Zillow, Mum On $45M RentJuice Rumor, Launches First Dedicated Rental App, On Android

Zillow, Mum On $45M Ren...

Zillow , according to one report , may be closing in on a deal to buy rental marketing software maker RentJuice for $45 million, but in the meantime the online property portal is focusing on the rental market in another way: by launching its first dedicated rentals app — a free app...

Wrapp Brings Social, Mo...

Wrapp , a social gifting service backed by Greylock Partners and Atomico, is crossing the pond with the U.S. launch of its mobile gift card and retail app. Wrapp, which was available previously only in the UK, Norway, Sweden and Japan, Wrapp is actually launching today with a number of...
Disillusionment of an Entrepreneur

Disillusionment of an E...

Editor’s note:  This guest post was written by Prerna Gupta, who is CEO of  Khush  (now  part of Smule ), whose music apps,like  Songify  and  LaDiDa , have been used to create over 200 million songs worldwide. You can follow her  @prernagupta . When I became an...
How Tablets Are Transforming Business Intelligence

How Tablets Are Transfo...

Editor’s note:  Mitch Lazar is CEO of Taptu. He Founded CNN and Cartoon Network Mobile. He was a former journalist at CNN and one of the co-founders of  CNN.com . Prior to joining Taptu, Mitch headed Yahoo! Mobile Europe. Staying on top of your game and understanding the...

SketchUp Is Google’s ...

Google’s sale of a previously purchased arm of the company this morning, 3D modeling software SketchUp to Trimble , isn’t just something it does “every now and again”. It’s actually Google’s first divestment ever, according to two sources, and...

Twitter Updates iPhone ...

Twitter just announced the latest updates to its mobile apps for Android and iOS . With these updates, these apps get a number of much-needed new features, including an improved Discover tab, better support for search and support for push notifications for interactions. These new push...

OnSports Raises $2M Led...

In both sports and the tech industry, you win some and you lose some. Even though OnSports chief executive Aaron Krane got a nasty black eye this week in a pick-up basketball game, his company just closed a $2 million round led by Mike Maples’ Floodgate fund . The company, also...
Look, See: Warby Parker Launches $150 Prescription Shades

Look, See: Warby Parker...

There are plenty of places to turn if one is looking to buy prescription glasses, but the problem is that most of those options are expensive. So David Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal started Warby Parker last year to breathe some new life into the eyewear industry by selling designer,...

Things You Never Though...

“She told me that she Googled my name up / Shootings, robberies and big coke came up”. These are lyrics from “Google That”, a vulgar, violent new rap song from N.O.R.E, Styles P, and Wu-Tang Clan member Raekown immortalizing the search engine. In it, the rappers...

What Gaming Can Teach U...

Every time I see a photo sharing app come across the transom, the same question crosses my mind: what about trolls and porn. A game we saw yesterday, Pictorious, asks you to take pictures of items in order to get likes from friends and strangers . Additionally, sites like Pinterest have...

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