Cafe.com, a social network for game playing, has opened its previously invite-only platform to all developers.
While most of the attention in the social games space is focused on bringing games to existing social networks (mainly Facebook), Cafe.com is going the opposite way by creating a social network entirely dedicated to playing free online games. The [...]
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The year is 2019. Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or REDS, has appeared in Stockholm, the first city outside of the tropics to see a case. The disease is known to overwhelm local health resources everywhere it goes, and news of health insurance companies going belly up has become routine. Word is spreading that in the absence [...]
As the world sits of the doorstep of the biggest financial disaster since 1931, is Silicon Valley biting its nails? Mayfield Fund doesn’t think so. The firm, once considered the peer of the biggest names in venture capital, has raised a $395 fund and says it did so within its anticipated timeline and amidst high [...]
If BranchNext, maker of Yotify, has its way, you will one day be able to get updates on everything that matters to you on the web. Do you like that shirt you saw on CafePress but don’t want to throw down all that cash? Yotify would love to tell you when it goes on sale. [...]
“Boulder is good for engineers — if you’re into innovation in rock climbing technology,” a friend once quipped about the outdoor-loving Colorado college town. But today, 12 startups from TechStars, a Boulder-based incubator, demoed their products in Mountain View, Calif. and did a good job of building on the city’s reputation as a budding center [...]
Norwest Venture Partners, one of Silicon Valley’s leading VC firms, has brought in Dror Nahumi, a former executive from one of Israel’s largest telecoms, to lead the firm’s investments in Israeli start-ups.
Israel’s start-up scene, which relies almost entirely on business from outside the country, has been posting good numbers. According to IVC, Israel’s VC research [...]
Right90, a Foster City, California, company specializing in “bottom-up sales forecasting” software, has raised $10 million in its third round of financing.
According to salesopedia, a handy glossary for sales and marketing terms, bottom-up sales forecasting is “an approach…which takes market conditions rather than the company’s objectives as its basis.” In practice, this means looking deeper [...]
The hyper-local concept, which revolves around content — like business reviews — targeted to local niches, has had it rough. Over the last 18 months, two venture-backed start-ups, Judy’s Book and BackFence, have had to shut down. Another site, Insider Pages, sold to Citysearch without generating much of a return to its investors. Only Yelp [...]
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Seedcamp is a European tech event that picks 20 promising European companies then gives a handful of winners £50,000 euro and three months in London to get their products ready for the next round. Last year, the judges chose five companies, one of which, Zemanta — a blog plug-in that helps you find content relevant [...]
Social media influencers of the world take note: You can now (theoretically) get the financial credit your influence deserves.
Today, BuzzLogic, a start-up capitalized to the tune of about $13.5 million, goes live with its its “Conversation Ad Network.” This network uses algorithms that ferret out the big time influencers and the lesser influencers over whom [...]
Kiwibox.com, an online magazine aimed at teenagers, is a remnant of the dot-com days. Unheralded and mostly undifferentiated, it launched in 1999 and somehow managed to slog its way through the bubble’s pop. In August, it relaunched with a social networking component and has just raised a low-seven figure round from a public company called [...]
UpTake , the travel search engine formerly known as Kango, has raised over $10 million in a second round of financing.
Unlike many content-focused travel sites, which seem to proliferate daily (see TripWolf, IgoUgo, TripSay), UpTake has no illusions about becoming the first place people turn for travel info. It has instead built a strategy [...]
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Dopplr, a site that lets you share your jet-setting travel plans with your jet-setting friends, has raised a second round of undisclosed size from a plethora of jet-setters from the world of tech.
The site, which we first covered in September, clearly caters to business travelers and the elite. Its investors, including Esther Dyson, Del.ico.us founder [...]
New companies offering web-based personal finance management tools are popping up like Eggo Waffles in the 80s, ever since early start-ups like Mint emerged last year and won accolades.
There was Wesabe. We’ve also seen Geezeo, Buxfer and expensr all show up to take a shot at leadership in this area, but so far none seem [...]
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When David Maestri launched Mob Wars in January of this year, he may have made a multi-million dollar mistake.
I have learned from a handful of sources that the entrepreneur, whose popular game is one of the most lucrative apps on Facebook, both developed and released Mob Wars while still employed at Freewebs, the company that [...]
There’s a Facebook game pulling in $22,000 a day and it’s not an application from RockYou or Slide. It’s an independently developed game called Mob Wars, currently the 13th most popular app on Facebook.
At least that’s what Developer Analytics, a Facebook service for developers and marketers, claims. Today, the company released its first ranking of [...]
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Thanks to the internet, selling tickets on the secondary ticket market — the act formerly known as scalping — has gone legit. EBay bought the market pioneer, StubHub, for $310 million. TicketMaster dropped $265 million to get its hands on TicketsNow, and top-tier VC firm Kleiner Perkins led a $26 million investment in RazorGator back [...]
Web video platforms like Brightcove, Move Networks and Maven have a problem: They have all built business models targeting the handful of content companies willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year to push video on their sites. As a result, the platforms are angling for the same big fish in a relatively [...]
Vuclip, a mobile video search service that has been operating under the radar for a year as Blueapple.mobi, has a very cool technology. In 20 seconds or less, Vuclip can take video encoded in any format and convert it on the fly, so that it can play on a very wide range of phones. Today, [...]
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