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Can Thumbtack evolve service listings?

by Ronny Kerr, October 7, 2009 | Comments (1)

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Winning the people's choice at the Juice Pitcher, Thumbtack got treated to its own live Vator Box

Last night, 10 seed and early stage founders met in the heart of Silicon Valley for Juice Pitcher, an event hosted by The Funded and Vator.tv for founders to pitch their startups to an audience of other founders, press, and investors.Once the 10 founders - who were chosen mainly based on peer voting among 130-plus companies - had their say, ...

Juice Pitcher finalists - 2nd half presenters

by Chris Caceres, October 6, 2009 | Comments (1)

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RentCycle, Thumbtack launch at event, QLess, HearPlanet, Spreezio, Cloudmach are second to present

Straight from the Juice Pitcher event in San Francisco, Ca., hosted by Vator.tv and The Funded, here's the list of the next five winning presenters. Two of the presenting companies also launched their services at tonight's Juice Pitcher. They are RentCycle and Thumbtack. These companies were chosen mainly based on peer voting held on the Juice Pitcher competition where more ...

Juice Pitcher finalists - 1st half presenters

by Chris Caceres, October 6, 2009 | Comments

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TribeVibe, RelayRides, IDNITIT, and Viralogy are first to present at Juice Pitcher

Straight from the Juice Pitcher event in San Francisco, Ca., hosted by Vator.tv and The Funded, here's the list of the first five winning presenters.These companies were chosen mainly based on peer voting held on the Juice Pitcher competition where more than 130 companies participated and more than 3,000 votes were cast.Viralogy is based on the idea of "Personal Branding" ...

Half of companies have banned social networks

by Ronny Kerr, October 6, 2009 | Comments

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Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter only distract employees' attention, at expense of employer

Are you one of the lucky few who enjoys the privilege of social networking while at work?A survey released today compiling information from telephone interviews of 1,400 chief information officers (CIOs) revealed that 54% of companies completely prohibit employees from using social media sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Robert Half Technology concluded from the survey data that the majority ...

Streaming live from Juice Pitcher

by Chris Caceres, October 6, 2009 | Comments (1)

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Vator.tv and The Funded present you Juice Pitcher event live via Ustream

Live TV : Ustream Vator.tv and The Funded have partnered to host "Juice Pitcher," a unique event to find and present the most promising early-stage startups. Unlike other gatherings where presenting companies are chosen by a select few judges, we launched an open peer-voting system, whereby the 10 presenting companies were chosen based on peer voting as well as input ...

PopCap games raises $22.5 million

by Chris Caceres, October 6, 2009 | Comments

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Developer of classic title, "Bejeweled" gets cash injection to build and expand into social media

PopCap Games, a multi-platform video game developer, announced it has raised $22.5 million in funding led by Meritech Partners. Larry Bowman and John McCaw both joined the round. This is the first round of funding for PopCap games since its inception ten years ago. So why take in an investment now? After all, PopCap says it has maintained profitability since ...

Verizon forms VC group to prime 4G Market

by Matt Bowman, October 6, 2009 | Comments

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The carrier has enlisted venture firms to incubate products, opens test lab in Waltham.

Verizon Wireless is rolling out its LTE (Long-Term Evolution) service--the backbone of its 4G (fourth generation) network--in Boston and Seattle later this year, and is calling on VC firms to fund devices and services that can put all that bandwidth to good use. The carrier announced Monday it had formed the 4G Venture Forum (4GVF), comprised of its two LTE ...

Trapster app for iPhone downloaded 50,000/day

by Ronny Kerr, October 6, 2009 | Comments

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Speed trap tracker that tries to help iPhone users avoid speeding tickets extremely appealing

Ever since its launch over a year ago, Trapster has improved upon its police speed trap tracking software by a long series of gradations. One of the biggest updates arrived mid-June of this year, when the release of iPhone OS 3.0 gave Trapster's developers the ability to greatly increase the speed of the app, to provide alternate maps for multiple ...

US Web ads decline 5% in first half

by Ronny Kerr, October 5, 2009 | Comments (1)

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Despite slump in most advertising spending, recession fails to affect online digital video ads

For the second quarter in a row, the recession continues to take its toll on online advertising. According to the latest data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), advertising spending in the United States amounted to $10.9 billion, a 5.3% dip compared to the first half of last year. That's about $610 million less being spent on ads.Nearly half of ...

Amazon launches mobile payments service

by Chris Caceres, October 5, 2009 | Comments

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Online retailer trying to get a piece of the mobile payments space

Amazon is taking a major step into the mobile space. Today, the Seattle-based company announced it has launched a mobile payments service (MPS) which retailers can integrate into their mobile storefront. Amazon has made available API's to developers to enable this feature. The service basically leverages Amazon's current payment structure. Mobile stores and applications which choose to integrate Amazon's MPS ...

Causata raises $4.5 million

by Chris Caceres, October 5, 2009 | Comments (1)

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San Francisco-based startup gets Series A round to build out customer experience product

Causata, a software company which is focused on optimizing customer experience, has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners. The San Francisco-based startup says it is in the process of building a flexible multichannel customer interaction platform that can discern cause and effect, and predict in real-time what matters most to a customer at a given moment ...

Murdoch extends WSJ Paywall to iPhone

by Matt Bowman, October 5, 2009 | Comments

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Starting in January, the last frontier of free WSJ content will be fenced off.

Mint.com published an infographic recently about the death of the newspaper industry. Hidden in the graphs is a clue to the industry's afterlife.... Did you catch it? There's one, only one, of America's top 25 Newspapers that increased circulation in the last year. It's the same one that's warning readers this morning they'll have to pay up if they want ...

Cligs URL shortener shuts down

by Ronny Kerr, October 5, 2009 | Comments

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Short URLs are a feature, not a business, according to Cligs' founder

Cligs, one of many URL shorteners, announced last night that, for lack of a solid business model, inability to handle its large user base, and high costs, the site will be shutting down by the end of the month.URL address shorteners are used across the Web, but most popularly on social sharing sites like Twitter, where users want to avoid ...

Latin now usable language on Facebook

by Ronny Kerr, October 2, 2009 | Comments

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Facebook adds Latin to its roster of over 70 living, dead, and joke languages

"Quid cogitas?""Senttentiam scribe...""Abhinc 50 minutas via Facebook pro iPhone."You might not need to be a classics scholar to figure out what these phrases mean, if you're on Facebook often enough. Many of us check the social site so frequently that if we ever saw "Quid cogitas?" in the status update bar, we would probably be able to guess that it ...

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