NFC mobile advertising startup Tapit raises seed funding

Tapit is a new mobile advertising startup, founded in March 2011, that facilitates the sharing and delivery offer NFC-enabled phone by simply clicking anywhere Tapit, you can find the logo.

The company is currently raises seed round of financing from Sydney angels in record time – just 22 days from the field until the round was signed to. This is the quickest investment to date for Angels, Sydney, not-for-profit membership Organization for Angels, which usually invests in Sydney-based startups.

NFC (near field communication), short-range wireless technology, is often associated with mobile payments and mobile wallets these days, as a new way to enable the purchase to the cash. But this is just one of many cases of possible uses for technology that can also support things like file sharing and media between devices, advertising, ticketless deals and much more. It can even be used to perform an action in a NTT DOCOMO TAP "follow" offer, which allows two Twitter users to each other simply by clicking the phone.

The idea is to use the Tapit NFC for use in marketing campaigns, working with agencies, brands, handset manufacturers and carriers. Marketing services include mobile commerce, coupon distribution, ticket sales, surveys and reviews, content delivery, contests and social community (e.g. tap here to "like" us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter).

The company is already involved in several campaigns this year – one for a group of radio Nova Australian radio network billboard JCDecaux and another for Australia's channel 10 TV show "LATVIA" and the third with NFC-based sales in shopping malls.

Says director Jamie Kaninghèm Tapit, speed, which was closed in this round is the approval group Tapit, and business models that we have created around our unique NFC technology. All whom we meet likes the idea of Tapit, it is addictive.

NFC, indeed, will step up from the now ubiquitous barcode scanning technology, which involves the use of Smartphone applications to scan QR codes via camera phone. Unfortunately the NFC usually requires accompanying chip, built into the phone itself. Due to this requirement, it is now back, a limited number of supported phones.

Nevertheless, analysts bullish on NFC in the future, with ABI, predicting 35 million phones to 2012, and Frost & Sullivan, assessment of about 868 million by the year 2015.

Tapit conditions in seed investment were not disclosed, but the Fund normally invests sidecar Angels Sydney between $ 100 K-$ 500 K in its portfolio companies.

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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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Former PayPal CEO of Intuit raises $ 25 m for "new generation" financial consultant

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Personal capital came out of stealth mode today on the "create a new model for financial services" and announced that he raised only 25 million dollars of venture funding. The funding includes a series a round led by institutional venture partners and series b round led by Venrock with NVS, also investing again.

The company is not quite ready to launch yet, how can you say with sparse website, but said that he would soon be debuting Advisor that provides custom investment management, banking and personal finance services built around each customer a unique and complete financial situation.

Personal capital manages private investor and former PayPal and Intuit's chief exec Bill Harris (CEO), EverBank co-founder and former Fidelity Investments personal trust company President, Rob Foregger (Chief Strategy Officer) and former E-loan CIO Jay Shah (CIO).

The company is based in Redwood City, California.

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Vizibility raises $ 1. 3 M, makes you look good when people Google you

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Vizibility, a provider of personal branding platform for individuals and companies, today announced that it raised $ 1.3 million people in more than $ 1 million for seed funding.

Enterprise Group Launchpad Boston led round and was joined by additional investors from Angels Boston Harbor, New York Angels and Angels tie, as well as a number of independent investors from North-East and Europe. Previous backers also participated in the round.

Vizibility was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Manhattan, New York.

The company offers online identity management platform for individuals and companies, which allows them to the priest and share their online identities, including personalized Google search results, professional profiles, contact information, and much more.

SearchMe's buttons, links, and QR codes can be shared and posted on websites, blogs, business cards, marketing materials and whatnot. Its services are distributed primarily in the form of an integrated function of social networking sites, including job search, online reputation management and Executive profile hubs as well as dating sites.

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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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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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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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Drchrono raises $ 650 K of Yuri Milner; Starts the patient check-in App for iPad

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Drchrono, a startup that simplifies the professional lives of doctors by using electronic medical records and much more than the iPad, has raised another $ 650 000 in seed funding from founder of DST, Yuri Milner and General catalyst. In July the company raised seed funding of $ 675.000 General catalyst, Charles River Ventures, 500 startups, creator of Gmail and FriendFeed co-founder Google senior engineer Matt Cutts, Paul Buchheit and Fund launch.

As we wrote in the past, the drchrono in the iPad app allows physicians to meet patient to dictate notes through audio, take photos, write prescriptions and send them in drugstores, enable reminders, clinical notes, access to laboratory results and, most importantly the input of electronic health records.

Now it looks drchrono to disrupt another part of the medical office experience, providing a new iPad application, called OnPatient, which replaces the patient check-in process. So as soon as you enter the medical office, you usually give the Clipboard with a number of forms to fill in the waiting room, including General information, history, privacy, and much more.

Now doctors offices can provide users with Drchrono free iPad application instead of from the Clipboard. The patient enables patients to complete family history, demographic information and insurance; Take a photo and sign a consent form HIPAA with a digital signature. With the application, you can only fill out the form, and they are recorded in this interface, so that patients will not be able to switch to other applications or access information from other patients.

And to facilitate the lives of doctors, the application integrates with drchrono in the medical record interface, so the medical staff should not enter all the data of the patient. On subsequent visits, patients should not duplicate forms — they only needed to review their information and make any necessary changes on the iPad.

This is just another way in which the drchrono facilitates the lives of doctors and their staff. As you might have heard, the Obama administration is currently incentives for physicians to start their medical records online. drchrono was approved for the training of doctors to get $ 44 million in incentives when they use the software as a platform for electronic medical records. In fact, drchrono is the first native of EMC on the iPad must be given for constructive use under stimulation.

Michael Nusimow, co-founder and CEO of drchrono, tells us that the company sweetened the deal for many doctors and now refuses to fee structure for its EMC platform (freemium model is drchrono). And he reiterated the company's goal: for each doctor in the country will use drchrono for medical records and data entry.

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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.

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Tablet education launch ShowMe raises $ 800.000 Lerer ventures, SV Angel and Betaworks

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Over the last year or so I've noticed a surge in new, scrappy education startups. One of the most promising, I saw it ShowMe, formerly easel training. New York City startup just raised $ 800.000 seed round from Lerer ventures, SV Angel capital, betaworks, BOLDstart and angel investor naval Ravikant. Company employment.

ShowMe turns your Tablet PC into an interactive whiteboard video. Teachers can record lessons during speaking and drawing on the touchscreen. Then the resulting video can be viewed on the iPad app or ShowMe website where they can be found common and voted up. IPad app has been downloaded 150 000 times since its launch a month ago, it's not bad for education.

Videos are crowdsourced from teachers and tutors in the same way that the Khan Academy offers up training video, but with the added message board, which is particularly useful for subjects such as mathematics or natural sciences. But really it works for any entity when the Whiteboard can be used as a learning tool. ShowMe takes a Board from the audience and puts it in the student community.

ShowMe in technology also powers the Princeton Review SAt Prep app.config in the video below, which I shot in April, the Director General Kim San shows off technology.

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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.

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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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Buddy MEDIA raises $ 54 M for brand-oriented management platform of social media

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Buddy MEDIA, a company that provides Facebook page and social media brand management raises $ 54 million in series d funding led by GGV capital with institutional venture partners, Bay partners and Business Insight. This brings total financing MEDIA buddy just under $ 90 million. GGV partner Jeff Richards joined Buddy MEDIA Board of Directors. One of Facebook's first ad sales execs, Kevin Colleran, also joined the company's Advisory Board.

Buddy MEDIA is best known for its management all-in-one social media to help create, manage and track your social campaign on Facebook. In connection with the Facebook platform enables brand managers agencies create, manage and keep track of Facebook pages in different languages to drive and increase user and brand. Users should not have any prior knowledge of form to create pages on Facebook and can create sleek and interactive pages pretty easily.

But Facebook is not only social media platform that brands should participate; Twitter has also has a powerful communications tool. A buddy MEDIA also offers Twitter management system, as well as CEO and founder Michael lasers tells us it's not just about Facebook and how brands participate through various channels, buddy MEDIA will provide them with the SaaS to manage this. He added that Google + scaling and ultimately adds feature brand and company, the company will look to provide integration with social platforms.

Earlier this year, buddy MEDIA acquired social analytics tool Spinback, which develops social commerce widget allows users to share products and purchase through Facebook, Twitter and email. This product is currently integrated with Buddy MEDIA SaaS

Of course when more brands look to social media to interact with consumers, buddy MEDIA results. Company's profit more than doubled since the end of 2010. In the past year, lasers told us that buddy MEDIA is on the way to make 20 million dollars in sales, profits can be at least $ 40 million.

Buddy MEDIA added about 200 new customers in 2011, including brands, retailers and media companies such as Ford Motor Company, Haines, ESPN, Hearst Corporation (more about this partnership) and Virgin Mobile, United States.

Buddy MEDIA staff had increased from 40 employees in 2009 to nearly 200, and the company opened a London Office this year. The last hired include CFO, Dennis Morgan, who headed the corporate finance and acquisition efforts for Yahoo.

Lasers said, the company continuously evaluates a couple of things: how brands more focused content on Facebook or on twitter; as they get the right content to man, and how to use the social graph for all fixed assets, it will happen. He explains that for major brands and companies to monitor social media complicated delivery audit and scaling in different countries. MEDIA Buddy simplifies this process, said lasers.

Laser and said that the company continues to grow, this capital will help scale development, global expansion, recruitment, sales, purchasing and much more. One of the problems, said he will hire the right people, but he plans to double the number of employees in the following year.

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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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BigTime raises $ 2 M for cloud-based time and billing software management

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BigTime software, which offers cloud-based productivity software tools for consulting companies, this morning announced that it raised $ 2 million in series a funding round from LTC, Geneva venture partners investment management, Hickory Grove and Howell capital.

The company supplies time, billing and practice management software as a service that integrates with Intuit QuickBooks for consulting companies in industries such as accounting, architecture, marketing services and its services.

BigTime software was originally established in 2002 and went name Edison loft.

Additional capital will be used to improve sales, marketing and product development efforts.

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KidZui launches ZUI.com, the Internet experience for children raises $ 2 million

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Exclusive- KidZui, San Diego, California-based startup that offers Web browser for kids debuted its latest product, a site called ZUI.com, which enables children to search for and study more than 5 million parent approved Web sites, YouTube videos, games, and whatnot.

In addition young company announced that it received an additional $ 2 million in financing from VC firms mission ventures, Maveron, emergence capital, and Scholastic Corporation, a major publisher and distributor of children's books and provider of educational technology and e-commerce.

KidZui resins ZUI.com as "search and investigation of the engine for children from 3 to 12 years, children learn, parents and teachers approve Web sites, videos, pictures and games, as well as to share their experiences with their parents or other family members through Facebook.

Available content all over the place, and the site should look pretty good on the browser of your mobile device as well.

"The only possible ZUI.com, through our terms and conditions of the proposed search Justin Bieber is just a few clicks from Mozart," explains Cliff BORO, CEO and founder of KidZui.

The site is free of charge for parents and their children and by advertising brand. And just to be clear, this extension KidZui browser without replacement.

KidZui is drawn to children and only allows them to move some mandated areas of the Web browser.

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NoSQL option, financing! Couchbase raises $ 14 million

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NoSQL option Couchbase company database that you created earlier this year through the merger of CouchOne (co-founder of the creator of CouchDB) and Membase (founded by key developers for memcached), scored 14 million in series c round of funding.

Funding round was led by ignition partners with participation from existing backers Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund and North Bridge venture partners.

In addition, the company said Couchbase also booked an additional $ 1 million for investments of strategic clients and partners.

Couchbase offers solutions database for building Web and mobile applications. Just last week, the company issued Couchbase Server 2.0, the distributed management system targeted at the database and the first release of an integrated product of the company after the merger.

Couchbase said that he will use new funding to accelerate delivery of NoSQL option database technology, the company's growth in the market of enterprises and enhanced at the international level.

Funding round brings the company's total capital raised to $ 30 million.

Couchbase is the name of the new NoSQL option database of companies and products created through the merger of CouchOne and Membase. Couchbase technology constitute the most complete data management ...

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