Startups On TV: TechStars Teams Up With Bloomberg To Offer An Inside Look At Building A Business
Move over American Idol, and move over Survivor? There's a new reality show (okay, documentary-reality series) in town, but luckily no one's getting voted off the island. In this tech TV version, it's startups and their founders iterating, scrambling through feature sets, and competing for the affections of investors.
It's a great premise, as the...
Broadcaster Or Blogger, Cent2Cent Helps Anyone Charge For Video
Generally speaking, video producers have a much easier time producing content than monetizing it. This is because the monetization side of the equation has two x-factors that are hard to get right. The first being the 'with what to monetize' factor--that is, the mechanism that facilitates the billing aspect of the user-flow. The second, being...
360: TeliportMe Brings Its Killer Panorama App To Android (Oh, And It Works On Over 200 Phones)
Last November, TechCrunch's own Sarah Lacy sat down with Vineet Devaiah from “social streetview” startup, Phototour.in, which, at the time, had just received term sheets from a number of high-profile U.S. investors and had recently been awarded the "Top Emerging Technology Company of 2010" by Nvidia. The startup was the first international,...
PressOK’s PlacePlay Lets Developers Integrate Location Features And Local Advertising Into Games
Seattle-based PressOK Entertainment, a game development company, launched an interesting new service this week in public beta called PlacePlay, which the startup describes as a "location enablement platform" for games. Location is something that hasn't really been explored much in gaming as of yet, so simply put, PlacePlay aims to tackle the obstacles...
Crowdtap Raises $7 Million To Help Brands Connect With Their Influential Customers
Crowdtap, a service that allows marketers to easily collaborate with and mobilize targeted crowds of influential consumers, announced today that it has raised $7 million in series A funding. The round was led by Foundry Group, with participation from GSA Venture Partners and social media agency Mr. Youth.
Mr. Youth invested...
Solve Media Is CAPTCHA-ing 620K Type-In Ads A Day
Ads are everywhere: They're in our content, they're online and offline, they're on buses, billboards, and more. I've been told just to "get used to it" -- that the advertising proliferation is only going to continue -- so I'm thinking of selling some space on my forehead. Might as well take advantage. Of course, those...
Gary Vaynerchuk, ‘The Sommelier of Social Media’, Partners With Consmr
If you're anything like me, this scenario may be somewhat familiar: You're standing in the aisle of your local supermarket, or Walgreens, and you're looking to buy a particular type of product, be it peanut butter or shaving cream or shampoo, yet you don't have any particular allegiance to one brand over another.
Confronted with...
Nearbuy Nabs A Cool Million From Motorola Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, And More
Nearbuy Systems, the maker of indoor positioning solutions, announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding. The seed round was led by Motorola Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and Metamorphic Ventures. The funding will be used to bring Nearbuy's technology to retail stores across the U.S.
With A Half Billion Pages Signed, DocuSign Launches Free Edition
Docusign, the cloud-based electronic signature platform, today announced that is has processed more than a half billion pages of "contracts, agreements and other legally binding documents", all as part of its effort to enable businesses to go paperless in the document sharing and signing process. According to the company, this effort has saved more...
Inbox Overload Begone: Taskforce Exits Beta, Goes Pro With Paid Version
Email is an essential part of our daily communication, but it can also be a real pain in the ass. Or, going one step further, as my colleague MG Siegler recently put it, "email is the absolute devil". This fact even prompted him to channel Peter Gibbons and quit email altogether. I, personally,...
Applifier Hits 100 Million Installs, Brings Social Game Discovery Bar To Mobile
Applifier, the cross-promotional network of social game publishers, announced today that it has delivered over 100 million game installs for free on Facebook. Launched in 2010, Applifier has set out on a mission to help game publishers find new users and get their games discovered on the social network. Connecting over 800 games, Applifier...
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