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Pivot Smart: Social News Network XYDO Goes Pure B2B With New Content Marketing Platform
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In case you haven’t noticed, the Internet has become a content fire hose. There’s a lot of junk floating around out there (my posts not included, of course), and, as a result, a spate of digital readers and aggregators have popped up to offer our blood-shot eyes improved filtering mechanisms...
Founder Collective Makes A $4 Million Bet On Paddle8′s Online Marketplace For Fine Art
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When it comes to a marketplace for fine art, a space which seems to intrinsically resist digital services, technology really hasn’t had quite the same disruptive influence it has in so many others. Startups like Zazzle and Art.com have taken steps to make art commercial and broadly accessible, with some...
The Engadget interview: Sprint product execs John Tudhope and David Owens at CTIA 2012 (video)
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We managed to catch not one, but two of Sprint's execs yesterday at CTIA Wireless 2012: Director of Product Marketing John Tudhope and VP of Product David Owens. While our discussion was centered primarily around the company's announcements at the show -- Sprint Guardian, HTC's EVO V 4G for...
The Disintegration of PaaS
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In PaaS Makes Progress in 2011, I argued that the last 12 months have been pivotal to the advancement of platform-as-a-service. As a result of this fast-paced evolution, the PaaS of 2012 is quite a different beast than that of just a couple of years ago. While this second-generation PaaS...
1M Users Strong, Schoology Grabs $6M To Take On Blackboard, Moodle
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Schoology, the makers of a one-stop, cloud-based learning management system for primary and secondary schools, is announcing today that it has closed a $6 million series B round of venture funding. The round was led by FirstMark Capital and includes contribution from existing investor Meakem Becker Venture Capital, bringing the...
A New Roambi: Turn Your Biz Reports Into Sexy iPad Zines, Then Sell ‘Em In The App Store
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According to the IDC, 17.4 million tablets were shipped worldwide in the first quarter, with the lion’s share (68 percent) of those being iPads. As the iPad’s popularity has grown, it’s begun to find increasing adoption in the enterprise and among IT decision makers. As a result, some companies are...
The Startup Curve
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I'm working with a few startups right now that are in various phases of Paul Graham's startup curve: Many people think startups are up and to the right all the time. But more services exhibit this "startup curve" than any other growth pattern. Of course, some never get past the...
Dell XPS One 27 review roundup: an all-in-one PC worth owning
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Let's be honest here: there hasn't been an overly compelling option in the all-in-one PC space in a really, really long time. Not to say there weren't decent options, but that "blow you away" factor has been missing for a good while. No more. Dell's wildly handsome XPS One...
60 million users engaged with apps on Facebook mobile platform since launch; average 5 times per month
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Facebook Director of Product Management Carl Sjogreen revealed that over 60 million users have engaged with mobile applications via Facebook, 320 million times per month since the mobile platform launched in October 2011. Sjogreen shared this statistic during a fireside chat with Founder of Inside Network Justin Smith at the Inside...
60 million users engaged with apps on Facebook mobile platform since launch; average 5 times per month
ReportGrid Launches Precog To Help You Turn Big Data Into Smarter Apps
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Back in October, ReportGrid closed a $750K seed round with investors like Launch Capital, David Cohen, Walt Winshall, Doug Derwin, and Ed Roman — not long after it graduated from TechStars’ summer program in Boulder. The interest in ReportGrid was due to the fact that the company offers data analytics...
Adaptly’s $10.5 Million Round Will Buy the Social Marketing Platform a Sales Force
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It’s easy to get stuck on the “great product, no sales” trap. That’ s not something New York-based Adaptly has to worry about. The startup was on track to generate around $10 million in revenue last year, and that’s with just one sales guy. As of today, the company can...
YC-Backed Chute Nabs $2.7M From Salesforce & More To Become The Twilio For Media Content
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Chute knows you’re tired of hearing about yet another photo-sharing or photo-syncing app. So, although it dwells in the photo sphere, thankfully Chute is taking a different approach. The recent Y Combinator grad set out to become the go-to service that app developers and content producers turn to for managing...
Qmerce Brings Brand-Customizable Social Games to Facebook
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With $450K behind it in funding, Israeli-based Qmerce is helping business large and small add social games to their communities, particularly on Facebook. The premise behind Qmerce’s value proposition isn’t new. That is, branded social games aimed at driving user engagement via rewards, achievements and consequently, loyalty. With over 40...
With $1.3M In New Funding, CodeGuard Launches Its Free Website Backup, Monitoring Service
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At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last May, the unanimous winner of the “Audience Choice” award was a young, Atlanta-based startup called CodeGuard. The startup caught the audience’s attention based on a simple value proposition: To become a “time machine for your website.” In other words, CodeGuard’s free service allows any site...
As It Graduates From Network To Platform, Edmodo Now Serving 7M Users, 80K Schools
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Edmodo is one of the startups whose name pops up a lot when you talk about “edtech.” Founded in 2007, the company is almost old school, yet, in spite of the influx of new education-focused startups, Edmodo continues to press forward. This is largely due to due to its appeal...
Consmr Goes Mobile, Moves Closer To Becoming Yelp For The Supermarket
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Back in July of last year, we wrote about a New York City-based startup, called Consmr, which was attempting to build the Yelp, or Rotten Tomatoes of consumer goods. There’s now more web research on consumer goods than ever before, but few resources that use crowdsourced data and social integration...
Facebook Ads Work, Except When They Don't. Sometimes. Maybe.
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Fresh fuel for the “Do Facebook Ads Really Work?” debate: A survey that indicates advertisers themselves don’t really know what to think about the social network and its $3 billion a year ad business. This one comes from Advertising Age and Citigroup, and the results are so varied that the...
Slide.ly Is Bringing Back The Mashup With Its Social Slideshow Service
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The lowly photo slideshow is not dead yet, or at least that’s the hope of the team at Tel Aviv-based EasyHi, which is debuting its new product Slide.ly today, backed by $1 million in seed funding. The company aims to pick up where Slide.com (acquired by Google in 2010) left...
WD's 1TB VelociRaptor HDD gets reviewed: substantial gains, moderate price
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Western Digital has expanded its line of desktop-grade VelociRaptors to include a 1TB model that's available now for $310, but those kidding themselves with that whole "250GB is enough" thing can get in for as little as $160. Top-level specs include a 10,000RPM spindle rate and a SATA 6Gb/s...
TaskRabbit Founder Leah Busque Takes Back The Reins, Stepping Back Into CEO Role
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Leah Busque, the founder of TaskRabbit, the web and mobile marketplace for outsourcing small jobs and errands, has re-assumed the role of CEO at the San Francisco-based startup. It was just this past fall that Busque handed over the chief executive title to Eric Grosse, an experienced web executive best...
Liberate Your Pics: OpenPhoto Brings Its Killer Photo Sharing Platform To Your iPhone
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If you’ve ever scoffed at Flickr, felt that photo sharing and storage websites hold your photos hostage, associated photos on the Web with platform lock-in, then you’ve already started to get a sense of why Jaisen Mathai left Yahoo last year to build OpenPhoto. Appalled by having to watch Yahoo...
How Windows 8 Succeeds From Here: A Prognosis
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We live in a post-something era. This much, Microsoft is willing to concede; the iPad's thundering success changed the landscape. It has shown that the buyer is willing to imagine a different form factor than the PC commanding her principal information delivery platform. Apple has yet to conquer that...
Why Talent Management Tech is Super Hot and Bound to Get Hotter
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Skill building, tracking and optimization, knowledge retention and measurement of workplace effectiveness - those are the aims of some of the software industry's hottest companies. SuccessFactors got bought last year for $3.4 billion by SAP. Taleo got bought by Oracle for $1.9 billion last week. Salesforce bought Rypple and Workday...
With An Eye For Social, Disqus Gets A Makeover
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Disqus co-founder and CEO Daniel Ha Talk about synchronicity. Disqus released a completely revamped version of its comment moderation system on Wednesday, not more than 24 hours after WordPress.com introduced a Facebook plugin for enhanced commenting commenting and integration across all WordPress.com VIP and WP-hosted sites. Aside from drastic aesthetic...
Square’s Register and the return of the mom-and-pop shop
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When Square launched a few years ago, it came to market with a very compelling value proposition: Give everyone the chance to process credit card transactions. It turns out that’s become a pretty useful tool for small businesses and individual merchants — Square is now processing about $4 billion in...
“Apple DNA” Attracts Nate Johnson to Join Path as VP of Marketing
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Path’s biggest challenge has never been the quality of its product (it’s gorgeous). The greatest obstacle for the startup has been getting the word out about the value proposition of a more intimate social network. The company has added Nate Johnson as VP of marketing to do just this. Until...
Read Offline: News.me Automatically Downloads Your News Whenever You Leave Home
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News.me, the newsreader app hatched in The New York Times’ R&D lab and incubated at betaworks, today added a nifty feature to its new iPhone app, which gives readers instant access to their news offline — whenever they leave the house. The new feature, called Paper Boy, allows users to...
Google Releases A Playbook For “Winning With Mobile”
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As Google continues to push businesses to embrace mobile advertising, it’s trying to make that process a little less intimidating with a new publication titled “The Mobile Playbook: The Busy Executive’s Guide to Winning with Mobile.” The playbook is co-written by Jason Spero, Google’s head of mobile sales and strategy...
Delicious Founder Creates New People Search Engine, Skills.to
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Joshua Schachter and his team of star developers at TastyLabs have begun work on a second project, an endorsement and people search engine called Skills.to. The site lets you endorse people for their skills in various fields, see what the people you know have been endorsed for and search for...
Nokia Lumia 900 Review: Head-To-Head With The Lumia 800 And iPhone 4S
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Yep, I’m writing another post on the Lumia 900. It’ll be my fourth in the span of 24 hours, but there’s just so much to talk about. So after receiving a fly and a die, getting checked out by our camera crew, and being weighed by yours truly, we’re putting...
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