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After Silk Road Closure, And With Baidu’s Blessing, Bitcoin Breaks $200 Again
The value of a single Bitcoin has broken the $200 mark for only the second time. The cost of a single Bitcoin hit a high of more than $205 earlier today on the biggest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, although it's since dipped slightly. At the time of writing it's still trading at above $200. Read More
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Senator Charles Schumer, Location Analytics Firms Unveil Code Of Conduct For Tracking Shoppers By Cellphones
As companies like Apple and PayPal ramp up their in-store mobile commerce activities, privacy groups, location analytics companies and New York's U.S. Senator Charles Schumer today unveiled a new code of conduct so that shoppers will clearly know when they are being tracked through their phones in stores, and give them instructions for how to opt out. Read More
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Former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy Joins Super-Secretive Payments Startup Clinkle As COO
Super-secretive startup Clinkle hasn't had a lot to say about what it's up to, but it's announcing a big hire today that it no doubt hopes will propel it forward in the mobile payments market. As the company prepares for public launch next year, Clinkle has brought on former Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy as its COO. Read More
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Nielsen: Old School TV Reigns Supreme At 58% Of Ad Spend, Internet Display Up 27% In Q2
As Nielsen continues to work closely with Twitter to track tweets about TV shows; Twitter continues to explore ways of using its platform to market TV content; and Internet portals contest who is the biggest video ad player of all, some figures out today point to how converging ads across those two mediums could be a smart move. Today, Nielsen released its latest quarter ad figures that show that… Read More
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Payments Network Dwolla Moves Beyond Cash With Launch Of “Dwolla Credit” In Partnership With ADS
Des Moines-based Dwolla, a company building web-connected infrastructure for managing digital payments, is today taking its first step to move beyond support for cash with the debut of "Dwolla Credit." This new consumer- and merchant-facing service is being launched in partnership with Alliance Data Systems Corp (ADS), a provider of branded credit card programs, but Dwolla expects there to be… Read More
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Berlin! Here Are The Judges, Prizes, Workshops, And Final Tickets For The First Ever Disrupt Europe Hackathon
Think you’re one of the best developers in all of Berlin? Here’s your chance to prove it — and maybe, just maybe, take home a nice stack of cash for your efforts. This weekend, we’re bringing our TechCrunch Disrupt conference to Europe for the first time — and to kick it all off, we’re throwing one of our crazy, wonderfully-exhausting hackathons. This’ll be the… Read More
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Nokia Pledges Allegiance To Windows RT With The $499 Lumia 2520 Tablet
Microsoft is dead-set on keeping Windows RT with devices like the Surface 2, but now that it’s committed to shelling out $7.2 billion for Nokia’s devices business, the folks in Redmond have yet another source of hardware know-how to tap. Perhaps the earliest fruit of that reinforced partnership is the $499 Lumia 2520, Nokia’s newest tablet and its first to run Windows RT. As a… Read More
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Blogmutt, A Crowdsourcing Platform, Makes An Equity Offer To Its Bloggers For Hire
The SaaS model is now for blogging, too. A new breed of companies are crowdsourcing writers to do posts for small and large businesses. Blogmutt is a bit different than the other services in this regard. It is now offering equity to its top performing writers. Read More
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Instagram Finally Coming To Windows Phone, Nokia Confirms
It’s taken a lot longer than Nokia hoped it would but Windows Phone is finally getting an official Instagram client. The photo-sharing social network, which has north of 150 million monthly active users, has been on iOS some three years, and on Android since April 2012. Now it’s coming to Windows Phone within “weeks”, according to Nokia. The news was confirmed by… Read More
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Nokia Unleashes Two New Phablets, The Flagship Lumia 1520 And The Budget Lumia 1320
Well folks, this probably won't come as much of a shock, but those persistent rumors of a pair of Nokia Lumia phablets were true after all. Nokia officially pulled back the curtains on the Lumia 1520 and 1320 at its big Nokia World show in Abu Dhabi today, and it's clear that the company isn't backing down the from challenge laid down by its mobile rivals. Read More
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Indotrading
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Teambox
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Talknote
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Claro Energy
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Appsee
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CYP Design
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UNBOUND
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Tensorcom
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Symbiotec Pharmalab
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Rebelle
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NanoCellect
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EDUonGo
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Photonics Healthcare
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Inventorum
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InReal Technologies
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WePay
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Panorama Education
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Sqrrl
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Kona Medical
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ChromaDex
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Insightra Medical
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OneClass
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Soylent Corporation
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Cloudnexa
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Panoramic Power
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United Capital
- Size $38M
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Once Innovations
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Board of China’s Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management
Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined the advisory board of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management (SEM), according to its website. Located in Beijing, Tsinghua is one of China's most prestigious universities. The advisory board meets annually "to offer advice on the development of Tsinghua SEM," according to its site. Other notable American members include Henry M. Paulson Jr., the… Read More
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Yahoo Is Ordered To Start Using Microsoft Search In Hong Kong And Taiwan
Signed in 2010, Microsoft and Yahoo's ten-year Search Alliance was supposed to lift Google's stronghold on search advertising. But the deal has steadily eroded since then, with the latest sign coming from a court filing that says Yahoo tried to delay adopting Bing search in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Read More
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With $1M In Funding, Appsee Promises Mobile Developers Real Insight Into Their Users
Israeli startup Appsee says it's taking a different approach to mobile analytics. I wrote about the company more than a year ago under its old name, UserVOD, when it focused on making video recordings of mobile app user activity. Now the company is launching a broader iOS analytics platform, where user recordings are just one feature. Read More
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YPlan Launches On Android
YPlan has only been around for less than a year, but the company is rapidly covering new ground. After expanding from the UK into New York city last month, the social planning service is today launching an Android app. Read More
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LovelyHeroku Offers A Better Way To Manage Apps And Services
LovelyHeroku is a new breed of app that enables IT staff and developers to use their smartphones to manage their work on the Heroku platform-as-a-service (PaaS). It's the kind of service that reflects how different work is these days now that we can carry it wherever we go. The service is the creation of Matija Bogdanovic, a computer science professor in Croatia, and Mario Danic, a well-known… Read More
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Netflix Tops HBO In Paid U.S. Subscribers As Members Stream 5 Billion Hours Of Content In Q3
Today, Netflix posted its third-quarter earnings, with the streaming video provider exceeding analyst projections thanks to strong subscriber growth in which it added 1.3 million domestically. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells said in a letter to shareholders this afternoon that the company recently surpassed the 40 million members milestone, up from "less than 30 million just one year… Read More
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A Closer Look At Microsoft’s New Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2 Tablets
Over the past few days, we’ve had in our hot hands the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets. We published an initial video clip and hands-on notes last evening and today, we’re sharing a short video run-through of the hardware. Surface, of course, is Microsoft’s hardware gambit that places it in contention with its traditional OEM partners. The company’s new devices… Read More
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Google Maps Engine Gets Free Tier And A Public Data Program To Help Governments, Other Orgs Surface Maps
Google is launching a free tier of Google Maps Engine today, in conjunction with its announcement of Maps Engine Pro, a small business tool. The free tier offers all of the same features but has smaller quotas for data access, in the ‘tens of megabytes’ vs. the terabytes available in the full version. Google is also launching a new Public Data Program that allows organizations to sign… Read More
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Google’s Maps Engine Pro Aims To Help Small Businesses Visualize Location Data As Easily As They Make A Pie Chart
Today, at Google’s San Francisco offices, Google introduced Maps Engine Pro, a utility that allows small businesses to use Google’s location tools to create maps out of location databases. There will also be a mobile app available for Android initially to allow users to edit and create these maps on the fly. The app, called Google Maps Engine, will allow access to any level of GME… Read More
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Andreessen-Backed Game Developer TinyCo Lays Off 27 Employees
TinyCo, an early mobile game developer that picked up funding from Andreessen Horowitz, is laying off 27 employees as it moves toward a new strategy. The company says it will outline its new moves in the coming few weeks. “We’ve moved 10 steps forward on executing a specific strategy around how we build games and what games we build. To execute against this strategy, we decided to… Read More