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- LA-Based Incubator Amplify Debuts Five New Startups
- ZTE Plans Huge Smartphone Push Into China, U.S.
- BMW DesignworksUSA, Thermaltake Team Up For The Level 10 M Mouse
- InMobi: Smartphone Ad Impressions Up 488% In 2011, Tablets Up 771%
- Location, Location, Location: MIT Builds A Bracelet That Controls The Office Thermostat
- CliqSearch Releases New Social Search App In Beta, Raises $840,000
- RIM To Release 7-Inch And 10-Inch PlayBooks This Year?
- Bessemer Leads $21M Round In Cloud-Based Email Delivery And Management Service SendGrid
- Rockers One Like Son Record Full Album Using Only iPhones
- The Sony MicroVault Mach Flash Drives Uses USB 3.0 For SuperSpeed Transfers
- Kno Adds New Features To Smart Textbooks In Attempt To Head Off Apple
- AllTrails Partners With National Geographic, Launches Redesigned, Co-branded Website
- Coliloquy Makes Romance E-Books A Two-Way Conversation
- AppDynamics Lands $20M From KPCB, Others For Application Performance Management Solutions
- Former First Round Capital VC Charlie O'Donnell Launches New Brooklyn-Based Venture Firm
- ARROWS μ F-07D: Fujitsu's Android Phone Is Waterproof And 6.7mm Thin, Comes With 4-Inch OLED
- SocialRent Reduces Your Apartment Search Headaches
- Scratch Shield: Nissan Introduces World's First Self-Healing iPhone Case
- Cyber Security Startup AlienVault Nabs Seven Senior HP Security Execs
- Daily Crunch: Surface Cut
| LA-Based Incubator Amplify Debuts Five New Startups | Top |
 Amplify, a recently launched LA-based startup accelerator is announcing its first set of startups today. As we reported in December, the accelerator, which is being managed by Paul Bricault and Richard Wolpert, will be incubating and investing in companies at the intersection of technology and entertainment. Amplify will provide portfolio companies with four months of intense collaboration and mentorship with each startup receiving up to $50,000 in seed capital, office space, weekly mentor meetings with entrepreneurs and a 3-year hiatus on city taxes. | |
| ZTE Plans Huge Smartphone Push Into China, U.S. | Top |
 We often forget about ZTE here in the states since the company does most of its operations outside of our home turf. Still, we shouldn't forget that the company ranks fourth in the world in terms of handset makers, largely due to its focus on budget handsets. The first half of last year brought about a loss of three percentage points in terms of profit, and ZTE is now ready to come back guns blazing. And where else is better to stage an attack than in two of the most mobile hungry countries on the planet: China and the United States. | |
| BMW DesignworksUSA, Thermaltake Team Up For The Level 10 M Mouse | Top |
 The Level 10 brand is back with the M Mouse. BMW Designworks and Thermaltake joined forces again for another unconventional PC peripheral. The two teamed up previously for the spectacular (and expensive) Level 10 case. Hopefully the Level 10 M Mouse will be a bit more accessible. Not everyone can afford a $800 case. | |
| InMobi: Smartphone Ad Impressions Up 488% In 2011, Tablets Up 771% | Top |
 Independent mobile ad network InMobi has released its Mobile Market 2011 Review report today, finding significant growth in mobile advertising over the past year, with global smartphone impressions up by 488%. The company also saw 251% growth in mobile impressions on its network, which includes tablet devices and smartphones combined. Tablet impressions alone grew by an incredible 771% year-over-year, up to 1.2 billion. And the market is growing still, led by, of course, Apple's iPad. | |
| Location, Location, Location: MIT Builds A Bracelet That Controls The Office Thermostat | Top |
 The WristQue may look like one of those cloth bracelets worn by old soul Sophomores who spent a semester in Prague and came back with dredlocks and an absinthe fetish, but it's not. It's actually a personal climate control system. Let me explain. The bracelet identifies you to the building and allows it to follow you from room to room. Is the meeting room too cold? Press a button and it starts to warm up. It will also prepare rooms for your arrival, reading your patterns of movement over time. If it sounds creepy, it is. | |
| CliqSearch Releases New Social Search App In Beta, Raises $840,000 | Top |
 Is there room for another social search site? A group of Philadelphia-based angel investors seems to think there is, and have collectively injected $840,000 into CliqSearch, a new Web application that lets users discover local businesses based on recommendations and review from friends and 'friends of friends'. | |
| RIM To Release 7-Inch And 10-Inch PlayBooks This Year? | Top |
 At the beginning of 2011, RIM was doing fine. The company still started the year with a relatively high market share in the smartphone arena, even though Android and iOS were growing rapidly. Then the PlayBook struck. I say it like that because the original PlayBook will be remembered as a calamity to the company, a horrible mistake. It was a rushed premium product missing all of RIM's specialty, high-end services. What did they expect? But it's a new year, with new opportunities for the company to redeem itself (possibly the final opportunities), which is likely why we're hearing rumors of two new PlayBooks this year. | |
| Bessemer Leads $21M Round In Cloud-Based Email Delivery And Management Service SendGrid | Top |
 SendGrid, an email delivery and management service, has raised $21 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investors Foundry Group, Highway 12 Ventures, SoftTechVC, 500 Startups and Bullet Time Ventures also participated in the round. This brings the company's total funding to $26 million. SendGrid, which was incubated in TechStars and has raised $5 million in funding, offers businesses a way to manage transactional emails (emails generated by web applications). SendGrid's cloud-based SMTP platform provides a secure and scalable infrastructure that solves core transactional email deliverability issues, allowing companies to outsource these challenges and remain organized. | |
| Rockers One Like Son Record Full Album Using Only iPhones | Top |
 In August, I remember seeing YouTube links for the band One Like Son, who recorded an entire song using only their iPhones and a few iPhone peripherals (in addition to their instruments and drum programs). Today, I received a press release indicating that the band have finished recording an entire 10 song album using the same setup. Intrigued, I contacted Stephen Poff, the mastermind behind the record, to get a few more details about the impetus and methods behind the project. | |
| The Sony MicroVault Mach Flash Drives Uses USB 3.0 For SuperSpeed Transfers | Top |
 Sometimes you just need a file transferred onto a flash drive quickly. Enter The Sony MicroVault Mach. These boys are fast. Some would say SuperSpeed fast. | |
| Kno Adds New Features To Smart Textbooks In Attempt To Head Off Apple | Top |
 Kno might be in a world of hurt come Thursday. That's the day Apple is said to commence its assault on the textbook industry. Even if it's mostly hype, any current textbook alternative companies (like Kno) should be on notice. Apple is gunning for their market. This puts Kno in a precarious position, having been a scrappy start-up that once based its future on a massive, dual-screen digital textbook. Now, several years later, the company is focused on building a digital textbook ecosystem for the iPad and web. Kno just unveiled several new features lauded by the company as "major advances in smart textbook technology" which is a fancy way to describe flashcards and a smart goal page. | |
| AllTrails Partners With National Geographic, Launches Redesigned, Co-branded Website | Top |
 AllTrails, the AngelPad and 500 Startups-backed company working to build the most comprehensive database of hiking, biking and camping trails around the world, is announcing a major partnership today with National Geographic. As a part of the deal, the AllTrails website is relaunching this morning with a brand-new redesign built from the ground up, and is co-branded with National Geographic's logo. | |
| Coliloquy Makes Romance E-Books A Two-Way Conversation | Top |
 Right now, most e-books look an awful lot like their print counterparts, but startups like just-launched Coliloquy want to change that. In the past few months, other companies like Findings, Readmill, and Subtext have experimented with adding annotations and other social features to e-books. Coliloquy co-founder Lisa Rutherford said she wants to go further. | |
| AppDynamics Lands $20M From KPCB, Others For Application Performance Management Solutions | Top |
 AppDynamics, which specializes in application performance management (APM) solutions for high-maintenance Web apps, has raised $20 million in funding in a Series C round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Previous backers Greylock Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participated. | |
| Former First Round Capital VC Charlie O'Donnell Launches New Brooklyn-Based Venture Firm | Top |
 A new venture firm is launching in Silicon Alley today. VC Charlie O'Donnell, who has worked as at both First Round Capital and Union Square Ventures, is launching his own venture firm today, New York-based Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. O'Donnell says that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures will make investments in early and seed stage technology companies in the "Greater Brooklyn Area" (which includes Manhattan and other boroughs) across a variety of information technology sectors. The fund will also be looking to lead or co-lead seed rounds. | |
| ARROWS μ F-07D: Fujitsu's Android Phone Is Waterproof And 6.7mm Thin, Comes With 4-Inch OLED | Top |
 The Infobar C01 from yesterday was a bit too much for you? Not to worry, Japan still produces "ordinary" Android phones: Fujitsu's ARROWS μ F-07D [JP], which mobile carrier NTT Docomo plans to start selling this Friday, is the newest example. It doesn't look as unique as the Infobar, but the list of specs is long and pretty impressive. | |
| SocialRent Reduces Your Apartment Search Headaches | Top |
 If you've ever tried to find an apartment with your friends, you've probably had a moment where you thought that there has to be something better than sites like Craigslist. A new startup called SocialRent aims to be that something better. The SocialRent team's first product, a Facebook app, is only addressing one small part of the apartment search, but it seems like a solid start toward tackling a larger set of problems. | |
| Scratch Shield: Nissan Introduces World's First Self-Healing iPhone Case | Top |
 An iPhone case from Nissan? As you can imagine, it would make no sense for the automaker to develop an ordinary case, and the so-called Nissan Scratch Shield iPhone Case is actually special. According to the company, it's the world's first "self-healing" iPhone cover: in other words, it quickly fixes (fine) scratches by itself. Nissan says they used their self-healing paint finish originally developed for vehicles for the case, which is made from light weight ABS plastic. Scratch Shield as a paint technology has been used in various Nissan cars since 2005, before Nissan teamed up with the University of Tokyo and Japan-based Advanced Softmaterials [JP] to create the case. | |
| Cyber Security Startup AlienVault Nabs Seven Senior HP Security Execs | Top |
 In September 2010, HP acquired Fortify Software for what Forbes reported was about $265 million and was later folded into HP's Software Division. Founded in 2003, Fortify makes products and services designed to protect companies from security threats in business software applications, and raised $40 million in 2003 from Kleiner Perkins and Sigma Partners. Today, we've learned that HP Fortify and HP's enterprise security have sustained some notable personnel losses, which stand to benefit a startup called AlienVault. | |
| Daily Crunch: Surface Cut | Top |
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