AIRBNB RAISES $112 MILLION IN SERIES B FINANCING TO FUEL INTERNATIONAL GROWTH Andreessen Horowitz Leads Investment Round SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — July 25, 2011 — Airbnb, the leading community marketplace that lets anyone discover and book unique spaces from people around the world, today announced that it has received $112 million in Series B...
Daily Archives: July 24, 2011
Kleiner Perkins Leads $37 Million Round In Realtime Traffic Data Company Inrix
Realtime car traffic data company Inrix has raised $37 million in series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers’ Green Growth Fund and August Capital. This brings Inrix’s funding to nearly $70 million. Post-funding, Inrix’s valuation is just shy of $500 million. Inrix aggregates and crowdsources real-time traffic information from more than 10...
Launch an Online Store and Collect Payments Right Now With WePay
Recognizing what a true pain setting up an eCommerce solution can be for small businesses, a number of startups have launched products that aim to simplify the process. PintPay, Chargify, Recurly and CheddarGetter are a few of the that enable sites to accept payments without having to deal with merchant accounts, complex fees and...
Apple and power users: A lopsided love affair
Apple hates power users. I’ve heard the refrain many times over the last few weeks, but it’s reached a crescendo with the release of OS X Lion. Apple’s newest OS has a host of user-facing features that are aimed at making it the easiest and most feature-rich OS that Apple has ever made. Those...
Google Plus Has A Problem. Fear Not: I Have A Solution
Google Plus is terrific. I don’t think it will ever be more than the Pepsi to Facebook’s Coke, alas, but it’s much slicker and better designed. It’s too bad that the service has sacrificed a pile of goodwill over the last week by repeatedly publicly shooting themselves in the foot. First there was the...
Does Inbox Zero help you manage your emails?
Inbox Zero is a productivity system that was developed by Merlin Mann of 43 Folders. In a nutshell, Inbox Zero is exactly what it says on the label. It’s a system which is used to keep your email inbox as empty as possible, as a means of staying productive. Implementing Inbox Zero should help you...
Cartoon: Pyramid Schemes
It isn’t hard to find people willing to make absolutely firm predictions about technology and social media, each one asserted with total certainty. Facebook will be around forever, and Google+ is doomed. Google+ is the future, not only of social networking but of human evolution. Google+, Facebook and Twitter are all doomed, and within...
Who Does Patent-Trading Firm Intellectual Ventures Work For, Anyway?
Image: Colbert Report See Also: Microsoft Is Redoing Bing To Look More Like The New Windows Design Anybody Who Thinks Microsoft Is Going Out Of Business Is Nuts — Here’s Why Here’s Why The Bing-Yahoo Deal Isn’t Working So Far Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding company founded by ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, is widely...
8 Latin American Entrepreneurs To Circle on Google+
Do you know Circle Sundays? Introduced by Googler Brian Rose, they’re meant to be the equivalent of Twitter’s Follow Fridays. The idea is the same: once a week, users can recommend and find people to follow. To get you started, we found interesting Latin American entrepreneurs for you. Martin Varsavsky The Argentine serial entrepreneur...
The revolution will not be televised
Seems like the Good Old Days are here again as Google+ invites continue to pile up in email. Email is that Y2K technology that jumped the shark in the middle of the decade, back when Twitter introduced realtime direct messages. How little has changed since then is why the blogs are still choked with...