Today’s list of technology announcement for funding, acquisitions, and bankruptcies:
Sugar Inc. – A blog and media network, announced that it raised $16 million in funding from Sequoia Capital.
Cloudera – A company that provides enterprise-level support to users of Apache Hadoop, just raised $6 million in funding via Greylock Partners and Accel. Read more »
Today’s list of technology funding announcements:
Greenroad – GreenRoad raised $15 million from DAG Ventures, Amadeus Capital, Balderton Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Virgin Green Fund.
fbFund – Facebook announced 20 latest winners of fbFund, which was created to encourage applications on Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect. The winners are listed below with information about each provided by Facebook. Each one will receive ~$25,000. Read more »
Today’s list of cool new web stuff:
MobiQpons – “mobiQpons lets you reach out to local customers on their phones and when they are looking for deals.”
Twollars – A form of Twitter currency that is used to say thank you to people and maybe donated to charities on Twitter as well. Read more »
Today’s list of technology funding announcements:
HeyZap – Announced today it has raised somewhere between $500,000 to $1 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures
Ultracell – A provider of fuel cells for mobile applications announced $3.8 million via BASF Venture Capital, OnPoint Technologies, Espirito Santo Ventures, and Miami Valley Venture Fund Read more »
Today’s list of cool new web stuff:
Transferr – “Transferr takes pictures of your favourite sites and presents them as icons on your home page, ready for easy access.”
TweetLister – “TweetLister is a free service that allows real estate brokers and owners to take full advantage of the vast, wide-reaching social network on Twitter.com.”
MashLogic – “MashLogic is a Firefox extension that works quietly under the hood to enrich web pages with the kind of information and media you care about. It’s respectful of your privacy, and super simple to use.” Read more »
Today’s list of technology funding announcements:
Facebook – Facebook announced $200 million from Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies raises Facebook valuation to $10 billion
LogLogic – $8.8 million from Focus Ventures and others Read more »
Today’s list of cool new web stuff:
Contenture – “Contenture is a new way to monetize your web site using a revolutionary patent-pending micropayment system that fixes all of the complexity of traditional micropayment systems.”
Ovi Store – Nokia’s new mobile applications store Read more »
The next generation of Web technology has been coined Web 3.0 or the Semantic Web. It refers to a smarter Web in which web based data is made readily accessible for use across applications for both human and computer use. The Web 2.0 generation of startups has beget its fair share of monster successes and utter failures. Out of a recent sample of nearly 200 Web 2.0 startups that launched between 2005 and 2007, only 14% of them were successfully acquired and 27% are no longer in business. Read more »
After reading Mashable’s recent coverage of Meg Pickard’s post of a popular logo collage from past internet startups that launched between ~2005 and ~2007, I was inspired to further research these Web 2.0 startup businesses. On Meg’s blog, she describes her task of tracking down each web startup company’s site to see if it still exists. This was not an easy job given that the collage contains nearly 200 company logos. Read more »
It seems like nearly everyone in the tech world is sick of hearing about Twitter so I thought it would be nice to checkup on some of the other microblogging and micromessaging services that are available. When Twitter launched in 2006 and began receiving some decent attention, copycats came out of the woodwork. Fortunately for Twitter, no direct competitors really had the staying power to launch any kind of real threat to the little birdie. Compete’s latest stats show that Twitter’s monthly unique visitors is up by 39% yet many of its direct competitors are dead or barely breathing. Read more »
