Veteran PaaS player Engine Yard claims big momentum
gigaom.com
Engine Yard, the popular platform as a service, said its revenue doubled year over year to $28 million in 2011 and the number of paying customers rose 50 percent to 2,000 in that time. The privately held company would not comment on profitability. There is definitely more interest in PaaS...
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Samsung sold a record 12.5 million smartphones in China during Q1 2013: Strategy Analytics
thenextweb.com
Samsung topped China’s smartphone sales for the first time last year, and the Korean firm has taken that momentum into this year, after selling a record 12.5 million smartphones in China during Q1 2013, according to Strategy Analytics. The research firm’s latest figures are reported by the Korea Herald (via Sammy...
Electric car startup Better Place liquidating after $850 million investment
news.cnet.com
In 2008, Better Place partnered with Renault to build an electric car and create a system of battery swapping stations, but the concept never gained momentum. [Read more]...
Yet Another Anti-Patent Troll Bill Introduced In Congress
www.techdirt.com
We were just talking about the third attempt by someone in Congress to deal with some aspect of patent trolling, and already we have a fourth bill. Senator John Cornyn has introduced the Patent Abuse Reduction Act, which has a variety of provisions that would make life slightly more difficult...
Lyft Raises $60M Funding From Andreessen Horowitz to Expand Ride-Sharing Internationally
allthingsd.com
Lyft, the company behind the peer ride-sharing app of the same name, has raised $60 million in Series C funding from the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. It’s a huge round for the company, which is much-loved for its community spirit and pink “carstaches,” but also much-questioned for its practice...
NYC-based LoyalBlocks raises $9 million for its automated mobile loyalty program
thenextweb.com
LoyalBlocks, a New York City-based startup hoping to make waves with its automated loyalty app, has secured $9 million in Series A financing from General Catalyst Partners with participation from Founder Collective and existing investor Gemini Israel Funds. LoyalBlocks’ mobile marketing platform basically enables small businesses to create location-based loyalty...
OtterBox Acquires Rival Protective Case Maker LifeProof
techcrunch.com
OtterBox, which makes the top-selling protective case for smartphones, has announced the acquisition of LifeProof for an undisclosed amount. Headquartered in San Diego, LifeProof also makes protective cases and accessories for smartphones and tablets. Over the next 30 days, OttberBox will beginning incorporating the LifeProof brand into OtterBox’s product lineup....
5 ways the booming crowdsourcing ecosystem is changing in 2013
venturebeat.com
Carl Esposti is CEO of crowdsourcing advisory firm massolution. If you think that participating in crowdfunding simply means investing in smaller companies that launch games and devices on Kickstarter, think again. With crowdfunding volumes reaching $2.7 billion in 2012, it has emerged as a viable, scalable alternative to public and private...
Forecast of the day: iPhone and Galaxy June sales
tech.fortune.cnn.com
Google Trends says Apple beats low expectations, Samsung momentum stays strong. FORTUNE -- Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty unveiled a new crowdsourced forecasting tool Tuesday. As explained in an April whitepaper, the AlphaWise Smartphone Tracker is based on an analysis of Google Trends, using different search terms for different regions and adjusting for seasonal...
Square Loses Two Execs, Including One Out Before His First Day on the Job
allthingsd.com
Two senior execs have left Square, including a well-known former PayPal exec who had been announced but had not yet started at the high-profile payments company. That was Alex Petrov, who was supposed to be Square announced the startup’s new vice president of partnerships just three weeks ago. But...
Is influencer marketing over? Here's another pivot, this time from Wahooly
pandodaily.com
For a hot minute there, it felt like “influencers,” loosely defined as anyone with a respectable number of Twitter followers, were the future of marketing. Thanks to the democratizing ways of the Web, anyone with a Twitter handle suddenly has a voice and an audience. We saw how quickly bad...
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