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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Russian giant Yandex search gets social news startup Tweeted times»

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Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, has acquired a startup enterprise "Times" Tweeted that lets people create custom online "newspaper" of their Twitter accounts. Financial terms of the purchase were not disclosed, but ESPN Sports said it aims to continue to offer social news service and that the whole team "Times" Tweeted to join search engine company.

Tweeted once co-founded Maxim Grinev and Maria Grineva, computer scientists at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and others.

Its users include celebrities like Snoop Dogg Alyssa Milano and Lance Weiler.

Yandex, which became public in May and is currently estimated at just shy of 10 billion dollars, plans to use the technology acquired from The Times, Tweeted to increase its search and content services with information from social networks.

This is the third Company Yandex acquired in the past nine months – his most recent purchases include single sign-on plugin maker Loginza and WebVisor in technology of analysis of behaviors and commands.

Tweeted once, formerly called the Twitter times competes with social news curation service Paper.li, which itself has raised more than $ 2 million in funding.

Another company operating in this space — Summify.

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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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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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CA buys Web site and monitor application startup WatchMouse

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It acquired the software giant CA technologies website monitoring run WatchMouse. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
WatchMouse product tests the accessibility of Web sites, services and applications, and monitors the performance and security sites, simulating regular visits to its network of monitoring 60 stations in more than 40 countries. WatchMouse will tell you the visitors can reach your site, if the basic interaction and click path, and whether they do so within the limits of performance.
WatchMouse SaaS in the detection and monitoring of specific subjects and the modules, from slow page response times, to monitor the behavior of a form, such as login pages and shopping carts, to the API.
CA said that WatchMouse will strengthen its management app, offering both data integration it monitoring products.

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