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- Biz Stone, 500 Startups And Others Put $1M In CRM For Web Businesses Intercom
- Netflix Q4 Earnings Beat The Street, But Next Quarter May Be A Different Story
- Show Your Love With These New iPad/Kindle Fire Cases From DODOcase
- HP Announces Open webOS 1.0, Outlines Release Schedule
- Nokia Announces 1.5 Billion S40 Phones Sold
- Game Your Video Aims To Make Mobile Video Editing As Simple As Possible
- Guidewire Hits The Public Market Running; Shares Jump 30% In Early Trading
- Bunchball Says Games Turn Twentysomethings Into Better Workers
- 1000s Of Journalists Now Use Facebook Subscribe, And That's Bad For Twitter
- Kickstarter: Cassette, A Documentary About, You Guessed It, Cassettes
- President Clinton's Former Chief Of Staff Says: "Yes We Scan" (TCTV)
- BeachMint Raises Another Big Round: $35 Million For Celebrity-Backed Shopping Experiences
- Apple Overtakes Exxon As Most Valuable Traded Company In The World… Again
- Top European Blogging Platform OverBlog Acquires Timeline Creator Timekiwi
- $99 Nokia Lumia 900 To Hit AT&T On March 18?
- LG Nitro HD Surpasses 1 Million Units Sold
- Online Investing Platform Kapitall Now Lets You Trade Stocks
- Google: "Hundreds" Of Schools In 41 States Use Chromebooks
- Sprint Plans To Kill The BlackBerry PlayBook… Again
- Popular Barcode Scanning App ShopSavvy Launches Mobile Marketplace
| Biz Stone, 500 Startups And Others Put $1M In CRM For Web Businesses Intercom | Top |
 CRM and 500 Startups incubated company Intercom has raised a seed round of $1 million from angel investors including twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Huddle founder Andy McLoughlin, Dan Martell, 500 Startups and Digital Garage. Intercom's customer relationship management tool (CRM) is designed specifically for web businesses. The web-based SaaS features Google Analytics-like integration so that its database of customers is always automatically up-to-date, tracking every interaction. With its flexible filtering function, users can be segmented into groups for whom the business has different goals (i.e. converting free users into paying customers). | |
| Netflix Q4 Earnings Beat The Street, But Next Quarter May Be A Different Story | Top |
 Saying 2011 was a rocky road for Netflix would be an understatement, as it split its DVD and streaming offerings into two businesses, then reneged. They also hiked their prices, only to experience a veritable customer revolt, and CEO Reed Hastings was forced to publicly say that they'd made a huge mistake. Today, Netflix has released its fourth quarter earnings from 2011, and it looks like there's at least a sliver of good news, as the company beat Wall Street's forecasts of $0.54 a share and $857 million in revenues, rising instead to $0.73 per share and $876 million in revenues. | |
| Show Your Love With These New iPad/Kindle Fire Cases From DODOcase | Top |
 Just in time for Valentine's Day, DODOcase released new special edition iPad and Kindle Fire cases. They cost slightly more than the standard version with the Kindle Fire models costing $69 and then $79 for the iPad 2 versions. But nothing says love quite like a unique case. | |
| HP Announces Open webOS 1.0, Outlines Release Schedule | Top |
 It seems like ages ago that HP announced that webOS would continue to live on as an open source project, probably because they've been awfully quiet on the subject since the big reveal in December. Well, consider that silence officially broken. HP took to their webOS developer relations blog to tell what faithful users still remain all about how their open-source rollout is going to work, and the whole process has begun with the release of their Enyo application framework. | |
| Nokia Announces 1.5 Billion S40 Phones Sold | Top |
 Does the term S40 mean anything to you? It's a mobile operating system built by Nokia for its feature phones back in 1999, and first appeared on the 7110. Well, apparently a lady over in São Paulo, Brazil has today purchased the 1.5 billionth phone running the operating system in the form of the Nokia Asha 303. Nokia is calling it "one of the most significant milestones" in company history. | |
| Game Your Video Aims To Make Mobile Video Editing As Simple As Possible | Top |
 Modern day video editors can be daunting. While it's better than the literal cut-and-paste practices of yesteryear, opening a new video editor can feel like stepping into the cockpit of a spaceship. Unless you're trained to fly spaceships, in which case this analogy is broken (and also, you're awesome.) Looking to distill video editing down to its simplest form — a game like experience, they say — is Game Your Video, a new iOS app from Global Delight. | |
| Guidewire Hits The Public Market Running; Shares Jump 30% In Early Trading | Top |
 While there were some big IPOs in 2011, Zynga and Groupon among them, overall it was a disappointing year for IPOs. Will 2012 be any different? As the first tech IPO of the new year, Guidewire Software certainly hopes so. Back in September, the insurance software company joined MobiTV, Angie's List, Brightcove, and Jive, filing its S-1, announcing plans to raise up to $100 million and to sell approximately 7.5 million shares at $10 to $12 per share, in advance of its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. | |
| Bunchball Says Games Turn Twentysomethings Into Better Workers | Top |
 Bunchball has been touting the benefits of its gamification tools for years, and many of its recent efforts are focused on enterprise customers. Now the company has published a white paper arguing that that gamification is a key way to motivate "Generation Y." As evidence, the paper points to a recent study by MTV saying that millennials (the Bunchball report uses both terms interchangeably) understand their lives through a "game-like metaphor" — in fact, half of the survey respondents said "people my age see real life as a video game." How does that apply in the workplace? | |
| 1000s Of Journalists Now Use Facebook Subscribe, And That's Bad For Twitter | Top |
 4 months after it launched its Twitter-style asymmetrical Subscribe feature, Facebook and its Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik's efforts to weaken Twitter's stranglehold on breaking news are paying off. The company just announced that thousands of journalists now use Subscribe, including 50 reporters from The New York Times and 90 from the Washington Post. If Facebook can get your favorite journalists publishing through Subscribe, you'll have less need for Twitter. Next I hear it's setting its sights on getting celebrities and entertainment tastemakers onboard. Additionally, Facebook released some best practices for how journalists can maximize the engagement (Likes, comments, and shares) on their posts. | |
| Kickstarter: Cassette, A Documentary About, You Guessed It, Cassettes | Top |
 Those of our readers old enough to remember the 90s will almost certainly recall cassette tapes fondly. The clacky little tapes and their creaky cases have more or less disappeared from the world, and no surprise: they were fragile, limited, and sounded pretty bad. But they were also hugely empowering, and helped produce in an age of comparative consumer powerlessness the same feeling we take for granted today: that we should be able to copy, lend, and duplicate the content we've bought. Cassette is a documentary looking for a few bucks on Kickstarter that hopes to highlight cassette culture then and now. | |
| President Clinton's Former Chief Of Staff Says: "Yes We Scan" (TCTV) | Top |
 While the topic didn't make its way into President Obama's Sate of the Union speech last night, Mr. Obama's former transition team co-chair, John Podesta, thinks creating a "Digital Library of Congress" comprised of "the vast holdings of the federal government" deserves executive level attention. He's calling the initiative, "Yes We Scan" My suggestion to him: get Google to do it for free in return for a reprieve from the government's never-ending antitrust investigations. I am only half-joking. | |
| BeachMint Raises Another Big Round: $35 Million For Celebrity-Backed Shopping Experiences | Top |
 BeachMint — an ecommerce startup that lets customers subscribe to receive products hand-picked by celebrities each month — has quickly become one of the hottest companies in Los Angeles. Today the company is announcing that it's raised a $35 million funding round with some big-name investors: the round is being led by Accel Partners, with participation from Goldman Sachs, New World Ventures, NYC-based and Millennium Technology Value Partners, with existing investors participating as well. Accel's Greg Waldorf will be joining BeachMint's board. This brings BeachMint's total funding to a whopping $75 million. This is obviously a big raise, and it comes only seven months after the company raised $23.5 million at a rumored $150 million valuation. Why are they raising so much? The short answer: they're growing like crazy and are planning to go international — and they'll be fending off plenty of competition. | |
| Apple Overtakes Exxon As Most Valuable Traded Company In The World… Again | Top |
 It happened once before, in August, but that was due to a stock market collapse that left both Exxon and Apple well below their usual share price. This time, however, it would seem that Apple's Q1 earnings call yesterday has led to a fresh spike on the stock market and what do you know? Apple is once again the most valuable publicly traded company in the world, with a market cap of $414.83 billion. | |
| Top European Blogging Platform OverBlog Acquires Timeline Creator Timekiwi | Top |
 Normally, Palo Alto companies buy European ones, but sometimes there are exceptions. Case in point: today OverBlog, a leading blog platform in Europe with over 32 million uniques according to comScore, is announcing it has acquired Timekiwi, a tool that helps you make a timeline using your social media postings. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but OverBlog says Timekiwi will be integrated into its platform by summer 2012. | |
| $99 Nokia Lumia 900 To Hit AT&T On March 18? | Top |
 Nokia CEO Stephen Elop was all to eager to show off the Lumia 900 at this year's CES, but he unforunately kept to himself when it came to its price or release date. Now, thanks to a timely leak, it looks as though Nokia's flagship Windows Phone could hit AT&T's shelves on March 18. That's apparently the plan, anyway. The date, given to BGR by their anonymous sources, seemingly confirms earlier rumors about the device's launch window, though they're quick to note that the date isn't set in stone since the 900 hasn't yet completed the technical acceptance process. | |
| LG Nitro HD Surpasses 1 Million Units Sold | Top |
 comScore recently ranked LG second in the world in terms of mobile OEM market share, and it would seem the good news keeps on coming for the smiley-face company. The Nitro HD, or Optimus LTE if you're from outside of the States, has reportedly hit 1 million units sold. It was first available in South Korea last year in October, and LG sold 600,000 units on its home turf. After venturing into new lands, including Japan, Canada, and the US of A, another 400,000 units were sold. According to my calculator, 600,000 plus 400,000 does indeed total 1 million units. | |
| Online Investing Platform Kapitall Now Lets You Trade Stocks | Top |
 Kapitall, a web app that investors can use to research and analyze stocks, mutual funds and exchange traded funds, is debuting the ability to trade stocks via its platform today. Kapitall's interface is inspired by video game design and combines a graphical user interface with tools that make it easy to build portfolios, share ideas and execute trades. The startup believes that people can learn to navigate the stock market even if they don't have a financial planner or don't have the experience to sift through financial statements of public companies. The drag and drop interface was designed by Cordell Ratzlaff who led the design of Mac OS X at Apple. | |
| Google: "Hundreds" Of Schools In 41 States Use Chromebooks | Top |
 During this morning's keynote at the annual Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) conference in Orlando, Florida, Google's Product Manager for Chromebooks, Rajen Sheth, shared an update on Chromebooks' headway in educational institutions. According to Sheth, today there are now "hundreds" of schools using Chomebooks in 41 states across the U.S. | |
| Sprint Plans To Kill The BlackBerry PlayBook… Again | Top |
 For the second time over the course of a year, it would seem as though Sprint's ready to kill the BlackBerry PlayBook. A new version of the PlayBook OS is set to debut in February, but according to an EOL (End of Life) report out of SprintFeed, Sprint isn't prepared for the wait. Not even for a week. Of course, the WiFi-only PlayBook will still be available at various office stores like Best Buy and from RIM directly, but Sprint's execution of the PlayBook marks the end of the product's life on a carrier shelf. | |
| Popular Barcode Scanning App ShopSavvy Launches Mobile Marketplace | Top |
 ShopSavvy, which you probably know as the barcode-scanning, price comparison app, is launching a major new feature today: SavvyListings, a mobile marketplace. With the addition, the company is hoping to turn its user base of some 20 million into customers who buy and sell items directly with each other. | |
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