Quixey raises US $ 3.8 million, for functional search engine for your applications

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Quixey, on the basis of the Palo Alto startup that builds functional search engine for your applications, today announced that it closed the US $ 3.8 million series a funding round. Investment venture partners led the WI Harper group and the United States, with the participation of Webb investment network, along with subsequent investments, Eric Schmidt innovation. Series round adds to Quixey $ 400 K, grew in April from innovation endeavours to attract investment to $ 4.2 million.

We've all heard (and maybe even prototyping) quip "there is an app for that." It's really excellent quality of the Mobile revolution: there really is an app for just about everything you can think of, from call taxis for managing schedule scan for cancer or heart murmors skin. But it's also overwhelming, and find the application you want is not easy. There are a lot of noise and a lot of flawed approaches to app engine.

Quixey entered the game with the intent to build a new type of search, molded specifically for the unique features of the search for these everywhere, but sometimes elusive apps. Their decision came up with "functional search", which not only scans the major App stores, but blogging crawls, review sites, forums and social media sites to create a truly comprehensive picture of what the application can be done through reviews, Word of mouth and demos.

Quixey for search engine enables the user to enter queries like "baseball report and get a list of applications that provide only that (which they can then filter by platform). And the best part search Zarins Windows and Mac apps, iGoogle, extensions, and much more. It's not just the iOS and Android.

Although the Quixey seemingly to compete with the likes of Chomp and other, startup also has added value offers in the nutritional status of the search for other App stores, search engines and Web sites — just like Google — to facilitate the diffusion of its search engine for third-party sites throughout the Internet.

So it comes as no surprise then that Eric Schmidt innovation Ventures invests in search a great application. Attraction of external information and data from blogs, review sites and beyond, really adds an additional level of depth search applications (especially in being independent of the platform), as well as nutrition search through Web sites gives Quixey the ability to scale and be mixed with the very place it scans. Startup will use its new investment to continue achieving partnership with App stores and other app a great third party resources, and teammate Quixey, there are more than 25 potential partnerships in the pipeline. More partners, the more effective it becomes search engine.

This is an interesting new approach this "functional search, and from my experience so far, works as advertised. Chimes to let us know what you think. More about Quixey here.

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DoughMain raises $ 5 million for Gamified financial education platform for kids

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DoughMain, launch, which brings together family coordination and financial education in simple, real and gamified platform, has announced that it raised $ 5 million seed funding for a number of private Angel investors. Round of funding is used to support the production and release of DoughMain.com, as well as contribute to the development of DoughMain in mobile applications.

But what exactly is DoughMain all about? DoughMain President and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Damato said that run goal is simple: she wants to give families across the country, a simple solution that allows them to coordinate the activities of households and, in doing so, expose their children to important financial management skills.

DoughMain assaults the household, offering users an integrated family services as a chore calendar Tracker and benefits (or compensation) instrument, as well as three initial age relevant gaming sites to make American families operate like clockwork and give children a fun and useful tool to help them learn (in a sense, age-appropriate) retain, use and dispose of the money.

Launch of the so-called "family coordination platform allows parents to customize DoughMain platform so that it acts as a secure, personalized micro network for his family. Within this network, family members can view each of their own responsibility, that efforts should continue to be provided, for example, as well as the whole family. (Presumably so that they can error their younger brothers and sisters until they fulfil their responsibilities and learn how to balance their checkbooks.)

Parents can control the amount of information you can gain access to their children, whether it is possible to create calendar entries or to show that a particular chore was completed. Because the platform are updated in real time, parents can reward them obedient children to achieve them, with "DoughPoints", run the virtual currency, or by enhancing their benefits through a rigid, the American currency. specify that the chore is complete. Because the information is updated in real time, parents may

At the top of their family coordination platform for startup offers options for financial education, which is neatly integrated with worries and financial experience that their children to navigate within the interaction with the platform. Platform offers developed teacher content through secure gaming platforms like TheFunVault.com, a Flash game that teaches basic money management lessons for children aged 5-9, or SandDollarCity.com, a multiplayer virtual world where children aged 8-12 to manage the family candy stops, or, finally, the IRuleMoney.com, a site that as the financial content and contests for teens.

It is planned that the mobile version of DoughMain will be released in September that would allow families to stay in touch and coordinate on-the-go. For more check DoughMain homes here.

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Tinypay .me raises $ 1 million, moving its headquarters to San Francisco

Tinypay.me trading platform, which emerged from 2010's Le Web Conference as a sort of Twitter for e-commerce, just raised $ 1 million from Aksoy Internet businesses. Money will be used, inter alia, to relocate the headquarters of the company from the Netherlands in the heart of Silicon Valley: San Francisco.

Tinypay .me bills itself as the easiest way to sell things online, because all you have to do to start selling to fill in one form. The whole process takes just 60 seconds, the company said.

To use Tinypay.me, fill out a form, notify your friends on Facebook and Twitter and receive payments via PayPal. The service supports both physical and digital goods and creates a page that can be embedded in websites. Account is not required to use the service, as everything is done by e-mail.

Says founder and Executive Director Melvin Tercan team moves in Silicon Valley, because "our mission is to conquer the world, and there's no better place to start than here." Chairman Taner Aksoy Aksoy Internet enterprises, Turkish-based investment firm, also said that he thinks "will hit Tinypay.me worldwide."

Adds Tercan, Tinypay.me chose Aksoy Internet businesses "because" have more than 10 years of experience with building Sahibinden.com, largest classified site in Turkey.

"They can help us with great experiences and tips for the company's growth," he said.

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Sequoia and Nexus to invest $ 12 million in laptop backup startup Druva

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Druva, creator of data protection solutions for SMEs, announced this morning that he raised $ 12 million in series b funding. Nexus venture partners led the round with participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital. Jishnu Bhattacharjee Nexus venture partners will be joining Druva Board of Directors of these investments, joining Sequoia Capital's Managing Director, Shailendra Singh, Ramani Kothandaraman, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Druva and Yoram Novick, CEO and founder of Topio.

Series b round adds up to $ 5 million Druva raised in April 2010, bringing total investment to the North of the $ 17 million. Start a new capital infusion will be used to expand sales across North America, Europe and Asia.

Founded in 2007, the company based on the Mountain view company now has more than 800 clients, protecting more than 300000 portable computers and devices worldwide and is beginning to thrive in the marketplace, in which she faced competition from the likes of EMC Avamar, Symantec and autonomy.

Druva inSync software (its flagship product) allows companies to use laptops, smartphones and tablets, automated backups, protection of corporate data in both the Office and remote users. The software also allows enterprises to retrieve data and do one click Restore any file or volume backup from your browser or iOS and Android devices, in accordance with the command Druva.

Start value that it provides backups over LAN, WAN and VPN network and makes backups more efficient way to de-duplicating data — in other words, storing only one copy of files and data uploaded by network users. This deduplikacii allows Druva in backups for ranking at speeds 10 times its competitors and allows companies to save 90% on bandwidth and storage, while maintaining a high level of accuracy for Outlook and Office. Druva software also gives businesses the opportunity to store their data locally in the cloud or through data centers connected to the web.

According to Sheila Childs, Vice President of research at Gartner, business organizations are beginning to become aware of inadequate protection of important data on corporate laptops and mobile devices. Mobile workers are an integral part of the success of many enterprises and will hold the data that would be almost impossible to recover, if their corporate device were stolen or damaged, she said, a solution like this offer Druva are essential for SMES looking to protect sensitive data.

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Online video platform company Brightcove files for IPO of $ 50 million

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Online video platform company Brightcove announced this morning that it has filed a registration statement S-1 form with the SEC in connection with the proposed IPO of its ordinary shares. The company expects to raise up to $ 50 million through the sacrifice.

Brightcove offers cloud-based solutions for publishing and distributing video and other digital media.

Brightcove in income grew from USD 24.5 million for the financial year ended December 31, 2008 to 43.7 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, shows the filing.

Revenue came to 28.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2011 year.

The company was not profitable, they reported a net loss in the first half of this year to 9.7 million dollars and Brightcove said that he did not expect to be in the black until the end of 2012.

Company filing said that she had about 3300 customers in more than 50 countries, June 30, 2011, including The New York Times Company Oracle, AOL, Philips Electronics, Macy 's, Bank of America, United States Army and Honda. Currently accounted for approximately 300 employees.

The company has also shown that he signed a new lease for more than 80000 square feet of office space in Boston, Massachusetts. The company says that it expects the move to new Office April 1, 2012 year.

In May 2011, Brightcove announced the release of "the Cloud App, software applications and management platform designed to help users to publish and distribute video across software applications across multiple devices connected to the Internet. The company said it expected its first commercial sale in the second half of 2011.

Brightcove has a list on the NASDAQ Global market under the ticker "BCOV".

Whether this is the right time to file for an IPO, for discussion, of course. Global economic turmoil a bunch of recent IPO candidates simply decided to delay their proposals.

Brightcove offering is made through Morgan Stanley, Stifel Nicolaus, RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest securities and Raymond James.

List of company investors include Accel Partners, General Catalyst partners, Allen & Company, Mack and Hearst enterprises, among others.

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MakerBot is 10 million dollars in funding from Foundry group, Angels

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MakerBot industries, maker of home 3D printers, today announced the $ 10 million in financing a number of investors, mostly from the Foundry group. Also during the tour included Bezos expeditions, true ventures and RRE, along with a dozen or so Angel investors.

The company started in 2009, with about 75,000 $ starting capital, and then put together and sold approximately 5200 their compact construction machines. We've seen them in action at the very first disrupt NYC TechCrunch, and since they were commonplace in this blog. MakerBot Brad Feld just added them to the Council and now hiring.

Hardware facilities is difficult to load, but the founder of the Bre, thinks that we will see many hardware startups in the next few years. Although services and software, typically offer faster scaling and therefore more immediate benefits, there is a place for devices and accessories in the world, especially if they are unique. MakerBot to impress, but competition from the manufacture of postal services like Shapeways barrier for entry into their self-powered 3D printing world is still quite high. Home business is changing and competitors (don't tell imitators) will see the possibility of a brute-force attack on the MakerBot in design and offer more speed, materials, etc.

Nevertheless, the possibility to get the size of a microwave rapid prototyping machine to thousands of dollars is one of these characters once, when we, as a rule, unfair play. It's absolutely amazing that this is possible, in the first place, but the realities of business may not allow it to grow rapidly, tech industry, as a rule, find interesting.

More information on financing, as well as links to various Angels involved can be found for the MakerBot's blog.

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AliveCor transforms mobile devices in low cost heart raises $ 3 million.

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AliveCor, developer of the low-budget electrocardiograms (ECG) recorder that works in conjunction with a variety of mobile platforms (including iPhone, iPad and Android devices), delivered $ 3 million in series A financing, the company announced this morning.

Funding round was led by Barril & company along with Qualcomm, through its venture investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures, and the Oklahoma Foundation for life sciences.

AliveCor the size of a credit card wireless device can make iOS and Android smartphones and tablets in low cost heart monitors, which can be used by patients and doctors and other medical professionals in clinical conditions. Watch the video below for a demo version of the iPhone.

Notice that the device is not for sale, but-AliveCor products have not yet been cleared as a medical device in the United States. It is also unclear exactly how much it will cost but earlier coverage of Wall Street Journal mentioned a price of $ 100.

The company said that it now will use the capital to complete the clinical studies are currently in the center of Oklahoma University of medical sciences, to carry out the necessary regulatory approvals and equipment for the commercial launch of its recording an ECG.

AliveCor has developed a device that will transform any Smartphone in Recorder quality clinical electrocardiogram (ECG).

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Phone Radiation measuring App Maker raises $ 1.5 million Tawkon

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Tawkon, an Israeli startup that offers mobile apps to measure cellular radiation, provided initial funding of $ 1.5 million.

Capital injections from thetime, an investment company owned by Ilan Shiloah, Chairman, McCann Erickson of Israel and Nir Tarlovsky Tzvika and Barinboim. Other supporters include management consulting company TASC, Don Perrin (one of the first investors in Zipcar) and Yossi Sandler, an early investor in Yedda (which was acquired by AOL).

Tawkon's offers mobile apps for Android phones, BlackBerry handsets and iOS platforms, while the iPhone app only works on jailbroken devices.

You see, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has become quite clear that the application of radiation measurement that phone not Tawkon welcome to the official App Store, instead of clicking Start do it for free (again, for jailbroken iPhones) via Cydia.

In March this year, the Tawkon sent a letter to jobs in hopes of getting approval for distributing applications via the Apple App Store, only to get this answer from the man, the legend:

No interest.

Sent from my iPhone

Well, at least his disinterest not too spooked investors.

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OpenFeint and CrowdStar incubator YouWeb raises $ 2 million

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Social incubator YouWeb, behind the OpenFeint, Sibblingz and CrowdStar, iSwifter, raised a further 2 million dollars in financing a number of Angel investors including Dave Roux (co-founder and Chairman of the Silver Lake partners, Dave Whorton (founder of tugboat Ventures), Praful Shah, Brett roam, Winston Cho and YouWeb founder Peter Relan. previously, the company raised $ 700,000 in funding.

Relan explains that YouWeb differs from other programs in that it is a very early stage, almost pre-Y Combinator incubator. He said that YouWeb simply chooses individuals based on talents and entrepreneurs come up with no commands, business model or idea. The person is given $ 100,000 and develops business or app in the House. YouWeb usually incubates two entrepreneurs a year.

The company has brought former Walmart, Kosmix and Amazon Executive Michelle Yee Sangster, Senior Vice-President of business development. Specifically Sangster will work with iSwifter and Sibblingz YouWeb for new opportunities for business development.

YouWeb has seen success with a number of its companies in the year 2011. OpenFeint GREE was acquired earlier this year, more than $ 100 million and CrowdStar just raised $ 23 million in new funding sources. YouWeb and CrowdStar has also recently teamed up with a new $ 10 million to fund mobile games social development.

Sibblingz began carrier, HTML5 canvas-rendering engine available for iOS and Android and Flash games iSwifter streaming service for mobile devices is set to bring in more than 10 million dollars in revenue this year.

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Smart Money pours 1.5 million dollars in the ditch

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Smart money pouring into the ditch, running tech ad, founded by the former right media CEO Mike Walrath, and brothers John and Noah Goodhart. Ron Conway of SV Angel caused 1.5 million Australian dollars tour, along with founders Fund, vast enterprises, Lerer ventures, founder collective and first round capital. Walrath and brothers seed company Goedhart previously with 3 million dollars from their financing car WGI group.

The ditch is trying to create new ways to measure the effectiveness of online display ads. Their first product is to display the ads search engine just search display ads in such a way that people in this industry, you can easily see which campaigns are working online for different brands. Today the ditch also launches new brand analytics product that measures attention, based on mouse hovers and a chart.

Ditch wants to replace the press as a valid measurement of the effectiveness of online advertising. According to Jonah Goodhart only 8% of Internet users account for almost 85% of all display ad clicks. As I wrote in a previous post on the moat:

"Part of the problem with digital advertising," said Walrath, that we think we know what happens with the announcement and makes its success. Right now, you have all the clicks and conversions. Walrath thinks the industry measuring the wrong things: impressions and clicks at one end to another. Big brand advertisers care more about attention.

The ditch is a proxy for attention. It can generate heat map where people hover their mouse over the ad, and where they click and ... Ditch offers these Analytics heatmap brand advertisers to help them determine which display ads are the most interesting and give them the tools to fix the ones that don't work.

The next step is to test different versions of the same ads to see which ones to draw attention to the marketers can iterate faster and fine tune messaging as marketers search already. Ditch plans to create a market for ad designers to facilitate brand advertisers to create multiple versions of the ads and test them rigorously.

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Cisco buy Comptel in Axioss software assets in cash for $ 31 million.

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Cisco today announced its intention to purchase the service to perform software assets and associated employees from the UK subsidiary of Comptel partner company for 21.3 million euros, or approximately $ 31 million in cash. Axioss is the solutions developed by axiom systems, a company that Comptel acquired in 2008.

With the acquisition, Cisco hopes to expand the network and service management technology platforms, IP network and enables service providers to quickly start a new video, data, mobility and cloud services to their clients through a single management architecture.

AXIOSS software bundle will also strengthen Prime Cisco that allows service providers to better manage their networks and network services, the company said.

After the closing of the acquisition, which is expected in the third quarter of calendar year 2011, the team will be integrated in Cisco AXIOSS NMTG and Cisco Advanced Services Group.

Gareth SR., Comptel Technical Director and member of its Executive Council, Cisco will also transmit.

Comptel and Cisco will continue its cooperation in other fields of OSS/BSS solutions, such as cloud mediation and charging. Comptel said he will continue in business development and sales of its Comptel fulfillment solutions to maintain their existing customer relationships Axioss and continue to support these clients.

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6fusion raises $ 7 million for a cloud infrastructure management software

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6fusion, a provider of infrastructure management software and cloud services, this morning announced that it raised $ 7 million in series b round of financing led by Grotech ventures.

Previous Baker Intersouth partners also participated in the round.

The company provides a platform for managing end-to-end cloud to global pressure, making clouds, both public and private companies paid utilities pay for use.

6fusion been developed an algorithm called a cube dimension, the distribution of workload, which he said standardizes the quantitative assessment of supply and demand for computing resources.

The company's management platform in UC6 cloud federates private data center and cloud operators of third party, providing a single console to enable organizations to manage and optimize the meter, hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Lawson DeVries Grotech ventures joins 6fusion's Board.

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Former members of Expedia raise $ 8 million for the trip search launch Hopper

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Hopper, Montreal, Canada at the start, had raised $ 8 million in new funding from Atlas venture and previous Backer Brightspark Ventures, to try to ' reinvent travel search '.

Hopper is still in stealth mode, but if you want to learn more about what they cook, check out this Boston.com profile or this article from Boston's Xconomy.

Really Hopper plans to open new Office in Boston, where he plans to double its engineering team within the next year.

The company builds on the merits of the "journey of discovery" engine for consumers, allowing people to know the directions and products using only keywords such as "the best beaches in Europe".

The launch was conceived by Sebastian Rejnvillâ, Chief Engineer Frederick Lalonde, the Director-General and Chief of product Joost Ouwerkerk. The last two were Expedia Lalonde, who purchased the previous company Newtrade technologies back in 2002.

Hopper was originally founded in 2007 and previously raised $ 2 million in 2008, the company's total funding to $ 10 million today.

Jeff Fagnan, partner at Atlas venture, will join the Hopper, the Board of Directors.

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Kleiner Perkins and Warburg Pinkus Put $ 100 million in Chinese luxury shopping site Xiu.com

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China Kleiner Perkins (KPCB China) and private equity firms Warburg Pinkus put $ 100 million in Chinese Internet-shop Xiu.com. The company just raised $ 20 million from Kleiner earlier this year.

Xiu.com was founded in March 2008 and offers a fashion-clothes, shoes, bags, accessories, cosmetics and Home Decor – the average luxury brand China middle class. The company boasts 10 buyer offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Australia, Paris, London, Italy, Korea, Hong Kong s.a.r., and Japan.

Bloomberg reports that, as expected, Xiu quadruple sales for more than 1 billion yuan ($ 156.6 million) this year.

JI Wenhong, founder and CEO of Xiu.com, said in a statement that the company will use new funding to inventory of sources of global brands, add more talent and expand opportunities for logistics.

The company claims that this financing round round marks the largest series of (b) among the Chinese e-commerce industry in history. The representative from the Warburg Pinkus said "the rapid growth of the purchasing power and consumption in China updates make firm" very confident about Xiu.com in the future. "Warburg Pinkus has also stated that he plans to further expand its investment in Xiu.com based on the development of the market and the company.

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Thought equity motion scores $ 25 million for cloud-based platform video

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Online video technology and personnel licensing service provider thought capital has raised $ 25 million by Shamrock Capital Advisors, the company announced this morning.

The company delivers video archive management and metadata "smart content" tools as a cloud service, as well as the rights of accumulation of development experiences. Thanks to its Web platform and global sales company licenses a wide range of sports, news, entertainment, editorial and creative content.

Thought equity offers its video technology and management infrastructure solutions for media companies, news organizations, sports rights holders, and video production companies around the world. Clients include BBC, National Geographic, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment and the NYT.

The company says that "tens of thousands of video producers use video licensing platform on a daily basis.

Thought equity new investor, Shamrock Capital Advisors is an independent Los Angeles based private equity firm focused on media, entertainment and communications.

The 2010 Shamrock private equity activities were formally separated from Shamrock Holdings, family Office for Roy e. Disney, longtime manager for the Walt Disney Company, which was founded by his father Roy Oliver Disney and his Uncle Walt Disney.

Thought equity CEO Kevin Schaff told the Denver post that used a small part of the funds from the Shamrock Capital Partners to repay old investors.

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Empire Avenue raises $ 1.2 million to transform social influence in virtual stock market

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Edmonton-based Empire Avenue, the stock market for social impact, announced today that it raised $ 1.2 million in series a seed funding. Round headed VC San Francisco firm, Crosslink Capital, iNovia capital, TriplePoint capital (which are incubated Empire Avenue in Silicon Valley), as well as BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka dogah and Greg Zeschuk, among others.

According to launch press release "instead of buying a fancy zeppelin or, say, full of diamonds clad singing shark", the team plans to use the new infusion of capital to ramp up hiring and expand its platform, with an emphasis on increased sales of virtual goods and currency. This is all well and good, but we were all in the tech community really pulling for singing sharks. Or at least the monkey Butlers. (There is always a serie b).

Empire Avenue, which started in early 2010, is the so-called "social stock market", where users to assume the role of companies and their product cost is determined by the level of your online activities and networks, one creates during daily webernets surfings. Essentially run wants to encourage Web users to jump start their own personal brands and maximize the results from the interaction of social networks (and have a little fun while doing it).

Like Klout with the added advantage of buying and selling virtual shares personal brand real, living people, Cork Empire Avenue in a range of sites, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Flickr to show users the importance of their impact and reach on popular social networks.

Users can also include the value of their Web contributions to actual revenue through advertising platform used at the start to deliver relevant and targeted ads, while buying and selling virtual shares in any other user is free. Very stylish.

To the personal account user: impact of tens is equivalent to the price of shares of the individual in the Empire, which is based on the extent to which brand is traded on the site of helminthes in the course of the day, as well as to user their own blogs, websites, networks, social media, etc.

Shareholders can make an assessment of these interactions, the vote for the quality of the contributions that affect the cost of inventories, while shareholders are also rewarded with virtual currency for successful investments.

In addition to scoring some new investment loot, the Canadian startup also announced today the addition of Foursquare and Instagram as sources for further metrics used to calculate the user impact and value of stocks. Not to mention the fact that it now has users in more than 190 countries.

This is an awesome service, so take it for a test drive and let us know what you think.

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Zoove raises $ 15 million, offers phone numbers vanity "starstar" for brands

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Exclusive- Zoove raises $ 15 million in series d financing led by new investor Panorama capital, became known to TechCrunch. Existing investors also participated in the tour, including Cardinal venture capital, Highland Capital Partners and worldview technology partners. Zoove is the company behind StarStar rooms, the exclusive registry memorably telephone numbers (e.g. * or * weather * Suzuki) which allows you to connect with users on any mobile phone brand.

Zoove provides very said scurry StarStar rooms for the largest wireless operators in the United States, serving more than 250 million people.

StarStar rooms give consumers call name brand is promoted, for example * * ESPN and reach their mobile applications, Web site, coupon, video and whatnot, without having to use QR barcode or unbranded text message short codes.

Zoove also powers the national registry StarStar, in cooperation with the four major mobile operators in the United States. Through the registry, you can rent the company's brand, vanity numbers StarStar that are available for most of us mobile subscribers.

The company explained that for consumers, without additional payment to call vanity StarStar number. After an initial phone call, users typically get a text message or voice mail, inviting them to continue, and at this point they can rely on their mobile phone for viewing Web sites, applications, and so on.

Brands pay an annual fee for their Zoove StarStar number, which is based on the length and the limited number.

Zoove vanity has a national directory of mobile phone numbers, called StarStar rooms, making it easy to connect with people – anytime, anywhere, on any mobile phone brand. This Zoove ...

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Startup Raises $ 20 million, announces plans for mergers and acquisitions

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Primary supplier of fixed wireless voice and data services for enterprises, this morning announced that it has allocated $ 20 million in financing from Boston based ABRY Partners, who also got a spot on the initial Board of Directors.

The starting, which offers Internet access, data services, VoIP, security, and other solutions, said that he plans to expand its network coverage and capacity in existing markets, but also examine mergers or acquisitions-wireless providers in other regions and to optimize its capital structure.

A year ago, and start and Sparkplug announced their merger, creating one of the largest wireless company in the United States with operations in 17 markets.

Company:
PRIMARY COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS

Initial communications is the largest supplier of fixed wireless WiMAX, serving businesses in the United States. They provide a complete portfolio of high-bandwidth and managed solutions to one of the industry.

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ABRY PARTNERS

Founded in 1989, ABRY Partners is one of the most experienced and successful media, communications, business and information services focused private equity investment firms in North America. We invest ...

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Brighter Earth 8 million dollars from the base to bring affordable dental care to the masses

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He was less than three months ago that Jake Winebaum (the same guy who sold Business.com for $ 360 million) quietly started Brighter.com, an online market for discounted dental care. As Erick Schonfeld wrote at the time, Americans pay around $ 55 billion out of Pocket each year on dental bills. Dental plans as their medical brethren, tend to perceive tangible bites out of our wallets without giving much in return. With the exception of the PPO.

Thus Winebaum began Brighter.com allows patients to compare more than 25000 dentists United States price and reputation in an effort to allow those who are in need of dental care in their accounts and to reduce these expenses in cash. Brighter started in May with $ 5 million already in Bank, which he raised the Mayfield Fund, on the basis of the Menlo Park VC firms back in January.

Winebaum Brighter today and added to their investment in General, the closure of the 8 million series b funding round led by benchmark capital. Mayfield also participated in the Serie b promotion.

According to the command to brighten the new infusion of capital from the criteria and the Mayfield Fund will be used to continue a few startup growth initiatives, including ramping up consumer marketing and continues to build on the work of its network of 25 000 dentists offers discounted teeth (approximately one quarter of the total number of dentists in the United States).

A new round of talks, which bringing run total investment of more than $ 13 million (raised in a year and a half), is a testament to the fact that the brighter offers much-needed service. Allowing users to perform a simple search based on location and the procedure for finding the nearest dentists, how much they charge and what type of discounts they currently offer essentially brings comparison shopping dental care is an approach that seems so familiar, it's surprising it hasn't been done before.

Search results include ratings of a dentist, and vicinity, including reviews of Yelp and even allows users to add their own reviews of dentists they visit or as "them on Facebook if they were generous with gas laughs.

Brighter offers 20 to 30% discounts for free and up to 60% off if users purchase the annual plan of $ 79. Startup offers both individual and small business membership with the last value of $ 49 in the employee benefit for many SMBS and startups, aims to provide cheap insurance of its employees.

And the best part? As Schonfeld wrote in may, thanks to the decision, which bypasses insurance, there are no caps and no procedures. Users know how long the procedure will cost immediately, and dentists are buying because they are directly (and immediately) and not have to bargain with the insurance companies after the fact.

This is a smart solution to the chronic problem of insurance, and $ 8 million in the Bank from the criteria and Mayfield certainly doesn't hurt confidence in Winebaum's new approach to reducing dental costs. Although it looks like users of this Forum network doctor students beg to differ.

On the other hand it is probably even Homer Simpson could get excited about the launch.

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peerTransfer raises $ 7.5 million from Accel, and Sparks, Maveron for simple payment solution for students

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peerTransfer, simple payment solution for foreign students, today announced that it closed a $ 7.5 million funding round. Investment led by Spark capital, Accel Partners, Maveron and Boston starting capital.

The new infusion of capital adds to $ 1.1 million in seed funding to launch raised back in October last year, bringing total investment to just north of $ 8.6 million. Startup plans to use his last round to increase recruitment and development of its infrastructure, as it continues to cooperate with colleges and universities across the country to simplify international education payments.

Founded in 2009, peerTransfer is designed for foreign students in an attempt to provide a simple and secure payment method for quickly and safely make learning (and other education-related) payments. Startup aims to save foreign students, money transfer, eliminating the high fees and offering discount rates. The value proposition for educational institutions, on the other hand, is peerTransfer in the solution captures the ID information for students at the time of payment to the school knew that full payment is received and contains the information needed to send immediately student accounts.

Launch currently cooperates with 30 institutions including the University of Auburn, Georgia State University, University of Miami, Reed College, Wellesley College, and Western Kentucky University in order to streamline processing, with students some of the world of the mind and the ability to save thousands of dollars during their education international payments.

The best part is that peerTransfer is free for educational institutions and requires not engineering or coding knowledge to implement the decision of the institutions. As foreign students in the United States will lose more than $ 1 billion a year from bad exchange rates and bank charges, according to the peerTransfer founder and CEO of Iker Marcaide run looks complete transactions to ensure a greater volume of purchases and take advantage of more favourable exchange rates.

Crawl involves the removal of intermediate fees in order to save money and at the same time, work to reduce administrative overhead costs by ensuring accurate delivery and placement of funds in the student accounts.

This is an innovative, if not a bit dicey business model: this company does not charge students or school any money for their services and share the savings instead of students through their ability to take advantage of a more favourable exchange rates.

Music to the ears of foreign students to be sure. More details about peerTransfer visit their homes here.

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