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23:31 08/07/2010
YouTube Leanback, Hulu Plus, And Even Google TV Will Not Break Us Away From Traditional Pay TV Services Listen, I hate forking over $100 a month for my TV, too. I also wholeheartedly agree with The Consumerist picking Comcast as the worst company in America. But they still get my money every month and just like the vast majority of people who pay for their TV, that's not going to change anytime soon. There simply isn't anything that replicates the experience and is free or low-cost. No one, not e... #CompanyProductProfiles #Gadgets #Google #YouTube #Hulu #Netlfix #YoutubeLeanback #Leanback Zobacz wpis
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23:31 08/07/2010
Yahoo Hires Another Ex-Microsoft Exec: Bill Shaughnessy Yahoo just added another former Microsoft executive to its ranks. Bill Shaughnessy, who left Microsoft in during a shakeup in 2008, will join as a senior vice president of product management, reporting to chief product officer Blake Irving, another former Microsoftie who joined last April. Shaughnessy was a global VP of sales at Microsoft. Now he is moving into product management after taking time off for the past year and a half. He is ... #CompanyProductProfiles #Yahoo Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
22:25 08/07/2010
Playdom Keeps The Acquisition Fun Rolling With Virtual-World Startup Metaplace Social gaming company Playdom is definitely on an acquisition spree. Last month it bought Hive 7, this month it is Metaplace, a startup that launched at TechCrunch 40 in 2007.
Metaplace has developed an in-browser virtual-world engine which can be applied to social games. Founders Raph Koster and John Donham previously worked at Sony Online Entertainment, where they helped develop games like Star Wars Galaxies and E... #CompanyProductProfiles #Metaplace #Playdom #TC40 #TechCrunch40 Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
21:10 08/07/2010
Fortune Tech Reporter Jon Fortt Replaces Apple Fanboy Jim Goldman At CNBC CNBC is getting a new technology correspondent and losing a controversial one. Jon Fortt, a senior writer at Fortune, will be joining CNBC on July 19th in its Silicon Valley bureau. CNBC's current tech reporter, Jim Goldman, will be leaving to pursue a career in PR. Some will find this an appropriate career shift for Goldman, who has often been criticized in the past as being a mouthpiece for Apple, a company he covers ... #CompanyProductProfiles #Apple #CNBC #JimGoldman #JonFortt Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
08:25 08/07/2010
Orkut About To Fall To Facebook In India For all the grief Google gets for not understanding social networks, people often forget that it owns a pretty big one, Orkut. While Orkut is much smaller than Facebook worldwide, it does dominate in at least two large countries: Brazil and India. But that soon may change.
India looks like it is about to fall to Facebook. In May, 2010, Facebook attracted 18 million unique visitors in India, compared to Orkut's 19.7 million (comScore). In the past ye... #CompanyProductProfiles #Facebook #Orkut Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
06:49 08/07/2010
Coveroo Raises $2.3 Million For Custom-Engraved Mobile Cases Some people like to put tattoos on their body, others like to put Coveroos on their phones. Coveroo puts a custom engraving on the back of your mobile phone or case. The company just closed a Series B funding, led by Rembrandt Venture Partners. Consor Capital and CEO Karl Jacob also put in some money.
About 18 months ago, Coveroo rose from the ashes of Wallop, a defunct social networking site where Jacob was also the CEO. Instead o... #CompanyProductProfiles #Mobile #ConsorCapital #Coveroo #RembrandtVenturePartners Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
00:05 08/07/2010
Foursquare Is Five Times Larger Than Gowalla And Growing 75 Percent Faster Every Day Editor's note: The following analysis is written by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, an on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup. Robert blogs at The Metric System and can be followed on Twitter at @RJMetrics.
Location-based social networks Foursquare and Gowalla are accumulating users (and headlines) with impressive momentum. While both companies have been vocal about... #CompanyProductProfiles #Featured #Foursquare #Gowalla Zobacz wpis
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18:39 07/07/2010
With A Fresh $16 Million Round, BuyWithMe Plans To Expand To 20 Cities A lot of venture money is chasing social commerce startups right now because group buying sites are chasing a lot of money (in the form of consumer spending). Groupon kicked things off with its $135 million mega-round last April. LivingSocial has raised $49 million so far. And now BuyWithMe just closed a $16 million B round led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing its total raised to $21.5 million. Matrix Partners also inves... #CompanyProductProfiles #Featured #Buywithme Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
15:14 07/07/2010
Apple’s Invasion of China Begins With This Shanghai Apple Store There has been a lot of talk the last couple of days with Apple's stance on the gigantic Chinese market. The Lenovo's chief and founder stated "We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble." Well, good sir, your troubles might soon begin.
Apple plans on opening three stores in Shanghai and is considering... #CompanyProductProfiles #Apple #China Zobacz wpis
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12:03 07/07/2010
Soho OS Lands $1M, Opens Business Management Suite To All Small Businesses A couple of months ago we first covered Soho OS, describing its offering as a soup-to-nuts "hybrid of Quicken + Zoho + SalesForce". Today, the company is announcing that it has secured $1 million in funding from The Time. This is on top of the $250K the company had raised in its pre-seed round.
In our initial post, the company offered 1000 beta invites to TechCrunch readers, and in response, 7000 signed-up. Today the compa... #CompanyProductProfiles #SohoOS Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
23:40 06/07/2010
TV Shack Flaunts The Feds By Moving Video Piracy Site To Offshore Domain Last week, the Feds shut down nine video sites for piracy and copyright violations. The enforcement was a combined effort by the Department of Justice, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and a the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center under the Department of Homeland Security. It is the new Intellectual Property Police, and they are fighting to save Hollywood.
The press release announcing the on... #CompanyProductProfiles #TVShack Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
21:28 06/07/2010
The Upshot: Search Powers The News At Yahoo Yahoo is getting serious about the news. Today, it launched a new political news blog called The Upshot, written by a staff of six writers and two editors. The Upshot is a mix of original reporting, commentary, links, and licensed news photos. Rather than simply republishing stories from the news wires or other news outlets like rest of Yahoo News, the Upshot is trying to cultivate a Yahoo-branded point of view and set of voices around political, na... #CompanyProductProfiles #Yahoo #YahooNews Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
17:11 06/07/2010
Magnify Brokers Deals To Run Ads Inside Embedded Videos From an audience perspective, the ability to embed videos on other sites is what expands their viewership and makes them go viral. But from an advertising perspective, most of that video is the Web equivalent of dead air. "Nobody sells embedded video because nobody knows where it is going," says Magnify.net CEO Steve Rosenbaum. He has a partial fix for that, a new video advertising product he calls Elastic Inventory.
Magnify offers a vid... #CompanyProductProfiles #Advertising #Magnify #VideoAdvertising #WebVideo Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
21:30 05/07/2010
Posterous Growing At More Than 700 Percent a Year Somewhere in between full blogging platforms like Wordpress and the 140-character limit of Twitter, true microblogging sites like Tumblr and Posterous are taking off. I call these true microblogging sites because they are designed for quick hits but can support photos, themes, and other more blog-like features. Tumblr has been around longer and is getting quite big (23 million monthly unique global visitors, according to Quantcast) , but the yo... #CompanyProductProfiles #Posterous #Tumblr #Microblogging Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
18:17 03/07/2010
FaceTime and Why Apple’s Massive Integration Advantage is Just Beginning Editor’s note: Guest author Steve Cheney is an entrepreneur and formerly an engineer & programmer specializing in web and mobile technologies. His last guest post was on Why Mobile Innovation Is Blowing Away PCs
The success of iPhone 4 has been astonishing to witness, despite the antenna issues, proving once again that Apple has a unparalleled ability to [...] #CompanyProductProfiles #Apple #Facetime Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
23:54 02/07/2010
Exclusive: The Sexy Russian Spy’s Business Plan (And A Video Interview) The bizarre case of Russian Spy ring arrested by the FBI earlier this week just keeps on getting stranger. In particular, one of the alleged spies, Anna Chapman, is getting a lot of attention because of her looks and lingerie shots on Facebook. Now, her former husband in London says her father was a former KGB officer and that she left him to pursue her startup dreams in the United States.
Chapman networked her way into th... #CompanyProductProfiles #AnnaChapman #NYCRentals Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
20:46 02/07/2010
Pandora Founder Tells Charlie Rose The iPhone “Almost Doubled” Growth “Overnight” With more than 50 million users and a recent infusion of cash, music streaming service Pandora is really hitting its stride. Founder Tim Westergren had his Charlie Rose moment last night, and one thing that really cam ethrough was how important the iPhone is to Pandora.
"It is impossible to overstate" its impact, saays Westergren. When the iPhone app launched in 2008, it was an instant hit, and it "almost doubl... #CompanyProductProfiles #TC #CharlieRose #Pandora Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
03:44 02/07/2010
Firefox Crosses 2 Billion Add-On Downloads One of the greatest things about the Firefox browser is that any developer can expand its features and capabilities with a simple add-on. There are add-ons for everything—Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Digg, feed readers, price comparison, photos, music, and more. Today, every browser supports plug-ins and extensions.
Earlier today, cumulative add-on downloads passed the 2 billion mark. It passed the first billion downloads back in November, 2008. ... #CompanyProductProfiles #Firefox #Mozilla Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
22:25 01/07/2010
Google Pays $700 Million In Cash For Flight Info Provider ITA Google is now in the flight information business. The search giant just announced it is paying $700 million in cash for ITA Software, an essential provider of flight information to airlines, travel agencies, and online reservation systems.
Travel is a huge segment of search and online commerce. Purchasing ITA signals Google's intention to build out its travel search in a major way. A consortium of rivals including Microsoft, Kayak... #CompanyProductProfiles #Enterprise #Google #ITASoftware Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
20:20 01/07/2010
Breaking: Tapulous Acquired By Disney Tapulous has been acquired by Disney. The iPhone gaming startup with several hits on its hands was founded by Bart Decrem, who will join Disney as a VP. COO Andrew Lacy is also joining Disney as a VP. Disney is very interested in social and mobile gaming, having recently invested in Playdom's $33 million round.
Tapulous is a hot iPhone gaming startup which has raised only $1.8 million from angel investors including Marc Benioff, Jeff Clavier, and Andy Bec... #CompanyProductProfiles #Tapulous Zobacz wpis
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19:46 01/07/2010
Department of Desperation: Placecast Tries To Paint Foursquare As Irrelevant To Marketers If you want to know why you can never trust a survey commissioned by a company trying to bolster its market position, just look at the slide above. Placecast, which is a text-messaging advertising service. Placecast commissioned a survey by Harris Interactive to measure consumer's attitudes towards, and acceptance of, text-message marketing on their mobile phones.
The survey (embedded below) has some usef... #CompanyProductProfiles #LBS #LocationBasedMarketing #Placecast Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
00:00 01/07/2010
Google News Gets Biggest Overhaul Since 2002, Adds Trending Topics And Personal News Stream After months of testing, today Google News is unveiling "the biggest redesign since the beta launch in 2002," says director of product management Ben Ling. The main new elements of the page include new navigation by trending topics in the left pane, a personalized news stream in the middle pane, and localized news and weather in the right-hand pane.
The whole idea is to make Google news more personal a... #CompanyProductProfiles #TC #Featured #Google #GoogleNews Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
22:03 30/06/2010
As Part Of Its Kindle Everywhere Strategy, Amazon Prepares An HTML5 Web Previewer Jeff Bezos wants Kindle books to become ubiquitous and the standard in digital reading. "Buy once, read everywhere," is his motto. He already has the various flavors of the Kindle e-reader, as well as an iPhone app, an even better iPad app, a Blackberry app, a new Android app, and desktop readers for the Mac and PC. But what about the plain old Web?
Amazon is inching in that direction with a soon-to-be-released ... #CompanyProductProfiles #Featured #Amazon #Kindle Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
20:13 30/06/2010
Chango Closes $1.4 Million Round, Brings Search Targeting To Display Ads Toronto-based advertising startup Chango closed a $1.4 million Series A funding, with new investors Metamorphic Ventures and privately from Geoff Judge, a VC at iNovia Capital and co-founder of 24/7 Real Media. Last November, the company raised the first $750,000 of the Series A from iNovia Capital and Extreme Venture Partners.
Chango is an ad platform that targets display ads based on people's previous search history. It... #CompanyProductProfiles #TC #Chango #MetamorphicVentures Zobacz wpis
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TechCrunch
18:34 30/06/2010
AdMob’s Final Mobile Metrics Report: Android Rising, But Apple Still Dominates Worldwide Mobile ad network AdMob (now part of Google) released its final Mobile Metrics report today (embedded below), at least for a while. AdMob gathers data from millions of phones and mobile devices which serve up its ad impressions, including almost 44 million iOS devices (iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads). The decision to stop disclosing the data may have something to do with its new owner, Google, wanting to ... #CompanyProductProfiles #Mobile #Apple #Google #IPhone #Android #Ipad #Admob #Ios Zobacz wpis
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