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Turntable.fm Moves The Concert From A Club To A Stadium Top
tumblr_mdgtg9l35z1r0f2iho1_1280Turntable.fm, my music streaming service of choice, just updated its platform this morning. Along with a cleaner, much more sleek interface comes the ability to host huge rooms of listeners. How big? There's no limit. Turntable.fm rooms can be as small as a few people, or, thanks to the latest update, as big as Metallica playing in the U.S.S.R. in 1991.
 
Night & Day Studios Forgoes Funding, Partners With ScrollMotion To Become One Of The Largest Independent Kids' App Makers On The Market Top
peekabooKids educational and entertainment app maker Night & Day Studios is taking an unconventional path to growth. The startup is announcing today, not a round of venture funding, but rather a partnership with enterprise mobile software company ScrollMotion. The deal brings Night & Day Studios many of the things that an outside round would have otherwise provided: access to more engineers, a way to speed the time to market for their apps, and the ability to expand its company further. The startup also secured an undisclosed investment from entrepreneur and investor Steve Chapman, who joins Night & Day Studios as CFO.
 
Bindi Karia, Microsoft's UK Startup Maven, Joins Silicon Valley Bank's Euro Push Top
Bindi Kariq photographed by Kevin AboschIn a move which which will send significant waves through the London and European startup eco-system, Bindi Karia, currently the 'Venture Capital/Emerging Business Lead' at Microsoft UK, is departing to join Silicon Valley Bank's UK Branch to lead its push in the early stage tech startup space. Karia has been an early and strong stalwart of the UK and wider European startup scene, supporting many startups and events on the continent. However, after receiving its approval to operate in the UK, SVB — which is best known as a financial partner to the technology, life science, cleantech, private equity and venture capital industries — has clearly been on the hunt for the kind of person that could give them the punch and profile they needed amongst startups. A spokesperson for Microsoft told us "BizSpark will continue and Microsoft remains fully committed to working with start-ups." However there is no word on a replacement just yet.
 
SugarSync Updates Desktop App, Streamlines File Sharing Options Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-14 at 10.00.30 AMSugarSync, the world's other cloud storage solution, has updated its desktop app, creating a more widget-like experience for selecting, storing and sharing files online. The service still uses the standard folder system familiar to Dropbox and Google Drive users - you designate certain folders to sync with the cloud and they're updated automatically - but the interface replaces the decidedly messy original interface.
 
TinyTap, A DIY Game Creation App For Kids, Raises $500K Seed Round Top
tinytapTinyTap, an iPad application that lets you or your children create playable books and games using easy DIY tools, is announcing having raised a $500,000 round of seed funding from Inimiti, a new $35 million Israeli micro venture capital fund. TinyTap is Inimit's first investment. The additional funding will be used primarily for continued product development, including the launch of new game engines and a full-scale social marketplace where game creators can sell their games to other TinyTap users.
 
DODOcase Introduces Custom Builder, Lets You Go All Artisanal Bookbinder On Your iPad Case Top
BrownLeat-Red-Red-Cubes-DEYou may not know this but I was an English literature major in college, so books are things I'm fond of. But I'm also a tech lover, so I generally read on either an iPad or a Kindle. Cases like the ones from San Francisco-based DODOcase represent a way to bridge those two worlds, and now you can personalize their products thanks to a custom case-building tool that DODOcase is introducing today.
 
Making Government Suck Less Top
Darrell IssaEditor's note: U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa has represented California's 49th Congressional District in the House of Representatives since 2001. Follow him on Twitter @DarrellIssa. On June 11, 2012, I went all in on open. That day, I traveled to the Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) in New York City to launch the OpenGov Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to developing and deploying technology solutions to help people participate in their governments. But a tool is only as good as the problem it solves, and we face a massive problem. SOPA is only a symptom. Government doesn't understand the Internet, how it works and the awesome power its networked users wield to disrupt almost anything - especially politics itself.
 
Intel Capital And Red Hat Invest In 10Gen, Bringing Total To $76M For The NoSQL Database Company Top
10gen_logo_mongodbIntel Capital and Red Hat have invested in 10Gen bringing the total raised to $76 million for the company. 10Gen is the sponsor for MongoDB, the popular open source NoSQL database.
 
Google Turns On In-Stream Installs For Android Apps In Google+ Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-14 at 9.38.34 AMGoogle shows off what happens when you control both a social network and a mobile software platform, thanks to a new feature of Google+ spotted by The Next Web today that allows users to share and purchase Android apps directly from the Google+ feed. It's a small tweak, but a big one in terms of unlocking the power of Google's social networking efforts and translating that to a more frictionless process for boosting Android software installs.
 
Facebook Stock Price Up 10.3 Percent On The Day As Biggest Lockup Expires, Irrational Changes Are Over Top
Facebook Share PRice copy doneFacebook share prices are up today, with shares at 21.91, 10.32 percent above yesterday’s level. It represents a 4.6 billion market capitalization gain. Today the company is experiencing its biggest stock-lockup expiration, with 773 million Facebook shares (NASDAQ:FB) held by employees now eligible to be sold on the open market. Notably, 504 million shares held by Mark Zuckerberg are eligible, but he declared that he wouldn’t sell them. Facebook's stock closed at 19.86 yesterday. The stock was expected to take a slight hit following this largest lockup expiration, but the market anticipated the hit with a few days of downturn. At the same time, investors are not betting anymore on yet another price drop through short selling — a way to effectively pocket money when shares go down. Short-term profit based on a potential new share price drop is slowly disappearing as short-selling transactions deceased during October. It is good news for the company’s long-term stock price as it starts to attract committed investors. And the fact that share price is slightly up could show that the worst has passed. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took another measure to dampen today’s lockup expiration. He announced that he wouldn't sell his shares until at least next year. He has 444 million shares and 60 million stock options. More than a stock strategy, it is a sign of confidence in his company. Yesterday, Facebook hired Zynga CFO David Wehner as VP of Corporate Finance & Business Planning. The company revised its forecast for next earnings as well. Both are rational reasons to drive the stock up. Facebook's IPO price was $38 a share when the company started trading in May. But in August, the stock fell to its lowest price at the time — $19.69 — as the initial lockup expiration of 271 million shares kicked in. Accel Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Greylock Partners all cashed in. Andreessen Horowitz, Microsoft and Kleiner Perkins chose to stay on board. Every lockup expiration brings a different story. On October 24, shares popped more than 22 percent in the wake of favorable earnings. But the first employee lockup expiration led to a smaller 5 percent hit, followed by a few days of downturn for Facebook shares. On December 14, the last meaningful lockup expiration will occur, with 149 million shares available for trading. The very last expiration will kick in on May 18, 2013.
 
Corbis Acquires Crowd-Sourced Photo Agency Demotix, After Its Move Into Apps Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-14 at 14.31.30Image giant Corbis has acquired Demotix, the crowd-sourced, breaking news picture and video agency which launched in 2008 and recently hit the milestone of a million images uploaded. The move follows Corbis' investment in the startup after brokering a global distribution partnership. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
 
Science's HelloInsights Is An Influencer Analytics Platform For Pinterest Top
HelloInsights - Pinterest Analytics | Schedule PinsLA-based incubator Science is debuting a new service today, HelloInsights.com, which is a platform for Pinterest influencer analytics. Basically, HelloInsights offers a way for brands to monitor company growth, track popular items, and connect with potential brand ambassadors on Pinterest.
 
Google TV Update Adds Universal Voice Search, Rebrands Movies & TV Store To "Primetime" Top
LG Google TV 01.jpg[20120106092650465]Google TV is adding a new feature that could make it easier for users to search and navigate all the different content on various video applications, without having to use keypads or clunky text interfaces. It's also rebranding its digital video store PrimeTime, as a way to entice users to shop for -- and buy -- movies and TV shows on their devices.
 
Camera+ Update Adds Front-Facing Flash, Horizon Level And Live Exposure Info Top
Camera+levelApple has done a lot to push the envelope with mobile phone-based cameras, but where it's mostly made smart improvements to hardware and firmware, Camera+ has been a real innovator on the software side. Today, Camera+ is innovating once again, adding a number of new features to the mix including front-facing flash, a horizon level for straighter pictures, and a live exposure mode.
 
After Trying To Make Bug Tracking Fun, PlayNicely To Enter The Deadpool Top
104707v2-max-250x250PlayNice.ly, the UK startup that set out to make bug tracking fun, is to enter the deadpool. In an email sent out to users, the company has announced that it is shutting down the service in the New year, and in the meantime has released a data export tool so that users can begin migrating away from PlayNice.ly.
 
With 50M Users In Tow, OpenDNS Looks To Bring Enterprise Security Into The Mobile Era Top
Screen shot 2012-11-14 at 2.19.23 AMBring up the topic of "enterprise security platforms" around polite company, and you may be quickly shown the door. The subject can be boring, but the truth is that enterprise security writ large are critical, ideally making the Web a safer place for both businesses and consumers by policing malware, botnets, phishing and other malicious software. Of course, today businesses big and small are moving to the cloud, adopting services like Dropbox, Box and Google Apps in droves. In turn, employees are increasingly going mobile, both in where they work and how they work, as they now carry multiple phones, view documents on their iPads, and collaborate on projects hosted on these services outside of the office. Yet, while workforces (enterprise included) are increasingly remote, mobile and nomadic, security services haven't adapted to this change in user behavior. When employees go out on the road, for example, their network's security doesn't follow them.
 
Base79, YouTube's Biggest Content Partner In Europe, Gets $10M From Peter Chernin, Others Top
base79 logoAs YouTube gets ready to make another round of investments into produced content for its video network, Base79, its largest partner in Europe with over 550 million views of its online video content per month, is picking up some investment of its own. The group is today announcing an investment of $10 million led by the Chernin Group, the holding company founded by media veteran Peter Chernin, along with participation from existing investor MMC Ventures. The funding brings the total raised by Base79 to $14.35 million.
 
Projecteo Portable Projector Is The Natural Nostalgic Companion To Instagram Top
7e0656cb4ee796d3f9c6e93c2179842f_largeA new Kickstarter project getting underway today brings your Instagram photos to the way-back world of home picture projection, in a small, adorable package that suits perfectly the faux-vintage feel of Instagram photography. Projecteo is a very small slide film projector, which works with Instagram photos, by placing them on a single frame of 35mm Kodak film, with nine pics assembled on each.
 
Here's A BlackBerry 10 Device Next To An iPhone 5 Top
BB10vsiPhoneRIM is launching BlackBerry 10 in February 2013 with several devices. Little is known about these handsets but the pic here shows the touchscreen model next to an iPhone 5. Tantalizing, I know.
 
Motorola Details $100 Rebate Program For Devices Left Out Of The Jelly Bean Dish Top
androidThe Motorola non-Jelly Bean rebate program is finally here. Have a Motorola Android phone from 2011 or later that's not getting upgraded to Jelly Bean? Motorola will take the phone back and give you a $100 gift card for your troubles. Motorola is saying sorry in the best possible way: with cash.
 

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