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- Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow Joins SavingStar Board of Directors
- Behold: Path Comes To Android In Public Beta
| Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow Joins SavingStar Board of Directors | Top |
| SavingStar , the national paperless grocery coupon service, announced today that Michael Lazerow , the founder and CEO of Buddy Media, has joined the company's board of directors. Launched in April 2011, SavingStar provides digital coupons to more than 24,000 stores and over 100 supermarket and drugstore chains across the U.S. SavingStar’s eCoupons are available on the web and through the company’s iPhone and Android apps, and are linked to users' registered loyalty cards. Rather than applying coupons at the register when checking out, the coupon’s savings are automatically deposited into users' SavingStar accounts, where they can choose from several different payout options: Payout from a deposit into a bank account or PayPal account, an Amazon gift card, or a donation to charity. Nearly 500,000 users have signed up for SavingStar in the two months since the service went live. In 2007, Lazerow co-founded Buddy Media, a management system that allows global advertisers and brands to manage their Facebook pages. With scalable architecture and nifty administrative tools, Buddy Media’s solution gives brands an all-in-one social media management system that enables them to launch, maintain and measure their Facebook presence in any country and in any language. As Leena wrote back in October , one of Buddy Media’s biggest selling points i that “users don't need to have any prior FBML knowledge to create pages on Facebook and can create sleek and interactive pages” with ease. Prior to Buddy Media, Lazerow founded Golf.com , which was sold to Time Warner in 2006 . Before Golf.com, Lazerow founded University Wire, a network of more than 700 student-run newspapers, which he sold to Student Advantage, helping it grow into a service that is now powered by student journalists at more than 800 colleges and universities across the U.S. Last week, The Buddy Media CEO also joined the board of directors of Savored , formerly known as Village Vines, which offers high-end dining discounts at top-rated Zagat restaurants. The startup raised $3 million back in January. Lazerow joins SavingStar's current outside board members, which include Jeff Bussbang of Flybridge Capital Partners, Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital, and David Coppins of Upromise. The company announced a $7 Million Series B funding in April, bringing total investment to $10.7 million. CrunchBase Information Buddy Media SavingStar Michael Lazerow Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Behold: Path Comes To Android In Public Beta | Top |
| Well, well, well. It looks like everybody’s favorite limited social networking and photo-sharing app has finally come to Android. That’s right, Path announced via its blog that Path for Android will be available in the Android Market beginning today. And sure it enough, it is. Check it out . But this is by no means a finished product. Path considers Version 1.0 of its Android app to be a public beta, using it to test the waters and learn what works and doesn’t work as it ports to a new mobile OS. This maiden voyage for Android has quite a few of the familiar features that Path fans have come to enjoy, but according to Path Co-founder Dave Morin , there’s much more to come. For those unfamiliar with Path, the startup was founded in 2010 by Dave Morin and Dustin Mierau as an alternative approach to the idea of broadly sharable social information, targeting sharing among a smaller group of close friends and family. With a 50 friend limit, Path chose to offer no outside sharing features, Facebook, or Twitter. The team later amended this by adding a complementary app for Twitter photo sharing called With and has added a host of features, like Stacks , and more. Since its inception, the startup has grown in fits and starts, but has been on a kick this year, turning down a $100 million acquisition offer from Google and raising an $8.5 million round from Kleiner, Index, and more. Though the app got its start on iOS and has grown its feature set on Apple’s platform, today proves that there’s no OS bias over at Path. After all, it seems par for the course today for app developers to start with Apple before moving to Android. As is such, Path’s Android v1.0 doesn’t quite offer the full suite of features available on iOS, but it does include quite a few of the components Path is known for. Users capture and share photos with the same 50-friend limit, tag moments with people, places, and things, view friends’ moments, and make use Path emoticons to let friends and family know how you feel about their pictures and moments. Users can also take advantage of chat, see when friends have viewed their moments, and even publish a few moments to Facebook. It’s a great start for an Android public beta, and there’s more to come. As Path’s blog entry indicates, the startup will “continue to iterate and release updates with more features frequently”, and uses can expect things to improve rapidly as Path continues through beta. A few quick notes: Some users have pointed out that currently the only way to authenticate or sign up for the Android app is through Facebook Connect. Morin told me that, for now, Facebook Connect with be the primary form authentication, just as it is on iOS and the web, but the team will be adding email signup to Android in the near future. Version 1.0 also does not include the ability to delete posts, but Morin said that this feature, too, will be arriving shortly. Good things come to those who wait, people. Path is currently available for users of Eclair version 2.1 and up . CrunchBase Information Path Android Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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