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Remember Netvibes? It's Finally Acquired By Engineering Giant Dassault Systèmes
Feb 09, 7:48AM
It's been a long and winding road since Tariq Krim created and eventually left Netvibes, but today Netvibes has been acquired by huge French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes for an undisclosed amount. Krim continues to pursue his original dream of organising the social web on Jolicloud.Analytics Dashboard Netvibes Sold To Dassault Systèmes
Feb 09, 7:06AM
Netvibes has just been acquired by European product design company Dassault Systèmes (sure this isn't the type of thing I usually write, but I like the founder Tariq Krim so bear with me here ... ). French startup Netvibes is an analytics dashboard that allows Fortune 500 companies to track their social media presence throughout the realtime web. Dassault is a "3D experience "design company so the acquisition actually seems jarring at first, but Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini tells me that the acquisition actually makes sense in terms of connecting what people say about a company to the design process through the Netvibes dashboard.Hipster CEO Also Apologizes For Address Book-Gate, Calls For "Application Privacy Summit" [Guest Post]
Feb 09, 4:07AM
The following is a guest post from Hipster CEO Doug Ludlow, following yesterday and today's revelations that select apps were uploading user's entire address books to their database.Is A Hash Of Hash Of A Torrent Of A Torrent Of Copyrighted Data Copyrighted?
Feb 09, 3:23AM
Let's try to parse this. Pirate Bay (.se) user allisfine just recently uploaded a torrent to the site that is a collection of all the magnet identifiers for the entire site (actually, only about a quarter of the site, but all the publicly visible ones). That is to say, it is a list of the unique identifiers, cryptographic hashes, of every .torrent file on the site. In a way, this torrent file, or indeed its magnet identifier (938802790a385c49307f34cca4c30f80b03df59c), contains millions or billions of dollars worth of pirated content. Or does it?Stealthy Startup timeRAZOR Raises $3.4M Pre-Launch, Partners With Major Household Brands
Feb 09, 3:01AM
Got FOMO? (That's "fear of missing out" for those of you who don't do slang.) There will soon be an app for that, or so says the $3.4 million in angel funding the stealthy D.C.-area startup called timeRAZOR has raised. In its pre-launch state, the curious company is already lining up brand partnerships with big names like Marriott and L'Oreal in preparation for its March debut. But what the heck is a timeRAZOR?Founder Collective Makes A $4 Million Bet On Paddle8′s Online Marketplace For Fine Art
Feb 09, 2:33AM
When it comes to a marketplace for fine art, a space which seems to intrinsically resist digital services, technology really hasn't had quite the same disruptive influence it has in so many others. Startups like Zazzle and Art.com have taken steps to make art commercial and broadly accessible, with some cool technology to boot, but automation and democratization haven't really penetrated the upper crust world of fine art in any significant way, for understandable reasons. Democratic luxury sounds like an oxymoron, or phony marketing.FYI. Dave Morin Didn't Lie To Gawker About Path Storing User Data
Feb 09, 1:59AM
Some people always see the good in people and some people always see the bad ... Gawker just published a post with what at first seems to be some pretty damning evidence against Path founder Dave Morin, publishing an email where he assured writer Ryan Tate that Path wasn't storing user data. While today's headlines would lead one to believe that that statement was a lie, Morin (who is a friend) tells me that the exchange is misleading. He was actually talking about Path 1.0 in the exchange, which lacked the "Add Friends" feature, and there for did not store data.DeNA Has Big Quarter, Acquiree Ngmoco:( Has Layoffs
Feb 09, 1:17AM
Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA bought mobile app developer Ngmoco last year for $400 million. Since then, the company has acquired a range of other outfits and worked to tie the San Francisco startup in with everything else it does. In general, things seem to be going well. The conglomerate just posted a strong third quarter, with net sales up 16%, which in turn boosted the stock price by more than 8% for a valuation of $4.8 billion. However, net income declined versus the same period the previous year, from $106 million to $79.2 million.Lytro Teardown Shows Potential Wireless Capability, Smallish Sensor
Feb 09, 12:51AM
It's been a while since we've heard anything about Lytro (other than nearly grabbing a Crunchie (I voted for them)), the camera where you shoot now and focus later. And the latest news comes not from the company itself, but from the FCC, which just today published the internal photos from its investigation of the device. Like reading about chips and sensors? Click on.Addressgate: After The Path Fallout, Whose Address Book Is It Anyway?
Feb 08, 11:39PM
Addressgate seems like an appropriate name for what is dominating Silicon Valley headlines: Path's mobile app uploading all of your contacts. Today Michael Arrington suggested that Path delete the data gathered and start over, and now Path CEO and founder Dave Morin has decided to do just that, and apologized. The past 24 hours of discussion has mainly been characterized by shock, horror or forgiveness. Although all well-intentioned none of these get to the heart of a very significant issue that will only get more important as the mobile and cloud architecture of consumer apps replaces the desktop and cloud combination that has characterized the past 10 years of web services. Beneath the drama there are some big issues. Here I want to try and surface them.Here's What Facebook Stock Looks Like
Feb 08, 11:38PM
In a few months time, here's what the world will be fighting to get its hands on, or get rid of depending on your confidence in Facebook's business plan. The image of a Facebook stock certificate was included in the amended S-1 Facebook filed today with the SEC. It's sure to become coveted by Scripophiliacs, or people who collect historic stock certificates, along with those from Google, Apple, and Pixar pictured within.Andrew Mason's First Earnings Call: "Stop Sending Me Pole-Dancing Deals"
Feb 08, 11:13PM
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason just finished his first post-IPO earnings calls with Wall Street analysts. (We covered it live and looked at the numbers). "We believe we are on the cusp of a sea change" in behavior, he noted. "We're about to see what technology can do for local commerce." Listening to the call, I'd say his performance was mixed. He sounded a little nervous at first, but warmed up to the task just as he did during the IPO roadshow, joking with the analysts that one of the most requested features Groupon hears from customers to "stop sending me pole-dancing deals."Facebook As A Mobile Platform: 60 Million Mobile Users Visit Third-Party Apps Each Month
Feb 08, 11:04PM
Facebook is huge on mobile -- as an application developer. But questions have circled for years around how it can be a real mobile platform on top of operating systems controlled by Apple and Google. But we got a little more data on what it's already accomplishing on the platform front, today at the Inside Social Apps conference here in San Francisco.Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million From Chris Sacca, Max Levchin And Others To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System
Feb 08, 10:43PM
Gumroad, the buzzy one-man startup launched by Pinterest and Turntable app designer (and 19-year-old college dropout) Sahil Lavingia, officially launches today with over $1.1 million in seed funding from investors Accel Partners, Chris Sacca, Max Levchin, SV Angel, Josh Kopelman, Seth Goldstein, Naval Ravikrant, Collaborative Fund and Danny Rimer.
Nokia Cuts 4000 Jobs; Last European Phone Assembly Work Goes To Asia
Feb 08, 10:35PM
It's a sign of the times, though not a particularly surprising one: Nokia has finally eliminated its European phone assembly infrastructure and will be moving those 4000 jobs to Asia, according to a Reuters report. The factories are not being shuttered altogether, and localizing and finishing work will still be done there, but the primary assembly work is being relocated. The news and layoffs were expected, as the company has slashed many more thousands of jobs over the last year, but this particular cut is symbolic: the intensely European company has been battered into submission, and will join the others in the now-standard configuration of "design here, build there."Foursquare Rolls Out New Version Of "Explore" On Mobile With Filters & Improved Search
Feb 08, 10:25PM
This morning, Foursquare launched an updated version of its "Explore" feature for both its iPhone and Android applications. The new version brings over several of the features already available through Foursquare on the web, including filters, photos in search results and the ability to change your location.Facebook's Amended S-1 Exhibits Zynga Agreement Filed Last Year
Feb 08, 10:05PM
Facebook has just filed an amendment to its S-1 that exhibits the agreements between it and Zynga. These 2 developer agreement documents are the same as those filed in Zynga's own S-1 amendment from last year and don't include significant new information. The exhibits do spell out how Facebook has promised to help Zynga with advertising on Zynga sites such as FarmVille.com, and share revenue from such a partnership. This should not be confused to mean sharing ad revenue from Zynga's games on Facebook.com. Facebook also included its 2005 stock plan, and employment letters to key executives.Nest Labs Responds To Honeywell Lawsuit, Says It Has The Resources To Defend Itself
Feb 08, 9:55PM
Nest is ready to fight. The Palo Alto company just issued a followup statement regarding Honeywell's recent patent infringement suit. In short they're not going to roll over. They're going to stand tall. The plan is to "vigorously defend itself" from what they call an attempt to stifle "thoughtful competition." Nice. Go get 'em, boys.TechCrunch Giveaway: Xbox Kinect AND A Samsung Galaxy S II
Feb 08, 9:49PM
Thanks to our friends at Antengo, who absolutely love the TechCrunch readers, we have two huge prizes to give away this week: an Xbox Kinect and a Samsung Galaxy S II. There will be two winners for this giveaway and two ways to win for each prize. You will have until February 12th, this coming Sunday, to win the Xbox Kinect and you will have until next Friday, February 17th to win the Samsung Galaxy S II. You can enter both giveaways. For all of the husbands/ wives, boyfriends/ girlfriends, and significant others out there, this is just in time for Valentine's Day. :)Techmeme Aims For Community Aggregation With A Big New Tech Event Calendar
Feb 08, 9:44PM
As part of news aggregator Techmeme's big redesign a couple weeks ago, it moved its flow of top stories to the left to make room for... white space. But founder Gabe Rivera promised at the time that there'd be stuff coming to fill it, and now we know what -- an events calendar for the tech world.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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