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And the 2012 Start TWS Competition Startups Are…
Oct 17, 6:52AM
It's that time of the year for one of the Israeli startup community's staple events, TWS. This year the event's founder, and Pops CEO, Yaron Orentstein is collaborating with Israel's most popular tech blog, Newsgeek.co.il to showcase some up and coming Israeli early-stage startups (and a couple from Europe). Here are the startups presenting on-stage in Tel-Aviv this morning: Overwolf adds a layer of functionality to any game without any change to the game's code. Functionality can include Facebook, instant messaging and an in-game browser. There's also the ability to add an in-game AppStore, a cross between between World of Warcraft's add-ons and an Apple's AppStore. WorkWith.me is a social recruiting network where instead of recruiters having to search for and court candidates themselves, the recruiting is crowd-sourced. When a candidate matches a position their friends will be asked by the recruiter for feedback and endorsement. The final twist is that it will be the friends who will be the ones to approach the candidate. More after the jump...AirPR Launches A Marketplace To Match Startups With Top PR Talent
Oct 17, 6:50AM
Today, AirPR is officially launching its Match.com for startups and PR, peeling back the curtain on its PR marketplace for the first time. Essentially, AirPR has created a tech platform that aims to increase PR performance and remove the barriers that stand in the way of startups discovering and recruiting top PR talent to help them carry out specific projects. It does this through a marketplace, in which startups and PR talent are vetted using its proprietary matching algorithm. Once approved, PR reps can search for projects that are relevant to their strengths and quickly create proposals to bid for them.The New Internet Explorer For Xbox May Be Clumsy, But Wait Til It Gets Kinected
Oct 17, 1:11AM
Internet Explorer suddenly became one of the most widely available Internet TV browsers today as it starts rolling out to Xboxes. And early reports say its joystick-based interface is awful. Whatever. It's v1. What matters is that Microsoft has united the world's most popular motion sensor tech and one of the world's most "popular" web browsers. Wave hello to the future of the Internet.Mobile Milestone: The Number Of Smartphones In Use Passed 1 Billion In Q3, Says Strategy Analytics
Oct 17, 12:07AM
We are just getting into reporting season, where some (but not all) handset makers tell us how many handsets they've sold in the last three months, but Strategy Analytics has taken a punt to say that Q3 will be the quarter that we have hit a major milestone: there are now more than 1 billion smartphones in use worldwide -- 1.038 billion, to be exact. It's taken 16 years to pass 1 billion, but the analysts believe it will only take three years for the next billion smartphone users to come online.Latest MacHeist Bundle Now Available For $29, Over 1.5M Members Should Help It Set Records Again
Oct 16, 11:36PM
MacHeist 4's puzzles have been keeping members buzzy this year, but now the curtain gets pulled back and the entire software lineup is revealed. After delivering four missions and four nano-missions, the MacHeist bundle now offers a full 15 apps for the low price of $29, with 25 percent of all proceeds going to charity. The company raised $850,000 with its MacHeist 3 bundle in 2009, and it's hoping to beat that record this time around.With Placed Panels, Publishers Can Persistently Track Location Data From Volunteers
Oct 16, 11:04PM
Placed is announcing the launch of Placed Panels today, giving its customers a way to constantly collect location data from a limited panel of users. Previously, Placed allowed publishers to collect location data about whenever someone was using their mobile website or app. That gives publishers valuable information about where their content and services are being accessed — but data collection only takes place for a brief period of time, presenting a limited picture of the app's users.AdRise Raises $2 Million From Foundation Capital To Put Video (And Ads) On More Connected TVs
Oct 16, 11:00PM
AdRise hopes to bring more video to connected devices, by building cross-platform apps that can be watched on multiple platforms. It's also built an ad delivery service for monetization. With that in mind, it's raised a $2 million funding round led by Foundation Capital to expand its personnel and go after the burgeoning streaming video market.Head Of Facebook's Seattle Office Ari Steinberg Is Departing To Launch A Travel Startup
Oct 16, 10:39PM
In his six years at Facebook, Ari Steinberg sired the Platform, ran the news feed, and started the Seattle engineering office, but he's decided to move on, TechCrunch has learned and Facebook as well as Steinberg confirmed. Friday will be his last day working for the social network. Steinberg verified that founding a travel startup is first on his post-Facebook itinerary.The Legal Tussle Between Zynga And The Cityville GM That Left For Kixeye Heats Up
Oct 16, 10:23PM
Kixeye CEO Will Harbin is lashing out at Zynga for suing the vice president of product that the gaming startup poached earlier this month. Shortly after former Cityville general manager Alan Patmore left for Kixeye, Zynga sued him for theft of trade secrets and breach of contract.Google Streamlines The Email You Get When Someone Shares A Google Drive Document With You
Oct 16, 9:58PM
You get an email, and it's a pretty important one. If you're using Gmail, there's a lot of things you can do with it to make it stand out. Basically, so you don't lose it. You can filter it to have a label, give it a star or mark it for your priority inbox. Once you open the email though, it's important that all of the information presented to you is useful and concise. Today, Google shared that it has streamlined the look of the email you get when someone shares a Google Drive document.Facebook Offers Are A Viral Hit: Friend-To-Friend Sharing Drives 3/4s Of Popular Coupon Redemptions
Oct 16, 9:55PM
David Fischer, Facebook's vice president of marketing and business relationships, just offered a new statistic on the Facebook Offers program: He said that among the 100 most popular offers on the social network, three-fourths of the claims came not from the people who had been initially targeted with an offer, but instead from someone they had shared it with. In other words, Offers seems to be a genuinely social product, with redemptions driven by sharing — as opposed to just another deal that happens to be delivered on Facebook. It helps Facebook argue that Offers ad campaigns will get free viral exposure to a much broader audience than the initial target they paid for because they'll spread by word-of-mouth. It also provides another reason why running ad campaigns to build a Facebook fan base is a good investment, because businesses can share Offers with their fans, and then those offers will spread among the fans' friends.Mobile App Ad Exchange Network Tap For Tap Pivots To Engagement Swapping Model
Oct 16, 9:01PM
Tap for Tap, a Victoria, B.C.-based startup is changing course with a new initiative just over half a year into its existence, based on feedback received from its initial crop of developers. The ad network will now focus on letting developers earn credits towards ad placement in other apps, based on the value of the taps they drive through ads placed in their own software.Microsoft's Surface Team Takes Questions, Talks Up New Tablet On Reddit
Oct 16, 8:32PM
Now that Microsoft has officially announced pricing and availability for its long-awaited Surface tablet (albeit a little early), the time has come to get people worked up about it. Of course, commercials and brief tours of the studio that spawned the device can only offer so much insight -- now Surface GM Panos Panay and the rest of the team have taken to Reddit and implored users to ask them anything.Remind Your Friends To Vote With Free Greeting Card From Shepard Fairey & Mobile Cards App Sincerely Ink
Oct 16, 8:26PM
Mobile photo-printing and greeting card startup Sincerely wants to encourage users to vote this election season, and to do so, it has partnered with artist Shepard Fairey on the creation of an exclusive new card. Best known as the creator of the Barack Obama "Hope" poster, Fairey's new card has a similar style and color palette, but offers a non-partisan plea: it just says "Vote!" To get users to send these cards to friends, Sincerely is now giving away 100,000 of them for free from now until the election on November 6th.Intel Beats The Street With Q3 Revenues Of $13.5B
Oct 16, 8:22PM
Intel just reported its third quarter 2012 earnings with revenues of $13.5 billion, flat compared to the prior year. Intel's net income was $3 billion, up 5.1% compared to last year. Operating income was $3.8 billion, flat compared to a year ago. Its diluted earnings per share were at $0.58 cents per share, a 7.4% increase from last year. Analysts expected Intel to report earnings of $0.50 per share on revenues of $13.2 billion for Q3, and $2.11 for FY 2012.IBM Reports Q3 Earnings Mostly In Line With Expectations: $24.7B In Revenue, $4.2B Net Income, $3.62 EPS
Oct 16, 8:18PM
IBM just released its Q3 2012 financials. Big Blue's GAAP earnings came in at $3.8 billion, up 3% from the last quarter. Non-GAAP earnings were $4.2 billion. Overall, the company reported revenue of $24.7 billion, down from $25.8 billion in Q2._______ Are Like Facebook: The Simple, Effective Parody Site For Facebook's Glitzy Ad Campaign
Oct 16, 7:51PM
Does Facebook's first major video ad campaign confuse you? You know, that commercial that compares Facebook to chairs? You're not the only one. Not only has there been a video send-off of the ad using toilets instead chairs, there's now a dead simple site that now lets you generate your own parody of one of the shots from the commercial.Social Network Tagged's Fifth Acquisition: Location-Based Mobile Discovery App Urbantag
Oct 16, 7:30PM
Tagged is continuing its acquisition tear, having made its fifth purchase of the past two years. This time, it's acquiring location-based mobile discovery app Urbantag, and adding co-founders Andrew Hoag and Emma Van Niekerk to its team. As part of the deal, Hoag will take over as Director of Product and Van Niekerk will become Director of Design. Meanwhile, the Urbantag app will remain available.In Time For The Holiday Shopping Rush, Etsy Launches Gift Cards
Oct 16, 6:17PM
In August, Etsy, the popular online marketplace for all things handmade, announced it would be launching the ability to give friends and family gift cards to the marketplace. Today, Etsy is debuting the new feature, allowing you to purchase gift cards online here.Google Brings Call Reporting To AdWords Express For Small Businesses
Oct 16, 6:12PM
Google just made it a lot easier for small businesses to track phone calls generated by their AdWords Express ads. For two years now, the full version of AdWords has allowed businesses to track phone calls by using the technology behind Google Voice to create unique phone numbers for every campaign. Starting today, AdWords Express, the somewhat simplified version of AdWords that's geared specifically toward small businesses, will also offer this feature.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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