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Two executives say goodbye to Square

Alex Petrov and Alyssa Cutright both departed the company, with Petrov leaving before he started

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3Play Media secures seed funding

by Ronny Kerr, February 8, 2010 | Comments

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Audio transcription and captioning company lands $450,000 angel funding round

Audio transcription startup 3Play Media has secured $450,000 of a $600,000 seed funding round, according to a regulatory filing.According to lead investor Tole Khesin, a member of Boston-based angel firm Launchpad Venture Group, eight different investors contributed to the angel funding round. Khesin, who was made director of marketing at 3Play, says he invested in the company outside of Launchpad.Based ...

Google Superbowl ad: a welcome policy breach

by Matt Bowman, February 8, 2010 | Comments

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Search giant violates its own no-ads rule in the most egregious way imaginable--to great effect

Google is famous for not advertising. CEO Eric Schmidt called the practice “the last bastion of unaccountable spending in corporate America” in 2006, and the company has generally let products speak for themselves. But that didn’t stop the search giant from shelling out $2-3 million for a spot in the Superbowl this year. “Hell has indeed frozen over” as Schmidt ...

Tapulous taps into App Store with new game

by Ronny Kerr, February 8, 2010 | Comments

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Riddim Ribbon looking to repeat success of wildly popular Tap Tap Revenge

Seeking to replicate the success of Tap Tap Revenge and its collection of clones, Tapulous last night launched Riddim Ribbon, another iPhone app that makes pop music a part of the gaming experience.In Riddim Ribbon, users use the iPhone's tilt technology to guide a ball down a psychedelic ribbon, trying to collect power-ups and avoid obstacles, all to the tune ...

AT&T FamilyMap lets you track your family

by Ronny Kerr, February 5, 2010 | Comments

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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

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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

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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."Click here for the 23-minute video version. 1. Fail fastLike any successful entrepreneur, Pincus began his journey with failing "fast and often." Those early experiences may seem like a total ...

An overview of the Vator Splash finalists

by Chris Caceres, February 4, 2010 | Comments

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

***UPDATED*** 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 ...

Jeff Smith: "Everything we do is a test"

by Ronny Kerr, February 4, 2010 | Comments

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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

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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

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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 ...

Blogging not so big with teenagers anymore

by Ronny Kerr, February 4, 2010 | Comments

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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 ...

Textbook publishers pushing for iPad apps

by Ronny Kerr, February 3, 2010 | Comments

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Houghton Mifflin, McGraw-Hill, others make deal with ScrollMotion to build textbook applications

Major textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin, Kaplan Publishing, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson are turning to software company ScrollMotion Inc. to bring their textbooks to Apple's newly unveiled iPad.ScrollMotion plans to take full advantage of the iPad's touch capabilities in order to provide an immersive and interactive experience that combines traditional educational materials with the latest technology.Not only will students be able ...

Rewards and monetization

by Fred Wilson, February 3, 2010 | Comments

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Thoughts on Glue announcing its new rewarding system for its "gurus"

I really like what Dennis Crowley, founder and CEO of Foursquare, said about "rewarding checkins" in this post on Business Insider:Foursquare's [success] depends on providing "the most incentive for a user to check-in." There are many ways to do that, including the game play dynamics that Foursquare does so well. But for me, the most interesting way to reward a ...

BrightRoll raises $10 million

by Chris Caceres, February 3, 2010 | Comments

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Surpasses Hulu in monthly unique visitors across its ad network

San Francisco-based, BrightRoll made some pretty major announcements on Wednesday. The video ad network said it raised $10 million in its third round of funding. Scale Venture partners led the round and was joined by True Ventures, Adams Street Capital and KPG Ventures. The company has now raised a total of $16 million since being founded in 2006.Along with the ...

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