Posted on 26 May 2011
A new startup called Project Slice wants to make all those receipts in your email inbox genuinely useful. Similar to what Mint does for your personal finances, what TripIt does for your travel plans, and what services like Manilla do for your bills , the Palo Alto, Calif.
Tags: deals, Finance, innovation, michael-birch, online, project-slice, purchase, purchases, service-through, slice, their-purchases, travel, venturebeat, yahoo
Posted on 26 May 2011
Exclusively.In , a site that offers deals on Indian-inspired fashion, just announced that it has raised $16 million in a second round of funding. The company, which is based in New York and New Delhi, launched in June of 2010.
Tags: deals, fashion, flash-sales, helio-venture, india, indian-fashion, indian-inspired, management, social-commerce, sunjay-guleria, tiger-global, united, venturebeat
Posted on 26 May 2011
Airbnb , a service that pairs travelers seeking a unique experience with locals willing to rent out their spaces for a fee, is the latest startup to grab the attention of Ashton Kutcher. The actor has invested a significant amount of money into the San Francisco based startup and will join its team as a strategic advisor, according to the company’s official blog . Kutcher’s role will involve enhancing Airbnb’s community engagement and expanding the service internationally.
Tags: kutcher, pairs-travelers, Startups, such-as-ticket, tech, techcrunch, total-funding, travel
Posted on 26 May 2011
Here’s a “kaboom” for all those social game skeptics out there. Kabam has raised $85 million in a fourth round of funding to fuel its business making hardcore games for social networks such as Facebook. The backers include Google Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Performance Equity and SK Telecom Ventures, as well as earlier backers.
Tags: business, dragons of atlantis, games, hardcore games, intel, investment, kingdoms of camelot, mobile, social-networking, ultima, user, video games, video-game, work
Posted on 26 May 2011
Here’s a “kaboom” for all those social game skeptics out there.
Tags: dragons of atlantis, funny, game, games, glory of rome, intel, kabam, microsoft, mobile, social, ultima, user, venturebeat, video games
Posted on 25 May 2011
Solar startup Morgan Solar plans to announce Thursday that it has raised $16.5 million in venture-capital funding.
Tags: california, companies, concentrating, deals, frost-group, green, morgan, morgan-solar, phillip-frost, solar, toronto, year
Posted on 25 May 2011
Solar startup Morgan Solar plans to announce Thursday that it has raised $16.5 million in venture-capital funding.
Tags: california, companies, concentrating, deals, morgan, morgan-solar, phillip-frost, solar, toronto
Posted on 25 May 2011
Turkish game publisher Peak Games has raised $5 million to make social games for emerging markets. The deal shows that investors are looking beyond established markets to emerging countries where social games are still catching on. Peak Games, which has more than 10 million monthly active users on Facebook, is targeting its games at Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa
Tags: board-games, deals, game, middle, north, sidar-sahin, turkey, venturebeat
Posted on 25 May 2011
Turkish game publisher Peak Games has raised $5 million to make social games for emerging markets. The deal shows that investors are looking beyond established markets to emerging countries where social games are still catching on. Peak Games, which has more than 10 million monthly active users on Facebook, is targeting its games at Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa
Tags: companies, game, michael-pachter, middle-east, sidar-sahin, social, turkey, Venture Capital, venturebeat
Posted on 25 May 2011
Finnish game developer Supercell has raised $12 million in funding for its hardcore real-time social gaming business. The investment shows the increasing appetite for investments in social games, especially those that hope to one-up dominant social game companies such as Zynga by providing a next-generation style of game play on platforms such as Facebook.
Tags: accel-partners, facebook, flash, friends, games, graphics, gunshine, ilkka-paanaanen, ilkka-paananen, klaas-kersting, london, paananen, supercell, venturebeat, web-browser