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<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers demand answers from Apple on iPhone tracking]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers want answers from Apple after a report was published this week that showed that iPhones and iPads track and store users' location information.Congressman Ed Markey, who is the co-chair of the House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus, sent a letter today to Apple CEO Steve Jobs in response to a report published yesterday by Alasdair Allan, senior research fellow in astronomy at the University of Exeter, and Pete Warden. The researchers discovered that the iOS version 4 software for theiPad andiPhone creates a log file of where users have been, based on time stamps and location information. The information is stored locally on the devices without any encryption and it's transferred via iTunes to computers that these devices are synced to.It's unclear what the data is used for or why Apple has been collecting it in iOS products that carry a 3G antenna for nearly a year now. But Congressman Markey said in his letter that he wants some answers.&quot;Apple needs to safeguard the personal location information of its users to ensure that an iPhone doesn't become an iTrack,&quot; he said in a statement Thursday. &quot;Collecting, storing, and disclosing a consumer's location for commercial purposes without their express permission is unacceptable and would violate current law. That's why I am requesting responses to these questions to better understand Apple's data collection and storage policies to make certain sensitive information can't be left behind for others to follow.&quot;Specifically, Markey wants to know if Apple developed the feature intentionally to keep a log of users' whereabouts. And if it did mean to collect this information, what did it intend to do with it He also wants to know if Apple has notified consumers that this information is being collected. If Apple did collect this data and intends to share it with marketers without users' consent, it could violate federal law, Markey said.Apple has not responded to requests for comment on the report, nor has it responded to Markey's or other politicians' letters. Yesterday, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) stated that &quot;the existence of this information--stored in an unencrypted format--raises serious privacy concerns.&quot; And he wanted to know why this feature exists. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) also issued a statement that criticized Apple for not notifying customers that this information was being recorded and stored on their devices.Markey is seeking an answer to his questions by May 12.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How much are new TV episodes worth to Netflix Try $100K]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Netflix is apparently willing to shell out big bucks to acquire new TV episodes, according to a report by the New York Post.A source tells the paper that Netflix is negotiating with studios to acquire individual new TV episodes for $70,000 to $100,000. If true, the news means that Netflix is looking to take on Hulu directly, which already offers new TV episodes for streaming the day after they air on TV.Netflix&amp;'s pursuit of new episodes is also bringing to a head the war over streaming rights between the studios that create TV shows and the broadcast networks that air them, the Post reports. Currently there&amp;'s no system in place for dealing with new episode streaming rights. One unnamed studio executive tells the paper that they suspect networks will eventually get dibs on first-run streaming rights, and afterwards the studios will have control.Netflix just recently introduced a $7.99 streaming-only plan and also raised the prices of its disc plans (which also offer streaming access). The company has thus far spent $350 million on streaming rights. At this point, I wonder if it&amp;'s even worth it for Netflix to shell out such large amounts of cash for new episodes. It&amp;'s a great deal for consumers, but it doesn&amp;'t seem like a sustainable model given Netflix&amp;'s low subscription plan prices &amp;8212' an observation a Time Warner vice president made today as well.Netflix may also be reaching a breaking point with Hollywood with its continued streaming deals. One Hollywood source told the post: &amp;''People are wondering if they did the right thing by selling to them. &amp;8230' Are we mortgaging our future&amp;''Next Story: Ngmoco to take hit iPhone game Pocket God to Android and Windows Phone 7 Previous Story: Gawkera4a4s Nick Denton says serious journalism has a future &amp;8230' but not for freePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: movies, streaming, TV, video, Watch InstantlyCompanies: Netflix          Tags: movies, streaming, TV, video, Watch InstantlyCompanies: NetflixDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tripleseat: Building the Next OpenTable Outside the Valley&nbsp'System]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Over the last week I&amp;'ve gotten several pitches from companies taking a new twist on OpenTable&amp;'s business. One of two things has happened: Either there&amp;'s a new flurry of activity around the restaurant reservation/recommendation/lead generation space or having groused about OpenTable and recently posed a question on whether they should be disrupted, I&amp;'ve just become the go-to target for anyone launching a business in this space. Either way if you&amp;'re a restauranteur looking for a better way, watch this space, because the topic will keep coming up.One pitch that caught my attention was Tripleseat, and the company is announcing a $500,000 round of funding later today from Omaha-based Dundee Venture Capital. (More on that round in a second.) TripleSeat isn&amp;'t really trying to be an &amp;''OpenTable killer.&amp;'' It&amp;'s focused on streamlining the experience of booking and organizing private events, not just one-off restaurant reservations. And its business is not limited to restaurants. Its customers include other places you&amp;'d have events like large hotel chains, bowling alleys and boats. (Note to Heather Harde: Can we have our Christmas party on a boat I&amp;'m envisioning something like the one above, and Arrington wearing a hat like Michael Scott in the Booze Cruise episode of The Office. Awesome.)Tripleseat&amp;'s founder, Jonathan Morse, says an average client makes 30% of their income from private events and managing them is a huge headache, because they take a lot more coordination and details than a restaurant full of individual diners. Especially since private events tend to come in clumps, especially during the Holidays. As someone with 20 years experience in the hospitality and restaurant business, he&amp;'s seen the pain first-hand. OpenTable isn&amp;'ta4soptimizeda4sto handle it and most restaurants are just using pen and paper and basic Excel files.But the opportunity aside, one reason to watch Tripleseat is that they&amp;'re building the company completely outside the usual Silicon Valley Web echo-chamber. The company is headquartered in Boston, and turned to Omaha for its Web development and, now, its funding. Until now the company has been bootstrapped, and it&amp;'s done pretty well with no cash: It manages $140 million in event revenues for about 100 customers, many of which are sizable hotel and restaurant groups. The company&amp;'s revenues are a fraction of that, they charge between $100 and $300 a month for their software as a service package. But it&amp;'s an indication of their value to a restaurant or hotel.Morse and a handful of sales people have built the company since 2008, mostly doing meetings over the Web and cold-calling, boldly saying his business doesn&amp;'t need a big on-the-ground-sales team. I&amp;'m not so sure he&amp;'s right, at least if he wants to become a large company. Software as a service products are great for getting revenues quickly, but most of the big ones have built huge salesforces and taken a decade or more of work to get to point where they could go public. OpenTable, although a hardware and software solution, is a great example of that playbook done well. But I respect Morse&amp;'s staunchly anti-Valley mindset. He believes this business will take time to build no matter what and organic and sensible growth is safer than rather than raising a ton of money and throwing dozens of sales people at the problem all at once.Every week on my TechCrunchTV show, Ask a VC, we get questions on how cities like Omaha and entrepreneurs like Morse who have deep domain expertise, but aren&amp;'t coders and are outside the Valley system can get attention from VCs. And nearly every guest always says look to your own community first, build something good and money and attention will come. Maybe Tripleseat will take double the time to get to OpenTable&amp;'s size, but the company deserves props for taking that advice and building a solid business whether they get the Valley&amp;'s blessing or not.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Shares Of Youku, China&'s YouTube, Double At&nbsp'IPO]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Internet IPO is backa4&quot;if you are a Chinese Internet company.  Youku, the YouTube of China, saw its shares pop more than 100 percent in its IPO today.  Shares were priced at $12.80, but they are currently trading at $27.60..  That is a 116 percent jump.According to its SEC filing, the company lost $25 million on total revenues of $35 million for the first nine months of 2010.  The company raised $120 million prior to the IPO, and another $203 million at the IPO.According to comscore, Youku attracted 77.8 million unique visitors worldwide in October, up 53 percent form the year before.  Youku is a cross between YouTueb and Hulu, mixing user-generated videos with more professional fare for the growing Chinese audience.CrunchBase InformationYoukuInformation provided by CrunchBasehttp://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1442596/000119312510260191/df1.htm<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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