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Amazon Courts Fire Phone Developers With $15,000 In “Amazon Coins”
12:15 pm PDT • June 20, 2014
When Microsoft needed to convince developers to build mobile apps for its Windows Phone 8 platform, it took a familiar path: it offered them money to do so. Amazon, however,…
Hardware
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Amazon Fire Phone, Ink & Slide, And Slingshot
12:00 pm PDT • June 20, 2014
The podcast is packed this week, with six of us talking over each other about some of the most exciting news of the week. If you didn’t hear, Amazon launched…
So I Flew In An “Uber For Tiny Planes”
11:22 am PDT • June 20, 2014
The first line of the email in my box read, “This is UberX for small planes.” Yet another Uber for X mystery startup in my inbox. Yay! (not really). But…
Microsoft Does Us A Solid By Accidentally Confirming That The Surface Mini Is Real
10:58 am PDT • June 20, 2014
Microsoft declined to comment. Earlier today, a manual published to help users dig into their new Surface Pro 3 devices contained multiple mentions of the currently Super Secret Surface Mini.…
Any startup worth its salt these days built a mailing list from before it even launched, but what do you do after that? How do you identify the best leads…
New House Majority Leader Opposes Net Neutrality, Just Like His Predecessor
9:53 am PDT • June 20, 2014
Yesterday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy won the Republican Party election to become the new House Majority Leader. Outgoing Rep. Eric Cantor, who held the position previously, unexpectedly lost his primary earlier…
Hardware
This Waterproof Kindle Paperwhite Is Humanity’s Greatest Achievement
9:50 am PDT • June 20, 2014
Sometimes a device comes so close to being perfect that you’d be forgiven for not realizing that with just a single tweak, it can become, in actual fact, perfect. The…
Hardware Battlefield Finalist CubeSensors Raises A $700,000 Seed Round In Bitcoin
9:15 am PDT • June 20, 2014
Bitcoins are everywhere these days! CubeSensors, a Slovenian hardware startup that is making mini environmental sensors for homes, has just received a $700,000 seed round from the founders of BTC…
Media & Entertainment
Path Looks To Combine Commerce And Messaging With TalkTo Acquisition, Release Of New ‘Talk’ App
8:00 am PDT • June 20, 2014
It’s been a rough year for private social networking app Path. The company has seen disappointing growth in many major markets, layoffs, and the departure of some key execs over…
Venture
TechStars London Demo Day 2014: Meet The 11 Startups (And Our Picks)
7:20 am PDT • June 20, 2014
Today in an old music-hall-turned-arthouse-movie-theatre in the East End of London, TechStars presented its London DemoDay, three months after the group was announced. The startups presenting ran the gamut from B2B to consumer, education to e-commerce…
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Google’s Search Engine Can Now Launch Your Favorite Music Apps, Turn On The Tunes
7:13 am PDT • June 20, 2014
Google has taken another small step toward connecting its search engine with world of mobile apps, having just introduced a new feature that lets you search for a band or artist,…
Last night I had a dream. In it, everyone in the world used just one word: Yo. “Yo” for hello, “Yo” for yes and no, “Yo” for I’m hungry. “Yo”…
Hardware
With Multiple iWatch Designs And A Host Of Sensors, Apple Could Win Over Smartwatch Skeptics
5:25 am PDT • June 20, 2014
Apple’s iWatch is almost certainly coming soon, according to a host of recent reports, and the latest from the Wall Street Journal is that it’ll be offered in a variety…
Startups
Dynamic Yield, A Tricksy Content Server, Raises $12.25 Million From Marker LLC
5:25 am PDT • June 20, 2014
In an era of finely-tuned advertising efforts are on the rise and web organizations that don’t consist of underpaid college grads at Buzzfeed-esque puppy mills are waning, there is a…
Media & Entertainment
UK Government Taps Startups To Help Get More Brits Fit And Healthy
4:47 am PDT • June 20, 2014
The UK government is putting out a call for early stage startups with a focus on healthy eating, fitness and physical and mental well-being to enter a public health-focused competition…
The cynics among us believe that the Amazon Fire Phone is going to be a flop. As Matt Haughey shows us in the above image, a phone attached to a…
A Georgia Tech student, together with two of his roommates, claims to have hacked Yo, the Poke-like app that has set some (though not all) of Silicon Valley alight in…
Startups
Light Chaser, The Animation Studio That Wants To Be “China’s Pixar,” Raises $20M From GGV Capital
11:15 pm PDT • June 19, 2014
Light Chaser, the animation studio that aspires to be China’s Pixar, announced today that it has raised $20 million in series B funding led by GGV Capital, with participation from…
House Of Representatives Passes Amendment To Cut Off Funding For NSA’s “Backdoor” Searches
10:42 pm PDT • June 19, 2014
The House of Representatives has passed by a landslide an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that will cut off funding to National Security Agency’s “backdoor” surveillance. The act, which…
The Bay Lights, The LED Art Project Backed By Big Tech Names, Kicks Off $1.2M Crowdfunding Campaign
6:05 pm PDT • June 19, 2014
Just over a year ago, a large scale art project called The Bay Lights turned the Bay Bridge, the San Francisco Bay Area structure that’s historically been the plainer sister…
