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Soundcloud Revamps Site, Announces New Numbers: 180M Users A Month And Counting Top
182351_10151563613908989_1230124158_nIt's been a while since we heard new user numbers from the "YouTube of audio" startup Soundcloud (though not much of a startup these days), so Le Web in Paris was as good a time as any to announce new user numbers. They've hit hit 180 million users a month and re-vamped the site with the 'Next' version after testing out their open Beta for several months.
 
Last.fm Founders' Next Track: Lumi, A Site That Uses Your Browsing History To Help You Discover Things On The Web Top
lumi logoFelix Miller and Martin Stiksel, the co-founders of the music discovery and streaming site Last.fm, went into a kind of startup hibernation after selling their early-moving, prescient startup to CBS in 2007 for $280 million. Today, on a cold December day in London, they are re-emerging with Lumi, a site that wants to tackle the discovery conundrum yet again, but this time on the wider web. And they want you to help them build it, with the launch of a "prototype" of the service out today.
 
Urban Airship Acquires Tello, Maker Of PassTools For Apple's Passbook, Because Not All Brands Need Fully Featured Apps Top
passtoolsA little over a year after Urban Airship's acquisition of location startup SimpleGeo, the company has moved to once again expand its feature set by acquiring venture-backed Tello in an all-stock deal. The startup, which debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, had initially been focused on building real time feedback tools for business customers, but had more recently refocused its efforts on PassTools, a visual pass builder for Apple's Passbook. And it was this latter product which attracted Urban Airship's attention.
 
Bantr Goes International To Offer Soccer Fans A First Screen Experience — Apparently Top
147659v2-max-250x250There are a whole host of second screen apps catering to sports fans (the UK's Fanatix springs to mind), so it's curious that Bantr, which sees its full global launch today, is billing itself as primarily a first screen experience for soccer fans. That's because, along with powering real-time discussions and opinion before, after and during games, the web-based app pipes in live in-game data, such as text commentary and stats, meaning that it's possible to use Bantr even if the match isn't on television or you aren't at the game. It's also been designed to let fans follow multiple teams, games and leagues at the same time, which is of course how the more hardcore footy fans follow the beautiful game anyway.
 
Founded By 4 Ex-Googlers, QuBit Raises $7.5M Led By Balderton To Improve E-Commerce Personalization With Big Data Top
qubit-logoQuBit, a big-data startup whose analytics platform helps e-commerce sites with customer personalization, is today announcing that it has raised a Series A round of funding -- $7.5 million led by Balderton Capital with participation from existing angel investors. As part of the deal, general partner Bernard Liatuad -- who founded and sold Business Objects to SAP for $6.8 billion -- will join QuBit's board.
 
Nest's Tony Fadell Talks Thermostats, Apple, Kickstarter And Hardware Startups At LeWeb Top
LeWeb_paris_12_logoAt LeWeb Paris this morning, Nest Labs' Founder and CEO Tony Fadell took the stage with the Iliad Group's founder Xavier Niel to talk about his advanced thermostat and the Internet of Things.
 
Every Little Bit Helps: To Shore Up Some Cash, Nokia Sells And Leases Back Its Espoo, Finland, HQ For €170 Million To Finland's Exilion Top
nokia-logoYou know times are tough when you have to sell the HQ and rent it back to raise a little capital. Well that's exactly what the once mighty mobile maker, Nokia, is doing. The company has just announced that it intends to sell its Espoo, Finland, headquarters to Finland-based Exilion, and rent it back on a long term lease.
 
Europe v Facebook Privacy Campaign Group Is Preparing To "Fight" Facebook In Ireland, Sets Up Crowdfunding Platform To Fund Legal Fight Against Irish DPA (Updated) Top
facebook logoThe European activists behind the Europe v Facebook campaign group have stepped up their long running battle against the social network. The group has indicated it is preparing to "fight" Facebook in Ireland -- the location of Facebook's international headquarters -- by challenging the Irish Data Protection Authority's (DPA) finding on its privacy complaints against Facebook in court there.
 
Taggstar Adds Analytics To Its Interactive, Shareable, Shoppable Images Top
screen-shot-2012-09-24-at-17-41-35Wherever there is data, there shall be analytics. In a move that makes a lot of sense, Taggstar, the interactive images platform which makes images shareable and shoppable (along with other interactivity), has rolled out a new analytics dashboard to enable publishers who use the service to get a detailed insight into how their Taggstar-enhanced images are performing.
 
France Telecom Invests Up To $20M In Lookout, Preloads Its Mobile Security Solutions On To Android Handsets Top
lookoutLookout, the mobile security company with ambitions to become the Symantec of the wireless world, is picking up a new backer, and and a major distribution partner in its bid to become a household name. France Telecom, owner of the mobile carrier Orange, is making a strategic investment in the startup, and it has also signed a deal in which Lookout will be preloaded on devices that it sells. Orange has 169 million subscribers and it will start first with Lookout service bundles covering antivirus protection and device tracking for Android devices, installing it as standard on devices in France, Slovakia, Spain, and the UK (through its EE JV with T-Mobile) starting in early 2013.
 
PhoneScope 3D Gives iPhone Users A High-Res 3D Scanner in Their Pocket Top
PhoneScope3DsetThe PhoneScope 3D offers high-resolution magnified 3D scanning that can have applications for users ranging from forensics specialists to CGI animators. But its developers mostly just want people to have fun with the iPhone add-ons. After years in development, PhoneScope 3D is now raising funds on Kickstarter.
 
OneSpot Launches Platform For Turning Articles Into Ads, Raises $1.5M Top
onespot logoA lot of companies are getting into the content marketing business, creating blog posts and articles to promote their brands and products. But are they doing enough to promote that content? Well, startup OneSpot is opening a new platform to help them turn those posts into regular ads. OneSpot started out as a news aggregation company, but founder and CEO Matt Cohen said it's now focused on a bigger opportunity. His basic argument (similar to the one made by other companies like InPowered) is that editorial content, not advertising, has a much bigger impact on people's opinions than ads. Actually, he said that's a false distinction — for most people, it's not about "commercial versus non-commercial content," but rather "annoying content compared to content that is interesting." So why not promote the interesting content, like non-marketing blog posts on a company's own site, or a positive review elsewhere? Especially since much of that content just disappears once it has scrolled off the front page.
 
Set Your iOS to Stunned: New Version of the Star Trek PADD App Now Available Top
Star_Trek_PADD_iPhone_AppEver used your IOS device to imagine yourself as Lt. Nyota Uhura receiving an urgent communique from Starfleet? Then you are in luck — the second version of the official Star Trek PADD app is now available with native iPhone 5 and iPad mini support.
 
Mary Meeker's Year-End Trends Report: Mobile & Tablets = 24% Of Online Shopping On Black Friday, Up 18% From 2012 Top
Screen shot 2012-12-03 at 7.19.09 PMKleiner Perkins Partner Mary Meeker publisher her annual "Internet Trends Year-End Report" tonight, providing an update on the glimpse she gave us into mobile trends back in November. As per usual, the Kleiner partner's biggest conclusions are somewhat familiar: Internet growth remains robust, and penetration in the U.S. leads all other countries.
 
China Unicom Receives Orders for More Than 100,000 iPhone 5 Units Top
iphone5China Unicom announced that it received orders for more than 100,000 iPhone 5 units on its first day of pre-sales, according to a report on Sina Tech. A subsidiary of rival wireless operator China Telecom said that it had received pre-orders for more than 5,000 units.
 
Appenomics: Who Decided That Apps, Particularly Third-Party Twitter Apps, Had To Be Cheap? Top
6647659337_7bce2d4774_zNinety-nine cents here, a buck-ninety-nine there -- that's what were used to spending when Apple introduced the App Store after the iPhone was launched. It was probably one of the most genius software and developer coups in the history of mobile computing. I mean that. By creating the App Store, Apple created thousands, and perhaps millions, of jobs and an all-new form of entertainment and education for consumers.
 
jOBS: Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs Biopic To Debut At Sundance In January Top
jobs_ashton_kutcherAs you may have heard, Steve Jobs will be getting the Ashton Kutcher treatment in "jOBS", the first biopic to be released since the Apple co-founder passed away last year. Not to be confused with Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Walter Isaacson's biography, jOBS reportedly covers the thirty "definitive" years of Jobs' life, beginning in 1971.
 
Gift Platform NewlyWish Looks to Disrupt $19 Billion Annual Wedding Registry Industry Top
NewlyWishNewlyWish, the newly minted winner of the Women 2.0 Pitch NYC Startup Competition, provides a custom multi-merchant online marketplace. Users can choose from and register for goods at brick-and-mortar stores which have largely been excluded from the $19 billion annual domestic wedding registry market.
 
Gift Guide: Doxie Go Scanner Top
P1010569-buggedThe Doxie Go is a portable scanner with a built-in battery and 512 MB of internal memory. You can bring it anywhere with you and scan all your documents before throwing them away. But the best part is the application that comes with it. It integrates with cloud services, such as Dropbox, Evernote or CloudApp. You can open scanned documents with any local app, as well, or just save it as a PDF with OCR.
 
GitHub Hires Former Yelp CFO Vlado Herman To Help It Spend Andreessen's $100M Top
6a00d83452b44469e2013485d74840970c-800wiBack in July, collaborative code repository GitHub raised a whopping $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz to build out an enterprise version of the service, among other things. Up until now, it's been in need of someone to help the co-founders manage that cash and keep the fiscal ship from any nearby cliffs. Today, via blog post, GitHub CEO and co-founder Tom Preston-Werner announced that the company had hired Vlado Herman as its new CFO to do just that.
 

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