Myriad Group, one of the largest mobile technology software companies, with over 2 billion devices, has announced today that it has acquired Xumii, a company that provides mobile social networks. Financial information was not disclosed, but Myriad Group stated that the acquisition was asset based. Using a cloud computing architecture, Xumii integrates a mobile user's phone contacts, social networks and instant messaging services into a single "social phonebook". Mobile users can then simultaneously access Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Windows Live and other popular Internet services, sending messages, updating status and sharing photos and videos. Full story...
DotNetNuke Corporation, the owner and maintainer of the open source web application framework that goes by the same name, has raised $8 Million Series B funding from new investor UV Partners and prior backers August Capital and Sierra Ventures.
Sequoia-backed voice messaging company Bubble Motion is getting into the microblogging space today, that is the voice-based microblogging space.
Over the past 48 hours, and perhaps longer, it appears that TechCrunch is being blocked inside China.
As I sit here listening to Ben Cohen's radio documentary about how he nearly became a teenage dotcom millionaire, I'm reminded of how tedious us journalists all found him back in the late 90s.
In May 2009, we covered the launch of Fotomoto, a Web-based photo monetization service built by the eponymous startup based out of San Francisco.
So the Internet made me fat. That and all the beer. Anyway, now I'm going to depend on the Internet to make me skinny again and I think the Withings WiFi scale is just the thing to get me back in Abraham Lincoln mode.
We wrote about the power of brand buzz on social media sites yesterday, and one contributing aspect to buzz are individuals who are "influencers," similar in some ways to the trend that Malcolm Gladwell highlighted in The Tipping Point.
Back in November 2008, we covered the launch of Twilio, a startup that's akin to an Amazon Web Services for telephony apps.
Today sees the public launch of Company.com, a new social community service for small to medium-sized businesses.
It's been almost 2 years to the day when Apple released Aperture 2.0, and this morning the company announced that the third iteration of the photo editing and management software is available.