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Just In Time For Bowl Season, StatMilk Brings Its Amazing College Football Stats Platform To iOS Top
mzl.mmhfcigf.320x480-75College 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. 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
straybootsStray 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
windows-8-logoMicrosoft 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
INMOBI LOGOThanks 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." As for how the LTVP compares to the many other mobile app analytics and messaging services (for example, not only does Urban Airship offer messaging infrastructure, it also announced audience segmentation earlier this year), an InMobi spokesperson argued, "Unlike other products in the market which just stop at providing analytics, this platform enables developers to understand their users and deliver targeted actions in real time, without having to resubmit the app to the App Store."
 
Google's Speedy-Seller Nexus 4 Smartphone Back In Stock In U.S. Play Store — From Noon PST Today Top
nexus-4-google-nowThe 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
UpTo Cavs Stream"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
Screen Shot 2012-11-27 at 8.20.23 AMOur 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 logoAmazon 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
ee85_portal2_sentry_turret_usb_desk_defender_pkgChell 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
leadsift logoMake 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
whatbox-wiiconsoleIt'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
designApple 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.
 
Google Returning Month Of December To Nexus Devices With Android 4.2.1 OTA Update Top
calendar-bug-androidGoogle is in the process of rolling out Android 4.2.1 to at least Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 devices as an over-the-air update. The minor update brings a fix for an embarrassing omission on Google's part: The month of December. December was left out of the People app, meaning it couldn't be chosen as either a birthday or anniversary for contacts on Android 4.2 devices.
 
Like Mobile Shopping, Mobile Games Traffic Surges Worldwide During Thanksgiving Holiday Top
ThanksgivingSurge_Chartboost_11262012Americans weren't just buying things online during last week's holiday. According to new numbers from Chartboost, they were also glued to their mobile devices playing games, with those types of mobile software titles experiencing surges in traffic, as measured by sessions per day, and also with cost per install (CPI) going up outside the U.S., but experiencing a small dip within the country.
 
Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition To Help Kids Learn To Code While They Build Top
raspberry-pi-logoThe Raspberry Pi Foundation is on a mission to get more kids to learn to code -- and what better way to get children excited about the power of programming than by involving virtual block-builder game Minecraft? The Foundation is aiming to release a free version of Minecraft: Pi Edition by the end of the year which will allow kids to use text commands to control the world.
 
Kantar Worldpanel: Apple Shoots Back To Top Of U.S. Smartphone Sales On An iPhone 5 Rocket, Android Leading Elsewhere Top
rocket launch (via tumblr)Samsung may be be the world's most popular smartphone brand, but in the influential U.S. market, Apple has climbed back to the top of the pack on the strength of its iPhone 5 sales. According to the latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP market research subsidiary, Apple's newest smartphone accounted for just over 48% of all smartphone sales in the country, letting it get past Android -- which, across all the different devices running on the platform -- accounted for 46.7% of sales in the last 12 weeks ending October 28.
 
Hot Startups In The City Of Gaudi — TechCrunch Barcelona Meetup, December 13 Top
architectureWhile a lot of heat has been generated around the startup scenes in London and Berlin, Barcelona has been slowly growing a scene focused both on the Spanish and Latin American markets and a new generation of internationally focused startups. Not unlike Berlin, the tech scene over the years has attracted international people drawn by the proximity to Europe's main hubs and, let's face it, the amazing weather and lifestyle. And although Spain's economic troubles have affected the Catalan capital, the Barcelona city council and a number of local entrepreneurs have been whipping up a great new scene with a number of initiatives like District 22@, the Barcelona Tech Bridges to Silicon Valley networking events, and BarcelonaIO. That's why we are putting together a TechCrunch Mini Meetup there on December 13, and we want investors and startups to come.
 
The Rising Science Of Social Influence — How Predictable Is Your Online Behaviour? Top
peerindexpostTechcrunch recently ran a piece by Michael Wu of Lithium. The following is a response written by Ferenc Huszar, who, prior to joining Peer Index PeerIndex as lead data scientist, was was a PhD student at the Machine Learning Lab at Cambridge University. Quantifying aspects of human behaviour and social phenomena has never been simple. But in today's world, one thing is inescapable. We are creating a new market and ecosystem of personal preferences and patterns of influence. We are creating an exponential amount of data - 3.2bn likes and comments per day, over 400m tweets per day, and rapidly being joined by Pins and Cinema.grams. We are connected in some way to more people than ever in history - an average of 229 friends of Facebook, the ability to be magnified to hundreds of thousands or millions on Twitter.
 
Backed By $500K From Battery Ventures, Science Inc.'s Fresh Dish Launches Ready-To-Cook Dinner Kits Delivered To Your Door Top
FD_LOGOFresh Dish, a new food delivery startup incubated by Science and backed by $500,000 in seed funding from Battery Ventures, is today launching its online ordering website, soon to be followed by an iOS application. Unlike restaurant delivery services, Fresh Dish isn't about ordering ready-to-eat meals from local eateries, but rather ready-to-cook meals which can be prepared in under 30 minutes.
 
Nintendo's Wii Mini Tipped By Best Buy Canada For December 7 Release Top
nintendo-wii-miniSony's PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360 have both seen physical hardware design changes in their many years on the market, but the Wii has remained mostly the same Wii since its launch, with a minor update last year that made it slightly smaller. Now that Nintendo has released the Wii U, however, it looks like a bigger change is on the way for its older console, called the Wii Mini.
 

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