Thursday, November 29, 2012

Y! Alert: TechCrunch

Yahoo! Alerts
My Alerts

The latest from TechCrunch

Syria Shuts Down Internet In Midst Of Uprising, Mobile Services And Land Lines Partially Down Top
Damascus_from_QasiyonAccording to multiple Internet monitoring services, Syrian authorities has cut off Internet. In the capital city Damascus, mobile services and land lines are affected as well. The news comes as an uprising has shaken the country for months, with an opposition trying to get together to face president and dictator Bashar al Assad.
 
Microsoft Trolls The Trolls In Latest IE10 Ad Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-29 at 10.27.51 AMThe folks at Microsoft have just released a clever commercial for Internet Explorer 10, the latest version of the company's once dominant web browser which has seen great competition from Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox over the past few years. The ad puts your in the perspective of a true troll — dual-screens, a windowless room, old take-out boxes, and a penchant for spewing hate anonymously — and this troll hates IE10 (and Internet Explorer on the whole) with vehemence. Throughout the ad, you see this dude follow the news on IE10, like any good troll would. Each time Microsoft posts something good ("IE10 is now on Xbox 360" or "Gizmodo hearts IE10") our protagonist stands firm in his belief system, that IE10 has lost relevance.
 
Koopedia Aims To Ditch The Greed In Daily Deals Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-29 at 10.16.37 AMKoopedia, which sounds like an early edition of the Mario Brother's Encyclopedia, is actually a daily deals site with a twist. Business owners, instead of entering into a draconian deal with the site, pay $19 per month to post as many deals as they like. They can also pay $9 for a week of deals or $199 for the year. Then, when customers buy they deal, they pay $1 to Koopedia and then pay the remainder to the merchant direction. The merchants control the deals entirely and the site makes its money through these small fees and not a commission.
 
Scrappy Cloud-Hosted Emailer Mailjet Raises $3.3 Million Top
mailjetCloud emailing service Mailjet, which competes with more established outfits like  SendGrid, Postmark, MailChimp and Mailgun, has raised $3.3 million from Alven Capital and private investors, the company is announcing today. Previously, Mailjet had just $300,000 from e-Founders on hand to finance its operations.
 
Xbox Music's Ad-Based Revenue Model Takes Shape: Triton (Pandora's Partner) Appointed For Audio Ads And Analytics Top
xbox musicXbox Music, Microsoft's streaming music competitor to Spotify and iTunes that began to roll out to Xbox and Windows-powered devices in October, today filled in one part of the picture for how it will make revenues from the free portion of the service. Triton Digital has been appointed to provide audio advertising for it. Triton will also provide audience analytics so that Microsoft can make better sense of what platforms consumers are using and what music they're consuming.
 
Basis Takes On Jawbone, Nike, Finally Launches Its Impressive $199 Health Tracking Band Top
Screen shot 2012-11-29 at 4.31.31 AMFor Quantified Self devotees, data hounds and fitness enthusiasts, it's a good time to be alive. Recent improvements in sensor technology, battery life and connectivity (and lower costs) have given rise to a slew of wearable gadgets and apps that make it easy to track and make sense of our health data. Yet, as the space heats up and gets noisier, some have begun to ask: Do we really need another fitness watch? Basis, the makers of a new wrist-based health tracker, think so.
 
Zapstreak Goes Global With Public SDK Launch For Its AirPlay For Android Solution Top
shortbeamPoznan, Poland-based startup Zapstreak has just brought its AirPlay-style media streaming solution for Android out of beta, making the SDK it provides available to developers worldwide after a six-month extended testing period. The company's tech allows Android developers to build music, video or picture-streaming right into their app. But will new options change Zapstreak's chances at success?
 
Online Fitness Startup Wello Raises $1 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Others To Provide Live Video Training Sessions Top
Wello-LogoWello makes personal fitness easy and affordable, by providing low-cost training session by video over the Internet. Now it's raised a $1 million seed round of financing from investors in healthcare incubator Rock Health, such as Kleiner Perkins, Mohr Davidow, Aberdare Ventures, and Mayo Ventures. Others include Morado Ventures, S-Cubed Capital, PhilQuo Ventures, and other angels.
 
With An Improved Design, Navigation & Social Features, Wavii's Rebuilt iPhone App Is Like A Facebook News Feed For Actual News Top
Wavvi-Main-feedSeattle-based Wavii, the news aggregation startup that finally launched into public beta this April after years of stealth mode, is today unveiling an entirely new product with today's debut of Wavii 2.0 for iPhone. The app has been completely rebuilt from the ground-up, and now introduces a number of new and improved elements, including better news feeds, social interactions, an improved sign-up process, and more.
 
Barnes & Noble Beats Fiscal Q2 2013 Estimates, Reports $1.9 Billion In Revenue And Losses Of $0.04 Per Share Top
bn-logoLiterary retailer Barnes and Noble reported its fiscal Q2 2013 earnings this morning, and they're just a bit stronger than some had forecasted in the days leading up to the release. The company reported a loss of $0.04 per share on quarterly revenues of $1.9 billion (down 0.4% from the year-ago quarter) -- analysts on the other hand expected to see losses of about $0.09 per share on revenues of $1.88 billion.
 
After 3.5M Downloads Of Its iPhone App, Etsy Finally Goes To The iPad Top
etsy ipadDesigner marketplace Etsy has not been an early mover when it comes to mobile, only releasing an iPhone app last year. Despite the late arrival, Etsy has picked up a strong following anyway, with 3.5 million downloads to date. Now it is looking to capitalize on that with a new iPad app.
 
Rounds Social Video Chat App Goes Mobile, Recreates Hangout Feel With Shared YouTube Viewing, Photo Uploads Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-29 at 8.07.18 AMSocial video chat app Rounds has reason to be proud: the company has raised a total of $5 million in funding and now has more than six million users across the breadth of its platform, which includes Facebook, Chrome, and desktop. Today, however, the company is launching a brand new mobile app for the first time called Rounds Video Chat Hangout. Along with facilitating a standard video chat, the Hangout app lets users who are already spending time together (in the real world) continue to interact on their phone.
 
First Look At The Scanadu SCOUT, A Gadget To Bring Your Vital Sign Data To Your Smartphone Top
Scandu_Wht_wBlkTrim_r1It was a year ago that Scanadu first came on the scene after raising some $2 million for a very interesting idea: Bringing the ability to monitor and track your body's vital signs to a portable and inexpensive device that connects to your smartphone. The idea is that Scanadu will let you own and control your own health data in the same way that you monitor other aspects of your life -- to "check your body as often as you check your email," so to speak.
 
Fantastical Lands On iPhone With A Calendar App Tailor-Made For Mobile Schedule Management Top
IMG_0056The iPhone's Calendar app is pretty good overall, and that's something that even Fantastical creator and Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons admitted to in an interview regarding the launch of Fantastical for iPhone today. But "pretty good" also means there's plenty of room for improvement, and that's where Simmons and co-founder Kent Sutherland saw opportunity.
 
NPD: U.S. Windows Device Sales Down 21% On Last Year; Windows 8 Tablet Sales "Almost Non-Existent" Top
ASUS_EeePadTransformer_4.jpg-88df512f8e5aeab3Microsoft earlier this week made a point of noting that there have been 40 million downloads of Windows 8 since it launched a month ago, putting it ahead of where Windows 7 was at the same point in its sales cycle. But according to figures out today from NPD, in the midst of an overall slowdown in PC sales, this is not translating into robust hardware sales in the influential U.S. market.
 
Deal Management Startup CapLinked Raises $1.6M From FF Angel, 500 Startups, Others Top
caplinked logoCapLinked, a startup offering online workspaces for managing business deals, says that it has raised $1.6 million in Series A funding. The funding comes from FF Angel (the seed-stage fund operated by Founders Fund), Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund managing partner Peter Thiel, former Bertelsmann executive Andrej Henkler, and Alexsis de Raadt-St. James, chairman of the Althea Foundation. (I asked which investor led the round, but co-founder and CEO Eric Jackson told me that the company isn't sharing any more details.) CapLinked has now raised a total of $2.5 million.
 
Acquia Lands $30 Million Series E To Scale Out Its Enterprise Drupal Development Platform Top
Acquia logoAcquia, the company that makes a suite of software tools for the open source web development and content management system Drupal, has secured $30 million in a fresh new round of funding. The round, which serves as Acquia's Series E, was led by Investor Growth Capital
 
HealthTap Buys Avvo's Health Business, Looks To Become The Go-To Resource For Medical Advice, Info Top
Screen shot 2012-11-29 at 1.43.15 AMInstead of anxiously searching Google or WebMD, people would rather turn to a real human being for answers to their pressing health questions -- preferably one who's been to school for 10 years. The problem is, of course, that visits to the doctor's office cost money. Plus, you need an appointment and you'll probably sit in a waiting room. Wellsphere's Ron Gutman founded HealthTap in 2010 to give anyone and everyone the opportunity to consult with human doctors in realtime, for free.
 
The iPhone 5 Clears Its Final Regulatory Hurdle For Launch In China Top
apple china shanghaiThings seem to be on track for the iPhone 5 to meet its December release timeline in Greater China, since the device has now received approval for the final piece in the regulatory puzzle required for it to go on sale. The Wall Street Journal reports that it has now obtained its "network access" license, and the notice mentions China Telecom by name, though not a version of the phone that would work with China Unicom.
 
Microsoft Puts $250M More Into Its Ed-Tech Program, Partners In Learning; Wants Provide 20M Teachers With "21st Century Skills" Top
microsoft-new-logo-2012Microsoft today added another $250 million to its Partners In Learning Project, a global professional development program it has created to equip teachers with the skills they need to teach IT and other future-looking subjects. Microsoft has been running this program since 2003 and to date has invested $750 million in the project.
 

CREATE MORE ALERTS:

Auctions - Find out when new auctions are posted

Horoscopes - Receive your daily horoscope

Music - Get the newest Album Releases, Playlists and more

News - Only the news you want, delivered!

Stocks - Stay connected to the market with price quotes and more

Weather - Get today's weather conditions




You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use this link to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences. To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)