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TechCrunch Giveaway: Free Tickets To Box's 2012 #BoxWorks Event Top
picHappy Friday! We have something special to give away. Box is hosting its annual BoxWorks event October 7-9 in San Francisco. And we have a bunch of tickets. Box has some amazing speakers on tap. Box CEO Aaron Levie kicks things off and followed by Marc Andresssen, John Donahoe, and Clayton Christensen. There's also Tony Fadell, Gary Reiner and Gary Kovacs along with Adam Lashinsky, Andreas Bechtolsheim and our own Drew Olanoff. It's three days, six keynotes, 55 speakers, and a ton of fun.
 
Cloud Security Firm Qualys' IPO Opens At $12/Share, Raising $71.8M Top
qualys logoAs of today, one more enterprise cloud startup is now a publicly-listed company. Qualys -- trading as QLYS -- opened trading today on the Nasdaq with shares priced at $12, in the mid-range of the expected offering of between $11 and $13. After a slow start in the morning, the shares climbed up to $14.85 during the day, to settle down at $14.12 at close. Not quite as much of a rise as Palo Alto Networks when it had its IPO in July 2012 -- where it saw a 26% increase on its opening price of $46 -- but still an increase of 17.7%.
 
The FeedBurner Deathwatch Continues: Google Kills AdSense For Feeds Top
Dia de los Muertos | Flickr - Photo Sharing!As part of its latest round of "spring cleaning," Google just announced that it is shuttering AdSense for Feeds. The service, which allows publishers to earn a bit of extra revenue by adding Google's ads to their RSS feeds, will be retired on October 2 and will close on December 3. Given that Feedburner has long been expected to be on one of Google's next spring cleaning lists, it doesn't come as a surprise that the company is now shutting down the only way it was actually making money from the product.
 
Google's "Spring" Cleaning In Fall: AdSense For Feeds, Classic Plus, and Spreadsheet Gadgets Get The Axe Top
4781607809_13d04ce5da_zIt's that time again when Google does its "Spring Cleaning." Basically, that means the company axes the stuff that really isn't working and takes up too much time or resources. But lets' call it what it is, these things failed or fizzled.
 
Facebook Shares Jump More Than 6% After Gifts Launch. (Hooray For New Revenue Streams.) Top
Screen Shot 2012-09-28 at 1.41.36 PMWell, Facebook shareholders sure like the sound of Gifts. Around Wall Street's close yesterday, the company launched a much anticipated e-commerce initiative that lets Facebook users send real, physical gifts to friends and family on birthdays and special events like engagements and weddings. It gives the company a third business model beyond advertising and payments revenue. Shares have jumped by 6.6 percent today to $21.66. So what could Gifts mean for Facebook's bottom line? Let's do some guesswork.
 
Evernote Listens To Unhappy Skitch 2.0 Users: Brings Back Some Old Features And Version 1.0 Top
skitch_logoEarlier this month, Evernote launched version 2.0 of Skitch, the popular screenshot tool the company acquired in 2011. Sadly, Skitch 2.0 didn't just do away with Skitch's idiosyncratic but highly functional user interface, but it also dropped a number of features in the process. Version 2.0 currently has a 1.5-star rating in the Mac App Store and almost 600 1-star reviews. Today, Evernote is launching version 2.0.1 of Skitch and thankfully, this version brings back a number of features that went missing in the first update. In addition, Evernote is making Skitch 1.0 available for download again.
 
Groupon's Leadership Shuffle Continues: New North American Sales VP Named To Replace Muhr, Who Now Heads EMEA Top
Groupon-Logo1The churn at Groupon's executive level continues apace. The company has just announced that it has appointed a new vice president for North America, Rob Kilgarriff, who is taking over the role from Chris Muhr. Earlier today Reuters reported that Chris Muhr was being shipped out to Europe, where he had first started his career with Groupon, to become the new SVP for the Europe, Middle East and Africa as the daily deals company looks to fix its flagging European business. Muhr has replaced Veit Dengler, who had joined from Dell only in April to take up the reigns as the Sawmer brothers began their gradual stepping away from management roles at the company. (The Sawmers' CityDeal, acquired by Groupon, forms the basis of Groupon's European operation.) Kilgarriff will report to SVP of global operations Kal Raman.
 
Ptch Partners With Paramount, Letting Users Remix Their Own Paranormal Activity Found Footage Top
PTCH_EditorEver since Paranormal Activity hit it big in movie theaters five years ago, fans have been making their own spoof videos, essentially trying to replicate the found footage style of the movies in homage to the original. Shot on a shoestring budget, Paranormal Activity became a huge hit and has inspired a series of sequels, one of which -- Paranormal Activity 4 -- is set to be released next month, just in time for Halloween.
 
Foursquare Partners With OpenTable To Make Dinner Reservations Simple Top
OpenTableMaking reservations just got really easy, thanks to a new partnership. Here's what Foursquare had to say about its parntership with OpenTable today
 
Treasure Data Launches Cloud-Based Data Warehouse With Investment From Ruby Creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto Top
tdlogoCloud-based data warehouse company Treasure Data officially opened its doors this week with $1.5 million in funding that includes an investment from  Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto – the creator of the Ruby programming language.
 
Meet Apple's "New CEO," Tom Brooks Top
tombrooksEarlier today KTVU got a major component of the Apple Maps apology story wrong, tweeting that: "Apple CEO Tom Brooks apologizes for new Maps application http://t.co/YJbhg7tj." Obviously, KTVU got mixed up and has since corrected the error, but it sparked some funny tweets. And I couldn't get the image above out of my head until I made it real and shared it with the world. Meet "Tom Brooks."
 
Music-Sharing Startup MyStream Preps Android Launch, Looks Beyond Music Top
mystream androidMyStream, a mobile music-sharing app that launched on iOS more than a year ago, plans to go cross-platform next week with the launch of its Android app. Founder and CEO Richard Zelson also tells me the company is working on features that go beyond music-sharing, and that it's about to raise a Series A.
 
HP's Open webOS Goes 1.0, Can Now Be Ported To New Devices Top
open-webosHP's TouchPad and Palm phones are dead, but webOS continues to enjoy some kind of existence as open-source technology. Following an initial beta release back at the end of August, Open webOS graduates to a 1.0 release today. This release makes it possible to fully port the OS to a host of new devices.
 
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 venture 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.
 

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