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As you're undoubtedly aware, location is one of the hottest fields out there right now. Startups, services, devices, and advertisers are all hovering around it. As you're also likely well aware, Apple likes to be in control of their own devices. So it ...
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Yesterday, mobile security firm Lookout announced at the Black Hat security conference that it had discovered a seemingly benign wallpaper application for Android that had been downloaded millions of times — and allegedly harvested user data like text ...
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Google's Search Stories campaign is meticulously engineering to be relatable and tug at your heartstrings.
Their latest, "New Baby," portrays the "joys and costs" of parenting perhaps a little too well, heavy on the latter. So you're clueless and you...
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4.Po Bronson: “That’s why academics are so boring” [VIDEO] (techcrunch.com)
There are few more creative writers than the San Francisco-based Po Bronson . The author of four best-selling non-fiction books, two novels, a book of short stories and many articles for Newsweek, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Bronson...
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5.Here Come the Cheap EReaders and Most of Them Will Be Junk (techcrunch.com)
With the announcement of the $99 Ocean Reader Copia Tablet we are entering familiar territory. As you probably remember, netbooks went through the same race to the bottom as ebooks and this Ocean Reader is the first of the lot to hit our shores with an...
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6.Fox News: Apple Is The New Religion And The Pope Is Scared (techcrunch.com)
Jesus. Maybe literally.
Fox News has a long and illustrious history of saying some fairly outrageous things. A story today on FoxNews.com may be one of the best yet -- certainly from a tech perspective.
The post entitled "For Apple Followers, It's a ...
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7.Y Combinator Backed GazeHawk Heatmaps With Web Cams (techcrunch.com)
You've normally got two choices in site heatmapping (figuring out where eyeballs land on your site), you can either buy costly specialized equipment ($40K) or pay a consultant to come into your office and use their own equipment, which costs upwards o...
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Tomorrow, Friday, is our fifth annual yearly blowout party at August Capital - the event I look forward to all year. Tickets to that event are long gone, but a handful are left for the all day conference we hold prior to the party, the Social Currency ...
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9.YouTube Boosts Maximum Upload Limit To 15 Minutes (techcrunch.com)
For years, YouTube has allowed its users to upload however many videos they wanted, but with a catch: unless you were part of one of YouTube's special partner programs, no video could be more than 10 minutes in length. Today, YouTube is changing that:...
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10.Google Introduces Location-Aware Mobile Display Ads (techcrunch.com)
Google's mobile ads are becoming more location-aware. Today, Google is introducing mobile display ads for both the iPhone and Android phones which can be geo-targeted. Advertisers will be able to check a "location extension for display" box and their ...
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TechCrunch reader Saul Lustgarten checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message, reading "fuck you bitches".
Yeah right, we thoug...
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12.Why Do People Want The Kindle To Be The iPad? They’re Two Different Products For A Reason. (techcrunch.com)
Amazon announced the Kindle 3 last night, and it doesn’t look too shabby at all. The most important part is the inclusion of the next-generation E-Ink display, previously only found in the too-big-for-casual-use Kindle DX. (The low price, $139 for the...
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13.Google’s Mobile Search Market Share: An Estimated, Whopping 98.29% (techcrunch.com)
How's this for absolutely dominating an increasingly lucrative and fast-growing segment?
Google currently boasts a mobile search market share of 98.29%, with it closest competitor Yahoo taking up just over 0.8% of market share and Microsoft's Bing bar...
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14.Thanks you Sponsors (www.pluggd.in)
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15.Russia clamps down on Internet, Google frowns (www.reuters.com)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court in Russia's far east has ordered an Internet provider to block five sites which it said disseminated extreme views, prompting U.S. Internet giant Google to say on Thursday the move restricted access to information.
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16.10% Of Applications In The App Store For iPad Boast In-App Purchases (techcrunch.com)
App store analytics provider Distimo in its latest report once again focuses on in-app purchases across a variety of mobile application stores, Apple's App Store in particular.
According to Distimo, the percentage of applications with in-app purchases...
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“All I've done is compile public information into a nice format for statistical analysis.” So says the man who is being called the Facebook hacker. Ron Bowes, a security consultant who’s also an nmap developer, is under fire from certain sections of th...
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18.Elon Musk Sat Down With Stephen Colbert, Talked Tesla, SpaceX And The Irony Of The Two (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk certainly hasn't been on the down-low lately. Well, with the Tesla's IPO and then Toyota huge investment and manufacturing deals. Then there's the lawsuits and his devoice. So yeah, it's no wonder that Jon Favreau modeled his Tony Stark chara...
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According to GetJar, its eponymous mobile app store is now seeing three million downloads per day. GetJar reiterated that its stats put it second only to Apple iTunes, with over 1 billion total downloads to date.
At current (self-reported) growth rate...
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Lovefilm, the Netflix-of-Europe, looks set to beef up its multi-platform play via a newly signed agreement with DRM and adaptive streaming technology provider Widevine.
The deal will see the US-based company become Lovefilm's "preferred provider of di...
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Motorola has just announced its financial results for Q2 2010, reporting total sales of $5.4 billion, which is slightly below what it recorded in the same period last year. Earnings came in at $162 million or $0.07 per share, compared to GAAP earnings ...
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Double rainbow awesome. There's no other modern way to describe this.
I won't spoil it too much, but whatever you do today, visit this website and select some of your closest friends from your Facebook graph when prompted. You won't be disappointed.
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Facebook has launched an official QnA app called Facebook Questions. The feature is rolled out to limited users who will see “Ask Question” button at the top of their homepage. Users can click on the button and submit a question like they w...
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24.HTC Beefs Up Management Team But Loses A Top Executive (techcrunch.com)
Mobile phone maker HTC this morning announced a series of executive promotions and newly created management positions.
The Taiwanese company said it had poached two senior execs from rival Sony Ericsson and that it had promoted three others to its ma...
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Zynga issued a press release tonight confirming the more than month-old news of an investment by Softbank - $150 million - and are announcing a joint venture to "develop and distribute social games across Japan."
Zynga didn't talk about the other $150...
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