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Zoodles, which creates a browser designed for kids, has taken its child-friendly technology mobile today with a free app for Android smartphones. The Zoodles app aggregates hundreds of educational games, videos and puzzles into the app. The app also automatically locks the child into the app, so curious children cannot accidentally make calls, erase emails or access other applications on the phon
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As Facebook Places becomes a destination for brands and local businesses to connect with Facebook's 500 million-plus members, there is a need for technologies that help businesses run promotions and track interactions with their Places pages. Context Optional, a SaaS offering that allows users to build, monitor and manage brand presence on Facebook, is debuting a customizable Facebook Places Chec
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There's been a lot of speculation about what will be announced at today's Google search event. Google has been playing around with its logo, which seems to be pointing at the addition of live-updating results. We have received another clue from CEO Eric Schmidt today with a cryptic Tweet: I predict big things happening today at Google. We're already fast...fast is about to get faster. Schmidt has
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Coulomb Technologies, a company setting up electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the United States, today announced a $15 million series C funding. The round was led by Rho Ventures, Voyager Capital, Siemens Venture Capital, and Hartford Ventures, joined by Harbor Pacific Capital and LS Cable Ltd., and LS Industrial Systems Co., Ltd. With its recharged coffers, Coulomb will be embarking
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What do you get when you connect your customers to each other? If the customers like your product (and I'd say 10 billions songs sold shows definite positive bias) you get more sales. This echo chamber is what everyone - from Facebook on down - is trying to create and while I don't believe Apple will pull it off, I think Ping is the first step in the right direction for online sales.First, take a
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TCDisrupt finalist ChompOn officially launches its major product foray into the deals space with its platform for publishers going live today. Attempting to take on the saturated deals aggregation space among competitors Yipit and 8coupons, the company offers hyper-targeted white label widgets that are drop-in on any site, which means that publishers can mix and match deals, and anyone can embed
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AOL has just announced that Jim Wiatt, former chairman and chief executive of the William Morris Agency, will assume the new role of strategic advisor to AOL. Wiatt will be stepping down from his position on AOL's board of directors to take on the position. Wiatt will be spending his time helping AOL create content partnerships across the entertainment and media sectors, similar to this deal AOL
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It went by largely unnoticed, but directory services provider WhitePages launched a social buying website called DealPop last July, entering a field played by many notable up-and-comers such as Groupon, LivingSocial and Yelp.Initially, DealPop was only available in Seattle, but the site is expanding to Los Angeles today and to San Francisco in the next two weeks. The company has bigger plans for
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Seedcamp Week, the week when the startup programme brings its pan-European travels to a head and lands in London, starts next week and they've released the startups they will be running through their intense mentoring wringer.Over 600 teams applied over the last year of nine Mini Seedcamps, finally coming up with teams from 16 different countries and 19 different cities. Although Seedcamp pinged
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The e-book world is slowly evolving into a number of fairly similar, homogenized ecosystems. No one wants to be shackled to using a single device to read their e-books: the Kindle is both a device and an app on your smartphone; Apple's iBook's is an app on your iPad and your iPhone. And today Kobo is following the trend with the announcement of the Kobo Desktop Application. Like its competitors,
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It's safe to say we've reached the pinnacle of humanity with this next bit of news: you'll soon be able to update your Facebook status using OnStar. It's the first “entertainment-y” option to be offered by OnStar, perhaps designed to cash in on some of the goodwill that has gone Ford's way with its Sync system.
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We originally wrote about ZumoCast, a new cloud storage service, brought to us from the folks who brought us Zumodrive. ZumoCast's application streams music, videos and files directly from your home desktop computer to another Internet connected device. Today, the startup's free iPhone and iPad app is available in the App Store. ZumoCast is the brainchild of Y Combinator startup Zecter, which al
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