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Google Blames Paid Link Policy Violation On Agency Unruly, Which Blames Sponsored Blogger Top
Blogger Paid By ChromeA blogger paid to publish a Chrome video is responsible for violating Google policy, not Google or its ad agency Unruly Media that sponsored the post. However, Google says it never authorized Unruly to run a sponsored blog post campaign in the first place. Yesterday we covered that Google was sponsoring bloggers to post a Chrome video, but that at least one post linked directly to the Chrome download page in violation of Google's paid link policy. The author chose to include the link, and her post has now been deleted.
 
Indie Platformer Super Meat Boy Jumps Past 1 Million Sales Top
Itsa me, Meata boy!As TechCrunch's resident Super Meat Boy fanboy, I feel like it's my duty to pass on the good news: Team Meat's rage-tastic, "Just five more tries. Seriously. Maybe Six."-inducing twitch platformer has officially cruised through its 1 millionth sale.
 
Parse.ly Will Launch Its Pageview-Generating Machine Called "Dash" This Month Top
dash-logoParse.ly, the stealthy data-driven predictive content optimization platform for publishers, is preparing to launch its first product called Dash at the end of the month, we've learned. The startup first emerged from DreamIt Ventures in 2009, with $20K of seed funding in tow. It raised an A round from ff Venture Capital and Blumberg Capital in December 2010 totaling $1.8 million. Dash aims to help publishers increase pageviews by providing insight into what topics are trending and what topics they should write more about or less about, among other things. But most importantly, its predictive analysis engine is able to recommend what topics publishers should cover right now to be on top of future trends. Simply put, it's a pageview-generating machine.
 
Eyeing An IPO, Kayak Adds HomeAway Founder And CEO Brian Sharples To Board Top
brian-sharplesTravel search engine Kayak has is announcing a new board member today—HomeAway Founder and CEO Brian Sharples. He joins fellow Kayak board members Michael Moritz, Joel Cutler, Terrell Jones, Hendrik Nelis, and Gregory Stanger Sharples co-founded vacation rentals giant HomeAway in February 2005 and helped lead the company to a public offering in June 2011. Prior to HomeAway, he was president and chief executive officer of marketing and data research company IntelliQuest Information Group, helped complete two public offerings and the sale of Intelliquest.
 
Nokia Ace (Lumia 900) Specs Trickle Out Top
Nokia-AceUntil now the 4G LTE-capable Nokia Ace (or Lumia 900, if you prefer) has been largely a mystery. We got a peek at some leaked press shots last week (pictured), but all we've heard is that it'll hit AT&T shelves on March 18, it'll be powered by the Windows Phone platform, and that it'll come equipped with an LTE radio. Today, however, PocketNow claims to have confirmed the specs on this bad boy.
 
Microsoft Celebrates The Demise Of IE6 In The US Top
usaie6-1Internet Explorer 6 — long a thorn in the side of many web developers because of its quirks, limited feature support, and cockroach-like resistance to extinction —is finally on its last legs in the United States. And Microsoft is celebrating. In a post on the Windows Team blog, Roger Capriotti, Director of Internet Explorer Marketing, writes that Internet Explorer 6 is now down to less than 1% market share in the United States according to the most recent data from Net Applications. It's far from the first country to reach that milestone — Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway have done it already — but it also had far more Internet users to convert. Alongside the US, Microsoft also notes that the Czech Republic, Mexico, Ukraine, Portugal and the Philippines have all dipped below the 1% mark as well. And while it might sound a bit odd to hear about Microsoft celebrating the demise of software it built long ago, this isn't a change of heart for the tech giant — the company has been doing its part to help IE6 die for quite a while.
 
Keen On… Marian Salzman: What Will Be The Top Trends In 2012? (TCTV) Top
Screen Shot 2011-12-29 at 10.30.49 PMHappy New Year everyone! And to celebrate the beginning of 2012, I invited the noted trendologist, Marian Salzman, the author of the excellent Little Book of Nexts, into our New York City studio to preview the year and tell us what will be the top trends of 2012.
 
Developer Sells iPhone App On eBay, Starting Price: $1 Top
BuckShotMobile app developer Neal Schmidt, maker of the scavenger hunt game Buckshot, is selling his iPhone app on eBay where it had a starting price of just $1.00. The app was posted to eBay on December 29th, and, according to the listing is for "complete ownership" of the game, including both the free and paid versions. As of today, the app has received 17 bids and is currently up to $202.50.
 
The SiriusXM Lynx Is A Portable Satellite Radio… With A Twist! Top
You may have forgotten that there was such a thing as "satellite radio," what with all the streaming services available now, but it exists and its still going fairly strong. The latest way to listen to this form of radio is the Lynx, a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capable player that records up to 200 hours of music and offers a full schedule of upcoming shows for your listening pleasure.
 
The Swift Rise And Sad Fall Of The Asus Transformer Prime Android Tablet Top
primeThe Asus Transformer Prime was the latest tablet to wear the title of iPad killer. It was supposed to rise up, powered by the all-mighty quad-core Nvidia Terga 3, and finally stand tall against the iPad. It was supposed to use its keyboard dock as a mighty quarterstaff and deliver a memorable blow against Apple's champion. But that didn't happen. The Transformer Prime is dying at the hands of Asus.
 
SOPA, Freedom, And The Invisible War Top
File:Bradley_Manning_2_(cropped)While laughable in scope and reach (not to mention ridiculous in terms of potential enforcement) the Stop Online Piracy Act is seen as a very real threat to our freedom to, in short, surf the Internet. Although its ramifications are far more draconian than I'm letting on here, I posit that the government is the least of our concern when it comes to online freedom. Let's catch up since our last few articles on the topic. Since the GoDaddy kerfuffle, SOPA has gained traction as the hacker cause du jour. Designed to help copyright holders protect their property (something any casual observer can support), the bill, would allow the US government to essentially "turn off" part of the Internet that it doesn't like. Most of these sites would be "rogue" or, more precisely, out of US jurisdiction. From the Bill:
 
RIM Co-CEOs May Soon Be Stripped Of Their Chairmen Roles Top
18rim650As RIM navigates some particularly rough seas, it appears as though the company may soon kick-off a good old-fashioned corporate governance shakeup in order to please their shareholders. Although they'll retain their positions as co-CEOs, the Financial Post reports that RIM's Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie may soon be ousted from their positions as chairmen of the board.
 
Netflix To Debut Original Series "Lilyhammer" Next Month Top
NETFLIX, INC. LILYHAMMERNetflix is launching a new original series next month called Lilyhammer, which will kick off the company's foray into original programming for 2012. The series will star The Sopranos actor and E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt in a "fish out of water" story that takes place in Norway. The story follows New York mobster Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano as he enters the federal witness protection program. He moves to Lillehammer, the Norwegian town that hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics. He calls it "Lilyhammer," however, which is how the show gets its name.
 
Social Network For IT Professionals Toolbox.com Acquired By Ziff Davis Top
toolboxDigital media publisher Ziff Davis has acquired Toolbox.com, a social networking and knowledge exchange website for IT, HR and Finance professionals that has been around since the late nineties and was previously owned by a company called the Corporate Executive Board. Terms were not disclosed. For Ziff Davis, which was acquired and 'relaunched' as a digital-only media publishing company by former Time Inc. exec Vivek Shah in partnership with PE firm Great Hill Partners back in June 2010, this is the fourth acquisition in the past twelve months.
 
Miss Your Cat? Now Fluffy Can Send You Tweets All Day Long Top
KittyTwittyYou like cats. Even if you're a "dog person," or allergic, I still know your little cat-loving secret. And how do I know? Well, since you're here on TechCrunch it's apparent that you're at least mildly interested in the internet, which happens to be infested with cats.
 
Siri Android Clones Are Laughable At Best Top
siri-for-android-official-appWhen we first introduced the Siri clone Iris, I figured that would be the last of the outright Siri-alikes. I was wrong. Programmers are taking advantage of less experienced users and creating apps that are downright insulting to the average intelligence. One app, called Siri for Android is a hard link to Google's voice controls while another, called Speerit is a Korean clone that purports to connect to Apple's servers (which is untrue).
 
Murdoch's Wife's Twitter Account, @Wendi_Deng, Was Fake Top
wendi-dengFollowing media mogul Rupert Murdoch's arrival on Twitter this week, wife Wendi Deng (@wendi_deng) showed up shortly afterwards, tweeting alongside her husband, flirting with comedian Ricky Gervais, politely declining to engage with the man who attacked Mr. Murdoch with a pie, pushing @rupertmurdoch to take down a questionable tweet (which he did), and generally being a spicy character worthy of a Twitter follow. Only one problem: that wasn't Wendi Deng Murdoch.
 
RIM's New PlayBook Promo: All Models For $299 Top
playbook-dyingWell, if you were hoping to snag a BlackBerry PlayBook on the cheap, it looks like now's the time to act. In what seems like a move born of desperation, all models of the PlayBook are now going for $299 on RIM's online store. Previous PlayBook sales have set the beginning price point at $199 for the 16GB model, but this time you'll be able to purchase a 64GB PlayBook for the same price as a 16GB model.
 
RJMetrics Raises $1.2M For Hosted Business Intelligence Software Suite Top
rjmetricsExclusive - I first learned about hosted business intelligence software startup RJMetrics a few weeks ago, when Fab.com founder Jason Goldberg wrote how he made creative use of their software suite for his latest fundraising round; in fact he said he liked it so much he asked to invest in the company. Fast forward to today: RJMetrics has landed $1.2 million in seed financing from Goldberg, early-stage VCs including SoftTech VC, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel and Zelkova Ventures, and other angel investors such as Wharton Professor Kartik Hosanagar and DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg.
 
Internap Buys Hosting, Cloud Services Company Voxel For Up To $35 Million Top
voxelIT infrastructure solutions provider Internap this morning announced its acquisition of privately-held Voxel, an enterprise hosting and cloud services company based in NYC, for $30 million in cash. Under the terms of the deal, an additional $5 million in cash could be put on the table over the next two years, subject to certain performance-based criteria. Founded in 1999 in founder Raj Dutt's dorm room, the company provides on-demand dedicated hosting and cloud services to enterprises and Web-centric businesses.
 

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