Trouble In Clever Domain Land: Bit.ly And Others Risk Losing Theirs Swift.ly | TechCrunch
Bit.ly, HootSuite (with its Ow.ly service), Ad.ly and perhaps even Smel.ly could well be at risk of having their domain names sudden.ly taken away by the Libyan government. Ben Metcalfe blogs that his domain name vb.ly was recently seized by NIC.ly (the domain registry and controlling body for the Libyan domain space) because the content of his website, at least in their opinion, was in violation
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms | TechCrunch
Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal battle brought by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal information from users’ public profiles. The case reached the U.S
Google acquires AppSheet to bring no-code development to Google Cloud | TechCrunch
Enterprise Google acquires AppSheet to bring no-code development to Google Cloud Google announced today that it is buying AppSheet, an eight-year-old no-code mobile-application-building platform. The company had raised more than $17 million on a $60 million valuation, according to PitchBook data. The companies did not share the purchase price. With AppSheet, Google gets a simple way for companies
Facebook is secretly building LOL, a cringey teen meme hub | TechCrunch
Facebook is secretly building LOL, a cringey teen meme hub How do you do, fellow kids? After Facebook Watch, Lasso and IGTV failed to become hits with teens, the company has been quietly developing another youthful video product. Multiple sources confirm that Facebook has spent months building LOL, a special feed of funny videos and GIF-like clips. It’s divided into categories like “For You,” “Ani
A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iPhone | TechCrunch
A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iPhone A security researcher has found a new way to crash and restart any iPhone — with just a few lines of code. Sabri Haddouche tweeted a proof-of-concept webpage with just 15 lines of code which, if visited, will crash and restart an iPhone or iPad. Those on macOS may also see Safari freeze when opening the link. The code exploits a weaknes
Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M | TechCrunch
Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M Wix.com has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to users to build and administer websites: it has acquired DeviantArt, an online community for artists, designers and art/design enthusiasts with some 325 million individual pieces of original art and more than 40 million registered members, for $36 million in
This is a Kendama! This is a IoT! Uh! Dendama. | TechCrunch
The Ken plays the starring role in the traditional Japanese Kendama game. It’s a cup-and-ball juggling toy that hasn’t seen much disruption since the 17th century. Until now, that is. Dendama is an Internet of Things-oriented company that’s working on bringing the Kendama toy into the current century. The toy has seen an increase of popularity both in Japan and internationally over the past 15 yea
All deals on AngelList will soon be private (plus other updates you should know) | TechCrunch
All deals on AngelList will soon be private (plus other updates you should know) Earlier this week, we sat down with Naval Ravikant, cofounder of five-year-old AngelList, a popular platform that matches startups with early-stage investors. Three million people, including 50,000 accredited investors, have created profiles on AngelList since its founding, and AngelList now uses that information to p
Hacker takes over Oculus CEO's Twitter account, announces new CEO | TechCrunch
Hacker takes over Oculus CEO’s Twitter account, announces new CEO Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe had his Twitter account hacked Wednesday; the hacker took the opportunity to promptly announce a new CEO for the virtual reality company. Update: the account appears to be back under Brendan’s control. This is just the latest in a string of tech CEO’s having their Twitter accounts compromised, this attack do
Zenefits Is Laying Off Roughly 250 Employees | TechCrunch
Zenefits is laying off around 17 percent of its employees, or 250 people, with the layoffs largely concentrated in the company’s sales division, according to an email sent to the company by CEO David Sacks. “When I became CEO of Zenefits, I promised on Day 1 to reset our culture, refocus our strategy on serving small businesses, and create a new beginning for success in the future,” Sacks wrote. “
Synacor Buys Technorati For Just $3M To Build Out Its Mobile And Ad Tech Business | TechCrunch
Startups Synacor Buys Technorati For Just $3M To Build Out Its Mobile And Ad Tech Business Yet more consolidation underway in the ad tech business, and a resting place for what was once a leading authority for ranking important blogs and other sites online: Synacor, a company that provides monetization services for ISPs, carriers and others that offer content services, has acquired Technorati. Alo
The Missing Leak In Marketplaces | TechCrunch
Here’s the rap on marketplaces where buyers meet sellers: Some of them leak revenue. Unicorns are looking leaky these days. The dream is to be Uber. With a $70 billion valuation, who wouldn’t? Uber doesn’t leak. The transaction is about as commodified as it gets. Relationship adds zero. You communicate everything about the job in a few bits: from where/to where/car size. And the transaction window
Layoffs Hit Gumroad As The E-Commerce Startup Restructures | TechCrunch
San Francisco startup Gumroad, which lets people sell products directly to consumers by way of quick and simple links, has been in the process of laying off most of its staff in an effort to run more efficiently. Sahil Lavingia, Gumroad’s CEO and founder, confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch, and said the company would stay in business. Gumroad blazed into the market in 2011 under Lavingia, who ha
Craigslist, 3taps Settle Their Scraping/Antitrust Suits; 3taps To Pay $1M To Be Donated To The EFF | TechCrunch
A week after Craigslist finally got its emancipation from eBay, some closure on another long-standing legal battle for the listings site: the local listings giant has now finally reached a settlement with big data company 3taps over claims that 3taps and companies using its data were scraping and stealing Craigslist IP, and counterclaims from 3taps that Craigslist was violating antitrust laws. In
Microsoft And Google Collaborate On Angular 2 Framework, TypeScript Language | TechCrunch
Microsoft And Google Collaborate On Angular 2 Framework, TypeScript Language Here’s a partnership that may come as a surprise to many: Microsoft and Google are working together to help make Angular 2 — the next (and somewhat controversial) version of Google’s JavaScript web app framework — better. Angular has been using its own AtScript superset of Microsoft’s TypeScript for a while now. TypeScrip
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