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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EBay Asks Shareholders To Vote Against PayPal Split While Icahn Claims CEO ‘Incompetence’ Cost $4B
The war of words between eBay and its new shareholder Carl Icahn continues to rage on. Today, eBay issued a notice of an upcoming annual meeting, in which the company asked shareholders flat out to vote against Icahn's proposal to spin off PayPal. Meanwhile, Icahn issued yet another open letter against current eBay management, in which he accused CEO John Donahoe of "inexcusable incompetence" that… Read More
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Free-To-Play Games Company Kabam Buys Phoenix Age As It Pushes For $650M In 2014 Sales
Kabam, the free-to-play gaming company that has raised some $125 million in venture funding and looks to be among those weighing up an IPO, has acquired Phoenix Age, a games studio based in San Francisco. The deal was done for diversification: it will give Kabam some strong franchises, and games developing talent, specifically in the area of role-playing games. Read More
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Unwired Planet Files Mobile Patent Suits Against Google, Samsung, Huawei, HTC In The UK, Germany
While existing Android patent suits between the likes of Samsung and Apple continue to drag on in Europe, Unwired Planet, the patent enforcement entity that acquired 2,400 wireless patents from Ericsson last year, looks like it is putting its IP to work. Today it announced that it has filed parallel infringement actions in the Patents Court of the High Court of Justice, London, United Kingdom and… Read More
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McAfee: Cybercrime-As-A-Service Led To Credit Card Breach, While Mobile “Malware Zoo” Grew 197% In Q4
It looks like the rise of the "as a service" model, where people can buy software, platform access, security and more from a cloud-based provider for a fixed term, may have spawned its Damien: cybercrime as a service. The latest report from McAfee notes that the rush of point-of-sale credit card breaches that hit consumers in Q4 of last year -- most notably at Target but other retailers as well … Read More
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PayPal Is Rolling Out Its New “Mobile First” Website Globally
PayPal, the eBay-owned online payments platform that made up some 40% of its $16 billion in revenues in 2013, has turned on a redesigned website -- it's biggest attempt yet at putting a contemporary, simplified face on one of the older services on the web (founded: 1998); and to introduce users to some of the newer features it's hoping will take off, such as mobile and physical store payments. Read More
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General Assembly Raises $35M Led By New Investor IVP To Add More Tech Courses, New Campuses
General Assembly, the New York-based educational startup that offers tech courses in campuses across different cities, today announced that it has raised a Series C round of $35 million. The funding was led by new investor Institutional Venture Partners -- a recent backer of consumer powerhouses like Snapchat and Supercell, but also of more B2B plays like Business Insider, and e-commerce ventures… Read More
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Mobile Photo And Video Platform Mobli Signs Up To The New NASDAQ Private Market
On the heels of raising a $60 million round at a $1 billion valuation in November 2013, Instagram competitor Mobli today is announcing another finance move: it is joining the NASDAQ Private Market, the U.S. stock exchange's new marketplace aimed at private companies that are either trying to raise money or provide liquidity for existing investors, and want to turn to a wider pool of investors… Read More
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Spotify Acquired Music Tech Company The Echo Nest In A $100M Deal
On the heels of the news yesterday that Spotify had acquired music discovery technology company Echo Nest, we now have a price for the deal: it was $100 million, with 90% of that in Spotify equity. Read More
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Workable Raises $1.5M From Greylock IL To Build Cloud-Based Recruitment Software For SMEs
Workable, a startup founded in Athens, Greece, that has developed a cloud-based recruitment platform for SMEs, has today confirmed a new investment of $1.5 million led by Greylock IL, the Israel/UK-based affiliate of Greylock Partners, an early investor in LinkedIn which now counts LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as a partner. Previously, Workable had raised some $950,000 from individuals and the… Read More
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Facebook Rolls Out Simplified News Feed That Leaves Content And Ads Alone
Facebook has gone through many iterations, and some growing pains, in its quest to find a happy balance between an interface that people love to use, and that will serve the best business purpose for ad-funded the social network. Starting today, Facebook will be embarking on another chapter in that story, with the rollout of a new look for its News Feed -- announced last year but never launched. Read More
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Emotient Raises $6M For Facial Expression Recognition Tech, Debuts Google Glass Sentiment Analysis App
Emotient, a startup based out of San Diego that works in the emerging area of facial expression recognition, is today announcing a $6 million round of funding and its first steps into applying its technology in the wearables market: a new piece of "glassware" for Google Glass that measures sentiment analysis based on reading people through the headgear's camera. Read More
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The Amazon Effect: Staples To Close 225 Stores, Says It’s Now Making Half Of All Sales Online
The Amazon effect continues to be felt among the brick-and-mortar faithful. Today, office supply superstore Staples announced that it would close 225 stores by 2015, some 10% of its worldwide footprint, as it continues to move more of is business online -- now half of its total sales. The news came out in the company's Q4 and full-year earnings, which noted full years sales figures of $23.1… Read More
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More On Flipboard’s Acquisition Of Zite: “The Deal Whisperer,” Zite’s Fate, The Price Tag, And Paper
After Flipboard and CNN today announced that personalised magazine app Flipboard was buying Zite from CNN, I had a chance to talk with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue and CNN's digital head KC Estenson about the deal (pictured here looking chummy around the time they announced the news). Read More
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Getty Images Jumps Into The Age Of Social Media With A Free Embed Tool For Its Photo Library
Last year, Getty Images began to double down on how it could better control and ultimately make money from its library of 150 million of pictures (and counting) online. The first step was a groundbreaking deal with Pinterest that saw the company get a fee from Pinterest in exchange for metadata about each image. Today, the paid-content stalwart is taking another step in that strategy. It’s… Read More
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Evernote Adds Handwriting To Its Android App, Finally Adding Penultimate-Like Features to Android
One day after note-taking app Evernote announced image annotations for its Windows version, today it's Android's turn for some attention. Evernote is announcing that it is adding handwriting functionality -- finally making adding the kinds of features that it picked up for iOS users via its acquisition of Penultimate from 2012. (Penultimate was an iPad-only app at the time of the acquisition and… Read More
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Flipboard Is Buying Zite From CNN In A Deal Valued Up To $60M, After CNN Bought It For Around $20M 3 Years Ago
This just in: Flipboard is buying Zite from CNN, which acquired the service three years ago for around $20 million. As part of the deal, it will integrate CNN content on to Flipboard, covering over 300 feeds. Terms of the deal were not disclosed on the call but CNN is reporting its value “as high as” $60 million*. The move is a sign of ongoing consolidation in the space and comes in… Read More
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Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, Rebuffing Sale Offers, Says Revenues Grew 500% in Q1 2014, 600% In 2013
Foursquare -- the app that has shifted its business model from a place to track where your friends are going to the go-to place for people searching for local information -- is fast approaching its fifth birthday (it's March 11, for those of you prepping presents). And CEO Dennis Crowley wants us to know that it's still growing -- in revenues at least. Read More
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Janus Friis’ Next Act Is A Hardware Startup Called Aether, And A “Thinking” Music Player Called Cone
Janus Friis made his name founding a series of disruptive software startups such as Skype, Rdio, Joost and (much earlier) KaZaA. Now the Danish entrepreneur is moving into new territory: a hardware startup called Aether, which today is debuting its first product, wireless music player called Cone. Read More
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Flashnotes Buys Moolaguides, Consolidating The Market For Crowdsourced, Online Study Materials
Flashnotes, a Boston-based startup that operates a marketplace for students to sell and buy study materials for specific courses, has acquired a smaller competitor called Moolaguides. The move comes around a month after Flashnotes announced a Series A round of $3.6 million from Stage 1 Ventures, Runa Capital, SoftBank Capital and Atlas Ventures. Read More
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Borro, The High-End Online Pawnshop, Raises $112M To Fill Its Finance Pool, Expand In U.S.
Borro, an online platform that lets people borrow cash and put up luxury watches, art and other fine goods as collateral, is today announcing a new funding round of $112 million, coming entirely from one backer, Victory Park Capital. Paul Aitken, Borro's founder and CEO, tells me that the money will be used to continue to grow out its business in the markets where it is active -- the UK and the… Read More
