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TechCrunch: Meet Agent, A Smartwatch With A Second Processor For Minimizing Power Consumption And Wireless Charging
Smartwatches are all the rage, and judging by the turnout and level of enthusiasm at the recent year one meetup for Pebble Kickstarter backers in San Francisco, there’s at least a passionate niche audience for the things. So it isn’t surprisi...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:31am -07:00T (415 words)
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TechCrunch: Swipely Raises $12M To Plug Marketing Tools Into Retail Payment Systems
“Payment marketing” startup Swipely is announcing that it has raised $12 million in Series B funding.
Although founder and CEO Angus Davis (who founded TellMe, which was acquired by Microsoft) said that he’s focused on “looking for...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:16am -07:00T (377 words)
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TechCrunch: Sprint Ups Its Offer For Outstanding Clearwire Shares To Around $2.5B
More developments in the Sprint acquisition foodchain saga. As expected, Sprint is upping its offer for outstanding Clearwire shares to $3.40 per share, working out to an offer of about $2.5 billion. This comes after originally making an offer of $2.2 bil...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:16am -07:00T (485 words)
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TechCrunch: Burstly Debuts Its Testing-To-Revenue Restructure, Opens SkyRocket Monetization To All
Burstly‘s grand vision coming out of its TestFlight acquisition is getting full reveal today with the announcement of the company’s new corporate structure, which rebrands Burstly’s monetization tools as SkyRocket, and opens them up to a...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:16am -07:00T (452 words)
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TechCrunch: Science-Backed Ecommerce Recommendation Startup Uncovet Raises $1.3M
Uncovet, a startup that wants to be the recommendation engine for indie designer clothing and accessories, has raised $1.3 million from Javelin Venture Partners, Siemer Ventures, and L.A. angel investor Paige Craig.
A graduate of Science, Uncovet is an ac...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 4:46am -07:00T (229 words)
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TechCrunch: Can We Say Crowdfunding Bubble? U.K. Charity Launches Directory To Help Navigate Nation's 30+ Local Platforms
How many crowdfunding platforms is evidence of a crowdfunding bubble? Well, when an organisation feels the need to launch a directory to list and detail all of the crowdfunding options in a single market it’s perhaps a sign that exuberance for crowd...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 4:46am -07:00T (436 words)
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TechCrunch: MavenSay Enjoying Sudden Popularity In Social Media-Hungry Indonesia
MavenSay, a social recommendation app, just got a surge of unplanned downloads coming from Indonesia, and its founders are moving quickly to include Southeast Asia in its expansion plans, as a result.
The company’s Toronto-based co-founder, Jesse Da...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:31pm -07:00T (374 words)
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TechCrunch: Aiming To Dominate Mobile Ad Attribution, HasOffers Raises $9.4M Round Led By Accel
HasOffers, a startup that helps mobile app developers see which ad efforts are actually paying off, is announcing that it has raised a $9.4 million round of funding led by Accel Partners.
The company was founded in 2009 — the product that it initially b...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 9:31pm -07:00T (578 words)
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TechCrunch: Real-Time Parking Startup ParkMe Launches An Android App
Real-time parking startup ParkMe wants to help find you parking — in real-time. The company, which originally started out on the Web, has been making a big push behind mobile apps, which is really smart, because most times when you’re looking ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 9:31pm -07:00T (365 words)
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TechCrunch: Founders Fund Backs Its First Food Tech Startup, Hampton Creek Foods, With A $1M Investment
Founders Fund, the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, famously declared that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups). And that description certainly fits Hampton Creek Foods, a startup tha...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 7:16pm -07:00T (232 words)
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TechCrunch: Google Checkout Nixed In Favor of Google Wallet
Google Checkout is being sunsetted as the company focuses on shaping Google Wallet into a viable PayPal rival. Google Commerce announced today that Google Checkouts will be retired on November 20.
Google suggests that merchants who do not have their own ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 7:16pm -07:00T (188 words)
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TechCrunch: With Site Ai, Automated Insights Provides A Cliffs Notes Version Of Your Web Analytics
Automated Insights, a startup that translates raw data into plain English, is launching a new product that could make analytics data a lot more accessible.
The new product, called Site Ai, pulls data from existing systems (it started with Google Analytic...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 6:01pm -07:00T (535 words)
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TechCrunch: BeatDeck's Free Analytics Show Musicians Who Their Fans Are
Does my music do better on Facebook or Twitter? Where should my next tour be? Is my new song too repetitive? Musicians can get free answers to these questions and more from BeatDeck, a Y Combinator analytics company launching today. BeatDeck plans to lice...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 6:01pm -07:00T (652 words)
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TechCrunch: Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage
The new Flickr is live.
Smack-dab in the middle of Yahoo-Tumblr aqcuisition day, Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC. But announcements coming out of this event aren’t related to Tumblr as much as Flickr, the photo-sharing database and ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 3:31pm -07:00T (545 words)
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TechCrunch: Flickr Announces One Free Terabyte Of Storage Space Per User, Officially Beating Everyone
Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service is now offering one full terabyte for users, enough storage space to hold whole swathes of the world’s photos. The service is offering this benefit in addition to its full resolution photo storage service.
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Dateline: 2013-05-20 3:31pm -07:00T (231 words)
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