February 2011
Chango Raises $4.25M To Bring Search Targeting To Display Ads
Toronto-based ad targeting startup Chango has raised $4.25 million in new funding led by Rho Canada, with iNovia Capital, Metamorphic Ventures, Extreme Venture Partners and 24/7 Media co-founder, Geoff Judge;…
Mixin Hits The Deadpool – Unless Anyone Wants To Buy The Social Calendar App?
Social calendaring service Mixin will soon be no more. In an email to its users, the Swiss startup has announced that the service, which was launched back in 2008, will…
Quepasa, The Facebook For Latinos, Buys Social Game Developer XtFT For $4 Million
Social networks and games go well together, for obvious reasons. Quepasa, the popular social network for the Latino community, emphasizes this once more with its acquisition of XtFt Games, owner…
Recyclebank's CEO Jonathan Hsu On New Site, Rewarding Green Behavior Beyond The Bin
Recyclebank — a loyalty rewards program that encourages people to lower the environmental impact of their lifestyles, for example, by recycling more and tossing less — introduced a redesigned website…
Social Application Developer Seesmic Raises $4M From SoftBank And Salesforce
Social application developer Seesmic has raised $4 million in new funding from enterprise giant Salesforce.com and Softbank Holdings, a subsidiary of Softbank. This brings Seesmic’s total funding to $16 million;…
Google Goes High Brow – Unveils Museum Art Project Powered By Street View 'Indoor' Tech
Google has gone all high brow on us, unveiling its Art Project, a collaboration with art museums around the world to enable people to enjoy their collections without leaving the…
Japan gets the PS3 Slim in a new color, following white and blue last year: Sony announced [JP] two new models that will be available in “Satin Silver” today (that’s…
Aria Systems Raises $20 Million For Cloud-Based Billing And Subscription Platform
On demand billing and recurring subscription management company,Aria Systems has raised $20 million in new funding led by InterWest Partners with Hummer-Winblad and Venrock participating in the round. This brings…
Nokia Leads $8 Million Funding Round For Voddler, The 'Netflix Of Scandinavia'
Voddler, the Netflix / Hulu / Spotify-for-movies of Scandinavia, whichever comparison you fancy, has raised $8 million in funding in a round led by Nokia’s venture capital arm Nokia Growth…
Sony Patent Shows Cool Folding Grip For Point And Shoots Giveaway: Win A Valentine’s Day Edition Dodocase Review: GoBiz i-Microphone Chinese Gundam Copy Now Looks Less Like The Original, Still…
Facebook Averaged Almost 8 New Registrations Per Second In 2010
Candytech, a Czech company that helps companies create and measure Facebook marketing campaigns, has gathered a wealth of Facebook-specific data over the years via its statistics portal SocialBakers. The company…
"Apple Is Evil! Boycott The iPad! – Sent From My iPad"
Here we go again. It has been a few weeks since we had a story about how Apple is evil, or how the relatively closed system that fuels the iPad and iPhone…
The two latest entries to the Sony Cyber-Shot family are a DSLR-looking megazoom and a more compact affair that, I’m going to tell you right now, is the **spoiler alert**…