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- Producteev Drops Slew Of New Apps; Now Lets You Crowdsource Your Tasks On TaskRabbit
- Mobile App Highlight Gives You A 6th Sense About Who's Nearby
- Facebook Timeline Now Pushed To Everyone, Users Get A Week To Clean Up Profiles
- Location-Based Shopping App Shopkick Now 3 Million Users Strong; 1B Deals Viewed
- Onavo's Data-Compressing Mobile App Raises $10 Million Series B From Horizons, Motorola Ventures
- Was Megaupload Targeted Because Of Its Upcoming Megabox Digital Jukebox Service?
- New iOS Hack Lets You Natively Tweet By Talking To Siri
- Vimeo Gets Its First Facelift Since 2007
- Verizon Posts A Net Loss Of $2.02B In Q4 2011
- Full Circle: Boxee Brings OTA HDTV And Basic Cable To The Boxee Box
- ScholarPro Intelligently Matches Students With Educational Scholarships
- CouchSurfing Gets More Cash As Point Nine Capital Becomes Its First European Investor
- 500 Startups Grad OneSchool Raises $750K For College Student-Focused App
- Xobni Brings Contact Manager Smartr To The iPhone
- Online Job Marketplace Elance Raises $16M From Kleiner Perkins, NEA And The Stripes Group
- Fitness Tracker Fitbit Raises $12M To Market New Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Scale, Aria
- The Nikkei: Sony Interested In Buying A 20%-30% Stake In Olympus
- Daily Crunch: All Pass
- Sonos Urges Users To Install A Security Update To Protect Their Private Data
- Chart: Android Is Catching Up To iOS In Mobile Video Views
| Producteev Drops Slew Of New Apps; Now Lets You Crowdsource Your Tasks On TaskRabbit | Top |
 Today, Producteev is unveiling a slew of new apps, including a significantly upgraded web app, iPhone and Android mobile apps, and new Windows 7 and Mac desktop apps. The startup is reaching for the (asymptotic?) goal of universal, or at least cross-platform, task management, as professionals and businesses want (and need) to create and store tasks across platforms, devices, and services -- from email and IMs to voicemails and notes. And they're on their way. | |
| Mobile App Highlight Gives You A 6th Sense About Who's Nearby | Top |
 Checkins are not the future. They interrupt the moment and quickly become outdated. Highlight, a mobile app launching today, offers a better gateway to serendipitous meetups. All you do is download Highlight, turn it on, and let it run passively in the background. Then when you come within a few blocks of your Facebook friends, or anyone you have friends or interests in common with, Highlight sends you a push notification and lets you message them. | |
| Facebook Timeline Now Pushed To Everyone, Users Get A Week To Clean Up Profiles | Top |
 You can run, but you can't hide. Facebook's biggest user interface overhaul since the Wall, the Facebook Timeline, is rolling out worldwide starting today. According to the company, over the next few weeks, everyone will get the new Timeline. And here's the important part: when you do, you'll have just seven days to preview what's there now, and hide anything you don't want others to see. | |
| Location-Based Shopping App Shopkick Now 3 Million Users Strong; 1B Deals Viewed | Top |
 Shopkick, an innovative geo-coupon system that is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, SV Angel and others, is debuting a number of momentum numbers today. The startup's service now has 3 million active users, up from 2.3 million active users in September. Here's how Shopkicks works. Instead of checking in, as you would with a geo app like Foursquare, Shopkick automatically recognizes when someone with the free Android or iPhone app on their phone walks into a store. Once a Shopkick Signal is detected, the app delivers reward points called "kickbucks" to the user for walking into a retail store, trying on clothes, scanning a barcode and other actions. | |
| Onavo's Data-Compressing Mobile App Raises $10 Million Series B From Horizons, Motorola Ventures | Top |
 Onavo, makers of the money-saving, data-compressing app mobile app, just raised $10 million in Series B funding. Horizons Ventures, the private investment arm of Li Ka-shing, led the investment along with Motorola Mobility Ventures, the strategic equity investment arm of Motorola Mobility, Inc. The company's previous investors, Sequoia Capital and Magma Venture Partners, also participated in the round. | |
| Was Megaupload Targeted Because Of Its Upcoming Megabox Digital Jukebox Service? | Top |
 Last Thursday the US Justice Department came down hard on Megaupload and its mega founder, Kim Dotcom. In the days since, there has been a shake-up of sorts in the digital storage realm. Several smaller sites have drastically changed their business models. Others, like MediaFire, reached out to me after I published this post attempting to distance themselves from Megaupload. However, yesterday, a new theory surfaced that indicates Megaupload's demise had less to do with piracy than previously thought. This theory stems from a 2011 article detailing Megaupload's upcoming Megabox music store and DIY artist distribution service that would have completely disrupted the music industry. | |
| New iOS Hack Lets You Natively Tweet By Talking To Siri | Top |
 There's no shortage of novel things you can strongarm Siri into doing for you these days, but sometimes it's the little things that get me excited. While not as innately flashy as being able to start a car, a new (and currently nameless) tweak from developer InfectionFX does something that Siri should have been able to do from the beginning: tweet for you. | |
| Vimeo Gets Its First Facelift Since 2007 | Top |
 Popular video site Vimeo is now starting to roll out a big redesign of its website. If you're a casual user of the site like me, you might not notice some of the changes to the site, and indeed probably don't think of Vimeo as having a design that was particularly in need of updating. However, CEo Dae Mellencamp says the design actually hasn't been updated since 2007: "In Web years, that's a lifetime." | |
| Verizon Posts A Net Loss Of $2.02B In Q4 2011 | Top |
 Ever since the AT&T/T-Mobile saga came to a grinding halt, you'd think that Verizon would be enjoying its reign in peace. But it would seem that the company has posted a net loss of $2.02 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011. At the same time a year earlier, Verizon was seeing a profit of $2.64 billion. | |
| Full Circle: Boxee Brings OTA HDTV And Basic Cable To The Boxee Box | Top |
 Boxee just reinvented the box. The Boxee Box is no longer just a media streamer, thanks to the just-released Boxee Live TV. The little USB ATSC tuner integrates OTA HDTV and basic cable seamlessly into the Boxee Box's menu system, and I found it's as wonderful as it sounds. The little box is now the cord cutter's best friend (if it wasn't already). | |
| ScholarPro Intelligently Matches Students With Educational Scholarships | Top |
 Chicago-based ScholarPro is launching today as an intelligent matching system for students and educational scholarships. Designed to ease the search and application process, ScholarPro's adaptive matching engine promises to deliver smarter, targeted lists of scholarships. It aims to fix the current dated process that require students to navigate complex application processes and then fail to deliver relevant results. On the site, you answer a few simple adaptive questions, such as where you are from, etc. and the platform will match you to scholarships that fit your needs. You can actually apply for the scholarships directly from ScholarPro. | |
| CouchSurfing Gets More Cash As Point Nine Capital Becomes Its First European Investor | Top |
 Exclusive - Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm Point Nine Capital has become the first European investor in CouchSurfing, a site that helps travelers connect with locals worldwide to share accommodation, experiences and whatnot. The investment is in fact an extension of the $7.6 million Series A round raised from Benchmark Capital and Omidyar Network in August 2011. Read more at TechCrunch Europe. | |
| 500 Startups Grad OneSchool Raises $750K For College Student-Focused App | Top |
 OneSchool, a free mobile app for college students which provides easy access to maps, course schedules, directories, bus routes, news, student groups and more, is announcing its official launch today in eight universities around the U.S. The company is also revealing it has raised $750,000 in seed funding from 500 Startups, Learn Capital and Magnolia Ventures. | |
| Xobni Brings Contact Manager Smartr To The iPhone | Top |
 As we reported last September, Xobni rebranded its email contact manager Smartr and launched Android and Gmail apps out of private beta. Today, Xobni is debuting the iPhone version of Smartr. The Smartr Cloud automatically extracts all contacts from your iPhone's email data (currently integrated with Outlook or Gmail), as well as data from social networks, and makes them easily searchable. A complete profile is created for each contact, including a photo, job title, phone numbers, company details, email history, common contacts and info from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. | |
| Online Job Marketplace Elance Raises $16M From Kleiner Perkins, NEA And The Stripes Group | Top |
 Online job marketplace Elance has raised $16 million in new capital led by the Stripes Group with existing investors, New Enterprise Associates and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers participating. Elance is a service that allows for companies and individuals to hire and pay independent professionals and contractors online and in the cloud. Elance provides companies with the tools to hire, view work as it progresses and pay for results, replacing traditional outsourcing outlets. | |
| Fitness Tracker Fitbit Raises $12M To Market New Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Scale, Aria | Top |
 Fitness technology startup and TechCrunch 50 finalist Fitbit has raised $12 Million in Series C funding from existing investors Foundry Group, True Ventures, SoftTech VC and Felicis Ventures. The company offers a device called the Fitbit Tracker and a companion web-based fitness data aggregation technology that tracks weight, nutrition, exercise, sleeping schedules and other health related data for users (you can read more about how Fitbit works here.) | |
| The Nikkei: Sony Interested In Buying A 20%-30% Stake In Olympus | Top |
 More news on the Sony-Olympus alliance that's supposed to be announced soon: Japan's biggest business daily The Nikkei is reporting today that big S is interested in purchasing a stake as large as "20%-30%" in its potential, scandal-hit partner (that would be up from the 0.03% Sony currently owns). The capital and business alliance would be mainly aimed at bringing together Sony's strength in imaging sensor technology with Olympus' expertise in endoscopes and other medical equipment. | |
| Daily Crunch: All Pass | Top |
 Here are some of yesterday’s posts from TechCrunch Gadgets: Kickstarter: eye3, An Affordable Aerial Photography Drone Federal Judge Rules You May Be Forced To Provide Decryption Password Sony Claims New RGBW Sensors Improve Exposure, Low-Light Performance New RIM CEO: "I Don't Think There Is A Drastic Change Needed" Hitachi And Mitsubishi Stop Domestic Production Of TVs, Optical Discs | |
| Sonos Urges Users To Install A Security Update To Protect Their Private Data | Top |
 Sonos this morning sent out an email to users advising them to immediately update their wireless music system software with a security "enhancement" in order to plug a hole that "in rare cases" could have been exploited by malicious people to gain access to sensitive, personal customer data. In the message, which was also posted on its forum, Sonos says it is not aware of any breaches so far: | |
| Chart: Android Is Catching Up To iOS In Mobile Video Views | Top |
 A year ago in January, 2011, Apple dominated mobile video views, with iOS devices accounting for 87 percent of all mobile views, according to data from video encoding and short-url service Vid.ly. Android had a scant 5 percent. By December, 2011, Android's share of mobile video watching grew to 32 percent, while Apple's shrank to 52 percent. | |
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