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Joe Stump And Graham Blache Launch Sprintly, Project Management Streamlined | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 3 | It’s been only a month since SimpleGeo co-founder , following its acquisition by Urban Airship, but he’s already launching a new product (and company) today called . The company was actually founded in March by Stump’s co-founder , and Stump tells me he’s “been plotting this product for nearly a decade.” The star... |
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SAP Will Buy SuccessFactors For $3.4 Billion | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 3 | In what is perhaps the most boring piece of tech news to come out of this week, German software giant SAP that it will buy the US-based , a company that “helps organizations align strategy with objectives and manage people performance to ensure execution & results,” IN THE CLOUD, OF COURSE. I think this means that i... |
Surveillance | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 12 | 3 | Your phone . The many cameras you pass every day can . Facebook, despite its , still you to your personal life. “Eye in the sky” drones are already ; next, they’ll . It won’t be long before are omnipresent in the skies over every major city, and then every town. Welcome to the 21st century. Smile! You’re pro... |
Gillmor Gang 12.3.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 3 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — gears up for a rough and tumble Social Shakedown. Facebook, Path (?), Gmail filters, News.me, Media Redefined — we’re swimming in signal without a paddle. But some of us (@scobleizer) are happy to see the big get personal... |
How Entrepreneurs Can Increase Productivity by 500% | James Altucher | 2,011 | 12 | 3 | When I got separated from my ex-wife in November, 2008 I put an ad on Craigslist pretending to be a psychic and spent the day answering all the emails I got in return. I had various tricks to prove I was a psychic. For instance, if a woman wrote me and asked: you’re a psychic I would write back: when you were younger... |
Twitter Gets Google And Facebook Connect | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 3 | Correct me if I’m wrong here but you weren’t always immediately prompted and guided through to finding your Gmail contacts on upon login, just like you weren’t always able to sync your tweets to . Some switch just got turned on after midnight on Friday for me I swear because, yeah now this stuff is possible. It’s cr... |
Daily Crunch: Sleep It Off | Bryce Durbin | 2,011 | 12 | 3 | Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets:
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The Xbox Metro Update Nudges Microsoft’s Console Closer To Set-top Hegemony | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | The upcoming Metro update to Microsoft’s , shipping tonight and arriving on your console some time this week, pushes Microsoft’s gaming product away from the traditional run-and-gun of gaming consoles and into a new realm: that of the home media center. While the Xbox existed as a media center before, allowing you t... |
Japanese Mobile Social Gaming Startup Gumi Raises $26 Million | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | Mobile social gaming is big in Japan. . Mobile gaming publisher , which has been growing very rapidly lately, raised $26 million last week in a series F round from Jafco, Shinsei Bank, and DBJ Capital. It previously raised a total of $7 million. I visited Gumi’s offices and spoke with founder Hironao Kunimitsu, wh... |
There And Back Again: A Lengthy Weighing Of The Galaxy Nexus And iPhone 4S | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | Before me sit two phones. On the left is the iPhone 4S, which I bought (and signed my soul over to Verizon for) in October. On the right sits a loaner GSM version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, sporting Android 4.0. I like the one on the right better. I’ll have to send it back to Google soon, but I’m already certain that... |
Cyber Monday Kicks Off Record $6B Online Holiday Shopping Week Thanks To Free Shipping Offers | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | Consumers continue to set records with online shopping sales this holiday season. After spending a whopping (and record) on Cyber Monday, online shoppers , with two other days in the past week eclipsing the $1 billion mark in e-commerce sales, bringing the total week’s value to $6 billion. comScore reports that Tues... |
Friend Count Up, Sharing Down: Path Only Works If You Reject Those Friend Requests | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | You’re going to be tempted, but don’t do it. Don’t add all your friends on Path. Don’t come anywhere near the 150-friend limit. And make the tough decision to reject the friend requests of people you care about. Because the , and you won’t do that if you’re sharing to people that aren’t your best friends. Path’s power... |
Dear Federal Trade Commission, Thank You For Not Saving Us From Facebook’s Privacy Changes | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | The Federal Trade Commission from doing things like making private user information public… back in 2009. Besides being years too late to impact key product decisions, the proposed settlement doesn’t go far in controlling what Facebook can do in the future. Which is a good thing. The company has willfully changed its... |
LG Nitro HD Review: You Win Some, You Lose Some | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | I find myself looking at the with mixed feelings. In some ways, it’s exactly what I’ve been asking for from LG, and in others it simply brings about disappointment. The software, in particular, failed to impress me. Hopefully a much more clogged (compared to the like, seven people that are using it now) will still ... |
Princeton Beats Out 13 Schools to Win Facebook’s College Hackathon | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | Overcoming stiff competition from MIT and Waterloo, Princeton won this year’s finals. Over the past few months, Facebook conducted run-off competitions at fourteen colleges across the United States and Canada, and this Friday held the finals at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto. The Princeton team was the only one c... |
LiveLead Lets You Share And Watch YouTube Videos With Your Facebook Friends In Real-Time | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | Watching videos on YouTube or browsing through photos on Facebook is inherently a social action that you may do with friends while in front of a computer or TV. Startup , which is in private beta, allows you to remotely watch and chat about YouTube videos or photos remotely with your friends in real-time. Anyone in t... |
TechCrunch Tokyo Japan 2011: The Cambrian Explosion In Startups [Video] | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | A massive number of species appeared and began evolving some 580 million years ago, forming the basis of modern life. Now we’re in the middle of another “ ,” Erick Schonfeld explains in the video above, where the internet is primed for new startups like was for rapid evolution. Lower costs for getting started and t... |
The White Album | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | On the border, the hazy chirping of birds of a lazy Sunday morning, I lay here trying not to wake up too fast. And in that delicious world of memories old and newly created, I was back in Cambridge in my friend’s back yard listening to him talk to his friend James Taylor. I knew James’ sister from school, but only knew... |
Mint Founder’s New Project, Swift, Studies Personal Maglev Vehicles | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint, has a new project that he is spending half his time on (he continues to spend the other half as VP of Product Innovation at Intuit, which acquired Mint two years ago for ). His new project is called , and it is his vehicle (if you will) to exlore the feasibility of building a person... |
Exploring The “Labs” Trend in Consumer Startups | Semil Shah | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | For those of us who studied (or suffered through) chemistry at some point in life, images from the chem lab inspire nostalgia (or dread). White lab coats. Protective goggles and gloves. Glass beakers and measuring cups. It was a place of experimentation. Students were given strict lab instructions, such as “Don’t mix b... |
The Lean Finance Model Of Venture Capital | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 4 | The venture capital industry is going through a ton of disruptions lately. One of the better explanations I’ve heard recently of what is going on comes from Duncan Davidson, a managing partner at who gave a great talk on the subject at TechCrunch Tokyo last week. I interviewed him backstage on video, where he summa... |
With 415 Graduates, Founder Institute Claims To Be Largest Startup Incubator | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | Last week, Erick wrote about the dramatic increase in startups and early-stage businesses we’ve been seeing over the last few years, . In these fertile times for startups, naturally, there’s plenty of funding to be had: In the last year, , there were more than 1,100 seed/angel funding rounds, up from 855 in 2008. The... |
PayPal Restores Zivity’s Account After Saying It Was Obscene, But Now It’s Not | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | restored sexy social network account tonight after a weeklong battle over whether the website violates its policy. bills itself as “Hotness. In Person” where “76,102 people just like you rub elbows with models, photographers, and video artists.” But early Thanksgiving morning, PayPal decided it didn’t want to ru... |
DNSCrypt Encrypts Your DNS Traffic Because There’s Always Someone Out To Get You | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | We’ve talked about quite a bit over the years, noting that these guys know what geeks like: free, fast DNS lookups that smooth out the Internet’s rough edges and shave seconds off of many web tasks. Now OpenDNS is offering DNSCrypt, a service that completely encrypts your DNS sessions, ensuring that evil ha><0rZ can'... |
Watch The Dance Of The Flying Builderbots | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnkMyfQ5YfY] When I first wrote about the dancing quadcopters last week, I . Well, now there’s video. The has a great collection of photos and a fresh video from the exhibit showing how the robots work in concert to build a fun little tower. It’s a wild project and a wild tec... |
The Nerdy Address Of Facebook’s New Headquarters? 1 Hacker Way | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | Apple has 1 Infinite Loop, Genentech has 1 DNA Way, and now Facebook has its own vanity headquarters address: 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, 94025. Seen here on a brand new business card of a Facebook employee, the address epitomizes the company’s internal motto “Move Fast and Break Things”. 1 Hacker Way should help Faceboo... |
TechHub announces expansion with new office in Prague | vaughn597 | 2,011 | 12 | 5 |
Startup workspace T today announced its expansion to Prague. The new space will be much like the original TechHub London site, featuring a drop-in working space for annual members, permanent desks for resident startups and most of all a networking platform for the local startup scene. The space will open in the first... |
LEGO And Minecraft: Made For Each Other | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | While this can’t be the first time LEGO and have been mentioned in the same breath, I think it’s the first time they’ve really been mixed to this degree. Mojang, the developer of the multi-million-selling mining and adventuring game has put up a project on LEGO’s site, which allows people to submit LEGO projects an... |
Historic UK Tube Station Bans DSLRs But Not Other Cameras | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | Here’s an odd little quirk of the modern age you’re not likely to see again soon. South of Holborn in London (many nice bookstores in the area), there’s a tube station that has been out of use for decades. has been preserved as an historical landmark and used in a number of films and shows. Just recently it was opene... |
Asus: Netbooks Outsold Tablets Nearly 3 To 1 In 2011, Big Things In Store For 2012 | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | Netbooks are still big business for Asustek. So much so that the hotness from 2009 outsold Asus tablets in 2011. Per numbers released at the company’s global sales meeting (and ), Asustek expects to ship 4.8 netbooks by the end of 2011 but only 1.8 million tablets. But that’s expected to change in 2012. The roles will... |
How Badoo Got 130 Million People Meeting Each Other and $100M In Revenue (TCTV) | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | Badoo, the online network for meeting new people recently reached 130 million registered users and now brings in $100 million a year. Based out of London’s Silicon Roundabout, would be the 4th biggest social network if it was just a social network. But Badoo adapts to the local needs of its international user base. I... |
EyeEm app picks up the pace as European startups fight for the photo crown | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | Pretender to the throne, , a camera and photo discovery app startup, has launched a big update across its Android and iOS apps and the supporting web platform. It’s now even even more about visual, location-based search and has also introduced more social features. For the last couple of years one of the main battle... |
Shopper Tracker’s Kinect Hack Is Like Google Analytics For Retail Store Shelves | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | Brick and mortar store owners can now get access to the same kind of analytics available to website admins. is a new product from Argentinian developer built off of Microsoft Kinect. It analyzes customer movements to provide traffic flow analysis and heat maps indicating which shelves are attracting shoppers and wh... |
Secure.me Launches Social Privacy Monitoring Tool For The World After Gaining A Foothold In Germany | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | More and more of us are getting comfortable sharing our real-world identities online, but the tools for helping us maintain our online privacy and security are still catching up to our behavior. Witness the attack that caused many users to accidentally share and see nasty images in their news feeds. German company ... |
New Nissan Leaf Models Will Feature Wireless Charging And Other Electrical Advances | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | We like the . It’s not a good choice for everyone, but it’s a great second car or city car, set back the most perhaps by the trouble one has to take in charging it. At home you are advised to spring for a high-capacity outlet, and abroad you must plan your trips to coincide with existing charge points. Anything that c... |
$99 Chinese Tablet Is MIPS-Based, Runs Android 4.0 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | You could be forgiven for overlooking the , a 7-inch Chinese Android tablet, as likely just another me-too device to be sold in electronics districts next to fake iPhones and bulk cables. And in a way, that’s what it is: at $100, it can’t possibly be as well-built as the iPad or newer Galaxy Tabs, and the size and des... |
Sprint: No LTE-Friendly Hardware Until Second Half Of 2012 | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | Today Sprint CFO Joseph Euteneuer said that the company plans on launching 15 LTE-capable devices next year, though they may be coming a little later than expected — the latter half of 2012, to be exact. The company had originally hoped for mid-summer launches with its first LTE-capable hardware, though either date is ... |
Nextpeer’s Public Launch Brings Live Multi-Player Tournaments To Any Game | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | Today, the new multi-player gaming service is exiting and is now available for all iOS developers to try. With the company’s software development kit (SDK), game developers can easily turn their single player games into social, real-time, multi-player tournaments where users compete against each other for top scores... |
iRobot, Makers Of The Roomba, Launch An iOS Game? | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | Every once in a while, a pitch hits our collective TechCrunch inbox that is equally ridiculous and intriguing. In a situation like that — one full of hilarity and intrigue — how can we not post it? That said, I really don’t know what’s going on over at iRobot, as the , have decided to branch way, out there and creat... |
Gowalla Versus Foursquare: Why Pretty Doesn’t Always Win | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 5 | , the geo-social app, will soon be no more. The founders will be and shutting down the product a couple months after trying to reposition the app as a . It was clear long ago that its rival won the check-in wars, passing recently and more than 10 million users. But why did it turn out this way? Both Foursquare a... |
Don’t Blame The IQ, Blame The Carrier | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | You couldn’t swing a cat this week without hitting a story about , which (if you have somehow avoided this information) is a bit of software installed on millions of phones that has access to a huge amount of user data. As developers hinted for months and eventually , the software is aware of SMS content, secure web ... |
Doo.net Gets $6.8M To Reinvent Office Paperwork — Oh Yes. | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | For the last few months there’s been a a lot of chatter about a big play coming to aim at the world of collaboration and documents. What on earth could someone do that is new in this space, I hear you ask? Well, that’s a fair point, but for whatever reason they’ve just secured a substantial $6.8 million first round inv... |
Follow galleries and art events with the ArtSpotter iPhone app | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | ‘s new iPhone app has just gone and if you like art you should check it out. It’s an interactive art map that lets you discover art around you and add to the map. This is version one, but the next one will allow sharing on Facebook and Twitter. Think Foursquare meets Timeout for art. Venues can get data on what peopl... |
“LivingSocial Plus”: A Monthly Subscription Model That Could Improve Deal Site Retention | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | In an effort to get customers buying pre-paid deals more regularly, has launched a new subscription service called “LivingSocial Plus”. For $20 a month, members get $25 in “Deal Bucks” credits that are automatically applied to their next purchase as well as access to closed deals. LivingSocial is cleverly pitching bu... |
Airbnb To Partner With Vayable To Upsell Travel Experiences To Renters | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | Back when we first wrote about Vayable (the site that lets just about anyone offer to host paid tours/activities for travelers) Alexia said Airbnb would agree, it seems. We’ve learned tonight that Airbnb is prepping to launch a partnership to upsell travelers with Vayable’s tour experiences. The partnership will be li... |
With New Funding And Microsoft Partnership, AboutOne Looks To Help Moms Stay Organized | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | We first covered as part of a round-up of some of the more interesting startups . The startup is building eManagement system that makes it easy for busy families to organize their lives and households. And today AboutOne has announced that it has closed $1.6 million in series A financing, led by , a network of earl... |
Facebook Has Acquired Gowalla | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | Facebook has acquired location-based startup , according to a report this evening by Laurie Segall on . The terms of the deal haven’t been reported, and Gowalla declined to comment. Facebook says it doesn’t comment on rumor and speculation. We’ve heard from an independent source that Facebook is indeed acquiring Go... |
Western Digital Fires Up First Flooded Factory In Thailand As Recovery Continues | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | The recent floods in Thailand have wreaked devastation on the factories in the area; some were under a dozen feet or more of water, and all manner of companies were affected by the damage. Nikon and Samsung delayed cameras and a shortage of hard drives has caused . The recovery effort is progressing apace, and the aff... |
The Kindle Fire Is On Fire; Amazon Expected To Ship 3.9 Million This Quarter | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | The Kindle Fire looks like a bona fide hit right out of the gate. New have Amazon shipping 3.9 million Kindle Fires this quarter, which would make it the No. 2 tablet after the iPad 2 (with an estimated 18.6 million shipments). The Kindle Fire will become the No. 1 Android tablet by a wide margin (the Samsung Galaxy ... |
Science Exchange’s Marketplace For Research Facilities Gets A $1.5 Million Boost | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | , a Y Combinator-backed company that’s helping to streamline the way scientific research is conducted, has raised $1.5 million from an elite group of investors. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Yuri Milner, Crosslink Capital, Morado Venture Partners (Ash Patel), Lerer Ventures, Webb Inv... |
RIM To Miss Earnings Goals After Half A Billion In PlayBook And Outage Charges | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | RIM has announced that it will be taking over half a billion dollars in charges related to two major failures this fiscal year. First is the immense overproduction of the tablet, the writedown of which inventory amounted to $485M on its own, or $360M after tax. The second charge is related to the in early October, ... |
Helioid’s Search Engine Provides Category Sorting To Aid Research, Targets Students And Professionals | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | The floor of Silicon Valley is littered with the carcasses of failed search startups. Without billions of dollars in resources like Microsoft or a tight vertical focus like travel site Kayak to help attract users, would-be competitors haven’t been able to pull people away from Google. is a small startup out of New Yor... |
The 4S And Thanksgiving Help Instagram Add Two Million Users In A Month | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | Instagram co-founder is on stage right now, talking about innovative mobile design at the Warm Gun conference in San Francisco. If anybody has some thing to say about mobile design it’s the founders of the popular – startup which has had a great year, adding twelve million users in twelve months according to Krieger,... |
$50 Million MergerTech Capital Fund Established For Healthcare IT Investment | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | The healthcare industry is in the middle of a number of crises, not the least of which is the modernization of its internal infrastructure. Having worked in the industry myself, I can attest that the amount of faxing, carbon copies, and redundancy are mind blowing, especially at overworked, underfunded hospitals. We’ve... |
Metamarkets Debuts Analytics For Mobile Platforms And Publishers | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | Realtime data startup is announcing the launch of its analytics offering for mobile platforms and publishers. Metamarkets provides price data and predictive analytics to publishers and web companies. Launched in late 2009, the company aims to solve the problem of ad price discovery on web platforms for media companie... |
Now In 70 U.S. & Canadian Markets, Dealfind Goes Mobile | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | Toronto-based deal provider , which recently became one of the first half-dozen or so partners to be , is now available as its own standalone mobile application. The new app works on both and , allowing deal hunters to locate, purchase and store offers on their mobile phone. There’s nothing all that remarkable abo... |
The Gillmor Gang Live 12.2.11 (TCTV) | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | The Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor – are recording live today at 1pm PT. Recording is over. |
EA Adds Social Game Studio For Hardcore Players With KlickNation Acquisition | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | Electronic Arts has social game developer , and is turning it into a studio within BioWare, its role-playing developer division. The move is a relatively inexpensive way for EA to build up Facebook versions of its hits like Mass Effect and titles for hardcore gamers using its extensive IP line. The acquisition price... |
HTML5 Smart Board Attempts To Out-Surface The Surface | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaRm4hiXbCg] is showing off their proof-of-concept HTML5-based multi-touch smartboard in an effort to prove a) that HTML5 is pretty rocking and b) that someday we may all have smart tabletops in our home. To see the big screen in action you can fast forward . It’s obviously a l... |
Video: iPhone Games In Real Life | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 2 | It’s not rare for me to post videos on Fridays, but I generally preface them with some big explanation as to why I’ve posted it on TechCrunch. This week’s explanation is simple: because it’s friggin’ . It’s got Angry Birds! It’s got Fruit Ninja! It’s got Flight Control (plus super cute Flight Control girl!) It’s got s... |
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1 Million Articles Auto-Shared Daily, So Yahoo! Expands Facebook Integration To 26 More Sites | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | Facebook’s integration has been a huge win for . After just 2 months, 1 million articles are being shared to Facebook daily leading to 500,000 daily referrals. To build on this, Yahoo! . These include many international sites such as Yahoo! News Philippines and France, as well as vertical sites like OMG, Music, Mov... |
Amazon Finally Releases OTA Kindle Fire Update To Address Performance And Touchscreen Issues | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | Great news, owners. Amazon just announced the long overdue Kindle Fire update that’s said to resolve many of the issues with the budget tablet. Most of the common complaints are addressed: owners can now select and remove items from the carousel, the WiFi system is more robust and supports passwords, but most importa... |
How To Found, Grow, and Sell A Social Good Startup (TCTV) | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | Most entrepreneurs found companies to solve a problem. Adam Archer founded to save the world. During a backpacking trip across the world he was inspired with the idea for the company. He then left Apple in 2008 to work on a farm before founding , which builds social games where users earn money for charity by playin... |
TechStars Seattle Grad GoChime Raises $630K To Help Brands Monetize Social Media | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | , a graduate of the 2011 TechStars Seattle program, is today announcing that it has raised $630,000 from a host of entrepreneurs and angel investors that include , who has invested in companies like Hootsuite and Cheezburger, Walter Winshall, an investor in Harmonix (Guitar Hero), Co-founder of Feedburner and former G... |
Sharing Scheduler App Buffer Raises $400,000, Gets Kicked Out Of US | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | First, the bad news for . The startup of European expats in San Francisco is of the country due to our stupid, self-destructive immigration laws. They’re temporarily relocating to Hong Kong while they try to figure things out. And the good news? The company, which offers a tool for letting you schedule social conten... |
Google: AdMob Saw 8 Billion Tablet Ad Requests In November, Up 700 Percent From Last Year | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | Tablet use has skyrocketed over the past year, so it makes sense that advertisers are flocking to these devices and platforms to reach consumers. Google tells us that in November 2011, AdMob saw 8 billion ad requests coming from tablets, an increase from 1 billion in December of 2010, and a 700 percent increase in the ... |
Harvard Study: Social Networks Do Little To Influence Taste And Interests | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | Here’s a bit of science that’s contrary to what a heavy utilizer of social networks might expect. tracked the Facebook activity of hundreds of college students for four years, and came away with the rather unexpected result that the interests of friends don’t, in fact, tend to influence one another. That’s not to say... |
Mozilla And Google Extend Default-Search Agreement For Another Three Years | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | The browser wars continue to simmer, and Firefox, once the tech world’s champion against the insipid tyranny of Internet Explorer 6, has been losing ground to Chrome. In fact, just a few weeks ago, for the first time, with both taking up about 25% of the market but within a point of each other. Mozilla that they ex... |
Partech get to the €100M first close of its new venture fund | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | Paris-based VC Partech has announced the announces the €100M first close of its new venture fund, Partech International VI. The fund will be primarily dedicated to investments in internet / IT in Europe and Silicon Valley. Partech had a eight exits in 2011, including one IPO (InvenSense), and seven trade sales (notably... |
Amazon Considered Acquiring RIM Over The Summer | Chris Velazco | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | To say that RIM has had it rough these past few months is a understatement, but according to a new report from , it may not have had to go through these trials alone. In a surprising twist, Amazon was reportedly considering a RIM acquisition as recently as this past summer. According to Reuters, Amazon had tasked an i... |
Kickstarter: spnKiX Are Motorized Shoes – Yes, Motorized Shoes | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | Some projects you want to succeed just because they’re something the world should have. Even if they’d be expensive, dangerous, and probably not as cool as you want them to be. Case in point: , a pair of battery-powered skates that scoot you around at up to 10MPH, and look as futuristic as they sound. They do indeed l... |
FixYa Upgrades Its Q&A Service For Product Issues With Gamification And Some Realtime Data-Sharing | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | We first covered , the Q&A site for products, , after the startup demoed at the TechCrunch40 DemoPit. Over the course of the next year, FixYa went on to raise $8 million in two rounds from Mayfield Fund and Pitango Venture Capital, with Chamath Palihapitiya joining the board of directors. It’s been a few years since... |
Allmyapps hits 2.5 million Windows apps users, now plans for Android | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | has grown a lot since we covered them. They had 100,000 users back in April, but recently hit 2.5 million. But with the news that Miscrosoft will develop its own Windows Apps store, they will have to “pivot”, as they say. Thus they are repositioning as a “Personal App Manager” to go beyond the Windows world. What do... |
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Kindle Fire Display Doesn’t Stand Up To Nook, iPad 2 In Tests | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | You probably know that not all LCDs are created equal: at a given size, you can have different resolutions, lighting methods, and display-driving technologies. Apple has led the way in this regard, generally shelling out in its products for the best options available, while cheaper brands tend to take a bit off the pri... |
Tutorspree Raises $1 Million Round Led By Sequoia Capital | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | , a startup that’s looking to pull the time-honored practice of tutoring into the 21st century, has landed a $1 million funding round from some top investors, including Sequoia Capital. The full list: Sequoia Capital, Founder Collective, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, Thrive Capital, Paul Buchheit, Geoff Ralston, Tim Brady,... |
Don’t Hold Your Breath For That Nexus S ICS Update — It’s Been Paused | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | Still anxiously sitting by your Nexus S, awaiting that Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update that started ? You might want to take a break. Go outside, go dancing, maybe go rewatch the Lord Of The Rings trilogy (it is the 10th anniversary of , afterall); for the time being, it appears that the Nexus S’ big update ha... |
Hands-On With The 4Moms Origami Stroller | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 20 | When I first saw the stroller, I knew it would be a hit. It’s a robotic stroller that unfolds like the Autobots getting ready to roll out and has one of the nicest interfaces I’ve ever seen on a stroller (which is saying a lot). Why did it make me so excited? Well, first this stroller will beat the pants off any of... |
fPrivacy Lets You Control Facebook App Permissions | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 18 | is a Chrome plugin that lets you granularly opt out of stalker-esque Facebook app permissions like “Post to my wall” or “Access profile info” whenever the app authorization dialog appears. Woohoo! Creator made the extension because Facebook apps have been too grabby for far too long — taking an all or nothing approa... |
BleuFlamme Lets You Make Your Own Custom Shirt In 3D | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 18 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z–HM99kEC8] If there’s one thing the world needs it’s a service that lets you build a shirt using 3D rendering technology. Sure we could use cars that run on water and world peace, but let’s get the little things out of the way, right? Thankfully, there’s , a website created by... |
App-ocalypse | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 18 | There are over for the iPhone and iPad, and thousands more on other platforms. The average user has 65 apps installed on their phone . Many of us have more. Entire businesses have been built to solve the problem of “app discovery” – that is, a way to supplement the limited app search mechanisms built into the vend... |
Green Monday And Free Shipping Day Help Boost Online Holiday Sales By 15 Percent To $31B | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 18 | As we get closer to the Christmas holidays, online retail spending continues to soar, data and web analytics company comScore. A total of $6.3 billion was spent online in the past week, bringing the total spending for the holiday season to $30.9 billion. That’s a 15 percent increase versus the same period last year. ... |
Remembering Email | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 12 | 18 | Somehow we keep thinking email will survive the social wave. It is the ultimate social tool, we reason. It’s an open standard, whatever that really means. It’s ubiquitous, you know, like Flash. Makes my head hurt to think about it going away. Nope, email is bigger than the Beatles. Yet the signs are everywhere. George ... |
New Facebook For iPhone 4.1 Includes Timeline Access and Faster Photos | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 18 | Facebook has just pushed out . The update includes the ability to view the new profile Timeline, Subscribers, Subscriptions, pop-over notifications, and add people to friend lists. The app feels more responsive, and photos seem to load significantly faster. Facebook launched Timeline globally a few days ago, but initia... |
NYPD Busts 141 Merchants For Selling Stolen Apple Goods | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 18 | New York City is possibly the most dangerous place to take your new iPhone or iPad. Grand larcenies have increased this year in the Big Apple, which NYPD spokesman Paul Browne attributes to criminal’s obsession with stealing handheld devices. But after a sting operation that went down between Tuesday and yesterday, thi... |
This Magnetic Art Project: How Does It Work? | John Biggs | 2,011 | 12 | 18 | While I find that I like my ferrite-based art projects to be a bit more automatic, the Ferrite Interactive Liquid Sculpture is still pretty cool. It’s a tube containing a Ferrofluid – a suspension of ferrite particles – that is shock-resistant enough to survive a few tumbles. You can use a magnet to create odd shapes... |
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Street By 50 Headphones Review: Loud Enough For Everyone (Literally) | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 18 | The get the job done when it comes to sound quality and volume, but there are a few quirks that didn’t sit well with me. When all is said and done, a decision to buy these headphones all comes down to how serious you are about music and how often you use a pair of cans. If appearances matter, then 50 Cent certainly ... |
Amazon, Apple Soar In Customer Satisfaction In 2011; Netflix Plummets | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | According to customer experience analytics company , e-commerce giant Amazon once again topped consumer satisfaction in online retail . However, Netflix, which had a dismal year, plummeted in customer satisfaction. For the past seven years, Netflix and Amazon have been competing for first place in Foresee’s Index, bu... |
Find Your Stolen Camera or Protect It First With GadgetTrak’s CameraTrace | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | If you got a digital camera for the holidays, or already own one, take a moment and write down the serial number. That way service can help you recover it if it’s ever stolen. , for a one-time fee of $10 CameraTrace lets you register your camera’s serial number. If you later report it lost or stolen, you’ll be notif... |
Another Report Shows Google+ With 60M+ Users And Growing… But Active User Count Still Unknown | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | Google+ now has more than 62 million users, according to , Ancestry.com founder and unofficial traffic analyst for Google’s social network. That’s not 62 million active users, though — a point that everyone covering these numbers . It’s just the number of total users. And specifically, it’s the number of new surnames... |
YouTube Slam: Google’s “Hot Or Not” For Videos | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | Bored? Yeah, me too. Which is why I just killed nearly 30 minutes doing mindless web surfing on Facebook, Reddit and Amazon. But it looks like YouTube would like a little of my holiday downtime clicks – and yours, too. The company , a game that involves pairing up two videos and voting for your favorites. I guess yo... |
For Google+, User Count Is A Journey Not A Race | Josh Constine | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | That’s a good thing because Google+ missed the starting gun. And its “invite only” launch strategy saw all its disconnect users . But in the long run that might not matter much, because Google+ doesn’t need a critical mass or tons of engagement. It needs signups so it can get its identity layer under users of its othe... |
Asana Launches iPhone Version Of Its Group Task Manager | Eric Eldon | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | Group task manager startup launched its first native mobile app last week. It’s mostly a straight port of its existing mobile web app, so the main benefit at present is that switching back and forth with other apps is much faster than dealing with Safari. The company it’s planning to invest in native apps more over... |
The iPhone 4S Is Finally Cleared For Launch In Mainland China | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | Here in the States we’ve been chatting it up with Siri on the iPhone 4S for months, but the folks over in mainland China — the biggest mobile market in the world, mind you — have yet to hear that . The 4S launched in Hong Kong just last month, and since then we’ve heard that it would show up on the mainland in Decembe... |
GoDaddy Officially Removed From The House’s List Of SOPA Supporters | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | When GoDaddy their support of last week, many were quick to point out that such an act didn’t really much. As far as the Judiciary Committee overseeing SOPA was concerned, GoDaddy was still a supporter. That’s been changed, it seems. In the latest version of the US House Of Representatives’ (heads up: it’s a PD... |
Half A Million Downloads Later, Social Discovery App Banjo Hits The Web | Sarah Perez | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | , the (I mean social discovery service) that shows you who’s nearby based on their Facebook and Foursquare check-ins, geotagged tweets, TwitPic and Instagram uploads, is now a web app, too. In case you haven’t yet download the iOS or Android application to your mobile device (or are ), you can check out the service ... |
6.8 Million Android And iOS Devices Were Activated on Xmas Day, 242 Million Apps Downloaded | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 27 | It was a very Android and iOS Christmas. Mobile apps research form estimates on how many Android and iOS devices were activated on Christmas day, as well as how many apps were downloaded. On a combined basis, 6.8 million devices were activated, up 353 percent from the 1.5 million average activations a day over the fi... |
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