PunchTab Raises $6.25M To Turn Loyalty Programs Into An Enterprise Data Business
PunchTab, the startup led by YouSendIt (now known as Hightail) founder Ranjith Kumaran, is announcing that it has raised $6.25 million in additional funding. The company started out by helping businesses run promotions and loyalty programs, such as giveaways. More recent products include "second screen" tools for brands that want to reward to TV viewers for checking in to a program or tweeting… Read More-
Google Takes On Microsoft For Productivity Dominance Of Apple’s Mobile Platform
Earlier today Google released Docs and Sheets, two productivity applications for iOS. The unified apps work across iPhone and iPad devices. The new apps are just picking up their first ratings and ranks. Docs has picked up 23 ratings thus far, securing a four-star rating. Sheets is also rated four stars, with a total of 11 ratings tallied. Docs is slightly more popular than Docs. Read More -
Facebook’s New APIs Let Media Outlets Visualize Trending Topics And Hashtags
TV news and other media sources now have a way to show off what’s popular on Facebook and with whom. Today Facebook launched the Trending, Topic Insights, Topic Feed, and Hashtag Counter APIs. It’s part of Facebook’s Public Content Solutions division which continues the company’s quest to tempt the media away from its competitor Twitter. Here’s how the new APIs… Read More -
Payment Innovation Is Not Enough For Retail
Once a key differentiator, mobile payments are fast becoming a commodity and are widely used by retailers. Yankee Group found that 61 percent of large merchants already use a mobile checkout or plan to in 2014. We are seeing the major payments players recognize this, realizing that they can’t bank on razor thin profit margins from swiping fees alone. For instance, Square has introduced other… Read More -
Oracle Announces Its Cross-Platform Marketing Cloud
Oracle today announced the launch of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, a platform that combines technology from a number of the company's acquisitions, including Eloqua, Compendium, Responsys, and BlueKai. As suggested by that list, the Marketing Cloud will cover a pretty broad swath of capabilities, allowing customers to run marketing campaigns (and manage data related to those campaigns) on web… Read More -
Facebook Audience Network Mobile Ad Network Launches At f8
Facebook today launched its mobile ad network called Facebook Audience Network so developers can make money without having to sell their own ads, do their own targeting, handle measurement, or route payments. Facebook will take care of it all. Just as my scoop said, developers can integrate a tiny bit of code to run FAN in banner ads, or they can work directly with Facebook to create native ad… Read More -
Facebook Launches AppLinks To Make Deep Linking Between Apps Easier
At its F8 developer conference today, Parse CEO and co-founder Ilya Sukhar announced the launch of AppLinks.org, a new initiative that will make deep-linking between native apps easier for developers. “It’s a shame that the URL is not a big deal on mobile right now. If I try to open third-party apps, I’m stuck in the web browser where I have to log in again,” Sukhar said. Read More
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Baoku
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in2nite
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Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics
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AdRoll
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Birchbox
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Airbnb
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Placester
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American Aerogel
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Mission Control Technologies
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WebCurfew
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RF Surgical Systems
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Zapstitch
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Caspida
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CarNinja
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Encounter Collaborative
- Size $500K
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Mirage Endoscopy Center
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Nova Towers Holdings I
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PaxVax
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Tyrogenex
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Xcovery
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X2 Biosystems
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Smava
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Facebook Launches Anonymous Login So You Can Try Apps Without Giving Up Your Data
At its F8 developer conference today, Facebook a new version of its login system for third-party apps that lets people log in anonymously so they can demo apps before they provide their personal data. The new login also gives you total granular control over what data types you give an app. In addition, Facebook’s login service for mobile apps now offers users more fine-grained controls… Read More -
Cloaq, The Anonymous Social App That Doesn’t Require An Email Or Phone Number, Goes Live
On the same day that anonymous social sharing app Secret is officially crossing the pond to launch in the U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, another new anonymous app called Cloaq is making its App Store debut. The app, previously detailed here, hopes to differentiate itself in the space by being even more secret (if that's possible!) by not requiring any personal information, like an… Read More -
Lix, A More Precise 3D-Printing Pen, Passes Its Kickstarter Goal In 2-Hours
Remember the 3Doodler? A U.K. startup is taking aim at building a more precise 3D-printing pen for the professional user -- designers, architects and so on. Their Lix pen prototype passed its Kickstarter goal of £30,000 two hours after the crowdfunding campaign launched yesterday, and has now pushed past £100k raised. Read More -
This Monstrous Linksys WRT1900AC Router Is For Folks With A Real Appetite For Networking
There are wireless routers, and then there are wireless routers with a 1.2GHz dual-core Marvel Armada SoC processor and 256MB RAM that supports USB 3.0 drive transfer speeds and has four massive antennae that can blow wireless connectivity through almost any environment. The $250 Linksys WRT1900AC (which you can win here) is the latter. So what’s so special about this massive wireless writer… Read More -
Sony Xperia Z2 Review: A Waterproof Android Smartphone That Goes Beyond Gimmicks
Sony hasn’t had a great time of it in the U.S. smartphone market over the past few years, and it recently announced that its new flagship, the Xperia Z2, would only be made available to U.S. customers unlocked via its website. But the Z2 is still a solid device, and a contender on more or less even footing with flagships from other Android OEMs, so fans of Google’s mobile operating… Read More -
Google Denies Shady Claim That AdSense Robbed Publishers
An alleged former Google employee has anonymously published unconfirmed allegations that AdSense purposefully banned publishers right before their periodic payout so it could keep their ad revenue. But Google denies this as "a complete fiction", and based on our examination of the report, the allegations look false. There may have been mechanisms in place to prevent scamming publishers this way… Read More -
How I Killed A Startup In 4 Hours (And Why I Don’t Regret It)
I hate activist journalism. But last week, I was responsible for the death of a startup. It was probably the fastest death in the history of the tech industry: four hours from launch to dead-pool, by my reckoning. If that sounds like boasting, well… I’m afraid it is. Let me explain. Read More -
A Personal Reflection On Google+
I joined Google the day after my Stanford graduation in June of 2011, and two days later got to take a peek at the product I would be working on for the next three months. There had been rumors in the press for a while that Google was building some sort of secret social network, but these stories were mostly unsubstantiated rumors. Now, for the first time, I got to look upon the future of the… Read More -
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)
Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, by pushing out the diverse people who have helped create it. At least that’s the story you’ve read in hundreds of articles lately. It doesn’t have to be this way. But everyone who lives in the Bay Area today needs to accept responsibility for making… Read More
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