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- Conductor Raises $20M Series C To Improve Customers' Search Rankings, Outlines Ambitions Beyond SEO
- Yotpo Closes $1.5M Round Led by Rhodium And Gandyr Group To Scale Social Reviews
- Review: The New Nook HD Tablet Is Just About The Best Reader You Can Buy
- With 25% Of U.S. Doctors On Board, QuantiaMD Lands $12M To Become The LinkedIn For MDs
- Kantar: Apple iPhone 5 Slows Android's Growth In U.S., U.K. — But Android Continues To Expand Marketshare Across Europe, To 67.1%
- Top Gamification App On Salesforce.com AppExchange Gets $1M From ePrize and Detroit Venture Partners
- SmartAsset Raises $1.5M To Help You With The Big Financial Decisions
- Open Source Business Intelligence Company Pentaho Lands $23 Million Series C
- Post-Pivot, OpenBrand Launches Delivery Service To Become A DropBox For Designers
- EverySignal Is Like Google Alerts For Your Social Feeds
- Here's To Another Crazy One: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Narrates Windows Phone 8 Ad
- The Square-like iZettle Launches In Germany With DZ BANK And Deutsche Telekom, Puts Heat On Payleven
- U.K.'s First 4G Network, 4GEE, Goes Lives In 11 Cities; 700 Orange, T-Mobile Stores Rebranded; 10,000 Staff Trained To Sell 4G
- Are Flexible Mobile Data Plans Finally Here? Andreessen Horowitz Leads $15.5M Round In ItsOn
- Google Adds Power Outage Information To Its Hurricane Sandy Crisis Map
- Conan Takes On The iPad Mini And Apple's Increasingly Crowded Tablet Lineup
- Reports Claim Forstall And Browett Were Asked To Leave Apple Following Crucial Missteps
- Hands-On With LG And Google's First Smartphone Collaboration, The Nexus 4
- Hurricane Sandy Attacks The Web: Gawker, BuzzFeed and Huffington Post Are Down (UPDATED)
- Amazon Reveals How It Views Google's Cloud Efforts In Suit Filed Against Former Employee
| Conductor Raises $20M Series C To Improve Customers' Search Rankings, Outlines Ambitions Beyond SEO | Top |
 SEO company Conductor has just raised a $20 million Series C. The round was led by Investor Growth Capital, with participation from previous investors FirstMark Capital and Matrix Partners. Conductor's Searchlight product helps companies understand where they sit in relevant search results, where their competitors sit, and how they can improve their rankings. Customers include FedEx, BestBuy, Siemens, and General Electric. CEO Seth Besmertnik said revenue has grown 300 percent in the last year. | |
| Yotpo Closes $1.5M Round Led by Rhodium And Gandyr Group To Scale Social Reviews | Top |
 Back in April Tel Aviv-based Yotpo raised $800,000 in seed funding. But what the hell is it? Well, it's out to "make your customers happy" by allowing mainly eCommerce sites to engage visitors (getting them commenting, re-tweeting, sharing etc) by serving them with opinions about the new gadget or whatever it is in a social manner. Now it's closed a $1.5 million round led by Rhodium and Gandyr Group with participation from Zohar Gilon, Tron Capital, and current investors Plus Ventures and 2bAngels. The new funding will enable Yotpo to expand with ecommerce websites, and accelerate the product. It competes with other social review sites out there such as Reevoo. | |
| Review: The New Nook HD Tablet Is Just About The Best Reader You Can Buy | Top |
 In the endless back and forth between Amazon and B&N, the consumers are the lucky ones. Each product in the Nook and Kindle family have been consistently better and more compelling than the last. The Nook HD is Barnes & Noble's latest entry in the great sub-$200 tablet race and barring a few hardware issues associated with this sort of underpowered hardware I'm glad to report that the Nook HD is, in many way, superior to the Kindle in this iteration, if only for a few key software and hardware features. | |
| With 25% Of U.S. Doctors On Board, QuantiaMD Lands $12M To Become The LinkedIn For MDs | Top |
 QuantiaMD, one of a growing number of companies attempting to build the LinkedIn for the medical community, today announced that it has raised $12 million in venture financing from Fuse Capital. The expansion round is the company's largest raise to date and brings its total outside investment to $27 million. | |
| Kantar: Apple iPhone 5 Slows Android's Growth In U.S., U.K. — But Android Continues To Expand Marketshare Across Europe, To 67.1% | Top |
 Apple's iPhone 5 only launched towards the end of last month but first week sales of Apple's latest superphone slowed Android's growth in Cupertino's two biggest markets: the U.S. and U.K. during the 12 weeks ending September 30, 2012, according to figures put out today by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP-owned market analysts. | |
| Top Gamification App On Salesforce.com AppExchange Gets $1M From ePrize and Detroit Venture Partners | Top |
 The No. 1 gamification app on Salesforce.com AppExchange has secured $1 million from Detroit Venture Partners and ePrize. | |
| SmartAsset Raises $1.5M To Help You With The Big Financial Decisions | Top |
 SmartAsset, a Y Combinator-backed startup offering interactive tools to help homebuyers understand the financial ramifications of their decisions, has raised $1.5 million in new funding. The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, with participation from YC, Peterson Ventures, Quotidian Ventures, and Identified CEO Brendan Wallace. SmartAsset actually announced funding just two months ago — in the intervening months, SmartAsset took the stage at YC Demo Day, which probably attracted some new investors. With the new money, the company has raised a total of $2.4 million, and Javelin Managing Director Jed Katz is joining SmartAsset's board of directors. | |
| Open Source Business Intelligence Company Pentaho Lands $23 Million Series C | Top |
 Open source business intelligence vendor Pentaho today announced that it has received a $23 million round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from previous investors Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and DAG Ventures. This is the company's 5th round of funding, but it's being called a series C. This brings the company's total funding to $55 million. | |
| Post-Pivot, OpenBrand Launches Delivery Service To Become A DropBox For Designers | Top |
 Originally launched as a way for companies to manage their branding assets in-house, OpenBrand has since pivoted to offer a SaaS for designers, agencies and their clients to collaborate and share what they are working on -- logos, business cards, ads, illustrations etc. -- something along the lines of a BaseCamp for designers, perhaps. However, it's recently launched a new 'Delivery' feature which boils down the startup's proposition somewhat further and, potentially, repositions the London/Prague company to become a 'DropBox for designers'. | |
| EverySignal Is Like Google Alerts For Your Social Feeds | Top |
 EverySignal, a social search startup incubated at Science, is launching a new service that alerts you to the important events from your friends and colleagues. Now, I know what you're thinking: wait, don't we have Facebook for that? But EverySignal isn't trying to replicate Facebook's functionality - rather, it's about building value on top of Facebook's data stream, as well as the data streams from LinkedIn, and soon, Twitter. | |
| Here's To Another Crazy One: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Narrates Windows Phone 8 Ad | Top |
 Microsoft is really pushing the personalised angle of Windows Phone 8 -- so much so it's co-opted sometimes over-enthusiastic CEO Steve Ballmer into showing off his own Windows Phone and voicing one of the new ads. The move deliberately (or otherwise) echoes that of another tech CEO called Steve narrating a commercial (albeit, Apple's Jobs' The Crazy Ones ad never actually aired). | |
| The Square-like iZettle Launches In Germany With DZ BANK And Deutsche Telekom, Puts Heat On Payleven | Top |
 iZettle, the Square-like app and mini chip-card reader, has partnered with DZ BANK and Deutsche Telekom to launch its payments service in Germany. Jacob de Geer, iZettle CEO and co-founder says their ambition is to "become the undisputed market leader in Germany and given the partnerships with DZ BANK and Deutsche Telekom we believe we are very well positioned." That may also be code for 'well positioned' for a buy-out by US-based Square which has yet to launch in Europe, but has already signalled its intention to do so and may also have the cash if its turnover is to be believed. iZettle goes up against the Samwer-backed swipe-card clone Payleven.de. | |
| U.K.'s First 4G Network, 4GEE, Goes Lives In 11 Cities; 700 Orange, T-Mobile Stores Rebranded; 10,000 Staff Trained To Sell 4G | Top |
 Today EE, which owns the Orange and T-Mobile carrier brands, has flicked the switch -- turning on 4G services in 11 U.K. cities. EE has also rebranded more than 700 Orange and T-Mobile stores as EE stores, on high streets across the country to start selling the new services to existing and new customers. | |
| Are Flexible Mobile Data Plans Finally Here? Andreessen Horowitz Leads $15.5M Round In ItsOn | Top |
 Even as data usage has skyrocketed, U.S. carriers have remained stubbornly wedded to post-paid plans that offer users a surprisingly limited menu of pricing options. Yes, we're talking about those monthly subscriptions that easily reach above $100 a month -- even if you hardly touch voice calls or if you always come in far beneath your monthly data limit. But this may be about to change. Andreessen Horowitz just led a $15.5 million round in a company that's been in stealth working on this exact problem for the past four years. | |
| Google Adds Power Outage Information To Its Hurricane Sandy Crisis Map | Top |
 As we brought to your attention last night, Google set up what it calls a "Crisis Map" as we waited for Hurricane Sandy to make land-fall. It has, and damage has been done, including massive power outages in all affected areas. Tonight, the company has updated this map to include that information. Here's what the Maps team had to say: | |
| Conan Takes On The iPad Mini And Apple's Increasingly Crowded Tablet Lineup | Top |
 Apple introduced the iPad mini last week, which hits shelves this Friday. In a video airing later tonight on his show, Conan O'Brien takes a look at Apple's ever-expanding range of tablet iOS devices, and provides some suggestions for where we might be headed next. Best part? The slogan at the end, which Cupertino might want to consider officially adopting. | |
| Reports Claim Forstall And Browett Were Asked To Leave Apple Following Crucial Missteps | Top |
 The Wall Street Journal has released a report with updated information about why Apple decided to part ways with two senior executives, including former iOS SVP Scott Forstall and former SVP of Retail John Browett. The WSJ says that both executives were in fact asked to leave by Apple, following "missteps and management tensions" in their roles at Apple. | |
| Hands-On With LG And Google's First Smartphone Collaboration, The Nexus 4 | Top |
 After having seen its mug plastered all over the internet in the days leading up to its release, actually playing with LG and Google's new Nexus 4 seemed a bit anti-climactic. I mean, when you've seen a device like that cracked open and posed for your pleasure, it felt like there wasn't much I didn't already know about the thing. Oh how wrong I was. | |
| Hurricane Sandy Attacks The Web: Gawker, BuzzFeed and Huffington Post Are Down (UPDATED) | Top |
 If Hurricane Sandy wasn't scary enough, it's newest victims are in the blogosphere. We've just learned that Gawker's fleet of sites, including Gizmodo are down. Also Hurricane Sandy victims? The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. | |
| Amazon Reveals How It Views Google's Cloud Efforts In Suit Filed Against Former Employee | Top |
 Amazon has revealed a bit of detail for how it views Google's cloud efforts in a lawsuit filed against a former employee on grounds he violated a non-compete clause. Amazon filed the lawsuit on behalf of Amazon Web Services, claiming Daniel Powers, its former vice president of sales, has violated a severance agreement by taking a new job at Google as a director of cloud platform sales. | |
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