Data visualization startup Visual.ly grabs another $2M to take on ad agencies (exclusive)

Big data may be cool, but its not pretty. Visual.ly, a startup focused on data visualizations and infographics, has raised a new $2 million round of funding, the company has confirmed to VentureBeat today.

Kayak unwraps the best and worst times to travel this holiday season [infographic]

What are the best days to book flights? What are the hottest holiday destinations? How much can you save by traveling on Christmas? All this and more in an exclusive infographic.

Navigate the war on Internet piracy with this nifty battle map (infographic)

If someone were to layout all the important organizations, factions, companies, and components of the war on online piracy into a comprehensive battle map, it would look like the infographic below.

The “map” is basically visualized as a region of …

For Facebook IPO day, Visual.ly lets you track how much Zuckerberg is worth in real-time

While most of the tech industry is watching Facebook’s historic IPO day unfold, data startup Visual.ly is taking advantage of the situation by showing off the capabilities of its infographics service.

Today Visual.ly launched a new interactive infographic that uses …

Paypal faces a lot of competition in mobile payments (infographic)

PayPal announced today that it would be entering the mobile payment market with its own smartphone dongle, PayPal Here.

It’s a triangular widget that plugs into the headphone jack of your phone, similar to the rectangular dongle (pictured above) of …

Visual.ly’s new service lets anyone make infographics, even if they stink at Photoshop

Infographics startup Visual.ly is launching its automated service today that plans to quench the public’s thirst for interesting and visually stimulating data without the need of Photoshop or a team of expensive designers.

Visual.ly’s service intends to create custom infographics …

Rich men love Pinterest too (infographic)

Scrap everything you think you know about the people of Pinterest.

Pinterest, the insanely buzzy invite-only digital pin-board site, has been pegged as the online place where 35-to-44-year-old Suzy homemakers congregate to swap recipes and fashion finds.

That characterization may …

How infographics jumped the shark

We’ve tumbled headlong into the era of infographics.

Visual presentations of data are everywhere, popping up on every type of online publication (even VentureBeat). There are so many infographics on the Internet that some bloggers are lashing out against the …

Visual.ly raises $2M to make your data pretty and interesting

Infographics startup Visual.ly has raised a new $2 million round of funding, the company announced today.

Visual.ly is building a service that will allow people to create beautiful, custom infographics using information from various databases and APIs. The service will …

Photoshop not required: Visual.ly wants to makes data visualization easy

The creative minds behind the beautiful infographics found on finance service Mint launched a public beta site for its new startup Visual.ly today.

Visual.ly’s service is similar to document-sharing site Scribd in that it provides an easy way for people …