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- Deezer Takes Aim At Spotify With New App Studio, APIs, Echonest And Songkick Deals And App Updates
- Smartphone Maker HTC Appoints New Chief Marketing Officer: Benjamin Ho To Join In January To Lead "Next Phase"
- U.K. Mobile Shopping Startup, Tapestry, Trials Barcode/NFC Scanning App To Link Shoppers With The Physical Things They Fancy
- Google's Romanian Domain Gets Defaced By Algerian Hacker MCA-CRB
- From The Lab To The Shelf: NYC TechConnect Event Helps Give An Entrepreneurial Boost To The Sciences
- Marc Andreessen Champions Innovation Through Trial and Error, And Error, And Pets.com
- Economic Impact Of Startup Accelerators: $1.6B+ Raised, 4,800+ Jobs Created, 2,000 Startups Funded
- Churn: The Problem Of The New Tech Journalism
- Google's 'Defend Your Net' Campaign Implies That All Of The Internet Is 'Fair Use'
- Mozilla Launches Custom Firefox With MSN Edition
- Ex-Foursquare Designers Focus On Sunrise, Want You To Do More With Your Calendar
- Microsoft Says It Has Sold 40 Million Windows 8 Licenses To Date
- Social Discovery Platform At The Pool Emerges From Beta With Funding, A Redesign & Users In 50 Countries
- Style Site Polyvore Debuts Its First Ever iPhone App, Touts Cash Flow Positive Operations
- Drop Everything Immediately And Make Your Own Gangnam Style Video With JibJab
- Amazon Web Services Expected To Hit $1.5 Billion In Revenues For 2012
- Mihir Shah Is Out As Tapjoy CEO in Surprise Shake-Up. Former Disney Exec Wadsworth Steps In.
- With 6.5M Members, AppTrailers Adds A Free Daily App
- Democratic Whoopsy: Kim Jong-Un and Mohamed Morsey Lead Time's 'Person Of The Year' Poll
- Microsoft Says Many Gmail Users Would Consider Switching To Outlook.com, Launches Android App, Conversation Threading & More
| Deezer Takes Aim At Spotify With New App Studio, APIs, Echonest And Songkick Deals And App Updates | Top |
 Deezer, which earlier this year announced a $130 million round of funding to ramp up its music streaming business internationally. But to make sure that its service can compete against Spotify and others on the product level, today adding a bunch of new bells and whistles: it is launching a new app store called the App Studio and a set of APIs for others to embed the Deezer experience elsewhere; it's partnering with (Spotify's partner) Echonest for music discovery and Songkick for event listings; and it's upgrading its iOS and Android apps. | |
| Smartphone Maker HTC Appoints New Chief Marketing Officer: Benjamin Ho To Join In January To Lead "Next Phase" | Top |
 There's no denying times are tough for smartphone maker HTC, with sliding revenues and shrinking margins -- and no let up expected for Q4. But the company is aiming to put a new public face on its situation next year: it's announced the appointment of a new chief marketing officer, Benjamin Ho, who will join in January -- replacing current CMO, John Wang, who HTC confirmed will be stepping down. | |
| U.K. Mobile Shopping Startup, Tapestry, Trials Barcode/NFC Scanning App To Link Shoppers With The Physical Things They Fancy | Top |
 Tapestry, the latest contender in the fashion-tech startup space, wants to connect a shopper's digital identity with the physical products in the store they're in by using barcode/NFC-scanning smartphone apps which shoppers use to build up a virtual collection/wish-list of items they might like to buy in future that are linked to the retailer's ecommerce database. | |
| Google's Romanian Domain Gets Defaced By Algerian Hacker MCA-CRB | Top |
 Looks like Pakistan is not the only place where major internet companies' domain names can get hacked. This morning, google.ro, was taken over, with the credit being taken by "Algerian Hacker" MCA-CRB, a serial website defacer. The site looked like the picture above for at least an hour, according to our tipster. It still looked like this when I took the screenshot | |
| From The Lab To The Shelf: NYC TechConnect Event Helps Give An Entrepreneurial Boost To The Sciences | Top |
 As funding dwindles across the life sciences industry, researchers at major universities are increasingly adopting the entrepreneurial models forged by the tech world. With help from groups like NYC TechConnect, scientists are taking their inventions and discoveries out of the lab and into the free market. | |
| Marc Andreessen Champions Innovation Through Trial and Error, And Error, And Pets.com | Top |
 This evening at Andreessen Horowitz's offices in Menlo Park, founding partner Marc Andreessen sat down with William Janeway, recent author, to discuss "Capitalism in the Innovation Economy." Janeway is a well-known investor, and theorist in the investment and software world. It's a very small event, but the conversation is lively. It's Q&A style, and Andreessen is firing off questions, clearly the two are pals and have a deep connection. The room will be able to ask questions at some point as well. | |
| Economic Impact Of Startup Accelerators: $1.6B+ Raised, 4,800+ Jobs Created, 2,000 Startups Funded | Top |
 Today, there seem to be more business accelerators than there are startups to fill their classes and cohorts. It seems that not a week goes by without the launch of another accelerator or seed starter fund. In fact, as Peter Relan said in a recent post (riffing on Chris Dixon), accelerators have become an industry segment in their own right. He also goes so far as to surmise that -- just as it is for startups -- 90 percent of accelerators are likely to fail. | |
| Churn: The Problem Of The New Tech Journalism | Top |
 A decade ago, the news cycle for a CE product worked like this: a PR person contacted a major title - Laptop, say, or PC Magazine - and offered an exclusive for a cover story. "Hey," they'd say. "Hot new laptop coming out! It's got that new Wi-Fi!" An early version of the laptop would arrive at the title's office and someone would write a detailed review of it because, let's face it, there was little else to do at the office before the Internet was pervasive. Then, two months later the story would go to press and then maybe end up on some nascent Internet CMS hacked together by a designer after hours. The circle of life, then, for a tech product was about half a year. Plenty of time for back and forth, hand-holding, and handsome product shots. | |
| Google's 'Defend Your Net' Campaign Implies That All Of The Internet Is 'Fair Use' | Top |
 Does the Internet exist to inspire and inform society and therefore limits copyright holders ability to block information? Hidden between the lines of Google's otherwise predictable "Defend Your Net" campaign in Germany, where the legislature may allow publishers to charge for snippets of content on Google search results, is a very intriguing argument: information on the Internet is a public good. | |
| Mozilla Launches Custom Firefox With MSN Edition | Top |
 Mozilla just launched a special customized edition of Firefox for fans of Microsoft's MSN portal. Firefox with MSN comes with MSN as the default home page and automatically opens msnNOW, the memetracker-like version of MSN as a Firefox app tab. And of course, this edition offers an MSN theme and uses Bing as the default search engine instead of Google, which is the standard for regular Firefox releases. | |
| Ex-Foursquare Designers Focus On Sunrise, Want You To Do More With Your Calendar | Top |
 Two of the team of eight designers at Foursquare have recently left to focus on Sunrise, a calendar product to do more with your calendar, with data from Google Calendar, Facebook, LinkedIn and others. They currently offer a daily email and are actively working on the next version. According to them, the calendar can be a very powerful tool and nobody has figured it out yet. | |
| Microsoft Says It Has Sold 40 Million Windows 8 Licenses To Date | Top |
 Microsoft just announced that it has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses so far. This is the first update the company has given since it announced that it had sold 4 million upgrades over the first weekend after Windows 8 went on sale earlier this month. According to Microsoft, "Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades." | |
| Social Discovery Platform At The Pool Emerges From Beta With Funding, A Redesign & Users In 50 Countries | Top |
 At The Pool, a Los Angeles-based social discovery network that aims to be the anti-Facebook (and anti-Twitter for that matter), today announced it has emerged from beta and is in the process of closing a $1 million seed financing round led by Clearstone Venture Partners. Also participating in the investment are a bevy of Los Angeles-based angels, including Buck Jordan of Canyon Creek Capital and existing investors David Carter (a founding member of Amplify), and distinguished professor at UCLA and one of the fathers of ARPANET, Leonard Kleinrock. | |
| Style Site Polyvore Debuts Its First Ever iPhone App, Touts Cash Flow Positive Operations | Top |
 Polyvore, the interactive fashion and style website that lets people create collages of apparel and accessories using images from any online store, has had solid growth since it first came on the scene back in 2007. Its monthly unique visitor count has steadily grown to more than 19 million, and, co-founders Jess Lee and Pasha Sadri tell me, the 55-person company's operations recently went beyond being merely profitable to achieve cash flow positive status. What's kind of surprising is that Polyvore has achieved this kind of scale all without having any native mobile apps. The company has seen a decent amount of traffic from its HTML5-powered mobile website, but having a native app for the iPhone especially has been an oft-requested feature from users for some time now. | |
| Drop Everything Immediately And Make Your Own Gangnam Style Video With JibJab | Top |
 A TechCrunch tradition: wasting time in the office by putting ourselves and coworkers into JibJab videos (and then posting them). They just released a Gangnam Style one, starring you as Psy. Get to it. | |
| Amazon Web Services Expected To Hit $1.5 Billion In Revenues For 2012 | Top |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expected to earn $1.5 billion in revenues this year, but overall the organization still remains under-appreciated as a core asset of Amazon.com. But that may change this week as AWS holds its first conference in Las Vegas. The event should give more attention to an organization that has had arguably the deepest impact on IT and the enterprise software market. | |
| Mihir Shah Is Out As Tapjoy CEO in Surprise Shake-Up. Former Disney Exec Wadsworth Steps In. | Top |
 In a surprise shake-up at mobile app marketing company Tapjoy, CEO Mihir Shah resigned today while a former Disney executive Steve Wadsworth stepped in. There was an all-hands meeting at around 11 a.m. this morning and Mark Leschley, who is now chairman of the board, introduced Wadsworth. Shah wasn't present. Wadsworth had been at Disney for 17 years, working on the company's digital media and technology business, and he oversaw the company's roughly $700 million acquisition of social gaming company Playdom. | |
| With 6.5M Members, AppTrailers Adds A Free Daily App | Top |
 AppTrailers, an app that rewards users for watching videos that promote other apps, just released an update with a new "Free Today" section. The section will highlight one app per day — either a paid app being offered for free or a freemium app with normally a paid virtual that's being provided for free. | |
| Democratic Whoopsy: Kim Jong-Un and Mohamed Morsey Lead Time's 'Person Of The Year' Poll | Top |
 The Internet has a hard time taking things seriously and will happily enact silly vengeance on websites daring enough to leave important tasks up to a vote. Time's coveted "Person of the Year" poll has been hijacked by thousands of pranksters who have voted up the not-so democratic icons, North Korea's Kim Jong-Un and Egypt's Mohamed Morsey. The up votes could be legitimate exercise in satire, punishing Time for even floating the idea of those two in a poll next to Obama and brave political dissidents. But, if Morsey--or worse, Kim--actually wins the poll, Time will have egg on its face (both Kim and Morsey have nearly twice the number of votes as 3rd place). | |
| Microsoft Says Many Gmail Users Would Consider Switching To Outlook.com, Launches Android App, Conversation Threading & More | Top |
 In typical Microsoft fashion, the company just announced a number of momentum numbers for Outlook.com and also launched quite a few new features for its web-based email service at the same time. | |
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