Daily Archives: May 30, 2011

iChromy: Bookmarking Service Diigo Releases A Chrome-like iPad Browser

May 30, 2011
iChromy: Bookmarking Service Diigo Releases A Chrome-like iPad Browser

I doubt that Google has plans to bring its Chrome browser to the iPad anytime soon, but for fans of Chrome, there’s a new app you might want to consider: iChromy. The app has some of the look and feel of the Chrome browser. There are tabs at the top of the screen and...

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Better Text Analysis With Saplo’s New API

May 30, 2011
Better Text Analysis With Saplo’s New API

The Swedish startup Saplo has released a new text analysis API today that should help developers build tools to tap into the company’s semantic technology platform. This should allow people to build their own personalization or recommendation apps based on contextual meaning rather than solely on tags or keywords. The API offers access to...

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Who Should Digitize (And Who Should Profit from) a Nation’s Newspaper Archives?

May 30, 2011
Who Should Digitize (And Who Should Profit from) a Nation’s Newspaper Archives?

Google announced last week that it was shutting down its News Archive Project. Akin to the massive Google Books project, this was a plan to digitize the world’s newspaper archives and make them searchable online. But if you’re worried about the digitization and preservation of British newspapers, fear not. As The Guardian reports today,...

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Lenovo LePad experiencing supply shortage since debut, challenges iPad in China

May 30, 2011

Lenovo’s CEO claims that high demand for the LePad tablet has resulted in a supply shortage since its debut and aims to grab 20 percent of China’s tablet computer market by the end of this year. That will put the world’s fourth-largest PC maker in direct competition with Apple, which takes up 78.3 percent of China’s tablet market, followed...

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With 2 Million Downloads Under Its Belt, Appsfire Raises $3.6 Million Series A

May 30, 2011
With 2 Million Downloads Under Its Belt, Appsfire Raises $3.6 Million Series A

There are literally hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPad and Android apps to choose from, and yet finding good apps is far from easy. App discovery and recommendations is a fertile niche where a few startups are fighting for mindshare. After being downloaded more than 2 million times, app discovery startup Appsfire closed a...

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Appsfire Scores $3.6M As App Discovery Demands Grow

May 30, 2011
Appsfire Scores $3.6M As App Discovery Demands Grow

With Apple’s App Store hitting the half billion app mark and Android Market  poised to overtake it later this year, it’s a busy time to be in the app discovery business. Appsfire, a French-based start-up is reaping the benefits, scoring $3.6 million in Series A funding from French investors Idinvest. The funding will help the...

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If you could pick only 5 people to follow on Twitter, who would you pick?

May 30, 2011
If you could pick only 5 people to follow on Twitter, who would you pick?

My Five is a small web app by Kyle Bragger, the man behind popular design social sharing site Forrst, that gets you to make up a list of just five people you would follow on Twitter if you were restricted to that number. One of the greatest things about My Five is the number...

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Twitter Is Launching A Photo Sharing Service Just Like TwitPic On Wednesday [CONFIRMED]*

May 30, 2011
Twitter Is Launching A Photo Sharing Service Just Like TwitPic On Wednesday [CONFIRMED]*

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Disrupt Backstage Pass: Google’s Marissa Mayer Talks Serendipity (And Dodges The Apple Question)

May 30, 2011

Hey, this is Jason K. with TechCrunch TV. And I am here with Marissa Mayer. Again, I actually just got a chance to interview her earlier this month. But now I have another chance to ask more questions about all the cool local and other products that you guys are working on. And once...

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Mavenir Raises $40M and Acquires Airwide Solutions

May 30, 2011
Mavenir Raises $40M and Acquires Airwide Solutions

Mavenir Systems, a company providing telecommunications gear, has raised $40 million and has acquired Waltham,Mass.-based messaging software company, Airwide Solutions. The funding will help Mavenir (see disclosure) fund its acquisition as well as provide opportunities for organic growth. The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but Mavenir will integrate Airwide’s products into its own suite of...

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