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- Gift Guide: Victorinox Dive Master 500 Dive Watch
- Network Giants Argue In Appeals Court: Aereo Should Be Treated Like A Cable Company
- A First Look At The 2012 21.5-inch iMac, And How It Compares To Generations Past
- Foundation Video: Melody McCloskey Of StyleSeat On Getting Investors Involved In A Beauty Startup
- Video: How Reddit Was Born
- London-Based Social Media Marketing Platform, Footfall123, Raises £1.7M Series A; Backers Include Samos, Venrex
- Capital One Acquires Bundle, A Data-Driven Local Business Directory
- High Profile UK VC Stefan Glaenzer Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction
- Apple Vets Carriers For 4G Performance Before Allowing iPhone 5 To Be Sold As An LTE Device
- Teburu Debuts An Android-Based Online & Mobile Ordering Platform For Restaurants
- Roozz Aims To Be The Spotify, And Maybe The Hulu, For Traditional Software
- The Netflix For Designer Clothes, Rent The Runway Raises $20M From Vogue-Publisher Condé Nast And Kleiner Perkins
- Apple's iPad Mini And 4th Gen iPad Arrive In China December 7, iPhone 5 Follows December 14
- Google Play Narrowing The Gap On iOS For Mobile Revenue, But iOS Still Brings In 4X The Money
- Two Reasons For RIM To Be Cheerful: U.K., Spanish Teens Still Love BlackBerrys (Well, They're Cheaper Than iPhones)
- iPhone 5 Now Cleared For Sale On China Unicom's Network, Too
- 'If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It': EU Adds Its Voice To The Chorus Opposing More Internet Regulation Ahead Of Key ITU Dubai Meeting
- UK's House Of Lords Summons Facebook And Google To Talk Convergence And Media Power
- Opera Maps Global Mobile Social Network Usage: Facebook Most Frequently Visited On Phones In Macau, Twitter In Paraguay
- R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy
| Gift Guide: Victorinox Dive Master 500 Dive Watch | Top |
| As one of TechCrunch's resident watch fans, I was intrigued by the Victorinox Dive Master 500, a fairly unique automatic watch that brings the best of the Swiss mechanical along with styling reminiscent of some of the better divers. The build is solid, the 43mm case is well-polished, and the face is very legible. Interestingly, I'd actually recommend this for a fairly adventurous lady who is looking for something a little more rugged - and handsome - than the traditional sport watch. | |
| Network Giants Argue In Appeals Court: Aereo Should Be Treated Like A Cable Company | Top |
 Today the Southern District Court of NY heard the oral argumentsfrom Fox, ABC, Univision and a handful of other cable broadcast providers who wish to see streaming network TV startup Aereo's business shut down. This is just the latest development in an unwinding legal battle over whether the startup's service, which uses hundreds of tiny antennas to stream live and recorded TV to internet-connected devices, is infringing the networks copyrights. The plaintiffs switched gears a bit today, focusing on Aereo's existence as a retransmission service rather than focusing on the DVR-like functionality of the service. | |
| A First Look At The 2012 21.5-inch iMac, And How It Compares To Generations Past | Top |
 The new iMac all-in-one desktop computer from Apple goes on sale today, and it includes a significant hardware redesign. Apple has cut bulk and thinned out the edges with a tapered design that is only 5 mm thick at the edge. Leaving aside what's new under the hood, the case itself is impressive enough that it merits a good look. Here's what the new 21.5-inch version of the iMac looks like, and how it stacks up to other Apple hardware, past and present. | |
| Foundation Video: Melody McCloskey Of StyleSeat On Getting Investors Involved In A Beauty Startup | Top |
 In the most recent episode of my Foundation video series, I sat down with the founder of StyleSeat, Melody McCloskey. Melody shares how her frustration with finding a stylist inspired her to build the platform. She also talks through the challenges of reaching an audience who isn't in front of a computer all day and how the web helps them grow their business and improve their client relationships. | |
| Video: How Reddit Was Born | Top |
 There are only a few founders that I really like and Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian are two of them. These lads, with their bright-eyed charm and genuinely nice personalities, created Reddit in 2005 with the help of Paul Graham and Y Combinator. This video by ATotalDisruption tells that story quite well and is a must-see for all young entrepreneurs and media types. | |
| London-Based Social Media Marketing Platform, Footfall123, Raises £1.7M Series A; Backers Include Samos, Venrex | Top |
 London-based social media marketing platform, Footfall123, which offers a variety of digital marketing management tools for brands and retailers to run promotions through Facebook or via other digital channels, has raised a new Series A funding round of £1.7 million. Backers include VC firms Samos and Venrex, as well as a group of angels -- including Ed Wray, founder of Betfair. | |
| Capital One Acquires Bundle, A Data-Driven Local Business Directory | Top |
 Capital One has acquired the New York-based Bundle Corporation, which first launched back in 2010 as an online tool allowing users to compare their spending habits with others like them. The company aimed to serve as an alternative to local review websites like Yelp by instead offering rankings based on where people actually spent their money, as sourced from anonymous, aggregated consumer spending data. | |
| High Profile UK VC Stefan Glaenzer Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction | Top |
 The London tech startup scene has been rocked today by revelations that a major investor is facing jail after being convicted of sexually harassing women on the London Underground Tube network. Multi-millionaire Stefan Glaenzer, the former chairman of music streaming site Last.fm and co-founder of the highly active Passion Capital VC fund and the tech cluster of White Bear Yard in Clerkenwell, was said to be under the heavy influence of cannabis at the time, a court heard. German-born Glaenzer, 51 - a former dance DJ for 15 years prior to co-founding Ricardo.de - admitted in court that he had "smoked drugs for some considerable time" and that at the time of the incident he was "on a drugs binge" but that his behaviour had never previously lead to "anything like this." | |
| Apple Vets Carriers For 4G Performance Before Allowing iPhone 5 To Be Sold As An LTE Device | Top |
 Apple wants to ensure that customer experience with its iPhone 5 lives up to what the company is promising, and it will take strong measures to do so, including telling carriers when they can and can't make the phone's LTE capabilities available to subscribers. Generally speaking, carriers test to ensure devices meet their own network standards, but Apple seems to be in a strong enough position to be able to reverse that relationship. | |
| Teburu Debuts An Android-Based Online & Mobile Ordering Platform For Restaurants | Top |
 Teburu, a newly launched tablet-based online and mobile ordering system for restaurants, is now live with a handful of restaurant chains in the Southern U.S, including Gondolier Pizza, Pita's Republic, and Little Greek Restaurant, and it has also recently signed a contract with a large, undisclosed Middle Eastern restaurant management company with 600 locations. | |
| Roozz Aims To Be The Spotify, And Maybe The Hulu, For Traditional Software | Top |
 Cloud services have been entering the mainstream, especially in the enterprise, for a while now, and even major players are dabbling with converting what was traditional "product software" into "services". Take Xbox 360 now offering pay-as-you-go Karaoke or Adobe experimenting with rental models. Seattle-based Spoon.net, which develops application virtualization software technology, does just this, and recently added support for Windows 8. They overall idea is that users can convert existing EXE applications into web apps. Now Danish company Roozz, which allows software publishers to make their titles available for rental as a cloud service, says it has gone from 500,000 to 1 million downloads of its proprietary browser plugin which let's users access normally desk-bound software via a browser. | |
| The Netflix For Designer Clothes, Rent The Runway Raises $20M From Vogue-Publisher Condé Nast And Kleiner Perkins | Top |
 Rent The Runway, a Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry, has raised $20 million in funding led by Condé Nast Publications, with all existing investors participating in the fundraising round including Bain Capital Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. To date, Rent the Runway had raised more than $51 million in venture capital. | |
| Apple's iPad Mini And 4th Gen iPad Arrive In China December 7, iPhone 5 Follows December 14 | Top |
 Apple has just announced the official release date of the iPad mini, 4th generation iPad and iPhone 5 in China. The tablets will go on sale next Friday, December 7 in that country, and the iPhone 5 will arrive on December 14, a week afterwards. This comes following news that the iPhone 5 has met all the regulatory requirements in China it needed to go on sale. | |
| Google Play Narrowing The Gap On iOS For Mobile Revenue, But iOS Still Brings In 4X The Money | Top |
 According to a new report from mobile app analytics firm App Annie, Google's Play software store is gaining on rival Apple's iOS app marketplace. The revenue gulf between the two stores is often cited as a reason why Apple is able to attract more top-tier developers and quality titles, so a lessening of the gap between the two in that respect is particularly significant. | |
| Two Reasons For RIM To Be Cheerful: U.K., Spanish Teens Still Love BlackBerrys (Well, They're Cheaper Than iPhones) | Top |
 BlackBerrys are still wildly popular with a certain cash-strapped sub-set of mobile users in parts of Europe: namely teenagers. A wide-ranging research report looking at mobile users' habits in France, Spain and the U.K found that BlackBerry penetration amongst teenagers in the UK and Spain was two and three times higher respectively than the overall "mobile media user" population. | |
| iPhone 5 Now Cleared For Sale On China Unicom's Network, Too | Top |
 The iPhone 5 received its final regulatory approval, the crucial "network access license" from China yesterday, but the original report of that news from the Wall Street Journal only found approval for the China Telecom version of the device. Now, however, Chinese news sources report that the iPhone 5 variant which works with China Unicom has also received network access approval. | |
| 'If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It': EU Adds Its Voice To The Chorus Opposing More Internet Regulation Ahead Of Key ITU Dubai Meeting | Top |
 The European Union today became the latest official body to back an open Internet, ahead of a important United Nations meeting to update Internet and telecoms regulation for the first time in 24 years. The International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency, is meeting in December in Dubai for the World Conference On International Telecommunications to revise the International Telecommunication Regulation treaty. In the lead up, several countries, and even some private companies, have been lobbying for changes that would see nations get more control of how the internet is used in their countries. | |
| UK's House Of Lords Summons Facebook And Google To Talk Convergence And Media Power | Top |
 The UK's House of Lords has summoned senior figures from Facebook and Google in their ongoing investigation into media convergence, media power and how this should be regulated in the future. The Communications Committee, which is leading the investigation, will be meeting Simon Milner, policy director at Facebook, and Sarah Hunter, Google's head of UK public policy, along with Edward Rousell, the executive editor of digital for the Telegraph Media Group. The committee has in the past also taken evidence from Virgin Media Group, Channel 4 and the BBC, but these will be the first sessions at which pure-play internet companies will also participate. | |
| Opera Maps Global Mobile Social Network Usage: Facebook Most Frequently Visited On Phones In Macau, Twitter In Paraguay | Top |
 Browser maker Opera has released its 2012 State of the Mobile Web report which measures social networking popularity by looking at the number of Opera Mini users who visit them. Data is aggregated from the servers powering the browser's data compression -- enabling the company to build up an (anonymous) picture of the mobile social web across more than 190 countries. | |
| 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). | |
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