Amazon continues to improve the user experience of its Kindle app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It had recently updated its app to bring audio and video content to e-books. It has just released a new version of the iOS app with an in-line dictionary, which was one of…
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July 31st 2010 | Posted by admin
As we had noted earlier, the iPhone 4 goes on sale in 17 new countries starting today. The countries in this round of launch include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. According to reports on the…
iPhone
July 31st 2010 | Posted by admin
One of the surprising things about the iPhone 4 reception saga was that most of the our favorite tech journalists did not report the antenna issue when they reviewed iPhone 4. Walt Mossberg of Wall Street Journal was probably the only one who reported that iPhone 4’s performance in making…
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July 31st 2010 | Posted by admin
It’s no secret that loyalty programs — like those hole-punch cards that give you a free Slurpee every ten visits — are a great, cheap way to keep customers coming back to your business. Thing is, running these programs isn’t always as easy as it seems, especially if a business wants to do something more complex than [...]
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July 31st 2010 | Posted by admin
Social search site OneRiot just announced layoffs and staff restructuring on its company blog, in a post entitled “Welcome to the future, it’s coming fast.”
Now, being agile also necessitates making some tough decisions too, if they are the right thing for the company right now. Unfortunately, today, we have had to let a handful of [...]
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July 31st 2010 | Posted by admin
Today at our Social Currency CrunchUp (which is currently being livestreamed here), Blekko founder and CEO Rich Skrenta gave the first live demo of the startup’s innovative search engine (be sure to check out our initial review). To mark the occasion, Blekko is giving out an invite to 500 lucky TechCrunch readers — just be [...]
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July 31st 2010 | Posted by admin
GM is banking large on the Chevy Volt and apparently feels confident about its success. The auto maker just issued a statement, which conveniently coincides while President Obama is touring the assembly plant, detailing the increased production estimate for 2012. The Detroit-Hamtramck facility will now pump out 50% more than previously detailed, an increase to [...]
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July 31st 2010 | Posted by admin
According to GroupOn CEO Andrew Mason who is on stage right now at Social Currency CrunchUp, the breakout deals site GroupOn was originally a side project Mason started in order to make money, “We tried a zillion things” Mason said.
Including a cheesy-sounding slippers with flashlights deal, which Mason describes as “act of desperation, pretty impressive [...]
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July 31st 2010 | Posted by admin
Today, during our Social Currency CrunchUp, angel investor Ron Conway had some interesting data to share for the first time. Conway says that his company, SV Angel, has recently done an audit on the over 500 companies they’ve invested in over the past 12 years. And he was surprised with the results.
Conway expected it would [...]
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July 31st 2010 | Posted by admin
Today at our Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto, CA, Michael Arrington sat down with investors Ron Conway and Paul Graham. Obviously, these are two of the biggest names in early-stage investing (with SV Angel and Y Combinator, respectively).
Both Conway and Graham had some interesting data to share. Conway, in particular, was able to give [...]