Mooter Media, a digital media shop based in Australia, has announced $15M in US funding from San Francisco-based La Jolla Cove Investors, Inc. According to the company, this financing may represent one of the largest technology and online media investments in Australian corporate history. But the funds are not staying in Australia. Aside from their service…
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NYC-based startup ConvoNation, which launched 2 weeks ago, wants to fill the online conversation gap between our abbreviated 140 character thoughts on Twitter and often-mundane and highly personal status updates on Facebook. Their goal is pretty lofty – bringing serious conversation to social media – but they could be on to something for all the…
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If you’re looking for a new way to engage with your target market and cut through the noise on social media, check out Vizlingo, a new platform that animates each word of a message or post with a video clip. For now, you can only copy the link to the video and share it on…
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I have to say that I am very impressed with the startups out there that are eager to fix the problems inherent with daily deal sites. From offering a platform to buy and sell already-purchased deals to giving small businesses the tools to do it themselves, there is a lot of creative problem-solving going on…
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There are tips, lists, products, and services plastered all over the web that can help manage your online conversations, but Minneapolis-based Zingstring wants to make it even easier. For those times when you can’t respond to tweets, posts, and emails – maybe you’re in a meeting or traveling or, you know, sleeping – they created…
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One of the things that I both love and hate about Twitter is the massive amount of information constantly streaming through my feed. I love it, because there is always something new; I hate it, because there are too many new things. And therein lies the problem: no matter how many interesting, knowledgeable people you…
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Tech Cocktail partner, Cool Blue Press, has announced that their new magazine, The Social Media Monthly, will be selling their November issue nationally at Barnes & Noble, select airports, overseas in 9 countries, and in the iTunes Store. It’s the world’s first printed magazine dedicated to the exploration of the evolving technology area of social…
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MakerCraft, who demo’d at our Tech Cocktail Chicago event earlier this month, just launched their free Jewelry iPad app that lets anyone design their perfect piece of jewelry. It features a drag and drop necklace design interface; once your design is complete it can be purchased and mailed to you as complete piece or as…
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If you want to find information or answers to your questions, you’ve got choices. You can do a Google search to get hundreds of thousands of potential solutions, or you can ask someone in your online or offline network, understanding that these networks are by nature, limited. But what if you could ask lots of…
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Customer service and social CRM provider Assistly announced today that it has been acquired by Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company that is leading the shift to the social enterprise. Assistly helps businesses wrangle customer conversations into a tidy list so support staff can respond quickly to improve customer service. The platform provides users with…
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Yesterday, the social networking platform Ning was acquired by Glam Media. This was interesting news as Ning was backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and took a boatload of funding, somewhere in the tune of close to $120 million. Ning was one of the first social platforms that offered APIs to roll out your own…
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Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal launched a standalone news product built entirely on Facebook. The new product, called WSJ Social, leverages the Facebook sharing to compile the most popular and relevant WSJ news based for you based on your social network. WSJ has decided to “fish where the fish are,” and leverage the popular social…
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DotLoop was an idea born of frustration – a frustration that millions of people, including co-founder Austin Allison, have experienced. What is this obstruction just begging to be simplified via web technology? The paper-heavy real estate transaction. If you’ve ever bought or sold a house, you know the amount of coordination involved in the transaction;…
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Apps that are focused on social sharing, search, and recommendations, especially in the food and dining space, have been popping up left and right like crazy this year. Ness brings all of those features together into one app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This first iteration is for restaurants only, but they will be…
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If you’re looking for something new to do, Hoppit can help. Hoppit is a social place recommendation engine and local reviews service that recommends restaurants, bars and shops based on consumer taste mapping. With a mission to revolutionize the way folks discover new places of interest, Hoppit sounded pretty intriguing to me, so I decided…
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There are quite a few apps out there that refine the social sharing process. We’ve covered Foodily for sharing recipes, Highlighter for sharing digital content, and Photogram for sharing images, just to name a few. NYC-based Subjot is helping people share ideas and connect with others around topics they want to hear about. According to…
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Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
We are excited to announce the participating startups for Tech Cocktail's South by Southwest (SXSW) event: #Startuplife Celebration presented by .CO. It was one of... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More