Stockr, a new startup hammering away at a social network for stock traders, public companies, analysts and whatnot, has secured $1.5 million in seed funding. The fledgling company’s new backers are Personal Capital, The Doyle Investment Group and Adam Townsend (EVP and Head of Investor Relations at CBS). The social networking service isn’t currently...
Daily Archives: September 12, 2012
Taobao, China’s eBay, preps overseas expansion with Hong Kong, Taiwan push
Taobao, the popular consumer ecommerce site from Alibaba, has revealed that it has already attracted almost 2 million users in its expansion into Greater China, with 1.2 million members in Hong Kong and 500,000 in Taiwan, as it uses the markets as a stepping stone to make the jump overseas. The company provided the...
Scoot, The “Zipcar For Scooters,” Grabs $550K In Seed Funding
Scoot Networks, a system of smartphone-enabled, shared electric scooters calling itself the “Zipcar for Scooters,” has closed a seed round of $550,000, which will help the company move from private beta to launch. Investors in the round included Tim Young (About.me, Socialcast), Jerry Fiddler (Zygote Ventures, Wind River), Shane Johnson (Paintbrush Capital), Joanne Wilson (angel...
Ensighten Raises $15.5M Series A Round To Provide Enterprise Tag Management
Tags are the key to understanding visitor behavior for any web business, but installing, serving and managing them can be incredibly complicated and time-consuming, and it can also actually negatively affect page performance. Startup Ensighten wants to deliver tags as a service, making it scalable and incredibly fast, and today it’s announcing a $15.5...
Live blog: Apple iPhone 5 event starts at 10 a.m. PT
Unless you’ve been living under a rock — or avoiding the internet the last few weeks — you know what’s happening today: Apple’s iPhone event. Just a few hours from now we’re going to be kicking off our coverage of Apple’s press event to be held here at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts...
Co-founder Charlie Cheever to take reduced role at Quora
Charlie Cheever, one of the original co-founders of Quora, will take a reduced role in the company and “step away from his day-to-day role,” CEO and co-founder Adam D’Angelo noted in a post on the site Tuesday. Cheever, who was an early Facebook employee with D’Angelo, played an important role in defining Quora’s direction from...
Chinese reporter goes undercover at Foxconn on ‘iPhone 5′ production line
Apple’s fifth generation iPhone is less than 24 hours away from being unveiled to the world, but concerns around the working conditions of the Chinese factory workers that produce the device are being brought up once more. A undercover report from the Shanghai Evening Post, which has been translated into English by MIC Gadget, reopens...