Evernote is the popular note-taking service that works across any platform: desktop, web, or mobile.
On Monday morning, the always evolving service is announcing that they’ve raised $10 million in Series B funding, which follows their Series A round of $6 million. This round included participation from prior investors, but was led by Morgenthaler Ventures.
This particular announcement is quite interesting for a number of reasons. Most notably is that Evernote already has a solid business model, with premium subscribers who pay to use the service. When you also consider the fact that Evernote has been out of closed beta for just 17 months, and now has nearly two million users (up from one million earlier in the year), then it appears as if the startup is in a healthy position to keep growing. Full story...
Dutch web monitoring company WatchMouse has done a thorough analysis of uptime and performance of 14 major URL shortening services, with quite disheartening results.
Wikipedia is one of the most amazing knowledge resources on the Internet, featuring millions of articles and images, but it sorely lacks a certain (very important) type of content – video.
Amazon has just added a major new platform to its Kindle arsenal: Mac. The free application lets you read ebooks on your computer, including those you’ve purchased previously from Amazon.
Facebook appears to be adding another level of analytics for Fan Page admins: weekly email reports.
Universal Music Group has debuted a new Guitar Hero-like music simulation game for the iPhone.
Update: It’s back!
Twitter has gone down for the count, and nobody knows why yet.
Are your parents on Facebook? Do you wish they weren’t? Well, it looks like you’re not alone.
Not too long ago we got word that Google is working on a TV search project with Dish Network, and now there’s every indication the search giant wants even more direct involvement with the television ecosystem.
Until recently, blogging clients for the BlackBerry have been pretty limited. But WordPress for BlackBerry was released last month, and today Tumblr released its official BlackBerry app, which lets you post photos, videos, audio, links and text directly from the BlackBerry to your microblog.
We’ve witnessed publishers drooling over the Apple iPad’s form factor before the darn thing was even announced, with Time Inc.