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Health tech startups: Enter VentureBeat's upcoming Grand Rounds Innovation Showdown, and you could win a $250,000 bridge loan from Venrock, two months of free PR support, advice and coaching from top VCs, coverage in VentureBeat, and more. It’s one of the highlights of VentureBeat's inaugural HealthBeat conference (May 20-21) at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco. The deadline to apply is this Friday 4/26 at 5pm ...

Facebook to build new $300 million data center in Iowa

by Steven Loeb, April 23, 2013 | Comments

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Facebook plans to open its fourth data center in 2014, to keep up with increasing demands

Facebook has over a billion monthy users, and it is only continuing to grow. With more people using the service comes more data to process, and Facebook needs to make sure that can it keep up with the speed that its users have come to enjoy. That is why the social network has decided to add a new data center, ...

GetGoing unveils Flightfinder for alternative routes

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 23, 2013 | Comments

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Y Combinator-backed new travel site aims to be the 'Kayak on steroids"

GetGoing, the Y Combinator-backed startup that helps you find discounted vacation packages, just launched FlightFinder, a new search service to find more affordable airline tickets by showing you nearby destinations to fly into. If you don't live in the Bay Area, you might not know that you could fly into Oakland as an alternative to SFO. Depending on ...

Aereo set to launch in Boston on May 15

by Steven Loeb, April 23, 2013 | Comments

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Free Web TV service will be available to 4.5 million consumers in 16 New England counties

Despite encountering both lawsuits, and threats, from broadcasters, free Web TV service Aereo continues to soldier on, undaunted in its plans to expand across the country. The company, which is currently only available in New York City, has unveiled the next stage in its expansion plan: it will be coming to the Boston metropolitan area next month, it was announced Tuesday. Starting on ...

Psy sets another YouTube record with his new song

by Steven Loeb, April 23, 2013 | Comments

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"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 ...

Amazon's pilot program leads to big weekend numbers

by Steven Loeb, April 22, 2013 | Comments

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ...

Amazon Studios invites viewers to vote on 14 pilots

by Faith Merino, April 19, 2013 | Comments

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The production of eight comedy pilots and six kids' pilots will be determined by viewer feedback

The future of TV is online. I say this as a fresh-faced, doe-eyed cord-cutter. Netflix has gone all in with several new original series slated to debut this year—with the entire season being released at once. Amazon is also getting into the original series space, but it’s taking a different route: it’s going to have viewers choose the shows they ...

Netflix woos HBO viewers with new series Hemlock Grove

by Faith Merino, April 19, 2013 | Comments

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The delightfully campy slasher show features lots of sex, blood, and monsters

(You can observe based on the promotional photo that this series makes no sense.) Netflix released its newest original series Hemlock Grove on Friday, and I think I’ve deduced the company’s math down to this: 1) People like True Blood. 2) People actually like Alexander Skarsgard. And gratuitous nudity and fake blood. 3) Nudie scenes and fake blood: check 4) ...

Apple is holding onto your Siri data for two years

by Steven Loeb, April 19, 2013 | Comments

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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

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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 ...

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