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Kobo Unveils $99 Mini And $129 Glo E-Readers, Takes On Amazon With Android-Powered Arc Tablet
Sep 06, 6:02AM
The big September reveal-a-thon is set to continue tomorrow with some new product announcements courtesy of Amazon, but a rival player in the e-book space is trying to capture some thunder of its own prior to Amazon's big show. Rakuten-owned Kobo has just officially unveiled a slew of new e-readers (plus an Android tablet, naturally) in an attempt to cement its place as a serious competitor despite its persisting status as an underdog.Sources: Amazon Publishing Cutting Deals For Serialized Fiction Series With Kindle, Print, And Audio Editions
Sep 06, 5:10AM
On the eve of Amazon's first non-New York event, we're hearing from multiple sources that the online retailer could be announcing new publishing deals in addition to a slew of updated Kindles tomorrow. Of course there's speculation that the announcement will be heavily focused on deals made with Hollywood given the [LA] locale, possibly a phone or even an Apple TV competitor. Regardless, we can confirm that Amazon is prepping a publishing focused announcement in the near-term.Disrupting Yesterday's Disruptors: How Millennial Entrepreneurs Are Killing It
Sep 06, 4:39AM
The title of this Disrupt SF panel is terrible (two 'Disrupts,' seriously?), but its premise is pretty amazing: How do Millennials deal with shaking up an industry to the point where they define it, and are at risk of being overthrown by hungry upstarts? Seriously, that's cooler than being cool? Having a sustainable business model, and protecting it from a) copycats b) people who find holes in it to take advantage of. How do you maintain the top spot once you've got it? I mean, it's one thing to outthink first generation online innovators with your snazzy design and proclivity towards mobile, but how do you outthink the people who are trying to outthink you?Tired Of Being Twitter For Voice, Bubbly 2.0 for iPhone Becomes "The Instagram Of Voice"
Sep 06, 4:00AM
Singapore-based Bubble Motion, the company behind sound-based social network Bubbly, unveiled a new version of its app today. The version 2.0 of Bubbly introduces filters users can apply to their voice, much like those Instagram offers for photos. Bubbly has a lot of traction already, including 19 million members mostly from Asian countries like Japan and India where it's found favor with a lot of different celebrities, and the new features seem designed to help the service keep its existing users engaged while it seeks out new audiences in the North American market. The new filters are tied to that expansion strategy, since they're only available to iOS users, which is a relatively new market for Bubble Motion. Its service managed to gain ground quickly by being not tied to any mobile smartphone platform, and instead existing as a voice service that could work with ordinary feature phones. The new app offers more flexibility, of course, and these voice filters are a good indication of where Bubbly can start to get creative and build on its earlier model, which most closely resembled Twitter for voice, complete with profiles and the ability to follow other users.Adobe Social Launches To Create And Monitor Social Ads
Sep 06, 4:00AM
After several months in beta testing, Adobe is launching Adobe Social, which it's pitching as a way to connect social marketing campaigns with real business results. That was the big emphasis when the company first announced the product back in April, and when I got a demo of the current version a couple of days ago, it was the central theme again: In Adobe Social, you can track every campaign and see how it drives results product orders and revenue.Post-Acquisition, Brightcove's Zencoder Adds Live Streaming And Instant Playback
Sep 06, 3:59AM
Video distribution company Brightcove announced its acquisition of Zencoder to coincide with its second-quarter earnings announcement in July, paying $30 million for the cloud encoding startup. And it's already working to add more features and functionality to the encoding side of the business, with the launch of two new offerings to improve live and on-demand video playback. The first of the two new products, Zencoder Instant Play, will provide near-instant gratification to customers who want to very quickly get video files up and available on the web. In Zencoder's old workflow, customers would upload video, wait for them to process, and then wait for them to get sent out to a CDN before they were available for viewing. Now, almost immediately after a video is uploaded, its bits will begin to be made available to users. That means customers can begin embedding the on-demand video even before it's finished uploading.Nightmarish Hardware Failure At Recurly Erases Subscription Billing Info Of Some Clients' Customers
Sep 06, 1:58AM
Recurly had some very bad news for its clients this morning but at least initial fixes are now on the way. A cascading hardware failure erased some end customer recurring billing info, preventing them from processing payments and essentially requiring them to ask customers to re-sign up for their subscriptions. Considering people often forget about the subscriptions they pay for, they might just ignore the request to resubmit billing info, effectively canceling their subscriptions. Thankfully, now Recurly says it plans to have data to some clients restored by midnight. It's been a painful moment to watch for a startup aiming to offer "Subscription Billing Pain Relief".Tumblr Runs Into "Networking Issue" That Affects Subset Of Custom Domain Blogs (UPDATED)
Sep 05, 11:28PM
If you use Tumblr to host a blog with a custom domain name, you might notice that it's not functioning properly. That's apparently the case for companies like Airtime, Pinterest and Path, as I've come to find. I reached out to Tumblr and received the following response.The NFL Season Starts Tonight And Twitter Has You Covered With A "Get-Started Page"
Sep 05, 11:15PM
If you're an NFL fan like I am (Go Eagles), then you are probably following some of your favorite teams and players on Twitter. The season starts tonight with the Giants vs. Cowboys, and I really don't care who wins. However, Twitter has unveiled a new "get-started" page for those of you who want to follow all of the action. Here's what the company said on its blog.The Future Of Memes: 4chan Hits 22M Monthlies, Unveils New API
Sep 05, 11:00PM
4chan, the often anonymously-used imageboard that's spawned memes like Lolcats and hosts the weirdest porn you'll ever see, just released an API and its first new features in five years for its 22 million unique monthly visitors. 4chan's founder moot said the API "potentially has huge performance implications" and that he's "curious to see how people will use it". 4chan's API that renders every thread in JSON could produce native reader apps that lets its subcultures better lol, troll, and surprise each other in a place without rules. Read on as moot tells TechCrunch how his site and the world of memes are evolving.Hoppit's Ambience Search Engine For Restaurants Comes To The iPhone
Sep 05, 10:23PM
Even in our age of Yelp and Google Places, finding the right restaurant can often be hard. In April, Hoppit launched its "ambiance search engine for restaurants" to make it easier to find a nice spot that fits not just your culinary preferences but also your mood. Today, after a bit of a delay, the company is launching its redesigned website and its iPhone app. Just like its website, the mobile app allows users to filter restaurants by mood, so you can easily find that hipster-friendly, romantic restaurant for your date. Another feature that makes the app stand out is that it also offers access to over 40,000 high-quality photos of restaurant interiors.Google To Start Displaying Knowledge Graph Carousel To Users Globally
Sep 05, 9:30PM
Google's Knowledge Graph has become a useful tool when you're searching for things that interest you. There are a few reasons why it's a handy feature, but most of all it provides context to what you're searching for. The best example I've found is that if I google "Eagles", I want to tell Google if I'm looking for information about the band or the football team. In my case, it's always the football team. Always.Tumblr Redesigns Default Mobile Layout To Focus On Sharing And Images
Sep 05, 9:26PM
Tumblr today revealed a new and hopefully improved design for its default handling of mobile device blog rendering. It's a clean layout that brings liking and re-blogging to the main page, as well as sharing via Facebook, Twitter and email. Mobile sites also now support Pages, Tumblr's more permanent locations for stuff like "About Me" sections that live outside of the main feed, and two darlings of the weblog and mobile web in general, infinite scrolling and full-width images. The changes are small, but they definitely lend a refreshed look to Tumblr's somewhat dated previous mobile design (pictured below). The site's addition of easier to access sharing and re-blogging features also get at the core of Tumblr's business in terms of how it's actually used, so it only makes sense to introduce these features on mobile platforms where audiences continue to grow.Twitter Officially Launches v1.1 Of Its API, Developers Have Until March 5, 2013 To Switch
Sep 05, 9:15PM
Last month, Twitter announced that some big changes were coming to its API. So developers and the Twitter ecosystem knew this was coming. But, today, the company officially unveiled the newest version of its API, v1.1, and updated its "Developer Rules of the Road" and display requirements. One of the more notable changes we've seen so far, brought to our attention by Steve Streza's tweet, is that developers will have until March 5, 2013 to switch over to the new version of the API. After that, v1.0 will be "kaput" -- to use the technical term. Twitter writes that it wants to provide developers with ample time (a 6-month window) before turning off v1.0., at which point endpoints "will no longer be available." More about the deprecation of v1.0 in Twitter's API Overview here.Real Estate Search Engine Zillow To Raise Millions More In Follow-On Offering
Sep 05, 9:03PM
After debuting on the NASDAQ last year, real estate search engine Zillow is filing a follow-on offering, seeking to sell 3.175 million shares of the company's Class A common stock. An additional 325,000 shares of its Class A common stock will be sold in the offering by shareholders. The company, whose shares closed at $42.43 today, saw record revenue in Q2 of $27.8 million, up 75 percent year over year. Zillow says it will use the proceeds from the sale for "general corporate purposes, which may include working capital, sales and marketing activities, general and administrative matters and capital expenditures." Another use case for the funds—acquisitions.All Of Google's Social Pieces Come Together For New York Fashion Week Brands And Fans
Sep 05, 8:52PM
More brands are gravitating towards Google's social offering, Google+ as of late, and it looks like the latest comes from the high-end fashion realm. During New York Fashion Week (NYFW), brands and fans will be able to participate in some pretty exclusive Hangouts and On Air Events being broadcast on YouTube. While I'm not a fashion fan, obvs, I can appreciate the ability to use technology to tie things together. It's a win-win for everyone: brands get interaction, fans get access.Giveaway: New Relic Has Four More Free Disrupt SF Tickets For All You #DataNerds
Sep 05, 8:38PM
It's a good time to be a nerd. The "nerd economy," as we're now calling it, is slowly but surely paving the way for geeks and nerds and nerd-geeks to someday rule the world. At long last. For me, it can't come fast enough. Until that day comes, nerds will certainly rule at next week's Disrupt SF event. Not only will Facebook's very own Mark Zuckerberg be there, but many, many more incredibly wonderful and influential speakers will be as well. For starters: Jack Dorsey, Michael Arrington, Reid Hoffman, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Marissa Mayer, Vinod Khosla, Ron Conway, Dave Morin, Jessica Alba, Marc Benioff, John Borthwick, Tony Conrad, Ben Horowitz, and tons more. You can view the whole speaker list here, as well as our updated agenda on the Disrupt site. It's going to be an amazing event.Announcing The Full TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Agenda
Sep 05, 8:14PM
Disrupt SF is right around the corner and is shaping up to be the biggest event of the year. We're looking forward to hearing from Mark Zuckerberg for his first post-IPO interview. Jack Dorsey will share his vision in a keynote address. Ben Horowitz and Bill Campbell will bring their wisdom to the stage as will Vinod Khosla, Jim Goetz and Marc Benioff. Biz Stone and Ev Williams will tell us what's up with Obvious and Reid Hoffman will give us insight into his entrepreneurial and investment path. Cory Booker promises some political excitement and Jessica Alba a little Hollywood glam. Our amazing Startup Battlefield judges will be taking the stage each afternoon as 30 companies launch on the Disrupt stage, culminating on Wednesday afternoon with Marissa Mayer, Roelof Botha, Michael Arrington, David Lee, Chris Dixon and David Sacks. All Startup Battlefield companies have been diligently rehearsing their pitches for the big stage with TechCrunch team and judicious advice and hospitality of our partner, Sequoia Capital. This promises to be the best Disrupt yet.Neul Raises $5M To Connect The Internet Of Things Using TV White Space
Sep 05, 8:12PM
UK-based Neul today announced a new $5 million investment from Mistui & Co. Ltd. subsidiary MGI, as well as existing investors DFJ Esprit, IQ Capital, Business Angels and founding company employees. Neul offers businesses and others a way to create a machine-to-machine (M2M) network using TV signal white space frequencies, which has the advantage of taking bandwidth heavy, essential communication between devices away from congests frequencies like Wi-Fi and GSM networks. The money will be used to help the firm expand its business, but Neul is more interested in the potential partnerships that investment from Mitsui brings along with it. Neul actually has some existing partnerships that are pretty impressive, including Microsoft and a number of other companies in Singapore where they've deployed a network around the Singapore Island Country Club. Eventually, the company hopes to deploy its networks in factories, among power suppliers, and anywhere else where there's a need for constant communication between various specialized, radio-enabled devices.Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales On British Government Snooping: "Technologically Incompetent"
Sep 05, 8:07PM
Don't mess with Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia when it comes to Internet freedom, because he will use harsh words to lash out at you. Today, according to the BBC, Wales had some choice words for the British government and their snooping practices on citizens. Basically, he called them "technologically incompetent." Yikes. A quick bit of background here, the British government has been working on a "snooper's charter" which will track its citizens text and email use. Well that's wacky. He didn't stop at calling the proposed charter names, he says that Wikipedia would encrypt all of its connections with Britain if the UK moves forward with this.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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