Categorie: apps

Spool Raises $1 Million To Let You Cache Content To Mobile And Push It To Friends

apps, Fundings & Exits, mobile, social, spool, Startups, TC

Spool LogoWhen Spool debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt in September, the app and browser extension was focused on caching videos, articles, and other web content to your mobile device. It was like Instapaper on steroids. Today, Spool will announce $1 million in new funding and an expanded vision — allowing people to push that cached content directly to the devices of their friends. Investors include, SVAngel, Felicis Ventures, Yuri Milner’s Start Fund and YouTube founder Steve Chen. The funding will go towards scaling the complex back-end caching technology that makes Spool defensible.

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Virtual Currency and Pay Per View 2.0: World Series Of Beer Pong To Stream On Facebook

apps, ecommerce, facebook credits, social, Startups, TC, WTF

World Series Of Beer Pong Stream By MilyoniIn Facebook’s early days the company planned a national beer pong tournament, but then cancelled it out of fear it would promote underage drinking. Tomorrow, that dream will be revived in a new way when social video and ecommerce company Milyoni streams The World Series of Beer Pong through its Facebook app. For 50 Facebook Credits/$5 PayPal pre-sale or 70/$7 once the games begin, viewers can tune in to all the boozy action from doubles to rebuttals. The stream could demonstrate whether live sports could work as Facebook pay-per-view programming.

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Update: Facebook Officially Releases “Messenger For Windows” Desktop Client Following Leak

apps, facebook, social, TC

Facebook Messenger For Windows[Update 12/29/2011 5:20pm: Facebook tells me it has now made the Messenger for Windows download link publicly available in its Help Center. Users can also learn details about the client there. Still no sign of a Mac version, though.] The client includes notifications and the Ticker which link back to Facebook.com, and therefore could drive engagement with the website. Messenger could also pull market share away from other desktop chat clients like AOL Instant Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.

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Nearly 40% Of Facebook Users Are Mobile App Users

apps, facebook, mobile, social, TC

mau-facebook-mobile-dec2011According to new data from Benedict Evans for Enders Analysis, the number of monthly active users of Facebook’s mobile apps recently passed the 300 million mark. This is primarily due to heavy use of the iOS and Android apps, but it also takes into account apps that run on BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Phone, iPad and feature phones.

That number equates to roughly 40% of Facebook’s currently disclosed 800 million active users.

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Fund.me: Mobile Social Network Startup Just.me Raises $2.7 Million

apps, archimedes labs, Fundings & Exits, just.me, mobile, social, Startups, TC

justmeJust.me, a stealth startup incubated by Palo Alto, California-based Archimedes Labs has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding according to an SEC filing. The company earlier secured $600,000 in seed financing from SV Angel, Google Ventures, True Ventures, Betaworks, CrunchFund and a couple of other high-profile investors such as Don Dodge and Michael Parekh.

I reached out to Keith Teare, CEO and sole founder of just.me (and also technically also a co-founder of TechCrunch, for full disclosure), but he politely declined to comment on the funding round.

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Half A Million Downloads Later, Social Discovery App Banjo Hits The Web

apps, mobile, social, Startups, TC

banjo_photosBanjo, the creepy/awesome cyber-stalking app (I mean social discovery service) that shows you who’s nearby based on their Facebook and Foursquare check-ins, geotagged tweets, TwitPic and Instagram uploads, is now a web app, too. In case you haven’t yet download the iOS or Android application to your mobile device (or are some kind of Windows Phone-using rebel), you can check out the service via the recently updated Banjo website instead.

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56 Percent of Consumers Give Permission for Apps To View Personal Data

apps, facebook, Privacy, Social Media, Twitter

According to research conducted by Sociable Labs, 1.2 million consumers were monitored between March and November 2011 whilst being presented with 42 different Facebook applications.  From those monitored a staggering 56% of users gave permission to the applications to access personal data such as email, newsfeed, profile and personal information. The study also revealed that […]

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UpTo Lands Seed Funding To Go “Beyond Status Updates And Check-ins”

apps, Detroit Venture Partners, Fundings & Exits, Ludlow Ventures, mobile, Rock City Apps, social, Startups, TC, UpTo

uptoA new, relatively stealth startup called Rock City Apps is gearing up for the launch of a mobile application called UpTo, and has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from Detroit Venture Partners and Ludlow Ventures to finance the development of the product.

The company, which is based in Detroit, Michigan, plans to launch its first iPhone app ‘soon’ and lets you indicate your interest by inviting you to sign up to receive an invitation to the private beta.

You can do that here.

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Facebook Opens Mobile News Feed As Viral Channel For Games

apps, facebook, Games, Gaming, html5, mobile, social, TC

Mobile News Feed GamesOnce upon a time, Facebook game companies like Zynga fattened up their user counts thanks to viral distribution to non-gamers through the news feed. Facebook later curtailed this channel, forcing developers to concentrate on paid marketing and true word of mouth to grow. A new boom period could be coming, this time for mobile developers, as Facebook announced today that it is testing game stories in the mobile news feed. This could attract devs to its recently launched HTML5 mobile gaming platform with bait of reaching hundreds of millions of daily active Facebook mobile users.

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