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- Facebook In Brazil: A Big Ending To 2011 Finally Pushes It Past Orkut
- A Close Look At Samsung And Microsoft's Surface 2.0 (AKA SUR40)
- Money Ball for Medicine – Business Models for Healthcare
- Quora Launches An Off-Site "Follow" Button For Topics And People
- Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo
- Tomorrow Facebook Will Fill Your Timeline + Ticker With Shopping, Travel, and More Apps
- Samsung Not Sold On The Bada-Tizen Merger Just Yet
- SOPA Isn't Dead, It's Just Sleeping (Until February)
- Facebook Study Reveals Facebook Is Not An Echo Chamber (For Some Values Of "Echo Chamber")
- Lionsgate Sacrifices "Abduction" To Test Simultaneous Facebook/DVD Release
- What Is A 3D Printer Good For? Stop-Motion Cartoons Featuring Princesses, Of Course!
- TechCrunch Readers Love Slides (And Other Stats From SlideShare)
- Do We Need A "GarageBand For Books?"
- Yes, Google Will Protest SOPA on its Homepage
- Try-Before-You-Buy Gadget Site YBUY Launches With $750K In Funding
- An Interview With DECE/UltraViolet President Mitch Singer Goes Horribly Right
- Study: Facebook Pages Shouldn't Post More Than 1x Every 3 hours
- Trigger Gets $1M From SV Angel, Paul Graham And Others To Make Cross-Platform Mobile Development Effortless
- DreamIt Ventures Launches First Israel-U.S. Accelerator
- Aviary Launches Major Upgrade To SDK, Now Powering 10 Million Photo Edits Per Month
| Facebook In Brazil: A Big Ending To 2011 Finally Pushes It Past Orkut | Top |
 First there were the stories about Facebook taking over your college campus, then it was your high school or workplace, then your country... now the stories are starting to be about how Facebook has used up all the new users and only has engagement left to gain. But that's in older markets like the US. The company is still growing worldwide every month on its way to a billion users, and it's because of places like Brazil. In 2011, according to a new study out from leading web measurement firm comScore, Facebook added nearly 24 million new users in the country. In December it pushed past incumbent Orkut to reach 36.1 million monthly uniques. The Google-owned social network isn't seeing any drop-off, though, in contrast to US incumbent MySpace's fate -- and in contrast to India, Orkut's other big market that was lost to Facebook years ago. Instead, Orkut just grew slowly from 32.7 million to 34.4 million in Brazil during the year. | |
| A Close Look At Samsung And Microsoft's Surface 2.0 (AKA SUR40) | Top |
 The Surface has been around since 2007, but the new and improved SUR40 is a much more usable device. Microsoft and Samsung were showing off the new touch-capable table in NYC today, and I was lucky enough to get up close and personal with it. The specs in and of themselves are impressive: 40-inch 50-point multitouch screen with a 1080x1920 resolution, AMD processors, 1GB of memory dedicated entirely to graphics, a 4-inch profile, and a host of USB/HDMI ports. It's the computer you always wanted, save for the fact that it looks like a kitchen table and costs about $9,000. | |
| Money Ball for Medicine – Business Models for Healthcare | Top |
 Entrepreneurial epiphanies surface in random places. For Eric Page, it was watching Brad Pitt's latest movie, Moneyball. The epiphany caused him to shift Amplify Health's business model from a provider of technology to a heavy user of technology. While there is a wave of disruptive technology in healthtech, as interesting is the wave of disruptive innovation on the care delivery side of healthcare. These companies aren't technology companies, however technology plays a pivotal role. | |
| Quora Launches An Off-Site "Follow" Button For Topics And People | Top |
 Quora has joined the "Button" wars today with the launch of the Quora "Follow" button, created by Quora engineers Shu-Uesugi and Edmond-Lau. In the same vein as the Twitter "Follow" button, the Quora Follow button can be embedded in any website by cutting and pasting a customized snippet of code from the Quora Resources page. Users can choose between a light button and a dark button to taste. "The goal is to help people discover great Quora users from the outside of www.quora.com," says co-founder Charlie Cheever, "Like blogs and personal websites. When someone clicks on your button, he/she will start following you immediately if he/she is logged on to Quora; otherwise he/she will be prompted to log in or sign up." | |
| Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo | Top |
 Yahoo just announced that co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from its board of directors. "My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life," Yang wrote in a letter to chairman Roy Bostock. "However, the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo! As I leave the company I co-founded nearly 17 years ago, I am enthusiastic about the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer and his ability, along with the entire Yahoo! leadership team, to guide Yahoo! into an exciting and successful future." | |
| Tomorrow Facebook Will Fill Your Timeline + Ticker With Shopping, Travel, and More Apps | Top |
 In September at f8, Facebook announced partnerships with slew of companies who would develop Open Graph Timeline apps. Airbnb, Path, Ticketmaster, Payvment, Causes and 30 others all said they were onboard to produce apps allowing users to share when they "traveled", "purchased" something online, "donated" to a charity, and other activity. 4 months later and many of these Open Graph applications have yet to launch, but that will change tomorrow night according to our sources when a new class of Open Graph lifestyle apps is unveiled at a Facebook press event. | |
| Samsung Not Sold On The Bada-Tizen Merger Just Yet | Top |
 I've long wondered what exactly Samsung would do with their homegrown Bada operating system, and for a little while there the answer seemed clear -- Samsung SVP Tae-jin Kang recently noted that Bada would be merged with the Intel-backed Tizen OS project. In fact, he said at CES that the work to combine both platforms had already begun, which seemed like a pretty definitive conclusion for Bada. Now it seems like Samsung may be having second thoughts about the whole process. Samsung representatives have reached out to AllThingsD and Information Week to say that a final decision regarding a merger hasn't yet been made. | |
| SOPA Isn't Dead, It's Just Sleeping (Until February) | Top |
 Oh, you thought SOPA was dead? That the riled rallying of the entire Internet, the blacking out of dozens of popular websites in protest, or the President himself coming out against the bill would be enough to kill it off? Nope. It'll be back — they're just taking a little break. | |
| Facebook Study Reveals Facebook Is Not An Echo Chamber (For Some Values Of "Echo Chamber") | Top |
 Some of Facebook's scholars-in-residence have published an analysis of approximately 283 million Facebook users' sharing habits. The study, which has to do with the paths by which information is caught up and shared — which types of friends share the most, where you post the most content from, and so on. The study itself was, no doubt, spurred by honest intellectual curiosity, but the summary on Facebook a slightly editorializing bent that suggests things were more purposeful. | |
| Lionsgate Sacrifices "Abduction" To Test Simultaneous Facebook/DVD Release | Top |
 When you're in charge of getting people to rent a move like Abduction, with its Metacritic score of 25 and a truly remarkable 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, what can you really do? The answer: whatever the hell you want. Short of stuffing free money into every box, few things could really help this one take off — so you might as well experiment, right? And experiment they shall. Throwing Abduction to the sharks for the sake of testing their teeth, Lionsgate is releasing the film on DVD and Facebook simultaneously. | |
| What Is A 3D Printer Good For? Stop-Motion Cartoons Featuring Princesses, Of Course! | Top |
| Makerbot creator Bre Pettis and his musician friends from Scary Car made this cute little video featuring 3D printed action figures being created in (near) real-time and then discovering love. | |
| TechCrunch Readers Love Slides (And Other Stats From SlideShare) | Top |
 Okay, it's official. TechCrunch readers love slides. We occasionally embed slideshows from SlideShare like the one below (which is filled with its 2011 zeitgeist stats). In 2011, TechCrunch generated more slideshow traffic for SlideShare than any other tech blog—a dubious honor, but we'll take it. Since you all love slides so much, here are a few more facts from SlideShare. | |
| Do We Need A "GarageBand For Books?" | Top |
 My Dad used to take me to Long's Bookstore on the Ohio State University campus when I was young - I'd say this was during the 1980s and very early 1990s although in my mind these afternoons spent on campus are tinged with a 1970s wash out of color, as if I were remembering my time in Kansas before Oz. We'd rumble through the stacks, picking out used titles from the basement that were beaten and worn by years of the students' buy/read/return-for-a-pittance cycle so common at universities. Most of the books there were, obviously, but Long's stocked quite a bit of ephemera including my favorite Mad Magazine digests and sci-fi. Long's is now a Barnes & Noble, its handsome neon sign taken down during a massive restructuring of OSU's student core. Most of the old book stores are gone. The local head shop, Monkey's Retreat, turned into a Taoist center. Long's and its competitor, the University Book Exchange, are gone. Even Larry's, where I went to poetry readings as a petulant high-schooler is gone. To paraphrase Joni Mitchell, they paved paradise and put up a Quizno's. | |
| Yes, Google Will Protest SOPA on its Homepage | Top |
 Tomorrow, Google's US homepage will include a link declaring its opposition to the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Act. The news was reported on CNET and confirmed by Google in a statement emailed to TechCrunch. | |
| Try-Before-You-Buy Gadget Site YBUY Launches With $750K In Funding | Top |
 Good news, gadget hounds! The new "try before you buy" subscription service called YBUY is exiting its public beta, backed by $750,000 in seed funding. The concept is simple, and should have major appeal for the gadget-obsessed: for just $24.95 per month, you can test drive the latest electronics, home and kitchen gadgets for 30 days before deciding to purchase or return the items. At launch, the site is serving up highly sought-after gadgets like the iPad 2, Dyson heaters, Jawbone headsets, iRobot Roombas and more. | |
| An Interview With DECE/UltraViolet President Mitch Singer Goes Horribly Right | Top |
 Our readers are probably familiar in passing with UltraViolet, a new content rights management system that is supposed to unify the rights architecture on the web, allowing cross-platform sharing and authentication of movies and TV. But for such a major effort by so many device makers and content producers, very little has been heard or said about it. Probably because it's still in its infancy: only 19 titles with UV compatibility were released in 2011, and the first signups occurred in October. Yet despite its tender age and low profile, the most common sentiment has been one of preemptive rejection. | |
| Study: Facebook Pages Shouldn't Post More Than 1x Every 3 hours | Top |
 The average news feed post by a Facebook Page receives Likes and comments for 3 hours after being published. To maximize the engagement, impressions, and traffic driven by the news feed, Facebook Page owners should wait at least 3 hours between posts. This new finding from a study by Facebook Page analytics company EdgeRank Checker could help Page owners avoid cutting short the lifetimes of their posts and overshadowing them with new content. | |
| Trigger Gets $1M From SV Angel, Paul Graham And Others To Make Cross-Platform Mobile Development Effortless | Top |
 Mobile development platform Trigger is announcing one million dollars in funding today, from way legit investors SV Angel, Paul Graham, Ron Conway, 500 Startups, Russ Siegelman, Steve Walske, RightVentures, Venture51 and John Taysom. | |
| DreamIt Ventures Launches First Israel-U.S. Accelerator | Top |
 Startup incubator DreamIt Ventures is announcing the first Israel-U.S. accelerator, which will help up to five Israeli startups expand into the U.S. market through DreamIt's NYC 2012 program. The new program, called DreamIt Israel, will take place over four months, with the first month in Israel followed by three months in New York. The startups will also participate in two Demo Day events - one in the U.S. and the other back home with local investors. | |
| Aviary Launches Major Upgrade To SDK, Now Powering 10 Million Photo Edits Per Month | Top |
 Aviary, the company that makes it easy for mobile developers to integrate image editing into their apps, has a major launch today: they're introducing an overhauled version of their mobile SDK that's both more powerful and significantly better looking than the previous one, which launched in September. You may associate Aviary with the startup's advanced suite of web-based image editing apps, which is what it focused on for years. But last year it shifted toward this developer-facing mobile SDK, which allows third-party developers to quickly integrate photo editing, filters, virtual stickers, and other related features into their applications. It's essentially a drop-in photo editor, and given how popular image sharing apps like Instagram are these days, it's no surprise that plenty of mobile developers are baking it into their apps. | |
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