Oct 28th
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
San Francisco, CA
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Apple’s New iPhones Get DSLR-Like Camera Features
10:51 am PDT • September 9, 2014
Apple today announced that its new iPhones will feature new cameras, too. The new 8 megapixel iSight camera will feature a 2.2 aperture that allows for better photos in low-light…
Hardware
The New iPhones Come September 19 With Better Pricing For Storage
10:49 am PDT • September 9, 2014
As with previous years, the new iPhone 6 launches for $199 on contract for the 16GB model. But if you want more storage, Apple is offering better pricing tiers than…
Media & Entertainment
Apple Announces Mobile Payment Solution Called Apple Pay
10:48 am PDT • September 9, 2014
Confirming rumors and leaks, Apple announced this morning that the new iPhone 6 devices will support mobile payments. The feature, which also uses Apple’s Touch ID, will take advantage of…
Apple’s Livestream Is A Non-Loading, Needlessly-Translated Clusterfudge
10:43 am PDT • September 9, 2014
Apple: great at hardware, still figuring out this whole Internet thing. Today it was supposed to reveal the future on stage, but instead, many viewers were met with a timed-out…
Media & Entertainment
HealthKit Gets Some New Tricks Thanks To Apple’s M8 Chip Including Stair Climbing Stats
10:36 am PDT • September 9, 2014
At its event today, Apple has revealed more details about its health and fitness data play. Apple formally introduced HealthKit in June at its WWDC developer event which previewed iOS 8 to its…
Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus Is A 5.5-inch, 1080p Phablet
10:28 am PDT • September 9, 2014
At today’s event at the Flint Center in Cupertino, Calif., Apple announced two new sizes of iPhone. As per rumors we’ve been seeing since early this year, the new models…
Day 2 of Disrupt SF 2014 is officially underway. Some of the most baller speakers we’ve ever had are ready to grace the stage. Are you ready? We open the…
Media & Entertainment
iTunes App Store Reaches 1.3 Million Mobile Applications
10:19 am PDT • September 9, 2014
At Apple’s iPhone 6 event in Cupertino this morning, the company announced that the iTunes App Store has now reached 1.3 million applications – an update from the 1.2 million…
Media & Entertainment
Apple Announces Two New iPhones: iPhone 6 And iPhone 6 Plus
10:07 am PDT • September 9, 2014
And it’s here. After months of rampant speculation (and an abnormally high number of apparent leaks), the new iPhone has arrived. In fact, two new iPhones have arrived — the…
Apple is holding an event today in Cupertino that kicks off at 10 AM PT, and we’re already here at the Flint Center holding it down. Next to the theater…
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Media & Entertainment
Amazon Brings Prime Instant Video To All Android Phones In US, UK And Germany
9:47 am PDT • September 9, 2014
Amazon announced this morning that it’s bringing its Prime Instant Video streaming service to all Android phones in the U.S., U.K. and Germany through an update to the Amazon app…
Dan Gilbert is a powerful man – in Detroit. Now he wants to convince Silicon Valley to move to America’s Motor City where they’ll have wide open offices, inexpensive living,…
NAO Is Your Tiny Robot Servant
9:37 am PDT • September 9, 2014
Forget waiting for that Google driverless car to come out, CEO and founder of RobotsLAB, Elad Inbar has already made a robot that can do almost anything for you, including…
Meet Black Girls Code, The 2014 TechCrunch Include Grant Recipient
9:15 am PDT • September 9, 2014
TechCrunch is excited to announce Black Girls Code as the recipient of the first TechCrunch Include Grant of $50,000. The mission of Black Girls Code aligns perfectly with the founding…
Disrupt SF Social Contest #2: Disrupt Instagram
9:10 am PDT • September 9, 2014
Do you have the courage to break rules in the name of innovation? Drastically rupture the status quo? Do you want to see tech done better? Are you the best Instagram-er out there?…
Media & Entertainment
Dropbox Acqui-Hires KBVT’s Computer Vision Geniuses To Mine Its Photos
9:06 am PDT • September 9, 2014
Dropbox doesn’t just want to store your photos. It wants to organize and make them more useful too. That’s why today it acqhired the two computer vision and machine learning…
As we kick into gear here on Day 2 of Disrupt SF, let’s take a look back at the companies that took part in yesterday’s Startup Alley here at the…
Postmates Partners With Everlane To Bring Customers Select Items On-Demand In San Francisco
8:00 am PDT • September 9, 2014
Postmates has made it possible for customers to order from all their favorite restaurants, charging a small per-delivery fee for the service. Today, through a partnership with online clothing retailer…
Hardware
Nest Finally Works With Control4, Crestron, RTI And URC Home Automation Systems
6:00 am PDT • September 9, 2014
Today, at CEDIA EXPO 2014, Nest made the day of every home automator installers and retailers everywhere: Nest finally works with the major players in home automation, Control4, Crestron, Remote…
Rumors have been swirling around Japan’s Rakuten, which has been in discussions with rebate website operator Ebates.com, regarding a potential acquisition deal. That deal has now gone through, as the…
