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- Facebook Launches Turntable.fm-like "Listen With" For Simultaneous Music and Chat
- Rdio Expands To Germany
- Hands-On With RIM's New BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 OS: Great, But Too Late?
- Watch Our Third And Final Day Of Live CES Coverage Here
- Google Drive Is 404′ing Now, Gets A Blank Support Site, Robots.txt
- Vodio Brings Personalized Video Recommendations To The iPad
- Following LG Patent Deal, Microsoft Execs Taunt Google On Twitter
- Fly Or Die: Does CES Have A Future?
- Amazon Kindle Owners Are "Borrowing" Nearly 300,000 Electronic Books A Month
- Microsoft Strikes Another Patent Deal With An Android, Chrome OS Device Maker: LG
- Conversation Sharing App Bnter Rebrands As Banters; Adds Voice Recognition, Privacy Settings
- EV Mini Sport: Mini Electric Sports Car From Japan (Video)
- StrikeAd Strikes £2 Million Second Round From DFJ Esprit To Expand
- Seedcamp Graduate Kwaga Raises $1.55M For 'Email Assistant' WriteThat.Name
- eBay Forecasts $8B In Mobile Commerce Volume In 2012; PayPal Will Reach $7B
- Mobile App Search And Recommendations Startup AppTap Raises $4 Million
- HealthRally Launches To Help You Get Paid For Getting In Shape
- Digital Payments Innovator Jumio Raises $25.5 Million
- DeskStream Acquires Irish Cloud And Virtualization Software Startup WorldDesk
- Daily Crunch: Vision
| Facebook Launches Turntable.fm-like "Listen With" For Simultaneous Music and Chat | Top |
 Look out Turntable.fm, Facebook has just launched its own simultaneous music listening group chat room feature. New "Listen With" buttons in Chat and news feed stories allow you to select a friend as your personal DJ. When clicked, you'll instantly launch Spotify or Rdio and start hearing whatever that friend plays in real-time. Other friends can also join your group chat listening room where you can discuss and rave over what you're hearing, just like if you were listening in real-time. | |
| Rdio Expands To Germany | Top |
 Rdio, the streaming music service started by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, is arriving in its fourth market today: Germany. Already available in the U.S., Canada and Brazil, the company says it will be offering a 7-day free trial to the 82+ million German residents who want to give it a shot. | |
| Hands-On With RIM's New BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 OS: Great, But Too Late? | Top |
| When RIM first launched the BlackBerry PlayBook last spring, we were all rather shocked to find that RIM's stand-out core services — secure messaging and productivity related apps like calendar and contacts — were... absent. The company promised an update to fix it, and after eight months said update has finally been unveiled here at CES. | |
| Watch Our Third And Final Day Of Live CES Coverage Here | Top |
| It's day three of CES, and our last one here. The show goes on for one more day, but we're taking off, since after today we'll have gone through all the major sections of the show. Day one was the central hall, with the major CE companies' building-sized "booths," then day two was the cavernous south hall, populated with smaller vendors. Now we're off to the north hall, where we'll find car tech, health gadgets, and tons of accessories for the devices many of us have. Live coverage starts at 9:30! And in the afternoon, we'll be starting things off with a nice hot shave. Yes, you read that correctly. | |
| Google Drive Is 404′ing Now, Gets A Blank Support Site, Robots.txt | Top |
 Oh look, drive.google.com is 404'ing now. (Page Not Found). That's interesting because back in October the site was forwarding to the https version before giving a 105 error instead. (Name not resolved.) Google has also published a blank, weird-looking support page for Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/support. There's nothing there but a logo and incomplete search box. But hey, nice domain! | |
| Vodio Brings Personalized Video Recommendations To The iPad | Top |
 Vodio is a new iPad app that's somewhat along the same lines as iOS app Shelby.tv. Like Shelby, it also brings you videos being shared by your friends on social networks. But where Shelby.tv only focuses on those "socially shared" videos, Vodio instead uses its social features to bring "a dash" of personalization to its video recommendations. | |
| Following LG Patent Deal, Microsoft Execs Taunt Google On Twitter | Top |
 Microsoft this morning announced that it has signed a patent licensing agreement with Android device manufacturer LG, its eleventh deal of the kind. Microsoft says effectively 70 percent of all Android smartphones sold in the United States today are covered under its patent portfolio, not mentioning the fact that they're also suing Motorola Mobility and NOOK maker Barnes & Noble over their Android devices. Continuing a tradition that we hope will stand the test of time, Microsoft's head of communications, Frank Shaw, took to Twitter to taunt Google. | |
| Fly Or Die: Does CES Have A Future? | Top |
 The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is packed this year, yet its relevance seems increasingly in decline. Microsoft is bailing, no iconic products launched this year, and Apple's presence can be felt everywhere even though they don't exhibit at the show. In this episode of Fly or Die, TechCrunch Gadgets editor John Biggs (who is running our CES coverage) joins me remotely from Las Vegas to discuss the big question: Does CES have a future? | |
| Amazon Kindle Owners Are "Borrowing" Nearly 300,000 Electronic Books A Month | Top |
 Amazon is releasing new data on its Kindle Lending Library, which the e-commerce site says now has over 75,000 books. The Kindle Owners' Lending Library is a collection of books that Amazon Prime members who own a kindle can borrow once a month, with no due dates. Amazon recently launched KDP Select, a fund that lets indie authors and publishers make money off of lending. Basically, if a KDP author or publisher chooses to make any of their books exclusive to the Kindle Store for at least 90 days, those books are eligible to be included in the Kindle Owners' Lending Library and can earn a share of the KDP Select fund. | |
| Microsoft Strikes Another Patent Deal With An Android, Chrome OS Device Maker: LG | Top |
 Microsoft has signed a patent licensing agreement with LG, maker of tablets, phones and other consumer electronics devices running Android or Chrome OS. This marks the 11th deal with a device manufacturer leveraging Google's operating system software; other major agreements were struck with the likes of HTC, Samsung and Acer, among others. | |
| Conversation Sharing App Bnter Rebrands As Banters; Adds Voice Recognition, Privacy Settings | Top |
 Bnter, an app that allows you to share your conversations with others publicly, is rebranding today as Banters and adding a number of new features to both its iPhone and web apps. In the same way you share photos via the web or your mobile phone, Banters allows you to share snippets of conversations you have with friends on the web. While the startup initially focused on SMS, Banters broadened its scope to allow users to share any sort of conversation, including GChat, in-person chat, email and more. | |
| EV Mini Sport: Mini Electric Sports Car From Japan (Video) | Top |
 It's not a Tesla, but Japan-based Tajima Motor Corporation has developed a zero-emission (and pretty cool-looking) mini sports car. The so-called EV Mini Sport [JP] has been publicly showcased first in 2010, and will go on sale in Japan and abroad "soon" (according to the company's website). The car weighs just 280kg and is 2.49 m long, 1.29 m wide, and 1.09 m high. It runs on a 40Ah lithium-ion polymer battery, which provides enough juice for about 30km on a single charge (Tajima will also offer a 80Ah and a 120Ah version). | |
| StrikeAd Strikes £2 Million Second Round From DFJ Esprit To Expand | Top |
 StrikeAd, a London and New York based mobile advertising startup, has secured a £2m second round investment from VCs DFJ Esprit expand further internationally. The investment follows a first round finance from Germany-based venture capital firm eValue announced in February 2011. Read more at TechCrunch Europe. | |
| Seedcamp Graduate Kwaga Raises $1.55M For 'Email Assistant' WriteThat.Name | Top |
 Kwaga, a Paris, France-based startup that specializes in tools to make email 'smarter' by leveraging semantic technology, has raised $1.55 million in Series A funding. The company, which received seed funding from Seedcamp and Kima Ventures after its founding in 2008, raised the money from unnamed private investors. Read more at TechCrunch Europe. | |
| eBay Forecasts $8B In Mobile Commerce Volume In 2012; PayPal Will Reach $7B | Top |
 At his CES keynote yesterday evening, eBay CEO (and new interim PayPal CEO) John Donahoe revealed a number of new mobile payments forecasts for both eBay and PayPal. As we heard from PayPal VP David Marcus a few days ago, PayPal surpassed its expectation of $3.5 billion in mobile payments in 2011, reaching $4 billion for the year. Donahoe said in his keynote that eBay reached $5 billion in mobile GMV (gross merchandise volume) in 2011, doubling 2010's GMV. He also projected yesterday that eBay would reach $8 billion in mobile GMV in 2012, and PayPal will reach $7 billion in transactions in 2012. eBay Mobile currently has more than 65 million downloads of eBay's mobile applications across platforms. And more than 890,000 new eBay shoppers made their first eBay purchase through the company's mobile apps in 2011, a 113% increase year over year. | |
| Mobile App Search And Recommendations Startup AppTap Raises $4 Million | Top |
 AppTap, which powers personalized and contextual app recommendations, app search, and more has raised $4 million in funding led by Syncom Venture Partners, with New Atlantic Ventures participating. AppTap is an app recommendations and advertising network for for mobile app developers. The startup's app recommendation platform for publishers can be added to any web site and will analyze the content of any page, and deliver app recommendations to users based on what they are reading and searching for. | |
| HealthRally Launches To Help You Get Paid For Getting In Shape | Top |
 In December, HealthRally, a social healthtech startup building a crowdfunding platform for personal health motivation, raised $400,000 in seed funding from prominent angel investors like Esther Dyson, Isy Goldwasser, Dick Sass, Ty Danco, and Jeff Thiel. The startup, then in private beta, ventured to bring behavioral economics combined with social networking analysis to bear on the age-old problem of how to best motivate people to get in shape and stay healthy. Today, HealthRally is officially launching its service in public beta -- one that bets dangling financial rewards in front of us like carrots can hold the key to unlocking that motivation and spur us to meet our individual health goals. | |
| Digital Payments Innovator Jumio Raises $25.5 Million | Top |
 Kicking off the new year with a fresh wad of cash: according to an SEC filing, mobile and online payments startup Jumio has raised $25.5 million in funding on top of the $6.5 million it raised from Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin - and others - back in March 2011. Jumio confirmed the financing round but declined to provide more details (which investors participated and what they plan to use the additional capital for) at this time. | |
| DeskStream Acquires Irish Cloud And Virtualization Software Startup WorldDesk | Top |
 US-based desktop virtualization software maker DeskStream has acquired Northern Irish cloud start-up WorldDesk, the companies are set to announce today at CES in Las Vegas. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. Interestingly, the acquisition will see DeskStream adopt the WorldDesk name and branding. Read more at TechCrunch Europe. | |
| Daily Crunch: Vision | Top |
 Here are some of yesterday’s highlights at CES on TechCrunch Gadgets: Hands On: The Nintendo Wii U TC/Gadgets Interview: Up Close With The Lytro 50 Cent Weighs In: Waterproof Phones And Fighting Poverty Vuzix: SMART Glasses Explained Why Samsung Is The Next Apple | |
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