Twiends… This site was probably was the best way to get “likes” at a good rate. Facebook unfortunately shut them down, and honestly it was inevitable. I will say they ran a very good service, refunding “seeds” whenever there were people abusing the system. Also they refunded the money I spent for Facebook, no questions [...]
“Liking” is something that is so much linked to Facebook. But now there is a company that is including the “Like” feature which has nothing to do with Facebook. RadiumOne is introducing a “R1 Like Button” which users can click on if they like an ad. Liking the ad is important to RadiumOne as it [...]
One of the most critical things that a startup has to bear in mind is its location. The location is important since it has a direct impact on your proximity to the kind of people and firms that your business may need to collaborate with. It is with this consideration that most tech startups are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
More and more companies are trying getting into the business of turning phones into users’ personal assistants. Vlingo based in Cambridge, Massachusetts now has joined the business by building a voice recognition app. The incentive of doing this as one Googler said after Google launched a similar service in 2010 is that the voice is a [...]
Yahoo 7 has acquired Spreets, an Aussie deal site for $40 million. Yahoo 7 is a partnership between Yahoo and Channel 7 in Australia which was formed in 2006. In 2009 it acquired Totaltravel.com, an Australian travel site. Spreets features daily deals on its website and also rewards members with $10 credits in their accounts [...]
Foodspotting, a location based food discovery startup, will be celebrating its first anniversary on the 15th of January. Well the celebration will be all the merrier as the startup has landed $3 million in a series A funding from BlueRun Ventures. The other investors who raised $750 thousand in the seed round will also be [...]
Flock a startup founded in 2005 has been surrounded by troubles for some time. The social browser failed to gain popularity with users at a time when the concept of “social” did not mean much to people. Finally there is a break in the horizon as Zynga acquires it. The details concerning the acquisition that [...]
Wild Needle is a startup that was launched earlier this year. The startup which is based in Mountain View claims to be in “super sneaky stealth mode”. Wild Needle is set to enter the social mobile gaming arena in the near future. The startup is seeking to raise $3million in funding and has so far [...]
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