Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // October 9, 2012

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Invites Go Out For Microsoft's U.K. Windows Phone 8 Event: WP8 To Get 'Big Reveal' On October 29

Invites have just gone out for a Microsoft press event to introduce its new Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system. An end of October unveiling for the next... read more

Vacation Rental Startup HouseTrip Picks Up $40M Led By Accel In Another Big Round For Collaborative Consumption

HouseTrip.com, one of the startups working at the accommodation end of the collaborative consumption market, with a platform for people to rent out homes... read more

Meet PureData, IBM's New Big Box For Big Data

Two worlds exist when it comes to the enterprise. The new generation of cloud services represents one space. They rely on distributed infrastructures on Amazon... read more

Box Debuts HTML5 Embeddable Framework To Integrate Content With Third-Party Enterprise Software Apps

At Box's annual Boxworks event today, the company debuted a new way for its cloud storage and collaboration platform to be accessed across the enterprise. Via a... read more

The Opinion Graph? Cheerboo Launches An Easy Way To Gauge Public Sentiment On Any Topic

Just as Pinterest has become increasingly important to marketers, it's been said that the first company to own sentiment, or the interest graph, in a social... read more

Telefonica Wants To Turn Its Mobile Data Into A Big Data Business, Launches Dynamic Insights Unit

Big data is one of the more fascinating developments in today's tech world: harnessing the huge wave of information that comes out of our many Internet-based... read more

Jack Dorsey Is At Twitter Officially On Tuesday Afternoons; All His Direct Reports Moved Back To Costolo In January

Jack Dorsey has spoken out to comment on the profile of Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, out this weekend in the New York Times, which painted a slightly less than... read more

Lookout's Signal Flare Helps You Find Lost Android Phones That Have Dying Batteries

Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is upgrading its mobile security app for Android phones today. The new... read more

SoundCloud Partners With Getty Images Music -- Users Can 'Sync' License Tracks For Commercial Use

In a tie-up with the stock photography and digital media giant Getty Images, users of SoundCloud can now offer their tracks for commercial licensing, providing... read more

A French Romantic Take On HeTexted, Because Crowdsourcing Relationship Anxiety Feels Wrong

As the only Frenchman on the team, I couldn't browse HeTexted's website without having strong opinions on the subject. There's nothing as cute as a great love... read more

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