Discovr Hits 1.5M Downloads, Launches Movie Discovery App

The company behind music discovery app Discovr, which recently hit 1.5M downloads, just launched Discovr Movies for iPhone, iPad and Mac OS.

"It was the single biggest request we kept hearing from users," Filter Squad founder and CEO David McKinney tells LAUNCH via email. "We just got heaps of people asking us to make Discovr Movies."

Discovr Movies features an interactive map of movies, making it easier to discover new ones from a data set of nearly 500K titles.

"People intuitively understand the...

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Trade NBA Player Shares and Make a Profit with StarStreet

Sports stock market StarStreet, which launched back in September for football season, has just opened its NBA market so you can buy stock and invest money in "shares" of professional basketball players.

It works by investing in the players you think are going to have a good season and if you're right, you'll make real money. In order to start trading, you must first deposit between $5 and $5K to your account via a credit card or PayPal. If you make a deposit now, you can get a 20% cash bonus to trade with. StarStreet takes 4% commission on the sell side of each trade and covers all PayPal fees.

For the current NFL market, there are 700+ traders -- about 20% of them who are active every single day -- but expects more for the NBA market, StarStreet CEO Jeremy Levine tells LAUNCH via email.

"We're expecting more and more traders as we're improving our product and the trading experience almost daily," Jeremy says. "...Some people are seriously...

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Facebook Timeline Arrives on iPhone, Still Waiting for iPad Support

Facebook has updated its iOS app to feature the new Timeline and offer access to friend lists, subscribers and subscriptions.

Facebook launched Timeline last week, after first introducing it at f8 in September. That same day, Facebook updated its app for Android to feature Timeline, but left iOS users in the cold.
 
In terms of daily users, the Facebook app is...

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Google+ Boosts Stream Control, Adds Brand Page Admins

Google+ just shipped a load of new features including a volume slider to adjust how posts from specific Circles integrate into the stream, notifications that are easier to understand and the option to add up to 50 people as administrators to a brand page.

"Oh, cool," Robert Scoble writes on Google+. "Google+ finally included its first form of noise control this morning. Good first step. Now we need Gmail-style filtering on top of this."

The volume slider lets you control whether you want to see more or less...

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Occupy Movement Generated 2.8M+ Retweets in 75 Days

The highest peak in Occupy-related Twitter activity occurred around mid-November when word got out that NYPD started clearing Zuccotti Park and the UC Davis campus police pepper sprayed protesters, according to Klout statistics.
 
Klout analyzed retweet data of Occupy-related content from Twitter between Sept. 15 and Nov. 29 and found that peaks in activity, unsurprisingly, correspond to important events in the movement.

The first day of the Occupy Wall Street movement, where an estimated...

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