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Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Google Photos Team
Nov 06, 9:28PM
Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over the past 18 months. Their suite of apps (Tempo, Fly and Crop) will be made available for the next three months. You’ll still be able to use them, but there will be no more updates. We're excited to announce that we've… Read MoreLinux Ransomware Is Now Attacking Webmasters
Nov 06, 8:54PM
A new bit of ransomware is now attacking Linux-based machines, specifically the folders associated with serving web pages. Called Linux.Encoder.1 the ransomware will encrypt your MySQL, Apache, and home/root folders. The system then asks for a single bitcoin to decrypt the files. From Dr.Web Antivirus: Once launched with administrator privileges, the Trojan dubbed Linux.Encoder.1… Read MoreDoodle Partners With Paperless Post To Bring Easy Scheduling To Your Event Invitations
Nov 06, 8:27PM
Doodle makes it easy to schedule things with friends, coworkers, whoever — but scheduling isn’t the only thing that you need to organize an event. So the company has also connected its tools to the invitation process, by rolling out an integration with Paperless Post. Doodle CEO Michael Brecht said this is the Zurich-headquartered company’s first big US partnership, and… Read MorePeggy Johnson, Microsoft's Deal Boss, On Reaching Silicon Valley
Nov 06, 8:22PM
If you had a few dozen billion dollars, an appetite to cut deals and a desire to change your image a few states away, how would you go about it? That is a question Microsoft is trying to answer. Cash-rich, profitable and sporting new leadership, the company wants to change its image in Silicon Valley. Long ensconced in the Pacific Northwest, the company has boosted its focus on the Bay Area. Read MoreThis Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Chronos, comScore, And The Ario Smart Lamp
Nov 06, 8:00PM
In case you want to opt out of the smart watch trend without having a dumb watch, Chronos is there for you. comScore made moves this week in the world of mergers and acquisitions, while the Ario smart lamp went live (and surpassed its goal) on Kickstarter. We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the TC Gadgets Podcast, featuring John Biggs, Matt Burns, Romain Dillet,… Read MoreEmergence Capital Investor Wants To Show Off Entrepreneurs' Super Powers With Graphic Novel
Nov 06, 7:26PM
They may have the latest gadgets, but the men and women of Silicon Valley are rarely thought of as superheroes. Joseph Floyd, an Emergence Capital investor, wants to change that. Floyd noticed that many of the mainstream role models children look up to are athletes and celebrities, while many founders and engineers shy away from the media. He hopes with his upcoming graphic novel,… Read MoreHere's That Insane Surprise Star Wars Trailer Scene-By-Scene As GIFs To Tear Apart
Nov 06, 7:12PM
A new Star Wars trailer appeared on Disney’s Japanese YouTube channel this morning, seemingly out of nowhere. The biggest surprise? It wasn’t just a bunch of previously seen footage rearranged. While we’d seen plenty of it before, there’s tons of new footage within. As is tradition now, we’ve torn the new trailer apart scene-by-scene as GIFs ready to be watched… Read MorePerfecto Is A Marketplace For Bikes That Are Not Stolen
Nov 06, 6:51PM
Launched last month, Perfecto is a bike marketplace that verifies buyers, sellers, and bicycles, essentially eradicates the potential of stolen bikes being sold as legit ones. As bicycle commutes becomes a larger trend in cities worldwide, the market for secondhand bikes is skyrocketing. Traditional marketplaces like Craigslist are exacerbating this problem, as there is no safeguards in place… Read MoreFox Shows On Hulu Will Offer Reduced, Only 30-Second-Long Ad Option
Nov 06, 6:46PM
Hulu may have introduced a commercial free-tier to improve the user experience for those who can’t stand watching ads, but a new deal with Fox Networks has the potential to make the ad-supported version of Hulu less painful as well. This week, Fox and Hulu announced a new type of ad format would be arriving on Hulu for the first time: engagement ads. Viewers who opt for this sort of… Read More13 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
Nov 06, 6:36PM
This week, Prop F was struck down, Facebook reported continued growth and Twitter traded in stars for hearts. TC Cribs visited the Love Nest, a Palo Alto co-living space that’s part commune and part startup incubator. On Bullish, we talked with Joyce Kim of Stellar about the impact of non-profits inside the tech world. These are the tech stories to catch you up on this week’s… Read MoreYahoo Rolls Out A New, Flickr-Powered Image Search That Returns Your Own Photos
Nov 06, 6:35PM
Yahoo announced today an upgrade to its image search engine which now includes a combination of web results as well as images from its photo-sharing site Flickr, including your own photos. The way the service works is that signed-in users will see desktop search results that offer a combination of Flickr’s top public photos, images from people you follow on Flickr, and a selection of… Read MoreApple Debuts A New "Shopping" Category On The App Store
Nov 06, 6:00PM
Confirming earlier reports, Apple today is debuting a new category to its App Store that will help consumers better locate mobile shopping applications. The “Shopping” category will be available worldwide, and will feature apps that span across omni-channel, auctions, price comparison, product reviews and more. These applications were previously listed in the App Store’s… Read MoreGarry Tan Says Goodbye to Y Combinator
Nov 06, 5:48PM
Garry Tan is leaving the accelerator and investment firm Y Combinator after a four-year stint with the outfit. Tan had previously cofounded the easy-to-use blogging service Posterous, which was backed by Y Combinator and acquired by Twitter in 2012. (It was later shuttered.) Tan joined Y Combinator in 2011 as a designer in residence but was quickly to promoted to partner. He said in… Read MoreAWS Plans To Launch A UK Region By The End Of 2016
Nov 06, 5:22PM
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aggressively expanding the number of different geographic regions it offers its services in. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announced today, the company plans to launch a UK region by the end of 2016 (“or early 2017”). That’s Amazon’s third region in the European Union. Amazon’s facilities in Dublin were long the only option for… Read MoreChina To Green-Light IPOs Again By Year End
Nov 06, 5:09PM
China plans to lift its moratorium on IPO listings before the end of the year, the official news agency Xinhua said earlier today. The country had instituted a ban on IPOs back in July, after shares roared along for the first half of the year, bolstered by numerous moves by the Chinese government. Among them, it cut benchmark interest rates, reduced stock market transaction fees and even… Read MoreThe Self-Driving Car Revolution Will Be Slow And Help Us All, But It Won't Kill Driving Anytime Soon
Nov 06, 5:00PM
A very intelligent piece by BuzzFeed’s Mat Honan said that Google’s self-driving car would bring about the “ugly end of driving.” He’s correct in almost every way; cars are “giant, inefficient, planet-and-people-killing death machines,” killing, as he cited, 1.2 million people a year. This is a good enough argument that removing a whole bunch of… Read MoreLuma, Quite Improbably, Makes Wi-Fi Setup Fun
Nov 06, 4:47PM
Wi-fi setup is usually pretty easy: you find a space in the house, hire a team of radio experts to scan it for dead spots and an entire IT team to manage security and QoS. Then you try to connect from the back patio and discover that you can’t watch YouTube from the picnic table. To remedy this Dr. Paul Judge and Mike Van Bruinisse created Luma. This tiny Wi-Fi hotspot connects using a… Read MoreSURPRISE! There's A New Japanese Star Wars Trailer And It's Amazing And Full of New Footage
Nov 06, 4:24PM
Whoa. Generally, word starts going around that a new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer is going to drop days before it actually does. This one sort of just… appeared. We didn’t even have to pretend to care about Monday Night Football to see it! Read More$30M Later, Struggling JavaScript Platform Famo.us Pivots
Nov 06, 3:38PM
Famo.us’ 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted out of its hardcore open sourced engineering platform which had raised over $31 million. It’s now refocused on commercializing the idea of powerful mobile web apps with a content management system for branded marketing apps. Read MoreDeadline Extended: One More Week To Save £400 On Disrupt London Tickets
Nov 06, 3:00PM
Did you miss the deadline or just forget to get early-bird tickets to Disrupt London? You’re in luck! We’re giving you one more week to stop procrastinating and get your tickets for £400 off the total retail price of £1,200. You’ll hear wonderful things from some of the best and brightest investors, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the business at Disrupt,… 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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