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- Holiday Shopping Wrap-Up: Apple Makes Top Performing E-Commerce Site List, Amazon Excels On Mobile
- The Most Important Gadgets Of 2012
- Nearly 40% Of Facebook Users Are Mobile App Users
- Despite Attacks, Klout Is Poised To Boost its Influence
- Gillmor Gang Live 12.29.11 (TCTV)
- Samsung Ships 1 Million Galaxy Note Phablets
- BP, Shea Ventures, Google Ventures And Others Invest in Cool Planet's C Round
- Mobilewalla: The Highest Rated Mobile Apps Of 2011
- Amazon: We Sold Over 4 Million Kindle Devices This Month; Gifting Of E-Books Up 175 Percent
- Rumor: Apple Will Debut Two iPads Next Month, Retina Displays In Tow
- Video: Electric Car From Japan Reaches Over 300KM Travel Range
- 7moments Is A Beautiful New Way To Share Private Photos In A Group
- Fund.me: Mobile Social Network Startup Just.me Raises $2.7 Million
- LG To Showcase 84-Inch 3D TV With 4K Resolution At CES 2012
- Daily Crunch: Ambient Thing
- 12 Things That Won't Happen In Online Video in 2012
- Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV)
- Why We Should All Give Google+ The Finger
- Blip.tv Just Raised $6 Million, But Where Is The Audience?
- Bank Shuts Down Local Online Advertising Company WebVisible For Not Paying Debts
| Holiday Shopping Wrap-Up: Apple Makes Top Performing E-Commerce Site List, Amazon Excels On Mobile | Top |
 According to the end-of-season benchmarks from Compuware's web performance division, Apple.com was among the top three best-performing retail websites during the 2011 holiday season. Meanwhile, Amazon made the list for the top m-commerce sites. The sites were ranked from November 21st through Christmas Day using Compuware's Gomez Performance Index which compares how U.S. retailers' sites perform in comparison with typical non-peak periods. | |
| The Most Important Gadgets Of 2012 | Top |
 Rather than looking back (which I'm sure we will), I thought it would be nice to look forward to 2012 and beyond and note some of the gadgets that will change the world in the next few years. I've included mobile, gaming, and computing gadgets but I think 2012 will also be the year of Windows Phone, 3D printing, and fitness technology that actually makes a difference. I'm not expecting much in the way of massive change this next year, just more of the same, but better. Here are our picks for the best of 2012. | |
| Nearly 40% Of Facebook Users Are Mobile App Users | Top |
 According to new data from Benedict Evans for Enders Analysis, the number of monthly active users of Facebook's mobile apps recently passed the 300 million mark. This is primarily due to heavy use of the iOS and Android apps, but it also takes into account apps that run on BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Phone, iPad and feature phones. That number equates to roughly 40% of Facebook's currently disclosed 800 million active users. | |
| Despite Attacks, Klout Is Poised To Boost its Influence | Top |
 If you even so much as whisper your Klout score within specific circles, you're likely to be met with a piercing stinkeye. Based in San Francisco with a small pot of funding, there's something about Klout's mission -- to rank online influence -- that ironically draws the ire of many influential people. Despite the sentiments, Klout continues to roll with the punches because our online identities are fragmented across different services. These different sites rank their own users, of course, but typically only factor inputs tied down within their own gardens. The main forces, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, certainly weight their own users' activity for various reasons, but Klout has built one single, unified score based on its own independent algorithm across these services. | |
| Gillmor Gang Live 12.29.11 (TCTV) | Top |
 The Gillmor Gang – Esteban Kolsky, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor – are recording live at 8am PT. Recording is concluded. | |
| Samsung Ships 1 Million Galaxy Note Phablets | Top |
 When we first heard about Samsung's 5.3-inch Galaxy Note, we didn't really know what to do with it. Is it a phone? Is it a tablet? Oh, look! A stylus! It was weird. But apparently people like weird, as Samsung is now reporting that it's shipped over 1 million Galaxy Note phablets globally. The device launched back in September, and devices shipped is normally a higher number than the devices actually out in the real world, but it's still a solid number nonetheless. | |
| BP, Shea Ventures, Google Ventures And Others Invest in Cool Planet's C Round | Top |
 Today, Cool Planet BioFuels, Inc. announced that BP Technology Ventures has made an investment in the company's C round led by Shea Ventures. Current Cool Planet investors, General Electric, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG and North Bridge Venture Partners also participated. The amount of funding was not disclosed. | |
| Mobilewalla: The Highest Rated Mobile Apps Of 2011 | Top |
 Mobile analytics firm Mobilewalla has ranked the top apps across all four mobile platforms for 2011, using its own ranking system known at the "Mobilewalla Score." Instead of looking at raw user ratings, this scoring system is an algorithm that analyzes a variety of factors in addition to ratings, including an app's position within its own category, volume, social media sentiment and more. | |
| Amazon: We Sold Over 4 Million Kindle Devices This Month; Gifting Of E-Books Up 175 Percent | Top |
 Amazon has just released new data regarding its Kindle sales for the holiday season. According to the e-commerce giant, Amazon customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle e-readers. And 2011 was the best holiday ever for the Kindle family, as customers purchased over 1 million Kindle devices each week. Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos said in a statement: "We are grateful to our customers worldwide for making this the best holiday ever for Kindle." Bezos also highlighted the fact that the #1 and #4 best-selling Kindle books released in 2011 were both published independently by their authors using Kindle Direct Publishing. | |
| Rumor: Apple Will Debut Two iPads Next Month, Retina Displays In Tow | Top |
 The Apple rumor mill never takes a break, even during the holidays. In the past months we've heard two very specific allegations concerning the iPad — both out of Digitimes — focused on a smaller sized Apple tab at 8.75 inches and a release date of early 2012. As Devin explained so well, the notion of a smaller iPad out of Cupertino is a bit hard to believe. It would mean that Apple is going back on its word that the iPad is the right size. Today Digitimes backtracks from its previous rumor with a new one: Instead of the 7.85-inch iPad, Apple will supposedly be bringing two new Retina-style iPads to the market to fill in the mid- and high-end market segments, while the current iPad 2 hangs around to take on the Kindle Fire. | |
| Video: Electric Car From Japan Reaches Over 300KM Travel Range | Top |
 We spent two posts on SIM-LEI, an electric car developed by a a spin-off startup at Keio University in Tokyo in collaboration with a total of 34 domestic and foreign companies, in the past months. And it seems that the startup, SIM Drive Corporation, is on track to start mass-producing the vehicle in about 2 years. The company was set up in August 2009. The main selling point of the newest version is that it can drive over 300km at a constant speed of 100km/h. In spring, SIM Drive said the SIM-LEI ("Leading Efficiency In-Wheel motor") can reach 333km under "general urban traffic conditions in Japan". | |
| 7moments Is A Beautiful New Way To Share Private Photos In A Group | Top |
 We're all familiar with the pain of having to share photos with people. I'm not talking about the staff party album on Facebook, I'm talking about moments that matter - the family holidays, the weddings, big days like those. And this remains an ongoing issue. We can share Dropbox folders all we like. Everything still has to be downloaded and the interface does not suit viewing, especially on tablets. We can ask friends and family to sign up to a private Flickr group, but that's still another hurdle. Lots of photo and file sharing services are rubbish and many people remain afraid of Facebook's now quite public nature. Now, a new startup out of Berlin has come up with something it calls the 'Dropbox for photos' where you can privately exchange photos in a group: 7moments. | |
| Fund.me: Mobile Social Network Startup Just.me Raises $2.7 Million | Top |
 Just.me, a stealth startup incubated by Palo Alto, California-based Archimedes Labs has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding according to an SEC filing. The company earlier secured $600,000 in seed financing from SV Angel, Google Ventures, True Ventures, Betaworks and a couple of other high-profile angel investors such as Don Dodge, Michael Parekh and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. I reached out to Keith Teare, CEO and sole founder of just.me (and also technically also a co-founder of TechCrunch), who declined to comment on the financing round. | |
| LG To Showcase 84-Inch 3D TV With 4K Resolution At CES 2012 | Top |
 It seems that 55-Inch OLED TV wasn't enough for LG: the Korean company today announced it's ready to showcase another monster TV at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas (which kicks off on January 10). This model comes with a 84-inch 3D LCD display with 4K resolution (3,840×2,160 pixels). To put things into perspective: 4K resolution, which LG calls "Ultra Definition", is four times the resolution of full HD. Other details are scarce at this point, but LG promises "slim and narrow bezel design", controllable 3D picture effects, and 3D sound zooming capability. | |
| Daily Crunch: Ambient Thing | Top |
 Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: CrunchDeals: Get Yourself A Thing-O-Matic For $999 Japan Gets Wi-Fi Dispensing Vending Machines LG Prada 3.0 Makes Official Debut In Korea, Europe To Follow Ambient Field Conditioner Will Condition Your Ambient Field 3DS Sees Record Sales In Japan, Fueled By Mario Kart 7 And Super Mario 3D Land | |
| 12 Things That Won't Happen In Online Video in 2012 | Top |
 There are no shortages of "predictions" articles, here I look at a dozen things that won't happen in the world of online video in 2012, even though they should. 1) We Will Have Standards and Definitions (No, we won't) By the end of 2011, the online video industry didn't yet have a common definition and standard for a video view. It also wasn't sure if the click-through-rate or completion rate would become the ultimate yardstick for success. A lot of experts are coming out and saying that 2012 will mark the year where we define these standards and agree on one. Personally, I think that is wishful thinking, 2012 is the year where we admit that we have this problem, but it won't matter, as online video advertising continues to grow despite a sea of confusion, smoke and mirrors | |
| Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV) | Top |
| The Gillmor Gang goes enterprise in a conversation with Paul Greenberg, the eminence grise of the CRM, now Social CRM world. Gangsters John Taschek and Steve Gillmor decrypt Paul's latest report from the front. | |
| Why We Should All Give Google+ The Finger | Top |
 "Google+ is about sharing the right updates with the right people - making sharing online just like sharing in real life. Just like in real life, sometimes you just want to hang out with friends. Hanging out on Google+, with your family, your friends, or new friends you don't yet know, is more than just multi-user video chat. It's about eliminating borders and bringing people together around the world. It's about people." | |
| Blip.tv Just Raised $6 Million, But Where Is The Audience? | Top |
 Blip Networks, which operates Blip.tv, is raising more money. According to an SEC filing, the New York City company sold $6 million worth of stock beginning on December 22, 2011 in an offering that could expand to as much as $11.1 million. Presumably, this is part of a Series D offering, since Blip raised a $10 million Series C in May, 2010, almost 18 months ago. Blip is trying to become a destination for indie online videos. But it is becoming increasingly hard for any video site that is not Youtube to carve out a niche for itself. | |
| Bank Shuts Down Local Online Advertising Company WebVisible For Not Paying Debts | Top |
 Local interactive advertising firm WebVisible has shut its doors. According to a note sent from the company's CEO to employees, WebVisible ran out of cash, and Silicon Valley Bank is shutting the company down. WebVisible's software allowed advertisers to manage local online campaigns on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. The company's services were offered directly affiliate partners to local businesses, franchisors, and national advertisers Previous WebVisible partners include AT&T, British Telecom, Yellow Pages Group of Canada, EarthLink, and The McClatchy Company, among others. | |
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