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- Barnes & Noble Beats Fiscal Q2 2013 Estimates, Reports $1.9 Billion In Revenue And Losses Of $0.04 Per Share
- After 3.5M Downloads Of Its iPhone App, Etsy Finally Goes To The iPad
- Rounds Social Video Chat App Goes Mobile, Recreates Hangout Feel With Shared YouTube Viewing, Photo Uploads
- First Look At The Scanadu SCOUT, A Gadget To Bring Your Vital Sign Data To Your Smartphone
- Fantastical Lands On iPhone With A Calendar App Tailor-Made For Mobile Schedule Management
- NPD: U.S. Windows Device Sales Down 21% On Last Year; Windows 8 Tablet Sales "Almost Non-Existent"
- Deal Management Startup CapLinked Raises $1.6M From FF Angel, 500 Startups, Others
- Acquia Lands $30 Million Series E To Scale Out Its Enterprise Drupal Development Platform
- HealthTap Buys Avvo's Health Business, Looks To Become The Go-To Resource For Medical Advice, Info
- The iPhone 5 Clears Its Final Regulatory Hurdle For Launch In China
- Microsoft Puts $250M More Into Its Ed-Tech Program, Partners In Learning; Wants Provide 20M Teachers With "21st Century Skills"
- Desperately Seeking Developers: RIM Offers Appcelerator's 390,000 Titanium Devs Incentives To Port Apps To BlackBerry 10
- Erkek Paketi Wants To Be The 'Manpacks Of Turkey' With Subscription Service For Mens Socks, Underwear & More
- Chill Pivots — Again!! — This Time To Help Creators Sell Videos Directly To Their Fans
- Intel Capital Leads $5M Series A In Spain's Indisys: Maker Of Machine-Human Interaction Natural Language Virtual Assistants
- Millennial: Apple Still Leads Samsung In Overall Impressions, But Android Dominates iOS With 52% Share
- WordPress.com Launches Restaurant Vertical As It Pushes Platform Well Beyond Basic Blogging
- Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone
- When Marketing, PR And Technology Collide: Why Is PeopleBrowsr Going After Twitter, Exactly?
- Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101′
| Barnes & Noble Beats Fiscal Q2 2013 Estimates, Reports $1.9 Billion In Revenue And Losses Of $0.04 Per Share | Top |
 Literary 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 a loss 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 |
 Designer 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 |
 Social 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 |
 It 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 |
 The 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 |
 Microsoft 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, 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, 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 |
 Instead 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 |
 Things 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 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. | |
| Desperately Seeking Developers: RIM Offers Appcelerator's 390,000 Titanium Devs Incentives To Port Apps To BlackBerry 10 | Top |
 BlackBerry 10 devices are still months away from being launched but RIM is ramping up the noise about its next gen platform. In its latest play, it's hoping to woo app-building platform Appcelerator's 390,000 Titanium cross-platform mobile app developers to port their apps to BlackBerry10 -- offering a variety of incentives. | |
| Erkek Paketi Wants To Be The 'Manpacks Of Turkey' With Subscription Service For Mens Socks, Underwear & More | Top |
 Strikingly similar to U.S. startup Manpacks, Turkey's Erkek Paketi offers a subscription e-commerce service that delivers men underwear, socks, t-shirts, shaving products and condoms on a monthly, two monthly or three monthly schedule. Like its North American inspiration, it's tapping into the preconception that men don't enjoy shopping -- at least not for dull purchases that need to be made on a semi-regular basis. | |
| Chill Pivots — Again!! — This Time To Help Creators Sell Videos Directly To Their Fans | Top |
 After the success of Louis CK's direct-to-fan specials, video startup Chill is pivoting -- again -- and coming out with a new product that it hopes will provide a new channel for independent content creators to sell their videos in the same fashion. | |
| Intel Capital Leads $5M Series A In Spain's Indisys: Maker Of Machine-Human Interaction Natural Language Virtual Assistants | Top |
 Indisys, a Spanish company founded in 2005 which makes natural language virtual assistants and telephone operators to power 24/7 customer services, has raised a new funding round of $5 million, led by Intel Capital. Inveready Technology Investment Group also participated in the round. The investment is Intel Capital's first in Spain -- making it the 54th country the fund has invested in. | |
| Millennial: Apple Still Leads Samsung In Overall Impressions, But Android Dominates iOS With 52% Share | Top |
 Leading mobile ad network Millennial Media today released ist Q3 Mobile Mix report, and it would appear that Apple has kept its lead as top manufacturer on the platform, with the top device being the iPhone. However, Apple didn't see a drastic spike in mobile ad impressions with the release of the iPhone 5, as was expected. Apple accounted for 31.45 percent of overall device impressions, up from 31.38% in Q2, and the iPhone the number one device on the platform with 16.04 percent of impressions, up from 15.84 last quarter. | |
| WordPress.com Launches Restaurant Vertical As It Pushes Platform Well Beyond Basic Blogging | Top |
 Restaurants are kind of notorious for having painful web experiences -- either with websites that are horribly basic and out of date, or needlessly souped up with music and Flash animation. So it was good news today when web publishing stalwart WordPress.com rolled out a new set of templates specifically aimed at helping restaurants build clean, useful websites that can be easily accessed from both desktop and mobile devices. | |
| Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone | Top |
 Whether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it's hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational video-producing machine, or that the platform continues to diversify. In part, that started with the release of its iPad app in March. This week, Khan Academy brought its 3,600 videos to the iPhone. | |
| When Marketing, PR And Technology Collide: Why Is PeopleBrowsr Going After Twitter, Exactly? | Top |
 So, this was bound to happen. A company that built itself on top of someone else's data lost access to it. And sued. I was sucked into the ploy at first, the whole "Klout but better for the people!" thing. | |
| Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101′ | Top |
 When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter provided a terse response saying that it plans to "vigorously defend" itself in the broader legal case. Now the company has given me its actual filing in response to PeopleBrowsr — technically, the filing focuses on the restraining order (an issue on which Twitter lost), but it also lays out the other side of the story, and some of Twitter's broader arguments. | |
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