Frederic Lardinois
Frederic has spent more than five years covering news and providing analysis about technology, the industry and consumer tech related to the Internet with potential to influence industry direction. At TechCrunch, his focus spans from emerging technologies and niche startups to major product advances by industry titans – all innovation focused. Before he joined TechCrunch in 2012, he founded Silicon Filter and wrote for ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite).
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Google Expands Apps Partner Programs With Tech Track, Opens Cloud Partner Program To More Businesses
Google’s Apps Marketplace, its directory of cloud apps that integrate with Google Apps, now features over 750 services. Today, at its Global Partner Summit, Google is expanding this program by creating a formal Technology track in its partner program for vendors who “build complementary business apps and tools.” The new program, Google says, will run alongside its existing… Read More
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Google Releases Street View Imagery Of Hawaiian Beaches, The First From Its Trekker Loan Program
Last summer, Google announced a loan program for its backpack-like Street View Trekker cameras for organizations that want to help the company create imagery of interesting places. Today, it’s launching the first collection of these images in cooperation with the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau (HVCB). This is probably the ideal collection for all of us who are stuck with rain and snow… Read More
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Embarcadero Launches AppMethod, A New Multi-Device Development Platform For Native Apps
Embarcadero Technologies is announcing AppMethod, a new multi-device development platform for PC, Mac, iOS, Android and -- in the long run -- wearables. The platform brings together an IDE with design tools, UI elements, connectors to cloud and on-premise databases and built-in support for popular mobile backend as a service platforms like Kinvey, Parse, App42 and others. Read More
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Zillow Hires Former Realtor.com President To Run Its B2B Business
Online real estate marketplace Zillow today announced that it has hired Errol Samuelson, the former president of Realtor.com and chief strategy officer of Move, Inc., as its “chief industry development officer.” Samuelson will take executive oversight for the company’s business-to-business products and tools, including services like Diverse Solutions, which helps real estate… Read More
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Mobile Bot Traffic Reportedly Grew 30% In 2013
It’s no secret that mobile — and specifically Android — is becoming a major vector for malware. The result of this, according to a new report from CAPTCHA-based advertising firm Solve Media, is that suspicious traffic from mobile devices grew 30 percent in 2013 and currently accounts for about 25 percent of all U.S. mobile traffic. Overall, suspicious web traffic across… Read More
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Mozilla’s New JPEG Encoder Promises Up To 10% Reduction In File Size
Mozilla is launching mozjpeg today, a new JPEG encoder that promises to reduce file sizes by up to 10 percent on standard JPEG images. Mozilla says the idea behind the project is to create a production-ready encoder “that improves compression while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority of deployed decoders.” Despite multiple efforts from Google, Microsoft and others, JPEG… Read More
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Gmail For iOS Gets Full Support For Background Refresh
Google today released version 3.0 of Gmail for iOS, which finally includes full support for iOS 7′s background app refresh. This means Gmail can now download your email in the background (even when it’s not open) and your inbox will be up to date whenever you launch the app. Oddly enough, last November, a number of outlets reported that Google added this feature when it relaunched… Read More
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CloudBees Raises $11.2M Series C Led By Verizon Ventures To Expand Its Java-Centric Enterprise PaaS
CloudBees, a Java-centric Enterprise platform as a service we’ve covered a few times in the past, today announced that it has raised an $11.2 million Series C funding round led by Verizon Ventures. Existing investors Matrix Partners and Lightspeed Ventures also participated in this round, as well as new investor Blue Cloud Ventures. In total, the service has now raised $25.7 million since it… Read More
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DocuSign Raises $85M To Speed Up Product Innovation, Expand Into New Verticals
Electronic signature platform DocuSign today announced that it has raised $85 million in a new funding round led by a group of large institutional funds. Sadly, the company isn’t disclosing which funds participated in this investment. Previous DocuSign investors, including salesforce.com, Google Ventures, SAP Ventures, Comcast Ventures, the National Association of REALTORS®, Sigma West… Read More
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Media Temple Launches Managed WordPress Hosting Service
Love it or hate it, but there's no denying that WordPress continues to be the de facto solution for building content-driven websites. Besides WordPress.com, a number of dedicated WordPress hosting solutions like WP Engine have cropped up over the years, and today, Media Temple is joining the fray by launching its own. Read More
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Shutterstock Acquires Digital Asset Management Service WebDAM, Goes After Enterprise Market
Stock image and video service Shutterstock today announced that it has acquired WebDAM, a provider of web-based digital asset management software. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. WebDAM was founded in 2005 and never took any outside funding. The service offers a number of solutions for marketing and creative teams to organize, distribute and collaborate around digital… Read More
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Microsoft Adds An Intelligent Social Layer With Groups Feature To Office 365
Microsoft announced a major update to Office 365 today that adds an intelligent, machine-learning powered social network and "intelligence fabric" on top of its productivity apps. This Office Graph, as the company calls it, will slowly find its way across all of the Office 365 applications, but for now, Microsoft is only offering a sneak peek with a wide roll-out planned for the 2nd half of the… Read More
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Google Adds Full Restaurant Menus To Its Search Results Pages
Here is a small but nifty update to Google Search: if you ask it to find a restaurant menu for you, it will now often just show you the menu right on the search results page. Try this for a search like “show me the menu for fogo de chao” and the menu will be right there. As far as I can see, this doesn’t work for every restaurant yet and it’s unclear where Google is getting… Read More
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Google Redesigns Hangouts For iOS, Adds Video Messages And Animated Stickers
Google today launched a new version of its Google+ Hangouts for iOS app. This new version is the first to be fully optimized for iOS 7, with a new loading screen and menus, cleaner look, different typography and a couple of new features, too. You can now, for example, attach a map with your current location to your conversation, something that’s been available in the Android version for a… Read More
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Google Adds Built-In “Ok Google” Voice Search To Chrome Beta
There can be little doubt that Google is pushing voice as one of its preferred input methods. With today's launch of the latest Chrome beta for Windows, Mac and Linux, it's building voice search right into the browser. Just say "Ok Google," and the browser will start listening to your searches. Read More
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Aylien Launches Text-Analysis API To Help Developers Extract Meaning From Documents
Working with text is often a messy business for programmers. While code has to be unambiguous, words tend to be anything but. Over the years, a number of companies like Alchemy and Thomson Reuters have launched services based on natural language processing (NLP) and machine-learning algorithms to help developers more easily extract meaning from documents. Now, Aylien is joining the fray with its… Read More
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Google Launches Maps Gallery To Make Public Data Maps More Discoverable
Google today launched the Google Maps Gallery, an extension of the Google Maps Public Data Program it announced last October. The new gallery is meant to showcase maps from the organizations Google is working with, including the likes of National Geographic, the U.S. Geological Survey and the City of Edmonton, and to make them more discoverable. As Google Maps product manager Jordan Breckenridge… Read More
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NuoDB Raises $14.2M Round Led By Dassault Systèmes For Its Distributed Database Management System
NuoDB, a Cambridge, Mass.-based database company that specializes in distributed database management, today announced that it has raised a $14.2 million funding round led by Europe’s second-largest software company Dassault Systèmes. Previous investors Morgenthaler Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners also participated in this round. This new round… Read More
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OpenID Connect Identity Protocol Launches With Support From Google, Microsoft & Others
Signing users in to a mobile or web app isn't necessarily hard, but keeping their credentials safe is something that's often best left to specialists. The OpenID Foundation today announced the launch of OpenID Connect, the organization's latest standard for authenticating users and building distributed identity systems. The standard has the backing of Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Deutsche… Read More
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Microsoft Adds Full TypeScript Support To Visual Studio
About a year and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its TypeScript language to help programmers write large programs in JavaScript. Starting today, with the arrival of the first release candidate of TypeScript 1.0 and the latest update to Visual Studio 2013, it's becoming a fully supported language in Microsoft's IDE. Read More
