Virgin America Rides Loopt Taco Truck Special To Fifth Largest Revenue Day Ever

Sometimes the titles just write themselves. On Tuesday Virgin USA and Loopt partnered to offer people two-for-one tickets to Cancun or Los Cabos from California

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Twitter Launches iPad App With Focus On Consumption

Twitter is launching the first native app it’s built from scratch tonight, Twitter for iPad. Aimed at fostering content consumption, the app is designed for new users and power users alike

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BankSimple Deposits $3.1 Million From First Round, Ron Conway, And Roger Ehrenberg

New York City begin BankSimple this day disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital , Roger Ehrenberg’s IA Ventures , and Village Ventures , along with seed investors SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Nauiokas Park, and Jerry Neumann. But it did not disclose how much it raised. I’ve confirmed that the round was $2.9 million, with an additional $190,000 raised last year in convertible debt (which converted to shares with ..read more

Steve Jobs’ Doublespeak Strikes Again: No Actually Meant Yes For Apple TV

“You’re going to be healthy to be watching a movie, near it to your TV, and finish watching it there.

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Round-up: Our Take On Apple’s New Media Devices

Apple’s new lineup has been announced: A new iPod touch with a Retina display and dual cameras, a bite-sized touchscreen Nano , a sandwich-sized stream-only Apple TV , and updates to both iTunes and iOS , improving their social and gaming capabilities. We’ve got the news in about 20 separate posts , sure, but we have yet to apply our keen blogging sense to the announcements, rooting through the specs and pricing like trained truffle-hogs , and emerging gorged ..read more

Sprint Epic 4G review: The Samsung Galaxy S grows a keyboard

We review the Sprint Epic 4G to find out if it’s worthy of its study ? If you place the word “Epic” in the study of your phone, it darn well better be epic.

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PlacePop Gives Facebook Places The Dashboard It Should Have Launched With

Facebook Places appears to be off to a strong start, with integration into services like Gowalla, Yelp, and SCVNGR. But it also has some pretty glaring omissions, videlicet the fact there’s not really a good way to do much with Places data from the browser. Now PlacePop , a begin that launched at our CrunchUp in July, has fixed that with a new Facebook application that gives you an overview of how you friends are using Facebook Places

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Sure Enough, SkyFire Announces They’ve Submitted Their Flash-Friendly Browser To The App Store

Just last week, a couple of much-trusted birdies popped into the MobileCrunch office, claiming to have some details on SkyFire (a Flash-friendly mobile browser already acquirable on a number of smartphone platforms) and its impending iPhone release. “They’ve entered the very final round of testing!” they said. “It’s going to get submitted to Apple primeval next week!” We’re one day past what we’d personally think about “early next week”, but sure enough: SkyFire has just announced that they’ve submitted ..read more

As Facebook And Orkut Duke It Out In India, SMS GupShup Hits 35 Million Users

As Facebook and Google’s Orkut duke it out for traffic in India, another social network has quietly gained traction in the space. SMS GupShup, a Twitter-like service in India that is primarily accessed via SMS, has hit 35 million users (up from 26 million late last year) with 1 million users joining monthly. This number seems to outpace July traffic on Facebook (21 million one-of-a-kind visitors) and Orkut (20 million one-of-a-kind visitors)

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Gowalla Continues The March Beyond The Check-In With Highlights — A Social Atlas

If you didn’t think the check-in was a commodity before Facebook launched their Places feature, you likely do now. But Gowalla has known that for awhile, and that’s why they’ve been moving to extend the service and build on top of the check-in. Comments and photos came several months ago

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