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| Aug 10, 2009 | “Mobile shopping” ads promise more in-store sales | “Our experience with iPhone shoppers shows they are 17 times more likely to go to a local store than buy online,” NearbyNow CEO Scott Dunlap said in a press release I’d have otherwise deleted. NearbyNow makes what insiders call a “white lab... |
| Jun 22, 2009 | Twitter’s First 2009 Revenue to Come from Large U.S. Corporations | According to a recent Bloomberg report, Twitter plans to target a handful of large corporations currently using the service to generate its first revenue this year.
While he would not release exact sales figures, Twitter co-founder Biz Ston... |
| Mar 10, 2009 | Aardvark: A Better Social Q&A Than Twitter | Aardvark is a neat new service that lives in your IM client and which routes any question you might have to an Aardvark user who has the right expertise to answer your query. In return, Aardvark will also send you a few questions every day ... |
| Feb 13, 2009 | Twitter Gets Another Round of Founding: Raises $35 Million | Twitter just announced that it has received another round of funding. According to TechCrunch, Twitter raised a total of $35 million in this round, which was led by Benchmark and Institutional Venture Partners. Altogether, Twitter has now r... |
| Jan 9, 2009 | Website wiki AboutUs raises $2.5M more | AboutUs, a website with user-written and -edited profiles of other websites, has raised another $2.5 million in venture funding, according to TechFlash.
On its profile page, the Portland-based company describes itself as “your guide to webs... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Soonr Lets You View All Your Documents on the iPhone | We are still hoping to see a full office suite on the iPhone, but while there are already some apps that allow you to edit documents on the phone, the device’s size currently makes it more useful for reading documents than actually creating... |
| Dec 15, 2008 | OpenX Feeling Bullish – Ad Server Company Announces Strong Growth | OpenX, an open source ad server for web publishers, released statistics today to show its strong recent growth – especially in the last 6 months. We interviewed the CEO of OpenX, Tim Cadogan, about the data. We also wanted to know how OpenX... |
| Dec 9, 2008 | Good News: A-Team Score for November Better than October | We published the first A-Team post in October, when only three web tech ventures got through our qualifying criteria: a minimum of $1 million in Series A funding from an institutional VC. Well you may not have noticed, but on one count the ... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | VideoCrawler: AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine | It is not quite clear to us how a video search engine fits into AT&T’s portfolio, but the telecom giant just launched VideoCrawler, a video search engine it developed in cooperation with Divvio, a Menlo Park-based startup. VideoCrawler ... |
| Nov 4, 2008 | Get Satisfaction Introduces Premium Services | For many start-ups, rolling out premium services is a standard item in their business plans these days. Get Satisfaction, the increasingly popular consumer service site, announced its suite of premium services today. The ‘Basic Package’ wil... |
| Nov 1, 2008 | 12seconds.tv Partners with Qik and Flixwagon | We introduced you to 12seconds.tv in late July. 12seconds.tv provides a quick and fun way to send out a video message that’s 12 seconds long. It’s a great service for hosting mini video contests and we suggested our own tongue-twisting cont... |
| Oct 15, 2008 | Restaurant Review Site Boorah Launches API | BooRah, a restaurant review site we first reviewed earlier this year, just announced the availability of an API that will allow other web sites and business to offer online reviews and ratings from BooRah to their customers. The API will su... |
| Oct 14, 2008 | Your Money in the Cloud: Personal Finance Tool Mint Comes Out of Beta | Given the state of the economy right now, keeping a close eye on your personal finances is becoming more of a necessity than ever before. Mint, the cloud-based personal finance tool that launched in September 2007 has now come out of beta a... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | MyThings Raises $5 Million to Help you Organize Your Stuff | If you ever wished for a central place to keep track of your online purchases and to store all those email receipts, MyThings might just be what you are looking for. The London-based company just announced a $5 million Series B round. Besid... |
| Sep 29, 2008 | Gritty Entrepreneurs: Jigsaw, a Profitable Web 2.0 Venture | To kick off our new Gritty Entrepreneurs interview series, at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York we sat down with Jim Fowler, the Founder and CEO of Jigsaw, a business information and networking service that we noted in our recent review was a co... |
| Sep 16, 2008 | OpenZine: Play Magazine Editor For a Day | Chances are, you have seen one of those photocopied, five dollar zines about anything from local bands to organic gardening in your favorite magazine store. Florida based startup OpenZine is trying to take this idea of self-published amateu... |
| Sep 15, 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... |
| Sep 14, 2008 | SiteMeter Receives a Visual Makeover | If you’re a user of the analytics service SiteMeter, you will now see a better interface when you check your site’s statistics. The site redesign provides a host of new features for users that could cause users of Google Analytics to do a d... |
| Sep 11, 2008 | Google Local Search Now Finds Where You Are | For travelers, mobile applications that allow you to search for local places can be a pain to deal with. You constantly have to go back into the app to update your location. Sometimes it’s easy to forget to do this, which can make your loca... |
| Sep 6, 2008 | Visualize Vimeo User Activity with Vimeo Toys | What we thought might have been an AIR app in the making, may be something entirely different. With social video sharing sites such as Youtube and Vimeo it can be hard to keep the recommendations flowing. Hundreds of videos are added to the... |
| Sep 5, 2008 | Yoono: The Social Media Tool for Mainstream and Early Adopters | Social media tools are some of the latest crazes these days. We happen to be huge fans of a ton of them here on ReadWriteWeb. Yet the biggest problem with most social media tools is that they aren’t for everyone. There’s a constant debate o... |
| Aug 28, 2008 | Online Dating: SpeedDate.com Raises $6 Million | If you think regular online dating is still too slow and inconvenient, SpeedDate.com might just be the thing for you. The San Mateo based online dating service just raised $6 million in a Series B round from Menlo Ventures after raising a S... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | Startup wiki TradeVibes rings the bell on its fantasy stock exchange | TradeVibes, a wiki-format site for information about startups, is giving users a chance to put some money behind their opinions on which startups will be hits and which will fail. Of course, the money is fake, but the “Startup Exchange” is ... |
| Aug 21, 2008 | 12Seconds.tv Launches API, Partners With Tweetdeck, Phreadz, and Blippr | Last month we announced the launch of 12seconds.tv. 12seconds.tv is being described as the Twitter of videoblogging, where users can create a short video clip of anything for up to 12 seconds. We even challenged our readers and received som... |
| Aug 13, 2008 | How To Lifestream From Your iPhone | Recently, we took a look at the growing trend involving lifestreaming and how more people are choosing to go this route instead of establishing a more traditional blog. But outside of certain celebrity lifestreamers like Julia Allison, the ... |
| Aug 12, 2008 | Lijit Closes $7.1 Million Series C Round – Readies Advertising Network | Lijit, which provides search services to bloggers and blog networks, announced today that it has closed a $7.1 Million series C round led by Foundry Group. Lijit had raised a small Series A round in January of 2007 and a larger $3.3 million... |
| Aug 10, 2008 | Imeem Taking Off – Before MySpace Music Has Even Launched | Music-based social networking site Imeem is getting a lot of the right kind of press currently, based on strong traffic growth and key deals with record labels. We last wrote about Imeem in March, when they launched a developer platform tha... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | TeachStreet Expands: Helps You Find Local Teachers and Classes | Teachstreet today announced that it has expanded the reach of its network from Seattle, WA, to Portland, OR. TeachStreet is a marketplace where teachers can list classes they offer and allows them to connect with prospective students. The r... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Google Acquires Omnisio | Maybe to counter some of the bad news around YouTube today, Google just announced the acquisition of the Y Combinator funded video annotation and mashup company Omnisio. According to Google, the acquisition of Omnisio will allow them to kee... |
| Jul 29, 2008 | Fanbase: An Adobe AIR App For Music Fans | Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, has just launched an Adobe AIR app called Fanbase. This desktop app offers fans a way to connect with their favorite artists from Atlantic Records, a label whose roster includes big name... |
| Jul 15, 2008 | Jigsaw: Alternative or Complement to LinkedIn? | I am a regular user of LinkedIn, using it both for biz dev and recruiting. I am a fan of the service, but still a bit of a skeptic on the business model. I decided to look at alternatives and the one that gave some use was Jigsaw. According... |
| Jul 15, 2008 | KickApps Brings Userplane’s Chat to its Social Networks | KickApps, the white label social networking platform, has partnered with Userplane to bring Userplane’s chat technology to KickApps’ affiliates. KickApps will integrate Userplane’s Webchat and Webmessenger functionality, though it won’t use... |
| Jul 14, 2008 | Bezos Invests in Social Gaming Network | Jeff Bezos clearly thinks there is a future in casual gaming. Just this May, he invested $3 million in Kongregate. Today, Bezos invested an undisclosed amount in the Social Gaming Network (SGN), which develops games like Jetman and WarBook ... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | New: ReadWriteWeb Companies | Here’s another new feature we’re launching: ReadWriteWeb Companies. It’s a company index, powered by TradeVibes. Now whenever we write a review of a startup, you may see a RWW Companies widget at the end of the post – with lots of contextua... |
| Jul 3, 2008 | SeeqPod Launches PodLists | The music search engine SeeqPod has just announced a new service for music fans: “PodLists.” Because of the massive amount of playable search results available on the SeeqPod service – 12 million at the moment and ever-growing – it can be d... |
| Jun 5, 2008 | Startup2Startup: Dinners for new entrepreneurs, like what they did back in the old days | Dave McClure: You can’t spend much time socializing in the Silicon Valley web scene and not know who this sometimes irreverent, garish-T-shirt-clad geek is. The entrepreneur/angel investor/social media enthusiast has been around since 1994:... |
| Mar 21, 2008 | Start-up info wiki TradeVibes gets $900K | Mill River Labs has raised a $900,000 seed round for its start-up information wiki TradeVibes, which just launched in public testing mode.
TradeVibes is far from the only website to offer some kind of company database — read our hot-off-the... |