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Radar

http://www.radar.net/

Last activity: 10.05.2010

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Sep 13, 2009	Shutterfly Buys Tiny Pictures For A Tiny Price	After raising a total of $11.2 million since its founding in 2005, Tiny Pictures sold to Shutterfly on Friday for $1.3 million in cash and another $1.3 million in restricted stock to employees, which has some performance triggers. If you ba...
Aug 18, 2009	140 Characters? That's A Lot Of Writing. Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth	It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Translated into this Twitter world we now live in, that’s like, thousands of characters. Thousands easily beats 140, so the people constantly complaining about Twitter’s brevity need to c...
Mar 11, 2009	Radar for iPhone finds Flickr support	Heres an idea: If you’re looking to build up your social site’s user base, add support for a popular, similarly focused (but not directly competitive) social site to your network’s iPhone application. It may sound crazy (who wants to promot...
Feb 2, 2009	Phanfare’s Photon: The Best Photo App for the iPhone Yet?	Phanfare is one of the lesser known photo sharing services on the Net, but its new iPhone app is putting the company back in the spotlight. This new app, dubbed ‘Photon’ (iTunes link), might just be the best photo sharing app we have seen o...
Dec 10, 2008	SnapMyLife captures $5M for mobile photo sharing	SnapMyLife, a web site for sharing photos over cellular phones worldwide, reeled in $5 million in financing to roll out new product features and stretch its global reach. Owned by mobile content distributor Mobicious, the Needham, Mass. com...
Apr 9, 2008	Two Local Startups Launch Mobile Photo-sharing Networks for the Masses	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints If you snap photos with your camera phone, you probably mean to share them eventually. But if you’re like 75 percent of camera phone owners surveyed by Ontela, a Seattle mobil...
Feb 25, 2008	Tiny Pictures Gets A Big Wad of Cash—$7 Million Series B	Mobile startup Tiny Pictures secured a $7.2 million series B financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Mohr Davidow Ventures, which led the A round, also participated. Previously, the company raised a total of $4 million, including seed inves...
Dec 17, 2007	Juice Wireless, offering mobile content sharing, gets more funding	Juice Wireless, a company that lets you send photos, videos and other content to your social network pages from your mobile phone, has been on a rocky ride. Not only does it face plenty of competition, but it changed tack a year ago and lai...
Dec 14, 2007	Roundup: Invidi funded by WPP, Amazon, Google and more	1. Invidi gets $25 million from WPP, the world’s second largest ad conglomerate 2. Amazon building out its webs services 3. Atheros Communications buys micro GPS company 4. Google may be looking at wireless spectrum in the UK 5. Tiny Pictur...
Nov 6, 2007	Roundup: AOL buys advertiser, robotic drivers rampage, and more	Here’s the latest action: 1) AOL buys Quigo for a reported $300 million 2) Cars compete, and collide, at yearly DARPA competition 3) Yahoo feeling its startup vittles? 4) AOL and CBS dump hi-def project 5) Digg may buy CoRank and Meneame 6)...
Nov 5, 2007	Radar Turns Mobile Pictures Into Conversation Starters	There are plenty of mobile apps that let you snap a picture and share it with your friends or the world—Zannel, Umundo, Mocospace, Pikki, MobyPicture, Yahoo Go—but one that does an especially good job at just sharing pictures among your fri...
Sep 6, 2007	Mobile startups growing: photos, videos, presence detection and storage	If you’re in the mobile industry, and you’re not growing, you have a problem. We’re in the midst of a mobile revolution (all arrows pointing up), and numerous start-ups are riding the tide as it rises This week, those reporting success incl...
Feb 12, 2007	Radar, the real-time photo sharing company, gets boost	updated San Francisco start-up Tiny Pictures allows you to take and send photos to your friends’ phones. The photos can be shared almost instantly and with groups of friends, who can then comment. The company’s product, named Radar, will ge...
Feb 2, 2007	The new video players: Kyte, DimDim	There are a ton of “video player” companies out there, and they’re starting to blur. It takes a lot to impress these days. A video player in 2007 should be able to upload any video file — from your desktop or from the Web — and then have it...
Dec 18, 2006	Mywaves offers lots of mobile video, and is growing	Mywaves, a Sunnyvale start-up that delivers video to your mobile phone, launched in September, but we didn’t give it much coverage. Mywaves has since grown quickly, however, and now is boasting one of the largest mobile video services. Larg...

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What has the press written about Radar?

Parsers VC has collected 16 articles mentioning Radar, among them “Shutterfly Buys Tiny Pictures For A Tiny Price” (Sep 13, 2009) and “140 Characters? That's A Lot Of Writing. Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth” (Aug 18, 2009).

Is Radar still active?

Radar is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 10, 2010.