Google Hopeful Of 2010 ...
We all know Google Music is coming , it’s just a question of when – and what it’ll look like, of course. According to Reuters , Google hopes to launch the service as early as December 2010. Citing unnamed ‘people familiar with the matter’, Reuters says...
BankSimple Deposits $3....
New York City startup BankSimple today disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital , Roger Ehrenberg’s IA Ventures , and Village Ventures , along with seed investors SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Nauiokas Park (Amy Nauiokas and Sean Parker),...
Inflection Raises $30 M...
Inflection , a company aimed to democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures . Founded in 2006, Inflection aggregates public records and data from past and present and currently operates...
Diaspora Clarifies: Ope...
A few days ago, we noted that Diaspora was three weeks away from unveiling their open-source Facebook alternative. But a small update today clarifies one important point. On September 15, Diaspora will release the open source code for the project. But it won’t be until October that...
Check (In) Yo’ Self B...
This is a guest post by Hunter Walk ( @hunterwalk ) who conducted a survey of 500 Foursquare users to better understand their check in behaviors and motivations. His obsession with Foursquare is unrelated to his day job leading the consumer product team at YouTube , although he did at...
Twitter Pumps Up Follow...
Remember back in the day when Twitter follower email notifications basically only told you a person’s username? Yeah, those were pretty useless. Read more here: Twitter Pumps Up Follower Email Notifications Further With Social Graph...
Naspers Makes Strategic...
We’ve been hearing recently that South African media conglomerate and recent DST investor Naspers was sniffing around Crasiglist competitor OLX. Today, we confirmed with OLX co-founders Alec Oxenford and Fabrice Grinda that Naspers has made a strategic investment in the online...
Apture Highlights Bring...
Apture , the startup that lets online publishers enhance content with rich media pop-ups from a variety of sources based on the context of linked words and terms, is launching a nifty new plug-in today that brings instantaneous search to content on the web. Called ‘Apture...
Rumor: Facebook Flirtin...
According to a rumor on the Internet, Facebook may be rolling out a new data center filled with servers using ARM CPUs rather than the more traditional chips from Intel and AMD. ARM chips are less complex than x86 systems, and ARM is ubiquitous in mobile computing environments. The...