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 »
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 »
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 »
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