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Funding roundup - week ending 09/24/11

by Ronny Kerr, September 23, 2011 | Comments

One Kings Lane, Practice Fusion, CrowdTwist and more receive funding

Seed-stage Independa, provider of a “telecare” health monitoring solution, secured $1.6 million in funding from southern California VC firms Miramar Venture Partners and City Hill Ventures. Early-stage ActivePath, developer of ActiveMail Interactive Email and Messaging solutions, secured a $10 million financing round led by Battery Ventures and Gimv NV, with participation from existing investors including Genesis Partners CrowdTwist, a ...

A Facebook by any other name...

by Ronny Kerr, September 23, 2011 | Comments

Thoughts on Facebook's newly fast-paced product development, the competition and the state of social

This feels like a focal point.Based on Facebook’s massive announcements from f8, new features coming to everyone’s favorite social network are about to change the way we interact with media online. While the updates are sure to have users freaking out for a few weeks, that’s nothing new.The real question is this: what will the social media landscape look like ...

What you need to know - 09/23/11

by Ronny Kerr, September 23, 2011 | Comments

Facebook unveils the Timeline and upgraded Open Graph; HP may replace Apotheker with Whitman

Amazon workers in an Allentown, Penn. facility are complaining about dangerous working conditions that include fast-paced work in 110 degree temperatures, mandatory overtime, and the constant threat of termination if they don’t speed up. Enterprise cloud computing giant Salesforce acquired Assistly, a customer support help desk for the social enterprise, for $50 million in cash. Facebook unveiled a new product ...

Independa takes in $1.6 million for tablet telecare

by Ronny Kerr, September 22, 2011 | Comments

At the crossroads of technology and health, this seed funded startup seeks to aid caregivers

Independa, provider of a “telecare” health monitoring solution, announced Thursday that it has secured $1.6 million in funding from southern California VC firms Miramar Venture Partners and City Hill Ventures. Additionally, the decidedly northern Californian Silicon Valley Bank contributed $200,000 in debt financing.Designed for family members and caregivers who need to keep a close watch over elderly loved ones and ...

Salesforce acquires Assistly for $50 million

by Ronny Kerr, September 22, 2011 | Comments

CRM for the social enterprise gets a big exit, rewarding Bullpen Capital, Index Ventures and others

Enterprise cloud computing giant Salesforce announced Thursday that it has acquired Assistly, a customer support help desk for the social enterprise, for $50 million in cash. Completely Web-based, Assistly aggregates all your business’ customer service conversations in one place, whether they’re originating over email, phone, Facebook, Twitter or otherwise. It’s not just about interacting one-to-one, however, as clients can build ...

Spotify, Netflix snuggle up to the new Facebook

by Ronny Kerr, September 22, 2011 | Comments

Tight social integration means friends will be able to share, watch and listen to music and movies

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, has some very powerful friends.During his Thursday morning introductory keynote at f8 in San Francisco, Zuckerberg had two major leaders in the tech space--Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings--join him on stage to discuss the big changes coming to Facebook’s platform. The Open Graph has been expanded so that ...

User profiles 2.0: Facebook introduces Timeline

by Ronny Kerr, September 22, 2011 | Comments

Scroll through a person's life with the social network's latest take on user profiles

Facebook announced Thursday a new product called Timeline, designed to be the next evolution of the user profile. Timeline highlights all the most important stories you’ve shared on Facebook about your life, from the beginning up to the present, in an elegant stream of content.“Timeline is the story of your life,” said Zuckerberg today at f8. And it’ll look something ...

What you need to know - 09/22/11

by Ronny Kerr, September 22, 2011 | Comments

Facebook about to announce something big; Greenstart unveils first four energy-conscious startups

Good and bad news for Apple today: it’s expected to continue to dominate the tablet market through 2014, according to estimates released today by Gartner, but its market share will continue to erode over the next few years. Dashlane, a stealth startup that vaguely promises to help consumers “do more” online, raised $5 million in a ...

Facebook updates like mad with more to come

by Ronny Kerr, September 22, 2011 | Comments

Leading up to its one-day developers conference in San Francisco, the social network transforms

Everybody is freaking out. We’re used to Facebook changing things on us out of nowhere without our express approval, but this is just getting out of hand. I mean, look at all these site changes rolled out in just the last two weeks: Friend Lists: Straight from the book of Google+, you can now categorize your friends into groups, like ...

Greenstart reveals its first four energy startups

by Ronny Kerr, September 21, 2011 | Comments

Lono (SmarterShade), Sylvatex, Tenrehte and Wa.tt working toward a clean energy world

Clean technology accelerator Greenstart unveiled Wednesday the first four startups admitted into its incubator program. The primary criterion for startups admitted into this incubator is that they either work toward expanding clean energy or reducing dirty energy. And here they are:Lono is working on SmarterShade, “smart window” technology that allows glass windows to tint from full transparency to total darkness ...

Stitcher raises $10 million growth round from NEA

by Ronny Kerr, September 21, 2011 | Comments

Personalize all your favorite Internet radio, from entertainment to sports, with one mobile app

Stitcher, provider of personalized Internet talk radio, announced Wednesday that it has secured $10 million in Series C funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from previous investors Benchmark Capital, New Atlantic Ventures and angels like Ron Conway. Added to the last two rounds, this brings Stitcher’s total funding to $18.7 million.Ravi Viswanathan, general partner at NEA, will ...

Android security Lookout raises $40 million to grow

by Ronny Kerr, September 21, 2011 | Comments

Andreessen Horowitz leads large late-stage round in rapidly expanding mobile security company

Lookout Mobile Security, provider of security solutions for Android-based mobile devices, announced Wednesday that it has closed a $40 million Series D round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other participants include Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners and Index Ventures, all of which contributed to the company’s three previous rounds, totaling $36 million.Jeff Jordan from Andreessen Horowitz will join the company’s board of ...

What you need to know - 09/21/11

by Ronny Kerr, September 21, 2011 | Comments

Facebook updating its platform at the speed of light; Tech incubator TechStars gets more funding

Advertising technology company Adchemy completed a $61 million Series E financing round with Microsoft Corp., August Capital and the Mayfield Fund. Amazon.com announced that over 11,000 books will be made available to Kindle and Kindle app customers at local libraries in the U.S. The Kindle e-reader will deliver library books wirelessly and make the Kindle app available for free. Dropcam, ...

Facebook ads, Credits sum to $4.27 billion revenue

by Ronny Kerr, September 20, 2011 | Comments

Cultivating a rich third-party network of developers, Facebook is also diversifying its income

Facebook, Facebook, Facebook. Normally, I’d feel silly spending so much of my day writing exclusively about the leviathan of social networks, but with the f8 developer conference just two days away, I’ll let it slide.Time to set all the new features aside, however, and have a look at financials.This year, Facebook could rake in $4.27 billion in global revenues, more ...

Want? Facebook might go button crazy on us

by Ronny Kerr, September 20, 2011 | Comments

Read, Watched, Listened and Want could join the Like button across the social Web

Buttons!Here on VatorNews, we already have buttons for the four most popular social networks, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. If you thought that was a lot of screen space just for sharing, however, you might be about to experience some serious button fatigue.The rumor running around right now, according to sources that spoke with TechCrunch, is that Facebook will be ...

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