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Fab.com Teams Up With Madonna For New Album Sale
Mar 26, 12:01PM
Design-focused flash sales site Fab.com is debuting a new partner today—Madonna. The site is featuring a special offer for U.S. members today for Madonna's new album MDNA. The album will retail for $7.99 (vs. $14.99 retail). This isn't the first time a music artist has partnered with a flash sales site. Norah Jones just debuted a new song of her latest album on travel site Jetsetter. Lady Gaga teamed up with Gilt for a curated sale, concert access and more.Edocr Integrates With Zendesk To Allow Embedded Documents
Mar 26, 11:42AM
It's been a few years since edocr appeared on the scene to allow people to share, edit and organise documents, not unlike Slideshare. To be honest I thought they'd disappeared but it turns out they are out of the startup 'trough of despondency' and getting somewhere. Founder CEO Manoj Ranaweera tells me they now have over 26,000 users and are growing at 33% monthly. They've also now integrated with customer service giant Zendesk.CarRush Bills Itself as 'Groupon for New Cars'. Is This A Good Idea?
Mar 26, 11:15AM
If you thought the application of the Groupon sales business model could not extend any further you may be wrong. CarRush.co.uk launches today billing itself as 'Groupon for New Cars'. It's essentially a consumer front-end for FinanceAcar.co.uk. The idea is to provide exclusive weekly deals with discounts of up to 40 per cent on brand new cars on a monthly financing arrangement. This could hit a sweet spot for the 80 per cent of car buyers that purchase a new car based on a monthly payment. But will they run into the same problems Groupon participants have experienced. Let's see...After Troubled Period, Video Games Retailer Game Group Goes Bankrupt In The UK
Mar 26, 10:50AM
It's been on the rocks for months now, but now international video game retailer Game Group looks like it is finally sinking: today the company announced that it is formally entering administration -- another sign of the woes hitting more traditional parts of the gaming world as people turn to new services like cloud-based gaming and mobile apps for their playing fixes. PricewaterhouseCoopers says that it has been named the administrator for the UK and Ireland operations of a series of assets: GAME Group plc, Game Stores Group Limited, Gameplay (GB) Limited, Game (Stores) Limited, Games Station Limited, Game (retail) Limited and Gamestation Limited, and comes after the company suspended shares on the London Stock Exchange last week on March 21.Night Of The Living Social Network: Friends Reunited Relaunches Tomorrow As A Digital Scrapbook
Mar 26, 10:14AM
Friends Reunited -- which once laid claim to being the UK's first social network before falling far behind the pull of Facebook -- is relaunching this week as a "digital scrapbook" where users can collect their own pictures along with copyrighted photos, through a series of deals with image libraries. The first two libraries to sign up, the Press Association and photographic archive company the Francis Frith Collection, collectively will contribute some 350,000 photos into the service, and a spokesperson says that there will be "more images and deals with more libraries added in the next few months." Altogether the site will offer users 10 million "memories" in the form of 6 million photos, 2 million events and 2 million places to tag alongside their own content.Seeking The Next Rovio, Microsoft, Nokia Commit Up To $24 Million Into A New Push To Get Apps On Windows Phone
Mar 26, 7:57AM
We saw what a commotion it caused when Rovio's Mighty Eagle intimated that his company would not be developing a version of its newest game, Angry Birds Space, for the Windows Phone platform (some quick statements from Rovio's CEO put that to rest). Now it looks like Microsoft and its biggest partner, Nokia, are taking some steps to make sure that they have better control over how that story develops in the future -- on Nokia's home turf, at least. Today the two announced that they are each putting in up to €9 million (around $12 million) into a new mobile apps development program at Finland's Aalto University called AppCampus -- aimed specifically at funding new apps for the Windows Phone platform, but also some of the legacy platforms that Nokia still uses, such as Symbian and Series 40.The Girl Who Cried Sexism
Mar 26, 7:26AM
A long time ago a friend and I were discussing another female tech blogger. "You know what?" he said, "The truth is -- please don't kill me -- the truth is that men just don't care what women think about tech." Hmmm... Whether or not you or I believe his statement, there's no denying that in an industry that is majority male, misogynistic attitudes sometimes come into play. In my experience, a female has to work about 4,000% harder than a male to be respected by individuals of any gender in the tech sector.Mobile Banking Consolidation: Monitise Buys Clairmail For $173 Million
Mar 26, 6:46AM
One more sign of the mobile money space continuing to grow up: some significant consolidation underway. Today, the UK-based mobile banking specialists Monitise announced that it is buying Clairmail, a U.S.-based competitor, for $173 million, as part of its global expansion. The combined group says it will serve 13 million customers world-wide, processing some $10 billion of payments weekly, and will give Monitise a much bigger and more direct presence in the North American market: one-third of the top 50 U.S. financial institutions are now clients of the group.After 200M+ Views in 2011, The Decorah Eagles' Live Stream Is Back For "Season 2″
Mar 26, 4:45AM
Well, the avian theme has come back to haunt us of late, but here's some avian news that's sure to warm the cockles of your heart. Last year, the Decorah Eagles became the Web's biggest reality TV stars. Let me explain: A pair of Bald Eagles, nesting in Decorah, Iowa, were captured on camera 24/7 in a live stream established by The Raptor Research Project, a non-profit organization that specializes in the preservation of falcons, eagles, ospreys and other birds of prey. The organization set up a Ustream channel that allowed users to watch around-the-clock footage of the parents raising three eaglets. And now, the Decorah Eagles are back for a "Season Two".Cloud Infrastructure Automation Startup Opscode Lands $19.5M To Take On IBM, HP And BMC
Mar 26, 4:00AM
Opscode, a company that provides cloud infrastructure automation for the enterprise, has raised $19.5 Million in Series C funding led by Ignition Partners, with Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson participating in the round. The company also today announced that Ignition Partners' John Connors has joined Opscode's Board of Directors. This latest investment brings Opscode's total funding to $33 million. Opscode provides companies the ability to develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale in the cloud or behind the firewall. Basically, the company's offering allows developers and engineers to define what infrastructure they want to build and then manage these complex systems in a number of environments.All That Cash: On Apple, Twitter And The New Bit Factories
Mar 26, 3:25AM
The speculation of what Apple is going to do with all their cash has long been a favorite topic in the tech and financial press. But the thinking along those lines is often akin to the cognitive dissonance one experiences when seeing a billionaire driving a Honda Civic; What's the point of having all that money if you're not going to spend it? That thinking is what we saw when Apple recently announced their cash plans. Two common reactions went something like this ...On Women In Tech
Mar 26, 2:39AM
Geeklist must never have learned the first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging. I was all the way on the other side of the world at a conference held at a random amusement park in the German countryside and it seemed the Geeklist boys almost dug their way to me. The incident, which appears to have reignited the women in tech debate, I first got wind of from an Australian who was attending the conference. "Silicon valley hasn't changed since I left there years ago," he said over a beer. "Still a bunch of frat boys running the show." Later, over Skype, I asked Michelle Zatlyn, one of my two co-founders at CloudFlare, what she thought of the whole thing. "What happened at Geekwire?" she wrote back, having missed the meme. I gave her the gory details and said I was surprised she hadn't heard. "Sorry," she replied, "busy building a company :)."Want To Hook Your Users? Drive Them Crazy.
Mar 26, 2:00AM
In advertising, marketers reinforce a behavior by linking to the promise of reward. "Use our product," they claim, "and you'll get laid"; it's the gist of many product pitches from soap to hamburgers. But online, feedback loops aren't cutting it. Users are increasingly inundated with distractions, and companies find they need to hook users quickly if they want to stay in business. Today, companies are using more than feedback loops. They are deploying desire engines.Facebook Decorates Its Roof With A 42-Foot Wide QR Code
Mar 26, 1:20AM
When Mark Zuckerberg called for a "Space Hackathon" to decorate Facebook's massive new headquarters at 1 Hacker Way, he probably didn't expect employees to take him so literally. A few scurried up to the roof with some tar paint, and now there's a 42-foot wide QR code on the roof that's visible from space. Scanning it opens the new FB QR Code Page on Facebook which may host puzzles, jokes, and other flavor to humanize the company. For now you'll need an airplane or Facebook security badge to get a look at it first-hand, but once indexed it should appear on your favorite satellite mapping website.Card Case Adds More Merchant Discovery, Social Features To iOS And Android; Becomes 'Pay With Square'
Mar 26, 12:47AM
Square's consumer-focused loyalty and mobile payments app Card Case, which debuted in 2011, has been pushing the envelope when it comes to the future of payments, allowing for hands-free, location-based payments, emailed receipts and more. And merchants have quietly been adopting Card Case in droves. Back in November, Square told us that 20,000 merchants had signed up for Card Case, which doubled to over 40,000 businesses in February, and is now at 75,000 businesses using the application. And today, Square is announcing a major update to Card Case, adding additional social and merchant discovery features to both the iOS and Android app as well as renaming the app "Pay With Square." For those of you who are unfamiliar, Pay With Square's mobile app for iOS and Android allows you to fill the app with 'cards' of all the merchants they visit and buy from who accept Square. These mobile cards include locations, merchant contact info, coupons, photos, menus, comments and reviews from other customers, order and purchase history and more. The app also allows you to create a tab at a restaurant under your name without having to pull out cash or a credit card, as the app has your credit card info saved.Think Twice Before Adopting The "Ship Or Die" Mentality
Mar 26, 12:45AM
The "Ship or die", "Done is better than perfect", "Just ship" mantras have lately become a part of many startup conversations. The problem with these mantras is that they glorify the act of shipping while ignoring the fact that shipping is only the means to create value but not the ultimate goal of a startup. Unfortunately, repeating these mantras might have a dangerous effect. The "ship it" mentality leads many startups to do mediocre, incremental, non-important work. There's a reason why the concept of shipping it became so pervasive. No, I'm not talking about Zuck posting pictures of internal Facebook posters on his profile although this might have an effect on younger startups.Report: More Movies Will Be Streamed Than Watched On Disc In 2012
Mar 26, 12:29AM
Pop the champagne and up the bandwidth, because 2012 is the year we finally do away with discs. According to a Bloomberg report on IHS Screen Digest, more viewers will stream movies than watch them on disc, an inflection point that can only mean the relatively quick demise of high-density optical media. Streaming will increase to 3.4 billion titles this year, up from 1.4 billion. Blu-ray and DVD consumption will top out at 2.4 billion. The study also found that Amazon on Netflix accounted for 94% of all paid movie consumption online.Speed and Fidelity
Mar 26, 12:23AM
The push notification platform doesn't replace Office, it replaces Windows. And, more importantly, it replaces the desktop with the orchestration, the interplay, between services, some of which subsume Excel and Outlook with more collaborative surfaces. No more InBox is about to explode emails with Gmail, lots more analytics streams that answer the questions Excel is used to ask with realtime social data which reaches directly into the emotion of the economy.YC-Backed Anyperk Serves Startups Deals On Web Services
Mar 26, 12:15AM
For most bootstrapped startups, using web and operational services can be expensive. From A/B testing to creating business cards to email, company expenses add up. Enter Y Combinator startup Anyperk, which aims to provide companies and startups with discounts on web services. Basically, Anyperk, which is the first Japanese team funded by Y Combinator, allows startups to access discounts on services like business card creation from Moo, A/B testing from Optimizely, payments processing from Braintree, email delivery service from Mailgun and more.Find Everyone You Can't Google Or Facebook With YC's Ark People Search
Mar 25, 11:25PM
Google and Facebook can't help you find which of your friends are single, or live in New York and like Radiohead, but Ark can. Today Y Combinator-backed Ark.com sails into open beta in hopes of becoming the best place on the web to do people searches. With a variety of layer-able filters, Ark lets you search through public profiles and the private data of your friends across Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and other networks. It's also got filter sets for easily discovering old classmates and new business contacts. Ark could pull searches away from Google and Facebook, disrupt dedicated sites like Classmates.com, and give us a better way to find people than broadcasting "Who do I know here that does this?" TechCrunch readers can get early access to the beta with instructions within this article.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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