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The Need For Mobile Money Spawns A Startup Ecosystem Across Africa
Nov 24, 5:00AM
Editor's Note: Vanessa Clark is the co-founder of Mobiflock, a mobile safety and security company offering parental control services for smartphones and tablets. She is involved in the mobile industry in Africa. Zimbabwean Tawanda Kembo, 25, has been employed for more than two years but still doesn't qualify for a credit card. This is the result of banking restrictions on issuing credit cards, he says, and around 70 percent of his fellow Zimbabweans are in the same boat. This is not unusual across the entire African continent, which has a similar unbanked or underbanked rate, according to the World Bank.Out Of East LA, KokoChé Is A New Deals App For The Cash Economy
Nov 24, 2:22AM
KoKoChé is a mobile deals startup born in East Los Angeles aiming to bridge the gap for communities ignored by big social deal sites, specifically cash-centric small businesses. The app launched this summer in East LA, Koreatown, Echo Park and Silverlake, and is currently available for Android in Beta, and will launch for iPhone in early December.Now You Can Ask Your Smartphone About The Past, Present Or Future: Android's Siri-Like Assistant Iris Gets Integrated With Activity-Tracker Friday
Nov 23, 11:16PM
Dexetra, the company behind the Siri-like Android app Iris and the activity-tracking app Friday, is merging the two apps to work together more seamlessly on Android devices. Giving Siri a run for its money, Iris users can now search the data archive generated by the Friday app, following the recent updates to these mobile applications rolled out over the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S.A Digital Leash For Women: SMS Tracking Of Wives In Saudi Arabia
Nov 23, 11:05PM
Saudi men can now be alerted via text message if women try to escape from the country. The new digital leash on women is being resoundingly criticized over social media channels. "Hello Taliban, herewith some tips from the Saudi e-government!", wrote one angry commenter, according to Al Arabiya. The new technology has reportedly been in place since last week and was discovered after a husband was alerted by immigration authorities while traveling with his wife.A Glimpse Of The Apocalypse: Walmart Customers Fight Over Phones On Black Friday
Nov 23, 10:29PM
On Black Friday, discounted boxed smartphones seem to be the equivalent of dry foods in a post-apocalyptic movie. This video, first spotted by the Telegraph, shows customers of a Walmart in Moultrie, Georgia duking it out over discounted pay-as-you-go smartphones.Diet Robot, Autom, Now Available On Indiegogo, Will Ship In Six Months
Nov 23, 8:59PM
Just in time for post-holiday guilt comes Autom, the diet robot that reminds you to eat healthy, asks you how much you exercised per day, and generally sits there being judgmental as you stuff your face with pecan pie. The robot, originally announced in 2007, is coming to life thanks to an Indiegogo campaign and the help of gadget masters PCH International, a manufacturer in Shenzhen, China.SEC Watch: Swoop Raising $5M To Embellish Food Websites With Deals And Ads
Nov 23, 8:30PM
Swoop, a company that works with food websites to automatically inject relevant deals, coupons, and ads, has raised $3 million of a $5 million Series B, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing was first spotted by Mass High Tech.PayPal Thanksgiving Mobile Payments Volume Up 173 Percent; eBay Mobile Transactions Up 133 Percent
Nov 23, 8:29PM
Early reports from yesterday pointed to better than expected online sales on Thanksgiving, and PayPal and eBay are reporting strong Thanksgiving numbers on mobile as well."In the Studio," Gyft's Vinny Lingham Presents A Brilliantly Dead-Simple Idea For Holiday Gift-Giving
Nov 23, 8:00PM
"In the Studio" powers through Black Friday by welcoming a serial entrepreneur, originally from South Africa, who has now started his third company out of Palo Alto and timed his moves perfectly for recent advances in mobile hardware and the holiday season. Vinny Lingham, the CEO and co-founder of Gyft, has devised a brilliantly dead-simple idea to attack the growing gift card market and enable both the purchasing of and redemption of cards through mobile phones. With Gyft, consumers can give, receive, and use gift cards from scores of other merchants with a simple mobile application and a few touches. A step further, Gyft had the foresight to realize the possibilities with iOS 6 and Passbook, making their offering fully-integrated with Passbook cards. (You can check out the app here, as well as their innovative incentive system to encourage signups. Gyft was also covered earlier in the year by TechCrunch's Sarah Perez after integrating with Passbook.)The Weekly Good: Cory Booker On Public Service, Twitter, And…Burning Buildings
Nov 23, 7:58PM
[Note: This is the first of a weekly series, if your company is doing something amazing to help a charitable cause or doing some good in your community, please reach out.] It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...Newark, New Jersey Mayor, Cory Booker. You might have heard a story or two about the United States' most famous mayor, be it from our own Disrupt conference, BuzzFeed, Twitter and pretty much everywhere else you turn. There's a reason for that: Booker has completely embraced the Internet, dealt with its flaws and accentuated the positives, in hopes of making a true difference in the world.Quit Clipping. After Hitting 450M Visits, Coupon Site RetailMeNot Launches Facebook App With Personalized Deals From Your Likes
Nov 23, 7:45PM
Tired of wading through irrelevant newspaper coupons? RetailMeNot doesn't want you to feel the same way about its massive website. So it's just launched a Facebook app that recommends coupons you'll actually use by pulling in your Likes and interests. RetailMeNot is the top coupon site in the US with 450 million visits a year to its 500,000 offers. The app will make sorting through them a breeze and could show off the power of Facebook for personalized ecommerce.Gift Guide: Sifteo Interactive Gaming Cubes
Nov 23, 7:00PM
What do you get the person who already has everything? Sifteo Cubes might be the answer. These innovative little gaming devices work together to create interactive gaming experiences with very tactile, imaginative elements you just can't get on a standard mobile device.Social Data Analytics Startup Likely Secures $1.6M To Scale Up Offer For Brands
Nov 23, 6:02PM
Social data analytics startup, Likely, has secured a £1million (US$1.6m) equity investment led by growth capital fund New World Private Equity together with seed and early stage fund Charlotte Street Capital. The investment will be put into product development in the UK. Stephen Altman from NWPE and Bo Pedersen from Charlotte Street Capital will both join the board.Black Friday Online Sales Up Nearly 24 Percent; 14.4 Percent Of Purchases Made From Mobile Phones
Nov 23, 5:45PM
After an impressive day for online sales on Thanksgiving, Black Friday online shopping appears to be strong as well. According to IBM's Benchmark service, an ongoing measurement that covers some 500 of the largest online retailers in the U.S., early results today indicate a strong Black Friday with 2012 online sales up 13.1 percent for this same time period over Black Friday 2011.Nokia's Mobile Imaging And Camera Chief Leaving The Company November 30
Nov 23, 5:11PM
Nokia has recently made efforts to distinguish its smartphones with advanced photographic capabilities, introducing the PureView 808 with a 41MP rear camera. Now, Nokia's long-time head of imaging and photography Damian Dinning, who has been with the company since 2004, is confirmed to be departing as of November 30. Dinning was also said to have had a key role in Windows Phone imaging software.Turkey Day Was Instagram's Busiest Ever, With 10 Million+ Thanksgiving Photos Shared At Up To 226 Per Second
Nov 23, 5:03PM
While the day after Halloween is typically Facebook's biggest photo sharing day, Instagram had its busiest 24 hours to date over Thanksgiving when users shared 10 million photos with holiday references, peaking at 226 per second. The surge likely inspired plenty of sign-ups too, as iphonographers and droidographers alike showed off their touched up snapshots to family."In the Studio," Sifteo's David Merrill Unveils "Sifteo Cubes" To The World
Nov 23, 4:00PM
"In the Studio" presents the first of two special holiday segments this Thanksgiving holiday by welcoming one of the co-founders of one of my personal favorite startup companies. Almost five years ago, Sifteo's David Merrill and his cofounder, Jeevan Kalanathi, embarked on a long journey that would take them from MIT's Media Lab to San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, to blazing a trail for other venture-backed hardware startups during a time when traditional venture capital was more reluctant to deploy funds in this space. The result, after years and years of hard work, persistance, and learnings, is the Sifteo Cube, a set of small siftable computerized tiles with preloaded games for kids to play with and learn about math, spacial recognition, and most importantly, tactile play with real objects.ABI: Cumulative Mobile App Revenues To Exceed $30B By End Of 2012, Nearly Double 2011 Figure; Now "Major Digital Industry"
Nov 23, 3:28PM
How much money have mobile apps made? By the end of the year the cumulative revenues of the global mobile app market will have exceeded $30 billion, says analyst ABI Research. This figure includes money from pay-per-download apps, in-app purchases, subscriptions and in-app advertisements -- the whole app kit-and-caboodle if you will.Google's Nexus 4 Coming To Three In The UK December 13 On Contract And Pre-Paid Plans
Nov 23, 3:06PM
Google is bringing the Nexus 4 to another carrier in the UK, expanding availability to Three after debuting the device with O2 as its initial partner in that country. The Android 4.2-powered smartphone will be available starting December 13 on Three, either on a £35 per month contract with an upfront cost of just £29 on the One Plan, or pre-paid for £399.99.Enterprise Cloud Consolidation In Europe: Claranet Buys Star (MessageLabs' Founders' Other Startup) For $88M
Nov 23, 2:25PM
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of enterprise cloud services in Europe: Claranet, a managed service provider, is paying $88 million (£55 million) to acquire Star, a provider of cloud-based managed technology services. The move is a sign of how, while enterprise cloud services continue to grow in popularity, there is an increasing move to better service margins through scale and value-added services. Claranet says the deal will make it the largest provider of integrated hosting and network services to the mid market in the UK and continental Europe, with some 4,500 customers on its books.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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