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- Fab.com Acquires Indie Fashion Marketplace FashionStake
- Cupidtino, The Dating Site For Apple Fans, Releases iPhone App
- Patent Troll Buys ADAPTIX (And Its 4G Technology Patents) For $160M
- Facing Another PR Disaster: Google Accused Of Fraudulently Undermining A Kenyan Startup
- Hate When Companies Don't Provide Feedback On Job Applications? StartWire Is For You.
- Fujitsu Japan Rolls Out 2 "Girls-Only" Cell Phones
- Daily Crunch: Make or Break
- Ron Conway, Mayor Lee And Heather Harde Launch sfCITI, Want To Keep SF At The Forefront Of Tech
- Anthony Ha Joins TechCrunch
- Pitch Now: Intel Awarding Young Entrepreneurs With $100K For Whizbang Business Ideas
- MySpace Isn't Dead In The US, It's Just Getting Closer To Zero Users… As Twitter, G+ Grow
- Survey: 80% Say Social Networks Had No Influence On Holiday Shopping Decisions
- Urban Airship To Shutter SimpleGeo Services In March, With Factual Picking Up The Slack
- CES: A Wonderful Example Of Not Knowing When To Stop
- The Last TechCrunch Gadgets Live CES Podcast Is Going Live At 4PM
- Eyes On: The Nokia Lumia 900
- It's 10pm And You Need A HDMI Cable – No Problem This Week in Vegas
- A Fireside Chat With Boxee's Avner Ronen On The State Of Boxee And Smart TVs
- Turntable.fm Founder Says He's Flattered By Facebook Listen With, But They're Different
- Compete Against Other Players Learning To Code With Treehouse's Code Race
| Fab.com Acquires Indie Fashion Marketplace FashionStake | Top |
 Fab.com, the incredibly fast-growing marketplace for all things design, has made its first acquisition after raising over $50 million in venture capital. The company this morning announced that it has bought NYC-based FashionStake, a community-curated marketplace for independent designers. The deal will enable the hundreds of indie designers who've sold their collection on FashionStake to date a brand new e-commerce platform to sell. | |
| Cupidtino, The Dating Site For Apple Fans, Releases iPhone App | Top |
 It was with a strange mix of amusement and horror that I learned about the existence of an online dating service specifically for Apple fanboys and girls almost two years ago. But, Cupidtino is still around, and last night they quietly debuted an iPhone application to complement their dating website. You have to wonder what took them so long, but at least they're in time for next Valentine's Day. The application, which you can download here, is free and pitched as a "Mac-inspired dating app designed exclusively for fans of Apple products". It lets users search and browse profiles, send 'heartbeats' to members that intrigue them, and more. | |
| Patent Troll Buys ADAPTIX (And Its 4G Technology Patents) For $160M | Top |
 The 4G wireless technology space is heating up, so expect vultures. Acacia Research Corporation, a massive patent holding group with dozens of subsidiaries in the business of exploiting intellectual property by means of lawsuits and aggressive patent licensing schemes, this morning announced that it has acquired ADAPTIX, a 4G wireless technology company that originally started out in 2000 under the name Broadstorm and was owned by PE firm Baker Capital. | |
| Facing Another PR Disaster: Google Accused Of Fraudulently Undermining A Kenyan Startup | Top |
 Google, what were you thinking?, asks Kenyan startup Mocality, which operates the country's largest online business directory. Mocality is accusing Google of knowingly engaging in fraudulent behavior to undermine their business and grow theirs, after careful monitoring of Internet traffic and a successful sting operation turned up some very interesting results. | |
| Hate When Companies Don't Provide Feedback On Job Applications? StartWire Is For You. | Top |
 If you've ever been on the job search, you know how frustrating and time consuming it is to manage the process. (If not, just ask one of the more than 13 million people in the U.S. currently there.) You spend untold hours filling out the right forms and fields, adding more action verbs to your resume, etc., and you fire off the application. Then comes the infuriation: Your prospective employer doesn't respond, so you send a follow-up. Nothing. And another follow-up. Still nothing. This is the primary pain point a young startup called StartWire is trying to solve -- with a little bit of automation, and a little bit of organization. | |
| Fujitsu Japan Rolls Out 2 "Girls-Only" Cell Phones | Top |
 Do women need special cell phones? Certain companies, such as Deutsche Telekom or Samsung, seem to think so. Now Fujitsu Japan is ready to roll out [JP] not one but two handsets specifically designed "for girls", a feature phone and an Android model. The Android phone, the so-called F-03D Girls', has been developed in cooperation with popular teenage fashion magazine Popteen. | |
| Daily Crunch: Make or Break | Top |
 Here are some recent posts from TechCrunch Gadgets: Bre Pettis Of Makerbot: "The Future Is Already Here" EV Mini Sport: Mini Electric Sports Car From Japan (Video) Eyes On: The Nokia Lumia 900 A Fireside Chat With Boxee's Avner Ronen On The State Of Boxee And Smart TVs Hands-On With The Sony Ericsson Xperia S From CES | |
| Ron Conway, Mayor Lee And Heather Harde Launch sfCITI, Want To Keep SF At The Forefront Of Tech | Top |
 At a press conference tomorrow at San Francisco's Founders Den, newly elected Mayor Ed Lee will be announcing sfCITI (San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology & Innovation), a set of tech initiatives spearheaded by investor Ron Conway, Mayor Ed Lee and TechCrunch's beloved Heather Harde and contributed to by a series of tech industry partners, including TechCrunch. | |
| Anthony Ha Joins TechCrunch | Top |
 Blogging is still a relatively young part of the media industry. But already there are a cadre of professional reporters who cut their teeth blogging, who are used to the pace and get an adrenaline rush from covering events as they unfold. Anthony Ha is one of them, and I am very pleased to announce that he will be joining the TechCrunch writing staff next week in San Francisco. Anthony (pictured here writing furiously at a conference) comes to us from AdWeek, where he is currently a staff technology writer. Before that was one of the most prolific bloggers at VentureBeat, which is where I first noticed him. (Another one of our recent hires, Eric Eldon, also hails from there). | |
| Pitch Now: Intel Awarding Young Entrepreneurs With $100K For Whizbang Business Ideas | Top |
 Intel knows a thing or two about technology and innovation. Hey, that's why they hired Will.i.am as "director of creative innovation". (Wink.) Really, in the same way that it's catalyzed change in the computing industry (and helped bring modern microprocessing to life), in December Intel launched a platform designed to give young entrepreneurs the opportunity to bring their own innovative ideas to life. | |
| MySpace Isn't Dead In The US, It's Just Getting Closer To Zero Users… As Twitter, G+ Grow | Top |
 If you look at just one month of data, you'll see that Myspace still has users. That's the good news for the aging social network. The bad news is that it has kept losing them through its many executive changes, various redesigns and the recent acquisition by Specific Media and Justin Timberlake. Maybe that new plan to do something with TV will turn things around? Anyway, the latest US numbers from comScore are out now, for December, and here's how MySpace stacks up against its many rivals. | |
| Survey: 80% Say Social Networks Had No Influence On Holiday Shopping Decisions | Top |
 Social networks could one day revolutionize how we get shopping recommendations, but not yet. Instead, tablets are causing the biggest shakeup in ecommerce. 80.2% of 1000 holiday shoppers said no, personal connections on Facebook or another social networking site did not influence their shopping decisions. Other findings of Baynote's annual study include that 48.6% of tablet owners made a purchase through their big mobile device, and that email was the channel with the most useful promotions. | |
| Urban Airship To Shutter SimpleGeo Services In March, With Factual Picking Up The Slack | Top |
 Urban Airship acquired SimpleGeo at the end of October for approximately $3.5 million. Considering that the two startups had some months before struck a strategic partnership, and both provide location-based services for mobile developers, the acquisition made sense, even if the price was lower than many had hoped. (And SimpleGeo Co-founder Joe Stump left the company post-acquisition, following Co-founder Matt Galligan.) At the time, it was unclear what Urban Airship would be doing with the terabyte-plus of SimpleGeo location data. Today, that became clear. Simply put, it looks like it's curtains for SimpleGeo's services. Urban Airship said this afternoon, after the requisite internal discussions, talks with customers, and hand-wringing, that it will "wind down the availability of the current versions of [SimpleGeo's] Places, Context, and Storage over the next few months". | |
| CES: A Wonderful Example Of Not Knowing When To Stop | Top |
 From a great distance, a massive waterfall is a beautiful thing. From a lesser distance, it's deafening. Directly beneath it, it'll crush your bones to salt. Each year, we make our voyage through the waterfall that is CES. Each year, the noise gets a bit louder, the water a bit more torrential. This year is the first in which I've felt my bones begin to give. Enough metaphor? Fine: CES, which has long been the biggest consumer tech show in the world, has gotten too big for its own (or anyone else's) good. | |
| The Last TechCrunch Gadgets Live CES Podcast Is Going Live At 4PM | Top |
| Our coverage of CES is coming to a close, and we're finishing it off with a third and final video podcast from the show floor. We've got some really great stuff to give away, both for viewers and our audience here at the booth. After this, our live CES coverage is concluded and we'll be focusing on posting some of the highlights from it, as well as our lists and editorials relating to the show. Then, sadly, it's back to business as usual. The show starts at 4PM sharp! Read on for details on the giveaways. We're talking cameras and helicopters here. | |
| Eyes On: The Nokia Lumia 900 | Top |
| Ah, so close yet so far. Nokia's new flagship Lumia 900 handset was on display here at CES 2012, and though we couldn't quite get our hands on it, we did the next best thing -- we shot some video. | |
| It's 10pm And You Need A HDMI Cable – No Problem This Week in Vegas | Top |
 TechCrunch TV is using a LiveU mobile pack provided by our partner Ustream for our live streaming coverage from CES. Our camera connects to the pack via a HDMI connector cable. But at the end of our evening Showstoppers coverage, the HDMI plug snapped and broke. At 10pm in Las Vegas, how do you find a replacement HDMI plug? Actually, of all the places in the world to have this happen, we were in the right place. | |
| A Fireside Chat With Boxee's Avner Ronen On The State Of Boxee And Smart TVs | Top |
| Boxee is one of the rare success stories of a software company making the leap to consumer electronics. The formula is simple: a clear message combined with a solid product. Having smart and passionate people help too. And as shown by this video shot at TechCrunch's CES booth, Boxee has both. | |
| Turntable.fm Founder Says He's Flattered By Facebook Listen With, But They're Different | Top |
 "I'm flattered Facebook was inspired by turntable.fm and created a listen together feature" says co-founder Billy Chasen about Facebook's new synchronous music listening and chat feature Listen With. Chasen tells me "I look forward to seeing how they interpret what social music means as we seem to have different core philosophies about it (such as the importance of discovering new music from strangers and not just friends)." Chasen seems to think that only listening to what your friends enjoy won't provide discovery as adventurous as Turntable.fm's public rooms. | |
| Compete Against Other Players Learning To Code With Treehouse's Code Race | Top |
 As part of the ongoing trend of coding literacy among a more mainstream audience, Treehouse, a startup that teaches people how to program online has developed Code Racer, a game that teaches people how to code by pitting them up against other people also learning how to code, building, appropriately enough, some kind of race car related website. | |
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