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Want To Startup In A Really Cool Coffee Shop? Apply To i/o Ventures (Deadline Today) Top
Screen Shot 2012-01-16 at 12.23.03 PMi/o Ventures, the SF startup incubator that lives on the top floor of The Summit space in the Mission, is accepting applications for its February 2012 cohort. Are you a master procrastinator? Well, you're in luck, because the deadline to apply is today! (Don't worry, they won't judge you for it.) Becoming an i/o company means a 4-6 month stint in the i/o Ventures 7,000 square foor loft/coffee shop and $25,000 in capital. In return, all you have to do is give up around 8% of your company.
 
Advertising Report: Facebook Now Earns 23% More Per Impression Than In Q1 2011 Top
Global Facebook Advertising ReportFacebook is making significantly more money per ad now, charging 23% more per 1000 impressions than at the start of 2011. There are still cheap ad clicks to be had on Facebook -- you just have to keep traffic bouncing around within the social network. Facebook appears to be incentivizing advertisers to grow their Facebook applications and Pages, with cost per click campaigns that point internally costing 29% less than those linking offsite. These figures from a new study by ad agency giant TBG Digital show strong monetization performance and potential for Facebook as it prepares for an IPO this summer.
 
GroupShot Launches Impressive Face-Swapping, Photo Editing App For iPhone Top
GroupShot-mainRemember when Microsoft rolled out Photo Fuse, the crazy feature in its Windows Live Photos product that let you swap people's heads around in in your photos order to get the perfect shot? Well, now there's an app that does the same thing, and it's not from Microsoft. It's from an Israeli-based startup called Macadamia Apps, makers of the new app GroupShot. And it's live now in the App Store.
 
Wikipedia Will Go Dark On January 18 To Protest SOPA And PIPA Top
Wikipedia_SOPA_Blackout_DesignWikipedia's Jimmy Wales wanted to send a "big message" to the U.S. government regarding the two heinous internet censorship bills currently being considered, and after a brief period of debate the world's encyclopedia will soon do just that. The Wikipedia founder announced on Twitter today that starting at midnight on Wednesday, January 18, the English language version of the world's encyclopedia will go dark for 24 hours in protest of SOPA and PIPA. With their commitment confirmed, Wikipedia will be joining a slew of websites and companies that will suspend their operations for one day in an effort raise awareness around the two bills.
 
The Surface 2.0 From Microsoft And Samsung Ships At Last Top
sur40If you're wondering why we didn't stop by to test out the Samsung SUR40 touch-table, AKA the Surface 2.0, during CES, there's a good reason: we did that last year. The device, while impressive, isn't exactly new. But as it has little in the way of competition — the Surface is the nonpareil of touch tables — they probably didn't feel they needed to get it out in any kind of hurry. The device, which costs $8400 and ships this month, must be quite a bit more attractive than the original to companies eager to spruce up their public spaces. The old Surface was kind of a chunk, and the limited resolution was no help, either. Oh, and the price. The new Surface beats it handily in every respect. It's flatter, lighter, wall-mountable, and 1080p.
 
Kite-Like Turbines Harness Wind Power At Altitude Top
Makani Wind circleFlying a kite to produce power may conjure up images of Ben Franklin, who sought to prove lightning was electric. Makani Power releases turbine blades into the air, seeking to harness wind energy at higher altitudes.
 
PrimeSense Demos A Gesture-Based Next-Gen TV Interface Top
We've all seen the Kinect, or at least heard about its wonders. Well, the same company that hooked up Microsoft during "Project Natal" development has showed off some pretty wonderful technology at CES last week. It uses a 3D camera on top of your TV to let you interact with your television through gestures. To be honest, it looks a lot like any touchscreen interface you're already used to (with similar transitions and gestures) but you just happen to be 10 feet away from the screen.
 
Microsoft To ARM Win8 Tablet Makers: No Dual Boot For You Top
LockdownThis may seem a bit of inside baseball, but it's a fairly interesting fact for folks looking forward to thin-and-light Win8 devices running ARM chips rather than Intel. According Computer World, devices running ARM versions of Win8 will not be able to run other OSes, like Android, thanks to something called Secure Boot.
 
Instant Messaging Service Imo.im Launches Real-Time Social Network Top
imo-logoImo.im, which you probably know as the multi-platform free instant messaging product for the web and mobile devices is launching its own real-time social network today. For now, the network is only accessible online, but the company says it will soon integrate the new features into its mobile app lineup, which currently includes apps for the iPhone/iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Nokia devices.
 
TC Alum Sarah Lacy Launches New Tech Blog, PandoDaily Top
sarahlacyIn case you hadn't noticed, the state of technology reporting isn't exactly refreshing these days. There's a lot of the same news getting rehashed over and over. There's a lot of interesting stuff that isn't getting discussed at all because it doesn't have the word 'Apple' in the headline. And there are some bylines that used to appear on this site that have been unceremoniously pushed out of the building. Sarah Lacy — formerly Editor at Large at TechCrunch, who spearheaded our conference in Beijing this past fall — is looking to help improve the situation. Today Lacy announced the launch of her new site, a startup-focused tech blog called PandoDaily that, among other things, is going to "bring more civility into the blogosophere" (yay!). And she's also gunning to break plenty of news.
 
Young Polling Startup Pollbob Acquires Older Site Misterpoll Top
pollbob-logoPollbob, a small, three-person polling startup from New Orleans' The Idea Village accelerator has just acquired the older polling site Misterpoll. Prior to the acquisition, which closed on Friday, Pollbob had over 12,000 downloads and 7,000 active registered users. With Misterpoll's 270K+ userbase now in tow, Pollbob is ready for rapid growth, says Pollbob Co-founder Zach Kupperman.
 
Agile Project Management Software Swift-Kanban Aims To Help Organizations Get Lean Top
Swift-KanbanDigité, a company that develops lean/agile application life-cycle management products, is announcing that it is offering its Lean/Agile Project Management software Swift-Kanban for free to non-profits. Digite is also launching integration of Swift-Kanban with Atlassian's Jira to bring developer issue management and helpdesk operations to the Kanban board. Swift-Kanban leverages the Kanban Method developed by David J. Anderson to help organizations become more lean in communications and product development using highly visual management and as a result deliver products and services more quickly and with higher quality.
 
Uberlife – The Next Foursquare, But For Future Real-world Meetups? Top
uberlifeI've been fascinated by social mobile location services since at least 2006 when, three years before Foursquare and year after Google acquired Dodgeball, a UK entrepreneur created BuddyPing, now sadly defunct, and right up to the launch of Pin Drop the other day. The rise of the iPhone shortly after created an ecosystem of location-aware apps which has continued to mushroom ever since. But there's one thing that has frustrated me. Seeing where people are right now is all very well. But I what really want to know is - where will they be next? Now I think I may have found potentially my Nirvana: Uberlife (an alpha iPhone app is here).
 
Wimm Labs VP Tim Twerdahl Shows Off The Android-Powered Wimm One Smart Watch Top
There are plenty of smart watches out there in the world. The iPod Nano doubles as one, and the new MotoACTV watch is a pretty solid offering, as well. But over at Wimm Labs, they're taking the concept to a whole new level. We got the opportunity to sit down with Wimm Labs VP Tim Twerdahl who let us get up close and personal with the new Wimm One Smart watch. It's "a wearable platform" as Twerdahl would call it, based on Android and packed with fun features like WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, accelerometers, magnetometers and plenty of other fun stuff.
 
Viewsonic VP Mike Holstein Demos New Android, Windows Tablets Top
When I think of tablets, I think of the usual suspects -- Apple, Motorola, Asus, HTC, and the like. Viewsonic never really comes to mind, but that hasn't stopped them from pushing out their own tablets and smartphones, and their VP of Business Development Mike Holstein joined us at CES to show us what the company has been up to.
 
Our Favorite CES 2012 Interviews, Videos And Events Top
tc-cesCES was a blast this year. It was the best show in recent memory. Everyone from the press to vendors were upbeat and seemingly truly happy to be there. Attendance was up. The show was the largest ever (too big for some). Best of all, we shared a wonderful booth with the Engadget crew, which allowed us to conduct more interviews and chill on some comfy couches when not livestreaming from the show floor. Below is the best of our booth interviews and roaming coverage. We truly hope you enjoyed our unique coverage. Any outlet can stuff people in a room (or trailer) and write up press releases nonstop. We strive to bring the entire show to you by webcasting our shenanigans from the floor and interviewing the smaller guys from the booth. Here's our nine favorite videos from this year's show.
 
Hulu To Debut Its First Original Scripted Show "Battleground" Next Month Top
huluHulu is launching its first-ever original scripted series with its 13-episode order of Battleground, a political comedy following the campaign trail of a third-place candidate in Wisconsin angling for a seat in the Senate. The show is kicking off Hulu's foray into scripted programming, and will be followed by two other original shows: a second season of documentarian Morgan Spurlock's A Day in the Life series, and Up to Speed, a travel show from Dazed and Confused director Richard Linklater.
 
Ooma CEO Eric Stang Shows Off The New HD2 VoIP Handset Top
At CES 2012, there are quite a few products that would totally change the way you do things (or at least save you some money) that just don't get enough coverage. We reported on Ooma's new HD2 VoIP handset, but nothing beats getting the facts straight from the CEO of the company. Luckily, Eric Stang had a chance to meet with us and chat it up.
 
Symantec Buys Cloud-Based Email Archiving Company LiveOffice For $115M Top
liveoffice-1Security and storage giant Symantec has announced the acquisition of cloud email archiving company LiveOffice. The acquisition price was $115 million. LiveOffice is a SaaS provider of email archiving, compliance and hosting. In addition to providing cloud based email archiving, LiveOffice also archives email which is on-premise. By hosting email archives with LiveOffice, customers can migrate from their current provider to a cloud provider without having to deal with the possibility of losing sensitive information.
 
TinyProj Shuts Down, Users Sent To TechStars Grad GroupTalent Instead Top
grouptalent-logoTinyProj, a project marketplace started by Forrst founder Kyle Bragger is shutting down.  All 8,300 of the service's registered developers and designers who used the site to find project-based work will now be transitioned over to GroupTalent, a recent TechStars grad.
 

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