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Keen On… Larry Downes: Why Best Buy Is Going Out Of Business (Not So Gradually)
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Sometimes it’s the quiet ones who end up doing the most damage. I always thought of Larry Downes, the co-author of the mega-selling Unleashing the Killer App, as an unusually gentle and wise soul. But this was before Downes unleashed his all-too-critical powers on Best Buy, transforming himself from...
MobileBackstage Secures More Funds To Connect Fans With Artists
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Lady Gaga has captured the imagination of the entertainment world with her team’s successful social media engagement with the fans she calls her “Little Monsters”, and many other artists and agents are scrambling to capitalise in similar ways. At the same time startups are appearing to meet this need. To...
Weather Channel Apps Pass 100 Million Downloads As Weather Stays... Unpredictable
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The Weather Channel application on smartphones and tablets now been downloaded more than 100 million times. It’s hardly surprising – Weather globally has been a total basket case for the last couple of years (because there’s no such thing as climate change, right?). Hence, people need an app like this...
SingTel’s landmark $9.4 million deal for Asia Web startup HungryGoWhere was 9 months in the making
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We live in an era in which business deals are changing. The Internet is connecting people and companies in new and faster ways and, with tech firms like Facebook and Apple boasting financial clout and massive customer bases, deals can be agreed in weeks, if not days, as Mark Zuckerberg’s...
Cyber Monday Scorecard: Web Users Win, Mobile Users Wait
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Shoppers flocked to the Web's e-commerce sites over the long Holiday weekend, and Web retailers welcomed them with open arms and fast response times while ringing up record sales. But customers hoping to shop via their smartphones met the equivalent of long lines. According to Akamai Technologies, traffic to online...
Fotopedia Is On A Roll: Now Gets 200M Image Views Per Month, Launches Morocco App
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Fotopedia is quickly building a reputation for producing beautiful travel-focused photo apps for iOS. Today, the company is launching its latest free app, which focuses on Morocco. The app is optimized for the new iPad’s retina display and, as usual, features hundreds of stunning professional images. Morocco is the company’s...
Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
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With over 15 billion page views a month Tumblr has become an insanely popular blogging platform. Users may like Tumblr for its simplicity, its beauty, its strong focus on user experience, or its friendly and engaged community, but like it they do. Growing at over 30% a month has...
Swedish Piracy Crackdown: #2 Torrent Site Calls It Quits
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On February 1st, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced that it would not be granting leave to appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay case. This means that the prison sentences and millions of dollars in fines previously handed out to the four defendants will stand. Quickly, prominent copyright enforcers for the entertainment...
Cloud on fire: the burn rate on Tumblr’s big backend is building fast
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From Flickr user David Stanley There was a terrific story story yesterday from the blog High Scalability yesterday digging into the work of scaling Tumblr’s backend architecture, which now supports 15 billion page views a month. The post compared the blogging platforms challenges to massive sites like Twitter and Facebook, both...
Google+ now half the size of Twitter
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Research firm Compete released a study depicting Google+ as half the size of Twitter, as well as suggesting that the +1 button is now on every possible website on the Internet. Google’s social platform combines personal search, custom social networking, and significance to any website with the +1 feature...
The Guardian's Eyewitness iPad app gets premium subscription-only content
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The Guardian’s Eyewitness iPad app was launched way back in 2010 to showcase the photographic work of those witnessing notable events first-hand. The app actually followed the initial concept which was introduced in print form in the newspaper itself in 2005. With downloads nearing the one-million mark, the Guardian has...
The Future Of Memes: 4chan Hits 22M Monthlies, Unveils New API
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4chan, the often anonymously-used imageboard that’s spawned memes like Lolcats and hosts the weirdest porn you’ll ever see, just released an API and its first new features in five years for its 22 million unique monthly visitors. 4chan’s founder moot said the API “potentially has huge performance implications” and that...
Cinchcast uses the cloud to scale up its self-serve conference calls
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Cinchcast lets you create your own massive webcasts and conference calls for events such as quarterly conference calls. The number of participants on the calls can scale from a handful to millions of people. Without the cloud, this wouldn’t be possible. Aleksandr Yampolskiy (pictured right), chief technology officer at...
Tumblr grows to 20 billion monthly pageviews, monetizes a fraction
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Tumblr founder David Karp has revealed new numbers that shed some light on the blogging service's growth and business model. In comments reported by TechCrunch, Karp says that the site now garners 20 billion pageviews a month, representing a big jump over the past year or so; Tumblr reported...
Mobile news apps publisher Mobiles Republic bags $3 million round
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French mobile apps publisher Mobiles Republic has landed $3 million in funding from investment firms XAnge Private Equity and Creathor Ventures. Originally founded in 2008 with offices in Bordeaux (France) and New York, Mobiles Republic specializes in news apps for smartphones, tablets and connected TVs. The freshly funded company relies...
Oh snap: Instagram for Android is here!
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The long wait for Instagram on Android is over. The popular and free photo sharing application that launched on Apple iOS devices, and stayed there until today, is now available in Google Play for smartphones running Android 2.2 or better. How much of a following does Instragram have just on...
President Obama's DNC speech sets new Twitter politics record with 52,757 tweets per minute
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During his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, US President Barack Obama hit a new record for political moments on Twitter by inspiring 52,757 tweets per minute (TPM). Twitter’s Government & Politics team announced the new record not long after Obama finished, noting that a total of 9 million...
How Tumblr went from wee to webscale
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Tumblr, the popular microblogging service is hitting 500 million page views a day, deals with 40,000 requests per second and sends more than a terabyte of data into its Hadoop cluster per day. But it wasn’t always a superhot startup that needed to serve 15 billion page views of a...
Ben Huh of Cheezburger on starting, failing, taking VC, and his favorite meme
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50+ sites, 375 million page views a month, 4.5 million contributors, and $30 million in venture capital: Ben Huh’s Cheezburger Network has come a long ways from one little cat cartoon site, I Can Haz Cheezburger. Born in Korea, Huh came to the U.S. in the 1990s and took a journalism degree...
Gallivant: The creator of Uncrate and Devour launches a guy-centric travel guide
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There’s a lot to be said for the seemingly-niche market of male-focused publications. But the industry is quite huge, with players ranging from the obvious to the obscure. Today, a site named Gallivant joins the ranks, headed by the same team that has launched the successful sites of Uncrate and...
Exclusive: China's online Olympics audience breaks records
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The U.S. Olympic athletes may have won the most gold medals in London, but China is once again clocking the biggest online audience worldwide for an event like this one. 485 million users followed CNTV’s coverage of the games via PCs, mobile and connected devices, according to data the broadcaster...
Want A Clip From 'Mad Men' As Your Ringtone? Check Out Hark
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Hark cofounder David Aronchick used his service to download a ring tone from Mad Men to his phone. "The next time my phone rings, someone around me will listen to it and ask me about it -- and give me a chance to talk about it," Aronchick said. Right now,...
All the celeb gossip that’s fit to print: Wetpaint tops 10 million monthly visitors
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People just can’t get enough of celebrity gossip and Hollywood scoops, which is good news for Seattle startup Wetpaint. The company announced today that its Wetpaint Entertainment unit is now attracting more than 10 million unique visitors and 50 million page views per month. The traffic numbers come just 18...
With $2M from Eric Schmidt, biNu brings smartphone apps to dumb phones
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We take for granted that the smartphone is on its way to dominance, now that half of Americans have the souped up phones. But smartphone take-up is much slower in developing parts of the world due to handset prices, slower wireless networks and other considerations. The desire for a smartphone...
Red Tricycle pedals ahead with $1.5M from Maveron and Zulily to help parents discover more family fun
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Jacqui Boland started Red Tricycle in Seattle six years ago when she was pregnant with her son, creating an online city guide for new parents who wanted to discover restaurants, day trips, events and other activities for families. Today, Red Tricycle boasts nearly 400,000 email subscribers, attracting about a million...
Red Tricycle pedals ahead with $1.5M from Maveron and Zulily to help parents discover more family fun
Italian Court Orders Nationwide Block of TorrentReactor and Torrents.net
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Italian authorities and the local music industry are continuing their war on piracy, resulting in a new blockade of two frequently visited BitTorrent sites. The Vallo della Lucania Court just issued an injunction that requires all Internet providers to block access to the domain names and IP-addresses of both TorrentReactor.net...
A look behind the technical curtain of Obama's fundraising platform
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With every passing presidential election, a strong online infrastructure has become more and more important on the path to victory — especially as donation totals start making their way into the billions. Now that this year's Election Day has come and gone, Kyle Rush, the frontend engineer for President...
Live now: Spartz Media's CEO answers your questions via video. Get involved!
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Got a question for Emerson? Use the chat feature below to get it answered live. Emerson Spartz is one of the world’s leading experts on internet virality and has been featured in major media including the Wall Street Journal, CBS Evening News, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. As the CEO...
Boxee’s Newest Adult Resident: Pornhub, the ‘YouTube Of Porn’
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Boxee has slowly but surely been building out the adult content offered through its streaming service, and now there is one more in the mix: Pornhub (NSFW link) — which informally calls itself the YouTube for porn, offering a mix of user-generated and more professional content — is now also...
NBC broke even on London Olympics coverage, had more than 219 million TV viewers in US
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NBC bet big on its coverage of the London Summer Olympics, and according to NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus the network ultimately broke even on the event, despite stellar television ratings. Speaking at the Bloomberg Sports Business Summit, Lazarus said that NBC's advertising sales for the event reached $1.25...
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