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Android-Based Siri Alternative Maluuba Gets Into Online Shopping, Partners With Best Buy And Walmart Top
maluuba_headerTechCrunch Disrupt alumni Maluuba is launching the latest version of its Siri-like Android app in the Google Play store today. The major new feature in this latest release is the addition of shopping-related queries and results to the eighteen other categories Maluuba currently understands.
 
General Catalyst Backs Roughdraft.VC To Fund Student-Run Startups And Ideas In Boston Top
roughThere's no shortage of college student who have startup ideas and want to turn their entrepreneurial dreams into a reality. But getting the money, even if it is a few hundred dollars to set up servers, isn't easy for college students. First Round Capital recently debuted its Dorm Room Fund to help back ideas started by students in the Philadelphia area. NEA has also started a similar fund at Harvard. And today, General Catalyst is debuting its version of the service, Roughdraft.VC, to fund students at universities in Boston.
 
Sources: SnapChat Raising "North Of $10M" At Around $70M Valuation, Led By Benchmark's Mitch Lasky Top
mzl.uqchfnwv.320x480-75We now have a foil for all the young consumer startups trying to raise their first venture rounds. Snapchat, an increasingly popular mobile app that auto-deletes photos shortly after viewing, is about to close a big new round of funding from Benchmark Capital. We've been chasing for the last week or two, but Om Malik has published first -- with a few different details.
 
Following Walmart.com's Lead, Amazon Adds Facebook-Enabled Gift Suggestions Top
friends-and-family-amazonAmazon today announced a new feature called Friends and Family Gifting, aimed at helping customers better organize their gift lists and gift ideas for others, generate Facebook-enabled gift suggestions, receive reminders, and share their gift lists out via email or to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
 
After Cashing Out Of Seesmic, Loic LeMeur Sells Majority Stake In LeWeb Conference Biz To ReedMidem Top
leweb_logo_12Here's a crash-bang follow up to last week's LeWeb tech conference in Paris. Today, the trade event giant Reed Exhibitions announced that it has bought a majority stake in the franchise from Loic and Geraldine LeMeur, who founded the event in 2004 in Paris and have grown it to be one of the bigger tech conferences in Europe.
 
MasterCard Backs And Partners With Mobile Wallet Infrastructure Platform C-SAM Top
cMasterCard has announced an investment in and partnership with mobile wallet and transactions platform provider C-SAM. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
 
Disrupt Alum Vocre Finally Brings Its Voice Translation App To Android Top
vocre-androidIf there was ever an issue that the folks behind the (Disrupt audience choice winning) mobile translation app Vocre needed to address, it's that Vocre has only ever been available for iOS users. Fortunately for you Android-using non-polyglots out there, that's all changed -- Vocre has just pushed its voice translation app into the Google Play store.
 
Apple Grabs 84% Of Mobile PC Shipments For Q2 2012, Tablet Market Predicted To Remain Strong In 2013 Top
chromatik ipadApple was responsible for an impressive 84 percent of total mobile PC shipments in Q2 2012, owing primarily to the success of its iPad line, according to a new report from supply chain analysis firm NPD DisplaySearch. LG Display reaped the benefit of that market domination, leading the industry in mobile PC panel shipments in 2012 thanks to its supplier relationship with Apple.
 
Crowdtilt Launches Crowdfunding API To Give Developers Easy Access To Group Payments & Social Fundraising Top
ct_logo_RGBSince launching in February, Y Combinator grad Crowdtilt has been on a mission to become the easiest way for friends and groups of people to raise money for any cause. Last month, the group-funding platform added deeper support for non-profits and charitable fundraising initiatives by enabling users to make tax-deductible donations to 501(c)(3) organizations and receive auto-generated tax-deductible receipts. The startup has been looking for business development opportunities and ways to increase its reach, both among non-profits and startups. Hot on the heels of announcing support for charitable fundraising, Crowdtilt is today adding another piece to its customer acquisition strategy with the (beta) launch of its API. With its new API in place, Crowdtilt now enables third-party developers and businesses to quickly tap into its group-payment capabilities.
 
Vivino Raises $1M From Creandum For Mobile Wine Cellar Top
vivVivino, a mobile wine app that allows users to keep track of wines they drink, rate them for future reference, and share their favorites with others, has raised $1 million in Series A financing from Creandum, the Nordic venture capital firm known for its early investments in Spotify, iZettle, and Wrapp. Vivino previously received seed funding last year from SEED Capital and Skype co-founder Janus Friis.
 
Google's Zeitgeist Reveals Whitney Houston As Top Search Trend Of 2012; iPad 3, SOPA, Hurricane Sandy & More Among Top Trends Top
Zeitgeist 2012 – GoogleBing and Yahoo may have already released their respective looks back on the top searches of 2012, but let's be honest here - Google's 2012 Zeitgeist is the one we've been waiting for. Now in its twelfth year, this year-end wrap up tells us what the world has been searching for, as seen through the billions of searches performed on Google throughout the year.
 
Location Discovery App Spindle's New Alerts Anticipates Questions Before They're Asked Top
Spindle LogoiOS app Spindle just launched Spindle Alerts, which provides customized and timely alerts about events and special deals at each user's favorite places. Co-founder Pat Kinsel told me Spindle Alerts sets itself apart from services like Foursquare Radar by not only recommending nearby places and events to users, but also using the company's search technology to decide how interesting and useful an update will be to them. Spindle constantly monitors social networking updates from businesses and organizations in Boston, San Francisco and New York City, the three cities currently covered by the app.
 
Pew: Social Networking Most Popular In The UK, And Despite The Smartphone App Boom, Voice Calls Remain King Top
pew global attitudesThe Pew Center has been running a long-term study on U.S. consumer habits on the Internet and  other digital media (you can read about past findings here); today it's releasing a new set of data that looks at the wider global state of affairs, as part of Pew's Global Attitudes Project, specifically covering social media and Internet and mobile usage.
 
Video Discovery Startup Plizy Raises $4M Series A From Atlas Venture To Expand Audience, Build Android, iPhone Apps Top
plizy-85607412Video discovery startup Plizy -- which last month relaunched its iPad app and website with a new look and a mission to become a "media center in the cloud" -- has announced it's raised a $4 million Series A round from Atlas Venture. David Marcus, President of PayPal will join Plizy's board of directors, along with Fred Destin, partner in the technology group at Atlas.
 
RadiumOne Pays Startups To Cookie Their Users For Hashtag Ad Retargeting Top
RadiumOne Hashtag AdsStartups in need of a business model don't have to drop more ads in their apps. Instead they can drop cookies on anyone who posts or views a hashtag, and get a revenue share from RadiumOne who retargets their users with ads around the web. RadiumOne begins dogfooding today by dropping retargeting cookies from its Pinter-esque site Via.me so advertisers can target users interested in #cars or #Nike.
 
Web Music Playlist Maker Musicplayr Launches iOS Application Top
musicplayr-streamFollowing its €500,000 seed round this fall, Berlin-based music startup Musicplayr, which acts something like a playlist of tracks you build from various cloud services, is available as an iOS application. The app brings the key features from the online service to mobile, including the ability to explore profiles and discover new music, stream songs and playlists, create playlists, and more.
 
OpenArch Adds A "Digital Layer" To The Average Room Top
BCC_DIAGRAMA-01Creating a workable Minority Report-like screen isn't very hard but what about an entire room or building that responds to touch, voice, and movement? Now that's hard. That, however, is the goal of OpenArch, a project by designer Ion Cuervas-Mons that uses projectors, motion sensors, and light to create interactive spaces.
 
Apple Reportedly Testing TV Set Designs, Which Should Surprise Exactly No One Top
AppleTVThe WSJ reports this morning that Apple is testing out Apple TV set (as opposed to set-top box) designs, though that testing remains "early stage." Apple is specifically working on high-res TVs according to the reports, trialling a few different designs, working with a variety of suppliers including Hon Hai (Foxconn) and Sharp on the new TV designs. But a TV being tested by Apple shouldn't shock anyone.
 
Facebook Remembers 2012 By Giving Users Their Own Year In Review On Timelines Top
Screen Shot 2012-12-12 at 8.08.59 AMToday Facebook posted its Year In Review for 2012, chronicling the most important and popular events, songs, movies, figures, technology, and locations of the past year. Most of what you see there is what you'd expect: The Hunger Games, Barack Obama, and the term YOLO were all crucially important to humanity's development over the past twelve months. But Facebook is also giving the gift of data analysis to its billion+ users, with a personalized Year In Review on everyone's individual timeline. Just like Twitter did for its Year In Review.
 
Forget That Lame Teaser: RIM's L-Series BlackBerry 10 Phone Gets Captured On Video (Again) Top
l-series1RIM posted a mostly toothless smartphone teaser to its BlackBerry 10 landing page earlier this week, but really, what BlackBerry fan could be appeased by that? Thankfully, the folks at Tinhte.vn (the Vietnamese gadget site that came to prominence when it posted early video and benchmarks of the 3rd gen iPad) got their hands on the all-touch L-Series BB10 smartphone and gave it the full photo and video treatment.
 

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