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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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. …
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 …
In most cases, when a 17 year old girl wants to attempt to galvanize her generation against global warming, the end product tends to be basically nothing. Things change a bit when that girl’s father is Kleiner Perkins’ chief rainmaker, …
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Today, SeedFund, an Indian VC firm backed with Google cash, announced a $1 million investment in Lifeblob, a Bangalore-based lifecasting company whose awkward name just about says it all.
Lifeblob is a kind of digital diary that maps the …
Two Seattle-based VC firms, Maveron and Voyager Capital, have recently brought on new partners to extend their reach to the south.
Maveron, which hit a homerun with an early investment in eBay, but has yet to match that success, has …
Today, MOG, a blogging platform and content aggregator for music-oriented blogs, is launching the MOG Music Network, a vertical ad network that targets music-oriented sites and blogs. The company has also added legendary producer Rick Rubin to its board.
But …
Ever since Apple’s chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, referred to a “future product transition” during the company’s most recent earnings call, the tech news world has been abuzz. The most frenzied speculation has centered around a revision to the MacBook …
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Amobee, a company that enables mobile carriers to insert advertising into nearly any form of mobile content, has raised a $22 million strategic round from Cisco, Motorola, Vodafone and a number of returning investors that include Accel Partners and …
The mysterious Conduit Labs has gone through pains to keep its nature under wraps. The company’s stated goal is to create online social experiences that are as rich as those we have offline, and it has managed to raise $5.5 …
In the first years of the 1990s, the attempt to push video chat to the masses got off to an ignoble start when AT&T released its VideoPhone 2500. For the low cost of $1500, you, too, could have choppy, grainy …
Nintendogs for the DS was a brilliant game. Its premise — pick a puppy and nurture it to adulthood — played on the digital pet theme that has driven high sales from Tamagotchi to Pikachu, and let you teach your …
If you get superstar athletes to invest in your youth-sports social network, does that mean you’re onto something big?
WePlay seems to think so. The company, which combines standard social network features with scheduling functionality to manage practices and games, …
