What will recipes look like on the Apple Watch? I’m not sure, but but Condé Nast-owned cooking website Epicurious has taken a stab at figuring it out. Eric Gillin, who became the site’s editorial director last fall, demonstrated a new Smart Timer app for me earlier this month (sadly, he had to do the demo sans Watch). Just as The New York Times plans to deliver one-sentence… Read More
Microsoft today announced Azure Service Fabric, a new Azure service that aims to make it easier for developers at startups and ISVs to create highly scalable cloud applications. The idea is to give developers the tools necessary to build cloud apps without ever having to worry about scaling and having to rearchitect their infrastructure to keep up with growth. To do so, Service Fabric… Read More
Rookie smartphone company OnePlus has removed the need for an invite to buy its One smartphone and announced a date for its follow-up device. Read More
58.com, China’s largest classified site by monthly unique visitors, has bought rival Ganji.com. Beijing-based 58.com forked over $412.2 million in cash as well 34 million newly issued shares for a 43.2 percent stake in Ganji.com. Read More
Freshdesk, a cloud-based customer service tool, caught a bushel of money today, announcing a $50M investment led by Tiger Global with Accel Partners and Google Capital also participating. The funding comes on the heels of a $31M round last June and brings the total investment to just over $95M. The reason Freshdesk went back for more so soon, was that it has continued its phenomenal growth,… Read More
If that headline doesn’t make much sense welcome to the 21st century when a program designed to buy random items from illegal marketplaces automatically can be arrested by Swiss police. As you’ll recall, Swiss police seized a program called Darknet Shopper, a bot that visited darknet markets and bought random items with bitcoin. Most of the items were mundane – counterfeit… Read More
Last Thursday we held our first TechCrunch meetup in Seoul, Korea, in association with Campus Seoul from Google. Read More
Facebook’s Internet.org program has expanded into Indonesia, a country with a 250 million population, marking its second largest launch in Asia to date. Read More
Alibaba’s power doesn’t just stem from being the largest player in the world’s fastest-growing e-commerce market. The company also sits on hoards of data, gathered from its shopping sites, as well as its financial and cloud computing businesses. Now Aliyun, Alibaba’s cloud computing subsidiary, has entered a deal to build what it calls the first “cloud… Read More