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More Details On Why Zynga Laid Off 18% Of Its Workforce And How It's Shifting To Mobile
Jun 04, 1:26AM
Earlier today, Zynga announced that was laying off 18 percent of its global workforce. After the news broke, I spoke to a source with knowledge about the company's decision-making process to get more details about why Zynga made the cuts that it did and what they mean for its future. What they said won't be revelatory if you have been following Zynga's earnings reports or if you read today's note from CEO Mark Pincus, but they did paint a picture of a company that's wants to become leaner and more nimble while struggling to create more mobile hits.Facebook NY Signs 10-Year Lease To Move Into ~100K Sq Ft Office With 2X Space, Designed By Frank Gehry
Jun 04, 1:22AM
After weeks of rumors, Facebook has just signed a ten year lease to move its New York office into a new, nearly 100,000 sq ft office over two floors at 770 Broadway, Manhattan. The interior will be designed by famed architect Frank Gehry who is masterminding its Menlo Park Headquarters expansion. Facebook NY's engineering, design, marketing, sales, and comms teams will move there in early 2014.One API To Rule Them All – Segment.io Lets Mobile Developers Send Analytics Data To Dozens Of Services, Without Resubmitting To App Stores
Jun 03, 11:59PM
Segment.io, a Y Combinator-backed startup making it easier for developers to integrate APIs from multiple analytics providers into their applications, is today expanding its service to include support for mobile. The company is introducing mobile software development kits for both iOS and Android, which will allow developers to toggle on or off 25 different analytics services without resubmitting their apps to the various app stores.Vine Gets RickRoll'D With A Three Minute Video
Jun 03, 10:58PM
Vine has over 13 million users now. And with this morning's launch on Android, chances are that number is climbing rapidly. But of all the Vines, from all the millions of users, across all of the world, this is the best one. Period. Trust me.Reeder, gReader & Other Popular Feed Reading Apps Partner With Feedly Ahead Of Google Reader Shutdown
Jun 03, 8:38PM
In less than a month, Google Reader will shut down for good, according to the countdown timer on Digg.com, a company now in the process of building a replacement. For end users, the loss is one of a simple, fast and powerful front-end for browsing news feeds, but for developers working on apps in the RSS ecosystem, it means something even worse: the end of access to the Reader API. Today, Feedly is offering an alternative.Twitter Is Experiencing Site-Wide Issues, Including Timelines Not Updating And Profiles Not Loading (UPDATED)
Jun 03, 8:33PM
According to Twitter's status blog and all of Facebook, the service appears to be experiencing site-wide issues including errors on just about every single feature of the site.Microsoft Acquires InCycle's Release Management Service InRelease To Improve Its Team Foundation Server
Jun 03, 7:25PM
Microsoft has acquired InCycle's release management solution InRelease, a tool for automatically deploying application components to target services in different environments. InCycle is a Canadian company that specializes in application lifecycle management (ALM) and release management solutions on Microsoft's .NET platform.Microsoft Satiates Developers' Ever-Loving Appetites For Lower Pricing With Per-Minute Billing On Windows Azure
Jun 03, 6:51PM
Microsoft is satiating customers' appetite for ever more affordable pricing with news today of per-minute billing, no charge for stopping virtual machines (VM) and discounted developer and test rates. Paying by the minute allows a customer to run a VM, cloud service, website or mobile service for only the minutes used in an hour. Previously a customer would be charged for the full hour even if the customer used only a few minutes.Zynga Confirms That It's Cutting 520 Employees (18% Of Workforce), Says It Will Save $70M-$80M
Jun 03, 6:36PM
Zynga has confirmed the layoffs via press release, as well as the numbers (520 layoffs or 18 percent of the workforce) reported by AllThingsD. The company says this was result in $70 million to $80 million in annualized pre-tax savings. Despite those savings, its guidance for its second quarter earnings is a loss between $39 million and $28.5 million. In a note to employees, CEO Mark Pincus described this as a "proactive" move that will "offer our teams the runway they need to take risks and develop these breakthrough new social experiences" on mobile and touchscreen devices.New Android Alarm Clock App Warmly Wants To Wake You Up Right
Jun 03, 5:53PM
Generally we seem content to be rudely shocked out of sleep, with alarms that blare at us and beep violently, rendering continued sleep impossible. New Android app Warmly, from the Seattle-based Chaos Collective, thinks it might be better if an app wakes you up with gradually mounting sounds that not only aren't alien and frightening, but are actually comforting and familiar.Julian Assange Unmasks Eric Schmidt's Evil Plans To Enslave The World
Jun 03, 5:49PM
The following is my fictionalized story based on a stranger-than-fiction, real life op-ed by Julian Assange, wherein he accuses Google of conspiring with the State Department to dominate the world. Assange's quotes are real.Google Launches Mobile Backend Starter, A One-Click Deployable Cloud Backend For Android Apps
Jun 03, 5:45PM
Google today announced the launch of its Mobile Backend Starter that allows Android developers to deploy a basic cloud infrastructure for their apps that runs on Google's App Engine. Mobile Backend Starter provides developers with a one-click deployable mobile backend and a client-side framework for Android that provides them with storage services, access to Google Cloud Messaging, continuous queries and Google's authentication and authorization features.Keen On… Stephen Wolfram: Confessions Of The Most Quantified Person On The Planet
Jun 03, 5:44PM
Stephen Wolfram, the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research, may well be the smartest and most interesting guy in tech. A PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech at the age of twenty, the youngest ever recipient of the MacArthur "genius" fellowship, the inventor of both Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram's life has been dedicated to the capture and organization of all the knowledge in the world.Makerbot Opens New 50,000-Square-Foot Factory In Brooklyn
Jun 03, 5:37PM
Makerbot, the hardware darling that closed on a $10 million round of funding in 2011, has just announced that they will open their new factory and warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on Friday. The space is part of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard and will be set up in a complex of older warehouses that dot the waterfront.Google Updates Chrome For iOS With Conversational Voice Search, Faster Page Reloading
Jun 03, 5:17PM
Google today updated Chrome for iOS to version 27, which introduces a couple of new features that should make using voice search on iOS a bit easier. Just like on the desktop and Android, as well as the Google Search app for iOS, Chrome for iOS now allows you to speak your search query and -- assuming Google's natural language algorithms understand it and its Knowledge Graph knows the answer -- it will also speak your results back to you.Fracture Raises Another $500K For On-Demand Printing Of Photos On Glass
Jun 03, 5:06PM
Fracture, a digital "maker" startup offering an on-demand system for printing your photos on glass, has raised an additional $500,000 on top of its previous $1.5 million in outside funding, following a year that saw the company's revenue double.Google Adds New Collaboration And Sharing Features To Its Analytics Dashboards
Jun 03, 4:57PM
If you're using Google Analytics, chances are you have already customized a dashboard for your specific needs. But now, when you develop a new dashboard that may be useful to others, you can share both the dashboard itself or a template for it with others in your profile. Sharing templates was previously available in Google Analytics, but as Google notes, being able to share the dashboard itself is a "nice complement" to this.Conferize Joins A Crowded Conference Content Tracking Market With A New Platfom
Jun 03, 4:27PM
It seems all you tech people are obsessed with making conferences work better, perhaps because you seem to go to a lot? Thus there are numerous 'conference startups'. There are apps to schmooze at the event itself, like Bizzabo, Presdo, Oleapark, Shpare, Schmooze, CrowdVine, Eventasaur and Omyconf, not to mention generic location-based networking apps like Highlig.ht, Sonar, Ban.jo and Intro. And there are platforms for the conference organisers to get the word out, like ConferenceHound, AllConferences, Cvent, ConferenceAlerts and Lanyrd. Today Conferize joins them, claiming to be a full service content marketing platform for the conference industry.Say Goodbye To Ugly Newsletters, Stamplia Launches Its Email Templates Marketplace
Jun 03, 4:00PM
Stamplia, launching today from French startup Kiwup, is an email templates marketplace where web designers can sell HTML templates for newsletters, transactional emails and signup forms, and in turn let companies focus on the messaging of their email campaigns rather than design.LinkedIn Upgrades "Who's Viewed Your Profile" Section With New Look, Better Analytics
Jun 03, 3:59PM
LinkedIn has been busy upgrading pieces to its business social network in recent weeks, with updates to its contacts, the release of a new mobile contacts app for iPhone, revamped user profiles, the addition of channels to its news site LinkedIn Today and, most recently, added security via two-step authentication. Now, the company is rolling out improved analytics and a new look for its "Who's Viewed Your Profile" feature, which tracks the number of times your name has appeared in LinkedIn Search, and how that has changed over time.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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