Greystripe Monetizing iPhone Games With Ad Platform (4)
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The current iPhone App Store revenue share model - a 70/30 split for the sale of apps, generally in the $0.99-$9.99 range - doesn’t exactly reward developers for producing addictive games. Greystripe, an advertising network for mobile games, has stepped in to compensate developers for every time their games are played, not just for when those games are initially sold. Greystripe has actually been distributing free games and applications for about 1,400 handset models since ...
Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ (11)
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Facebook is pursuiting social networks it believes have copied their design or features by suing German social network StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook have filed a suit in the Californian Supreme Court against the German company for what it claims is an infringement of Facebooks “look, feel, features and services”. StudiVZ claims to have 10 million active members, and is the largest social network in the German speaking world, covering Germany, Belgium ...
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jon|k said:
it's about time!!!
This Week on TechCrunch Elevator Pitches (1)
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A few weeks back we launched Elevator Pitches, our community video project that allows entrepreneurs to pitch their startups through 60 second YouTube videos. Since then we’ve received a number of of pitches covering everything from a fandom portal to a site focusing on group based text messaging. Above, we’ve embedded the most popular of the videos submitted this week. If you don’t like it, don’t blame us (it was voted on by the community). ...
Mint Adds Support For Mortgage And Loan Tracking (6)
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Mint, the popular personal finance site that won TechCrunch 40, has further expanded its services by introducing support for mortgage and loan tracking. Users will now be able to keep tabs on their loans from over 1,000 supported institutions. In addition to the mortgage and loan tracking, Mint also monitors users’ savings accounts, credit cards, and investments. Mint doesn’t deal with any actual fund transfers. Instead, it monitors users’ spending habits, producing coherent graphs that ...
Twiddla: Simple Collaboration Software That Works Almost Anywhere (7)
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Twiddla, a free service that lets users draw and annotate webpages with their peers, has launched a new version of its site that introduces a number of new features. Compared to enterprise-grade collaboration software, Twiddla falls a little short - there’s no screen sharing or video chat, and the software seems a little buggy. But for ease of use and compatibility it can’t be beat: the browser based AJAX software is platform-agnostic, requires no plugins, ...
Does Google Know How To Count? Some YouTube Views Don’t Seem To Register (2)
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A large portion of YouTube videos are watched on other sites in embeddable players (like the one below of Erepublik CEO Alexis Bonte giving us an Elevator Pitch). But if someone watches a YouTube video on a site other than YouTube, does it count towards the total views of that video? Apparently not, or at least not always. One TechCrunch reader had a video of his picked up by a popular site, where it generated ...
Microsoft Searches Jump 15% After Live Cashback Launch (8)
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This isn’t enough data to declare Microsoft’s much derided Live Cashback search product a winner, but the first full month after it launched (June) shows a 15% gain in search volume v. the previous month, according to Comscore. This erases the previous month’s losses, bringing Microsoft up to 9.2% overall search share. Live Search CashBack gives advertisers the option of offering users a direct rebate for purchases made after searching on Microsoft. The product shifts ...
Twitter Plays Nice: XMPP Firehose Data Feed To Gnip (30)
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Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at Foo Camp last weekend, Gnip founder Erick Marcoullier was hitting him up to give Gnip, and therefore everyone, Twitter’s XMPP “firehose.” Williams was obviously in a good mood, because I got my interview and, as I just found ...
What Will Facebook Announce at Its F8 Developer Conference Next Week? Let the Speculation Begin. (7)
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Next Wednesday is Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and speculation is swirling about what Facebok might announce at the event. Last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the Facebook Platform for Web app developers, which is now its own mini-industry. So what will Facebook announce this year? We’ve suggested that Facebook might take the opportunity to expand its open source offering, new profile product, or launch Facebook Connect. My vote is for a payments system (confirmed ...
CrunchGear’s Official iPhone 3G Review (21)
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Hype, hype, hype. Now that the iPhone 3G launch has blown over and I’ve been able to integrate the phone into my daily routine, I think we’re ready for an official CrunchGear review. Our advice? Wait. With 60% certainty I predict a minor hardware or, more likely, software update in the next month or so to improve the 3G’s thus far abysmal battery life. The iPhone 3G is incrementally better than the 1st generation iPhone, ...
StumbleAudio is Pandora For Indie Music (49)
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With the highly successful launch seen by Pandora’s iPhone app, streaming digital radio seems ready to finally go mainstream. Unfortunately, as great as Pandora is, its music recommendations can shy towards music you already know - you may like the song that gets recommended, but there’s a good chance you’ve heard it before. For listeners looking for something that’s entirely new, there’s StumbleAudio, a streaming music service exclusively for indie music that is launching today ...
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Todd said:
You hear this Cassie? Indie Music!
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Jrod said:
interesting...
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runbuck said:
Streaming Digital Radio: This is something I might follow if it came out on iPhone.
You Have Three Days To Check Out Wuala’s ‘Social Grid’ Storage (16)
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Wuala, the innovative P2P social grid storage coming out of Switzerland, is doing a sneak preview of its public beta from now until Monday evening, after which it will close until the full launch on August 14. It’s worth checking this out before the window closes as I’m betting Wuala is pretty much unlike any online storage service you’ve seen. The public beta in August will carry a twist. Till now you have to download ...
Google Buys Russian Contextual Ads Service for $140m (22)
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BREAKING NOW: Google is buying Russian contextual advertising company ZAO Begun for $140 million from UK-registered Rambler Media (many Russian firms now base themselves in the UK). Rambler owns 50.1 percent of Begun, so to secure the deal it is buying the remaining 49.9 percent stake from owner Bannatyne Limited and then selling the entire firm to Google. Rambler says it expects to net about $50 million from the deal which will finance its investments ...
Moopz Merges Fragmented FriendFeed Conversations Into One Place (41)
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It used to be that if a user posted a link on FriendFeed, they would get a few comments and likes and that would be it. If someone reposted that link, it would have its own set of comments for the user who reposted it. If that was a popular link, there could be 10 reposts and 10 sets of comments. Then Moopz came along. Moopz is a site that aggregates comments about the same ...
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Bob said:
twitter, friendfeed, moopz ...the future press agencies?
Mobile Livecasting Faces Off: Qik vs Kyte vs Flixwagon (27)
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Over the course of the last year we’ve seen an explosion of startups looking to take streaming video to the mobile phone. Smartphones with high-speed data plans and video cameras are becoming increasingly commonplace, and many users are eager to turn their phones into handheld recording studios, even at the cost of video quality. Well-known blogger Robert Scoble, who once said that he would “only use HD camcorders”, has become one of the new services’ ...
LOUD3R Offers a BETT3R Way To Discover News (22)
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Filtering through the noise to find news on discovery sites can be daunting. Social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit have been doing very well, and memetrackers, like Techmeme, are also growing in popularity. The newest trend in discovery tools, it seems, is semantic search engines, like Powerset (recently bought by Microsoft) and Hakia. LOUD3R offers a network of 30 topic-specific semantic search engines. Some of the topics include venture capital (FOUND3R), fashion (GLITT3R), internet ...
Amazon To Target $5 Billion Textbook Market With New Kindle (64)
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Earlier this week Crunchgear broke the news on two new upcoming Kindle models: a smaller form factor Kindle to be released this year ahead of the holidays, and a large screen (probably 8.5×11) to come sometime next year. A couple of commenters in that post have pointed out that the large screen Kindle is perfect to target the college/university textbook market, a $5.5 billion market annually in the U.S. alone. Most students still buy print ...
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noattention said:
Dean Levmore would sure love this.
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Umang Saini said:
It's about freaking time to replace 'em.
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Chip R said:
...and here we go.
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Andrew said:
i just saved a million hypothetical jew gold.
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Jason said:
one of those 'why didn't i think of that' things. i will definitely be carrying a kindle in my backpack. right next to my macbook pro.
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Eli Dourado said:
But will I have to buy all new versions of my old textbooks?
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Patrick said:
I cannot wait for us to get on with the electronic book already. The vision that I would love to see become a reality is that of a school in rural Africa where the students have affordable access to all the textbooks that are available in more developed economies. For example, high-school mathematics has not changed since 1911 so, at the very least, a scanned version of all the off-copyright mathematics textbooks from that date should be available for free to anyone in the world. A single leap-frog moment similar to that which has occurred in the cellphone sector but I believe with potentially even greater consequences.
Google Announces Q2 Earnings And Stock Plummets (16)
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Google announced their Q2 results today after the market had closed. Shares are down by as much as 12% as earnings growth reported was below analysts expectations. Net income for the quarter was $1.25B, up from $925M. The company reported a profit of $4.63 per share, which was slightly below the $4.72 average expectation from Wall Street analysts. Continue reading at TechcrunchIT >> Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new ...
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npike said:
ouch for google?
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Nick said:
So let me get this straight, Google's profits INCREASE by 35% over last year, and the stock plummets because of what "analysts" predicted? This system is SOOO f-ed up.
Microsoft Testing Self Serve Publisher Advertising Product For The First Time - TechCrunch (11)
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Microsoft is testing a new pilot program that will let third party publishers add Microsoft’s contextual ads next to their content in a self-serve format. From what we can tell from the email below, it will be very similar to Google’ Adsense and Yahoo’s Publisher Network. Google dominates this space (and all other contextual advertising) because it offers publishers far higher fees for ads. Yahoo and Microsoft have made up for that shortfall by offering ...
