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Mashable!: According to a recent blog post from Google, Earth for Android will now allow for experiences of the submarine variety.The latest 1.1 version of Google Earth for Android includes features that will let you delve into the mysterious depths… (more)

Mashable!: Samsung has just released a teaser video for its upcoming Android tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab.The Galaxy Tab website and SamsungUSA’s YouTube channel both host the video for the 7-inch device… (more)

TechCrunch: Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT), the company that creates a technology that matches celebrities with endorsement deals, has just raised $20 million in Series C funding led by Miramar Venture Partners, with existing investors Newport Coast Investments, RimLight Capital, Fulcrum Venture Capital, CGI Opportunity Fund II, and Ad Pepper Media International also participating. This brings the company's total funding ... (more)

TechCrunch: YCombinator-funded database analytics company Chart.io launches today, giving businesses access to enterprise level analytics tools that they need to rock their databases in realtime. In the same space as Metricly and Stats Mix, a tool like Chart.io would have been unnecessary 10 or so years ago, but now co-founder Dan Levine says, "It's easier than ever to have a database" so everyone and their mother... (more)

TechCrunch: Up until a few months ago, I was using Facebook the same way I was using Twitter. That is, I was allowing anyone to follow me. But it was different. With Twitter, anyone can follow me without my approval. On Facebook, everyone needs my approval. Though perhaps ill-advised, I was simply blindly approving anyone. Then I stopped. There was no single reason why I switched my Facebook habits, but I decided that I was ... (more)

TechCrunch: At one point the Chatroulette V.2 anticipation was so thick over at TechCrunch HQ that even we were, how you say, premature. But not as premature as the folks over at Chatroulette themselves, who ominously lured us in yesterday in with, “The experiment #1 is over for now. Thanks for participating – Redesigned and updated version of the website will be launched tomorrow" and then well, nothing. The silliest p... (more)

TechCrunch: Yesterday, we first reported the news that Twitter had hired Adam Bain away from News Corp. to be their new president of revenue. Today, Twitter is confirming the news noting that Bain will be the president of "global revenue". They're also confirming the other hire we reported: Brent Hill, Google's former head of financial services in the Midwest. He'll be Twitter's new director of sales for the central... (more)

TechCrunch: You would think most people know how to get a simple web site up and running these days just on something like Wordpress, but the fact remains that millions of people don't have these skills. As a result Moonfruit, the web site building business which has survived the dotcom bust to return in the age of Web 2.0, is on a charge. It's profitable, growing internationally and as a result has chosen to fundraise to rea... (more)

TechCrunch: Interactive marketing software and services provider ExactTarget this morning launched ExactTarget Australia, following the acquisition of its reseller mPath Global in Sydney and Melbourne. Terms of the acquisition of its 5-year long partner were not disclosed, but all mPath employees are said to have accepted positions with ExactTarget Australia. (more)

TechCrunch: Perhaps unsurprising for a newspaper that probably has more SEO staff than, well, actual journalists, the UK's Daily Mail is hiring a new Search Engine Optimization manager. Interestingly, however, the job advert itself in fact appears in the newspaper's website robots.txt file, which isn't usually designed to be read by humans but is targeted at search engines bots to tell them what content shouldn't be indexed a... (more)