We’re all critics, whether we Like it or not. Our Facebook posts are implicit reviews and recommendations of restaurants, apps, movies, news articles, dry cleaners, and even whole cities. Now, Facebook’s new keyword post search is unlocking the value of the opinions we share but never put on review sites like Yelp, Annie’s List, MetaCritic, or the App Store. Of course,… Read More
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TechCrunch Radio is coming at you tomorrow and there is quite a bit to talk about. Uber’s been a mess for the past month, while somehow managing to secure $1.2 billion in funding, rocketing the startup to a $40 billion valuation. Plus, the holidays are coming up and there are plenty of gift ideas to discuss. And, as usual, we’ll be holding our ever-enticing startup pitch-off with… Read More
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How do you pay for solar energy if you don’t have a credit card or bank account? Thanks to Off Grid Electric, people in the developing world can pay as they go for installed solar power systems electricity the same way they top-up their phone minutes. Now, thanks to $16 million in new funding from American solar finance and installation giant SolarCity, Off Grid Electric is pushing to… Read More
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MediaSpike, a startup that helps developers place products in broadly popular games for iOS and Android, thinks that virtual reality is going to have a broad audience across these different use cases. As such, they’ve tweaked their SDK make it easier to integrate with VR experiences being built with Unity. Read More
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Facebook is finally getting serious about search. Today it’s challenging Google for finding answers and Twitter for checking real-time chatter with the launch of keyword search. Two years after debuting semantic “My friends who…” search for people, places, and photos on the web, Graph Search is rolling out on iOS in the US along with a new keyword search option for… Read More
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The enterprise and team messaging space is as crowded and heated as ever. Stewart Butterfield’s Slack is currently the talk of Silicon Valley, after the young company raised an additional $120 million at a post-money valuation of $1.12 billion. Others that immediately spring to mind include Atlassian’s HipChat, Cotap, a messaging startup co-founded by two ex-Yammer executives,… Read More
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Errplane founders Paul Dix and Todd Persen had an idea for a company last year around anomaly detection in data center monitoring, but they soon realized that field was crowded and it would take a long time to build out the infrastructure for the company. At the same, time they heard from customers they were more interested in the underlying infrastructure than the service they were offering,… Read More
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Oculus VR is ‘gearing’ up for the imminent launch of the Samsung Gear VR, a mobile headset that uses its software and VR hardware expertise to give Galaxy Note 4 owners a taste of immersive virtual reality. We spoke with Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, along with its head of mobile Max Cohen about how this launch fits into their overall vision of immersive computing in general, and… Read More
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Anyone with a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 can take a dip into virtual reality today with the launch of the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition. For an entry fee of $199 on Samsung’s or AT&T’s sites, you can experience a variety of VR experiences packaged in by Samsung and software partner Oculus. Read More
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AppGyver has just announced the acquisition of AppArchitect, a Disrupt Battlefield company that provides app-building tools through a drag-and-drop, no-code interface. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. AppGyver is a rapid mobile app development company founded back in 2011, that has since gone on to develop Steroid.js, a command-line based tool for quickly building HTML5 apps, along… Read More
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