Daily Archives: July 24, 2012

NEA Has Closed On $2.6 Billion For Its 14th Fund, Perhaps The Biggest In VC History

July 24, 2012
NEA Has Closed On $2.6 Billion For Its 14th Fund, Perhaps The Biggest In VC History

New Enterprise Associates, the global venture capital firm with headquarters in Silicon Valley, confirmed today that it has raised $2.6 billion for NEA 14, its fourteenth venture capital fund. TechCrunch reported it was raising the fund back in May. NEA is known for raising large funds, but this one takes the cake: It’s easily...

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Foursquare Launches Promoted Updates, Its Newest Effort To Generate Revenue

July 24, 2012
Foursquare Launches Promoted Updates, Its Newest Effort To Generate Revenue

Ellis Hamburger, Business Insider Today Foursquare is launching its version of search ads, Promoted Updates. Promoted Updates operate like Google’s promoted listings or Twitter’s promoted tweets. They are pay-per-action ad placements that only appear when a user is searching for a venue in Foursquare’s Explore tab. Foursquare determines a user’s current location and check-in...

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Foursquare Rolls Out Its First Big Money-Making Feature: ‘Promoted Updates’

July 24, 2012
Foursquare Rolls Out Its First Big Money-Making Feature: ‘Promoted Updates’

Foursquare has revamped the experience of its app from the perspective of its users on both the consumer and merchant side. And on Wednesday, the company is pulling back the curtains on a long-awaited feature for all Foursquare watchers: Revenue generation. Foursquare is announcing today the pilot launch of “promoted updates,” which will let...

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Foursquare goes into monetization mode with promoted updates

July 24, 2012
Foursquare goes into monetization mode with promoted updates

Foursquare is finally addressing that age-old question faced by big, buzzy startups: how are you going to make some real money? The location-based social network is rolling out its long awaited promoted updates, an advertising product that allows local and national businesses to push out specials, news and pictures to Foursquare’s more than 20...

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Coming Soon (Well, Maybe): All Those Tweets You Wrote

July 24, 2012
Coming Soon (Well, Maybe): All Those Tweets You Wrote

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told The New York Times that users will soon be able to access and download all of their old tweets. Twitter currently only lets users browse back through a few thousand of their old tweets. How soon? Costolo declined to give a timeline. Other third-party platforms already offer these servies. Facebook’s...

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The Onion Totally Hearts TechCrunch

July 24, 2012
The Onion Totally Hearts TechCrunch

You guys! You guys! TechCrunch totally got mentioned in The Onion! It’s been a pretty one-sided relationship until now, with the fabled satirical newspaper remaining aloof despite several overtures on our end. It’s almost like The Onion staff thought it was totally cooler than us. Not today, though. Today, we’re the stars of this...

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LinkedIn Will Integrate With The Next Version Of Microsoft Office (LNKD, MSFT)

July 24, 2012
LinkedIn Will Integrate With The Next Version Of Microsoft Office (LNKD, MSFT)

Microsoft LinkedIn announced on its blog this evening that Microsoft will support integration with the social network in the upcoming version of Office. Users will be able to log in with their LinkedIn credentials in Outlook and see profile information like photos and status updates for anyone who emails them. LinkedIn data will also...

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LinkedIn scores one-click integration with the new Microsoft Office

July 24, 2012
LinkedIn scores one-click integration with the new Microsoft Office

Last week, we told you about Microsoft’s big Office 2013 announcement. Overall, the suite of apps look like an impressive upgrade, and the addition of social and collaboration features were all over the place. One of those social features was announced today by business networking service LinkedIn. The company shared that with the new...

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For better or worse, Apple addicted to the rumor cycle

July 24, 2012
For better or worse, Apple addicted to the rumor cycle

For years, Apple has directly and indirectly promoted and inspired the rumor industry that envelops the company. Its cryptic event invitations, avoidance of any industry spotlight not of its own creation and its overall corporate culture of tight-lipped secrecy have inspired both amateur bloggers and mainstream tech outlets to grasp at any clue for a...

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Smart home company Alarm.com raises $136M

July 24, 2012
Smart home company Alarm.com raises $136M

A twelve-year-old company that makes wireless security and energy management systems called Alarm.com has just closed a round of $136 million in equity according to a filing. The Virginia-based company confirmed the round with me, but wouldn’t disclose any more details. A couple years ago investors ABS Capital, Equis Capital and Alarm.com’s CEO Steve...

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