What you need to know - 09/09/11

Ronny Kerr · September 9, 2011 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/1ebc

Twitter now has 100 million users; MOG and Google Music beef up their cloud music services

Nike created 1500 pairs of the NIKE MAG shoes made famous in Back to the Future II.  The shoes will be auctioned on eBay and all proceeds will go to The Michael J. Fox Foundation, which promotes research on Parkinson’s Disease in the hopes of finding a cure. 

Even though there’s still no Google Music available in the App Store, iPhone and other iOS users can now access the cloud music service via an HTML5 app in the browser.

Over a year after launching on the iPhone, MOG has arrived on the Mac.

 

After launching the first-ever Facebook shopping mall back in February, Payvment is unveiling a suite of new features to make selling on Facebook easier and more profitable.

ringcentralVirtual phone system RingCentral raised $10 million in new funding from new investor Scale Venture Partners and Cisco.

 

SOS Online Backup, provider of cloud-based online backup and data protection, secured $3 million in Series A funding round from Splashpond Investors.

 

 

Spreaker, a service that lets you create a live Internet radio show for free, closed a $1.1 million angel round led by a European group of investors.

Twitter has amassed 100 million active users.

 

“These people fucked me over,” said former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, referring to the company’s board of directors. The statement could cost her $10 million.

Google acquired consumer review pioneer Zagat.

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