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MTV Mobile Moves Into Social TV With Digital Agency AKQA
Feb 28, 9:58AM
Viacom's MTV is making one more move into trying to capture the youth market on the platform where it's increasingly spending most of its time: the company, in partnership with digital agency AKQA, has launched "Under The Thumb," a new social TV app. MTV and Viacom are calling this a "world first" in that it will let users watch MTV content on the mobile, share it on the go with others, and then watch the program simultaneously with those friends. It builds on a pretty extensive business that MTV has already established in Europe, including its own mobile service.Daily Crunch: Mobile World
Feb 28, 9:00AM
Here are some recent posts from TechCrunch Gadgets: TechCrunch at Mobile World Congress Texas Instruments Announces New Partnerships For OMAP 5, But Wait…There's More Quietly Brilliant, But HTC Sure Made Some Noise At MWC Hands-On With The HTC One V: This Little Guy Feels Great Asus Officially Unveils The Accessory-Laden PadfoneOpera Takes Over Payments In Its App Store; Inks Deal With Yandex In Russia
Feb 28, 8:35AM
Mobile browser company Opera -- which claims to be the world's largest, with 160 million monthly users -- today announced two more developments in its drive to make more money from mobile: today it is launching its own payment exchange for its Mobile Store app store; and it has named its first regional partner for the service, Yandex, which will become the preferred method of payment in Russia and the CIS. The news is the latest in a week of mobile money and payment announcements -- including the news that Facebook will also offer carrier billing for mobile users of its apps.DataSift Unlocks Access To Historical Twitter Data Dating Back To January 2010
Feb 28, 7:59AM
DataSift, one of Twitter's data partners which currently provides developers and third parties with access to the full Twitter firehose in realtime, is about to unlock a whole new set of Twitter data to the ecosystem. The social data platform has launched Historics, a cloud-computing platform that enables entrepreneurs and enterprises to extract business insights from Twitter's public Tweets dating back to January 2010 (we originally reported on the pending launch here). Developers, businesses and organizations can essentially use DataSift to mine the Twitter firehose of social data. But what makes DataSift special (besides the premier access to Twitter data) is that it can then filter this social media data for demographic information, online influence and sentiment, either positive or negative. As we've reported in the past, DataSift does not limit searches based on keywords and allows companies of any size to define extremely complex filters, including location, gender, sentiment, language, and even influence based on Klout score, to provide quick and very specific insight and analysis.PowerReviews Attempts To Make Reviews More Social
Feb 28, 7:57AM
PowerReviews, a company that provides customer review technology for retailers and e-commerce sites, is debuting a new suite of tools that helps companies promote, reward and measure customer engagement and review generation. PowerReviews, which launched in 2007, provides retailers and brands with the ability to collect, organize and analyze comments and other user-generated content. PowerReviews 5,500 customers include Staples, REI, ESPN, Callaway and Jockey.Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, And Obvious Put $4.5M In Sleek Social, Mobile Gifting Platform Karma
Feb 28, 4:59AM
Karma, a new social, mobile gifting service from the founder of TapJoy, has raised funding from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, The Obvious Corporation, Stephen Gillett, Felicis Ventures and other angel investors. While Karma declined to reveal the exact amount of the funding round, which was raised last summer, SEC documents reveal the startup has raised around $4.5 million. In addition to announcing its investors, Karma is also debuting its disruptive mobile, social gifting platform that could change the way people give and receive gifts. Founded by Lee Linden, and Ben Lewis; Karma aims to give users the option to give friends gifts on the go via iOS and Android apps. While there are a number of mobile, social gifting apps on the market, Karma's service combines intelligence, social discovery, and the easy of gift giving in a sleek app that's definitely worth a look.Jack Dorsey Will Field Your Questions About Entrepreneurship
Feb 28, 4:58AM
Get your questions ready because Twitter founder and executive chairman and Square CEO Jack Dorsey will be hosting a video-mentoring session (which you can watch and participate in here) as part of an initiative to foster entrepreneurship among high school students. Dorsey will be partnering with BUILD, a Silicon Valley-based non-profit that promotes college readiness via entrepreneurship education. Using TokBox's Dorsey will host the chat on BUILD's web site tomorrow, Tuesday February 28 at 4:30 PT, and is encouraging students and fledgling entrepreneurs to ask him questions via the live chat.Brad Keslowski Makes NASCAR History With First In-Vehicle Tweet & Pic During A Race
Feb 28, 3:42AM
As I'm writing this the Daytona 500 is under a red flag due to a bizarre accident. Juan Pablo Montoya's #42 car malfunctioned under a yellow caution and hit a massive race track jet dryer directly in the fuel center, causing a large fire on the track. Both the racer and the driver of the truck are fine. So what's a driver to do during a red flag? Well, Brad Keslowski just happened to have his iPhone on him from pre-race activities and is putting it to good use. He just tweeted a pic of track fire from inside his race car but is also fielding questions on Twitter (@keselowski) while waiting for the race to restart. Per the FOX sportscasters NASCAR race car drivers are now having holsters built for their phones for testing purposes. Apparently Keslowski still had his on him.Why You Can't Dismiss Nokia's 41-Megapixel Phone
Feb 28, 3:04AM
My first reaction upon hearing about Nokia's 41-megapixel 808 Pureview was that it was an absurdity, a perfect example of the very worst of consumer electronics, and a total miss. But the more I read, the better I understood that this phone isn't just some freak of nature with a ridiculously high number attached to it. It's just the slightly awkward first steps of a serious move by Nokia to differentiate itself. If you've only skimmed the news, there are some things you should probably know about this strange beast of a camera. First, the 41 megapixel figure is really misrepresentative, not to say untrue. It doesn't take 41-megapixel photos in any way, shape, or form. Even in the special high-res creative mode, it "only" produces 38 megapixels. Mostly it will be taking normal-size shots, between 3 and 8 megapixels. So what the hell does this 41 megapixel figure even mean?Following Thefts, Luxury Car-Sharing Service HiGear Acquired By Rent2Buy
Feb 28, 2:47AM
San Francisco-based HiGear, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service for luxury vehicles, has been acquired. The news follows the company's decision to shut down operations last month, after a criminal ring targeted HiGear, resulting in multiple incidents of theft involving its members' cars. The criminals stole four cars totaling $400,000 by using stolen identities to bypass HiGear's background checks. Today, the company is announcing its assets have been sold to another peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace known as Rent2Buy. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.A Few New Bag Designs From Golla
Feb 28, 2:18AM
I spent a good portion of my adult career as a graphic designer. I still look at the world through that lens, so I am always happy to stumble across some beautiful designs, no matter where they might be. Stumble I did, into the Golla booth at the Mobile World Congress today (2 hours of sleep and about 300 calories of food in the last 36 hours) to find a pretty killer lineup of beautifully designed bags for all your gadgets.Yahoo Stabs Facebook In The Back, Says Pay For Its Patents Or Get Sued
Feb 28, 1:51AM
After years of positive relations, friendly blog posts, and referral traffic, Yahoo may have just been biding its time waiting to declare war on Facebook. Today it suddenly accused its former ally of infringing on 10-20 of its patents. It demands a settlement from Facebook or it says it will sue. The betrayer only warned Facebook privately once the New York Times had publicly published details passed to it by Yahoo. Though dastardly opportunistic, this patent trolling could produce a big windfall for Yahoo's investors.Well, That Was Fun
Feb 28, 12:22AM
This is my 4,212th post on TechCrunch, and my last as editor in chief. The past few months have been a whirlwind for everyone at TechCrunch. We've had a lot of departures lately, but behind the scenes we've also quietly been building a new TechCrunch. For every departure there's been a new hire, we've been rolling out new features across the site (like the video and events hubs), and there is more goodness in the works including an awesome tablet app I am personally excited about. I didn't want to leave until TechCrunch was set up for the next few years. And now it is.Poppin Seals $6M Series A From Shasta and First Round To Beautify Your Bland Office
Feb 27, 11:38PM
Fugly offices kill morale and make every task a chore. But Poppin knows a happy employee is a productive one, and wants to keep yours that way with its online store full of colorful office supplies. With the ongoing talent crunch making employee retention more crucial than ever, Shasta Ventures sees a bright future in Poppin, so it's led a new $6 million Series A in Poppin. Joined by First Round Capital and several angels, the round will give Poppin the gusto to expand into furniture and other essentials, and spray rainbows over the supposed $300 billion office product market.A Swedish Company Claims It Owns A Swipe Patent Used By Apple
Feb 27, 11:31PM
Another front has opened in the multi-faceted story of patent battles: Neonode, an optical touchscreen tech company based in Sweden, says that it has been granted a patent in the U.S. that covers the touch-and-glide gesture that it claims is used on devices like the iPhone and iPad. The patent is notable not only because Neonode says the patent covers functions like the horizontal touch gesture that Apple uses between screens on its iOS devices, as well as in the slide-to-unlock feature. But also because slide-to-unlock is the same feature that Apple has been citing in its own patent lawsuits against Android device makers Motorola and Samsung.Texas Instruments Announces New Partnerships For OMAP 5, But Wait…There's More
Feb 27, 11:06PM
Texas Instruments announced earlier today that they are partnering with Harman and iRobot to provide OMAP 5 as the core processor for new products being developed in these two companies. To understand what this means in TI's greater strategy, we need to back up a bit to take a look as some other initiatives they have going on and see where they all tie together.Dude, You're Getting An Enterprise Solution Based On Best-Of-Breed Dell Technology!
Feb 27, 10:50PM
Barring a change of heart or a wild, consumer-driven financial upturn, it looks as if Dell is out of the consumer PC business and is turning its Sauron-like eye towards the enterprise - the one place where people upgrade their PCs at least once a year. According to PCPro, Dell will is "dramatically changing" their entire business with a focus away from "shiny boxes" and more focus on barebones server and fleet hardware. To be fair, the statement could portend far less than we should expect. Dell has been among the walking dead in PC hardware for most of this decade, producing little of interest (the Adamo was their big consumer play and presumably Alienware will remain a consumer-facing company) but there's still money to be made in selling commodity hardware for a few percentage points over cost. I doubt the outcry will be as vociferous as it was when HP threatened to pull its consumer business, mostly because Dell has no products of any interest to the enthusiast. The anger at HP was more about their destruction of Palm rather than the possibility that we wouldn't be able to by a handsome, staid PC in a black/grey case.Goodbye Erick, Hello Eric
Feb 27, 10:01PM
TechCrunch has been through a lot lately, and we need to focus on what truly matters: covering startups and innovation. So, this post is going to be short. But here is what's going on: Erick Schonfeld is leaving and Eric Eldon is replacing him as editor. What can you expect from TechCrunch now?Office Wars
Feb 27, 9:56PM
Office represents an increasingly minor amount of screen time in my computing experience, while social computing is transitioning much of that work to stream-based objects. Google's forced march of Google + data into its social experience may be a good long term move for the search company, but it comes at the cost of meshing with Apple's accelerated Twitter interoperability. As Chatter builds out support for Customer Groups across Salesforce business customers and their partners, Twitter's direct messages and @mention authority model are being extended in this new form of collaborative communication.Your Google+ Is In My RSS Feed! No, Your RSS Feed Is In My Google+
Feb 27, 9:52PM
If there's one thing wrong with Google+ it's a lack of a real non-browser interface. There are workarounds and widgets, but there's never been a real way to pull your G+ feed into a more comfortable format. While many would complain that RSS isn't even close to a comfortable format, it's bettern' nuffin'. That said, a new free service called GPlusRSS allows you to create a public RSS feed of your G+ account. You can potentially share this feed with others (here's mine) or you can keep it for yourself. The feed consists only of public pronouncements so private messages won't show up.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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