Turn Flickr, Facebook photos into postcards with ShoZu, Touchnote
ShoZu, a London-based company connecting phones to social networking sites, is partnering with Touchnote, to let you mail any photos you’ve uploaded through their service as postcards to friends and family.
British startup Touchnote, which won audience award for best mobile service last week at our MobileBeat 2009 conference, allows phone applications to print an image and mail it to anywhere in the world. After seeing the company demo on stage at MobileBeat, Shozu chief executive Chris Wade… Continue Reading
ShoZu raises $12M to connect mobile phones to Web
ShoZu, a London-based company that lets users connect their cell phones to social networking sites, has raised $12 million in a third round of funding.
ShoZu was one of the finalists for “best mobile start-up” in the 2007 Crunchies awarded this month. The company says its service lets users transfer photos from their mobile phones to Web sites such as Facebook and Flickr without complicated navigation. Users can also receive copies of their friends’ latest Flickr… Continue Reading
Video retrenchment begins, Juice Wireless going for broke
(Updated with substantial clarifications from Juice co-founder Nick Desai)
Juice Wireless, the New York mobile video-sharing start-up, is still on hunt for financing, raising questions about its prospects amid a retrenchment hitting the video sharing industry in the new year.
Juice is raising a roughly $3.5 million round of financing, now calling it a “bridge” to raise even more capital — in recognition that competition has raised the stakes, and will require more resources.
A month ago,… Continue Reading