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- SV Angel And Founder Collective Give Hackruiter $200K For Its Hacker School
- PayPal's First In-Store, Brick And Mortar Mobile Payments Integration Is At Home Depot
- Not Bad, LG Marketing, Not Bad
- AIAIAI's New Headphones Continue Trend Of Understated Design
- Dijit Remote Control App For iPad Finally Goes Live
- A Very TechCrunch CES: How To Follow Our CES Coverage
- Next On Amazon's Road To World Domination? Casa.com For Home Decor
- Report: Kaz Hirai To Become Sony President In April
- TechCrunch Giveaway: 2 Tickets To The Crunchies #Crunchies
- PhotoPin: Creative Commons Photos For All Your Stock Photo Needs
- What Witchery Is This? A Cardboard Camping Pot?
- Support For Quad-Core iDevices Found In iOS 5.1 Beta Code
- Keen on Robert Hurley: Who Should We Most Trust About Trust? (TCTV)
- Etsy Makes It Easy For Users To Post Items To Pinterest With New 'Pin It' Button
- ChatON, Samsung's iMessage Competitor, Arrives In App Store
- Shelby.tv To Launch "Touch Play": An AirPlay-Based Gesture Remote
- Facebook's Free Social Cards From Moo Are Going Like Very Hot Cakes
- Startup Weekend's Eventful Year: 260 Events In 202 Cities; Startups Raised $30M+
- Nobody Wins At CES
- Siri Sibling Trapit Raises $6.2 Million Series A From Horizons
| SV Angel And Founder Collective Give Hackruiter $200K For Its Hacker School | Top |
 YCombinator-backed hacker recruiter platform Hackruiter has raised a modest seed round from investors SV Angel and Founder Collective. The company raised $200K but could have raised much more, because it is already profitable co-founder David Albert tells me. Hackruiter is already profitable because startups like Tumblr, Weebly, Loopt, Artsy and Bit.ly currently pay Hackruiter $20K per programmer referral on averafe (Amazing, right?). And Hackruiter finds people to refer through its Hacker School, which is now entering its third batch. Unlike beginner code-learning programs like Codecademy, the in-person Hacker School is exclusively focused on making already good coders better. | |
| PayPal's First In-Store, Brick And Mortar Mobile Payments Integration Is At Home Depot | Top |
 As we've reported in the past, PayPal announced an in-store payments technology both via mobile and point of sale systems that is currently being tested on a 'friends and family' basis in a national retailer. That retailer is Home Depot, we've learned from PayPal. PayPal said of the Home Depot announcement: We frequently run trials with our retail partners. In this case, PayPal and The Home Depot are engaged in a limited pilot program for new POS technologies. The pilot is currently being run in five stores and involves a small number of PayPal employees. | |
| Not Bad, LG Marketing, Not Bad | Top |
 Watch first, then read. Or just watch, that's cool too. | |
| AIAIAI's New Headphones Continue Trend Of Understated Design | Top |
 We don't design and hardware quite as much as we used to, but I'm making an exception for these. A good while back, I wrote about a pair of headphones I thought was the most understated and attractive I'd ever seen. They were the TMA-1s from Danish design house AIAIAI, and while I never got to get my hands on them, I'm going to make it my business to try their new pair out. | |
| Dijit Remote Control App For iPad Finally Goes Live | Top |
 Dijit teased us with a preview of their iPad-optimized remote control app back in December, but home theater convergence aficionados will be glad to know that the app is finally available in the App Store. | |
| A Very TechCrunch CES: How To Follow Our CES Coverage | Top |
 As you well know, next week is CES 2012 and TechCrunch will be there - with bells on. We're focusing on start-ups, small companies, and interesting people and we'll be doing a lot of live streaming, video interviews, and live giveaways. You're going to want to watch. But, you're saying, how can I interact with the CES team while they're on the floor? With Twitter, of course! First, follow @techcrunch for up to the minute news. We will be posting giveaways to this feed when they happen live and we'll be asking for feedback as we go along. We'll be using the hashtag #CEScrunch for all the CES stuff, but expect a little bit more noise. | |
| Next On Amazon's Road To World Domination? Casa.com For Home Decor | Top |
 The rights to Casa.com (Spanish for 'house') have been transferred to Amazon, indicating the ecommerce giant's next dedicated vertical shop may be a home decor site. Amazon's Quidsi network of sites already runs diapers.com for baby goods, wag.com for pets, beautybar.com for -- well, you get it. If you visit Casa.com now you'll find more evidence, with a blank screen explaining "You have reached an invalid location. Maybe you are looking for http://www.diapers.com, http://www.soap.com..." Casa.com could offer a more affordable, traditional home decor shopping alternative to luxury and flash sales sites like One Kings Lane and Gilt's Decorati. | |
| Report: Kaz Hirai To Become Sony President In April | Top |
 Big news from Sony today: according to a report just published by Japanese business daily The Nikkei, Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai, currently the company's Executive Deputy President, will become president as early as April this year. Hirai doubles as the Chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment. The move doesn't really come as a big surprise: in March last year, current president Howard Stringer called Hirai the "leading candidate" in the race for the next CEO. If the Nikkei report is to be believed, Stringer will stay on board as Sony's Chairman and CEO. | |
| TechCrunch Giveaway: 2 Tickets To The Crunchies #Crunchies | Top |
 Who's excited for the Crunchies Awards? All of the finalists have been announced and the voting has begun. There are some interesting match-ups this year. We have Google+ going up against Facebook Timeline, Instagram, Path 2.0 and the New New Twitter for Best Social Application of 2011. Foursquare is going up against Airbnb, RunKeeper, Grindr and Uber for Best Location Application. And which startup do you think will take the award for Best Overall Startup of 2011? Heavy hitters like Dropbox, Instagram, Square, Gilt Groupe, Spotify and Tumblr are all finalists. The Crunchies Awards are going to be really big this year, and we will have nothing short of the best in the technology industry joining us. We have started to release tickets in batches and will continue to do so as we get closer to the event. They sell out really fast, so we will continue to give our readers chances to win tickets for free to the Crunchies as well. | |
| PhotoPin: Creative Commons Photos For All Your Stock Photo Needs | Top |
 I've been looking for something like this for years: a central, easy-to-use site for stock photos. Called PhotoPin, the site features a search engine that trolls Flickr for pictures. Some of them are also available to buy, but the vast majority are CC licensed. Obviously the site (it's more a widget, really) reminds you to link back to the original image, but if you've ever tried to find an acceptable image for "ninja stormtrooper" then you'll understand the value of the site. | |
| What Witchery Is This? A Cardboard Camping Pot? | Top |
| This Kickstarter project aims to rend the very fabric of space and time. The product is a camping pot for boiling water and doing a little cooking in a pinch but get this: the pot is made of paper. The pot is completely biodegradable and folds flat in your backpack. It's mostly designed for a single use although you can feasibly boil a few bottle-fulls of water in it over time. The foods you cook must contain water but they are not limited to highly liquid consumables: | |
| Support For Quad-Core iDevices Found In iOS 5.1 Beta Code | Top |
 It's no secret that smartphone and tablet OEMs are looking toward quad-core processors to power their next-generation doodads, with Apple's oft-rumored A6 chipset being one of the most anticipated. According to 9to5Mac, snippets of code in the beta version of the iOS 5.1 update tacity confirm that a quad-core A6 will soon grace Apple's new iDevices. | |
| Keen on Robert Hurley: Who Should We Most Trust About Trust? (TCTV) | Top |
 So who do you trust? Given the decline in trust and the rise of protest movements like the Tea Party, the Occupy Movement and the Arab Spring, the chances are that you trust nobody. So how can we rebuild trust in a world where The Protestor just got made Person of the Year and every traditional source of political and economic authority seems to be in crisis? | |
| Etsy Makes It Easy For Users To Post Items To Pinterest With New 'Pin It' Button | Top |
 Online pinboard Pinterest is all the rage these days, and as Etsy is showing today with its latest product announcement, e-commerce sites are starting to realize the power of pinning. The e-commerce marketplace is making it easier for Pinterest users to pin and organize Etsy items, via a new Pin It button on Etsy listing pages, along side the Tweet and Like buttons. Etsy says that its members are big fans of Pinterest (and so is Etsy), so the integration makes sense. Etsy is also using Pinterest's price display feature. So when you pin listings with the Pin It button, the required pin description field is prefilled with the item title and price. Users can also add a note about why they like the item, which will be added to their Pinterest posting. | |
| ChatON, Samsung's iMessage Competitor, Arrives In App Store | Top |
 Remember ChatON? The Samsung-built, cross-platform, mobile messaging app which arrived in Google's Android Market this fall? The app, somewhat similar to BlackBerry's BBM or Apple's iMessage, provides users with an alternative to SMS or MMS. At the time, Samsung was promising support for iOS would be coming "soon." Well, "soon" has arrived. ChatON is now available for download from iTunes. | |
| Shelby.tv To Launch "Touch Play": An AirPlay-Based Gesture Remote | Top |
 Video-sharing startup (and stars of Bloomberg's TechStars reality show) Shelby.tv is about to launch a pretty nifty feature called "Touch Play." The new addition, a gesture-based remote control that works via Apple's AirPlay, will be shown off at next week's CES, with its launch planned for the week following. | |
| Facebook's Free Social Cards From Moo Are Going Like Very Hot Cakes | Top |
| Some 24 hours after we broke the news that Facebook had engaged Moo to be the sole creator of its new 'social' business cards service we have some exclusive numbers on what that deal is translating into. The promotion of 200,000 free packs of 50 cards is on a first come, first served basis. However the offer is capped at 5,000 orders per day (that's 250,000 cards per day) in order, Moo says, to ensure a "strong ethos of customer service and to make it fair." | |
| Startup Weekend's Eventful Year: 260 Events In 202 Cities; Startups Raised $30M+ | Top |
 Startup Weekend, whose mission is to kickstart and foster startup communities worldwide through events and networking sessions, had a very lively 2011. According to internal statistics shared exclusively with TechCrunch, the organization held a total of 260 events in 202 cities, in 67 countries (you can find the obligatory accompanying infographic below). All in all, the 'startup weekends' attracted some 21,316 people, who collectively formed 2,817 teams. Startups that were incubated at its events raised at least $30 million in outside funding in the course of last year, although Startup Weekend CMO Joey Pomerenke tells me there were probably more fundraising rounds completed that they simply don't know about yet. | |
| Nobody Wins At CES | Top |
 Rather than do a CES pre-round-up of exciting products I'd like to address this interesting slant on the whole "massive electronics trade show in the middle of the desert" concept that has kept the Gadgets crew here up for the past few weeks. MG said Apple won CES. He was being snide, but, in a way, honest because, in the end, nobody wins CES. The Consumer Electronics Show is, as its name implies, a show for consumer electronics. These include, but are not limited to, TVs, DVD players, Blu-Ray players (if they still make those), and accessories. TV stands! TV brackets! Speakers! Remotes! In fact, there's an entire hall dedicated to the Asian purveyors of the components that make up those consumer electronics, a sort of Fishmongers Row to the CE industry where the smell is at least far more tolerable. | |
| Siri Sibling Trapit Raises $6.2 Million Series A From Horizons | Top |
 Personalized web search tool Trapit, often called the sister to Apple's Siri because both were built on the same artificial intelligence project from DARPA and SRI, has just raised $6.2 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Horizons Ventures, the Hong Kong-based venture fund that manages the investments for Facebook and Spotify investor Li Ka-shing. Horizons also previously invested in Siri's B round. | |
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