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GSMA Says It Has 'Contingency Plans' In Place For MWC Strike. I'm Getting A Bike
Feb 17, 9:57AM
This is definitely one way for unions to get some attention for their cause: as of this time of writing, public transport employees in Barcelona will be striking during the Mobile World Congress trade show, due to take place between February 27 and March 1. That means no buses and no metros (subways) for an event that last year attracted more than 60,000 people to the city -- many of whom did not walk or take cabs and limos across the sprawling Spanish metropolis to get around the event -- not the easiest to navigate even in the best of times. The organizers, the GSMA, is getting understandably worried that this news is going to hit the event hard: the idea of logistics chaos will end up keeping some people away, and those who do show up could end up leaving with a bad taste in their mouths for the future.
Daily Crunch: Fire
Feb 17, 9:00AM
Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: OS X Mountain Lion Brings The Mac Into The Game Lytro Video? Maybe Later – For Now, Lytro Focuses On Photos Amazon Steals 14% Tablet Market Share In Q4, Apple Share Drops To 57% Samsung Galaxy Note Review: Head-To-Head With The Galaxy Nexus And Streak 5Chart: In Four Years, Apple Sold More iPhones Than All Macs Ever
Feb 17, 6:48AM
If anyone has any doubt that iPhones, iPads and other iOS devices are the future if Apple, just take a look at the chart above from Asymco. It shows all iOS products sold cumulatively versus all OS X products ever sold (Macs) over the past 28 years. The iPhone has only been around for four years, but in that time more iPhones have been sold than all the Macs ever sold in Appele's entire history. The total number of Macs sold is 122 million. In 2011 alone, if you tally up all the iOS devices including iPods and iPads, 156 million were sold—more than all Macs ever sold. In one year.U.S. Cellular Reveals Additional LTE Markets, Expected To Go Live In 2H 2012
Feb 17, 5:25AM
While larger carriers like AT&T and Verizon are duking it out to cover the country in LTE signal, it's sometimes easy to forget that there are other contenders in the ring too. Case in point: U.S. Cellular, the nation's sixth largest wireless provider, announced earlier today that they plan to light up their forthcoming 4G LTE network in 14 additional states before the year is out. U.S. Cellular revealed earlier this month that their LTE network would go live some time in March, and would initially cover "select cities in Wisconsin, Maine, Iowa, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas."Nevada Establishes Regulations For Self-Driving Cars
Feb 17, 3:05AM
California may be the 800-pound gorilla in the automotive legislation world, but their neighbor Nevada seems to be taking the initiative when it comes to self-driving cars. They've adopted a number of regulations into law, and are pushing the state as a legal testing-ground for companies preparing such vehicles. These changes were telegraphed last summer, when the state legalized driverless cars to begin with. Now they're hammering out the details.Twitter Begins Self-Serve Ad Sign-Ups, Offers $100 In Free Advertising
Feb 17, 2:36AM
Twitter is now accepting sign-ups from small businesses that want to participant in its self-serve ad program. The self-serve rollout was reported this afternoon by Ad Age and others, and the sign-up page is now live. In a promotion with American Express, Twitter offering a $100 credit for free advertising to the first 10,000 businesses that register — you just have to accept American Express cards, or be a cardholder yourself. Oh, and the sign-up process also requires you to follow American Express on Twitter.Linden Lab Acquires Game Studio LittleTextPeople To Build Beyond Second Life
Feb 17, 2:21AM
Independent game studio LittleTextPeople made waves at GDC with its eponymous interactive fiction game. Now it's been acquired by virtual world pioneer Linden Lab, who will use its team and tech to create standalone products outside of its sole game Second Life. LittleTextPeople says it brings a "simulator able to model social practices and individual personalities". That means the new Linden Lab games could be have the "rich emotional dialogue of a novel, rather than a fight scene in an action movie".Google+ Sees 1400% Growth In Brand Followers Since December — BrightEdge
Feb 17, 2:16AM
Brands on Google+ are seeing tremendous growth in followers, according to a new report from SEO and digital marketing startup BrightEdge. Google+ was famously closed to brands when it launched, something that changed with the launch of Google+ Pages in November. Now, the number of users following the top 100 brands on Google+ has increased 1400 percent, from 220,000 in December to 3.1 million in February, BrightEdge says.Ridiculously Pricey Lumia 800 Bundle Available Now In MS Retail Stores
Feb 17, 1:54AM
We've talked about the Lumia line quite a bit in the past few months, but the series is finally starting to feel real. Just last week the 900 was made available for pre-order, and today we're seeing reports that the staggeringly high-priced Lumia 800 bundle is just hanging out on Microsoft store shelves waiting for some new Windows Phone fans to stroll in. Along with the phone itself, which is compatible with AT&T's network, you'll get a Nokia Play 360 Bluetooth speaker, Nokia Purity HD headphones and a Luna Bluetooth headset. Unfortunately, that means you'll be paying $899 for a phone that should probably cost you around $150-$200 (with carrier subsidies) and getting a whole bunch of stuff that's nice and all but that you never really wanted to begin with.Lytro Video? Maybe Later – For Now, Lytro Focuses On Photos
Feb 17, 1:10AM
We were recently able to pose a few questions to Ren Ng, founder and CEO of Lytro, and the person upon whose research the whole product is based. Their camera, which allows the shooter to set the focus after taking the shot, among other things, is launching soon. But there is still much to learn about it, as the company has been fairly close-mouthed about the its specs and capabilities.BuiltWith Reveals The Tech Used By The 130 Million Web Sites That Matter Most
Feb 17, 12:53AM
Search engines like Google scour the web to figure out how to rank content. Measurement firms like comScore sample users to estimate traffic to web sites. But what if you want to know which of some 2000 technologies a web site is using? And, what if you want to know what the tech trends are across the 130 million largest sites on the web today? You could just dig through the source code for each site you're interested in to answer these questions piecemeal, or you could repurpose other web site profilers designed for search engine optimization or other jobs. Or, you could use BuiltWith.More Details On Caterina Fake's New Startup, Pinwheel: A Mobile Flickr For Places (Ish)
Feb 17, 12:11AM
As we heard last year, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake was in the process of launching a new startup, with $2 million in funding from a number of high-profile investors, including True Ventures, Founder Collective, SV Angel, Keith Rabois, James Joaquin and Shoshana Berger. Today, Fake is revealing a number of new details on the startup, called Pinwheel, and named additional investors (Redpoint, Betaworks, and Ev Williams' and Biz Stone's Obvious Corp.) We haven't played with the product yet, but here's what we know from Fake's post. Pinwheel, which is in private beta on the web and mobile web, appears to be a way to leave notes, annotations, tips and photos for fellow users and friends at designated locations and place. As Fakes notes, while there is a web presence for the product, she anticipates the mobile version (an iOS will be launched next) to be the 'primary experience.'Alleged Screenshot Of Google Drive Surfaces
Feb 16, 11:55PM
A reader of Geekwire has sent in what he claims is a shot of Google Drive, which apparently has activated early for him. It's entirely possible that the shot is fake — Google's stark interface isn't exactly difficult to recreate. There are no obvious red flags we can see, though, and it jibes with the presumably legit screen seen briefly at a Google-sponsored event back in 2011.With New $27 Million Fund, ff Venture Capital Is On A Roll (Interview)
Feb 16, 10:44PM
New York City seed investors are growing up, and raising bigger funds. IA Ventures just raised $105 million and ff Venture Capital closed its second $27 million fund last November (which I am reporting here for the first time). I asked ff VC's John Frankel and David Teten to come into the TCTV studio to talk about the new fund and their approach to investing. Their first $6.3 million fund, which they raised in 2008, was the top-performing venture fund through the end of 2010, according to Preqin, with a net IRR in the high-40 percent range, says Frankel.The Daily Show, 12 More News Outlets Join Facebook's Media App Virality Bonanza
Feb 16, 10:30PM
There's a referral traffic goldmine on Facebook, and today 13 more news outlets are staking their claim. The Daily Show, MSNBC, Buzzfeed, and The Huffington Post are launching Facebook Open Graph reader and video watching apps today or soon, Facebook just announced. By automatically publishing stories back to the Facebook Ticker, Timeline, and News Feed, these apps will hope to score the same traffic boosts attained by The Washington Post, Yahoo, and Digg. However, if they should also provide "mark as unread / unwatched" options to let users curate what they share.Andrew Mason: Groupon To Begin Offering Deal Personalization Abroad Later This Quarter
Feb 16, 9:55PM
At the Goldman Sachs Internet and Technology Conference in San Francisco Thursday, Groupon Founder and CEO Andrew Mason took to the stage to talk about the daily deal behemoth's newly-minted position as a public company, its roller coaster ride both leading up to and since its IPO, as well as plans for the future. There was a lot of pressure bearing down on Groupon in the months leading up to its emergence on NASDAQ, with many grumbling about its overvaluation and undercooked business model, among other things. After listing its initial offering at $26 a share in November, the company's stock today has dropped to $20 a share, after a series of ups and downs.Chinese Search Engine Baidu's Q4 Revenue Up 82.5 Percent To $711M; Net Income Up 77 Percent
Feb 16, 9:48PM
Chinese search engine Baidu posted Q4 earnings today. Revenues in the fourth quarter of 2011 were RMB4.474 billion ($710.9 million), an 82.5% increase from the same period in 2010. Net income for the quarter was RMB2.054 billion ($326.3 million), a 76.9% increase from 2010. GAAP earnings came in at $0.93; with non-GAAP earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 $0.95. Baidu beat Wall Street expectations, with analysts expecting earnings of $0.91, up from 50 cents in Q4 2010. For the full year in 2011, total revenues were $2.304 billion, representing an 83.2% increase from 2010. Net income for 2011 came in at $1.055 billion, up 88.3% from 2010.Peanut Labs Makes Online Market Surveys Quick And Cheap With CrowdVi.be
Feb 16, 9:34PM
Having built a socially-driven market research business on Facebook and across the web, Peanut Labs is launching a new iteration of its crowd-sampling tool today called CrowdVi.be. The goal is to let a brand or anyone else quickly ask questions and get meaningful answers back from random internet users. Sure, you can use other social media tools, like Twitter and Facebook, to instantly get feedback online. But the difference is that Peanut Labs has some 50 million users on 200 social networks around the world, who take its surveys in order to earn Facebook Credits or other forms of virtual currency in games and apps. In other words, it has a huge, fairly random pool of consumers who are easily to access and hear back from. During its private beta, Crowdvi.be has already been used by companies testing various versions of logos, video trailers, site redesigns, and other tests of words and images.FTC Finds Privacy Problems In Children's Apps, But Suggested Changes Will Impact All
Feb 16, 9:33PM
I believe the children are the future. (What, too soon?) But in the case of the new FTC report on mobile applications for kids, which references the current data handling practices employed by mobile developers, the children are the future. They're the future indicators of how our personal information needs to be handled in today's mobile app ecosystem. Although the new report makes recommendations specifically for children's applications, there's obviously an undercurrent of outrage and violation underway now (thanks mainly to addressgate). People, not just parents, need to control and understand how and why their data is being collected, used, and shared, and what that really means. The question is, how is this done?AdClarity Tells Advertisers Exactly What The Competition Is Up To
Feb 16, 9:32PM
Israeli company BIScience has a launched a new product called AdClarity, which it says will give advertisers more data than they've ever had about their competitors' advertising plans. CEO Orey Gilliam notes that the online advertising landscape has evolved to the point where there's rarely a direct link between advertiser and publisher but rather "a complex deployment chain of ads."Take your normal banner ad. Just by looking at it, you can tell who the advertiser is, and the publisher, but the intermediaries — the ad networks, agencies, and affiliate networks — aren't apparent, leaving you in the dark if you really want to understand how a campaign was executed. With AdClarity, on the other hand, BiScience claims you can see exactly where a campaign ran, which mediators were used, and what the ad creative looked like.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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