Roundup: Agami shuts down, Amazon’s new book-site collection, and more
Toyota working on Segway killer — The transportation robot is called Winglet and comes in three sizes. See screenshot, via ZDnet.
Network storage company Agami shuts down — The Sunnyvale, Calif. company raised $85 million and competed against companies that went public, including 3Par. The shut-down was sudden, catching employees by surprise — apparently, a major debt-holder wanted its money back.
Illinois mandates online cancellation for game subscriptions — An Illinois family found it difficult to cancel a recurring online… Continue Reading
SocialThing launches — another social aggregator, and not my favorite one
SocialThing is another site that lets you aggregate information from social sites, so that you can track your friends. It pulls you and your friends’ activities from eleven other social sites, including Twitter, Flickr, Last.FM and Facebook.
But is SocialThing’s way of summing up all of these sites better than using each one alone?
To get started, you create an account, add your login credentials from the other sites you use. Then you get a running stream… Continue Reading
Roundup: Planet Google crowded, Verizon backs off, and more
Here’s the latest action:
1) Google facing employee overload
2) Verizon Wireless abandons legal challenge of FCC rules
3) Qualcomm comes up with competition for WiMAX
4) Could Yahoo finally be giving up social networking?
5) Google’s PageRank changes injure startups, again
And a handful of fundings:
6) Linkstorm raises $4.2 million from 60 angels
7) JibJab takes a further $3 million from Polaris
Zoji receives $1.5 million in seed funding
9) Socialthing raises $300,000 for profile aggregation
Google facing employee overload — Google may be overstocking… Continue Reading