Lithium ion battery developer Amprius secured a $25 million round of funding led by IPV Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Qian Neng Fund, along with existing investors Trident Capital, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Eric Schmidt, and Stanford University.
ContextLogic, building a sophisticated content discovery and distribution platform, raised $1.7 million in angel funding.
Investment firm General Atlantic has agreed to buy one tenth of one percent of Facebook in a transaction that values the social networking company at $65 billion, according to unnamed sources close to the deal.
Glue Networks, an enterprise-grade cloud networking service provider aiming to solve problems arising from an increasingly stay-at-home workforce, closed a $4.5 million Series A round of funding led by Keiretsu Forum, San Joaquin Angels, Sierra Angels, Sacramento Angels, Sand Hill Angels,and Harvard Angels.
MyBuys, provider of personalization for multi-channel retailers, direct brands, and digital agencies, closed a $20 million round of funding led by Rho Ventures.
Nielsen released a smart infographic portraying two axes of the smartphone market, operating system and manufacturer. Google Android, with 29 percent of the market, is beating both Apple iOS and RIM BlackBerry, each with 27 percent, as far as OS platforms are concerned.
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata lambasted smartphone and social network games for sacrificing quality in the name of producing tons of games for quick and easy money.
AOL will announce today that it has acquired hyperlocal news service Outside.in for less than $10 million, according to reports.
Mobile app developer Ruckus Media Group secured $3.5 million in a Series A round led by Alsop Louie Partners along with private investors.
Today's featured entreprenuer is David Johanson, CEO and co-founder of Pixures and Borderline Marketing
Vurve, an ad management system for small businesses, secured $4.5 million in Series A financing led by Spark Capital, with participation from Dave McClure and True Ventures.The agency also published draft guidance on the use of AI in drug development
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It will complete and submit forms, and integrate with state benefit systems
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MyBuys personalised product recomendations are built on a proprietory patent-pending technology that presents recomendations derived from the deepbehavioral profile it builds on each consumer. As a result, MyBuys shows each consumer the product that are truly relevant-while they're browsing.
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I am looking into building a Search Engine Directory based submissions, for children 0-15 with safe content and image searchable with semantic relationships suggestions. it would be based on giving the 3-10 year old internet user a safe and easy browsing experience and also have encyclopedias to target the educational world.Startup/Business
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Research In Motion Limited (RIM) is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information, including email, phone, text messaging (SMS and MMS), Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third-party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data.
RIMs portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, BlackBerry smartphones, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. RIM is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange
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Twitter is an online information network that allows anyone with an account to post 140 character messages, called tweets. It is free to sign up. Users then follow other accounts which they are interested in, and view the tweets of everyone they follow in their "timeline." Most Twitter accounts are public, where one does not need to approve a request to follow, or need to follow back. This makes Twitter a powerful "one to many" broadcast platform where individuals, companies or organizations can reach millions of followers with a single message. Twitter is accessible from Twitter.com, our mobile website, SMS, our mobile apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, our iPad application, or 3rd party clients built by outside developers using our API. Twitter accounts can also be private, where the owner must approve follower requests.
Twitter started as an internal project within the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, and engineer, had long been interested in status updates. Jack developed the idea, along with Biz Stone, and the first prototype was built in two weeks in March 2006 and launched publicly in August of 2006. The service grew popular very quickly and it soon made sense for Twitter to move outside of Odea. In May 2007, Twitter Inc was founded.
Our engineering team works with a web application framework called Ruby on Rails. We all work on Apple computers except for testing purposes.
We built Twitter using Ruby on Rails because it allows us to work quickly and easily--our team likes to deploy features and changes multiple times per day. Rails provides skeleton code frameworks so we don't have to re-invent the wheel every time we want to add something simple like a sign in form or a picture upload feature.
There are a few ways that Twitter makes money. We have licensing deals in place with Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft's Bing to give them access to the "firehose" - a stream of tweets so that they can more easily incorporate those tweets into their search results.
In Summer 2010, we launched our Promoted Tweets product. Promoted Tweets are a special kind of tweet which appear at the top of search results within Twitter.com, if a company has bid on that keyword. Unlike search results in search engines, Promoted Tweets are normal tweets from a business, so they are as interactive as any other tweet - you can @reply, favorite or retweet a Promoted Tweet.
At the same time, we launched Promoted Trends, where companies can place a trend (clearly marked Promoted) within Twitter's Trending Topics. These are especially effective for upcoming launches, like a movie or album release.
Lastly, we started a Twitter account called @earlybird where we partner with other companies to provide users with a special, short-term deal. For example, we partnered with Virgin America for a special day of fares on Virginamerica.com that were only accessible through the link in the @earlybird tweet.
What's next for Twitter?
We continue to focus on building a product that provides value for users.
We're building Twitter, Inc into a successful, revenue-generating company that attracts world-class talent with an inspiring culture and attitude towards doing business.
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