confirmed this plan in the press release announcing pre-sales… Read More




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