Did you correctly predict Hubdub’s round of funding?
Predictions are all the rage right now. Obviously, since it’s the beginning of a new year, everyone wants to forecast the year ahead, but also with a weakened global economy, everyone is looking for answers for when things will turn around. Hubdub, a site that attempts to harness those predictions, and turn them into a game of sorts, has just closed its first round of funding.
The service works by granting users virtual currency to stake… Continue Reading
Hubdub partners with Reuters for news predictions
Hubdub runs a news prediction game site where users can place bets with virtual money on how certain news stories will turn out. Based on current betting, for instance, people believe that Monday’s Gallup presidential poll will favor Barack Obama.
Now the Scottish company is announcing that Reuters will partner with it to integrate Reuters’ news reports into Hubdub’s prediction site. Reuters will also put Hubdub widgets on its own site, helping Hubdub get access to… Continue Reading
Roundup: Google tests a new social network-esque homepage, Apple ups iPhone orders and more
Here’s the latest action:
Google tests out a new, more functional iGoogle (with a friend update stream) — The company’s personalized homepage service is looking more and more like a — dare I say? — social network. The latest version has side tabs that can contain elements such as a Google Talk widget so you can instant message from the page and a Gmail widget so you can email from the page. Neither of these are new,… Continue Reading
PunditWatch: Interesting, fun, but slightly flawed
We’ve been noticing a lot of trackbacks (links coming back to our stories from other sites) recently from a site called PunditWatch. As most of the stories with these trackbacks are mine, I’ve been checking it out fairly regularly.
Here’s what it does. Whenever we write something about a certain topic (Apple products in particular), PunditWatch looks at what we wrote and extracts a prediction for a new product, technology or deal. When the time period… Continue Reading
Britain’s best and brightest startups hit Silicon Valley next week for funding
If you’ve never heard of Dragon’s Den, it’s a popular British TV reality series, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to get funding from business experts — the “Dragons”. One of those Dragons, Doug Richard, a UK-based Californian and founder of investment research firm Library House got a name for himself as a particularly fastidious investor on the show. And now he’s selected 20 of the UK’s most promising web application start-ups to go and try… Continue Reading
DEMO: A roundup of companies launching
There are 78 companies presenting at the DEMO conference this week. We’ll be covering some of the more notable ones in separate posts.
First, we’ve picked out 16 of them here for brief overview: Yoics, Acesis, Asankya, Atlaspost, Bitgravity, Cozimo, Healthpricer, Hubdub, Huddle, Squidcast, Standoutjobs, , Youchoose, Zodiac-interactive, Skyfire, Scenecaster and Ribbit.
YOICS, a Palo Alto, Calif., company, makes any network-connected device remotely accessible via a Web page. You can grant others access to it too. You… Continue Reading