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Five Startups for $16 Million: Yahoo’s Mayer Is Buying Up Most Mobile App Companies on the Cheap
Warm entrepreneurial bodies: Priceless!
Will Waze Be Facebook’s Next Instagram?
It worked so well the first time that CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to be making a similar play.
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Yahoo Snaps Up Two More Small Mobile Companies — MileWise and GoPollGo — In Ongoing “Acqhires” Effort
In its ongoing quest to snap up every small mobile startup around, Yahoo said today that it had bought travel rewards app MileWise and GoPollGo, a social polling app. Both services will be shut down, and staff will be integrated into the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s burgeoning New York mobile team. In recent months, Yahoo has acquired Stamped, Summly, Astrid and more, as part of its efforts to build out its mobile offerings.News Byte
Club Penguin Waddles Into Mobile
An iPad companion app to Disney’s MMO-for-kids, Club Penguin, is slated to roll out today, the company said in a press release. Players will be able to customize and sync their penguin characters between the iPad app and the popular Web-only Flash game, and also play four mini games ported over from the Web. Disney Interactive VP Chris Heatherly (who sat down for a Q&A with AllThingsD last month) said the studio plans to update the app roughly once a month until the whole game experience is playable on mobile.“Bromance Gone Awry” and Other Instagram Tidbits on Bloomberg West (Video)
I don’t love you, man. Sigh.
The Money Shot: Kara Swisher on Instagram’s Billion-Dollar Ride in Vanity Fair
There’s no picture of the moment when everything changed for Kevin Systrom.
Facebook Timeline Makes Its Way to Windows Phone, at Least in Beta
The Windows Phone 8 app is still in beta, but adds some long-requested features, including support for high-resolution photos.
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LinkedIn Launches Contacts Product for iOS and the Web
LinkedIn on Thursday launched a new Contacts feature for its website along with a standalone mobile iOS application, a product stemming from the October 2011 acquisition of startup Connected. Contacts pulls together a LinkedIn user’s network of, well, contacts, across multiple accounts, including their personal LinkedIn network, Gmail and exchange networks (though not their Facebook and Twitter accounts). As with a calendar app, users can also set reminders and take notes on specific people inside the Contacts product.News Byte
Predictive Data Startup Infer Raises $10M From Redpoint
Infer, a Palo Alto, Calif., startup that makes data-focused business apps to help companies target their best potential customers, said it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz, Social+Capital Partnership, Sutter Hill Ventures and angel investors also participated in the round. Infer, which is profitable, mines a range of data to determine those with the highest propensity to buy. Along with the funding for its “predictive customer scoring model,” Satish Dharmaraj of Redpoint Ventures will join the company’s board.Can Travel Reviews Be Sexy? Triptease Thinks So.
Triptease makes your reviews look like they’re straight out of a travel magazine. But the lack of negative reviews might be its biggest negative.