Amazon Snaps Up Yap And...

The month before Apple revealed its “intelligent assistant,” Siri, Amazon was quietly buying out a company whose software performs voice-to-text actions like transcribing voicemails, whatever those are. In fact, its only user-facing product did just that , and its users...
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Gary Morgenthaler Expla...

The iPhone 4S is on the streets, and accompanying it is a helpful young virtual assistant named Siri. You’ve probably heard something about Siri by this point, as tech blogs and the media writ large, have been yammering about Siri’s technology at full blast. Since the...
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Video: NTT Docomo Shows...

Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo has developed a real-time Japanese <-> English translation service for mobile phones, the first of its kind. The way it works is that you speak something into the device and wait to hear a voice interpretation of what you just said in...
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Gnip Now Delivers Over ...

Gnip , a provider of social media data to enterprise applications, is now delivering over 30 billion paid social activities per month to its customers. This is the largest number of paid social media activities that have ever been distributed in a 30 day period in Gnip’s history....
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oDesk: Online Work Mark...

Online outsourcer oDesk is reporting today that its contractors earned a record $22.3 million through the oDesk platform in October. This represents 90% growth from 2010. oDesk offers a “marketplace for talent” that makes it easy for companies to hire workers remotely. Last month,...
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WildTangent now availab...

Remember the Android games rental service, WildTangent , which launched on T-Mobile last month? Well if you were a non-T-Mobile customer and felt like you were missing out, we’ve got good news for you. Today, WildTangent announced that its games rental service is now available for...
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Don’t Believe Faceboo...

Facebook today released some stats trying to show the success of several of the Open Graph music applications launched at f8. Most of the stats were in percentages, though, which can give a rosy impression of what is actually fairly little growth. For example, it cites that Rdio has seen...
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Max Levchin, Keith Rabo...

Getting a carwash is one of those tasks that I avoid until I absolutely need to get it done. Frankly, it’s not high up on the list of things I want to do when I have spare time on the weekend. Enter Cherry , a newly launched startup that brings on-demand carwashes to you and your...
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Michael Birch’s Water...

Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo and now CEO of startup lab Monkey Inferno , wants to raise millions of dollars for Charity:Water using social networks and viral loops. His latest project is WaterForward , a non=profit which he describes as “kind of a chain letter pyramid...
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BankSimple Is Now Just ...

BankSimple, the well-funded startup that’s setting out to build ‘a bank that doesn’t suck’, has some big news today: it’s now allowing its first users into the service. And to mark the occasion, it’s announcing another major change: the company is now...
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