Blackberry awards $150K to three mobile apps
Blackberry Partners Fund has awarded $150,000 prizes to three makers of applications designed to work on the BlackBerry handheld.
And the winners are:
Multiplied Media’s Poynt search service, which uses GPS to connect users with local businesses
Strands’ Social Player, a social-networking music player that connects users and recommends songs based on their tastes, soon to be released
Nobex Technologies’ Radio Companion, an app that tells users what’s playing on 2,700 radio stations and gives them the… Continue Reading
GlassBox raises $5M for digital content creation
GlassBox, a company that creates content intended for distribution across television, web and mobile services, has raised $5 million from JLA Ventures and angel investors. Among other things, GlassBox is the creator of Bite TV, a content channel that targets 18-24 year old males (so kinda like Maxim).
RIM-Blackberry announces $150M fund
Update I: This story was originally published Friday afternoon
Update II: For more, also see our Q&A with one of the partners managing the Blackberry fund
Research In Motion, the RBC and Thomson Reuters have invested in an $150 million venture investment fund, called the BlackBerry Partners Fund, to support developers of applications running primarily on the Blackberry.
The fund comes on the heels of the iFund, a similar $100 million fund announced by Kleiner Perkins, a well-known Silicon… Continue Reading