Tito.io Presents New Ticketing Platform

Tito.io, a brand new startup, has moved their ticketing system into public beta after a successful private beta in which it claims to have processed over $1 million in ticket sales. Thus far, Tito has involved many tech conferences as beta testers, including…

Syfy’s Interactive Shows Herald Entrance Of Social TV

Syfy has added an element of interactivity to every new show it presented to media buyers on Wednesday. “Defiance,” the crown jewel of its upcoming season, debuts on April 15th with a complimentary video game. Syfy President David Howe…

German Insurance Brand Hijacks Stadium Screen

Earlier this week, German insurance brand DEVK took over the “big screen” showing the crowd at a football match. The ad, which purported to show a real-time crowd event in the stadium, presented a half-naked sumo wrestler on-screen climbing down to…

Google Buys Behavio

In yet another acquisition, Google has purchased the social prediction startup Behavio. The startup built its short-lived independent product on top of Funf, which is a method to collect data from mobile phone sensors. The goal was to analyze parameters like physical location, contacts, and…

The Trigger: 4/12/13

Twitter Music Now Live

Twitter Music is now live online, which confirms the rumors that have been swirling for the past few days. Any attempt to sign into the website thus far redirects to an authorization request for an app called “Trending Music Web,” but it doesn’t grant users access to the site itself. The…

The Future Of TV Starts With A Name Change

There comes a time where naming conventions seem to hold back progress.
 
If we still called music “cassettes” it would be hard to imagine the effect this would have had on the way products like iTunes or services like Spotify would have been developed…