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FastMail Escapes The 1990s With Sleek New Interface Top
fastmailFastmail is a popular e-mail provider among power users who want to be customers instead of products. But its interface has been stuck in the 90s -- until this week when it rolled out a brand new AJAXy UI. And it's really, well, fast.
 
Turntable.fm Founder's New DJZ Dance Music Site And DJZtxt App Will Make Your Eyes And Ears Bleed Top
DJZ SiteElectronic dance music (EDM) is all the rage with kids born after 1990 (Generation Z), and Turntable.fm founder Seth Goldstein is brining the scene online. Today he launches DJZ, a news hub website, and DJZtxt, a messaging app that turns emojis into sounds. With $1 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins, music industry folk and more, DJZ could capture the youth's eyes and dollars, or get skipped.
 
Watch Nerdery: Up Close With The New Seiko "Orange Monster" Top
Seiko-SRP313-watchIf you know me, you know two things about me: I love watches and I smell, faintly, of ferret. That's why I'd like to share my excitement at this review of the new Seiko SRP313K1 "Orange Monster," one of the nicest and least expensive automatic diving watches you can buy.
 
Apple's R&D Spending Climbs $1 Billion To $3.4 Billion During FY 2012 Top
Apple-Logo-MacBookApple released its 10-K filing with the SEC today, reflecting its financial status and records for the entirety of 2012. Most of the content is what we've seen already from quarterly results, but a couple of statistics stood out as particularly interesting and worthy of note. For one, Apple spent $3.4 billion in research and development during its 2012 fiscal year, up $1 billion from 2011.
 
Another 'Sexy' Enterprise Exit: EMC Buys Web Security Firm Silver Tail Systems Top
Some would say the Enterprise has always been sexy (see what I did there?)The tech press doesn't always give enterprise software startups as much attention as companies on the consumer-focused side. That is slowly changing now, though -- the words "enterprise" and "sexy" have shown up together in a growing number of conference panels and press reports in recent months.
 
Photo Sharing App Batch Finally Closing Its Doors Since Team Is Now At Airbnb Top
10837680_a6ccb07bc3We knew that the Dailybooth team, creators of photo sharing app Batch, moved on to greener pastures at Airbnb. The acquisition was to bolster the mobile apps and presence for Airbnb. What we didn't know is what the fate of its products would be, but now we do. Today, the "Batch team" sent out an email to its users informing them that they should download their photos, because the service will be shutting down:
 
Blue Box Raises $3.5 Million For Cloud And Hosting Service With An OpenStack Flavor Top
logoblueboxBlue Box has raised $3.5 million for its OpenStack-infused cloud and hosting service designed for companies that have major traffic volumes and big apps and rely on a high level of uptime.
 
Get Ready For Some Fireworks: Activist Investor Carl Icahn Sets His Sights On Netflix, Taking A 10% Stake Top
carl-icahn-oCarl Icahn has bought a big chunk of Netflix stock — nearly 10 percent altogether. It's not clear exactly what his intentions are, but according to the filing, the investment was made because Icahn believes the stock is undervalued. And he might have a point: Netflix was once sitting pretty at about $300 a share, but has fallen fast. Netflix shares were hovering around $60 last week.
 
One Year In, Nextdoor, The Social Network For Neighborhoods, Talks Numbers [TCTV] Top
Screen Shot 2012-10-31 at 1.09.55 PMThis time last year marked the debut of Nextdoor, a site that allows people to build private online social networks for their local neighborhoods. The startup has a very noble aim -- bringing people who live in real-life communities closer together -- but at its launch, many people were a bit skeptical. Would people really want to sign up for yet another social network? How would Nextdoor differentiate from the social networking superstar, Facebook? Could Nextdoor be attractive to people beyond tech-savvy urban centers such as San Francisco?
 
Zillow Acquires Real Estate Shopping And Collaboration Platform For Brokers And Homebuyers, Buyfolio Top
buyfolioReal estate search giant Zillow has acquired Buyfolio, an online and mobile collaborative shopping platform where home shoppers can search, track, organize and discuss for-sale listings with their real estate agent, significant other or a private group. Financial terms were not disclosed.
 
Outdoor Ad Startup ADstruc Launches A New Ad-Buying Workflow And Partners With Telmar Top
adstruc logoADstruc has been working to modernize the buying of outdoor advertising for the past couple of years. Now it's taking two big steps in that process with last week's launch of the new ADstruc platform, and today's announcement that it's partnering with ad software maker Telmar. CEO John Laramie told me that the new platform builds on the services that ADstruc already offers, but the company describes the new platform as not just a new feature or tool, and instead "a complete workflow solution" offering "the easiest way to buy and sell outdoor advertising" like billboards. Agencies and other advertisers can post requests for proposal (RFPs) for their campaigns, and outdoor ad companies can bid to participate. The advertisers can actually browse the bids in a map, narrow down their search based on different criteria, and even see what their ad will look like in a given location. It's a big change, Laramie said, from an industry where most of the campaign planning happens on spreadsheets.
 
AT&T And T-Mobile Combine Wireless Coverage In Sandy-Affected Areas Top
Wonder_TwinsAT&T and T-Mobile have signed an agreement that lets subscribers to either company roam on either network in devastated parts of the country where Hurricane Sandy has left users with poor cellular coverage. In the past 72 hours, our nation's mobile carriers have been through quite a bit. Sandy left a wake of destruction in her path. In fact, this morning the FCC said that 25 percent of towers in 10 states are down.
 
Google Settles With Rosetta Stone Over Trademark Infringement Within Search And Ads Lawsuit Top
3502016704_ff7eec01cd_zAccording to Reuters, Google has settled a lawsuit brought by software maker Rosetta Stone over the search company allowing people to purchase keywords within its ad product using its trademarked name. The lawsuit was filed in 2009 and has dragged on in Virginia since then. The language-teaching company says that competitors were getting a leg up by confusing people searching for them on Google. I've been through something similar, when someone purchased AdWords using my full name. It was pretty annoying.
 
Google Translate Gets A Better Dictionary With Smarter Rankings, Reverse Translations And Grouped Synonyms Top
google_translateGoogle just launched an update to Google Translate that brings a few new features to the tool that will make it easier to decide which translation of a given word is the one you're looking for.
 
Microsoft & Urban Airship Team Up To Offer Push Messaging On Windows 8 And Windows Phone 8 Top
Image (1) urban-airship.jpg for post 71588Following Monday's reveal of Windows Phone 8, the most recent update to Microsoft's mobile phone operating system, backend service provider Urban Airship is announcing that it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to be the preferred provider for push messaging services on the new platform.
 
Panic-Inducing Rumors Over Twitter During A Hurricane Should Be Illegal Top
blog_constitution_3First Amendment protections are a solemn oath designed to preserve a functioning democracy; they in no way logically extend to protecting the capacity to inflict harm on vulnerable citizens for mere amusement. For good reason, New York City Councilman Peter Vallone is considering criminal charges against Hurricane Sandy prankster Shashank Tripathi who spread malicious rumors about power outages over Twitter (under the handle, @ComfortablySmug).
 
Google Brings Its 3D Imagery To 5 New Cities And To The Desktop Top
Earth 7 tour guideAfter launching its new 3D imagery on mobile a few months ago, Google today finally brought these 3D buildings in select cities and its new tour guide feature to Google Earth 7 on the desktop. With this update, Google is also bringing its 3D imagery to five new cities: Avignon, France; Austin, Texas; Munich, Germany; Phoenix, Arizona and Mannheim, Germany.
 
The iPad Mini's Cannibalization Effects: Overpowering Or Overblown? Top
promo_compareThe iPad mini seems downright hungry, and it has a taste not just for other small tablets, but for its larger brethren, the iPad with Retina Display. Some analysts are saying as much, with expectations of the iPad mini's cannibalization effect on existing iPad sales ranging from around 10 to 20 percent. But one suggests that it could be more like 50 percent, based on numbers Apple revealed.
 
Twilio Signs First Big International Cloud Telephony Licensing Deal With Japan's #2 Telecom KDDI Top
twilio-logoBreaking into Japan can be tough for foreign companies since it's culture favors credibility and certainty. So Twilio has just struck an alliance with Japan's well-respected KDDI telecom who will now sell its cloud communication APIs to developers. It follows in the footsteps of Twilio's deal with AT&T this month, and could be the model for how Twilio gains local penetration around the world.
 
Poikos Takes The Prize At The Pioneers Festival In Vienna Top
c55ba8049b800932cb375da74ec26117_viewThe Pioneers Festival kicked off in Vienna this week and by the looks of the 2,300 attendees at the amazing Hofburg Imperial palace, the conference is shaping up to be a stand-out event in Europe, not least because it is enormously upbeat and positive. Something we need more of in Europe. With a palace as a setting, art installations and a Croatian-born electric super car in the foyer (the Rimac), this is quite a 'European' event. The location of Vienna also means it's attracting a lot of German, Austrian, Central, Eastern and Southern European startups. Hell, they can drive or get a train here from just about anywhere in Europe. Poikos a startup with a technology for imaging and measuring the body in 3D, was the overall winner in the startup competition, winning €25,000 prize money. Klash won the audience choice. Helioz won second place and BeamApp won third place. So here's a fast run-down of the startups appearing, you can grab links to them from this page.
 

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