Fitness Tracker Fitbit Raises $12M To Market New Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Scale, Aria

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Fitness technology startup and TechCrunch 50 finalist Fitbit has raised $12 Million in Series C funding from existing investors Foundry Group, True Ventures, SoftTech VC and Felicis Ventures.The company offers a device called the Fitbit Tracker and a companion web-based fitness data aggregation......

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NBC News grows a digital publishing arm, plans 30 titles for 2012

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Because you can never have your fingers in too many media pies, the powers that be at NBC News are now extending their reach into the eReader space. Under the company's newly minted NBC Publishing imprint, coverage related to current events, docs and bios, in addition to content culled from other......

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Solar Eruption Triggers Strongest Radiation Storm in 7 Years

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A huge eruption on the Sun has caused the strongest radiation storm since 2005, which is due to hit Earth on Tuesday, Jan 24, possibly causing......

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Lumia 900 hits Carphone Warehouse, possibly coming to the UK in June

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We bet some of you over in the UK were just a wee bit little jealous when it was revealed that we here in the good ol' U-S-of-A would be getting first dibs on the Lumia 900 (a little payback for keeping the 800 all to yourselves). Well, lucky for you, we're not so greedy and you'll get your...

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The Nikkei: Sony Interested In Buying A 20%-30% Stake In Olympus

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More news on the Sony-Olympus alliance that's supposed to be announced soon: Japan's biggest business daily The Nikkei is reporting today that big S is interested in purchasing a stake as large as "20%-30%" in its potential, scandal-hit partner (that would be up from the 0.03% Sony currently owns).......

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Apple Has an Unboxing Room to Test Hundreds of Variants of their Product Packaging

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iPod nano packaging photo by iLoungeFrom an advance copy of Adam Lashinsky's upcoming Inside Apple book, NetworkWorld notes an interesting bit of information about how Apple approaches retail packaging.Perhaps it should be no surprise, given the elegance of some of Apple's product......

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Chart: Android Is Catching Up To iOS In Mobile Video Views

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A year ago in January, 2011, Apple dominated mobile video views, with iOS devices accounting for 87 percent of all mobile views, according to data from video encoding and short-url service Vid.ly. Android had a scant 5 percent. By December, 2011, Android's share of mobile video watching grew to 32......

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Sonos Urges Users To Install A Security Update To Protect Their Private Data

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Sonos this morning sent out an email to users advising them to immediately update their wireless music system software with a security "enhancement" in order to plug a hole that "in rare cases" could have been exploited by malicious people to gain access to sensitive, personal customer data.In the......

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Chevy Volt safe from fire hazard after all, says government

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The Chevy Volt isn't prone to catching fire after all, says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The all-electric car came under scrutiny last year after one caught fire following a side-impact crash test. GM offered a buyback program for Volt owners concerned their cars might......

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Mark Zuckerberg Spray Paints Graffiti On Real Facebook Wall (Video)

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Mark Zuckerberg added his touch to a graffiti wall at Facebook's new headquarters. In the video above, graffiti artist David Choe, who was commissioned to paint the wall, incorporates a stick figure painted by the Facebook founder into a mohawked trollish creature wearing a wife beater with a raised......

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SITA and Orange develop NFC-based airport check-ins, let you bump the TSA (video)

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You've been there before -- fumbling in-front of a non-enthused security agent, trying to download your fancy mobile boarding pass over an uncooperative network. It's that kind of awkwardness that SITA and Orange are trying to avoid with their NFC-based check-in solution. In their joint......

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Steve Jobs Met with Light Field Camera (Lytro) Company’s CEO

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In the upcoming Inside Apple book by Adam Lashinsky, it's revealed that Steve Jobs had expressed interest and subsequently met with the CEO of Lytro, the makers the first light field camera. The relevant book quote posted by 9to5Mac states:The company’s CEO, Ren Ng, a brilliant computer......

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Twitter Acquires Malware Protection Company

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Gearing up for Twitter’s self-serve advertising launch — currently in beta stage with only a small selection of advertisers......

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PowerVoice Launches New Social Media Marketing Platform, Pays Users To Post Ads On Twitter, Facebook

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PowerVoice, a new social media marketing company founded by former federal consultant at IBM Ryan Landau and ex-Googler (and brother) Andrew Landau, is launching today. The service compensates users for sharing brands' messages on social networks in a somewhat similar fashion to Adly. However,......

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tumblecloud Unveils A Collaborative Take On Slideshows

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An startup called tumblecloud is launching the public beta test today for its easy way to create high-quality slideshows.Founder and CEO Brian Andreas (an artist who also runs the boutique publishing house StoryPeople) describes the company's "clouds" as a new form digital storytelling, but......

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The Pirate Bay Wants You to Download Physical Objects Now

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File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is apparently expanding its reach into letting users pass one another physical objects to download. Well,......

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