• July 29th, 2010

    Lost In Val Sinestra: A Mesmerizing Movie Trailer Featuring Your Facebook Friends

    Double rainbow awesome. There’s no other modern way to describe this.

    I won’t spoil it too much, but whatever you do today, visit this website and select some of your closest friends from your Facebook graph when prompted. You won’t be disappointed. → Read More

    May 18th, 2010

    Swisscom invests $1.8 million in 'social business card' startup Poken

    Swisscom Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Swisscom (Switzerland’s leading telecom operator), is making a strategic investment in Poken. Swisscom is participating in a $1.8 million round, and will be represented on Poken’s Board of Directors by Dominique Mégret, who heads the investment subsidiary.

    In a statement, Megret says Poken is “at the nexus of the mobile and events spheres, with unique capabilities relating to NFC, RFID and Social Networking” and that it foresees huge growth for the fledgling company. → Read More

    May 18th, 2010

    Bridging The Real And Online World: Poken Raises $1.8 Million From Swisscom

    Swisscom Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Swisscom (Switzerland’s leading telecom operator), is making a strategic investment in Poken. Swisscom is participating in a $1.8 million round, and will be represented on Poken’s Board of Directors by Dominique Mégret, who heads the investment subsidiary.

    In a statement, Megret says Poken is “at the nexus of the mobile and events spheres, with unique capabilities relating to NFC, RFID and Social Networking” and that it foresees huge growth for the fledgling company. → Read More

    May 14th, 2008

    SwissCom confirms iPhone is coming

    SwissCom, who you’ll remember offered some potential pricing for the 3G iPhone, confirmed it is getting said iPhone “later this year.” Their exact words: Later this year, the iPhone available. We will inform you personally as soon as news. I’ve worked with SwissCom in the past and those boys wouldn’t inform you you were on fire unless they had a sworn, notarized affidavit from your burning underwear, so let’s chalk this up to “confirmed.” → Read More

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