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TechCrunch
As we first reported over the summer, Twitter creator Jack Dorsey has a new project. Originally known as "Squirrel," the name has been changed to Square , but the idea remains the same: A hardware/software combination for mobile devices (launching first for the iPhone/iPod touch) that allows vendors to easily accept and process credit card ...
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Ars Technica
Steve Jobs intervenes, approves Knocking streaming video app
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A persuasive e-mail from an iPhone developer to Steve Jobs helped Pointy Heads Software get its Knocking Live Video—the first official iPhone app capable of streaming live video over 3G and WiFi connections—approved for sale in the App Store. The app relies on a private API—well-known among iPhone developers—to enable its ...
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Www.fring.com
World’s first Video Calls on the iPhone – only with fring!
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Fring brings the first ever internet video calls on the iPhone/iPod touch just in time for the holidays! LONDON, December 01, 2009. fring, the multi-award winning mobile application that lets users communicate and share web-based experiences from their mobile devices, today announces the first ever mobile video calls over Internet for the iPhone.
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Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
Square Worth $40 Million Before Launch
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Earlier today we wrote about Square , the new payment service cofounded by Jim McKelvey and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey . We also interviewed Dorsey and used Square to buy a coffee. We knew Square had closed a hyper-competitive venture round. What we didn't know until recently was the size and valuation of that round. Square is valued at a ...
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ReadWriteWeb
Square: Twitter Co-Founder Launches New Mobile Payment System
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Square , a new mobile phone payment system founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey , just launched its private beta today. Square will give anybody the ability to accept payment cards without having to go through a costly credit card processing service. Instead, Square will give its users the ability to use their mobile phones, laptops or ...
Om Malik
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GigaOM
Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts
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In February 2009, Jim McKelvey, who’d left the technology business and became a glass blower, lost an order because he couldn’t accept a credit card from a customer who wanted to buy his creation. He called his friend and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The two talked [...]
MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
What A Square Receipt Actually Looks Like
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We've already had a number of posts about Square , the new mobile payment platform launched by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey today, but we're going to keep posting on it, because it's just that good. Most of the earlier stories covering the launch of Square included a screenshot of an example receipt that is displayed on Square's site right now. ...
Macworld
The iPhone on T-Mobile: Why not?
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When AT&T's exclusive hold on the iPhone ends, maybe it will be T-Mobile and not Verizon that Apple turns to as a second U.S. carrier.
Ed
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SFGate
Jack London Square's Barnes & Noble to close
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The Barnes & Noble bookstore, a longtime tenant at the center of Oakland's Jack London Square, is scheduled to close down early next year due to declining sales. The national bookseller's 17-year lease at the waterfront locale is set to expire Jan. 31 and is... Barnes & Noble - Jack London Square - Bookselling - Oakland California - Oakland
Digg.com
Video Calls Now Available on iPhone
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Be happy, because video calls are now legally available on the iPhone. Be sad, because it's one way only, so you won't be able to flash your naughty bits.
CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
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NYT
A Twitter Founder Turns to Electronic Payments
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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, has unveiled Square, a start-up that lets anyone accept credit card payments by plugging a special device into any item with an audio input jack and an Internet connection.
Macworld
Gear Guide short: iPhone accessories
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As you might have noticed, we've posted three slideshows of products in our annual Gear Guide. Check out gifts under $50, then view gifts under $150, and finally take a peek at great gifts over $150.
Charlie Sorrel
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Wired
Magellan Launches iPhone App and Car-Kit
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Magellan is surging with Google-ignoring optimism onto the iPhone with a new application and car-kit. Like the TomTom before it, the price of the application is high - $80 - but unlike the TomTom, the dash-mounted car kit (another $130) works with both the iPhone and the iPod Touch (TomTom will sell you a different [...]
Liane Cassavoy
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NewTeeVee
RedEye Turns Your iPhone Into an Universal Remote
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Everyone keeps saying that the iPhone will replace many of the gadgets we use today, like GPS devices, MP3 players, digital cameras, and pocket-sized video cams. After testing out ThinkFlood’s new RedEye Universal Remote Control System for the iPhone, I’m almost ready to add another gadget to that endangered species list: the ...
Steve O'Hear
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TechCrunch Europe
4iP invests in iPhone fitness app GymFu, and a new service to help parents choose a school
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[UK] Channel 4’s 4iP fund will tomorrow announce seven new investments totaling £500,000 as part of its mission to kick-start new investment in public service-oriented digital media. However, while the full list hasn't yet been made public, TechCrunch Europe has acquired details of two of the investments. GymFu, an iPhone app designed to ...
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TechCrunch
Zoho is undoubtedly the lesser known name and an underdog in the productivity suite race with Google and Microsoft. But the startup has a compelling strategy: Zoho continuously launches integrations with its competitors and also iterates on it product to offer new and innovative products. Previously, Zoho has launched various integrations with ...
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Www.google.com
2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist
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Another year has come and gone, and as always, we're taking a moment to look back at the happenings of 2009—the people, events and memories that made this year unique. Each year, we examine the billions of queries that people around the world have typed into Google search to discover the zeitgeist—the spirit of the times. As we welcome the ...
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Is YouTube Ready for Primetime? Google Wants to Stream TV, for a Fee.
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Google’s video site has been trying to convince the TV industry to let it stream individual shows for a fee, multiple sources tell me. YouTube already lets users watch a smattering of TV shows for free, with advertising. Now it envisions something similar to what Apple and Amazon already offer: First-run shows, without commercials, for $1. ...
CNET
No shocker: Google prefers HTML5 to Gears
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Google sees HTML5 as a more logical future for Web improvements than its own Gears software. No surprise, given its work on the standard and dislike for plug-ins.
Googlenewsblog.blogspot.com
First click free
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As a college student, I use Google every day – email, news, documents and spreadsheets – you name the product, and I probably use it. This has made my summer internship with the Google News Support team even more illuminating. Though I thought I knew the ins and outs of many Google products (and there are lots of them), I'm actually ...
Erick Schonfeld
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TechCrunch
Google News Makes A Concession To Whining Publishers: Only First Five Clicks Are Free
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Today, the FTC held a hearing on the crisis in the (print) news publishing industry, which gave Rupert Murdoch yet another opportunity to publicly call out Google about its supposedly thieving ways. Google's response: Hey, we send out 4 billion clicks a month to news sites. If you don't now what to do with all that traffic, it's not our fault. (I'
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ReadWriteWeb
SAP to Launch Google Wave Competitor
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SAP is preparing to launch a potential rival to Google Wave . The application, code-named Constellation, is described as a "virtual war room" where co-workers can collaborate in real-time with information aggregated from different data sources. The cloud-based tool is now in private beta with the code name 12Sprints . The application is being ...
Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
Side By Side: A Look At The Top Search Trends From Yahoo, Bing, And Google
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The results are in: Bing, Yahoo, and Google have all released their top search trends for 2009. We've been following them over the last few days, and decided we'd put them side by side to see if any interesting patterns emerged. Note that Bing's results are US only (and Yahoo's exclude other English-speaking properties) so we're including Google' ...
Jkontherun.com
AT&T Voicemail to Text — Subset of Google Voice for $10/ Month
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One of the nicest features of Google Voice is the way it transcribes voicemail left on the phone into text. It then sends the voicemail as a text message to any phone configured with GV. The transcriptions aren’t always completely accurate, they are sometimes pretty funny as a matter of fact. But having used GV for months, I can attest that ...
Arda Kutsal
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TechCrunch Europe
Why does Turkish startup Sanalika feature on Google Zeitgeist 2009?
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[Turkey] Yesterday Google published its Zeitgeist 2009 and the fastest rising search terms across the globe caught my attention. I wasn't at all surprised to see Michael Jackson, Facebook and Twitter featured. Or even Tuenti. But Sanalika which sits just below Twitter and above New Moon. I checked many blogs covering the Zeitgeist 2009 and a ...
Cedric Giorgi
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TechCrunch Europe
Yahoo Top Search and Google Zeitgeist 2009 in France – what can we learn?
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[France] Google and Yahoo have both published their most searched terms of 2009. TechCrunch already took a detailed look at the US rankings , but now let's see what we can learn from the top search terms in France for 09... Google Zeitgeist (most popular search terms in France): facebook youtube jeux (Games) you yahoo tv orange meteo (Weather ...
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Zatz Not Funny!
Need a Google Wave Invite?
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I’ve read the posts. I’ve watched the videos. I’ve even poked around the web app. Yet, I still don’t get Google Wave . From Google’s product description: Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work ...
Alan Patrick
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Broadstuff
First Round, Murdoch - Google limits access
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Google blinked - they have changed the system so that content publishers will be able to limit the number of articles viewers can access pages free through Google - NMA : Josh Cohen, senior business product manager, said that previously each click from a user “would be treated as free”, but the update restricts access to “no more than five ...
L.A. Times
Murdoch accuses Google of news 'theft'
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News Corp.'s chairman calls the use of the media company's content by Google and other Web firms an 'almost wholesale misappropriation of our stories.' Escalating the battle between traditional newspapers and online news providers, media mogul Rupert Murdoch lashed out at Google Inc. and other Web companies Tuesday, accusing them of looting news ...
Judith Townend
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Journalism.co.uk
The Register: Google pocketing over half ‘unlicensed news’ money
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The Register reports how over a 30-day period in October and November 2009, more than 75,000 websites ‘reused’ at least one newspaper article without sharing revenue with the publisher, according to a new study by the Fair Syndication Consortium. Google, one of the sites assessed, accounted for 53 per cent of the ad revenue attracted [.
BBC News
Google to limit free news access
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Google will let newspaper publishers limit the number of articles people can read free through its search engine.
Www.nma.co.uk
Google to limit free news access
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Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of articles viewers can access free through Google, the search engine has announced.
Rss.feedsportal.com
Coronation Street comes to Google Street View
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The set of Britain's best-loved soap, Coronation Street, as well as landmarks including Stonehenge and the Eden Project can now be explored in Google Street View.
TIME.com Top Business Stories
Google's Year-End Zeitgeist: A Window into America's Interests
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Twitter has its trends, but Google has billions of search queries, a treasure trove of data that is still the best window into what people are interested in on the Web
Www.theregister.co.uk
Google pockets half of 'unlicensed' news dollars, says study
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Google pockets more than half of the online revenues generated from "unlicensed" newspaper content, according to a new study. With a report (PDF) released today, the Fair Syndication Consortium says that over a 30-day period in October and November, more than 75,000 websites "reused" at least one newspaper article without sharing revenue with the ...
Yahoo! News
Google offers publishers limit on free news access
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Reuters - Google is offering news publishers a way to attract paying subscribers without having to remove their content from Google News search results, after some media companies accused it of profiting from their online news.
Googlecode.blogspot.com
Google Analytics Launches Asynchronous Tracking
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Today we're excited to announce our new Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code snippet as an alternative way to track your websites! It provides the following benefits:
Yahoo! News
Google allows publishers to limit free content
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AP - Google Inc. is allowing publishers of paid content to limit the number of free news articles accessed by people using its Internet search engine, a concession to an increasingly disgruntled media industry.
Msnbc.com
Google allows publishers to limit free content
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Google Inc. is allowing publishers of paid content to limit the number of free news articles accessed by people using its Internet search engine.
Paidcontent.org
Syndication group takes aim at Google
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As part of its promise to highlight who’s benefiting from all the linking done to newspaper articles across the web, the Fair Syndication Consortium says that in a recent 30-day period, more than 75,000 sites “reused” a newspaper article without sharing ad revenue with the original source. Of those sites, which the FSC describes ...
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Robin Wauters
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TechCrunch
Research conducted by London-based Global Web Index , a collaboration between online market research agency Lightspeed Research and Trendstream , suggests that streaming might in fact be the right antidote against content piracy . The findings are in line with other research and conclusions reached earlier this year by The Leading Question, ...
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PaidContent
Branding Effectiveness Researcher Vizu Raises $6.75 Million Equity Financing
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Online market researcher Vizu has raised $6.75 million in equity financing from iNovia Capital and Greycroft Partners. Previous backers, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Esther Dyson, also participated in the financing. The San Francisco company, which raised $2.9 million nearly three years ago, plans to use the proceeds from this latest ...
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Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
Dana Hanna updates his Facebook and Twitter, at the altar. Without his bride Tracy knowing he was going to do it. I'm sure she was thrilled: I surprised not only my guests, but also Tracy by pulling out my phone and posting on Facebook and Twitter from the altar during out wedding. I had her phone ready in my pocket, so when she asked for it I ...
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Robin Wauters
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TechCrunch
Financial information and analysis community Seeking Alpha announced that it has recently closed a Series B round of financing to the tune of $7 million, led by first-time investor DAG Ventures with participation from existing investors Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners . Seeking Alpha also inked a content partnership deal with Nasdaq.com , ...
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PaidContent
Seeking Alpha Raises $7 Million Second Round
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Interesting news from Seeking Alpha: the financial commentary and info site has raised $7 million in a second round led by new investor DAG Ventures with “full participation” from existing investors Benchmark & Accel. In an e-mail, Founder and CEO David Jackson said the funds would provide “a strong capital base to support ...
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Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
StockTwits Adds $3 Million From Foundry Group And True Ventures
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StockTwits , a social and microblogging service for stock investors, has pulled down another round of financing - $3 million in a Series B round led by Colorado-based Foundry Group . Foundry Group partner Seth Levine joined the company's board of directors, and True Ventures , an investor from earlier this year, also participated in the round. ...
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Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
Groupon Gets A Hefty $30 Million From Accel For Local Offers Service
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Chicago based Groupon , which was formerly known as ThePoint , has raised a hefty Series B financing - $30 million - from new investor Accel Partners and existing investor New Enterprise Associates . Accel's Kevin Efrusy joins Groupon's board of directors. The company is going gangbusters. They offer users deep discounts on local deals - spas, ...
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Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just written an open letter to Facebook users regarding a privacy overhaul that is due to hit the site in the next few weeks. Soon, users will be able to selectively choose, on a per-post basis, who can see the content they post to the site. Facebook is also going to remove regional networks entirely, largely ...
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Mashable!
Just Married: Groom Changes Facebook Relationship Status at the Altar
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We’ve seen plenty of Twittered marriage proposals , but a recent video posted to YouTube takes the cake for the most unconventional Twitter and Facebook updates. During his wedding ceremony, Dana Hanna whipped out his mobile device and not only changed his relationship status to married on Facebook, but also sent out a tweet announcing ...
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Technology
Facebook gets new privacy settings – and 350 million users
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The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has written an open letter preparing users for upcoming privacy changes – and revealing that Facebook now has, wow, 350 million of them. In the next couple of weeks Facebook will ask each user to review and update their privacy settings. As Zuckerberg promises in his blogpost, the new privacy page is ...
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Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
Developers take note: if you've got a mashup built off of Craigslist's data, don't even think about showing it to anyone who works there. At least, that's the lesson learned by developer Romy Maxwell, who says that Craigslist has blocked both his mashup and every single project built on Yahoo Pipes a few days after a friendly Email exchange he ...
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Robin Wauters
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TechCrunch
Yahoo, Right Media To Shut Down DMX Platform End Of January 2010
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Right Media , the ad exchange that was acquired by Yahoo in 2007 for a reported $680 million in cash and stock, has recently seen its founder Michael Walrath walk away from his job as Yahoo’s SVP of Advertising Strategy. When the announcement of Walrath's departure was made, Yahoo at the same time declared that it would be shifting strategy ...
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Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
Aravo, a SAAS supplier chain management tool just raised a whopping $27 million in Series D funding led by Cisco, with other investors participating. In addition, Cisco's web meeting and collaboration platform, WebEx, will be integrated with Aravo's Supplier Information Management (SIM) to facilitate real-time collaboration between buyers and ...
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Infoworld News
Cisco extends deadline for Tandberg deal
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Cisco has given shareholders of Norwegian videoconferencing vendor Tandberg about two more days to accept its $3.4 billion buyout offer. The company extended the offer period, which was to have ended Monday, until 5:30 p.m. Central European Time on Thursday. Shortly after that time, Cisco will announce whether the required 90 percent of Tandberg ...
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Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
Venture capitalists like to hire well known entrepreneurs and executives as "entrepreneurs in residence." These are short term jobs, a place for someone to park themselves for up to a year or so after they've sold their company or otherwise have moved on. They sit in on pitch meetings, advise partners and portfolio companies, and plan their next ...
Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
Experian Hitwise just released its Cyber Monday stats, with Amazon reportedly topping the list as the most visited retail website yesterday, seeing a 44% increase in visits compared to 2008. Amazon received 15.53% of the visits among the top 500 online retail sites. Hitwise says Amazon has been the top visited site on Cyber Monday since 2006. ...
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Tom Abate
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SFGate
Late surge boosts Cyber Monday past 2008 total
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A late buying surge powered Cyber Monday sales for a select group of retailers to a 13.7 percent increase over their 2008 results, the San Mateo Web analytics firm Coremetrics said Tuesday. Based on results from 500 participating vendors, including Macy's,... Cyber Monday - San Mateo - BlackFriday - United States - Counties
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I4u
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I4U News
Walmart Offers 15-20% Savings On 25 Top Video Games
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Besides the hot Wii with $50 free gift card deal we reported earlier about, Walmart offers 15-20% Savings on 25 Top Video Games from now through Dec. 24. Games on sale include Lego Rock Band for Wii selling for $40, Left 4 Dead 2 for Xbox 360 selling fo...
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Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
We are big fans of Fotopedia (which is also known as Fotonauts), TechCrunch50 startup that turns your photo albums into collaborative Web pages about different topics and subjects. According to an SEC filing, Fotonauts raised $1.1 million in funding from Ignition Partners, Banexi Ventures and Jean-Marie Hullot, the founder of Fotonauts. Hullot ...
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TechCrunch
In most years, come rain or shine, executive pay at technology startups always goes up because the competition for talent is always so intense. In 2009, however, cash compensation for CEOs at private technology companies will be flat compared to last year, according to a new CompStudy by executive search firm J. Robert Scott and Ernst & ...
Jason Kincaid
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TechCrunch
One of the long-standing problems with Flash games is that they often have a very short shelf life: you may play for a few minutes when you're bored, but there's nothing to really keep you coming back for more. Today HeyZap , the startup that offers a platform for monetizing and distributing Flash games, is looking to help developers with that ...
MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
If you're interested in finding hot news on the web it's not too hard — provided the topic is technology. Twitter, Tweetmeme, Techmeme, Digg, and the like all offer up a mixture of what's hot in technology with varying degrees of success. But for other topics, it's not so easy. That's why Topicfire was built. Topicfire is what co-founder Ryan ...
Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
Virtual currency monetization platforms, like OfferPal, have recently come under fire (a.k.a. "Scamville" ) for scamming users of virtual games on social networks. gWallet is entering the space as a potential beacon of ethics, with a a service that hopes to legitimize virtual currency exchanges by connecting game publishers directly to the ...
[UK] As the saying goes, there are no original ideas - only original people. It's this concept that drives the latest music-related startup to come out of London's ' Silicon Roundabout ', that concentration of tech startups around the Old Street area. WhoSampled.com has been in public beta for a year, and officially launches today. Founded by ...
The 3rd annual Crunchies Awards , co-hosted with GigaOm and VentureBeat , honor the startups, products and entrepreneurs in the tech scene today. There are 18 award categories, any any company can be nominated, but it will be of interest to European startups that they have a good chance if they nominate themselves in "Best International StartUp".
[Sweden] Oskar Stål has joined Spotify as its new CTO after the departure of the original CTO Andreas Ehn, who left to pursue his own startup. I guess people slightly forget that next year Spotify is actually going to be 4 years old, even though it only launched publicly at the end of last year. (Long time in private beta). Stål comes from the ...
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TechCrunch Europe
Spotify heads towards TVs, gaming consoles and China
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At the first ever outing of the brand new (and quite high level) NOAH Conference in London a clutch of European companies, most mid-to-late stage startups, set out their wares to a broad range of European VCs, private equity people and bankers. Was it a pitch event? It was hard to say, but among them was a round-up from Shakil Khan, effectively ...
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[UK] There were some interesting panel discussion today at the NOAH conference - a new event in London aimed at presented tech companies to the private equity and banking sector - but the plethora of suited and booted attendees were shocked out of their chairs a little when Klaus Hommels, (one of the first angel investors in Skype, QXL and XING ...
[France] A commercial court in Paris has fined eBay €1.7 million euros (roughly £1.6 million) for allegedly not sticking to an injunction banning users from selling on products of luxury goods conglomerate Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH in short). Allowing the LVMH perfumes and cosmetics to be purchased by Frenchmen on its French and UK ...
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