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Delivering Tony Hsieh

by Matt Bowman, May 7, 2010 | Comments

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New book from Zappos CEO seeks to spark happiness movement. Grab an advance copy at Vator Splash.

You might want to try some of this koolaid.As a blogger, I get offered koolaid many times a day. It's the job of PR folks to foment excitement about every new company launched, feature released and milestone reached. There are hordes of startups in the global Silicon Valley, each with a battalion of communications personnel, and not a lot of ...

Web 2.0 Expo: Startups to watch

by Yield Software, May 7, 2010 | Comments

	Adobe CTO addresses Apple vs. Flash drama It’s Web 2.0 week once again in San Francisco, and there are a handful of hopeful new startups that deserve some attention. While the conference itself has been losing steam over the last couple of years, there were moments when the conference felt like its old self. Perhaps the most interesting part of the conference is Tim O’Reilly’s essay on ...
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Criteo raises $7M Series C from Bessemer

by Ronny Kerr, May 7, 2010 | Comments

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Personalized advertising startup recaptures consumers that leave a site without making a purchase

Criteo, a personalized advertising startup with a unique strategy for recapturing lost customers, announced on Thursday that it has secured a $7 million third round of funding from Bessemer Venture Partners. Since 2006, the company has raised a total of $24 million from AGF Private Equity, Elaia Partners, and Index Ventures. Bessemer partner Byron Deeter will be joining Criteo's board.The ...

MightyMeeting makes $300K seed round

by Ronny Kerr, May 6, 2010 | Comments

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Mobile collaboration app for Android, iPad, and iPhone raises early funding in first month of launch

MightyMeeting, a mobile collaboration app for Google Android devices, the iPhone, and iPad, announced on Thursday the closing of a $300,000 seed round of funding. Impressively enough, the startup launched just three weeks ago at VentureBeat's DEMO Spring 2010 event.The New York-based company is the fourth startup to raise money with Venture Hacks' AngelList, an updated listing of the active ...

HelloWallet pockets $3.6M to take on Mint

by Matt Bowman, May 6, 2010 | Comments

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Personal finance tracker eschews ads from banks, stakes out position as more independent alternative

Three years ago, the notion of giving a web startup your credit card and bank account login details was generally considered ludricous, given the rising trend of identify theft. So thought some investors who turned down the opportunity to invest in Mint.com, a site that today helps millions of people manage their assets, and sold last year to Intuit for ...

Booyah hits 2M users with no signs of slowing

by Ronny Kerr, May 6, 2010 | Comments

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Location-based software for iPhone swiftly becoming serious competition for Foursquare

Booyah, which just launched version 3.1 of its location-based app MyTown, has officially blasted past two million users. Last time we looked at Booyah's statistics, in January, the company had reached almost 500,000 users. At its current growth rate, the app is amassing around that many new users each month.That's some incredible growth for an application in an area currently ...

DormNoise gears up with $500,000

by Chris Caceres, May 6, 2010 | Comments

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Startup founded by 21-year-old university student looking to be the central calender for campuses

Twenty-one-year old, Jay Rodrigues lives a hectic life. He wakes up in the morning in pursuit of his degree from The Wharton School of Business over at the University of Pennsylvania, goes to class, takes notes and rushes home to work on his startup, DormNoise, all while juggling being part of a fraternity and having a good time with friends ...

The Founders Fund lands $107M

by Matt Bowman, May 5, 2010 | Comments

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Peter Thiel and crew closed their third fund, according to an SEC filing Wednesday.

The Founders Fund is one of the more interesting tech investment funds, and not just because it's tied up with Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia, nor just because Thiel is an investor in Vator.tv. Nor because angel partner Dave McClure will be one of our judges at Vator Splash next week. The fund's portfolio is full of household names, ...

Deal of the day: Groupon acquires Mob.ly

by Chris Caceres, May 5, 2010 | Comments

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Localized daily deals site looking to beef up its mobile services

The local deals space continues to heat up. Groupon, a site which features daily deals based on a user's location, announced it has acquired Mob.ly, a mobile recommendation service. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Along with the announcement, Chicago-based Groupon said it's opened up an office in Silicon Valley to "gain better access to the Bay Area's technology ...

Survey: AT&T drops 3x more calls as Verizon

by Ronny Kerr, May 5, 2010 | Comments

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In turn, customer satisfaction with Verizon is more than double AT&T customer satisfaction

Tell us something we don't know.In spite of recent claims that major network upgrades is a number one priority, AT&T is experiencing more dropped calls than ever before. According to a recent ChangeWave Research report, the only iPhone wireless carrier is also the most prone to dropped calls out of any other major U.S. carrier.The survey asked over 4,000 people ...

Invidi lands $23 million from Google

by Chris Caceres, May 5, 2010 | Comments (2)

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Startup looking to bring highly targeted ads to television sets

Invidi, a company which develops "addressable" advertising solutions for TV, has landed $23 million in Series D funding, led by Google. Other investors include GroupM, Motorola Ventures, Menlo Ventures, InterWest and EnerTech. So what's Invidi have to offer that has Google wanting to get its hands on it? The New York-based startup is working on an up-and-coming sector in the ...

The future of TV is... TV

by Mark Cuban, May 5, 2010 | Comments (2)

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Why do media pundits think people want to turn their HDTVs into PC monitors? It's a hassle

There is an old saying that tends to work today and I expect will work for years to come: ”Follow the money." In particular, follow where consumers spend their money on new products. It is the ultimate definition of consumer choice. In the word of consumer electronics, consumers have been, and continue to spend their money on brand spanking new ...

Facebook vs its users: the lawsuit

by Matt Bowman, May 5, 2010 | Comments (1)

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The EFF files brief combatting Facebook's prohibition against enlisting apps to log in.

Facebook wants to be the Web's personal directory. And it doesn't like competition.The company prohibits users from enlisting third-party apps to log in to their profiles. It is so adamant about it that it filed suit against Power Ventures, a service that does just that to help users organize all of their social networking activity into one dashboard. Using Power's ...

Facebook's Buchheit talks on privacy, Likes

by Ronny Kerr, May 5, 2010 | Comments

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Paul Buchheit of Gmail, FriendFeed, now Facebook fame talks about the future of conversations

Paul Buchheit--lead developer of Gmail and co-founder of FriendFeed, which sold to Facebook last year--is now a huge proponent of his new employer, the company responsible for the most popular social network in the world. In a conversation at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday, Buchheit spoke unreservedly about Facebook's clear dominance and also answered questions related ...

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