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Apple Posts A Video Remembering Steve Jobs And Highlighting His Greatest Achievements Top
steve-jobsApple has posted a video on its homepage today, with footage of Steve Jobs over the years speaking at keynotes and Apple events, showing images of him and the products he created that changed the way we think about and use computers and mobile devices. The video begins with the famous Gretzky quote that defines Jobs' career: "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."
 
Samsung Expects Another Record Quarter: $7.3 Billion Profit, Fuelled By Its Galaxy Smartphones Top
samsung-logoSamsung is reporting a record quarterly profit of $7.3 billion in earnings guidance ahead of its full Q3 report. Reuters notes the figure is nearly double the amount of profit the Korean electronics giant made in Q3 2011, bolstered by strong sales of its Galaxy range of smartphones and high end TVs.
 
The 14 Most Interesting Startups To Emerge From DEMO Top
8048935638_f0b18d8c78_zDEMO Fall 2012 wrapped up in Santa Clara today, where 77 startups took the stage to show off their apps, services and products. The young companies were given six minutes to pitch their ideas and impress the audience, collectively competing for the $1 million advertising prize that went to the idea with the most promise.
 
Apple's Online Store Is Currently Offline For Updates Top
silver-apple-logoApple's online store went offline on Thursday evening -- sporting the usual "We'll be back. We're busy updating the Apple Store for you and will be back soon" missive (h/t to AllThingsD which spotted the store was AWOL). The store has been down for at least three hours.
 
Traffic And Trip Updates Now Available For Enterprise Customers Through Google Maps API Top
Time+in+Traffic+TransitOne of the coolest features that you can get from Google is the capability to see on a map and time it the time it will take to get to a destination either by walking, bike, car or mass transit based on traffic conditions. 
 
Vinod Khosla On What He Looks For In A Resumé [TCTV] Top
Screen Shot 2012-10-04 at 10.19.53 PMWhen you think of the top-tier people in tech today, you'll certainly think of Vinod Khosla. From his role as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems to his current role at Khosla Ventures, his time has been very valuable for decades now.
 
How The New Base CRM Mobile Apps Expose Market Leader Weaknesses Top
techcrunch-tablet-article-august2012-bannerUbiquity and intelligence are the two maxims of the post-PC world that Base places most importance on in its mobile CRM service. It makes sense. I have talked to several companies that see an opportunity in disrupting traditional CRM tools built for the desktop and the web. Salesforce.com for instance, came into the market more than ten years ago, long before mobile emerged.
 
Nimble Now Integrates With Rapportive, Major Social Networks To Bring Context To Your Contacts Top
Screen shot 2012-10-04 at 3.50.36 PMAs Jon Ferrara what he thinks of today's CRM software, and he'll tell you, patently, that it sucks. Ferrara is the co-founder and former CEO of GoldMine, one of the pioneers of customer relationship management and salesforce automation software back in the '90s. He sold GoldMine in the '00s for $100+ million, but returned to the game in 2009 based on the belief that CRM was still broken. The result was Nimble (not to be confused with Nimble Storage), through which Ferrara and team hope to take the pain out of CRM, optimizing it for the Social Era.
 
ParkPlease Partners With Limos.com To Help Users Avoid This Weekend's ParkApocalypse In San Francisco Top
parkpleaseAltogether, some estimate San Francisco will have more than a million visitors entering the city this weekend to attend events. That's a huge amount, considering that on a good day San Francisco has a native population of about 800,000 residents. Enter ParkPlease, a new marketplace for parking spots.
 
Microsoft Announces Updates For Virtually All Of Its Built-In Windows 8 Apps Top
8507.Start_thumb_50CBBAE1Windows 8 will launch on October 26, but since it's already available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, as well as through a free trial, it almost feels as though it's out already. Before it officially puts its latest masterpiece into the hands of mainstream users, however, Microsoft will update virtually all of the built-in apps that ship with the new operating system. These include SkyDrive, Mail, Calendar, People, Photos, Bing, Maps, News, Weather, Travel, Video, Music, Games and Finance (yes - Microsoft ships a lot of built-in apps with Windows 8).
 
Zynga Shares Decline About 20% To All-Time Low In After-Hours Trading Top
Screen Shot 2012-10-04 at 2.43.02 PMAfter cutting its full-year projections for bookings and earnings, Zynga's shares fell more than 20 percent to an all-time low in after-hours trading. The company's shares are trading at $2.22, down more than 21 percent from today's close of $2.82. It's been a hard road for the company since its IPO last December. Not only have numerous executives left (many of them brought over from EA), but several games like The Ville have not performed up to expectations. Zynga also said that it has had to write off between $85 million and $95 million of the $180 million it paid for OMGPOP this spring. The company bought the New York-based and YC-backed developer earlier this year for its surprise hit "Draw Something." If you look at the cash, short-term and long-term investments Zynga has on its balance sheet (which add up to just over $1.6 billion), the market is giving the company an enterprise value of between $100 million to $200 million beyond.
 
Haters Gonna Hate This Top
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
I've spent a good part of this morning defending two blog posts that hit the TechCrunch homepage last night. No it wasn't "Jumio's Credit Card Scanning Technology Pops Up in Travelocity's Hotel Deals App" or even "Flayvr, A Mobile App That Automatically Creates Photo Albums, Raises $450K Seed Round." Nope, instead, it was two posts that used the F-word* in the headline.
 
For Oracle It's About The Machine Not The Fantasy Of A New World Top
alicewonderlandFor Oracle, it's about the machine, not the user; this became abundantly clear this week at Oracle Open World. Oracle talks the cloud talk but what the company is really doing is protecting its base, and building engineered systems that by all accounts is extraordinary technology. But its principles are wrong. I see little proof of humanity. What I do see are calibrated machines - homogenous and stacked in Oracle's shiny red brand. But maybe that's what people want in the end. For me, that is depressing as hell and counter to the swell of innovation that pushes me back every day like some gale force wind that picks me up and drops me into a new world. At every level of this altered place a creature pops up to remind me that the reality is not all that we see in a subterranean conference hall on the Bay.
 
ZEFR Hires Former Dailymotion Exec To Expand Internationally, Also Nabs Some BetterWorks Engineers Top
zefrZEFR has been focused on getting Hollywood studios to let it license their movies, and create clips to put on YouTube. But it's recently added a new business focused on helping content creators across a number of verticals to monetize content that gets posted on YouTube. Now, it's going beyond just its home U.S. market and taking on the world, with a key international hire to expand overseas.
 
Paper By FiftyThree Now On Apple Retail iPads, Tops 3.3M Downloads And 190 Years Spent In-App Top
color-by-fiftythreeHere's a neat, well-deserved win for a startup company: Paper, the critically acclaimed drawing application for iPad is now being featured by Apple on iPad demo units in its retail stores, and now has over 3.3 million downloads, with 25 million pages of drawings created by users. The time spent in-app creating Color journals adds up to almost 200 years in total.
 
The PandaBot: Another Day, Another Anamorphic 3D Printer With A Cute Name Top
0747cfb65ce66ee195306aec633308e8_largeThe 3D printer craze shows no signs of stopping and Kickstarter is full of exciting examples of new printing hardware. Today's entrant in the 3D race? The devilishly cute PandaBot, a "fur white" 3D printer with an 11x11x11-inch build area and a smooth, seamless design.
 
Rock The Post And CrowdHut Are Trying To Solve Two Of Crowdfunding's Biggest Pain Points Top
crowdThe passage of the JOBS Act earlier this year cemented that not just in practice, but in policy. As a result, it's been a huge year for crowdfunding platforms -- especially Kickstarter, which has raised $50 million for games alone in 2012. But with the increased attention, we've started to spy potential holes in the crowdfunding model. Two problems in particular stand out and two startups are trying to solve them.
 
Samsung's ATIV Smart PC And Asus' VivoTab RT To Launch On AT&T In Time For The Holidays Top
ativivoHoly cow AT&T, another announcement? While most of the other national wireless carriers have opted to save some news for later on, AT&T keeps pushing out releases like it's going out of style. Anyway, in addition to heavily pushing Nokia's Windows Phone 8 handsets, the carrier has also announced that it will carry a pair of Windows 8 tablets — the Asus VivoTab RT and Samsung's ATIV Smart PC — in time for the holiday rush.
 
Zynga Cuts Revenue Outlook For 2012, Q3; Cites Weakness In Certain Games Including The Ville Top
zyngaGaming company Zynga has just released preliminary financial results for the third quarter of 2012, lowering its outlook for the year. The company expects to report full Q3 results October 24. Zynga expects to report revenue in the range of $300 million to $305 million and bookings in the range of $250 million to $255 million for the third quarter. The company also says it will report a net loss of between $90 million and $105 million, non-GAAP net loss between $2 million and $5 million and adjusted EBITDA between $10 million and $15 million for the third quarter.
 
Y Combinator-Backed Perfect Audience Makes Facebook Retargeting Easy (Even For Tech Bloggers), Raises $1.1M Top
perfectaudience logoWe've already seen that the new Facebook Exchange for retargeted ads is delivering impressive results for advertisers. Now a startup called Perfect Audience aims to make those campaigns accessible to a broad range of startups, small ad agencies, and other advertisers. Co-founder and President Brad Flora says the current batch of ad companies offering access to Facebook Exchange are serving large advertisers — it usually takes a few days to learn how to use the product, and there's often a minimum ad buy. With Perfect Audience, on the other hand, anyone can run a campaign of any size.
 

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