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 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 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 »
It’s incredibly shocking how short some people’s memories are. In the late 1990’s the Web became inundated by frames such that content was practically inaccessible. Fast forward approximately 10 years later and we’re facing the same problem once again. In response to the surging popularity of Twitter and the need to tweet shortened URLs, Digg and others (HootSuite, Krumlr) have resurrected the sleazy technique in an attempt to take advantage of this ever growing trend. By repackaging its frame based toolbar as a social media sharing service Digg hopes to artificially inflate their own visitor statistics and steal traffic from other publishers. Read more »
Lately TechCrunch has been following the effects of the economic crisis on the technology sector quite closely. Michael Arrington and his crew have been providing us with updates of the mounting numbers of tech layoffs and failing tech companies for the past month or so. Just the other day Erick Schonfeld wrote that technology related layoffs had surged past 100,000. Read more »
