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| Apr 29, 2026 | Power Pet® Earns High Praise From IBS, CES, and More During 2026 Pet Tech Awards Season | Power Pet®, the first automatic dog door, introduced its next gen model, the Power Pet® Roll Up Door in late 2025 and achieved major accolades throughout the 2026 pet technology awards season. From the International Builders' Show (IBS... |
| Jul 29, 2024 | Что делать, чтобы любопытство не сгубило кошку. Биохимия и инженерия. Guest Post | Вашему вниманию предлагается очередной гостевой пост в исполнении уважаемой Анастасии Лазукиной @anastasiamrr, которая уже и ранее любезно писала некоторые посты для моего блога, чтобы я мог немного отдохнуть летом. Сегодня автор затрагивае... |
| Jul 16, 2024 | Tech-Enhanced Feeding Toys for Cats: The Future of Feline Fun | Share
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Picture this: you walk through the door after a long day, and your cat greets you with that familiar look of eager anticipation. Their whiskers twitch, their eyes glimmer, and their tail flicks with barely cont... |
| Feb 14, 2017 | Investing in GoodBusiness | Ted Rheingold Contributor
Ted Rheingold is a profit-from-purpose entrepreneur. He was the founding COO of Tala and founder of the social networks Dogster and Catster.
Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companie... |
| Dec 5, 2015 | 50 Cent Used His Cat to Promote His Vodka and People Are Pissed | High art would have you believe that dogs are a bunch of cigar-smoking, poker-playing lushes. At a house party in your younger, misguided years, you may have witnessed someone pour a beer into a dog's bowl and watched the dog cluelessl... |
| Sep 2, 2015 | The Internet Was Created For Cat Street View | Drones are making it easier to share a bird’s eye view of the world around us, but we might be looking at things from the wrong perspective. Created as a tourism promotion by Hiroshima prefecture in Japan, the Cat Street View map reminds us... |
| Aug 20, 2013 | Belowrez App Puts Your Cat in a Retro Video Game | Editor’s note: This post was originally published by our partners at Catster.
Anyone who’s ever dreamed of having her cat star in a retro video game was in luck earlier this month as the Belowrez app launched. Available on iPhone, the app t... |
| Jun 11, 2013 | Why Oh Why Did Apple Abandon Cat Names For OS X? | This post was originally posted on our Say Media sister site, Catster. We’re republishing it here with permission.
Since 2001, Apple Inc. has named its Macintosh computer operating systems after big cats: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tig... |
| Jun 11, 2013 | Why Oh Why Did Apple Abandon Cat Names For OS X? | This post was originally posted on our Say Media sister site, Catster. We’re republishing it here with permission.
Since 2001, Apple Inc. has named its Macintosh computer operating systems after big cats: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tig... |
| Mar 27, 2013 | 5 Great Viral Variations On The Marriage Equality Meme | Unless you were under social media blackout yesterday, you couldn’t have missed the Internet rising up to support marriage equality via the sharing of a pink-on-red “equal sign” icon. It also didn’t take long for wags across the Web to begi... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | Editor’s Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite | Welcome to the new ReadWrite. Today we are relaunching this legendary tech site with a new name, a new design and a new approach. I’m thrilled to be joining ReadWrite as the site’s new editor-in-chief, and to be teaming up with Fredric Paul... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Dogster Gets A SAY Media Makeover | SAY Media launched a redesigned version yesterday of Dogster, its community for dog owners, as well as sister site Catster. Via email, the team gave me more details about their vision and where they go from here.
SAY was created after video... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Amazon and Pfizer Fuel Ever-Growing Frenzy in the Market for Pet Supplies | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As much as I hate clichés, I can’t resist using them to describe what’s been going on lately in the pet-products business. So here goes: It’s raining cats and dogs online, as ... |
| May 31, 2011 | With xoJane Launch, Say Media Embarks on Transformation into a “Passion-Based Media Company” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When VideoEgg bought its San Francisco neighbor Six Apart last fall and renamed the combined company Say Media, the reaction from many media watchers was, “Say what?” It wasn’... |
| Jun 11, 2010 | Dogster And Catster Go To The Groomer, Come Out With Freshly Curated Fur | When it comes to social sites on the Internet, Dogster and Catster have to be doing something right — they’ve been profitable for the past three years. But that doesn’t mean they should just sit back and not tweak the sites at all to offer ... |
| Sep 29, 2009 | Dogster and ICanHazCheezburger Join Ad Forces | Dogster has never been a Web 2.0 darling. At first glance a social network for pets isn’t the most innovative idea, and its audience is limited to the kinds of wackos who make name tags for their dogs at conferences or create elaborate fict... |
| Jun 11, 2009 | Skype Co-founders Invest In European Pet Community Network | Estonia-based United Dogs and Cats, which operates two pet-specific community websites dubbed UnitedDogs.com and UnitedCats.com, has raised €480,000 in VC funding. The money comes from individual investor Raivo Hein, the state-owned Estonia... |
| Jan 8, 2009 | Dogster still has its bite despite the downturn | Dogster, the social network for dogs and their owners, just converted $425,000 in bridge funds into additional first-round financing, reports VentureWire. After a profitable 2008, raising a second round isn’t as pressing, the company says —... |
| Oct 18, 2007 | Pet site rivalry begins: United Dogs vs. Dogster | United Dogs & Cats, a company that manages the social networking websites for pet owners, Uniteddogs.com and Unitedcats.com, has raised an undisclosed round of funding from Ambient Sound Investments.
The Estonian company is the latest E... |
| Oct 3, 2006 | Roundup of latest stuff: Perenety’s shift, social anti-phishing & more | Perenety, the PC to PC file-sharing company, has raised $1.6M, and is shifting strategy — We’ll be hearing more from this Sunnyvale start-up soon.
After tooling around with peer to peer file-sharing, the company has decided that doing this ... |
| Sep 18, 2006 | Why I Invested in Dogster | Some readers may have noticed that Dogster, the social network for dogs (along with sister site Catster), closed a $1 million round of financing last week. See TechMeme to catch up on the discussion if you missed it.
I was one of the invest... |
| Sep 13, 2006 | Dogster raises $1M to expand — Woof! — but it’s not about the dogs | About a year ago, Dogster, the social networking site for dogs, made some eyebrow-raising news: It had turned profitable.
Now Dogster has raised a round of $1 million from a group of accomplished “angel” investors, to help it step on the ga... |
| Jul 11, 2006 | Dogster Has Competition | Dogster (and sister site Catster), which turned two last January, now has competition in the pet social network space from a newcomer – Massachusetts based PawSpot. The new company was founded by Mark Roberge.
The PawSpot site is still in b... |
| Jan 13, 2006 | Dogster Turns Two | Dogster, led by founder and CEO Ted Rheingold, turned two years old yesterday. The company is located in San Francisco.
Dogster is a home page site just for dogs. You can see the page for my dog, Laguna, here as an example. A key part of th... |
