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Shasta Ventures Leads $1.6M Round In Enterprise Performance Analytics Startup VoloMetrix Top
VoloMetrixVoloMetrix, an enterprise analytics application that helps businesses streamline their communications and performance, has raised $1.6 million in Series A funding led by Shasta Ventures. VoloMetrix essentially analyzes various business applications to help managers understand what's going on in a business. Specifically, VoloMetrix ties in with collaborations systems, email, IM and CRMs to pull in data from employees and give managers actionable insights into what works and what doesn't.
 
TechCrunch Giveaway: The Olympics Go Social, Win A Samsung Galaxy And More #TechCrunch Top
-3For those of you who love the Olympic Games, the 2012 London Olympics are just under 100 days away. The International Olympic Committee just launched an awesome Olympic Athletes' Hub which connects Olympic fans to their favorite Olympic athletes. It's a searchable directory of both past and present Olympians that collects and displays posts from their Facebook and Twitter accounts. It strings in photos, videos, training tips and tons more from verified athletes' popular social media accounts. Already, over 1,000 Olympians have joined and as you can imagine the number is continuing to grow. As the summer games in London begin, people can also live-chat with athletes directly from the Olympic Village and see real-time results from the competitions. With special thanks to the International Olympic Committee, we have two Samsung Galaxy Tabs to give away, along with one autographed t-shirt from Michael Phelps, and one from Usian Bolt. We will pick two winners.
 
New Makeover Makes Mobile Design Community MyColorscreen Even Better Top
mcsMuch as I love all the phones in my arsenal, there always comes a time when I grow weary of the stock experience. Rather than leave up it to some company to gussy up my phone for me, I've instead turned to the internet for ways to spruce up my daily travelling companions. That's where sites like MyColorscreen comes in. First launched in 2011, MyColorscreen was envisioned as a social network where phone geeks and design aficionados can get together to ooh and ahh over some handsome homescreens. Now, after over a year since launch and with over 11,000 designs shared, MyColorscreen has revamped itself to make that process of sharing that aesthetic know-how even better.
 
Microsoft: Windows 8 Preview Usage Up 2X From Windows 7 Beta Top
windows-8-metroMicrosoft launched its Windows 8 Consumer Preview at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in February. So far, the reactions to this first mainstream preview of Windows 8 have been somewhat mixed - not everybody is in love with the new Metro interface, for example - but it looks like that isn't stopping people from spending a lot of time with the Windows 8 preview. Indeed, according to Microsoft, "millions of people" are already using the Windows 8 preview every day and overall usage of the preview is double of what the company saw at the same point in time after launching the Windows 7 beta.
 
Deliver The Love With Mmmule: Let Strangers Carry Things To Other Places For You Top
Screen Shot 2012-04-20 at 12.00.30 PMI had to start braising the beef, pork butt and veal shanks for the tomato sauce. It was Michael's favorite. I was making ziti with the meat gravy and I'm planning to roast some peppers over the flames and I was gonna put on some string beans with some olive oil and garlic, and I had some beautiful cutlets that were cut just right, that I was going to fry up before dinner just as an appetizer. So I was home for about an hour. Now my plan was to start the dinner early so Karen and I could unload the guns that Jimmy didn't want, and then get the package to the Mmmule.com courier to take to California for her trip later that night. My plan was I had to get home and get the package ready for the Mmmule carrier to take on her trip. Then I had the cooking to finish at home, and I had to get Lois ready for her trip.
 
James Cameron: The Future Of 3D Will Be Defined By TV Top
cameronBlockbuster movie director James Cameron made the top two worldwide grossing films of all time - Titanic and Avatar. This week in Las Vegas he spoke not to the movie industry, but to television broadcasters at the NAB convention about how important TV is to the future of 3D. TechCrunch also got a chance to talk to him about 3D on tablets and tweeting from the bottom of the ocean.
 
CloudFlare Wants to Make Your Site Look Like A Billion Bucks With Instaflare Top
Instaflare_cloudflareWhen Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion earlier this month, quite a few pundits were left wondering if Facebook hadn't overpaid for the photo-sharing service. Another company that is currently rumored to be raising funding at a $1 billion valuation is CloudFlare. The service, which promises to protect websites from security threats and helps speed up loading times in the process, launched a little riff on the rumors around its valuation today - and is making some fun of Instagram in the process - by launching Instaflare. With Instaflare, website owners on the CloudFlare network can apply five Instagram-like filters to the images on their sites with just one click and make their photos look "like a billion bucks."
 
As Bahrain F1 Protests Continue, Tech Sponsors Go Along For The Ride Top
birdAs the newer crop of Internet and mobile technology companies gradually become the big industries of tomorrow, they are slowly entering the world of corporate sponsorship, previously the province of older giants like IBM and Cisco. It's an area not for the faint-hearted. We've already seen IBM come under fire for backing the US Masters, run by a golf club that refused membership to IBM's CEO based simply on her body parts, when people with other kinds of parts normally get let in. Interesting choice there guys. Now we have a new issue altogether. The Formula One circus is staging a Grand Prix in Bahrain right now, a nation not normally associated with the most fabulous human rights record, exactly. Admittedly there are few such things as untarnished countries, but right now - as we you read this in fact - citizens in Bahrain are actively demonstrating for greater democratic reforms, along the lines of the Arab Spring movement, in the very city the F1 action is taking place. Meanwhile, the cuddly image of a Rovio Angry Birds character is currently doing laps on the Bahrain circuit and a major tech VC is sponsoring one of the teams.
 
WeVideo Raises $19.1M For Cloud-Based Collaborative Video Editing Platform Top
wevideo-logoWeVideo has just secured $19.1 million for its cloud-based collaborative video editing platform, in a round led by Crest Capital Ventures of Houston, Texas. The company says it plans to use the funding to further ramp up its development team. Unlike desktop editing software, which is restricted by computer hardware limitations, WeVideo's online video editing solution can scale up processing speeds on demand, based on an end user's needs. As users move up through the company's paid tiers, speeds increase, as does the available storage space and video resolution.
 
Pixelpipe Spawns Pi.pe To Help You Move Photos Across Your Favorite Social Sites Top
Pi.pePixelpipe, a San Francisco-based startup that offers a 'content distribution gateway' that allows people to upload text, photos, videos and other files to a variety of social networking and media sharing sites at once, is debuting a new service today, called Pi.pe that aims to help move content across services. We have 1,000 invites for TechCrunch readers to use the service; you can enter the code 'techcruncher' here. While Pixelpipe allowed is focused on getting media off of phones or desktops onto your social services, Pi.pe service is all about moving content from your Flickr account to Facebook, or from your Instagram account to Dropbox. The startup has made it fairly simple to copy one to thousands of items in just a few clicks between services.
 
Disrupt NYC Early Bird Registration Extended Until April 30th Top
disrupt_d3-2952-1TechCrunch Disrupt NYC will be here before we know it and we have been working incredibly hard to make it especially amazing this year. This incomparable conference is being held next month, May 21st - 23rd, following our ever popular Hackathon, which is taking place on May 19th through the 20th, where red bull gulpers and pizza eaters will gather together to hack a product within 24 hours. During the three days of Disrupt NYC, we will launch over two dozen startups in the Startup Battlefield competition, where startups from all over come to battle it out for the ultimate prize of $50,000 and the Disrupt Cup. Winners of past years have included Shaker, Getaround, Qwiki, Soluto and many more.
 
Zeel, The Zocdoc For Alternative Healthcare Providers, Lands Another Investment Top
Screen shot 2012-04-20 at 2.04.54 AMIn January, Zeel launched into the wild, bringing Zocdoc's model to alternative healthcare providers -- like massage therapists, personal trainers, nutritionists, and acupuncturists -- allowing consumers to easily search for and book appointments with these providers. To accompany its launch, Zeel raised $1.5 million in funding from Matt Ocko of Archimedes Capital, Esther Dyson, Ken Cron, and a host of other angels. Today, only three months later, the startup is adding another round of funding, led by Prolog Ventures, a life sciences VC firm based out of St. Louis.
 
Spain Gets Its Own Netflix Today With Youzee's Public Launch Top
press-logo-black-bgSpain is getting its own version of Netflix, thanks to a company called Youzee, which exits its private beta period today. Like Netflix, Youzee offers streaming movies and TV on-demand, but it also features titles for rent, too. The company has agreements with a number of distributors, including BBC, Sony, Disney, Fox International Channels, TVE, Telemundo and more. To kick off its launch, Youzee is offering new users to try out the service for free.
 
Connected Cars And Bio-Acoustical Transmission: A Peek Into AT&T's Research Lab Top
Screen shot 2012-04-20 at 11.48.29 AMYesterday, I was lucky enough to venture into the depths of AT&T's New York offices and check out the Research Lab. In essence, AT&T has about a zillion APIs that relate to cloud computing, navigation, translation, and a plethora of other fun technology, and its researchers then take those platforms and create really interesting products.
 
20 Teams Pitch At Seedcamp Estonia Top
Seedcamp Tallinn 5There was a lot of startup excitement in Tallinn, Estonia this week, where investment and mentoring program Seedcamp organised their first ever event in Estonia - a tiny country, but best known for being the cradle for the development of Skype. However, the Nordic tiger is no stranger to Seedcamp as six companies from the country - GrabCAD, Sportlyzer, Campalyst, Qminder, Transferwise and Pult - are already invested startups. In fact, Estonia is raising a few eyebrows given its tiny size, already producing a number of high quality startups at a prodigious rate. Even Estonian president Toomas Hendrik turned up to welcome attendees to "the startup country" and stayed on for the pitches!
 
Kids Send 3D GoPro Cameras Into Space, Get Back Stunning Footage Top
Whip out the out the old anagylphs, folks, because you're going to want to watch this. Some kids at the Wonderland Elementary School sent up a weather balloon mounted with a carbon fiber frame carrying six GoPro HDHERO2 cameras. Four of the cameras were set in 3D configuration and, after editing, they were able to create the first stratospheric 3D video shoot using a balloon. You can watch it in YouTube with red/blue glasses.
 
Nielsen Finds U.S. Hispanics Tops In Mobile, Social Activity Top
Hispanics-nielsenA new report from Nielsen this morning delves into the mobile and social behavior of U.S. Hispanic consumers, finding they're highly engaged in their usage of smartphones, online video, social networking and other types of entertainment. According to the study, Hispanics outpace all over ethnic groups in mobile downloads of music and photos, and are more likely to watch video online and on the their mobile phones than others.
 
This Speaker Dock Is Made Entirely Of Bamboo, No Electricity Required Top
iBamboo_3I try my best to stay away from writing about speaker docks and phone cases. In my experience, they're all the same, save for a few minor tweaks here and there. But today I stumbled upon a pretty novel little iPhone speaker dock that just so happens to be 100 percent green and uses no electricity whatsoever. You're intrigued. I can feel it.
 
Video Social Network Runfaces Takes On Sean Parker's Airtime Top
runfaces (1)In 2009 a Russian teenager named Andrey Ternovskiy created random video chat website ChatRoulette, which at its peak in March 2010 attracted 1.8 million unique monthly visitors, but suffered from offensive content. The phenomenon inspired Shawn FanningandSean Parkerto create Airtime, which raised $8.3 million in funding and is rumored to go live soon. While Airtime engineers are still hacking, 33-year-old Alex Krizhevich and 24-year-old Anton Melnyk from Ukraine built and already launched a video-based social discovery platform called Runfaces in October 2011. Runfaces went viral, reaching 280,000 unique visitors in its first month, mainly in the US.
 
Brand-To-Fan Platform Crowdtap Expands To Facebook & Mobile, Sees Revenue Soar Top
crowdtap-mobile-facebookCrowdtap, a web-based network that allows brands to connect with their most engaged fans and customers through social media, has just expanded to two more platforms: Facebook and mobile. The mobile application comes in the form of an iPhone app which allows fans to participate in the brand's "challenges" (games and contests) in order to earn rewards. Meanwhile, the new Facebook tab sets up a special "VIP" section right on the brand's own Facebook page, to allow for interactions with its top fans.
 

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