LucidChart Nabs $1 Mill...
LucidChart , a web-based diagramming application, announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from 500 Startups , 2M Companies , K9 Ventures , as well as several angel investors. The startup will use its new capital to ramp up hiring efforts and to begin positioning its...
Navigation App Waze Dri...
Social mapping and navigation company Waze has hit a big milestone today. The company has accumulated 3 million users in the past 7 months, with 5 million users in over 45 countries. It took just two months for Waze to rack up its last million users. Founded in 2009, Waze offers free...
Patent Troll Sues Amazo...
After slapping Google and PayPal with patent lawsuits, patent troll Purple Leaf is going after Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of infringing on its “311 patent” via Amazon’s Payments product. We’ve embedded the complaint below. According to the complaint,...
First Look: Rdio’s iP...
In the all-you-can-eat music streaming battle between Spotify, Rdio, and MOG, the iPad is more or less untouched territory. Sure, they’ve all got iPhone apps which can be stretched to run at near-full screen on the iPad — but if you’re wanting for something that...
Microsoft Announces The...
Microsoft today announced the latest in its series of touch-capable mice, the Explorer Touch Mouse. Its shape is reminiscent of Apple’s Magic Mouse, but with functionality similar to that of Microsoft’s own Arc mouse, with a touch strip front and center. Microsoft has already...
CleverSense’s Seymour...
Between Yelp, Foursquare, Facebook, Google and countless startups, there’s no shortage of services looking to offer you restaurant and activity recommendations while you’re on the go. But there’s a reason there’s so much competition: as smartphones become...
Twitter Now Automatical...
In another step towards filling all its holes, Twitter has just announced its own link shortening service which starts rolling out today. The Twitter link shortening service will pass through t.co and shorten links to 19 characters, still allowing users to see what site the links are...
PaaS PHP Fog Launches T...
Like a Heroku for PHP, PHP Fog is launching to the public today in order to help PHP developers deploy and scale their applications in the cloud. Raising $1.8 million in a round lead by Madrona and followed on by First Round, Founders Co-Op and others. PHP Fog launched in private beta in...
(Founder Stories) Meebo...
Should founders innovate based upon customer feedback or is it better to develop from within and let consumer adapt. In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon , Meebo’s Seth Sternberg discusses his philosophy: “Users tend to be very good at giving you...