Video surveillance co. 3VR raises $15M more
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3VR Security, a San Francisco video surveillance start-up that provides sophisticated ways for companies to track employees and others entering their premises, has raised $15 million more in venture backing.
The deal valued the company significantly higher than previously, in part because the promise of video surveillance has increased, the company said. The company cites industry analysts in saying the market for “video management” will be $7.2 billion by 2008.
Significantly, Palo Alto venture capital firm DAG… Continue Reading
Intuit and Google strike at the “long-tail”; Intuit buys StepUp
The Google alliance with tax and accounting software company Intuit is a pretty impressive one, if you look at the details.
Google has long been trying to tap into the “long-tail” of small businesses that aren’t online. Less than half of small businesses are online, and so they’re not taking out ads on Google either. Google stands to profit if it can give these businesses Web sites, and then encourage them to take out ads to… Continue Reading
The thief’s Chihuahua, loopt, Snocap & more
Here’s a roundup of relevant Silicon Valley action, after the long weekend:
Yahoo employee sets up Flickr on his phone, and “captures” thief — Yahoo Web designer Ben Clemens, of Berkeley, said his phone was stolen, but that a program he’d installed made the phone automatically take pictures and upload them to Flickr. And so the phone took photos of the thief, and their Chihuahua. Here is an example (see photo). This is a pretty amazing story,… Continue Reading