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Quattro Alums Launch Mobile Targeting Startup Adelphic, Raise $2M
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Two mobile veterans who worked together at Quattro Wireless, the mobile ad network that formed the basis of Apple’s iAd program, are announcing a new company today called Adelphic Mobile. Jennifer Lum, who was the vice president of ad ops at Quattro, tells me that me that she teamed up...
Apple could lose $9 billion in one day if aliens descended from the skies to steal it
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I personally don’t often write about Apple because I think people like our own Matthew Panzarino, my former colleague MG Siegler and John Gruber have way smarter things to write about the company and its products. You wouldn’t believe how often I’ve wished more people were like me in that...
Instagram: what is Facebook getting for $1bn?
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Is the social network just after another chunk of the world's visual memory, asks Guardian head of photography Roger ToothIn my job I guess it's unsurprising that I keep hearing things about photography. "Facts" like half of all pictures ever taken were taken in the past 12 months. Could that...
Who wants to meet up at the upcoming, inaugural London Web Summit?
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We’re getting excited about our upcoming trip to the capital city of England for the first London Web Summit, or as the cool kids call it, LWS. Folks like Niklas Zennstrom (Kazaa, Skype, Atomico), Google’s Nikesh Arora and Zynga’s Marcus Segal will be speaking at the event on March 19th,...
User-centric Design is Great, Just as Long as You Find the Right User
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My friend and colleague Esther Schindler has written a wonderful post over on SoftwareQuality Connection here about encouraging user-centric design. The only trouble is figuring out the right set of users that your software is designed for. Put another way, this is the classic programming problem: the person who hires...
Google launches the “power of the internet” campaign
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Google, not unexpectedly is an opponent of any legislation that tries to change how the Internet works (as long it is to their advantage, of course) and as such, was very vocal about the dreaded SOPA/PIPA legislations that were being foisted upon the US Internet users. Thanks to our collective (and...
Zynga’s bid for Draw Something may top $200 million
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What a strange story – a New York-based startup that began its life as a dating-gaming company, went through many incarnations has finally hit the jackpot. OMGPOP, the company behind Draw Something, a mobile and Internet game inspired by Pictionary is being actively pursued by Zynga, who is considering offering $200 million...
Microsoft TechForum unveils three research projects (video)
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TechForum is a Microsoft-sponsored shindig where the company can get together, party, and then show off its latest and greatest research projects. First up we've got a transparent interactive 3D display which builds on technology from Cambridge University's HoloDesk project. Next is Holoflector, a "magic mirror" that overlays LCD...
I’m Already Sick Of SXSW
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Editor’s note (Yeah I’m an editor now, suck it second grade teacher who was all “Does NOT work well with others”on my report card. Yeah you know who you are, Ms. Dudley. ): We’re republishing this timeless classic, because it still stands pretty much as is exactly as is year...
Companion Is The New Assistant
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Editor’s note: Andy Hickl is the co-founder and CEO of A.R.O., a stealth mode Seattle startup. He previously served as CEO and chief scientist of Language Computer Corporation and as co-founder and CEO of Swingly. Follow him on Twitter @andyhickl. Did you hear that 2012 is the year of the...
Google to merge Hangouts, Talk & Messenger
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Google is working on unifying its various real-time messaging applications across all devices, and the result could be a unified messenger that allows you to do one-on-one chats as well as group video Hangouts. That’s the major news out of a session with the Google+ Hangouts team at Google I/O...
Tim Armstrong On The Future Of Aol — And TechCrunch Too [TCTV]
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Aol’s chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong was in the house last week at TechCrunch’s Disrupt NYC conference, and while he got a good grilling on stage by my colleague Josh Constine, we still took advantage of the chance to pull him aside for a follow-up chat backstage for TechCrunch...
Forget the money: Kickstarter turns Pebble into a platform
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By now, you’ve probably seen the soaring funding numbers put up by Pebble, the e-paper smartwatch that has broken records as the biggest Kickstarter project to date with $4.8 million raised. It’s an amazing showing for the watch and another example of the power of crowd-funding platform Kickstarter. But what’s really...
How To ‘Protect’ Brand Keywords For Less
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Imagine you own a restaurant and one day, a couple of big guys in nice suits come through your front door. One of the men introduces himself: “Good evening. My name is Gino, and this my colleague, Salvatore. We’re helping local businesses with their marketing and wanted to see if...
A Review of the New iPad Reviews
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By Emily Steel The new iPad is a hit. The biggest names in the tech review world unveiled their takes on Apple’s latest iPad last night. And they liked it, raving about its upgrades to display screen and speed. Here’s your one-stop guide to a review of the reviews:...
Five ways to build prospect trust in one meeting
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This post is sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. It’s happened to everyone who sells for a living: You meet with a prospective client to show them the goods. Then you meet with them again. And again. But they still won’t pull...
Pulse vs. Flipboard: Which will win, subscriptions or ads?
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In a one-two punch involving digital news-aggregation services, Pulse announced on Tuesday that it has formed a partnership with the Wall Street Journal that will allow it to distribute the newspaper’s content through its app, less than a day after competitor Flipboard announced a similar partnership with the New...
Memo To Larry Page & Sergey Brin From AdWords Advertisers
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Last month, my colleague and fellow columnist, Brad Geddes outlined 8 Features Advertisers Really Need from Google AdWords and I couldn’t agree more with the points he brought up. Back in December, I ran a wish list of my own, 7 Things On My Google AdWords Wishlist For Santa and many...
At $1.7 billion, Nook is worth more than Barnes & Noble itself
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have buried the patent hatchet and teamed up to compete against Apple and Amazon in the eBooks business. The new partnership sees Microsoft investing $300 million in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary. (My colleague Laura Owen has the complete breakdown of the deal over...
Verizon likely installing 4G LTE at Apple Stores to boost iPad HD
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Verizon Wireless is likely in the process of quietly installing 4G LTE networking equipment in Apple Stores around the country, a move that would help sell the iPad HD with LTE data speeds. Both Apple Insider and Cult of Mac have reported that technicians have begun upgrading Verizon equipment...
Postmates Debuts ‘Get It Now’ On-Demand Courier Service To The Public
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One of the things that people who move away from New York City lament is the lack of delivery services pretty much everywhere else. In New York, you can famously get pretty much any kind of food — or anything else really — delivered straight to your door, 24 hours...
Google Cloud Print now lets you print to any FedEx Office location in the US
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Sometimes printing something out physically is necessary, be it for a meeting or for event tickets. I personally haven’t had a printer in my home for the past two years, but definitely get into a pinch sometimes when printing something is absolutely necessary. Until the days of paper are over,...
US Supreme Court shuts down live tweeting from healthcare proceedings
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A mini-scandal erupted yesterday at the US Supreme Court when right-wing non-profit group the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) was found to be live tweeting a debate on the future of the proposed 'Obamacare' law. Electronic communication is strictly forbidden from inside the court, but Casey Mattox, a lawyer for...
Fundable debuts as a Kickstarter for corporate set
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The cult of Kickstarter and the looming promise of the JOBS Act, which will let entrepreneurs to raise capital from non-accredited investors on a certified platform, have presented an opportunity that Fundable wants to pursue. The service, which is backed by Virtucon Ventures out of Columbus, Ohio, debuted today with...
Google Wallet Co-Founding Engineer Departs Google for Square
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By: Dan Balaban Google Wallet co-founding engineer Rob von Behren has left Google for payments startup Square, following former colleague Jonathan Wall in departing the Web giant. Related stories, automatically selected: Google Staff Departures Reveal Internal Rift over Wallet ProgramPayPal Vs. Google Suit Reveals Rivalry Over Expected M-Payments Bonanza...
London Underground wifi: Gwyn Topham tests tube's new internet service - video
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The Guardian's Gwyn Topham makes a Skype call to colleague Paul Owen from the London Underground using the newly introduced wifi systemGwyn TophamPaul Owen...
Taking on Amazon, Google launches EC2 rival Compute Engine
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Google has announced plans to start offering a compute-on-demand service that rivals Amazon’s Elastic Compute (EC2) service. Google has offered many what it calls higher-level cloud services such Google storage, BigQuery and Google App Engine in the past, but now the company believes it needs to sell a more...
Netflix: 1 billion hours watched in June is the most ever
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Netflix viewership passed 1 billion hours in a month for the first time ever, according to a Facebook status update by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: Hastings congratulates colleague Ted Sarandos for the feat. Sarandos is the company’s chief content officer, and has been for the past 12 years. One billion...
TCTV Live: The Wrap-Up on Apple and the New New iPad
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At 4pm PT, we’ll be going live on TechCrunch TV to talk about all the news that came our of Apple’s event in San Francisco today: The new iPad; upgrades to iCloud, Apple TV, and iOS 5; and of course the tech world’s reactions to it all. Joining me...
Aaron Levie, Box CEO: We Should Have Bought Yammer
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It was clearly meant as a joke. Yammer is, according to many reports, just moments away from a big acquisition by Microsoft, so on stage at LeWeb in London today my colleague Mike Butcher asked Aaron Levie, the outspoken CEO of cloud storage player Box, if he had been interested...
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