SearchMe May Go Offline Tomorrow (Updated: Offline Now)
An Update to our post yesterday about Sequoia-funded search startup SearchMe. The company needs a new round of financing or a quick acquisition to stay online, but so far neither are happening. CEO Randy Adams wrote to me this morning with an update on where things stand. I reprint most of it below with his [...]
The Competition: Sony PSPgo or No-Go for iPhone Developers?
Eurogamer spoke to Johnny Two Shoes (The Heist, Banana Dash), Normalware (Bebot) and Firemint (Flight Control) about how Sony’s new PSPgo platform may compete with the iPhone, and the answers were interesting:
After an 80% price cut to PSP dev tool charges, bring the price down to $1500) it’s still much more expensive than Apple’s $99.
Developers [...]
Tweetmeme takes off, reaches 50 million button impressions a day
British social media company Fav.or.it wants to own retweets, the short messages on Twitter that are copied from other users. The company says its Tweetmeme button (below) is shown more than 50 million times a day across the web and is now supported in RSS feeds and e-mail.
Data on retweets, which are a way to share links and [...]
Will Twitter really make $1.54 billion in 2013?
Twitter has a business model after all — and one that it’s betting may go from bringing in $400,000 this quarter to $1.54 billion in four years, according to documents leaked earlier today.
Projections that distant are not particularly useful, but they give a hint of Twitter’s ambitions. The company has been mum so far on how [...]
Profitable (!) chat service Paltalk buys back shares from investor
You usually don’t think of profit when you think of instant messaging services, but Paltalk has been making money for years through its subscription service — and the company has just bought back shares from investor Softbank Capital Partners, also at a profit for the firm.
While other instant messaging companies, like Meebo, have focused on [...]
iTunes on your Blackberry: DoubleTwist seems to be popular so far, now enters Japan’s cell phone market
DoubleTwist, a universal media management desktop application for Macs and PCs, not only has a clever marketing team behind it but also seems to be something a lot of people have been waiting for. The free software, which works like a multi-platform version of iTunes with a social networking component, has been downloaded hundreds of [...]
Multi-Platform Media Sync Software DoubleTwist Gains “Hundreds Of Thousands Downloads”, Is Now Available in Japan
DoubleTwist, a universal media management desktop application for Macs and PCs, not only has a clever marketing team behind it but also seems to be something a lot of people have been waiting for. The free software, which works like a multi-platform version of iTunes with a social networking component, has been downloaded hundreds of [...]
WSOP Update: Calacanis Out, Sacks Still In (And Bails On TechCrunch Event)
Update on the tech gurus at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. We were tracking four players: Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya, Mahalo CEO Jason Calcanis, Geni/Yammer CEO David Sacks and former Yahoo exec David Goldberg. At least two are now out of the game.
Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya busted out on day 2 [...]
Image Licensing Network GumGum Grabs $2.6 Million And Is Growing Fast
Image licensing network GumGum has raised $2.6 million in and extended Series A funding round led by GRP Venture Partners with First Round Capital participating. This brings GumGum’s total funding to close to $4 million.
GumGum has been seeing fast growth since its launch last year. Measured as an advertising network (but for images), GumGum [...]
