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Fusion-io Wants To Sell More Of Its Shares – Up To $350 Million
Nov 09, 2:17PM
Storage memory solutions company Fusion-io this morning announced that it has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed public offering of shares of its common stock. The company proposes to sell, from time to time, up to $350 million of its common stock, approximately $100 million of which would be sold by Fusion-io and the rest by its shareholders.oDesk: Online Work Market Will Grow To $1 Billion By 2012
Nov 09, 2:00PM
Online outsourcer oDesk is reporting today that its contractors earned a record $22.3 million through the oDesk platform in October. This represents 90% growth from 2010. oDesk offers a "marketplace for talent" that makes it easy for companies to hire workers remotely. Last month, contractors worked a record 2.1 million hours through the oDesk website (up from one million hours per month a year ago) while businesses posted an a record 109,718 jobs to the service. The company expects the overall market for online work to grow to an estimated $1 billion in 2012.Ecommerce and Facebook Ads Converge Through Zibaba
Nov 09, 2:00PM
As brands increasingly turn to Facebook to host their online presence and their ads, they'll seek platforms that handle management of both owned and paid marketing. Today, Facebook ecommerce storefront platform Zibaba is providing such a solution with the launch of an Ads API feature. It allows merchants to automatically generate and buy ads based on their most popular products so they can efficiently promote their storefronts. The important point here is that developers are beginning to take advantage of Facebook recently opening up its Ads API. Namely, they're integrating ads buying systems into services for a variety of verticals.AnyClip Partners With Warner Bros., Ramps Up Video Monetization Efforts
Nov 09, 1:59PM
On the heels of inking a deal with DailyMotion, AnyClip is today announcing a content licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. Full movies from the movie studio, including the Harry Potter and Batman franchise, will be fully searchable for any object, character, location, scene or emotion. Other titles covered by the agreement include Ocean's Eleven, 300, Superman, The Wizard of Oz, Lethal Weapon, Dirty Harry, Casablanca, Se7en and The Shining.The ZIIRO Celeste Watch Teaches You Color Mixing
Nov 09, 1:52PM
If there's one thing missing from modern watches it's color. The 70s and 80s brought us things like Doxa's orange and Breitling's baby blue but no one, lately, has strayed from the old leathers and grey chromes of modern fashion watcher. Thankfully, the ZIIRO Celeste adds a bit of the old mix-a-lot to some staid steel quartzes.
Apple: Siri Only Works On iPhone 4S, We Have No Plans To Support Older Devices
Nov 09, 1:48PM
Recently we've seen reports flying around claiming that Apple has plans to put Siri on older generation devices, and may even be testing out the personal assistant on the iPhone 4. The news seemed more than a bit unexpected, so we decided to wait for Apple's confirmation. Lo and behold, Apple has responded just as we thought they would: Siri is an iPhone 4S exclusive, at least in any official sense.Home Services Marketplace Redbeacon Launches iPhone App To Get Quotes On The Go
Nov 09, 1:00PM
Home services marketplace and TechCrunch50 winner Redbeacon is debuting its first mobile offering today—an iPhone app. The app essentially allows homeowners to be able to get quotes for services on the go without having to make service professionals visit their homes. Redbeacon lets users search, browse and book local service providers – from plumbers to bakers – on its website. Service providers pay a fee to Redbeacon for new paying customers, or in some categories, like lawyers, for a lead. The company has expanded from San Francisco to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Atlanta, Seattle, and Houston.Want To Know What Apps Your Colleagues Use At Work? BestVendor Can Tell You
Nov 09, 12:57PM
We just can't get away from the social recommendations space, can we? Just this past month, we've seen new startups like Oink and Wikets arrive, and even a hilarious spoof of the trend via the fake startup Jotly. Well, now you can add another startup to the list, because today, a new social recommendations service for small businesses called BestVendor is opening its doors, too. And it already has $600,000 in seed funding from Peter Thiel, SVAngel, SoftBank Capital and Lerer Ventures to get things going. Now launching into public beta, what BestVendor offers is a free, online directory of Web services, online applications and software specially designed for startups or other small businesses. Eventually, the site wants to become the go-to resource to find everything you need for your company.Mobile Component Marketplace Verious Exits Beta, Partners With Elance
Nov 09, 12:54PM
Verious, the one-stop shop for mobile app components and TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 finalist, is today emerging from its beta period with a bang. It's announcing a partnership with online employment platform Elance, which will bring over 25,000 mobile professionals to Verious' existing network of mobile component developers.Medialets Lands $8.4 Million For Mobile Rich Media Ad Platform
Nov 09, 11:48AM
Medialets, which provides a rich media ad platform for mobile, has raised another $8.4 million in equity funding according to an SEC filing published this morning. We've contacted the company to learn more about the investment, but it's likely the funding was partly or entirely provided by earlier backers Foundry Group, DFJ Gotham Ventures and/or 500 Startups.European Tech Bloggers Are Getting Angry And Why That's Awesome For Startups
Nov 09, 11:37AM
Back in 2006 (hell, back in 2002!), it was kinda lonely being a tech blogger in Europe. Not that there weren't plenty of tech sites and nascent blogs opining on 'social media'. Oh no, plenty of those. But not many what I would call hard core sites, setting out to kick down the doors and make trouble. It's taken a long time to get to where we are.SF's Ed Lee On How He'll Use His (Potential) Mayorship To Help The Tech Industry
Nov 09, 10:32AM
With more than half of San Francisco precincts counted as of late Tuesday night, it seems as if tech-friendly interim Mayor Ed Lee has garnered a 31% percent vote in our fair city's mayoral race. In SF's convoluted as all hell system, if a majority candidate fails to receive 50% of the vote like Lee has, then the election is decided by a count of second and third place votes on the ballots of losing candidates -- which means that an official win will probably be announced by the end of this week, sigh. But even with this loophole, it seems like Lee will be a likely winner ...
Domain Name Local.ly Sold For $100,000
Nov 09, 10:14AM
A small news item straight from left field, but who knew someone would eventually cough up a six-figure sum for a 'Libyan' domain name (one that ends in .ly)? Well, someone did, and that someone is enterprise applications and services company Infor, which acquired the domain name local.ly for $100,000.Now At 600K Users, Expensify Announces Major Pricing Changes; Targets SMBs With New Salesforce
Nov 09, 9:15AM
Expense reports are a pain in the ass, which is why David Barrett founded Expensify in May 2008. Since then, the startup has raised nearly $7 million in funding and added a number of features, like receipt automation, to its platform that allows users to collect and automatically categorize your transaction records. Users register their credit cards with Expensify, and they import eReceipts, tag expenses, and send a copy of your expenses over to your company's bookkeeper. Today, the service made some further announcements about the progress it's made in taking the suck out of your expense reports. For starters, Barrett says that over 90,000 organizations and 650,000 individuals are now using the service. These organizations using Expensify run the gamut, including names like Evernote, Square and Tumblr.Moverio: Epson Announces World's First See-Through 3D Head-Mounted Display
Nov 09, 9:08AM
Epson Japan announced [JP] the so-called Moverio today, a see-through 3D head-mounted display (HMD), which is the first of its kind, according to the company. Think of it as mix between of NEC's transparent HMD Tele Scouter and Sony's cool 3D OLED head mounted display HMZ-T1, powered by Android OS. The Moverio creates the experience of watching 3D (or 2D) pictures on a virtual 80-inch display that's 5m away - while still being able to see what's happening around you in the real world. Apart from the display itself, users get a small controller that offers 1GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot.Lookout Brings Smartphone Security And Tracking App To Australia, Canada And The UK
Nov 09, 9:00AM
Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is expanding internationally with native apps in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. For background, Lookout's web-based, cloud-connected applications for Android, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and most recently iOS devices help users from losing their phones and identifies and block threats on a consumer's phone. Users simply download the software to a device, and it will act as a tracking application, data backup and a virus protector much like security software downloaded to a computer.Daily Crunch: Field
Nov 09, 9:00AM
Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Scanadu Raises $2M: "Check Your Body As Often As Your Email" Nintendo May Enable Two Wii U Controllers At Once After All Griffin's Beacon Lets You Channel Surf From Your Android Device Asimo: Honda Upgrades Its Awesome Humanoid (Videos) Tinkercad Raises $1 Million, Aims To Popularize 3D Printing Review And Giveaway: Battlefield 3Steve's Last Laugh: Adobe Killing Off Flash For Mobile Devices
Nov 09, 6:59AM
The year was 2008. I was at an event focused on mobile, sitting in on a roundtable discussion with several folks from key companies in the industry. One gentleman was from Adobe. The iPhone had launched the previous year, famously without any support for Flash. A lot of folks were up in arms about this — including several at this table. The guy from Adobe assured everyone: mobile Flash would be coming soon. And it was going to be wonderful. The notion that Apple wouldn't include it on the iPhone because of performance issues was pure hogwash. The same thing was said in 2009. The same thing was said in 2010. The same thing was still being said in 2011.Walmart Goes Mobile With New Apps For iPhone & iPad
Nov 09, 5:00AM
Today, Walmart is launching an updated iPhone application and a new iPad app, in an effort to better connect customers' offline and online shopping experiences. The iPhone app in particular brings a number of new features, including voice-enabled shopping list creation, barcode scanning and integrated manufacturers' coupons, while the iPad app offers the ability to find items both online and at the local store.Kickstart The Next Angry Birds: Pota-Toss, With Gorgeous GPS-Based Levels
Nov 09, 4:35AM
Let me introduce you to Pota-Toss, a gorgeous potato tossing artillery game currently seeking Kickstarter funding for development. It's like Scorched Earth, or Angry Birds but where you aim at the bases of human opponents instead of computer pigs. What makes Pota-Toss special is that the beautifully drawn levels correspond to the GPS-location and local time of the players. If it's 6pm and I'm playing from New York, I'll play in front of the NYC skyline at sunset. Pota-Toss just showed up on Kickstarter on Friday, where the Costa Rican developer Saborstudio is looking for a lean $7,000 to finish production of an iOS version. With gorgeous level art, goofy characters, a proven physics-based game concept, and a sprinkling of innovation, I think Pota-Toss could be a hit.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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