Facebook filed it’s form S-1 with the SEC today to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. It’s likely to be the largest by a web company since Google in 2004 and could place the social network’s value as high as $75 billion to $100 billion. The 209 page document was filled with loads of interesting…
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Early this morning a new social network that focuses on quality, rather than quantity, of relationships launched publicly to beta testers. Much like Path, Ourspot focuses on creating a platform for only the closest relationships, but on a web instead of mobile platform. And much like Pintrest, this new service encourages users to tag inspiring…
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Userplane, an LA based company founded by Mike Jones, was acquired by AOL in 2006. But as you walk into their office in Santa Monica and look at the way they’ve re-invented themselves over the past couple of years, you wouldn’t think they’re part of a big company. Matt Turner, Tech Director for Userplane, is…
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A new app called ShoutFlow wants to create a non-intrusive social network by hooking you up with people that you haven’t met, but who share common interests and mutual friends. Let the comparisons to 2 other social discovery tools we recently covered begin: Converge pulls data from social networking sites to help you meet new…
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We all know the stress of finding someone the perfect birthday gift all too well. Before you know it, it’s 20 minutes before the party starts and you find yourself giving up on “perfect” and settling for a $25 Bennigan’s gift card you bought at the gas station on the way over. Giftiki, a new…
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After months of anticipation that even resulted in a lead developer leaving Facebook for Google, Facebook launched the official Facebook iPad application. The app is basically an big upgrade to the current Facebook iPhone app, so if you have that app you just need to get the latest update, which makes everything render differently on the…
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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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Why update your status with simple text when you can let people know what you’re doing with a video instead? Keek is a new social networking platform that allows users to instantly share “video status updates” with friends and family via their webcam or mobile device. Users can record up to 36 seconds of video…
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Social TV applications are nothing new. With the birth of the “check-in” came an influx of social TV apps, allowing you to share what you’re watching on the tube with your various social networks. San Francisco-based startup Miso is going beyond the basic entertainment check-in, offering DirecTV customers a a synchronized TV-viewing experience that changes…
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Angel-funded New York City startup Appetude has a plan – and part of that plan involves giving data to their competitors. More specifically, Appetude is contributing to OpenMenu, an open database of menus updated by restaurants. “We’re all innovating in food tech. Even if some person is going to compete with us, I still think…
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A startup 11 years in the making – according to its news release – launched today in a very crowded social networking space: photo sharing. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, the site FreezeCrowd offers a new social platform for uploading and sharing photos on the web. Photos can be tagged and users can add speech bubbles…
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How’s this for a viral promotion? About.me, which we covered previously, as it was founded by Tony Conrad and then quickly acquired by AOL, has launched a campaign that could land your face on a billboard in Times Square. That’s right, the popular profile platform that enables users to create a simple yet classic online…
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Facebook announced changes to posting and tagging this afternoon, to be rolled out “in the coming days.” “You have told us that ‘who can see this?’ could be clearer across Facebook, so we have made changes to make this more visual and straightforward,” …wrote Chris Cox, Facebook’s vice president of product. The updates center on…
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Shopping for the latest trends and best bargains is always more fun with a couple of fashionable friends. A new, free app called Snapette is making shopping social no matter where you are. Part of the 500 Startups incubator program, Snapette is a social networking community for sharing photos of the latest shoes and handbags. Users snap…
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Working remotely is de rigueur nowadays, especially in the startup community. We work from home, while on vacation, sitting at the airport, in coffee shops, between offsite meetings, etc. Developers, however, have always been somewhat constrained by long local development environment setups. Compilr has changed that. Compilr is an online integrated development environment (IDE) that…
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While one of this weekend’s Twitter Trends was rather disturbing, another trend emerged from excited throngs of passionate Harry Potter fans. Across Twitter, hashtag #pottermore has spread like wildfire and Twitter username @pottermore racked up almost a quarter of a million followers. And the frustration at waiting for Pottermore clues and invites seems to rival that of Spotify…
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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
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
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
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More