Adding some Color to Social Networking
By Azam on March 28, 2011 Add a Comment
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...Smooth Stone is well Armed and Backed with 48M
By Azam on August 16, 2010 Add a CommentFounded in January 2008, Smooth‐Stone brings ultra‐low power mobile phone technology to the datacenter. Smooth-Stone has brought together leading engineers with experience in volume and blade server platforms, mainframes, server CPUs, networking processors, telecom infrastructure, and high performance cellular application…
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...Lookout Raises 11M to Security for Smart Phones
By Azam on May 18, 2010 Add a Comment
Lookout, the leader in smartphone security, today announced an $11 Million Series B round of funding led by Accel Partners with Khosla Ventures and Trilogy Partnership also participating. The company also announced that it has added several new executives to…
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...Square Makes Mobile Payment Easy on iPhone, iPad and Android
By Azam on May 11, 2010 Add a Comment 
Square, a new venture from a co-founder of Twitter, launched Tuesday with a free application that allows anyone to accept credit card payments on a mobile device.
The San Francisco-based Square, the brainchild of Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey, works with…
Continue Reading...Vantrix Raises 14M to deliver Video to Mobile
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Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions for streaming, browsing and messaging, today announced the completion of a US $14 million Series C investment. The financing round was led by Tudor Ventures, the venture capital and…
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