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Gillmor Gang Live 6.13.14
1:24 pm PDT • June 13, 2014
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Benedict Evans, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session for today has concluded. Click here for the live Friendfeed chat…
Hardware
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: E3, Vessyl, And Parrot Mini Drones
12:00 pm PDT • June 13, 2014
This week, Nintendo showed off its latest stuff at E3, and designer Yves Behar (and friends) unveiled $100 mini drones that jump, rove and fly.
Court Upholds Dismissal Of $1B Lawsuit Against Facebook
12:00 pm PDT • June 13, 2014
Facebook enjoyed a legal victory today, when an earlier dismissal of a lawsuit that it called a “publicity stunt” was upheld by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of…
Media & Entertainment
Pinterest Improves Its Search Engine Again With Smarter Place Search
10:55 am PDT • June 13, 2014
Yep, Pinterest is becoming a search engine. Following this week’s news regarding the arrival of a feature called “Guided Search” on the web, Pinterest today says it’s now rolling out…
The FCC Is Investigating The Netflix-Verizon Scrap
10:41 am PDT • June 13, 2014
The FCC is investigating the fight between content companies and ISPs, which has seen Netflix warn its customers that Verizon’s network is “crowded” at certain times, Verizon fire back that…
Hardware
This DIY Game Boy Pocket Uses A Raspberry Pi To Bring You Absolute, Unending Joy
10:27 am PDT • June 13, 2014
Imagine if I told you, almost 20 years ago, that you could put every single Game Boy game (plus a bunch of others) inside of your Game Boy Pocket without having…
MakeSpace, the NY-based startup that thinks of itself as a Dropbox for physical objects, has recently announced that it secured Fab.com CFO David Lapter as new Chief Financial Officer, and…
Media & Entertainment
Apple Is Taking Action Against Fake Ratings On The App Store
10:19 am PDT • June 13, 2014
App developers know that having good ratings and reviews means more users will be wiling to download their app. And thanks to ratings’ influence on Apple’s ranking algorithms, it will…
It’s not every day that Jeff Bezos sends you a copy of his favorite childhood book — Mr. Pine’s Purple House — to hype Amazon’s next major event.
Startups
Priceline’s Swallowing Of OpenTable For $2.6B Investigated For Being Too Low
8:15 am PDT • June 13, 2014
Travel behemoth Priceline this morning said that it planned to gobble up restaurant booking service OpenTable for $2.6 billion in cash, news that sent OpenTable’s share price skyrocketing by nearly…
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The Daily Show’s Jason Jones had a segment on the show last night (via 9to5Google) that highlighted so-called ‘discrimination’ against Google Glass wearers, and the results were hilarious. To be…
Startups
The World Startup Report Releases ‘The Internet Hall Of Fame” With Data From 50 Countries
7:00 am PDT • June 13, 2014
Last March, TechCrunch covered one of the World Startup Report’s first releases. Now the organization is back with an ambitious project that gathers insight from 150 companies in 50 countries…
Startups
eBay Acquires Machine Translation Capabilities From AppTek To Help Expand International Sales
6:59 am PDT • June 13, 2014
eBay’s focus on international expansion continues: yesterday its PayPal division announced PassPort, aimed at attracting more international sales, and today eBay is announcing the acquisition of machine translation technology from a…
Hardware
Kindle Fire Mayday Customer Service Provides Angry Birds Walkthroughs, Dragon Drawings
6:56 am PDT • June 13, 2014
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Mayday service launched eight months ago, and in not quite a year it’s already the first place Kindle Fire HDX users go when they’re seeking support and…
A few weeks ago I visited the headquarters of Formlabs in Somerville, Mass. where I had the pleasure of meeting the entire team in their small – but growing –…
Startups
VigLink Raises $18M More To Help Publishers Make Money From Affiliate Links
6:02 am PDT • June 13, 2014
Automated affiliate linking company VigLink is announcing that it has raised $18 million in Series C funding. The goal of VigLink, as well as competitors like Skimlinks, is to make…
Boom Goes The Bitcoin
5:58 am PDT • June 13, 2014
Dropped, as Yoda would say, the other shoe has. U.S. Marshals are now selling off 29,656.51306529 BTC, about $18 million in bitcoin at today’s $600 price. The sale announcement drove…
Family Location App Life360 Adds CTO To Fend Off Apple And Other Rivals
5:48 am PDT • June 13, 2014
Nearly one month after collecting the first tranche of a $50 million round in the form of a strategic investment from home security company ADT, Life360 has named a chief…
Hotel booking site Priceline has agreed to acquire reservation booking company OpenTable for $2.6 billion in cash, adding the leader in digital reservations to its portfolio, the Wall Street Journal…
Chinese Startup Crowdfunding Site CTQuan Raises $4 Million, Launches Overseas Investment Fund
4:59 am PDT • June 13, 2014
CTQuan, the Chinese equity crowdfunding site for startup companies, has raised roughly $4 million in a new round of financing, TechCrunch has learned. The Beijing-based company (and CrunchBase content partner)…
