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Another Online Labour-Booking Funding Win: Intel Capital Leads $4M Series A In Russia's Eruditor
Oct 25, 8:03AM
Hot on the heels of funding wins for Handybook and PeoplePerHour, another investment in an online labour booking company this month: Intel Capital is leading a $4 million Series A funding round into Russia's Eruditor Group, an online marketplaces provider for freelancers and businesses in sectors including healthcare, beauty, sports and tutoring. Runa Capital is also investing in the round.With 340M Tracks Played, Soundrop, The 'Turntable For Spotify,' Gets More Interactive On Its Mobile And Spotify Apps
Oct 25, 7:26AM
We are still waiting for official word on when Spotify will make the move to a browser-based version, or port its App Center to its mobile app. But in the meantime, third parties continue to build out their presence on Spotify's platform -- perhaps a sign of more activity coming soon. The latest of these is Soundrop, a creator of listening rooms and social-jukebox-style services (a la Turntable.fm) that has racked up over 340 million plays on its platform -- making it one of the most popular apps on Spotify. To build on that momentum, today, the Oslo-based company is launching new versions of its Spotify and mobile apps that feature a new design, more ways to be social and a better way of tracking the music you like, and a platform for record labels and others to build services in Soundrop.Rock Health's Fourth Class Kicks Off With $100K Seed Funds From Kleiner & More, Plus Support From Kaiser
Oct 25, 6:52AM
Rock Health, the seed accelerator for startups focused on the health space, landed a big, new partner back in August: The well-known Silicon Valley venture firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The result of the new partnership? The promise of a considerably larger seed investment for its next batch of startups, as Kleiner joined Rock Health's existing partners in offering $100K in seed funding to each founding team.Dhingana Raises $7M For Free, Streaming Indian Music
Oct 25, 5:16AM
Dhingana, a startup with a free service for streaming Indian and Bollywood music, has raised $7 million in Series B funding. The company's catalog includes 500,000 songs in 35 languages, which it makes available on its website and through smartphone apps. Dhingana says it has built an audience of 15 million monthly active visitors, making it the most popular service of its kind. And 40 percent of those visitors are located outside of India.Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings
Oct 25, 4:03AM
Online real estate service Zillow is expanding its real estate listings today by adding "pre-market inventory" — specifically, homes that have either been foreclosed or are in the foreclosure process. Increasing the selection of available homes is particularly important now, Zillow says, because the inventory of for-sale homes listed on the site has fallen by 20 percent over the past year. The company suggests that there's already considerable interest from homebuyers in this kind of product, citing a study by the National Association of Realtors, which found that 55 percent of homeowners have considered purchasing a foreclosed home but don't know how to find those listings or are discouraged by the complexity of the transaction.Microsoft's Antoine Leblond: Windows 8 Will Have More Apps In Its Store Than Any Other Platform Had At Launch
Oct 25, 4:01AM
There's been a lot of chatter about the amount of apps in the Windows Store ahead of this week's Windows 8 launch. Earlier today, I had a chance to sit down with Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows Web Services Antoine Leblond to discuss the current state of the Windows Store and the new developer ecosystemGoogle Has Given Us The Gift Of One Click Access To Docs, Sheets And Slides…Oh My!
Oct 25, 1:30AM
I use Google products for pretty much everything, including documents, spreadsheets (ew) and slide presentations (double ew). Now that these products are safely nestled under "Google Drive", they've been renamed to Docs, Sheets and Slides. Yay for that. But what's really interesting, and something that I missed during the Apple and Facebook frenzies yesterday, is that Google has submitted these "apps" to the Chrome Web Store for easy access. Peep thisMobile Marketing Startup PageWoo Launches To Make Mobile Ads Location-Aware
Oct 25, 12:30AM
PageWoo seeks to solve a number of problems for mobile marketers: It is at once a content-generation engine, as well as a multi-image testing platform. It can target ads based on location and even on the weather. Oh, and did I mention that it provides detailed analytics that can be used to better target those ads.Twitter's Number One Gift To The World Is The Art Of Brevity
Oct 24, 10:47PM
I've been using Twitter for just about six years now, someone on Twitter informed me. Naturally. There are quite a few things that I've enjoyed about the service over the years, including the ability to connect with people all over the world in real-time. But do you know what I appreciate about Twitter the most? Ushering in the notion of "brevity" for the entire Internets. Not sure what it means?Clearing Up The Confusion: It's "The New Windows 8 UI" – Not "Metro UI"
Oct 24, 10:00PM
Ever since we heard the first rumors about Microsoft dropping the "Metro" moniker for its new touch interface and its app, there has been a lot of confusion about what the new interface should be called. Is it the new Windows UI? Windows 8-style UI? Are they Windows 8 apps or Windows Store app? Is it still Metro and all the rumors were false? Even just a day before the launch of Windows 8, most people still don't know what to call it (and I just spent most of the day in briefings with Microsoft partners ahead of the launch). To clear things up, I asked Microsoft for its own official guidance today (because inside of Microsoft, people are using different names as well).Mark Pincus: Zynga Didn't Meet Growth Goals Because "We Didn't Create Enough New Heat" — Also, Mobile
Oct 24, 9:49PM
In the conference call discussing Zynga's latest earnings report, CEO Mark Pincus acknowledged that the company has not met its own goals for growth, something he blamed on two things — "game execution" and the growth of mobile. On execution, Pincus said Zynga had struggled to "maintain the historical level of engagement" in its Ville franchise of games: "We didn't create enough new heat for our players by innovating on content and features." He added that the company also failed to release enough new games to offset those declines.AwayFind Creator Launches NotifyMeNot, A Site To Shut Off Those Annoying Notification Emails
Oct 24, 9:49PM
It's not much, but it's a start: Notify Me Not is a small, compact site dedicated to helping you and yours stop annoying emails from reaching your inbox. By focusing on the hows and whys of notification emails, the site aims to make your inbox a cleaner place and to calm your monkey mind.126M Accessed Facebook Solely From Mobile Last Month, Up 24% Since June. US User Count Inches Upward
Oct 24, 9:13PM
Facebook's 10-Q reveals some juicy tidbits left out of its earnings call yesterday. The final price it paid for Instagram was $715 million in stock and cash. Despite rumors that it has stopped growing in mature markets, Facebook's US user count did increase slightly from 168 million to 171 million monthly users during Q3. And the amount of people who accessed Facebook solely from mobile each month grew 24% to 126 million in since June 30th.Republican Voter Suppression App Designed By The Onion
Oct 24, 9:04PM
Intimidating voters at the polls is so 19th century. And, now that courts continue to overturn Republican voter ID laws, based on the fact that just 10 incidences of voter fraud in the last decade doesn't justify disenfranchising thousands of minority voters without a driver's license, what is the GOP to do? Thankfully, America's #1 fake news site has reimagined voter suppression for the 21st century, with a smartphone app that automatically applies time-tested voter intimidation to dark-skinned voters. Check out their concept video at the end of this post.Watch A Swarm Of Robots Team Up With Flying Drones To Solve Real-World Problems
Oct 24, 8:39PM
Nithin Mathews, Anders Lyhne Christensen, Rehan O'Grady, and Marco Dorigo are researchers from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Instituto Universitario de Lisboa and they are leading us down the primrose path towards human extinction. More precisely, they're using a method called specially-targetted communication. The flying robot "selects" ground robots and communicates with them by changing LED colors. Once the airborne robot sends the right signals to the ground robots, they can work together to move over and around obstacles that the ground robots cannot see.
Zynga Announces $200M In Share Buybacks In Its First Repurchasing Program
Oct 24, 8:38PM
Zynga is giving another carrot to investors. The company is kicking off a $200 million share repurchasing program. It's the first time Zynga has ever done this. The news comes on the heels of fresh cost-cutting with layoffs for 5 percent of the company's workforce and potential closures for international offices in the U.K. and Japan. At the same time, the company just unveiled what could be a big new revenue stream in real-money gaming abroad. The company said it's partnering with bwin, a real-money gaming operator, to bring real money casino and poker games to the U.K.Yahoo! Follows Through On Closing Korean Business, Cuts Around 200 Jobs
Oct 24, 8:30PM
According to Reuters, Yahoo! is actively closing down its Korean business and cutting around 200 jobs. We've reached out to Yahoo! for comment and confirmation and will update you as soon as we hear back. This shutdown was already reported, and it was supposed to happen by "the end of the year." The end of the year has apparently happened.Zynga Makes Its First Move Into 'Real Money' Games, Partners With Casino Gaming Giant Bwin.Party
Oct 24, 8:16PM
Zynga announced today its first move into online casino gaming, in other words, gambling-oriented games that deal with real money. Zynga announced this afternoon it has inked an exclusive partnership with bwin.party, the Gibraltar-based online gambling company, to offer real money online poker and casino games in the United Kingdom, where such things are currently legal (they are not permitted in the United States.)Zynga Reports Third Quarter Revenue Of $317M, Shares Pop 15.1% In After-Hours On Casino Push
Oct 24, 8:15PM
Zynga said it saw third quarter revenue of $317 million, which was slightly above the lower range of $300 million to $305 million the company said it would see earlier this month. Bookings came in at $256 million, up 11 percent year-over-year. The company saw a loss of 7 cents per share, and its non-GAAP earnings, which exclude one-off share based compensation costs, were 0 cents per share. The company's shares popped 15.1 percent in after-hours trading to $2.44 from today's close of $2.12 on news that Zynga is finally getting into real casino gaming.Condition One Raises $2.35M From Mark Cuban And Others To Make Immersive, 180-Degree Video Mainstream
Oct 24, 8:00PM
Condition One enables video producers to capture and share what typical video products miss, with a 180-degree field of vision. It's recently expanded its seed round to $2.35 million, coming from Mark Cuban, who invested prior to Demo Day, as well as Manilla CEO George Kliavkoff and other angels.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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