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HotelTonight Expands To Continental Europe, Adds Language Support, And Launches Gift Credits
Dec 11, 11:00AM
HotelTonight, the app that provides access to special deals for hotel rooms available that very evening, is making a couple of announcements today. For one thing, the company says that it's making its first move into continental Europe, with hotel listings in Paris, Nice, Brussels, and Amsterdam. The app already offered listings in countries like Canada and the United Kingdom, but this is an important step in its continued expansion, especially as similar apps emerge in Europe. The company has also added listings for Mexico City and Acapulco. And with the latest app update, it's the internationalization isn't just in the listings — HotelTonight has added French, German, Italian, and Spanish, so international users will get a localized view in their own language.Motorola Mobility Sheds Manufacturing Bases In China, Brazil; Singapore Electronics Maker Flextronics To Take Over Operations
Dec 11, 10:30AM
Google-owned Motorola Mobility is shedding its manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China, and Jaguariuna, Brazil -- with long-time manufacturing partner Flextronics agreeing to acquire the factories and take on management and operation. The pair said employees and assets at both locations will transfer to Flextronics after the transaction closes -- expected to complete by H1 next year.Stocard Raises $850K To Take On Apple's Passbook And Force Loyalty Cards To Go Mobile
Dec 11, 9:57AM
Stocard, which competes with Apple's Passbook with a simple but clever take on the mobile phone-as-loyalty-card-wallet, has raised $850k in funding from German VC High-Tech Gründerfonds, Klaas Kersting, and two unnamed investors from the retail sector.Real-Time News Alert Service Owlin Raises $250K To Outpace Bloomberg, Reuters For 'Bottom Up' News
Dec 11, 8:55AM
Real-time news alert service Owlin (a recent graduate of the Amsterdam, Netherlands-based Rockstart.Accelerator), has raised $250k in seed funding from NoRo Venture Capital -- funding that will be used as the startup aims for a Q1 2013 launch.Silicon Valley Mobile Accelerator, Tandem, Unveils Next Batch; Incubations To Generate $100M+ In Revenue For 2012
Dec 11, 7:49AM
Tandem, the Silicon Valley accelerator that focuses exclusively on early-stage investments in mobile startups, is today revealing its fourth and final batch of 2012. The seed fund and accelerator raised its second fund back in June, $32 million, which it uses to seed its startups with $200K convertible notes in exchange for 10 percent equity.Social Discovery Site Drimmit Gives Dreamers A Visual Bucket List
Dec 11, 6:58AM
Drimmit is a simple, straightforward online platform that allows users to create "dream boards" filled with visual representations of their hopes and aspirations. The Web site, which placed second at spring's Startup Weekend Taipei, opened for public beta at the end of last month and currently has 1,000 users, whose goals include "Be Covered in Bees," "Learn Parkour" and "Travel to Antarctica."Adobe Closes Taiwan Sales Office, Alarming Local Tech Observers
Dec 11, 6:19AM
Adobe announced today that it has closed its Taiwan sales office. A statement from Ng Yew Hwee, Adobe's managing director of Greater China (posted in a JPEG, not a PDF) on Adobe's Taiwan site states: "Upon careful and deliberate consideration of our business strategy in Asia Pacific, Adobe has made the decision to reorganize our business in the Greater China region. As part of the reorganization, we are closing our Taiwan sales office with effect from 7 December 2012."Singly Launches "App Fabric" Platform For Developers To Speed Up Integrations With Dozens Of Services
Dec 11, 5:01AM
Singly, a startup aimed at simplifying the integration of third-party services in both web and mobile applications, is today launching its platform into open beta. Until now, the company has been in private beta testing with around 3,000 developers who are using Singly in some 250 applications, including TimeHop and Geekli.st, as well as Mural.ly, SalesLoft, Cloudmine, Farmstand, AdoptTogether and more.Adobe Brings Retina Display Support To Photoshop And Illustrator CS6 As A Free Update For All Users
Dec 11, 5:00AM
Adobe has made good on its promise to deliver Retina Display support to two of its most-used graphics programs, Photoshop and Illustrator CS6. That means owners of Apple's Retina MacBook Pro (both the 13- and 15-inch versions) will now be able to edit and create graphics using the programs in native resolution, instead of seeing the admittedly ugly non-optimized visual resources both previously provided.YouTube Brings Guide Interface To Tablets, With Updates To Its Android App And Mobile Web
Dec 11, 3:10AM
YouTube has been making a ton of updates to its UI lately, but the video-sharing platform isn't quite ready to call it quits just yet. The company announced that it has updated its Android app and mobile web to better align those experiences with the most recent update to its homepage.Twitter Brings Aviary-Powered Photo Filters To Its Android And iPhone Apps
Dec 10, 11:44PM
Twitter just announced that its Android and iPhone apps now feature Instagram-like photo filters. Given the heated back-and-forth between Twitter and Instagram in recent days, this wasn't exactly unexpected, but it happened a bit faster than most of us anticipated. This new feature is, interestingly, powered by Aviary, the company behind the popular online and mobile photo editing SDK.Facebook Is Down, Mobile Apps Still Working For Some — Second Big Tech Outage Of The Day (Update: It's Back)
Dec 10, 11:15PM
According to our own tests, as well as reports on Twitter, Facebook is down for a vast number of users. It's the second big outage of the day after Google's. Mobile apps are still working for some. Some of our writers can load everything with their phones, but it's not the case for everyone. It appears to be a DNS issue. If the address is cached on your phone, you can still access Facebook.Scrambling To Cut Costs, Zynga Confirms It Won't Renew Contracts Of Moderators
Dec 10, 10:51PM
It might be the right thing to do for Zynga and the shareholders, but that won't make it any easier for the game and forum moderators who won't have their contacts with Zynga renewed. The company is executing the cost-cutting strategy it laid out in its Q3 earnings report by axing some moderator positions and ceasing to start any new contracts.The FCC Will Tackle Old-School Communication Network Policies With A Brand New Task Force
Dec 10, 10:44PM
The FCC has today announced a new Task Force to deal with the difficult task of creating policy for a next-generation communications network based on an IP infrastructure, as opposed to the copper-line POTS (plain old telephone service) network which has been in place since the late 19th century. The Task Force is part of the National Broadband Plan, passed in 2010, which aims to help the country transition to next-generation services as POTS becomes less and less relevant. The Taks Force will coordinate efforts on IP interconnection and the reliability and resiliency of the next-gen networks, "with a particular focus on voice services."Pandora Internet Radio Launches Fully In Australia And New Zealand With Mobile Apps For iOS And Android
Dec 10, 9:55PM
Pandora has fully launched in Australia and New Zealand, the only two places outside of the U.S. where the service is available in its entirety, with the addition of mobile access via iOS and Android apps today. Previously, the service was available in a limited form in both countries thanks to a web-only access trial, but now smartphone users can get in on the action.Google Gets In The Festivus Spirit With Its Latest Holiday Easter Egg
Dec 10, 9:25PM
There's no question that Google has an affinity for silly easter eggs, but the search giant may have just outdone itself this year. If you have a few seconds to spare today (and look fondly upon kooky 90s sitcoms), do a Google search for "Festivus" and you'll be treated to that most wondrous of holiday sights: an unadorned aluminum pole running down the side of your list of search results.Instagram iOS 3.2 Update Redesigns Camera And Image Selector, Adds Monochrome Willow Filter (For Android Too)
Dec 10, 9:00PM
Instagram has just released its biggest iOS app update in a year, and it's all about improving the publishing experience and heavier Instagram branding. First there's a new Instagram-themed shutter and shutter-release button. A new image selector reminiscent of Facebook Camera makes it quicker to choose a recent shot. There's also a new monochrome filter called Willow coming to iOS and Android today.Tablet Video Startup Watchup Raises $500K From Knight Foundation, News Vets, Others
Dec 10, 8:58PM
Watchup, a StartX-incubated video iPad app that allows users to build their own news playlists, has raised a $500,000 angel round of funding. It's an impressive list of investors, including Digital News Ventures, The Knight Foundation (co-founder Adriano Farano was a Knight Fellow at Stanford and Watchup was one of the winners of the Knight News Challenge), former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz, and Steve Taylor, who led the development of the Boston Globe's website Boston.com.Ask A VC: Aydin Senkut Talks Series A Crunch, Natural Selection For Startups, And More
Dec 10, 8:45PM
Aydin Senkut, my first guest on Ask A VC, sat down this past week to talk about the Series A Crunch and general state of the venture world, his investment strategies, and, of course, to answer your questions. Senkut says that there is a crunch when it comes to Series B and C funding, especially following the explosion of seed funding over the past few years. And Senkut, who was Google's first product manager, has a unique perspective on how entrepreneurs should approach VCs for funding.OrderAhead, The Mobile Ordering Platform Backed By $2.5M From Adam D'Angelo & More, Launches In LA; Orders Rise 2.4x
Dec 10, 8:35PM
Back in August, we introduced you to OrderAhead, a Y Combinator grad and mobile ordering solution that had just raised $2.3 million from Facebook co-founder Adam D'Angelo, Ignition Partners, Matrix Partners, Menlo Ventures, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and SV Angel, among others. Today, along with some strong growth trends seen over the last few months, the startup is announcing that it has added to that number, bringing its total investment to $2.5 million, thanks to an additional $200K raised from Red Swan Ventures, the relatively new VC firm started by the Bonobos founders.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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