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| Aug 22, 2013 | Naked Wines dons $10M to sell you more wine for less | How do you become a naked angel without taking off your clothes? By buying wine.
Naked Wines has raised $10 million to expand its online wine store internationally.
The company claims to be the “first customer-funded online wine retailer.” ... |
| Aug 22, 2013 | Naked Wines dons $10M to sell you more wine for less | 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!
How do you become a naked angel without taking of... |
| Aug 21, 2013 | Delectable brings cutting edge tech to ancient pursuit of wine | Ah, wine. The liquid of love and live. The elixir of poetry, the fluid of refinement, and lately, a trendy topic for tech startups.
Delectable is an iPhone application for remembering wines you’ve tasted and discovering new vintages. The co... |
| Aug 21, 2013 | Delectable brings cutting edge tech to ancient pursuit of wine | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ah, wine. The liquid of love and live. The elixir of poetry, the fluid of refinement, and lately, a trendy topic for tech startups.
Del... |
| Mar 27, 2013 | Springpad’s latest upgrade brings embeddable notebooks & more marketing toys | 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!
The personal assistant application announced toda... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | Accel Leads $30M Round In Flash Sales Site For Wine And Gourmet Food Lot18 | Lot18, the Gilt Groupe for wine, wine accessories and gourmet food, has raised $30 million in Series C financing led by Accel Partners with existing investors New Enterprise Associates and FirstMark Capital participating. Accel partner Same... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Robots Battle Over Wine | The collision of the wine websites CellarTracker and Snooth raises some interesting questions over data ownership. Snooth was accused of copying information from CellarTracker’s user reviews, using an automated robot script crawling the sit... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | Snooth Founder Launches Private Sales Site For Fine Wine, Raises $3 Million | Exclusive – Discerned wine buyers, heads up. Philip James, who founded major wine site Snooth.com, has teamed up with entrepreneur Kevin Fortuna to launch an online private sales club that enables members to purchase fine wines straight fro... |
| Sep 29, 2010 | Snap a wine label to find where to buy that wine | Snooth just launched an iPhone application which uses image recognition to do something genuinely useful (as least to me). If you take a picture of a wine label, Snooth finds the stores closest to you that stock that wine and the prices in ... |
| Sep 27, 2010 | Hungry? The State of Food Recommendation Engines | Where should we eat lunch? What should we have for dinner tonight? Recommendation engines try to match our tastes to music, movies and books – why not help us answer these other eternal questions? Here are a few sites that try to do just th... |
| May 25, 2010 | AOL Co-founder Steve Case Backs Online Wine Marketplace Vinfolio | Co-founder of AOL Steve Case (who will be up on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt this morning – live stream here) has invested an undisclosed sum in online wine marketplace Vinfolio.
The funding comes from Case’s investment company Revolution – ... |
| Mar 15, 2010 | Social wine site Uvinum uncorks in the US | [Spain] Just last week, Uvinum a Spanish grown social wine recommendation portal took their first step into the English speaking market with the launch of the UK version.
Today Uvinum uncorks in the US, in a further effort to reach into mat... |
| Dec 19, 2009 | Wine.com Uncorks iPhone App | There’s no shortage of wine-focused iPhone apps that help users access listings, varietals and recommendations on the go. Wine.com, a popular wine retailer with a fantastic domain name, is launching its own free iPhone app to help wine love... |
| Oct 16, 2009 | Online wine communities flourish, add new services | If wine can make “… every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized …” according to Andre Simon in the Commonsense of Wine, can it also make an online social network more fun, more witty, more useful? Virtual wine... |
| Sep 26, 2009 | Wine.com Uncorks Its API | Wine.com, a popular wine retailer with a fantastic domain name, is releasing its API for third-party developers to create and enhance wine applications connecting to the site’s e-commerce and wine database platform.
Wine.com’s database has ... |
| Sep 17, 2009 | Corkd Is Back With A New CEO, Winery Fan Pages, And A Social Stream | About two years ago, wine impresario Gary Vaynerchuk bought the wine-review site Corkd, but then he let it languish. He was busy with Wine Library TV, and branching out with speaking gigs, his own site, a book deal (Crush It!), another onli... |
| Sep 2, 2009 | Panorama Capital Pours $4.5 Million Into Online Wine Outlet Vinfolio | Online wine store and community site Vinfolio has raised $4.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Panorama Capital after receiving an undisclosed amount of angel investment earlier. San Francisco-based Vinfolio offers a set of integr... |
| Sep 2, 2009 | Vinfolio raises $4.5 million | San Francisco-based online wine marketplace looking to expand into Asia and accelerate growth
Vinfolio, an online marketplace for wine enthusiasts, has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding led by Panorama Capital.
Based in San Francisco,... |
| May 2, 2009 | Smart Links Are Back On This Blog | When we did the redesign last summer, we nuked most everything that was on this blog in favor of a light and clean blog. I hope we've kept it light and clean since then.
One thing that went was smart links. Smart links are provided by our p... |
| Jan 16, 2009 | Wine Review Site Snooth Raises Cash And A Following | Raise a glass to Snooth, a social wine review site that is gaining some traction and recently closed another angel round of financing of about $1 million. Angel investors included Joe Meyer, Kevin Fortuna (both from Quigo) and Ted Jansen (f... |
| Nov 28, 2007 | Snooth.com, a search site for wine snoots | Snooth, a New York company offering a “social” wine search and review site, has raised $1 million more in funding, but on a closer look it offers little new.
Snooth says its database contains more than 300,000 wines with 1.9 million reviews... |
| Nov 28, 2007 | Snooth Raises $1 Million In A Second Round Of Angel Funding | Snooth is “the world’s most comprehensive wine database, featuring millions of reviews and hundreds of thousands of wines.” |
| Nov 28, 2007 | Wine 2.0 Site, Snooth, Raises $1 Million Angel Round | A New York City-based startup called Snooth just raised $1 million in angel financing, on top of an earlier $300,000 round. Snooth is a social wine recommendation site that lets you search for more than 300,000 different types of wine. It h... |
| Oct 12, 2007 | The anti-snoring pillow… Sydney ranked world best by tourists… Wine clubs online… Online searches, the results are in… eBay social network | The anti-snoring pillow
Sydney ranked world best by tourists
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Online searches, the results are in
eBay social network Magic pillow stops you snoring
I can’t believe someone didn’t think of this sooner. Reuters reports that ... |
| Jul 31, 2007 | Wine.com Offers RSS-based API | We have written here extensively
about the rise of web services and the transformation of the web into a platform. In our post
When Web Sites Become Web Services
we argued that more and more web sites will open their information via an inte... |