The Times Group, a national media organisation in India, has announced an exclusive two-year agreement with sports content provider Perform. According to the terms, it will bring EPL highlights to football fans’ mobile devices across India, as reported by WAT blog. Content will be delivered through the group’s news website Indiatimes. Fans can watch EPL...
Daily Archives: October 14, 2011
As floods batter Thailand, its citizens turn to the Internet for help
Google is leading the drive to put resources online and help people in Thailand find information in real-time as the country battles the effects of severe flooding. To date, 27 of the country’s 76 provinces have flooded causing 269 deaths and affecting more than 2 million people. With water levels rising in Bangkok suburbs...
YouTube Disco Stops Dancing, Nobody Notices
Google’s YouTube debuted an experimental music discovery project dubbed YouTube Disco last year in January, enabling users to create quick-and-dirty playlists and discover new artists and music videos on the fly. Not that this is a really big deal or anything, but a reader informs us that the feature, which was launched rather quietly...
Facial recognition company Face.com’s CEO talks APIs, mobile and the London riots
What do you do when you set out to leverage the power of existing facial recognition technology to launch a new business, only to discover that the existing technology isn’t really up to scratch? That was one quandary the good people at Israeli startup Face.com encountered. And here’s its story. Gil Hirsch Face.com I...
LEAKS AND RUMORS: The Risky Business Of iPhone Case Manufacturing (AAPL)
Tim Hickman, CEO of Hard Candy Cases Image: Patch See Also: Steve Wozniak Is First In Line For The iPhone 4S At The Los Gatos Apple Store WATCH: Mitt Romney Almost Hired Steve Ballmer In The 1970s WHOA! Apple Could Sell 4 Million Phones This Weekend Tim Hickman was unhappy when he saw the...
Live Stream: The Launch Of The Apple iPhone 4S From NYC’s Flagship Apple Store
It’s early. Too early. And I’m standing outside, pointing a cell phone camera at the faces of strangers and asking them to speak to me. This can only mean one thing: it’s time for another iPhone launch, and intrepid TechCrunch reporter Jason Kincaid (that would be me) is live streaming the festivities taking place...
American Airlines Does Not Block Twitter On Flight Forced To Make Emergency Landing*
Image: andrew morrell photography via flickr See Also: Southwest Airlines Throws Brand Simplicity Out The Window, Introduces A Very Confusing Frequent Flyer Program This Is The Best Airline In The World This Is The Best Airline For Corporate Travelers EARLIER: American Airlines blocked Twitter on a cross-country flight after a passenger went berzerk and...
WHOA! Apple Could Sell 4 Million Phones This Weekend (AAPL)
Image: AP Images See Also: The Best Responses To Weird Questions From Siri Angry Birds CMO: We’re ‘Insanely Profitable’ And We Could IPO Next Year Steve Wozniak Is First In Line For The iPhone 4S At The Los Gatos Apple Store Analysts are buzzing about projected sales for the iPhone 4S as it launches...
Computer glitch halts Softbank sales on iPhone 4S launch day in Japan
The opening day of iPhone 4S sales in Japan did not start well for Softbank. According to the Wall Street Journal, the operator was forced to suspend the sale of all smartphones, including the new device from Apple, at 0200 GMT this morning after a computer glitch affected customer registrations. During the down-time staff at Softbank,...
Startups, Seed Funding, And Avoiding Empty Pockets
Editor’s note: Contributor Ryan Spoon is a Principal at Polaris Venture Partners and focuses on investments in internet, technology and digital media. Thanks in part to the Wall Street Journal’s “Web Startups Face Cash Crunch“, much has been made about the state of early stage investments and investing. While there is debate as to...