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Nextdoor, the company that lets people create private social networks accessible only to their local neighbors, has launched its first native mobile app for iOS, Nextdoor for the iPhone.
Become an investor is easier than it's ever been, and yet the vast majority of people today aren't making individual investments.
The biggest names in technology have normally been unflinching champions for the rights of same-sex couples.
Being behind in a market sucks, and it's understandable to want to lash out at the top dog, as Microsoft has shown it's willing to do with Google in search and email, and now with Apple in tablet computers.
Sometimes, when a truly innovative startup is acquired by a larger company, innovation slows to a crawl.
WibiData, the enterprise data management startup co-founded by Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball, has raised $15 million in a Series B funding led by Canaan Partners with participation from existing investors, including NEA and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt.
Social networking and messaging firm Imo.im has an interesting new take on social networking, and it's raised money to get more people on board! The funding was led by co-founder Georges Harik, who also just happened to be one of Google's first 10 employees.
Although the majority of Shazam‘s over 93 million U.S. users still use the app on their smartphones to identify, tag and share the songs they’re “hearing,” a growing chunk of that user base – around 10 million in the U.
After the aesthetic elegance of Dots, prepare for another injection of minimalist puzzle game beauty.
Jawfish Games, a Seattle-based startup run by a former professional poker player and the engineering team that built the Fult Tilt Poker site, launched a gaming platform that can host more than 100,000 simultaneous players in real-time tournaments across iOS, Android and the web.