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Nokia: We've Stooped In Smartphones To Conquer In Windows Phone 8 — "We Will Innovate, Out-Maneuver, Outsell Everyone"
Nov 14, 9:00AM
Nokia is running ads in Europe for its Windows Phone 8 devices that are emblazoned with the legend 'everyone loves a comeback'. But with Google's Android OS now the undisputed champion of a market Nokia once dominated, the company has got its work cut out to turn things around. Can it battle back? Nokia's VP of Western Europe, Conor Pierce, is talking tough.Gartner: Samsung Widens Lead Over Apple In Smartphones In Q3, Overall Sales Of Mobile Handsets Down 3%
Nov 14, 8:43AM
Gartner has this morning published its numbers for how the mobile handset industry performed in Q3. The topline figure is that the mobile industry overall continues to see pressure from the wider economic downturn, and the gradual move away from cheaper, low end feature devices: overall sales of 428 million units for the quarter are 3% down on the same quarter last year. But smartphones continue to outshine that by quite a lot: they are up by 47% to 169 milion units. In other words, smartphones accounted for about 40% of al mobile device sales in Q3.Japanese Hardware Layoffs Continue: Panasonic To Cut 10K More Workers In The Next 5 Months
Nov 14, 8:11AM
The Japanese tech industry continues to feel the squeeze in the economy, with one of the most painful effects being more mass layoffs of workers. In the latest development, Panasonic Corp. says that it will reduce its workforce by 10,000 employees by the end of this fiscal year, which completes in March 2013. The company had already warned that it will post losses of $10 billion for the full year, because of writeoffs in its mobile, solar panel and lithium batter businesses.Umeng, The Flurry of China, Says iOS Jailbreaking Is On The Decline
Nov 14, 8:07AM
Here's some good news for mobile app makers looking to enter the Chinese market. Not only are there a whopping 200 million Android and iOS devices in circulation in China, jailbreaking is down from last year. Umeng, the biggest Chinese mobile app analytics company, says it is detecting that only 42.4 percent of mainland iOS devices are jailbroken, down from 51 percent in the second quarter of 2011. Yes, that figure still sounds like an unbelievable share, but this is China. Umeng says jailbreaking is down because Apple started allowing consumers to use local bank cards over the last year in the app store.5 Reasons Why One Startup Gave Customers A Social Network Style Activity Stream
Nov 14, 7:36AM
Application providers of all varieties are using activity streams. Microsoft announced this week that it is all in on social and will integrate Yammer into Sharepoint and Office365.Finnish BYOD Startup, Miradore, Raises €1.2 Million Series B, Backed By Inventure, For Global Sales Push
Nov 14, 7:00AM
Another BYOD-focused investment to add to the pile: Miradore, a Finnish mobile device management startup, has announced it's just closed a €1.2 million Series B funding round, with new backers including Finnish VC firm Inventure and Belgian ICT executive Willem Hendrickx. Hendrickx has served as an advisor to Miradore since June 2011 and will also now join the board.Twitter Gains Another Googler, Former Managing Director Of Commerce In Asia Pacific, Aliza Knox
Nov 14, 5:51AM
Twitter has hired another Google employee, and this time it's someone with a heavy focus on business and sales. The Googler is Aliza Knox, who ran Business and Sales for Shopping, Offers and Wallet across Asia Pacific as Managing Director of Commerce. Knox has confirmed this with TechCrunch this evening.Tired Of Chasing Your Roommates For Money? SpaceSplitter Delivers Household Supplies And Splits Costs
Nov 14, 2:00AM
Tonight at the New York Tech Meetup, SpaceSplitter presented the latest feature of its web application which makes it easier to get money out of your roommates for their share of the household items. OurList lets roommates set up subscriptions for household goods and split the cost easily. Users select the frequency and the share that each roommate should pay, and the service handles payments. After adding your roommates using Facebook Connect, you can shop for basic household goods without leaving the site -- over 60,000 products are available. Much like many subscription services, you set order frequency.LeKiosk Books Another $7.1M For Its Online Store, As It Strives To Become The 'Spotify Of Magazines'
Nov 13, 11:51PM
Tablets, with their larger touchscreens that are less cumbersome than laptops, have been shown to lend themselves naturally to long-form content consumption, and that is spawning a new breed of services to fit the bill. One of those is Paris-based LeKiosk, a digital periodical "stall" that has now closed a Series B round of investment totalling $7.1 million to grow its business across Europe.Netflix Gives A Hollywood Look To Open Source Center On GitHub
Nov 13, 10:51PM
Netflix is going to the movies with its new Open Source Center on Github. In a clever play, Netflix has taken its well-known brand and placed it on GitHub to show each of its open-source projects as its own movie, genre and characters.Watch: All The Videos From TechCrunch's Chicago Meetup [TCTV]
Nov 13, 10:37PM
Last week was a very busy one for those of us on the Northern Meetups, TechCrunch's three-city tour through a few of North America's hottest (well, not literally) burgeoning tech hubs outside of the typical San Francisco/Silicon Valley/New York bubble that we in the media are too often caught up in covering.Foxconn Allegedly Replacing Human Workers With Robots
Nov 13, 10:33PM
Foxconn has been planning to buy 1 million robots to replace human workers and it looks like that change, albeit gradual, is about to start.Gift Guide: Libratone Zipp AirPlay Speaker
Nov 13, 10:28PM
Libratone's speakers are normally crazy expensive. This one is just temporarily insane. Plus it's got a direct mode for when you're outside of Wi-Fi range, and a built-in battery, two things rare on an AirPlay speaker.YC's Amicus Pulls In $3.2 Million To Bring Social Graph Smarts To Non-Profit Fundraising
Nov 13, 10:16PM
Fundraising phone calls from strangers make people hang up. But if the caller's a friend, friend of a friend, or is similar to you, you're more likely to donate. Amicus has just raised $3.2 million to offer this social graph intelligence to non-profits. Y Combinator, FF Angel, 500 Startups and more have put money down because they think fundraisers will put money down on Amicus to get donors to...put more money down.RIM To Sell BlackBerry 10 Smartphones Beginning In February
Nov 13, 10:02PM
RIM will reportedly start selling smartphones based on its new BlackBerry 10 operating system beginning in February, 2013, the month after it officially announces them January 30 at an event announced yesterday. That's according to RIM COO Kristian Tear, who followed up with that information after the company announced BB10's public launch.A Free Internet, If You Can Keep It
Nov 13, 10:00PM
Editor's note: U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, represents California's 16th Congressional District, which includes parts of Silicon Valley and San Jose in Santa Clara County. It was nearly a year ago that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX). Millions would raise their voices to successfully oppose this legislation, which was viewed as one of the greatest threats to a free and open Internet ever to come before Congress. But the defeat of SOPA should be more than cause for pride -- it must also prompt action to secure the future of the Internet.Chartio Improves The Way You Visualize Your Data
Nov 13, 9:30PM
Y Combinator startup Chartio has come out of its quiet mode with its service for connecting databases to create charts and graphs without ever needing to upload data.Seeking Experience With A Crash-And-Burn Share Price, Facebook Hires Zynga CFO David Wehner As Finance VP
Nov 13, 9:28PM
Zynga just reshuffled its management team, and one interesting departure is former CFO David Wehner who has left to become Facebook's VP of Corporate Finance & Business Planning. He'll bring along what he's learned from Zynga's cratered share price. He'll report to Facebook CFO David Ebersman who was previously at Genentech whose stock sailed much smoother seas before it was acquired.Zynga Retools Exec Team For Mobile, In-House Experience: Mark Vranesh As CFO, David Ko As COO, Barry Cottle As CRO
Nov 13, 9:27PM
Zynga today fought back against a slew of high-level departures it has suffered in recent months by announcing a slate of new appointments to C-level and executive roles. In all of these new appointments, Zynga is promoting from within rather than bringing in executives from the outside -- perhaps in a big to truly stabilize the company after several rough months in terms of financial performance and stock market reception.Facebook's Fischer And Lessin Say User Experience And Advertising Are Sides Of The Same Coin
Nov 13, 9:20PM
Do Facebook's efforts to make money come at the cost of the user experience? Company executives David Fischer (vice president of marketing and business partnerships) and Sam Lessin (who heads the Identity Product Group) said today that they don't see it that way. Instead, Fischer argued that the Facebook team thinks about user experience and advertising as "either side of the same coin."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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