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Google Acquires Emu, An IM Client With Siri-Like Intelligence
Google has acquired Emu, a new mobile messaging application that just exited beta earlier this year. Emu was at heart an IM client, but it differentiated itself from the crowded market with smart features that incorporated a virtual assistant not unlike Siri to automate tasks based on your conversations – meaning you could do things like schedule appointments to your calendar, set… Read More
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InVision Design Tool Raises $21 Million Series B
InVision, the design-focused prototyping tool, has today closed a $21 million Series B round, with participation from existing investors including Tiger Global Management (who led the round), as well as FirstMark Capital. That brings InVision’s total funding to $34.1 million, according to CrunchBase. InVision is a service built for designers, that lets these creatives not only draw out… Read More
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OpenSignal Nets $4M To Build Out Its Crowdsourced Mobile Sensor Data Maps
Crowdsourced mobile signal mapper OpenSignal has closed a $4 million Series A funding round, led by chipmaker Qualcomm via its investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures. Prior investors O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Passion Capital also participated in the round. Rhapsody Acquires SoundTracking And Exfm To Boost Music Sharing And Discovery
Rhapsody, the stalwart music streaming service with 2 million paying subscribers, today acquired Schematic Labs, makers of “Instagram for songs” app SoundTracking, and Exfm, a social music discovery service that had been shut down since May. TUNE (Formerly HasOffers) Acquires MobileDevHQ To Expand Into Unpaid User Acquisition
Two Seattle-based mobile analytics companies are teaming up today. The ad attribution and analytics company TUNE (previously known as HasOffers), has made its first acquisition with the purchase of MobileDevHQ, a software-as-a-service that helps mobile marketers better understand app store visibility, search ranking, ASO (app store optimization), and competitive intelligence. The company… Read More
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Restaurant Payment App Settle Raises $1.5M To Bring Waiter-Free Service To Eastern Europe
Aptly-named Settle is putting its restaurant payment wares on the table. Timely Turns Your Calendar Into A Time Tracker
One of the most important things a small business manager can do is make sure that everyone is taking on a fair share of the workload. If some are taking on a bigger share of the work than others, it can lead to hurt feelings and inefficiency. Timely is an app that hopes to make that task easier to manage by thinking about how much time everyone is spent on work in total. Read More
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Kurbo Health Raises $5.8 Million To Fight Childhood Obesity Via An App, Live Now On iOS
Kurbo Health, a mobile subscription service focused on fighting childhood obesity through the use of simple food diaries and live coaching, is today opening its doors to all families who want to sign up and try its weight loss program, initially available as an iOS application. The company also just closed on $5.8 million in Series A funding from Signia Venture Partners, Data Collective,… Read More
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Video Re-Mix Startup Coub Raises $2.5 Million From VC Fund Headed Up By VK.com Founders
There’s money in them loops — apparently. Coub, the Russian startup that lets you create and embed looped, 10-second video clips, has raised a new round of funding. Now seeing 50 million unique viewers per month (up from 8 million a year ago), the company has added $2.5 million to its coffers, courtesy of Vaizra Investments, the fund headed up Lev Leviev and Vyacheslav… Read More
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Sunstone Capital Backs Beacon Platform Kontakt.io To The Tune Of $2 Million
“Bluetooth Low Energy and iBeacon are the building blocks of the next wave of computing,” says Max Niederhofer of the micro-location technology that lets your smartphone trigger events based on how close you are to a Beacon transmitter. “It’s a cliché, but the possibilities are endless.” Read More
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