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- Appcelerator Launches "Innovation Fund" To Help Startups Speed Up Mobile App Development
- Not So Fast: Kleiner Perkins Says It Did NOT Fire Ellen Pao; Looking To "Facilitate Her Transition" Out
- iPad Mini Production Has Kicked Off, Says WSJ: 7.85-Inch LCD Screen, No Retina Display
- Blooie Launches Its Chat Platform For Online Publishers, Powered By The Interest-Graph
- Nokia Confirms It's Looking At HQ Sale, May Lease It Back, No Plans To Leave Finland
- Apple's Siri, Google's Voice Recognition Technology Targeted By Patent Troll
- Ellen Pao Is Out At Kleiner Perkins: Tells Quora That She Was Fired, As Discrimination Case Continues (UPDATED)
- $45 Billion Later Larry Ellison Says No Major Acquisitions For Next Few Years
- Just Eat Buys Spanish Online Food Ordering/Delivery Rival SinDelantal For A Few Million Euros
- Changemakrs Looks To Reinvent Inspirational Quotes For A More Social Web
- Taploid Turns Your Social Feeds Into A Personal Gossip Magazine
- Google Apps Users Can Now Get 24/7 Phone Support For Chrome
- UK 4G Crunch Talks Between Carriers, Regulators Win Speedier Launch Of LTE Networks
- Need To Find And Book A Photography Class? Vimbly Is Like OpenTable For Activities
- Home 3D Printing Is Killing The Manufacturing Industry
- After Saving Users $1M, BillGuard Integrates With Passbook To Track All Your Credit Cards In One Place
- Nokia Joins The iPhone 5 Bashing With This Clever Lumia 920 Video Ad
- Deeyoon: A Site Where You Can Debate Anyone About Anything — On Live Video
- Finally, A Dock That Doesn't Blink When Apple Changes iPhone Connectors Or Device Design
- Marc Andreessen On Facebook's Monetization Plans: Successful Companies Defer Gratification
| Appcelerator Launches "Innovation Fund" To Help Startups Speed Up Mobile App Development | Top |
 Appcelerator is all about speeding the development of rich, native mobile apps. One way Appcelerator does this is with Titanium, its next-gen mobile app development platform. But now it's looking to accelerate app development* by helping other startups focused on features, capabilities, or verticals that it's not focused on itself. With that in mind, the startup is introducing the Appcelerator Innovation Fund, through which it will invest in and provide support to promising startups who build apps based on its platform. | |
| Not So Fast: Kleiner Perkins Says It Did NOT Fire Ellen Pao; Looking To "Facilitate Her Transition" Out | Top |
 More drama in the Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers / Ellen Pao discrimination case. Just hours ago, it was revealed that Ellen Pao had said that she was fired from the VC firm where she was a partner -- something she made public in a statement on Quora. Now, KPCB has come back to us to say it's not actually true. "Ms. Pao's Quora post is misleading," a spokesperson says in a statement. "She remains an employee of the firm." But it does confirm that it is in discussions over a way to transition her out, based on what it says are performance issues separate to the discrimination case. "Because of long standing issues having no relationship or bearing on the litigation, Kleiner approached Ms. Pao to facilitate her transition, over an extended period of time, out of the firm," the spokesperson says. "The proposed terms, that did not require Ms. Pao to waive any legal rights or claims, are generous, fair and intended to support Ms. Pao in a successful career transition." | |
| iPad Mini Production Has Kicked Off, Says WSJ: 7.85-Inch LCD Screen, No Retina Display | Top |
 The iPad Mini speculation could be about to be put to bed if a report in the WSJ is on the money. The paper is reporting that Asian suppliers to Apple have kicked off mass production of components required to make a smaller version of the iPad. The paper cites "people with knowledge of the situation". | |
| Blooie Launches Its Chat Platform For Online Publishers, Powered By The Interest-Graph | Top |
 Promising to help online publishers increase engagement, ensuring that visitors stick around for longer and return more often, Blooie's chat and analytics platform gets its official push today. In its initial offering, it provides a way for publishers to embed a chat facility onto their site which connects visitors one-to-one based on shared interests, garnered from semantic analysis of the Blooie-powered sites they visit, their Blooie chat logs and, going forward, their wider interest graph. Off the back of this data, the startup is offering to sell publishers additional analytics, giving an insight into what content drives engagement and the interests their visitors share. | |
| Nokia Confirms It's Looking At HQ Sale, May Lease It Back, No Plans To Leave Finland | Top |
 As beleaguered handset maker Nokia continues to downsize its operations to conserve cash, the handset maker is looking to sell its global headquarters in Espoo, Finland for a price of up to $387 million (€300 million). The news was first reported by the Finnish-language Helsingen Sanomat, with the real-estate price estimate coming from Ilta-Sanomat. A Nokia spokesperson has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is evaluating this option, but that it may end up leasing back the same building, and in any case has no plans to leave Finland in the process. "As we said during Q2 results, Nokia is re-evaluating all non-core operations, including its real estate. However, we do not have any plans to move our headquarters," a spokesperson said in an email (emphasis Nokia's). "As with most companies whose core business is not in owning real estate, it makes common business sense not to tie assets in real estate property but rather invest and focus in its core operations. | |
| Apple's Siri, Google's Voice Recognition Technology Targeted By Patent Troll | Top |
 A company that has acquired 100% of the ownership of a patent for an off-site transcription system -- United States Patent 6,298,328 -- in order to, in its words, "effectively administer certain patents for technology", says it will be seeking residual royalties from Apple, for its Siri voice assistant, and Google, for the Voice Recognition technology in its Android 4.1 release, along with "many other software and hardware providers that have adopted systems similar to the patent". | |
| Ellen Pao Is Out At Kleiner Perkins: Tells Quora That She Was Fired, As Discrimination Case Continues (UPDATED) | Top |
 Another dramatic turn of events in the case of Ellen Pao, who has been suing the VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers over gender discrimination. Pao was fired on Monday -- a development Pao herself revealed in a Quora post this week, picked up by AllThings Digital. Up to now, KPCB had still employed her as an investment partner, something that Pao herself had confirmed, also in a message on Quora, back in June. KPCB, meanwhile, is still listing Pao on its site as an investment partner as of the time of this writing. Both Quora statements were made from Pao's verified Quora account. | |
| $45 Billion Later Larry Ellison Says No Major Acquisitions For Next Few Years | Top |
 Larry Ellison said today that Oracle does not plan to do any acquisitions in the next few years but would not rule one out down the road. He made the remarks in a CNBC interview at OracleOpenWorld in San Francisco. Ellison was also asked about a successor to the company he has run for the past three decades. He only said there are several who could take his place. | |
| Just Eat Buys Spanish Online Food Ordering/Delivery Rival SinDelantal For A Few Million Euros | Top |
 Just Eat, the multinational online food ordering and delivery company that raised $64 million in April from Vitruvian Partners, Index Ventures, Greylock, and Redpoint, is today announcing its first acquisition out of that cash injection: it is buying SinDelantal, its rival in Spain, to help give a quick boost to that country's operations and help Just Eat continue its international growth to do battle with the likes of Delivery Hero. TechCrunch understands that the price is in the range of a few million dollars, about 95 percent of that in cash. | |
| Changemakrs Looks To Reinvent Inspirational Quotes For A More Social Web | Top |
 "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations." -- Steve Jobs A few months ago, former Facebooker Sacha Tueni and Matthias Wagner were working on a Twitter client. Yes, a Twitter client -- several years after Tweetdeck launched and Seesmic pivoted toward being a social media reader. While their app Zerobird was good at filtering interesting content, investors weren't biting. It was also going to be a long uphill battle in the app store and on Twitter's increasingly politically complicated platform. So they took some good advice to heart. Steve Jobs' advice, in fact. They built a tribute site to the late visionary. It was spartan, with that famous photograph of him sitting in an unfurnished house. They overlaid some of his best advice over that picture. | |
| Taploid Turns Your Social Feeds Into A Personal Gossip Magazine | Top |
 Everyday your friends are getting married, breaking up, and getting drunk, but it can be hard to follow along. So today The Taploid launches its web app that runs natural language processing on your Facebook feed to produce a gossip magazine of subtle trends and juicy tales. Taploid can tell you which of your friends are alcoholics, or who someone that just got out of a relationship will date next. Taploid was co-founded by Bay Area socialite Redg Snodgrass, a former VP for Skout and Alcatel-Lucent, who says "We want to take Silicon Valley technology and bring it to the Jersey Shore mass market." | |
| Google Apps Users Can Now Get 24/7 Phone Support For Chrome | Top |
 Google just announced that Google Apps for Business, Education and Government customers can now call and email the company with their questions about Chrome. Google, of course, has always been somewhat notorious for its lack of customer support options, but this is slowly changing. Last November, for example, the company announced that it would start offering 24/7 phone support for paying Apps for Business users. Starting today, Google Apps users can call and email Google for support with "Chrome installation, functionality, security, browser policy settings and Google Apps interoperability for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux." | |
| UK 4G Crunch Talks Between Carriers, Regulators Win Speedier Launch Of LTE Networks | Top |
 The U.K.'s telecoms regulator Ofcom has announced "significant progress" has been made to speed up the delivery of high speed LTE mobile network. The timetable has been accelerated by as much as five months -- enabling the launch of commercial 4G services across the country during the first half of next year. This has been made possible after an agreement was secured to speed up the process of clearing the spectrum (currently used by TV broadcasters). | |
| Need To Find And Book A Photography Class? Vimbly Is Like OpenTable For Activities | Top |
 When it comes to finding a cooking class or a tango lesson in your area for tonight, it isn't as easy as booking a table in a fancy restaurant. The newly launched service Vimbly acts as both a directory and a reservation service for activities and hobbies in New York City. | |
| Home 3D Printing Is Killing The Manufacturing Industry | Top |
 If you've followed the news, a collective of hackers recently rented a 3D printer to build a real, working gun. The group, Defense Distributed ,began the project but once the renter, Stratasys, discovered what they were building, they took the printer back. Writes the Danger Room: Cody Wilson planned in the coming weeks to make and test a 3-D printed pistol. Now those plans have been put on hold as desktop-manufacturing company Stratasys pulled the lease on a printer rented out for Wiki Weapon, the internet project lead by Wilson and dedicated to sharing open-source blueprints for 3-D printed guns. Stratasys even sent a team to seize the printer from Wilson's home. | |
| After Saving Users $1M, BillGuard Integrates With Passbook To Track All Your Credit Cards In One Place | Top |
 With the launch of iOS 6, Apple added a new feature called Passbook, which will allow users to collect all of their loyalty, rewards, and payment accounts in a single virtual wallet. So far we've only seen a few companies take advantage of the app, loyalty rewards startup Kiip. But it's still a pretty fragmented market -- if you want to view your personal debit or credit card, you better hope that at some point your banking provider creates a compatible app. That is, until now. One of our favorite startups, BillGuard, has become one of the first financial applications to integrate with Apple's Passbook. | |
| Nokia Joins The iPhone 5 Bashing With This Clever Lumia 920 Video Ad | Top |
 Samsung loves to bash the iPhone and its legions of dedicated fans. And now Nokia has thrown down, too. Nokia announced the stunning Lumia 920 last month. In several ways, it's an anti-iPhone with a large screen, forward-thinking hardware features, and, yes like this ad brags, multiple color options. | |
| Deeyoon: A Site Where You Can Debate Anyone About Anything — On Live Video | Top |
 The Internet is a great place for arguments, and a new startup called Deeyoon aims to bring arguments to video. Of course, there are a bunch of other startups working on video chat. However, none of them seems to have become a huge, sustainable hit yet, and Deeyon CEO Joe Kalfa says he's taking a different approach — not just general, unstructured conversations, but "live, real-time video debates." | |
| Finally, A Dock That Doesn't Blink When Apple Changes iPhone Connectors Or Device Design | Top |
 The update cycle of consumer electronics can make a mess of your Kickstarter plans, but one new project that just launched is designed to provide a useful products that remains useful no matter what changes come down the road, in terms of modes of connectivity or hardware design. It's the CompleteDock, and I had the chance to sneak a peek at an early, functional prototype at Disrupt SF this year. | |
| Marc Andreessen On Facebook's Monetization Plans: Successful Companies Defer Gratification | Top |
 There's lots of criticism going around about Facebook's monetization strategy, and in a similar vein, it's pretty common to criticize startups that grow without worrying about revenue. But venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen said today that's looking at things the wrong way. In fact, he argued that great companies have one thing in common — "a willingness to defer gratification." Andreessen, along with Sheryl Sandberg, was interviewed on-stage by Charlie Rose at the IAB MIXX advertising conference. He said it's common to complain about Facebook and other new companies by saying that they're just run by "a bunch of kids," "Facebook will never be able to monetize," and that "it's all falling apart." Then these companies turn into big businesses, and the critics say, "Wow, that was a fluke." | |
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