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AWS Needs To Figure Out Its Enterprise Plan
Jan 05, 5:30AM
Editor's note: Rodney Rogers is chairman and CEO of Virtustream. I'm a large enterprise and my ears are ringing. I hear that you, AWS, know exactly what I need. Before I get into that, AWS, I want to let you know that I admire you. You made a market. But this doesn't mean you know me, AWS, and I believe your foray into enterprise will expose you.Publishing Startup Graphicly Raising $1M More As It Aims For Profitability
Jan 05, 2:56AM
Graphicly is about to close a $1 million bridge round of funding, as first revealed in a regulatory filing. The company started out as a marketplace for digital comics, but last year it launched a new set of tools aimed helping publishers distribute their content onto a wide range of platforms, including iOS, Android, and Kindle. CEO Micah Baldwin told me today that things have been taking off, with millions of dollars in annual revenue and 1500 percent growth year-over-year. (And even though it's no longer focused exclusively on comics, it recently announced a big comics deal to distribute more than 60 Peanuts titles.)Zynga's One Standout From Its String Of Sequels Has Been Farmville 2
Jan 05, 2:32AM
Sequels can be risky business for embattled social game developer Zynga. They can extend the lifespan of a popular franchise like Farmville. But they also siphon away players from the original game. So if a sequel doesn’t retain players well, it can cannibalize the player base for both the original and the follow-up like with Mafia Wars and Mafia Wars 2, which the company shut down just days ago. But Farmville 2, with its 3D graphics, has managed to stay atop the charts since it was released late last fall. The game is really the one standout sequel in Zynga’s recent line of follow-ups including Cityville 2, which has dramatically lost traffic over the past several weeks. Zynga just released some engagement stats today about the performance of Farmville 2. To underscore how big a risk Farmville 2 is for the company, the original game has been one of the top money makers for the company since it was launched in 2009. Even three years later, it made 20 percent of Zynga’s $285.6 million in online gaming revenue in the third quarter of last year. That’s $57 million in one quarter alone or more than a half-million dollars a day. The company was super careful with its prize possession, even testing it under the name of Big Harvest in the Philippines before launch. All eyes will be on Zynga’s next earnings call, when the company will reveal how well this sequel has performed financially. Farmville 2 currently has 42.4 million monthly active users, 7.4 million daily active users and a healthy stickiness ratio of daily-to-monthly active users at 17.5 percent, according to tracking site AppData. It appears to have peaked though, and has lost about 700,000 daily active users in the last seven days, according to the service. That’s not necessarily something to be alarmed about though, because most social games peak early on and then decline while retaining the most lucrative players or “whales.” Even if active usage declines overall, revenues can still increase from a good title for months or years to come. The original Farmville was around for about eight months before it peaked in monthly active usage, but that was before Zynga had amassed its network of players on the Facebook platform.Mobile Gaming Platform Heyzap Confirms $4.3M Round From Union Square And Qualcomm
Jan 05, 2:27AM
Heyzap, which built a social platform for mobile games, has raised $4.3 million in Series B funding. The round was revealed in a regulatory filing (first spotted by The Next Web). Co-founder Jude Gomila confirmed the news over email and said the funding comes from existing investor Union Square Ventures and Qualcomm.Facebook Mobile User Counts Revealed: 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M iPad, 56M Messenger
Jan 04, 10:50PM
Facebook keeps user counts for its mobile apps hidden, but researcher Benedict Evans found a way to uncover them and they provide critical insight into the direction and performance of Facebook's mobile efforts. Most interestingly, Facebook's Android user count is growing much faster than its iPhone user base, but is found on a lower percentage of Android devices. Let's take a closer look.The Weekly Good: A Star Is (Re)Born, The Lester Chambers Story
Jan 04, 9:47PM
Your song hits the Billboard Hot 100 Charts at number 11, you and your brothers have played with the likes of The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, things are great, you're on fire. You've got it made, right? Wrong. Lester Chambers is living proof that just because you become "popular", it doesn't mean that you will be rewarded properly for it.Vobi Raises $1.5 Million For Online Collaboration That's Kicked Off By Phone Calls
Jan 04, 9:39PM
Austin-based Vobi.com, a cloud-based collaboration startup which will sell its services through mobile operators, has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding from Dallas VC firm Trailblazer Capital. The firm specializes in communications companies that have unique IP, explains Vobi CEO Mark Castleman, making it a good fit as Vobi's lead investor.Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, CTO Rich Tom To Depart The Company In Q1 2013
Jan 04, 9:14PM
Hulu just posted an internal email from CEO Jason Kilar to its blog, indicating that he and CTO Rich Tom will be leaving the company during the first quarter of 2013. The timing is new, but word that Kilar was on his way out was circulating as early as August 2012, when an internal memo included a passage about transitioning to a new CEO.Gillmor Gang Live 01.04.13 (TCTV)
Jan 04, 9:05PM
Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording has concluded.Amazon Improves Its Web Services Console, Launches Tablet Support And Android App
Jan 04, 8:20PM
As Amazon's Web Services (AWS) continues to add more tools (there are currently 21 AWS services), the Management Console that provides a graphical user interface to services like S3, EC2 and CloudFront was starting to look a bit unwieldy. Today, Amazon is making a number of design changes to make the Management Console a bit easier to use for developers. In addition, Amazon is also launching a tablet-optimized view of the AWS Console and an Android app for managing EC2 cloud computing instances.OS X Mountain Lion Now Accounts For A Majority Share Of Mac Web Traffic, Growing Nearly Twice As Fast As Lion
Jan 04, 8:02PM
OS X Mountain Lion, or version 10.8 as it's known according to Apple's numbering system, accounted for 32 percent of all web traffic measured by Net Applications, a firm that charts OS share and other web metrics. This marks the first time Mountain Lion has accounted for a majority share of web traffic from Apple computers, with Lion dropping down to 28 percent.TechCrunch Giveaway: Two Tickets To The Crunchies Awards #Crunchies
Jan 04, 7:57PM
The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards will soon be upon us and (if you hadn't noticed) we just announced our new host. The Daily Show's John Oliver will take the stage at this year's Crunchies Awards and we couldn't be more excited. Not only is he hilarious, but he has been nominated for multiple prestigious awards and won the Emmy Award for Best Comedy Writing in a Comedy or Variety Series in 2009 and 2011. We told you this award show, coined the Oscars of tech, will not disappoint, and we meant it.U.S. Department Of Defense Signs New Deal With Microsoft To Bring Windows 8 To 75% of Employees
Jan 04, 7:36PM
For the most part, the news about Windows 8 hasn't been very positive for Microsoft, but the company today announced a major win: the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) just signed a new three-year licensing agreement with Microsoft reseller Insight Public Sector to bring Windows 8, Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 Enterprise to 75% of all DoD personnel. The DoD, Microsoft says, will "use Windows 8 to empower productivity from any location, and any supported device, while taking advantage of enhanced security."Mobile Accessories Maker TYLT Partners With YC-Backed Tagstand On Trio Of NFC-Enabled Products
Jan 04, 6:48PM
Tagstand, the Y Combinator-backed startup intent on taking NFC mainstream, is announcing a partnership with mobile accessories maker TYLT in advance of this year's CES in Las Vegas. The deal involves three new products, manufactured by TYLT, which use Tagstand's NFC technology: TUNZ, a portable Bluetooth speaker; CAPIO, a universal smartphone mount for the car; and TAGZ, which are the NFC stickers you can program and place anywhere.The Daily Show's John Oliver To Host The Crunchies
Jan 04, 6:02PM
The Crunchies have become as important to us at TechCrunch as the Oscars have to all of Hollywood. It's with great anticipation that we bring to you the best of innovation in technology from the past year in an environment that's both fun and elegant. In an effort to raise the bar this year, we are excited to announce John Oliver as our host for the 2012 Crunchies awards.Join The TechCrunch Greece Meetup With This Live Video Feed
Jan 04, 5:18PM
So you couldn't make it to our Greece meetup. No worries. Here's a live video feed sponsored by Open Coffee and Microsoft Innovation Centre so you can catch all the action from Benaki Museum in Athens.Google Now And Google Translate Praise The iPad
Jan 04, 5:15PM
Google's text-to-speech engine loves the iPad so much, it often ends sentences with the phrase "he now praises the iPad" for no apparent reason. The bug appears in Google Now, assuming you ask it the right question, as well as in Google Translate, which makes it easy to replicate and have some fun with.Euclid, The "Google Analytics For The Real World," Partners With Aruba, Aerohive, Xirrus & Others To Make Customer Tracking Sensor-Free
Jan 04, 4:59PM
Euclid, the new startup from the creators of Urchin, a company Google acquired which then became the basis of Google Analytics, first introduced its offline customer tracking solution - or "Google Analytics for the real world," as the team calls it - just over a year ago. Today, Euclid is rolling out a new version of its solution called "Euclid Zero," which is the first time businesses can use its cloud-based software without having to install a hardware sensor device in their stores.JBL's CES Speaker Lineup Includes Portable Bluetooth, Beat-Pounding Boombox And Compact Lightning Varieties
Jan 04, 4:41PM
JBL will be at CES this year, which is no surprise, and it'll be showing off at least a trio of new speakers, which also isn't that surprising. The speakers themselves have some interesting features and quirks, however, and look like solid options for mobile device owners of all stripes. Also coming to the show are two new Harman Kardon receivers, each of which boast compatibility with Apple's AirPlay audio streaming.An Old Eric Schmidt Interview Reveals Google's End-Game For Search And Competition
Jan 04, 4:35PM
Google was cleared of anti-competitive accusations yesterday by the Federal Trade Commission, but a long-forgotten interview with Chairman Eric Schmidt reveals that the search giant may be on an inevitable road to monopoly anyways.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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