Tradeshift, the company that turns invoicing between businesses into an online activity across a ‘social network’-style platform, is set to announce some big hires today, part of a recruitment drive that has seen it take on almost 50 people in that past two months. Mihir Nanavati, previously VP of product management at YouSendIt has joined…
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the Facebook for Windows Phone Beta app program. If you’re willing to help the company test the latest and greatest Facebook features coming to its mobile platform, you can grab the beta now from the Windows Phone Store. Microsoft says Facebook for Windows Phone app is undergoing a “major redesign.” At…
3scale, the API management solutions provider that splits its offices between San Francisco and Barcelona, has scored $4.2 million in new funding from Javelin Venture Partners and Costanoa Venture Capital. It’s been quite a busy two weeks in the wonderful world of APIs indeed. First, Intel bought one of 3scale’s main rivals, API management service…
When my friends found out that I was going to interview Irrational Games‘ Ken Levine, who led the development of the acclaimed video game BioShock, as well as its just-released sequel BioShock Infinite, everyone said I had to ask him about the Seasteading Institute, a group that has been jokingly referred to as “BioShock for…
Around four years ago, Riccardo Zacconi said he was close to selling King, the arcade gaming company that he had co-founded and bootstrapped six years earlier. The company, which has a destination site at King.com, had lost about 45 percent of its traffic as one of its biggest partners Yahoo! Games cut back. Facebook, the…
Mobile advertising network InMobi today took one more step in its bid to be a one-stop shop for developers’ app marketing needs, in the process taking advantage of the massive fragmentation that exists on the Android platform. It has launched App Publish, a distribution platform specifically for Android apps, which lets developers push their free,…
Pocket, the save-for-later service that evolved from ReadItLater, is introducing new publisher tools today, including a way to see how content saved to the platform is performing, a button that publishers can add to their site to let visitors instantly save content, mobile app tools and custom footer messages for readers checking out your content…
Social fundraising platform Believe.in has launched today, offering fundraisers a slick and easy way to connect with charities, accept donations and share their progress through social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. There are plenty of crowdfunding platforms out there; in recent months we’ve covered Pledgeit, HopeMob and Givey, to name just a few. Believe.in hopes…
Stripe on Thursday announced two mobile updates to improve the lives of app developers looking to integrate the platform into their projects. The company has partnered with application development platform Parse as well as updated its Android and iOS libraries for accepting payments in mobile apps. The payment company says since Parse speeds up mobile…
A few years ago, E.ventures co-founder Tom Gieselmann decided to try to use data to give his firm a competitive advantage. And so he built a tracking tool to keep tabs on how different web properties were growing over time. The Daily Gieselmann, named ater its founder, has been used by the company internally over…
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