Tech and Entrepreneurs: Changing of the Guard
By Azam on October 12, 2011 Add a CommentVenture Capital was a small world in the earlier period of venture funding. Large families like Rockefellers started their private funds through into highly risky ventures. The East coast and Boston was the center of venture investing largely Boston area…
Continue Reading...Ness Being More Subjective on Search
By Azam on July 19, 2011 Add a Comment 
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…
Continue Reading...Measure Your LocalResponse
By Azam on May 11, 2011 Add a Comment
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…
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...TweetUp is the Search Adverting Model for Tweets
By Azam on April 12, 2010 Add a Comment
TweetUp aims to provide relevant search results on Twitter using ad words. If this sounds familiar, It is because Bill Gross who pioneered search advertising is behind TweetUp. Besides being a serial entrepreneur, Bill Gross started GoTo.com and later renamed…
Continue Reading...Strait from the Executive Suite comes the ExecTweet
By Azam on March 23, 2009 Add a Comment
Twitter is making moves on the business end with ExecTweets using Federated Media and sponsored by Microsoft. Twitter is using the widgets and search function to promote a new feature called the ExecTweet.
ExecTweets is a third party site to use…
Continue Reading...Tumblr the techie insider blog platform connects with the iPhone
By Azam on February 25, 2009 4 Comments 
Tumblr the popular blog platform for techie insider has a new iPhone app to be even cooler with new mobile app to let users post coolness. Tumblr is the twitter of blogs platforms where the rebloging is the ultimate coolness …
Continue Reading...Twitter Raises More Money for the Widely and Ever Popular Short Message System
By Azam on February 13, 2009 Add a Comment
Twitter raises $35M to expand and further commercialize the short message systems with venture investors from Benchmark and IVP with previous backers Union Square and Spark Capital participating. Twitter has dramatically evolved into its own ecosystem of messages system for…
Continue Reading...4INFO raises $20M to SMS to your Mobile
By Azam on January 22, 2009 Add a Comment
4INFO the hot start up that was planning to bring search on to the mobile is now platform to send SMS to the mobile phone for permission based marketing. 4INFO has raised $20M from investors to market to the mobile…
Continue Reading...Pierre Omidyar is twittering around with a new start up Peer News with Ginx App
By Azam on January 14, 2009 Add a Comment 
Pierre Omidyar is working on a new start up that is based on called Peer News which currently has an app called Ginx running on top of twitter. The info is coming by the way of TechCrunch and PEHub that dug deep to…
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