Ingrid Lunden
Ingrid is a writer and editor for TechCrunch, joining February 2012, based out of London.
Before TechCrunch, Ingrid worked at paidContent.org, where she was a staff writer, and has in the past also written freelance regularly for other publications such as the Financial Times. Ingrid covers mobile, digital media, advertising and the spaces where these intersect.
When it comes to work, she feels most comfortable speaking in English but can also speak Russian, Spanish and French (in descending order of competence).
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Work4 Raises $7M To Rival Job Sites With Its Social Network-Based Recruitment App
Work4, an online recruitment startup that uses social networks to advertise and find leads for job vacancies, has picked up another $7 million in funding that it plans to use to expand further into markets outside the U.S., and the scope of its product. The Series B round was led by new investor Serena Capital with participation also from existing investor Matrix Partners. Read More
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Nokia Halts Lumia 2520 Tablet Sales In Europe Amid Faulty Charger Product Recall
A fresh setback for Nokia in the early days of its tablet strategy: it’s announced today that it has had to “temporarily delay” sales of its Lumia 2520 tablet in Europe amid a recall of the charger that is sold with the device, which it has found to be faulty. In the U.S., Nokia says sales of the travel charger accessory have been halted. Some 30,000 chargers are affected by the… Read More
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Samsung And Amazon Team Up For Custom Galaxy Kindle E-Book App
So much for trashing the Kindle. Today Samsung is announcing a new app, Kindle for Samsung, created in partnership with Amazon, that will let Galaxy device users using Android 4.0 and up, starting with the Galaxy S5, to buy and read content from Amazon's catalog of magazines, newspapers and books. The app will going live across 90 countries this month. Read More
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Telefonica, Blackstone Launch Axonix, A Mobile Ad Exchange Built On Defunct MobClix Tech
Telefonica, the Spanish carrier with operations in 24 countries and 323 million customers, is making its latest bid to expand its business beyond basic mobile and telephone services, by moving into ad tech. Read More
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Yahoo’s Shopping Spree Is Slowing Down, It Used A Net $22M For Acquisitions In Q1
Yahoo's spending spree on acquisitions looks like it may finally have slowed down, at least in terms of value if not numbers. Yahoo noted in its Q1 2014 earnings today that it used a net $22 million for acquisitions in the three months that ended March 31, covering eight companies. Sequentially, that $22 million is just over a third of the net amount it said it spent on acquisitions in the… Read More
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Yahoo Beats Street For Q1 On Sales Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.38 But Flat Display Sales Of $438M
Yahoo has just reported its Q1 earnings, with ex-TAC revenues of $1.087 billion and earnings per share of $0.38, and net income of $314 million. That just about beat analysts’ expectations on revenue: they were expecting ex-TAC sales of $1.08 billion (First Call estimates were $1,076.9 million). Yahoo had provided adjusted earnings guidance earlier this year of between $290 million and $330… Read More
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DataSift: There Is No Change To Our Firehose Deal With Twitter After Gnip Acquisition
Earlier today, Twitter announced that it acquired Gnip, one of its partners that uses Twitter’s firehose of data and parses it for third parties who mine the social network for market insights. One natural follow-up question: what happens to the other companies that take the firehose? The biggest of these, DataSift, has told TechCrunch that for now, it will be business as usual. Read More
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The Currency Cloud, An API-Based Money Mover, Raises Another $10M
With the news that Facebook has been talking to financial services startups in the UK about launching e-money services, one of the companies that powers payments for those startups has raised a round of funding. The Currency Cloud, which provides an API that end user-facing companies use for cross-currency transfers, has raised a $10 million Series B round of funding from existing investors … Read More
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OpenTV, Nagra Pile Another Patent Suit On Netflix As They Gear Up For Apple Fight
Online video services from the likes of Netflix and Apple may represent the future of the TV business because of their popularity with consumers intent on watching video on a variety of screens beyond the large console in the living room, but today OTT video is proving fertile ground for another kind of enterprise: IP litigation. Read More
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Mobile Control In The Cloud: ItsOn Raises $12.5M From Tenaya And Andreessen Horowitz
ItsOn, startup founded by alums from Qualcomm, Nokia and Yahoo that has developed a cloud-based mobile services platform that it sells as both a B2B and B2C product, is today confirming that it has raised a Series C round of $12.5 million from new investor Tenaya Capital and existing investor Andreessen Horowitz. The funding will be used for global sales expansion outside of North America, the… Read More
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Facebook Could Use Money Transfers To Extend WhatsApp And Non-Ad Revenue
The FT is reporting that Facebook is looking at e-money services -- including the ability for people to make peer-to-peer money transfers using money that is stored on Facebook itself -- and has applied for an e-money license in Ireland as part of that. Facebook has declined to comment on the report, but we have confirmed with sources some of the details of what is going on. Facebook made the… Read More
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SeedInvest Raises Series A On Its Own Crowdfunding Platform, $2M Committed So Far
SeedInvest, the equity crowdfunding platform based in New York that helps other startups (like Vengo Labs) raise rounds, is today launching a campaign on its own plaform to complete an intended $3 million Series A round. The startup has already had $2 million committed from VCs Scout Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Avenue A Ventures, Archer Gray and Krillion Ventures. Read More
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Mozilla’s Chief Marketing Exec Is Modeling For Apple (Updated)
While Mozilla is recovering from the resignation of its co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich after the controversy over his support of Proposition 8, here is a bizarre twist to the PR knife: Mozilla's CMO Pete Scanlon appears in photographs on Apple's website promoting iOS 7 and the iPhone 5c. Read More
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Box Defeats Preliminary Injunction In OpenText’s $268M Patent Infringement Case
Some positive legal news for Box, the cloud services company that is preparing for an IPO. A judge has denied a motion for a preliminary injunction of one of its products -- originally requested by the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Canada's OpenText, one part of a larger, $268 million patent infringement suit covering 12 patents. Read More
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Salesforce Will Pay $690M To Expand Its SF HQ Into The New Salesforce Tower
Salesforce unveiled plans for a new, 61-story Salesforce Tower at 415 Mission Street in San Francisco to expand its worldwide headquarters, and as part of that it's filed an 8-K form with the SEC with the details of how much it will be investing to do so. Read More
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Station 12 Is Raising $250M To Fund European Media Tech Startups’ Growth Rounds
Add a new VC to the ranks in Europe: Station 12 is raising £150 million ($250 million), which it plans to invest in Series A and B rounds in the future Netflixes and Maker Studios of the world -- in other words, startups in Europe that straddle the media, entertainment and technology verticals. Average initial investments will be around £10 million. Read More
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Twitter Makes In-Browser Notifications Official
Twitter today officially announced that it would start to offer in-browser notifications — as we wrote yesterday, noticing a test of the feature. “When you’re logged in on twitter.com, you will receive notifications if someone has replied, favorited or retweeted one of your Tweets. You can also receive notifications for direct messages and new followers,” Michael Ducker of… Read More
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Criteo Buys AdQuantic, A Startup That Applies Quantum Physics To Search Marketing
We have discovered that Criteo, the French ad tech company that raised $250 million in an IPO on NASDAQ last October, has quietly made an acquisition. It's bought AdQuantic, another ad tech startup from France co-founded by two doctors of statistical physics, which has developed a bid management tool for search marketing based on game theory, quantum physics and related mathematical models. Read More
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Zendesk Buys Live Chat Provider Zopim For Up To $29.8M As It Files For $150M IPO
Zendesk, the cloud-based helpdesk startup, has hit the ground running with not one but two pieces of significant news. It's made its first acquisition -- Zopim, a Singapore-based startup whose flagship product is live chat software that is used by some 120,000 websites. And it has filed for its IPO, which will see Zendesk list on the New York Stock Exchange to trade under the ticker "ZEN." The… Read More
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Microsoft’s Enterprise Cloud Services Get A Privacy Thumbs Up From Europe’s Data Protection Authorities
Microsoft is no stranger to the chilling effects of European regulation, facing fines for some of its own practices and seeing rivals like Google get off the hook more lightly. But today comes a piece of good news for Redmond: the data protection authorities (DPAs) of all 28 European member states have decided that Microsoft's enterprise cloud services meet its standards for privacy. This… Read More
