Techmeme: Study: More Than 1,000 Seed-Funded Startups Are Destined To Be ‘Orphaned’ At The Series A Stage (Colleen Taylor/TechCrunch)

December 20, 2012, 5:30 AM

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Google Sweetened Motorola Deal With Arris By Promising To Cap Liability In TiVo's Billion Dollar+ Patent Claim — During the analyst conference call discussing telecom manufacturer Arris' just-announced acquisition of Motorola Home, one of the big topics (to Arris CEO Bob Stanzione's apparent exasperation) …

More: Softpedia News, SlashGear and The Verge

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Google sells Motorola Home to Arris for $2.35 billion in cash and stock — Google announced today that it has sold the Motorola Home business that it acquired earlier this year to the Arris Group for a sum of $2.35 billion in cash and stock.

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Mollie Vandor / Twitter Blog:

Your Twitter archive — It's no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your past Tweets. Maybe you wanted to recall your reaction to the 2008 election, reminisce on what you said to your partner on your 10th anniversary …

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Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Step-By-Step: How To Download All Your Tweets With The New Twitter Archive Service — Gone will be the days of scrolling through pages and pages of your Tweets or Twitter's clunky search to find something you once posted. Twitter is in the process of rolling out a “Download all your Tweets” …

More: Search Engine Land

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Shuffles Top Brass With New COO and CFO Appointments — In move that shuffles some of the highest ranking members of the microblogging start-up's executive team, Ali Rowghani has been named chief operating officer of Twitter, according to a change in his Twitter profile …

More: memeburn, CNET, VentureBeat, Digits, GigaOM, The Next Web, The Verge, Mashable! and TechCrunch. Tweets: @dickc

Lev Grossman / TIME:

TIME Person of the Year Runner-Up: Tim Cook, the Technologist — He inherited the most valuable company in the world from one of the greatest innovators in history. In 2012 he made Apple his own. Runner-Up: Tim Cook, the Technologist | TIME.com.

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Hugo Martin / Los Angeles Times:

Boeing uses potatoes to simulate humans in test of Wi-Fi signals — Boeing has tested onboard internet signals with potatoes instead of passengers. (Associated Press / December 19, 2012) — Boeing, the Seattle-based company that has built some of the world's most sophisticated aircraft …

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Jonathan Rochelle / Google Enterprise Blog:

Quickoffice + Google Apps = better document conversion and an iPad app — Posted by Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management, Google Drive — Since the Quickoffice team joined Google a few months ago, we've been working to make it easier for you to work with your legacy Microsoft Office files …

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, BGR India, CNET, Electronista, 9to5Mac, Macgasm, TUAW, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Redmond Pie, iPhone Hacks and The Next Web

Reuters:

Samsung Electronics completes talks for $3.9 billion U.S. chip expansion — (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world's No.1 memory-chip maker, said on Thursday it has completed talks with the state government of Texas where it plans to invest $3.9 billion …

More: The Verge, Engadget, Fudzilla, SlashGear and PhoneArena

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Study: More Than 1,000 Seed-Funded Startups Are Destined To Be ‘Orphaned’ At The Series A Stage — There is a lot of buzz about an ongoing “Series A crunch” for tech startups, but it's ideal to have real data to accompany all the anecdotal stories. So we were glad to see that today …

More: CB Insights, NextBigWhat, PandoDaily and bizjournals. Tweets: @fdestin

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Facebook Stops Its Long-Awaited Ad Network Before It Starts (For Now) — Looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer to see Facebook's much-anticipated ad network. — The social giant is putting the brakes on a test it launched earlier this year that let it place its own ads on other developer's mobile apps.

More: CNET, AdExchanger, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, Business Insider, The Verge, Engadget, AllFacebook and Tech Trader Daily

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

eBay to Stop Advertising Inside Mobile Apps: “It's Not Worth It.” — EBay is ecstatic about mobile, just not about mobile advertising. — Devin Wenig, eBay's president of global marketplaces, said in an interview that next year the company will stop running mobile ads inside of its applications.

More: TUAW, InformationWeek, bizjournals and The Verge

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy And Puts Photos Into Its Focus — Less than one week after Dropbox aqui-hired Audiogalaxy to beef up its cloud music ambitions, today comes news of another acquisition, this time focused on another form of media, photos: the cloud-storage giant is buying Snapjoy …

More: Snapjoy Blog, Engadget, SlashGear, CNET, gHacks Technology News, TUAW, Android Police, Forbes, PetaPixel, Electronista, VentureBeat, VatorNews, GigaOM, ZDNet, The Next Web and SocialTimes. Thanks:@chrisvelazco

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Now Highlights Its Indoor Street View Imagery On Search Results Pages — A while back, Google started bringing its Street View technology indoors under the name Google Business Photos. These images, however, were often hard to find and somewhat buried on Google's local listings and Google Maps.

More: CNET and 9to5Google

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Apple Breaks Ground on 1-Million-Square-Foot Texas Outpost — You've heard about Apple's Cupertino spaceship. Now meet the company's Austin, Texas crash pad. — Over the past few weeks, Apple has started work on a new 39-acre campus that will be the future home of the company's America's Operations Center.

More: iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW and bizjournals

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Ofcom announces UK 4G auction bidders: seven networks fight it out for 250MHz of new spectrum — Just ahead of the auction set to start in January 2013, UK regulator Ofcom has confirmed the networks gunning for next-generation spectrum. Alongside familiar names like Telefonica (O2) …

More: Ofcom, The Next Web, ZDNet, Reuters, BBC, Telegraph, Neowin, Pocket-lint and SlashGear

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Tumblr launches its long-awaited app for iPad — Tumblr just pushed out an update to its iOS app which adds full compatibility with the iPad and iPad mini. Tumblr built for the big screen doesn't look a whole lot different than if you were browsing Tumblr.com inside Safari …

More: Tumblr Staff, Mashable!, VentureBeat, CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, MacRumors and TechCrunch

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Animate your memes with Vimeo creator's new project, Moonbase — A plug and play engine for making web animations, no coding skills required — Jake Lodwick, a programmer and filmmaker, made a name for himself in tech circles during the first half of the new millenium, helping to create Vimeo and College Humor in New York.

More: Engadget

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Another Apple patent rejected by US Patent Office, but its fate is far from certain — The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected several Apple patents in recent months, and today it added one more to the list — but that doesn't mean the patent is no longer valid.

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, TechEye, AppleInsider, Slate, Ars Technica, GigaOM, MacRumors, Mercury News, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and ZDNet. Tweets: @panzer

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Windows 8 $14.99 upgrade now requires Windows 7 product key — Microsoft now asks you to enter your Windows 7 key during the upgrade process in order to qualify for the offer. — People who bought a Windows 7 PC on or after June 2 can upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for just $14.99, but they now have to supply the Windows 7 product ID.

More: Neowin

Daniel Ionescu / PC World:

LG Magic Remote gets Siri-like voice recognition — LG has refined its Magic Remote controller with language recognition so that you can talk to your smart TV remote similar to Siri, the voice assistant feature on iOS. — The remote will be compatible will LG's 2013 range of smart TVs …

More: CNET

Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:

Dell, HP Windows 8 ‘Atom’ Tablets Delayed Until 2013 — Dell Latitude 10 among Windows 8 systems not yet available, as tablet makers struggle with drivers for energy-efficient Intel Clover Trail chip. — Dell and other vendors have pushed back until January the launch of Windows 8 tablets that use a new …

More: BGR, Neowin, bizjournals, Softpedia News and SlashGear

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Foursquare now shows you recommendations from your Facebook friends on the Web, Android, and iPhone — Foursquare on Wednesday announced it has expanded recommendations to include suggestions from your Facebook friends. If you link the two services together, you'll see the difference immediately …

More: Foursquare Blog, TechCrunch, memeburn, Search Engine Land, SocialTimes and About Foursquare

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Tubular raises $2.5 million to serve burgeoning YouTube industry — (Reuters) - Tubular, a small San Francisco start-up that provides analytics for YouTube content creators, has raised $2.5 million in venture capital in the latest sign of how far the business ecosystem has evolved around the Google-owned video repository.

More: TechCrunch and The Wrap

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

uTorrent Makers Distance Themselves From Piracy — BitTorrent Inc. has an image problem, or at least that's what some people appear to believe. — Today the San Francisco company launched a website to answer the question of whether or not BitTorrent equals piracy.

More: Softpedia News and The Next Web

Erin Bury / BetaKit:

With 3M Parking Spots Across the U.S., ParkWhiz Adds $2M in Series A Funding — Today Chicago-based startup ParkWhiz announced it has closed $2 million in funding, led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with participation from investors including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Y Combinator partner Garry Tan, and several others.

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