SnapMyLife captures $5M for mobile photo sharing
SnapMyLife, a web site for sharing photos over cellular phones worldwide, reeled in $5 million in financing to roll out new product features and stretch its global reach. Owned by mobile content distributor Mobicious, the Needham, Mass. company hopes to capitalize on the popularity of photos on social-networking sites to bring in revenue from relevant ads.
The application’s users can not only make friends and share their photos (taken on their phone or by a digital… 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