September 12, 2011
YC-Backed B2Brev Aims To Be The Yelp For B2B Services
Y Combinator startup B2Brev wants to help small to medium size businesses figure out which products and services to use, by serving as a venue for aggregated reviews. Starting out…
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the audience winner was Quest.li. It’s a mobile application that turns real life goals into a game. Founder Danil Kozyatnikov traveled from Siberia to present. In the…
Idle Games Wants To Be The Pixar Of Social Gaming; In Their First Game, You Play God
If you were into PC gaming in the early 2000s, you know what Black & White is. Peter Molyneux’s 2001 classic published by EA gave every gamer the role they wanted:…
Amen Aims To Find The Best Of Everything With A Smart Interface
It’s been a long time since we were delighted and even slightly bemused by the utter stripped down simplicity of Twitter. And let’s face it, there have been many pretenders…
“Google’s Auto Correct Killed The Launch Of Our Android App”
We’ve all dealt with the frustrations of auto-correct, from unintentionally declaring that you’re getting a divorce to having your bitter, angry diatribe suddenly mutate into something involving a lot of…
There is a lot of junk on YouTube. But there are also a ton of undiscovered gems. Imagine if you could have a hand in surfacing the best stuff. And…
HouseFix: Bringing Social Recommendations & Accountability To Home Improvement
If you’re planning to get work done on your house in the near future, you’ll probably be interested in HouseFix, one of the latest companies to launch this afternoon at the…
Openbucks: Buy Digital Goods Online With Subway Giftcards (And More)
It’s sort of ridiculous how huge gift card programs are — Americans spend some $100 billion on them each year, and they’re now offered by myriad physical stores and online…
Shaker Aims To Turn Facebook Into A Night On The Town — Complete With (Virtual) Drinks
Facebook is the social network. But it’s still not really all that social. Yes, you chat here and “like” things there. But it’s not the same as going out to…
Everpix: All Your Photos, Automatically Organized And Accessible From Anywhere
TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Everpix is a new service that automatically organizes and combines all your photo libraries into an elegant interface, whether they’re stored on the desktop or in the cloud.…
With Bitcasa, The Entire Cloud Is Your Hard Drive For Only $10 Per Month
The cloud is now your hard drive. And not just a few dozen Gigabytes, Terabytes or even Petabytes, but all of it – infinite storage – for only $10 per…
Pressly Turns Websites Into Tablet-Friendly HTML5 Web Apps
TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Pressly is an HTML5-based platform that turns online publications into tablet-friendly websites that work on the iPad, Android tablets or the BlackBerry PlayBook. The sites it produces…
Verious Launches First Marketplace For Mobile App Components
Today, TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Verious is launching the world’s first marketplace for mobile application components – that is, the libraries, the SDKs (software development kits), the add-ons, the open source…
NTT DoCoMo, Samsung Talking Chipset Alliance Against Qualcomm
Qualcomm is one of biggest players (if not the biggest) in the mobile chipset space, and their dominance of the market is forcing other manufacturers to seek alternative strategies. While…
Spool is a new service aimed at addressing the problem created by the multi-device, multi-screen environment we now live in, where the content consumption experience can vary widely from platform…
Cake Health, The ‘Mint For Health Insurance,’ Launches To The Public
No matter how healthy you are, health insurance still has the uncanny ability to give you a headache. First there are the bills, which always seem way steeper than you…
Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Talks About Facebook’s Early Days, And What’s Wrong With Google+
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and, more recently, of enterprise collaboration software company Asana, spoke to TechCrunch Editor in Chief Erick Schonfeld at Disrupt this afternoon in a brief interview. The…
Report: Android Market Nearing 6 Billion Downloads; Weather Apps Are Makin’ It Rain
The Android Market continues to explode. Recent statistics published by research firm Ovum predict that app downloads in Android’s marketplace could reach 8.1 billion this year, compared to 6 billion…
Farmigo: Tapping Into The Power Of The Web To Bring You Fresh Veggies
It’s no secret that fresh produce straight from the farm can often beat the potato skins off of its supermarket counterpart — and why farmer’s markets are becoming increasingly popular.…
So, you bought an HP TouchPad. No, not the £89 TouchPad — the £399 TouchPad. Understandably, you’re pissed. Well, everything’s going to be okay. HP’s “way of saying thank you…
Tonara’s iPad App Looks To Reinvent Sheet Music For The Digital Age
If you’ve ever played an instrument, there’s a very good chance you’re familiar with the annoyances involved with sheet music. For one, it can be tough to find the piece…
TC Disrupt: Office Hours With YC Partners Paul Graham And Harj Taggar
One of the best sessions of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC was Paul Graham’s Office Hours — where Y Combinator founder Graham sat down for a few minutes with entrepreneurs, analyzing and critiquing…
Max Levchin And Peter Thiel: Innovation In The World Today Is Between ‘Dire Straits And Dead’
Peter Thiel and Max Levchin are busy guys. Thiel, aside from being on the Board of Directors for companies like Palantir Technologies, Geni, and Asana, an early investor and former…
Seedcamp Week 2011 – meet the finalists, the winners and one good Samaritan
As I wrote last week when Seedcamp made a flurry of announcements, including fresh funding and ambitious plans for international expansion, I spent some time in London last week to…
Meet Philly’s New Android-Powered Newspaper: The Arnova 10 G2
The Philadelphia Media Network has had an ambitious summer: in July, the company announced their intention to sell subsidized Android tablets with subscriptions to the digital editions of Philly’s two…
Barnes & Noble Courts HTML Devs With Appcelerator Partnership
Although it is free to develop for the B&N Nook Color’s homegrown version of Android, the company is courting devs who may or may not be as comfortable with the…
Sequoia’s Doug Leone On Entrepreneurs, Billions, CrunchFund, And His Hatred Of Photographs
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Michael Arrington sat down with Sequoia’s Doug Leone. While he’s been with the venture capital firm since 1988, not many people know who he is because…
We’ve mentioned a few times the possibility that GameStop would be launching its own GameStop-branded tablet. Turns out, this mystery tablet is already in the testing phase, says GameStop President…
Ford Partners With Bug Labs To Develop Open Source Platform For In-Car Innovatin’
At the TechCrunch Hackathon on Saturday, the 108-year-old, All-American automaker, Ford, teamed up with the newly-American music service, Spotify, to showcase the growing opportunities for developers looking to take advantage…
Angry Birds, The Brand: Rovio Sells 1M T-Shirts And 1M Plush Toys Per Month
Given that I don’t even really need to write an introduction for it, it goes without saying that Angry Birds is a massive, massive brand. It’s available for everything from…
