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BAMM.tv Launches An Immersive iPad App For Fans Of Live Indie Music
Oct 09, 7:01AM
BAMM.tv's iPad app is designed to look like a virtual music venue, allowing users to watch videos, learn more about different bands, engage with musicians via social media, check out tour schedules, and even purchase tickets to upcoming shows. It app allows users to navigate through various playlists curated by the BAMM.tv staff and also create their own.Vacation Rental Startup HouseTrip Picks Up $40M Led By Accel In Another Big Round For Collaborative Consumption
Oct 09, 7:00AM
HouseTrip.com, one of the startups working at the accommodation end of the collaborative consumption market, with a platform for people to rent out homes online, has picked up a roomy $40 million as it looks to scale up its operations en route to booking 3 million nights of accommodation this year. The C Round for the London-based company is being led by new investor Accel Partners, with existing investors Index Ventures and Balderton Capital also participating. The funding bring's HouseTrip's total raised to date up to $60 million.Meet PureData, IBM's New Big Box For Big Data
Oct 09, 4:00AM
Two worlds exist when it comes to the enterprise. The new generation of cloud services represents one space. They rely on distributed infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rest of the vendors in that world. They don't buy hardware until it makes sense to move off a cloud service and into their own data center. By that time, they have such high workloads that it makes more sense to develop an infrastructure of their own.Calxeda Raises $55 Million For ARM-Based, Low-Powered Server Chips
Oct 09, 2:52AM
Calxeda has raised $55 million for its ultra-low-power server chips that use ARM-based processors instead of the Intel x86 architecture that now dominates the market.HouseFix, The Carfax For Homes, Closes Up Shop
Oct 09, 2:42AM
After a year of plugging away, HouseFix, a startup that launched a year ago at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco with the goal of becoming the Carfax for your home, has decided to close shop and has pulled down its website. The site now links to RedBeacon.In The War To Build The Biggest Mobile Gaming Platform, Japan's GREE Courts Indies
Oct 09, 2:20AM
GREE, the $4.4 billion mobile gaming company from Japan that's trying to break into Western markets, is attempting to grow its gaming platform through a new program for indie developers. Called GREE Loves Indies, it will promote different indie games every month. The Tokyo-based company is inviting indie developers to submit games for a four to six-week launch and marketing campaign, with the first one title by this holiday season.A French Romantic Take On HeTexted, Because Crowdsourcing Relationship Anxiety Feels Wrong
Oct 08, 11:32PM
As the only Frenchman on the team, I couldn't browse HeTexted's website without having strong opinions on the subject. There's nothing as cute as a great love story. HeTexted asks anxious women to write their potential lovers' texts and their context. Women of the world can then vote and decide whether he's into you or just not. It feels wrong for so many reasons that I'll try to explain them to you.Telefónica Wants To Turn Its Mobile Data Into A Big Data Business, Launches Dynamic Insights Unit
Oct 08, 11:04PM
Big data is one of the more fascinating developments in today's tech world: harnessing the huge wave of information that comes out of our many internet-based networks, and then trying to make sense of it -- and while some of the companies in the space have come in the form of startups, the newest player is not a small VC-backed effort but someone much bigger: the multinational carrier Telefonica. Today, the company's new business unit, Telefónica Digital, is announcing Dynamic Insights, its formal entry into the business of big data.To Infinity And Beyond: Buzz Lightyear, T-Pain, Hot Chocolate And Technology
Oct 08, 10:32PM
I'm at the #BoxWorks conference in San Francisco this week, which is an odd place for me to be at first glance. Why odd? Because I don't really get into or cover "enterprise" technology. It's nothing against the vertical, I'm just usually involved with smaller startups trying to change the world for people like my Mom. Someone asked me today if I'd like to sit down with a Los Angeles based entrepreneur, and I said yes, of course. In my brain though, I couldn't help but think "Please, don't pitch me on this whole Silicon Beach thing, because that drives me insane." Luckily, this wasn't the case.Turning A Utility Into A Community: BranchOut's Metamorphosis
Oct 08, 10:26PM
Love it or hate it, your job is a big part of your life. But you probably don't go to LinkedIn everyday. Maybe you only visit a few times a year. BranchOut thinks your professional network should be more like a home than a tool. So five months ago it stopped updating its app in preparation for today. What's emerged is a more vivid way to tell the story of how you bring home the bacon.Zynga Previews Its Next 'Ville Sequel, CityVille 2, In Closed Beta In the Philippines
Oct 08, 8:01PM
Zynga just announced that it's launching the sequel to its hit CityVille today in a closed beta test. The company blog post doesn't offer too many details about the game itself, beyond saying, "It has all the features in CityVille that players love – from neighbor visits and crews to buildables – blended with some of the innovations we introduced in CastleVille and FarmVille 2 like crafting and 3D graphics." (You can get a preview of the aforementioned graphics in the image at the top of this post.)Google+ Is The "Social Spine" For Consumers As Well As Brands And Advertisers
Oct 08, 7:33PM
Before you start commenting about how much I cover Google+, just hop over to The Next Web (my previous employer), to see the root of it all. I'm a firm believer in Google's approach to become more social, as I've watched it not only happen within its products, but company wide.T-Mobile Nabs Nokia's New Lumia 810 Windows Phone, Points To A Launch In "The Coming Weeks"
Oct 08, 7:18PM
When T-Mobile announced it would carry the LG Optimus L9 earlier today, I bemoaned the carrier's lack of compelling exclusive devices. As it turns out, that may have been a bit hasty of me -- Nokia has just let slip that its new Windows Phone 8-powered Lumia 810 will hit T-Mobile's shelves in the coming weeks.What's To Come As Jive's Tony Zingale Appears On Stage at Boxworks With Box CEO Aaron Levie?
Oct 08, 7:18PM
Jive CEO Tony Zingale zinged Zynga, Yammer, Oracle and you name who else in an interview with Box CEO Aaron Levie at Boxworks. But the real story comes with Zingale appearing as a mystery guest for the company's annual event -- fueling speculation that the two young enterprise challengers may have some news to share as the week goes on.Google Wants Developers To Build Better Tablet Apps, Publishes A "Tablet App Quality Checklist"
Oct 08, 7:04PM
Google's Nexus 7 tablet has been quite a hit, but there can be little doubt that the average quality of Android tablet apps still ranks behind iOS. Google is clearly aware of this and today, the company is making a new push to get developers to ensure that their apps run well on tablets. To do this, Google just launched a Tablet App Quality Checklist that walks developers through the process of getting their apps tablet-ready.Sprint Voice & Data Down In Minnesota, Washington, Oregon. Alaska Airlines Flights Delayed.
Oct 08, 6:18PM
The telecom company Sprint is currently experiencing issues with its network. We first heard reports of the outage on Twitter but a recording message from Sprint's support line confirmed the issue. The incident is due to a fiber cut and teams are currently working on it. As a result, Alaska Airlines flights are currently delayed until the network is back up because the carrier can't check in passengers.Google Faces Potential Class-Action Lawsuit In Canada Over Gmail Privacy Concerns
Oct 08, 5:55PM
Wayne Plimmer, a retiree living in Sechelt, British Columbia, filed a class action lawsuit against Google last week. In it, he and his attorney allege that Google's Gmail service "intercepts, obtains and uses personal information it collections from emails sent to Gmail users."Google TV Update Brings Google Play Music, Movies & TV, Plus More Features For Developers
Oct 08, 5:39PM
Google announced today that it's bringing Google Play movies, TV shows and music to its Google TV platform through an update that will allow users to rent or buy content through the included Google Play store on Google TV devices. In addition, purchases that users have made on other supported devices will also be available on Google TV following this update.Makers of Most Viral Video Ever, Kony 2012, Explain Naked Meltdown, Plan DC March
Oct 08, 5:39PM
Makers of the most viral video in Internet history, Kony 2012, launched their next phase to bring down child soldier Kingpin, Joseph Kony: release a new video, explain their co-founder's infamous naked meltdown, and plan a massive protest in DC. "I was not in control of my mind or my body," Invisible Children co-founder, Jason Russell, said on the TODAY show, explaining the public breakdown he had after mounting criticism of the wildly successful video, which accumulated over 100 million views in just six days. Invisible Children seem to have recovered from the overwhelming episode, releasing a 30 minute video explanation (posted at the end of the post, a shorter call to action (below this paragraph), revamped their website, and are planning a march on the White House on November 17th.Social Commerce Network Lockerz Raises Another $7.5 Million
Oct 08, 5:25PM
Social commerce network Lockerz, which just lost its founder and CEO Kathy Savitt to Yahoo, has raised $7.5 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the new funding, and said the round was raised from existing investors. The filing lists both Kleiner Perkins and Liberty Media. Other investors in the company include Live Nation and DAG Ventures. This new infusion brings Lockerz' total funding to nearly $80 million. As we've reported in the past, Lockerz revolves around the idea that influencers within a social network can become brand and content advocates and affect the behavior of their friends. The network, which says it is seeing 45 million monthly uniques, is primarily targeted towards men and women ages 13 to 30, attempting to build a community of trendsetters and tastemakers who love to shop, play and connect on the Web.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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