What you need to know - 04/15/11

CEO Eric Schmidt leaves sweet parting gift; Evernote driving $1 million in revenue

Technology trends and news by Ronny Kerr
April 15, 2011 | Comments
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After months of repeated delays that have generated a fog of confusion and speculation, Apple is now rumored to be gearing up to release the white iPhone at the end of April.

 

Bamboom Labs, provider of tech to allow consumers access to live TV over the Internet, raised $4.5 million of seed funding led by FirstMark Capital.

Cloudwords, connecting translation vendors with content owners, raised $3 million in Series A funding from several Salesforce executives and founders, including CEO Marc Benioff, founding CTO Dave Moellenhoff, current CTO Craig Weissman.

Evernote, which turns three years old this June, has attracted 8.2 million registered users (300,000 are paying subscribers), driving $1 million in revenue a month.

Flipboard is partnering with the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and Oprah.com to create the very first branded section for a partner on Flipboard’s front page.

The actual Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, stopped by Foursquare headquarters to deliver a city proclamation declaring 4/16 as Foursquare Day

 

In his last quarter as CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt left a sweet parting gift for the company: revenues of $8.58 billion, representing an increase of 27% over Q1 2010, when the company brought in $6.77 billion.

Instructure, provider of an education learning management system (LMS), closed $8 million in a Series B round of financing.

Metabar, a free platform that automates the process of creating browser-based applications raised a $1 million seed round from Runa Capital.


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