Spotify Brings Free Access To Music On Facebook
Spotify will be deeply integrated into Facebook, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced at the f8 developer conference today. As part of its larger entertainment initiative, Facebook will launch a music...
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Zuckerberg Unveils Timeline, The Revamped Version of The Facebook Profile
The popular Facebook f8 conference is ongoing in San Francisco. Facebook is unveiling huge changes and features to your Facebook profile. Zuckerberg has just announced a brand new feature at...
All 10 Winners of Mobilize 2011 LaunchPad Competition
GigaOM, a business and technology media company, today announced the 10 winners of the GigaOM Mobilize 2011 Launchpad, a high-profile competition that recognizes the 10 most promising mobile startups. The...
Top 15 Mid-Week Venture Deals
San Francisco-based venture capital investor Industry Ventures closed on Industry Ventures Fund VI, a $400M secondary fund. Symantec Corp. announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Clearwell Systems....
Rock Health: The Seed Accelerator Exclusively For Health Startups
Rocket Health is a seed accelerator exclusively for health startups providing capital, mentorship, operational support and office space in San Francisco. The program’s mission is to enable and empower an...
21 Early-stage Startup Incubators World Wide You Should Know
Founder Institute - San Diego, Brussells, Berlin, DC, NY, Houston, Paris, Boston, Bay Area – founderinstitute.com (this is a paid course) Y Combinator - San Francisco, CA – Ycombinator.com AngelPad -...
21 Things Your Startup SHOULD Copy From Airbnb
Airbnb a short term rentals company is a classic Silicon Valley story of bootstrapping, rejection and eventually success. Brian Chesky and his co-founder, Joe Gebbia, decided to start a company,...
Foursquare Scores Another $50 Million In Funding
Foursquare just raised $50 Million at a post money valuation of $600 Million. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. The CEO Dennis Crowley in a blog post said “Today, we’re really...
GE Awards $63 Million To 10 Solar Startups
General Electric Co., the world’s largest maker of power-generation equipment, has awarded $63 million to 10 closely held companies developing solar and renewable energy technologies. GE is spending about $10...
Planetary Offers A Beautiful Way To Explore Music On Your iPad
Planetary, launched in early May, generated a lot of buzz among app developers and music fans. Developed by San Francisco firm Bloom Studio, it turns users’ music collection into a...
Startup Founder Spotlight: Brian Chesky,CEO And Co-Founder of Airbnb
Brian Chesky is co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. His primary responsibility is driving the company vision and assembling a passionate team to realize that vision. # Airbnb is a community...
Startup Founder Lessons: How To Do Pre-valuation of An Early-stage Startup
Robin Vessey started a software development / venture development company 14 years ago. His personal role started out as software designer / developer and now is he is a CEO....
Mixpanel Helps You Understand How Users Behave On Your Website
Mixpanel provides an analytics platform companies can use to understand how users behave. The platform tracks how users interact with websites, social games, and applications in real-time. While other analytics...
Apply Now: GrowLab Is Offering $25,000 In Seed Funding
GrowLab is a joint venture between entrepreneurs and angel investors in Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as in Silicon Valley — that has signed up some high-profile financial backers including...
Founder Spotlight: Drew Houston, Founder & CEO At Dropbox
Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, two MIT students tired of emailing files to themselves to work from more than one computer. Dropbox is a...
Dropbox Users Are Saving More Than 300 Million Files Every Day
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Dropbox users have jumped from 5 million users to more than...
Founder Spotlight: Eileen Gittins-Founder, President & CEO At Blurb
Eileen Gittins is the founder and CEO of Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, market and sell professional-quality books. # Eileen Gittins went...
8 Former Facebook Employees Who Hold Sizeable Stakes In Facebook
Dustin Moskovitz Age: 26 Residence: San Francisco, CA Education: Two years at Harvard University Facebook stake: 6% Value: $5.1 billion He left Facebook in 2008 to start Asana, a company...
Versly Wants To Put Your Dialog Next To Your Office Documents
Versly, San Francisco, has a new cloud-based collaborative content aggregator that integrates with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, the Web and mobile devices so groups can stay organized from anywhere, at any...
20 Startups Raised Over $200M From Investors In April 2011
April 2011 was another busy month for most investors. Some startups secured funding for resource expansion, increase in workforce to secure strategic partners to expand to new markets. The following...