Berlin-based product comparison platform company VERSUS IO has secured $2.8 million in a Series A round of funding from Earlybird and angel investors Dave McClure, Lars Dittrich and Dario Suter. McClure, founder of 500 Startups, invested $100,000 in the company in December 2012 alongside angel investors Lars Dittrich and Dario Suter. VERSUS IO had raised…
Today the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that companies can use social channels to update their investors, provided that they are open networks, and investors have been alerted as to where information may be disseminated. When Reed Hastings took to Facebook to share that Netflix, the company that he helms, had served one billion watched…
Last Fall, LA-based startup builder Science debuted HelloInsights.com, a Pinterest influencer analytics platform that enabled brands to monitor company growth, track popular items, and connect with potential brand ambassadors on Pinterest. Today the company is announcing a considerable expansion of its services, launching as HelloSociety, turning the analytics engine into a full-fledged marketing agency and…
Shipping things to your house is so 2011, so companies like Amazon are setting up physical lockers for you to pick your online orders up from. Today, Walmart has announced that they’re testing a similar program. Basically, you can go online, order all of the things that you want, and your items will show up…
Yahoo! has picked up the pace on pretty much everything since Marissa Mayer became CEO, especially mobile acquisitions. Today, it announced the acquisition of mobile news gathering and delivery startup, Summly. AllThingsD reports that the acquisition price was somewhere close to $30 million
Facebook has come up with another way to stop you from leaving its site. While you’re setting up an event, especially one that’s going to take place outside, it makes total sense that your potential guests would want to know what the weather conditions are for that day. Today, Facebook rolled out a project that…
Cornell Tech, the massive project to launch a new applied sciences campus in New York City on Roosevelt Island (read: Tech Island), has been approved by the City Planning Commission “as part of the City’s public land use review process.” The importance of this upcoming campus is clear: New York’s developer drought, which is affecting countless startups and hindering…
The FInancial Sectors stocks have been the primary leadership of the rally in the S&P 500 off the lows of last November. Today, using the etf as a proxy for the sector, there has been a break of uptrend ...
Tel Aviv-based Appoxee assists iOS and Android application developers in engaging directly with their users to keep them interested in, and regularly coming back, to their smartphone apps. It’s struck a chord with developers: Appoxee, founded in 2010, already claims hundreds of millions of app installations, thousands of SDK downloads, and billions of push notifications…
Edgewood_Dirk writes "According to the official blog, Google Reader is being retired on July 1st, 2013. The main reasoning seems to be its decline in usage over the last few years. Users and developers will be able to retrieve their RSS data using Google Takeout." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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