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- Apple's iPad Mini, 4th Gen iPad Arrives In China December 7, iPhone 5 Follows December 14
- Google Play Narrowing The Gap On iOS For Mobile Revenue, But iOS Still Brings In 4X The Money
- Two Reasons For RIM To Be Cheerful: U.K., Spanish Teens Still Love BlackBerrys (Well, They're Cheaper Than iPhones)
- iPhone 5 Now Cleared For Sale On China Unicom's Network, Too
- 'If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It': EU Adds Its Voice To The Chorus Opposing More Internet Regulation Ahead Of Key ITU Dubai Meeting
- UK's House Of Lords Summons Facebook And Google To Talk Convergence And Media Power
- Opera Maps Global Mobile Social Network Usage: Facebook Most Frequently Visited On Phones In Macau, Twitter In Paraguay
- R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy
- Basho's Amazon S3 Compatibility Gets Potent Boost With Replication Capabilities For Riak Cloud Storage
- Plyfe Brings Its Brand-Promoting Games To Mobile, Raises $750K
- Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero
- CourseTalk Launches A Yelp For Open Online Courses And What This Means For Higher Education
- AngelPad Debuts 12 New Startups At Its Fall 2012 Demo Day
- Exceptional Buys Ranger To Give A Monitoring Shot In The Arm To Its 'DevOps' Platform
- Start-Up Chile Hosts Its 3rd Demo Day, Announces The 105 Startups In Its Next Class
- Zynga Shares Sink 12% After Renegotiated Partnership With Facebook Makes It Just A Regular Developer
- Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Talks AWS, Innovation, Customer Service & Space Travel At Re: Invent
- More On PeopleBrowsr And Its CEO Jodee Rich, Who Has Been Involved In Long Legal Battles Before
- Kiosked Has A Plan To Change Affiliate Marketing, And It's Starting To Show Up With Angry Birds Merch
- Gift Guide: HTC One X+
| Apple's iPad Mini, 4th Gen iPad Arrives In China December 7, iPhone 5 Follows December 14 | Top |
 Apple has just announced the official release date of the iPad mini, 4th generation iPad and iPhone 5 in China. The tablets will go on sale next Friday, December 7 in that country, and the iPhone 5 will arrive on December 14, a week afterwards. This comes following news that the iPhone 5 has met all the regulatory requirements in China it needed to go on sale. | |
| Google Play Narrowing The Gap On iOS For Mobile Revenue, But iOS Still Brings In 4X The Money | Top |
 According to a new report from mobile app analytics firm App Annie, Google's Play software store is gaining on rival Apple's iOS app marketplace. The revenue gulf between the two stores is often cited as a reason why Apple is able to attract more top-tier developers and quality titles, so a lessening of the gap between the two in that respect is particularly significant. | |
| Two Reasons For RIM To Be Cheerful: U.K., Spanish Teens Still Love BlackBerrys (Well, They're Cheaper Than iPhones) | Top |
 BlackBerrys are still wildly popular with a certain cash-strapped sub-set of mobile users in parts of Europe: namely teenagers. A wide-ranging research report looking at mobile users' habits in France, Spain and the U.K found that BlackBerry penetration amongst teenagers in the UK and Spain was two and three times higher respectively than the overall "mobile media user" population. | |
| iPhone 5 Now Cleared For Sale On China Unicom's Network, Too | Top |
 The iPhone 5 received its final regulatory approval, the crucial "network access license" from China yesterday, but the original report of that news from the Wall Street Journal only found approval for the China Telecom version of the device. Now, however, Chinese news sources report that the iPhone 5 variant which works with China Unicom has also received network access approval. | |
| 'If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It': EU Adds Its Voice To The Chorus Opposing More Internet Regulation Ahead Of Key ITU Dubai Meeting | Top |
 The European Union today became the latest official body to back an open internet, ahead of a important United Nations meeting to update internet and telecoms regulation for the first time in 24 years. The International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency, is meeting in December in Dubai for the World Conference On International Telecommunications to revise the International Telecommunication Regulation treaty. In the lead up, several countries, and even some private companies, have been lobbying for changes that would see nations get more control of how the internet is used in their countries. | |
| UK's House Of Lords Summons Facebook And Google To Talk Convergence And Media Power | Top |
 The UK's House of Lords has summoned senior figures from Facebook and Google in their ongoing investigation into media convergence, media power and how this should be regulated in the future. The Communications Committee, which is leading the investigation, will be meeting Simon Milner, policy director at Facebook, and Sarah Hunter, Google's head of UK public policy, along with Edward Rousell, the executive editor of digital for the Telegraph Media Group. The committee has in the past also taken evidence from Virgin Media Group, Channel 4 and the BBC, but these will be the first sessions at which pure-play internet companies will also participate. | |
| Opera Maps Global Mobile Social Network Usage: Facebook Most Frequently Visited On Phones In Macau, Twitter In Paraguay | Top |
 Browser maker Opera has released its 2012 State of the Mobile Web report which measures social networking popularity by looking at the number of Opera Mini users who visit them. Data is aggregated from the servers powering the browser's data compression -- enabling the company to build up an (anonymous) picture of the mobile social web across more than 190 countries. | |
| R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy | Top |
 Whatever it is, it is palpable. A sort of buzz in the Valley that all is not well, and a slight nervousness among entrepreneurs, investors and startup employees as they flit about their day-to-day. We may not be in the middle of an outright private market collapse, but there will definitely be fewer tigers and monkeys at this year's holiday parties. The fingernail biting is not just caused by the Series A crunch, which has been happening for a year, although that is definitely a part of it ("20 percent of companies that have gotten a seed round in the last year will be able to raise a Series A" Sarah Lacy wrote on Wednesday, aptly comparing the current jostle for venture money to a game of musical chairs). | |
| Basho's Amazon S3 Compatibility Gets Potent Boost With Replication Capabilities For Riak Cloud Storage | Top |
 Basho Technologies Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) now can be replicated across multiple data centers. The new capability, combined with its existing AWS S3 compatibility, gives a potent boost to the fast growing distributed storage service. | |
| Plyfe Brings Its Brand-Promoting Games To Mobile, Raises $750K | Top |
 Plyfe, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through games and rewards, is moving onto mobile today — Plyfe games can now be played on the company's mobile website, as well as embedded in smartphone apps. The company is also announcing that it has raised $750,000 in bridge funding. The basic idea: Games are a much more engaging way than traditional advertising for brands to reach consumers and fans. | |
| Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero | Top |
 PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is Thiel's third investment in Xero. Earlier this year, Thiel and existing investors put $16.6 million into the company. Thiel invested $3 million in New Zealand-founded Xero in 2010. | |
| CourseTalk Launches A Yelp For Open Online Courses And What This Means For Higher Education | Top |
 One of the most popular topics in education technology these days is the subject of MOOCs, otherwise known as Massive Open Online Courses. Thanks to the buzz around MOOC platforms like Coursera, Udacity and edX, there are few universities and colleges that aren't currently struggling with whether or not they should hop on the bandwagon. | |
| AngelPad Debuts 12 New Startups At Its Fall 2012 Demo Day | Top |
 AngelPad, the startup accelerator program founded back in 2010 by ex-Googler and investor Thomas Korte, held its fifth ever Demo Day at its downtown San Francisco headquarters today. The twelve startups that comprised AngelPad's Fall 2012 class each took the stage to give their snappiest three-minute pitches to a very packed room full of the industry's most prominent investors. A bit about the program: AngelPad provides startups with ten weeks full of mentorship from industry veterans that covers all aspects of launching a company along with $20,000 in initial funding to help founders get their products off the ground in the best way possible. | |
| Exceptional Buys Ranger To Give A Monitoring Shot In The Arm To Its 'DevOps' Platform | Top |
 There is some consolidation in the error-tracking/monitoring space. Exceptional, the error-tracking service for cloud developers, has announced the acquisition of the Ranger monitoring service to extend the U.S. company's 'DevOps' platform. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although Exceptional CEO Jonathan Siegel tells me it's a "solid six-figure purchase," and covers the Ranger product (which has just been updated to version 2.0) and existing customer base-only. | |
| Start-Up Chile Hosts Its 3rd Demo Day, Announces The 105 Startups In Its Next Class | Top |
 Start-Up Chile, the government-sponsored startup accelerator, is hosting its 3rd demo day today. The focus of this demo day is on social enterprise and green tech and, for the first time ever, the program partnered with Common Pitch to host today's event. | |
| Zynga Shares Sink 12% After Renegotiated Partnership With Facebook Makes It Just A Regular Developer | Top |
 You might think Zynga's newfound flexibility from the end of its exclusivity agreements with Facebook would encourage investors. Instead, $ZNGA is down 13.36% 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 |
 Jeff 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 |
 As 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 is crying "anti-competitive" practices. | |
| Kiosked Has A Plan To Change Affiliate Marketing, And It's Starting To Show Up With Angry Birds Merch | Top |
 Kiosked, 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 |
 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. | |
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