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Cisco Wants To Buy News Corp’s TV Software Maker NDS For $5 Billion – Old GigaOm
Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) says it wants to buy News Corp.’s TV set-top box software maker NDS Group for $5 billion to improve its own offering and grow its profile in China and India. Both companies’ boards have approved the deal. But the interesting part is: why does News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) which co-owns NDS together with Permira, want rid of the software which powers its BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and DirecTV (N
CircleMe Lets You Plant - And Find - Virtual Items On Locations | TechCrunch
CircleMe Lets You Plant – And Find – Virtual Items On Locations There are one or two apps which allow you to ‘plant’ virtual objects in a location allowing others to pick them up later on (Pinterest for location anyone?). Everplaces literally just launched, Stikinotes and Pinwheel have yet to launch. But CircleMe comes out of a six months closed beta today to try and prove it’s different than the
Salesforce HR tool combines social networking and employee reviews
Salesforce HR tool combines social networking and employee reviews Remember when your Facebook feed was dotted with achievements that your friends won by playing Farmville? Well, you’ll see something similar now with Salesforce’s new Rypple HR tool. Rypple uses badges and achievements to praise employees for the work they’re doing. It comes preloaded with cutesy badges, and managers can custom cre
Mobile Payment Startup BOKU Raises A $35M Round. NEA, Telefonica Among The Investors | TechCrunch
Startups Mobile Payment Startup BOKU Raises A $35M Round. NEA, Telefonica Among The Investors Another sign of the significant investment and attention going into the mobile payments market and the competition that is heating up among the bigger players: BOKU is today announcing a significant new round of funding totaling $35 million, to be used to continue building out its payments business. Of th
Flip To Hand Over Sharing Platform Flipshare To Givit, Users Have 30 Days To Transfer Content | TechCrunch
Hardware Flip To Hand Over Sharing Platform Flipshare To Givit, Users Have 30 Days To Transfer Content The writing was on the wall for Flip, but when Cisco decided to shutter its rather popular Flip video camera business in April 2011, the company promised a smooth transition for existing users. That said, Givit video sharing service will be integrating with Flipshare, Flip’s online video sharing
Appirio raises $60M to be your one-stop cloud service shop
Cloud service consulting company Appirio announced today it has raised $60 million in its fourth round of institutional funding. “We are seeing more companies going cloud first, saying they’re not ever going to buy another server,” said Chris Barbin, Appirio chief executive, “We’re also seeing companies making the migration to 100% cloud to reduce costs and help them scale faster.” The five-year-o
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Question of the Day: Is Jobs Using ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to juice iPhone2 debut? – Old GigaOm
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
Why Path limits you to 150 friends – Old GigaOm
Do you want to see the most relevant stories from all your friends, or all stories from just your best friends? That’s the fundamental difference between what Facebook will show you in your news feed, versus the information shared on Path. In an interview at South by Southwest, Path CEO Dave Morin told me that the mobile social network doesn’t ever want to use algorithms to change the stories that
Live From New York, It’s Aereo TV (For Now…) – Old GigaOm
Aereo, a bold new service that brings broadcast TV and DVR to your iPad and iPhone, started its engines in New York City today — and the results are mostly impressive. As promised, Aereo lets “live TV meet the internet .. on devices you already have” for $12 a month, and requires no additional cords, buttons or antennas. The service simply requires a subscriber to enter a user name and password in
Amazon is No. 1. Who’s next in cloud computing? – Old GigaOm
Amazon Web Services(s amzn) is, by all accounts, the largest cloud service provider by far, although good luck finding third-party numbers to verify that. Amazon, like most of the big cloud providers, doesn’t disclose much about current or planned data centers. New research from Accenture analyst Huan Liu estimates that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) runs on a whopping 450,000 servers. Amazo
iPhoneのカメラから画像解析、最適なスキンケアを提案するBeautêcamが待望のローンチ【本田】 | TechWave（テックウェーブ）
Beautêcamは、専用の30倍接写レンズを取り付けたiPhoneで肌を撮影。撮影データをサーバーが画像解析、ユーザーの肌タイプなど診断結果を表示させるものだ。 FacebookやTwitterと連携しており、現在は自分と同じような肌質のユーザーと情報交換が可能な他、その肌質に適した化粧品をレコメンドしている。今後はさらに、同じ肌質の人が使っているコスメや、その効果が共有出来るようなコミュニティづくりを行う。 一口に乾燥肌といっても、色々なタイプがある。Beautêcamの画像解析は、キメや毛穴や水分量など5項目を5段階に渡って診断出来る。そのため、診断結果の正確さとソーシャルグラフにより、そのコミュニティでは二重に信頼のおける情報共有の空間が生まれる。また、メディアとしても、相当セグメントの定まった広告を打つことが可能になる。 美容大国日本からの新しいスキンケアテクノロジーに、会場では
Kickstart Your Own SXSW: Hear It Local Lets You Crowdfund Private Concerts | TechCrunch
Startups Kickstart Your Own SXSW: Hear It Local Lets You Crowdfund Private Concerts Looking for a band for your tech conference, wedding, or launch party? San Francisco startup Hear It Local has just launched a private concert booking and crowdfunding platform that connects you to local musicians, just in time to catch the attention of the music crowd at South By Southwest. Smaller venues can also
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Yammer CEO says he won’t hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn’t quit in next 60 days
David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer, is pissed. Last month he was hit with his first lawsuit from a patent troll. So when he saw that Yahoo was going after Facebook for patent infringement, he drew a line in the sand (well, on Twitter to be precise): “I’m declaring it: Yammer will never hire another former Yahoo employee who doesn’t leave in the next 60 days. Who will join me? #stopyahoo” After some ba
500Friends Raises $4.5M Series A For Its Social Loyalty Platform | TechCrunch
Startups 500Friends Raises $4.5M Series A For Its Social Loyalty Platform 500Friends, the social loyalty solution for e-commerce retailers, is announcing it has completed a $4.5 million Series A round led by Crosslink Capital, with participation from Intel Capital as well as company CEO (and angel investor) Justin Yoshimura. Founded in 2010, and launched in summer 2011, YC-backed 500Friends’ Loyal
The Facebook Fight: How Yahoo Could Win, Lose Or Draw – Old GigaOm
When Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) filed a patent suit against Facebook this week, it became as popular as Rush Limbaugh at a Planned Parenthood gathering. But many Yahoo investors will tolerate Silicon Valley’s scorn if the patent gambit actually works. Will it? While a thousand insults are raining down on Yahoo right now, there are only a few ways this case could turn out. Here they are, including the (uno
Question of the Day: Is Jobs Using ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to juice iPhone2 debut? – Old GigaOm
We’ve written previously about Harvard marketing guru John Quelch’s research into how companies deliberately create an “illusion of scarcity” to elevate product successes and profits. See, How to use the ‘Scarcity Illusion’ to boost your launch. For a while now people have been writing about the perceived scarcity of iPhones. Earlier this week Om conducted a reportorial gut check, and determined–o
This Is Everything You Need To Know About Pinterest (Infographic) | TechCrunch
Oh, Pinterest… Over the course of the past few months, what was once a colorful haven for Midwestern mothers and Mormons is now an even more colorful haven for even more pin-tastic peeps. The growth has been staggering, even in what many would call an overly social era. But surrounded by Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc., Pinterest has really made a name for itself. And while many are scurrying to
Why Customer Engagement is More Important Than Likes
Do you remember crushes in grade school when you passed notes asking classmates to check a yes/no box in response to whether or not they liked you? While we’ve all matured in our personal lives, a lot of marketers are still using schoolyard approaches to attracting and sustaining relationships with their intended. For example, through actions such as “Like-gating” exclusive content or downloads an
Social game Idle Worship takes Facebook gaming to new level
We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of "Playing the Edge." Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today! Idle Games is launching a next-generation social game today dubbed I
This is cool: An open data standard for food – Old GigaOm
An open data standard for food has emerged on the web. With such a tool, restaurants, food apps, grocery stores, the government and other interested parties can tell that arugula is also called rocket salad, no matter where on the web it occurs or what a restaurant menu or recipe app calls it. Right now, that’s an impossible task, which leads to inefficiencies in both consumer-facing apps and the
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