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Google Loves This Third Party Instant Street View Search App, Will They Buy It? Top
1808636450_1001d8027d_zWhen 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
Screen Shot 2012-11-29 at 1.32.09 PMToday, 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
squrlVideo 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.
 
Apple Will Reportedly Start Selling Unlocked iPhones As Early As Tonight In The U.S. Top
iPhone-5Apple has yet to release the unlocked iPhone 5 in the U.S., even though early on they let images leak depicting pricing of that device on its website. Now a new report from 9t05Mac claims that the company will start selling unlocked iPhones as early as tonight via its online store, with physical retail availability coming shortly thereafter. As we reported at launch, unlocked pricing for the iPhones will be $649, $749 and $849
 
Foursquare's First Designer, Mari Sheibley, Decides To Check Out After Four Years Top
mari-sheibley-560x700In a piece entitled "Farewell Foursquare", its first designer, Mari Sheibley, has let everyone know that she has decided to leave the company. She went on to explain how she first heard from its founder and CEO, Dennis Crowley:
In early December, 2008 I got an email from Dennis Crowley asking if I wanted to help him and his buddy Naveen out on a new "project". I said yes.
 
Google Research: Most Of The Time, The Smartphone You Search For Is The Smartphone You Buy Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-29 at 2.54.21 PMGoogle has just posted research findings on how certain factors affect the launch of a smartphone, with data coming directly from search. According to author Matt Seitz, the senior analytical lead at the Google Agency Blog, searches predict smartphone sales "with over 90 percent correlation throughout the launch cycle." With this data, the search giant has uncovered the most important factors that determine whether or not a smartphone will launch into the arms of millions of adoring fans, or to an audience that either doesn't know the phone exists or simply doesn't care.
 
"In the Studio," Fortune's Dan Primack Dissects The State Of Venture Capital Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-25 at 1.37.52 PM"In the Studio" turns the corner into the winter months by welcoming a career finance journalist with a widely-read and often-cited daily email newsletter and, in my opinion, is the single best writer covering venture capital and private equity today. Fortune's Dan Primack has been covering the world of private equity and venture capital for over a decade. His work speaks for itself, with his daily "Term Sheet" email that reaches nearly everyone in both industries, and his willingness to share his opinions freely and dig and dig to get to the bottom of a story. Primack has a sort of "gumshoe leather" journalistic work ethic, and while he can certainly ruffle feathers (even the feathers of very powerful people) with his work, he has built a loyal following, over many years, that just continues to grow.
 
30M Users Strong, Kik Tries To Preserve Messaging Simplicity While Adding Features With Kik Cards Top
(TWO) 1-1 Convo_ YouTube ContentWaterloo-based mobile messaging app Kik, while immensely successful in its category, faced a problem: once you've nailed cross-platform messaging, and added group features, where do you go from there? Do too much, and you risk watering down the core product, the one that has helped Kik sign up over 30 million registered users who are coming on board at a rate of about 100,000 new user per day. Do too little, and you run the risk of becoming stagnant in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
 
Not To Be Outdone By Amazon, Google Reduces Its Cloud Storage Pricing For 2nd Time In A Week Top
Google Cloud StorageThis is competition at work: earlier this week, Google announced that it would reduce the price of its standard Google Cloud Storage by just a bit over 20%. Then, Amazon announced yesterday that it would reduce the price of its S3 cloud storage service by about 25% across the board. Today, in a somewhat surprising move, Google announced that it would reduce the price of Cloud Storage by yet another 10%, resulting in a total price reduction of over 30% once you include the earlier cut.
 
Content Optimization Platform Parse.ly Scores Biggest Customer Yet With Reuters; Now On Track For Profitability By Q1 2013 Top
parsely_logo_horizontalParse.ly, the content optimization platform for publishers which emerged from stealth in January has been flying under the radar when it comes to press, but has growing the size of its customer base over the past year. The company recently signed one of its largest deals to date, having now added Thomson Reuters to its list of publishing customers, and says that it's now on track to profitability by early next year.
 
Amazon Web Services Launches Data Pipeline, An Orchestration Service For Data-Driven Workflows Top
IMAG2234Amazon Web Services announced AWS Data Pipeline at the re:Invent conference today. The new service is designed to help developers manage applications through a data driven process. With the Data Pipeline, a customer's workflow uses pre-made templates to flow the data to the correct destination.
 
iTunes — It Goes To 11. (In Design, If Not Performance.) Top
aYes, that headline. Obvious. But appropriate. Yes, after much delay (about a month), iTunes 11 is here today. And yes, it is one of the biggest overhauls of the media management service yet. Perhaps the biggest. And yes, it is now better positioned to compete in the era of the cloud. And yes, they even made the icon a bit better. It was back at the iPhone 5 event in September, when Apple first previewed the latest version of iTunes, pointing out many of the new/revised features on stage. But how does it hold up in terms of actual usage? Pretty good. Not perfect. But better than any of the previous versions of the software.
 
Microsoft Finally Talks Surface Pro Pricing: 64GB For $899, 128GB For $999 Top
Surface-1-2Microsoft's Windows RT-powered Surface has been… polarizing to say the least, leaving many a gadget fiend pondering the prospect of buying the more powerful Surface Pro instead. The Redmond-based company has been keeping quiet when it came to the Pro's more salient details, but Microsoft has finally come forward with some new info — the Surface Pro will be available in 64GB and 128GB models in January 2013, which will cost users $899 and $999 respectively.
 
Catch Up With Some Of Last Year's Big Crunchies Winners, More Tickets Available NOW Top
Evernote CrunchiesA year is a long time, especially in the technology world. I can't even remember what I was doing at this particular time last year without looking at my foursquare check-in history...sad, I know. I do know where I was in January, though -- at The Crunchies. I wasn't a part of TechCrunch yet. I attended as a guest while working for The Next Web. I wasn't sure what it was all about, so I definitely wanted to have a look. And I'm glad I did, because it was an experience that I'll cherish forever.
 
Top 5 New Features In iTunes 11: iCloud Integration, New Interface, Up Next, And More Top
itunesApple just released long-awaited iTunes 11. After downloading, users should expect a totally redesigned version. In October, the company said that there would be a one-month delay. Little has changed over the years, but today's new version represents a major milestone and a much needed simplification in some ways.
 
London's Onefinestay Nabs Plum District VP Jackson Hull: File It Under 'Silicon Valley Comes To London For The Realism' Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-29 at 16.51.08London-based 'unhotel' startup, onefinestay, has bagged a West Coast exec as its CTO, convincing him and his family to relocate all the way from the Valley to rainy old London. Jackson Hull, the CTO in question, has clocked up 15 years' tech industry experience. Most recently he was leading the engineering and product teams at San Francisco-headquartered Plum District.
 
Amazon Announces 2 New EC2 Instance Types: Cluster High Memory With 240GB RAM And High Storage With 48TB HDD Space Top
re-invent-amazonAt Amazon's re: Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today, the company's chief technology officer Werner Vogels just announced that the company is launching two new large instance types for its EC2 compute service.
 
Apple Releases iTunes 11, A Major Redesign That Focuses On The Media And Quiets The Noise Top
itunes11Apple's iTunes 11 officially launched to the public today, after an unveiling in September at the iPhone 5 special announcement event. Originally planned for an October release, iTunes 11 required a little more time in the oven to bake. But it's understandable that this release took a little longer than expected: it's a significant change, one of the biggest since the introduction of iTunes.
 
LivingSocial Confirms Layoffs: 400, All But A Couple Dozen In The U.S., 10% Of Workforce Top
livingsocialIt's not only Groupon that is feeling the crunch among daily deal sites: LivingSocial is laying off 400 employees today. There were reports of the layoffs out yesterday from more than one source; the company confirmed the number to TechCrunch in an email just now. "I can confirm that we notified approximately 400 employees today -- all but a couple dozen in the United States -- that their positions are being eliminated," a spokesperson told me. "That's about 10% of our global workforce." The cuts come in sales, customer and merchant services, and the company's takeout/delivery service.
 
Harnessing Music's Technological Future Top
TimWestergrenEditor's note: Tim Westergren is founder and chief strategy officer of Pandora.  As Pandora's listenership has achieved significant scale a very exciting vision is coming into focus for how personalized radio can improve the fundamental dynamics of this industry for artists.
 

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