Placed Insights Debuts, Bringing ComScore-Like Analytics & Ratings To The Physical World
Madrona-backed location analytics startup Placed is today launching Placed Insights, a ratings service for real world locations which has been in development over the past two years. The system is designed to bring a web analytic-like offering to offline locations, or as CEO David Shim puts it: “what Nielsen has done for TV, and comScore has done for offline, Placed has accomplished for the physical world,” as he explains. Like the above firms he references, Placed Insights also measures activity using data from panelists who have agreed to share their location on their mobile phones. The system works in apps which request access to users’ location data. Though, arguably some users may not read or understand permissions dialog boxes, at the end of the day, it’s on users to protect their location privacy. Placed is not being dishonest to acquire this data. Today, the service measures over 70 million locations daily from more than 70,000 panelists, and this data then allows retailers, ...
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Facebook Q1 Earnings Beats With $1.46B In Revenue, Up 38%, But Misses With Flat EPS Of $0.12 Non-GAAP
Facebook has just posted its earnings for the quarter that ended March 31, 2013. Facebook hit $1.46B in revenue up 38% from Q1 2012, beating the street. However, earnings per shared missed estimates, staying flat at $0.12. While revenue only grew slightly, the amount of its 1.11 billion monthly users that returned daily, 665 million, was slightly better than last quarter. Analysts were expecting earnings per share of $0.13, on sales of $1.44 billion. Facebook reported earnings of $1.06 billion for the same quarter a year ago. Last quarter, Facebook posted earnings of $1.59 billion, a rise of 40% year-over-year. Last quarter the company had 1.1 billion monthly users, 618 million daily users, and 680 mobile monthly million, up 57 percent year-over-year. In the lead-up to today’s earnings, there were a lot of expectations about how Facebook would perform performing around some key metrics. User numbers. As noted in the WSJ, one area where Facebook will be scrutinized will be in its proportion ...
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Even Better In-Browser Mockups with Node.js
Designing in the browser has all sorts of benefits, like producing more accurate, comprehensive results and removing the extra step of converting from image file to markup and CSS. But even sites designed in a browser still require pasting in content, faking interactions with the server, and creating placeholder JavaScript that isn’t usable on the live site. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could go from just designing layouts and interactions to designing the whole client side of the application during the same process? This is where Node comes in. Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform. It isn’t a web server, but it allows you to easily create one. It also lets you create utilities that run on web servers, like setup and minification utilities and general-purpose command line tools. Node started in 2009 and generated considerable interest, probably because it gave JavaScript developers an opportunity to write server-side code even if they lacked a server-side background. It didn’t ...
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5eknXFcbjNY/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/28/808091/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:54:12 +0000 Catherine Shu TC huawei Ren Zhengfei http://techcrunch.com/?p=808091 An internal email written by Huawei founder Ren Zheng-fei and obtained by Sina Tech (link via Google Translate) sheds light on the secretive Chinese firm's future. In it, Ren downplays his company's reputation for opacity, which has fueled charges that Huawei, the world's second largest mak
An internal email written by Huawei founder Ren Zheng-fei and obtained by Sina Tech (link via Google Translate) sheds light on the secretive Chinese firm's future. In it, Ren downplays his company's reputation for opacity, which has fueled charges that Huawei, the world's second largest maker of telecom equipment, is involved in espionage for the Chinese government. Ren, who is 68 and rumored to be near retirement, also insisted that he will not hand over Huawei's reins to a family member despite reports to the contrary.
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Chartboost Is Building The Next Mobile Ad Network To Watch, And They're Expanding To Europe
Five years ago from their native city of Barcelona, Maria Alegre and her husband Pepe Agell used to watch old Stanford Technology Ventures Program videos from entrepreneurs sharing their founding stories. Intrigued by what they heard, they picked up and moved to the Valley, where Alegre dug into mobile gaming at early developer Tapulous, which went on to be acquired by Disney. Fast forward to today, Alegre is running one of the fastest-growing mobile ad networks in Silicon Valley (one that we’ve heard from three separate sources grossed about $50 million last year). Her company Chartboost is quietly sucking in talent from an older generation of mobile ad networks and gaming studios like Google’s AdMob, DeNA’s Ngmoco and EA’s Popcap. They also picked up $19 million in funding led by storied VC firm Sequoia earlier this year. “It’s kind of crazy. This all happened in four years,” she said. “Anyone can do it. People running these companies are not super humans. They are just ...
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