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With $5.5M From Google Ventures, Opus, Crittercism Launches An App Performance Management Solution

Last summer, after graduating from AngelPad, San Francisco-based Crittercism announced that it had raised $1.2 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Opus Capital...

4 h ago

T-Mobile’s Galaxy S III May Not Get A Facelift Before It Launches In The U.S.

When the Galaxy S and the Galaxy S II made their respective journeys to the United States, they lost a little something that international customers have enjoyed since the beginning: the physical hom...

4 h ago

Study: Yesterday’s Facebook Outage Also Slowed Down Major Media And Retail Sites

It’s a testament to how important Facebook has become in the web ecosystem that the social network’s performance issues yesterday didn’t just affect the site itself (and its 900 mil...

6 h ago

Gillmor Gang 06.01.12 (TCTV)

Gillmor Gang – Kevin Marks, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording has concluded.

6 h ago

Leave Your Credit Cards At Home: iCache’s Digital Wallet/iPhone Case Is Now Available

Well, it’s about time. Many of us were absolutely floored by the iCache Geode mobile wallet when it first appeared back in April, and now the company has announced that the hotly-awaited access...

7 h ago

After Years Of Flirting, Facebook And Apple Set To Achieve Relationship Status In iOS 6

There’s been a lot of flirting going on in recent months between Apple and Facebook. In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook told a group of investors that Facebook was “the one company that is c...

7 h ago

I Want My Rockify.TV: Startup Launches New Personalized Music Video Service

One interesting trend I’ve been watching over the last year or so is the intersection of social and personalization as a way to discover new videos. And, of course, how it helps users to discov...

7 h ago

HoozTrippin Helps You Find Travel Buddies

If you’ve got a vacation coming up, a startup called HoozTrippin is aiming to make it more fun by connecting you with other travelers. Co-founder and CEO Steven Oh (who was formerly the head of...

7 h ago

Holy Strategic Partnerships, Batman! A Brief History Of Nokia’s Batman Obsession

The Nokia Lumia 900 The Dark Knight Rises Edition handset has made its way on the interwebs recently and it’s nothing short of a beauty, with a black polycarbonate unibody frame and a laser-etc...

8 h ago

Zillow Completes Its $40M RentJuice Acquisition

Zillow, the popular online real estate search engine, just announced that it has closed its previously announced (and rumored) $40 million acquisition of RentJuice. With RentJuice, Zillow now owns a ...

9 h ago

SeatGeek Signs Its First Big Music Partners, Including AOL Music

Ticket search engine SeatGeek is best known as the place to find good deals on sports tickets, but it’s working to dominate ticketing for any live events, including concerts. It just announced ...

9 h ago

Google Promises To Unveil The “Next Dimension Of Google Maps” Next Week

The online mapping space is quickly heating up. What used to be a relatively straightforward competition between Google and Microsoft (with OpenStreetMap and a few other smaller players standing on t...

10 h ago

Merging Facebook With Search, Microsoft Rolls Out “New Bing” To All Of U.S.

Earlier this month, Bing, the other white meat search engine, revealed its big redesign, which put a heavy emphasis on social search. Today, Microsoft announced the new version of Bing.com is now ava...

10 h ago

Cyberwar Is With Us: Details Emerge About Use Of Stuxnet Worm In Iran

In an excellent piece by David Sanger, the NY Times has confirmed what we all suspected: that the US deployed the Stuxnet worm, a powerful worm that targets very specific machines within Iran’s...

10 h ago

Facebook Forced By Privacy Activist To Put Policy Changes Up For Worldwide Vote Until June 8th

Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook, has forced Facebook to put proposed policy changes up for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group to flood Facebook’s ...

10 h ago

GirlsInTech Pick Their Top 100 Women In Tech In Europe

While in the US the visibility of women in technology startups is pretty well established, in Europe it’s suffered a little from the more general problem of the fragmented nature of the Europea...

11 h ago

Sick Of Daily Deal Emails? UnsubscribeDeals Is There For You

Waxing for two at Take-It-Offs in Scranton? $100 worth of Polka lessons for 40 cents? An avant garde grilled cheese sandwich meal with metal shavings in it at Chez Naif for $60? You don’t want ...

11 h ago

Nokia & Microsoft Respond To Google’s Complaint Over Patent Trolling, Call It “Desperate” & “Wrong”

Happy Friday, here’s some more patent trolling nonsense for you today: Google said on Thursday it had filed a complaint with the European Commission which claims cell phone maker Nokia is collu...

11 h ago

With The Prepaid Barrier Broken, The iPhone Could Land On Boost Mobile In September

Cricket Communications made waves yesterday morning when they announced that they would be the first prepaid carrier in the country to offer Apple’s iPhone, and now it seems that other contract...

12 h ago

23snaps Tries Its Hand At Being The Facebook For Families

Another entry in the mobile-first, private social networking for families space (yes, apparently this is a thing now): 23snaps, a new iOS application that works like a mini-Facebook for posting statu...

12 h ago

Ikea Further Details Its Upcoming Uppleva HDTV Line

Watch out, Best Buy and Samsung. Ikea is seemingly doing to home entertainment systems what Apple did to portable electronics. The company previously revealed its upcoming entrance into the home thea...

12 h ago

Ecommerce Study Finds Mobile Safari To Be Fastest Growing Web Browser

Much of the time when you talk about browser market share, it’s in the context of IE vs. Chrome vs. all the rest. But new data released from e-commerce technology company Monetate today has thr...

13 h ago

Sharethrough Launches A Video Portal To Show Off Ads That Don’t Suck

Ever want to re-watch one of those awesome and inspirational five-minute Nike ads, but didn’t know where to look? Video ad distributor Sharethrough has rolled out a new video portal that is des...

13 h ago

ETSI Formalizes The 40% Smaller 4FF Nano-SIM Standard

The powers at the ETSI just released the specifications for a new SIM format. This card, the fourth form factor or the 4FF, is 40% smaller than the current micro-SIM card. It looks very similar to tr...

14 h ago

Zoopla Completes Findaproperty Merger To Take On RightMove

Property startup Zoopla and the A&N Media (DMGT)-owned Digital Property Group (Findaproperty / Primelocation) have formally completed their merger following approval by the UK’s Office of F...

17 h ago

MoneySupermarket To Acquire MoneySavingExpert For £87 million

MoneySupermarket, a UK-based price comparison site for financial services, is acquiring advice site MoneySavingExpert from founder Martin Lewis, for £87 million ($133 million). Lewis, a personal fina...

18 h ago

UK Daily Deals Aggregator Coupobox Sells Up To DealCollector In Another Sign Of Consolidation

Today comes news of a small but indicative acquisition in the area of daily deals: the UK-based deals aggregator Coupobox has been bought by rival site DealCollector for a song: the price was in the ...

20 h ago

AdMob Founder’s Churn Labs To Shut Down, Team Lured Away By Their New Startups

The end is in sight for Churn Labs, the startup generator created by AdMob founder Omar Hamoui and AdMob’s first engineer Mike Rowehl. Two new companies will be spinning out in mid-July, Hamoui...

22 h ago

Big Data For Higher Ed: With $4.1M From First Round, Floodgate, Former Kaplan Exec Launches Civitas...

As colleges and universities strain their resources to accommodate an ever-growing, diverse student body, it becomes increasingly difficult to track the progress of individual students and figure out...

23 h ago

Facebook Finally Cracks Down On Auto-Sharing Spam With “10-Second Rule”

If you hate accidental auto-sharing, you’re in luck. Now you have to be watching or reading something for at least 10 seconds before Facebook apps can auto-share the activity to your Timeline. ...

23 h ago

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