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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 100M 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."
 
Socialize's New Ad Platform Turns Passbook Passes Into Mobile Ads Top
passes-smallLet our Passbook obsession continue! Since the debut of Apple's pseudo-mobile wallet in iOS 6 earlier this month, the extended developer community has rushed to deliver value-add solutions built on top of the platform. There have been Passbook loyalty card and coupon creation apps, tools to send Passbook mobile coupons via SMS, and now this - a solution that turns a Passbook pass into a 320x50 mobile ad unit that can be shown anywhere.
 
Pay-By-Keyword Startup Seconds Refocuses As A Way To Make Anyone A Merchant Top
GetSecondsSeattle-based mobile payments startup Seconds today unveiled a new direction for its product, looking to fill some of the space left behind by the acquisition of competitor Venmo and Square's growing focus on expanding beyond independent, small business merchants. Seconds now wants to make it possible for anyone with a mobile device to make or receive a payment, as Seconds CEO and founder puts it, addressing the "increasingly thin line between merchant and consumer."
 
Google Maps, Now With More High-Res Satellite And 45° Aerial Imagery Top
go tigersGoogle Maps gets more awesome by the day. Earlier this week, the service started rolling out stunning underwater imagery- if you will, a seaview mode. Now Google took to the Google Maps blog to announces the inclusion of more high resolution images including a major build-out of 45-degree images. This update brings a lot of new data to the mapping service. Google Maps and Earth now features 17 cities and 112 countries and regions with high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery. In addition, 51 cities can now be viewed in a 45-degree mode including 37 cities in the US and 14 abroad (full list below). It's never been easier to burn a little time and escape from your cubical to a far away land.
 
Tim Cook Apologizes For Apple Maps, Points To Competitive Alternatives Top
mapsApple CEO Tim Cook has written an open letter on Apple's website, finally apologizing for the Maps drama that's been unfolding over the past few weeks with the introduction of iOS 6. In the letter, Cook states that he is "extremely sorry for the frustration" and that the company "fell short on the commitment" of bringing world-class products to customers. With the introduction of iOS 6, Apple opted to ditch Google Maps (the default maps application on all iOS devices since the first iPhone) and instead use a home-grown application, built entirely by Apple. But when iOS 6 Maps was released to the general public, many people were disappointed by general inaccuracy, mislabeled or non-existent cities and landmarks, and a lack of transit directions.
 
Apple's iPhone 5 Availability Expands: What It Means To Regional Carriers Top
ntelos-iphone5Apple isn't delaying bringing its latest iPhone to regional carriers this time around, with launches across the U.S. going out today, at a list of carriers that includes C Spire, Bluegrass Cellular, Appalachian Wireless, Alaska GCI, Cricket Wireless, Cellcom and nTelos Wireless. It's a change from the way things used to work that's significant for both the carriers and their customers, in a market when access to hardware is a key competitive metric.
 
Survey: Younger Shoppers Increasingly Using Mobiles To Buy And Compare Top
shopperThe rising star of mulitchannel retail is mobile, according to a survey of U.S. and U.K. consumers conducted by a digital marketing group Econsultancy. It's not a particularly surprising finding -- given the capabilities and pervasiveness of today's smartphones -- but the findings underline the expanding role mobiles are playing in shoppers' lives.
 
MyVR Raises $1.4M From YC, SV Angel, Chris Dixon To Attack The $85B Vacation Rental Industry Top
Screen shot 2012-09-28 at 2.05.02 AMThanks 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 To Build, Test and Run Low-Traffic Apps Top
Amazon Web Services LogoAmazon 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
founderscardIn 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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