All Things Digital Headlines for 11/01/2012

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Advertisement Articles for 11/01/2012 Pirq Snaps Up $1.2 Million for Low-Tech Loyalty Program Dollar Shave Club Carves Off Another $9.8M to Take Business International MindBody Banks $35 Million for Small-Biz SaaS Hurricane Sandy Broke Only 10 Percent of New York Area's Internet Fifty Carriers Have BlackBerry 10 in Shakedown Mode AT&T and T-Mobile Team Up for Free Roaming in Sandy-Affected Region Zillow Acquires Buyfolio to Make Home-Buying More Collaborative EA on Facebook: Down, but Not Out The Math Behind Disney's "Star Wars" Deal After Sandy, Wi-Fi Becomes Precious Commodity Facebook Shares Take a Dip on Lockup Expirations Argentina-Based Wideo Wants You to Ditch PowerPoint and Make a Cartoon Instead The Small Stuff: Accessories for Your New iPad Mini Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Aims to Ride Out the Storm (And Hurricane Sandy) Daily Deals Alternative LocBox Raises $5.1 Million in First Round Marissa Mayer Makes a Media Deal For Social Video Start-Up Threadlife, Shorter Is Better New Boxee TV Will Be Sold at Walmart Sandy Video of the Day (So Far): Helicopter Rooftop Rescues in Staten Island Apple Shares Slip Following Executive Shake-Up Foursquare's Dennis Crowley Talks About Hurricane Sandy's Impact on NYC Start-Ups (Video) Blip's First Homegrown Web Show: Gamers vs. Gamers on "The Gauntlet" Read Kara Follow Kara Subscribe to Kara Read Walt Follow Walt Subscribe to Walt Read Katie Follow Katie Subscribe to Katie Read John Follow John Subscribe to John Read Peter Follow Peter Subscribe to Peter Read Liz Follow Liz Subscribe to Liz Read Ina Follow Ina Subscribe to Ina Read Tricia Follow Tricia Subscribe to Tricia Read Arik Follow Arik Subscribe to Arik Read Lauren Follow Lauren Subscribe to Lauren Read Bonnie Follow Bonnie Subscribe to Bonnie Read Mike Follow Mike Subscribe to Mike Follow us on: iPhone app E-Readers Facebook Twitter RSS Pirq Snaps Up $1.2 Million for Low-Tech Loyalty Program Tricia Duryee Nov 01, 2012 05:45 am Many believe that the future of tracking purchases and making payments lies with smartphone applications or NFC, but this company is betting on text messaging. read more » Dollar Shave Club Carves Off Another $9.8M to Take Business International Tricia Duryee Nov 01, 2012 04:00 am The Dollar Shave Club turns heads for its impressive investor list. read more » MindBody Banks $35 Million for Small-Biz SaaS Mike Isaac Nov 01, 2012 04:00 am MindBody raised $35 million in venture funding, the company announced Thursday morning, in a round led by Institutional Venture Partners. Catalyst Investors and Bessemer Venture Partners, two existing investors in the company, also participated in the round. Founded in 2001, MindBody sells client management software to health and wellness industry clients, serving 20,000 clients across more than 80 countries. The company has raised upward of $23 million to date. read more » Hurricane Sandy Broke Only 10 Percent of New York Area's Internet Arik Hesseldahl Oct 31, 2012 02:20 pm It's a lot, but it could have been worse. read more » Fifty Carriers Have BlackBerry 10 in Shakedown Mode John Paczkowski Oct 31, 2012 01:42 pm BlackBerry 10 finally hits carrier testing. read more » AT&T and T-Mobile Team Up for Free Roaming in Sandy-Affected Region Arik Hesseldahl Oct 31, 2012 01:15 pm For a few days they get to imagine what might have been. read more » Zillow Acquires Buyfolio to Make Home-Buying More Collaborative Tricia Duryee Oct 31, 2012 01:05 pm For Zillow's fourth acquisition, the Seattle-based online real estate company has purchased Buyfolio, a collaborative shopping platform where home shoppers can search, track, organize and discuss listings with others. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Buyfolio's co-founders, Matt and Susan Daimler, will continue working for Zillow from its New York City office. Zillow plans to make the company's tools available to its agents and brokerages nationwide. read more » EA on Facebook: Down, but Not Out Tricia Duryee Oct 31, 2012 12:30 pm For now, Electronic Arts plans to keep Facebook games as part of its digital mix. read more » The Math Behind Disney's "Star Wars" Deal Peter Kafka Oct 31, 2012 12:05 pm Maybe a Mickey-Yoda mashup: Bob Iger needs to sell $4.5 billion in tickets to make the math work, says Bernstein Research. read more » After Sandy, Wi-Fi Becomes Precious Commodity Arik Hesseldahl Oct 31, 2012 11:36 am What has got people gathering around closed Starbucks coffeeshops in lower Manhattan? Working Wi-Fi. read more » Facebook Shares Take a Dip on Lockup Expirations Mike Isaac Oct 31, 2012 11:07 am The markets are open again, and now there are 200 million more Facebook shares free to be traded. read more » Argentina-Based Wideo Wants You to Ditch PowerPoint and Make a Cartoon Instead Eric Johnson Oct 31, 2012 10:10 am Animation for dummies (or at least for anyone who's sick of slide-heavy presentations). read more » The Small Stuff: Accessories for Your New iPad Mini Lauren Goode Oct 31, 2012 09:31 am If you thought the iPad mini was too small for a keyboard, guess again. read more » Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Aims to Ride Out the Storm (And Hurricane Sandy) Ina Fried Oct 31, 2012 09:01 am Stuck in midtown Manhattan thanks to Hurricane Sandy, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop talks about his tough turnaround and the company's latest mobile products. read more » Daily Deals Alternative LocBox Raises $5.1 Million in First Round Tricia Duryee Oct 31, 2012 09:00 am San Francisco-based LocBox, which is developing a way to help local businesses retain and attract new customers, has raised $5.1 million in a first round of funding. Investors in the round include InterWest Partners, Google Ventures and 500Startups, with additional investments from several angels. LocBox's platform helps businesses run marketing campaigns across email, Facebook, Twitter, SMS and Yelp from one dashboard. read more » Marissa Mayer Makes a Media Deal Peter Kafka Oct 31, 2012 08:59 am The new Yahoo boss gets content from Wenner Media's Us Weekly and Rolling Stone -- a deal that dates back to the Ross Levinsohn era. read more » For Social Video Start-Up Threadlife, Shorter Is Better Mike Isaac Oct 31, 2012 08:00 am A video app for those short on attention span. read more » New Boxee TV Will Be Sold at Walmart Lauren Goode Oct 31, 2012 07:46 am Boxee's newest device, a $99 hybrid basic-cable-plus-Web-apps box that comes with a cloud DVR service, will be sold in 3,000 U.S. Walmart stores this holiday season, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. The Walmart distribution could bring some needed visibility to start-up Boxee, which sold 120,000 devices last year, and has struggled to compete with Roku and Apple TV. read more » Sandy Video of the Day (So Far): Helicopter Rooftop Rescues in Staten Island Peter Kafka Oct 31, 2012 07:28 am On YouTube, courtesy of the NYPD. read more » Apple Shares Slip Following Executive Shake-Up John Paczkowski Oct 31, 2012 07:28 am Shares of Apple fell more than 2.5 percent today as investors responded to the departures of iOS chief Scott Forstall and retail head John Browett. read more » Foursquare's Dennis Crowley Talks About Hurricane Sandy's Impact on NYC Start-Ups (Video) Kara Swisher Oct 31, 2012 07:01 am There was a storm in New York, in case you hadn't heard. read more » Blip's First Homegrown Web Show: Gamers vs. Gamers on "The Gauntlet" Peter Kafka Oct 31, 2012 06:35 am Brought to you by Geico. 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