WePay, a startup that helps groups of people collaboratively manage financial accounts — for example, to run student organizations, or raise funds for charity — is expected to publicly launch tomorrow.
VentureBeat reported last year that the company got $1.65 million in a first round of venture funding last year from August Capital and several angels. [...]
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Activision Blizzard has restructured its executive team. The company didn’t announce the changes, but a memo obtained by the Los Angeles Times described the changes. Activision Blizzard has confirmed what the newspaper reported.
The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company, the largest independent video game publisher, divided itself into four units in the biggest reorganization since the merger [...]
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As big players like Google and Apple move more seriously into mobile advertising, a startup previously called AppAds is hoping to make room for itself among the giants. It’s relaunching today as Burstly, and in addition to releasing tools for managing mobile ads, it’s taking advantage of the buzz around Saturday’s iPad launch.
Burstly offers a [...]
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SimpleGeo is announcing a new platform this week as the foundation for new mobile apps that are location aware.
The company says its platform is the simple way to create a low-cost location-aware services. The idea is to make life easy for developers who are creating location aware apps, from maps to social networks, said Matt [...]
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Chatroulette, the site that connects two random webcam users onscreen in a chat room and lets them figure out what to do next, is probably past its Internet prime. But SpeedDate.com co-founder Dan Abelon scheduled a telephone call with me to talk about what his video-dating service had learned by studying Chatroulette for a few weeks.
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GameCrush evidently hit home with its offer to let gamers “be a player” and pay to play online games with attractive women.
The company’s web site was down for the past couple of days with a note that said it was trying to find more server capacity because of overwhelming demand for its service. The site [...]
For 20 years, DEMO has been the leading stage for technology companies launching their products. Everyone from Netscape to Sun and Salesforce have launched their early products there.
But amazingly, DEMO has never been held in Silicon Valley. That changes in September, when we will bring it to Santa Clara, Calif. on Sept. 13-15, where for [...]
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Berlin-based Friendticker, which helps brands create location-based loyalty programs, just went into public beta with its iPhone application (currently only available in France, Spain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland). The app lets businesses reward users with virtual “items” when they check-in at a particular location (a restaurant or retail location, for example). And users can then [...]
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Today Twitter unveiled the latest iteration of its homepage, which puts dynamic content front and center. It also does a much better job of conveying to new users exactly what the service has to offer.
For some reason, Twitter has historically had trouble with its homepage design. The site originally featured a sparse and static homepage, [...]
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CODA Automotive, one of the lesser gabbed-about electric car companies, just got a big break. Along with its joint venture partner, battery maker Lishen Power Battery, the company has just taken in $100 million in direct capital, with the promise of $294 million more down the road from China’s Bank of [...]
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