Yahoo unveiled a new logo today with a sans serif font similar to the ones used in other companies’ recent image overhauls, but keeps its purple color and oft-maligned exclamation point. That logo is the first of 30 variations that Yahoo will show off over the next month on its homepage and other sites before the final version is revealed on September 5. → Read More
Even though Yelp is almost a decade old, the business model it pioneered with crowd-sourced local listings has yet to permeate the rest of the emerging world. A Y Combinator-backed startup called Glio is betting that it has a chance to dominate Brazil’s fractured local listings market. Co-founded by Roberto Riccio, a former professional poker player who entered college at 16, the site is… → Read More
Airport car rental startup Silvercar has brought its simplified (and premium) car rental service to the Bay Area, launching this past weekend at SFO. The launch is part of a larger expansion that the company is ramping up, as it seeks to be at seven airports by the end of the year. → Read More
Former SAP Mobile Chief Sanjay Poonen has been hired to run VMware’s end-user business, a move that will help to shore up the virtualization company’s executive ranks after a long run of high-profile departures. Poonen will join VMware as an executive vice president and general manager to run the business group that is home to the company’s Horizon suite, a platform designed for… → Read More
As the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week celebrates the ferocious creatures that inhabit the ocean, TechCrunch TV is holding a week-long homage to the dangers swimming under the surface in our own industry: Fail Week, a five day long video series that shines some light on the dark days that even the most successful tech entrepreneurs go through. We in the tech press don’t talk nearly as much about… → Read More
Today Appricot released Appidemia, an application guide for iOS that helps you find new software to play with, and keep track of what your friends are using. It has the added quality of being one of the prettiest applications I’ve used on any phone.
Once a platform expands past a certain size, the sheer scale of its app catalog can become ponderous. How the heck do you find what you need? iOS… → Read More
Facebook could soon look a little like Twitter. It’s internally testing “Chronological By Actor,” a new way to display updates about live events so they appear in order from most recent to oldest, surrounded by feed posts ranked by its traditional relevance-sorting. It’s not ready yet, but the algorithm test denotes Facebook’s keen interest in stealing Twitter’s real-time social media crown. → Read More
The National Music Publishers’ Association, or NMPA, is suing YouTube network Fullscreen for copyright infringement, bringing the company to court primarily over the distribution of unlicensed cover song videos. At the same time, the publisher association has announced a deal in principle with Fullscreen competitor Maker Studios. → Read More
We’ve been busy expanding our coverage around the world and today our latest project is ready for you — if you’d prefer TechCrunch written in Chinese that is. You can now find translated TechCrunch articles available on TechCrunch.cn, via a partnership with Gang Lu and his Shanghai-based tech publication, Technode. We’ll gradually introduce original content in Chinese… → Read More
Online real-estate database Zillow has announced its earnings for its second financial quarter of 2013. The company, which saw its stock soar over the last few months, reported record revenue of $46.9 million, but a massive loss per share of $0.30 compared to the $0.05 loss it posted in the last quarter. The Wall Street estimate was that Zillow would post revenue of around $44.42 million and an… → Read More
Microsoft has just revealed an interesting effort to get more apps to the Windows Phone Store, via its new Windows Phone App Studio, a visual, web-based editor for Windows Phone 8 apps, which launches in beta today. With it, anyone can build apps without code, using customizable themes and custom text, graphics and design. → Read More
If you’re looking to find home services ranging from movers to interior designers, you’ll be able to do it all on Yelp by the end of the year. The popular review site will be adding a new option to book services online through a partnership with online marketing company ReachLocal.
ReachLocal announced the beta version of its online booking system ReachCommerce yesterday, and is using the… → Read More
What if you could donate to charity, and get your money back in full? It seems like there would be a catch, but that’s exactly what Causora is doing. The startup, which launched its platform a month ago, allows users to donate to nonprofit organizations and receive matching rewards in gift cards.
Here’s how it works: After registering on Causora, users can donate to more than 150 nonprofit… → Read More
Aside from what Path is worth, the way in which Foursquare will monetize its user base and dataset is perhaps the most popular conversation over the second cocktail in Silicon Valley. At least if I’m there. Today, in a Fast Company profile, new figures were disclosed concerning Foursquare’s revenue: It’s growing. Ben Horowitz, a Foursquare investor, told Fast Company’s… → Read More
“The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed”, William Gibson famously said. But, with 20 billion connected devices existing by 2020, Gibson’s optimism might be misplaced. Indeed, according to Ericsson CTO, Ulf Ewaldsson, the future – at least, our connected, mobile future – might not happen at all. And as the chief technology officer of the most global of networking… → Read More
We should go get drinks sometime soon. We should totally go on a trip to Atlantic City! You know what we should do? We should get everyone together for a parrrtyyyy! Yeah!
It’s easy to make plans, but keeping them is a different story. A new app launching out of New York aims to change all that. However, the aptly named WeShould app doesn’t work like any of the social planning apps that have… → Read More
As Google Play and Apple’s iOS stores have become crowded with north of 1 million apps, it’s no longer practical to try and climb the overall top rankings for most developers. That’s why a series of startups focusing on search engine or app store optimization have emerged. They try and help apps that might practically not have a chance or the capital to break into the top of the… → Read More
Mountain View-based Tynker, a startup focused on teaching children of all ages the basics of learning how to code, is now expanding its service beyond schools with today’s debut of Tynker for Home. This new system is similar to the platform targeting teacher and classrooms which launched earlier this year. Tynker for Schools, as that previous suite is called, provides web-based software and a… → Read More
Google today announced a new feature for Google Search that highlights in-depth articles related to your search queries. Google says while many users just want a quick answer, its own research indicates that about 10% of people are looking for links to more in-depth stories. Over the next few days, then, the search engine will start highlighting these kind of articles on its search results pages. → Read More
Here is a small but useful update to Google Drive: The hyperlink tool, which isn’t exactly the most glamorous part of any online editor, now automatically shows you top search results from Google, bookmarks in a document and related files on Drive that you can link to with just a simple click. → Read More
Twitter has just posted an update to its blog detailing new security updates rolling out via iOS and Android mobile app updates today, which include the ability to use login verification and approve login requests direct from your mobile device. Twitter announced SMS-based login verification (a form of two-factor authentication) in May, but now you don’t need to supply a phone number as push… → Read More
In addition to leading one of the most ambitious businesses of the 21st century, billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is also an occasional high school teacher. After Zuckerberg decided to give part of his substantial wealth to education, his wife decided that he shouldn’t be another armchair check writer.
“Pretty quickly, she decided that I wasn’t going to be someone who just… → Read More
700 million people use the Facebook News Feed every day but many don’t understand how it decides what appears, so Facebook announced today it will start publishing blog updates on how the feed algorithm is changing similar to how Google does. Facebook’s first post will be about “Story Bumping”, which pushes stories you haven’t seen above ones you have. → Read More
Apple’s iOS 7 Beta 5 is now available to developers who have the pre-release software installed on their devices, about a week after it released the 4th beta of the mobile OS. The software is likely approaching its final, stable launch state, as Apple has committed to a wide public launch of iOS 7 this fall. → Read More
Today Microsoft updated its mobile application for Windows Phone, bringing new features that should improve the quality of life for mobile users of the service.
The key update is that Windows Phone and Skype contacts can be “split out” in the new version of the application. You can now see all your contacts, who is available now, and only your Skype contacts if you want. → Read More
Digital marketing and advertising firm T3 (The Think Tank) is today launching a new platform for mobile application and website developers called Scout, which will allow brands to customize a native application or website’s experience to individual users by tapping into the sensors’ on users’ smartphones, and connecting to back-end enterprise systems. This platform, which T3 dubs ” a context… → Read More
This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show, we have Floodgate’s Ann Miura-Ko in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and we’ll ask them during the show. → Read More
After Tile raised $2.6M in its crowdfunding campaign for a Bluetooth 4.0-powered tagging tech for tracking valuable items, it was only a matter of time before others jumped aboard the bandwagon. Now to be fair to Innova Technology, they were in this game already, with their first-gen Protag tracking card device. But they’ve now beefed up the offering with a BT 4.0 device called Protag Elite. → Read More
As two of the first VCs in Silicon Valley, Don Valentine and Tom Perkins have ridden through the highs and lows of the tech industry over the decades. The co-founders of Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, respectively, they have invested in and helped build icons like Apple, Genentech, Compaq, Oracle, Cisco and Google. We’re thrilled to have both Valentine and Perkins on… → Read More
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