Evernote updates contact app to fix first-version flaws

Every phone has a contact list, but how useful is it? According to Evernote chief executive officer Phil Libin, not very useful at all.

Now Evernote has updated its contact manager, Evernote Hello, in an effort to put those contact lists out of business.

Evernote’s answer to the standard address book is a photo-based contact app for the iPhone, which organizes contacts “visually, chronologically and contextually.” The app got some major updates today that may … Continue Reading

Nivio pulls in $21M to make cloud computing cheaper and more student-friendly

Cloud computing and desktop virtualization are rapidly growing trends in the tech world, and one company has spent a considerable amount of time developing this technology. Nivio, which started as an idea in 2004, announced today it has received $21 million in its first round of venture capital funding.

Nivio lets you store up to 10GB of your documents, music, and movies in the cloud for free with nDrive. Your files sync across all of … Continue Reading

Sequoia takes root in Evernote as early investor gets big exit

In a head-scratching private-market barter, illustrious venture firm Sequoia Capital has managed to secure an even larger chunk of up-and-coming Silicon Valley startup Evernote.

Russian firm Troika Ventures, Evernote’s first institutional investor, sold its stake in the note-taking and note-sharing company at more than ten times its investment.

Troika led a $4.5 million raise in Evernote in January 2009 (the round closed later in the year at $6.5 million), and quickly piled on with new … Continue Reading

LG’s scanning mouse now connects to Evernote, Dropbox, more (exclusive)

LG‘s mouse scanner might not be the scanner with the highest resolution or the best color stitching, but it is certainly the most fun to use.

LG licenses the technology from Dacuda, which unveiled the product to the US market at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. “Today many people don’t use a scanner because they have no easy access to digitizing the information,” said Dacuda chief executive Alexander Ilic. “The mouse market is really … Continue Reading

SocialFolders backs up your Facebook photos & Google Docs on your hard drive

With cloud computing all the rage these days, we often have files and bits of data that live exclusively on a server far away from our hard drives. And while that’s often really awesome, sometimes you want and need a backup of that information on your computer. Enter SocialFolders, a service that backs up your social and cloud data to your hard drive.

“SocialFolders was basically created to help people manage their content on social … Continue Reading

Contact information app Hello wants to replace your contact list

Evernote chief executive Phil Libin believes alphabetical contact lists are outdated. And even though his contact app Hello took off like a lead balloon, he hopes that updates coming in the next couple of weeks will help it kill the typical contact list and replace it with a mosaic of photos.

Ever since the note-taking startup Evernote launched, it has been on a quest to capture and organize every bit of data from your life. … Continue Reading

Click.to wants to make copy and paste obsolete

Copy and paste is so 2011. Or so says Click.to, a new app for Mac and Windows that lets you copy content and send it exactly where you want it to go with one click — no pasting required.

With Click.to, you can send email attachments, publish content to Facebook, save text to Evernote, upload images to Flickr, search products on Amazon — the list goes on and on. You can even create custom actions … Continue Reading

Recipes become shopping lists with Say Mmm and Evernote

Recipes hoarders and cooking enthusiasts can now organize all of their recipes into grocery lists with Evernote and Say Mmm. These two web-based organization companies have come together to shopping for tonight’s dinner much easier.

By adding the “Say Mmm” tag to any note in Evernote, a shopping list will be automatically generated with quantities for each ingredient and estimated nutritional information of the recipe. Say Mmm will even categorize each ingredient for you based … Continue Reading

Skitch’s new iPad app is worthy of drawing your attention

Image sketching service Skitch rolled out a new iPad app today that lets you to draw or visually annotate anything that appears on the tablet’s screen.

Skitch previously launched an Android application that coincided with the company’s sale to note taking service Evernote in August. “We built our iOS version of Skitch first for iPad because it’s the ideal form factor for tactile annotation,” Evernote VP of Marketing Andrew Sinkov wrote in a blog post.… Continue Reading

Evernote hits more than 20M users

Multi-platform note-taking startup Evernote has now reached more than 20 million users, CEO Phil Libin said at the LeWeb conference this morning in Paris.

Evernote made our list of “10 disruptive cloud companies we’re excited about” because the company has taken to solving the simple problem of effective note-taking in an innovative, cloud-based fashion. Just yesterday, the company launched two free iPhone apps, “Food” and “Hello,” which help you better keep track of meals and … Continue Reading

“Hello” and “Food” apps let Evernote remember faces and meals on the go

In its grand quest to help you remember just about everything, note-taking startup Evernote today launched two free new iPhone apps, “Food” and “Hello,” which will let you better keep track of great meals and people, respectively.

Both apps are still tied to the existing Evernote service — entries are synchronized and viewable from any device that can access Evernote — but they offer useful bits of functionality suited specifically to their purposes.

Evernote Hello, … Continue Reading

10 disruptive cloud companies we’re excited about

There is so much happening right now in emerging cloud computing — the entire economy is being disrupted by the trend.

With publicly-traded giants like Amazon, Google, VMWare, Microsoft, Cisco and Salesforce lurching around with new and improved services that can help businesses with cost and efficiency gains, sometimes it’s easy to miss the hot players that are up-and-coming.

We’ve assembled a list of ten private cloud companies that we think are particularly intriguing — … Continue Reading

Evernote launches Clearly, a browser extension for naked news reading

In search of a distraction-free way to read the day’s web news? Evernote, the ubiquitous note-taking service, has released a Chrome browser extension called Clearly made with you in mind.

Evernote specializes in mobile and web applications for taking and saving notes, and has more than 16 million users. Clearly is Evernote’s first original product launch since it released Peek, the iPad 2 Smart Cover application.

With a single click of button, Clearly slides in … Continue Reading

Note-taking app company Evernote heads for the hills with a new Austin studio

Mountain View-based Evernote, the company that offers a memory-like app for taking and organizing notes, is opening a “studio” in Austin, TX. That office, er, studio, will eventually be home to 100 Evernote employees. Just don’t call it a “satellite.”

“One of the things that’s prevented us from expansion is this notion of a satellite office,” said Phil Libin, the BBQ-lovin’ CEO of Evernote. “We didn’t want to lose the culture at Evernote and … Continue Reading

Evernote acquires image-sharing app Skitch

Note taking service Evernote has acquired best-selling OS X image app Skitch, Evernote CEO Phil Libin said today at the Evernote Trunk event in San Francisco.

Skitch, which was originally produced by acclaimed developer company Plasq, lets you add visual annotations to photos and images. Those images can then either be saved to a computer or uploaded to the company’s online service.

“It is the app I probably use most often other than Evernote,” Libin … Continue Reading

Evernote nabs $50M for expansion and acquisitions

Note-taking service Evernote has secured a $50 million funding round, the company announced Wednesday.

The Mountain View, California-based startup said it plans to use the new funds to aggressively expand its operations and acquire companies that will increase growth of its note-taking service.

Evernote’s service, which allows individuals to easily capture notes on a variety of devices, has 11 million users and a community of over 5,000 third-party application developers. The service has nearly doubled … Continue Reading

Evernote lands on Windows Phone 7 with a gorgeous app

The ubiquitous note-taking service Evernote is continuing the trend of being available just about everywhere with the launch of a gorgeous new Windows Phone 7 app today.

While it’s taken a while for Evernote to deliver the app, it looks like the wait was worth it for Windows Phone 7 users. The new app features a stylish design that blows the iOS and Android Evernote offerings out of the water, and it even sports a … Continue Reading