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Handybook Hoovers Up $10M To Bring Its On-Demand Cleaning And Household Services To 5 New Cities
Are you unhappy with your cleaning service? Your local handyman? Thanks to the advance of the Web and adoption of mobile services, a handful of startups have popped up to take advantage of an opening they see in the fragmented and slow-to-change home services space. As many local cleaning and repair services continue to live offline, offer atrocious websites (or none at all) and show up late, … Read More
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Distimo’s New App Lets You Track Analytics, Competitive Intelligence & App Store Leaderboards Right From Your iOS Device
Mobile analytics firm Distimo launched a new application for iOS users on iPhone and iPad today, which allows anyone - even non-developers - to keep an eye on app store trends. The company, which currently offers a suite of tools for mobile app publishers that allow for tracking downloads, purchases, rankings, revenues and more, is primarily targeting its developer customers with the new release… Read More
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Locket Launches A Developer Toolkit That Lets App Publishers Push Ads To Android Lockscreens
Locket, the Android app that pays you (in tiny amounts) just for unlocking your smartphone, is today launching a toolkit for app developers that will allow them to publish their own content to users' lock screens. That means when users see ads for apps on their phone's screen, they can open up the app itself with just a swipe, similar to how a push notification works. Read More
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Emu’s Android Texting App Makes Your SMS Conversations Smarter
I know, I know: these days it seems like nearly everyone and their mother is trying to cash in on the mobile messaging app craze. And at first glance, a new Android messaging app called Emu seems like just another claimant to the throne. It's not. It's much, much better. Rather than try to build a new online messaging platform from scratch and then agonize over ways to make it stand out amid a… Read More
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WunWun Triples Orders Since Launch, Partners With Dwolla For Payment
Hot on the heels of Dwolla's big Dwolla Credit news, WunWun on-demand delivery service has some news of its own. Starting today, users of the service will be able to pay with Dwolla, either through Dwolla's cash-based payments system or the new Dwolla Credit system. See, as it stands now, WunWun charges their own corporate cards to make purchases for users, and then bills the users' credit… Read More
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Appsee
- Size $1M
- Round Seed
- Investors Giza Venture Capital
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Noom
- Size Not available
- Round Grant
- Investors National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Telly
- Size $3.4M
- Round B
- Investors Not available
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Payfone
- Size $10M
- Round Private_equity
- Investors Not available
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AppLift
- Size $7M
- Round B
- Investors Prime Ventures
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InMobi Launches New AppGalleries, A White Label App Store For Publishers To Curate Apps, And Boost Mobile Ads
Just over a year after InMobi bought MMTG Labs, the mobile ad company is today unveiling the first big product to come out of the acquisition: a new version of its AppGalleries offering, which lets publishers create their own app storefronts with ads incorporated into them. Today the service is debuting with a redesigned UI with more flexibility for publishers to curate their apps, along with some… Read More
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Google Acquires Android Performance Startup FlexyCore For A Reported $23 Million
Google has acquired the French startup FlexyCore, which is best known for its Android performance boosting solution DroidBooster. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although France's L’Expansion, which first reported the acquisition, has pegged the price at $23 million. Read More
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Senator Charles Schumer, Location Analytics Firms Unveil Code Of Conduct For Tracking Shoppers By Cellphones
As companies like Apple and PayPal ramp up their in-store mobile commerce activities, privacy groups, location analytics companies and New York's U.S. Senator Charles Schumer today unveiled a new code of conduct so that shoppers will clearly know when they are being tracked through their phones in stores, and give them instructions for how to opt out. Read More
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Instagram Finally Coming To Windows Phone, Nokia Confirms
It’s taken a lot longer than Nokia hoped it would but Windows Phone is finally getting an official Instagram client. The photo-sharing social network, which has north of 150 million monthly active users, has been on iOS some three years, and on Android since April 2012. Now it’s coming to Windows Phone within “weeks”, according to Nokia. The news was confirmed by… Read More
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Nokia Unleashes Two New Phablets, The Flagship Lumia 1520 And The Budget Lumia 1320
Well folks, this probably won't come as much of a shock, but those persistent rumors of a pair of Nokia Lumia phablets were true after all. Nokia officially pulled back the curtains on the Lumia 1520 and 1320 at its big Nokia World show in Abu Dhabi today, and it's clear that the company isn't backing down the from challenge laid down by its mobile rivals. Read More
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With $1M In Funding, Appsee Promises Mobile Developers Real Insight Into Their Users
Israeli startup Appsee says it's taking a different approach to mobile analytics. I wrote about the company more than a year ago under its old name, UserVOD, when it focused on making video recordings of mobile app user activity. Now the company is launching a broader iOS analytics platform, where user recordings are just one feature. Read More
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YPlan Launches On Android
YPlan has only been around for less than a year, but the company is rapidly covering new ground. After expanding from the UK into New York city last month, the social planning service is today launching an Android app. Read More
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Andreessen-Backed Game Developer TinyCo Lays Off 27 Employees
TinyCo, an early mobile game developer that picked up funding from Andreessen Horowitz, is laying off 27 employees as it moves toward a new strategy. The company says it will outline its new moves in the coming few weeks. “We’ve moved 10 steps forward on executing a specific strategy around how we build games and what games we build. To execute against this strategy, we decided to… Read More
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InfoScout Tells Brands Who Buys What By Getting Meatspace Shoppers To Photograph Receipts
Like Quantcast but for brick-and-mortar shopping data and not web traffic, InfoScout.co launched to give consumer product brands insight into consumer demographics. With $5 million from Bain Capital Ventures, InfoScout machine-reads receipts photographed by 100,000 users of its Receipt Hog and Shoparoo apps. It combines this data with surveys to tell CPG brands like P&G who buys their… Read More
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TechStars-Backed Lua Will Open To The Public By 2014
More than two years after launching out of TechStars NYC, little Lua has grown up. The company, which provides mobile workforce technology to enterprise customers with mostly out-of-office employees (think Convo or Yammer but as a usable mobile-first product), is today announcing plans to offer self-service public availability by the end of the year. Read More
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Facebook Adds Video And New Pricing To Its Mobile App Ads
Facebook just announced two changes to its mobile app install ads that should make them more appealing to advertisers. First, the company says it will now support video in these ad units. "Video creative has proven to be an effective way to drive engagement in News Feed," Facebook writes, and it makes sense for app ads since a video can be much more effective than screenshots and text for… Read More
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BlackBerry’s BBM Will Hit iOS And Android Today, One Month After Botched Launch
Hey, remember when BlackBerry was going to officially roll out BBM for iOS and Android a few weekends ago only to be stymied by technical issues? At the time it was yet another dark mark on BlackBerry's already sketchy record, but things are finally starting to look up. The company confirmed on its Inside BlackBerry blog that the messaging app will go live in the Android and iOS app stores for new… Read More
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Social Weddings Platform WedPics Tops Half A Million Users, 5M+ Uploads, Ahead Of Series A
One of the challenges for startups going after the weddings space is that they must constantly acquire new users - at least before the word-of-mouth momentum kicks in, as brides, grooms and guests tell their soon-to-marry friends about the various wedding-related services they used last. A Raleigh, N.C. area startup called WedPics now believes it has found its footing, having hosted 75,000… Read More
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Facebook Experiences Partial Outage On Desktop And Mobile
If you were hoping to share your feelings about life with the world this Monday morning, you're out of luck. (Unless you prefer to do so with Twitter.) Facebook appears to be partially down at the moment, with users unable to post status updates, photos, or like things. However, you can still browse (stalk) the site easily without much trouble. Read More
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Yandex’s Metrica For Apps Gives Mobile Developers Another Free Tool To Track Their Wares
Russia's Yandex, which competes with Google in areas such as search, maps, translation services and more, and is the dominant search engine in its home market (reporting a 61.7% share, back in July). Now it's setting its sights on Google Analytics -- announcing the launch today of a free analytics tool for mobile developers using the Android, iOS or Windows Phone platforms. Read More
