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- Apple Talks Retail: 110 Million People Visited Apple Stores In Q1
- Rising Telecommuter Numbers Worldwide Form A Notable Trend
- Tim Cook: "There Will Come A Day When The Tablet Market Is Larger Than The PC Market"
- Tim Cook: Apple TV IS Still A Hobby, But I Couldn't Live Without It
- Apple: iCloud Now Has 85 Million Users
- After Blow-Out Earnings, Apple Stock Up $30 In After-Hours Trading
- At Least Yahoo's User Engagement Numbers Are Sort Of Up
- Google Consolidates Privacy Policy; Will Combine User Data Across Services
- Apple's Q1 2012: $46.3B In Revenue, 37M iPhones And 15.4M iPads Sold
- Yahoo Earnings Meet Expectations, More-or-Less
- The Rise of Nimble Medicine
- Paramount Begins Selling UltraViolet Movies Directly
- Timehop, A Time Machine For Your Social Media Updates, Gets $1.1M From Foursquare Founders And Others
- RIM Roadmap Leaked, Points To BlackBerry 10 Launch In September
- I Didn't Think Samsung Could Top Its Anti-Apple Ads… Until I Saw These
- Worvey— Err, Warby Parker Takes A Look Back At Its 2011
- Keen On… Brad Noble: Why Google's "Search Plus Your World" Is Creepy (TCTV)
- Online Ordering Provider OLO Hits 1M Customers, Prepares To Launch GrubHub Integration
- Between Nothing And A Blog: Check Out CheckThis, A Cool New Micro-Publishing Tool
- Subscription Billings Startup Recurly Raises $6 Million
| Apple Talks Retail: 110 Million People Visited Apple Stores In Q1 | Top |
 I'm not a huge fan of schlepping around needlessly when I can do most of my shopping from the comfort of my chair, but Apple fans don't seem to have much trouble going to their local Apple store when the urge strikes. According to their recent earnings call, 110 million people went to an Apple store in Q1, which breaks down to roughly 22,000 customers per Apple store per week. | |
| Rising Telecommuter Numbers Worldwide Form A Notable Trend | Top |
 A new poll of over 11,000 workers worldwide by Ipsos and Reuters shows that telecommuting is an increasingly popular choice, especially in non-Western countries. This will come as no surprise to many, but the numbers are higher than some might have guessed. Over 30 percent of workers in India, Mexico, and Indonesia claimed to telecommute regularly, and one in ten overall work from home every day. But it's not just bloggers and knowledge workers, and the business infrastructure will soon have to stretch to accommodate a class of workers that has gone from exception to rule. | |
| Tim Cook: "There Will Come A Day When The Tablet Market Is Larger Than The PC Market" | Top |
 One of the big questions hanging over Apple this quarter was whether or not iPad sales would continue its rapid growth. Last quarter Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire at $200 (well below the iPAd's entry-level $500 price) and there was concern that even Apple diehard fans might delay their purchase of a tablet until the iPad 3 comes out—rumored for later this year. But iPad sales came in well above expectations at 15.4 million units. During the conference call today, Tim Cook predicted: "I think there will come a day that the tablet market is larger than the PC market." | |
| Tim Cook: Apple TV IS Still A Hobby, But I Couldn't Live Without It | Top |
 Apple TV is still a hobby. The word comes from Apple's Chief, Tim Cook who nevertheless championed the company's current offering. He stated that Apple sold more than 2.8 million Apple TV units last fiscal year with 1.4 million moved within Q1 2012 (a new record for the device). "Our Apple TV product is doing quite well… but in the scheme of things, we still classify Apple TV as a hobby. We continue to add things to it. If you're using the latest one — I don't know about you, but I can't live without it. Other than that, no comment." said Cook. | |
| Apple: iCloud Now Has 85 Million Users | Top |
 Apple launched its iCloud service a little over three months ago. Well, since then, over 85 million users are syncing their devices through their personal cloud. This comes from Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Office, on today's Q1 2012 financial earning calls. | |
| After Blow-Out Earnings, Apple Stock Up $30 In After-Hours Trading | Top |
 Apple blew away expectations in its December quarter, which it just announced this afternoon after markets closed. After trading down 1.6 percent ($7) during the day, shares are up more than 7.8 percent ($30) in after-hours trading to $453. | |
| At Least Yahoo's User Engagement Numbers Are Sort Of Up | Top |
 Yahoo's fourth quarter results are as underwhelming as most people expected: earnings at $0.24 a shares from $1.17 billion in revenue. The brightest spot, beyond new chief executive Scott Thompson now taking the helm to try to turn things around, is the engagement numbers. Take a look at the slide below, from the company's earnings deck. Worldwide unique visits to both Yahoo-branded sites and to Yahoo properties were up by 12%. Since this data is from comScore, I pulled the measurement firms' latest numbers to provide a little more detail. Yahoo staged a minor visitor recovery over the last three months of the year in the US, ending with nearly 176 million monthly uniques. Worldwide, it did so through November, but then dropped slightly last month to end at nearly 692 million uniques. | |
| Google Consolidates Privacy Policy; Will Combine User Data Across Services | Top |
 Google has more than 70 different privacy documents over its range of products, which overwhelming for any user to comb through (and that's after Google pared down its policies in 2010). Today, the search giant is rolling out a new, comprehensive privacy policy which the company says will consolidate more than 60 of the separate privacy notices into one simple policy. The company says the changes will take effect on March 1, and will be starting to notify users today via email and a notice on its homepage. The main change, say Google, is that if you are signed into your Google account, Google will combine user info across its products to better serve account holders. As Google says: In short, we'll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience. | |
| Apple's Q1 2012: $46.3B In Revenue, 37M iPhones And 15.4M iPads Sold | Top |
 We're still a few minutes out from Apple's Q1 2012 earnings call — but as is par for the course, the raw numbers have made their way out a bit early. And they.. are... insane. | |
| Yahoo Earnings Meet Expectations, More-or-Less | Top |
 Yahoo just released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2011, with results that were basically in line with the expectations of Wall Street analysts. The company earned 24 cents per share, which is what analysts estimated. Its revenue, minus traffic acquisition costs, came in a little less than the expected $1.19 billion, at $1.17 billion.That's also a 3 percent decrease from the same period last year. | |
| The Rise of Nimble Medicine | Top |
 In the New Yorker, Dr. Atul Gawande outlined how, at the turn of the 20th century, more than forty per cent of household income went to paying for food and food production consumed nearly half the workforce. Starting in Texas, a wide array of new methods of food production were tested. Long story short, food now accounts for 8% of household budgets and 2% of the workforce. As a wide array of small innovations ultimately led to the transformation of farming, so too is a rapidly building wave of innovative new care and payment models leading to similar breakthroughs in healthcare. I call this Nimble Medicine. | |
| Paramount Begins Selling UltraViolet Movies Directly | Top |
 Just over a week ago I spoke with the head of DECE and UltraViolet about the service, its origins, and where it's going. The conclusion seemed to be that there was great potential in the service as a value-add, if it's handled correctly, but that much depends on the content producers. Paramount is the first studio to start offering UV movies on their own, via a dedicated site - Paramount Movies. | |
| Timehop, A Time Machine For Your Social Media Updates, Gets $1.1M From Foursquare Founders And Others | Top |
 Timehop, a startup that humbly began as 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo, has just bagged a $1.1 million round of seed funding by OATV (Bryce Roberts) and followed on by Spark Capital (Andrew Parker) and a pretty worth 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. Timehop was part of the TechStars NYC winter class. 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 |
 It'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 |
 Next weekend is like the Super Bowl of commercials. Well, actually, next weekend is the Pro Bowl, 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 and the weekend after are 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 |
 Warby 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 |
 Google'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 |
 OLO, 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 |
 I 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 |
 Recurly, 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. | |
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