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Zuckerberg Surprised That People Are Surprised He's On Google+ | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 3 | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was at a major media event, with everyone from to covering the fact that the founder established a Google+ profile, building Circles that include former Facebooker and current Facebook CTO While many were that the real Zuckerberg would join a competing social service, tech blogge... |
Google’s Six-Front War | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 7 | 3 | While the tech world is buzzing about the launch and of Google’s new social network, , it’s worth noting that Google isn’t just in a war with , it’s at war with multiple companies across multiple industries. In fact, Google is fighting a multi-front war with a host of tech giants for control over some of the most v... |
Sexual Activity Tracked By Fitbit Shows Up In Google Search Results | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 3 |
Yikes. Users of fitness and calorie tracker may need to be more careful when creating a profile on the site. The sexual activity of many of the users of the company’s tracker and online platform can be found in Google Search results, meaning that these users’ profiles are public and searchable. You can click to ac... |
Stars Versus Great Teams | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | It is a truism in Silicon Valley that star employees are worth ten to one hundred times as much as ordinary employees. This calculus is especially true for software engineers, but also applies to product managers, sales executives, and other key employees. If you are a star performer, the sky’s the limit in terms of ... |
This $650 Board Is For Audiophiles Only | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 4 |
Are you someone special? Are you rich? Do you wildly misunderstand electronics? Then you’re probably an audiophile, that rare breed of human who thinks that goofy add-ons like this ridiculous $650 board will make a piece of electronics (or analog gear) sound better.
These ridiculous boards reduce “noise” as well as... |
Mark Zuckerberg Is The Most Followed User On Google+ | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | In what has to be somewhat embarrassing for and , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+, according to the counter. The Facebook CEO has 21,213 followers, compared to the Google CEO at 14,798, Google social czar Vic Gundotra at 13,783, Google co-founder Sergey Brin at 11,629, blogger Ro... |
Realtime Search On Hiatus While Google And Twitter Figure Themselves Out | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | Sometime on the morning of July 3rd, Google Realtime Search mysteriously went offline and, assuming it was just another example of things breaking on a holiday weekend, most tech publications ignored it. Well as it turns out the reason behind its disappearance was , on July 2nd Google’s access to Twitter’s expired a... |
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HP's webOS Boss Encourages Team Through Early Reviews | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | We even said that “WebOS and the Palm TouchPad are nearly perfect, an excellent amalgamation of everything that was ever right about Palm.” Granted, perfection in this industry lasts about as long as a battery cycle, and we had plenty to gripe about, but as far as the goes, we have hope. But day-one reviews haven’t ... |
SleepWell Wi-Fi Handler Adds Hours Of Battery Life | John Biggs | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | Wi-Fi is a battery hog. When stuck among a bunch of other Wi-Fi devices, most mobile gear will keep polling the access point for data while the other devices get their share. As Duke Today notes, “this means the battery drainage in downloading a movie in Manhattan is far higher than downloading the same movie in a farm... |
South Korea Promises Paperless Schools By 2015 | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | The death of print has long been on the minds of journalists, writers, bloggers, etc. For those of us who grew up reading our books on paper, asking for magazine subscriptions, and watching our dads read the paper (on paper) at the breakfast table, it’s hard to imagine a world without a book case, and the handful of no... |
The Way We Eat | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | “Where should we grab some food?” Perhaps no other question has motivated more consumer technology entrepreneurs. Well, I say that only half-jokingly. After the age of the Yellow Pages, we’ve all used multiple services that guide us to a restaurant seat. We’ve hunted for restaurants on Google, researched options on , ... |
How This Year's Tech IPOs Are Doing, And Who's Next | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | Bubble or not, 2011 may go down as the year of the tech IPO. Not since the last bubble have we seen so many technology companies clamoring to go public. And halfway through the year, we still have many more companies who will be listing in the next six months. Here’s a roundup of the tech companies that have gone pub... |
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (@VP) Joins Twitter | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | Following President Barack Obama’s announcement that he will actually start Tweeting from @BarackObama, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has also under the account This seems to be the Vice President’s first official active Twitter account. The White House Blog reports that Biden’s staff will be providing updates on th... |
Livescribe Shuts Down App Developer Program | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | We were excited back in 2009 to hear that . I remember, we were particularly impressed with the fact that a device so small, like the Pulse smartpen, could ignite such a thriving developer community. Unfortunately, has chosen a new path, shutting down its developer program to focus on “cloud access, storage and serv... |
Lenovo And NEC Launch PC Joint Venture In Japan | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 7 | 4 |
The joint venture and is now reality: the companies today they have finally set up “NEC Lenovo Japan”, which Lenovo holds a 51% stake in (NEC holds the rest of the shares). The joint venture is limited to the Japanese PC market at this point, but NEC Lenovo instantly gained the bragging rights to call itself t... |
GammaRebels aims to be the Ycombinator for Central Europe | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | As we’ve said before, there is a of private tech accelerator springing up all . The latest to join the wave is , a new program based in Warsaw, but aiming to attract international startups, with the focus on CEE (Central and Eastern Europe). What makes this worthy of note is that the have been stalwart startups... |
Declaration of Insurance Independence (Part II): Unleash The Health IT Startups | Mark Suster | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | , I outlined the drivers of the including the following: Consider the following convergence of factors to comprehend the scale of the need for innovation in healthcare: The only hope to address this convergence of factors is to reshape how care is delivered and paid for. Among other things, it’s imperative that the... |
Japan Last Country To Resume All PlayStation Network Services On Wednesday | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | It took them a while, but today [JP] that they will fully restore all Network services plus streaming media-on-demand service Qriocity in Japan this Wednesday. Sony’s home market is the in which the company is done picking up the pieces after that from last April. The hacking attacks affected more than 100 mi... |
Samsung Drops One Of Its Many Law Suits Against Apple | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | It’s looking like and got a bit carried away there for a while. Apparently the web of litigation surrounding the mobile giants has become too complicated for Samsung, who has chosen to drop one of its counter-suits against Apple. Specifically, the South Korea-based company will dismiss its counter-suit against Appl... |
Touchnote appoints new CEO to drive mobile photo-to-postcard startup | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | Been a while since we’ve heard from , the mobile app startup which allows you to snap a picture and send it to someone as a physical postcard. Last year they signed a deal with Sony Ericsson to get to the app pre-instaled on handsets. Now they’ve appointed former Microsoft exec, Oded Ran, as new CEO. Oded was previous... |
Amazon Acquires UK-Based Online Book Retailer The Book Depository For International Expansion | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 4 | Amazon is acquiring one of its competitors today, that the e-commerce giant has bought The Book Depository is a UK-based online bookseller offering over six million books for delivery worldwide. Financial terms of the deal are not disclosed. So why buy this company? The Book Depository, is one of the fastest growin... |
Blippy's New Direction? Daily Deals For Artisanal Goods At Heartsy.me | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | Earlier this summer we wrote a post on purchase sharing site decline, titled While Blippy CEO didn’t want to reveal what the team’s next step was at the time, we’ve now got a few more details to share as to what the company’s new venture will be — , a daily deals site for handmade goods and other products. He... |
This Wood Bike Looks Like It Came Out Of Minecraft – In A Good Way | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 5 |
The last wooden bike we saw, , was considerably more… well, elegant than this one. Yet I think if I had to have one as my everyday ride, I’d go with this one from Chicago-based Lagomorph Design. It’s got a simple, blocky beauty, and I’m guessing that black walnut exterior covers up a more traditional metal frame. The ... |
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Leaked Roadmap Outs 4G Touchpad For August, Pre 3 And "Opal" In Fall | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 5 |
The is here ( ), but it’s far from done. There are more varieties of the webOS tablet to hit, to begin with, and we’ve heard that a is on its way as well. Then, there’s the Pre 3, which was supposedly . These vague visions of the future have all been cast in perfect clarity by this allegedly leaked roadmap docume... |
On The Eve Of One Facebook Event, The Spartans Prepare For Another | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | Tomorrow morning at their headquarters in Palo Alto, Facebook is holding an event to show off an “ ” new product. Our sources tell us that product with be the long-rumored for full-on video chat goodness — just a week after arch nemesis Google unveiled Hangouts as . Given that news has already leaked out, it’s certa... |
Laser Research Company TeraDiode Starting Humble, But Hopes To Make Ray Guns Soon | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 5 |
The ongoing search for cartoon-style is likely to continue for a while, given the by even large, ship-mounted lasers. But that shouldn’t stop researchers from looking into it and making handheld lasers, even if they’re super weak. You have to start somewhere, right? Early guns were just tiny cannons, and inaccurat... |
Aussie Retailer May Shame Rivals By Offering Free HDMI Cables | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 5 |
The cable controversy continues, and people will continue buying $50 3-foot HDMI cables, but anyone with sense isn’t paying more than . One Australian retailer is fed up with their fellow electronics stores’ habit of trying to sell expensive cables with new TVs and computers, and has decided they’re going to show the... |
WordPress 3.2 Released Into The Wild; Downloaded More Than 330K Times In 24 Hours | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | in less than 5 months. But time marches on, and so does the music. Yesterday, , also known as “Gershwin”, was released to the public, and in just 24 hours, the latest iteration of the website and blogging platform has been downloaded over 330,000 times. They grow up pretty quickly these days. Why are so many people... |
Dutch Ad Creatives Land A Job With Clever Twitter Hack | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | [vimeo 25812909 w=620] Dutch Bas van de Poel and Daan van Dam have creatively come up with a way to use Twitter to get the attention of people in a position to give out jobs, by taking advantage of a core and more importantly manipulable Twitter design element, the “Followers” box. Looking for a summer job at an ad a... |
Sony's Tablet-Related Rube Goldberg Weirdness Continues | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcO95XPIHpg&w=640&h=390]
The new are coming at things from a rather different direction, in both design and promotion. The dual-screen and wedge-shaped form factors, as well as the Playstation branding, set them apart from the other guys… and these super-weird but intriguing... |
The startup called Huddle parries a lunge from the Google+ Huddle | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | As we noted , a fairly substantial startup called (with $14.2m in VC) has been legally pondering the part of the new Google+ service . Essentially, Huddle.com is about group messaging and collaboration in an enterprise sense. Google+’s Huddle is a group texting app available to consumer Android users. Today Huddle.... |
Nestio Raises $750,000 To Make Apartment Searches Suck Less | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | , a startup that aims to calm and organize the frantic process of searching for an apartment, announced today that it has closed a $750,000 seed funding round. The round was led by , with contributions from a number of angel investors, including , , , and . The startup plans to use its recent funding to build ou... |
Educated Buy? Providence Equity Partners To Acquire Blackboard For $1.64 Billion In Cash | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | , the maker of learning and education software for enterprises and schools, that it is being acquired by a group of investors led by , a private equity firm that specializes in media, entertainment, communications and information investments. Providence has also invested in several for-profit educational companies... |
Card-Case Speaker Is A Speaker Like A Card Case | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 5 |
I wouldn’t expect much in the way of warm and well-regulated sound from , but I sure do like the way it looks. Flat, portable, and extremely simple. Probably difficult to find outside Japan, though, and $65 is about three times what I’d pay for it. [via ] |
Google Hires Microsoft Product Veteran Sanaz Ahari | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | , who at 23 was the lead product manager in Microsoft history, has left Microsoft after seven and a half years. Her last job was the Principal Group Program Manager for Bing, and she was part of core leadership team. She’s 29 now. She gone now, she confirms, and has taken a job at Google. She’s part of (last seen... |
With "Beyond Check-In" Notifications, Foursquare Goes Android-First | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | Over their history, Foursquare has been an iPhone-first company. The app initially launched on the iPhone back in 2009, and new features have typically rolled out to iPhone first. But with a new feature today, Foursquare has shaken things up, going Android (and web) first. The new feature is a nice one: . Unlike the p... |
DocStoc Turns A Page As It Looks To Be A One-Stop Shop For Small Business Knowledge | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | We’ve been Los Angeles-based startup for years now, from the company’s roots as a fairly broad document sharing site that competed directly with to, more recently, a hub that caters more exclusively toward businesses, complete with of premium professional documents available for purchase. And today, the company... |
The Sandpit emerges as startup sales accelerator, puts £500k into SoDash | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | , a new London-based “sales accelerator” for new technologies, says it is taking a 25% stake for “up to £500,000” over the next two years in , a web-based tool that helps organisations to manage their activity on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. The Sandpit has an option to purchase a further chunk and... |
Fujifilm Plans To Make Big Camera Push, Release EVIL Model | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 5 |
Fujifilm’s popular and beautiful has been making a lot of waves lately, so you might not guess that Fuji isn’t exactly the hottest camera maker on the block. Sure, they’re in fifth place as far as volume goes, but they’ve decided that’s not good enough, and plan to move all the way up to third. Hey, if they can dupl... |
Sequoia And Others Put $10 Million In Cloud-Based Demo SaaS CloudShare | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 5 | a service that allows companies to demo software in the cloud, has raised $10 million in new funding led by Globespan Capital Partners with existing investors Sequoia capital, Charles River Ventures and Gemini Israel Funds participating. This brings CloudShare’s total funding to . CloudShare is essentially a collabor... |
Google's "Pi" In The Face | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 2 | As we’re all well aware by now, the rights to the 6,000+ Nortel wireless and mobile patents. Instead, a consortium featuring many of their main rivals did. . But as more details emerge about the auction itself, it sure looks as if Google wasn’t taking the entire thing too seriously. And that’s too bad. Because Andro... |
When Google Circles Collide | TechCrunch | 2,011 | 7 | 2 | I like to create. You can find content I’ve created on , , Facebook, , , , , , , , , , , , and now . I create more content than the vast majority of Internet users. I actively think about how to create content and the right audiences for it. When I’m hiking, I take pictures of trailheads, forks and ot... |
The Phoenix And The Dragon | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 7 | 2 | I’m in India. It’s a glorious mess. The streets of Delhi remain a seething, endless vortex of chaos, as they were when I last visited eleven years ago, but nowadays, gleaming new highways, shopping malls, and five-star hotels rise above them. The sleek and efficient new metro system carries millions of people a day, bu... |
Review: HP ProBook 5330m | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 2 |
Does this thing look familiar to you? Granted, there are plenty of little differences, but at a first glance, what does this remind you of? If you said MacBook Pro, congratulations, we’re on the same wave length. The brushed metal finish, the keyboard, the black bezel around the screen… it all screams . That’s all ... |
Gillmor Gang 7.2.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 7 | 2 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — joined the Circle Game as channelled by Joni Mitchell and Tom Rush. Google + seems to be a hit, which means it is soon to reach the critical mass where all social software must graduate from high school to beyond. For now, the service ... |
Vostu Goes On The Offensive Against Zynga. This Will Get Uglier. | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | Zynga hit Brazilian gaming startup Vostu with a last month, alleging that the company was copying Zynga’s games so closely that they even inadvertently included the bugs. Today, Vostu responded with a 368 paragraph document of their own (embedded below). It’s a longer version of Vostu’s press statement immediately af... |
Jack Dorsey Cleaning House At Twitter: 4 Key Product Guys Are Out | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | Breaking news out of Twitter this afternoon, four key product managers have just been let go, we’ve learned. The move was led by and will see key product guys , , and two others we’ve yet to confirm, leave the company. Twitter refuses to comment on any specific names and would only say that “some people have left t... |
Is Groupon Bad For Small Businesses? | guest series | 2,011 | 7 | 2 | If you watch the nightly news, you would assume there’s a murder on every block, and if TechCrunch recently, you would assume Groupon is murdering a small business in every city. Given the hundreds of thousands of merchants who have run daily deals in the past year, it is inevitable that a few will have had bad e... |
And The Most Popular ‘Damn You Auto Correct’ Text Of All Time Is … | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | We’ve about before, namely because it managed to eloquently capture the modern zeitgeist of text-based communication failures. I mean this stuff sucks! Just this morning I sent a dm to the wrong person because of Seesmic autofill text and just two hours later had to delete and resend a tweet because of a typo GAH. ... |
Socialize Launches Social SDK To Let Developers Unleash Communities Hiding in Mobile Apps | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | In 2008, Daniel R. Odio, Sean Shadmand, and Isaac Mosquera founded a mobile app development startup called PointAbout. The team had their first big success with , a service that makes it easy to generate your own custom, native iPhone apps. The company started building custom apps for brands like Disney, The Washingto... |
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Google Hires JustSpotted/Scoopler Team To Work On Google+ | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | For the past two years, we’ve been tracking the team behind . Originally a Y Combinator company that was one of the first startups , they eventually pivoted last year to become a called JustSpotted — yes, really. Today, they’re shutting down both services, as they . But they don’t say why. Well, we know why. The t... |
Kantox launches beta for peer to peer FX hedge transactions | marinando | 2,011 | 7 | 20 |
Imagine you’re a company operating out of France, getting paid for a US-based contract in dollars. Your payment isn’t due in months. By the time you get paid, the exchange rate may well take a bite out of the money you’ll actually pocket. It’s a very common problem. , who launch their beta today, aims to fix through ... |
Unity Technologies Takes $12 Million For 3D Gaming Development, Looks To China For Big Growth | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | Game development startup , founded in Copenhagen and currently headquartered in Silicon Valley, has raised a second round of financing – $12 million from Asian firms in China and in Singapore. Sequoia Capital has also participated in the round, and from WestSummit has joined the company’s board of directors. W... |
LogMeIn acquires 'Internet of Things' Startup Pachube for $15m In Cash | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | , which lets you remotely control computers and mobiles, has acquired , a UK startup which is building software for sensor-enabled devices or the legendary “Internet of Things”. The $15 million purchase is all cash. We understand the team is staying on. Pachube networks appliances, environmental sensors, cars and pers... |
Hitwise Estimates Google+ Got 1.8 Million Visits Last Week And Grew 283 Percent | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | We know that Google+ is growing like a weed, with more than registered users (some say now). takes a stab at estimating the early growth of Google+. For the week that ended July 16, the Google+ domain (plus.google.com) was still tiny with 1.8 million total estimated visits. However, that number was up 283 perce... |
Google’s Getting Harry Potter, But The Kindle Will Too | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | This morning Google made an of magical significance: the Harry Potter eBooks, which are being released for the first time this October, will be available via its Google Books platform. That sounds like it should be a given, but in the case of Potter it isn’t — author J.K. Rowling is selling the books exclusively thro... |
Lion’s Internet Recovery Feature: The Past Meets The Future | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | Although you won’t find any Apple users who will admit it, Macs do occasionally crash and fail, sometimes in spectacular ways. In my experience, while they have far fewer visible errors, the ones that users end up seeing are more serious than the scattered Windows annoyances and driver issues. But by and large, recover... |
Google’s ’20 Percent Time’ Will Survive The Death of Google Labs | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | Google that it will be shutting down Google Labs, a platform that allowed users to interact and give feedback on experimental products produced by Googlers in their . While many were left wondering, Google tells me that the company has no changes to announce with regards to the 20 Percent Time program; killing Labs ... |
Heyzap Brings Location Awareness And Netflix-Style Recommendations To Mobile Games | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | , the social discovery platform for mobile and online games, has been hard at work adding pieces to its mobile experience. The startup recently brought check-ins to its mobile platform, allowing users to check-in to their favorite games to share scores and achievements on Facebook and Twitter. This also included, a la ... |
Ask Your Question To The Googlers Behind The Google+ Project | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | Now is your chance to get your question asked directly to the two Googlers who run the project. Product VP and Senior VP of Social will be in our TCTV studios for an interview tomorrow on Andrew Keen’s show “ “. Add your questions in the comments below or on Google+. We’ll pick the best ones and use them in th... |
eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 25 Percent To $2.8B; PayPal Posts First $1B Quarter | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | eBay just second quarter earnings, reporting that revenue for quarter ended June 30, 2011, increased 25 percent to $2.8 billion, compared to the same period of 2010. Non-GAAP net income came in at $630.9 million, or $0.48 per diluted share. GAAP Net-income actually decreased in the quarter ($283.4 million, or $0.22 p... |
T-Mobile Revamps Unlimited Smartphone Plans | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | today announced that its unlimited smartphone plans are due for yet another makeover, which should offer cheaper options for post-paid smartphone customers. Unfortunately, the release was missing a few key details like pricing, but we do know that they will be called Value plans and provide both single-line and multi-... |
Socialance launches free competitor to the Elance brigade – Get an invite here | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | New startup is joining the cavalcade of sites that ‘connect freelancers and employers’ alongside , , or . But the difference, says 23 year old founder Guillermo Vigil, is that this is is more like a hybrid of Elance and LinkedIn, in that it hooks into social networks, therefore resolving the ‘trust’ issue. It’s al... |
CNN Claims 10 Million Mobile App Downloads Across All Devices | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | CNN offers a lot of mobile apps on a lot of devices. There is CNN for the iPhone, the iPad, Android, and even Nokia phones. There are even different apps for international news. All in all, CNN’s mobile apps have been downloaded 10 million times, according to the company. The most popular app is CNN for iPhone, wh... |
The 5 Honeycomb Features Currently Missing In Action | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | I’m currently wrapping up a review of the latest Honeycomb tablet, the Toshiba Thrive. Quick spoiler, it’s one of my favorite Android tablets yet, but I still wouldn’t buy it nor recommend it to anyone outside the dedicated Android fanbase. Just like the rest of the Honeycomb tablets, it lacks any compelling feature ov... |
Accel Furthers Online Payments Expertise With New EIR From iPay | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 20 | has been making major investments in a number of online payments companies, including e-payments company , and most recently, online payments company . In fact, payments is one of the main investment themes that Accel is targeting in its funding strategy. So it’s not surprising that the venture firm is staffing up... |
Updated: The Sun and News International sites hacked, Lulzsec claims responsibility | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | : The web site of The Sun newspaper, part of News International which has been embroiled in the phone hacking scandal in the UK, has been hacked, apparently by hacker group Lulzsec, which tweeted “@LulzSec: We have owned Sun/News of the World – that story is simply phase 1 – expect the lulz to flow”. (See updates below... |
AmEx Links Up Facebook With Coupon-less Deals, And Lets Merchants Go Social | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | American Express is going all in on the daily deals business, striking a deal with Facebook that is similar to the one it already . Through a new Facebook app called “ ,” AmEx cardholders can link their cards to their Facebook accounts just like they can already link their cards to their Foursquare accounts. Once th... |
Asking Twitter To Commit Suicide With A Google+ Dagger | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | Sometimes, it’s easy for power users to get drunk on that power. I’m as guilty of this as anyone. When I constantly bitch that my Gmail account is SO DAMN SLOW, I forget that I also have a full 20 GB of email — something which Google PR always kindly reminds me is not normal. (And I came up with my own solution — .) ... |
The Roundabout Tapes – GroupSpaces is poised to go global (TCTV) | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | UK-startup , which last year a $1.3m Seed round from a star-studded roster of investors including Index Ventures, Dave McClure, Chris Sacca and Simon Levene, has become a ‘Silicon Roundabout’ stalwart. Cofounders David Langer and Andy Young met at Oxford university and quickly realised they could build a better way ... |
Inbox Overload Begone: Taskforce Exits Beta, Goes Pro With Paid Version | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | Email is an essential part of our daily communication, but it can also be a real pain in the ass. Or, going one step further, , “email is the absolute devil”. This fact even prompted him to channel and quit email altogether. I, personally, applaud this bold move but, instead of taking a vow of abstinence, am turning... |
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This Fall, Apple Has A Shot At Becoming The Most Valuable Company In The World | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | In January, we noted that , making them by far the most valuable tech company in the world. In fact, the valuation made them the second most valuable company in the world . But at the same time, we noted that it would likely be pretty hard for them to catch number one: Exxon. At the time, Exxon was roughly $75 billio... |
Borders May Be Dead, But e-Reader Kobo Is Still Alive And Kicking | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | I am old enough to remember when going into a chain store like Borders and picking out books physically was something one did to save time. Plus, as any bookworm will tell you, rifling through bookstore shelves for buried treasure and asking knowledgable employees about their reading recommendations was an oddly exciti... |
CarabinerKey Is Part Carabiner, Part Key (Naturally) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | You might remember the , a clever twist on the keyring by designer Scott Amron that let you hang your keys on another key. The split-ring design, however, made it a chore to add and remove keys. Solution? Put a hinge on that sucker and ta-da: the . Seems like a handy addition to your keychain — might even simplify th... |
Clever Sense Launches Alfred: Personalized Local Recommendations With A Single Tap | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | Back in June I , a startup that’s looking to take a different approach to restaurant and other local recommendations. Led by CEO Babak Pahlavan, the service has a strong emphasis on algorithms that are used to customize its suggestions for each user (the company is led by Stanford PH.D. grads, and is advised by Prof... |
T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide Confirmed For July 27 Launch, July 19 Pre-Order | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | After some confusion, has taken to to give us an exact arrival date for the myTouch 4G Slide. the slider for a July 27 launch, and as luck (and leaks) would have it, we were right. update also confirmed that July 19 will kick off the pre-order period (web only). We’ve been following this phone , and we’re exci... |
Map Trends Show Mobile And App Growth Outpacing Browsers | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | Location-based services and increasing smartphone sales are leaving their mark on the mapping world: mobile-based map access is up significantly, while access from “stationary” points (i.e. desktop and laptop PCs) actually dipped slightly. It’s not particularly surprising, but the rate of growth is remarkable. Mobile u... |
LulzSec Hacks Murdoch-Owned ‘The Sun,’ Redirects Homepage To @LulzSec Twitter Account | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | Looks like hacker group LulzSec is back in action, this time the of the Murdoch-owned ( ) to a fake story about Murdoch’s death from a drug overdose located on the Murdoch-owned URL used to broadcast the redesign . After the amount of requests caused a 404 failure on the site, the group then redirected ho... |
Nasty Lawsuit Between Radar Networks And A Very Upset Investor | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | There’s a nasty, and very personal, lawsuit in progress between and a jilted investor, Kate Paley (daughter of CBS icon ). The defendants include founder , the company that eventually acquired Radar Networks ( ) as well as investors Steve Hall, Ross Levinsohn and . The company, known by most through it’s product T... |
With NFL/NBA Lockouts Continuing, Fanvibe Goes On Permanent Strike | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | It wasn’t even a month ago when that would be acquiring former Y Combinator startup . At the time, Fanvibe’s , set to become the new CEO of beRecruited with the deal, said that Fanvibe would continue to operate with its roughly 100,000 users. What a difference a few weeks make. Effective immediately, Fanvibe will... |
I Don’t Think We’ll Be Seeing These Galaxy Tab Smart Covers Stateside | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | While I’m not quite ready to lay charges of criminal nepotism at Samsung’s feet (as and do gleefully, and not unreasonably), I do have to say that it seems a bit unwise, during high-stakes patent litigation, to lend their brand to such an blatant knock-off. Apparently this for the is being sold in Samsung stor... |
IBM Posts Q2 Revenue Of $26.7B With Net Income Up 8 Percent To $3.7B, Ups Outlook | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | IBM just its second quarter earnings today. Big Blue reported $26.7 billion in revenue for the quarter which is up 15 percent (or up 5 percent adjusting for currency). Diluted earnings came in at $3.00 per share, compared with diluted earnings of $2.62 per share in the first quarter of 2010, an increase of 18 percent... |
Google Buys G.Co To Create An Official URL Shortcut For Google Products | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | Google joins Internet biggies Twitter ( ) , Overstock ( ) and Amazon ( , and ) today in taking over the domain name, buying the TLD in order to build the official URL shortcut for Google products like GMail, Documents and Photos. While representatives from the .Co registry wouldn’t comment on the specific pricing of... |
Ticketmaster For BlackBerry Beta v2.0 Available Now For Beta Zone Members | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | If you’re a member of Beta Zone, you should be happy to hear that has just released the Ticketmaster for BlackBerry app in beta version 2.0. This means you can select the event of your choosing straight from your phone, buy tickets, and be on your way, all from the comfort of that QWERTY keyboard. The app has been ... |
Will Asus’s Kinect Clone End Up Like Its Wii Clone? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | Asus has been working with Kinect co-creator to put together a PC-based version of Microsoft’s hit depth-detecting game controller. The thought, I presume, was that PC gamers and hackers would like a native device and an open platform for gesture-based game and OS controls. Their creation has been around for a bit, b... |
Kinect-Powered, Dueling “JediBot” Created By Stanford Robotics Students | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 18 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuSCErmoYpY&w=640&h=390]
It’s been a while since we’ve posted any interesting hacks. They were coming fast and furious for a while, but this is the first I’ve seen in a while that really makes me happy. Robotics students at Stanford put this “JediBot” together from an articula... |
DeNA And ngmoco Launch Mobile Social Gaming Platform Mobage Worldwide | Serkan Toto | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | Is the world ready for the mobile social gaming revolution? Tokyo-based , the company that a year just by offering mobile games to Japanese cell phone users and in December, seems to think so. DeNA/ngmoco released an English (and Chinese) version of Mobage, its super-successful Japanese mobile social gaming platfo... |
A Look At The Size, Shape And Growing Threat Of Malware Networks [Infographic] | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | , the provider of web security and speed optimization solutions, earlier this month, which, among other things, examined the current state of malware ecosystems, and detailed the growing size and reach of malware delivery networks. Malware and malicious software have been around for years, but malware networks are b... |
Socialbakers launches list of Twitter’s most popular users, brands to be added soon | Ivan Beres | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | , a social media analytics website focused primarily on Facebook, launched their own Twitter statistics today. In essence, its a , including @ladygaga, @justinbieber, @barackobama and @britneyspears, sorted by their number of followers. Socialbakers, previously known as Facebakers, is a product of the Czech company Ca... |
Lexus Gets eDestination Fucntionality For Easy Location Management | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | The merging of our smartphone and car interfaces is progressing, but at a rather slow pace. Various crossover apps and accessories have come out but few are really capturing the imaginations of drivers, and slow updates mean the systems are outdated a year after they launch. Well, I expect that will also be the case wi... |
wireWAX wires up a $500k investment from Passion Capital | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | , a startup which lets users add clickable tags to faces and objects web videos (the tags also move with the object), has secured investment from , the early-stage investment fund managed by leafing european angel investors, Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero. No figure was released but our sources sa... |
Sophomore Slump? One Month In, Google+ Sees A Traffic Minus | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | Tomorrow, it will be exactly a month since . In that short amount of time, they’ve managed to sign up , which is amazing. Of course, the easiest path to tens of million of users is to start with hundreds of millions of users. Just ask Buzz or Wave. Still, kudos to Google — phase one of G+ was clearly a success. Now c... |
Quora Testing User Credits For “Ask To Answer” Questions | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | has just launched a bundle of interesting initiatives over the past day or so, all signs that the Q&A site is trying to figure itself out. First of all, the company has begun testing something called “Ask to Answer Suggestions” where users start out with a budget of 500 Quora credits (Quoins?) and can offer to pay oth... |
Possible Atrix 4G Successor Caught On Camera With 8MP 1080p Shooter In Tow | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | Here’s a mystery for you: Images of a Android handset have surfaced on Chinese blogs, and it looks incredibly similar to the Atrix 4G. In fact, it looks identical save for a few miniscule changes. The pictures come courtesy of and were published by , which seems to think that the display will have a contoured desi... |
Vodafone Blue 555: The Facebook Phone That Came Too Late | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | Here’s a classic case of a missed opportunity if there ever was one: the is, if you’ll pardon the term, a dumbphone with a Facebook button. It’s simple (no fancypants OS here), has a decent-looking keyboard, and it’s got just enough connectivity to keep your average FB junkie from getting the shakes. But is such a ph... |
Crowdtap Raises $7 Million To Help Brands Connect With Their Influential Customers | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 7 | 27 | , a service that allows marketers to easily collaborate with and mobilize targeted crowds of influential consumers, announced today that it has raised $7 million in series A funding. The round was led by , with participation from and social media agency . Mr. Youth invested $3 million of seed funding in Crowdtap b... |
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