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Amazon and Facebook Team Up; Shaping Users Into Marketers
Amazon is now tapping into your Facebook likes, lending them to your purchase recommendations. Proving more monetization opportunities around socially-shared preferences, Amazon still wants to make it as easy as possible to buy from its site. It’s a more personalized experience with hopes to entice consumer activity. Amazon’s social networking integration also ties into your ...
CloudMade Gets $12.3M to Grow Crowd-Sourced Maps
User-generated mapping tool CloudMade has raised $12.3 million in a Series B investment round, led by new investor Greyock Partners. Existing investor Sunstone Capital also participated in the round. The funding will be used to grow CloudMade’s map and geo-database, building out its developer platform and expanding its presence across mobile devices through apps and ...
Ask.com Launches Community-Driven Search. You Are Now Jeeves.
Ask.com is furthering its trek back to its Q&A roots, announcing a new product today. Launching in private beta (request an invite here), Ask.com is testing the new version of its site. Participants will be able to have more direct interaction with Ask.com, as the search engine will be drawing from its community of 87 ...
BuzzLogic Gets $8.8M for New CEO, New Real-Time Ad Unit
Some life has been brought back to BuzzLogic, with an $8.8 million investment infusion from return backers Ackerley Partners. This second round of funding was led by Adams Capital Management. BuzzLogic raised about $12 million in 2007, shortly after launching its conversation tracker. When BuzzLogic first appeared on the scene, social media was a newer ...
Yahoo Japan Stocks Rise After New Alliance with Google
Yahoo Japan has announced a deal with Google at its first-quarter earnings press conference (earnings report to be released today). Google algorithms will be powering its search engine, dissing Microsoft Bing’s search technology as it starts its global creep. The deal gives Yahoo and Google near-total dominance of the Japanese search market, and has already ...
Workstreamer Lands $3.5M in Series A Round, Going Up Against Salesforce Chatter+Jigsaw
Real-time listening and tracking platform Workstreamer has announced a $3.5 million Series A round of funding, from Austin Ventures. The round comes more than a year after Workstreamer launched with $1.5 million in seed funding from the same firm. Based in Austin, Workstreamer is the brainchild of cofounders Hank Weghorst and Suaad Sait, seasoned repeat ...
Google Apps for the Government, and Special Security Needs
The government needs secure web apps too. Thanks to Google’s new version of Apps, released today, local governments have an updated version of the web-based tools, complete with additional security. A necessity for U.S. government agencies, the security measures in place for the new version of Gmail, Talk, Groups, Calendar, Docs, Sites, Video and Postini ...
DMCA Says Jailbroken iPhones Now Legal, Apple Securities Remain Intact
The U.S. government today has announced some new rules that iPhone users may appreciate–it’s now legal to jailbreak your phone. That means iPhone apps that have been unauthorized by Apple can be legally run on the device. Another perk–a jailbroken cell phone is legal to use on multiple carriers. The request for the DMCA to ...
Android Market to Accept Carrier Billing for Apps, Strengthens Mobile Economy
Apple may be dealing with Antennagate right now, as it begins to hand out free cases for iPhone 4 users. But the Android Market continues to grow in relevance to the mobile industry. Late last week Google announced changes in the legal department, highlighting new payment options for apps. Android users will soon be able ...
Firefox 4 Delays; Microsoft Stops 1 Billion Malware Attacks
Mozilla may be hopeful for its Firefox 4 release, but it’s hit a bump in the road. The minor delay should push the second beta release back about a week, to this upcoming Thursday. No details on the specifics of the hold up, but Mozilla is still set on its third beta release for August ...
