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Psy sets another YouTube record with his new song

by Steven Loeb, April 23, 2013 | Comments

"Gentleman" was watched over 38 million times in a single day, can it possibly top Gangnam Style?

HE'S BAAAAAACK! Or, if you want to be more accurate, he never actually left. Even though you really, really hoped he would. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am talking about Psy, the South Korean rapper/worldwide sensation who brought you Gangnam Style, aka the only video on YouTube to ever get over one billion hits. And while that song may be ...

Eventbrite raises $60 million to fuel growth

by Steven Loeb, April 22, 2013 | Comments

Online ticketing service has now raised a total of $140 million in funding

Event registration and ticketing service Eventbrite has raised $60 million in financing, it was announced Monday. The funding was led by Tiger Global Management, and included a new investment partner, T. Rowe Price. This is the sixth round of fundraising for the company, which most recently raised a $50 million Series E in May 2011, also led by Tiger Global. Eventbrite's investors also ...

Amazon's pilot program leads to big weekend numbers

by Steven Loeb, April 22, 2013 | Comments

Viewers asked to vote on 14 original pilots, eight wind up in Amazon's top 10 most streamed episodes

Amazon has taken a headfirst dive into the original content space over the last year or so. The company has created everything from its comic book, and its own games, even its own television series, with Amazon Studios creating 14 original comedy and kid show pilots. But here's the twist: Amazon announced last week that is going to allow viewers to directly ...

Yahoo launches new iOS app with Summly integration

by Steven Loeb, April 22, 2013 | Comments

App will also feature an endless newsfeed, improved search and more user control over content

Yahoo is continuing to push its mobile strategy, this time by offering a completely revamped version of its app for iOS. The new app, which was announced in a blogpost on Monday, includes "better mobile content discovery," as well as integration of Summly, the news summarizer that Yahoo purchased almost one month ago exactly. "Consuming news and information on the go has become the norm -- ...

Facebook Home passes 500K installs in over a week

by Steven Loeb, April 22, 2013 | Comments

Home's numbers are lagging, and Facebook should be concerned over poor user reviews

It took a little over a week but Facebook Home has passed half a million installs. The news is reflected on the app listing on the Google Play website, which reports that the number of downloads is now 500,000 - 1,000,000, where as it previously said 100,000 to 500,000 on Friday. The news was also tweeted by telecoms analyst Benedict Evans on Sunday: ...

TweetDeck for AIR and mobile to shut down on May 7

by Steven Loeb, April 20, 2013 | Comments

Is this the beginning of the end for the Twitter dashboard?

Back in March, Twitter revealed that TweetDeck, which is Twitter's social media dashboard application, would be getting rid of its iPhone, Android, and AIR apps in March. At the time the company said that it was doing so to focus on its browser-based versions of the service, but no specific date was given for when these shutdowns would be occuring. Now, Twitter has marked the ...

Six more Yahoo products getting the axe

by Steven Loeb, April 20, 2013 | Comments

Say goodbye to Upcoming, Deals, SMS Alerts, Kids, and old versions of Mail

Yahoo's effort to focus on mobile has claimed some more victims. The company is, once again, shutting down a number of its services to become more streamlined. This time it is a coupon site, a local events calendar and old versions of mail that are among those products are that will soon be killed off, it was revealed Friday. "Like we announced last month, we want ...

Funding roundup - week ending 04/19/13

by Steven Loeb, April 19, 2013 | Comments

Songza, BuyReply, Teddle, Booker, Nosto, FlightCar, The Hunt and SocialFlow all raised funds

Seed-stage Bitium, a tool that helps companies manage web-based apps, raised $2.4 million in a seed round of financing from Resolute VC and well-known angels, including Michael Lazerow, Rob Glaser, Alex Bard, Hiten Shah and Sean Ellis, and some Southern California funds, Double M Partners, Social Leverage and Karlin Ventures. Tastebuds, the social service that helps you meet new people through music, ...

Apple is holding onto your Siri data for two years

by Steven Loeb, April 19, 2013 | Comments

Data is kept anonymous, and can be deleted simply by shutting Siri off

My current phone is an iPhone 4, so I still have not had the distinct pleasure of being introduced to voice assistant Siri. We only know each other through reputation, and hers, honestly, isn't that great. Still, plenty of people use the service, and Apple was always a pretty cagey about what exactly happened to the data it was collecting from ...

Twitter and BBC America enter into video partnership

by Steven Loeb, April 19, 2013 | Comments

BBC America will offer in-tweet videos that run with advertisements

(Updated to reflect comment from Twitter) Earlier this week, it was reported that Twitter was in talks with both Viacom and NBCUniversal to host television clips inside of tweets. The deal, which was said to likely be done by mid-May. would have been the first time a video appeared inside of a tweet with an advertisement. But it seems that Viacom and ...

Tracks updates app to highlight content discovery

by Steven Loeb, April 18, 2013 | Comments

Tracks version 2.5 turns the app into "a mobile first Pinterest"

Tracks, the company that lets users create their own personal social networks around their experiences, has launched version 2.5 of its iOS app, it was announced Thursday, one that it hopes will help it become the "mobile first Pinterest." Among the new features included the update are Smart Activity, which "displays Tracks intelligently by algorithmically analyzing your activity, connections, and ...

Twitter unleashes its #music app to the world

by Steven Loeb, April 18, 2013 | Comments

App suggests music based on followed artists, lets users see the music their friends are tweeting

The Twitter #music app has officially launched, it was revealed in a blogpost Thursday. This after rumors of a Twitter music app swirled around for at least a month. Then the company bought music discovery service We Are Hunted last week, and American Idol host Ryan Seacrest revealed, via Tweet, that the music app was indeed real. The day after, the music.twitter.com webpage went up, but simply ...

Zonoff raises $3.8M to tie connected devices together

by Steven Loeb, April 18, 2013 | Comments

Zonoff offers software that puts Internet of Things devices onto one platform

Over the last few months, there has been a lot of buzz about a new, very fast growing, and potentially very profitable, space that had broken out called The Internet of Things. It is a category that General Electric wrote could be worth $10 to 15 trillion by 2030. One that a survey from Zebra Technologies in October found was already in place in ...

Twitter introduces keyword targeting for advertisments

by Steven Loeb, April 17, 2013 | Comments

Advertisers will now be able to use your words to sell Promoted Tweets

Twitter has been recently been taking steps to build up its advertising revenue by launching a new API and introducing new Twitter cards to embed links to apps, products and photo galleries. And so far it seems to have been successful, as market researcher eMarketer is projecting Twitter to grow revenue by 63% to nearly $1 billion in advertising sales by 2014. Now Twitter has introduced a new tool for ...

Aereo to broadcasters: move to cable at your own risk

by Steven Loeb, April 17, 2013 | Comments

CEO Chet Kanojia states that it would "disenfranchise 54 million consumers"

There is no love lost between Web TV service Aereo and the broadcast networks. The networks actually seem to actively hate the service. This has resulted in lawsuits thrown at the company and then some broadcasters, first Fox and then CBS, even threatening to quit the free TV business altogether if Aereo is allowed to survive. Aereo, for its part, has maintained that it ...

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