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Today we’ll talk about Investors hot on social shopping: First Groupon, now LivingSocial, lets find out: Social shopping networks, where buyers get discount deals from retailers and wholesalers by buying in collective bulk, have been a work in progress since at least 1998, when Mobshop (get it?) and Mercata were launched. Twelve years later, investors
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Google Earth tapped to view Bay Bridge in 3-D — Google’s mapping software proves useful in visualizing what the remade San Francisco iconic bridge will look like. [photo credit | CNET]A bitter Twitter battle rattle — Sounds like Dr. Seuss. David Carr of the New York Times sings the praises of Twitter, while George Packer
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Game developers are shifting their attention to the iPhone and starting to ignore the Nintendo Wii, according to Game Developer Research. Developers creating games for mobile phones increased to 25 percent of all developers, up from 12 percent a year ago. Of those mobile developers, 75 percent are targeting iPhone and iPod Touch games. The
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Roel Schouwenberg is a senior antivirus researcher at Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based antivirus company that has grown into the fourth-largest in the business. Kaspersky, which entered the U.S. market in 2005, protects 250 million users from cyber threats. It has to analyze tens of thousands of files each day to figure out if they’re variants
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Almaz Capital Partners has purchased a 23 percent stake in Russia’s casual web-based game publisher Alawar Entertainment. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed. On the strength of its Russian-speaking audience, Alawar has risen to become one of the top 10 casual game publishers worldwide. Almaz Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in Russian
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Seesmic, a client for reading status updates across Twitter, Facebook and other services, just launched an update to its Android app that supports multiple accounts. It also remembers your position in the timeline, so you don’t have to miss incoming tweets. There are a couple other little fixes like auto-correct for spelling errors and the
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Kongregate, which operates a web site for indie games, is announcing today it has had good success with its app platform for browser-based games. What’s more, it’s sharing some metrics so it can show potential developers how it can make them money. The San Francisco-based company launched its Konduit Application Platform in December. The idea
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We’re excited to unveil our latest speakers for GamesBeat@GDC, our executive game conference that takes place at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday, March 10, at the Moscone convention center in San Francisco. We’ve created a Facebook group for the conference where you can chat with fellow attendees and see who’s attending. We welcome your
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Siemens is using Nvidia’s CUDA graphics technology to create three-dimensional ultrasounds of babies in utero and other medical applications. It takes advantage of CUDA, which is a programming environment which makes use of the computing power of a graphics chip for non-graphics purposes. With CUDA, Siemens can take the images and view them in stereoscopic
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Presentation-sharing site SlideShare continues to roll out new features aimed at businesses. Today it launched SlideShare Channels, which are basically microsites within SlideShare that companies can use to promote their content. The channels can take two forms. First, they can be built by specific companies — that’s what Microsoft has done with the Office Parent
The first set of tickets are now on sale for the third annual Crunchies, the tech awards co-hosted by TechCrunch, GigaOm, and VentureBeat.
