Twilio, a cloud communication platform powering a wide array of apps, is capping off a huge year of growth with $17 million in Series funding from existing investors Union Square Ventures and Bessemer Ventures. The new money will be used to continue Twilio’s worldwide expansion. Read More »
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Shazam, a popular mobile application that allows you to ask your phone what song is playing by holding it up to the source of the song, has raised an undisclosed amount of capital from the iFund, a $100 million fund started by Kleiner Perkins… Read More »
Two San Francisco-based startups — Samasource and CrowdFlower — today released a free iPhone application in the iTunes App Store called Give Work that lets you spend a few seconds of your time helping Kenyan refugees earn money, and in turn, improve their quality… Read More »
TripIt, which aggregates people’s travel arrangements from various web sites into one web itinerary, is rolling out a referral program today that lets developers who build apps on top of its API receive a 10-20 percent cut of the sales from its TripIt… Read More »
AppBank, a Seattle-based startup, today is launching a free application in beta that lets people without coding skills build their own Facebook apps, such as a quiz or game, in four steps — and earn a cut of the revenue from ads placed within them.… Read More »
As web-based companies struggle to monetize their content, mobile application developers face the same battle. Since so many popular web apps are free to use, people expect the same free access when it comes to mobile apps, said a panel of iPhone application developers… Read More »
You know you are in a bubble when Ferrari opens a new dealership in Redwood City. There is nothing like a $200,000 Ferrari to go with your freshly minted dollars, the dollars you just generated by flipping your latest start-up to say a Yahoo, Google or… Read More »
