October 2012
Lithium Acquires Social CRM Application For Call Centers, Social Dynamx
Social CRM company Lithium Technologies has acquired fellow customer care application Social Dynamx. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
When Apple first announced the 5th-generation iPod touch, the only timeframe given for shipping was October. And here we are, receiving word that the first orders for the new iPod…
Deezer’s CEO Axel Dauchez On Cracking Into The U.S. And Why It’s Not Just Another Spotify
Deezer, the web-based music streaming company that has just picked up $130 million in funding from Warner Music owner Access Industries and Idinvest, is gearing up for another announcement on…
Lastminute.com Expands Real-Time U.K. Restaurant Booking With Toptable Tie-Up
Hot on the heels of inking a partnership with MyVoucherCodes, OpenTable-owned restaurant-booking service Toptable has snagged another big win: it’s been named as the exclusive restaurant reservation partner for lastminute.com…
Lookout’s Signal Flare Helps You Find Lost Android Phones That Have Dying Batteries
Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is upgrading its mobile security app for Android phones today. The new version includes a sleeker management…
Invites Go Out For Microsoft’s U.K. Windows Phone 8 Event: WP8 To Get ‘Big Reveal’ On October 29
Invites have just gone out for a Microsoft press event to introduce its new Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system. An end of October unveiling for the next generation of…
Hitbox Alum Raise $4.4 Million For Analytics Startup Anametrix
Back in the days before Google Analytics hundreds of thousands of sites relied on WebSideStory’s Hitbox service for visitor stats. If you surfed the web in the late 90s you…
SoundCloud Partners With Getty Images Music — Users Can ‘Sync’ License Tracks For Commercial Use
In a tie-up with the stock photography and digital media giant Getty Images, users of SoundCloud can now offer their tracks for commercial licensing, providing another avenue for monetization for…
Samsung-Backed Pivot3 Is Now Powering Samsung’s Push Into Small Business Cloud Serivces
Pivot3, the Texas-based data storage company, and Samsung Electronics are entering a new partnership aimed at broadening the pair’s appeal to small and medium-sized enterprises wanting to deploy virtualized desktop…
Freespee Raises Further €3.3 Million For Its Mobile Click-To-Call Advertising And Analytics Service
Freespee, the European mobile click-to-call advertising and analytics startup, has raised a new round of funding: €3.3 million (approx. $4.3m) led by pan-European early-stage investor Sunstone Capital. This brings the…
BAMM.tv Launches An Immersive iPad App For Fans Of Live Indie Music
BAMM.tv’s iPad app is designed to look like a virtual music venue, allowing users to watch videos, learn more about different bands, engage with musicians via social media, check out…
Vacation Rental Startup HouseTrip Picks Up $40M Led By Accel In Another Big Round For Collaborative Consumption
HouseTrip.com, one of the startups working at the accommodation end of the collaborative consumption market, with a platform for people to rent out homes online, has picked up a roomy…
The Opinion Graph? Cheerboo Launches An Easy Way To Gauge Public Sentiment On Any Topic
Just as Pinterest has become increasingly important to marketers, it’s been said that the first company to own sentiment, or the interest graph, in a social context will be a…
Two worlds exist when it comes to the enterprise. The new generation of cloud services represents one space. They rely on distributed infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the…
Calxeda Raises $55 Million For ARM-Based, Low-Powered Server Chips
Calxeda has raised $55 million for its ultra-low-power server chips that use ARM-based processors instead of the Intel x86 architecture that now dominates the market.
After a year of plugging away, HouseFix, a startup that launched a year ago at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco with the goal of becoming the Carfax for your home, has decided…
In The War To Build The Biggest Mobile Gaming Platform, Japan’s GREE Courts Indies
GREE, the $4.4 billion mobile gaming company from Japan that’s trying to break into Western markets, is attempting to grow its gaming platform through a new program for indie developers.…
A French Romantic Take On HeTexted, Because Crowdsourcing Relationship Anxiety Feels Wrong
As the only Frenchman on the team, I couldn’t browse HeTexted’s website without having strong opinions on the subject. There’s nothing as cute as a great love story. HeTexted asks…
Telefonica Wants To Turn Its Mobile Data Into A Big Data Business, Launches Dynamic Insights Unit
Big data is one of the more fascinating developments in today’s tech world: harnessing the huge wave of information that comes out of our many Internet-based networks and then trying…
To Infinity And Beyond: Buzz Lightyear, T-Pain, Hot Chocolate And Technology
I’m at the #BoxWorks conference in San Francisco this week, which is an odd place for me to be at first glance. Why odd? Because I don’t really get into…
Turning A Utility Into A Community: BranchOut’s Metamorphosis
Love it or hate it, your job is a big part of your life. But you probably don’t go to LinkedIn everyday. Maybe you only visit a few times a…
Zynga Previews Its Next ‘Ville Sequel, CityVille 2, In Closed Beta In the Philippines
Zynga just announced that it’s launching the sequel to its hit CityVille today in a closed beta test. The company blog post doesn’t offer too many details about the game…
Google+ Is The “Social Spine” For Consumers As Well As Brands And Advertisers
Before you start commenting about how much I cover Google+, just hop over to The Next Web (my previous employer), to see the root of it all. I’m a firm…
T-Mobile Nabs Nokia’s New Lumia 810 Windows Phone, Points To A Launch In “The Coming Weeks”
When T-Mobile announced it would carry the LG Optimus L9 earlier today, I bemoaned the carrier’s lack of compelling exclusive devices. As it turns out, that may have been a…
What’s To Come As Jive’s Tony Zingale Appears On Stage at Boxworks With Box CEO Aaron Levie?
Jive CEO Tony Zingale zinged Zynga, Yammer, Oracle and you name who else in an interview with Box CEO Aaron Levie at Boxworks. But the real story comes with Zingale…
Google Wants Developers To Build Better Tablet Apps, Publishes A “Tablet App Quality Checklist”
Google’s Nexus 7 tablet has been quite a hit, but there can be little doubt that the average quality of Android tablet apps still ranks behind iOS. Google is clearly…
Sprint Voice & Data Down In Minnesota, Washington, Oregon. Alaska Airlines Flights Delayed.
The telecom company Sprint is currently experiencing issues with its network. We first heard reports of the outage on Twitter but a recording message from Sprint’s support line confirmed the…
Google Faces Potential Class-Action Lawsuit In Canada Over Gmail Privacy Concerns
Wayne Plimmer, a retiree living in Sechelt, British Columbia, filed a class action lawsuit against Google last week. In it, he and his attorney allege that Google’s Gmail service “intercepts,…
Google TV Update Brings Google Play Music, Movies & TV, Plus More Features For Developers
Google announced today that it’s bringing Google Play movies, TV shows and music to its Google TV platform through an update that will allow users to rent or buy content…
Makers of Most Viral Video Ever, Kony 2012, Explain Naked Meltdown, Plan DC March
Makers of the most viral video in Internet history, Kony 2012, launched their next phase to bring down child soldier Kingpin, Joseph Kony: release a new video, explain their co-founder’s infamous…
