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...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...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...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
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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…
Continue Reading...Obopay Shift Mobile Banking from Carriers to Banks
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Obopay, the pioneer in mobile payments, today announced Mobile Money for Banks, which will allow banks to deploy their own branded mobile money service. Designed to make bank accounts the anchor for all current and future mobile money transactions, the service…
Continue Reading...The Apple Revolution Continues
By Azam on March 30, 2010 Add a Comment 
Apple marches on towards the futures by expanding technology offering. Just when you think Apple conquers the mobile market with iPhone the firm launches the iPad. Critiques liked to joke about the name and many a satire have been made…
Continue Reading...Google is very serious about delivering on Voice
By Azam on March 12, 2009 Add a Comment 
Google Voice is an ambitious application from Google to address the market for telephony and voice applications. Google voice is a re branding of voice telephony VOIP application service from the acquisition of GrandCentral that would bring the power of…
Continue Reading...GlobalPost is helping to keep foreign correspondents reporting from the scene
By Azam on January 13, 2009 Add a Comment
GlobalPost is working to keep the foreign correspondents busy while tradition news print struggles with staying relevant in declining market of subscribers and advertising revenues. GlobalPost has ambitious plans on a new revenue model to save foreign dispatches.
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