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- MyVR Raises $1.4M From YC, SV Angel, Chris Dixon To Attack The $85B Vacation Rental Industry
- New Pricing For Amazon RDS Running Oracle Database
- Which Founders Use FoundersCard? Craig Newmark, Kevin Rose, Leah Busque & 8K Others
- If You Had Remote Access To Your Neighbor's Printer, What Would You Print?
- Pluralis Takes A Crowdsourced Approach To Improving Your Landing Pages
- An Afternoon With Bad Piggies, Rovio's Next Hit
- Most Docks Should Work With The Lightning Adapter And iPhone 5
- Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California
- Brit + Co. Gets Into E-Commerce With 'Brit Kits', Monthly Deliveries Of All Things Crafty
- App.net Will Start Paying Developers $20K A Month To Be Part Of Its Ecosystem, Beginning October 1
- Have Just A Phone Number? iOS 6 Facebook Integration Can Fill In The Blanks [Updated]
- Google Now Lets You Watch Movie Trailers Directly On Its Search Results Pages
- First Look At Snapjoy's iOS App For Photo Viewing. Apple, Take Notice.
- Moo Adds Programmable NFC Chips To Their Business Cards
- RIM's Fiscal Q2 2013 Results: Net Loss Of $235 Million On $2.9 Billion In Revenue, 7.4 Million BlackBerrys Shipped
- Watch Out Ecommerce, Facebook Turns Karma Acquisition Into 'Gifts'
- Search.XXX Is Live And Ready To Help You Search The XXX
- Meet Ignite, The Personal Health Startup Launching Out Of Bravo's 'Silicon Valley' Reality Show
- Fuze Network, A Payments Company Focused On The Under-Banked, Raises $2.5 Million Series A [Updated]
- "In the Studio," Maynard Webb Pays It Forward With WIN
| MyVR Raises $1.4M From YC, SV Angel, Chris Dixon To Attack The $85B Vacation Rental Industry | Top |
 Thanks to the HomeAways and Airbnbs of the world, more and more people are looking to rent their apartments and homes. There are currently some six million active vacation rentals in the U.S. and Europe, and this number is growing. However, the problem is that the vast majority of vacation rental owners aren't taking advantage of the available technology to market, manage or share their properties. MyVR, a San Francisco-based startup that graduated from Y Combinator in March, sees a big opportunity to help owners and operators alleviate the offline pain of managing their vacation rentals and help bring them new (or at least more regular) business. | |
| New Pricing For Amazon RDS Running Oracle Database | Top |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new pricing option for its Relational Database Service (RDS) running on Oracle with a micro instance. The addition follows announcements over the past few months about Oracle on AWS. | |
| Which Founders Use FoundersCard? Craig Newmark, Kevin Rose, Leah Busque & 8K Others | Top |
 In 2009, Eric Kuhn created FoundersCard as a way to give entrepreneurs the same kind of elite programs, perks and networking opportunities traditionally reserved for execs of Fortune 500 companies. By offering discounts on hotels, airfare and business services entrepreneurs and founders use every day -- and by throwing good parties -- its community of entrepreneurs and founders has grown to over 8,000 members. Of course, until now it's been unclear who one might expect to find at a FoundersCard party or using its card when checking into a hotel. | |
| If You Had Remote Access To Your Neighbor's Printer, What Would You Print? | Top |
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| Pluralis Takes A Crowdsourced Approach To Improving Your Landing Pages | Top |
 A startup called Pluralis is taking a 99 Designs-style approach to solving a fairly specific problem — improving the conversion rate on landing pages. Normally, if a business has a landing page that it thinks could be driving more user registrations (or purchases, or whatever they're aiming for), then it has to devote time and resources on a redesign that may or may not actually improve things. With Pluralis, businesses can crowdsource the problem, challenging "creative optimizers" (a category that includes copywriters, designers, and marketers) to compete to create the best page. | |
| An Afternoon With Bad Piggies, Rovio's Next Hit | Top |
 You've probably already heard, but just in case you forgot to wear your Angry Birds merchandise, Bad Piggies has just hit the scene. It's Rovio's latest and greatest, and it brings something slightly different to the mix. Instead of flinging birds through the sky, or space, you're actually much more concerned with the Pigs. The goal is to reach the finish line of a map by constructing vehicles (both terrain and aircraft) and loading pigs inside. | |
| Most Docks Should Work With The Lightning Adapter And iPhone 5 | Top |
 A bit of good news amidst the seeming rubble that is the iPhone 5 launch: the $30 adapter you have to buy to connect your Lightning iPhone 5 to your old and busted iPod dock should stream audio without problem. The folks at audio company Line 6 did some "preliminary tests" and found that: Line 6 is still testing their accessories with iPhone 5, but founder Marcus Ryle tells CDM, "Based on what's been announced, for audio products that operate using USB Host mode and follow Apple approved methods such as CoreAudio and CoreMIDI, I would not expect there to be any technical issue." I asked if they had anything to say about future Lightning support, but Ryle responded, "We continue to be excited about providing music-making devices for iOS devices, but we can't comment on what additional products might be upcoming." | |
| Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California | Top |
 A newly signed California law forbids employers and universities from asking employees and applicants for their social media passwords. The law was hastily developed in response to a string of reports last spring of employers coercing applicants to "voluntarily" allow businesses to snoop through their Facebook accounts as part of the interviewing process. The United States House of Representatives failed in an attempt to ratify a Federal ban, paving the way for states to take up the responsibility. | |
| Brit + Co. Gets Into E-Commerce With 'Brit Kits', Monthly Deliveries Of All Things Crafty | Top |
 For the past year, Silicon Valley's geek-chic answer to Martha Stewart, Brit Morin, has been full speed ahead on Brit + Co., her tech-meets-fashion-media-and-lifestyle startup -- raising $1.25 million, hiring 10 full-time staff (half of whom are engineers), cranking out two mobile apps, snagging big-name partnerships. And the launches just keep coming. | |
| App.net Will Start Paying Developers $20K A Month To Be Part Of Its Ecosystem, Beginning October 1 | Top |
 After raising $500,000 to create an ad-free social platform for developers six weeks ago, Dalton Caldwell's App.net has silently been courting developers to build apps that rely on its APIs. Now it's giving them another reason to build on its platform by offering a financial incentive. In a blog post today, Caldwell announced that the company will begin rewarding developers with at least $20,000 a month, distributing funds based on user feedback about which apps are providing the most value to its users. | |
| Have Just A Phone Number? iOS 6 Facebook Integration Can Fill In The Blanks [Updated] | Top |
 A tipster pointed out to us that Facebook integration in iOS 6 could fill in details someone might not otherwise have if they get a hold of a phone number and put it into their Contacts app. Daniel Ioffe noticed that should a number in Contacts correspond to a Facebook profile, it'll populate that entry with a profile photo and Facebook user name, even if all of the above information is kept private by the user. | |
| Google Now Lets You Watch Movie Trailers Directly On Its Search Results Pages | Top |
 Google just announced that it is adding a 'trailer' button to movie-related search results. With this, you can now watch a YouTube-based trailer in an overlay on top of your search results page without the need to ever leave Google Search. The button will appear with Google's regular showtime listings, as well as whenever you search for a specific movie and the search triggers Google's universal search results box for movies. | |
| First Look At Snapjoy's iOS App For Photo Viewing. Apple, Take Notice. | Top |
 I told you about a new feature from the Snapjoy team just the other day, but it seems like things are picking up for the small Boulder company. Co-founder Michael Dwan understands the dilemma of keeping all of your photos online and in one place, better than most companies I've ever discussed the subject with. It's that, combined with a beautiful design and comprehensive, yet simple, feature set, that impresses me. | |
| Moo Adds Programmable NFC Chips To Their Business Cards | Top |
 As the proud owner of a set of tiny Moo business cards with a big sexy QR code on them, I'm impressed to see that Moo itself has done me one better. They're now adding nearly invisible programmable NFC chips to their business cards, thereby allowing high-tech business folk to run around town tapping other peoples' phones to pass contact information. One NFC card is going into every package of Moo cards you buy and Moo is planning to release an app that will let you read and program the card on the fly. | |
| RIM's Fiscal Q2 2013 Results: Net Loss Of $235 Million On $2.9 Billion In Revenue, 7.4 Million BlackBerrys Shipped | Top |
 After a roller coaster of a week, RIM has just released its fiscal Q2 2013 financials and -- shocker -- they're not as bad as some thought. The Waterloo-based company reported a net GAAP loss of $235 million (which equates to $0.45/share diluted) on revenues of $2.9 billion, enough to beat analysts' grim expectatations. Given all that RIM's been through recently, it's no surprise that analysts haven't been very bullish on the company — as per a Thomson Reuters poll, they expected the company to report a loss of $0.46/share on revenue of $2.48 billion. It's still not great news for the RIM, but it's a welcome change from its downright lousy earnings figures (net loss of $518 million on $2.8 billion in revenue) reported last quarter. What's more, it's the first time in three quarters that RIM has managed to bump its quarterly revenue. | |
| Watch Out Ecommerce, Facebook Turns Karma Acquisition Into 'Gifts' | Top |
 Facebook today launches Facebook Gifts to make ecommerce more convenient. It turns user data into suggestions for gifts to buy right from where you spend your time, and without a friend's address. Facebook earns a percentage of sales when you use it to buy friends physical products or digital gift cards for their birthday, wedding, or other special occasions. Starbucks, Uber cabs, Warby Parker glasses and products from over 100 other partners can be purchased over desktop or mobile for friends who'll receive them as digital gift cards or physical shipments. You can even buy Gifts for yourself. | |
| Search.XXX Is Live And Ready To Help You Search The XXX | Top |
 The eunuch led the blind man through the market, through the door in the wall, and into the gardens. They sat under a dead tree. The eunuch took out the meal. They ate. "Tell me about the Unraveling?" said the eunuch. The blind man took a bite of fish. It crumbled, a bit of it caught his beard. The eunuch brushed it away. | |
| Meet Ignite, The Personal Health Startup Launching Out Of Bravo's 'Silicon Valley' Reality Show | Top |
 So far, the most successful company to be launched out of Bravo TV's incredibly popular suite of reality shows is a company that makes low-calorie cocktails for women. A lucrative business, sure, but not exactly a blockbuster when it comes to cutting edge innovation and technology. But the cast of Silicon Valley, the controversial new Bravo reality show set to debut next month, wants to shake things up a bit -- some real startups were apparently built in the weeks this past summer that cameras were rolling. One of those startups was Ignite Wellness... | |
| Fuze Network, A Payments Company Focused On The Under-Banked, Raises $2.5 Million Series A [Updated] | Top |
 Fuze Network, a payments technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has raised $2.5 million in Series A financing, according to a new SEC filing. The round was led by Dana Stalder at Matrix Partners and Meyer Malka, founder of Bling Nation and co-founder of Lemon, Inc., now of Ribbit Capital. The company had previously closed on $1.2 million in seed funding, from NYC's Metamorphic Ventures (Lewis Gersh) and Kickstart Seed Fund of Salt Lake City (Gavin Christensen), as well as other angels in a seed round announced last February. That round had since been extended to include additional money from previous investors as well as new investors, including Insikt Ventures (James Gutierrez, founder of Progreso), Gene Lockhart (current Chairman CCFI, former Chairman NetSpend), Chris Britt (former SVP Green Dot), Tim Coltrell (former CEO AccountNow), James Jones (current CEO AccountNow), Park City Angels, Paul Wozniak, and Jeramy Lund. In total, the company has raised nearly $5 million to date. [Note: See update at bottom of post] | |
| "In the Studio," Maynard Webb Pays It Forward With WIN | Top |
 "In the Studio" welcomes this week a seasoned operational executive, a board member at some of the Valley's largest companies, and long-time angel investor who, upon leaving behind his work in industry became so interested in early-stage startups, he not only started his own seed-stage technology fund, but also elected to put his own personal twist on his model. Maynard Webb wears many hats. Having spent his entire career in the technology sector, most recently in executive operational roles with eBay and LiveOps and currently holding board seats at Yahoo!, LiveOps, and Salesforce, Webb wanted to create a structure whereby he could continue his angel investing but also keep him in close contact with his network while helping the next generation of entrepreneurs get their ventures off the ground. | |
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