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Motorola invests in TuneWiki

by Chris Caceres, February 9, 2010 | Comments

Social media music player looking to expand and build an upcoming game

Motorola Ventures, on Tuesday announced it's invested into digital music startup, TuneWiki. The amount of the investment was not disclosed, but Motorola was joined by new investors Intellect Capital Ventures, TeliaSonera, HillsVen Capital, Novel TMT and previous investors Benchmark Israel. TuneWiki offers its users a social media music player. Beyond a simple music player, the online application displays the lyrics ...

OpenView embracing social media companies

by Reena A Jadhav, February 9, 2010 | Comments

Social analytics, social monitoring, social gaming should continue to attract capital

At Vator.tv's first-ever Vator Splash event on Thursday, February 4 at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, Reena Jadhav, founder and CEO of NuAlerts caught up with Kobie Fuller, a venture capitalist at OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion-stage venture firm based in Boston.OpenView invests between $5 million to $50 million in companies that typically have recurring revenue and are well-established. Despite ...

Taming the elephant in the room

by Bryan McClain, February 8, 2010 | Comments

	Brand perception and bias I’ve been a bit of a pizza snob ever since my first job making pizza at the age of 15. I’ve always had a pretty low opinion of Domino’s Pizza®, so I was very impressed when I saw Domino’s recent efforts to reinvent both their pizza and their brand identity by tackling their problems head on. When I first saw ...
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Scoble at VatorSplash on iPad, Facebook, Siri

by Reena A Jadhav, February 6, 2010 | Comments

Prolific tech blogger predicts war between Google and Facebook, touts Siri

At Vator.tv's first-ever Vator Splash event on Thursday, February 4 at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, Reena Jadhav, founder and CEO of NuAlerts caught up with prolific tech blogger Robert Scoble. Scoble, who was also co-host of the event - which drew an audience of more than 350 attendees -talks about his predictions for the social media and technology sectors, ...

AT&T FamilyMap lets you track your family

by Ronny Kerr, February 5, 2010 | Comments

Family tracking app for iPhone ports desktop version, gives parents increased vision of children

To antsy parents everywhere: your day has come.AT&T today announced the availability of a new app for the iPhone called FamilyMap, which allows users to track their family members' location on the smartphone. For $9.99/month you can track up to two phones and for $14.99/month you can track up to five phones. The tracked phones don't even need to be ...

Rentcycle moving the rental industry online

by Ronny Kerr, February 5, 2010 | Comments

Splash Box: Rentcycle named winning startup at Vator Splash event in San Francisco

Last night, 10 seed and early stage founders came out to San Francisco's Cafe Du Nord for Vator Splash, an event hosted by Vator.tv for founders to pitch their startups to an audience of other founders, press, and investors, and for seasoned entrepreneurs - Zynga's Mark Pincus and Smule's Jeff Smith - to give their insight into how to build ...

Mark Pincus: 10 chapters to build a company

by Ronny Kerr, February 4, 2010 | Comments

Vator Splash: CEO of Zynga presents 10 great tips for startups drawn from personal experience

Mark Pincus, CEO of social gaming developer Zynga, just stepped off the stage at Vator Splash, where he shared with the audience his "10 chapters on building a company @ scale."1. Fail fastLike any successful entrepreneur, Pincus began his journey with failing "fast and often." Those early experiences may seem like a total waste of time, but inevitably they help ...

Google Local Business Listing Enhancements

by Melih Oztalay, February 4, 2010 | Comments

These enhanced listings will identify what you would like local customers to see or do.

(above pictures shows yellow box in the map and next to view website as action items for local consumers in enhanced listings) Local business listings have been around for some time and based on the direction the industry is going, they this will be the next major wave on the Internet. If you’re wondering what Local Business Listings are, please ...

An overview of the Vator Splash finalists

by Chris Caceres, February 4, 2010 | Comments

Straight from the Vator Splash event, we list out the top 10 startups and what they're all about

The finalists are in and they've all just showcased what they want to bring to the world at the Vator Splash event in San Francisco, Ca. These companies were chosen mainly based on peer voting held on the Vator Splash competition page where more than 176 companies participated and well over 3,000 votes were cast. Here's a little bit about ...

Jeff Smith: "Everything we do is a test"

by Ronny Kerr, February 4, 2010 | Comments

Vator Splash Keynote: Smule CEO talks about how his company approaches a completely changed market

Smule CEO Jeff Smith just wrapped up his keynote at VatorSplash, in which he discussed how his company, developer of wildly popular sonic iPhone applications like I Am T-Pain, Leaf Trombone, and Ocarina, is engaging with an increasingly transforming technology sector.Envisioning a revolution in recorded sound, Smule hopes that its applications will usher in an era of active sound creation ...

Vator Splash Live Stream!

by Chris Caceres, February 4, 2010 | Comments

Streaming Vator Splash live from Cafe DuNord! Check out keynotes, presenters and Splash Box

Tune in starting at 6:30 PM (PST) for a Livestream of tonight's Vator Splash event in San Francisco Ca. Check out keynote speakers, Jeff Smith, CEO of Smule, and Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga, along with the top ten selected startups pitch their work, and a special Live edition of VatorBox, which we've re-named SplashBox for tonight. Who knows, we ...

FarmVille now featured on MSN Games

by Ronny Kerr, February 4, 2010 | Comments

Zynga's biggest game opens up to millions of new users on MSN portal

If you thought FarmVille couldn't get any bigger, think again.Zynga, creator of FarmVille and one of the most successful social game developers on Facebook and MySpace, has just announced today that users on MSN Games will now be able to play FarmVille via Facebook Connect.While 75 million users already play FarmVille every month on Facebook, MSN Games and MSN Live ...

Cycling with Tim Hyer of Rentcycle

by Chris Caceres, February 4, 2010 | Comments (4)

Startup Sessions features SF-based Rentcycle, which wants to bring the rental industry online

Just a few months ago, Rentcycle debuted its service at our last event. The startup launched a platform to help rental companies get their products available online for people who might be looking for them. So say I was going out of town and wanted to rent a specific type of video camera, I could find that shop that carried ...

Blogging not so big with teenagers anymore

by Ronny Kerr, February 4, 2010 | Comments

Teens and young adults are turning away from blogs to social networks like Facebook, says Pew report

I guess blogs just aren't cool anymore.According to a Pew Internet Project report released Wednesday, teens and young adults are blogging less than they used to, while older adults are blogging more.In 2006, 28% of online teens were blogging, but now that number has been halved to just 14%. Young adults (18-29 year olds) also have been giving up the ...

Social media marketing part 2: Mediums

by Derek Gordon, February 4, 2010 | Comments

	Or: what goes where? In Part One of our Social Media Marketing Series, we covered the fundamentals. What follows is a checklist of great social sites to leverage along with how to get it going and the content you can put into each spot:If you haven’t done it already, create a Facebook Page for your business (type “Facebook Pages” into the search box when ...
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