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Pandora Competitor Senzari Acquires Berlin-Based Music Startup WahWah.fm Top
DruckSenzari, the Miami-based streaming music startup offering an alternative to Pandora in both stateside and international markets, is today announcing it has acquired Berlin-based wahwah.fm. Founded in 2010 by Philipp Eibach, wahwah.fm is a location-based music app for iPhone that previously allowed users to broadcast their own personalized radio stations, which nearby folks using the app could pick up and listen to live.
 
Google's New Nexus Commercial Puts Focus On The Platform, Not The Hardware Top
Screen Shot 2012-10-30 at 9.40.09 AMDespite a storm in the North East that started out as a sheepish school girl and ended up in leather pants with a cigarette (you know, Sandy), Google still managed to pull off their big announcement yesterday. We officially met the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10, as Google refreshed the Nexus 7 with 3G.
 
How The Top 100 Brands Perform In The Apple App Store Top
DistimoCorporate300pxIn this month's report, app store analytics firm Distimo examined how the top 100 global brands approach the Apple App Store and how well they perform. Not surprisingly, most now have a presence there - in fact, only 12 do not. The most successful brands in terms of downloads are also not a huge shocker: Apple, Disney, Facebook, Google and eBay.
 
Another Place To Talk Smack — Fanatix Raises $1M To Bring Its Second Screen Sports App To The U.S. Top
159191v2In the UK, the summer of 2012 is already being looked back on as the British summer of sport. It kicked off with a traditionally poor performance by the English football team in the Euros, followed by a much more successful Olympics and Paralympics held on home soil. All three events were a national and televisual spectacle, but it would seem that the second screen saw plenty of action too. And so did fanatix, the mobile-first social network for sports fans, which is touting some encouraging growth and, carried by that momentum, is today launching in the U.S.
 
Yandex Reports Revenues Up 43% To $235.2M Year-On-Year For Q3 2012, Boosting Its Expansion Plans Top
yandexRevenues at Yandex, the Russian search engine which dwarfs Google in that territory, have rise by 41% year-on-year in its Q3 2012 financial results. Last quarter Yandex reported a 50 percent increase in revenue, and an increase in profit of 76 percent compared with Q2 2011. Today the company reported revenues of RUR 7.3 billion ($235.2 million), which were up some 41% quarter on quarter with last year. Operating income was up to $82.3 million, or 43% year-on-year. Profit for the third quarter was RUR 2.3 billion ($74.2 million).
 
PowerPoint Killer Prezi Launches New Interface Top
preziPrezi, a popular alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint and other presentation applications, launched a new version of its interface today. The company, which is advised by Jack Dorsey, also announced that it has passed the 15 million user milestone.
 
Touch-Based iOS Analytics Tool Heatma.ps Launches Out Of Beta Top
Screen Shot 2012-10-29 at 10.41.59 PMOn the web, there are solutions that show you where users click on your website, providing a path analysis that gives you clues about where best to place key components and what qualifies as high-traffic areas. On mobile, Warsaw-based startup Heatma.ps provides a similar tool, but aimed at divining insights specifically useful for touch-based mobile applications.
 
Rainmaker Group Raises $33.8M For Data Services That Optimizes Profits By Forecasting Supply And Demand Top
rainmakerThe Rainmaker Group, a company founded in 1998, has accepted its first investment -- $33.8 million  from Norwest Venture Partners that the Atlanta-based company will use to extend its profit and price optimization technology to different markets.
 
Conductor Raises $20M Series C To Improve Customers' Search Rankings, Outlines Ambitions Beyond SEO Top
ConductorLogo_RGBSEO 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
Screen Shot 2012-10-30 at 13.37.20Back 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
scaled-0971In 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(R)_Logo_StackedQuantiaMD, 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
iphone5Apple'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
logolevelevenThe 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 logo 091712-1SmartAsset, 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
Pentaho logoOpen 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
151687v2-max-250x250Originally 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-logoEverySignal, 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
Photo 29-10-2012 18 10 06Microsoft 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
iZ+DT-1iZettle, 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.
 

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