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Started as a Facebook app to let users get reminders for holidays and friends' birthdays, SocialCalendar plans to become the leader in social commerce around birthday and holiday-related gifting, a $300B market. SocialCalendar lets users pick their favorite things from Amazon's product catalog. Users can share their favorite things with close friends and family, and follow others' favorite things for social discovery.
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| Sep 22, 2020 | IRL Fuels Social Calendar App With $16M Series B | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn With many events capped at a certain attendance number to allow for social distancing, it’s more difficult to celebrate and connect. IRL (In Real Life) is out to change that. Subscribe to the Crunch... |
| Mar 11, 2012 | Walmart Buys Facebook’s Birthday And Holiday Reminder App Social Calendar | It looks like retail giant Walmart has made another acquisition. The e-commerce giant has bought Social Calendar, an app on Facebook that allows you to get birthday and holiday reminders by email and SMS, and to post personalized photo card... |
| Mar 11, 2012 | Walmart buys Facebook app, Social Calendar | The world's largest company makes yet another acquisition As the largest company in the world, Walmart has a lot to lose, particularly as the last couple of years have seen an emergence of retail and social commerce sites. It's no wonder th... |
| Sep 19, 2008 | Facebook platform plus Amazon wish lists equals success for SocialCalendar | You’d think a “wish list” application from Amazon would have been a success on Facebook. It enabled the sharing of individual wish lists and direct purchasing without leaving the confines of the social network. But Amazon’s wish list app, c... |
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FAQ about SocialCalendar
What has the press written about SocialCalendar?
Parsers VC has collected 5 articles mentioning SocialCalendar, among them “IRL Fuels Social Calendar App With $16M Series B” (Sep 22, 2020) and “Walmart Buys Facebook’s Birthday And Holiday Reminder App Social Calendar” (Mar 11, 2012).
Is SocialCalendar still active?
SocialCalendar is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 23, 2020.