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All newsThe Curious Vaporization Of Jesta Labs, A $15 Million Startup Incubator
08 February 2012, 07:45:48 AM from TechCrunch
Here's a puzzler. Back in September 2011, less than 6 months ago, Jesta Digital loudly committed $15 million to establish Jesta Labs, a New York-based mobile services startup incubator. Fast forward to today, and the incubator has vanished from the face of the planet. Their website has been taken down, and we hear pretty much everyone who had anything to do with Jesta Labs has moved on.
Google Ventures-Backed Nettle Wants To Make Watching Movies Social With MovieGoer
08 February 2012, 07:40:43 AM from TechCrunch
Nettle, a startup that has raised funding from Google Ventures, 500 Startups and others, is looking to make the act of going to the movies a more social experience. With the company's free iOS app, MovieGoer, the startup wants to make the moviegoing experience more interactive.
The Moviegoer app allows you to view trailers, descriptions of the latest movies out in theaters and critics' reviews. You can also see what movies are showing nearby your locations. Via the app, you can follow specific movies, sign in with Facebook and Twitter to see which movies your friends are going to, and comment on movies after viewing.
Akamai Acquires Website Performance Company Blaze Software
08 February 2012, 07:12:34 AM from TechCrunch
After scooping up rival Cotendo for $268 million recently, content delivery and web services giant Akamai is making another acquisition today—Blaze Software. Blaze's technology helps accelerate speed of Websites, and optimizes load times while cutting bandwidth costs. Financial details of the dealn were not disclosed except that it was an all-cash transaction.
As Akamai explains, there are more performance bottlenecks for website load and speed times, as richer web applications and mobile web sites become more popular. Blaze'
Boxee Stands With The CEA Against Cable Companies, Courts The FCC Chairman To Stop Proposed Ruling
08 February 2012, 07:02:25 AM from TechCrunch
Anti-consumer legislation SOPA and PIPA might be all but dead, but there isn't time to rest. There is a seemingly never-ending flow of proposed legislation, statutes and bills queued up, ready to bust down doors and storm living rooms. One of the latest involves the forced transition from analog to digital cable -- something I wrote about back in 2008. If the FCC caves to massive lobbying from the cable companies, the days of unencrypted cable stations in the US will be numbered. Cable subscribers would be required to have a cable box (which will likely cost money) or CableCard-compatible box to re
Yep, People Research Movies On Their Phones — Especially On Apps
08 February 2012, 07:01:35 AM from TechCrunch
Adding to the stream of reports about how people do more and more on their mobile devices, mobile ad network Greystripe just released the results of a survey about the movie research process.
The network says it recruited participants through, yes, a mobile ad in its network, ultimately surveying 248 smartphone users (including iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android) and 298 iPad users in November of 2011. It found that those smartphone and iPad owners are indeed movie goers, with 39 percent of smartphone respondents and 41 percent of iPad respondents watching movies more than four times a year
Crunchie-Winner Fotopedia Launches New App With World Bank
08 February 2012, 07:00:09 AM from TechCrunch
Just a week after winning Best Tablet Application at the Crunchies, Fotopedia is launching its latest iPad and iPhone app. The app lives up to its title Women of the World, showcasing photos of women in more than 75 countries. It was developed in partnership with the World Bank.
All of Fotopedia's apps employ a similar design, creating a beautiful, color-rich interface for browsing high-quality photos from around the world. This isn't the first time Fotopedia has partnered with an international organization — its first app, Heritage, was developed with UNESCO and displays photos from UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Apple Restores Qihoo 360 Mobile Apps In The App Store
08 February 2012, 06:31:03 AM from TechCrunch
On Saturday, February 4, something strange happened to Qihoo 360, a security software company. Their apps, at least the ones in the Apple App Store, were missing. After reaching out to Apple, the company learned that Apple had removed their apps based on "unusual user rating activities by unknown sources on certain Qihoo 360 applications." There was no further explanation.
However, today Apple has reinstated Qihoo 360's iOS apps, without asking the company to modify any of them.
Seems fishy, right?
Nine Months From Launch, Chartboost’s Mobile Ad Marketplace Reaches 1 Billion Impressions
08 February 2012, 05:58:02 AM from TechCrunch
Mobile advertising took off in 2011, as tablets went mainstream and it seemed as if half of the world woke out of a daze to find they were holding some sort of Apple device. Meanwhile, advertisers and developers are increasingly relying on mobile and in-app advertising to boost revenues as consumers become more comfortable with being served ads while on the go.
The mobile app community needs to monetize via ads, which is why San Francisco-based startup, Chartboost, launched its direct-deals advertising marketplace for mobile gaming in May of last year.
Blip COO: “We Essentially Doubled Revenue In 2011?
08 February 2012, 05:45:38 AM from TechCrunch
Blip.tv is going through some changes, with founder Mike Hudack gone and a search for a new CEO still ongoing. But the company raised a $6 million C round from its two main investors in December, and now just added to that with another $6 million credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank. There is also a new logo, and the company is now called just Blip.
So how is the indie Web video distribution service doing? "We essentially doubled revenue in 2011," reports COO Steve Brookstein.
Sprint Sold 1.8 Million iPhones Last Quarter, 40 Percent To New Customers
08 February 2012, 05:21:51 AM from TechCrunch
Sprint Nextel this morning released its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 as well as the full-year results.
The company reported a net loss of $1.3 billion for the quarter, and $2.9 billion for the whole of 2011.
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