Daily Archives: September 6, 2012

Best Email Ever: How One Soldier Stationed In Afghanistan Got His Amazon News Today

September 6, 2012
Best Email Ever: How One Soldier Stationed In Afghanistan Got His Amazon News Today

It’s only my third official day on the job at TechCrunch, but it’s been a pretty awesome time thus far. For example, we saw an email come through the wires that stopped us in our tracks during our Amazon coverage today. It was technology-related…but not. We have some great readers, but this particular reader...

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Need spectrum? FCC plans TV incentive auction for 2014

September 6, 2012
Need spectrum? FCC plans TV incentive auction for 2014

The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission plans to share his thinking around how the agency will conduct an auction that would take airwaves from TV broadcasters and make them available for mobile broadband. The plan to entice TV broadcasters who are currently using airwaves to give them up to the FCC, which then...

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Contour+2 Action Camera Packs HD Video, Live Streaming Into $400 Package

September 6, 2012
Contour+2 Action Camera Packs HD Video, Live Streaming Into $400 Package

A year later and one hundred dollars cheaper than its predecessor, Seattle-based Contour announced its Contour+2 action camera this week and will be available later this month. The latest improves upon the previous generation with a sprinkling of features from other models in the lineup, new accessories and a different way of sharing content....

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The Last Big Independent Social Marketer Syncapse Pimps Itself For Acquisition With Analytics Suite

September 6, 2012
The Last Big Independent Social Marketer Syncapse Pimps Itself For Acquisition With Analytics Suite

Syncapse wants to get bought. All it’s well funded competitors — Buddy Media, Vitrue, Involver, Wildfire — already have. So today it releases a new analytics suite, making it a more appealing turn-key social marketing solution to acquirers by rounding out its Faceb00k ads and Pages offering. The company’s PR keeps pitching it to...

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Lissted lets you follow Twitter media conversations on a specific topic through dynamic lists

September 6, 2012
Lissted lets you follow Twitter media conversations on a specific topic through dynamic lists

Lissted now lets you follow journalists’ Twitter conversations on a specific topic, its parent company RealWire announced today. To get you started, it will also create public lists anyone can subscribe to. As you may remember, Lissted’s web app is a very useful tool to find journos who cover a specific topic and track their...

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Wall Street Journal reports Apple is building a Pandora-like music service

September 6, 2012

Apple is back at the negotiating table with music industry executives in an attempt to create a streaming custom radio service similar to Pandora and Spotify, the Wall Street Journal reports. These apps allow users to set their musical preferences, and are then fed a stream of similar music they’re likely to enjoy —...

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This 24-Year-Old’s Startup, Quirky, Just Nabbed Another $68 Million … And Mary Meeker

September 6, 2012
This 24-Year-Old’s Startup, Quirky, Just Nabbed Another $68 Million … And Mary Meeker

Quirky See Also Google Ventures Is Hiring And It’s An Awesome Place To Work: Take A Look Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google’s Money Instacart Is A New Startup That’s Going To Eliminate Your Trips To The Grocery Store Quirky, the super-hot New York startup founded by 24-year-old Ben Kaufman,...

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Apple Wants To Launch A Pandora-Killer (P)

September 6, 2012
Apple Wants To Launch A Pandora-Killer (P)

Taylored Minds Toast? See Also Amazon Unveils Kindle Fire HD, Increases Pressure For Apple To Release iPad Mini How The New Kindle Fire HD Stacks Up Against The iPad Pandora and Twitter Take More Mobile Ad Dollars Than Facebook or Apple Apple wants to launch a streaming radio service like Pandora, Evan Smith and...

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Social product design startup Quirky raises $68M

September 6, 2012

Quirky, a New York-based startup that crowdsources the creation of products, announced on Thursday that it has raised $68 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included new investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, as well as existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and RRE Ventures. The latest round brings...

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If Apple is all about the devices, Amazon is all about the services

September 6, 2012

“Here endeth the lesson.” —Jim Malone, “The Untouchables” There is a great moment in the movie “The Untouchables,” when street-smart cop Jim Malone (played by Sean Connery) explains to federal agent Elliot Ness (played by Kevin Costner) the laws of the urban jungle that was 1920s Chicago, culminating his sermon by saying, “Here endeth...

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