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CoFounder TV: A curated collection of the best entrepreneurial videos the Web has to offer
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CoFounder TV is a new site bringing together the best that the Web has to offer in entrepreneurial videos. Launched by Dubai-based Rony El-Nashar, who also happens to be the founder of startup incubator SeedStartup, the site is a “handpicked collection of the highest quality, most educational entrepreneurship videos from...
Personal Takes Its Secure Vault For All Of Your Private, Digital Data Mobile With iOS App
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Startup Personal, which aims to give consumers control over their digital data, is debuting an iPhone app today, adding to the company’s existing web and Android apps. Personal is a free web and mobile service that helps you take control of all the digital information about yourself and your life,...
With $1.2M Of Seed Funding, A SoMoLo App For Augmented Reality Fans: Wallit
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From Foursquare to Pinwheel and Highlight and many, many more besides, we’ve seen a lot of apps created for users to share location, information and pictures with friends and like-minded people. So it seems inevitable that to help set themselves apart from the pack, newer launches will start coalescing more...
‘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...
ESPN Radio app gets a refresh, now properly outfitted for the iPad
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If you're needing to keep Mike & Mike an arm's length away at all times, ESPN has refreshed its Radio app to help with just that. Now optimized to the iPad in addition to the iPhone and iPod touch, the software allows you to sort your listening habits by...
Apple wants U.S. district court to obscure Samsung logo on video display for jurors
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After just blogging about the technical and timeline-related part of a joint Apple-Samsung filing made a few hours ago, I now have some tidbits from the filing that are, in a way, more entertaining.In their filing, the parties explain, among many other things, what kinds of evidence-related issues they plan...
Peter Carl Fabergé Google Egg Logo
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Google has a special logo on their home page today for Peter Carl Fabergé, a Russian Jewelry artist, know for creating easter eggs made of jewels, gems and high-end metals. These eggs were known as Fabergé Eggs. Peter Carl Fabergé was born today 166 years ago in Saint Petersburg, Russia....
New iPhone TV ad for Canada spotlights iCloud...and pulled book
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A Canadian TV advertisement for iCloud on the iPhone, titled “Melody”, surfaced recently. The 30-second video starts with a shot of Jonah Lehrer’s “Imagine: How Creativity Works” front cover (Whoops!). Lehrer acknowledged last month that he fabricated quotes attributed to Bob Dylan, and sale of the electronic and physical versions of...
20 Popular Ubuntu Linux Apps You May Want to Try
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Gaming accounted for many of the top apps last month, but there were a few business-oriented gems as well, according to a new report....
Facebook’s monthly rent is $1M+, and other gems from S-1 update
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Facebook on Wednesday updated its S-1 document to the Securities and Exchange commission for its planned initial public offering, and it’s a veritable data dump of new information about the social networking company. The good news is, we’re digging through it so you don’t have to....
Google+ wants to be your new Flickr
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Google+ is succeeding in small bursts, feature by feature. As an overall Facebook-esque social network it’s a flop, but its video-chat tool Hangouts is a winner. Photo sharing is poised to be the service’s next breakout hit, thanks to an enthusiastic community of photographers who like the focus on...
The Southeast TC Meetup Tour Is On Like Donkey Kong (But With Comfort Food Instead Of Bananas)
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And we’re off. The Southeast meetup tour is officially a go. We’ll be hitting up Savannah, Atlanta, Raleigh, Charlotte and Greenville on a quest to uncover hidden technological gems that may or may not get pitched with a southern drawl. I’m from Texas, which is a different kind of “south”...
Not sure what font you’re after? Typekit Lists is a good place to start
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Today, type is getting more attention than ever before on the Web. What was once a barren wasteland of typographic creativity, dominated by a few overused gems and the likes of Comic Sans, is quickly growing into something that could even make a print designer jealous. We’re on the cusp...
Personal lets people get the most of their small data
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While the latest business trend is tapping the power of big data, Personal.com is helping people find the potential in wielding what it calls small data — the private information they have about themselves. The company, which launched its personal data network in November on the web, is trying to...
Visual.ly launches redesign with social features for its growing community of nearly 145K users
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Infographics have quickly become the bane of the Web since exploding in popularity over the past year. The number of poor designs, empty stats, bias and sketchy sources are enough to make any design-conscious person cringe, but that’s because infographics aren’t any different from any other sort of design; there’s...
Coming Soon (Well, Maybe): All Those Tweets You Wrote
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told The New York Times that users will soon be able to access and download all of their old tweets. Twitter currently only lets users browse back through a few thousand of their old tweets. How soon? Costolo declined to give a timeline. Other third-party platforms already...
Who Wants To Come To The TechCrunch Mini Meet-Up In NYC?
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So, I’ve just recuperated from our VA mini meet-up tour, during which John and I visited DC, Norfolk, and Richmond in an attempt to find startup gems in unexpected corners of the country. This time we’re bringing things a little bit closer to home. That’s right New Yawkers: get your...
At Last, Kinect Can Size You Up For Jeans
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The Kinect’s powerful depth- and position-sensing sensors have been put to many a noble purpose: basic artificial vision, translating sign language, controlling humanoid robots, and real-time 3D mapping of the real world. But at last it can help you pick out a pair of jeans! Bloomingdale’s reports an alarming statistic:...
Instagram for Android is buried in Google Play search results, highlighting app discovery issues
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If you had casually tried to search for Instagram on the Google Play market using either the web version of the store or the one on Android devices today, you may have come under the impression that it’s not out yet. That’s because, despite actually launching on the platform 5...
iOS 6 gems: iTunes Match music streaming and iCloud notification sync
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After iOS 6 hit the Developer Center on Monday afternoon, the new iOS’ features have begun to come out. Today, Apple n Apps has found two of iOS 6′s new features that have yet to been uncovered. The first involves Apple’s iTunes Match, which was launched last November as a way...
This Is What Change Looks Like: Washington, D.C. Mini Meet-Up
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It’d be easy to forget, but startups do exist, and even prosper, outside of Silicon Valley. John and I believe firmly in this, and have thus decided to venture forth and find technology gems hidden away in cities with less prominent tech scenes. The first of these adventures takes place...
Leaked Spotify Deck Reveals Early Product Sketch, 15 Million Tracks, And 500 Million Playlists
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A Spotify recruitment deck was leaked. In it are a few gems like an early UI design (right). CEO Daniel Ek tells TechCrunch it was made in MacPaint in Stockholm. "As you can tell, my drawing skills were not that great," says Ek "At the time we were only Swedish...
Pocket Gems launches All Talk voice-based mobile game
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With hundreds of thousands of mobile games available on smartphones, innovating isn’t that easy. But Pocket Gems hopes to stand out from the crowd with a unique voice-based game that it is unveiling today. The new game, All Talk, is different from the cute simulations (like Tap Zoo) that the...
Here’s why Apple will welcome Facebook’s App Center with open arms
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Facebook announced its App Center early last month and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that it will be available to the world sometime today or tomorrow. There’s a lot of talk about how this could compete with Apple, if Facebook were to launch its own phone,...
Google adds spam explanation to Gmail, steers clear of enlightenment
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Why is this message in spam? It's a question we find ourselves asking our Gmail boxes almost daily, when messages that really should have made it through to the inbox end up in electronic pergatory instead. So why does Google's algorithm choose to filter certain legitimate messages, while letting the...
Vungle opens its ‘app movie trailer’ ad network to all developers
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For Vungle, the best way to advertise a cool mobile application is to recapture the experience of a movie trailer, which is exactly what the young startup is doing with its mobile ad network. Vungle works by taking an app from companies such as NgMoco, Pocket Gems, and XMG...
Fox and Universal titles blocked from Apple TV's iCloud, HBO is the culprit
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Another season, another reason for Cupertino to update its major product lines (hello new iPad!) and one particular hobby: Apple TV. The revamped box, now imbued with an ability to stream videos in 1080p, will allow users to download previous iTunes store purchases from the iCloud. But before you...
Terry Gilliam's daughter posts 'Monty Python' cutouts and other archival gems online
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Terry Gilliam's work — from Monty Python to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — is widely known, and a new blog appears to be chronicling the best of his personal archive. His daughter Holly has begun posting "gems" from the collection, which apparently spans most of Gilliam's career, in...
iTunes Match rolling out in Poland, Hungary and others today
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@9to5mac seems iTunes Match is coming to Poland. Apple updated their "ToU" for the Polish iTunes Store with iTunes Match info on 18th.— Peter (@Fallen_Zen) July 19, 2012 We are receiving several tips that Apple has started rolling out the iTunes Match service in Poland, Hungary, and possibly a few...
20 Popular Ubuntu Linux Apps to Try Now
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Gaming accounted for many of the top apps last month, but there were a few business-oriented gems as well, according to a new report....
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