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- Apple Sold 2 Million iPads In 59 Days
- Are Questions The "Future Of Facebook"?
- We Love You Too: 250+ TechCrunch Anniversary Meetups And Counting
- Wireless Analyst Predicts Mobile LBS Revenues To Reach €420M In Europe By 2015
| Apple Sold 2 Million iPads In 59 Days | Top |
| Apple has just announced that sales of its tablet computer iPad have now topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. That’s a whole lot of iPads in under two months, and the company only started shipping units to customers in countries outside the United States last weekend. The news comes almost a month after Apple announced that it had sold 1 million units . As previously announced, the iPad will be available in nine more – but still unnamed – countries in July and additional countries later this year. And they’re still clinging on to the ‘magic’ rhetoric , apparently: "Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone." Apple in a statement said developers have created over 5,000 new apps for iPad to date. In a week, Jobs will be front and center at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference in San Francisco – the man’s keynote starts on Monday 7 June at 10 AM PST. CrunchBase Information iPad Apple Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Are Questions The "Future Of Facebook"? | Top |
| About a week ago, word started getting out that Facebook is beta testing a new “killer app” called Facebook Questions. For beta testers, the Questions feature appears in the left-hand column just below Events and Photos. It lets you ask and answer questions to and from your extended circle of friends. A few days ago, Facebook opened up the private beta further and is now taking applications for anyone who wants to enter the beta. Facebook is taking its Questions product very seriously. “Help us build the future of Facebook,” reads the title of the page. It puts the Questions product on par with Photos and Events. As a beta tester, your job will be to ask great questions and provide great answers about your favorite topics. Economics? Skydiving? Relationships? Mexican Restaurants? It’s up to you. You’ll be the first person outside of Facebook to use this product. Your expert writing will be seen by tens of millions of people — including job recruiters. And we’ll bring our best beta testers out to California to tour Facebook headquarters and meet the team. All you have to do to become a beta tester is submit three sample questions, such as What are the main differences between Google Chrome and Internet Explorer? What are women looking for in a relationship? What methods has BP tried to clean up the oil spill? In one fell swoop, Facebook is about to take on Yahoo Answers, Google (via recently acquired Aardvark ), LinkedIn (notice the reference to job recruiters?), and Quora . Q&A sites drive massive pageviews. It is an area Facebook can no longer ignore. P eople already use Facebook informally to ask questions across their social network from time to time. It is a type of status update, if you think about it. The Questions feature will bucket all of these together, spread them across your friends and their friends, and make them searchable. The advantage Facebook could have in the Q&A space is that to the extent that you find answers from your extended social network, questions can become the start of deeper conversations and spur new relationships. But breaking it out as a separate feature raises some new questions. Will every major type of status update now become its own feature on Facebook (like Photo and Event updates do)? And, if so, what’s next? CrunchBase Information Facebook Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| We Love You Too: 250+ TechCrunch Anniversary Meetups And Counting | Top |
| On June 11, it will be exactly five years since Michael Arrington hit the ‘Publish’ button and introduced the Interwebz to the very first TechCrunch post (which was a brief profile of blog search engine Technorati , which Mike apparently labeled a real-time search engine at the time – what’s old is new again, right?). We want to celebrate our fifth anniversary with as many people as we can, across the globe. So we are using the new Meetup Everywhere platform that Scott Heiferman announced on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt last week to organize TechCrunch Meetups on June 11 all around the world. We’re not only celebrating TechCrunch, but the last five years of the Web in general. A lot has happened since June 2005, but the wheel keeps on turning, faster than ever. Sometimes, it’s good to take a breather, look back and celebrate, and then move on. Either way, we were pleasantly surprised to see how many people jumped on this. On May 28, we counted nearly 150 meetups planned in places like New York City , San Francisco , London , Hyderabad , Bangalore , Seoul , Tel Aviv , Jakarta and Sophia . Just three days later, another 100 were organized by readers and fans all over the world, so we’re at 252 and counting . We see meetups are being organized from ad Dasma’, Kuwait to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and St. Petersburg, Russia . Amazing, and humbling. Yes, we realize you probably just needed yet another excuse to party, but we’re all in awe that you’re willing to do under our banner anyway. Have fun on our fifth birthday bash for us, will you? And don’t forget to send in pictures. CrunchBase Information TechCrunch Meetup Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Wireless Analyst Predicts Mobile LBS Revenues To Reach €420M In Europe By 2015 | Top |
| According to a new research report from Sweden-based wireless analyst Berg Insight , mobile location-based service revenues in Europe are forecasted to grow from €220 million in 2009 to €420 million in 2015. Berg Insight adds that local search, navigation services and social networking are poised to become the top applications in terms of number of users, which is sort of a give-away as those categories have already proven to be the most popular and fastest-growing among smartphone users worldwide. Berg Insight, which offers business intelligence to the telecom industry and provides analysis to companies such as AT&T, Microsoft, France Telecom, IBM, KPN Mobile, NTT Docomo, Nokia, Telefonica O2, Vodafone Group, Alcatel and Motorola, estimates that one third of all mobile subscribers in Europe will use "some kind of location-enhanced application" on a regular basis by 2015. | |
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