Social events marketplace Lifecrowd raises $5M from Lightbank, Bullpen, others

April 19, 2012 4:30 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Social events startup Lifecrowd has raised $5 million in its first round of funding, with a goal to expand its evolving marketplace that connects like-minded users connect at nearby events, the company announced Thursday.

The service has come a long …

Tango video chat gets $40M from Qualcomm and Access, scores 45M users in 18 months

April 19, 2012 3:00 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Forget Apple’s Facetime. If there’s one app that shows the potential in the mobile video chat market, it’s Tango.

Almost one year since its last round of $42 million, the cross-platform video chat company Tango announced that it has raised …

E-mail backup service DropMyEmail.com grabs over 500K users in just 2 months

April 19, 2012 2:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Brand-new e-mail backup service DropMyEmail.com has signed up more than 520,000 users only 50 days since its public launch, a feat that makes it one of the fastest growing startups by users ever.

DropMyEmail.com attracted attention at DEMO Asia when …

Facebook gunning for May 17 IPO with $104B valuation, reports say

April 18, 2012 9:16 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Social network giant Facebook is allegedly targeting May 17 as the potential date for its initial public offering, according to a TechCrunch report that cites unnamed sources familiar with the company.

The IPO date might be off depending on how …

Workday launches mobile HTML5 apps to help HR pros on the go

April 18, 2012 9:00 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Cloud-based HR software company Workday has launched the latest version of its suite with an emphasis on mobile access through HTML5 web apps, the company announced today.

Workday competes with SAP and Oracle in the professional software and services realm. …

A better, faster, cheaper way to do video subtitles — now, with added techology!

April 18, 2012 6:04 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

The web needs better video transcriptions. Around the world, we’re sharing more information than ever, and we’re sharing it with people with all kinds of abilities and disabilities. For the most part, video leaves a lot of people out.

Koemei …

Do more with your spreadsheets with CollateBox

April 18, 2012 5:37 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

For those who live inside spreadsheets, CollateBox launches today as a no-fuss way to clean house and get productive.

“Any data you would see in a spreadsheet, we are bringing into CollateBox. You’ve heard of WYSWIG, well this is “what …

Project Footage helps you manage projects online

April 18, 2012 5:31 PM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

Most of us have such complicated, diverse lives that it’s hard to keep track of everything. Project Footage aims to help, with a cloud-based project management service that helps you manage your projects, collaborate with others, and stay on top …

Mash up Evernote and Pinterest, mix in beautiful layouts, and you get NotesCloud

April 18, 2012 5:25 PM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

Bruce Linn was sitting on a surfboard just outside his favorite surf break in Costa Rica when the idea came to him.

He wanted a way to collect and save everything he was interested in — notes, pictures, web pages, …

How to turn big data into engaging infographics with a single app

April 18, 2012 5:19 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Digesting big data can be migraine-inducing. Knoema wants to make it as easy as scanning a graph.

“With data, we want to do what YouTube did for video,” Vladimir Bougay, founder and CTO of startup Knoema, told VentureBeat in a …

Hoiio Live gives you another option for managing phonebook data in the cloud

April 18, 2012 5:13 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

If you’re not satisfied with the contacts services that tech giants Apple and Google offer, rest assured that other options are out there.

For instance, Hoiio Live, which launches today at DEMO Spring, offers a comparable service that acts as …

Visualize your dream home and find contractors with Showoff Home Stager

April 18, 2012 5:01 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Ever wanted to repaint your living room but wanted to see more than just a swatch of color on your walls before making the decision? Home improvement company VisApp has created the Showoff Home Stager, so you can see your …

Want a store inside your video player? Cinsay can do that

April 18, 2012 4:55 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Undoubtedly, the 30-second (or less) video commercial is an effective way to drive a company’s revenue. That’s assuming people take the initiative to visit the company’s store, walk through 2-3 additional steps, and finally confirm payment. Each step holds the …

Meet Hazelcast, the tiny Turkish startup that counts Cisco, Mozilla, and Ericsson as users

April 18, 2012 4:45 PM Ben Popper
Ben Popper

Hazelcast, a five person Turkish startup with an open source platform that makes it easy for companies to create cloud-friendly applications. Blue-chip companies like Cisco, Mozilla, and Ericsson are among its early clients.

Open-source solutions are all the rage for …

Finovera is making your offline bank accounts cloud-ready

April 18, 2012 4:34 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Bills, invoices, and bank statements are straddling the online and paper worlds, making organizing finances a messy task. Finovera is launching today in an attempt to collect these bills and make people trust accounting in the cloud.

Consumers receive more …

DocSync brings your docs to the iPad, no matter where they’re stored

April 18, 2012 4:27 PM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Last year at the DEMO conference, R. Paul Singh was forced to return home to find a simple document on his computer that he couldn’t access via his iPad. He couldn’t access the file over e-mail, remote desktop was too …

Looqiloo knows you trust friends more, sets up peer-review marketplace

April 18, 2012 4:22 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Which one is more convincing: watching an infomercial for the latest juicer, or watching a guy on YouTube pulverize 12 apples into a tasty beverage?

We all know Jack LaLanne is awesome, but Looqiloo is betting that peer reviews on …

Box CEO Aaron Levie dismisses Google Drive

April 18, 2012 4:20 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Using humor to cover up his true feelings, Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie said that he had nearly forgotten about Google Drive, the search giant’s soon-to-launch cloud storage product that will threaten the very livelihood of Levie’s seven-year-old business.…

RollApp launches cloud-enabled beta of ‘Open Office on iPad’

April 18, 2012 4:15 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

On-demand software startup rollApp has launched a free beta of “Open Office on iPad,” its first big stab at bringing cloud-powered software to the iPad’s browser.

rollApp’s focuses on developing the technology to run any existing software app on any …

Here’s the Uber for architecture: elite services for web-savvy commoners

April 18, 2012 4:04 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

The Internet is all about elite services for common folk these days. Designer furniture, luxury clothing, and even top-notch car service can be had at a fraction of their usual cost for the discerning webizen.

Now we can add custom …