http://topicfire.com/Web-2.0 2013-05-18T15:03:56+00:00 text/html 2013-05-18T21:30:05+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/what-games-are-cometh-the-hour-cometh-the-xbox/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/what-games-are-cometh-the-hour-cometh-the-xbox/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/1358827408-149227280.jpg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a veteran game designer, creator of leading game design blog What Games Are and creative director of Jawfish Games. You can follow him on Twitter here. One of the memories that sticks with me most about the launch of the Xbox 360 was a silly analogy about inhaling. I can&#8217;t... text/html 2013-05-18T20:30:09+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-news/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-news/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/hacker-news1.jpg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />The idea of a VC having its own news aggregator was a bit outlandish in 2007. But Y Combinator was in an unusual position in those days anyway. Startup accelerators had been a highly visible part of the dot-com crash, and Silicon Valley was still skeptical of the concept nearly... text/html 2013-05-18T20:30:03+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/crunchweek-google-io-madness-and-squares-new-ipad-hardware-for-merchants/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/crunchweek-google-io-madness-and-squares-new-ipad-hardware-for-merchants/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/page-on-the-edge1.jpg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />It&#8217;s that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days. Ryan Lawler, Drew Olanoff (clad in his Google Glass), and I discussed all things Google I/O, including Larry Page&#8217;s keynote, Google+&#8217;s new photo features,... text/html 2013-05-18T20:21:03+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/18/this-22k-sniper-rifle-comes-with-a-wifi-server-usb-ports-an-ipad-mini-and-aims-itself/ <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/18/this-22k-sniper-rifle-comes-with-a-wifi-server-usb-ports-an-ipad-mini-and-aims-itself/"><img src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/rifle_enl-1670663bff54b331d9c113d9ceb0b83e5ef5c479.jpg?w=700&amp;h=467" /></a><br />If only Duke Nukem could see this BFG. The new TrackingPoint sniper rifle doesn&#8217;t fire when you pull the trigger. Rather, it fires when it knows it will hit the target you&#8217;re aiming at. And then streams video to the included iPad mini to allow you to share your hunting... text/html 2013-05-18T20:19:03+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/ioverload/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/ioverload/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/i-overload.jpg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Did Google&#8217;s conference succeed? It launched dozens of products and services in its 205-minute keynote, but did the world understand them? I saw some of the smartest journalists in technology struggling to handle the information density. But what&#8217;s the alternative? Break it up across multiple days, or even multiple conferences?... text/html 2013-05-18T19:15:02+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/hike/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/hike/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/screen-shot-2013-05-18-at-18-20-44.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its five million registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the big beasts of the messaging space – WhatsApp claims 200 million+ monthly active users,... text/html 2013-05-18T17:30:53+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/18/tumblr-108m-blogs-and-51-billion-posts-are-worth-more-than-1-1b/ <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/18/tumblr-108m-blogs-and-51-billion-posts-are-worth-more-than-1-1b/"><img src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/david-karp-tumblr1.jpg?w=655&amp;h=449" /></a><br />Tumblr wants more. The popular and fast-growing blog service is mulling a $1.1 billion acquisition offer from Yahoo. But while the massive blogging powerhouse only pulled in $13 million in revenue in 2012, and raised $125 million at a lower $800 million valuation, Tumblr CEO David Karp feels $1.1 billion... text/html 2013-05-18T17:19:45+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/why-we-are-leaving-ouya/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/why-we-are-leaving-ouya/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/commander2.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Editor&#8217;s note: Tolga Ozuygur is the co-founder of Overdose Caffeine, an indie game-development company from Turkey that develops cross-platform, real-time multiplayer games. Follow him on Twitter @tolgaozuygur. We at Overdose Caffeine had previously announced that Pocket Fleet, a real-time multiplayer space dogfight game developed for mobile devices, would be available soon on OUYA. Our players... text/html 2013-05-18T13:30:11+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-time-has-come-for-chrome-os-in-the-home/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-time-has-come-for-chrome-os-in-the-home/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/3569785349_d1ec6caa88_z.jpg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />I’ve spent the last two weeks wandering around London, Paris, and Istanbul (not Constantinople.) As an experiment, I left my trusty MacBook Pro behind and brought only the $199 Chromebook on which I type this. And to my considerable surprise it has served admirably. So admirably, in fact, that I... text/html 2013-05-18T11:16:04+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/google-investigated-in-canada/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/google-investigated-in-canada/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/screen-shot-2013-05-18-at-11-08-25.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Google is facing another competition investigation, according to the Financial Post. The Canadian Competition Bureau has informed Mountain View of its plans to launch a formal investigation of its Canadian operations. It has not yet requested any information or documents from Google but has informed the search giant of its intention... text/html 2013-05-18T07:33:21+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/google-app-engine-finally-supports-php-the-language-that-runs-75-of-the-web/ <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/google-app-engine-finally-supports-php-the-language-that-runs-75-of-the-web/"><img src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/google-app-engine-php-zend.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=331" /></a><br />Two days ago Google announced it would finally support the most popular computing language on the planet, PHP, in its platform-as-a-service offering, Google App Engine. That means that yes, at some point you&#8217;ll be able to run your little WordPress-powered blog on the biggest server farms on the planet. But... text/html 2013-05-18T05:04:00+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/cure-org-helps-you-save-kids-across-the-world-with-your-smartphone/ <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/cure-org-helps-you-save-kids-across-the-world-with-your-smartphone/"><img src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/mobilebeat-boilerplate.png" /></a><br />July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Nonprofits are waking up to the benefits of having a mobile and social media strategy. Cure.org is on a mission to raise money for children in need, and is experimenting with a suite of mobile apps to... text/html 2013-05-18T02:20:10+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/google-now-introduces-mark-up-tools-for-select-partners-to-flag-flights-hotel-stays-and-reservations-in-emails/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/google-now-introduces-mark-up-tools-for-select-partners-to-flag-flights-hotel-stays-and-reservations-in-emails/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/google-now-stuff.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Google made a relatively quiet announcement today regarding how it&#8217;s pushing the developer ecosystem forward around Google Now, its intelligent personal assistant for Android devices. The company has begun extending mark up tools for emails from select partners, which help highlight flight schedules, hotel bookings and various types of reservations, to make... text/html 2013-05-18T02:16:42+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/grubhub-and-seamless-in-talks-to-merge/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/grubhub-and-seamless-in-talks-to-merge/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/screen-shot-2013-05-13-at-4-05-08-pm.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies in our food manufacturing, production and distribution systems. As interest in food tech balloons, one... text/html 2013-05-18T00:47:36+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/yahoo-ny-event/ <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/yahoo-ny-event/"><img src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/marissa-mayer.jpg?w=641&amp;h=429" /></a><br />Yahoo invited press today to a product event in New York saying only that it will &#8220;share something special&#8221; soon after reports that the company is going to buy blog platform Tumblr. It seems Yahoo has been very product-focused in the months since Marissa Mayer both took the chief executive... text/html 2013-05-17T23:19:41+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/bang-with-friends-app-store/ <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/bang-with-friends-app-store/"><img src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/mobilebeat-boilerplate.png" /></a><br />July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Bang With Friends&#8217; newborn iPhone app has been taken out of the Apple App Store, leaving &#8220;down to bang&#8221; iPhone users wondering why. The company&#8217;s chief executive Colin Hodge told Valleywag that the app recently passed... text/html 2013-05-17T22:43:40+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/where-robots-fail-why-education-cant-just-be-digital/ <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/where-robots-fail-why-education-cant-just-be-digital/"><img src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/education-tutorspree.jpg?w=655&amp;h=462" /></a><br />This is a guest post by Tutorspree CEO Aaron Harris Thanks to technology, we&#8217;re watching a revolution happen in education right now. From the explosion in popularity of language learning apps like Mindsnacks to the media furor about the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), companies are being built around... text/html 2013-05-17T21:20:06+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/postach-io-turns-an-evernote-notebook-into-a-blog/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/postach-io-turns-an-evernote-notebook-into-a-blog/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/postachio-web-logo.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />One of the more interesting projects to emerge from Evernote&#8217;s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blogging platform which turns your Evernote notebook into a Content Management System. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based company behind the now just four-week old service has already caught the attention of local investors,... text/html 2013-05-17T20:30:25+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/amidst-tumblr-acquisition-rumors-yahoo-to-hold-product-event-with-marissa-mayer-on-monday/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/amidst-tumblr-acquisition-rumors-yahoo-to-hold-product-event-with-marissa-mayer-on-monday/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/cf776780e895d2c099f8fb13cb7c6af2.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Yahoo has been on an acquisition tear of late, snapping up apps and mobile startups like they&#8217;re going out of style. Summly, Astrid, GoPollGo, MileWise, Loki Studios have all been acquired in the last month-and-a-half, while Yahoo simultaneously made a play for a significant stake in French video giant, DailyMotion.... text/html 2013-05-17T20:22:33+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/behind-the-scenes-of-the-big-google-maps-redesign-and-its-technical-challenges/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/behind-the-scenes-of-the-big-google-maps-redesign-and-its-technical-challenges/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/img_8831.jpg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Google unveiled its completely redesigned Google Maps product on the web at I/O 2013, and at a panel dedicated to the new Maps experience, Maps User Experience Design Lead Jonah Jones and Engineering Director for Maps on the web Yatin Chawathe took us through what went into creating Maps and... text/html 2013-05-17T20:16:18+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/google-play-in-app-purchase-revenue-growth-jumps-7x-in-one-year-subscription-revenue-growing-2x-each-quarter/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/google-play-in-app-purchase-revenue-growth-jumps-7x-in-one-year-subscription-revenue-growing-2x-each-quarter/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/img_8834.jpg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing. Not surprisingly, the big growth is coming with in-app purchases, though Google&#8217;s recently launched subscription... text/html 2013-05-17T20:15:45+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/google-app-for-android-quietly-switched-to-webp-image-format-a-month-and-a-half-ago-saves-50-bandwidth/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/google-app-for-android-quietly-switched-to-webp-image-format-a-month-and-a-half-ago-saves-50-bandwidth/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/webp_logo_webp.png?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />About a month and a half ago, Google switched to its own WebP image format in its Google+ Android app, the company revealed at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco today. This, Stephen Konig, a Google product manager who focuses on WebP and Chrome Remote desktop, and Make the Web Fast team... text/html 2013-05-17T19:23:24+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/with-1-5m-led-by-winklevoss-capital-bitinstant-aims-to-be-the-go-to-site-to-buy-and-sell-bitcoins/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/with-1-5m-led-by-winklevoss-capital-bitinstant-aims-to-be-the-go-to-site-to-buy-and-sell-bitcoins/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/screen-shot-2013-05-17-at-11-15-11-am.png?w=100&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin Harvard graduates who famously sparred with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook and are now working as tech investors through Winklevoss Capital, are part of the growing group of venture capitalists who have taken a keen interest in Bitcoins. Last month, it was... text/html 2013-05-17T18:45:04+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/google-introduces-portable-native-client-makes-it-easier-for-developers-to-add-c-and-c-code-to-their-web-apps/ <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/google-introduces-portable-native-client-makes-it-easier-for-developers-to-add-c-and-c-code-to-their-web-apps/"><img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/chromium-logo.jpg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1" /></a><br />Native Client &#8211; a technology that allows developers to run native compiled C and C++ code as part of their web apps &#8211; has long been a part of Google Chrome. Even though other browser vendors haven&#8217;t adopted it yet, Google is clearly putting quite a few resources behind this... text/html 2013-05-17T18:17:07+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/nokia-lumia-928-verizons-first-high-end-lumia-is-pretty-but-flawed-hands-on/ <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/17/nokia-lumia-928-verizons-first-high-end-lumia-is-pretty-but-flawed-hands-on/"><img src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/mobilebeat-boilerplate.png" /></a><br />July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Windows Phone may be slowly climbing the mobile operating system ranks, but Nokia&#8217;s Lumia phones have always been some of the best smartphones around. Nokia&#8217;s latest device, the Lumia 928, is no different. The Lumia 928 is...