Serve Goes Online So You Can Leave Home Without AMEX Card
By Azam on March 28, 2011 Add a Comment
American Express is going online with Serve to handle transaction payments over the web and compete with the PayPal the leading payment system and others.
Serve will let consumers make purchases, take cash withdrawals from ATMs and make peer 2 peer…
Continue Reading...Adding some Color to Social Networking
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Color is the new 41M startup from the maker of lala and onebox Bill Nguyen. The new idea by Nguyen allows users to share pictures automatically based on their location on smartphones. Color is based around the idea of spontaneous communities forming…
Continue Reading...JiWire Brings Ads on Location
By Azam on December 29, 2010 Add a Comment 
JiWire is a mobile Ad company delivering ads based on location using wifi technology to reach users. JiWire recently announce the Compass product to deliver ads based on user location and using technology to pull in data to deliver ads…
Continue Reading...Layar Adds 14M Round to Augmented Reality
By Azam on November 21, 2010 Add a Comment 
Layar announced it has landed another $14 million in a second round of fund raising from Intel Capital to help make it easier to discover new places using augmented reality interface.
Layard augmented reality uses location based technology add a…
Continue Reading...Rdio Streams Music from the Cloud
By Azam on June 3, 2010 Add a Comment
Radio is music streamed to your ears from the cloud brought to you by the creators of KaZaa and Skype. Rdio is trying to bring the music streaming business model using cloud computing. The beauty is the ability to play…
Continue Reading...TweetDeck Raises 3M and Brings Live Streams to the Desktop and Wireless Device
By Azam on May 21, 2010 Add a Comment
TweetDeck is a highly popular application that allows you to read and post on social networking sites. TweetDeck has raised 3 M in a Series B round led, betaworks. TweetDeck allows users to post from a single application to multiple…
Continue Reading...Booyah Closes 20M Round Lead By Accel
By Azam on May 17, 2010 Add a Comment 
Booyah, creator of the popular location-based mobile app MyTown, has closed a $20 million round of financing and added renowned investor, Jim Breyer to its Board of Directors. Led by Accel Partners, a premier global venture firm with investments in…
Continue Reading...GILT Groups Raises 35M for Luxury Expansion Plans
By Azam on May 14, 2010 Add a Comment
Gilt Groupe is highly successful luxury online retail site has raised 35M to fuel further expansion. Gilt has skillfully navigated the luxury segment of retail ecommerce through simple and sleek designed site that offers steep discounts for members only invitation…
Continue Reading...onesocialweb Breaking Barriers in the Social Networking
By Azam on May 13, 2010 Add a Comment
onesocialweb plans to enable free, open, and decentralized social applications on the web. The protocol can be used to turn any XMPP server into a full fledged social network, participating in the onesocialweb federation. The suite of extensions covers all the…
Continue Reading...NYT: Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
By Azam on May 12, 2010 Add a Comment 
David Goldman for The New York Times
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 20, far left; Dan Grippi, 21; Max Salzberg, 22; and Raphael Sofaer, 19, all students at N.Y.U., are trying to reinvent social networking online.
By JIM DWYER
Published: May 11, 2010
NYT Link below…
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