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- Another Social Media Inbox? Source Metrics Says This One's All About 'Actionable Mentions' And Breaking Down Data Silos
- With Amazon, It's Records All The Way Down — Which Is Brilliant
- Amazon Web Services Drops S3 Storage Service Pricing About 25%
- YouTube Expands Automatic Captioning To 6 European Languages, Now Supporting 10 Languages Total
- Flurry: China On Track To Top U.S. iOS And Android Install Base By Q1 2013
- Groupon CEO Andrew Mason: "The Plane Crash Is Much More Interesting Than The Safe Landing"
- Amazon's S3 Now Stores Over 1.3 Trillion Objects, 3.7 Million Elastic Map Reduce Clusters Launched Since May 2010
- Simple Fleshes Out Its Online Banking Service With Mobile Check Depositing
- CloudFlare Now Uses Authy's Two-Factor Authentication To Keep Its Users Safe
- David Lee From SV Angel: "Foursquare Is One Of The Most Misunderstood Companies"
- Visa Super Sizes Its PayPal Competitor V.Me, Adds Bank Of America And RBS In The UK
- Now Available As A Gmail Add-On, PhilterIt Lets You Browse Your Inbox Visually
- Vagrant Founder Launches Hashicorp To Support His Open Source Developer Management Tool
- Flash Sales Site Bêmbele Debuts In Colombia, Offers Designer Fashion And Luxury Accessories To Eager Market
- Google Launches "VetNet" To Help Military Veterans Re-Enter The Civilian Life, With Google+ As The "Plumbing"
- Eumakh Takes English-Speaking K-Pop Fans Beyond "Gangnam Style"
- Couples App Avocado Adds A Shared Calendar And Switches To A Freemium, Subscription-Based Business Model
- AgilOne Raises $10M From Mayfield And Sequoia To Help Marketers Tap Into Big Data
- A DIY Raspberry Pi Hack Lets You Build The Smallest Gaming Cabinet In The World
- #StuffMicrosoftSays: "Don't Get Scroogled," Launches Holiday Bing Campaign
| Another Social Media Inbox? Source Metrics Says This One's All About 'Actionable Mentions' And Breaking Down Data Silos | Top |
 Startup Source Metrics is announcing a new feature to its social marketing tools today, which it's calling the Social Media Inbox. The idea of a new social network listening tool may not set anyone's heart aflutter, but CEO Scott Lake said the real selling point is the fact that the inbox is integrated with Source Metrics' other services. Many companies use a product like Radian6 to monitor social media, HootSuite to publish content, and Bitly to track different campaigns, creating "three data silos," Lake said. Source Metrics offers all of those capabilities in one suite of product. | |
| With Amazon, It's Records All The Way Down — Which Is Brilliant | Top |
 So let me get this straight: this year's "Cyber Monday" (the worst fake holiday name in the history of fake holidays — and names) was a new record day for Amazon when it came to Kindle sales. So was "Black Friday" (at least this one sounds like a plague). Overall, the holidays brought "more than double" the numbers of last year's record sales. Great! So what were last year's record sales? Well, they were "4X Over Last Year". | |
| Amazon Web Services Drops S3 Storage Service Pricing About 25% | Top |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on stage at AWS re:Invent that it has dropped pricing about 25 percent across the board for its S3 storage service. Senior Vice President of Amazon Web Services Andy Jassy said the price drop will go into effect December 1. AWS has dropped prices 23 times since 2006. Jassy attributed the price drops to what he sees as a virtual circle that has emerged as AWS has expanded. More customers leads to more AWS usage, which fuels the need for more infrastructure. As more is added, AWS gets economies of scale in lower infrastructure costs and, as a result, can lower prices. Jassy said the differences between AWS and its competitors come down to margins. The large, enterprise giants such as Oracle, IBM and HP work on high margins. That has been the way they have historically made their revenues. But now the world is different. The new reality is scale and super-thin profit margins. The big technology giants of the past are making up for this lack of of capabiity to scale with “private cloud” solutions that are nothing more than an effort to “cloudwash,” a term that refers to the habit of these big tech providers to put the cloud name on its legacy hardware. AWS still faces steep competition from the likes of Google, which earlier this week lowered its cloud storage costs by 25 percent. | |
| YouTube Expands Automatic Captioning To 6 European Languages, Now Supporting 10 Languages Total | Top |
 YouTube announced today that it's expanding the number of languages that will automatically be captioned in videos uploaded to its library, with support for six European languages. The new languages supported include German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Dutch, so that deaf, hard-of-hearing, and viewers who speak other languages will be able to follow along to those videos. | |
| Flurry: China On Track To Top U.S. iOS And Android Install Base By Q1 2013 | Top |
 Mobile analytics and ad company Flurry today released a new report examining the global growth of the smartphone ecosystem, including which countries have the largest install base, which are growing the quickest, and how app usage itself is becoming more international. One of the most significant findings from the report is growth of the Chinese smartphone market, which is poised to top the U.S.'s install base early next year. | |
| Groupon CEO Andrew Mason: "The Plane Crash Is Much More Interesting Than The Safe Landing" | Top |
 During Business Insider’s Ignition conference, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason commented yesterday’s stories about his role at the company. AllThingsD reported that the board was discussing whether the company needed a new CEO. Mason replied by stating that “it would be weird if the Board wasn’t discussing whether I’m the right guy for the job.” Groupon has gained traction in an entirely new space and a lot of questions remain. “There is so much exciting stuff happening at the company”, Mason said. He emphasized the big opportunities in front of the company. “We will look back at those stories and will be proud that we got over them,” he continued. According to Mason, with 40 million active customers, Groupon is trying to do what Amazon has done for products, but with local businesses. On the other hand, goods deals are a way to take what the company has learned from local deals and apply it to goods. This year, Groupon’s stock has been drastically down. It was trading at over $24 and is now trading at exactly $4.00 a share. Mason said that Groupon is optimizing the stock for three or four years. Most of the interview was about how the press reports on Groupon’s activities. He said that many articles “countered each other” and don’t depict the reality. International growth and goods deals have surprised the company. Finally, Mason reiterated that he is the right guy for the job. “If I thought I wasn’t the guy, I would be the first person to stand up,” he said. “I think we have the strategy, I think we have the team and the board sees that,” he continued. | |
| Amazon's S3 Now Stores Over 1.3 Trillion Objects, 3.7 Million Elastic Map Reduce Clusters Launched Since May 2010 | Top |
 At Amazon's first re: Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today, the company's vice president for Amazon Web Services Andy Jassy announced that its S3 storage service now stores a total of 1.3 trillion objects and handles over 830,000 requests per second. Jassy also announced that the company's users spun up 3.7 million Elastic Map Reduce clusters since the service launched in May 2010. | |
| Simple Fleshes Out Its Online Banking Service With Mobile Check Depositing | Top |
 From the outset, online banking startup Simple has been focused on supplanting the brick-and-mortar banks in its users' lives, but they haven't always been equipped to handle every little transaction that comes up. Case in point -- what happens when someone cuts you a check (after all, the holidays are right around the corner)? Well, that's no longer the case. According to a post on the official Simple blog, users are now able to deposit money from those pesky pieces of paper just by taking a photo with the company's iOS app. | |
| CloudFlare Now Uses Authy's Two-Factor Authentication To Keep Its Users Safe | Top |
 CloudFlare, the popular website security and CDN service, suffered an embarrassing security breach earlier this year when the company's CEO's Gmail account was hijacked, giving the hacktivist group UGNazi access to a customer's account and the service. Even though CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince used Gmail's two-factor authentication, the hackers used some smart social engineering to work around this. After this incident, CloudFlare promised to soon offer two-factor authentication for its own login system as well and today, the company is launching this new system. | |
| David Lee From SV Angel: "Foursquare Is One Of The Most Misunderstood Companies" | Top |
 Today at Business Insider's Ignition conference in New York, David Lee, founder and managing partner at SV Angel commented on Foursquare. As SV Angel is an investor, he had good things to say. "Foursquare is one of the most misunderstood companies," he said. At 43, Lee isn't using Foursquare to check in. He uses it in a passive way to find new restaurants, and finds the app very powerful. It goes further than the simple check-in mechanism. | |
| Visa Super Sizes Its PayPal Competitor V.Me, Adds Bank Of America And RBS In The UK | Top |
 Visa is picking up steam quickly on its PayPal competitor, the V.me digital wallet service. Today it is adding another major U.S. bank, the Bank of America, to its existing list of 50 partners; and it has signed its second international deal, with the Royal Bank of Scotland in the UK, which also includes National Westminster bank. | |
| Now Available As A Gmail Add-On, PhilterIt Lets You Browse Your Inbox Visually | Top |
 It must be the day for Gmail platform apps - earlier this morning, TechCrunch announced the launch of a startup that automates contact management via Gmail, and now another company is debuting a new way to visually scan your email messages. Available as a Google Chrome application, PhilterIt organizes email messages by sender, allowing you to browse your email by scanning icons and logos, instead of subject lines, in your Gmail sidebar. | |
| Vagrant Founder Launches Hashicorp To Support His Open Source Developer Management Tool | Top |
 The Vagrant open-source project has morphed into a startup, backed by Hashicorp, a new company that will further build out the tool designed to manage the complexities of modern development within a virtual environment. | |
| Flash Sales Site Bêmbele Debuts In Colombia, Offers Designer Fashion And Luxury Accessories To Eager Market | Top |
 Combine online flash sales with an emerging consumer market hungry for luxury clothing brands and you get what Bêmbele CEO Dean Schaffer hopes will be a recipe for success in Latin America. The site, which went live for Colombian buyers yesterday, sells designer men's and women's clothing and accessories from brands like Nicole Miller, BCBG Generation and M Missoni, among others. | |
| Google Launches "VetNet" To Help Military Veterans Re-Enter The Civilian Life, With Google+ As The "Plumbing" | Top |
 For the men and women that serve our country, coming back from that life isn't easy. I don't have experience with it, but do know many veterans who are going through that. Today, Google launched a new initiative called VetNet, to help people connect and re-enter the working life. The company is putting its social backend, Google+, to work on this project. | |
| Eumakh Takes English-Speaking K-Pop Fans Beyond "Gangnam Style" | Top |
 Has being blasted with "Gangnam Style" whetted your appetite for Korean pop, but you have no idea how to delve more deeply into the genre? Eumakh is an online video platform with a sleek, user-friendly interface that makes exploring and discovering new Korean music videos easy for K-pop fans that don't speak or read the language. | |
| Couples App Avocado Adds A Shared Calendar And Switches To A Freemium, Subscription-Based Business Model | Top |
 Avocado's new calendar feature was built from the ground up and is designed to allow couples to share scheduling, and both receive reminders for events. The feature sends notifications to multiple devices so that users won't miss important dates. The feature will also be available to developers using the Guacamole API for building similar apps. | |
| AgilOne Raises $10M From Mayfield And Sequoia To Help Marketers Tap Into Big Data | Top |
 AgilOne, a a cloud-based predictive marketing intelligence company, has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Mayfield Fund, with participation from Sequoia Capital. This brings AgilOne's funding to a total of $16 million to date. | |
| A DIY Raspberry Pi Hack Lets You Build The Smallest Gaming Cabinet In The World | Top |
| A hacker called [Sprite_tm] AKA Jeroen Domburg built his own teeny, tiny Raspberry Pi-based MAME cabinet using some laser cut plexiglass, some custom controls, and a eeny, weenie 2.4-inch TFT display. The best part? The cabinet even has a small OLED marquee at the top that shows the current game in play. | |
| #StuffMicrosoftSays: "Don't Get Scroogled," Launches Holiday Bing Campaign | Top |
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