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Opera Maps Global Mobile Social Network Usage: Facebook Most Frequently Visited On Phones In Macau, Twitter In Paraguay

Nov 30, 10:37AM

facebook logoBrowser maker Opera has released its 2012 State of the Mobile Web report which measures social networking popularity by looking at the number of Opera Mini users who visit them. Data is aggregated from the servers powering the browser's data compression -- enabling the company to build up an (anonymous) picture of the mobile social web across more than 190 countries.


R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy

Nov 30, 8:55AM

Screen Shot 2012-11-30 at 12.48.17 AMWhatever it is it is palpable. A sort of buzz in the Valley that all is not well, and a slight nervousness among entrepreneurs, investors and startup employees as they flit about their day-to-day. We may not be in the middle of an outright private market collapse, but there will definitely be fewer tigers and monkeys at this year's holiday parties. The fingernail biting is not just caused by the Series A crunch, which has been happening for a year, although that is definitely a part of it ("20 percent of companies that have gotten a seed round in the last year will be able to raise a Series A" Sarah Lacy wrote on Wednesday, aptly comparing the current jostle for venture money to a game of musical chairs).


Basho's Amazon S3 Compatibility Gets Potent Boost With Replication Capabilities For Riak Cloud Storage

Nov 30, 8:10AM

riak-cs-logoBasho Technologies Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) now can be replicated across multiple data centers. The new capability, combined with its existing AWS S3 compatibility, gives a potent boost to the fast growing distributed storage service.


Plyfe Brings Its Brand-Promoting Games To Mobile, Raises $750K

Nov 30, 3:35AM

plyfe mobilePlyfe, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through games and rewards, is moving onto mobile today — Plyfe games can now be played on the company's mobile website, as well as embedded in smartphone apps. The company is also announcing that it has raised $750,000 in bridge funding. The basic idea: Games are a much more engaging way than traditional advertising for brands to reach consumers and fans.


Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero

Nov 30, 2:03AM

xeroPaypal co-fouder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is Thiel's third investment in Xero. Earlier this year, Thiel and existing investors put $16.6 million into the company. Thiel invested $3 million in New Zealand-founded Xero in 2010.


CourseTalk Launches A Yelp For Open Online Courses And What This Means For Higher Education

Nov 30, 12:19AM

Screen shot 2012-11-29 at 2.13.27 PMOne of the most popular topics in education technology these days is the subject of MOOCs, otherwise known as Massive Open Online Courses. Thanks to the buzz around MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udacity and edX, there are few universities and colleges that aren't currently struggling with whether or not they should hop on the bandwagon.


AngelPad Debuts 12 New Startups At Its Fall 2012 Demo Day

Nov 30, 12:12AM

AngelPad's Fall 2012 ClassAngelPad, the startup accelerator program founded back in 2010 by ex-Googler and investor Thomas Korte, held its fifth ever Demo Day at its downtown San Francisco headquarters today. The twelve startups that comprised AngelPad's Fall 2012 class each took the stage to give their snappiest three-minute pitches to a very packed room full of the industry's most prominent investors. A bit about the program: AngelPad provides startups with ten weeks full of mentorship from industry veterans that covers all aspects of launching a company along with $20,000 in initial funding to help founders get their products off the ground in the best way possible.


Exceptional Buys Ranger To Give A Monitoring Shot In The Arm To Its 'DevOps' Platform

Nov 30, 12:01AM

163941v1-max-250x250There is some consolidation in the error-tracking/monitoring space. Exceptional, the error-tracking service for cloud developers, has announced the acquisition of the Ranger monitoring service to extend the U.S. company's 'DevOps' platform. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although Exceptional CEO Jonathan Siegel tells me it's a "solid six-figure purchase," and covers the Ranger product (which has just been updated to version 2.0) and existing customer base-only.


Start-Up Chile Hosts Its 3rd Demo Day, Announces The 105 Startups In Its Next Class

Nov 30, 12:00AM

start-up-chile-demo-dayStart-Up Chile, the government-sponsored startup accelerator, is hosting its 3rd demo day today. The focus of this demo day is on social enterprise and green tech and, for the first time ever, the program partnered with Common Pitch to host today's event.


Zynga Shares Sink 12% After Renegotiated Partnership With Facebook Makes It Just A Regular Developer

Nov 29, 11:43PM

Facebook Zynga DisbandYou might think Zynga's newfound flexibility from the end of its exclusivity agreements with Facebook would encourage investors. Instead, $ZNGA is down 13.36% after-hours, likely because it's lost its special relationship with the social network. Now it can launch games elsewhere and use non-Facebook payments and ads on Zynga.com, but it might stop getting valuable preferred treatment.


Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Talks AWS, Innovation, Customer Service & Space Travel At Re: Invent

Nov 29, 11:30PM

bezosJeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO, took the stage at the company's re: Invent developer conference for a wide-ranging discussion with the company's CTO Werner Vogels about Amazon's web service and retail business, as well as his view about entrepreneurship and his personal projects, such as the 10,000 year clock and the Blue Origin space program.


More On PeopleBrowsr And Its CEO Jodee Rich, Who Has Been Involved In Long Legal Battles Before

Nov 29, 11:16PM

2937473325_11af7e21d8_zAs you might have heard last night, PeopleBrowsr, the maker of social influence service Kred, has filed legal actions against Twitter for cutting it off of its full firehose of data. It was given a temporary restraining order, which has kept the current data deal in place. Twitter told TechCrunch last night that it had every right contractually to do so, whereas PeopleBrowsr is crying "anti-competitive" practices.


Kiosked Has A Plan To Change Affiliate Marketing, And It's Starting To Show Up With Angry Birds Merch

Nov 29, 10:59PM

Screen Shot 2012-11-29 at 11.52.20 PMKiosked, a Finnish startup that raised $5.75 million from Rovio's elusive chairman Kaj Hed after bootstrapping for several years, is finally starting to show off what it's been working on. Naturally, the company's products are starting to appear with Angry Birds merchandise on Rovio's Facebook page. Kiosked is trying to change affiliate marketing by making videos and images more interactive with direct links and e-commerce promotions. The company's technology turns any image or video into a storefront where links to products can pop-in from the right-hand side.


Gift Guide: HTC One X+

Nov 29, 10:27PM

giftguide-1280px-htc-one-x+Android phones! There are some that I love. The HTC One X was one of those, thanks to a very attractive external package alongside an Android skin (Sense) that had a fairly light touch and didn't mess with most of Android's good features, but brought some nice additional touches to the mix. The HTC One X+ is like the One X, but made better in nearly every important respect. Not surprisingly, that improves my impression of it, too.


Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Said He Was Hugely Surprised By The Success Of AWS

Nov 29, 10:17PM

bezoswernerAmazon.com Founder and CEO said in a fireside chat at AWS re:Invent with CTO Werner Vogels that he was surprised by the success of Amazon Web Services. Bezos said they were optimistic that AWS would do well, but they did not anticipate such huge growth.


TechCrunch Moscow Returns On 9-10 December — Unpacking Russia's Tech Boom

Nov 29, 10:16PM

TC Moscow 2012In 2010 we held the first TechCrunch Moscow. We were back last year, and will return again this December with two days packed with speakers and startups. You can register here. Co-organized by Digital October, Kite Ventures, and AOL Tech Media, and backed by numerous partners, the third TechCrunch Moscow will feature some of the world's leading technology entrepreneurs, including Brent Hoberman, founder of Lastminute.com and Mydeco.com, Lukasz Gadowski, founder of Team Europe, Dmitry Stavisky, VP of Evernote, Arkady Volozh, co-founder and CEO of Yandex, Christian Saller, Managing Director of Kayak Europe and many other leading names.


Meet Rapt.fm, The Startup That Lets Rappers Show Their Skills With Freestyle Battles On The Web

Nov 29, 10:13PM

rapt screenshotRap music has certainly evolved over the decades to become a pretty mainstream thing, but the act of rapping itself is not exactly seen as a commonplace hobby. But Detroit-based entrepreneur Erik Torenberg thinks that's something that should change. According to him, everybody has it inside of them to freestyle rap -- it's a talent that can be tapped into with the right amount of mentorship and practice. And, he says, rapping is a very valuable thing: It's an incredibly effective creative outlet that makes you more confident in expressing your thoughts and feelings.


Zynga Loosens Its Deal With Facebook: No Longer Tied To Facebook Ad Units, Credits, Or Exclusivity

Nov 29, 9:56PM

zynga logoZynga just filed a document with the SEC outlining new terms to its agreement with Facebook. Overall, it seems that Zynga and Facebook establishing a little more distance and flexibility in their relationship, with Zynga being treated more like any other game developer. According to the filing, any "standard Zynga game page" that uses Facebook data will now be governed Facebook's standard terms of service, meaning that games on Zynga's new-ish platform Zynga.com are no longer obligated to use Facebook ad units and Facebook credits. In exchange, Zynga's right to cross-promote its non-Facebook games using Facebook data and email addresses is now "limited by Facebook's standard terms of service."


Google Loves This Third Party Instant Street View Search App, Will They Buy It?

Nov 29, 9:43PM

1808636450_1001d8027d_zWhen I spoke with one of the leads on Google search a while back, he told me that one of the biggest features to come along for the company was "instant search" and autocomplete. Basically, you didn't have to type out a whole search string before performing said search, which required more thought and brain power. Now when you go to Google, you can type a few letters and it will try and predict what you're looking for based on a number of factors. What if Google Maps worked like this? Today, on its Geo Developers blog, the team highlighted a service that has built it, and it's quite cool.


Keen On… WCIT: Is This The End Of The Internet? [TCTV]

Nov 29, 9:41PM

Screen Shot 2012-11-29 at 1.32.09 PMToday, the dark day Syria shut down its Internet, web freedom should be at the very forefront of all of our minds. Web freedom was also center stage earlier this week when Stanford Law School hosted an event called "Sticky WCIT: Is This The End Of The Internet." I asked several of the experts attending the event whether a WCIT meeting next week in Dubai might be a big threat to the free flow of digital information.



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WordPress.com Launches Restaurant Vertical As It Pushes Platform Well Beyond Basic Blogging

Nov 29, 7:11AM

Screen shot 2012-11-28 at 10.41.25 PMRestaurants are kind of notorious for having painful web experiences -- either with websites that are horribly basic and out of date, or needlessly souped up with music and Flash animation. So it was good news today when web publishing stalwart WordPress.com rolled out a new set of templates specifically aimed at helping restaurants build clean, useful websites that can be easily accessed from both desktop and mobile devices.


Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone

Nov 29, 6:44AM

Screen shot 2012-11-28 at 7.36.16 PMWhether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it's hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational video-producing machine, or that the platform continues to diversify. In part, that started with the release of its iPad app in March. This week, Khan Academy brought its 3,600 videos to the iPhone.


When Marketing, PR And Technology Collide: Why Is PeopleBrowsr Going After Twitter, Exactly?

Nov 29, 5:17AM

276131991_1ace023aab_zSo, this was bound to happen. A company that built itself on top of someone else's data lost access to it. And sued. I was sucked into the ploy at first, the whole "Klout but better for the people!" thing.


Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101′

Nov 29, 5:12AM

twitter-bird-calloutWhen the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter provided a terse response saying that it plans to "vigorously defend" itself in the broader legal case. Now the company has given me its actual filing in response to PeopleBrowsr — technically, the filing focuses on the restraining order (an issue on which Twitter lost), but it also lays out the other side of the story, and some of Twitter's broader arguments.


The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem At Groupon

Nov 29, 5:06AM

FallguytitlescreenIn February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart team that included several relatively prominent ex-Googlers. It was one of a series of acqui-hire deals Groupon executed as part of its strategy to staff up its Silicon Valley office with the best engineers money can buy.


Court Temporarily Protects PeopleBrowsr Access To Twitter Firehose, Twitter Says It Will 'Vigorously Defend' Itself

Nov 29, 4:10AM

PeopleBrowsr-logoPeopleBrowsr, the maker of social analytics tools such as Kred, has won a temporary restraining order against Twitter, allowing the company to maintain full access to Twitter's firehose of data. The victory for PeopleBrowsr is short-term, but it does mean that the company won't be cut off on November 30, which is what PeopleBrowsr says Twitter was threatening. Temporary restraining orders are usually granted until the court is ready to decide on a preliminary injunction (which would last until the case is decided). The hearing to discuss the injunction is scheduled for January 8.


An Interview With Jeroen "Sprite_tm" Domburg, Creator Of The Tiny MAME Arcade Cabinet

Nov 29, 3:50AM

headshotWhen I first saw this tiny gaming cabinet this morning, I was fascinated. Who was the creator, Sprite_tm, and why did he do such and excellent and thorough job of turning a tiny Rasberry Pi device into a little gaming cabinet? In short, how did he get inspired as a maker?


iSchool Campus Wants To Bring The Next-Gen Wired Classroom To K12 Education

Nov 29, 3:25AM

Screen shot 2012-11-28 at 2.34.57 PMTechnology is increasingly becoming a part of the classroom experience, particularly thanks to smart devices. Tablets and iPads offer students a more portable, engaging and interactive experience than many of the tools of old, and schools are catching on. The San Diego School District's recent purchase of 26,000 iPads is just one of many recent examples of districts and states pushing to deploy tablets in their schools.


An Interview With Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy

Nov 29, 1:40AM

jasssyphotoI interviewed Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy today at the AWS re:Invent conference. Before the interview I asked my Twitter followers for questions to ask. I could not use all of the questions but I've included a few here to give you a snapshot of the full recording, which is embedded below.


Spotify Made You Listen To More Music, WillCall Gets You To Go To More Concerts

Nov 29, 12:24AM

WillCall FeatureIn 1996, people in the U.S. bought about 2.3 albums per year. Today, thanks to services like Spotify and Rdio, some of us listen to that many albums a day. Last-minute concert ticket app WillCall wants to make live music just as accessible. This week it released version 1.5 of its iOS app, which focuses on delivering push notifications to your feeds about what shows your friends are going to.


Intuit Launches Its Square Competitor In The UK

Nov 28, 11:59PM

intuitFinancial software giant Intuit offers a Square-competitor, GoPayment, which allows users in the U.S. and Canada to accept payments via a reader that attaches to any smartphone. Today, Intuit is expanding across the pond with the launch of a mobile card reader in the UK; however, the offering has a different name--Intuit Pay.


Groupon Shares Pop 11.6 Percent After CEO Andrew Mason Defends His Vision And Leadership

Nov 28, 11:57PM

Groupon-Logo1Groupon shares (NASDAQ:GRPN) closed at 4.42, 11.62 percent above yesterday's level. CEO Andrew Mason's interview was highly anticipated today. Yesterday, AllThingsD reported that the board questioned Mason's vision.


Wefunder Raises $500K To Help Unaccredited Investors Put Money Into Startups

Nov 28, 11:44PM

Another crowd funding startup has entered the mix, and is announcing funding today (which was raised via its own platform, of course). Crowd investing startup Wefunder is announcing a $530,000 seed round from just under 60 investors, over half of whom are unaccredited. Nihal Mehta, Jim Pallotta, Dharmesh Shah, and Bill Warner also participated in the round.


SRI's Norman Winarsky Says Siri Has Been Stretched 'Beyond Its Initial Capabilities' (But It's Not Apple's Fault)

Nov 28, 11:37PM

siri_icon_lgNorman Winarsky, vice president of SRI Ventures, offered his thoughts today on how Apple has handled the acquisition and subsequent relaunch of Siri as an integrated service in iOS. He was diplomatic about some of the criticism Siri has received, while also acknowledging the service has some real shortcomings. For those of you not familiar with Siri's history, the startup actually spun out of SRI, andit was based on technology developed there, and Winarsky was on Siri's board of directors. So when Winarsky answered questions from reporters this afternoon at Bloomberg's San Francisco office, it was inevitable that someone would ask about what Apple has done with the technology.


Microsoft Reportedly Planning OS X-Style Cheap, Annual Windows Updates

Nov 28, 10:40PM

Windows 8 LogoMicrosoft might be figuring out that the best way to get users to use its product isn't by charging an arm and a leg for updates and releasing them only once every few years. Redmond is reportedly switching to an approach like that taken by rival Apple, delivering inexpensive, annual updates that are less dramatic but which are designed to get all users on board a unified platform.


TiVo Sees Surge In Subscriptions Thanks To Cable Deals; Reports Service Revenues Of $61M, Net Income Of $59M In Q3

Nov 28, 10:07PM

TiVo_logo_2012_300dpi (1)TiVo reported solid third-quarter financials thanks to subscription growth from MSOs and payments in litigation it settled with Verizon earlier this year. It reported service and technology revenues of $61 million, which was up 18 percent from a year ago. It also reported net income of $59 million, which was bolstered by $78.4 million from litigation proceeds due to the Verizon settlement.


Heyzap Expands Its Mobile Gaming Platform With Leaderboards, Where You Can Challenge Other Players

Nov 28, 10:03PM

heyzapHeyzap continues to build out its social platform with the addition of player leaderboards that developers can add to their mobile games. Other companies have released their own leaderboard options, most notably OpenFeint — except that the OpenFeint service is closing down on December 14, following its acquisition by GREE in April of last year. So there's a bit of a vacuum. Plus, co-founder Jude Gomila said Heyzap's version is more focused on friends' scores and more engagement.


NCR Acquires Retail Point Of Sale Software Company Retalix For $650 Million Cash

Nov 28, 9:36PM

Screen shot 2012-11-28 at 1.35.36 PMIn case those Black Friday and Cyber Monday frenzies weren't enough, here's another big reminder of what a massive industry (and opportunity) retail technology is. Global payment and retail technology giant NCR Corporation announced this afternoon that it will acquire Retalix, a provider of point-of-sale software and services, for $30 per share in cash, a total transaction value of approximately $650 million.


Who Is Scroogling Who? Bing's Shopping Results Aren't All That Clean, Either

Nov 28, 9:03PM

Notification Center-3Microsoft started a rather controversial anti-Google campaign this morning that alleged Google is essentially misleading its users because all of the company's shopping results are now paid. The "Don't Get Scroogled" page is getting quite a bit of attention today, but at the same time, there is also some unease about how Bing organizes its own shopping results.


Microsoft Sets The Record Straight, Says The Windows Phone 7.8 Update Is Coming In Q1 2013

Nov 28, 9:00PM

windows-phone-1Windows Phone 8 has made its fair share of headlines lately but there hasn't been has much official chatter about Windows Phone 7.8, the update intended to bridge the feature gap between older and newer Windows Phones. Well, consider that quiet streak broken — Microsoft confirmed today the the 7.8 update would begin rolling out in the first quarter of 2013, with devices running the revamped build poised to launch soon.



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Deezer Takes Aim At Spotify With New App Studio, APIs, Echonest And Songkick Deals And App Updates

Nov 28, 9:33AM

new deezer logoDeezer, which earlier this year announced a $130 million round of funding to ramp up its music streaming business internationally. But to make sure that its service can compete against Spotify and others on the product level, today Deezer is also adding a bunch of new bells and whistles: it is launching a new app store called the App Studio and a set of APIs for others to embed the Deezer experience elsewhere; it's partnering with (Spotify's partner) Echonest for music discovery and Songkick for event listings; and it's upgrading its iOS and Android apps.


Smartphone Maker HTC Appoints New Chief Marketing Officer: Benjamin Ho To Join In January To Lead "Next Phase"

Nov 28, 9:21AM

htc-logoThere's no denying times are tough for smartphone maker HTC, with sliding revenues and shrinking margins -- and no let up expected for Q4. But the company is aiming to put a new public face on its situation next year: it's announced the appointment of a new chief marketing officer, Benjamin Ho, who will join in January -- replacing current CMO, John Wang, who HTC confirmed will be stepping down.


U.K. Mobile Shopping Startup, Tapestry, Trials Barcode/NFC Scanning App To Link Shoppers With The Physical Things They Fancy

Nov 28, 8:40AM

Screen Shot 2012-11-27 at 23.50.36Tapestry, the latest contender in the fashion-tech startup space, wants to connect a shopper's digital identity with the physical products in the store they're in by using barcode/NFC-scanning smartphone apps which shoppers use to build up a virtual collection/wish-list of items they might like to buy in future that are linked to the retailer's ecommerce database.


Google's Romanian Domain Gets Defaced By Algerian Hacker MCA-CRB. Google Says: "We Were Not Hacked"

Nov 28, 7:19AM

Google.ro hacked and centeredLooks like Pakistan is not the only place where major internet companies' domain names can get hacked hijacked. This morning, google.ro, was taken over, with the credit being taken by "Algerian Hacker" MCA-CRB, a serial website defacer. The site looked like the picture above for at least an hour, according to our tipster.


>From The Lab To The Shelf: NYC TechConnect Event Helps Give An Entrepreneurial Boost To The Sciences

Nov 28, 1:41AM

NYC TechConnectAs funding dwindles across the life sciences industry, researchers at major universities are increasingly adopting the entrepreneurial models forged by the tech world. With help from groups like NYC TechConnect, scientists are taking their inventions and discoveries out of the lab and into the free market.


Marc Andreessen Champions Innovation Through Trial and Error, And Error, And Pets.com

Nov 28, 1:29AM

photo 16This evening at Andreessen Horowitz's offices in Menlo Park, founding partner Marc Andreessen sat down with William Janeway, recent author, to discuss "Capitalism in the Innovation Economy." Janeway is a well-known investor, and theorist in the investment and software world. It's a very small event, but the conversation is lively. It's Q&A style, and Andreessen is firing off questions, clearly the two are pals and have a deep connection. The room will be able to ask questions at some point as well.


Economic Impact Of Startup Accelerators: $1.6B+ Raised, 4,800+ Jobs Created, 2,000 Startups Funded

Nov 27, 11:15PM

startup-seed-funding-300x200Today, there seem to be more business accelerators than there are startups to fill their classes and cohorts. It seems that not a week goes by without the launch of another accelerator or seed starter fund. In fact, as Peter Relan said in a recent post (riffing on Chris Dixon), accelerators have become an industry segment in their own right. He also goes so far as to surmise that -- just as it is for startups -- 90 percent of accelerators are likely to fail.


Churn: The Problem Of The New Tech Journalism

Nov 27, 10:50PM

coffeegrinderEnterpriseA decade ago, the news cycle for a CE product worked like this: a PR person contacted a major title - Laptop, say, or PC Magazine - and offered an exclusive for a cover story. "Hey," they'd say. "Hot new laptop coming out! It's got that new Wi-Fi!" An early version of the laptop would arrive at the title's office and someone would write a detailed review of it because, let's face it, there was little else to do at the office before the Internet was pervasive. Then, two months later the story would go to press and then maybe end up on some nascent Internet CMS hacked together by a designer after hours. The circle of life, then, for a tech product was about half a year. Plenty of time for back and forth, hand-holding, and handsome product shots.


Google's 'Defend Your Net' Campaign Implies That All Of The Internet Is 'Fair Use'

Nov 27, 10:03PM

vanilla-ice-pictures-eba969edb86e9971aa5cb3e397a0cc16Does the Internet exist to inspire and inform society and therefore limits copyright holders ability to block information? Hidden between the lines of Google's otherwise predictable "Defend Your Net" campaign in Germany, where the legislature may allow publishers to charge for snippets of content on Google search results, is a very intriguing argument: information on the Internet is a public good.


Mozilla Launches Custom Firefox With MSN Edition

Nov 27, 9:44PM

Firefox with MSNMozilla just launched a special customized edition of Firefox for fans of Microsoft's MSN portal. Firefox with MSN comes with MSN as the default home page and automatically opens msnNOW, the memetracker-like version of MSN as a Firefox app tab. And of course, this edition offers an MSN theme and uses Bing as the default search engine instead of Google, which is the standard for regular Firefox releases.


Ex-Foursquare Designers Focus On Sunrise, Want You To Do More With Your Calendar

Nov 27, 9:25PM

ClouDrop 27 nov. 2012 15-46-54Two of the team of eight designers at Foursquare have recently left to focus on Sunrise, a calendar product to do more with your calendar, with data from Google Calendar, Facebook, LinkedIn and others. They currently offer a daily email and are actively working on the next version. According to them, the calendar can be a very powerful tool and nobody has figured it out yet.


Microsoft Says It Has Sold 40 Million Windows 8 Licenses To Date

Nov 27, 9:20PM

windows8Microsoft just announced that it has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses so far. This is the first update the company has given since it announced that it had sold 4 million upgrades over the first weekend after Windows 8 went on sale earlier this month. According to Microsoft, "Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades."


Social Discovery Platform At The Pool Emerges From Beta With Funding, A Redesign & Users In 50 Countries

Nov 27, 9:10PM

Logo500At The Pool, a Los Angeles-based social discovery network that aims to be the anti-Facebook (and anti-Twitter for that matter), today announced it has emerged from beta and is in the process of closing a $1 million seed financing round led by Clearstone Venture Partners. Also participating in the investment are a bevy of Los Angeles-based angels, including Buck Jordan of Canyon Creek Capital and existing investors David Carter (a founding member of Amplify), and distinguished professor at UCLA and one of the fathers of ARPANET, Leonard Kleinrock.


Style Site Polyvore Debuts Its First Ever iPhone App, Touts Cash Flow Positive Operations

Nov 27, 9:00PM

0 followingPolyvore, the interactive fashion and style website that lets people create collages of apparel and accessories using images from any online store, has had solid growth since it first came on the scene back in 2007. Its monthly unique visitor count has steadily grown to more than 19 million, and, co-founders Jess Lee and Pasha Sadri tell me, the 55-person company's operations recently went beyond being merely profitable to achieve cash flow positive status. What's kind of surprising is that Polyvore has achieved this kind of scale all without having any native mobile apps. The company has seen a decent amount of traffic from its HTML5-powered mobile website, but having a native app for the iPhone especially has been an oft-requested feature from users for some time now.


Drop Everything Immediately And Make Your Own Gangnam Style Video With JibJab

Nov 27, 8:58PM

mikeA TechCrunch tradition: wasting time in the office by putting ourselves and coworkers into JibJab videos (and then posting them). They just released a Gangnam Style one, starring you as Psy. Get to it.


Amazon Web Services Expected To Hit $1.5 Billion In Revenues For 2012

Nov 27, 8:32PM

Amazon Web Services LogoAmazon Web Services (AWS) is expected to earn $1.5 billion in revenues this year, but overall the organization still remains under-appreciated as a core asset of Amazon.com. But that may change this week as AWS holds its first conference in Las Vegas. The event should give more attention to an organization that has had arguably the deepest impact on IT and the enterprise software market.


Mihir Shah Is Out As Tapjoy CEO in Surprise Shake-Up. Former Disney Exec Wadsworth Steps In.

Nov 27, 8:16PM

tapjoyIn a surprise shake-up at mobile app marketing company Tapjoy, CEO Mihir Shah resigned today while a former Disney executive Steve Wadsworth stepped in. There was an all-hands meeting at around 11 a.m. this morning and Mark Leschley, who is now chairman of the board, introduced Wadsworth. Shah wasn't present. Wadsworth had been at Disney for 17 years, working on the company's digital media and technology business, and he oversaw the company's roughly $700 million acquisition of social gaming company Playdom.


With 6.5M Members, AppTrailers Adds A Free Daily App

Nov 27, 7:49PM

AppTrailers-Free Today ExampleAppTrailers, an app that rewards users for watching videos that promote other apps, just released an update with a new "Free Today" section. The section will highlight one app per day — either a paid app being offered for free or a freemium app with normally a paid virtual that's being provided for free.


Democratic Whoopsy: Kim Jong-Un and Mohamed Morsey Lead Time's 'Person Of The Year' Poll

Nov 27, 7:37PM

1101081229_400The Internet has a hard time taking things seriously and will happily enact silly vengeance on websites daring enough to leave important tasks up to a vote. Time's coveted "Person of the Year" poll has been hijacked by thousands of pranksters who have voted up the not-so democratic icons, North Korea's Kim Jong-Un and Egypt's Mohamed Morsey. The up votes could be legitimate exercise in satire, punishing Time for even floating the idea of those two in a poll next to Obama and brave political dissidents. But, if Morsey--or worse, Kim--actually wins the poll, Time will have egg on its face (both Kim and Morsey have nearly twice the number of votes as 3rd place).


Microsoft Says Many Gmail Users Would Consider Switching To Outlook.com, Launches Android App, Conversation Threading & More

Nov 27, 7:08PM

6087.SUMMARY_Outlook_300x166_for outlook.com.jpg-550x0In typical Microsoft fashion, the company just announced a number of momentum numbers for Outlook.com and also launched quite a few new features for its web-based email service at the same time.



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