Archive | August 8th, 2012

Sikh Entrepreneurs Raise Over $100,000 In 48 Hours For Wisconsin Shooting Victims

Posted on 08 August 2012

As you surely know by now, a gunman entered a Sikh temple Sunday morning in Wisconsin and opened fire, killing six people and wounding three others, including a police officer. Later Sunday afternoon, two Sikh entrepreneurs,  Savneet Singh and Jesse Pujji , started a campaign on the crowd-sourced funding site indiegogo to raise money for the victims

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New Facebook platform industry hires: FreshBuzz, Kenshoo Social, Nanigans, Offerpop, Shoutlet, TBG Digital

Posted on 08 August 2012

If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into our next post

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Backed By $900K From Keith Rabois And Angels, Breakthrough Is Your New Online Shrink

Posted on 08 August 2012

Today, one in four Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness , yet only one-third of those with symptoms are treated. Among the reasons why: The poor distribution of mental health professionals, the stigma that comes with mental health issues and, sadly, the high cost of care. In 2009, Mark Goldenson launched Breakthrough at TechCrunch50 to address this problem, offering an easy and private way for anyone and everyone to connect with mental health professionals via chat, email, phone or a HIPAA-compliant video platform on the Web.

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YC-Backed TapIn.tv Launches To Bring Instantaneous Live Video Streaming To The iPhone

Posted on 08 August 2012

Mobile video. Hot space, right? Viddy just raised $30 million , Socialcam just sold for $60 million .

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ZabKab Lets You Hail A NYC Yellow Cab With Your Phone

Posted on 08 August 2012

Services like Uber , Taxi Magic , Cabulous , and SideCar are completely disrupting the way we get around our cities. But almost all of them use private services, excluding the city’s public transportation

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Facebook design manager leaving to help lead angel fund for designers

Posted on 08 August 2012

Facebook design manager Ben Blumenfeld is leaving the company to co-direct Designer Fund, an angel fund of designers, TechCrunch reports . Blumenfeld, who started working at Facebook in 2007, has been on sabbatical since December, so this doesn’t come as much of a surprise

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Following Reorg That Stripped Him Of Responsibility, COO John Schappert Leaves Zynga

Posted on 08 August 2012

Zynga just announced that chief operating officer John Schappert is leaving the social gaming giant and its board of directors. “We can confirm that John Schappert has left Zynga and its Board of Directors effective immediately,” said CEO Mark Pincus in a statement

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Chrome For Windows Gets A Stronger Flash Sandbox, Promises 20% Fewer Flash Crashes

Posted on 08 August 2012

Flash doesn’t get a lot of love these days, but it’s still ubiquitous on the web. To make displaying Flash content safer for its users, Google just announced that it is now putting the Flash Player plug-in it ships with Chrome for Windows (including the aging Windows XP) inside a new and enhanced sandbox “that’s as strong as Chrome’s native sandbox, and dramatically more robust than anything else available.” Besides the security advantages, Google also stresses that this change will reduce Flash crashes by about 20%.

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With Installs Up 400%, Stitcher Sounds Like The Pandora Of Talk Radio

Posted on 08 August 2012

With around of 650,000 users, installs up 400% this year, a podcast recommendation engine , and today adding Facebook auto-sharing to its Android app, Stitcher has made a lot of progress towards owning talk radio after the fall of AM/FM. Today it revealed a number of stats through a Facebook Developer Spotlight , but when I deduced that it now has 650,000 active users based on AppData and the fact that 30% of new signups are from Facebook, Stitcher’s CEO Noah Shanok confirmed “that’s a rough ballpark”. In an interview he told me how his app will rule the digital airwaves by getting to commuters through new automobile integrations , and filling a giant hole in what Spotify and Pandora offer.

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News Corp. Q4 Sales Of $8.4B Miss Estimates, Takes $2.8B Charge On Publishing Business

Posted on 08 August 2012

News Corporation has just reported its quarterly earnings . For Q4 it had revenues of $8.4 billion with earnings per share of $0.32, both down compared to the year before (Q4 2011 the company reported revenues of $9 billion with EPS of $0.35).

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