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Sprout Raises $5 Million For Web-Based Flash Creation Tools
via Mashable! by Adam Ostrow on May 13, 2008
Sprout, the WYSIWYG tool for creating flash applications and widgets, has raised a $5 million Series B round led by Polaris Venture Partners. The company launched back in January at DEMO, and has since rolled out an SDK to allow developers to build their own components for the Sprout platform. Current components include Twitter, Google Forms, and Seesmic. In the video below, Seesmic CEO Loic...
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Lightspeed Venture Partners raises fresh $800M global fund, looking to China and India
via VentureBeat by Chris Morrison on May 12, 2008
... fund, and now Lightspeed Venture Partners is announcing its own fresh $800 million fund, oversubscribed from a $675 million target. The fresh Lightspeed fund is almost twice the size of its last raise, which topped out at $475 million two years ago. It seems like a lot to invest. But the firm is expanding its game. It will continue to invest in early-stage investment in the United States and I...
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Yahoo Acquires Inquisitor to Target Safari Users
via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on May 09, 2008
Google has auto-complete options for its browser search, and Yahoo has Search Assist. And thanks to the acquisition of Inquisitor, Yahoo now has similar search features for Safari users as well. Amidst rumors that Yahoo may be on the short list of logical potential buyers of Blinkx, it’s Inquisitor that Yahoo has in fact added to the Yahoo family today. The amount of the acquisition has not...
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Schmap Launches City Guide Web App for iPhone and iPod Touch
via TechCrunch by Greg Kumparak on May 13, 2008
Schmap, publisher of over 200 free online travel guides, has opened access to their guides for iPhone and iPod Touch users by way of a remarkably nifty web application. The guides cover cities throughout the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and provide information on everything from the city’s historical background to the best places to get your drink on.As portrayed in the image...
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Sneak Peak At Android Apps Out of MIT
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 09, 2008
A class at MIT built some mobile apps for Google’s Android operating system and presented them today. CrunchGear’s own superblogger Doug Aamoth reports on the seven apps—loco, Flare, GeoLife, Re:public, Locale, Kei, and snap—that he saw. Below is a slightly edited version of the original post: locoLoco is a mobile social network built on top an Android phone’s contact manager, so...
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Smoking ban coming to Beijing ahead of Oympic
via MOBIZ by Alvin Foo on May 09, 2008
China is the world's most enthusiastic smoking nation, home to one in three of the world's smokers. But, starting yesterday, smokers are out on the street as part of a campaign to improve the urban environment ahead of the Games. Athletes and visitors to the Games can at least be sure of a smoke-free environment during the event after officials in Beijing introduced a ban on smoking in...
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Nielsen Launches TotalWeb - Cross Platform Internet Measurement
via CenterNetworks by Allen Stern on May 01, 2008
The Nielsen Company is announcing the launch of a new measurement tracking service today. Named TotalWeb, the company describes the service as, "...integrates data from Nielsen Mobile and Nielsen Online to show the unduplicated, unique audience for more than 200 leading Internet sites across the PC and mobile Internet space."The first TotalWeb report is out today and it shows how the mobile Web...
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Pikiware: The WordPress of Online TShirts
via Mashable! by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins on May 01, 2008
... Yet Another Tshirt Store - what they are is a company providing a fulfillment system designed to work with digital garment printers. The system seems very well thought out, and allows for a number of different aspects of control of the system, yet doesn’t seem to require very advanced knowlege of any design skills in particular (aside from a sense of aesthetics, which hopefully you have if ...
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Cuban operator reports 7,400 new mobile phone accounts
via IntoMobile by dusanb on May 01, 2008
Recently, Cuba's only telephone company reported that 7,400 new mobile phone accounts have been contracted in the 10 days since all Cubans were allowed to sign up for the service.Previously, mobile phones were offered only to foreigners or Cubans in top government positions or jobs with foreigners. However, that haven't stopped many clever Cubans to get mobile phones through contracts...
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Would You Pay An Extra $100 For An All-You-Can-Listen-To iPod
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on March 19, 2008
Paying $1 per song on iTunes is starting to get old. And Apple knows it. It made sense to start with something simple to establish the legal digital music market. But now consumers are ready for more sophisticated offerings. That is why Apple is exploring ways to bundle an unlimited amount of music into the iPod/iPhone, according to the Financial Times. The two options are either to charge...
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