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Plato’s Forms , a San Francisco startup that describes itself as “a professional messaging platform focused on the problem of the rapid proliferation of misinformation in media,” just announced raising a $545,000 seed round. The company was founded by Darryl Siry, senior vice ...
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Textbook rental site Chegg.com may be raising tremendous amounts of funding , but competitor BookRenter isn’t sitting still — it just announced a $6 million first round.
That number is dwarfed by the $84.2 million Chegg has raised (not counting debt), but BookRenter chief ...
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Video startup Vidly is holding true to its promise to expand beyond Twitter with a new tool called Vidly Express , an easy way to add video comments to any blog.
The San Francisco company says publishers just add some code to their site, and the code creates a button for video replies next to ...
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PlayMesh became famous on the iPhone when it launched its iMafia game in January. The app had a novel virtual goods model in the days before Apple had its own way of embracing what has become an extremely popular business model for monetizing virtual goods.
The iMafia game was a hit and it ...
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The Gridwise Alliance , a nonprofit coalition of stakeholders developing the Smart Grid, signed a memorandum of understanding today with the International Engineering Consortium , to team up to make utilities more intelligent.
Presumably, the Alliance will integrate its intelligent utilities ...
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Amazon Web Services now calculates your app costs — To give users a better idea of how their applications will work and how much they will cost to run on Amazon Web Services, the company has just released a redesign of its AWS Simple Monthly Calculator . ...
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Pixazza , a Google Ventures -backed startup, is opening up its crowdsourced photo-tagging service which can turn any Web site into an online store.
The Mountain View-based startup uses an army of taggers to identify products and link them to shopping sites like Amazon or Zappos. For example, ...
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Google says it’s getting close to adding extensions (which users install to add features to their web browsers) to its Chrome browser.
Specifically, Google announced today that developers can not only build extensions, but also upload them into Google’s gallery showcasing Chrome ...
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The cost of solar equipment has been falling over the past several months, but now it looks like cost of solar-generated electricity will drop about 50 percent from where it was at the end of 2008, according to a new report from research firm New Energy Finance .
The firm’s prediction ...
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Finding out about a musician or a show has always been a three-, four- or even five-site process for me. First I’ll hit pollstar.com and see what shows are in the area on a given day. Scrolling through lists of venues and artists, I’ll see something like ...
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Hewlett-Packard reported better than expected earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter ended Oct. 31, but its sales were a mixed bag as the company dealt with falling prices for consumer PCs and printers.
The world’s largest tech company is a bellwether for the overall tech economy, and ...
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In addition to Tesla Motors ‘ potential IPO, there’s two more big pieces of news coming out of the electric vehicle world. Nissan is opening talks about electric cars in China, and the Electrification Coalition has started lobbying for tax credits and loan guarantees to get ...
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TV ad company Spot Runner has launched Project Malibu , their much anticipated web-based platform for buying and selling television advertising. The move comes after nearly two years of development, massive layoffs, a heated lawsuit from investor WPP and a whopping $120 million raised from more ...
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We’ve come to the day when a game can have a flawed single-player campaign, but it can still be a blockbuster seller because it executes multiplayer gaming in an excellent fashion. That’s the case with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , which has become the fastest selling video game ...
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October numbers are in, and Comscore , Compete , Google , and Quantcast all agree: US traffic to Twitter.com reached a peak in July or August and has begun to decline slowly.
According to Comscore, October 2009 traffic was down 8% from from September 2009, while Compete shows a more modest ...
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Rumors are swirling today that Tesla Motors is seriously considering an initial public offering sometime soon. The talk has been tracked to two anonymous sources, who say the six-year-old company could cash in big on the battery-powered car trend before electric and hybrid models from companies ...
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Next Island is the latest company to launch an ambitious virtual world. But this sci-fi adventure paradise comes with an interesting twist: time travel. The company is announcing today that it is building a world in the Entropia Universe.
That means it has licensed virtual world technology ...
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Google is growing its display advertising dominance, today with the acquisition of Teracent , a startup that provides companies with the tools they need to customize display ads like web banners and interactive modules. Still making most of its revenue from text ads listed next to search ...
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With all the inform ation available today, wading through everything to find out what you really need to know is hard. But there are also a few options for weeding out the noise in your information stream. Feedtrace is a new one, and one with some promise.
When you visit the Feedtrace site ...
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Zynga said today it has crossed more than 100 million unique monthly users for its social games on Facebook.
Thanks to the popularity of its casual Facebook games such as FarmVille, which has more than 65 million players, the San Francisco company has become the biggest developer on Facebook ...
