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- Chill Pivots — Again!! — This Time To Help Creators Sell Videos Directly To Their Fans
- Intel Capital Leads $5M Round In Spain's Indisys: Maker Of Machine-Human Interaction Natural Language Virtual Assistants
- Millennial: Apple Still Leads Samsung In Overall Impressions, But Android Dominates iOS With 52% Share
- WordPress.com Launches Restaurant Vertical As It Pushes Platform Well Beyond Basic Blogging
- Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone
- When Marketing, PR And Technology Collide: Why Is PeopleBrowsr Going After Twitter, Exactly?
- Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101′
- The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem At Groupon
- Court Temporarily Protects PeopleBrowsr Access To Twitter Firehose, Twitter Says It Will 'Vigorously Defend' Itself
- An Interview With Jeroen "Sprite_tm" Domburg, Creator Of The Tiny MAME Arcade Cabinet
- iSchool Campus Wants To Bring The Next-Gen Wired Classroom To K12 Education
- An Interview With Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy
- Spotify Made You Listen To More Music, WillCall Gets You To Go To More Concerts
- Intuit Launches Its Square Competitor In The UK
- Groupon Shares Pop 11.6 Percent After CEO Andrew Mason Defends His Vision And Leadership
- Wefunder Raises $500K To Help Unaccredited Investors Put Money Into Startups
- SRI's Norman Winarsky Says Siri Has Been Stretched 'Beyond Its Initial Capabilities' (But It's Not Apple's Fault)
- Microsoft Reportedly Planning OS X-Style Cheap, Annual Windows Updates
- TiVo Sees Surge In Subscriptions Thanks To Cable Deals; Reports Service Revenues Of $61M, Net Income Of $59M In Q3
- Heyzap Expands Its Mobile Gaming Platform With Leaderboards, Where You Can Challenge Other Players
| Chill Pivots — Again!! — This Time To Help Creators Sell Videos Directly To Their Fans | Top |
 After the success of Louis CK's direct-to-fan specials, video startup Chill is pivoting -- again -- and coming out with a new product that it hopes will provide a new channel for independent content creators to sell their videos in the same fashion. | |
| Intel Capital Leads $5M Round In Spain's Indisys: Maker Of Machine-Human Interaction Natural Language Virtual Assistants | Top |
 Indisys, a Spanish company founded in 2005 which makes natural language virtual assistants and telephone operators to power 24/7 customer services, has raised a new funding round of $5 million, led by Intel Capital. Inveready Technology Investment Group also participated in the round. The investment is Intel Capital's first in Spain -- making it the 54th country the fund has invested in. | |
| Millennial: Apple Still Leads Samsung In Overall Impressions, But Android Dominates iOS With 52% Share | Top |
 Leading mobile ad network Millennial Media today released ist Q3 Mobile Mix report, and it would appear that Apple has kept its lead as top manufacturer on the platform, with the top device being the iPhone. However, Apple didn't see a drastic spike in mobile ad impressions with the release of the iPhone 5, as was expected. Apple accounted for 31.45 percent of overall device impressions, up from 31.38% in Q2, and the iPhone the number one device on the platform with 16.04 percent of impressions, up from 15.84 last quarter. | |
| WordPress.com Launches Restaurant Vertical As It Pushes Platform Well Beyond Basic Blogging | Top |
 Restaurants are kind of notorious for having painful web experiences -- either with websites that are horribly basic and out of date, or needlessly souped up with music and Flash animation. So it was good news today when web publishing stalwart WordPress.com rolled out a new set of templates specifically aimed at helping restaurants build clean, useful websites that can be easily accessed from both desktop and mobile devices. | |
| Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone | Top |
 Whether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it's hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational video-producing machine, or that the platform continues to diversify. In part, that started with the release of its iPad app in March. This week, Khan Academy brought its 3,600 videos to the iPhone. | |
| When Marketing, PR And Technology Collide: Why Is PeopleBrowsr Going After Twitter, Exactly? | Top |
 So, this was bound to happen. A company that built itself on top of someone else's data lost access to it. And sued. I was sucked into the ploy at first, the whole "Klout but better for the people!" thing. | |
| Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101′ | Top |
 When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter provided a terse response saying that it plans to "vigorously defend" itself in the broader legal case. Now the company has given me its actual filing in response to PeopleBrowsr — technically, the filing focuses on the restraining order (an issue on which Twitter lost), but it also lays out the other side of the story, and some of Twitter's broader arguments. | |
| The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem At Groupon | Top |
 In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart team that included several relatively prominent ex-Googlers. It was one of a series of acqui-hire deals Groupon executed as part of its strategy to staff up its Silicon Valley office with the best engineers money can buy. | |
| Court Temporarily Protects PeopleBrowsr Access To Twitter Firehose, Twitter Says It Will 'Vigorously Defend' Itself | Top |
 PeopleBrowsr, the maker of social analytics tools such as Kred, has won a temporary restraining order against Twitter, allowing the company to maintain full access to Twitter's firehose of data. The victory for PeopleBrowsr is short-term, but it does mean that the company won't be cut off on November 30, which is what PeopleBrowsr says Twitter was threatening. Temporary restraining orders are usually granted until the court is ready to decide on a preliminary injunction (which would last until the case is decided). The hearing to discuss the injunction is scheduled for January 8. | |
| An Interview With Jeroen "Sprite_tm" Domburg, Creator Of The Tiny MAME Arcade Cabinet | Top |
 When I first saw this tiny gaming cabinet this morning, I was fascinated. Who was the creator, Sprite_tm, and why did he do such and excellent and thorough job of turning a tiny Rasberry Pi device into a little gaming cabinet? In short, how did he get inspired as a maker? | |
| iSchool Campus Wants To Bring The Next-Gen Wired Classroom To K12 Education | Top |
 Technology is increasingly becoming a part of the classroom experience, particularly thanks to smart devices. Tablets and iPads offer students a more portable, engaging and interactive experience than many of the tools of old, and schools are catching on. The San Diego School District's recent purchase of 26,000 iPads is just one of many recent examples of districts and states pushing to deploy tablets in their schools. | |
| An Interview With Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy | Top |
 I interviewed Amazon Web Services Senior Vice President Andy Jassy today at the AWS re:Invent conference. Before the interview I asked my Twitter followers for questions to ask. I could not use all of the questions but I've included a few here to give you a snapshot of the full recording, which is embedded below. | |
| Spotify Made You Listen To More Music, WillCall Gets You To Go To More Concerts | Top |
 In 1996, people in the U.S. bought about 2.3 albums per year. Today, thanks to services like Spotify and Rdio, some of us listen to that many albums a day. Last-minute concert ticket app WillCall wants to make live music just as accessible. This week it released version 1.5 of its iOS app, which focuses on delivering push notifications to your feeds about what shows your friends are going to. | |
| Intuit Launches Its Square Competitor In The UK | Top |
 Financial software giant Intuit offers a Square-competitor, GoPayment, which allows users in the U.S. and Canada to accept payments via a reader that attaches to any smartphone. Today, Intuit is expanding across the pond with the launch of a mobile card reader in the UK; however, the offering has a different name--Intuit Pay. | |
| Groupon Shares Pop 11.6 Percent After CEO Andrew Mason Defends His Vision And Leadership | Top |
 Groupon shares (NASDAQ:GRPN) closed at 4.42, 11.62 percent above yesterday's level. CEO Andrew Mason's interview was highly anticipated today. Yesterday, AllThingsD reported that the board questioned Mason's vision. | |
| Wefunder Raises $500K To Help Unaccredited Investors Put Money Into Startups | Top |
| Another crowd funding startup has entered the mix, and is announcing funding today (which was raised via its own platform, of course). Crowd investing startup Wefunder is announcing a $530,000 seed round from just under 60 investors, over half of whom are unaccredited. Nihal Mehta, Jim Pallotta, Dharmesh Shah, and Bill Warner also participated in the round. | |
| SRI's Norman Winarsky Says Siri Has Been Stretched 'Beyond Its Initial Capabilities' (But It's Not Apple's Fault) | Top |
 Norman Winarsky, vice president of SRI Ventures, offered his thoughts today on how Apple has handled the acquisition and subsequent relaunch of Siri as an integrated service in iOS. He was diplomatic about some of the criticism Siri has received, while also acknowledging the service has some real shortcomings. For those of you not familiar with Siri's history, the startup actually spun out of SRI, andit was based on technology developed there, and Winarsky was on Siri's board of directors. So when Winarsky answered questions from reporters this afternoon at Bloomberg's San Francisco office, it was inevitable that someone would ask about what Apple has done with the technology. | |
| Microsoft Reportedly Planning OS X-Style Cheap, Annual Windows Updates | Top |
 Microsoft might be figuring out that the best way to get users to use its product isn't by charging an arm and a leg for updates and releasing them only once every few years. Redmond is reportedly switching to an approach like that taken by rival Apple, delivering inexpensive, annual updates that are less dramatic but which are designed to get all users on board a unified platform. | |
| TiVo Sees Surge In Subscriptions Thanks To Cable Deals; Reports Service Revenues Of $61M, Net Income Of $59M In Q3 | Top |
 TiVo reported solid third-quarter financials thanks to subscription growth from MSOs and payments in litigation it settled with Verizon earlier this year. It reported service and technology revenues of $61 million, which was up 18 percent from a year ago. It also reported net income of $59 million, which was bolstered by $78.4 million from litigation proceeds due to the Verizon settlement. | |
| Heyzap Expands Its Mobile Gaming Platform With Leaderboards, Where You Can Challenge Other Players | Top |
 Heyzap continues to build out its social platform with the addition of player leaderboards that developers can add to their mobile games. Other companies have released their own leaderboard options, most notably OpenFeint — except that the OpenFeint service is closing down on December 14, following its acquisition by GREE in April of last year. So there's a bit of a vacuum. Plus, co-founder Jude Gomila said Heyzap's version is more focused on friends' scores and more engagement. | |
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