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100 Million Americans Watch Online Video Per Day, Up 43% Since 2010 -comScore
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2012-02-09
Television is in trouble. Americans streamed 43.5 billion videos in December 2011, up 44% since December 2010, according to comScore's 2012 US Digital Future In Focus report released today. The study also showed that 105.1 million Americans now watch videos online each day, up 43% from 73.7 million in 2010.
comScore says YouTube is largely driving this, and that average minutes per video view, average videos watched per user, and total ads streamed are way up as well. TV and film studios should take notice and consider how they can create companion content to engage this growing audience.
Rumor: Internet Explorer 10 Metro to Run Flash After All
Webmonkey - web resources - United States - 2012-05-25
Leaked screenshots show Microsoft may have changed its mind about the plugin-free web. The latest builds of Windows 8 show limited support for Flash even in the Metro version of Internet Explorer 10.
European Startups Need To Get A Valley Education, And Fast
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2012-05-25
This is guest post by Julia Szopa , program director at the blackbox.vc incubator in Silicon Valley which specialises in moving European startups into the US.
It is not uncommon for European entrepreneurs to come to the Silicon Valley to learn how to launch globally. However, they often play ?the startup game? by the wrong rules. With scarce venture resources in Europe, founders learn to compromise way too much and accept what's typically unacceptable by those who build great, successful companies with global potential.
Office Perks Startup BetterWorks Will Shut Down On May 31
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2012-05-25
BetterWorks, the employee perks startup led by Los Angeles entrepreneur and investor Paige Craig, has told its customers that it will be shutting down May 31.
The company offered tools to help businesses manage discounts and rewards programs for employees. In the past few months, BetterWorks still seemed to be rolling out a steady stream of new features like catering and groups and permissions. In fact, Director of Product Varun Krishna told me that BetterWorks was seeing growing interest from larger enterprises (though in retrospect that may have been a polite way of saying that it wasn't making enough money from small- and medium-sized businesses).
?In the Studio,? How Bizeebee's Poornima Vijayashanker Fell in Love with Building Software
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2012-05-25
"In the Studio" continues this week with an engineer who began programming at the end high school, double-majored in CS/EE in college, dropped out of Stanford's graduate CS program to become the second employee at Mint.com, and after spending some time at Intuit (which acquired Mint), now has her own company focused on building software for the small-medium business market.
Poornima Vijayashanker is not your average engineer. Growing up in a household where electronics were regularly taken apart for fun, she started coding toward the end of high school and ended up majoring in CS for her undergraduate degree. After a brief stint as an R&D engineer for Synopsis, she wanted to dive into the Valley's startup scene and elected to enroll in a master's CS program at Stanford. It was there she initially met Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint, and when the opportunity arose for her to join the small team, she dropped out of Stanford and helped build the company. From that experience, she ended up at Intuit, where she started plotting her next move, and now is the founder and CEO of Bizeebee, member manage software to help small business manage their customers, inventory, and a host of other services.
Facebook Acq-Hires Part Of Design Firm Bolt | Peters To Beef Up User Research Team
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2012-05-25
Knowing how users react to Facebook's product changes is crucial to the site making the right moves, so today it closed an acq-hire of part of design research firm Bolt | Peters -- specifically its leading man CEO Nate Bolt and several other employees from the six person consultancy. Those coming over will be joining Facebook's design team that's headed by Kate Aronowitz.
Bolt | Peters started 10 years ago and specialized in recruiting actual visitors to a website through its tool Ethnio and then observing their usage remotely so it could deliver insights on what to improve to their clients, which numbered over 90. Bolt | Peters will shut down on June 22nd, and has already spun out its Ethnio real-time research service.
Facebook tests product changes more frequently than nearly any service. Bringing in Nate Bolt and some of his teammates will help it understand exactly how users feel about changes and avoid blunders like Beacon.
Meddik Grabs $750K From Chris Dixon, Founder Collective & More To Build A Better WebMD
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2012-05-25
Thanks to health-focused startup accelerators like San Francisco-based Rock Health and New York City-based BluePrint Health lacking intimate familiarity with HIPAA or med school experience is no longer a disqualifier for entrepreneurs looking to enter the health space. There are plenty of problems to tackle, and there's growth capital to be found.
To that point: One of the first graduates of BluePrint's healthtech accelerator is a startup called Meddik, which wants to combine the Web's medical data with advice from regular people (and experts) to create a smart repository for health information. To give it the fuel it needs as it gears up for launch later this summer, the startup is today announcing that it has raised $750K in seed funding from a flock of notable angel and early-stage VCs, including Chris Dixon, Nat Turner, Zach Weinberg, Bob Stern, Vivek Garipalli, as well as Collaborative Fund, Founder Collective, Great Oaks, and Silicon Badia.
Startup Helps You Connect with Those You Don't Yet Know
Technology Review - M.I.T Communications - United States - 2012-05-25
Bangalore-based Hachi connects the dots between your social-network contacts and recommends the best "people path" to someone new.
Turn Your iPhone Into A Bouncy Ball With The M-Edge iPhone SuperShell
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2012-05-25
Ok, maybe not a bouncy ball, but pretty damn close.
M-Edge came out with a SuperShell for the iPad towards the end of last year, but the idea of a bouncing iPhone seems much more appealing. The case comes in four different colors — black, blue, purple, and pink — and has a finely dimpled finish to it to help with grip.
Bazaarvoice To Acquire PowerReviews For $151M
TechCrunch - US - United States - 2012-05-25
Two big customer review platforms are teaming up: Bazaarvoice just announced that it has agreed to acquire PowerReviews.
The agreement is for up to $31 million in cash, plus stock, bringing the total estimated value to be $151 million. Bazaarvoice says the acquisition should close before the end of July.
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