Zimbalam, which launched in Europe in 2009 to help artists get their music widely distributed without a lot of work, opened its doors to US stores this week, meaning any artist using Zimbalam can now sell their music in the …
BeanJar is a new game awards company that launched in the last week, and competing today as a finalist in the startup competition at our GamesBeat@GDC conference in San Francisco.
The company’s goal is to create a rewards system for …
As the Internet is getting faster, with everything coming and going in real-time, advertising is playing catch-up. DataXu (said like “data zoo”), an advertising startup that optimizes ads in real time, today announced $11 million in funding to continue doing …
Social networking, on a scale as large as Twitter and Facebook, is great for connecting with people and finding information. It’s not very good for finding people with common interests, and talking about those interests.
That’s why, even with the …
Thanks to sites like E-Trade, more and more people are handling their own investing, trading and tracking their money instead of paying someone else to do it for them. Easy-Forex, a worldwide foreign exchange trading company, is making that even …
By now, most radio stations have started broadcasting online, meaning you can listen from anywhere you’ve got an Internet connection. For whatever reason, though, that fantastic feature hasn’t really found its way to where we normally listen to the radio …
Google announced this weekend that it’s going to be ending support for Google Gears, its product for allowing offline access to applications like Gmail and Google Docs.
Instead of developing Gears, Google said in a blog post it will be …
Virtual goods, whether you’re buying raspberries for your Farmville or any number of equivalent purchases, are a gigantic and growing source of revenue for companies trying to make money on Facebook and other social gaming sites.
Taking full advantage, Peanut …
Online dating is firmly entrenched as a viable option for meeting potential partners, but it has plenty of drawbacks. Try as they might, profiles, match quotients, and algorithms can’t do nearly what even a few minutes of face-to-face conversation can.…
Tiny Speck, a company started by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, has just opened a massively-multiplayer, browser-based game called Glitch to alpha testers, giving the world a taste of what Glitch might look like.
There are essentially two schools of multiplayer …
Micello, an ambitious startup trying to map the world’s indoors and create location-based services around them, is leading the pack of companies mapping the buildings where we spend our time, banking on the fact that getting where you’re going is …
As business and commerce go mobile, payment technology is playing catch-up, trying to come up with a simple and powerful way to allow businesses to accept credit card payments on the go (because who even uses cash anymore?).
One possible …
Distimo, a company that sells tools for app store analytics, released today its December Report, a State of the Union of application development, with a number of interesting findings about who’s developing apps and what they’re selling them for.
Much …
Aloqa, a mobile application that serves up local information to users based on their location, has released version 2.0 of its offering. The new version brings more local knowledge and social information to its nearly 300,000 users.
Aloqa, available for …
TimeBridge, the company devoted to making business meetings easier by connecting your calendar with others’ regardless of what software they’re using, today launched TimeBridge Business Plus, a premium version of of the service that adds a number of new features …
Look at your computer desktop. Everything’s clean, rigid, in nice neat rows and columns. Now look at your desk (or at least mine): piles everywhere, mess galore, and yet, somehow, it works much better than the computer version.
BumpTop thinks …
VEVO, the music video portal that launched in conjunction with YouTube and a number of music labels in December of 2009, is bringing back the glory days of music videos. And, based on its meteoric rise to the top of …
CES 2010 is in full swing this week in Las Vegas, with the biggest companies in the tech world showing off their best and newest technologies. And the product releases have certainly not disappointed.
CES tends to be a good …
Two ex-Googlers are launching a brand-new advertising system today called MyLikes. The offering is designed to let publishers pick and choose their ads based on what they think their readers will respond to. The idea is to make advertising and …
RegaloCard is announcing today a $7 million round of funding for a free, instant way to send gift cards from the US to friends or family in Latin America.
The service works like this: You buy a RegaloCard gift card …
