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- Jingle Networks Rings In The New Year With A $6.7 Million Funding
- Rumor: John Biggs Is Making The Apple Tablet In His Basement
- Holiday "Deals": Best Buy Promotes Interscope CDs With "Free" TweetDeck App
| Jingle Networks Rings In The New Year With A $6.7 Million Funding | Top |
| What’s not to like about free directory assistance? Investors are pouring yet another $6.7 million into J ingle Networks , the company behind 1-800-FREE-411 . The funding round was disclosed today in an SEC filing , and it brings the total amount raised by the company to almost $90 million. The investors in this round were not disclosed in the filing, but previous investors include First Round Capital, Goldman Sachs, Hearst, and Liberty Associated Partners. Jingle runs voice ads before giving out directory assistance numbers, and competes with GOOG-411 . Last year, before the U.S. financial meltdown, it was looking to IPO , launched a broader voice ad network , and even hit profitability on a per-call basis . The IPO talk stopped as soon as the advertising recession hit, and you’ve got to wonder how that voice ad network is doing now, and whether it is still profitable per call. I’d be surprised. If they were profitable, why would they have to raise $6.7 million now, on top of the $7.5 million they raised just last February. Maybe this one will get the company back over the hump and ready for an exit. Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily. | |
| Rumor: John Biggs Is Making The Apple Tablet In His Basement | Top |
| Hot news, everyone. I just received word from a reliable source deep within the confines of a Chinese brothel, that that our own John Biggs is making a 9.789-inch Apple Tablet in his basement. Now, you wouldn't know that this random house in a quiet Brooklyn neighborhood is actually the home of a Apple design genius, but that's what our source says, so it must be true. And all those random reports about Innolux and Cheng Uei Precision producing the Apple slate are just unfounded Internet rumors and should be ignored as such. What's behind the jump here is the truth. | |
| Holiday "Deals": Best Buy Promotes Interscope CDs With "Free" TweetDeck App | Top |
| Best Buy is offering a deal for consumers to get a free TweetDeck app with the purchase of a CD under Interscope Records, which includes artists such as 50 Cent, Flyleaf, Weezer, OneRepublic, Black Eyed Peas, Timbaland and others. With the purchase of one of the CDs, which range from $10.99 to $13.99, the buyer will receive an Interscope branded TweetDeck application that is pre-loaded to connect them to the social media content of the 16 various artists. Best Buy is promoting this as a “Special Offer.” You get a “free Tweetdeck app when you order a CD.” The irony of the deal is that it’s not really a deal. You can download the regular TweetDeck app for free, both as a desktop application or as an iPhone app, and then create a list for the 16 artists to follow. I created a Twitter list of an assortment of the artists whose CDs are being peddled within five minutes. While more manual labor may be needed to add the MySpace and Facebook accounts for these artists (TweetDeck supports both social networks within its apps), the deal almost seems like a hoax. Except it’s just bad marketing. It’s generally not a good idea to make a big deal about giving away something for free that is free to begin with. To be fair, TweetDeck allows many brands to create their own customized versions of the desktop app. For instance, we offer a TechCrunch-branded TweetDeck app here. It’s really free (no CD purchase required). But then again, we’re not famous rock stars. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. | |
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