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European Startup Accelerators Gradually Revealing Data – But We Need Much More
With the rise of numerous accelerator programs in Europe one cannot help but wonder whether jumping through the application process hoops, sweating through the mentoring sessions and flirting with investors at demo days are all worth a founders’ time.
When I attended the recent Startup Sauna demo day in Helsinki in December 2011, I met teams not only from Finland but also from Russia, Poland and the Baltic Rim. I was amazed how young many of the participating entrepreneurs were. So when the p...
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Attn Student Entrepreneurs: Highland Capital Wants To Help Kickstart Your Business
VC firm Highland Capital Partners is sounding the horn for their fifth annual "Summer@Highland" entrepreneurship program. The 10-week program aims to provide young, talented entrepreneurs with the environment and resources they need to kickstart their early-stage technology companies.
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Not A Bad Bundle Idea: ‘The Sound Supply’ Offers 10 Digital Music Albums For $15
Forgive me if you've seen this on Boing Boing yesterday already, but I'm always looking for interesting startups in the digital music space, and I think The Sound Supply's idea is, well, sound.
Basically, The Sound Supply bundles 10 DRM-free digital music albums and lets you buy the lot online for a mere $15. According to the website, all participating bands and artists - including the wonderful Sophie Madeleine and Colour Revolt - agreed to collectively share their music this way.
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What Apple Should Do With Its $100 Billion In Cash: Buy Hollywood
"Kill Hollywood," is the latest battle cry from Silicon Valley. If you are Paul Graham, that's not a bad way to motivate young would-be founders to create new startups.
But what if you are Apple, trading spots with Exxon on any given day for the most valuable company in the world, with nearly $100 billion of cash in the bank, looking for the next industry to overturn to keep fueling your growth? There aren't that many new markets out there that can make a difference to Apple at this point. Holl...
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Knewton Prepares To Take Education by Storm [TCTV]
Here at the World Economic Forum in Davos, among the banking, shipping, steel and transport magnates of the global economy, there are a number of technology entrepreneurs floating around. As they rub shoulders with the likes of Eric Schmidt, Sean Parker, Loic Le Meur and Robert Scoble, it's possible to peel them off from the crowd. I managed to catch Jose Ferreira, CEO and Founder of Knewton a startup which is aiming a silver bullet at the education problem with something that one might even cal...
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Pirate Parties Organizing Lawsuit Against FBI Over Megaupload Takedown
The Megaupload troubles make for interesting discussion because there is much to be said on both sides. Whether the illegal aspects of the network "outweigh" the legal aspects is a question that will be discussed for months and perhaps years.
But one thing can't be disputed: after the two-year investigation by the FBI, the site's takedown was swift and perhaps over-thorough. Thousands and thousands of users who had legitimate and often critical files hosted on the site have been left behind, th...
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Twitter Changes The “Contours” Of Censorship With Country-By-Country Blocking
Twitter has announced in a blog post a glorious new ability: "the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world." At last!
There are two ways of looking at this new "ability," one optimistic and one pessimistic. One is that Twitter is now more able to effectively tailor itself to the needs of certain countries. The other is that Twitter is now more able to effectively tailor itself to the needs of certain countrie...
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Too Busy To Actually Call Your Mom? Hashtagmom Does It When You Check-In
Sure, your mom carried you for nine months. And yeah, she wiped your bum for years, put clothes on your back, and made sure you got a decent education so you could move to California and rock a hoodie and work somewhere where there's always beer in the fridge and go-karts to be ridden. But can you really be expected to call her from time to time to let her know where you are? Time is money, Mom. Get on Foursquare or something.
Looking to ease the anxiety for the mothers of the world whose brats...
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Bringing A Startup Together: FounderDating Launches Matching Site, Expands To NY, Boston, LA
Finding the right cofounder is often the hardest part of doing a startup, as most anyone with experience will tell you. As a personal example: the cofounder of my first company, Phil Kast, was an old high school buddy employed as a whitewater rafting guide in Colorado when we started talking about working together. He happened to be hitting the off-season right when I was trying to get started -- and everything went from there.
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Android Dominates Moolah Media’s Mobile Ads
It looks like publishers and advertisers are warming to mobile ad startup Moolah Media. The company says that in 2011, it generated 7 million leads for its advertisers — and 1.9 million of those leads (27 percent of the year's total) came in December.
Also in December, Moolah says its ads reached 45 million Americans. And interest in the company is growing — Moolah projects that traffic to its website will triple this month, as pictured in the chart above.
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Motorola Mobility Closes Out Q4 2011 With An $80 Million Net Loss
Motorola Mobility released their fourth quarter and year-end financials today, and now we can see why they made it a point earlier this month to downplay analyst expectations. The company's new figures reveal that while Motorola raked in $3.4 billion in Q4 2011, they also incurred a net loss of $80 million.
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Dirty Money
The New York Times has published a long article on Foxconn which, while it doesn't provide much in the way of new information, does act as a sobering reminder of just how companies like Apple can make so very much money. When our own John Biggs visited Foxconn, he focused on the company itself, its scale, its intentions. When I wrote about Apple's suppliers failing to meet environmental standards, it was more about the laxity of regulators within China. Today's NYT piece depicts Apple as prime m...
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Apple, Google, 5 Others To Be Denied Dismissal Of “No Poach” Conspiracy Case
7 of the world's most powerful tech companies have been accused of forming an antitrust conspiracy to suppress the compensation of their employees by entering into "no poach" agreements. Today, a San Jose judge will heard a motion to dismiss a class action civil lawsuit in which former employees seek damages from defendants Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm.
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The New Techmeme Design: Plus Your World, Minus Underlined Links
In a world of personalized, distributed information sharing, Techmeme and its sister sites have successfully gone the opposite direction. They're machine-powered, human-controlled technology news aggregator that have readers -- especially media types -- following like drug addicts jonesing for another hit. And the flagship site, Techmeme.com, has just gotten a big redesign that modernizes the look and feel of the interface, and emphasizes new social features.
Here's one junkie's reaction.
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Steam Takes First Steps Into Mobile With iOS And Android Apps
As a gamer with admittedly poor impulse control, the newly-released Steam app for iOS and Android has me very worried. On the one hand, it seems like an ideal way to to keep tabs on the popular gaming service on the go.
On the other though, I could easily see myself going overboard on buying games I don't need when I should be pretending to be a productive member of society.
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Verbling Raises $1M To Link Up Language Learners Through Video Chat
Y Combinator-backed Verbling, a site that aims to connect language leaners with native speakers via live video chat, has raised $1 million from DFJ, Learn Capital, Start Fund, Inspovation Ventures, SV Angel, Meck Investments, Ace & Company and others. The new funding will be used towards hiring.
Here's how Verbling works. The site allows you to sign up and choose the language you want to learn. Once you join the site, you are automatically paired with a language speaker who is fluent in the...
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TCTV: In the Studio with Danny Trinh, Path’s 21-Year Old Product Designer
"In the Studio" at TechCrunch TV kicks off today with a guest who deferred college, and eventually dropped out, and moved out west to pursue his dream of building products in San Francisco.
Danny Trinh, a product designer at Path, is perhaps one of the most talented, up-and-coming product designers in the social and mobile space today. At all of 21 years old, Trinh has already built quite an impressive resume of experience designing web products. A few years ago, Trinh graduated high school and...
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Keen On… Caleb Melby: The Zen of Steve Jobs (TCTV)
Walter Isaacson has unleashed a torrent of new books about Steve Jobs and Apple. But nobody has written anything quite like Caleb Melby's The Zen of Steve Jobs, a graphic novel that charts Jobs' relationship with a Buddhist priest called Koby Chino Otogawa. The book is a both a visual and textual delight and I couldn't resist inviting Melby, who also writes for Forbes, into our New York City studio to talk about Zen and the art of Steve Jobs.
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Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC Raises $55 Million For Fund III
The micro-VCs are growing up. Case in point: Jeff Clavier, who started out as an angel investor backing Web 2.0 companies and then transitioned his portfolio into a more formal venture firm, SoftTech VC. Clavier just finished raising a total of $55 million for SoftTech's third fund. SoftTech's main focus is on three areas: mobile, next-generation e-commerce, and cloud-based services.
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Zynga Brings Social Gaming To The Bingo Hall With Newest Title
There's been one trend we've been noticing over the past few years when it comes to Zynga's game development strategy. The social gaming giant likes to re-create classic games like Hangman or hidden puzzles and add social elements for gameplay. We saw this with the release of Hanging With Friends, Scramble With Friends, Hidden Chronicles. And As Zynga revealed in October, next up is Bingo. Today, the company is revealing its social take on Bingo via a Facebook game, which will be joining Zynga P...
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It’s About Time: HTC To Refocus Smartphone Efforts Around “Hero” Devices
HTC has gotten to be remarkably good at churning out phone after phone these days, but it's gotten to feel like each new release is too little too soon. Thankfully, the godfather of Android hardware has come to its senses, as revealed by Mobile Today.
According to HTC UK head Phil Roberson, 2012 is going to be all about giving their customers "something special." To that end, HTC plans to focus on a smaller number of "hero" smartphones and dial back their presence in the tablet market.
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Google+ Now Open To Teens 13 And Up
Google is opening up its social networking service Google+ to teens as of today, according to a post from Google's VP, Product Management, Bradley Horowitz. The move puts the network in closer competition with Facebook, which also requires that individuals be at least 13 year old before creating an account.
Says Horowitz, everyone who's old enough for a Google account (13+ in most countries), can now create a Google+ account too.
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(Founder Stories) SoftTech VC’s Clavier: An Investor’s Role Isn’t To Give Orders
SoftTech VC's, Jeff Clavier has edged his way from a true Silicon Valley outsider (born and raised in France) to the ultimate insider. Since moving to the valley a decade ago, Clavier has launched three funds and invested in more than 100 companies, the likes of which include Mint, FitBit, and Fab.
Not bad for a guy who claims to have jumped "into venture by accident."
Having just raised $55 million for his third fund, which will invest on average "$400,000" per startup, Clavier sat down ...
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Distimo: Being Featured In The Android Market Can Boost Apps’ Rank By 172%
Earlier this morning, we looked at the findings from analytics provider Distimo's latest report, which examined what happens when mobile apps go on sale. (Spoiler: when priced correctly, revenue goes way up). The second part of the report looked at the ranking gains that occur when an app achieves "featured" status in a mobile app store like iTunes or the Android Market.
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Signature Launches To Bring A Personalized, Mobile Shopping Service To Brick And Mortar Retailers
As I wrote in December, brick and mortar retailers will need to personalize and make the in-store shopping experience unique to compete with online e-commerce sites. Today, Signature is launching to help retailers deliver a more personalized experience for consumers at retail stores. The Signature mobile app is essentially a personal shopping assistant, providing a curated shopping experience, with up-to-date product information, and customer service.
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Tagged Begins Transformation Of Social Gaming Network hi5
Tagged first announced its acquisition of struggling social network hi5 in December. Now, the company says it's ready to talk about what's going to happen to the property.
Basically, Tagged will continue operating hi5 as a separate site, but one that starts to look more and more like Tagged — as vice president of sales and marketing Steve Sarner put it, it will become "a Tagged.com experience with a hi5 wrapper." Even though Sarner says hi5 won't actually change for another six to eight weeks...
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Fanhattan Adds A Personalized News Feed To The Mix, Lets You Read While You Watch
We've been following the Fanhattan iPhone/iPad app from the very beginning, when it was exclusively available for the iPad and only had a handful of content partners.
But the app has come along way in a short time — migrating to the iPhone and adding new content — and is today announcing an update that offers up way more functionality and content, though it may not be the kind of content you'd expect.
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What Happens When Apps Go On Sale?: Revenue Up 22% On iPhone, 29% On Android
In a new research report from Distimo, the app store analytics provider examined two different ways that allow mobile developers to get a bump in both their download numbers and revenue. One way, which is within the developers' control, is putting the app on sale. Within the first day, iPhone developers see an average increase of 41% in revenue using this method, and see revenue increases of 22% by the sale's end. Android apps, however, rose just 7% on day one, but closed out the sale with highe...
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NewsFlash For iOS Proves That An Anti-UX Can Be A Great UX
Our industry lauds cutting-edge UX. Look no further than the exceptional work of Path. One either swoons over it, or one is blind. But what if that sends a wrong signal? Don't get me wrong, I feel very strongly about the importance of UX, but since I've played around with NewsFlash, a feature-stripped free news app for iOS (iTunes link), I've asked myself whether more often than not users work for the UX, instead of the other way around.
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House Party Is A Serious Business, Scores $5.3 Million
HouseParty.com, a site that helps people throw brand-sponsored home parties, has raised $5.3 million in Series C funding in a round led by New York-based Acadia Woods Partners.
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Mint Competitor And Personal Finance Platform HelloWallet Raises $12M From Morningstar
HelloWallet, a personal finance software, has raised $12 million in Series B funding from Morningstar and TD Fund. The startup previously raised $9 million in Series A funding, from Grotech Ventures and AOL co-founder Steve Case's VC fund Revolution Ventures.
HelloWallet, which launched last year, helps users track and proactively manage their personal finances from both the web and mobile. But HelloWallet aims to be a full-service financial advisor, and looks forward to proactively uncover sa...
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BookPlace DB50: Toshiba Introduces Android-Based Color E-Book Reader
Following Fujitsu, another Japanese electronics maker is ready to sell color e-book readers: Toshiba announced [JP] the so-called BookPlace DB50 today, a 7-Inch device that comes with direct access to big T's BookPlace store (which currently offers around 43,000 different Japanese e-books and magazines).
Toshiba says they plan to expand the range of available titles to 100,000 by March this year, the largest in its home market. The store has been available in America since 2010.
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SittingAround Launches Service To Help Parents Find & Schedule Trusted Sitters
SittingAround, a new service that allows parents to quickly and more easily find and schedule a babysitter, is launching today. The business is the creation of CEO Erica Zidel, a former management consultant in the Boston area (and mom) and CTO Ted Tieken, who, like Zidel, is a Harvard grad. What's unique about SittingAround is how it leverages users' social networking connections - like those on Facebook - in order to build trusted relationships between parents and sitters.
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ShoeBox App Now Integrates With Facebook Timeline, Lets You Add Photos To Years Past
ShoeBox, the mobile app that lets you scan old photos and post them online, is today announcing Facebook Timeline integration. Using the newly released version of the ShoeBox iOS application, users will be able to scan photographs of family and friends using their smartphone, tag users by name, and then share those photos to Facebook.
But here's the really cool part: ShoeBox is one of the first Timeline-integrated apps that's letting you post photos into the past. By that, I mean you can edit t...
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Sprint’s Epic 4G Touch Gets Stripped Of Carrier IQ
Sprint has been spending the past few weeks quietly pumping out software updates that remove Carrier IQ from affected devices, and now it looks like Sprint's flagship Android device (for now) will be able to run wild and free.
Thanks to an update that started making the rounds yesterday, Samsung's Epic 4G Touch joins a handful of Sprint devices to get the Carrier IQ cleanup treatment.
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It Only Makes Sense That Samsung Would Delay The Galaxy S III Launch
Every once in a while something comes along that's worth a wait, and I think the Samsung Galaxy S III will be one of those things. We've all been expecting Samsung's next flagship to show its face at MWC in February, but according to the Verge, Samsung may have other plans.
Anonymous sources who spoke with the Verge claim that the SGSIII will still be available "before summer," but that Mobile World Congress in Barcelona may not be the most beneficial launch venue.
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Nintendo Reports US$630 Million Net Loss Between April And December 2011, Announces Wii U For 2012
3DS sales have picked up lately, but Nintendo's financial numbers are still weak. Big N today released [PDF] another set of disappointing results for the first nine months of its fiscal year (April to December 2011). The company lost a whopping US$630 million, compared with a profit of US$635 million in the same time frame last fiscal.
Sales were down 31.2% year-on-year to US$7.2 billion.
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Drchrono Raises $2.8M From Yuri Milner And Others To Help Bring Medical Records To The iPad
Drchrono, a startup that simplifies the professional lives of doctors by bringing electronic health records and much more to the iPad, has raised $2.8 million in funding led by Yuri Milner, with Google's Matt Cutts and other investors participating. The startup had previously raised $1.3 million in seed funding from Milner, General Catalyst, Charles River Ventures, 500 Startups, Gmail creator and FriendFeed cofounder Paul Buchheit, Cutts, and the Start Fund.
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Airbnb: 5 Million Nights Booked, Opening 6 New International Offices In Q1 2012
Airbnb is growing like a weed.
The young company is today releasing a ton of statistics about its business to showcase its growth, accompanied (of course) by a fancy infographic.
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Google, Look Out Behind You!
Google has been fighting the threat of Facebook for some time. It is now fighting for its life on two fronts! Facebook and now Apple loom large as it attempts to chart the future.
Google missed the streets numbers for its Q1 earnings last week and has seen its stock decline from $670.25 to yesterday's close of $569.49. Apple, by comparison, has just beaten, no annihilated, the Street's predictions and its stock has gone from a low of $363 to yesterday's close of $446.66 in the same period.
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Intel To Spend $120M On Patents, Video Codec Software From RealNetworks
Intel is to buy "a significant number" of patents (approximately 190 patents and 170 patent applications) and video codec software from RealNetworks for a purchase price of $120 million. Under the terms of the deal, RealNetworks says it retains certain rights to continue to use the patents in current and future products.
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Nokia Sold “Well Over” 1 Million Lumia Phones To Date, Posts €1 Billion Q4 Loss
Nokia earnings are out, and the contrast with Apple's blow-out quarter results is astonishing. The Finnish phone maker, still the largest in the world by volume, reported a Q4 net loss of 1.07 billion euro, down from a 745 million euro profit in the fourth quarter of 2010.
The company's smartphone sales decline paints an even bleaker picture: Nokia sold 19.6 million units in Q4 2011, down a whopping 31 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago (even though it's up 17 percent from Q3 2011 ...
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AT&T Set Sales Records For Both iPhone And Android Devices In Q4 2011
AT&T this morning released its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011. Consolidated revenues clocked in at $32.5 billion, up 3.6 percent compared to the year-earlier quarter. They recorded a huge net loss for Q4 2011: $6.7 billion, or $1.12 per diluted share.
Zooming in on smartphone sales, it's worth noting that AT&T delivered its best-ever quarter to date, hands down.
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Android Reaches 39% Tablet OS Market Share (Standing On Amazon’s Shoulders)
Apple's iPad reigns supreme from whatever angle you choose to look at the tablet market (profits, apps, quality, market share, mindshare, you name it), but research firm Strategy Analytics this morning said Android did manage to capture a record 39 percent tablet OS market share in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Apple maintains the lead with 58 percent market share in Q4 2011 (down from 68 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010).
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955 Dreams Raises $3.25 Million Seed Round, Launches “Band Of The Day” On iPad
955 Dreams, the startup behind Apple's iPhone App of the Year Runner Up "Band of the Day," is today releasing the new tablet-optimized version of the app for the iPad. In addition, the company announced it has closed on a $3.25 million round of seed funding. Investors participating in the round included 500 Startups, m8 Capital, Kapor Capital, Felicis Ventures and CrunchFund (Disclosure: TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington is an investor in CrunchFund).
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Exclusive: Paulo Coelho At Davos — On SOPA, Piracy And Life As An Artist
Paulo Coelho, the world famous author of The Pilgrimage, The Alchemist and many other works which have in many ways become an inspiration for entrepreneurs, gave an exclusive and rare interview to TechCrunch at the World Economic Forum in Davos last night, the recording of which is published below. Coelho and I had previously been moderators at a dinner curated by Loic Le Meur on the future of social status and the interview took place in a taxi to another venue. (My write-up from the dinner wi...
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Curated Design Shopping Club MONOQI Launches, Raises Funding (Invites)
Exclusive - Yes, even more Berlin startups with news to share.
MONOQI is today launching an exclusive online shopping platform where select designers can present their wares and buyers can purchase them at reasonable prices.
More at TechCrunch Europe.
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Daily Crunch: Cassette
Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Kickstarter: Cassette, A Documentary About, You Guessed It, Cassettes A Foothold For HealthTech: Ultra-Cheap Pacemakers Show Your Love With These New iPad/Kindle Fire Cases From DODOcase Video: Dunder Mifflin’s Office Remade As A Counter Strike Source Map
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Kaiser Permanente Takes Millions Of Medical Records Mobile With New Android App
Founded in 1945, California-based Kaiser Permanente is one of the largest not-for-profit managed care consortiums and health plan providers in the country, with 9 million members, nearly 170K employees, 15K physicians, 35 medical centers, and 430+ medical offices under its fold. Yesterday, the health care organization announced the release of a free Android app and mobile-optimized website through which its millions of members can access their own medical information on the go.
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Can Kids Love Chores? 500 Startups Alum HighScore House Says Yes
If you're a parent, it can be a challenge to convince kids to do their chores. (Or so I'm told.) It's even harder to make them genuinely excited. But a startup called HighScore House says it has found a way.
The company is part of the latest class of companies incubated by 500 Startups, and it made its pitch to investors this afternoon as part of 500 Startups Demo Day. Co-founder Kyle Seaman says the company has been operating on an invite-only basis, but it's starting to open up to a wider aud...
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The Day Apple Left The Tech World’s Collective Mouth Agape
$46.33 billion in revenue. It's a number the biggest and best tech companies in the world can only dream to hit in a year. Apple hit it in one quarter. $13.06 billion in profit. It's a number no tech company would ever aspire to in one quarter because it's ridiculous. The only companies that have ever thought about such numbers are oil companies. And even then, only 3 of them have actually hit it. Ever.
Until yesterday.
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Virtual Currency Rewards: Plink Pays You Facebook Credits To Eat Out
Buy a hamburger and get rewarded with Facebook Credits to spend on a virtual cow. That's the mouth-watering promise of startup Plink, which is launching a virtual currency loyalty rewards system for restaurants. You register a credit card with Plink, and then when you make purchases at Taco Bell, 7-Eleven, Dunkin Donuts, or one of Plink's other clients you'll get Facebook Credits automatically deposited into your account. As demand for Facebook Credits to spend on social games and media increas...
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Facebook Stumbles — Is Anonymous Responsible? (Oops: No.)
Is Facebook the next target for activist hacker group Anonymous? Depends on who you ask.
The group went on the warpath last week following the takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, with attacks that targeted the Department of Justice website, the MPAA, the RIAA, and others. Then, a few days ago, the group seemed to post a video on YouTube, claiming that Facebook would be next, with an attack on Jan. 28.
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Reed Hastings: “We Expect DVD Subscribers To Decline Every Quarter … Forever”
After some fairly sizable blunders last summer, Netflix suffered for the remainder of 2011, losing money and subscribers. Perhaps surprising many, Netflix bounced back today in its fourth quarter earnings -- in spite of the fact that it will continue experiencing losses throughout 2012 thanks to the costs of rolling out its service internationally.
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A Foothold For HealthTech: Ultra-Cheap Pacemakers
I read with great interest Vinod Khosla's column two weeks ago that discussed the role of tech in healthcare. But as much as tech has to offer the healthcare institution, its effects are perhaps more reliably trackable in the actual medical devices field. A functioning "Dr. Algorithm" would be great - but a "tricorder" device, like that being chased by this X-Prize? That would be something else.
Until these pie-in-the-sky projects come to fruition, though, more modest advances, but which noneth...
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Zynga’s Stock Rating Gets A Boost, And So Does Its Traffic
Wall Street has had trouble knowing what to make of Zynga, considering it's the first Facebook-oriented virtual goods business to be publicly traded. The stock has been seesawing below its $10 initial share price since the company went public in the middle of December. Main concerns have been its heavy reliance on Facebook for traffic, and on a small number of paying users for most of its revenue, as well as its relatively flat traffic.
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TheFunded Calls Ben Horowitz The Most Disruptive VC
TheFunded, the site where entrepreneurs can anonymously review venture capitalists, sometimes a reputation for being anti-VC (especially in its early days), but it's not above showing investors a little love. Today it's the announcing the winners of its awards for Top Investors 0f 2011.
Adeo Ressi, founding member at TheFunded, says these awards were determined by user ratings, though a five-person committee, including Ressi, made the final choices. The site has given out these awards for the ...
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Skyfire Raises $8 Million In A Round Funded By Verizon And Others
After raising just shy of $23 million over the past 5 years, Skyfire today announced that they've raised their second biggest round of funding to date. Coming in at $8 million dollars, this Series C round is being funded by Verizon Investments (as in Verizon Communications' venture arm) along with new investments from previous investors Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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EU’s Proposed Data Laws Can Only Produce One Thing: Outsourcing User Data
In 2011, Sony had several major security breaches: Sony Online Entertainment, Sony Pictures, and Playstation Network all were attacked and private data was successfully stolen. Their handling of the attacks, particularly the larger PSN one, was widely criticized.
Many users are either unaware or acutely aware of how many sites and services have financially or personally sensitive information on record. Events like the Sony hacks do not reassure them, and actions like Google's yesterday (though ...
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Netflix Streaming Margins Are 11 Percent, DVD Margins Are 52 Percent
If you look closely at Netflix's fourth quarter earnings, it will become clear why the company wanted to split its DVD and streaming businesses. This is the first quarter that the company is splitting out each business and reporting revenues, profits, and margins separately.
While the streaming business is growing (adding 220 subscribers domestically in the quarter), and the DVD business sis shrinking (it lost 2.76 million subscribers domestically), it's margins are much worse than the legacy...
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Someone Finally Makes “Shit Silicon Valley Says”
After an onslaught of "Shit [blank] Says" videos in my Facebook Newsfeed, I appealed to Twitter yesterday, surprised that the industry that invented YouTube hadn't weighed in on the phenomenon.
Little did I know that husband and wife team Tom Conrad and Kate Imbach were already on it, coming up with the idea on Monday morning and shooting yesterday, with no script (Imbach just said random techy things and Conrad spliced them together into this in edit).
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Biz Stone, 500 Startups And Others Put $1M In CRM For Web Businesses Intercom
CRM and 500 Startups incubated company Intercom has raised a seed round of $1 million from angel investors including twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Huddle founder Andy McLoughlin, Dan Martell, 500 Startups and Digital Garage.
Intercom's customer relationship management tool (CRM) is designed specifically for web businesses. The web-based SaaS features Google Analytics-like integration so that its database of customers is always automatically up-to-date, tracking every interaction. With its flex...
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Netflix Q4 Earnings Beat The Street, But Next Quarter May Be A Different Story
Saying 2011 was a rocky road for Netflix would be an understatement, as it split its DVD and streaming offerings into two businesses, then reneged. They also hiked their prices, only to experience a veritable customer revolt, and CEO Reed Hastings was forced to publicly say that they'd made a huge mistake.
Today, Netflix has released its fourth quarter earnings from 2011, and it looks like there's at least a sliver of good news, as the company beat Wall Street's forecasts of $0.54 a share and $...
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Show Your Love With These New iPad/Kindle Fire Cases From DODOcase
Just in time for Valentine's Day, DODOcase released new special edition iPad and Kindle Fire cases. They cost slightly more than the standard versions with the Kindle Fire models costing $69 and then $79 for the iPad 2 versions. But nothing says love quite like a unique case.
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HP Announces Open webOS 1.0, Outlines Release Schedule
It seems like ages ago that HP announced that webOS would continue to live on as an open source project, probably because they've been awfully quiet on the subject since the big reveal in December.
Well, consider that silence officially broken. HP took to their webOS developer relations blog to tell what faithful users still remain all about how their open-source rollout is going to work, and the whole process has begun with the release of their Enyo application framework.
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Nokia Announces 1.5 Billion S40 Phones Sold
Does the term S40 mean anything to you?
It's a mobile operating system built by Nokia for its feature phones back in 1999, and first appeared on the 7110. Well, apparently a lady over in São Paulo, Brazil has today purchased the 1.5 billionth phone running the operating system in the form of the Nokia Asha 303. Nokia is calling it "one of the most significant milestones" in company history.
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Game Your Video Aims To Make Mobile Video Editing As Simple As Possible
Modern day video editors can be daunting. While it's better than the literal cut-and-paste practices of yesteryear, opening a new video editor can feel like stepping into the cockpit of a spaceship. Unless you're trained to fly spaceships, in which case this analogy is broken (and also, you're awesome.)
Looking to distill video editing down to its simplest form — a game like experience, they say — is Game Your Video, a new iOS app from Global Delight.
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Guidewire Hits The Public Market Running; Shares Jump 30% In Early Trading
While there were some big IPOs in 2011, Zynga and Groupon among them, overall it was a disappointing year for IPOs. Will 2012 be any different? As the first tech IPO of the new year, Guidewire Software certainly hopes so. Back in September, the insurance software company joined MobiTV, Angie’s List, Brightcove, and Jive, filing its S-1, announcing plans to raise up to $100 million and to sell approximately 7.5 million shares at $10 to $12 per share, in advance of its IPO on the New York Stock...
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Bunchball Says Games Turn Twentysomethings Into Better Workers
Bunchball has been touting the benefits of its gamification tools for years, and many of its recent efforts are focused on enterprise customers. Now the company has published a white paper arguing that that gamification is a key way to motivate "Generation Y."
As evidence, the paper points to a recent study by MTV saying that millennials (the Bunchball report uses both terms interchangeably) understand their lives through a "game-like metaphor" — in fact, half of the survey respondents said "...
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1000s Of Journalists Now Use Facebook Subscribe, And That’s Bad For Twitter
4 months after it launched its Twitter-style asymmetrical Subscribe feature, Facebook and its Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik's efforts to weaken Twitter's stranglehold on breaking news are paying off. The company just announced that thousands of journalists now use Subscribe, including 50 reporters from The New York Times and 90 from the Washington Post. If Facebook can get your favorite journalists publishing through Subscribe, you'll have less need for Twitter. Next I hear it's...
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Kickstarter: Cassette, A Documentary About, You Guessed It, Cassettes
Those of our readers old enough to remember the 90s will almost certainly recall cassette tapes fondly. The clacky little tapes and their creaky cases have more or less disappeared from the world, and no surprise: they were fragile, limited, and sounded pretty bad.
But they were also hugely empowering, and helped produce in an age of comparative consumer powerlessness the same feeling we take for granted today: that we should be able to copy, lend, and duplicate the content we've bought. Casset...
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President Clinton’s Former Chief Of Staff Says: “Yes We Scan” (TCTV)
While the topic didn't make its way into President Obama's Sate of the Union speech last night, Mr. Obama's former transition team co-chair, John Podesta, thinks creating a "Digital Library of Congress" comprised of "the vast holdings of the federal government" deserves executive level attention. He's calling the initiative, “Yes We Scan”
My suggestion to him: get Google to do it for free in return for a reprieve from the government's never-ending antitrust investigations. I am only half-j...
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BeachMint Raises Another Big Round: $35 Million For Celebrity-Backed Shopping Experiences
BeachMint — an ecommerce startup that lets customers subscribe to receive products hand-picked by celebrities each month — has quickly become one of the hottest companies in Los Angeles.
Today the company is announcing that it's raised a $35 million funding round with some big-name investors: the round is being led by Accel Partners, with participation from Goldman Sachs, New World Ventures, NYC-based and Millennium Technology Value Partners, with existing investors participating as well...
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Apple Overtakes Exxon As Most Valuable Traded Company In The World… Again
It happened once before, in August, but that was due to a stock market collapse that left both Exxon and Apple well below their usual share price. This time, however, it would seem that Apple's Q1 earnings call yesterday has led to a fresh spike on the stock market and what do you know?
Apple is once again the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, with a market cap of $414.83 billion.
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Top European Blogging Platform OverBlog Acquires Timeline Creator Timekiwi
Normally, Palo Alto companies buy European ones, but sometimes there are exceptions. Case in point: today OverBlog, a leading blog platform in Europe with over 32 million uniques according to comScore, is announcing it has acquired Timekiwi, a tool that helps you make a timeline using your social media postings.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but OverBlog says Timekiwi will be integrated into its platform by summer 2012.
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$99 Nokia Lumia 900 To Hit AT&T On March 18?
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop was all to eager to show off the Lumia 900 at this year's CES, but he unforunately kept to himself when it came to its price or release date. Now, thanks to a timely leak, it looks as though Nokia's flagship Windows Phone could hit AT&T's shelves on March 18.
That's apparently the plan, anyway. The date, given to BGR by their anonymous sources, seemingly confirms earlier rumors about the device's launch window, though they're quick to note that the date isn't set in s...
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LG Nitro HD Surpasses 1 Million Units Sold
comScore recently ranked LG second in the world in terms of mobile OEM market share, and it would seem the good news keeps on coming for the smiley-face company. The Nitro HD, or Optimus LTE if you're from outside of the States, has reportedly hit 1 million units sold.
It was first available in South Korea last year in October, and LG sold 600,000 units on its home turf. After venturing into new lands, including Japan, Canada, and the US of A, another 400,000 units were sold. According to my c...
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Online Investing Platform Kapitall Now Lets You Trade Stocks
Kapitall, a web app that investors can use to research and analyze stocks, mutual funds and exchange traded funds, is debuting the ability to trade stocks via its platform today.
Kapitall's interface is inspired by video game design and combines a graphical user interface with tools that make it easy to build portfolios, share ideas and execute trades. The startup believes that people can learn to navigate the stock market even if they don't have a financial planner or don't have the experience...
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Google: “Hundreds” Of Schools In 41 States Use Chromebooks
During this morning's keynote at the annual Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) conference in Orlando, Florida, Google's Product Manager for Chromebooks, Rajen Sheth, shared an update on Chromebooks' headway in educational institutions. According to Sheth, today there are now "hundreds" of schools using Chomebooks in 41 states across the U.S.
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Sprint Plans To Kill The BlackBerry PlayBook… Again
For the second time over the course of a year, it would seem as though Sprint's ready to kill the BlackBerry PlayBook. A new version of the PlayBook OS is set to debut in February, but according to an EOL (End of Life) report out of SprintFeed, Sprint isn't prepared for the wait. Not even for a week.
Of course, the WiFi-only PlayBook will still be available at various office stores like Best Buy and from RIM directly, but Sprint's execution of the PlayBook marks the end of the product's life o...
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Popular Barcode Scanning App ShopSavvy Launches Mobile Marketplace
ShopSavvy, which you probably know as the barcode-scanning, price comparison app, is launching a major new feature today: SavvyListings, a mobile marketplace. With the addition, the company is hoping to turn its user base of some 20 million into customers who buy and sell items directly with each other.
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Now You Can Control Your Galaxy Nexus By Groping A Wall
The Galaxy Nexus's 4.65-inch display may make it a handful for some, but a nifty new project from a developer known as DDRBoxman allows users to interact with their Galaxy Nexus on an even grander scale.
With the help of a projector, a Kinect camera, and a specially tweaked Ice Cream Sandwich ROM, he was able to interact with his Nexus by touching a wall.
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Accel And SV Angel Back Endorse With $4.25 Million To Close The Loop Between Shoppers And Brands
Brands and businesses can track their reputations online and connect with consumers through social media. But what about in the real world? One of the biggest prizes in Startupland will go to whoever can figure out how to connect real-world shopping to brands and businesses. Steve Carpenter is going after that prize with his latest startup, Endorse.
Carpenter has been incubating the company for a year as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel. (He sold his last company, Cake Financial, to Etrade...
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JNSQ, An Independent Style Mag For iPad, Makes Its Public Debut
JNSQ, the first independent style magazine for the iPad, is making its public debut today. The app, created by former Beauty.com marketing manager Melissa Middleton and angel investor and stealth startup founder Fritz Lanman, features similar content as to what's found on the online version of the company, at www.jenesequa.com, but is published monthly - like a real magazine.
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Samsung Employee Leaks New Info On Future Galaxy Tabs
I just love it when leaks come straight from the horse's mouth. A leaky horse mouth, if you will.
Electronista is reporting that a Samsung product marketing manager by the name of Ryan Bidan has let slip a few details on the next Galaxy Tab or, potentially, the next iteration of the Galaxy Note.
According to the report, Mr. Bidan hinted at the inclusion of an S pen (the same stylus used with the Note), 3D gestures courtesy of the front-facing camera, and perhaps even some voice controls "in ...
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Fab Hits 2 Million Members, Plots International Expansion, Opens For All
Fab.com founder and CEO Jason Goldberg just made a significant announcement on his blog about some new and upcoming changes at the ridiculously fast-growing startup.
The design shopping site now boasts 2 million members, having added more than 400,000 new members in the past month and doubling membership since November. Expect that number to grow fast, because the site is now open for everyone immediately upon sign-up, and will soon become available in Canada and Europe to boot.
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Social Brand Marketing Booms In 2011, Buddy Media Ups Revenue 2.5X
With 300 new big brand customers and 2.5X revenue, 2011 was a landmark year for social media marketing software developer Buddy Media. As CEO Michael Lazerow told us that Buddy Media was on track to hit $20 million in revenue in 2010, it could have pulled in $50 million during 2011. It attracted premier clients such as Citibank, IBM, and the NFL with its reputation for helping brands promote through Facebook. The company grew from 100 to 225 employees, and opened new offices in London, SF, an...
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Mark Shuttleworth Unveils New Head-Up Display for Ubuntu 12.04
Every time I write about Ubuntu and its (not-so) new Unity interface, I see lots and lots of comments decrying it as useless, an abomination, the worst thing to ever happen to computers, etc. Personally, I'm not so flummoxed by it, but there's no denying that Unity has been a divisive addition to Canonical's flagship Linux distribution. The choice to move application menus up to the global bar at the top of the screen has been frustrating to many, and a lot of power users find Unity too mouse-in...
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TIBCO Updates Social Enterprise App Tibbr With Geo-Location Features
Enterprise software company TIBCO is debuting a new version of its Yammer-clone Tibbr today. The newest version of the company's social communications app includes geo-location capabilities called Tibbr GEO, which integrates the ‘check-in’ model in the enterprise.
By incorporating location into Tibbr, the service wants to physical places into data hubs that can immediately stream important insights relevant to that specific place. Tibbr GEO gives companies the ability to tag important pla...
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YC-Funded Embark Is Now Plotting Two Million Transit Trips A Month
As a former resident of Los Angeles, New York's public transportation system feels magical at times. Trains — underground trains — that go places you actually want to go. It's a wonderful system. And I thank my stars that I live in an age when my smartphone can tell me how to use it.
Because for all its convenience, NYC's subway system can feel a bit labyrinthine at times — particularly when there's a planned service disruption (there's always a planned service disruption). Thankfully I'm...
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Amazon Web Services Debuts Storage Gateway To Securely Upload Enterprise Data To The Cloud
After launching distributed database DynamoDB last week, Amazon Web Services is debuting another product—AWS Storage Gateway, which is a service that provides enterprises with a new option to securely upload and backup data to the AWS cloud from on-premises software appliances.
Basically, the Gateway connect san on-premises software appliance with Amazon's cloud-based storage for a more secure integration between on-premises IT environments and AWS storage infrastructure. Via the Gateway, dat...
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Big VCs Invest In Big Data Startup Continuuity
Venture capital firm Battery Ventures this morning announced that it has made an investment in Continuuity, a stealth 'big data' startup founded by Battery entrepreneur-in-residence Todd Papaioannou (formerly VP and Chief Cloud Architect for Yahoo).
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Android May Have Consumer Market Share, But iOS Is Tops In Enterprise
According to a new report from managed enterprise mobility provider Good Technology, iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) hold the top three spots in the list of the top 10 enterprise activations by device type. The report includes data gathered by Good for Q4 2011 and includes half of the Fortune 100, providing insight into enterprise activation trends among some of the world's biggest businesses.
The company found that despite Android's overall market share growth and steady absolute growth among ...
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Video: Dunder Mifflin’s Office Remade As A Counter Strike Source Map
Long before the advent of such games as Minecraft, virtual worlds were coded primarily as first person shooter maps. You could play Half-Life deathmatch in a super-sized kitchen, Counter Strike on a World War II battlefield and so on. Map making was an artform. But it's clearly not dead.
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Jammit Lets Budding Rock Stars Play Along With, Isolate, And Record Over The “Masters”
While magical mobile devices are able to simulate instruments in wild and mind-blowing ways, thankfully most people stick to the actual instruments themselves when learning to play. Arguably, a better -- or at least more popular -- use for mobile devices is to act not as the instrument itself, but as an educational aid -- a tool that helps us to learn how to play our favorite instruments.
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33Across Acquires Tynt To Become Social Data Powerhouse
Social ad targeting company 33Across just announced that it has acquired Tynt.
What's Tynt? Well, if you've ever tried to copy-and-paste a quote from an article and discovered that there was suddenly some extra text and a link attached ("Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/16/borthwick-twitter-thanks-bit-ly/#ixzz0lIiy3q6f"), you have Tynt to thank for that. Not only does it add attribution to copied text, it also uses copy-and-paste data to make larger recommendations about a publisher's s...
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Japan’s NICT Creates Quantum Dots To Boost Optic Fiber Bandwidth By 7-10 Times, Shoot High-Res Pictures Of Molecules (Video)
A team of researchers at the Photonic Network Research Institute of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has developed a new light source technology that might pave the way to some pretty spectacular applications in the future.
The core piece of the technology are "high-quality" quantum dots, tiny nano particles, that boast higher stability and optical frequency than those created the conventional way.
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GuideHop and iStopOver Team Up To Fuse Local Activity And Rental Discovery (P2P Style)
SXSW 2012 is sneaking up on us; believe it or not, it's just around the corner. As you may know, Austin's music/film/tech conference attracts big names, tons of press, and notable companies each year -- geeks flock to the event just as they do for CES. On the tech or "Interactive" side, there's a lot of hoopla and way too much media coverage, but some interesting startups do still manage to emerge (or at least solidify their reputations) at the festi-conference each year. Foursquare and Twitter,...
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Daily Crunch: Apples & Eggs
Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Tim Cook: Apple TV IS Still A Hobby, But I Couldn’t Live Without It App-maker Moonbot Gets An Oscar Nomination Full Circle: Boxee Brings OTA HDTV And Basic Cable To The Boxee Box
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Announcing A New TechCrunch TV Show: “In the Studio”
I've been contributing to TechCrunch for a while now, and, it's been a blast and a privilege. As 2011 ended, I reached out Erick and Jon Orlin (who runs TechCrunch TV) and shared some ideas I had for a TV show around technology and entrepreneurship. After many email debates, we settled on something we're excited about and is dead-simple, which we'll simply call "In the Studio."
Once a month, we'll spend half a day videotaping 1:1 interviews with guests in the studio at TechCrunch Headquarters i...
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