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Zype Helps Video Publishers Look Beyond YouTube By Building Their Own Sites And Apps
5:51 pm PST • December 10, 2014
Video startup Zype unveiled its online video platform today, which it says can help publishers grow and monetize their audiences. To be clear, it’s not trying to compete with YouTube…
Hardware
New “Shingled” Hard Drives Hold Terabytes For Pennies A Gig
5:24 pm PST • December 10, 2014
While the last time most of us thought of shingles was when we were itchy in eighth grade, Seagate has been thinking of them as a way to store data.…
Media & Entertainment
The Estimable @LiquidSnute On The Future Of Starcraft And Being A Pro Gamer
5:14 pm PST • December 10, 2014
At the IEM San Jose event this weekend, I got the chance to catch up with LiquidSnute, a Starcraft professional gamer who has become well-known in the past year for…
Media & Entertainment
Google’s YouTube App For Android Updated With Material Design, Adds Search Filters
3:58 pm PST • December 10, 2014
Slowly but surely, Google is updating each of their own Android applications to fit in with Android’s new “Material Design” motif. The latest one to get the makeover treatment: YouTube.
Startups
Box Files Third-Quarter S-1 Update Amid Improving IPO Climate
3:47 pm PST • December 10, 2014
Box filed its third quarter S-1 update today, almost nine months after they originally filed the document required for an initial public offering. This time the numbers look a bit…
Transportation
Sidecar Follows The Competition, Starts Charging A $1 “RideSafe” Fee
3:39 pm PST • December 10, 2014
Last year, Uber introduced a “Safe Rides” fee that added a $1 charge to uberX fares. This fee, they said, was meant to help them cover the cost of background…
Startups
Chef’d Uses Crowdfunding To Roll Out Recipe-And-Ingredient Delivery Service For Gourmet Meals
3:31 pm PST • December 10, 2014
Chef’d is the latest startup promising to deliver the tools (and by tools I mean recipes and ingredients) you need to cook delicious meals at home. We’ve written about existing…
Enterprise
Intuit Buys UK’s Acrede To Expand Its Global Payroll Services
2:43 pm PST • December 10, 2014
Intuit has quietly made another acquisition today to expand its accounting and back office management business, this time focusing on payroll. Acrede, a Jersey, UK-based provider of global, cross-border and…
Media & Entertainment
TC Droidcast Episode 30: Cardboard VR, How Do You Wear Your Android Wear
1:40 pm PST • December 10, 2014
This week, Google dropped so many updates today that we couldn’t help but talk about them, including new specs and software for the Google Cardboard smartphone-based VR program, and an…
The Uno Noteband is a wearable designed for those who want the convenience of getting notifications on their wrists but don’t want to spend a bunch of time fiddling with…
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After several years of relatively stagnant waters, what was a dull CRM landscape dominated by one player is heating up dramatically these past months. Salesforce officially put their $3.5b market…
Startups
Happn Attracts $8 Million To Roll Out Its Tinder-Like App Globally
1:00 pm PST • December 10, 2014
French dating app Happn just raised an $8 million Series A round from Alven Capital and DN Capital, as well as business angels, such as Fabrice Grinda. As a reminder,…
Here’s What Happens When Thousands Of Gamers Pack A Sports Arena To Watch Esports
12:51 pm PST • December 10, 2014
At an event in San Jose this weekend, TechCrunch went full esports. The confab, the Intel Extreme Master digital tournament, saw professional players from around the world duke it out…
Media & Entertainment
Google Brings Museums To Mobile Users, Armchair Travelers With New Technology Platform
11:49 am PST • December 10, 2014
Google announced today it’s making a platform available to museums that enables them to build mobile applications that take advantage of Google technology, including Street View and YouTube, to bring…
Media & Entertainment
Xiaomi Ready To Talk Patents With Ericsson After Sales Ban In India
11:39 am PST • December 10, 2014
Chinese phone company Xiaomi has said it is ready to talk to Ericsson to overcome a temporary ban that was slapped on its smartphone business in India.
Media & Entertainment
Google Live Channels For Android TV Hints At Live TV Capabilities Coming Soon
11:37 am PST • December 10, 2014
Google has a new app available on the Play Store that provides some insight into how it will bring live content to its Android TV platform. The Google Live Channels…
Google Updates Its Cardboard VR App, Launches SDKs For Android And Unity
11:29 am PST • December 10, 2014
Google Cardboard was the big surprise of this year’s Google I/O, and Google today announced that more than 500,000 of these extremely minimalist, phone-based virtual reality viewers have shipped since then.…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook Combines Atlas, Audience Network, And LiveRail Into An AdTech Voltron
11:04 am PST • December 10, 2014
Facebook’s plot for ad domination is coming to fruition. Today at Facebook headquarters, its ad execs explained how two years of seemingly isolated launches and acquisitions are melding into a…
Media & Entertainment
iHeartMedia CEO On The Rebranding From Clear Channel
11:02 am PST • December 10, 2014
Clear Channel has been quietly transforming for the past few years into a true platform, where live events, broadcast radio and digital products are combined and cross-promoted to give consumers…
Enterprise
BitTorrent Opens Alpha For Maelstrom, Its New, Distributed, Torrent-Based Web Browser
11:01 am PST • December 10, 2014
BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing company, is today opening an alpha test for its latest stab at disrupting — or at least getting people to rethink — how users interact…
