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How Will Salesforce Adapt To The Next Platform Shift: Mobile Computing?
Oct 13, 5:00AM
Editor's note: Bruce Cleveland is a General Partner with InterWest Partners focused on software and services sector investments with an emphasis on cloud computing, mobile and analytical applications. Most of us are familiar with the adage by George Santayana, who, in his biography said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." You may recognize it as, "Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it." Either way, I agree.SocialFlow Names Missy Godfrey As Its New CEO, Brings In Over Two Decades Of Media Experience
Oct 13, 3:10AM
Social media optimization technology company SocialFlow has made a change at the top. We've learned that its Co-Founder Frank Speiser has stepped down from the CEO position to make way for former Managing Director of North Sea Partners, Missy Godfrey. The service is used by some of the biggest brands in the world, including: Pepsi, Dole, National Geographic and The Washington Post.Sensegon Plans To Improve Ad Targeting Based On Your Personality
Oct 13, 1:47AM
Ad tech companies are trying get better at demographic targeting, especially on mobile, but a startup called Sensegon aims to go a step further — targeting ads based on audience members' personalities. To illustrate the concept, CEO Omer Efrat talks about going to a car dealership with his co-founder and CTO Tal Yaari. Efrat was more interested in engine power, while Yaari was more interested in gas consumption and safety. The salesman, Efrat says, knew intuitively to direct his pitch differently towards the two men. That's the kind of intuition that Sensegon is supposed to replicate.It's Done: Early Hulu Investor Providence Equity Partners Has Sold Its Stake For $200M
Oct 13, 12:32AM
It's been a long time coming, but private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has sold its stake in Hulu for $200 million, a person familiar with the matter has confirmed. The buyout of the firm's shares, which has closed but has not yet been announced, will have a huge impact on Hulu and could significantly shape its future.Defining A Successful IPO: $FB "Flopped" Yet Workday "Wins" By Handing $470M To Investors?
Oct 13, 12:16AM
Congratulations, Workday. Its share popped 74% when it IPO'd today. Or should I say condolences? $470 million ended up in the pockets of investors instead of the cloud startup's war chest. Meanwhile, Facebook is called a flop for filling its coffers with $10 billion by pricing shares at nearly twice its current value. This all raises the question, how should Silicon Valley define a successful IPO?This Guy Really Wants To Work For Social Reward Platform Kiip. Is This The New Way To Land A Job?
Oct 12, 11:21PM
I've seen plenty of interesting and unique "resume sites" where people are trying to get the attention of the companies that they really want to work for. Sometimes it's a Facebook ad, a video or something using the service itself, like a slideshow.U.S. Postal Service Plans To Launch Experimental Same-Day Delivery Service In November
Oct 12, 11:17PM
The United States Postal Service (USPS) just informed the Postal Regulatory Commission that it plans to launch an experimental same-day delivery service called Metro Post. The USPS says this test is specifically designed for e-commerce companies and will initially focus on a single (currently undisclosed) metropolitan area. The market test for Metro Post is scheduled to begin around November 12, 2012 and will run for at least one year.Postmates Is Updating Its App To Go After The Grocery Market With Deeper Supermarket Integration
Oct 12, 11:10PM
Postmates has always wanted to be the go-to app for on-demand delivery of local items. It took off thanks to the launch of its Get It Now app, providing hundreds of warm meals a day to hard-working, hungry startup workers throughout San Francisco. But now it's expanding to also help users feed themselves at home, with an update to its app that provide fast delivery of groceries as well.If Instagram Were More About Words Than Things, You'd Have Whims for iOS
Oct 12, 9:51PM
Instagram is huge because it's a network made of people who are passionate about taking pictures of things that they see and then dropping a cool filter on them to enhance their vision. It caught on immediately with everyone from geeks to Starbucks baristas. Since then, many companies have tried to duplicate the magic that Instagram used to sell itself to Facebook, but have failed. Today, an app called Whims is trying something completely different, but extremely familiar. The social network iOS app lets you express yourself with words, colors and fonts only. There's no pictures, there's no videos...just you and your thoughts.Open Source Search Engine Apache Lucene/Solr Gets Big Update
Oct 12, 9:43PM
Today the Apache Foundation released a major update to the open source search engine building tools Lucene and Solr. Version 4.0 adds several new features aimed at making Solr easier to use, more scalable and more customizable.Facebook's Having Some Issues With Twitter Cross-Posting, But Nobody Cares. For Reasons.
Oct 12, 9:02PM
As The Next Web reported, users are finding that their Facebook status messages aren't being cross-posted to Twitter even though they've set up their accounts to do so. I first noticed this the other night, but thought nothing of it, since I'm not really a fan of cross-posting. We reached out to both companies and Facebook let us know that this was indeed a bug and that they're working on it. The interesting thing to me is that nobody has been loudly upset over this "bug." I'd like to call it more of a "feature."Academia.Edu Overhauls Profiles As The Onus Falls On Researchers To Manage Their Personal Brands
Oct 12, 8:04PM
Even though it's taken for granted that you have to manage your own personal brand on the web, that still isn't necessarily the case in the slower-moving world of academia. But it's starting to happen, with individual brands beginning to eclipse the importance of being published in a well-known (and often exorbitantly expensive) journal. Academia.edu, a social network for professors and researchers, is taking advantage of this by overhauling its profile pages.Findery, Caterina Fake's Startup Previously Named 'Pinwheel', Debuts In Public Beta
Oct 12, 7:51PM
Findery, the new location-based note sharing startup from Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake, launched in public beta yesterday afternoon.Facebook's Testing A Navigation Bar Layout With Notifications On The Right Near Ads And Gifts
Oct 12, 7:47PM
Facebook likes to test things out on the live site, getting feedback in real-time. Sometimes, things make their way to some of your friends, but not to you. Some would call this an "inconsistent experience", but I actually like how Facebook goes about this. I would personally like to see all of the new stuff that the company tests, from a journalist perspective...but hey, you can't have everything. A few tipsters are reporting to TechCrunch that they're seeing a brand new layout for the toolbar on Facebook's website. The new layout shows a complete swap for where the notifications, friend requests and messages sit.The New iPod Touch Will Further Obliterate The Point-And-Shoot Market
Oct 12, 7:34PM
It's easy to forget that the iPod touch didn't even include a camera until 2010. While such a key feature has been standard on the iPhone since its initial unveiling in 2007, Apple apparently didn't think it was one of the must-have features of the touch. That changes this year. With the new iPod touch (the fifth generation, for those keeping score at home), which was unveiled a few weeks ago and just started shipping this week, the camera is one of the hallmark features. In fact, it may end up being its most important feature.Inside Network Launches New Blog "Inside Social Commerce" To Chronicle The Future Of Shopping
Oct 12, 7:30PM
Ecommerce has gotten friendly with the rise of Pinterest, Facebook Gifts, and more ways to sell to peers. So today Inside Network launched a new site called Inside Social Commerce to complement its blogs Inside Facebook, Inside Social Games, and Inside Mobile Apps. Led by Damon Brown, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Facebook Marketing, ISC will cover commerce startups and giants alike.Netflix Launches Its Windows 8 App
Oct 12, 7:27PM
The Windows 8 Store could sure use a few good apps before the official Windows 8 launch later this month, but at least we're seeing a slow trickle of interesting apps from known brands now. One of these is Netflix, which just launched its previously announced Windows 8 app.Kidaptive Raises Large Seed Round From Menlo, CrunchFund & Others To Bring Children's Educational Apps To iPad
Oct 12, 6:59PM
The iPad is the first computer a generation of children will have access to - a shift in computing which has birthed an industry of kid-focused startups. While some companies build apps purely for entertainment, others are attempting to leverage the technology for educational purposes. And some believe they can do both. A new entrant in this "edu-tainment" space is Kidaptive, a media and technology company building educational kids' apps for the iPad. The company has raised an over-subscribed, but undisclosed, seed round, and is now soft-launching its first iPad app, "Leo's Pad," in Australia, the U.K. and Canada, ahead of its U.S. debut.Velti Report: With iPhone 5 and iOS 6, Apple Reclaims Ad Marketshare, While Photos Apps Decline
Oct 12, 6:45PM
The September mobile ad report from Velti is dominated by the launch of the iPhone 5 and iOS 6. For one thing, after two months where Android seemed to be gaining on iOS in mobile ad impressions, iOS saw an increase of 5 percentage points. Actually, the iPhone 5 also played a big role in Velti's last report — even though the device wasn't available yet, the company was making predictions based on previous Apple launches. And indeed, the company says iOS saw a similar increase after the launch of the iPhone 4S. Apple's mobile operating system now claims 72 percent of total impressions, while Android has 38 percent.According To Path, Its Users Really Can't Get Enough Of "The Hunger Games", Here's Their Top 10 Watched Films
Oct 12, 5:58PM
If you're a Path user, you know that you can share the movies that you're watching with your intimate group of friends and family. It's not a feature that I've used a lot, even though I'm a huge movie freak. I can safely say that I've seen at least 50% of the movies ever released. That's not really scientific, but Path has released some scientific information about the most watched movies as shared by its users on the service.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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