Medialets gets $4 million for mobile ad, analytics service
Medialets, a combination mobile analytics and advertising service for developers, has aimed to bypass larger competitors by focusing on the innovation happening on the iPhone and Android devices. The plan has been working so far — and it has won the confidence of venture capitalists with a $4 million first round of funding from Foundry Group, DFJ Gotham and angel investor Bobby Yazdani.
The New York company provides software to developers, so they can track how… Continue Reading
Solvate’s savvy remote office assistants can help you for cheap
[Disclosure: Solvate is co-founded by Julie Ruvolo, a long-time VentureBeat digital media contributor.]
Solvate aims to take advantage of three major trends: the increasing popularity of contracting work, the ease of remote workplace communication, and a growing base of unemployed and underemployed skilled professionals — from recent college grads to stay-at-home moms. It lets anyone who needs administrative assistance get it from technically-savvy people with college degrees at the rate of $20 dollars an hour with… Continue Reading
VivoTech tacks on $8.6M for wireless credit-card transactions
VivoTech, provider of infrastructure for wireless credit-card transactions, just added $8.6 million to a now $40 million third round of funding open since 2007. Its technology lets people make payments via radio frequency enabled credit and debit cards and some mobile phones. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has already sold 470,000 of its payment terminals in 35 countries. It is also developing systems for use with taxi cabs, vending machines and ATMs.
Previously, VivoTech raised $52… Continue Reading
Drop.io raises $2.7M for private file exchanges
Drop.io is an online “exchange platform”, providing users with a place to upload files that they can then invite others to download.
The simple upload / download function doesn’t do much to distinguish the site from a service like YouSendIt, which does essentially the same thing in a less attractive interface. However, Drop.io has also added in some social features, including invitation-only work-groups and meeting spaces centered around the uploaded files.
The $2.7 millon funding was the… Continue Reading
PayPerPost, which pays bloggers to write, gets $7M more
PayPerPost, the site that pays bloggers to write content about advertisers, and then gets paid by those advertisers, has raised $7 million more in financing.
This is a controversial site (see our earlier coverage. Bloggers writing rave reviews about products can sway readers into thinking that a product is actually good, but in reality it may be terrible.
In response, PayPerPost later implemented a policy forcing bloggers to disclose whether or not they’ve received money for their… Continue Reading