Livescribe raises $7.5M more for Pulse smartpen
Livescribe, the maker of the Pulse smartpen that creates an audio recording linked to your handwritten notes, has raised $7.5 million in a second round of funding.
The Oakland, Calif. company has been making funding announcements throughout the past year, but all the previous news was about additions to Livescribe’s first round from the initial investors. In fact, Livescribe announced $10.175 million in new first-round funding as recently as February (the new announcement adjusts that number… Continue Reading
Smartpen maker Livescribe raises $10M
Livescribe, which makes a smartpen that includes its own display, microprocessor, and audio recorder, has raised another $10.175 million in funding.
The Pulse pen’s recording feature means users have an audio recording to supplement and correct their hand-written notes. That’s something I would have loved as a student, and could be even more useful to me now, as a journalist. The product is targeted at professionals and college students. On Feb. 17, the Oakland, Calif. company… Continue Reading
Livescribe’s Pulse Smartpen gets Mac version, new Windows features
Livescribe, the maker of a smart pen with its own display and microprocessor, is launching a new version for the Apple Macintosh today, as well as new features for Windows users.
The Oakland, Calif.-based company makes the Pulse Smartpen, which has built-in technologies that make it much easier to take notes and record audio linked to those notes at the same time. The pen has a scanner that records every word written and it records audio… Continue Reading
Smartpen maker Livescribe gets another $7M
Livescribe, the maker of a high-tech pen that makes an audio recording of your conversation as you take notes, has added another $7 million to its funding, bringing its first round to a total of more than $30 million, VentureBeat has learned. Backers include VantagePoint Venture Partners and Gerlach & Co.
The company has confirmed the financing amount; I haven’t received a response confirming the names of the investors yet. Private Equity Hub reported the funding… Continue Reading
Roundup: Social network Hi5 launches its developer platform, Facebook does regular old targeted advertising, and more
Here the latest action:
Social network Hi5 publicly launches its developer platform — San Francisco-based Hi5 may be a big opportunity for developers of third-party applications that live on social networks. It is popular in places like Portugal, Thailand and select countries of Latin America. Overall, it’s one of the largest social networks worldwide, with more than 35 million monthly active users — and the company claims that only 25 percent of them also have profiles… Continue Reading
Livescribe, the pen with ears, gets big boost
Livescribe, the company that has developed a computer pen that listens to what is said when you are using it, and which will let you post to your blog straight from your paper, has gotten $23.2 million in venture financing.
On Monday, at the DEMO conference, Oakland, Calif.-based Livescribe will share more details about its pen, and the tools that developers will be able to use to build applications on its open platform. The pen has… Continue Reading
Roundup: LGC Wireless bought, RockYou also bought? and more
1) LGC Wireless to be acquired by telecom components company
2) Rumors abound that News Corp. is buying RockYou for hundreds of millions of dollars
3) Myspace + Skype: newly-joined parts of the “Web 2.0 address book”
4) Apple finally decides to return developers’ love
5) Treemo, another mobile and online content sharing service, raises 2.5 million
6) LiveScribe, a near-magical pen for taking written and audio notes at the same time, raises $22 million
LGC Wireless to be acquired by… Continue Reading
LiveScribe lets the paper do the talking, and thinking
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LiveScribe, an Oakland, Calif. company, releases tomorrow one of the more wondrous communication features we’ve seen lately.
It has developed technology that lets you take handwritten notes from a lecture or interview with a high-tech pen. The pen will remember everything that was being said when you took the notes.
So if you’re looking for a portion of the conversation you didn’t quite understand or remember, you simply tap your paper notes, and the spoken interview will… Continue Reading