Apple’s Sexy App Purge Was Just the Beginning [App Store]
The Great App Store Purge of 2010 continues. They came for the sexy apps, and other apps said nothing. Now, according to some developers, they’re coming for pre-fabbed apps—like RSS apps built using ready-set-go templates from app-building services.
Specifically, they’re blocking new submissions of apps that are basically just re-packaged RSS feeds or business cards. What [...]
TwitCasting lets you stream live video and tweet simultaneously from your iPhone
Late last year, Ustream and qik launched iPhone applications that let you stream videos from the iPhone to the web and allow others to watch them as they’re being recorded. And now there is an iPhone app called TwitCasting Live (iTunes link), which offers the same basic functionality, but is – as the name suggests [...]
Charlie Rose hosts Mossberg, Arrington, David Carr on iPad (video)
TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington has become a regular on the Charlie Rose. In his sixth appearance on the show, he joins Wall Street Journal gadget overlord Walt Mossberg and The New York Times’ lyric poet of media reporting, David Carr.
The three-way interview is nearly 25 minutes long. If this were a weekday, I’d tell you [...]
E-Trade acquires, shutters social investing startup Cake Financial
Cake Financial, a site where you could import your investment data from multiple brokerages and share that information with other users, announced today that it has been acquired by financial services company E-Trade.
In his note on the Cake site, the San Francisco startup’s chief executive Steven Carpenter says “aspects of the Cake service will be [...]
GDrive Is Here-ish: Google Docs to Allow Users to Upload Any File-Type [Gdrive]
Google users will soon be able to upload any file type to Docs (as long as it’s under 250MB)—as opposed to the very limited slate of document types currently supported (like images, Word docs, PDFs, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations).
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Because Google Docs now supports files up to 250 MB in size, which is larger [...]
Twitter Gets Hijacked, and Now’s a Good Time to Change Your Passwords [Reminders]
Last night, Twitter was hijacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army”; while there’ve been no confirmed password leaks or anything of the sort, now seems to us like a great time to change up your passwords. Here’s why:
The Twitter blog reported that the problem was due to compromised DNS records, meaning that the hackers were able [...]
EventBrite gives event planners new tools to track ticket data
Event management service EventBrite has released new reporting, analytics and insight tools for its event organizers. The tools let event organizers track ticket (in real time) purchasing trend, such as where and when tickets are being bought, attendee demographics, discount code usage, sales by ticket type, and attendance/no show trends. This is in addition to [...]
Week in review: Crunchpad renamed JooJoo, Google adds real-time search results
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Crunchpad manufacturer renames product JooJoo, promises launch this Friday at $499 — The CrunchPad was the tablet computer being built by TechCrunch with production contractor Fusion Garage. But the companies had a falling [...]
Looks like the Google phone is real, named the Nexus One
It’s looking all-but-official that Google is developing a smartphone of its own using its Android operating system, as reported in TechCrunch last month.
All Google has said officially is that it has developed a “mobile lab” device that “combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android,” and that employees are “dogfood” testing [...]
Facebook App Developer Quits, Denounces App Store Approval Process
Just yesterday I wrote a post recommending 4 ways for Apple to fix the App Store approval process. I warned that Apple’s tight control of the App Store would drive developers away.
Well, guess what happened today: Facebook for iPhone developer Joe Hewitt has quit the job in a decision he says “has had everything [...]
