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- Our Favorite CES 2012 Interviews, Videos And Events
- Hulu To Debut Its First Original Scripted Show "Battleground" Next Month
- Ooma CEO Eric Stang Shows Off The New HD2 VoIP Handset
- Symantec Buys Cloud-Based Email Archiving Company LiveOffice For $115M
- TinyProj Shuts Down, Users Sent To TechStars Grad GroupTalent Instead
- Former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce As EVP Of Emerging Markets
- Atlassian's 2011 Revenues Were $102 Million With No Sales People
- Dropcam CEO Greg Duffy On Getting Into Hardware: "Don't Ship Before It's Ready"
- Ex-TechCruncher Launches Semantic Q&A Service Beepl
- Brainient Raises $1.8 Million To Scale Video Ad Performance Platform
- Gadgets Week in Review: To Go
- We've Become A Nation Of Phone Starers
- INFOBAR C01: Japan's Newest (And Most Colorful) Android Phone
- Zappos Suffers Security Breach; Customer Emails And Passwords Affected
- Some Key Social Media Trends To Look For In 2012
- The Winners And Losers Of CES 2012
- Can Technology Transform Education Before It's Too Late?
- Online Marketplace For Designer Fashion Boutiques FarFetch Raises $18M From Index Ventures
- Mobile Game Design: How Evil Monkeys Chased Temple Run To App Store #1
- Getting "Internet Freedom" Straight
| Our Favorite CES 2012 Interviews, Videos And Events | Top |
 CES was a blast this year. It was the best show in recent memory. Everyone from the press to vendors were upbeat and seemingly truly happy to be there. Attendance was up. The show was the largest ever (too big for some). Best of all, we shared a wonderful booth with the Engadget crew, which allowed us to conduct more interviews and chill on some comfy couches when not livestreaming from the show floor. Below is the best of our booth interviews and roaming coverage. We truly hope you enjoyed our unique coverage. Any outlet can stuff people in a room (or trailer) and write up press releases nonstop. We strive to bring the entire show to you by webcasting our shenanigans from the floor and interviewing the smaller guys from the booth. Here's our nine favorite videos from this year's show. | |
| Hulu To Debut Its First Original Scripted Show "Battleground" Next Month | Top |
 Hulu is launching its first-ever original scripted series with its 13-episode order of Battleground, a political comedy following the campaign trail of a third-place candidate in Wisconsin angling for a seat in the Senate. The show is kicking off Hulu's foray into scripted programming, and will be followed by two other original shows: a second season of documentarian Morgan Spurlock's A Day in the Life series, and Up to Speed, a travel show from Dazed and Confused director Richard Linklater. | |
| Ooma CEO Eric Stang Shows Off The New HD2 VoIP Handset | Top |
| At CES 2012, there are quite a few products that would totally change the way you do things (or at least save you some money) that just don't get enough coverage. We reported on Ooma's new HD2 VoIP handset, but nothing beats getting the facts straight from the CEO of the company. Luckily, Eric Stang had a chance to meet with us and chat it up. | |
| Symantec Buys Cloud-Based Email Archiving Company LiveOffice For $115M | Top |
 Security and storage giant Symantec has announced the acquisition of cloud email archiving company LiveOffice. The acquisition price was $115 million. LiveOffice is a SaaS provider of email archiving, compliance and hosting. In addition to providing cloud based email archiving, LiveOffice also archives email which is on-premise. By hosting email archives with LiveOffice, customers can migrate from their current provider to a cloud provider without having to deal with the possibility of losing sensitive information. | |
| TinyProj Shuts Down, Users Sent To TechStars Grad GroupTalent Instead | Top |
 TinyProj, a project marketplace started by Forrst founder Kyle Bragger is shutting down. All 8,300 of the service's registered developers and designers who used the site to find project-based work will now be transitioned over to GroupTalent, a recent TechStars grad. | |
| Former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce As EVP Of Emerging Markets | Top |
 CRM and cloud giant Salesforce has announced a key hire today—former U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. Kundra has joined the company as executive vice president of emerging markets. Kundra joined the Obama administration in March of 2009. As the first Chief Information Officer of the United States, Kundra managed more than $80 billion in technology investments and was an early evangelist of cloud computing in the public sector. Kundra also authored the 'Cloud-First policy,' which aims to guide government IT organizations around the world on how to be efficient with fewer resources. | |
| Atlassian's 2011 Revenues Were $102 Million With No Sales People | Top |
 One of the fastest growing enterprise software companies is Sydney-based Atlassian, which makes product management software for software development. CEO Scott Farquhar and president Jay Simons were in New York City last week talking to investment bankers exploring an eventual IPO and dropped by the TCTV studio. Revenues for calendar year 2011 (which is different than its fiscal year) were $102 million, up 35 percent, Farquhar tells me in the video. And the company has been profitable for years. The company employs 450 people worldwide, mostly in Sydney and San Francisco, where it just opened cavernous new offices. But none of them are in sales. "We have no sales people," says Farquhar. | |
| Dropcam CEO Greg Duffy On Getting Into Hardware: "Don't Ship Before It's Ready" | Top |
| If you were paying attention last week, you can probably surmise that we have about a billion hours worth of footage to process from last week's CES International show. There's live streaming coverage that has now been archived, as well as quite a few recorded interviews including this one with Greg Duffy, Dropcam CEO. Speaking with John Biggs, Duffy shows off the new Dropcam HD and speaks on the transition from hardware buyer to small OEM. | |
| Ex-TechCruncher Launches Semantic Q&A Service Beepl | Top |
 Beepl is a questions and answers service, which launches today. Co-founder/CEO and ex-TechCrunch blogger Steve O'Hear actually left TC to do this startup is convinced that Beepl can take on the the so-called Q&A field better than Quora. But how? | |
| Brainient Raises $1.8 Million To Scale Video Ad Performance Platform | Top |
 We've been watching online video advertising startup Brainient for a little while, given that the online video market looked poised for a lot of growth. Just how much growth was revealed at CES last week when YouTube stood up and predicted that 75 percent of all future channels will be born on the Internet and it had logged a trillion hits in 2011. That's a lot of potential advertising inventory and someone out there is going to have to come up with some answers to make this work. To that end Brainient has brought round a few people to the same idea, given that today it lands $1.8 million in funding from a number of strategic investors. | |
| Gadgets Week in Review: To Go | Top |
 Here are some of the past week’s posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: IK Multimedia Adds MIC Cast, STOMP and MIX to their iRig Line TC/Gadgets Interview: Up Close With The Lytro LG Styler Refreshes Your Stinky, Wrinkly Clothes With Steam New Pocket Projectors From 3M Pump Up The Lumens EV Mini Sport: Mini Electric Sports Car From Japan (Video) Bre Pettis Of Makerbot: "The Future Is Already Here" | |
| We've Become A Nation Of Phone Starers | Top |
 The signs are all there: Essays that insist that incessant phone staring at dinner is the wave of the future, New Yorker cartoons painfully highlighting the phone-fixated state of socialization today, the fact that I broke my toe once because I was too busy tweeting via mobile to notice a sharply angled door, blogs about clever ways to prevent phone staring at dinner and now this ... | |
| INFOBAR C01: Japan's Newest (And Most Colorful) Android Phone | Top |
 Japan's mobile landscape is currently in the midst of an Android revolution, and today KDDI au (the country's second biggest carrier) announced another 5 smartphones with that OS on board for the local market. The most interesting model in the new line-up is the so-called INFOBAR C01 [JP], a candy bar coming with a heavily customized UI (based on Android 2.3). KDDI au introduced a similar model back in May last year, the INFOBAR A01 (both handsets are part of KDDI's designer sub-brand iida). | |
| Zappos Suffers Security Breach; Customer Emails And Passwords Affected | Top |
 It appears that Zappos was the victim of a cyber attack today from a hacker who gained access to the company's internal network through the company's servers in Kentucky. While specifics of the attack were not revealed, Zappos says that credit card and payments data were not accessed or affected by the criminal. CEO Tony Hsieh writes to employees, The most important focus for us right now is the safety and security of our customers' information. Within the next hour, we will begin the process of notifying the 24+ million customer accounts in our database about the incident and help step them through the process of choosing a new password for their accounts. (We've already reset and expired their existing passwords.) | |
| Some Key Social Media Trends To Look For In 2012 | Top |
 In 2011, social media had its share of growing pains. Large brands and corporations took to social media in force to try to find footing in this expanding medium. Some brands found success, while others found peril and new PR nightmares. One person who has helped brands navigate the proverbial social media minefield is Amy Jo Martin. She is the founder of Digital Royalty, a social media firm that has set itself apart by helping A-listers find their social media voice. | |
| The Winners And Losers Of CES 2012 | Top |
 CES 2012 has come and gone, and it's time for the inevitable summary and think pieces on the directions the industry is heading, the highlights of the show, and so on. We'll also be posting some interviews and highlights from our live coverage this week, but before that it is, of course, necessary to publish some sort of top 10 list. So here are five winners and five losers of CES, as judged by those of us who went to the show, and with consideration both for the limited, short-term nature of the show itself and the longer-term sea of trends on which these companies and devices are sailing. | |
| Can Technology Transform Education Before It's Too Late? | Top |
 As technology continues its march toward the Singularity, transforming the way we work, socialize and play at an increasing rate, there is one very important aspect of American society that lags behind: education. Many in Silicon Valley have strong opinions on how education should be improved, perhaps most notably Peter Thiel, who believes we are in a higher education bubble and should be encouraging kids to skip college and pursue entrepreneurship instead. I agree that Americans are placing too much emphasis on higher education, but I think the debate over Thiel's statements misses a much deeper point. | |
| Online Marketplace For Designer Fashion Boutiques FarFetch Raises $18M From Index Ventures | Top |
 FarFetch, and online marketplace for independent fashion boutiques, has raised $18 million in funding from Index Ventures, eVenture Capital Partners and existing investor Advent Venture Partners. This brings FarFetch's total funding to $24 million. Launched in 2008, Farfetch.com is marketplace which brings independent fashion boutiques from Europe and North America under one roof. The London-based company offers a curated network of online boutiques from designer brands like Fendi, Gucci, and Chloé as well as from emerging designers. Currently the site offers clothing for both men and women, and includes over 35,000 products. | |
| Mobile Game Design: How Evil Monkeys Chased Temple Run To App Store #1 | Top |
 This is the story of how a husband and wife team designed a game with more daily active users than anything by Zynga. Now the #1 free iOS game, Imangi Studios reveals its Temple Run has hit 20 million downloads and 7 million DAU. Co-founder Natalia Luckyanova tells me how by designing Temple Run to be fun without having to pay, it became the top grossing iOS game despite only 1% of users monetizing. | |
| Getting "Internet Freedom" Straight | Top |
 What is Internet freedom? The United States government has an "Internet freedom" agenda, complete with speeches by the Secretary of State and millions of dollars in program funding. A key United Nations official last year issued a major report emphasizing the right of all individuals freely to use the Internet. Taking a different tack, Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's founding fathers and "Chief Internet Evangelist" at Google, recently argued in the New York Times that Internet access is not a human right. And Devin Coldewey parsed the debate in TechCrunch, noting that the Internet is an enabler of rights, not a right unto itself. | |
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