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Apple’s two new Siri TV ads hope to appeal to musicians and road warriors
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In the tradition of themed ads from Apple, such as the ones for FaceTime that featured grandparents seeing their grandkids for the first time, the company has been whipping up TV ads for the most notable feature on the iPhone 4S, Siri. The last ad for Siri, which was holiday...
Reports from China claim Apple has started shipping the ‘iPad 3′ to the US
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It’s getting close to the strongly rumored launch date of Apple’s third generation iPad — March 7 — and it seems that Apple may have already begun shipping the device to the US, according to a report out of China, where they are built. The Apple Pro blog [Chinese], via...
Cloud Emailer Mailjet Hits 1 Billion Emails Sent, Launches Apps For Tracking Emails In Real Time
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Mailjet, a cloud emailing service for tracking marketing and transactional emails, has just launched a mobile application for its business customers offering real-time email tracking. Within the mobile application, users can monitor email deliveries, plus keep an eye on metrics like bounces, opens and clicks. The company, which just rolled...
Groupon Middle East flooded with complaints, while its competitors see record-breaking sales
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Groupon Middle East appears to be having a hard time competing against local competition, according to The National. In the space of six months, the group-buying giant has lost two CEOs. Senior account manager at Groupon, Simon Pugh, told The National that Ainsley Duncombe has left Groupon: ”Yes, Ainsley has left...
Samsung warns of 2-3 week delay on blue Galaxy S III shipments over “newly invented” paint finish
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Samsung’s new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, may have launched across Europe and the Middle East this morning but the company has been forced to issue a statement warning customers that deliveries of its blue variant could face a 2-3 week delay. Online retailers had warned customers that they...
Apple begins to ease new iPad availability, orders now showing 1-2 week deliveries
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Having officially sold over 3 million new iPads since launch day, Apple has begun to ease constraints on availability as delivery times have been cut by up to a week across a number of the company’s regional online stores. Customers rushing to preorder the new iPad brought the Apple website...
Backstage With The Disrupt NYC Hackathon Winners: Thingscription, PoachBase, & PractiKhan
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The speaker schedule for TechCrunch’s Disrupt NYC conference has been set for a while now, but three brand new presenters were just added to the lineup: The winners announced earlier today at the finale of this past weekend’s 24 hour Disrupt 2012 Hackathon, Thingscription, PoachBase, and PractiKhan. Since the...
New iPad buyers face online delays as Apple struggle with demand
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People ordering Apple's new iPad online face a four-day delay due to overwhelming demand for the devicePeople pre-ordering Apple's new iPad online to avoid the release-day crowds at stores will have to wait longer to get their hands on the devices.Apple says that due to high demand, it has been...
The Amazon Store? Maybe Try An In-Store Shop First
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A recent Wal-Mart ad for Amazon's Kindle and Kindle Fire Five years ago, Amazon sold no physical merchandise of its own. Today, it sells five Kindle devices — more, if you count models with or without advertising or 3G wireless — plus a wide range of cables and accessories, both...
Some U.S. Pre-Orders of New Apple TV Arriving a Day Early
www.macrumors.com
While shipping notices for pre-orders of the iPad began going out over the weekend, those notices have been accompanied by "future delivery requested" notes indicating that Apple is working with delivery companies to coordinate the launch for this Friday, March 16. But the new 1080p-capable Apple TV set-top box is...
Bike Delivery App Postmates Offers A Last-Minute Valentine’s Gift
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Yes, there are going to be a lot of startups trying to capitalize on Valentine’s Day. Postmates, however, has the advantage of doing something cool — something that involves free chocolate. When the app launched last year at TechCrunch Disrupt, the coverage described it as the “Uber of packages.” On...
No more delays, the first round of Rasberry Pi units are starting to be delivered
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Back in February, we introduced you to the mini $35 computer called Rasberry Pi, and it sold out instantly. After a few bumps in the road, it appears that the first round of orders are starting to be delivered, according to the organization behind the project: A few people have...
Exec Goes Out To The Ball Game, Will Deliver Hot Dogs And Stuff To Lazy Giants Fans
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If you’re like me, the worst part about going to a baseball game — other than watching your team lose — is having to deal with lines at the concession stands. You inevitably end up missing at least half an inning wandering throughout the ballpark trying to find the stand...
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...
First Tesla Model S deliveries set for June 22nd
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Tesla Motors is continuing on a tech trend we can get behind: delivering ahead of schedule. Just a couple of weeks ago the company was expecting to deliver the first customer models in July (already ahead of original estimates) and now Tesla is saying that the first delivery will...
Delivery begins for first units of Raspberry Pi’s $35 Linux computer
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The Raspberry Pi foundation has started shipping units of the much-anticipated $35 Linux computer. The organization has already started handing out the first units and conducting educational seminars with students. The Raspberry Pi foundation was originally established with the goal of producing low-cost computers that students could use to...
Canon's Mixed Reality headset: hands-on with the future of technical training
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Deliveries of Canon’s Mixed Reality headset aren’t starting until next month, but that didn’t stop half a dozen companies (including Canon) from showing off how they plan to use the new kit at Tokyo’s 3D and Virtual Reality Expo. We stopped by one booth to look at how companies...
Justin.tv’s Namesake Founder Takes On Task Services With Exec
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Justin.tv has already gone in two directions. The main one is Twitch.tv, a video game-focused version of the original streaming site, that by all accounts has booming traffic and revenue. The other one is SocialCam, a mobile video app spinout that’s also getting serious traction now. But the namesake cofounder...
Pebble smartwatch raises a record $3.6 million through Kickstarter [video]
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Kickstarter is filled with some brilliant, some not-so-brilliant and some very strange ideas, and if user interest is any indication, the Pebble ePaper smartwatch can likely be filed under brilliant. Allerta, the company behind the product, opened a Kickstarter page less than a week ago and has already become the...
Apple 'Stalling' in Replenishing Reseller Stocks of Apple TV as Shortages Hit Apple Retail
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While shortages of the Apple TV at numerous high-profile resellers have been documented for weeks and part numbers indicating an update alongside the iPad 3 next week have been revealed, AppleInsider now notes that Apple has specifically been stalling in delivering promised shipments of the device to resellers.For three consecutive...
Korea’s 21-month-old e-commerce startup Coupang will generate $600M in revenue this year
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A student at the Harvard Business School, Bom Kim asked his entrepreneurship professor if he should drop put of school to do a startup. The professor told him no. But Kim dropped out anyway, and it was the best move of his life. Now he is chief executive and...
Capcom celebrates 'Mega Man' anniversary with a ten-disc soundtrack in an e-tank
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of its most iconic characters, Capcom is releasing a limited edition 10-disc Mega Man soundtrack complete with a full-color booklet — but only in Japan. The set — which, naturally, comes in an e-tank canister — is available from the Japanese E-Capcom...
Gnip now pulls social data from Sina Weibo’s 300 million Chinese users
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Only a few months after becoming the first authorized reseller of tweets, Boudler-based Gnip has announced today that it is adding social data from China’s Sina Weibo microblogging service. The company, which promises that its customers will never miss a tweet, comment, post or like again, is touting SW’s 300...
HTC Evo 4G LTE now indefinitely delayed at Best Buy
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Best Buy has sent out a correction informing pre-order customers that deliveries of the HTC Evo 4G LTE are now indefinitely delayed, according to Phandroid. Earlier, the retailer gave customers hope by emailing out a revised date of May 23rd (pushed back from May 18th) for delivery of Sprint's...
TaskRabbit Launches On-Demand Courier Service ‘Deliver Now’ In San Francisco
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San Francisco is a tiny city — famously just 49 square miles — but now its residents will have the whole city at their fingertips even more so than ever. TaskRabbit, the online marketplace that lets people outsource errands and small tasks to their neighbors, today will debut “Demand Now,”...
Can Seamless become a Yelp competitor?
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Seamless, a favorite resource for connecting restaurants and delivery-dependent diners, built its business helping companies order meals for its workers. But the company is now trying to become a much more consumer-focused business, and it’s now looking to the mounds of data it gathers to try to accelerate the transformation. I...
Birchbox Turns To Advertising Birchbox Men…In The Woman’s Birchbox
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Birchbox Men launched in early April. The service promised to deliver the same sort of goodies as the woman’s Birchbox, just with a male theme. As Kim-Mai wrote at the time, this could include four to five picks per month with samples like high-end shave gel, deodorant and skincare products...
Lunch, disrupted: ZeroCater helps startups get fed
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If you’re one of the growing number of startups in Silicon Valley area that gets regular deliveries of catered food, you’ve probably heard of ZeroCater. And if you haven’t yet, you should: The startup is quickly becoming the go-to place for handling all the logistics of ordering lunch (and other...
3D-Printer Shapeways Opens a U.S. Distribution Center in Queens: Next Step, ‘Factory of the Future’
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Ms. Fisher, in her native Shapeways habitat. Shapeways, the Dutch 3D printing startup that moved out to New York after a $5.1 million investment from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures, has been on a steady crusade to introduce the future-facing practice of 3D-printing to the mainstream. After a year...
Couch commerce: TiVo teams up with PayPal to enable frictionless TV shopping
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TV services and advertising solutions company TiVo this morning announced that it has partnered with eBay company PayPal to enable TiVo users to use the latter’s digital payments service to purchase products featured in interactive advertisements with a few clicks of the remote. TiVo says it will be working with...
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