Getaround Launches A New iPhone App To Simplify Peer-To-Peer Car Rentals
Peer-to-peer car rental startup (and TechCrunch Disrupt winner) Getaround is built around the idea of helping customers to make use of cars they own, which are sitting around not being…
Local, Organic Food Delivery Service Good Eggs Launches In SF To Bring The Farmer’s Market To You
Good Eggs is a new service that delivers organic and sustainable meats, produce, and other goods from locally sourced farms and vendors. There are lots of delivery services that will…
Y Combinator-Backed Balanced Adds Bank Payments To Its Peer-To-Peer Payments Platform
Payments startup Balanced has been growing quickly over the past several months, with 30 percent monthly transaction volume growth since August. Due to popular demand, the latest update to Balanced’s…
Vimeo Adds “Looks” To Its Enhancer Toolbox, Powered By Visual FX Specialist Vivoom
Vimeo is helping its creators to improve their videos through a series of visual effects that it’s calling “Looks.” The new feature will provide more than 500 different filters its…
Video Chat Startup Rabbit Raises $3.3 Million From Google Ventures, CrunchFund, And Bebo Founder Michael Birch
Just a few weeks ago, we told you about Rabbit, a new video chat app that launched in private beta. Separating itself from other video chat services, the company seeks…
Viddy Updates Its Mobile Video App With 30-Second Videos, New Filters, And Discovery Tools
Mobile video startup Viddy is launching a new iOS app, which it hopes will help users create and discover more interesting videos. To do so, it’s doubling the length that…
Enigma.io Raises $1.1 Million To Structure The World Of Big Data
New York City-based Enigma is trying to help users make sense of it all. And it’s raised $1.1 million in seed funding to get it started. The company, which is…
Socialcam Improves Video Quality On iPhone App To 720p, Adds Video HDR And Redesigned Visual Effects
It’s been about nine months since Socialcam was acquired by Autodesk, and the company continues to innovate. It’s just released a new version of its iPhone app and has a…
Group Photo Sharing Is A Fustercluck, But It Doesn’t Have To Be With Cluster
New photo-sharing app Cluster is focused on sharing photos with one’s friends and family after a shared experience. Just like its namesake, the idea behind the app is to create…
TechCrunch Writer Update, Sat 02/16 – Fri 02/22
Every week, Eric and Alexia update the TechCrunch editorial team on our performance, providing important stat breakdowns for the week, such as total number of posts and pageviews. They also…
Death To The Bundle! Cablevision Sues Viacom Over Requirement To Carry Networks You’ve Never Heard Of
New York-based cable company Cablevision is suing cross-town content partner Viacom. The lawsuit is over Viacom’s requirement for Cablevision to carry a bunch of channels its users don’t watch in…
VidIQ Raises $800,000 From Mark Cuban And Others To Give YouTube Producers Actionable Analytics
VidIQ hopes to provide a layer of analytics on YouTube as a way to help those who distribute their content on the platform — be they brands, marketers, or independent…
With Help From Watchwith, Fox Syncs Social TV Content With Second-Screen Apps Shazam, Viggle, ConnecTV, And NextGuide
Fox already had its own series of second-screen apps for mobile devices, called Fox Now. Using Watchwith technology, those apps allowed users to sync up their mobile phone or tablet…
Cleared For California Ride Sharing, UBERx Recruits More SF Drivers To Drop Wait Times And Prices
It’s no big secret that Uber wants to get into the ride-share game, in an effort to compete directly with upstarts like Lyft and SideCar. After reaching a deal with…
After CEO Departure, Mobile Video Startup Viddy Cuts Staff By More Than A Third
It was just a year ago that Viddy was flying high, quoting massive user growth and raising a massive $30 million round of funding from NEA, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures,…
Y Combinator-Backed Thalmic Labs Introduces MYO, A $149 Armband For Gesture Control
Y Combinator-backed startup Thalmic Labs believes it has a better way of determining user intent when using gesture control. To do so, it’s developed a new device, called MYO, which…
Mark Cuban And 500 Startups-Backed Switchcam Launches iPhone App And Director Dashboard In Public Beta
Switchcam has been working on a whole new set of tools that will help solve this problem, enabling event organizers to recruit contributors and to manage and curate video submitted…
WeVideo Brings Its Cloud-Based Video Editor To Android Mobile Phones
WeVideo is rolling out its Android app to make it easier for users to create, edit, collaborate on, and publish mobile video projects on the web. The app will allow…
“Airbnb For Hostels” App WeHostels Launches Hot Trips, Including Ultra-Cheap Housing For SXSW Guests
Don’t have a place to stay yet at SXSW this year? No problem. As long as you don’t mind sharing a room with six (or 12) people, social travel startup…
Subscription Underwear Startup MeUndies Launches A Redesign, Now Sells T-Shirts And Socks
Subscription commerce startup MeUndies has a brand new look and all new products. The company, which provides monthly shipments of boxers, thongs, and other underthings, is rolling out a new…
Inventory Management Startup Stitch Labs Integrates With Quickbooks Killer Xero To Simplify Accounting
Stitch Labs is making it easier for vendors to keep track of their finances by integrating with cloud accounting software provider Xero. By doing so, clients will be able to…
Vevo Quietly Redesigns Its Homepage To Streamline Search, Navigation, And Playlist Creation
Over the past few years, Vevo has been working hard to simplify the process by which users search for and discover new music videos on its site. With that in…
LivingSocial CEO Provides More Details On $110M Funding Round, Company Now Valued At About $1.5B
More details have emerged about LivingSocial’s new $110 million funding round announced yesterday. In response to a blog post characterizing the raise as an emergency round of debt financing, LivingSocial…
Airbnb Hires Former Facebooker Mike Curtis As Its New VP Of Engineering
Airbnb has seen amazing growth over the last year, doubling the number of listings and nights booked on the platform in 2012, and the company sees even more opportunity on…
Video Discovery Startup Fanhattan Launches A Web Interface With More Than 1 Million Movies And TV Titles
It’s not hard to find video on the web. But with dozens of premium content providers out there and millions of videos to choose from, figuring out what’s worth watching…
Mobile Commerce App PayDragon Launches A Redesign To Make One-Click Shopping Even Easier
Mobile commerce startup PayDragon wants to simplify the process of purchasing various grocery staples via your mobile phone. The company already has one-click purchasing and two-day shipping for products that…
Ahead of SXSW, Highlight Makes Another Bid For SoLoMo Supremacy With Photos And Events
It’s South By Southwest time again, and you know what that means — it’s time for another round of apps to announce launches and updates to help make your mandatory…
Daily Deals Site LivingSocial Raises Another $110 Million
Daily deals might be out of fashion, but that hasn’t stopped at least one company in the space from being able to attract more venture investment. Apparently LivingSocial sent a…
Online Fitness Startup Wello Launches Group Workouts, Enabling 3-5 Users To Work Out Together
Last summer, online fitness provider Wello launched to provide personalized instruction to users via two-way video conferencing. That allowed its users to work with trainers from the comfort of their…
Survey Says: 10% Of Netflix Subscribers Have Streamed House Of Cards, Watching 6 Episodes On Average
So far, Netflix has been mum on viewership of House of Cards, preferring not to break out numbers for the number of subscribers who have watched it or how many…