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Wave Accounting raises $5 Million

by Ane Howard, October 14, 2011 | Comments

Startup offers free online accounting tools and services to small businesses

Toronto-based Wave Accounting thinks it can run a profitable business without charging customers a cent for its full-range of online software accounting services. Friday's announcement of the $5 million in Series A financing round, led by Charles River Ventures (CRV), with the participation of OMERS Ventures, is definitely a hopeful sign for the Canadian startup. This round comes on top of a ...

Is a $300 iPad Mini around the corner?

by Ane Howard, October 13, 2011 | Comments

	iPad Mini would compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire It's never a dull day at Apple. Just last week the company launched the iPhone 4S. Now, it may soon be serving up a new iPad. No, not an iPad 2 - the iPad 2 just launched in March at a pricetag of $499. But rather an iPad Mini. Such a product has been rumored for some time across the ...
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EBay eyeing the 95% of consumers shopping in stores

by Ane Howard, October 13, 2011 | Comments

A conversation with Rob Eroh, Head of Product at Milo, a division of eBay Local

With online activities and research still influencing a lot of shopping off the Web, eBay is looking for new ways to bridge the gap between the two shopping experiences. In other words, eBay is trying to get more people to complete their purchases online, preferably on an eBay property. EBay launched a new X.Commerce open platform at its Innovate Developer Conference 2011in San ...

Report drops Facebook valuation to $15-$32B

by Ane Howard, October 12, 2011 | Comments

Econophysicists claim Facebook's valuation has been dramatically overblown

Econophysicists Peter Cauwels and Didier Sornette at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich recently released a study that claims that Facebook's valuation has been overblown. In the report, the econophysicists claim to have devised a novel way to determine the true value of the big social media giants, such as Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, Pandora, Twitter, and Zynga. Turning their gaze ...

Twitter wraps all links to t.co

by Ane Howard, October 11, 2011 | Comments

Starting this week, t.co URL wrapper automatically wraps all links submitted to Twitter

In an effort to guard its community from rogue websites, Twitter is reformating all its links to its t.co URL shortener. The giant social-microblogging service announced the move on Monday. "This also includes extracted URLs that have no specified protocols, such as host name ending with gTLD (i.e. twitter.com), host name having two sub-domains followed by ccTLD (i.e. yahoo.co.jp, google.co.uk) and host name ...

DBG acquires Digital Sports Ventures

by Ane Howard, October 11, 2011 | Comments

DBG's first acquisition to mark change in company's approach to video production

DBG, one of the biggest creators, producers and distributors of premium video content across digital media, is seeking to expand its library of premium video content. Tuesday's announcement that it has acquired Digital Sports Ventures (DSV), a multimedia sports content platform that delivers premium college sports video for websites and mobile devices, fits right in with DBG's vision, which is ...

Stock market and the gaming industry at odds

by Ane Howard, October 10, 2011 | Comments

Association of Gaming Equipment says market's lack of confidence pushed the index back six months

The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) believes the gaming industry is being evaluated unfairly by the stock market. The Nevada-based, AGEM,who represents gaming suppliers and innovators in the global market, released Monday its monthly 2011 index report and concluded that the market pushed the stocks price down by 7.2%. Closing the month of September at 105.80, declining by 8.18 points, it was the ...

Social voice platform QWiPS secures $1.25M funding

by Ane Howard, October 10, 2011 | Comments

Social Voice platform to bring new dimension to the social experience

QWiPS, a social voice platform, announced Monday that it has secured $1.25 million in series A funding led by Shawn Landgraf of Magnus Partners Inc and Allan Watson of NYC Trading Floor, LLC. Other anonymous investors include C-level digital advertising, branding and PR executives. The New York-based company’s patent-pending voice-response technology "allows users to attach voice caption to photos, and post," ...

Gamers usurp porn lead as tech innovators, adopters

by Ane Howard, October 7, 2011 | Comments

Now look who's adopting technologies and making them a commercial success

It used to be that Web innovations, or more aptly the adoption and exploitation of technological advances, were firmly in the hands of the porn industry. If the October 5 announcement of the release of PV API, by adult entertainment studio Pink Visual, is any indicator, however, those days are gone. An API announcement from the adult industry is nothing to get overly ...

Scammers exploit Steve Jobs' death on Facebook

by Ane Howard, October 7, 2011 | Comments

	Computer anti-virus firm reveals the ugly, opportunistic, and insensitive side of online marketers 'R.I.P. Steve Jobs'. It looked innocent enough. But hiding in plain sight was the latest online scam, preying on innocent people's mourning for and curiosity about the death of Steve Jobs. It further read, 'In memory of Steve, a company is giving away 50 iPads tonight." But this post had little ...
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What You need to know - 6/10/11

by Ane Howard, October 6, 2011 | Comments

Jobs gone to the iCloud; mortgage on your phone; Ashton Kutcher on Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, innovator, inonic figure, brilliant businessman has left us all for the iCloud. Tell the world what Steve Jobs' legacy meant to you on the memorial page with the email address ([email protected] ) created by Apple. The comments will be posted in the next few days. Now that Jobs is gone, how about the vision? How about the Apple culture? Of ...

Life without Jobs - future looks solid at Apple

by Ane Howard, October 6, 2011 | Comments

	Steve Jobs leaves behind a solid company in strong hands Much has been said the past three decades about Steve Job's mercurial temperament, and flair for drama. He had the timing of an actor and the flair of a Broadway producer to set up the stage and please the crowd, analysts and technophiles alike. Just ask anyone who has seen a Jobs' unveiling of a ...
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What You need to know - 10/5/11

by Ane Howard, October 5, 2011 | Comments

Silverpop acquires PlacePunch;Watchdog teacher sells teen soft-porn on Amazon; Prezi hits 5M mark

Silverpop, the e-mail marketing platform, announced Wednesday that it has acquired PlacePunch, a location-based marketing service. The terms of the deal were undisclosed at this moment. PlacePunch , an Atlanta-based startup, allows businesses and franchises of any size to create online location-based marketing campaigns and build loyalty programs to reward customers for checking in at their venues. Silverpop, expanded in April, its email marketing services ...

Prezi hits the 5 million mark

by Ane Howard, October 5, 2011 | Comments

Zooming presentation platform is showing increasing popularity with professionals

Prezi, a San-Francisco and Budapest-based startup, which makes cloud-based presentation software, announced Wednesday, that it has hit the 5 million user mark, since its 2009 launch. Its global reach is primarily extended to users in the U.S., Colombia, Spain, England and Hungary. Prezi is the brain-child of Prezi co-founder, Adam Somlai-Fischer, a Hungarian-born architect and visual artist. Sweden-born, Peter Arvay joined ...

What You need to know -10/4/11

by Ane Howard, October 4, 2011 | Comments

Sorenson invests $20M in Mindshare Tech; Lady Gaga`s fashion director sells virtual clothes

Social music listenening's technology might be good, but the quality isn't. That's the message passed on to us from Eliot Van Buskirk, Editor-in-Chief of Evolver.fm. Turntable.fm just released its iPhone app earlier this month. Van Buskirk said, "We've finally bridged the gap between music technology and social media." As good as the technology may be, quality of sound plays a major ...

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