The police were called outside Microsoft’s SharePoint conference, at the Anaheim Convention Center today when collaborative cloud sharing software startup Huddle pulled a PR stunt in the form of marching a 120 person band, plus ten cheerleaders accompanying American footballers into the conference center’s entrance. In full disclosure; I was doing some video work for...
Daily Archives: October 3, 2011
Mobile media stores: Apple vs. Amazon vs. Samsung
Over the weekend, I was catching up on some reading and came across John Gruber’s analysis of the Amazon Kindle Fire. Gruber wrote a solid piece about the device’s capabilities, target audience and pricing strategy and it’s well worth the read. The majority of Gruber’s writing is about Apple and like many others, he...
Facebook’s Insight Data Mean Pages Will Optimize for Engagement
Focusing On Engagement Now Facebook has helped the world move into the second of four stages of maturity for social measurement, which is engagement (stage 3 is monetization, and stage 4 is retention/growth). Facebook has announced a new metric to define engagement, which is “People talking about this page.” If you want to know...
TechCrunch Reporter MG Siegler Joins Arrington At His New VC Fund
Siegler (right) joins Arrington (middle), leaving TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde (left) behind. See Also: PATCH EDITORS TO FREELANCERS: There’s No Money So Don’t Bother Pitching Unless You Have A ‘Super Compelling Story’ WORKING AT YAHOO: ‘Cringe As You Wake Up Every Morning To Come To Work’ VentureBeat Tries To Blow Up TechCrunch And Fails...
Twitter plans to hyper-localize content discovery: Will it hurt the service?
While trying to decide what seat I should use on public transportation this weekend, I joked about the “next big thing” in location-based check ins — that is, foursquare at its most atomic unit: Checking into seats on buses or cubicles in the office, etc. Apparently, I am not the only person with hyper-localization...
With Apple’s Sprint deal, did the maker just become the carrier?
There’s all sorts of news floating around today about Sprint agreeing to purchase a massive cache of iPhones over the next few years. It’s great news for Sprint, which has been having trouble keeping up in the iPhone-heavy world of ATT and Verizon, and it could be great news for Apple, too. You see,...
MG Siegler Will Become Our Apple Columnist, And Join CrunchFund As A VC
When I first reached out to MG Siegler to join TechCrunch two and a half years ago, I knew he was an amazing talent who could help cement our place as the premier technology blog on the Internet. Ever since Michael and I hired him, he has not disappointed. As his TechCrunch power has...
Why The Heck Does Microsoft Keep Investing In Hotmail? (MSFT)
Chris Jones, the head of Microsoft’s Windows Live group, which includes Hotmail. Image: Microsoft See Also: Score One For Google: Feds Decide Not To Go With Microsoft (For Now) Windows Thinks Google Chrome Is A Virus, Removes It From Your Computer* Didn’t IBM Pass Microsoft In Market Cap Back In May? This afternoon in...
StumbleUpon Brings Its Tablet Experience To Android, Optimizes UI Across All Its Mobile Apps
Content discovery platform StumbleUpon, which just launched a much improved iPad app in August, now brings that same user experience to Android with the very first StumbleUpon app designed specifically for Android tablets (the app was previously only available for the Android phone). The app is ready for download in the Android Market here....
Flash who? Adobe gets serious about mobile, cloud & HTML5
For nearly 30 years, Adobe Systems has made the lion’s share of its revenue by selling multimedia and creativity software for desktop computers. But that focus on the desktop has grown increasingly out of touch in recent years, as the larger technology landscape has shifted toward heavier usage of mobile devices and software-as-a-service applications...