In The SXSW Location Wa...
With SXSW starting Friday in Austin, Texas, every location-based service out there is right now finalizing updates that they hope will be the one that gets them used more than all the others. Loopt , is betting on events integration. Read the original: In The SXSW Location War, Loopt...PANIC! Study Finds That...
200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be “addicted” to their iPhones. “When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five – five being addicted and one being not at all addicted – 10 percent of the students acknowledged...Team Europe Ventures St...
Team Europe Ventures , the Berlin-based VC firm, has launched a new €6 million fund for early stage startups in the Internet and mobile Internet space. The fund is mainly targeting companies in Germany and Europe, but also in the USA, and the focus will be on the seed stage, with 4-5...Autoquake Gets Another ...
Autoquake , an online used car retailer in the UK, has raised another £6 million round of venture capital and venture debt financing from existing investors Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners. The debt is being provided by Kreos Capital Read the original: Autoquake Gets...
Never Ending Goldrush: ...
Doodle Jump for the iPhone is something like a developer’s fairy tale: two brothers set out to make a game using only the talents they’ve got at hand, and end up striking gold. They keep pushing out minor updates, and the game just keeps selling . The rest is here: Never...
Will Books Be The Next ...
Over the last month or so, Apple has clearly been on a mission to trim down the App Store to applications that are useful and family friendly. See the rest here: Will Books Be The Next To Go In Apple’s App Store...
Fourface Is Foursquare ...
One common complaint about Foursquare is that in a increasingly crowded location-based space, it’s not pretty enough when compared to the likes of Brightkite and Gowalla . Excerpt from: Fourface Is Foursquare As Modern...
Meet The New Foursquare...
It’s hardly a secret that all of the major location-based players are planning big updates to their services to coincide with the SXSW festival starting next week in Austin, Texas. One of them peeked out a bit early: Foursquare . Earlier today, the latest version of Foursquare,...
Google Breathes Life Ba...
Last month, Google acquired reMail , the startup behind a very powerful application that brought full-text search to the iPhone. That’s great news for the reMail team, but it had a major downside: Google was effectively killing off the product by removing it from the App Store...