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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Modern Warfare 3 teaser site opens]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Is this the first glimpse of Modern Warfare 3(Credit:Screenshot by GameSpot)In 2009, Activision used the Game Developers Choice Awards--the Game Developers Conference award ceremony--to premiere the trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The preview was a bare-bones affair, with audio clips auguring the controversial content of the now internationally infamous &quot;No Russian&quot; airport-massacre level. Now, it appears history is about to repeat itself--almost. This morning, the site findmakarov.com opened with graphics and sound cues straight out of Modern Warfare 2's ad campaign (as of 12:50 p.m. PT, the site appeared to be experiencing intermittent connection problems).  The site's title also references Vladimir Makarov, the ultranationalist terrorist who was the primary villain for a large portion of the 2009 blockbuster actioner--more than hinting at a Modern Warfare 3 reveal. (The site itself is owned by a URL-registration front company used by corporations to hide their Web domains.) Read more of &quot;Modern Warfare 3 teaser site opens&quot; at GameSpot. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wael Ghonim: A 'one-off' for Silicon Valley]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=wael-ghonim-a-one-off-for-silicon-valley</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wael Ghonim (Credit:CBS)Wael Ghonim, the Google product manager who helped pull together the popular demonstrations that forced Hosni Mubarak to step down as Egypt's president, is the hero of the hour. But not everywhere. For many in Silicon Valley, he's their worst nightmare.On the record, Google's not talking about Ghonim or the question of employee activism. For his part, Ghonim told CBS's Katie Couric in an interview on Friday that his participation in the protests had no connection with his employer. &quot;They did not know anything about this and actually when I took the time off and I went to Cairo, they did not know I was going to the protest,&quot; he said. &quot;But when everything became public, I talked with the company and they suggested that I take a leave of absence and I also suggested that to them and I think it was a good decision for that. Google has nothing to do with this.&quot; Asked whether he planned to return to the office, Ghonim said that he'd be honored to return to Google &quot;if I'm not fired.&quot; Maybe that was meant as a tongue-in-cheek comment. But there's a larger truth behind his quip. The key role played by one of Google's key executives in the Middle East revived a decades-old dilemma that many other technology companies face when it comes to the question of political activism: where should they draw the line  &quot;It's one of those things that companies don't want to touch with a 10-foot pole,&quot; a tech public relations exec told me on background.  The obvious truth du jour is that tech companies don't want to take political positions--even when regimes use their products to oppress their own people. This isn't the first time the issue has stirred this debate in the tech industry. In the 1980s, the divestiture movement pressured American companies to cut their business ties with South Africa's apartheid regime. One by one, nearly every major U.S. tech company eventually left. The one notable exception was IBM, which argued that its policy of constructive engagement would give it more leverage with the South African government to treat black citizens more fairly. It's hard to say how many of the departing companies were spurred by demands for social justice. Most, it's fair to say, were trying to stay ahead of a political movement that threatened to take a toll on their bottom lines. For the most part, tech execs are just like their colleagues in other industries in their efforts to try and steer clear of political controversy. This has not always been easy. In the last decade, technology companies have struggled with the question of whether to demand more flexibility from China on human rights and Internet censorship. This has sometimes turned into a political issue. A few years ago, Yahoo turned over information to China authorities which led to the jailing and conviction of a local journalist. (Yahoo was subsequently pilloried in prime time by a Congressional panel.) So far, most tech companies--with the notable exception of Google--have opted to go with the flow and not press publicly for change as a condition of selling technology to China. If we were talking about plastics makers or fertilizer seed companies, none of this would create a stir. But the American counterculture had a strong influence on the nascent computer and software industries which blossomed in the aftermath of the 1960s. In &quot;What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer,&quot; John Markoff does a nice job tracing those unique social and intellectual filaments connecting today's tech world to a broader conception of a corporation's responsibility. The book documents how the industry was created with the help of passionate people who wore their social conscience on their sleeves.  Fast forward and thus, the subsequent &quot;Do No Evil&quot; mantra from Google--it may sound kooky to the rest of corporate America, but the slogan resonates, at least with many in the rank and file. It also opens up a Pandora's box--this time, it's Ghonim, maybe tomorrow an employee in Beijing. That's a possible scenario that few management teams in Silicon Valley are eager to confront.Update at 5:51 p.m. PT Saturday: This tweet, for what it's worth, was posted midday today on the Google Twitter account with a link to this story: &quot;We're incredibly proud of you, @Ghonim, &amp; of course will welcome you back when you're ready - cf.&quot; This story first appeared on CBSNews.com. Internet Clampdown: The Worst Offenders <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft updates Bing iPhone app]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft launched Bing 2.0 for the iPhone this week with a host of new and revamped features foriPhone,iPad, andiPod Touch users. (Credit:Microsoft) Right off the bat, the home page appears cleaner and friendlier. Bing now lists the different search categories one under the other rather than grouped at the bottom, so you can more easily see and tap on the category you want. Mobile Bing's voice search has been enhanced. Powered by Microsoft Tellme, the voice search is now quicker and lets you narrow your search without having to repeat the entire phrase. Microsoft also provides some easily-accessible examples and tips to help you better search by voice. Bing's auto-suggest feature can now help you refine certain searches on the fly. As examples, searching for &quot;restaurants in New York City&quot; lets you narrow the search by name, cuisine, price, or description, while searching for &quot;movies in New York City&quot; lets you specify the name of a specific movie or theater. Bing Vision lets you snap a photo of a product, either its front cover or bar code, and then provide search results. But it goes a step further by analyzing and running a search on actual text within a photo. For example, I snapped a picture of a Borders coupon, and Bing showed me a list of Borders bookstores in my area. Another new feature is the Streetside viewer. Borrowing a page from Google's StreetView, the Bing version takes you on a photographic tour of certain streets and locations. Along with Streetside, Microsoft is promising a new panorama view with a more immersive virtual tour, but that feature apparently wasn't ready in time for Bing 2.0. The latest features and enhancements to Bing for the iPhone are part of Microsoft's ongoing effort to beef up Bing and make it more user-friendly, both on the desktop and on the phone. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chewsy iPhone app tells you which burger to get]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=chewsy-iphone-app-tells-you-which-burger-to-get</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This is the best food near me right now.(Credit:Screenshot by Matt Hickey/CNET)I have a weird love/hate relationship with Yelp. On the one hand, when I'm traveling, it helps me find a good burger joint or girls-who-love-balding-nerds fetish club. But some users can be unfair, rating a good restaurant just one star because another diner brought along a crying baby.  I, however, usually just want to know how good the food is, and that's where an ambitious newiPhone app called Chewsy comes in.Launching today, Chewsy is something of a micro-Yelp. Chewsy lets users rate food. And not just in general terms. What makes Chewsy awesome is that it lets diners rate individual menu items.The app asks the question, &quot;What's good here&quot; But it also answers it by presenting dish reviews from other users. Menu items can be ranked from highest rated to lowest rated at a restaurant, give a rating and review for each individual dish, and show you the highest-rated items within a certain distance. Like everything else coming to the iPhone these days, it has some game elements. There are achievements that can be unlocked by doing certain things, like trying five different burgers a week, or eating in three different cities in a month. The beta doesn't say what unlocks them, but it should be interesting. Right now, Chewsy has data for 11 cities (including Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle) where people took part in the beta program, but anyone can download and add their own items. Since the restaurant locations are pulled from Google, and it uses the integrated GPS to locate you, it's just a matter of adding dishes and reviews.The app is free and available in the app store right now. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and have found it useful, especially in neighborhoods I don't visit much. I found a great plate of chow mein in Seattle's International District, and I will next use it to find a great burger in Portland. I hear they don't exist. The point is that food is a great way to get people to crowdsource.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[OtherInBox handles e-mail overload' knows too much]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=otherinbox-handles-e-mail-overload-knows-too-much</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It used to be, come mid-November, the catalogs would start to pour into our homes at a distressing rate. One would think of the poor mail carriers schlepping pounds of recycling from trucks to houses. Now the flood is also electronic. The commercial e-mail offers start to pour in even more than at other times of the year. As with the printed catalogs, some you want, most you don't. But which You don't want the Macys spam until you desperately need to buy a sweater for your dad, and, of course, there's a coupon for that in your inbox. Except you don't want it in your inbox. You want it out of the way.  So you can't delete the BACN, and there's no way to keep up with filing it or managing filters to do it for you. OtherInBox, though, has finally come up with a solid, useful, and free solution for managing the influx of semi-wanted email.  The product, OtherInBox Organizer, simply files e-mail from known commercial sources into subfolders. It works in Gmail and Yahoo at the moment. To be sure, this is nothing that you couldn't do with filters you set up yourself. The beauty of Organizer is that you don't have to do any of that work. The Web service knows where to send e-mails, with very good accuracy. I tired it, and e-mails from my bank are now going to the &quot;Finance&quot; folder and coupons from Macys are going where I want: &quot;Shopping.&quot; Getting started in OtherInBox is a straightforward exercising in reviewing the service&amp;39's automatic filter settings.(Credit:Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) (OtherInBox's previous app, Defender, required users to give commercial e-mail senders a new e-mail address, like &quot;Macys@rafen.otherinbox.com.&quot; That was too much work, and the product did not get traction.) My brief review: The Organizer service is just great. After a few minutes to tune its filters to my preferences (for example, I created a new sub-folder for tech-related emails from Dell, Apple, etc.), I turned it on and it auto-filed more than 10,000 emails from my previously unmanaged Gmail inbox that had about 33,000 messages in it. It's kept up with new mail, too, alerting me when it sees a new sender that it can handle for me. OIB can also provide a calendar feed of when packages you're ordered are due to arrive. Future services may include services like automatically deleting coupons that have expired.But is there a business in providing such a useful service for free As CEO Joshua Baer explains it, there is, and it's very clever. &quot;We want to be the Neilsen ratings of email,&quot; Baer says.OtherInBox Organizer auto-files commercial messages in subfolders in GMail (shown) and Yahoo mail.(Credit:Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET)Here's how that can work: All the OtherInBox products and services (there are more coming) work on consumers' e-mail accounts. Once you hook an OIB service into your inbox, not only does OIB know what it's doing with your e-mail, it knows what you're doing with it, and it knows it not just for an individual sender, but for entire categories of senders. &quot;We can tell marketers what's happening across brands,&quot; Baer says. OIB knows which messages are opened, read, deleted, filed, and so on. It knows which e-mails are receipts and package tracking notes, so it knows what people are buying and where things are being sent. The service could collect huge amounts of aggregate shopping behavior data that's well beyond what individual e-mail marketing services can provide, because e-mail sending engines only tell their customers what's happening in their own campaigns. OIB knows what happens across all of them. And that data is what OIB sells to marketers. All OIB has to do to get quality data is keep its consumer-facing services useful and free. At this point, though, you're probably getting nervous about the potential for a privacy or security catastrophe. Baer says, &quot;We're taking small steps&quot; in the collecting and analysis the data. He wants to be sure OIB never reveals personally identifiable information to his marketer customers. That's going to be a technical challenge, but at least I'm convinced that Baer understands that his whole company collapses if he fails at it. Baer thinks his e-mail behavior analysis service becomes a workable business when OtherInbox gets to about 2 million users. At the moment it's got 500,000. Watch this company--it's a mover.See also my Reporters' Roundtable interview on the future of e-mail, with Joshua Baer and Altimeter's Charlene Li:<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iPhone oops makes Europeans late for work]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=iphone-oops-makes-europeans-late-for-work</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter was abuzz today with reports of the iPhone glitch that had Europeans sleeping late on a Monday morning.(Credit:Misterbrilliant, via Twitter)Some EuropeaniPhone owners rolled into work late this morning due to a bug in the phone's operating system that reportedly caused its alarm clock to go off an hour late, as Europe switched from daylight saving time back to GMT.  While the phone's clock changed over correctly, the bug in iOS 4.1 reportedly affected those who had set their alarms to go off at the same time every weekday. &quot;Stupid iPhone's alarm woke me up one hour later today,&quot; wrote one Twitter user based in London. &quot;Apparently I wasn't the only one.&quot; Indeed, plenty of European iPhone owners woke up late today to discover that they weren't the only ones who overslept. Twitter and Apple forums were abuzz with iPhone users complaining about the alarm glitch, and swapping suggestions on how to fix it.  &quot;This may seem like a minor issue but I almost missed a flight in the U.K. this morning...not good and nearly very, very costly,&quot; wrote a poster to Apple's forums.  In late September and early October, a similar bug hit Australia and New Zealand, where iPhone users who had already &quot;fallen back&quot; an hour lost another one when their iPhones roused them early. Apple has said the beta for iOS 4.2, which goes live this month, fixes the problem.  In the meantime, the iOS4 bug can apparently be avoided by setting one-off alarms rather than pre-setting regular wake-up calls. Or by using one of a number of alarm apps (or a good old-fashioned alarm clock or time-attentive family member). Of course, plenty of people (mostly those outside of Europe) are finding humor in Europe's mass sleep-in. &quot;The iPhone alarm clock is fine,&quot; wrote a Twitter user based in North Carolina. &quot;You're just sleeping wrong.&quot; Meanwhile, while some U.S. iPhone users are reporting that their alarms went off an hour early today, according to Engadget, others are already preparing their late-to-work excuses for next Monday.  Apple did not immediately respond to CNET's request for comment. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Maps 5.0 for Android now available with 3D buildings, offline support]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-maps-5-0-for-android-now-available-with-3d-buildings-offline-support</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The latest version of Google Maps for Android is now available, and as we&amp;'ve reported previously, it brings some amazing features with it like 3D building support, dynamic map drawing and access to maps offline.Google Maps 5.0 relies on vector graphics, instead of flat 2D maps, to load its map data. Vector files are smaller and more flexible than typical graphics files, both of which make a huge difference on mobile devices. Thanks to vector graphics, the app will now load your maps more quickly than ever before and draw them dynamically. It also supports 3D building models in over 100 cities. A new compass mode automatically orients the map to help you maintain direction.As we&amp;'ve previously mentioned, the app will also be able to cache map data that you use most often to let you view maps offline. It will download map locations overnight when youa4a4re connected with WiFi. Google says this feature will make up for over 90 percent of the times the Maps app fails when therea4a4s a bad connection. The appa4a4s Navigation feature will be able to take advantage of the offline maps and re-route you even if youa4a4re without service.Google says the new features are just the first step to improving the overall performance of its Maps app. The company figures that viewing maps with the new app now takes 70 percent less mobile data. It remains to be seen if we&amp;'ll see similar new features on other platforms. Apple, which is in charge of the Google Maps app on the iPhone, hasn&amp;'t been very good about supporting Google&amp;'s updates in the past.Google Maps 5.0 is available on all Android devices running version 1.6 and above, but 3D and offline support is only available to those running Android 2.0 or higher.Check out a video of the app in action below:Previous Story: Ticket upstart Ticketfly accelerates with the Baltimore Grand PrixPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Android, google maps, maps, smartphonesCompanies: Google          Tags: Android, google maps, maps, smartphonesCompanies: GoogleDevindra 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[Don&'t Know What Gifts To Get Your Hipster Friends Make Them Take The Etsy Taste&nbsp'Test]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Gift giving can be so hard, especially if you have a bunch of hipster friends who turn their noses at anything even slightly pedestrian.  (&amp;''A box of See&amp;'s Candy that you bought at the airport  Are you kidding me&amp;'').  Well, fear not.  All you need to do is make them take this little Etsy Taste Test on the commerce site for hand-crafted goods.  After selecting a series of product photos that match their taste, they wil be presented with a grid of recommended products, along with other people on Etsy who have similar tastes.Or you can take the test yourself and pass around the link to people who might want to buy you a present but have no idea what to get (because your taste is so discerning).  If you want to get me a present, here is my page.  The results are sort of hit or miss. I like that modern table, but it&amp;'s going a little crazy with the wallet suggestions (6 of the first 12 itemsa4&quot;I only picked one wallet!), and I really don&amp;'t need a pair of Candy red high heels.  But at least the suggestions are all original.This is just an experiment for Etsy, but it&amp;'s a fun way to find new products.  And if you can&amp;'t find anything there, try the Hunch Gift-O-Matic.CrunchBase InformationEtsyInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[OPower Gets $50 Million To Drive Energy Efficiency Via Peer&nbsp'Pressure]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Arlington, Va. clean tech startup, OPower, closed a $50 million series C investment led by Accel Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caulfield &amp;amp' Byers (KPCB) and joined by the company&amp;'s earlier investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) the firms announced Monday. OPower&amp;'s software-as-a-service helps electric and gas utilities understand who their residential energy consumers are, and how they are using power. Home owners get access to OPower programs through their utilities. OPower&amp;'s applications let them see if they&amp;'re more or less energy-hogging than their neighbors, allow them to set personal goals to reduce their own energy consumption at home, and receive alerts if they&amp;'re headed for a large bill at the end of the month among other things that are meant to inspire a behavior change. OPower&amp;'s chief executive Dan Yates jokes, &amp;''We get paid to tell people to turn out the lights and turn down the thermostat.&amp;'' OPower&amp;'s series C deal came together in just six weeks and closed on Thanksgiving eve Yates said. Accel and KPCB contributed equal amounts. A partner at Accel, Peter Wagner explained his fund&amp;'s decision to invest at this level in OPower: &amp;''OPower focuses on one of the most important issues of our timea4&quot; improving energy efficiency on a massive scale. [Their] model is a perfect fit with Accel&amp;'s strategy for the energy sector. We focus on opportunities where information technology and the internet can create value in large-scale markets while maintaining a high degree of capital efficiency.&amp;''[Read: clean tech concepts that aren''t as political, capital- and materials-intensive as biofuels or electric vehicles.] Accel&amp;'s portfolio is well-known for social web success stories including Facebook, Groupon and Playfish. Wagner noted:&amp;''OPower can take advantage of the dynamics of the social web to motivate significant and lasting efficiency gains across millions of households, [while providing] deep consumer engagement that is extremely valuable to utilities.&amp;''The company will use its new-found capital Yates said, &amp;''To radically expand our R&amp;amp'D effort, bring 50 more people on board, and above all to build more product.&amp;'' The CEO would not elaborate on what specific features and applications the company sought to release in 2011. He said most of the new product would be designed for energy consumers, rather than utilities. (OPower also provides utilities with a system to help customer service reps manage relationships and handle inquiries.) Currently, OPower&amp;'s 45 clients are all U.S.-based utilities. OPower has had lots of inbound inquiries, Yates said, including from foreign utilities beyond North America, but hasn&amp;'t decided where to set up overseas operations. The approach of using peer-pressure to drive more environmentally responsible behavior at home could work well in nations like South Korea, where the cost of trash collection goes up for an entire community when just a few people within ita4&quot; including embarrassing Americansa4&quot; fail to keep recycling and refuse separated. CrunchBase InformationOPOWERAccel PartnersKleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' ByersInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How much is Twitter worth $589 million, says SharesPost report]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[(Red notes a base-case scenario and blue represents upside.)Twitter shares might be worth between $19 and $26, giving the company a valuation of up to $589 million, according to NeXt Up! research. The report is part of SharesPost, a private equity market allowing buyers and sellers to exchange shares of pre-IPO companies. NeXt Up! is a research firm co-founded by Michael Moe, a former senior managing director and director of global growth research at Merrill Lynch. The report is available here.The research firm arrived at the valuation by themultiplying estimated annual revenues of about $134 million in 2013 by projected profit margins of 25 percent and a market multiple of 25 discounted back three years.Putting in Twitter&amp;'s estimated net cash position of $40 million, they get the $589 million figure.In a bear case, where the company makes only $100 million in 2013, that valuation would fall back to $503 million with net cash. Both the bull and bear revenue projections fallfar short of the company&amp;'s own fanciful forecasts revealed in meeting notes exposed by a hacker earlier this month. (See: Will Twitter really make $1.54 billion in 2013)The report says that what makes Twitter potentially more valuable than competing social networks is its accessibility to low-end mobile phones, which reach 2.5 times as many people around the world as the conventional internet access does. It&amp;'s also the cheapest way to generate successful sales leads compared to targeted e-mail or direct mail, according to the report.So how is Twitter going to pull this off The most likely strategies include charging businesses for premium accounts and levying a fee on third-party developers. NeXt Up!&amp;'s research team thinks that web ads seem less viable given company culture and the fact that 80 percent of users don&amp;'t access the Twitter site directly, opting for desktop clients and mobile apps instead.The bullish $589 million scenario would also make the company worth more than twice what it was estimated to be worth during its most recent round of fundraising, which attracted Benchmark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners among others.Next Story: If these security guys get hacked, what hope do the rest of us have Previous Story: AT&amp;038'T&amp;'s $375 subsidy boosts Apples&amp;' iPhone profit margin to 60 percentPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: social networkingCompanies: co:Twitter          Tags: social networkingCompanies: co:TwitterKim-Mai covered social networking for VentureBeat until July 2010. To reach VentureBeat's current writers, email tips@venturebeat.com.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[Grid Net makes play for U.S. market]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=grid-net-makes-play-for-u-s--market</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=grid-net-makes-play-for-u-s--market</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Smart grid software platform company Grid Net announced today it will release the second generation of its smart grid operating system, PolicyNet, for the US market.The suite was first released in late 2009 and now manages 2.7 million smart grid devices. The suite gives utilities tools for monitoring and managing smart grid devices. The release is a U.S. coming-out party of sorts for Grid Net, according to Andres Carvallo, chief strategy officer for the company. Grid Net made the announcement at VentureBeat&amp;'s GreenBeat 2010 conference today.Up until now, Grid Net has been running its PolicyNet platform in Australia, where it has about 30 percent market share. The company is also unique for championing the WiMax standard in smart grid communications. With this latest release, Grid Net is now ready to grow some more.&amp;''Our expectations are to grow an order of magnitude in the next 18 months, and another 18 months after that,&amp;'' Carvallo told VentureBeat. The company intends to manage 30 million devices on the smart grid within three years.The company is already a leading smart gird platform provider &amp;8212' it recently announced a partnership with Sprint using its 4G network on smart meters.[Image via Wikipedia Commons]Next Story: Apple acknowledges Macbook Air screen problems, software fix coming Previous Story: UK aims to recreate Silicon Valley in East LondonPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010Companies: GridNetPeople: Andres Carvallo          Tags: GreenBeat, GreenBeat 2010Companies: GridNetPeople: Andres CarvalloIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name).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[&8216'Printing Facebook&' Now &8216'Social Printshop&' After Legal Pressure From&nbsp'Facebook]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=8216printing-facebookrsquo-now-8216social-printshoprsquo-after-legal-pressure-fromnbspfacebook</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=8216printing-facebookrsquo-now-8216social-printshoprsquo-after-legal-pressure-fromnbspfacebook</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Last month we covered a service called Printing Facebook which turned all your Facebook friends&amp;' profile pictures into a giant 20X40 inch &amp;''real life Facebook wall&amp;'' poster.a4sAt the time we hoped that Facebook wouldn&amp;'t &amp;''throw a hissy fit&amp;'' over artist Benjamin Lotan&amp;'s use of its trademark and design aesthetic.Well it might have not been a hissy fit exactly, but Facebook lawyers did end up approaching Lotan, who has since changed his site&amp;'s name to Social Printshop.Lotan emphasizes the Facebook legal team&amp;'s courteousness:&amp;''Despite past reports which have cited Facebook&amp;'s bullying tactics, I actually found them to be quite cordial and polite. They even mentioned they were &amp;8216'excited about the project&amp;'.Perhaps they learned from the bad press they had gotten out of a few incidents (Placebook for example)&amp;''Lotan asserts that Facebook gave him enough time to think of and buy a new domain name and helped him formulate a timeline for changing over everything about the Printing Facebook site including its design.Lotan says that other than the Facebook legal intervention, business has been going well and that he is selling hundreds of posters. To continue with the transition from Printing Facebook to Social Printshop, Lotan today launched his Tumblr poster product and plans are in the works for &amp;''Printing&amp;'' Twitter, Foursquare and Flickr posters as well as other non-poster products related to social sites.These products include a physical Facebook, which Lotan hopes &amp;''will return one&amp;'s social graph back into the physical form which Zuckerburg originally chose to name the site after.&amp;'' Uh, okay.Social Printshop is currently bootstrapped but Lotan hints that he&amp;'s gotten an offer from investors and will be seeking funding soon, as the service has now become more than full time job. CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Experimental Real-Time Location Tracking Comes To Google Latitude On&nbsp'Android]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=experimental-real-time-location-tracking-comes-to-google-latitude-onnbspandroid</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vanessa01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=experimental-real-time-location-tracking-comes-to-google-latitude-onnbspandroid</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google has just released a series of updates for their Google Maps Android application. Two of these updates are useful: Place page reviews and the ability to filter search results. But one of them is really interesting: real-time location updating in Google Latitude.To be clear, this feature is an experimental one that Google is trying out. But if you enable it, your friends on the service will be able to see where you are in real-time (and vice versa, if they enable it too). Previously, location updates through Latitude would occur regularly, but not in real-time. The reason is that this constant sending of location data can wear down mobile phone batteries much quicker. Many service that update location in the background instead tend to ping towers to see if you&amp;'ve moved periodically.But this new real-time feature is meant for short-term usage if you&amp;'re going to meet up with a friend, for example. It make sense to make this a more temporary option for both battery life, and because of the creepy factor. Even if people opt-in to using Latitude, if you know you&amp;'re being tracked in real-time, that&amp;'s fairly creepy.Sounds awesome. Can&amp;'t wait to try it out.This is all a part of Google Maps 4.6 for Android (1.6 and later). It&amp;'s available now in the Market or if you click here from your device.CrunchBase InformationGoogle LatitudeInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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