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The SaaSing Of The Music Business
Jun 27, 3:00PM
The music business is about to undergo another seismic shift. And Apple’s streaming service is the tsunami that will force the industry to rebuild. Again. It was around 2005 when I joined Warner Bros. Records as their new head of technology. I was the 20-something-year-old kid who was supposed to have every answer about all things digital. Read MoreThe Future Is Here, It's Just Unevenly Distributed Systems
Jun 27, 1:00PM
Hearken to me, my fellow developers. We live in complex and confusing times. Once we sought to make things ever simpler. Then we discovered that simple isn’t necessarily scalable, or efficient, or resilient, and turned to favoring composition over simplicity, deconstructing our systems into multiple independent services. And now–well–now it sometimes seems we have hit upon… Read MoreThe Berlin Startup Ecosystem Needs An IPO In The U.S.
Jun 27, 6:00AM
On the heels of Microsoft’s acquisition of the Berlin startup darling 6Wunderkinder for a price between $100 and $200 million, the debate rages on about whether Berlin startups should be bolder and wait longer for an exit. The consensus in the Berlin startup ecosystem is that we are still missing one extraordinarily big success. Read MoreThe Tech Industry Is In Denial, But The Bubble Is About To Burst
Jun 26, 10:00PM
Euphoric reaction to superstar tech businesses is rampant — so much so that the tech industry is in denial about looming threats. The tech industry is in a bubble, and there are sufficient indicators for those willing to open their eyes. Rearing unicorns, however, is a distracting fascination. Read MoreCrunchWeek: Taylor Hugs Apple, Verizon Buys Us, And New NSA Leaks
Jun 26, 9:48PM
Hello, friends, and welcome to a slightly more important episode of CrunchWeek. This week, we became vassals of a new empire, Taylor Swift bequeathed her most recent album to Apple’s new streaming product, and WikiLeaks is back in the news as fresh NSA leaks have emerged. Read MoreIntuit Lays Off 399 Employees In Company Realignment
Jun 26, 9:39PM
Intuit has confirmed to TechCrunch that it has laid off 399 people, or just under 5 percent of the company’s roughly 8,000 employees, in a re-alignment of the company. Patrick Barry has also stepped back from leading Demandforce, though he remains an employee of Intuit. Read MoreWelcome Drew Olanoff (Back) To TechCrunch
Jun 26, 9:19PM
TechCrunch has an unofficial tradition of welcoming people back into the fold. We like to think that they go out into the cold, realize how warm and toasty it is by our fire and want to get themselves some more of that. Today, we’re continuing the tradition by welcoming back Drew Olanoff to TechCrunch as a Senior Writer. I worked with Drew previously at The Next Web, where he wrote some… Read More
FCC Chief Argues That Net Neutrality Won't Gut Broadband Investment
Jun 26, 8:53PM
It’s Friday, so you deserve a modest respite. Happily, the Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, gave a speech today to The Brookings Institution that should provide sufficient argument fodder for the full weekend, at least among policy wonks. Read MoreParrot Unveils 13 New Minidrones That Jump And Glide For Under $189
Jun 26, 8:34PM
Parrot unveiled 13 new minidrones this week, all for under $189. The terrestrial “Jumping” drone got a major upgrade, with LED lights for nighttime driving, an internal 4GB memory to record video, and a “boost mode” that brings its top speed to 8mph. Read More
Kid Video And Entertainment Service Playkids Nabs $15M From Parent Firm Movile
Jun 26, 7:00PM
You might think that YouTube has the kid video demographic locked down, particularly since it launched a dedicated video app for kids, but a company out of Brazil would challenge that. And it’s putting $15 million where it’s mouth is, too. Read MoreMeteor Launches Paid Developer Support Subscriptions For Its JavaScript App Platform
Jun 26, 6:08PM
The Y Combinator-incubated Meteor JavaScript application platform today announced that it has acquired Percolate Studio, a design and engineering shop with a lot of experience in building and supporting Meteor-based applications. Meteor is going to use Percolate’s expertise for its commercial developer support subscription, which is also launching today. Read MoreMessaging And The Apple Watch
Jun 26, 6:00PM
Although the Apple Watch boasts the ability to instantly notify users with important updates — breaking news stories, changes to their bank account or the achievement of a fitness goal — its 42mm screen can be a major constraint for developers and designers. Read MoreGoogle Now Allowing Project Fi Customers To Check Their Invite Status
Jun 26, 5:30PM
Early adopters who signed up for Project Fi, Google’s recently announced initiative to provide its own cellular service, can now keep better tabs on the status of their requested invite thanks to a new online tool Google rolled out this week. Potential Project Fi customers were alerted to the availability of the tool by way of an email which informed them that they could now track… Read MoreLyft Acqui-Hires The Team From Messaging App Leo To Improve Location And Other Features
Jun 26, 5:00PM
Lyft has acqui-hired the team behind Leo, a disappearing messaging app for one-on-one or group conversations. We’re told the deal was finalized this past weekend and that co-founders Carlos Whitt, Austen Broyles and Jisi Guo started their new jobs at Lyft on Monday. Lyft declined to disclose the terms of the deal, but Whitt, who’s startup raised $1.5 million from investors, did… Read More11 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
Jun 26, 5:00PM
This week, Taylor Swift went head to head with Apple, anti-Uber protests took place in France, and Amazon Echo went up for pre-order. These are the stories to catch you up on everything that happened this week in tech. Read MoreFor Potential Recruits, VC Is So 1999
Jun 26, 4:52PM
There’s a lot to love about being a venture capitalist. You meet with smart people every day. You make money regardless of whether your investments work. People assume you have smart opinions about things. Strange as it may seem, however, a growing number of illuminati are passing up the chance to work with established firms to do their own thing. Read MoreMeerkat Outs An Embeddable Player, Hooks Discovery Channel's Shark Week
Jun 26, 4:00PM
Livestreaming app Meerkat has launched an embeddable player so that content being broadcast to the app can be embedded into and viewed on other digital services. The first implementation of the player is with the Discovery Channel, for its annual Shark Week multi-platform event — which begins July 5. Read MoreSnips Grabs $6.3 Million To Add An Artificial Intelligence Layer To Your Phone
Jun 26, 3:55PM
French startup Snips just raised $6.3 million (€5.6 million) in a seed round led by The Hive, with participation from Eniac Ventures, 500 startups, Brent Hoberman, Xavier Niel and Bpifrance. The company wants to add some sort of artificial intelligence layer on top of your smartphone so that you can use your phone more efficiently. In pragmatical terms, Snips will release in the near future… Read MoreDisney Now Has Its Own GIF App And iOS 8 Keyboard
Jun 26, 3:36PM
Disney has now somewhat belatedly joined the ranks of the numerous app publishers offering their own custom keyboards for iOS 8 users with the launch of an iOS application called Disney Gif. The new app is a mobile keyboard extension that lets you share Disney and Pixar-themed GIFs via text messaging as well as email and social networks. At launch, the app includes over 200 GIFs, the… Read MoreApple Watch Lands In Seven New Countries, Coming To Three More July 17
Jun 26, 2:51PM
The Apple Watch is expanding beyond the launch group of countries today, shortly after the device first became available for in-store purchase at Apple Retail with a reservation. The international sales expansion includes Italy, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan as of today, and the next group includes the Netherlands, Sweden and Thailand starting July 17.… 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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