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Friday, December 31, 2010

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Chinese malware targets Android phones
Top Tech Reviews
It seems Google's problems with China are just not going away. After the
well-documented spat the search engine giant had with the
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Slow iTunes Downloads Caused by Google DNS?
iSmashPhone
Website Apple Insider (AI) says that centralized Domain Name Serivces such
as Google DNS or Open DNS may be to blame. When millions of users all tap
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Barrons on the American Airline Drama, Expedia, Orbitz and Google Travel
thestockmasters
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(AMR) is done with Orbitz (OWW) and the fear is that they may pull their
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Android TV DIY Kit Details: Cost, Difficulty Level, Release Date,
Bricking ...
Android Community
They've got "nothing but respect" for Google and what they're doing
with Google TV and Android, and the Homebrew DIY kit is not meant to take
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2010 in Review: The Year for the Mac
PC World
By Roman Loyola, Macworld In 2010, iOS (Apple's mobile operating system)
and iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad) commanded the spotlight for
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6 Predictions for Social Networks in 2011
Mashable
In 2010, we predicted that Facebook would conquer the web. We just didn't
know the social network would do it so convincingly. We're not oracles,
though, and we did miss on some of our acquisition picks. Well, time for
round two. ...
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Nintendo: Children Under 6 Shouldn't Play 3-D Games On 3DS
Wall Street Journal
By NICK WINGFIELD, KATHERINE HOBSON and DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI Nintendo Co.
warned that young children shouldn't play three-dimensional games on a
hotly anticipated new game device, citing possible health risks and raising
concerns about a technology that ...
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LittleBigPlanet 2 hands-on
GamePro.com
by Eric Neigher We go heads first into LBP2's new creation tools, including
the infinitely customizable logic boards, which should aid intrepid level
builders immensely. What we're talking about: LittleBigPlanet 2, the sequel
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New year's mission at NASA: repair new cracks on Discovery fuel tank
Christian Science Monitor
After months of repairs, inspections, and more repairs, NASA technicians
have a new crop of cracks on the fuel tank of the shuttle Discovery to keep
them busy over New Year's weekend. Space shuttle Discovery makes a slow
trek from the launch pad to the ...
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Law enforcement raids target Operation: Payback
Digitaltrends.com
Authorities in the US and Germany have raided ISPs looking for evidence in
DDOS attacks against Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, and others. Authorities in
the United States and Germany have launched raids against Internet Service
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Android App Sends Texts to Wrong Recipients
Mashable
This is enough to make you paranoid: Google has acknowledged a bug in
Android's default text messaging app that sends texts to the wrong person.
Equally disturbing is that the problem's been going on since March, and
GoogleGoogle hasn't fixed it yet. ...
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Twins' Facebook Fight Rages On
New York Times
By MIGUEL HELFT SAN DIEGO — Some people go to court hoping to win
millions of dollars. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have already won tens of
millions. But six years into a legal feud with Facebook, they want to give
it back — for a chance to get more. ...
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Skype Says China Services Working Amid Government Crackdown on VoIP Calls
Bloomberg
By Bloomberg News - Fri Dec 31 07:27:16 GMT 2010 Skype Technologies SA, the
world's largest carrier of international phone calls, said its services in
China remain operational after the country said it's cracking down on
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Google Doodle Rings in the New Year — Roman Numeral Style
Mashable
Happy (Almost) New Year, Googlers! To celebrate the dawn of 2011, Google is
out with a brand-new Doodle, a festive little number (pun intended)
featuring fireworks and the roman numerals signifying "2011." This is
hardly the first holiday the Doodle ...
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Do-It-Yourself Shifting Rorschach Mask From 'Watchmen'
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Facebook passes Google in 2010 as most visited US website
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Facebook received 8.9 percent of all US Web visits between January and
November 2010, according to New York-based Internet tracker Experian
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Hollywood stars in series of internet death hoaxes
Telegraph.co.uk
Hollywood stars have been victims in a spate of internet death hoaxes over
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Faster Forward: CES 2011 preview: Internet televsions
Washington Post
It's possible 2011 will be the year of the Internet TV, if next week's
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Online we're as likely to buy digital goods as 'real' ones, says study
The Pew Internet and American Life Project
Listen up, FarmVille fans and iTunes users: You're as likely to spend your
dough on "goods" made up of digital bits on the Internet as you are to go
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Russia: Internet 2010 Overview · Global Voices
By Vadim Isakov
2010 highlighted several important trends on Russian Internet. Online
audience grows very fast with people getting more news online and actively
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Taiwan market: Broadband Internet-access user base reaches almost ...
The total number of home/business subscribers of broadband fixed-line
Internet services in Taiwan was steadily increasing to 4.995 million at the
end of the third quarter of 2010, according to a quarterly survey conducted
by FIND.
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Internet Digital Marketing – Push vs Pull | Small Business SEO ...
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Digital marketing employs digital advertising channels in order to promote
brand names and reach the consumer effectively. The 4 most popular venues
for digital marketing are cellular phones, the internet, radio, and
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China Internet Users Soar To 450 Million, But Search Remains Low ...
By 247wallst
China now has 450 million people online, a number nearly 50% greater than
the population of the US. The Xinhua news agency reports that Wang Chen,
head of China's State Council Information Office, released figures that
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YouTube - asdfmovie3
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Roger Ebert Declares Jamie Stewart's Youtube Film of the 2010 ...
By Lu Fong
But can a YouTube video of a blizzard be worth an Oscar nod? Yes, it can,
says Roger Ebert. The movie critic declared amateur filmmaker Jamie
Stuart's Idiot With a Tripod or Man in a Blizzard worthy of "the Academy
Award for best ...
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In Flex We Trust » (Videos) The Top 10 Most Watched YouTube Videos ...
By Marisa Mendez
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YouTube - Interview of Christopher Barron of GOPROUD - Cenk on MSNBC
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Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filling in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC
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Minnesota YouTube vids: Best of 2010 - Minneapolis / St. Paul News ...
By Hart Van Denburg
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New Year's Eve 2011: MMXI Google doodle celebrates with with GMMXIe roman
numerals
New York Daily News
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Things really clicking for Facebook as social networking giant tops Google
New York Daily News
Google.com ranked second with 7.19% of all visits, followed by Yahoo Mail
with 3.52%. Yahoo claimed 3.30% and YouTube 2.65% of visits, according to
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Android still affected by months-old random text message bug
Electronista
Google still hasn't patched a bug in Android that sends text messages to
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Viruses Now Threaten Android Phones
Popular Fidelity
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What If Google Had Bought MySpace (And What If They Do)?
Search Engine Land
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How to ring in the new year with apps
CNN
By John D. Sutter, CNN Developers have created plenty of smartphone apps
that are useful on New Year's Eve and beyond. (CNN) -- The start of a new
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Facebook Grabs Most Visits of Any Website for Oct-Nov
DailyTech
Social networks are huge traffic generators. The big problem for Facebook
and other social networks isn't how to get traffic, but how to take the
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Xbox indies band together for promotion, get Microsoft's attention
Ars Technica
By Andrew Webster | Last updated December 31, 2010 7:25 AM Microsoft does a
great job of promoting Xbox Live Arcade games. There's the Summer of
Arcade, which this year featured excellent titles like Limbo and Monday
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Despite state censorship, China's Internet population crosses 450 million
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The Best Internet Memes Of The Decade: Chuck Norris, Rickroll, Lolcats
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SURVEY: 65% of Internet Users Pay for Content
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Facebook The Most Visited Site In The US
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Saffolds dismiss lawsuit against Plain Dealer, settle with Advance Internet
Plain Dealer (blog)
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CES: LG Offering Smart Upgrader Box to put the Internet on all TVs
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Facebook Beats Google As Most Visited Website
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Police put Boxing Day hoaxer on YouTube as warning
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OMG! Ricky Romance threatens Chris Brown via YouTube!
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Apple vs. Android: The view from Google
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MMXI Google Logo Celebrates New Year's Eve 2011: The Roman Numerals Decoded
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Facebook edges out Google search site as No. 1 US destination
Local Tech Wire (blog)
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Google Canada head wants Canadians to beta test for the world
Toronto Star
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Venture-backed Groupon raises $500m
AltAssets
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Cost-Effective Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) Virtualization with HP ...
TechRepublic
Businesses Thrive with Google Apps Google Learn why IT and business
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Tea Party Dominates Google's Top 10 Politicians In 2010
Human Events
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New Trojan Hijacks Android Smartphones
International Business Times
By Carl Bagh | December 31, 2010 6:14 AM EST Lookout, a mobile security
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In yo' app catalog, cracking yo' apps! (Source: WPCentral via YouTube)
DailyTech
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may be in for a similar fate as its competitors. In six hours, a developer
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2010: The year of apps
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Times/MCTTablets are a new breed of machine, and popularized apps in 2010.
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HTC Files Trademark for Scribe Tablet
eWeek
HTC files a trademark for a handheld electronic device named the Scribe,
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Final Discovery Mission Suffers Yet Another Setback
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NASA officials ordered additional repairs to Space Shuttle Discovery on
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B&N Says Nook Top Selling Product Ever
InformationWeek
Responding to a recent similar claim for the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble
said its e-reader was its best-selling product in nearly 40 years. By
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Facebook the top search term in 2010

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Windows 7 Family Pack about to expire

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The scoop on the iPad 2

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Skype outage caused by Windows client

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Plane passenger suffers unusual iPhone battery problem

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Internet TV sales up - but no one uses it
CNNMoney
By David Goldman, staff writerDecember 31, 2010: 5:21 AM ET NEW YORK
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Skype could be designated illegal in China
Reuters
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Rex Ryan's wife Michelle purported to be woman in X-rated Internet photos
that ...
New York Daily News
New and graphic photos appeared on the Internet Thursday purporting to
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Facebook No. 1 site for visitors
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2010, the year that privacy died?
BBC News
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WakeMate Warns Users Of Major Safety Issue With Product After Some Burst Into Flames

Dec 31, 8:25AM

It was only days ago that we wrote that after nearly a year of delays, the first WakeMate units were finally shipping to customers. And now there's some more bad news — really bad. Some of the initial units are apparently bursting into flames because of any issue with the USB charger included. Repeat: Do not use the USB charger included with the shipping WakeMate units. The company has just sent out the following notice to customers:


Addoway Is Like eBay With A Social Streak

Dec 31, 4:43AM

If you've ever gone shopping on eBay, you know how important seller ratings can be — take a stab with someone who has less than a 90-something approval rating, and you're testing your luck. And even when you've found someone with a satisfactory rating, the descriptions left by other buyers tend to be mostly useless (A++++, anyone?), which makes the whole thing feel a little risky regardless. Oh, and sellers can always get scammed by buyers, which makes it even more fun. Addoway is an e-commerce site that looks to help reduce these feelings of anxiety by using Facebook Connect to help you find sellers that your friends have had good experiences dealing with in the past. The site launched eight months ago, and is currently drawing 90,000 uniques a month.


BarMax, The $1,000 App (That's Actually Worth It), Hits The iPad

Dec 31, 2:37AM

It was just about a year ago that we first wrote about BarMax, an iPhone application meant to help law student pass the Bar exam. But if you've heard of the app, it's more likely because of its price: $999.99. And now you'll be able to part with the $1,000 at the click of a button for the iPad too. BarMax, which, believe it or not, actually seems to be a good deal at $1,000, has just launched the iPad version into the App Store this evening. Specifically, the California (each state has different Bar exams) version is ready to roll.


OpenInvo: A Marketplace For Innovation

Dec 31, 1:38AM

Have a great idea, but don't have the time or money to actually bring it to market? A new startup called OpenInvo wants to help you turn it into a nice chunk of change by selling it to existing businesses that are looking for an extra dose of innovation. Now, there are other platforms for sharing business ideas — you may be familiar with Kickstarter, which has gotten attention for projects like the iPod Wristwatch. But Kickstarter is for people who want to bring their ideas to fruition and just need funding — OpenInvo is for people who have an idea and are willing to put the time in to flesh it out on paper, but don't want to have to deal with actually starting a company.


Centro Media Rakes In $22.5 Million

Dec 30, 11:02PM

According to an SEC form D filed today, the Chicago based Centro.net has just raised a whopping $22.5 million in equity only funding. Listed on the SEC form are Centro CEO Shawn Riegsecker and FTV Capital Partner Eric Byunn as Director. Centro is a digital media and technology services company founded in 2001, serving over 350 ad agencies world wide . The company's recently launched platform Transis automates and centralizes the media buying and selling process so agencies can save time and money.


O Canada! World's Most Web Connected Land

Dec 30, 9:49PM

According to a recent comScore report, Canada has beaten out the US, the UK, France, and everyone else in the world in various metrics relating to broadband and internet use. While the conspicuous absence of the likes of Sweden, a perennial leader in these categories, fills me with suspicion, the numbers are still fun, and slightly surprising. One statistic calculated to both please and terrify is that, by comScore's measurements, just over half the population of Canada is on Facebook. That amounts to about 16 million people — a drop in the bucket with Facebook's user base — but it's the proportion that matters. US usage is around 40% by some estimates, which is of course significant, but it's fun that Canada has passed us up in this race. I'm guessing it has something to do with the weather up there.


So Much For FREE!: Apple Will Sell $2B in Apps in 2011

Dec 30, 9:19PM

I've often wondered if the early Web pioneers had it all to do over again if Web companies would have put less of an emphasis on free. People have been conditioned against paying for services or content on the Web, and the Web elite only have each other to blame. For all the talk of Web companies getting users first and "figuring out" how to make money later, the only two jaw-droppingly, multi-billion-dollar, innovative new ways to advertise online have been Google's paid search ads and Groupon's solution to unlocking local ad dollars on a mass scale. Those who win big--like Google-- just perpetuate the cult of free content and services as a way of spoiling would be competitors. Witness a big disconnect between popularity and money. Exhibit A: Yahoo. But on the mobile Web it's a do-over, and it's a totally different playbook from FREE!


Begun The Talent Wars Have – How Twitter's London HQ Could Woo Google Staff

Dec 30, 8:55PM

We've reported before about how the escalating war for talent in Silicon Valley is effectively creating a kind of arms race between tech companies. For example, Google is offering employees a 10% pay increase for 2011; companies like About.me are getting acquired days after launch; and job postings in the IT industry are shooting to astronomical levels. Even Google's Eric Schmidt has admitted to this battle. Facebook, Google, Zynga and Twitter are hiring like crazy - and this insatiable desire for staff is likely to spill over into other countries. And perhaps the obvious first target outside of the Valley is London: English speaking, and a magnet for existing tech people in Europe working for US multinationals. And the latest to consider extending its reach there is Twitter.


Google As A Carrier. It's Not A Question Of "If They Will", But Rather "When They'll Try"

Dec 30, 8:23PM

CNNMoney published an interesting piece by David Goldman this morning entitled, Google: Your new phone carrier? In it, Goldman lays out what he sees as the preliminary steps Google has taken to become a wireless carrier themselves down the road. He also gives some reasons for why they would and would not want to do that. In my mind, the concept is much more straightforward. Goldman ends the title of his piece with a question mark — but it should be a period. It's not a question of "if" Google will try to become a carrier. It's just a matter of "when" they'll try to. Now, to be clear, that doesn't mean I think they'll actually be able to become a carrier. The biggest hurdle there has nothing to do with the technology needed, the money needed, or the expertise. Rather, the major issue would be the government. Would they allow Google, already one of the biggest corporations in the United States, to enter a new area that could extend their control (particularly in the advertising space)? Probably not. Actually, I have a feeling it might have more to do with Verizon and AT&T lobbying dollars influencing the government to block Google in such a cause.


See What Went Popular And When With Rrrewind

Dec 30, 8:09PM

Developer Roberto Martinez wanted an easy way to see what was popular on any given social content site on any given day so he built Rrrewind, which lets you see what was hot on Delicious, Digg, Hacker News, Reddit, Hulu, Yahoo Videos, YouTube, Dribbble, Flickr, Amazon and Yahoo Buzz for any day in 2010 and some in 2009. Like a snapshot in virality or a Popurls with a history focus, Rrrewind allows you to go back in time and see an archive of the most viewed items on the Internet. Says Martinez, "It is NOT a social, local, deal related, disruptive app, just a damn useful site that let you go back in time and see what was popular on some sites. I built it because I hate to miss hot stuff on Delicious (snif), Hacker News, etc."


Image Space Media Raises $1 Million For In-Image Ad Platform

Dec 30, 7:20PM

TechCrunch50 demopit company Image Space Media (formerly Picad Media) has raised $1 million in new funding according to an SEC filing. ISM's ad network, which recently launched an analytics offering and a self service tool, helps publishers monetize images on their websites with ad overlays. Its proprietary technology allows for audience targeting and matches ads to the most appropriate images available.


Who Gives A Tweet: MIT Researchers Build A "Hot Or Not" For Twitter

Dec 30, 6:35PM

Because everything eventually becomes an academic field (I'm still waiting for "Internet" to become a major), researchers from MIT, University of Southampton and Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to build Who Gives A Tweet, a Twitter app that allows users to anonymously rate their friends' and strangers' tweets in order gain more insight into status update perception. Kind of like Hot Or Not, but for tweets. While plenty of apps like Twitalyzer and Twitter Grader try to measure your social media engagement whatever that means, the Who Gives A Tweet study attempts to parse what is valuable and not so valuable about microblogging content. Says Michael Bernstein, PhD student at MIT, "Analysing the negatively rated tweets, and the consensus that forms around them, will help us understand the emerging approved or accepted norms in these new forms of online communication."


Xpert Financial Is About To Fly Out Of Stealth With A New Way To Trade Private Shares, And SEC Approval

Dec 30, 6:18PM

Just as the Securities and Exchange Commission is starting to take a closer look at the increasing amount of trading in private company stock, a new startup that's been in stealth mode since August, 2009 is preparing to launch another way to trade private shares. The company is Xpert Financial which, through its registered subsidiary, Xpert Securities, brings to the table a tacit stamp of approval from the SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), or at least approval to begin operations as an alternative trading system (ATS). Existing secondary markets for private shares such as SharesPost and SecondMarket do not have the same standing in the eyes of the SEC, although it is not clear how much that matters at this point. Xpert Financial will operate an electronic trading platform for private company shares. It is a registered broker-dealer with FINRA and it recently got approval from the SEC to run an alternative trading platform. Xpert Financial will be the first ATS approved for private stock sales. More common alternative trading systems are ECNs, or Electronic Communication Networks, for publicly traded securities. As an ATS, Expert Financial cannot call itself an exchange, which is why it changed its name from Xchange.


Dear Manufacturers: You've Had A Rough Year, But Step It Up

Dec 30, 5:19PM

It seems, at least at first blush, that we are out of the slimy gullet and into the potentially less dangerous teeth of this recession. Joblessness is still high but folks I know who are working in IT and CS are in high demand. People are hiring, but not out in the open, and shoppers, as evidenced by this year's holiday season, have a little bit of cash. But CE manufacturers, back in 2008, pulled into their turtle shells and haven't come out. The past few years have passed in a slothful haze and I'm worried that 2011 will be another year of negative innovation. Consider what happened this year: we saw a load of Android phones, we saw an iPad and a new iPhone, and saw some tablets. That's it. 3D TV was a flop, most other product lines saw little or no improvement, and generally CE industry sat this year out. CES, if all portents can be believed, will be a bust as well. People ask me every year what my favorite gadget is. That's almost impossible to answer. Sadly, for me, it's like asking a proctologist about his favorite patient: they all sort of blend together and none of the experiences are very nice. So what is my favorite gadget? The gadget that truly stood out? It's the freaking Parrot AR.Drone. That's right. A toy. Here's why, and here's what manufacturers can take away from this toy.


NookColor is Barnes & Noble's Top Seller This Holiday

Dec 30, 5:00PM

In a few short weeks, the NookColor sold "nearly a million units," at least according to B&N, making it the company's best selling product. Launched in October, the NookColor is a hackable Android tablet originally designed to only read B&N's line of ebooks and play a few games. Since its launch, however, it's become a hacker's plaything and a popular alternative to the do-it-all iPad. In short, the NookColor could be B&N's ultimate weapon against Kindle hedgemony and has definitely put them firmly in the ereader race. Full PR after the jump.


Groupon Insiders Take $345 Million Off The Table In Latest Funding Round

Dec 30, 3:58PM

As we first reported last night, Groupon has already closed $500 million of a whopping $950 million funding round. Now the SEC filing is out showing that the first sale occurred on December 17, and that there is still $450 million worth of securities available to be sold in the current round. The new round gives Groupon a valuation of $4.75 billion. We noted that most of the proceeds of the round is going back to founders and existing shareholders, with DST leading the round (Fidelity and Morgan Stanley also participated). Now we know exactly how much. The filing specifies that $345 million of the proceeds (from the $500 million raised) will go directly to "executive officers, directors or promoters."


Pew Shows 65% Of People Pay For Digital Content; Mostly Music, Software, And Mobile Apps

Dec 30, 3:28PM

The Pew Internet organization put out results of a survey on how many people pay for digital content online. The study found that 65 percent of people online have paid to download some form of digital content or for a subscription to a digital media service. The survey excluded physical goods bought online and was focussed only on digital content such as music, software, news, and other online or electronic publications. For those who do spend money online on digital media, most spend between $1 and $10 a month, with 68 percent spending less than $30 a month. (You can see the distribution of amount spend in the chart above). The two kinds of digital goods people are most willing to pay for by far are music and software. One third of respondents (33 percent) say they have paid for either digital music or software online. And 21 percent have paid for mobile apps. So if you combine mobile apps and other forms of software, that is the largest single category even accounting for overlap in the numbers. Paying for digital games comes in fourth at 19 percent. What about digital newspapers or magazines behind paywalls or for sale for tablets like the iPad?


WPP Buys Obama's Campaign Agency Blue State Digital

Dec 30, 1:55PM

Blue State Digital, the communications firm responsible for coordinating President Barack Obama's online fundraising and social networking campaigns in the 2008 election, has been acquired by advertising giant WPP. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Blue State Digital is a digital agency that helps form online strategy, and advocacy, membership and fundraising campaigns for nonprofits, educational and cultural institutions, political campaigns and corporate brands. According to a release, Blue State Digital's revenue has grown more than 30% per year since its founding in 2004 (and the company's strategy and technology has helped raise $800 million to date).


How Are M&M's Made? – And Other Weird Interview Questions From 2010

Dec 30, 1:45PM

Glassdoor.com, a venture-backed online career and workplace community, has self-reportedly culled through tens of thousands interview questions that job seekers have shared on the site in 2010, and selected a number of weird ones. Some of them are pretty bizarre, some are downright hilarious.


Three Words: Simple, Fun, Viral

Dec 30, 12:35PM

Making the rounds on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr right now is Three Words, a super simple but mighty fun application created by teen tinkerer Mark Bao. What does it do? Well, it tells you who you are in three words, at least according to the people that visit that Web page, that is.


Welcome To The Hostel Microsoft. Such A Lovely Place.

Dec 30, 7:58AM

It was almost exactly a year ago that we wrote about the Googlle Institute of Software Studies, a cleverly-named online university based out of India. After our post on the institution offering students such degrees as a "GCPA" — Googlle Certified Professional in Advanced Computing — it didn't take long for the website of the school to be shut down. But the person who originally tipped us off to those shenanigans is now back with another fun one. And apparently, it's based out of the same city in India. Say hello to the "Hostel Microsoft".


Skype's New App Brings Video Chat To The iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch

Dec 30, 6:35AM

We've been hearing reports that Skype is debuting a mobile video chat service and D-Day has arrived. The company is launching a brand new version of its iPhone app that includes the ability to turn on video in any Skype chat. The beauty of the app is that it brings free video calling to iPhone 3G devices, iPad and iPod Touch, all of which couldn't run Apple's video calling feature Facetime (the feature only works with iPhone 4 devices and Mac computers). Of course, iPad owners won't be able to initiate a video call, but these users can receive any video chats from contacts.


What The "Great Delicious Exodus" Looked Like For Pin-Sized Competitor Pinboard

Dec 30, 6:25AM

When word got out two weeks ago that Yahoo is not 100% committed to Delicious, people who still use the bookmarking service started to panic and look for alternatives. One competing bookmarking site that some people turned to is Pinboard, a barebones bookmarking site which looks a lot like Delicious did in its early years: lean, no-frills, and very useful. The company saw an influx of traffic and activity. The chart above shows requests per minute to its servers in the three days following the Delicious news compared to the week before. A couple hour ago, Pinboard Tweeted out a link to the chart:


Actually, Groupon Already Closed Half Of That Billion Dollar Round

Dec 30, 3:59AM

Yesterday we reported that fast growing ecommerce startup Groupon was in the process of raising nearly $1 billion in new venture capital at a $4.75 billion valuation. "The deal should be closed in a few weeks," we heard from a source. And in fact the deal hasn't closed yet - at least, not all of it. But the company has raised a healthy half billion dollars in new venture money at that valuation in the last couple of weeks. Documents signed, checks cashed, the whole nine yards. Now they're talking to other investors about filling out the round. So who invested?


This Year, Apple Has Two Fangs To Suck The Blood Out Of CES: iPad 2 And Verizon iPhone

Dec 30, 3:10AM

Every year, it seems the buzz starts building around now for CES, the giant consumer electronics expo in Las Vegas. And every year at CES, much of the buzz seems to be around the one company that isn't there — perhaps the most important consumer electronics company these days: Apple. And this year will be no different. Except that this year, the CES buzz-kill may be more intensified as there are not one, but two key Apple products expected to be announced shortly after the expo: the iPad 2 and the Verizon iPhone.



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