facebook at face value

By Azam on February 3, 2012 Add a Comment

The facebook IPO has arrived with the company filling with SEC to raise 5B  in the public offering.  Most startups  achieve the IPO milestone to raise funds to fund growth.  In the case of facebook, the company may have reached…

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Make More Kabbage Online

By Azam on August 26, 2011 Add a Comment

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Kabbage provides financing to allow merchants buy inventory by innovative techniques to analyze credit based on metrics determined by social media and gaming.  Kabbage uses a variety of metrics as ranking sellers, on time delivery, and other metrics related to…

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Ness Being More Subjective on Search

By Azam on July 19, 2011 Add a Comment

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Ness is working on developing highly personalized search engine and recently received 5M from investors.  Vinod Khosla  of Khosla Ventures lead the Series A round, with participation from Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, and Angel investors.

The Alsop-incubated company is…

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BitCoin the New Currency

By Azam on June 10, 2011 Add a Comment

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BitCoin is the ultimate currency in the modern and well connected world.  BitCoin has recently been in the spotlight to news of being tied to the nefarious purposes.  The growing interest in the currency offers a real the validation on…

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Measure Your LocalResponse

By Azam on May 11, 2011 Add a Comment

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Local Response has changed the buzzd model of location awareness into measuring the different response across different social applications.  The model is more helpful than being tied to a single location application such as foursquare or gowalla.  LocalResponse goes beyond…

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In the Food Business

By Azam on April 26, 2011 Add a Comment

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The future is in food or some have said more recently.  I am not really talking about agriculture and need to feed the world fast growing populations.   I am talking about hunting and gathering online and social networking to find…

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On the Right Path

By Azam on April 4, 2011 Add a Comment

 pathlogoPath is the new social networking tool being developed by Dave Morin the ex facebooker focusing on real friends. Path is available as an iPhone app, and if focusing on sharing photos. Path is focused on the closest 50 friends…

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Trada Optimizes the Crowd

By Azam on March 31, 2011 Add a Comment

 

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Trada bring in the crowd to help optimize online search advertising in simple words.  Online campaigns just got easier with Trada helping to identify the right key words for your campaign.  The online world of advertising is quite daunting and…

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VivoTech Brings Life to Near Field Communications for Mobile Payments

By Azam on March 29, 2011 Add a Comment

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Vivotech is the leader in NFC mobile payments systems and is behind the technology most of dominant players are using to deliver to ease and convenience of mobile payment systems

 

ViVOtech’s reader devices rely on a technology called Near Field Comminications,…

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Serve Goes Online So You Can Leave Home Without AMEX Card

By Azam on March 28, 2011 Add a Comment

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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…

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