Squarespace Raises $38.5 Million From Accel, Index Ventures

Squarespace Raises $38....

When founder Anthony Casalena first started Squarespace in 2003, he had one investment: $20,000 from his dad. At the time, it was just enough money to get a few servers for his web publishing startup See original here: Squarespace Raises $38.5 Million From Accel, Index...
With Carrier Rates Dropping, Boku Prepares To Expand Beyond Virtual Goods [Video]

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Boku has carved out quite a name for itself in the fast-expanding world of mobile payments for virtual goods. View post:  With Carrier Rates Dropping, Boku Prepares To Expand Beyond Virtual Goods...
Microsoft Looking For A Few Good iPad Users… To Study

Microsoft Looking For A...

Companies do all kinds of studies all the time for all sorts of reasons. Seeing as the iPad is currently one of the hottest devices on the market, it should be no surprise that companies want to know about how users are using it. Even if that company is Microsoft. More: Microsoft...
It’s Alive! Taking Android’s App Inventor For A Spin

It’s Alive! Taking An...

By now you’ve probably heard of Google’s App Inventor for Android, a web-based development environment that’s meant to make it possible for non-developers to build their own Android applications. The technology has been in testing for a year, primarily with educational...
Casualties Of War: OfferPal Downsizes As Facebook Chooses Competitor

Casualties Of War: Offe...

Facebook is steadily converting partners like Zynga away from their home grown payment product to Facebook Credits. And to date there’s just one alternative for users who want to complete offers like getting a Netflix subscribtion in exchange for Farmville credits, or whatever...
Google Secretly Invested $100+ Million In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games

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Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga , we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars in venture capital in the last year alone,...
“Lawyers Are Expensive. We Can Be Friends.” (@Posterous To @TwitPic)

“Lawyers Are Expensiv...

As you may have read yesterday, TwitPic and Posterous are currently in a row after the latter introduced a “ Rescue your photos from TwitPic ” tool that provides users with a one-click way to import TwitPic photos over to their Posterous blog. Read the original...
Cliqset 2.0 Launches With Deeper Twitter Integration And Content Curation

Cliqset 2.0 Launches Wi...

Cliqset, a realtime online social identity platform is launching a new version of its applications: Cliqset 2.0. More:  Cliqset 2.0 Launches With Deeper Twitter Integration And Content...
NuCaptcha’s Technology Uses Video To Decipher Between Humans And Robots

NuCaptcha’s Technolog...

We’ve all come across our share of amusing Captchas that make no sense. And existing Captcha technologies, such as Google’s reCAPTCHA are not immune to security attacks. See original here: NuCaptcha’s Technology Uses Video To Decipher Between Humans And...
Apperang Pays You Cash to Download iPhone Apps… Ka-Ching!

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Yep, you read that right. Today W3i is announcing Apperang , a new service that will pay users to download mobile applications. Apperang builds on the pay-per-acquisition model that we’ve seen succeed with companies like TapJoy Read the original: Apperang Pays You Cash to...

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