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Stitch Fix, the San Francisco-based startup that provides a subscription-based personal shopping and delivery service for women's clothing, has closed on $4.75 million in new funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The round, which serves as Stitch Fix's Series A, was co-led by Baseline Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners with the participation of Western Technology Investment.
Online advertising company Federated Media just announced that current CEO Deanna Brown is stepping down, while founder and former CEO John Battelle will be taking on the role again. The company says that Battelle and Brown will be working together during March "to ensure a seamless transition." Brown joined Federated in 2009 as president and chief operating officer, and replaced Battelle as CEO a little more than a year later.
Beautiful design and utility are, in many ways, paramount when it comes to home electronics. That's why I was really impressed by the the new AM05 space heater/cooler from Dyson. It's a completely quiet, blade-less system that comes in a black and nickel color scheme that looks like it fell off of Boba Fett's Slave 1.
"In the Studio" welcomes a first-time founder with a diverse set of experiences -- ranging from economics to advertising, from product management to design, and from startup CEO to advisor of a venture capital firm -- who now is at the helm of one of the most interesting online education startups on the web today.
Product design company ZURB just launched the fourth version of Foundation, its responsive design framework that directly competes with Bootstrap. The new version, ZURB tells us, has been completely rewritten from a mobile-first perspective. The company says this "empowers a designer to reverse their thinking " and lets you "design for the mobile experience before you design for the desktop one."
Yuilop, a European free messaging startup which launched back in 2011 and has amassed "millions" of users of its apps, will be launching in the U.S. in the next couple of weeks. Although the startup has some users in the U.S. already, who have managed to acquire its app on the sly, it will be officially opening up to the U.S. in "one to two weeks", says co-founder and CEO Jochen Doppelhammer.
Aol is really into hiring boss's boss's bosses. We've had a couple in my brief sojourn in the Aol Brand Group. Now we've got another one, former Gilt CEO Susan Lyne, who just sent out the following memo to our Team about her new role, which she doesn't mention. She will be Brand Group CEO. I'm bolding the word "brand" in this letter because I hate it. It's one of those fluffy words people use without having much sense of what it means, like "content" or "friction." Okay, now I'm bolding those words, too.
Google issued an update for its iOS application today that adds the "Send to TV" feature to its apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The feature allows you to quickly and easily pair your mobile phone with select TVs, making it possible to play and control video from the app on your television set.
Microsoft-owned Yammer has been relatively quiet since its acquisition by Redmond, but the company piped up today to announce plans to add instant message translation capabilities, which will allow multilingual collaboration on the “Facebook for the office.” The Yammer team is tapping Microsoft Translator to power the translations, which is yet another benefit of Microsoft’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer. It’s relatively simple, and much like current auto-translation services you’d find on Google Translate (built into Chrome) or Airbnb, which has auto-translation for over 20 languages. Essentially, any time someone yams in a language that is not your default language, a “Translate” button will appear below the post. Once you hit translate, the entire thread will be translated into your preferred, default language. This means that the initial post (whether it was a reply or a thread-starter) will be translated, along with any response messages that are added to that thread (past, present, and future). Here’s what Adam Pisoni, Yammer co-founder and GM of Engineering had to say: Removing language as a barrier to cross-company collaboration can be a competitive game changer for multinational organizations. It opens a world of possibilities. This is another example of Yammer's accelerated innovation following the Microsoft acquisition — we're able to use Microsoft Translator to quickly deliver additional value to customers. Microsoft Translator supports 39 different languages. The company also claims that 65 percent of Yammer’s 7 million users do not live within the United States. Though the service has long supported various languages, this will allow for cross-language collaboration for Yammer’s clients. Here’s a video of the translation in action:
For better or worse, the advent of smartphones and tablets mean that we're rapidly moving away from the more tactile user experiences that were the hallmark of a bygone era in computing. As it turns out, the folks at Fujitsu are eager to close the book on the days of the physical keyboard if what they were showing off here at MWC was any indication. Tucked away in a corner of Fujitsu's booth here in Barcelona's Fira Gran Via was a gentleman typing out words onto a tablet via a keyboard for anyone who would watch him. It sounds like a completely mundane occurrence, except the keyboard he was typing on wasn't actually there.
Bing Maps just got a large update that brings a more detailed map of the ocean floor to Microsoft's mapping service. This new bathymetry data is based on the data compiled by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The update also introduces a new base satellite image from TerraColor with a resolution of 15 meters per pixel, as well as new high-res satellite imagery that covers a total of 13,799,276 sq km (Microsoft likes to be precise about these numbers).
Dear Vine, We've grown close over the last month. We've had so many great times together. You've helped me break news, have some LOLs, get creative, and even crowdsource information thanks to your awesome integration with Twitter.
Apple announced a new milestone for its iTunes U online digital education outlet, which has just crossed the 1 billion download mark. Alongside the announcement, Apple has also informed us exclusively that the company has so far sold more than 8 million iPads directly into educational institution worldwide. iTunes U became a standalone app, complete with its own course marketplace and catalog in June 2012.
Peer-to-peer car rental startup (and TechCrunch Disrupt winner) Getaround is built around the idea of helping customers to make use of cars they own, which are sitting around not being driven most of the time. Also, to help those without cars to quickly and easily gain access to one that's sitting around and actually use it.
People who read my emails must think my parents are Mr. Rogers and double-espresso. For a very strategic reason, I write with more emotions, LOLs, and exclamation points than a Twilight chatroom: humans are prone to misinterpret text-only communications. A strategy of unmistakably positive emails could have saved the White House from its most recent crisis of having to prove it didn't send threatening emails to journalist Bob Woodward.
Zumper -- the online home rentals startup and TechCrunch Disrupt alum that quickly raised a $1 million seed round from a list of top-shelf VCs that included Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, CrunchFund and more -- is growing. Today, it is announcing that it is adding Chicago as its next city, after debuting in San Francisco and expanding to New York last year.
OUYA, the Kickstarter-funded Android gaming console, has already shipped developer consoles, but had yet to specify an exact date when backers could expect their production devices. Today, the company announced that it will be shipping the first OUYA consoles out to backers beginning March 28, ahead of a June retail launch.
Photos and the news feed are where people spend their time on Facebook. Yet its last two big products were relatively niche features, Timeline and the new Graph Search. Facebook today published examples of how to use Graph Search, which merely highlight that it's not part of day-to-day life. Yes, Facebook needed to fix search, but it may have prioritized an intellectual wank over user experience.
Koozoo is launching today in San Francisco and Austin with a new twist on social video. The emphasis here is on utility, rather than performance and entertainment (though it can be entertaining, too). Wouldn't it be useful to know if the weather is nice at a nearby park (though I suppose that example is best-suited for cities with microclimates like San Francisco's). Or whether a nearby store or restaurant is super-crowded? Koozoo founder and CEO Drew Sechrist is trying to build up a network of live video streams that can give you that information.
Good Eggs is a new service that delivers organic and sustainable meats, produce, and other goods from locally sourced farms and vendors. There are lots of delivery services that will bring groceries to you, and there are lots of Community Supported Agriculture programs around to connect residents with produce from local farms. But neither does a great job of getting users the stuff they want.
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Stitch Fix Gets $4.75M Series A To Scale Out Its Tech-Enabled Personal Shopping Service
Feb 28, 8:18PM
Stitch Fix, the San Francisco-based startup that provides a subscription-based personal shopping and delivery service for women's clothing, has closed on $4.75 million in new funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The round, which serves as Stitch Fix's Series A, was co-led by Baseline Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners with the participation of Western Technology Investment.John Battelle Returns As CEO At Federated Media, Deanna Brown Steps Down
Feb 28, 8:10PM
Online advertising company Federated Media just announced that current CEO Deanna Brown is stepping down, while founder and former CEO John Battelle will be taking on the role again. The company says that Battelle and Brown will be working together during March "to ensure a seamless transition." Brown joined Federated in 2009 as president and chief operating officer, and replaced Battelle as CEO a little more than a year later.The New Dyson AM05 Is The Darth Vader Of Space Heaters
Feb 28, 8:06PM
Beautiful design and utility are, in many ways, paramount when it comes to home electronics. That's why I was really impressed by the the new AM05 space heater/cooler from Dyson. It's a completely quiet, blade-less system that comes in a black and nickel color scheme that looks like it fell off of Boba Fett's Slave 1."In The Studio," Skillshare's Michael Karnjanaprakorn Talks Platforms And Marketplaces
Feb 28, 8:00PM
"In the Studio" welcomes a first-time founder with a diverse set of experiences -- ranging from economics to advertising, from product management to design, and from startup CEO to advisor of a venture capital firm -- who now is at the helm of one of the most interesting online education startups on the web today.Responsive Design Framework Foundation 4 Goes Mobile-First, Switches From jQuery To Zepto
Feb 28, 8:00PM
Product design company ZURB just launched the fourth version of Foundation, its responsive design framework that directly competes with Bootstrap. The new version, ZURB tells us, has been completely rewritten from a mobile-first perspective. The company says this "empowers a designer to reverse their thinking " and lets you "design for the mobile experience before you design for the desktop one."With "Millions" Of Users In 40+ Countries, European Messaging Startup Yuilop Prepares For U.S. Launch In "One To Two Weeks"
Feb 28, 7:33PM
Yuilop, a European free messaging startup which launched back in 2011 and has amassed "millions" of users of its apps, will be launching in the U.S. in the next couple of weeks. Although the startup has some users in the U.S. already, who have managed to acquire its app on the sly, it will be officially opening up to the U.S. in "one to two weeks", says co-founder and CEO Jochen Doppelhammer.Aol Talks About Us More Than It Talks To Us
Feb 28, 7:29PM
Aol is really into hiring boss's boss's bosses. We've had a couple in my brief sojourn in the Aol Brand Group. Now we've got another one, former Gilt CEO Susan Lyne, who just sent out the following memo to our Team about her new role, which she doesn't mention. She will be Brand Group CEO. I'm bolding the word "brand" in this letter because I hate it. It's one of those fluffy words people use without having much sense of what it means, like "content" or "friction." Okay, now I'm bolding those words, too.Google Updates YouTube iPhone And iPad App With 'Send To TV' Feature, The Google TV Equivalent Of AirPlay
Feb 28, 7:04PM
Google issued an update for its iOS application today that adds the "Send to TV" feature to its apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The feature allows you to quickly and easily pair your mobile phone with select TVs, making it possible to play and control video from the app on your television set.Yammer Taps Microsoft Translator To Bring Cross-Language Translation To The Enterprise Social Network
Feb 28, 7:00PM
Microsoft-owned Yammer has been relatively quiet since its acquisition by Redmond, but the company piped up today to announce plans to add instant message translation capabilities, which will allow multilingual collaboration on the “Facebook for the office.” The Yammer team is tapping Microsoft Translator to power the translations, which is yet another benefit of Microsoft’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer. It’s relatively simple, and much like current auto-translation services you’d find on Google Translate (built into Chrome) or Airbnb, which has auto-translation for over 20 languages. Essentially, any time someone yams in a language that is not your default language, a “Translate” button will appear below the post. Once you hit translate, the entire thread will be translated into your preferred, default language. This means that the initial post (whether it was a reply or a thread-starter) will be translated, along with any response messages that are added to that thread (past, present, and future). Here’s what Adam Pisoni, Yammer co-founder and GM of Engineering had to say: Removing language as a barrier to cross-company collaboration can be a competitive game changer for multinational organizations. It opens a world of possibilities. This is another example of Yammer's accelerated innovation following the Microsoft acquisition — we're able to use Microsoft Translator to quickly deliver additional value to customers. Microsoft Translator supports 39 different languages. The company also claims that 65 percent of Yammer’s 7 million users do not live within the United States. Though the service has long supported various languages, this will allow for cross-language collaboration for Yammer’s clients. Here’s a video of the translation in action:Fujitsu's Future Phones And Tablets Could Skip The Physical Keyboard And Watch Your Fingers Instead
Feb 28, 6:41PM
For better or worse, the advent of smartphones and tablets mean that we're rapidly moving away from the more tactile user experiences that were the hallmark of a bygone era in computing. As it turns out, the folks at Fujitsu are eager to close the book on the days of the physical keyboard if what they were showing off here at MWC was any indication. Tucked away in a corner of Fujitsu's booth here in Barcelona's Fira Gran Via was a gentleman typing out words onto a tablet via a keyboard for anyone who would watch him. It sounds like a completely mundane occurrence, except the keyboard he was typing on wasn't actually there.Bing Maps Now Shows Ocean Floor Topography, Gets Updated Base Satellite Image And Almost 14M Sq Km Of New High-Res Imagery
Feb 28, 6:30PM
Bing Maps just got a large update that brings a more detailed map of the ocean floor to Microsoft's mapping service. This new bathymetry data is based on the data compiled by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The update also introduces a new base satellite image from TerraColor with a resolution of 15 meters per pixel, as well as new high-res satellite imagery that covers a total of 13,799,276 sq km (Microsoft likes to be precise about these numbers).What I See In Your Future, Vine (Voiceover, Android, And Front-Facing Camera)
Feb 28, 6:30PM
Dear Vine, We've grown close over the last month. We've had so many great times together. You've helped me break news, have some LOLs, get creative, and even crowdsource information thanks to your awesome integration with Twitter.Apple Has Sold Over 8M iPads Direct To Education Worldwide, With More Than 1B iTunes U Downloads
Feb 28, 6:19PM
Apple announced a new milestone for its iTunes U online digital education outlet, which has just crossed the 1 billion download mark. Alongside the announcement, Apple has also informed us exclusively that the company has so far sold more than 8 million iPads directly into educational institution worldwide. iTunes U became a standalone app, complete with its own course marketplace and catalog in June 2012.Getaround Launches A New iPhone App To Simplify Peer-To-Peer Car Rentals
Feb 28, 6:00PM
Peer-to-peer car rental startup (and TechCrunch Disrupt winner) Getaround is built around the idea of helping customers to make use of cars they own, which are sitting around not being driven most of the time. Also, to help those without cars to quickly and easily gain access to one that's sitting around and actually use it.The Science Behind Why The White House Should Use Emoticons In Its Emails
Feb 28, 5:42PM
People who read my emails must think my parents are Mr. Rogers and double-espresso. For a very strategic reason, I write with more emotions, LOLs, and exclamation points than a Twilight chatroom: humans are prone to misinterpret text-only communications. A strategy of unmistakably positive emails could have saved the White House from its most recent crisis of having to prove it didn't send threatening emails to journalist Bob Woodward.VC-Backed Disrupt Alum Zumper Jumps Into The Chicago Rentals Market, Builds Out Pro Features
Feb 28, 5:18PM
Zumper -- the online home rentals startup and TechCrunch Disrupt alum that quickly raised a $1 million seed round from a list of top-shelf VCs that included Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, CrunchFund and more -- is growing. Today, it is announcing that it is adding Chicago as its next city, after debuting in San Francisco and expanding to New York last year.OUYA Android Gaming Console To Start Shipping To Backers March 28
Feb 28, 5:07PM
OUYA, the Kickstarter-funded Android gaming console, has already shipped developer consoles, but had yet to specify an exact date when backers could expect their production devices. Today, the company announced that it will be shipping the first OUYA consoles out to backers beginning March 28, ahead of a June retail launch.Facebook Gives Examples To Jumpstart Usage Of Graph Search, Which It May Have Spent Too Long Building
Feb 28, 5:00PM
Photos and the news feed are where people spend their time on Facebook. Yet its last two big products were relatively niche features, Timeline and the new Graph Search. Facebook today published examples of how to use Graph Search, which merely highlight that it's not part of day-to-day life. Yes, Facebook needed to fix search, but it may have prioritized an intellectual wank over user experience.Koozoo Aims To Build A Live Video Network With 24-Hour Footage From Old Phones
Feb 28, 5:00PM
Koozoo is launching today in San Francisco and Austin with a new twist on social video. The emphasis here is on utility, rather than performance and entertainment (though it can be entertaining, too). Wouldn't it be useful to know if the weather is nice at a nearby park (though I suppose that example is best-suited for cities with microclimates like San Francisco's). Or whether a nearby store or restaurant is super-crowded? Koozoo founder and CEO Drew Sechrist is trying to build up a network of live video streams that can give you that information.Local, Organic Food Delivery Service Good Eggs Launches In SF To Bring The Farmer's Market To You
Feb 28, 5:00PM
Good Eggs is a new service that delivers organic and sustainable meats, produce, and other goods from locally sourced farms and vendors. There are lots of delivery services that will bring groceries to you, and there are lots of Community Supported Agriculture programs around to connect residents with produce from local farms. But neither does a great job of getting users the stuff they want.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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For small businesses, buying and managing health insurance is a "pain in the buns," to quote 
Through new partnerships with top online and offline purchase data providers Datalogix, Epsilon, Acxiom, and BlueKai, Facebook is allowing advertisers to target hashed lists of existing and potential customers, and categories like role playing gamers or soda drinkers. This expansion of Facebook's Custom Audiences program could rake in revenue and attract businesses by matching ads to real spenders
Google just 
In what appears to be a cyclical recurrence of post-success litigation, 
It's been about nine months since Socialcam was acquired by Autodesk, and the company continues to innovate. It's just released a new version of its iPhone app and has a new Android app coming soon. Even more impressive? The company is leaning on the expertise of its parent company to help improve things and boost the quality of videos that are produced.
I love hardware. That's why I want you guys to bring some of the coolest hardware projects imaginable to 
If you're into DSLR photography, remotely controlling the thing is a pretty common want for new users and seasoned veterans alike. Satechi's BT Smart Trigger is a remote that works with a range of Canon cameras, connecting to the camera's hot shoe and giving them full control over their camera's shutter. It also doubles as an intervalometer, making it possible to get those cool time lapse and extended exposure shots that never fail to draw the appreciation of photography fans.
We've got a busy week ahead in the TechCrunch TV studio for our Ask A VC series, where you put VCs in the hot seat. First up we have Comcast Ventures' Managing Director 
New photo-sharing app Cluster is focused on sharing photos with one's friends and family after a shared experience. Just like its namesake, the idea behind the app is to create a "cluster" of photos, and then invite friends to join. The initial user sets a time range and location for photos, and then can upload some of his or her own.
Like to use your iPhone on the toilet? Myshkin Ingawale has an app for that. Ignawale is the co-founder of Biosense, a med tech company based in Mumbai that specializes in cheap and functional medical technologies. Last year's product was a portable and needleless anemia screener called ToucHb. This year at TED in Los Angeles today he unveiled the charmingly named UChek, a urinalysis app for the masses. In the old days, urinalysis was a bit tougher. A sample of urine is taken in cup and a chemical strip is dipped into said urine sample. The strip is then compared to a color-coded map, which can be used to determine levels of glucose, bilirubin, protein, and other abnormalities in your urine. High levels of glucose, for example, could indicate diabetes. Although chemical strips can be deciphered by sight, there are many urine scanning machines that produce more accurate results. The problem is that they can cost up to $10,000, with limited compatibility with different types of chemical strips. Ignawale's UChek is an app that seeks to simplify the process in an affordable way. Once the chemical strip is dipped in urine, a picture is taken of the strip with a smartphone. The app then quickly analyzes the strip and produces accurate and easy-to-understand results. While the app is currently going through testing phases in a Mumbai hospital, it is awaiting approval in Apple's App Store. The app itself will cost $99, while an extra $20 will nab you a packet of chemical strips, a color-coded map for testing. An Android app is expected, although Ignawale says it will take a little bit longer before it's released. “We all have two things, cell phones and urine,” Ignawale told his TED audience. “We figured we had to be able to do something with this.” He certainly isn't the first person to have noticed. An iPhone app called Piddle was developed by Danish programmers last year in May for Health Hack Day in Stockholm, where it took first prize. Perhaps this will be the beginning of a boom in mobile urinalysis apps, as strange as that sounds?
Google’s Super Sync Sports Chrome Experiment is what happens when you put modern web technology, smartphones and a love of 80s sports games into one rather wacky package where cupcakes race moose heads for virtual gold. The new game, which Google announced this morning, runs in your desktop browser, but you use your smartphone or tablet as the game controller to make your avatars run, cycle and swim. Super Sync Sports uses new browser technologies like the HTML5 audio, CSS3, SVG and Canvas, but the highlight is obviously its use of the Touch API to recognize the gestures you make on your mobile device and WebSockets to make sure your phone(s) and browser stay in sync. Up to four players can join in every race. We’ve seen our fair share of cool browser demos recently, but Super Sync Sports’ ability to turn your mobile browser into what is essentially a very basic Wii U GamePad clearly shows how far our mobile and desktop browsers have come over the last year or so. To get started, you have to fire up Super Sync Sports on your desktop browser and mobile phone or tablet (Android 4.0+ and iOS 4.3+). After choosing whether you want to play a multiplayer or single-player game, you simply type a sync code into the web app and then it’s off to the races. The music will quickly drive you crazy, but the overall experience is quite a bit of fun, especially if you manage to recruit a few other people to play with you. Google says it will publish more information about how it built this experience in the next few weeks. Until then, you can always use your browser’s built-in developer tools to take a look under the hood.
With just a few taps on the screen of your iOS device, 
In the latest episode of my 
Dozens of major U.S. companies 
Last year, Onswipe noticed that despite considerable growth for the Kindle Fire during its first holiday sales season, interest seemed to drop off pretty quick a month or so after all the gifts were unwrapped. This year, it wanted to see if the same held true for two leading Android-based tablet platforms, to see if it couldn't back up the Apple claim that most tablets using Google's mobile OS quickly fall into disuse.
From just two guys at rented desk to a $715 million sale to Facebook, a second wind on Android and a mess of privacy scares, Instagram today announced 100 million people use it every month to share the way they see the world. The startup hedged its bets by being acquired just as it expanded beyond iOS, but despite what it could have sold for now, there's no disputing Instagram's success.
"Wait. That's a touchscreen?!" That wasn't the first thought that popped into my head when I started to use the Chromebook Pixel -- it was about the tenth. But that's only because it seemed impossible that a screen this nice could be a touchscreen. Of course, being that nice, comes with a price.
Growth, to reach more users, and data, to improve the experience. That's what apps need in an identity and social system. They're what Facebook and Twitter deliver, and what the new Google+ Sign-In can't without completed profiles, the social graph, and eyeballs. Logging into apps with your Google credentials would be convenient, but developers may be reluctant to offer the option.
Intel has launched its own Hadoop distribution, entering an already crowded market of major players all looking to get a piece of the big data pie. The company also announced an open-source effort to enhance security in Hadoop. Earlier this week, EMC and HP each announced its own Hadoop distribution. But for Intel, the challenge is to fortify its market-leading position in the data center, where it will face increasing challenge from an emerging ARM ecosystem. Intel says the distribution is optimized for the Intel Xeon processor platform. In its announcement, the company states it can analyze one terabyte of data, which would previously take more than four hours to fully process, can now be done in seven minutes. Partners supporting the launch include Cisco, Datameer, Dell, Hadapt, LucidWorks, Red Hat, SAP, Tableau Software, Teradata, Wipro and Zettaset. As part of the news, Intel has also launched Project Rhino, an open-source effort to improve the data protection capabilities of the Hadoop ecosystem and contribute the code back to the Apache Foundation. Avik Dey, director of Hadoop Services at Intel, posted the details of Project Rhino last night on the Apache Hadoop mailing list. The project will seek to improve encryption, provide improved ways to authenticate users, make security more granular and available at the “cell” level. Ely Khan is co-founder of big data startup sqrrl and the former director of cybersecurity at the White House. He said in an email interview that his team is following Rhino closely: We are seeing more and more customers in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and government wanting take Hadoop to the next level by integrating big data with mission-critical systems and sensitive data. In order for this to happen, Hadoop and NoSQL databases need to adopt enterprise security functionality, such as encryption, fine-grained access controls, and auditing capabilities. Project Rhino is a good validation of this.
Congress could learn some lessons from Silicon Valley. Extreme partisan gridlock over the federal budget is inching the country closer to drastic spending cuts, known ominously as "
Web browser company Opera Software, now 300 million users strong, caught the world off guard the other week when it announced that it would be 
The Pulitzer Prize winning technology journalist 
With the release of the 
A new Kickstarter project called the Ego! Smartmouse blends together some recent trends in computing, including hardware identity authentication and 3D motion control to come up with a unique input device that wears many hats. The Ego! is a mouse in the traditional sense, allowing you to control your desktop or laptop computer, and it also has on-board file storage, can work as an authentication device for various services, and features built-in acceleration and motion detection to work like a Wiimote for controlling games.
New York-based cable company Cablevision is suing cross-town content partner Viacom. The lawsuit is over Viacom's requirement for Cablevision to carry a bunch of channels its users don't watch in order to have access to a bunch of channels they do. Viacom has 8 channels Cablevision wishes to carry, but Viacom bundles in a bunch of channels viewers don't watch and its customers don't care about.
VidIQ hopes to provide a layer of analytics on YouTube as a way to help those who distribute their content on the platform — be they brands, marketers, or independent producers — to reach more viewers. Through a mix of YouTube SEO, smart scheduling and listening tools, VidIQ promises new ways for producers to optimize their distribution strategy.
The business of holiday home rentals has been one of the most natural areas to migrate to the world of e-commerce -- the ability to search for and view lots of properties makes it a significant improvement on whatever it was that people used to do in the past (magazines? vacation agencies? brochures?), and that has helped the online rentals industry to blow up. One area that hasn't evolved very much, however, is pricing and paying -- oftentimes, the cost of a rental is static, and paying in many cases ends up being an offline effort. Until now.
Surface Pro fanboys? Take notice. Your hot little tablet will soon be the runner-up in the ever-growing category of "incredibly expensive Windows 8 tablets aimed at a tiny, but rabid demographic". Razer just announced that the 
500 Startups just 
In a roundtable discussion with reporters today, Google's head of Android Andy Rubin came right out and flatly denied the search giant was considering the launch of retail locations. "Google has no plans and we have nothing to announce," Rubin was reported as as saying by AllThingsD's Ina Fried. Curiously, Rubin's explanation for why Google doesn't need stores was basically the exact opposite of argument from third-party observers about why it does.
