Recent Start-up and Venture Capital News
It's Twitter!!!!!!!! (Yahoo + Twitter)
Posted from John Battelle's Searchblog 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech
Just got word of this deal, news of it around the blogosphere: Yahoo is announcing a partnership with Twitter on Wednesday that will bring the services of both companies closer together. Under the partnership, Yahoo users will be able to read their personal Twitter feeds on several Yahoo sites, incl... (original story)
Bazaar Labs launches Miso, a Foursquare-style app for TV and movies
Posted from VentureBeat 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
A startup called Bazaar Labs just released a new app called Miso, way to share what movies and TV shows you’re watching with your friends. Like the company’s last app, FlixUp, this is a movie-focused spin on an existing social service. The idea is that instead of sharing your location wi... (original story)
Canada Now Somewhat Less Anti-Startup
Posted from TechCrunch 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Canada isn't shy about making life difficult for startups, and we've had one or two personal brawls with the country as well. But a change in Canadian tax law last week is designed to spur U.S. venture investments in Canadian startups and make Canada less of a leper colony for tech entrepreneurs. T... (original story)
Benchmark, Others Store $9 Million In Scale Computing
Posted from TechCrunch 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Benchmark Capital is placing a rather hefty bet on Indiana-based SAN startup Scale Computing - they've led a $9 million Series B round of financing and Partner Bill Gurley joins the company's board of directors. Existing investors Blue Chip Venture Company, CID Equity and Spring Mill Venture Partne... (original story)
Square Enix launches its epic Final Fantasy XIII with an epic party
Posted from VentureBeat 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Square Enix knows how to do epic video games and big parties. Tonight, the Japanese company threw its launch party for Final Fantasy XIII, a huge release for the U.S. console game market that goes on sale Tuesday. The launch party itself, housed in a grand theater in San Francisco, showed that video... (original story)
Fourface Is Foursquare As Modern Art
Posted from TechCrunch 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
One common complaint about Foursquare is that in a increasingly crowded location-based space, it's not pretty enough when compared to the likes of Brightkite and Gowalla. The new iPhone app launching soon should help that. But for some, it still won't be enough. Those people should definitely check ... (original story)
Germany’s Bigpoint lines up Battlestar Galactica online game
Posted from VentureBeat 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
In a coup for a German online game company, Bigpoint is announcing today that it will make a Battlestar Galactica online game for the SyFy Channel. The deal is part of an ambitious expansion by Bigpoint into the U.S. market. The company has 340 employees making online games in Hamburg, Germany, but ... (original story)
comScore: Online Video Views Down Across The Board In January
Posted from TechCrunch 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
comScore has just released its US online video rankings for January 2010, and the results aren't positive. Overall views dropped by around 2.5%, with 32.4 billion in January vs. 33.2 billion in December. And Hulu, which celebrated crossing the 1 billion view milestone for the first time in Decemb... (original story)
Notice the Windows alternative in HP’s slate device. This is a good thing.
Posted from TechCrunch 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
We have written repeatedly that Windows itself is one of the main reasons why touchscreen computers have never caught the general public's attention. The interface just wasn't designed for finger input. Like it or not, that's the truth. Windows was designed to be used with a mouse, and to a lesser e... (original story)
Bump Technologies closes in on 10 million downloads
Posted from VentureBeat 2 days ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Sequoia-backed Bump Technologies Inc. is closing in on 10 million downloads for its nifty contact and data-sharing app. With iPhone and iPod Touch sales estimated to be around 80 million, co-founder Jake Mintz says this means the company’s apps are on more than 10 percent of Apple’s pho... (original story)
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