Qwiki Shuts Down Web Platform, Launches Social Mobile Video App

Qwiki joins the mobile-social-video-sharing craze.
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A Peek Inside PAX: The Game Conference in Photos

Anyone wandering the streets of downtown Seattle this weekend would have felt the presence of the PAX video game expo. Here’s a glimpse of what PAX looked like from the inside.
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An iPhoto Slide Show on CD

Walt answers a reader’s question on how to burn an iPhoto slide show onto a CD.

PayPal Says It’s Full Speed Ahead on Mobile Payments After President Resigns

PayPal’s VP of Mobile David Marcus makes the case for why its mobile payments strategy will prevail in a market surrounded by incumbents.
PayPal asks you to enter your phone number and pin.

Here’s How PayPal Is Pitching Mobile Payments to Major Retailers (Slideshow)

Check out the photos from a recent visit to PayPal’s San Jose headquarters, where AllThingsD got an exclusive peek at the company’s brand-new “Shopping Showcase.”
The push notification talk you into stopping at nearby coffee bar.

Animoto Launches App for Easy iPhone Slideshows

Animoto, a New York-based slide-show service that makes awesomesauce out of pictures and video clips, has launched an iPhone app.
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An App for People Who Like Apple Ads

There are a lot of them! And Apple hopes many of them want to buy Apple ads, too.

Socializing Vacation Rentals: The AirBnB Guys Speak!

A few weeks ago, BoomTown sat down in a hipster coffee place in a hipster section of San Francisco to talk to the hipster trio of founders of AirBnB. Which, if you think about it, is a very hipster name for what is essentially the ability to rent out your apartment, home or wack-a-doo space (such as a shoe-shaped hotel or Frank Sinatra’s Palm Springs estate). It’s an alternative to other fast-growing similar sites such as VRBO–Vacation Rentals By Owner, only with more style and niche cool. But it did get the traditional venture funding, of course.

Yahoo Upgrades Search Experience With "Accordion"–As It Ports Over Tech to Microsoft

Tonight, Yahoo is introducing a new set of search upgrades, moving to focus on boosting its experience for consumers as it ports responsibility for underlying search technology to Microsoft under its new partnership. Among the new enhancements: A vertical “accordion” paradigm with shortcuts on search results that allow for new kinds of information presentation; “quick apps,” beginning with one for Netflix that lets its members add movies to their queue directly from the search results page; slideshows within search from the “Trending Now” lists on Yahoo; more immersive and theater-style photo and video search; and a new mobile search experience that uses HTML5 technology.

Former Forbes.com Publisher Jim Spanfeller Has VC Money; New Sites on the Way

Former Forbes.com publisher Jim Spanfeller has a new gig: A venture-backed Web publishing start-up. Spanfeller Media Group, which plans to launch a series of new sites, is close to finishing a funding round that I’m told will total around $2 million. Backers include RRE Ventures, Greenhill SAVP, SoftBank and Lerer Media Ventures.

D8 Photos: Getting Ready at Terranea

The Apple iPad Event Slideshow

Apple iPad Event Liveblog