Fab‘s ambitious overhaul from back in May is now coming to a mobile screen and/or Facebook wall near you.
The startup’s flash-sale shopping experience is now available on iOS and Android. The company is also rolling out new Facebook Connect …
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Contrary to rumors, social media startup Hootsuite is not actively raising another round — but if it were, its price tag would be even higher than reported.
We had a nice chat yesterday with Hootsuite CEO and founder Ryan Holmes. …
Today, the TV freedom fighters of Roku closed a $45 million deal. The money came not from Silicon Valley hotshots but from a carefully selected string of strategic investors in media and entertainment.
This round’s investors include News Corp. (parent …
Facebook’s App Center, the social network’s answer to Google Play and Apple’s iTunes App Store, is finally rolling out to non-English-speaking countries around the world.
“Earlier this month we began accepting submissions for translated app detail pages,” a Facebook rep …
Revinate is doing something interesting for the hospitality industry: it’s gathering up reviews from all over the web — Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, places where we might not even know we’re writing a “review” — and letting hoteliers and retaurateurs sort …
Ticketfly, the online ticketing website, today announced a new infusion of cash: $22 million in the startup’s third round of institutional funding.
The new money comes from SAP Ventures, which led the round. Northgate Capital, Cross Creek Capital, and Series …
Meteor Development Group has pulled in $11.2 million in funding to make building client-side web apps super easy and super fast. This is the group’s first institutional funding round, and it’s a rather large one at that.
Meteor is open-sourced …
DailyBooth, the site that challenges you to snap a quickie webcam pic of yourself and share it with the world, has just been bought in a talent acquisition by Airbnb.
“We can confirm the talent acquisition of the Batch/DailyBooth CEO, …
Can’t find a good developer to work on your smartphone app? Join the club, pally.
In fact, the mobile developer shortage of ’12 is so dire that a bunch of VCs just lobbed — lobbed, I tell you — …
Chute, a startup that helps developers quickly and easily bring multimedia content into their apps, has just sealed a $2.7 million funding deal with a few of the usual suspects in Silicon Valley early-stage investment.
Josh Felser’s firm, Freestyle Capital, …
Appcelerator, maker of mobile development tool Titanium, is gearing up for Codestrong, its big code conference and hackathon set to take place in San Francisco this October.
In just three months, more than 500 developers will descend on the Intercontinental …
What a week it has been, what a rare mood I’m in — why, it’s almost like being in tech!
This week, we’re giving you a quick update on the week’s biggest stories:
Unless you’ve been living under a rock
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In a deal worth an estimated $40 million or more, Nasdaq is planning to bail out investors who lost bigtime during Facebook’s disastrous IPO.
Back in May, when Facebook stock first went public, Nasdaq was responsible for some glitches in …
“Social media has a positive impact on marketing. It democratizes it. It’s not just about who’s got the biggest budget, but who really understands their consumer.”
I’m talking to Victoria Ransom (pictured above) about one of my least favorite things …
Google has just released the details of its second-quarter earnings: $12.21 billion in total consolidated revenue, around $1.25 billion of which came from Motorola Mobility, now officially owned by Google.
Altogether, the company has seen 35 percent consolidated revenue growth …
We’ve been itching to know more about Firefox OS ever since Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs started talking real talk about it to us at SXSW.
And today, we got screenshots. Hooray!
UPDATE, 2:55 p.m. Pacific: A Mozilla rep emailed us …
Huddle, the enterprise collaboration toolkit, is bringing a new product forward today. The new Huddle puts conversations and content into a single view, making for more thorough task management and workflow.
It’s cloud-based, as always, so you can view files …
At our recent MobileBeat event, we caught up with W3i co-founder Rob Weber to talk about user acquisition, a.k.a. persuading people to download your app, a.k.a. the seamiest of underbellies in the world of developing and marketing mobile applications.
It’s …
Oh, developers, if you ever doubt that we love you, remember today, the day we gave you some free stuff.
Icenium is a nifty tool that lets you build native mobile applications for Android and iOS devices for distribution in …
For the past year, Facebook has been leading a charge to open-source the world of servers and data centers, with the end goal being the cleanest, most energy-efficient Internet we humans can dream up.
And for the past year, we …
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