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Apple's iPhone Seen As More Desirable In Emerging Markets Despite Android's Dominant Usage Stats
Mar 05, 3:09PM
Apple has a prime opportunity in high growth emerging markets, according to a new study by Upstream, done in conjunction with Ovum, showed that among buyers in Brazil, China, India, Nigeria and Vietnam, Apple is the top brand when it comes to consumer wants, with 32 percent interest from the survey pool, with Samsung trailing at 29 percent and Nokia still demonstrating strong brand appeal in third… Read More
Zite CEO Mark Johnson Will Not Be Joining Flipboard
Mar 05, 3:05PM
As part of the announcement this morning that Flipboard is acquiring Zite from CNN, executives from both companies emphasized that bringing on the Zite team was a big part of the deal. However, that won't include Zite CEO Mark Johnson. KC Estenson, the head of CNN Digital, said that as Johnson and Flipboard CEO Mike McCue talked, they reached "a mutual agreement" that Johnson would "go and do… Read More
Eventbrite Goes Beyond General Admission By Rolling Out Tools For Events With Reserved Seating
Mar 05, 3:00PM
Eventbrite has made a name for itself as one of the largest self-serve platforms for managing ticket sales and RSVPs, but until today organizers could only create events with general admission seating. That's changing, as the company is rolling out a suite of tools that will enable event planners to create and manage advanced reserved seating charts. Read More
Flipboard Is Buying Zite From CNN For $60M, After CNN Bought It For $20M Three Years Ago
Mar 05, 2:36PM
This just in: Flipboard is buying Zite from CNN, which acquired the service three years ago for around $20 million. As part of the deal, it will integrate CNN content on to Flipboard, covering over 300 feeds. Terms of the deal were not disclosed on the call but CNN is reporting its value as $60 million. The move is a sign of ongoing consolidation in the space and comes in the wake of Facebook… Read More
GuideSpark Raises $15M To Become Your One-Stop HR Training Resource
Mar 05, 2:30PM
Menlo Park-based startup GuideSpark has raised a new $15 million Series B from NEA, as well as existing investors Storm Ventures and IDG Ventures. GuideSpark previously raised $5 million in a Series A round, and offers companies SaaS applications and eLearning content aimed at streamlining an organization’s HR processes, and bringing them out of paper resources and online. “We’re… Read More
Verizon Hopes A $100 Discount Will Drive Some Buzz For The Ho-Hum LG G Pad
Mar 05, 2:28PM
LG and Verizon have today announced that the 8.3-inch LG G Pad will be available in stores starting tomorrow, March 6. Until March 10, the tablet will be available for an ultra low price of $99.99 (with a two-year contract, of course) and will then be bumped to $199.99 (still with a two-year contract). The G Pad is also available on the Play store for $349 unlocked. Read More
NASDAQ Finally Launches Its Market For Privately-Held Companies
Mar 05, 2:00PM
Just as the JOBS Act kick-starts bigger markets for shares of privately held companies, NASDAQ is launching its own entrant in the field. The U.S. stock exchange, which hosts tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook, is finally opening its private company marketplace to let growth-stage companies tap institutional investors for capital and employee liquidity. They’re part of a growing… Read More
Led By Ex-Google Play Marketing Chief, Unspoken Tales Aims To Bring Hardcore, Story-Driven Games To Tablets
Mar 05, 2:00PM
A team of gaming veterans, including founder Patrick Mork, former global marketing director for Google Play, are coming together to form a new company called Unspoken Tales, which aims to bring story-driven, action role-playing games for the hardcore gamer to tablet computers. To be clear, these games would sit at the opposite end of the spectrum of where many top mobile hits reside today. After… Read More
10M Mobile Downloads Strong, Twitch Launches A Smartphone SDK To Diversify Its Live Streaming Platform
Mar 05, 2:00PM
Today Twitch, a video game live streaming platform, announced that it has accrued 10 million downloads of its mobile applications on the iOS and Android platforms, and that it has released a mobile SDK that may expand its reach into the on-the-go world. Simply put, Twitch has become known as the platform for desktop games such as League of Legends, and StarCraft 2, to broadcast their tournaments… Read More
Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, Rebuffing Sale Offers, Says Revenues Grew 500% in Q1 2014, 600% In 2013
Mar 05, 1:59PM
Foursquare -- the app that has shifted its business model from a place to track where your friends are going to the go-to place for people searching for local information -- is fast approaching its fifth birthday (it's March 11, for those of you prepping presents). And CEO Dennis Crowley wants us to know that it's still growing -- in revenues at least. Read More
Coming Out Of Stealth, MyCrowd Aims To Create World's Biggest Marketplace For Freelance Projects
Mar 05, 1:53PM
MyCrowd, a startup that helps companies find freelance talent for specific tasks through Google Docs, PowerPoint and other software applications, is raising $500,000 in a seed round from unnamed angel investors to add more connectors including Evernote and expand beyond its existing base of around 10 million specialists. MyCrowd’s in-app functionality allows users to identify and hire… Read More
TrackDuck Secures €200K Seed From Kima And Practica
Mar 05, 1:26PM
TrackDuck, a visual feedback and issue tracking startup, is aimed at small and mid-size organisations and freelancers. It lets the clients of small businesses and freelancers send feedback on a web site's build process right there on the screen. Theres no installation or learning how to use new software. Read More
T-Mobile Discovers No One Wants A BlackBerry Anymore
Mar 05, 1:23PM
T-Mobile ran a promo last month calling for BlackBerry owners to trade in their device for an iPhone 5s. Zero down. It was legitimately a good deal. But BlackBerry fanboys took the offensive and attacked. BlackBerry’s CEO followed suit and went on to call T-Mobile’s promotion “inappropriate” and an “ill-conceived marketing promotion.” Well, it looks like… Read More
Extended Volvo CarPlay Demo Video Shows Touch Scrolling, Integration With Other Car Software
Mar 05, 1:03PM
Apple is showing off CarPlay at the Geneva Auto Show this week with its first crop of car makers, and so far we’ve seen it in action in Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz vehicles, but a new video gives an extended look at how it works with Volvo cars. The demo features an Apple rep taking it through real-world usage scenarios including finding destinations in Maps and having text-based… Read More
With 3B Views A Month, Fullscreen Hires A CRO And Content Head To Explore New Revenue Opportunities
Mar 05, 1:00PM
Fullscreen is one of the top multichannel networks on YouTube today, with more than 3 billion video views per month. But there's always more it can be doing -- pulling in more money, helping creators make more high-quality content. To take care of that, Fullscreen has hired a new chief revenue officer and head of content. Read More
CloudBees Raises $11.2M Series C Led By Verizon Ventures To Expand Its Java-Centric Enterprise PaaS
Mar 05, 1:00PM
CloudBees, a Java-centric Enterprise platform as a service we’ve covered a few times in the past, today announced that it has raised an $11.2 million Series C funding round led by Verizon Ventures. Existing investors Matrix Partners and Lightspeed Ventures also participated in this round, as well as new investor Blue Cloud Ventures. In total, the service has now raised $25.7 million since it… Read More
Flying, A Social App For Frequent Flyers, Unveils The "Flying.display" Hardware Device
Mar 05, 12:07PM
I love it when a software startup ventures into connected hardware, even if that hardware is a tad pricey and might not even see the light of day. Enter Hamburg-based Flying.com, maker of Flying, an iOS app for frequent flyers that competes with Munich-based Mileways. Read More
TVSmiles Closes $7M Series A To Take Its Second-Screen TV Ad Loyalty Program Beyond Germany
Mar 05, 11:33AM
Berlin-based startup TVSmiles, which has built a second-screen app-based loyalty program to encourage people to watch TV ads, has closed a $7 million Series A funding round, from prior investors Ventech. Read More
Zoho Seeks To Disrupt IT Helpdesk Market By Offering ServiceDesk For Free
Mar 05, 11:25AM
With enterprises looking to achieve cost savings as their top priority in managing their IT systems, the IT help desk market is getting commoditized very fast, leaving little room for any disruptive innovation. ManageEngine, a division of Zoho, is offering its flagship IT help desk software — ServiceDesk — for free starting today, underscoring just how competitive and commoditized this… Read More
Yahoo Does Social Data U-Turn — Will Be Ditching Google & Facebook Sign-Ins For All Products
Mar 05, 10:04AM
Yahoo is planning to push users of its online services to register for a Yahoo ID to access its services — and will be removing the extant option for users to sign in with Google or Facebook credentials. Noting the change earlier, Reuters reports that the shutting out of rival services’ sign-ins will be a gradual one — starting with Yahoo Sports Tourney Pick’Em, a fantasy… Read More
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