Archive | June 26th, 2012

Amidst Yammers & Asanas, YC Alum Siasto Finds Revenue By Streamlining Business Collaboration

Posted on 26 June 2012

Forget Yammer, forget Asana. In April, Y Combinator grad Siasto launched a streamlined project management solution for teams and small businesses that syncs with Google Apps and allows users to create tasks, events, and documents all from the inbox

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A New Chapter For Yahoo Music: A Deal With Spotify, Replacing Rhapsody

Posted on 26 June 2012

Here’s an interesting twist for Yahoo , the beleaguered internet company, and Spotify , the upstart streaming music service that is taking the market by storm: today the two have announced a global deal, in which Yahoo will integrate and promote Spotify’s music service on the Yahoo Media network; and Spotify will get a Yahoo app on its platform. The move shows how Spotify is teaming up with a big, old-school internet player in an effort to ramp up its user numbers, and how Yahoo is looking to new blood to rejuvenate itself

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This Extended Galaxy S III Ad Will Pull On Your Technological Heart Strings

Posted on 26 June 2012

The Samsung Galaxy S III is the phone you’ve been waiting for (per our review) , and you may be waiting a bit longer due to some slight shortages on GSIII supply , but luckily this extended version of the ad can coddle us through this very difficult period. This is the most emotional portrayal of gadgetry I’ve ever seen out of Samsung. We’ve watched the Galaxy Note turn life into a party , and snickered at Apple fanbois

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Y Combinator-Backed Clever Launches A Twilio For Educational Data

Posted on 26 June 2012

We’re all a bit tired of the “X is Twilio for Y” brand of analogies (though it’s refreshing to see more of Twilio in this equation than Airbnb these days), but if ever there were an industry in need of some modern, standardizing APIs it would be education.

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Pew: 17% Of U.S. Cell Phone Users Now Mostly Use Their Phones To Go Online

Posted on 26 June 2012

For most of us, our cell phones are now a convenient way to get online while we’re on the go (or on the couch). According to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life project , however, 17% of U.S. adult cell phone owners now mostly go online using their phones rather than desktops, laptops or tablets.

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Wall Street Winces At Zynga Event As Shares Tumble Nearly 5%

Posted on 26 June 2012

It’s been a super tough few months for Zynga and internal morale at the company.

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This Fanless Heatsink Is The Next Generation In CPU Cooling

Posted on 26 June 2012

CPU fans have a certain steampunkian quality to them. They’re loud, annoying, and collect all sorts of debris as they run, whirring endlessly and eventually failing.

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Zynga Reaches 22 Million Daily Active Users On Mobile, Announces Partners Program

Posted on 26 June 2012

Zynga’s chief mobile officer David Ko said that the company has reached 22 million daily active users on mobile. If you consider that Zynga has about 53 million daily active users on Facebook, it’s a pretty strong sign that the company is diversifying on the Facebook platform (although we can’t deduplicate these figures for players who use Zynga games on multiple platforms)

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The Secret To Apple’s High Retail Sales? People, People, And People

Posted on 26 June 2012

The inimitable Horace Dediu has run the numbers and it’s clear: Apple is great at retail and, over the past five years, the company created 35,852 retail jobs.

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Zynga Boosts Support For Synchronous Multiplayer Mode In Several Games

Posted on 26 June 2012

Zynga said it is boosting support for synchronous multiplayer tournaments in its games. The company’s starting with its recent arcade title Bubble Safari, which is a Match 3-type puzzle game where players have to match up three types of fruit in a row by shooting a cannon

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