Top Stories of the Day // November 30, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 30, 2012

R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy

Whatever it is, it is palpable. A sort of buzz in the Valley that all is not well, and a slight nervousness among entrepreneurs, investors and startup employees... read more

High Profile UK VC Stefan Glaenzer Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction

The London tech startup scene has been rocked today by revelations that a major investor is facing jail after being convicted of sexually harassing women on the... read more

Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is... read more

Google Play Narrowing The Gap On iOS For Mobile Revenue, But iOS Still Brings In 4X The Money

According to a new report from mobile app analytics firm App Annie, Google's Play software store is gaining on rival Apple's iOS app marketplace. The revenue... read more

The Netflix For Designer Clothes, Rent The Runway Raises $20M From Vogue-Publisher Condé Nast And Kleiner Perkins

Rent The Runway, a Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry, has raised $20 million in funding led by Condé Nast Publications, with all... read more

Basho's Amazon S3 Compatibility Gets Potent Boost With Replication Capabilities For Riak Cloud Storage

Basho Technologies Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) now can be replicated across multiple data centers. The new capability, combined with its existing AWS S3... read more

Two Reasons For RIM To Be Cheerful: U.K., Spanish Teens Still Love BlackBerrys (Well, They're Cheaper Than iPhones)

BlackBerrys are still wildly popular with a certain cash-strapped sub-set of mobile users in parts of Europe: namely teenagers. A wide-ranging research report... read more

Video: How Reddit Was Born

There are only a few founders that I really like and Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian are two of them. These lads, with their bright-eyed charm and genuinely... read more

Apple Vets Carriers For 4G Performance Before Allowing iPhone 5 To Be Sold As An LTE Device

Apple wants to ensure that customer experience with its iPhone 5 lives up to what the company is promising, and it will take strong measures to do so, including... read more

Plyfe Brings Its Brand-Promoting Games To Mobile, Raises $750K

Plyfe, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through games and rewards, is moving onto mobile today — Plyfe games can now be played on the... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // November 30, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 30, 2012

R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy

Whatever it is, it is palpable. A sort of buzz in the Valley that all is not well, and a slight nervousness among entrepreneurs, investors and startup employees... read more

High Profile UK VC Stefan Glaenzer Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction

The London tech startup scene has been rocked today by revelations that a major investor is facing jail after being convicted of sexually harassing women on the... read more

Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is... read more

Google Play Narrowing The Gap On iOS For Mobile Revenue, But iOS Still Brings In 4X The Money

According to a new report from mobile app analytics firm App Annie, Google's Play software store is gaining on rival Apple's iOS app marketplace. The revenue... read more

The Netflix For Designer Clothes, Rent The Runway Raises $20M From Vogue-Publisher Condé Nast And Kleiner Perkins

Rent The Runway, a Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry, has raised $20 million in funding led by Condé Nast Publications, with all... read more

Basho's Amazon S3 Compatibility Gets Potent Boost With Replication Capabilities For Riak Cloud Storage

Basho Technologies Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) now can be replicated across multiple data centers. The new capability, combined with its existing AWS S3... read more

Two Reasons For RIM To Be Cheerful: U.K., Spanish Teens Still Love BlackBerrys (Well, They're Cheaper Than iPhones)

BlackBerrys are still wildly popular with a certain cash-strapped sub-set of mobile users in parts of Europe: namely teenagers. A wide-ranging research report... read more

Video: How Reddit Was Born

There are only a few founders that I really like and Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian are two of them. These lads, with their bright-eyed charm and genuinely... read more

Apple Vets Carriers For 4G Performance Before Allowing iPhone 5 To Be Sold As An LTE Device

Apple wants to ensure that customer experience with its iPhone 5 lives up to what the company is promising, and it will take strong measures to do so, including... read more

Plyfe Brings Its Brand-Promoting Games To Mobile, Raises $750K

Plyfe, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through games and rewards, is moving onto mobile today — Plyfe games can now be played on the... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // November 29, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 29, 2012

Microsoft Trolls The Trolls In Latest IE10 Ad

The folks at Microsoft have just released a clever commercial for Internet Explorer 10, the latest version of the company's once dominant web browser which has... read more

Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101'

When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter... read more

Basis Takes On Jawbone, Nike, Finally Launches Its Impressive $199 Health Tracking Band

For Quantified Self devotees, data hounds and fitness enthusiasts, it's a good time to be alive. Recent improvements in sensor technology, battery life and... read more

NPD: U.S. Windows Device Sales Down 21% On Last Year; Windows 8 Tablet Sales "Almost Non-Existent"

Microsoft earlier this week made a point of noting that there have been 40 million downloads of Windows 8 since it launched a month ago, putting it ahead of... read more

WordPress.com Launches Restaurant Vertical As It Pushes Platform Well Beyond Basic Blogging

Restaurants are kind of notorious for having painful web experiences -- either with websites that are horribly basic and out of date, or needlessly souped up... read more

The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem At Groupon

In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart team that included several relatively prominent... read more

Fantastical Lands On iPhone With A Calendar App Tailor-Made For Mobile Schedule Management

The iPhone's Calendar app is pretty good overall, and that's something that even Fantastical creator and Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons admitted to in an... read more

Millennial: Apple Still Leads Samsung In Overall Impressions, But Android Dominates iOS With 52% Share

Leading mobile ad network Millennial Media today released ist Q3 Mobile Mix report, and it would appear that Apple has kept its lead as top manufacturer on the... read more

Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone

Whether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it's hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational... read more

Acquia Lands $30 Million Series E To Scale Out Its Enterprise Drupal Development Platform

Acquia, the company that makes a suite of software tools for the open source web development and content management system Drupal, has secured $30 million in a... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // November 29, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 29, 2012

Microsoft Trolls The Trolls In Latest IE10 Ad

The folks at Microsoft have just released a clever commercial for Internet Explorer 10, the latest version of the company's once dominant web browser which has... read more

Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101'

When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter... read more

Basis Takes On Jawbone, Nike, Finally Launches Its Impressive $199 Health Tracking Band

For Quantified Self devotees, data hounds and fitness enthusiasts, it's a good time to be alive. Recent improvements in sensor technology, battery life and... read more

NPD: U.S. Windows Device Sales Down 21% On Last Year; Windows 8 Tablet Sales "Almost Non-Existent"

Microsoft earlier this week made a point of noting that there have been 40 million downloads of Windows 8 since it launched a month ago, putting it ahead of... read more

WordPress.com Launches Restaurant Vertical As It Pushes Platform Well Beyond Basic Blogging

Restaurants are kind of notorious for having painful web experiences -- either with websites that are horribly basic and out of date, or needlessly souped up... read more

The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem At Groupon

In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart team that included several relatively prominent... read more

Fantastical Lands On iPhone With A Calendar App Tailor-Made For Mobile Schedule Management

The iPhone's Calendar app is pretty good overall, and that's something that even Fantastical creator and Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons admitted to in an... read more

Millennial: Apple Still Leads Samsung In Overall Impressions, But Android Dominates iOS With 52% Share

Leading mobile ad network Millennial Media today released ist Q3 Mobile Mix report, and it would appear that Apple has kept its lead as top manufacturer on the... read more

Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone

Whether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it's hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational... read more

Acquia Lands $30 Million Series E To Scale Out Its Enterprise Drupal Development Platform

Acquia, the company that makes a suite of software tools for the open source web development and content management system Drupal, has secured $30 million in a... read more

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