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Gist Takes the Social Graph Beyond the “Of Course” Moment
Gist has mastered email, social networks and mobile phones. Now it’s taking its social navigation tool to the browser. In effect, you’ll be able to take your social graph with you across the web. Gist’s new tool for Firefox comes in the form of a sidebar, pulling up your contacts and all their relatable info, ...
Yummly Gets $1.85M from Intel and Others, Seasons Foodie Semantic Search
Yummly has raised $1.85 million in its Series A round of funding, gaining investment from Harrison Metal Capital, Intel Capital, First Round Capital and existing angel investors. The semantic recipe search and recommendation platform will be using the funds to grow its engineering team and develop new features. Founded last year, Yummly launched its public ...
Aro Adds Context to Android Contacts and Beyond, Making Smartphones Smarter
Aro is a new organization tool for Android phones, combining a bit of semantic search, contextually-aware email and actionable contact management for an intelligent use of your smartphone. Launching at the Web 2.0 Summit today, Aro is entering its public beta with plenty of fanfare. A long-running project by Kiha Software, the Seattle-based startup has ...
New Facebook Mail Restructures Around Your Social Graph (Gmail Priority Inbox Rival?)
Who uses Facebook Messages? Party promoters. That’s right. I’m hoping Facebook changes this spam problem with the updates it’s rolling out today, which center around filtering messages based on your relationships. Classic Facebook. We’ll see how well it works. At Facebook’s live event today, nostalgia gets digital, with the launch of the new Facebook mail. ...
Android’s Broken Influence on Entertainment, Game Apps
Android’s been an interesting study in platform design, roll-out and execution, but it’s been frustrating at times, with staggered releases, fragmented support and an unending stream of update issues. And just as we were settling into Android FroYo 2.2, Google brings word of Gingerbread 2.3. As happy as I am to see Google’s dedication to ...
Google Instant Previews Keep Updates as Speedy as Results
Google’s come with another Instant search update, just days after a major mobile launch, and nearly a month after early testing. Now you get previews as you go through your search results, packing in even more information from a single page. Hover over a search result link, and you’ll see a graphic overview of that ...
Infochimps Gets $1.2M, Taking Dataset Markets to Health Care and Beyond
Infochimps is growing its marketplace, with a $1.2 million round of funding from DFJ Mercury. This is the first round of funding for the dataset market, and its total amount raised, including angel funding, amounts to $1.6 million. The money will go towards increasing its data supply, as well as making some key hires. The ...
State of the Apps Industry: Windows Phone 7 Builds Steam
Mobile ad network Millennial Media has teamed with Digiday on a spcial report, looking at the state of the mobile app market, and expectations for next year. The data offers some interesting insight as to the direction in which the mobile market is headed, especially as we see hints of mobile browser app adoption effecting ...
Urban Airship Billows with $5.4 in Capital, Optimizing Mobile App Alerts
Urban Airship, mobile app optimization engine, has closed a Series B funding round, totaling $5.4 million, led by Foundry Group. That brings the total amount invested in Urban Airship to $6.5 million. This latest round of funding will be put towards the company’s ongoing growth. As part of the deal, Foundry Group Managing Director Jason ...
Is Rackspace Dell’s Cloud Acquisition?
Dell’s got big plans for the cloud—as well it should. Between tablets and growing storage needs around computers, Dell’s future is intrinsically tied to the cloud, on an enterprise and consumer standpoint. The company has indicated its intentions for the cloud, with news of an impending cloud-related acquisition to be announced some time today at ...