Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Shanghai-based social market researchers Kai Lukoff and Lucas Englehard from BloggerInsight, a company spun off from Web2Asia which crowdsources market intelligence through an online expert panel of bloggers. On the Chinese Internet, “harmony” is a euphemism for censorship. Mafia games were “harmonized” over the Summer, for example, as [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
HubPages, a content community based around topics, is adding a new real-time feature this week: feeds. The site lets anyone create “Hubs” around any type of topic, and divided content into forums, questions and answers. The new feed makes it more easy to read all components of a particular hub or topic, where you can [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Andover, MA-based SeeWhy has raised a second round of funding from most of its current shareholders, adding $2 million to the $4.5 million it secured earlier this year. The company plans to add additional investors alongside those investing in this round through 2010. The startup markets tools that help ecommerce sites and online retailers up [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The EU said this morning that it is dropping antitrust charges against Microsoft after the software giant agreed to give Windows OS users a choice of up to 12 other Web browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari and Opera. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Microsoft will need to implement a ballot [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Google is really serious about using offline media to push its Web browser. After running ads for Google Chrome in the UK, it has today started a similar campaign in The Netherlands, too. Like in the UK, we’re getting reports on billboards appearing all over the country in combination with digital advertising appearing on Facebook [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Mozat, the mobile social networking platform formerly known as Morange, is making strides in Asia and the Middle East. The eponymous company behind the app has just announced that it has surpassed 10 million registered users, predominantly based in those regions. The startup has also disclosed that it raised a Series A funding round led [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Yep, it’s still happening. You can still become a millionaire on the iPhone without a marketing budget and a brand name. Occipital, the company behind RedLaser [iTunes Link], has struck gold with its barcode-scanning iPhone app. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s much harder to be an indie developer on the iPhone these days. The [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Zynga, one of the stars of the Scamville drama, has raised a big round of funding – $180 million. Digital Sky Technologies, Tiger Global, Institutional Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz all participated in the round. The company has now raised $219 million in total. DST, which has invested $300 million in Facebook this year, led [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Boondoggle, a Belgian interactive agency, has cooked up a deliciously useless product called TweetNotebook that basically lets you create a physical notebook that features a random set of your Twitter messages. No joke. Here’s how it works: you go to the website, enter any username (make sure the owner’s tweet aren’t protected) and let the [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Digital memory aid and note taking service Evernote already has mobile applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry, among others, but so far it wasn’t part of the now more than 20,000 applications for the Android platform. Expect that to change real soon, because we hear the startup is making the app available in the Android [...]
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