Peter Kafka in Media on May 21 at 5:17 am PT
Yahoo says it acquired 300 million new users yesterday. But, for now, the number advertisers care about will be much smaller.
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Mike Isaac in Social on May 21 at 5:00 am PT
MessageMe, the mobile application that offers free text, photo and video messaging between smartphones, announced Tuesday that it had raised a $10 million round led by John Lilly of Greylock Partners — who will join the board of MessageMe makers LittleInc Labs — with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, True Ventures, Social+Capital and others. The company said it currently has more than five million users on its service.
John Paczkowski in News on May 21 at 4:55 am PT
According to NPD, North American Mac sales for April were unchanged year-over-year, despite the market shift from PCs to mobile devices.
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Mike Isaac in Enterprise on May 21 at 4:30 am PT
API service startup Orchestrate.io announced Tuesday it had closed a $3 million seed investment round. The round was led by True Ventures, with participation from Frontline Ventures and Resonant Venture Partners. The funds will be used for hiring, as well as for expanding infrastructure to work with multiple partners across the world in the coming year.
Liz Gannes in Social on May 21 at 3:00 am PT
Change.org CEO Ben Rattray finds investors who will agree to let him do his thing.
Pizza is an obvious candidate for 3D printing because it can be printed in distinct layers, so it only requires the print head to extrude one substance at a time.
– From a description of Anjan Contractor’s 3-D food printer by Christopher Mims on Quartz BANNED iPad Mini promo (spoof video)
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 20 at 9:46 pm PT
Keeping track of what consumers like and dislike is a beefy computing problem.
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Peter Kafka in Mobile on May 20 at 9:00 pm PT
HasOffers, a four-year-old company that helps companies track their affiliate marketing programs, has raised its first outside funding — a $9.4 million round led by Accel Partners, along with angels including RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser. The company also offers
a service that lets app developers track installs and other engagement metrics they can attribute to advertisers.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 20 at 5:41 pm PT
Sprint can now share non-public details of its business with Dish, which has made a rival bid for the No. 3 U.S. wireless provider.
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Spencer E. Ante, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on May 20 at 4:53 pm PT
Online design retailer Fab Inc. is in advanced talks to raise $250 million to $300 million in venture capital in a deal that would value the fast-growing but unprofitable company at $1 billion not including the new capital, people familiar with the matter said.
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Jason Del Rey in Commerce on May 20 at 3:51 pm PT
Google announced Monday that it will
close down its online payment processing product Google Checkout in six months, as it looks to build support for the multi-screen Google Wallet product. Merchants who use Google Checkout have one of two choices: Those in the U.S. with payment processing can apply for Google Wallet Instant Buy; those without their own payment processing can get discounts to transition over to payment services Braintree, Shopify or Freshbooks, Google said in a blog post.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 20 at 3:00 pm PT
The $349 phone is designed to be able to withstand a six-foot drop onto concrete or a 30-minute dip in a pool, all without adding too much heft to a standard Android phone.
