I’m delighted to announce the latest speakers we’ve recruited for MobileBeat 2009, our conference on July 16 in SF: Steve Boom, chief executive of mobile social networking company Mig33, arguably the most downloaded mobile application of all time; and Sam Altman, chief executive of another mobile social networking company Loopt, which tracks your location through GPS. (By the way, we’ve pretty jazzed right now about our line up for MobileBeat. We’ve got just about everyone who is anyone coming, and we’ll be making daily updates from now on; sign up now before its too late. Full story...
Offerpal Media is launching a new way to pay for games and other social apps today. Basically, Offerpal is going to put you to work.
In an move to simplify storage of data in a web-based cloud, Nasuni is unveiling new storage technology, the Nasuni Filer.
STi Prepaid has created a huge empire with prepaid phone cards, selling over 200 million cards a year in 200,000 stores.
As competitors with rich content offerings like Yelp close in on its core market, Foursquare is rallying to fight back with a series of big media partnerships.
The past few weeks have been a blessing for Google Android users who have longed for official multitouch support on the mobile platform.
Facebook users are sharing five billion pieces of content a week, or five times as much as they were in July, according to new statistics the company released this month.
Redpoint Ventures, a Menlo Park, Calif. venture firm whose investments cover everything from cloud application deployment (Heroku) to document-sharing (Scribd) to solar (Solyndra), has raised a $400 million fourth fund for early-stage investments.
BlueKiwi, a French startup that helps companies manage customer conversations, says it’s starting a big push into the US market.
Social networking is filled with people who like to talk. While a majority of the online chatter is simply noise, some individuals, for reasons that vary, have networks of friends, family and colleagues that listen, trust and act on their recommendations.
I don’t normally blog about gadget hardware, but zoomMediaPlus‘ new zoomIt SD card adapter for iPhone and iPod Touch fills a gaping hole of utility.