Funded By Tony Hseih, Ex-Zappos Managers Launch Fandeavor To Turn Everyday Sports Fans Into VIPs

Most sports fans get plenty of enjoyment out of going to see their favorite team play live, maybe even with a little tailgating before the game, and if they’re lucky, watching court, field, or rink-side seats. Yet, for the average sports fan (and even the diehard), the access tends to end there. Fandeavor

Google Patents search gets upgrade, now filled with prior art and European patent goodness

Apple and Samsung’s legal tussles have previously placed a spotlight on stuff like 2011: A Space Odyssey by way of prior art. Now Google’s patent search is giving prior art some love as well with the addition of the aptly named "Prior Art Finder" to its patent search tool. Marked by a patently obvious

Facebook Testing Promoted News Feed Posts for Non-Fans

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LG sells five million LTE smartphones, plans ‘second to none’ lineup soon and girds for patent battles

While LG’s dollars and cents return on its cellphones have been up and down this year, but the company just announced that since starting the LTE trend with the Revolution in May 2011, it’s sold five million high-speed data connected handsets and has no plans to slow down. The counter ticked over three

Netflix Heads To Scandinavia, With Plans To Launch In Norway, Denmark, Sweden, And Finland Later This Year

Netflix announced during its second-quarter earnings call that it would continue expanding overseas with a new market in the fourth quarter, and now we know where it’s going: The streaming video company just announcing that it will be launching in four Scandinavian countries by the end of the year. As

Read-only Launch For Medium & Branch, But Twitter Founders Promise More

Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone have been busy developing two new services, both of which were publicly launched this week by their incubator company The Obvious Corporation. Unfortunately, both products are read-only for most people right now. So first impressions will be muted – perhaps

Backed By Andreessen, Virtual Workforce MobileWorks Completes 1M Tasks For Startups In 1st Year

MobileWorks launched last summer with a simple, yet big mission: Build a viable alternative for Amazon Mechanical Turk and in so doing create a motivated, happy and accurate virtual workforce. To be the anti-Turk, the startup set out with a novel approach (and a social mission) — to pay workers fair

Netflix Watch Instantly streaming coming to Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland this year

Netflix mentioned during its most recent earnings call that it had identified an attractive European market to launch its streaming video service in during Q4 2012 and now we know where that is: Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. There’s no word yet on pricing or which devices the service will be available

Popularity of Tablets Rising With Kids [STUDY]

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Office Politics Really Is About Actual Offices

Warning: There’s no real tech news reason I’m writing this, other than the fact that it’s sort of ridiculous that humans are this way and maybe that’s an opportunity for some startup to tap into.

I arrived at the Aol 770 Broadway offices on Thursday and was met with the above glass situation at the