As from 2008 LinkedIn has been using the beta tag. Quite probably prompted by the talk of an IPO in the first quarter of 2011 LinkedIn has abandoned the beta tag and moved on to pay-per-click, self-ad system. The text advertising service which was formerly known as DirectAds has now been rebranded to LinkedIn Ads. [...]
In August 2010 Whereoscope a company that deals with a smartphone app that helps parents to keep track of their children’s whereabouts was launched. The startup was funded by Y Combinator. It is now emerging that the startup is being acquired by an unlikely buyer, Zynga. So far word has it that only the term [...]
Some time around late November/early December yahoo contacted Kevin Rose, the Diggnation web show founder to see if he would be interested in taking over Delicious. This happened before the news that Yahoo was sunsetting some of its properties leaked to the public. At first, just like many others believed, Rose thought that Yahoo was [...]
Deb Liu of the commerce product marketing department in Facebook announced the rollout of the company’s Buy with Friends program. This happened at the Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011 Conference. The program runs on the suggestive selling where a user is notified when a contact in their network makes a virtual purchase. The notice offers [...]
The social career network LinkedIn has acquired CardMunch. CardMunch is a startup that scans users’ business cards and then accurately converts them into phone contacts. It uses the Mechanical Turk to do the conversions. On a post on the CardMunch blog, the company said that the acquisition was in tune with its vision of providing [...]
Come February 10 2011 Google will no longer have the real estate option on its Google Maps. The real estate option was included in the Google Maps in July 2009. Google added a search form similar to those on real estate websites but theirs was not as advanced as some of those founds on some sites. [...]
Towards the end of last year Yahoo seemed to hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. The company was planning to sunset a number of its properties and a lay off of some employees was expected in December. So it must have been quite a good surprise when the balance sheet totals reflected a [...]
Developers on the Android platform have been complaining about the lack of an in-app payment system. The absence of this was denying the developers some earnings unlike their counterparts at iPhone. The Inside Social Apps conference was a suitable avenue for the group manager of Android, Eric Chu to handle this issue. Chu said that [...]
The private–equity partnership Elevation seems to be getting more than a fair share of trouble. According to an undisclosed source in the company, Marc Bodnick, a cofounder of the company is planning his exit. This couldn’t have happened at a worse time since the company has had to put its second funding round on hold [...]
Facebook’s Single Sign On was launched in the last quarter of 2010. The Strategic Business Developer at Sony Ericsson ,Martin Essl, announced that Sony Ericsson will soon be integrating the system on all its Android phones over the next few months. The Single Sign On works like Facebook Connect but is designed for use on [...]
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