Konekt gets $1.3M to create a Twilio for cellular connectivity
It's all about the IoT biz
The cellular industry has been plugging the internet of things for years under the “machine to machine” moniker, but it never caught…
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Good news fellow humans — we’re not obsolete (yet)
While most think of the internet of things as a network of, well things, most interactions still require a person in the workflow.
How to build your own conference call number in the cloud
Do you hate conference calls? Or at least the tedium of dialing into them? Do you have 10 minutes and a credit card? Then why not build your own single-number conference line?
Twilio turns on global SMS service
Twilio, a cloud communication platform, is finally offering its most requested feature: global SMS support. Now, developers will be able to enable their apps and services to send and receive SMS text messages from the U.S. and Canada to more than 150 countries around the world.
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Bed Battles wants to make waking up … social?
The early bird catches the worm – and then posts about it on Facebook: Bed Battles is a new web app hack that aims to gamify getting out of bed. Are you ready to challenge your friends to get up on time?
Twilio raises $17M to expand communications platform worldwide
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.
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Need a VoIP Cloud? Just Whistle & Roll Your Own
If there’s a cloud for compute, for storage and any other variation under the sun why shouldn’t there be a VoIP cloud to deliver telephony over the Internet? With the launch of Whistle, the 2600 Hertz Project will make building a VoIP cloud cheaper and easier.
AppSumo Offers Discounted Bundle for “Lean Startups”
We’ve written before about software bundles, which have become increasingly popular. Similarly, AppSumo has put together a bundle of SaaS products that will appeal to “lean startups,” timed to coincide with the SxSW Interactive event that has just started in Austin, TX.
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GroupMe, Fast Society Create Private Mobile Social Networks
New York start-ups GroupMe and Fast Society, which both rolled out in the last couple months, are tapping into our phone contact lists to provide people with a simple way to coordinate and communicate with a small pack of roving friends.
Got a Twilio-based App? Get Some Investment Dollars
Twilio, a web-based VoIP development platform, is going to get a boost, thanks to one of its investors: Dave McClure and his fund, 500 Startups. Twilio, a San Franciso-based startup, allows web-app developers to add voice-related functionality to their web apps.
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Voxeo Gobbles Up Teleku
Voxeo Corp, the Orlando, Florida-based IP telephony company behind Tropo web-and-telephony cloud-based development platform is acquiring a smaller competitor for an undisclosed amount of money. Teleku. Together, Tropo and Teleku will compete with the startups such as Twilio for the cloud based web-telephony platform business
VoicePHP: Indian Startup Marries Voice with PHP
Marrying web applications with voice has long been seen as the proverbial pot of gold: easy to dream about but hard to…
