Bing Maps Road Map Style Update Goes Live!

Bing Maps team has released a dozen of changes to base road map style. "The new style is designed to communicate more important information at a glance. We have just finished rolling out our English version of this new style, and you will see French, Flemish, German, Italian, and Spanish rolling out over the next week or so," revealed Bing Maps team.

Bing Maps Road Map Style Update Goes Live!

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LinkedIn Privacy Policy Updates Goes Live in Coming Week!

LinkedIn announced its upcoming Privacy Policy updates that will be live in the coming week.

LinkedIn Privacy Policy Updates Goes Live in Coming Week!

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Gilt Groupe Goes To $1,000,000,000 (AMZN)

After reports and regulatory filings, Gilt Groupe has confirmed to AllThingsD's Tricia Duryee that the company has raised $138 million at a $1 billion valuation.

The round includes existing investors as well as Softbank as a new investor. Softbank, a Japanese conglomerate with a history of backing US startups going into Japan, is also buying half of Gilt Japan, Gilt's successful Japanese arm.

Kevin Ryan, the Founder and CEO of the company, said that Gilt is not yet profitable, and that it's going to use the money to fuel its growth and expand. The company started out a fashion flash sales site but now does travel and has a higher-end Groupon-like service called Gilt City. The next verticals it plans to open up are gourmet food and full-price men's clothing, and Ryan says they plan to enter one or two new verticals per year for the next few years.

The company is going to need the money to fend off Amazon, which launched a competitor called MyHabit, and the biggest company in the space, France's Vente Privée, which is expected to enter the US soon.

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• Only This Man Can Save Amazon's Wannabe Gilt Killer MyHabit
• Gilt Groupe Gets Ready To Raise As Much As $138 Million
• Why Amazon's Usual Technique To Crush Competitors Won't Work On Vente Privée And Gilt

Gilt Groupe Goes To $1,000,000,000 (AMZN)

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BlackBerry ‘Signing Tool’ for Tablet OS Goes Live!

BlackBery today announced that developers can now sign apps using the latest version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK. Be sure you have installed the most recent version of either the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR, or the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS.

BlackBerry ‘Signing Tool’ for Tablet OS Goes Live!

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Union Square Creates New Fund as Social Media Goes Mainstream

Union Square Ventures is putting together a new fund to help it participate in later rounds of funding for growing companies. The VC says the new Opportunity Fund, first hinted at a couple of weeks ago, will allow it to continue to invest in social media and networking start-ups like its existing portfolio companies Twitter, Foursquare and Tumbler as they grow beyond the early stages that the firm has traditionally focused on.

Union Square Creates New Fund as Social Media Goes Mainstream

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30-Year-Old CEO Who Turned Down $6 Billion From Google Goes On The Today Show

Before he appeared on the Today show this morning, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason tweeted, "About to do TODAY show and beta test a new technique for dodging questions."

While that was a funny line, it wasn't a joke. He dodged almost every question thrown at him by Matt Lauer.

But, as usual, Mason was entertaining.

He was asked about the $6 billion offer from Google. He launched into a long winded story about being embarrassed about his middle name as a child. Lauer cut him off after a few minutes.

Later Lauer asked him what he wants to do with his "clout" as a hot shot young CEO of the digital world. Mason said, he wants to get more buildings to have the word "laser" in their name.

He then said, I don't know, I can't take that seriously, I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.

And that was the end of the interview. Watch it:

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• Kevin Ryan: Here's Why Groupon Is Better Off Without Google
• Google's Marissa Mayer Hints Google Might Still Buy Groupon
• Why Groupon Said No To Google's $6 Billion

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Verizon 4G LTE Site Goes Live!

Verizon unveiled its 4G LTE. The LTE network, along with the LG VL600 and Pantech UML290 4G data-sticks will all be available starting on December 5th.

Verizon 4G LTE Site Goes Live!

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The New Yahoo! Goes Loco With Local offers and a Dozen Partners

Out of the Web2.0 event this week in San Fran, Yahoo! has lifted the lid off their latest plans to harness the power of location and mobile location tech – enter Yahoo! Local offers. Some details… Yahoo! is launching its Local Offers program with more than a dozen partners to provide a wide selection of [...]

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The Radar: Thailand Best for Expats, Atlanta Eye, Napa Valley Goes Mobile

• Pack your bags, HSBC Bank's 2010 Expat Explorer report names Thailand as the best place to live the expat life. The report based its rankings on a survey of 4,127 expats from more than 100 countries who answered questions about the ease of setting up finances, work-life balance, entertainment and ease of integration with the local culture. Canada and Bahrain ranked second and third. [WSJ via 27Clouds]
  

• A replica of the London Eye-- the towering Ferris wheel tourist magnet on the south bank of the River Thames-- is being proposed for downtown Atlanta. The "Atlanta Eye" is estimated to cost $200 million and would be located near Centennial Park and the Georgia Aquarium. [Gadling]

• Napa Valley wineries and SCVNGR--the mobile geo-location game--have announced a new partnership to provide rewards for SCVNGR users who complete challenges at 50 local businesses and wineries. VIP tastings, free tours, and discounts are among the prizes visitors have the chance to win by checking-in and completing challenges on their mobile phones. [Mashable]

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Down Goes Arrington: WordPress.com Getting Top Author Stats Shortly

If 75 percent of my day is spent writing, the remaining 25 percent is probably going over TechCrunch stats. I'm obsessed with it. That's why I do so many posts about things like Chrome getting ready to overtake Firefox as the dominant browser among TechCrunch readers (less than 1 percent away now). So I was obviously happy when WordPress.com (which hosts us) overhauled their Stats area earlier this year. But it was always missing just one thing. WordPress.com's Stats area gives you a solid overview for how your blog is doing overall. And unlike Google Analytics, the data is up-to-the-minute fresh. You can see your top posts, top referrers, top search engine terms, top clicked links, and a few other things. One thing it doesn't have though is the ability to see how each author is doing in terms of traffic to their posts. In other words, it's lacking in the vanity department. But that's coming shortly.

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Elevator Pitch: Vouchercloud goes 'Old Skool' to move forward (The Guardian)

Greg Le Tocq, managing director of Vouchercloud: 'We don't make money. Yet.' Since launching in February, the UK-only Vouchercloud service has had some heavyweight encroachments on its mobile patch. Facebook, the world's premier social network, recently announced plans to make money from its new mobile check-in feature, Places. Foursquare and Gowalla have continued to rise in adoption,...

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Esri pushes GeoMedicine, shares My Place History and goes mobile on iOS

I received a cool tip off from the good folks at Esri who’ve enlightened me a little not only on a great effort called “GeoMedicine” (FYI, the topic of medical geography was a favorite of mine back in my U Vic days when I was studying my fave classes on medical geography under the late [...]

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SCVNGR Goes Global and Becomes the First Service to Use Google's Places API

SCVNGR is a location-based service with apps for the iPhone and Android that wants to add a "game layer on top of the world." Starting today, the company is getting closer to this goal, as it is going international and expanding to about 80 new countries. Until today, SCVNGR was only available in the U.S.

SCVNGR is also switching away from its own proprietary location database. Thanks to its close relationship with Google (SCVNGR is, in part, funded by Google Ventures), the service is the first site to leverage the new Google Places API.

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As the company's founder and "Chief Ninja" Seth Priebatsch told us yesterday, switching to the Google Places API allowed SCVNGR to quickly scale globally, as it can now rely on Google's extensive location database to power its service. SCVNGR users will now also be able to create challenges and treks - the central gaming elements on the service - at all of these locations. As we noted when Google first announced it, the Places API "could do for check-ins what Google Maps did for maps." As Priebatsch told us, the fact that Google gave his company access to this comprehensive global database with millions of locations made switching to it a no-brainer.

While SCVNGR plans to launch localized versions of its apps in the future, the interface is currently only available in English. Users can create challenges using their own languages, however.

The service, which launched just 20 weeks ago, currently has about half a million users, though it's not clear how many of these are active users. Priebatsch also told us that the company has managed to double the number of enterprise clients since its official launch to over 1000. SCVNGR clearly has a lot of momentum going for it right now and it will be interesting to see how the service develops now that it is going global.

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Biggest Browser Share Gain In October Goes To Chrome

Browser market share numbers are out for October from Net Applications. Chrome made the biggest gains with a 0.49 percent jump from September to 8.47 percent. Chrome is the third most popular browser after Internet Explorer (59.26 percent) and Firefox (22.82 percent). Both FireFox and IE saw their overall market share positions erode slightly by 0.39 percent and 0.14 percent, respectively. Safari was up a smidge (0.06 percent) to 5.33 percent, and Opera declined 0.11 percent to 2.28 percent.

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Gowalla Goes Local With Ad Program (ClickZ)

clickz Location-based player releases local ad features and a unique pricing model to attract regional businesses.

Source : ClickZ

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