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TechCrunch France Integrates With TechCrunch.com Top
techcrunchfrance2Today, TechCrunch has some big news to share with you: TechCrunch France will finally become part of TechCrunch.com. Launched in 2006 by Michael Arrington and Ouriel Ohayon, TechCrunch France was one of the first tech blogs to take off in France and its launch marked one of the first steps towards internationalization for the TechCrunch network. After just two years of existence in 2008, TechCrunch France had already reached 1 million readers. TechCrunch France relaunched in 2010 after a few months of silence following the departures of Ouriel Ohayon and Alain Ezkenazi, and has been covering French startup news ever since.
 
Flat-Fee Mobile Payments Startup Emu Expands Beyond U.K.: Now Accepting Card Payments In 17 European Countries Top
emu-mobileSmall business mobile payments startup Emu launched its flat-fee dongle-less m-payments service in the U.K. last month. Today the company has announced its opening up to accept card payments in 16 more countries in Europe. Emu had previously offered registrations to European merchants outside the U.K. but with international registrations growing by more than 65 percent per day it's expanding.
 
Finally, A Toothbrush Uncle Sam And Mother Nature Can Agree On Top
rebrush_bathroom_hero3You're supposed to toss your toothbrush in the trash and get a new one every three months? Do you? Either you do, and you waste a lot of plastic and bristle to keep your mouth clean, or you don't, and your mouth simply isn't clean. But Oliver Haas and Jake Felser in Boston are disrupting the tooth cleaning landscape with the ReBrush.
 
Android-Based Siri Challenger Maluuba Launches Full Version In India, Partners With OpenTable And Locu In U.S. Top
maluuba_headerMaluuba, the Android-based Siri competitor and TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco finalist, just announced that it has partnered with OpenTable and the menu and restaurant hours database Locu. Maluuba is also launching a full version of its app in India, allowing users there to access local information about movies, businesses, restaurants and events.
 
Fortumo Brings Its Mobile Payments To Windows 8 — Carrier Billing FTW! Top
win8-mobile-paymentsThe Estonian/U.S. mobile payments company, Fortumo, has a pretty good track record of moving quickly. It was one of the first -- if not the first -- to give Android developers a way to offer in-app purchasing outside of Google's own payments system, with the added bonus of carrier billing, sans credit card. An offer that Rovio took up with its 'Bad Piggy Bank' Angry Birds upgrade. Today, Fortumo is gunning for first-mover advantage again with news that its mobile payments solution is Windows 8-ready.
 
Apple Store Now Selling Nike's Fitness Tracking FuelBand In The U.S., Canada And The U.K. Top
Nike+ FuelBandApple added the Nike+ FuelBand to its online store this morning, with two new colors and availability not only in the U.S., but in the U.K. and Canada, too. In addition to Apple Store shelves, the FuelBand will also be available via Nike's online and physical retail stores in those countries in the new colors. That's a first for Canadians.
 
Facebook Shares Drop 5 Percent As Employee Lockup Expires Top
facebook-share-priceAt market opening today, Facebook took another hit, with shares trading at 20.94, 5.02 percent below Friday's level, the last day trades were made since Hurricane Sandy barreled over the East Coast. Today, 234 million Facebook shares (NASDAQ:FB) held by employees are now eligible to be sold on the market thanks to a stock-lockup expiration.
 
FCC: Sandy Took Down 25% Of Cell Towers In 10 States Top
sandy1If you think Sandy's slow, steady passing is a sign of good things to come, think again. It's going to take days (at the very least) to restore power to many of the 7 million+ people living in darkness, and cell service is expected to get worse before it gets better. According to the FCC, 25 percent of cell towers in ten states were disrupted or damaged during the Hurricane. Landline outages are "far fewer" but 25 percent of cable services have also gone down, meaning many are without news updates at all.
 
Google Doodle Celebrates Halloween With Spooky Haunted Houses Top
Google-halloweenFollowing Google's tradition of decorating its homepage to celebrate major holidays, the Google Doodle today is a cute and spooky interactive animation of haunted houses. Well, not haunted houses in the traditional sense of a lone, crusty old mansion with a graveyard nearby, but rather a series of haunted entryways to homes in the city.
 
Closing In On 30M Users, Waze Goes Big On Social: Adds Facebook Connect, Pickup Requests, Location Sharing & More Top
ChangingRouteApple's launch of its new mapping service, the ensuing backlash and management shakeup, have been anything but its proudest moments. Adding insult to injury, As Kim-Mai reported two weeks ago, Apple's pain quickly turned into a gain for other map makers. However, for most, this was only a temporary blip. Only one company was able to sustain increased marketshare: Waze, which saw its share of U.S. iPhone users jump from 7 percent to 10 percent.
 
A Platform Play – Gliffy Moves Its Online Diagram Service To HTML 5 And Says Goodbye To Flash Top
gliffyGliffy is moving to an all HTML 5 platform, showing the change in developer and business users needs to collaborate online across any platform and within third party application environments.
 
Personal Travel Assistant WorldMate Gets Scooped Up By Carlson Wagonlit For $20M Top
Screen shot 2012-10-30 at 7.47.44 PMAfter more than a decade of helping to manage the friendly skies, it seems that mobile travel assistant WorldMate is coming in for a landing at its final destination as an independent company. Carlson Waglit Travel (CWT), one of the largest travel agencies in the world, has agreed to acquire WorldMate in an all-cash deal, TechCrunch learned today. According to sources with knowledge of the deal, the purchase price is about $20 million.
 
Payments Startup Buck Launches Stores, A Pinterest-Like Platform Allowing Publishers To Earn Money From Their Recommendations Top
buck-logoBuck, a mobile payments startup previously known as Billing Revolution, is today heading into a new vertical with the debut of Buck Shops. These shops are e-commerce storefronts whose purchasing experience is powered by Buck's single-click credit card checkout, announced earlier this year.
 
Chinese Regulators Approve Two Versions Of iPhone 5 As Planned December Launch Nears Top
People queue up to buy the new iPad during its China launch at the Apple store in ShanghaiApple CEO Tim Cook discussed December as the launch timeframe for iPhone 5 in China on the investor call last week, and now the smartphone is one step closer to launch; AllThingsD notes that it has received approval from China's State Radio Management organization, meaning only a network access license remains to be granted before it can be legally sold in the country.
 
Real-Money Gambling Platform, Betable, Signs Up Developers Slingo, Digital Chocolate, Murka; Private Beta "Opening Up In Near Future" Top
betable logoGambling platform Betable, which allows developers to incorporate real-money gambling into their games (in markets where online gambling is legal) without themselves having to obtain a gambling license, has announced it's signed up games developers Slingo, Digital Chocolate and Murka Games to its platform -- currently in private beta.
 
Nokia And Windows Phone Get An Avian App Exclusive With Angry Birds Roost Top
angry-birds-roostThe Nokia Lumia line of Windows Phone devices have reason to crow today, thanks to a new exclusive release featuring Rovio's wildly popular Angry Birds. The app, called Angry Birds Roost, was announced back in September and while it doesn't offer any actual gameplay, it does act as the perfect central hub for the Angry Birds completist.
 
What The iPad Mini's Up Against: Asus Reports Nexus 7 Sales Approach 1 Million Per Month Top
(Fly or Die) Google Nexus 7Asus CFO told The Wall Street Journal late Tuesday that the Nexus 7, Google's well-received, affordable 7-inch Android tablet was nearing 1 million in sales per month. Chang noted that unit sales rose from roughly 500,000 around the time of its introduction in June/July, and rose steadily after that. It's a solid look at what the iPad mini will be competing with when it goes on sale this Friday.
 
With 40% Of Traffic From Outside The U.S., Glassdoor Raises $20M Series D To Expand Internationally Top
glassdoorGlassdoor, the jobs and career community website offering company reviews, salary comparisons and job listings, is today announcing an additional $20 million in outside funding. The Series D round was led by new investor DAG Ventures, and saw participation from Glassdoor's existing investors Benchmark Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Battery Ventures. To date, Glassdoor has raised $42.2 million in outside funding.
 
Auto Advertising Startup adverCar Raises $2M From Canaan Partners, 1-800-Flowers, And Others Top
advercar logoAdverCar, a startup promising to make it easy for drivers to turn their vehicles into rolling advertisements, has raised a $2 million seed round. The funding was led by Canaan Partners, with participation from 1-800-FLOWERS, Branford Castle Private Equity, New Orleans Startup Fund, Jit Saxena, and the TiE Angels Boston. 1-800-Flowers CEO Jim McCann and Canaan partner Deepak Kamra are joining adverCar's board of directors.
 
Boxee TV Hits Walmart Stores Tomorrow Top
BoxeeTV-TelevisionBoxee has grown up. It was just a few short years ago that the NYC startup was simply hawking beta copies of its innovative media center software. Then came the D-Link-made Boxee Box, which sold in limited numbers through Best Buy and several online retailers. But now, with the Boxee TV, the startup has pulled off something special (or devilish depending on your view of the retailer) and managed to get the Boxee TV into Walmart.
 

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