| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.08.2024 | Investor.ai, Dopplr raise early-stage funds, JSW's Parth Jindal bets on sports startup | Bruce Keith, co-founder and CEO, Investor.ai
InvestorAi, Dopplr, and PadelPark India raised early-stage funding, the companies said Thursday.
InvestorAi
Wealthtech platform InvestorAi has raised Rs 80 crore ($9.5 million) in Series A round ... |
| 18.10.2013 | Nokia Quietly Shuttering Pioneering Location Network Dopplr Nov 1st, 4 Years After Acquisition | Nokia has very quietly shuttered the social travel service Dopplr today, just over four years after acquiring it back in 2009. Nokia placed an announcement on the Dopplr homepage that says the service will be closed down as of November 1st.... |
| 05.07.2013 | Goodbye Mr Silva — A Brief History Of East London’s ‘Tech City’ | It was December 2009 and I was headed to a Christmas party at Number 10 Downing Street. This wasn’t exactly a regular diary date for me. Two years in to working for TechCrunch out of London and it had proven harder than I’d thought to attra... |
| 05.12.2010 | NSFW: Another Year, Another Possibly Depressing Visit to London | Another day – another year, actually – another airport. This time I’m at gate A11 at SFO waiting for my flight to London. My plan was to use the 10 hour flight to write a column about how I’m looking forward to seeing London again but how I... |
| 22.08.2010 | Bumped.in gives you an excuse to chat up fellow commuters | Ever wish you could strike up a conversation with that cute redhead on the commuter train? Well, a startup called Bumped.in may finally give you the courage.
The service is a social network for daily commuters and travelers that shares simi... |
| 22.08.2010 | Bumped.in gives you an excuse to chat up fellow commuters | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ever wish you could strike up a conversation with that cute redhead on the commuter train? Well, a startup called Bumped.in may finally... |
| 14.06.2010 | Stay.com: A Killer Domain For A Social Travel Planner With Some Potential | EuropaReiser is today launching the free public beta version of Stay.com, a service that lets people plan their travels and share those plans with others.
Of course, there are lots of websites and applications one can use to find out what t... |
| 31.05.2010 | Should I Stay.com or Should I Go? Social Travel 2.0 | After months of work, social trip planner Stay.com is getting ready to unshutter and launch a much more robust Version 2.0.
“Basically, we created 2.0 by filling in all the blanks other sites like Expedia, TripIt, TripAdvisor, NileGuide, an... |
| 25.01.2010 | Aloqa 2.0 expands its location-based info app | Aloqa, a mobile application that serves up local information to users based on their location, has released version 2.0 of its offering. The new version brings more local knowledge and social information to its nearly 300,000 users.
Aloqa, ... |
| 18.12.2009 | Running a startup in London? Check out White Bear Yard | At the Le Web conference in Paris last week, there was a debate about whether a bright moment for tech startups in London had passed. The Bebo and Last.fm acquisitions happened almost two years ago, and several of the startups from the “Sil... |
| 18.12.2009 | Running a startup in London? Check out White Bear Yard | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
At the Le Web conference in Paris last week, ther... |
| 06.12.2009 | NSFW: Sleepless in London. It's scary outside the bubble | I’m tired. Very tired. It’s a little after 4am San Francisco time – noon GMT – and I’m sitting in the arrivals lounge Heathrow airport, thanking the lord for Boingo hotspots and trying to commit these few hundred words to cyberspace before ... |
| 24.11.2009 | If Kerouac Lived In The Present, OnTheRoad, The Service, May Have Interested Him | There’s a ton of buzz around location right now. Our discussion on it at the RealTime CrunchUp this past Friday easily could have gone on twice as long as it did. There are just so many interesting facets: Business models, privacy, real-lif... |
| 23.10.2009 | That Was Fun, But Now Nokia's Looking To Sell Off Dopplr | The damn ink isn’t even dry on the Dopplr acquisition by Nokia that everyone said would never happen (it did). And yet, we’re now hearing rumors that Nokia is quietly looking for a buyer to take the travel social network off their hands.
Wh... |
| 13.10.2009 | In Pictures: 10 Best iPhone Apps For Business Networkers | |
| 30.09.2009 | TechStars Investor Day Hits a Home Run | With bleary eyes and bellies full of coffee, a roomful of investors, journalists and young entrepreneurs gathered this morning for the Bay Area TechStars Investor day. The Boulder and Boston-based startup incubator pulled out all the stops ... |
| 28.09.2009 | Dopplr confirms being acquired by Nokia, says nothing will change (for now) | So finally the official word is in, with a very short blog post by CEO Marko Ahtisaari: Dopplr has been acquired by Nokia.
Update: Nokia’s press release
Update 2: Dopplr angel investor Martin Varsavsky on the deal: ‘Nokia as a force of good... |
| 24.09.2009 | Congrats To Dopplr I Guess. But Before The Champagne, Some Context | So before we get into this, let’s build the case for the defence. Nokia has been acquiring lots of small startups lately (Plum, Cellity and Bit-Side this year) and TechCrunch.com now has a source that says they’ve bought boutique travel soc... |
| 24.09.2009 | Congrats to Dopplr? Maybe. But before the champagne, some context | So before we get into this, let’s build the case for the defence. Nokia has been acquiring lots of small startups lately (Plum, Cellity and Bit-Side this year) and TechCrunch.com now has a source that says they’ve bought boutique travel soc... |
| 23.09.2009 | Nokia To Acquire UK Startup Dopplr | Nokia has been on an acquisition tear lately, albeit mostly small deals (Plum, Cellity and Bit-Side all this year). A source close to the deal says that they’ve just made one more acquisition: boutique travel social network Dopplr, headquar... |
| 22.07.2009 | XING launches an OpenSocial app assault on LinkedIn | Despite being virtually unknown in the US, and still somewhat hemmed in by its core German speaking market, XING, the LinkedIn competitor, refuses to lie down. And like a scene from the Rocky movie, it’s going into training to become better... |
| 16.07.2009 | Travel Smart – Dopplr Social Atlas launched on the iPhone | London and Helsinki, July 16, 2009 - Dopplr, the online service for smart travel, today announced the launch of Dopplr - The Social Atlas, a free iPhone application available worldwide in the iPhone App Store.
This mobile location-based app... |
| 16.07.2009 | Aloqa raises $1.5M for location-based mobile content | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Aloqa, a mobile search company that sends you inf... |
| 16.07.2009 | Dopplr launches iPhone app anyone can use, but where's Add Trip? | Dopplr has launched an iPhone app they are billing as a “social atlas”. Curiously, and possibly wisely, you don’t even need an account at Dopplr to use the app, meaning it will get exposed to a lot more potential users. However, a let down ... |
| 16.07.2009 | Dopplr Launches iPhone App, But Where's The Add Trip Button? | Dopplr has launched an iPhone app they are billing as a “social atlas”. Curiously, and possibly wisely, you don’t even need an account at Dopplr to use the app, meaning it will get exposed to a lot more potential users. However, a let down ... |
| 16.07.2009 | Aloqa raises $1.5M for location-based mobile content | Aloqa, a mobile search company that sends you information about events, friends and other data based on your location, launched its first product today at MobileBeat: an app for Android-based devices.
The company also announced $1.5 million... |
| 15.07.2009 | Whuffaoke or Bust: RWW’s Road Trip Resources | After publishing her book about social capital and the power of social networking,The Whuffie Factor, Tara Hunt is doing what any change agent does. She’s changing. She’s quit her job, purchased a winnebago and coerced five friends to karao... |
| 01.06.2009 | Trip-planning site TravelMuse zooms ahead with $2M | TravelMuse, a web site and widget maker that allows users to make, save and book elaborate travel plans, has raised $2 million of an anticipated $3.9 million in debt and equity funding, according to VentureWire. Based in Los Altos, Calif., ... |
| 31.05.2009 | For Brevity’s Sake: NextStop, Twitter for Activities Launches | Created by former Google employees Carl Sjorgreen and Adrian Graham, privately funded San Francisco-based Nextstop launched this morning to help thrill seekers, tourists and foodies find the concise recommendations they need to plan their d... |
| 08.05.2009 | Ex-Googlers Try To Create A Better Travel Guide With Nextstop | Are you looking for the best beer bars in the world, good places to make out in San Francisco, or where to go on the Big Island in Hawaii? A travel recommendation site called nextstop mixes social recommendations with search and adds a repu... |
| 16.04.2009 | WAYN's next strategy? Copy Dopplr | UK-based social-networking site WAYN is one of the oldest startups around. It’s so old it even copied Friends Reunited’s subscription model back in the day before it’s VCs convinced it to go free. But it in the Age of Facebook, it’s losing ... |
| 12.03.2009 | Plugg wraps with two very capable winnners | So Plugg, the European startups conference in Brussels today (organised by TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters) wrapped up with two overall winners of their startup competition, and if I do say so myself they were pretty worthy.
The overall win... |
| 07.03.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: New Facebook Homepages, Kindle for iPhone, DEMO Smarter Web, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook’s homepages, check out Yahoo’s answer to Facebook Connect, review the new iPhone version of Amazon’s eReader Kindle, analyze... |
| 06.03.2009 | Plugg conference finalists to present in Brussels: Discount for our readers | In Brussels on March 12, Plugg, the European startup conference organized by TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters, promises to be an excellent event with a host of knowledgeable speakers and lively competition.
Wauters has extended a 15 percent disco... |
| 06.02.2009 | FlightTrack Pro Puts TripIt (And More) In Your Pocket | Appropros Mobile has released a Pro version of its popular FlightTrack iPhone application that can automatically pull in your flight itineraries through TripIt’s recently released API.
The original FlightTrack application, which costs $4.99... |
| 26.01.2009 | Dopplr And MAXroam Are Now Travel Buddies | Cubic Telecom, the TechCrunch40 company behind the traveler-friendly SIM card MAXroam, has partnered with Dopplr to sell the card through its online store. The Dopplr -branded SIM card will be available for a reduced rate of €45 (down five ... |
| 05.01.2009 | Kakuteru: A Blogging and Lifestreaming Mashup (+Invites) | What do you get when you combine blogging and lifestreaming? You get Kakuteru, a semantic blogging mashup with funny name. The service imports your activity streams from FriendFeed and combines them with longer articles you write yourself. ... |
| 05.01.2009 | Hype Machine Zeitgeist: Listen in Full to the 50 Most Blogged Albums of 2008, For Free | Music mashup site shows how User Experience is done.
MP3 blog aggregator Hype Machine launched a new microsite today called the Music Blog Zeitgeist. There you can listen, for free, to entire albums from the most blogged-about musicians of ... |
| 23.12.2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| 10.12.2008 | AMEE | As anybody who has looked into dieting or just improving their nutrition knows, there is a lot of conflicting advice on the impact of fats and carbohydrates on your body. But no matter what you ultimately conclude, you are now in the good p... |
| 05.12.2008 | Top 10 International Products of 2008 | We live in a technologically rich and increasingly Web-savvy world. In this post, we celebrate the World Wide Web by selecting our top 10 international products of 2008. What do we mean by ‘international’? We looked for products that were d... |
| 02.12.2008 | Dopplr City Pages Offer Interesting View of Techie Travel Patterns | With the relative freedom provided by laptops, mobile devices, and more affordable transportation, people have become more migratory and, yet, better at remaining connected – or at the very least, accessible. Nowhere is this more evident th... |
| 17.11.2008 | TravelMuse launches new widget, scores $600K | It’s a good week for trip planning website TravelMuse. It launched its first application, the TravelMuse Plan-It!, which allows users to collect travel information from a range of sites in one centralized location — and then share it with t... |
| 09.11.2008 | Zuckerberg's "Second Law" And My Vision For Social Media | Nick Carr takes offense to Mark Zuckerberg’s "second law of social media" which Saul Hansell describes as:
“I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much
information as they share this year, and next year, they wi... |
| 06.10.2008 | TheKnot for diseases and a travel concierge | Esther Dyson helps us evaluate Careflash and Yapta
In this episode, we look at health care and travel startups. Who better to look at startups in these industries than Esther Dyson, an angel investor in a number of startups in these areas. ... |
| 15.09.2008 | Dopplr pulls in tech/media stars for latest investment | Dopplr – the site where you list where you are flying to in the future thus creating happy coincidences with your business or social network – has completed a second of financing round from a roster of big names in the tech and media scene.... |
| 15.09.2008 | Dopplr lands on the radar of some of the internet’s bigger names, raises cash | Updated
Dopplr, a site that lets you share your jet-setting travel plans with your jet-setting friends, has raised a second round of undisclosed size from a plethora of jet-setters from the world of tech.
The site, which we first covered in... |
| 15.09.2008 | Dopplr: New Funding Round for Business Travel Network | Today, Dopplr, the social network for business travelers, announced that it has secured a second round of financing. The lead investor for this round is Ester Dyson. Other investors include Tom Glocer from Reuters, Joshua Schachter from del... |
| 21.08.2008 | Hey, Hackers need friends too! | Despite a plethora of events supporting “new media” types, and even such things as Geek Dinners, the UK eco-system around “hackers” (good programmers, in the true definition) – remains thin. Or so argues Ian Hogarth of Songkick in this gues... |
| 13.08.2008 | Fire Eagle - Where's The Mobile App? | I love the concept of Yahoo’s new Fire Eagle. As Mark Josephson of outside.in said to me the other day:
Fire Eagle is a location wallet
It’s a web service that you can tell where you are at all times and manage what web services get to use ... |
| 10.08.2008 | Travelin’ Man | On June 17th, I left my office, got on the A train, and headed to JFK to grab a flight to SFO. Since that day almost two months ago, I have spent six nights in my home in NYC. And it’s not over yet. Between now and labor day, I think I’ll s... |
| 06.08.2008 | Social Travel Site TripSay Opens Up To The Public | After about four months in private beta, social travel site TripSay is now open to all travelers. TripSay combines travel search with user-generated travel guides and ratings. When you enter a city or place, it comes up on a map, along with... |
| 30.07.2008 | Now we have Silicon Roundabout — where else are London’s existing, organic tech hubs? | It’s weird how ideas get a certain zeitgeist. Last night at around 1am I put up my idea for a tech hub – a physical cluster for startups, probably a building or a set of buildings not unlike the converted Guinness warehouses in Dublin used ... |
| 03.07.2008 | Europe's Mobile 2.0 startups come together | Europe is a hotbed of mobile startups right now, so appropriately enough the Mobile 2.0 event which started in San Francisco is putting on a one-day international event tomorrow in Barcelona which focuses on mobile startups, dubbed Mobile 2... |
| 03.06.2008 | TechCrunch Euro Tour – Update | TechCrunch UK is taking the TechCrunch brand on a little road-trip (OK, plane trip) around Europe this summer and afterwards, making face-to-face contact with Europe’s best and brightest startups. We just held a great meetup in Barcelona fo... |
| 02.06.2008 | TechCrunch Euro Tour Update | TechCrunch UK is taking the TechCrunch brand on a little road-trip (OK, plane trip) around Europe this summer and afterwards, making face-to-face contact with Europe’s best and brightest startups. We just held a great meetup in Barcelona fo... |
| 14.05.2008 | TechCrunch Euro Tour – Events across Europe | Since I write for TechCrunch from London, and since the rest of Europe is less than a two hour flight away, I am going to do some “Euro-tripping” over the next few weeks, criss-crossing the continent meeting startups and writing about them ... |
| 06.05.2008 | Travel startup UpTake set to launch opinions super-site | With so many online travel sites crowding the market, you’d think we were nearing a Web 2.0 travel bubble. But according to travel information search engine UpTake, which is launching May 14, there’s still an untapped niche in the market: a... |
| 22.04.2008 | Boom for travel sites — Can they make money? | Travel sites are in fashion this spring, with new sites adding at a steady pace. Finnish travel site TripSay is just the latest to emerge, for example, with ways to share tips about travel. It’s still in closed testing, but it plans to open... |
| 17.04.2008 | TripIt raises $5.1M to better organize your travels | As someone who has been home for one weekend of the past six, I know that traveling can be a real pain. While the Internet has eased some burdens such as scheduling and price hunting, it has also created new ones, such as organizing trip de... |
| 16.04.2008 | Britain’s best and brightest startups hit Silicon Valley next week for funding | If you’ve never heard of Dragon’s Den, it’s a popular British TV reality series, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to get funding from business experts — the “Dragons”. One of those Dragons, Doug Richard, a UK-based Californian and foun... |
| 15.04.2008 | Dopplr adds hotel and travel content | Dopplr has quietly added content from Mr & Mrs Smith, the boutique and luxury hotel guide, to help users find hotels as they travel. As users create trips on the site they’ll see content from Mr & Mrs Smith’s site on high-quality lo... |
| 07.04.2008 | TripIt Goes Even More Mobile | TripIt, the service that creates master travel itineraries out of your confirmation emails, has become even more traveler-friendly with a new mobile site.
Users can access the site at m.tripit.com with their handheld devices. We’ve been tol... |
| 10.03.2008 | Dopplr to calculate carbon | UK startup Dopplr – which allows you to ‘optimise’ your trips to allow more useful meetings with your social or business network thus effectively reducing travel – is to soon allow members to calculate their carbon emissions as they travers... |
| 06.03.2008 | Fire Eagle launches – want an invite? | UPDATE: The invites have now gone.
I have four Fire Eagle invites to the first four commenters on this post. These are also one-time invitation codes and can’t be reused. No idea what I’m talking about? As you’ll note from Michael Arrington... |
| 28.02.2008 | Dopplr releases new features | Dopplr has released the “Singapore” version of the site this week. Here are the details from their user newsletter. Two new features stand out:
1. More happy coincidences
Dopplr now informs you of “nearby” and “near-miss” coincidences. You ... |
| 25.02.2008 | Why are Dopplr profiles so sparse? | Dopplr is often cited as one of the hottest startups in the UK. It’s ability to allow you to see what city the people your social network are going to be in the future is very clever. It also spans both the consumer web and the enterprise. ... |
| 30.01.2008 | Dopplr preps calendar integration | Dopplr, lets you share your future trips with your social network, has been been working on a new feature that lets you import trips from calendaring applications like Google Calendar and Apple iCal. They are still finalising the design and... |
| 03.12.2007 | Dopplr tests traveller tips sharing | Dopplr, the UK-based social network for global travelers, is testing a new feature on some of its members which might make the Yelps and Trusted Places of this world sit up and take notice. The new Dopplr feature lets you share tips and rec... |
| 14.11.2007 | VibeAgent Makes Strong Entry Into Social Travel Market | VibeAgent is a just-launched hotel search site based in Charlottesville, Virginia. There’s a number of things worth noting about this startup; travel search may be a crowded space but the web is young and the game is not over yet.
Think no ... |
| 08.10.2007 | News In Brief, or 'The Dredge' 8/10/07 | The first of a regular ‘dredge’ of items of interest, in no particular order…
• UK-based Dopplr has launched its blog badges, previously announced at the FOWA conference last week. The badge shows your future trips on your webpages in as mu... |
| 24.09.2007 | Social Net Interops | Dave Winer has some good thoughts on why Twitter and Netflix should get connected. I agree completely.
Last week Hugh twittered that he had joined Dopplr. I had to surf over to Dopplr, find Hugh, and ask to follow his trips.
That should hav... |
| 04.09.2007 | Dopplr, a trip-sharing site for the jet set | Dopplr, a Helsinki, Finland company that lets frequent travelers share their trips with friends and so that they make notes on each other’s itineraries, has raised an undisclosed amount of financing from individual investors.
Sharing travel... |
| 04.09.2007 | Dopplr, Social Network for World Travelers, Gets A-List Seed Funding | Dopplr, an invite-only social network for sharing travel plans with friends, has announced early-stage financing of an undisclosed amount from Martin Varsavsky, Joichi Ito, Reid Hoffman and The Accelerator Group led by Saul Klein.
The socia... |
| - | Nokia приобрела социальную сеть Dopplr | Nokia приобрела социальную сеть Dopplr
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Nokia сообщает, что не планирует вносить изменения в работу «Cоциального Атласа».
В понедельник компания Nokia объявила о приобретении сервиса для путешественников D... |