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Buddy Media Launches Intelligent Facebook Data And Analytics Platform For Marketers
Sep 19, 6:58AM
Fresh with new funding, Buddy Media, a company that provides Facebook Page and social media management tools to brands, is launching ConversionBuddy, a data and analytics platform for brand marketers. Buddy Media provides an all-in-one social media management system to help create, manage and track social campaigns on Facebook. The platform lets brand managers agencies create, manage and track Facebook pages in a variety of languages to drive and increase user and brand engagement. Users don't need to have any prior FBML knowledge to create pages on Facebook and can create sleek and interactive pages fairly easily.Uh Oh … Qwikster Already Has A Lively Twitter Account, But It's Not Owned By Netflix
Sep 19, 6:12AM
Movie delivery service Netflix has just announced that it is rebranding its DVD-by-mail service as Qwikster and that it will keep calling its streaming service Netflix. Shocking news yes, but already the Internet has found one immediate chink in the company's rebranded armor, other than the fact that, like a multitude of other failed companies, the name ends in "ster" ...Look Out, GameFly: Netflix's New Qwikster Service Ships Video Games, Too
Sep 19, 5:13AM
Amongst all the hollering going on over the merits of Netflix spinning their DVD shipping service into a separate company and whether or not the new service's name, "Qwikster", was pulled at random out of a hat labeled "Bad Names", one detail isn't quite getting the attention it deserves: Qwikster is going to do video games. Hear that deafening whir? That's the red alarm going off at GameFly HQ.This Stevie Wonder Thanking Steve Jobs Thing Is Just Awesome
Sep 19, 4:48AM
I know that a lot of you have probably already seen this awesome awesome video, but for some reason I missed out on it
Breaking: Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses; Creates Qwikster For DVDs
Sep 19, 4:14AM
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings just dropped a bombshell. In the wake of a rapid decline in Netflix's stock price last week, Hastings is taking a bold step by separating the DVD and video streaming services. The DVD-by-mail service will now be called Qwikster, and the streaming service will maintain the Netflix brand. That's right: the new business (streaming) will keep the existing name. Customers can still subscribe to both, but the two sites will not be integrated anymore.The Facebook iPhone
Sep 19, 1:47AM
In The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick posits the great social network is the one entity that could bully Apple, today's most powerful technology company. As the iPhone and other iOS devices have paved the way toward an unprecedented level of convergence, the collective power of Facebook's user base presents a daunting challenge to Apple: specifically, could Facebook literally imprint its own applications on iOS devices, most notably the iPhone, to the point where it could, theoretically, transform the device into "The Facebook Phone" without ever having built its own hardware and/or standard mobile operating system? At the moment, Facebook is believed to be undertaking what has been dubbed "Project Spartan," its own Trojan Horse for stitching its social layer into multiple mobile platforms in lieu of building its own phone (like Apple) and/or its own mobile operating system (like Android). As "Spartan" has been written about before in detail (which I won't recount here), the basic idea, as it applies to Apple, is the development and rollout of multiple HTML5 applications which would allow Facebook to create a range of mobile applications without having to adhere to the rules and toll charges imposed by Apple's app-store.Home Decor Flash Sales Site One Kings Lane Raises $40M, On Track For Over $100M In 2011 Sales
Sep 19, 1:01AM
Over two million users strong, flash sales site for home décor, furnishings and accessories One Kings Lane, has raised $40 million in new funding from led by Tiger Global Management. Institutional Venture Partners and existing investors Kleiner Perkins and Greylock Partners participated in the round, according to a Wall Street Journal story, which reports that One Kings Lane was valued at $440 million post-investment. This round brings the startup's total funding to over $65 million. One Kings Lane, which was cofounded by Ali Pincus and Susan Feldman in 2009, offers deep, limited discounts on home décor, furnishings, accessories, wine, food and gifts. The site competes with Gilt Groupe, and fast growing design marketplace Fab.com.Reed, Don't Listen To Wall Street.
Sep 18, 9:48PM
Netflix took a beating on Wall Street last week. After revising subscriber estimates downward by 1 million subscribers, its stock went into free fall, closing the week at $155, down from a $300 peak in July. Netflix, the darling of Wall Street for the past three years, has lost half its value in a few short months. It must be a gulp moment right now for CEO Reed Hastings, who has always set Netflix on its own path and let investors figure things out for themselves. More than any other company, Netflix represents the transition of high-end video entertainment (movies and TV shows) to the Internet. A bet on Netflix, is a bet on streaming video. That transition is inevitable. It is going to happen for many reasons. Reed knows this. He saw it earlier than most. Sending people DVDs by mail was always just an interim business model until broadband, the studios, and customers caught up.Google Wallet Likely Launching Tomorrow
Sep 18, 8:39PM
Last week, Google posted an awesome teaser video for Google Wallet featuring George Costanza. The implication: Google Wallet would finally be launching soon. Now we think we know when: tomorrow. As you can see in the above image, documentation is being sent around to partners stating a September 19 launch day. We've heard from others that this is accurate. And it also lines up nicely with NFC World Congress, which kicks off tomorrow in the French Riviera. Google is not listed as a speaker or exhibitor at the event, but their main partner MasterCard is the official sponsor.Weekend Watch Round Up
Sep 18, 4:53PM
The timeless Timewalker from Montblanc gets a fantastic new movement totally made in-house by Montblanc in Switzerland. It is the Timewalker TwinFly Chronograph and it is covered and reviewed here in DLC coated titanium.Sequoia's Doug Leone: We Are 'Thrilled' To Be Investors In Color, 'Stay Tuned' For The Pivot
Sep 18, 4:33PM
It's no secret that there's been a major amount of controversy surrounding Color, the photo sharing app that launched earlier this year with $41 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank (Sequoia apparently put $25 million in). Color's debut was one of the most-hyped launches the tech world has seen over the past year, and since then the company has been plagued with executive departures, and a struggling product. Sequoia partner Doug Leone, who sits on Color's board and led the investment, sat down with us last week at TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about what he refers to as his most exciting investment in the past year (he begins talking about Color at the 4 minute mark in the video below). Leone says of Color and its founder Bill Nguyen, the startup has a "passionate founder who had a loud introduction of a product that didn't hit the market or bulls-eye," he says candidly. "But give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out."The $99 TouchPad Returns To HP's Employee Purchasing Program On Sept 28th
Sep 18, 3:37PM
It's not very often I get to write that it's a good day to be an HP employee. But it's also not everyday that HP employees are offered some of the last TouchPads. The company is set to release a final batch of the $99/$149 HP TouchPads to employees starting September 28th at 9:00am PDT. This is per an email I received from an HP employee (embedded after the jump), which notes TouchPads are available on a first come, first serve basis and employees are only allowed to buy one TouchPad -- which some will likely list on ebay where TouchPads are currently selling for over $200. The sun is setting on the TouchPad's life and HP is likely ready to move forward, thoroughly burned by their venture into the land of the iPad.(Founder Office Hours With Josh Kopelman & Chris Dixon) Have-to-Have: Creating A Marketplace
Sep 18, 3:31PM
Carla Holtze is the co-founder of Have-to-Have, which is offically launching later this week. She calls it "a digital shopping platform" that allows consumers "to save, share and shop for any product that they find across the web." Carla signed-up for Founder Office Hours with Hunch co-founder Chris Dixon and First Round Capital's Josh Kopelman. Her first question revolved around establishing a marketplace. "Attracting users then would make me more attractive to the strategic partners, or do I focus on really acquiring retailers who then bring with them the user base?" Kopelman is well versed in "the chicken and egg in supply and demand" problem while creating a marketplace, having launched Half.com back in the day (which was acquired by eBay for $350 million).Finally! Bitcasa CEO Explains How The Encryption Works
Sep 18, 2:58PM
TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Bitcasa, a new cloud storage provider, was met with a healthy dose of skepticism last week when it claimed to be able to provide "infinite storage." How does it do that? It can't do what it promises! That's not how encryption works! And so on. VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, along with First Round Capital, Pelion Venture Partners, and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's CrunchFund have invested $1.3 million in the technology, which seems to suggest there's valuable IP behind the startup's overly broad promises of cheap, infinite and secure storage. My initial review of the startup was generally positive because, by all descriptions, it's doing something innovative and new. While we raised a few general questions (does it slow you down?, will it scale?), it's hard to review something without going hands-on. For that matter, describing the way the technology works was perhaps overly simplified. For those of you with interest in deeper technical details, here they are (well, it's a start, at least...).Six Must-Watch Backstage Videos From Disrupt Plus The Music (TCTV)
Sep 17, 10:52PM
It's been a very busy week at TechCrunch with our Disrupt conference and other internal disruptions, so you may have missed some great and revealing interviews. Devin Coldewey wrote a post with the Six Must-Watch On-Stage Videos from Disrupt. But there was a lot of activity going on backstage too. We did more than 60 interviews with entrepreneurs, VC's, Angels, CEO's, and a Mayor. Also, if you find yourself missing or still humming the tunes from Disrupt, you can download the music created for us by Smith & Keats Music in this post.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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