30
Jun

Strands loses Expensr founders six months after buying their company

Posted by: Dan Kaplan
in Business and Technology

At the end of April, Strands, a San Francisco company best known for its music recommendation engine and its $55 million of venture capital, announced that it had acquired the money management service, Expensr, under undisclosed terms. Within a month, a source tells us, Expensr’s founders moved on.
Expensr’s two founders, Reman Child and Shawn Gupta, […]

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30
Jun

hi5 Acquires PixVerse for Cross-Network Chat

Posted by: Kristen Nicole
in hi5, News

Social network hi5 has just announced its acquisition of application creator PixVerse for an undisclosed amount. PixVerse, the Flash-based virtual world chat platform, has branched out into social networking applications such as Pix Chat and Pix Wall, both of which have gained some traction on hi5’s social network platform, among other places across the […]

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30
Jun

Hey Hey Platform A, How Much Money Did You Lose Today?

Posted by: Stacey Higginbotham
in web, facebook, bebo, AOL, Startups

My gut reaction to the news that AOL’s Platform A would offer a guaranteed CPM (cost per thousand) for applications developers building widgets for Facebook and Bebo was that it’s a subsidy and subsidies are an unnatural and bad thing for business. Then I found out the guaranteed payment was only 40 cents, which […]

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30
Jun

Digg Tries to Get More Relevant with Recommendation Engine

Posted by: Kristen Nicole
in Web 2.0, web, digg, myspace, News

As ingrained as Digg has become with certain social media and bookmarking crowds, there are still some underlying issues that particular users have had with Digg’s loss of emphatic promotion as Digg spreads its influence across more and more topics. If you’ve ever found it difficult to sift through Digg content to find something […]

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30
Jun

Google locks up its map maker, Tele Atlas, for Android

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology, co:google, co:nokia

As the buzz around location-based services (LBS) continues to grow, it’s often overlooked that for them to have any meaning there is one crucial component: A map. Today, Google signed a five-year agreement with Dutch map-maker Tele Atlas to provide maps to not only its Google Maps and Google Earth properties, but applications built on […]

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30
Jun

Bank of America invests in mobile banking platform maker mFoundry

Posted by: Jake Swearingen
in Business and Technology

Mobile banking continues to heat up as Banc of America Strategic Investors Corp, the investing (and strangely Francophone-spelled) arm of Bank of America, announced the completion a strategic investing round in mobile banking platform maker mFoundry.
While mobile banking to date has been stymied by incompatibility between banks, carriers, and handsets, the company’s technology works with […]

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30
Jun

Apture wants to help bloggers create a richer browsing experience

Posted by: Anthony Ha
in Business and Technology

A startup called Apture just officially launched it multimedia linking platform, which makes it easy for websites to display outside content through pop-up windows. Sharp-eyed readers could already spot Apture in action at the Washington Post’s blogs The Fix and Celebritology and elsewhere, but now the platform is available to the general blogging public. […]

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30
Jun

The Recommendation Engine may well make Digg useful again

Posted by: MG Siegler
in Business and Technology

It’s been a long time coming, but Digg is finally rolling out its “Recommendation Engine” to registered users this week. The basic idea is that the service will look at what stories you have dugg (the term for when you give an ‘up’ vote to an item) and based upon that, find similar users to […]

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30
Jun

meOwns Shares What You Have and What You Want

Posted by: Kristen Nicole
in social networking, Web2.0 Startups, News

meOwns is a new wish list creation site that lets you add items you own or would like to own. As with most other wish list sites such as Wishpot, you can add items you’re interested in, and use this expression of your taste in order to find like-minded people.
The site itself […]

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30
Jun

Personalized Mobile Content Provider HooQs Sees Global Growth [Israel Media Tour]

Posted by: Ayelet Noff
in video, Mobile 2.0

Company Name: HooQs
Founded in: 2007
Location: Tel Aviv

HooQs, an Israeli startup launched in 2007, brings personalized mobile content to users with a unique mobile media recommendation system. Based in Tel Aviv, HooQs was co-founded by Aner Ravon and Itay Gissin. HooQs’ partners and distributors are spread globally and as a result the founders plan to open […]

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