According to GetJar , its eponymous mobile app store is now seeing three million downloads per day . GetJar reiterated that its stats put it second only to Apple iTunes, with over 1 billion total downloads to date
Patent Trolling Doesn’t Pay: Intellectual Ventures Shows A Negative 73 Percent Return
You can always count on Hunch founder Chris Dixon for interesting Tweets. He just sent out this one : turns out patent trolling might not pay
The Mouse Is Dead. I Just Killed It. Now Can We Move On?
This morning when I wrote a post about Apple’s new Magic Trackpad , I knew it would be a little controversial.
Dude-Centric Video Network Break Media Moves Into 3D Programming
Following the success of 3D technology on films like Avatar, Break Media, a social video and entertainment site for guys, is moving into 3D programming today with the launch of a 3D video channel on Break.com. Video content, which will include action sports videos and a series of 3D mini-shows, will both be curated in-house and aggregated from across the web, so viewers have a one-stop-shop for 3D content online.
Yelp Gears Up To Take On Groupon, Starts Testing Local Deals
It looks like Yelp is looking to cash in on the local deal craze. As the folks over at deal aggregator YipIt first noticed, Yelp has recently been testing time-limited local deals in a select number of pilot cities. The proof lies in a comment thread that began June 23, when a Yelp user noticed a deal running for $20 for $45 of services at Papillon salon.
GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects
GitHub , the source code hosting and collaboration service, has hit a major milestone tonight: the site is now hosting one million projects, confirmed Scott Chacon , VP of Research and Development at GitHub. Approximately 60 percent of these projects are full repositories – that is, shared folders with code spread across multiple files – while the remaining 40 percent are “gists”, or short code snippets contained in a single file, like this one , for example
Wisconsin: Land of Beer, Cheese, and…Startups
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Steve Faulkner. He is the CEO of the GeoHuddle, a Madison, Wisconsin based startup developing community geothermal heating and cooling systems.
OMG/JK Episode 4: A New Hope
It’s that time of week again: the latest episode of TechCrunch TV’s OMG/JK has just landed.
HP Wants To Become Apple. WebOS Is The Key
In season 1 of AMC’s hit show Mad Men , Rachel Menken comes to the advertising firm Sterling Cooper because she wants to give her department store, Menken’s, a makeover, so to speak. She wants to transform it from a successful department store into an elite one.
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