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Zynga Shares Sink 13% After Renegotiated Partnership With Facebook Makes It Just A Regular Developer Top
Facebook Zynga DisbandYou might think Zynga's newfound flexibility from the end of its exclusivity agreements with Facebook would encourage investors. Instead, $ZNGA is down 12.21% after-hours, likely because it's lost its special relationship with the social network. Now it can launch games elsewhere and use non-Facebook payments and ads on Zynga.com, but it might stop getting valuable preferred treatment.
 
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Talks AWS, Innovation, Customer Service & Space Travel At Re: Invent Top
bezosJeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO, took the stage at the company's re: Invent developer conference for a wide-ranging discussion with the company's CTO Werner Vogels about Amazon's web service and retail business, as well as his view about entrepreneurship and his personal projects, such as the 10,000 year clock and the Blue Origin space program.
 
More On PeopleBrowsr And Its CEO Jodee Rich, Who Has Been Involved In Long Legal Battles Before Top
8100403042_644a5a83af_zAs you might have heard last night, PeopleBrowsr, the maker of social influence service Kred, has filed legal actions against Twitter for cutting it off of its full firehose of data. It was given a temporary restraining order, which has kept the current data deal in place. Twitter told TechCrunch last night that it had every right contractually to do so, whereas PeopleBrowsr are crying "anti-competitive" practices. In short, it's getting ugly.
 
Kiosked Has A Plan To Change Affiliate Marketing, And It's Starting To Show Up With Angry Birds Merch Top
Screen Shot 2012-11-29 at 11.52.20 PMKiosked, a Finnish startup that raised $5.75 million from Rovio's elusive chairman Kaj Hed after bootstrapping for several years, is finally starting to show off what it's been working on. Naturally, the company's products are starting to appear with Angry Birds merchandise on Rovio's Facebook page. Kiosked is trying to change affiliate marketing by making videos and images more interactive with direct links and e-commerce promotions. The company's technology turns any image or video into a storefront where links to products can pop-in from the right-hand side.
 
Gift Guide: HTC One X+ Top
giftguide-1280px-htc-one-x+Android phones! There are some that I love. The HTC One X was one of those, thanks to a very attractive external package alongside an Android skin (Sense) that had a fairly light touch and didn't mess with most of Android's good features, but brought some nice additional touches to the mix. The HTC One X+ is like the One X, but made better in nearly every important respect. Not surprisingly, that improves my impression of it, too.
 
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Said He Was Hugely Surprised By The Success Of AWS Top
bezoswernerAmazon.com Founder and CEO said in a fireside chat at AWS re:Invent with CTO Werner Vogels that he was surprised by the success of Amazon Web Services. Bezos said they were optimistic that AWS would do well, but they did not anticipate such huge growth.
 
TechCrunch Moscow Returns On 9-10 December — Unpacking Russia's Tech Boom Top
TC Moscow 2012In 2010 we held the first TechCrunch Moscow. We were back last year, and will return again this December with two days packed with speakers and startups. You can register here. Co-organized by Digital October, Kite Ventures, and AOL Tech Media, and backed by numerous partners, the third TechCrunch Moscow will feature some of the world's leading technology entrepreneurs, including Brent Hoberman, founder of Lastminute.com and Mydeco.com, Lukasz Gadowski, founder of Team Europe, Dmitry Stavisky, VP of Evernote, Arkady Volozh, co-founder and CEO of Yandex, Christian Saller, Managing Director of Kayak Europe and many other leading names.
 
Meet Rapt.fm, The Startup That Lets Rappers Show Their Skills With Freestyle Battles On The Web Top
rapt screenshotRap music has certainly evolved over the decades to become a pretty mainstream thing, but the act of rapping itself is not exactly seen as a commonplace hobby. But Detroit-based entrepreneur Erik Torenberg thinks that's something that should change. According to him, everybody has it inside of them to freestyle rap -- it's a talent that can be tapped into with the right amount of mentorship and practice. And, he says, rapping is a very valuable thing: It's an incredibly effective creative outlet that makes you more confident in expressing your thoughts and feelings.
 
Zynga Loosens Its Deal With Facebook: No Longer Tied To Facebook Ad Units, Credits, Or Exclusivity Top
zynga logoZynga just filed a document with the SEC outlining new terms to its agreement with Facebook. Overall, it seems that Zynga and Facebook establishing a little more distance and flexibility in their relationship, with Zynga being treated more like any other game developer. According to the filing, any "standard Zynga game page" that uses Facebook data will now be governed Facebook's standard terms of service, meaning that games on Zynga's new-ish platform Zynga.com are no longer obligated to use Facebook ad units and Facebook credits. In exchange, Zynga's right to cross-promote its non-Facebook games using Facebook data and email addresses is now "limited by Facebook's standard terms of service."
 
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.
 

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