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TechCrunch UK Jun 24 10 Chances are, you've already heard of Pearltrees - possibly because the company caught attention when it sponsored LeWeb in Paris or more recently the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. And if you haven't, now is the right time to acquaint yourself with its service: the French start-up founded in 2008 has just scored another €1.3 million in funding to change the way you navigate the web.*
The social book-marking and navigation start-up - which allows users to organize and share their favorite websites via a system of digital "pearls" - has raised roughly €3.5 million to date. The inital €1 million raised was in June 2008 followed by €1. Full story...
Reporting and analytics firm Umbel wants to provide new metrics for measuring content online, to help publishers better monetize their content.
The European "Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications" that regulates the ways websites can track users, is coming to sites which serve European users, which covers plenty out there.
Spring has sprung and like Persephone loosed from Hades' bonds, our iPad app is now available to all and sundry.
If SpaceX founder Elon Musk felt like winning the Super Bowl when the Dragon (perched atop a Falcon 9 rocket) finally launched on Tuesday, he must be absolutely over the moon now.
It has been a week since the Facebook IPO, with a whole lot of drama in the aftermath about the glitch with Nasdaq (and the legal implications), and questions about how much traders have lost as a result, while the share price has fallen: from a start of $38 it is now $32.
Today Benchmark Capital announced with Mayor Ed Lee our long-term commitment to the City of San Francisco, opening a new office on the top floor of the Warfield Theater, in the heart of the Tenderloin district.
Kony Solutions, the unfortunately named makers of a write once, run everywhere mobile app development platform today announced that it has closed a $15 million series C round of financing.
Last month, Marketo announced that it was acquiring social marketing startup Crowd Factory to add a social component to its marketing automation tools.
For the past two days, web companies and mobile apps have peppered our Startup Alley here at Disrupt NYC, but today we're doing something a little different.
While we don't make a habit out of covering every iteration of the Google Doodle, today's version is especially awesome.