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- R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy
- Basho's Amazon S3 Compatibility Gets Potent Boost With Replication Capabilities For Riak Cloud Storage
- Plyfe Brings Its Brand-Promoting Games To Mobile, Raises $750K
- Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero
- CourseTalk Launches A Yelp For Open Online Courses And What This Means For Higher Education
- AngelPad Debuts 12 New Startups At Its Fall 2012 Demo Day
- Exceptional Buys Ranger To Give A Monitoring Shot In The Arm To Its 'DevOps' Platform
- Start-Up Chile Hosts Its 3rd Demo Day, Announces The 105 Startups In Its Next Class
- Zynga Shares Sink 12% After Renegotiated Partnership With Facebook Makes It Just A Regular Developer
- Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Talks AWS, Innovation, Customer Service & Space Travel At Re: Invent
- More On PeopleBrowsr And Its CEO Jodee Rich, Who Has Been Involved In Long Legal Battles Before
- Kiosked Has A Plan To Change Affiliate Marketing, And It's Starting To Show Up With Angry Birds Merch
- Gift Guide: HTC One X+
- Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Said He Was Hugely Surprised By The Success Of AWS
- TechCrunch Moscow Returns On 9-10 December — Unpacking Russia's Tech Boom
- Meet Rapt.fm, The Startup That Lets Rappers Show Their Skills With Freestyle Battles On The Web
- Zynga Loosens Its Deal With Facebook: No Longer Tied To Facebook Ad Units, Credits, Or Exclusivity
- Google Loves This Third Party Instant Street View Search App, Will They Buy It?
- Keen On… WCIT: Is This The End Of The Internet? [TCTV]
- Video Discovery Startup Squrl Adds Live Video Feeds And Improved Profile Pages To Its iOS Apps
| R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy | Top |
 Whatever it is it is palpable. A sort of buzz in the Valley that all is not well, and a slight nervousness among entrepreneurs, investors and startup employees as they flit about their day-to-day. We may not be in the middle of an outright private market collapse, but there will definitely be fewer tigers and monkeys at this year's holiday parties. The fingernail biting is not just caused by the Series A crunch, which has been happening for a year, although that is definitely a part of it ("20 percent of companies that have gotten a seed round in the last year will be able to raise a Series A" Sarah Lacy wrote on Wednesday, aptly comparing the current jostle for venture money to a game of musical chairs). | |
| Basho's Amazon S3 Compatibility Gets Potent Boost With Replication Capabilities For Riak Cloud Storage | Top |
 Basho Technologies Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) now can be replicated across multiple data centers. The new capability, combined with its existing AWS S3 compatibility, gives a potent boost to the fast growing distributed storage service. | |
| Plyfe Brings Its Brand-Promoting Games To Mobile, Raises $750K | Top |
 Plyfe, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through games and rewards, is moving onto mobile today — Plyfe games can now be played on the company's mobile website, as well as embedded in smartphone apps. The company is also announcing that it has raised $750,000 in bridge funding. The basic idea: Games are a much more engaging way than traditional advertising for brands to reach consumers and fans. | |
| Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero | Top |
 Paypal co-fouder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is Thiel's third investment in Xero. Earlier this year, Thiel and existing investors put $16.6 million into the company. Thiel invested $3 million in New Zealand-founded Xero in 2010. | |
| CourseTalk Launches A Yelp For Open Online Courses And What This Means For Higher Education | Top |
 One of the most popular topics in education technology these days is the subject of MOOCs, otherwise known as Massive Open Online Courses. Thanks to the buzz around MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udacity and edX, there are few universities and colleges that aren't currently struggling with whether or not they should hop on the bandwagon. | |
| AngelPad Debuts 12 New Startups At Its Fall 2012 Demo Day | Top |
 AngelPad, the startup accelerator program founded back in 2010 by ex-Googler and investor Thomas Korte, held its fifth ever Demo Day at its downtown San Francisco headquarters today. The twelve startups that comprised AngelPad's Fall 2012 class each took the stage to give their snappiest three-minute pitches to a very packed room full of the industry's most prominent investors. A bit about the program: AngelPad provides startups with ten weeks full of mentorship from industry veterans that covers all aspects of launching a company along with $20,000 in initial funding to help founders get their products off the ground in the best way possible. | |
| Exceptional Buys Ranger To Give A Monitoring Shot In The Arm To Its 'DevOps' Platform | Top |
 There is some consolidation in the error-tracking/monitoring space. Exceptional, the error-tracking service for cloud developers, has announced the acquisition of the Ranger monitoring service to extend the U.S. company's 'DevOps' platform. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although Exceptional CEO Jonathan Siegel tells me it's a "solid six-figure purchase," and covers the Ranger product (which has just been updated to version 2.0) and existing customer base-only. | |
| Start-Up Chile Hosts Its 3rd Demo Day, Announces The 105 Startups In Its Next Class | Top |
 Start-Up Chile, the government-sponsored startup accelerator, is hosting its 3rd demo day today. The focus of this demo day is on social enterprise and green tech and, for the first time ever, the program partnered with Common Pitch to host today's event. | |
| Zynga Shares Sink 12% After Renegotiated Partnership With Facebook Makes It Just A Regular Developer | Top |
 You might think Zynga's newfound flexibility from the end of its exclusivity agreements with Facebook would encourage investors. Instead, $ZNGA is down 13.36% after-hours, likely because it's lost its special relationship with the social network. Now it can launch games elsewhere and use non-Facebook payments and ads on Zynga.com, but it might stop getting valuable preferred treatment. | |
| Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Talks AWS, Innovation, Customer Service & Space Travel At Re: Invent | Top |
 Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO, took the stage at the company's re: Invent developer conference for a wide-ranging discussion with the company's CTO Werner Vogels about Amazon's web service and retail business, as well as his view about entrepreneurship and his personal projects, such as the 10,000 year clock and the Blue Origin space program. | |
| More On PeopleBrowsr And Its CEO Jodee Rich, Who Has Been Involved In Long Legal Battles Before | Top |
 As you might have heard last night, PeopleBrowsr, the maker of social influence service Kred, has filed legal actions against Twitter for cutting it off of its full firehose of data. It was given a temporary restraining order, which has kept the current data deal in place. Twitter told TechCrunch last night that it had every right contractually to do so, whereas PeopleBrowsr is crying "anti-competitive" practices. | |
| Kiosked Has A Plan To Change Affiliate Marketing, And It's Starting To Show Up With Angry Birds Merch | Top |
 Kiosked, a Finnish startup that raised $5.75 million from Rovio's elusive chairman Kaj Hed after bootstrapping for several years, is finally starting to show off what it's been working on. Naturally, the company's products are starting to appear with Angry Birds merchandise on Rovio's Facebook page. Kiosked is trying to change affiliate marketing by making videos and images more interactive with direct links and e-commerce promotions. The company's technology turns any image or video into a storefront where links to products can pop-in from the right-hand side. | |
| Gift Guide: HTC One X+ | Top |
 Android phones! There are some that I love. The HTC One X was one of those, thanks to a very attractive external package alongside an Android skin (Sense) that had a fairly light touch and didn't mess with most of Android's good features, but brought some nice additional touches to the mix. The HTC One X+ is like the One X, but made better in nearly every important respect. Not surprisingly, that improves my impression of it, too. | |
| Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Said He Was Hugely Surprised By The Success Of AWS | Top |
 Amazon.com Founder and CEO said in a fireside chat at AWS re:Invent with CTO Werner Vogels that he was surprised by the success of Amazon Web Services. Bezos said they were optimistic that AWS would do well, but they did not anticipate such huge growth. | |
| TechCrunch Moscow Returns On 9-10 December — Unpacking Russia's Tech Boom | Top |
 In 2010 we held the first TechCrunch Moscow. We were back last year, and will return again this December with two days packed with speakers and startups. You can register here. Co-organized by Digital October, Kite Ventures, and AOL Tech Media, and backed by numerous partners, the third TechCrunch Moscow will feature some of the world's leading technology entrepreneurs, including Brent Hoberman, founder of Lastminute.com and Mydeco.com, Lukasz Gadowski, founder of Team Europe, Dmitry Stavisky, VP of Evernote, Arkady Volozh, co-founder and CEO of Yandex, Christian Saller, Managing Director of Kayak Europe and many other leading names. | |
| Meet Rapt.fm, The Startup That Lets Rappers Show Their Skills With Freestyle Battles On The Web | Top |
 Rap music has certainly evolved over the decades to become a pretty mainstream thing, but the act of rapping itself is not exactly seen as a commonplace hobby. But Detroit-based entrepreneur Erik Torenberg thinks that's something that should change. According to him, everybody has it inside of them to freestyle rap -- it's a talent that can be tapped into with the right amount of mentorship and practice. And, he says, rapping is a very valuable thing: It's an incredibly effective creative outlet that makes you more confident in expressing your thoughts and feelings. | |
| Zynga Loosens Its Deal With Facebook: No Longer Tied To Facebook Ad Units, Credits, Or Exclusivity | Top |
 Zynga just filed a document with the SEC outlining new terms to its agreement with Facebook. Overall, it seems that Zynga and Facebook establishing a little more distance and flexibility in their relationship, with Zynga being treated more like any other game developer. According to the filing, any "standard Zynga game page" that uses Facebook data will now be governed Facebook's standard terms of service, meaning that games on Zynga's new-ish platform Zynga.com are no longer obligated to use Facebook ad units and Facebook credits. In exchange, Zynga's right to cross-promote its non-Facebook games using Facebook data and email addresses is now "limited by Facebook's standard terms of service." | |
| Google Loves This Third Party Instant Street View Search App, Will They Buy It? | Top |
 When I spoke with one of the leads on Google search a while back, he told me that one of the biggest features to come along for the company was "instant search" and autocomplete. Basically, you didn't have to type out a whole search string before performing said search, which required more thought and brain power. Now when you go to Google, you can type a few letters and it will try and predict what you're looking for based on a number of factors. What if Google Maps worked like this? Today, on its Geo Developers blog, the team highlighted a service that has built it, and it's quite cool. | |
| Keen On… WCIT: Is This The End Of The Internet? [TCTV] | Top |
 Today, the dark day Syria shut down its Internet, web freedom should be at the very forefront of all of our minds. Web freedom was also center stage earlier this week when Stanford Law School hosted an event called "Sticky WCIT: Is This The End Of The Internet." I asked several of the experts attending the event whether a WCIT meeting next week in Dubai might be a big threat to the free flow of digital information. | |
| Video Discovery Startup Squrl Adds Live Video Feeds And Improved Profile Pages To Its iOS Apps | Top |
 Video discovery is becoming a big deal, as startups seek to help users sort through the millions of videos that are now available over the Internet. But until now, the vast majority of video discovery apps have been focused mostly on on-demand video libraries. What about the growing inventory of live video streams appearing in web browsers and on mobile devices? Squrl is trying to help its users find those videos as well, with the latest update to its iPhone and iPad app. | |
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