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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Windows Exec Antoine Leblond Leaving Microsoft After Almost 25 Years
The post-Ballmer Microsoft is slowly taking shape now that Satya Nadella has become the company’s CEO. At the same time, though, those executives who were passed over for the CEO role and those who lost power in last year’s reorganization are starting to leave the company. The latest executive to depart, Re/Code reports today, is Antoine Leblond. A Microsoft spokesperson has… Read More
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Microsoft Launches Enterprise Mobility Suite
At a media event in San Francisco today, Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella announced the launch of the company's new Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS). The company says this bundle of services will make it easier for IT organizations in large businesses to manage all of the devices their employees carry with them, whether they are Windows devices, Android phone or tablets, iPads or iPhones. Read More
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Backup Service IDrive Adds Sync Functionality
The online backup service IDrive today announced that it is going beyond only backing up your data and is adding a sync feature to its lineup that will automatically keep files on different machines up to date. The company says this essentially doubles the online storage space available on IDrive, as every paying user now gets as much sync space as backup space with their accounts. Read More
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In Response To Google, Amazon Announces Massive Price Cuts For S3, EC2, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce And RDS
Amazon today announced a new round of price cuts for a number of services on its cloud platform, including its S3 storage service, EC2 cloud computing platform, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce and RDS cloud databases that will bring the cost of running applications on Amazon’s platform closer to the new prices Google announced earlier this week. For the first terabyte of data… Read More
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AppGyver Raises $2.5M Funding Round To Expand Its App Development Platform
AppGyver, an HTML5-centric development platform for quickly building mobile apps, today announced that it has raised a $2.5 million funding round led by Initial Capital, an early investor in companies like Supercell, with participation by Finnish VC firm Open Ocean Capital, which was established by the founders of MySQL. Read More
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Google Launches Managed Virtual Machines, Gives Developers A Middle Ground Between Compute And App Engine
Google is launching Managed Virtual Machines today, a new service on its Cloud Platform that gives developers the best new option for hosting their applications in the cloud. Instead of having to decide between using an infrastructure-as-a-service platform like Compute Engine or a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) service like App Engine, Virtual Managed Machines, the company says, gives them the best… Read More
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Google Announces Massive Price Drops For Its Cloud Computing Services And Storage, Introduces Sustained-Use Discounts
At its Cloud Platform event today, Google announced a number of massive price drops for virtually all of its cloud-computing services. The company has also decided to reduce the complexity of its pricing charts by eliminating some charges and consolidating others. Read More
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Google Launches BigQuery Streaming For Real-Time, Big-Data Analytics
BigQuery, Google's cloud-based tool for quickly analyzing very large datasets, is getting a massive price cut today (up to 85 percent). But Google is also adding an important new feature that will make it more competitive with the big data service offered by Amazon Kinesis and others. Starting soon, developers will be able to send up to 100,000 rows of real-time data per second to BigQuery and… Read More
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Google’s Cloud Platform Goes On The Offensive With Price Cuts, New Features
Google is launching a wide range of updates for its Cloud Platform today that aim to make it more competitive in a market where Amazon Web Services is still the de facto platform for cloud-based applications. To say that Google is getting aggressive is likely an understatement. The company today announced huge price cuts across virtually all of its services that generally undercut its competitors. Read More
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New Gmail Experiment Displays Promotional Emails In An Image-Heavy Grid View
Last year, Google launched its new inbox for Gmail, which automatically organizes messages from social networks, deals and offers, receipts and other messages into a set of folders. Today, it is pushing this idea of specific inboxes for certain messages a bit further. For promotional messages like deals and offers — the kind you get from Airbnb, Etsy, TripAdvisor and others — users… Read More
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Porch Offers Detailed Reports About A Home’s Past Improvement Projects To Realtor.com Users
Since its launch last year, Porch has amassed a huge database of historical records about home improvement projects and other work done at homes all across the United States. On its own website, it is only making this data available on a neighborhood level, but thanks to a partnership with Move's Realtor.com, prospective homeowners can now request a detailed report about any of the homes listed on… Read More
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Mozilla Appoints JavaScript Creator Brendan Eich As Its New CEO
Last April, Mozilla announced that Gary Kovacs was stepping down as the organization's CEO and that it would start looking for a replacement. At the time, Jay Sullivan took over as acting CEO in the midst of a number of leadership changes at Mozilla. Today, after almost a year of looking for a new CEO, Mozilla announced that JavaScript Creator and current Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich would become its… Read More
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Digital Ocean’s Journey From TechStars Reject To Cloud-Hosting Darling
The cloud hosting service DigitalOcean is one of the big startup success stories of the last year. Earlier this month, the company announced that it had raised a $37 million funding round led by Andreesen Horowitz, just a few months after raising a $3.2 million seed round. Maybe even more importantly, it’s adding customers at a rapid clip and it has now spun up over 1.3 million cloud server… Read More
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YC-Backed StackLead Takes The Hassle Out Of Lead Analysis
Imagine you have a huge sign-up list for your yet-to-launch startups or you are a quickly growing company with 50 new sales leads coming in every day. Who are those people signing up for your product? How do you research those leads? In most cases, you have to spend at least a few minutes per sender figuring out who they are and what companies they work for. StackLead, a Y Combinator-backed… Read More
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Google Starts Rolling Out New Version Of Sheets With Offline Editing Support To Everybody
Last December, Google announced a new version of Sheets, its online spreadsheet app that's part of its Google Drive productivity suite. Until now, this new version was opt-in only, but starting today, Google will roll it out to everybody. Read More
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Mozilla’s Australis Design And Improved Sync Come To Firefox Beta 29
A day after releasing the stable version of Firefox 28, Mozilla today launched the first beta version of Firefox 29. While there wasn't all that much interesting in Firefox 28, the latest beta version represents a major step for Mozilla. It includes both the new -- and very Chrome-like -- Australis design, as well as support for Firefox Sync, Mozilla's cloud-based syncing service with end-to-end… Read More
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FireChat For iOS Is A Hyperlocal Anonymous Chat Network That Doesn’t Need An Internet Connection
We all know that chat apps are pretty hot right now and there are plenty of companies hoping for a WhatsApp-like exit. For the most part, all of those apps are pretty similar, but FireChat, which is launching today, adds a new and fun twist to this genre. It's a hyperlocal chat network for iOS that even works when you don't have an Internet connection. Read More
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UberConference Relaunches Its iPhone App
UberConference, the winner of our TechCrunch NYC 2012 startup battlefield competition, is relaunching its iPhone app today. The company previously launched an iPhone app back in December 2012, but then removed it when it launched the second version of its service a year later. UberConference, which aims to take the hassle out of conference calls, added a couple of new features to the app and… Read More
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Website Platform Pantheon Launches WordPress Support
Pantheon is one of the most popular website platforms for Drupal, but today, it's also expanding into hosting WordPress installs. Read More
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WebCL Will Soon Let Web Developers Harness The Power Of Multi-Core GPUs And CPUs From The Browser
Web browsers, for the most part, can't use the full power of your computer or mobile device. The code they execute tends to run in a sandbox that's abstracted from your hardware and doesn't give the browser full access to it. So while your desktop software can, for example, use all the cores in your machine and use a modern GPU for parallel processing to speed up an image filter, for example, the… Read More
