Fastest growing segment of piracy? Live TV
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A chart from the report “The six business models for copyright infringement.” Click to expand. A new Google study entitled “The six business models for copyright infringement,” just released with the UK’s PRS (Performing Right Society) for Music, finds that live TV is the fastest-growing segment of copyright infringement. (To...
Youtubers React to New Site Features: Bulk Annotations, Editing Software, Sound Stages
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YouTubers love complaining about how bad the Google-owned company is when it comes to responding to user feedback, but at this year's unofficial YouTuber conference, VidCon, the YouTube team revealed a slew of much-needed site revisions and features, as well as their sense of humor. We sat down with five...
This YouTube Video Scored An Entrepreneur $40,000
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Nick Chmura came up with the idea for his startup because he was fed up with getting nutcrackers for Christmas. "For my first fifteen Christmases I got 35 nutcrackers," tells us. "These people loved me and wanted to get me something but they didn't know what to get me. I...
Facebook adds new status icons for same-sex marriages
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In a recent change, Facebook is allowing same-sex newlyweds to celebrate their unions with more appropriate cake topper icons. Previously, the icon was an immutable bride-and-groom design, but now, male Facebook choosing male partners in the "Marriage" Timeline event pop-up will see the icon switch to a dual-groom design...
Facebook Says It Can Take A YEAR To Get Results From Its Ads (GB, GM)
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Facebook seems poised to snatch some good publicity ahead of its Q2 2012 earnings report from the disclosure in the Wall Street Journal that the company is in talks to get General Motors back as an advertising client. But buried in the same report is a statement attributed to Facebook's...
After Ruining Facebook's IPO, GM Comes Crawling Back (GM, FB)
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One big reason for Facebook's disappointing IPO was that days before it went off, General Motors, one of the nation's biggest advertisers, loudly announced that it was cutting its ad spend on the site to zero. GM said Facebook ads didn't work. Now, a month and a half later, GM...
Top Trends of 2012: Social Video Apps (Warning: Seedy Content!)
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Continuing our review of the first half of 2012, we look at an emerging product type that became popular this year: social video apps. The two leading contenders are Socialcam and Viddy, each vying to be the breakout app. But at least one of those apps is using dubious seeding...
Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App
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According to two Facebook engineers, the company has completely rebuilt its iOS application to optimize for one thing: speed. The new app will be released this summer, but won't look any different than the current one. The company got the speed by switching away from the HTML5 method of programming...
Anger at Facebook's email switch
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The social network has made its @facebook.com email system the default contact shown in users' profiles without asking for permission....
YouTubers react to new site features announced at VidCon
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YouTuber love complaining about how bad the Google-owned company is when it comes to responding to user feedback, but at this year's unofficial YouTuber conference VidCon, the YouTube team revealed a slew of much needed site revisions and features, as well as their sense of humor. Immediately before announcing the...
The site that outs all your stupid Facebook updates
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We Know What You're Doing proudly reveals all the things you have blurted out on Facebook that you wish you hadn't blurted out on Facebook. [Read more]...
BBC broadcasts live on Facebook
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The BBC has begun streaming live sport coverage on Facebook, with 24 simultaneous live feeds planned for the Olympic Games....
Facebook Blames Email Problems On User "Confusion"
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If you’re missing email messages, don’t blame Facebook: the social network says you are simply “confused.” Facebook spent a second straight weekend dealing with complaints from users about a switch in the default user email addresses, this time with users complaining that the change was resulting in lost messages and...
You'll Wish You Worked At LinkedIn After Taking This Tour Of Its HQ (LNKD)
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MOUNTAIN VIEW – In the year or so since its IPO, LinkedIn has surpassed the 150 million user mark, while growing its staff from about 800 to almost 2,500. It's headquarters in Mountain View has grown a lot too. We recently took a tour of LinkedIn's growing campus and got...
How to Keep Facebook From Recognizing Your Face
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Now that Facebook has bought facial recognition vendor Face.com, many users are worried that the giant social network will use the technology to infringe on their privacy. While you can’t stop Facebook from grabbing the facial-recognition data, there are ways to limit the service’s use of that information. Security...
GM & Facebook: it’s still complicated, but they kinda sorta might like each other again, maybe
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GM and Facebook are on speaking terms again. And while the relationship status is still unclear, the two corporate giants are talking about a renewed relationship, according to the Wall Street Journal. GM famously pulled its ads from the social media giant in May of this year, just in the...
Mobile Payments Startup Kuapay Grabs $4 Million Investment, Readies Global Expansion
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Well, it appears to be mobile payments day here at TechCrunch. When it rains, it pours, right? Another announcement hitting the wires today comes from global mobile payments startup Kuapay, which has just closed a $4 million round of funding from a single, private investor. The company was started in...
One Month Later, Here's What's Happened To Sean Parker's Ultra-Hyped App Airtime...
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Sean Parker's Facebook-connected video chat application, Airtime, launched with an enormous amount of hype last month. So, where is it now, about a month later? Well, if you take a look at Airtime on AppData, the numbers don't look good: it has around 9,000 Facebook-connected daily users and 200,000 Facebook-connected...
Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback impossible
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commentary So the problems users were up in arms about over the weekend weren't, in fact, user error. What a shock. [Read more]...
Check-In App Forecast Runs Out Of Money And Will Shut Down On July 1
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With the growth of more location-based mobile apps, there is some inevitable shakedown, too: the latest of these is that check-in service Forecast will be shutting down its app and website, effective July 1, because its developers, Hurricane Party, have run out of money. The news hasn’t been posted yet on Forecast’s...
Parallels celebrates its birthday by dropping price to $28, giving away iPads and other schwag
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From 9to5Toys.com: For the next few hours, Parallels drops the price of its flagship Parallels 7 desktop virtualization product to just $28 to celebrate its birthday. The price will increase 5% every 2 hours, so obviously you’ll want to jump on this soon. Parallels is the best-selling, most-trusted solution for...
Facebook launching “blazing fast”, rebuilt iPhone app next month
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The New York Times’ Nick Bilton reported today that Facebook is planning on doing something about its “painfully slow” iPhone app. Citing unnamed FB engineers, the report claimed Facebook is going to release a new, “blazing fast” iOS app that is rebuilt “primarily using Objective-C”. However, according to Bilton who...
80% of advertisers: Facebook not as important as the rest of the web
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Facebook better hurry up and re-send that friend request to GM. Other advertisers are starting to catch on that there is more to the advertising world than the world’s largest social network. In fact, according to a June study by 33Across, almost three quarters of advertisers said that “they focus...
Wow--Facebook Has Completely Sandbagged Estimates--Get Ready For An "Upside Surprise!" (FB)
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Remember the selective disclosure problem before Facebook's IPO? That was when Facebook cut its earnings outlook during the IPO roadshow but only told big institutional investors about it. (Specifically, Facebook told the stock analysts at its IPO underwriters, who then cut their "estimates" and verbally told their big clients about...
‘We Know What You’re Doing’ website outs drug users, boss-haters and more on Facebook
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Facebook’s repeated privacy snafus always make the news and cause a stir among users, but a surprising number of Facebook members throw caution to the wind when it comes to online privacy. As noted by Digital Trends, a new website dubbed “We Know What You’re Doing” uses Facebook’s Graph...
The BBC takes to Facebook to stream Olympics, Wimbledon and other live events with new Sports app
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BBC Sport announced today the launch of a new Facebook app that will let users follow live streams of major sports events, from Wimbledon to the Olympics. It seems this new app will only be accessible from the UK, as we couldn’t open it from other countries. Here’s how it...
Chill Takes $8M for Video Discovery
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and William Morris Endeavor have led an $8 million round for social video discovery site Chill. Chill, which is integrated with Facebook and has benefitted from the recent social video boom, has registered more than 18 million users, with about 10 million of them active...
Facebook Adds BBC As Latest Partner For Summer Sports Push
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Last week, Facebook staked out its claim as a prime destination for people looking for this summer’s Olympics coverage online. Today, the BBC threw its hat into the social media ring, too — it’s putting its sports coverage into a new Timeline app. The app, which is only usable by...
With big Asana update, Facebook co-founder Moskovitz wants to kill email
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"We think email is becoming a counterproductivity tool," Asana co-founder Justin Rosenstein told me yesterday. "Each email is an isolated random string of text without any context," he said. Rosenstein launched the team collaboration and productivity tool seven months ago with Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and today announced Inbox,...
Activision Blizzard partners with Tencent to take Call of Duty Online to China
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Activision Blizzard has partnered with Tencent to take Call of Duty Online to China. The long-term partnership brings two of the juggernauts of gaming together. Call of Duty is one of the world’s largest video game franchises, selling more than $1 billion a year. Activision Publishing, a division of...
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