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Realtime Gets $100 Million To Build "Whole New Era Of The Internet," AKA The Real-Time Web
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Realtime, a technology developed by a company which has been around since the Internet’s earliest days with the practically un-Googleable name “Internet Business Technologies,” has just received a massive $100 million investment to help fund its lofty plan to build the real-time web. The company offers a developer framework that now...
Facebook Launches Brand Advertising Campaign Aimed At Users In 13 Countries
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Facebook also announced today that it will be kicking off an advertising campaign to promote its brand, specifically targeting 13 countries including Brazil, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Spain, U.K., and the U.S. The campaign will appear in 12 different languages and will be housed on Facebook...
6waves Lolapps Sheds Most Of Its Development Team To Focus on Publishing Games
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6waves Lolapps, the social gaming company that was formed out of a merger just half a year ago, shed most of its employees on the development side today to focus on publishing other studios’ titles. The decision today seems to undo some of what that merger agreement created last July...
Paramount Thinks That Louis CK Making $1 Million In 12 Days Means He's Not Monetizing
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One of the more annoying things about debates on copyright law, is that when we talk about alternative business models that do not rely on copyright, some people feel the need to insist that this means making less money -- or, even, making no money at all. There is just...
Accelerating diversity in entrepreneurship with NewME
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For the last three months, the NewMe Accelerator class of spring 2012 has been fully immersed in the entrepreneurial process. The NewMe “founders” have been busy working long days at The Hub in San Francisco and living together in a house nearby. The goal: to develop, design and launch new...
Facebook Picks Up The Mobile Development Team From Pieceable
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How many mobile acquisitions and team hires can Facebook do in one month? Too many to count, apparently. There was mobile commerce startup Karma, then they hired the team from Android developer shop Lightbox. Now the developers from Pieceable, which created an easy way for publishers to build their apps...
John Browett’s first outreach to store team
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Apple Store employees who opened the Retail Me app were greeted by the following message last night relayed by iFOAppleStore New Apple Sr. VP Retail John Browett's first outreach to store team, sounds positive. But employees are nervous. twitpic.com/9iqk4l— Gary Allen (@ifostore) May 08, 2012 That reminds us of the...
The Art & Science Of Storytelling As Told By Journalists
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As SEO becomes more about good content and outreach becomes more about relationship building, the gap between link building and journalism continues to shrink. Where once I cursed my journalist background (because of the lack of job opportunities it brought me), I now adore it because it’s taught... Please visit...
Touting its transparency, Kred adds Facebook activity to its social influence scoring
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In the world of influence measurement, Kred has tried to differentiate itself from the incumbent Klout by being private, transparent and easier to understand (we dug in to the launch of Kred here). So far, it seems to be working pretty well. With a major showing at this year’s SXSW, Kred...
President Obama meets with Apple CEO Tim Cook and other CEOs to discuss fiscal cliff and economic growth
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CNN reports a White House official confirmed President Barack Obama met with CEOs of four Fortune 500 companies over the weekend to “discuss the so-called fiscal cliff and economic growth. One of the CEOs invited to join discussions was Apple’s Tim Cook. According to the White House, the discussions...
President Obama meets with Apple CEO Tim Cook and other CEOs to discuss fiscal cliff and economic growth
Questionable Entries Prompt Google To Retract Some Glass Explorer Invitations
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Google made plenty of nerds happy earlier today when it began reaching out to the 8,000 people that would have the privilege of spending $1,500 on the company’s head-mounted Glass display, but that thrill wound up being short-lived for some. About seven hours after announcing that the outreach to would-be...
This Day-Old Startup Has The Best Ecommerce And Monetization Solution For Pinterest We've Seen Yet
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Every startup on the planet is trying to turn Pinterest into an ecommerce site. PinShoppr soft launched today, and it's the best solution we've seen yet. PinShopper pulls in the top pins on Pinterest and cross references them against more than 250 legitimate ecommerce sites. It never refers you to...
HackerRank Will Host Back To School Hackathon, Bringing College Students To Hot Startups
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HackerRank has hosted college-focused hackathons before, but on February 2, it plans to connect some of the top coding talent in universities with some of the best-known companies in Silicon Valley. Developed by the same company behind InterviewStreet, a site where companies find programmers by hosting “CodeSprints,” the HackerRank service launched...
A healthy grant to support healthy buildings
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Imagine having nutrition-label-like data about every product you use at your fingertips—knowing exactly what ingredients make up things like office chairs or house paint and how they could impact your health today and 30 years from now. It’s a future that goes hand in hand with our commitment to creating...
Salesforce's Marc Benioff Doesn't Know Why He's At CES, But He Sure Loves Disruption
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Making what he said was his first trip to the Consumer Electronics Show since he was a teenager, Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took the stage today to talk about the big shifts in the technology industry. Benioff, who was interviewed by MediaLink’s Michael Kassan, noted that CES is...
KCRW launches MALCOLM music service to help indie bands in need
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Being a DJ at radio station can be an embarrassment of riches. And really, who's going to listen to you complain about having too much music to listen to? Santa Monica's terrifically wonderful public radio station KCRW is looking to take a little bit of the pain of finding...
Facebook reminds page owners of pages they haven’t posted to lately
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Facebook is testing a new notification that seems meant to get page owners to re-engage with pages they have neglected. The notification shows admins how many posts and views their page recently received. Previously, page owners did not see alerts for page views. This notification was also unique in that...
Twitter Hires Broadcasting & Cable Editor Ben Grossman To Lead Media Operations
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Ben Grossman, editor-in-chief of long-lived trade magazine Broadcasting & Cable, announced this morning that he’s joining Twitter as Head of Global Operations, Twitter Media. Naturally, the announcement was made via Twitter. Grossman said his new boss is Twitter VP of Media Chloe Sladden. She tweeted that Grossman’s role will involve...
Paramount exec faces skeptical crowds on post-SOPA outreach tour
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In recent weeks, Al Perry, a senior executive at Paramount Pictures, has toured the East Coast speaking at law schools. He has struggled to repair Hollywood's battered image and convince skeptical audiences of the need for more aggressive copyright enforcement. The plan for the tour emerged in the wake...
Hangouts become centerpiece of Google’s dev outreach
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Google launched a new section of its developer site called Google Developers Live Tuesday that aims to be a central destination for third-party developers in need of help with their projects. At the center of these efforts are Google+ Hangouts, the company’s group video chat platform. Blogger turned Google+ Product...
6L cuts its development team as it focuses on third-party game publishing
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6L, the company formerly known as 6waves Lolapps, said today that it has laid off all of its development staff. The company was formed last year through the merger of Hong Kong-based 6waves and San Francisco-based Lolapps, the publisher of games such as Ravenwood Fair. 6waves focused on publishing third-party...
A Silicon Valley Insider Actually Has A Plan To Get More Women In Tech
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Let's face it: The tech scene is dominated by men. Adeo Ressi, CEO of the Founder Institute, hopes to change that over the next few years. He's well-positioned to do so as an insider's insider in the tech industry. After doing a few startups, he upended the clubby venture-capital world...
Junaio Augmented Reality Browser Gets A UI Makeover (Video)
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When it comes to Augmented Reality browsers on mobile devices, I always particularly liked Junaio (just one of the many AR tools created and maintained by Munich-based company Metaio). It’s an especially appealing option since it’s quite powerful, and has many, many content channels to choose from (a good side...
Twitter co-founder says tweet views are more valuable than follower count
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In a panel held at Buzzfeed’s headquarters, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams shared his view about how the follower count might not be all that important after all. As the social network sees more accounts attempt to buy their Twitter influence, Williams says that it’s possible the social network service might move...
PlayStation 4 design process began with software developers in 2007
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Mark Cerny gives us our first look at the PS4's internals. Andrew Cunningham We've already taken a reasonably detailed deep dive into the PlayStation 4's internals based on Sony's specifications for the console, and we know it looks more like a PC than any major game console before it,...
DirecTV blocking HBO over older, non-HDCP HDMI connections
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Zatz Not Funny is reporting that DirecTV is starting to block subscribers from outputting HBO to older TVs which lack High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). Intended to prevent piracy, HDCP encrypts video at the source before sending it through the HDMI cable, where it's decrypted before being displayed. It's...
VIDEO: The risks and rewards of Twitter diplomacy
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Diplomats are increasingly using social media to engage populations, but the outreach attempt can backfire....
It's not a divorce, but Zynga's amended contract with Facebook offers more flexibility
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Zynga and Facebook haven’t exactly gotten a divorce, but they’re free to date other partners now. Social gaming giant Zynga filed a document with the Securities and Exchange Commission today that says it renegotiated with partnership agreement with Facebook when it comes to publishing games on the social network. Facebook...
The White House continues its Hill outreach over the proposed cybersecurity executive order
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Today The Hill’s Hillicon Valley blog reported that the White House intends to hold meetings with aides from the House of Representatives on the issue of cybersecurity. Late last week, the executive branch had a similar meeting with aides from the Senate. According to Caitlin Hayden, spokesperson for the White House, the...
The Political System Is Broken. Votizen Plans On Fixing It.
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The Presidential elections in the United States are controlled by money. Candidates spend time raising money, setting up organizations that collect money, and hire people whose job it is to take care of the money. They pledge money and take money. Then, at the end of the year, all of...
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