Fancy Car For Sale Outside Zynga Taken Way Too Symbolically

The signal <em>du jour</em>? This $195k Lamborghini for sale parked outside the Zynga offices (the Zynga dog eerily reflected in its window), uploaded <a target="_blank" href="http://instagram.com/p/R

Squarespace, Fog Creek, Peer1 Kept NY Data Center Alive By Carrying Fuel Buckets To The 17th Floor In The Dark

Small businesses may have been even more affected than big companies by Hurricane Sandy, as they don't have the same resources. When <a target="_blank" href="http://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace</

In A Bid To Enter The Japanese Market, Kids’ Tablet Maker Fuhu Raises $5M From Telecom KDDI

Japan's second largest cellular provider <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kddi.com">KDDI</a> just announced the first U.S. deal for its Open Innovation Fund — a $5 million investment in <a target

GetJar Shifts Focus From Distribution To Discovery And Commerce, As Its Virtual Currency Hits 50M Users, 60% Of Revs

You may know <a target="_blank" href="http://www.getjar.com/">GetJar</a> as the largest independent, cross-platform app store, and one of the largest distributors of Android apps outside of the Androi

Yelp Narrows Net Loss By Nearly Half As Third-Quarter Revenues Climb 63% To $36.4M

Yelp narrowed <a target="_blank" href="http://www.yelp-ir.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=250809&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1753250&highlight=">its net loss to $2 million for the third quarter after pullin

Google France Faces Fine Of $1.3 Billion For Tax Noncompliance. Google Denies The Accusation.

Google France could be ordered to pay $1.3 billion to France's equivalent of the IRS (Direction générale des finances) due to tax noncompliance in 2011. The agency has been investigating Google's re

HyperFair Raises $1.1 Million — Ready For Your Trip To A Virtual Trade Show?

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.hyperfair.com">HyperFair</a>, a startup with a platform for running online trade shows, says it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The idea of a virtual tr

Want To Unionize Developers? Focus On Workplace Democracy

Despite the efforts of many different organizers over the years software developers have resisted unionization. The relatively high pay and good working conditions of developers, the stereotype of gee

Former Tumblr President John Maloney Joins Storenvy Board

After a brief hiatus from any official tech role, former Tumblr president <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/john-maloney">John Maloney</a> will be joining the board of custom s

Hands On With The Node, A Sensor-Packed Smartphone Dongle

As a scientist practicing actual, bona fide science, I have often found myself in need of immediate g-force readings or barometric pressure analyses for my scientific problems. Whereas before I had to

LinkedIn Beats Expectations With Another Strong Quarter: $252 Million In Q3 Revenue, Up 81% Year-Over-Year

Professional-minded social network <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a> once again beat Wall Street analysts' expectations this afternoon when it announced the financial resu

LocalVox Buys Postling To Give SMBs A One-Stop Shop For Social Media Management & Local Marketing

If you don't live in New York City, you may not have heard of <a target="_blank" href="http://localvox.com/">LocalVox</a>. But the startup, which aims to simplify local marketing for small businesses

As Regulators Seek To Revise Limo Rules, Uber’s On-Demand Car Service Faces Shutdown In Chicago

Another day, another regulator seeking to shut down Uber. At least that's what it looks like, this time in Chicago. The Chicago Business Affairs and Consumer Protection department proposed new regulat

Move Over Teddy Ruxpin, This ToyTalk Bear Will Absolutely Blow Your Mind

There's a company that people have been buzzing about for some time called <a target="_blank" href="http://www.toytalk.com">ToyTalk</a>, which was founded by former Pixar CTO Oren Jacob. He was also p

Airbnb Waives Fees For Sandy-Affected Users, Encourages Lower Prices From Hosts

We've seen <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/01/uber-tripled-number-of-drivers-yesterday-owing-an-extra-100k-in-payments-so-surge-pricing-is-coming-back/">a few companies</a> <a href="https://te

Reminder: Our Northern Meetups Are Next Week. Is Your Pitch Ready? UPDATE: Free T-Shirts!

Hello, Great White North! We are officially out of tickets for the Northern Meet-ups, our flights and hotels are booked, and we're raring to meet all of you in Toronto, Detroit, and Chicago. For more

“In the Studio,” Bump’s David Lieb Discusses Flock And A Shift To Background Services

"In the Studio" this week hosts a first-time founder and entrepreneur who began his career as an engineering student at two of the country's finest universities and played baseball for his college tea

Microsoft Rolling Out Azure Cloud To China, A Deal Only The Chinese Government Can Love

Microsoft has made a deal with China to offer <a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/11/01/cloud-os-is-coming-to-china.aspx">Windows Azure in the country</a>. The d

Facebook’s Next Money Maker? Its Version Of AdWords In Its New App Center Search

Facebook <a target="_blank" href="http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/10/31/platform-updates--operation-developer-love/">added a search box</a> to its App Center today, but what it might d

Apple’s North American Mobile Web Traffic Surges Following iPhone 5 Launch

Apple's share of mobile web traffic rose 5.96 percent between September and October, thanks no doubt to the introduction of the iPhone 5, and likely also helped by the shipping of the 4th generation i
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