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Color CEO Bill Nguyen Checks Out Of Day-To-Day Operations, While A New Leadership Team Re-Tools Top
bill nguyenSources tell us there is turmoil at the executive levels of Color Labs, the startup that launched with a focus on photo-sharing but quickly became a poster child for Silicon Valley hype after landing more than $40 million in Series A funding but failing to gain any real user traction. In recent months the company's leadership has been in a state of flux, we're told -- and some are attributing the instability to Color's charismatic but controversial founder Bill Nguyen. As with any startup drama, there are many moving pieces here. But after weeks of discussions with multiple sources very close to the situation, we're pretty confident that Nguyen has backed away from the typical duties of being CEO, although he retains the title in name.
 
Another Day, Another Eyeful Of HTC's Slightly Updated One X+ Top
htc-one-x-plus-pictures-exclusive-2Well, if you still harbored any doubts that HTC was working on a slightly-tweaked version of its flagship One X smartphone, some new images courtesy of Pocket-Lint should help put them to rest. The new front and back shots provide the best look yet at the device-in-progress, and they confirm what many have already claimed — it looks nearly identical to the original One X.
 
Professor Facebook: Social Network Co-Designs New Course At General Assembly Top
GA_social-product-design_PapercraftFacebook is dipping its toes into the teaching space with a new class at General Assembly, a popular education nonprofit for startup co-working and vocational training. The new co-designed curriculum will teach aspiring developers how to develop social applications on the Facebook platform. "Facebook is happy to be working with General Assembly to help developers and would-be developers learn how to leverage the power of social," they write in a statement to TechCrunch.
 
Windows Phone Dev Center Now Provides User Review Translations For App Developers Top
windows-phone-8Microsoft is really trying to increase the appeal of Window Phone to developers, and a new tool just released adds a small, but very useful feature: instant translation of user reviews from one language to another. Microsoft is calling this one a "fun surprise," but it could actually be a very helpful convenience feature in helping developers understand their audience.
 
Sprint And Motorola Party Like It's 2010: Motorola XPRT Finally Gets A Taste Of Gingerbread Top
Image (1) gingerbread-android-300x300.jpg for post 47047Now that Motorola is owned by Google, you may think that past and present Motorola devices should get the latest and best version of Android. With Sprint announcing quietly on its forum that the Motorola XPRT will be updated to Android Gingerbread (2.3), it shows once again that the update rollout process for Android is broken — Android 2.3 was released two years ago.
 
U.S. Appeals Court: Samsung Free To Seek Lifting Of Galaxy Tab 10.1 Sales Injunction Top
Image (2) apple-samsung-620x253.jpg for post 206796The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh can decide whether or not to lift the ban on U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1-inch tablet, the court said today, Businessweek reports. That means Koh, who had previously refused to rule on the matter despite Samsung's request, could overturn the ban pending this decision, making Samsung's tablet available once again to consumers.
 
Google Launches A New Tablet-Optimized User Interface For Flight Search Top
Google logo 215Google just announced an update to its Flight Search feature that makes it easier for tablet users to search for and book travel from the couch. According to a recent study, 47 percent of all U.S. tablet owners who search for travel on their tablets also end up making purchases on the device. Starting today, travelers who use their iPads or Nexus 7s to use Flight Search will get to see this new tablet-optimized user interface.
 
Twitter Announces New Improvements For Discover Tab, Adds Continuous Tweet Stream Top
2250735263_0e90398b09_zToday, Twitter announced some updates to its Discover offering. Here's what the company had to say:
 
Apple Is Heavily Promoting Alternative Map Apps In The App Store Top
photo 1Now that Apple has told the world that it didn't come with its best offering for Maps, the company is now featuring other map applications heavily within the App Store.
 
PadPivot NST Review: The Best Available iPad Stand Just Got Better Top
pad-pivot-nst1I've seen a lot of iPad stands in my day. Comes with the territory. But only one has ever earned a regular place in my gadget bag and on my desk: A scrappy upstart from Kickstarter that made it to big box retail called the PadPivot. And now that device just got better, with an update that fixes its sole noteworthy weak spot.
 
AngelList Wings Is A Handy App For Searching AngelList On Your iPhone Top
angellist-wingsIf you're a heavy user of the startup community that is AngelList, there's a useful little application that you should know about. The under-the-radar iOS app called "AngelList Wings" is a native app for browsing, searching, following and reading about the startups, founders and investors on AngelList. The app uses the AngelList API, allowing you to track your AngelList news feed, in order to see who has updated their status, invested, followed a company and more. It also lets you tap on each item to view more details and tweet to your favorite companies right from within the app. While the app's current focus is only on AngelList, the developer tells us the eventual plan is to expand AngelList Wings' focus to become more of a resource for the startup community as a whole. He plans to do this by incorporating other APIs, including TechCrunch's own CrunchBase API, for example, into the app's interface.
 
Google Updates Gmail For iOS With Support For The iPhone 5′s Larger Screen Top
gmail-logo-iconThis isn't exactly the launch of Google Maps for iOS, but Google just updated Gmail for iOS, which now supports the iPhone 5's elongated 4-inch display. Instead of seeing black bars at the top and bottom of the app, iPhone 5 users will now be able to see a bit more of their inboxes on their phones now.
 
Well Played On Maps, Apple. Your Move, Google. Top
5857248045_01f779fcd9_zThis crazy game of poker continues between Apple and Google in what has been dubbed by some people as #mapsgate. Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook stepped out and apologized for the poor experience that its 100 million iOS 6 users were experiencing trying to navigate the world using their new offering. Well played, Mr. Cook.
 
Flat-Fee, Dongle-Free Card Payments Startup Emu Opens For Business In U.K., Registrations In Europe Top
emu-mobileSquare better get a move on launching its first non-U.S. mobile payment service because the market for point-of-sale mobile payments continues to hot up. We've been following the fortunes of Square-like competitors such as iZettle, mPowa and PayPal's Here for a while. Now meet the latest addition to the space: Emu -- a flat-fee card payment acceptance startup that's launched its service in the U.K. today, with registrations open to the rest of Europe.
 
Report: Apple's Pandora-Killer Hits Licensing Trouble With Sony/ATV Top
itunes logoOne rumor that was nearly forgotten amid the iPhone 5's launch and iOS 6 media circus was that Apple was reportedly looking to release a Pandora-killer soon. The streaming music service would be a natural next step in the progression Apple's taken with digital music, but it looks like licensing issues may have stepped in the way once again.
 
LinkedIn Shuts Off API Access To Fellow Professional Social Network Viadeo For TOS Violations Top
viadeo-logoLinkedIn has shut off API access to fellow professional social network Viadeo and a number of other startups who have been tapping into LinkedIn's firehose of data via its open API program. The other companies whose access to LinkedIn's data that will be revoked are IKO Systems, Linked, Drag&Tag, and Yatedo. Why? The company says these startups are violating LinkedIn's terms of service for developers. Specifically, Viadeo has been reselling products that include member profile data from LinkedIn. Additionally, to use any data gathered from LinkedIn's APIs in a paid product, you must first be accepted into LinkedIn's Partner Program.
 
iOS 6 Adoption At Just Over One Week: 60% For iPhone And 41% For iPad Top
ios6-traffic1Adoption of Apple's iOS 6 continues to trend upwards, with touch-friendly website conversion provider Onswipe seeing more users flocking to the newly-released platform, despite its apparent shortcomings. Based on a sample of 100,000 users coming through Onswipe's partner sites Friday morning, the company is seeing 59.43% of iPhone traffic from iOS 6 devices, and 41.3% of iPad traffic coming from those who've upgraded to the latest version.
 
Business Dashboards Get Instant Widgets, And Geckoboard Gets $1.5M From Top Investors Top
geckoboard dashboardGeckoboard, the London-based developer of an online dashboard product that lets businesses monitor company-related information in real time through the use of widgets, has today announced two key pieces of news to fuel its growth: it has picked up its first round of funding, $1.5 million, and it is launching a new feature that lets users create their own widgets for all the services that they would want to run on that dashboard. The funding comes from a top list of investors led by Index Ventures that also includes 500 Startups, DN Capital, HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes, Path CEO Dave Morin, Alexander Bruehl, Christoph Janz and John Hunt, and it is through that investment that Geckoboard has been able to launch the new product.
 
BlackBerry 10 Touch, Qwerty Devices Leak In Video; RIM Wants Lady Gaga To Help Sell BB10 Top
rim_logo_blackRIM is still bathing in the afterglow of yesterday's Q2 2013 fiscal results not being as awful as some had feared. The company remains in the invidious position of having to flog an out-of-date OS (BB7) while it tries to get its next-gen OS, BB10, ready for lift-off at the start of next year. The wait for BB10 devices goes on -- but two of RIM's forthcoming BB10 phones have surfaced online in what appears to be an internal marketing video posted to Vimeo (but since taken down).
 
Neil Young Begins His Long Quest Towards True Audio Fidelity With Pono, A New Music Service And Device Top
ny_thmSinger-songwriter-rocker Neil Young has been talking about problems with modern audio codecs for decades. He was angry at CDs back in the 1990s and most recently he lashed out against MP3s and digital audio compression at a popular tech conference, saying "My goal is to try to rescue the art form that I've been practicing for the past 50 years. We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it's degrading our music, not improving it … It's not that digital is bad or inferior, it's that the way it's being used isn't doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn't have to make that choice."
 

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