Apple’s secret quest for living room domination is off to a good start, that is if an analyst’s report is to believed. Ming-Chi Kuo of Concord Securities surveyed Apple supplies and found that the latest generation Apple TV managed to maintain steady sales since its October 2010 launch

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Report: The New Apple TV Is Selling Well, Analyst Puts Total Sales Just Under 2 Million In 7 Months

I trust you’ve seen Minority Report , starring Tom Cruise. Now check out the website of Digital Signal Corporation (shots below of the homepage and a scene from the movie)

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Digital Signal Raises $15M For ‘Minority Report’-Type Facial Recognition Tech

The Honeycomb slate market is getting crowded. With new devices launching every day and current models getting incremental updates that put them on parity with just about anything else out there, manufacturers gotta have a gimmick. Like Power Rangers or Reservoir Dogs, Honeycomb tablet manufacturers must depend on one or two defining characteristics to convince a restless consumer base to pick up their devices.

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A couple weeks ago, Qwiki CEO Doug Imbruce came by my office to talk about his new iPad app (watch video below), but he wasn’t quite ready to show it. This morning it finally hit iTunes , where you can download it for free. In many ways, Qwiki was made for the iPad because it is like a visual Wikipedia.

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Qwiki’s Mapolicious iPad App Hits iTunes

Who says Amazon is trying to kill the local library? The company’s latest venture brings the power of the Kindle to public and educational libraries through a partnership with OverDrive. That sounds like love, not hate

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Amazon Partnering With OverDrive To Bring Kindle Library Lending To 11,000 Libraries Across The US

Scanbuy , a New York-based provider of mobile barcode solutions, has raised an additional $5 million to complete its latest round of funding , bringing the total raised to $26.6 million. Investors for the round, which Scanbuy claims was oversubscribed, include Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Hudson Ventures and a number of existing private investors

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Mobile Barcode Company Scanbuy Secures $5 Million In Funding

AT&T is having a good quarter. They’re reporting 5.5 million sold, 60 percent of those iPhones, and they hit 10.2 percent growth and 23% more new AT&T iPhone subscribers. It looks like the mass exodus to Verizon’s iPhone 4 didn’t happen.

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AT&T’s Best First Quarter Ever Saw 3.6 Million iPhones Sold

eBay has acquired location-based media company Where.com, the ecommerce giant tells us. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquisition is expected to close during the second quarter of 2011. Where, which has raised nearly $20 million in funding, builds location-based mobile apps across every major mobile device platform—including Android, iPhone, and Blackberry—and boasts about 4 million active users a month

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eBay Acquires Location-Based Media And Advertising Company WHERE

Sometimes, when you’re building a business, you just have to go with what works — even if that means a substantial pivot from your initial vision. Case in point: Beginning in early 2008, TechCrunch wrote a number of posts on a startup called Skydeck . Skydeck was a phone-productivity service that tackled mobile phone bills, enabling you to tag, sort, and search call records as you would in email

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Skydeck Quietly Becomes Mr. Number, Hits 2 Million Users, Brings Status Alerts And More To Mobile

Lijit Networks , a provider of custom site search and advertising solutions for online publishers, has secured $10 million in financing in a round led by new investor Highway 12 Ventures . Existing backers like Foundry Group , Boulder Ventures and Colorado Fund I, managed by High Country Venture , also participated

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Online Search, Advertising Company Lijit Networks Lands $10 Million