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Funding roundup - week ending 06/07/13

by Steven Loeb, June 7, 2013 | Comments

Housing.co.in, Hullabalu, Brand Networks, SocialBro, Netatmo, N3twork, Fanatics, Panzura all raised

Seed-stage Custom-made goods marketplace Makeably raised $650,000 in seed funding led by Great Oaks, with participation from 500 Startups and other angel investors. Home improvement and repair marketplace Porch raised $6.25 million in funding. Investors include SV Angel/Ron Conway, Chamath Palihapitiya, Javier Olivan, Jeff Skoll, Bill Lee, Geoff Entress, Charles Moldow, and 20 others. Calendar app Sunrise raised a $2.2 million seed round led by Resolute.vc and NextView Ventures. Dexplora, which builds tools for sales organizations, received ...

Samsung shares slide 6% on fears of Galaxy S4 slowdown

by Steven Loeb, June 7, 2013 | Comments

Galaxy S4 has been Samsung's fast selling smartphone yet, but analysts see sales slipping

Despite recent reports of Samsung Galaxy S4 phones being, well, pretty excellent, things have apparently already started not doing well for the smartphone manufactuerer. Shares of Samsung dropped over 6% in trading Friday, to their lowest level in four months, as the company lost over $12 billion in market value. It was Samsung's biggest daily percentage drop since late August. And why? Because ...

Apple makes a deal with Sony Music for iRadio

by Faith Merino, June 7, 2013 | Comments

Apple has now signed deals with all of the major labels for its Pandora competitor

Looks like Apple’s iRadio (or whatever they’re going to call it) is a for sure thing, as Apple has reportedly just signed a deal with Sony Music, according to AllThingsD, which means it is now working with the three largest music labels. Back in April, Apple signed its first licensing agreement with Universal Music Group, the largest of the major ...

U.S. government issues statement on PRISM surveillance

by Steven Loeb, June 7, 2013 | Comments

Director of National Intelligence: reports on PRISM program "contain numerous inaccuracies"

On Thursday, the Washington Post dropped some pretty serious allegations, reporting that the U.S. government had been tapping into the servers of numerous Internet companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple, in order to, essentially, spy on American citizens. The government, it was reported, was "extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts ...

Cuyana raises $1.7M for "lean closet" movement

by Faith Merino, June 6, 2013 | Comments

The fashion retailer encourages customers to buy fewer, but better clothes

One of the new trends that I’m loving is socially responsible e-commerce—particularly where clothing is concerned. After the Bangladeshi garment factory collapse that killed some 960 factory workers earlier this year, fashion retailers have been facing public pressure to ensure the safety of the workers manufacturing their clothing. Some have made efforts, like American Apparel, but others, like Walmart, Gap, ...

Ride sharing is back in New York City!

by Steven Loeb, June 6, 2013 | Comments

New York court strikes down temporary restraining order on e-hail pilot program

Ride-sharing services are notoriously unpopular with local taxi commissions and city governments, as they are increasingly being seen as a threat to local taxi industries. In fact, it has become so bad for companies like SideCar, Uber and Lyft that they have been, in cities all over the country, order to cease operations and fined. One company was even the ...

NSA orders Verizon to hand over ALL U.S. call records

by Faith Merino, June 6, 2013 | Comments

Twitter inks deal with ad giant WPP

by Steven Loeb, June 6, 2013 | Comments

WPP will leverage Twitter data, while Twitter will get to expand new markets around the globe

Twitter has entered into a "global strategic partnership" with advertising agency WPP, it was announced Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal will allow WPP and its agencies, which include media investment management company GroupM and consumer insight business Kantar, to leverage Twitter's data in order to gain insight into customer behavior. This will allow these companies to ...

Cozy officially launches to transform the renter market

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 6, 2013 | Comments

A new platform to bring renters and landlords together in a more transparent and efficient way

Anyone who's rented property knows the process of dealing with renters is typically this: Get their paper application, run credit reports, check references and social profiles. It's not hugely broken, and it works. But in a world in which interactions between two parties can be handled with more efficiency and transparency, there's opportunity to improve this process. Hoping to transform ...

Knewton launches full-force into K-12 market with HMH

by Faith Merino, June 6, 2013 | Comments

Knewton partners with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to reach millions of K-12 students

Last November, adaptive learning technology platform Knewton partnered with renowned educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to provide a learning program for incarcerated students. The partnership was a toe in the water as Knewton looks to get deeper into the K-12 market. Now, it looks like Knewton’s K-12 expansion has just gotten a turbo boost. Knewton and HMH announced Thursday that ...

AT&T the latest company to show interest in Hulu

by Steven Loeb, June 6, 2013 | Comments

AT&T now in discussions with the Chernin Group to make a joint bid to buy the video site

(Updated to reflect comment from AT&T and Hulu) Hulu seriously is the hot property right now, with at least three of the biggest media companies out there in the running to snatch it up. The latest to get into the fray is AT&T, which is now in discussions with the Chernin Group to make a joint bid to buy the ...

Google debuts image extensions for search ads

by Steven Loeb, June 5, 2013 | Comments

Google will approve images before they go up, and they will only appear on relevant searches

Advertising on the Internet is a very delicate balancing act between getting people to see them the ads, while at the same time not making them too distracting or obtrusive. Whereas, in the days before the existence of the DVR, we begrudgingly put up with them on our televisions, we have very, very little patience for them intruding on our Web ...

Former Zynga employee spills company secrets on Reddit

by Steven Loeb, June 5, 2013 | Comments

Obsession with dogs, "terrible" business strategy, but also a ton of perks including "free booze"

(Updated to reflect comment from Zynga) Zynga is, in ever sense of the world, having a pretty bad week. First the company was forced to lay off 520 people, or 18% of its workforce. Then it was reported that Zynga was shutting down OMGPOP, essentially admitting that it wasted $180 million when it bought the studio last year. And now ...

Airbnb helping NYC tenant fight "illegal hotel" case

by Faith Merino, June 5, 2013 | Comments

After a NY tenant was fined for renting out his apt on Airbnb, Airbnb is now fighting the case

New York City has a housing problem. If you’ve ever tried to find an apartment there, you’ll either find yourself saying, “yeah, I can put 90% of my income toward rent. I’ll just eat a lot of rice.” Or: “This place isn’t so bad. The toilet is in the living room, but I can work with that.” True story: when ...

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