BeatDeck's Free Analytics Show Musicians Who Their Fans Are
# 2013-05-20 14:31:57, TechCrunch
Does my music do better on Facebook or Twitter? Where should my next tour be? Is my new song too repetitive? Musicians can get free answers to these questions and more from BeatDeck, a Y Combinator analytics company launching today. BeatDeck plans to license this data to labels and music stores to h...Yahoo Drops Flickr Pro To Compete With Facebook, Still Offers Two Paid Tiers For Ad Haters And Power...
# 2013-05-20 12:49:43, TechCrunch
The bookend to Yahoo's Big News Day -- a major refresh of its photo sharing site Flickr -- will see the company drop is Flickr Pro pricing tiers as part of a bid to compete better with Facebook/Instagram and the rest of the crowded market in the online photo space. But it is not getting rid of paid ...Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage
# 2013-05-20 11:26:46, TechCrunch
The new Flickr is live. Smack-dab in the middle of Yahoo-Tumblr acquisition day, Yahoo is holding a major press event here in NYC. But announcements coming out of this event aren't related to Tumblr as much as Flickr, the photo-sharing database and social network acquired by Yahoo in March of 2005...Google+ Gets A Refresh For Android To Mirror Its 41 Update Extravaganza From I/O, Adds New Location ...
# 2013-05-20 08:09:06, TechCrunch
Today, Google updated its Google+ app for Android to get up to speed with all of the changes announced during last week's I/O Developers conference. In all, there were 41 new updates, including a new stream, photos experience and Hangouts. The Android version has all of that, and one new feature -...Tumblr's Adult Fare Accounts For 11.4% Of Site's Top 200K Domains, Adult Sites Are Leading Category ...
# 2013-05-20 06:26:02, TechCrunch
How much of Tumblr is porn, and what is Yahoo going to do about it? On the latter, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer spoke to its plans for addressing content that is not “brand safe” earlier this morning on a call about its $1.1 billion acquisition of the site, saying that Yahoo will need to have “go...Yahoo: Expect Ads On Tumblr To Ramp Up Significantly In 2014
# 2013-05-20 04:30:55, TechCrunch
After announcing its deal to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion, mostly in cash, Yahoo today started to lay out some of the details for how it intends to make use of the property while trying to stick to its promise "not to screw it up." Expect more advertising by next year as well as more Tumblr conte...Sprint Acquires KC-Based Handmark For Its Mobile App Development And Advertising Shop, OneLouder
# 2013-05-20 03:53:33, TechCrunch
Sprint has decided to get deeper into the social and mobile space, announcing today that it has acquired Handmark and its subsidiary OneLouder. The acquisition is meant to beef up its Pinsight Media+ advertising group, specifically. Through Handmark, OneLouder has built social apps like Twitter clie...Angry Tumblr users flee to WordPress as Yahoo announces $1.1 billion acquisition
# 2013-05-20 02:45:27, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
After a number of newspapers and blogs wrote about Yahoo’s now-confirmed $1.1 billion acquisition of popular blogging platform Tumblr, users were angry. The world has no idea what Yahoo has in store for Tumblr, of course, but the Internet giant’s reputation has many users worried. So much so, i...YouLike Is A Dating Site That Thinks The Key To Finding Love Is Hate
# 2013-05-19 22:30:45, TechCrunch
YouLike describes itself as an interest-based social network and dating site that takes into account a user's dislikes, as much as what they do like, when helping to find like-minded people to friend or date. YouLike, a startup backed by the founders of Turkish eBay clone GittiGidiyor (which in 2...YouTube Turns Eight As Platform Surpasses More Than 100 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute
# 2013-05-19 04:29:47, TechCrunch
YouTube turns eight years old today, reminding each of us in some odd way how young or old we really are. Remember, the company launched back in 2005, the same year that Michael Jackson was found not guilty of child molestation, and Lance Armstrong was winning his seventh Tours De France, and Arrest...Hell No, Tumblr Users Won't Go To Yahoo!
# 2013-05-18 13:14:47, TechCrunch
We've all by now heard about how Yahoo is trying to get some "cool" with a supposed $1 billion purchase of hip blogging platform Tumblr, but it may be a moot point if Tumblr's users fail to stick around post-sale.How Hike, India's Fast Growing Mobile Messaging App, Is Banking On SMS & Local Diversity To Beat The...
# 2013-05-18 08:45:23, TechCrunch
It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its 5m registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the big beasts of the messaging space – WhatsApp claims 200m+ monthly a...Twitter partners with NBA to highlight in-game replays, Blake Griffin posterizations
# 2013-05-17 15:49:00, Engadget
In all honesty, Blake Griffin himself could start a social network that served no purpose outside of featuring his dizzying (and disgusting, if you will) array of dunks, and it'd probably go over quite well. Instead, he -- along with other superstars in the National Basketball Association -- wil...Grubless? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge
# 2013-05-17 15:36:27, TechCrunch
Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies in our food manufacturing, production and distribution systems. As interes...Zynga Tells CupidWithFriends To Stop Using ‘With Friends'
# 2013-05-17 13:58:20, TechCrunch
Zynga has apparently told the makers of the dating website CupidWithFriends that they need to change the site's name, because it allegedly infringes on Zynga's trademarks. CupidWithFriends was built by the startup Apartment 7 (which also released the dating apps Flock and Wednesday Night). The site...Facebook's Growth Since IPO In 12 Big Numbers
# 2013-05-17 10:43:39, TechCrunch
$FB is still stuck at $26.25, way down from its $38 IPO price, but it's made important progress since going public a year ago. Daily users up 26%, mobile monthly users up 56%, and revenue up 38% are some highlights. It's running out of people to sign up in the developed world, but with this growth a...Backupify Is Phasing Out Free Consumer Products; Drops Support For Facebook Personal Profiles, Blogg...
# 2013-05-17 07:06:27, TechCrunch
Earlier this week we reported on how Backupify was closing down TweetBackup, a free service to back up your Twitter account that it acquired in 2010; now we have confirmed that, as we'd heard, this is part of a bigger plan at the company to phase out consumer services altogether, as Backupify focuse...Social Trip Planning App Tripshare Converts Travel Inspiration To Bookings
# 2013-05-17 06:27:29, TechCrunch
Tripshare, an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space. But its CEO knows a little something about the industry – Bob Dana was the former employee No. 1 and first CFO of Virgin America. He once wrote the business plan and feasibility study for Sir Richard Branson in 2003. ...MessageMe Raises A $10M Series A Led By Greylock As It Gears Up For Money And Premium Services In It...
# 2013-05-16 15:19:29, TechCrunch
MessageMe -- a messaging app that launched in March with a little Facebook controversy thrown in -- has raised another $10 million, according to an SEC filing earlier today. The Series A round was led by Greylock Partners; and as part of it, John Lilly, the ex-CEO of Mozilla who is now a partner a...CrowdOptic Raises Another $1M To Build Experiences Based On Where Your Phone Is Pointing
# 2013-05-16 14:33:34, TechCrunch
CrowdOptic, a startup with technology for identifying where people are pointing their smartphone cameras, has raised another $1 million in funding. When I've spoken to the team in the past, they've emphasized the ways this could be used to create new types of social interactions — if people are a...FixYa's New FixBoard Allows Companies To Track Customer Support Trends
# 2013-05-16 07:15:23, TechCrunch
FixYa, a Q&A site where consumers can seek advice from product experts, is launching a new feature today called the FixBoard, which should make the site more useful to big consumer brands. As the name suggests, the FixBoard is basically a dashboard of FixYa data. It shows, over time, the number of ...Yahoo Partners With Twitter To Further Personalize Homepage Newsfeed
# 2013-05-16 07:07:36, TechCrunch
Yahoo and Twitter have partnered to bring tweets directly into Yahoo homepage's newsfeed on web and mobile, the company announced this morning. The move follows the February relaunch of the front page. At the time, the company debuted a redesigned site with an increased emphasis on personalizatio...Bloglovin Redesigns Its Fashion-Focused Blog Reader To Highlight Popular Content, Social Features
# 2013-05-16 05:24:56, TechCrunch
Bloglovin, a site where readers can follow blogs about fashion and other lifestyle topics, is getting what CEO and co-founder Mattias Swenson said is its first major redesign. Until now, Swenson said Bloglovin has been adding new features in a more incremental way. This time it's getting a new look...With PayPal-Like Ambitions For Bitcoin, BitPay Raises $2M Led By Founders Fund
# 2013-05-16 03:59:53, TechCrunch
BitPay, the startup with ambitions to become the PayPal of the bitcoin world, is today announcing that it has raised another $2 million. And in what is a kind of poetic justice, the round is led by none other than the Founders Fund, the VC started by what's commonly called the PayPayl Mafia.Apple patent application teams up multiple smartphone flashes for better lighting
# 2013-05-16 00:55:00, Engadget
Smartphone camera flashes are notoriously weak compared to dedicated models, but what if you could fire them from several handsets at once? Since none of us have the millisecond timing needed to do it manually, Apple has filed a patent application to let any number of iOS (or other devices with ...Twitter Archiving Service TweetBackup Hits The Deadpool As Owner Backupify Focuses More On Enterpris...
# 2013-05-15 12:30:21, TechCrunch
Time for a back-up plan for your Twitter back-up plan. Backupify -- the Cambridge, MA cloud-based backup, search and restore provider for online services -- is shutting down TweetBackup, a company originally founded in Sweden that Backupify acquired in 2010 for an undisclosed amount. Tweetbackup ...Google Unites Gmail And G+ Chat Into “Hangouts” Cross-Platform Text And Group Video Messaging App...
# 2013-05-15 07:55:18, TechCrunch
Today at I/O, Google rebranded "Hangouts" as a new unified, cross-platform messaging system. It lets people text, photo, and group video message across Hangouts' Android and iOS apps, plus its Gmail and Google+ site integrations. Hangouts rolls out today, replacing Google Talk [GChat] and G+ Messeng...Google+ Redesigns Its Stream To Include Multi-Column Google Now-Esque Cards, Auto-Hashtags And More
# 2013-05-15 07:55:15, TechCrunch
Google+, the social layer that Google introduced almost two years ago, has evolved quite a bit since its launch. Today, the company announced a complete redesign, taking cues from the mobile experience that has drawn positive feedback from those who don't even use the service. In total, Google has l...Top 10 Engineering College Teams Up With Udacity, AT&T To Offer $6K Master's Degree In Computer Scie...
# 2013-05-15 02:00:41, TechCrunch
If there was any question as to Sebastian Thrun and Udacity's resolve to re-imagine higher education in a more affordable, accessible virtual classroom -- or their ability to actually make any real headway among the Ivory Towers of academia -- we should probably just go ahead and put that to bed. Th...Facebook Now Lets You Rate Movies, TV, And Books To Turn Graph Search Into A GoodReads For Everythin...
# 2013-05-14 10:23:47, TechCrunch
Facebook is hoping to give developers a better way to get discovered and improve Graph Search. So today it announced it's finished rolling out "Sections" for Timeline that show what apps you use, which people now add 200 million items to daily. New features coming alongside the rollout include the a...
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