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Timehop, A Time Machine For Your Social Media Updates, Gets $1.1 From Foursquare Founders And Others Top
Screen Shot 2012-01-24 at 12.05.51 PMTimehop, a startup that humbly began as Foursquareandsevenyears ago, has just bagged a $1.1 million round of seed funding led by OATV and followed on by Techstars with additional participation from Spark Capital and a pretty worthy list of angels including Foursquare's Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai and Alex Rainert, Groupme's Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht, Rick Webb and Kevin Slavin. The startup started out aggregating user Foursquare checkins from a year ago in a daily email and recently broadened to included Facebook status updates, photos, Twitter updates and Instagram posts.
 
RIM Roadmap Leaked, Points To BlackBerry 10 Launch In September Top
29-logo-rimIt's only been one full day since former COO Thorsten Heins has taken the top spot at RIM, and we may already be privy to the company's game plan for the next 15 months. According to reports from BGR's always-willing sources, RIM is hard at work on a series of new product launches that will culminate with the launch of their first BlackBerry 10 device in the latter half of this year.
 
I Didn't Think Samsung Could Top Its Anti-Apple Ads… Until I Saw These Top
Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 2.55.00 PMNext weekend is like the Super Bowl of commercials. Well, actually, next weekend is the Super Bowl (the real one), which is also much like a Super Bowl... for companies... with regards to their commercials. Maybe I should try a different analogy. Either way, next weekend is big for most companies and Samsung is getting started early with its latest "Apple fanbois are silly for waiting outside" campaign.
 
Worvey— Err, Warby Parker Takes A Look Back At Its 2011 Top
warbyfeatWarby Parker — the New York-based startup that sells prescription, designer glasses for a relatively modest $95 a pop — has just released its annual year in review, outlining some key stats and factoids from the past twelve months. My favorite section: most popular misspellings people search for when they're trying to find the site, with the leaders including "Worvey Parkers" and "Warmby Parker" (Warmby? Really?). Oh, and there's some more serious stuff too.
 
Keen On… Brad Noble: Why Google's "Search Plus Your World" Is Creepy (TCTV) Top
Screen Shot 2012-01-24 at 12.01.07 AMGoogle's "Search Plus Your World" (SPYW) continues to jeopardize the company's world. It's a moral minus, Alexia says. Others have gone further - saying that SPYW fundamentally compromises Google as an objective search engine and raises many anti-trust issues. So what, exactly, will be the impact of SPYW on Google's artificial algorithm and how central will social search become in our Web 3.0 age?
 
Online Ordering Provider OLO Hits 1M Customers, Prepares To Launch GrubHub Integration Top
oloOLO, a web and mobile online ordering service for restaurants, is celebrating a lot of things: bigger office space in New York's South St. Seaport district, hitting the 1 million customer milestone, adding new restaurant partners, and plans to launch its long-awaited GrubHub integration, nearly a year in the making.
 
Between Nothing And A Blog: Check Out CheckThis, A Cool New Micro-Publishing Tool Top
checkthisI don't often get a chance to write about a startup from my home country (Belgium) that I'm super excited about, so consider me a happy camper. Meet CheckThis.com, a new micro-publishing service that lets you create and share a single, good-looking Web page in mere seconds. CheckThis is designed for people who need a little more space than a tweet but don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a new blog. In literally instants, you can use CheckThis to create a stand-alone page to sell your bike, hire a new developer for your startup, tell people what you've been up to today, set up a really quick poll, share an Instragram or Flickr photo, a party invitation with a map, a Vimeo video or whatever other simple need you might have. Quick, simple, beautiful.
 
Subscription Billings Startup Recurly Raises $6 Million Top
recurlyRecurly, a startup that makes it easy for other companies to manage their subscription billing, has raised $6 million in a Series A financing round led by BV Capital, and including Polaris Venture Partners, Harrison Metal Capital and FreeStyle Capital. This brings Recurly's total funding to $8 million. Recurly's service allows businesses to quickly implement a subscription billing system, handling tasks like credit card number storage (it also supports integration with financial software like QuickBooks). Recurly automates many of the complexities involved with subscription billing management, such as customer upgrades and downgrades, credit card errors and declines, automated customer communications, and customer retention management.
 
Lookout's New App Visualizes Mobile Security Threats As They Are Detected Around The World Top
lookoutLookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is debuting a new Android app that lets you see mobile threats as they are detected around the world. Launched from Lookout Labs, the new app basically visualizes what's happening in the mobile landscape and also shares details on top weekly threats & distribution of malware vs. spyware. For background, Lookout's web-based, cloud-connected applications for Android, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and most recently iOS devices help users from losing their phones and identifies and block threats on a consumer's phone. Users simply download the software to a device, and it will act as a tracking application, data backup and a virus protector much like security software downloaded to a computer.
 
New Trademarkia Feature Exposes Biggest Trademark Bullies; Apple, Zynga Among Top Five Top
Trademarkia-logo1For a long time, it was easy to search for patents on the Web, but trademarks? Not so much. Thanks to startups like TechCrunch 50 grad Trademarkia, anyone can now do a simple keyword search and pick through each and every U.S. trademark filed since 1870 -- if your heart so desires, of course.
 
Will This Be Apple's First $40 Billion Quarter? Top
applelogoEveryone is expecting a record quarter from Apple, which reports earnings today. "We expect a big quarter from Apple," writes analyst Colin Gillis of BGC in a research note, "and we expect most investors expect a big quarter from Apple. Our pet fish expects records from Apple." Apple is expected to announce record revenues, earnings, iPhone sales, iPad sales, and Mac sales. Here are the numbers Apple needs to beat today for an upside surprise when it announces after the markets close:
 
$299 Droid RAZR MAXX To Hit Verizon Shelves On January 26 Top
droid-razr-maxxLooks like that flubbed product page turned out to be right after all -- Verizon Wireless has just announced that the ever-so-slightly-tweaked Droid RAZR MAXX will indeed be hitting store shelves on January 26.
 
Producteev Drops Slew Of New Apps; Now Lets You Crowdsource Your Tasks On TaskRabbit Top
Producteev_Color_Logo_vToday, 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
Highlight Featured ImageCheckins 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 another Highlight user who's your Facebook friend or that 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
facebook-timeline-fbYou can run, but you can't hide. Facebook's biggest user interface overhaul since the Wall, the Facebook Timeline, is now becoming mandatory for all users. 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
shopkickShopkick, 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 "kicks" 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
OnavoOnavo, 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
megaboxLast 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
siritweetThere'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
Brozar Clip PagePopular 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."
 

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