StockTwits, a real time platform for the sharing of information around financial markets, has made it’s second acquisition – a financial news site called Abnormal Returns, founded by Tadas Viskanta. This follows the acquisition of Chart.ly last year.

Abnormal Returns is a small but influential financial news site that includes curated news as well as original content about the financial markets and stocks. StockTwits is taking that platform and adding its real time news and information feed from the StockTwits network. You can see the new feed on the right side of the Abnormal Returns site.

Viskanta will become a StockTwits employee and will continue to manage the Abnormal Returns website and service.

StockTwits was originally built entirely on top of Twitter. In late 2009 the company launched a desktop version of the product and moved to their own messaging platform. Users can still post messages to StockTwits via Twitter, but an increasing number of them have moved directly to the StockTwits application.

The companies aren’t disclosing the terms of the acquisition. StockTwits has raised $4.6 million over three rounds of funding.

TwitJobSearch, a Twitter-based job search engine, has teamed up with TweetDeck to offer a desktop client dubbed JobDeck, as reported by Clickz earlier this morning.

The application indexes tweets related to recruitment from across the Twittersphere, in real-time, based on TwitJobSearch’s algorithm (our earlier coverage).

Basically, it’s just a custom branded TweetDeck client that comes with two additional default columns: ‘Job Search Experts’ and ‘TwitJobSearch’, although it can also prove helpful to add a LinkedIn column carrying the latest updates from the professional social network (and perhaps even your Facebook news feed).

Recruiters can follow a few simple steps to ensure their tweets are indexed by the TwitJobSearch service, helping them connect with potential candidates through social media more effectively, and for free. The TwitJobSearch site itself offers advertisers the ability to purchase premium, or “Tweetured” job listings, sold on a CPC basis. Current advertisers include brands such as Adidas, KFC, and Lloyds Banking Group, according to Clickz.

The JobDeck app itself will not feature any premium ad opportunities at this point.

When I interviewed Dan Abrams last year about his new media news and analysis blog, Mediaite, he indicated that he has ambitions of building a Mediaite mini-empire by expanding to other verticals. Abrams announced late last year that he has a definitive plan for this, with sister Mediaite sites covering style and fashion, sports and technology. Today, Abrams’ venture into tech news and analysis, Geekosystem, has launched.

Geekosystem aims to cover what Abrams calls geek culture,” which includes tech news, movies, science fiction, video games, superheroes in comics, and more. The audience is all those “nerd” who don’t necessarily work in technology or have a deep understand of the industry, but want to catch up on the latest trends and news.

Original content includes everything from reviews of gadgets to details on the latest sci-fi movie. And the site will also add a dash of traditional tech news coverage, so expect to see mentions of Twitter and Facebook. But by and large, the site will have a mix of coverage and won’t be primarily focused on covering the startups and tech giants that we report on here at TechCrunch and other tech news blogs, says the site’s editor Robert Quigley. Content will be supplied by the site’s two editors, an intern, and a range of contributors. Additionally, the site will aggregate top tech and geek stories from around the web.

Geekosystem will off course feature a technologized version of Mediaite’s trademark Power Grid, which ranks and indexes media players based on news, analysis and events on a weekly basis. Geekosystem’s grid includes the obvious; Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. And Michael Arrington also makes an appearance.

The site’s design is basic, which isn’t surprising considering that Mediaite’s UI is fairly simple. Will Geekosystem succeed? Abrams has had considerable success with Mediaite the past year, with the site making Technoratis top 40 blogs list. And the startup expects to turn profitable this year. But the “geek news” space is considerably more crowded than the media news arena, and Abrams might find himself fighting with both tech and gadget blogs for traffic. But that being said, I like Abrams’ “pop culture meets geek culture” ambitions for the site and it could gain a following based on the quality of its coverage. The site is already getting a vote of confidence from one of the biggest players in the tech space, Microsoft. The tech giant is going to be the exclusive advertiser (for Bing) on Geekosystem for a full two weeks.

Lots of announcements from AOL this morning: the company has acquired Internet video company StudioNow in a deal valued at $36.5 million in cash and stock, with a portion of the cash paid out over multiple years. In addition, AOL decided to confirm the news we broke last week about CTO Ted Cahall leaving the company, after vehemently denying it up until now.

Finally, AOL has hired Microsoft and Google vet Jeff Reynar as Head of Technology for Engineering and Products in New York. Reynar will build out and manage AOLs New York Technology Center and will focus on innovation for AOLs content business and lead the company’s engineering efforts in New York.

The acquisition of StudioNow provides AOL with a video creation platform that it intends to integrate into its recently launched content management system Seed.com. This system essentially assigns, buys and distributes editorial work for all of AOLs properties, which includes more than 80 branded and niche content sites.

AOL says it will harness StudioNows technology platform and network of more than 3000 creatives to develop and produce professional video at the request of AOL editors. AOL also expects to make use of the company’s technology and resources for its in-house studios, both for AOL productions and for its branded advertising and content partners.

Tim Armstrong, AOL CEO and Chairman, said: Premium original video creation is a fundamental part of AOLs strategy to offer consumers world-class, stimulating content at scale and the integration of StudioNow into Seed.com will enable us to increase our video content/offerings significantly.

Founded in January 2007 with headquarters in Nashville, TN, StudioNow had raised $3.5 million over two rounds. The company was co-founded by David Mason, who was previously the CEO of Buy.com Europe (Buy.com was formed out of a merger between BuyComp and SpeedServe, which Mason co-founded with his brother back in 1994) and Adam Solesby.

Following the decision of Ted Cahall to wave AOL goodbye (the latest in a long series of executives jumping ship), the company is launching a search for a new global Chief Technology Officer. A key hire for its New York Technology Center in the meantime is Jeff Reynar, co-founder and now former CTO of social search company DBT Labs, whose recruitment was rumored by The Business Insider last week.

Prior to DBT Labs, Reynar spent four-and-a-half years at Google, first as a product manager and then as an engineering manager. He was responsible for co-founding and leading an internal startup team focused on new approaches to search including Google Squared and Google Blog Search.

Reynar also led the Search UI team in New York that was responsible for much of the search results page on google.com. He previously spent nearly five years at Microsoft where he was a lead program manager on the Authoring Services team that was responsible for Word.

Chicago-based ExteNet Systems, which designs, builds and operates network infrastructure, has received $128 million from SSP Offshore, SBA Communications, Centennial Ventures, Columbia Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, CenterPoint Ventures and Palomar Ventures. This brings the starup’s total funding to over $150 million.

ExteNet’s fiber network infrastructure are widely implemented by wireless service providers. The company promises providers with the ability to expand coverage to hard to reach spots.The new funding will support further development of infrastructure for wireless service providers.

[France] Music search and discovering service Deezer is currently caught up in a storm of controversy: its co-founder and CEO Jonathan Benassaya has effectively been forced out by his investors. After Deezer faced mounting competition from services like Spotify, it's emerged that investors ousted the founder in order to put in place a more experienced business manager to both reorganize and perhaps prepare some kind of exit. They've been disappointed with Deezer's performance towards a premium service and low advertising revenues. The rumour that this was about to happen began last week grew a head of steam over the weekend, as reported by music expert Philippe Astor on French site Electronlibre (Google translation). Midem, the annual conference for the music industry, is currently taking place in Cannes, France and the departure of Jonathan Bessaya from Deezer was one of the buzzing topics during the weekend. One of the things that confirmed this rumour was that the CEO was due to participate on a panel on Saturday during Midemnet (the part of Midem focused on the online music industry) but he conspicuously did not show up. His name was even up on screen during the panel he was supposed to attend. On this panel was also Paul Brown, SVP of Spotify, that is widely regarded as a Deezer killer.

I’ve been quite fascinated by electric car firm Better Place since I read up on how the company was founded by former SAP executive Shai Agassi in the excellent book ‘Start-up Nation’, which tells of Israel’s historical entrepreneurial DNA and tech success stories.

Basically, Better Place aims to reduce global dependency on petroleum through the creation of a market-based transportation infrastructure that supports electric vehicles, relying on renewable energy from solar arrays and wind farms instead of oil. The startup, founded just 2 years ago, is currently building its first electric vehicle network in Israel, and plans to deploy the infrastructure in other nations on a country-by-country basis with initial deployments beginning this year, and commercial sales beginning in 2012.

As of April 2009, it had already raised $400 million, with several countries offering tax breaks in favor of the ambitious venture. This morning, Better Place announced that it has raised a massive $350 million follow-up venture funding round to lay the groundwork for these deployments, valuing the company at a whopping $1.25 billion.

HSBC led the round with a $125 million capital injection (buying them approx. 10% of the company), with eight other investors participating, including Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Lazard Asset Management, Israel Corp., VantagePoint Venture Partners, Ofer Hi-Tech Holdings and others.

Better Place says it intends to expand into markets where the business model economics and investor returns are “optimized”, citing Europe and Asia specifically. The company also reaffirmed its original target to begin full commercial operations at the end of next year, when industry partner Renault plans to offer the first car with a replaceable battery.

Big news for doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that allows you to manage media for hundreds of devices, including Android phones, the Palm Pre, and BlackBerry. Tomorrow, the company will announce that it has forged a partnership with T-Mobile, which is now promoting it as the supported way to sync media to its line of Android phones. As part of the deal, T-Mobile will begin displaying doubleTwist banners in their retail stores and on T-Mobile.com. And perhaps most important, doubleTwist will come pre-installed on some Android devices, including the new Fender/Eric Clapton myTouch 3G handset.

For those that haven’t used it before, doubleTwist is a media management program that’s both visually and functionally similar to iTunes in many respects, but with one big difference: it will work with nearly any device (iTunes only plays nice with iPods and iPhones). You can drag and drop songs to playlists, sync music, photos, and video to your devices, and share your media with friends using integrated Facebook and Flickr support. In effect, doubleTwist can serve as an “iTunes for Android”. The software is impressive in its own right, but the company has also gotten quite a bit of attention because it was co-founded by DVD Jon, who serves as CTO.

This is a smart move by T-Mobile. One of the most jarring experiences when moving to an Android phone is figuring out how to sync media to the device. First, you have to manually mount the SD drive from the phone’s screen. Once that’s done, you may find yourself half-expecting iTunes to cheerily pop up to help transfer your media, but nothing happens  it’s up to you to drag and drop media from your computer to the appropriate folder on the phone. There are plenty of applications out there meant to help you do this, but it’s a poor experience for users who are trying the platform out for the first time. doubleTwist makes this much easier for new Android owners (it even shows you how to mount the SD card). It may not be quite as robust as iTunes, but it’s going to be good enough for most people. If this proves to be successful for T-Mobile, it wouldn’t surprise me if doubleTwist was adopted by other carriers as well.

One downside to the T-Mobile version of doubleTwist is that it’s missing one of the app’s best features: integration with Amazon’s MP3 Store. The feature, which launched in October, allows users to purchase music from directly within doubleTwist, much as you would with iTunes. doubleTwist wouldn’t comment on why T-Mobile decided to omit the feature, but the company is planning to further expand the software, so hopefully it’s in the pipeline. In any case, you can still download the fully featured version at doubleTwist.com.

Money is changing hands in the deal. Co-founder Monique Farantzos declined to comment on any specifics, but says that doubleTwist licensed its software to T-Mobile and that it’s a “significant source of revenue”. We should also note that while it was previously known that doubleTwist would come preloaded on the Fender myTouch phone, the full extent of the partnership hadn’t been announced before now.

doubleTwist isn’t the only company looking to establish itself as a viable alternative to iTunes. Earlier this month Songbird, an open-source media player/browser hybrid landed a deal with Philips to come bundled with some of its MP3 player devices.

When cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner talk about “TV Everywhere,” they are generally talking about a Web video portal they control themselves which gives their regular cable TV subscribers access to at least some of the same programming online. If viewership is going to shift online, they want to be the ones providing itand that’s not necessarily a bad thing. But when Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire talks about TV Everywhere, he envisions more of a federated model where TV programmers make more of their shows available on their own sites to visitors who are authenticated as paying cable subscribers.

It’s a video paywall across the Web, and he wants to make it possible with a new Brightcove TV Everywhere product that allows programmers to authenticate which visitors are cable subscribers and which ones are not. So in addition to Comcast or Time Warner offering subscribers an online version of their channels, each channel (i.e., NBC, ABC, HBO, Discovery) can also offer a fuller spectrum of their TV shows and movies on their own individual Websites. Comcast could easily do Hulu one better, but all of those videos should also be available on HBO.com, NBC.com, and elsewhere. All they need is an authentication system and an online video platform, hence Brightcove’s interest in providing the video plumbing to make it all work. Allaire explains this to me via email:

There is a lot more going on in the TV Everywhere space than people realize.  It is ramping up quite fast, and it is not just Comcast but nearly every major traditional cable, telco, satellite distributor, and significant initiatives from many of the top programming companies.  It is going to unleash dramatically more content than the web has seen.

Our first foray is embracing a model that is being supported by nearly all major distribution companiesa federated model that allows programmers to publish deep online libraries of their feature programming on their own websites, and leveraging identity and authorization data/services that are managed by the MVPDs [multichannel video programming distributors], ensuring that users are indeed subscribers and are entitled to the requested programming.  We’ve built a model that fully supports this, as well as key partnerships for tech we are implementing to handle these federated identity models for online video.

TV Everywhere is more than just cable companies covering their rears, it is a major effort also being embraced by the broadcast networks themselves, who have not been able to put their full programming online, and who deeply want to preserve the dual revenue stream that drives their business todaysubscriber fees and advertising. TV Everywhere holds the promise of preserving that model, unlike other mediums (newspapers, magazines) who have struggled to maintain their dual revenue stream models in the online world.

In other words, if they are going to call it TV Everywhere, it really should be everywhere. Or at least available on the sites of related TV channels.

The way this would work is that if you are HBO (to use a hypothetical example), only your programming is available on your site. Once a user is authenticated, they can watch whatever they are already paying for on their TVs. The cable companies might like it it because the value of that subscription just went up and they are giving people who are tempted to cut the cord altogether another reason to stay. The programmers might like it because they can now show videos online which they are currently contractually prohibited from showing, and they get to keep any ancillary advertising revenues they make from their high-CPM sites. And consumers? Well, most of us are already paying for cable or satellite TV anyway. If they are going to start to distribute that TV programming online, the more places it is available, the better. But those pesky paywalls are still going to be annoying, especially if you follow a link to one.

Flurry, a mobile app analytics company, has noticed approximately 50 devices in the Cupertino that match the characteristics of Apple's tablet device. Flurry claims to have reliably placed these devices on Apple's Cupertino campus, and are confident that they are "observing a group of pre-release tablets in testing." This make sense - as the Apple Tablet has to be tested before it is announced this Wednesday, January 27 in San Francisco. Furthermore, Flurry has been an extremely reliable source on analytics data thus far and don't often break stories unless they are sure they've checked their facts. They've noticed that a large number of the apps downloaded were Games (140 total downloads or launches) and the next group was Entertainment, followed by News and Books. Here's a chart of the usage data:

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MediaMall provides is a powerful solution to manage media files online distribution with a built-in Credit System. Using this component the site can easily sell media files online, like for ex. Video Tutorials (including sample files). Using the MediaMall solution users can post their media files on your site. For each media file a number of Credits can be perceived in order to visualize the file. The poster will earn credits, which can be later converted into a payment by the webmaster. Accepted media file formats are:video files (flw, swf, mov and wmf; avi files are also partially supported, but not all codecs are included.)audio files (mp3)archives (zip, rar, gz, bz2, arj, arc, '7z) - used generally for tutorials; if a user is posting video file with a photoshop tutorial, in the archive he can include the sample files. (shop/joomla-components/media-mall.html) In order to purchase the credits easier the system provides a Paypal integration. Clean payments are transformed automatically into credits. If any problems the payments are going into the Payment/canceled Payments, where the administrator can decide further actions. A further income method, if set, can be the pay for Contact. Here a user will pay with credits in order to send a contact email to the author. The administrator can create and manage Categories, set credit related settings and manage credits and views. Another important administrator feature is the management of the author payments. The system also includes user notifications on certain actions. Viewers can use the integrated Rating System to rate and also place comments for any media file. This is allowed for free media files and for commercial media files only after viewing in order to avoid any abuses.Surely the media files can be also posted for free, allowing the view without any credit purchase. The administrator can configure this allowing the view for guest or logged users. Among other features, the component benefits also from Joomfish Integration, offering multilingual support. Demo: The demo-server is available under http://media-mall.thefactory.ro (http://media-mall.thefactory.ro/) - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the left side. Feel free to test as you please; the server resets itself each hour.

DEMO Server (http://jooanswers.thefactory.ro/) - you can log on the Front end or Admin Back end in order to check all features and settings jAnswers Factory brings also several charging possibilities, so that the webmaster can transform his site to a profitable business. From this features it worth mentioning the followings: Pay-per-Question Pay for featured Question Pay-per-Contact Support for beer money payments Multiple Payment Gateways including Paypal and MoneybookersNative SEF integration (all question links are SEF!) (shop/joomla-components/janswers-joomla-yahoo-answers-clone-script-joomanswers-jooanswers.html) Other noticeable features are the extended User profile (avatar, location, yahoo id, paypal email) and Community Builder Integration.On the back-end side, the solution brings also important features and settings to offer the needed flexibility for the site administrator. Here some of the available features: set avatar size, set time period for questions, block offensive questions/answers, manage abuse reports, manage payments, import/export questions answers, manage extended profile, user statistics, etc.The component comes also with a free 5.000 records database to provide a valuable start-up (due to this the downloadkit is approx. 5 MB). Bigger database packages are available upon request for an additional charge. Some of the available modules are: Latest Questions, Popular Questions, Open Questions, Random Questions, Featured Questions, Tag Cloud, etc.

Raffle Factory (shop/joomla-components/raffle-factory-tombola-extension.html) comes as a new product to provide more power to our eCommerce Extension Suite. A raffle is a competition in which people buy numbered tickets. Originating in southern Italy, it is a popular game in numerous countries and is often held to raise funds for a specific event, charity, or occasion.The raffle involves many people buying tickets for a chance to win a certain prize or prizes. At a set date, the winners are drawn from a bucket containing a copy of every number or a tombola (from Italian: tombola ['to:mbola]). The ticket is then checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached to them. A raffle also often involves several different possible prizes that can be won and a ticket will simply be drawn from the group at random for each of the prizes one by one. Our Raffle Solution provides allot of the features encountered in the Auction Factory Suite , but this time specialized in the raffle field, with specific settings like: (shop/joomla-components/raffle-factory-tombola-extension.html) Price per ticket. Buyer can purchase several tickets; ticket numbers will be sent to the buyer, for each purchased ticket. Administrator statistics to see the number of purchased tickets per each auction. Payments will be processed with the integrated payment methods, like paypal, moneybookers or with the possibility to integrate new payment gateways using the published API. email notifications for all stages (enable/disable) public statistic to see original total number of available tickets and total number of tickets sold to date. Seller has option to end raffle early before all tickets sold, a winner will be automatically random chosen, notified and displayed in the auction. user can see his purchased tickets (won/selected for top 100/selected for top 10/selected for top 3/lost).The raffle can end automatically with a predefined work flow as follows, where the winner is announced 4 days later after the end of raffle, then displayed in the details and notified. 1st day (change top to random ) 100 participants will be displayed. 2nd day (change top to random ) 10 participants (from 1st day's 100) will be displayed. 3rd day (change top to random ) 3 participants (from 2nd day's 10) will be displayed. 4th day random 1 participant from 3rd day's 3 will be chosen winner and displayed.In case of notary usage, instead of the work flow above, a ticket list can be exported to be used for an outside draw, then the winner ticket number has to be entered in the platform. You can test all functionalities on our demo sever here (http://raffle-factory.thefactory.ro/) In order to provide maximum flexibility to all the administrators, Raffle Factory also uses a template engine. Detailed informations about how to personalize the Raffle Factory Extension can be found here, in the Template Tutorial.

The native MVC Joomla 1.5 component provides an easy voting system, requiring only a single click action for a speedy process. The component can be used to rate different images like landscapes, art, etc. or if the genre mode is enabled, more particular for male and female images. The upload is very easy, allowing also multiple upload. For each picture a sharelink and the number of hits will be visible and if admin enabled the description, comments and tags. To allow the administrator content control on the site, each picture and comment can be reported. You can log into the demo site (http://hotornot.thefactory.ro/) and check out frontend and backend Settings Administrator Settings:Enable/disable voting for guests (unloged users).Enable/disable upload images for guests (unlogged users).Set 1-10 or 1-5 voting scale.Set upload folder, Resize height and width, Thumbnail size, Nr. of uploaded images at once.Enable/disable image description, Description length, Enable/disable require description on upload.Enable/disable tags, Maximum allowed nr. of tags, Enable/disable require tags on upload.Allow comments from: visitors/registred/disabled.Display nr. of images per page, Display last x comments per page (0 for all).Enable/disable genre mode (male, female).Enable/disable email reporting.The component comes also with the following modules:Menu Module including Top Rated, My Pictures, Upload and advanced Search option. TAG Cloud Module.Random Picture.Last Voted. Requirements: Joomla 1.5.x (shop/joomla-components/hot-or-not-joomla-native-extension.html)

It's been eight months since we introduced the legacy support for the Briefcase component. Today, we are proud to announce the release of a new product, compatible with the Joomla 1.5 native mode. Briefcase Facotry is the Joomla Component which is offers any Joomla Site, a very similar functionality as Yahoo Briefcase, but with a multitude of extended features. briefcase Factory 1.5.0 released on March 3, 2009. Redeveloped to be a native Joomla 1.5.x component.New feature: File FTP Upload for Administrator.New feature: Set allowed file types.New feature: Search Mambot for Joomla Search.Several improvements including find user when sharing, AJAX on upload files, etc.