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Google Ventures, Foundry Group Put $1M In Yesware, Email Tracking And Productivity Platform For Salespeople Top
Yesware-1Yesware, a startup that helps track email and improve productivity for salespeople, has raised $1 million in funding from Google Ventures, Foundry Group and other investors. Yesware is a suite of productivity services that work where salespeople do – in their email and on their phones. The application is available for Gmail and smartphones and provides email analytics, customizable templates and CRM integration to help salespeople close more deals faster. Yesware works in conjunction with a number of popular CRM platforms including Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle CRM, Highrise and others.
 
Rexly Takes Its Social Music App To The iPhone Top
RexlyWhen social music startup Rexly launched at Disrupt NYC last May, we called it the social music discovery app that Ping should have been. It shows you what your friends are listening to on iTunes, but filters the stream in an attempt to surface the best stuff. Up until now, you had to log into Rexly's site to experience it. But today it is releasing its iPhone app, Music With Friends, which takes over your iPod player and incorporates all sorts of social features. As you listen to the songs and playlists on your iPhone, Rexly scrobbles them and they show up in a feed that your friends can see. Similarly, you can see a feed of all the songs your friends are listening to who use Rexly, or the most popular songs overall. But instead of just spitting out an unfiltered stream of the ost recent songs in your feed (although you can see that too), the default filter is Rexly's "magic" stream. It shows you songs from friends or other people you are following you've designated as super trustworthy in regards to their musical taste.
 
With A Foothold In Emerging Markets, Peak Games Climbs Up The Rankings; Raises $11.5 Million Top
70737_logo_redblack_1000Peak Games, a social gaming company that designs titles that target emerging markets in Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa, and South America, is making some significant announcements today, including acquisitions, partnerships, funding, and snapshot of the company's continuing growth. For starters, the company announced today that it has closed an $11.5 million series B round of funding, led by existing European venture investors Earlybird Venture Capital and Hummingbird Ventures. This latest infusion of capital brings the startup's total investment to $19 million. According to the Peak Games team, the round will be used to continue expanding into emerging markets, to complete game studio acquisitions, and ramp up hiring and user acquisition.
 
Professional Content Sharing Platform SlideShare Goes Mobile With New HTML5 Site Top
Upload & Share PPandora, LinkedIn, Box.net and many others are moving to HTML5 to give users a cross-platform, rich media experience. The latest to participate in this tend is SlideShare, a sharing platform for business documents, videos and presentations. SlideShare lets anyone share presentations and video and also serves as a social discovery platform for users to find relevant content and connect with other members who share similar interests. The company also has a huge enterprise following, and companies like IBM and others use the platform to curate content from all of their employees and partners on a branded page.
 
Leading Mobile Device Makers Pledge Support For Carrier-Led NFC Venture Isis Top
isis_logoIsis, the carrier-led joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is today announcing support for its mobile wallet system from the majority of leading device makers, including HTC, LG, Motorola, RIM, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, as well as from NFC hardware provider Device Fidelity. All of the handset makers are now committed to introducing handsets that will include Isis' NFC and related technology standards.
 
Tykoon Raises $1.4M To Help Parents Teach Kids Fiscal Responsibility Top
tykoonTykoon, a sites that helps families engage children in becoming fiscally responsible, has raised $1.35 million in funding from Doug Lebda, RRE Ventures, Rick Thompson, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Bach, and G.Kennedy Thompson. Tykoon (currently in private beta) is a new social, personalized financial services platform for families where kids can earn, save, give and spend real money. With Tykoon, parents can implement money management via chores, jobs, allowance, spending and giving. Kids can earn money through jobs, chores, and gifts, save based on goals, spend in a kid safe environment powered by Amazon.com and give to charities via the platform.
 
Huawei Taps Discovery Channel To Build Discovery Expedition Rugged Handset Top
huaweidiscoveryHuawei has a history of partnering up with brands to build highly targeted phones, a good example being the Red Bull-branded RBM HD rugged phone (otherwise known as the Impulse for AT&T). This time, the company is taking the less caffeine-fueled route, opting for some added credibility with its next rugged handset: the Huawei-Discovery Expedition phone.
 
Microsoft Files More Patents For Dual-Screen Swiss Army Knife Slider Phone Top
msftpatents1I could swear that I've had a dream about this before, or at least written about it*, but it looks like Microsoft beat me to the patent office. On September 22, Microsoft filed the "Mobile Communication Device Having Multiple, Interchangeable Second Devices" patent, which basically describes a slider-style phone that has replacement components to swap in for the slider keyboard.
 
Formspring Adds Photo Support To Its Q&A Service Top
formspring-logoToday, Formspring is adding support for photos to its Q&A service in an update the company is touting as the biggest in the nearly two years since its launch. With the addition, Formspring users will be able to post a photo both when asking a question or when providing a response.
 
Windows Phone Marketplace Is Now Available In A Browser Near You Top
mktplaceAll the way back in May, Microsoft revealed that they were hard at work developing a web version of the Windows Phone marketplace. Now that the new Mango update is nearly upon us, Microsoft has officially flipped the switch on their web marketplace for markets across the world.
 
Former Facebook VP Chamath Palihapitiya Leads $17M Round In Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer Top
yammerYammer, an enterprise social network and communications platform, has raised $17 million in new funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership, a new fund established by former Facebook Vice President Chamath Palihapitiya. Previous investors Charles River Ventures, Emergence Capital and U.S. Venture Partners also participated in the round. Palihapitiya will have an observer's seat on Yammer's board of directors. This brings Yammer's total financing to $57 million. For background, Yammer launched as the "Twitter for businesses" at TechCrunch 50 in 2008. But over the past year, the startup has expanded to become a more comprehensive platform for social networking within the enterprise.
 
"Toilettenpapier Drucker" Is What You Think It Is Top
toiletpaper_printerIf you told me two-and-a-half decades ago that this tow-headed youngster from Columbus, Ohio who spent his evenings looking up at the stars, engrossed in endless wonder at the boundless horizon of the invisible universe, would one day be able to print on toilet paper in his lifetime, he would have spit at you and then kicked your dog. He was a pretty crappy kid. But it has happened: we can now use off-the-shelf components to print on toilet paper. This is the end of history.
 
CloudFlare Turns One; Launches IPv6 Gateway To Let Websites 'Join The Modern Internet' For Free Top
cloudflare-logoPut one big, fat candle on the cake. One year ago today, a startup named CloudFlare launched on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, where the startup placed second to Qwiki. (You can read our initial coverage here.) For those unfamiliar with CloudFlare, the startup offers a free service designed to not only boost the speed of your company's website but also protect it from those nefarious web-born threats that hamper load times and just generally make IT guys grumble. Not a sexy product, but one that's necessary and integral to the success of web businesses. To give a quick snapshot of how appealing this service is to eBusinesses: 365 days after launch, CloudFlare is now powering over 100,000 websites, with more than 5 percent of those seeing over 1.5 million monthly page views. From zero traffic to today powering a host of websites that see a collective 15 billion page views per month and more than 350 million unique visitors, CloudFlare apparently has a fairly significant silver lining.
 
Tiny Speck's Glitch Goes Live For Everyone At 10AM PST Today Top
Uralia - Ilmenskie copyGlitch, the storied massively multi-player online game we've been chronicling for 23 months now, opens to the public today at 10 am PST. In case you were wondering, Glitch has been garnering so much attention and press time because the company behind it, Tiny Speck,  is the brainchild of some core members of the original Flickr team including co-founder Stewart Butterfield, Cal Henderson, Eric Costello and Serguei Mourachov.
 
Social Q&A Site Sharecare And Healthline Announce Partnership On Health Search Services Top
sharecareExclusive - Social Q&A site Sharecare.com, created by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and TV's Dr. Mehmet Oz, is partnering with Healthline Networks, a provider of intelligent health information services. Healthline currently powers the health platforms at Yahoo Health, AARP, Aetna, United Health Group and others. Going forward, it will power Sharecare's search services too.
 
MOG Is Now Streaming On Samsung Smart TVs And Blu-ray Players Top
mog-logo-big-275x97MOG is following the tried and true method of expanding its appeal by expanding onto new hardware and just announced that the music streaming service is now streaming on select Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players. This gives owners of 2010 and 2011 Sammy TVs and Blu-ray players access to MOG's impressive 12 million song library streamed at 320kbps. This latest move follows other streaming service's quick adoption of multiple hardware platforms. MOG is now accessible on iOS devices, Android phones, LG TVs and streamers such as Boxee, Roku, and Sonos. And they're not done.
 
Toshiba Shows TransferJet-Compatible LSI For Stable Wireless Data Exchange Top
TC35420Close proximity technology TransferJet is evolving. Toshiba has developed an LSI (pictured) that supports TransferJet and is designed specifically for mobile devices. The LSI is sized at just 4.0×4.0× 0.5mm and the smallest of its kind, according to Toshiba. The company says the LSI achieves a receiving sensitivity of -78dBm, outperforming the value of the TransferJet standard itself (-71dBm) and making data transfer between two TransferJet-equipped devices more stable (it actually boasts the industry's highest sensitivity).
 
Cloud Software Company Joyent Raises $5 Million Top
joyentJoyent, a San Francisco-based cloud computing software and service provider, has secured $5 million in debt funding according to an SEC filing. The company, which was founded back in 2004, offers an integrated technology suite and related services geared towards service providers, medium-sized and large enterprises, and developers.
 
Foxconn Is Burning: Fire In Yantai Shuts Down Plant Top
6187903203_a63714a07eIt's happened again: a Foxconn plant explosion has caused a large fire in Yantai. According to MICGadget the fire stemmed from "improper operation of workmanship on color spraying" which suggests a aerosol paint may be involved. The last fire happened in May in Chengdu. This fire was at a plant that made PCs, laptops, and printers. It employs and, in some cases, houses 80,000 workers, many of whom were evacuated. The blaze lasted 30 minutes and there are no reports of casualties.
 
Oh, Hey Google: Chomp Launches Its Own AdWords For App Search; Brings Realtime Search To iPhone Top
chomp-logo-600x200Two weeks ago, we covered Chomp's news that it will be powering app search on Verizon's app store for all Android phones. Today, the app search early player is announcing some more big news, and this time advertisers and developers are the ones who stand to benefit. Launching in private beta today is "Chomp Search Ads", a new program that will allow developers to bid on the keywords or phrases that will deliver their ads to users who search for those terms within an app search engine. The ad engine then matches app ads to the most relevant potential customer based on what apps they're currently searching, making ads less annoying and more relevant for the consumer and ideally more lucrative for developers.
 

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