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Kickstarter Chairman Perry Chen’s Next Act Is The Non-Profit Website Dollar A Day
12:39 pm PDT • October 1, 2014
After handing over the reins at Kickstarter and assuming the role of chairman at the wildly successful crowdfunding company, Perry Chen’s next online act is launching Dollar A Day, a…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook Apologizes To LGBT Community And Promises Changes To Real Name Policy
12:29 pm PDT • October 1, 2014
After weeks of backlash over Facebook’s real name policy, namely from members of the LGBT community who have had their Facebook pages suspended due to drag names, Facebook has met…
Startups
A New App Called Offtime Helps You Unplug Without Missing Out
12:26 pm PDT • October 1, 2014
Apparently, navel-gazing about how much time you’re spending on your phone is a thing now. We’ve already seen iOS apps like Moment and Check appear to shame you into self-restraint by…
Fab’s Jason Goldberg Talks Design And The Art Of The Pivot At Disrupt Europe
12:20 pm PDT • October 1, 2014
TechCrunch Disrupt Europe is taking place from 18-21st October 2014 in London. You can grab your ticket right here. A free Hackathon kicks off the event, which you can apply for here.…
Downloading the Windows 10 technical preview? You won’t be able to use it past two weeks after April Fool’s day next year. That’s jolly, because the consumer-facing preview that will…
Hardware
#GapGate Widens As Samsung Responds Saying Some Space Is To Be Expected
11:31 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Korean owners of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 have noticed that their brand new devices sport an unusual feature – a gap between the bezel and the screen that…
Hardware
Skylanders Trap Team Review: Good Storytelling And Simple RPG Mechanics Succeed
11:30 am PDT • October 1, 2014
The ‘Toys to Life’ category has been a much-needed savior for the gaming and toy industry alike, bolstering sluggish sales for both by anticipating a huge demand for real-life action…
Google Drops Compute Engine Prices By 10 Percent
10:00 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Earlier this year, Google announced massive price drops for all of its cloud computing services that were quickly matched by Amazon, Microsoft and others. Today, during Google’s Atmosphere Live event,…
Media & Entertainment
Quantcast Acquires Ad Personalization And Retargeting Company Struq
9:30 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Quantcast is announcing that it has acquired Struq, a London-based company that offers cross-device retargeting and personalization for advertisers. Quantcast may be best known for its data about Internet traffic,…
You Can Now Download The Windows 10 Technical Preview
9:15 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Morning, everyone, have some fun: You can download the Windows 10 technical preview here. The new code is only a partial look at the coming operating system, something which Microsoft…
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Keven Bates, the creator of the Arduboy programmable business card, has taken his upcoming project and stuffed it into the coolest bracelet you’ll see all week. The wearable, made of…
Hardware
Garmin Announces A New Running Watch, The Super Smart Forerunner 920XT
9:05 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Running watches can either be dead simple – see Timex’s Ironman line – or complex. Garmin usually errs on the side of complex. Their latest running watch, the 920XT, will…
Enterprise
Next-Generation Email Platform Inbox Rolls Out Open Source Apps, Details Its Hosted API Pricing
9:00 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Inbox, the email startup founded by Dropbox and MIT alums offering modern APIs that allow developers to build new applications on top of email’s aging underpinnings, is today taking steps…
Digital.nyc Launches To Be The Hub For New York Tech
9:00 am PDT • October 1, 2014
New York is spreadin’ the news about its burgeoning tech scene. Earlier today, IBM, Gust, and the city of New York announced the launch of Digital.nyc, a single destination for…
Video Discovery App Showyou Launches A Platform For Subscription VOD Channels
9:00 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Over the past several years, Showyou has been in the business of helping users find interesting videos that might appeal to them. Now it’s preparing to flip its model just…
Startups
Lost-Item Tracker Tile Raises $13 Million To Fund International Expansion, Android Release
8:59 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Tile, the lost-item tracker that raised millions in crowdfunding wants to give objects a voice by connecting them to the web. To capitalize on the growing demand for Tile’s small, square-shaped devices…
Media & Entertainment
Capital One Debuts A New Mobile Wallet App, Designed To Work With Apple Pay
8:57 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Just ahead of Apple Pay’s public release, a top credit card provider, Capital One, has rolled out a new mobile wallet app for cardholders that will work with Apple’s forthcoming mobile…
Media & Entertainment
Thanks To A Partnership With Gimbal, Urban Airship’s Push Notifications Get Smarter About Location
8:51 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Push notification company Urban Airship is announcing a partnership with Gimbal, the beacon technology company that spun out of Qualcomm earlier this year. The end result, according to Urban Airship…
Startups
Houzz Raises $165M Series D Funding Round Led By Sequoia To Fuel International Expansion
8:30 am PDT • October 1, 2014
Houzz, the fast-growing home-remodeling site, today announced that it has raised a $165 million Series D round led by Sequoia Capital, one of its early backers. Existing investors Oren Zeev,…
Yahoo Tests A New Homepage Highlighting Magazines, Talent… And Twitter
8:27 am PDT • October 1, 2014
For the past year or so, Yahoo has been working through a major design overhaul under CEO Marissa Mayer, and it looks like it has now started testing out new…
