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- Obvious-Incubated Lift Lands $2.5M From Spark Capital, SV Angel To Help You Build Good Habits
- Rdio Revamps Its iOS And Android Apps Bringing Improved Looks, Navigation, New Playback Controls & More
- Let's Visit A Nobel Prize Winning Lab That Does "Lots Of Science", Shall We?
- Inventory Management Startup Stitch Labs Adds Amazon.com Integration, Sellers Can Now Be "Fulfilled By Amazon"
- Remember QR Codes? The Leading Reader, Scan, Has Been Downloaded 25 Million Times, Scans 27 Million Codes A Month
- Cisimple Launches A Hosted Continuous Delivery Platform For Mobile: Makes Building, Testing And Deployment Easier On Developers
- OpenShift, Red Hat's Platform-as-a-Service, Headed to the Enterprise
- Interactive Email Platform Providers PowerInbox And ActivePath Join Forces, Raise $10 Million Series A For New, Combined Company
- Just In Time For Bowl Season, StatMilk Brings Its Amazing College Football Stats Platform To iOS
- Location-Based Tour Guide App Stray Boots Raises $2M As It Looks To Expand Mobile Reach
- Windows 8 App Store Has 3 Times As Many Downloads As Apple's Mac Store, But Only One-Fifth The Revenues, Says Distimo
- Mobile Ad Network InMobi Announces Free 'Lifetime Value Platform' To Help Developers Deliver Targeted Content
- Google's Speedy-Seller Nexus 4 Smartphone Back In Stock In U.S. Play Store — From Noon PST Today
- UpTo Brings Its Social Calendar To Android, Signs A Deal With The Cleveland Cavaliers
- Resultly Mobile App Keeps You In The Loop On All The Things
- Amazon's Kindle Family: Weekend Sales More Than Double On Last Year, Cyber Monday Biggest Of All
- ThinkGeek's USB Portal Sentry Turret Will Protect Your Desk, Cake
- LeadSift Raises $500K To Make Twitter, Foursquare More Fertile Ground For Sales Leads
- Nintendo Makes The Wii Mini Official: $99, Lacks Internet And GameCube Compatibility, Canada-Only
- Apple's Redesigned 21-inch iMac Available November 30, 27-inch Following In December
| Obvious-Incubated Lift Lands $2.5M From Spark Capital, SV Angel To Help You Build Good Habits | Top |
 After nearly a year in development, Lift launched its first mobile product in August behind an ambitious goal: Boost human potential by helping people achieve their goals. It almost sounds New Age-y, but co-founders Tony Stubblebine and Jon Crosby are serious about doing their part to change the world and support personal achievement. The founders aren't alone. From the get-go, Lift has been incubated and seed-funded by Obvious Corp., the hybrid accelerator created by Twitter co-founders Biz Stone, Evan Williams and early Twitter VP Jason Goldman. And now Lift is adding more believers to its support network, announcing today that it has closed a $2.5 million series A round, led by Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital, who joined the co-founders and Ev Williams on Lift's board of directors. | |
| Rdio Revamps Its iOS And Android Apps Bringing Improved Looks, Navigation, New Playback Controls & More | Top |
 Streaming music startup Rdio continues its battle with Spotify, today updating its two flagship mobile applications for iOS and Android. The new apps have been redesigned with a cleaner layout, introduce new navigational elements, and add other clever features to enhance the user experience - like the ability to pick up playing a track from where you left off on another platform, for example. | |
| Let's Visit A Nobel Prize Winning Lab That Does "Lots Of Science", Shall We? | Top |
 Creating stem cells out of adult cells. Amazing. Winning a Nobel Prize. Amazing. Saving lives potentially? Outstanding. Check out this video from David Prager and Glenn McElhose, formerly of Revision3, which sold to Discovery Channel, and Diggnation fame. The fellas have visited a Nobel Prize winning lab doing some really outstanding things. It's not often that you get to catch a glimpse of the inner-workings of labs like this, but science is cool. | |
| Inventory Management Startup Stitch Labs Adds Amazon.com Integration, Sellers Can Now Be "Fulfilled By Amazon" | Top |
 Stitch Labs wants to be the connective tissue between various online shopping carts and marketplaces, making it easier for small vendors to peddle their wares and manage inventory across them. Today it's announcing one of its biggest tie-ups to date, as the startup has integrated with Amazon.com, allowing users to sell through the online retailer and to have their goods fulfilled by Amazon. | |
| Remember QR Codes? The Leading Reader, Scan, Has Been Downloaded 25 Million Times, Scans 27 Million Codes A Month | Top |
 Something there is that doesn't love a QR code, but that hasn't stopped leading QR code scanner makers Scan from serving up 25 million copies of their software. The company, which currently processes 27 million codes per month, is offering version 2.0 of their product. | |
| Cisimple Launches A Hosted Continuous Delivery Platform For Mobile: Makes Building, Testing And Deployment Easier On Developers | Top |
 Cisimple is a new development platform, launching today, which automates the build, testing and deployment process for mobile applications. The company is offering hosted Continuous Integration for both the iOS and Android platforms to start, with other platforms planned for the future. | |
| OpenShift, Red Hat's Platform-as-a-Service, Headed to the Enterprise | Top |
 Red Hat's OpenShift platform-as-a-service started as a hosted solution for developers. It was, ostensibly, Red Hat dipping its toe into the platform-as-a-service waters. It proved successful enough to keep going. In keeping with Red Hat's open source ethos, the product was released as an open source project called OpenShift Origin. This allowed anyone to deploy and run the Red Hat PaaS on their own hardware. Like most open source projects, though, OpenShift Origin doesn't come with any official support. Today, Red Hat is releasing OpenShift Enterprise, an officially supported version of their PaaS offering designed for enterprise customers. Red Hat had publicly committed to an enterprise version of their OpenShift PaaS earlier this year, and today's news is the first supported release of that effort. As one would expect from a Red Hat product, OpenShift Enterprise is built atop Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and leverages things like cgroups and SELinux. | |
| Interactive Email Platform Providers PowerInbox And ActivePath Join Forces, Raise $10 Million Series A For New, Combined Company | Top |
 PowerInbox, an email platform company which offers interactive email apps for consumers and marketers, has raised a $10 million Series A round jointly led by Atlas Venture, Longworth Partners and Battery Ventures, following the company's merger with NYC-based ActivePath, which offers a similar interactive email solution. | |
| Just In Time For Bowl Season, StatMilk Brings Its Amazing College Football Stats Platform To iOS | Top |
 College football bowl season is finally upon us and with that comes countless bets, wagers and arguments. It's dangerous to go alone. Arm yourself with StatMilk's iOS app. Everyone knows Notre Dame's record. Perfect season. 12-0. But what about their yards per game? Turnovers throughout the season? Attendance on road games? No one knows that stuff - no one but StatMilk. | |
| Location-Based Tour Guide App Stray Boots Raises $2M As It Looks To Expand Mobile Reach | Top |
 Stray Boots, a New York-based startup that got its start delivering guided tour scavenger hunt games to tourists and city dwellers around the world via SMS, and which recently made the move to mobile apps, today announced a new $2 million Series A funding round, led by Milestone Venture Partners and including Correlation Ventures, Great Oaks and a number of angel investors. | |
| Windows 8 App Store Has 3 Times As Many Downloads As Apple's Mac Store, But Only One-Fifth The Revenues, Says Distimo | Top |
 Microsoft made a big push to ensure that when Windows 8 went live in October, the apps in its Windows Store would not disappoint, claiming it would have more apps than any other platform at launch, and then cracking 20,000 apps within the first month. Now, according to new figures from Distimo, the store has followed through with strong download activity: the daily download volume of the top 300 apps is already three times higher than that of the top 300 in the Apple Mac Store. | |
| Mobile Ad Network InMobi Announces Free 'Lifetime Value Platform' To Help Developers Deliver Targeted Content | Top |
 Thanks in part to some recent acquisitions, InMobi has been expanding its services for mobile developers. Its latest feature is something called the Lifetime Value Platform, which will help developers divide their audience into different segments and customize the experience accordingly. In InMobi's words, it's going to be "democratizing the understanding of user behavior." | |
| Google's Speedy-Seller Nexus 4 Smartphone Back In Stock In U.S. Play Store — From Noon PST Today | Top |
 The latest 'Google phone', the LG-made Nexus 4, sold out within minutes of going on sale around the world but Android fans in the U.S. who missed out in the initial sales run are being offered a second bite at the cherry. In an email sent out today, Google says the device will be back in stock on the U.S. version of the Google Play Store from 12:00 noon PST today. | |
| UpTo Brings Its Social Calendar To Android, Signs A Deal With The Cleveland Cavaliers | Top |
 "What are you doing this weekend?" is an everyday inquiry - almost to a fault. UpTo attempts to disrupt this social interaction by making calendars social. And it works, too. By broadcasting part of your calendar, it allows friends, families (and perhaps stalkers) to subscribe to your calendar. Plus, the platform integrates many businesses' calendars, including the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers thanks to a recent partnership. | |
| Resultly Mobile App Keeps You In The Loop On All The Things | Top |
 Our Northern Meetup tour was chock-full of great surprises, but none stand out in my mind like Resultly. It's a mobile app that keeps you up-to-date on... (wait for it...) anything. So let's say you're looking for a job in the fashion industry, or are super interested in the still-developing Apple Maps story, or let's say that you have been waiting to see The Black Keys in concert but shows always seem to sell out before you can grab tickets. Resultly fixes all of that, and all from the comfort of a native app on your iPhone. | |
| Amazon's Kindle Family: Weekend Sales More Than Double On Last Year, Cyber Monday Biggest Of All | Top |
 Amazon has released some detail on Kindle sales over Thanksgiving Weekend: as usual, it's giving no hard numbers but instead providing general buying trends. It says that Kindle device sales more than doubled worldwide, and with discounts running on the Kindle Fire Tablet, Monday was the biggest sales day of all, and overall the whole weekend set a record for the company. | |
| ThinkGeek's USB Portal Sentry Turret Will Protect Your Desk, Cake | Top |
 Chell is standing at the edge of an bottomless pit. She sighs deeply and stares longingly across the void to the immense energy shield. She hoped there is an exit over there. Exit is a funny term, she thought. Though an exit from this room, the door is also an entrance to another puzzle room. Remembering the warning posters a few steps back, she recalled that falling into this pit would mean game over. Death. She doesn't want death. Not yet. She was promised cake. And with cake, comes the meeting of this facility's creator. Then she's find death. | |
| LeadSift Raises $500K To Make Twitter, Foursquare More Fertile Ground For Sales Leads | Top |
 Make way for another company that's helping enterprises make sense of social media. LeadSift, a Canada-based social media startup that helps businesses mine social data on sites like Twitter and Foursquare for sales lead generation, has raised a seed round of $500,000 from Omers Ventures, the fund that invests in other Canada-based social media startups like Hootsuite. The company says that it will use the funds to continue developing its product -- still in beta with a small group of customers -- marketing and staffing. | |
| Nintendo Makes The Wii Mini Official: $99, Lacks Internet And GameCube Compatibility, Canada-Only | Top |
 It's rare that we here in Canada get exclusive access to devices, especially from big manufacturers like Nintendo. But that's apparently what the Wii Mini is, which first surfaced this morning on Best Buy's Canadian website. Nintendo has officially detailed the Wii Mini, which will retail for $99 starting December 7, and is described as a gaming-only system that lacks Internet connectivity. | |
| Apple's Redesigned 21-inch iMac Available November 30, 27-inch Following In December | Top |
 Apple today clarified when it will make the new iMacs available finally, after keeping customers waiting about specific shipping timelines since their unveiling. The 21.5-inch iMac will ship on November 30, Apple said in a press release, with the 27-inch model coming in the more general time frame of "December," with no more specific date attached. | |
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