Daily Archives: July 18, 2012

Vyclone, A Startup 2 Years In The Making, Launches With $2.7 Million From Ashton Kutcher, Live Nation And DreamWorks

July 18, 2012
Vyclone, A Startup 2 Years In The Making, Launches With $2.7 Million From Ashton Kutcher, Live Nation And DreamWorks

Vyclone The Vyclone app (Click to enlarge) Two years ago, British musician Joe Sumner approached his relative David King Lassman with an idea. He noticed on tour that a lot of fans took mobile videos during concerts. There’d be hundreds of videos on YouTube from a single event, but there was no way to...

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Data from the Anonymous attack on oil companies may have been faked

July 18, 2012

Last week we wrote that Anonymous grabbed data from five oil companies, posting more than 1,000 email and passwords combinations online, but now it has emerged that a large portion of the data may have been faked. NovaInfoSpec, which initially reported the results of the operation against Shell, Exxon, BP, Gazprom and Rosneft, has...

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How People Actually Use The iPad: Results From Our Exclusive Survey (AAPL)

July 18, 2012
How People Actually Use The iPad: Results From Our Exclusive Survey (AAPL)

AP We wanted to see how people are using the iPad, and how that use has evolved over the last three years. So we ran a reader survey. We got 2,242 responses which we have gathered here as a series of charts. This is the third time we’ve run this survey (first here, second...

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Yes, we should be afraid of facial-recognition software

July 18, 2012
Yes, we should be afraid of facial-recognition software

Hey, now I can identify Sen. Al Franken! My gut instinct is to call Senator Al Franken a well-meaning fool when it comes to his latest outcry — this time against the advent of facial-recognition software — but he actually has a point. For the record, I have nothing against Sen. Franken (D-MN). In...

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Want to meet other TNW readers? Sign up for At The Pool and jump in ours [invites]

July 18, 2012
Want to meet other TNW readers? Sign up for At The Pool and jump in ours [invites]

We told you about a neat new site that matches you with people based on your interests called At The Pool. Now, The Next Web has its own pool, and you can jump in to meet other awesome TNW readers right now! Simply sign up for the site and enter the code “thenextweb” and...

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Nokia hints at a September 7th surprise

July 18, 2012
Nokia hints at a September 7th surprise

Nokia World will take place this year on September 5th and 6th. Whatever the company announces during those two days will likely set the tone for its holiday sales cycle, and next-generation product line. News out today is of a closed Nokia store in Helsinki that is decked out in the following way, via...

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Design shopping site Fab raises $105M

July 18, 2012
Design shopping site Fab raises $105M

With the goal of becoming nothing less than the world’s next big design brand, commerce site Fab announced on Wednesday that it had raised $105 million. The Series C round of financing was led by Atomico and included Pinnacle Ventures, ru-Net Technology Partners, Mayfield Fund and DoCoMo Capital, as well as current funders, such...

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Fab.com Raises Another $105 Million From Skype Founders And Others

July 18, 2012
Fab.com Raises Another $105 Million From Skype Founders And Others

Daniel Goodman / Business Insider See Also Fab Celebrates 4 Million Members and 2 Million Orders With A Whole New Redesign FAB.COM: More Than A Third Of Our Visits Are Now Mobile–And 95% Of Those Are iPhones And iPads What’s Next For Fab.com: An Interview With Fab’s CMO Fab.com, the design-focused flash-sales site, has...

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Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson explain why the original Star Trek’s Enterprise is the best of all time

July 18, 2012

Every year at Comic-Con they wrap up with a battle of fantasy logic called the Starship Smackdown, where a bunch of well known nerds get together and argue down to the last about which spaceship is the best of all time. This year, it came down to the Enterprise NCC 1701 and the NCC...

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Fab Seals The Deal On $105 Million In New Funding

July 18, 2012
Fab Seals The Deal On $105 Million In New Funding

Design-oriented flash sales site Fab has raised $105 million in new funding, the company announced today. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and was subsequently confirmed by Fab CEO Jason Goldberg in a detailed blog post. You can’t say we didn’t warn you: TechCrunch editor extraordinaire Alexia Tsotsis reported just...

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