Groupon meet Yelp

Posted on 27 July 2010

It appears that the Daily Deal space is getting a bit more crowded as crowdsourced directory service Yelp recently confirmed that they have been testing Groupon-style deals in Sacramento. http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/26/yelp-gears-up-to-take-on-groupon-starts-testing-local-deals/ Switched.com later reported that the above mentioned TechCrunch Groupon story was blown out of proportion. http://www.switched.com/2010/07/27/yelp-is-not-competing-with-groupon/ Time will tell.

Homejoy Announces A Perks Program, So Companies Can Pay To Clean Their Employees’ Homes

Posted on 18 June 2013

As startups compete for the best talent, Homejoy is announcing a way for companies to offer employees an additional perk — a clean home. Home cleanings may not be a standard perk yet, but they’re not an entirely new idea, either. Last fall, The New York Times wrote that in Silicon Valley, “ the employee perk is moving from the office to the home ,” with both Evernote and the Stanford School of Medicine experimenting with offering housecleaning to their employees

Developers Can Now Ship Hard Drives To Google To Import Large Amounts Of Data To Cloud Storage

Posted on 18 June 2013

Google just added a new service to Google Cloud Storage that will allow developers to send their hard drives to Google to import very large data sets that would otherwise be too expensive and time-consuming to import. For a flat fee of $80 per hard drive, Google will take the drive and upload the data into a Cloud Storage bucket. This, Google says, can be “faster or less expensive than transferring data over the Internet.” The service is now in limited preview for users with a U.S.-based return address.

GetGlue Hires Digital Media Veteran Evan Krauss As President To Boost Monetization Of Its Second-Screen Apps

Posted on 18 June 2013

Second-screen TV app startup GetGlue just keeps on trucking.

iZettle Takes Its Mobile Payment Service To Mexico, Its First Market Outside Of Europe, And One Step Closer To Square

Posted on 18 June 2013

iZettle , the mobile payments company that has been described as a European version of Square , is today making a move that puts it one national boundary away from the U.S. mobile payment company’s own backyard: iZettle is launching its iOS and Android service in Mexico

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Facebook

Developer finds video code in Instagram

Posted on 18 June 2013

Even if it’s not part of Facebook’s big announcement on June 20 , it appears that video is a possibility for Instagram. Developer Tom Waddington posted on his blog that he dug deep into Instagram’s code , finding hints the photo-sharing service may add video soon. Waddington wrote that he found video code when he was going through Instagram’s application programming interface, as well as images for play, pause and volume control.

Mobile

TheLadders Debuts Its First-Ever iOS App, As It Aims To Make Being ‘Mobile Last’ Also Mobile Best

Posted on 18 June 2013

The mobile wave has been cresting for several years now, so when a decade-old web company is only now debuting its first ever native mobile app, it’s a little late to the game. The folks at TheLadders, which is launching its first iOS app this morning, understand that — but they are angling to make their “mobile last” strategy work in their favor in the long run. It is indeed a beautiful app, and you can see it demonstrated by TheLadders’ co-founder and CEO Alex Douzet in the video embedded above.

News

Homejoy Announces A Perks Program, So Companies Can Pay To Clean Their Employees’ Homes

Posted on 18 June 2013

As startups compete for the best talent, Homejoy is announcing a way for companies to offer employees an additional perk — a clean home. Home cleanings may not be a standard perk yet, but they’re not an entirely new idea, either. Last fall, The New York Times wrote that in Silicon Valley, “ the employee perk is moving from the office to the home ,” with both Evernote and the Stanford School of Medicine experimenting with offering housecleaning to their employees

Social Media

Ad Giant WPP Takes Stake In Muzy, A Mobile Microblogging Startup With 20M Users

Posted on 18 June 2013

WPP, the advertising giant, is taking another step into the world of startup investments, this time specifically in mobile and social media. It is taking a stake in Muzy , a Pinterest-style social media platform that lets users incorporate links to images, games, text and more, which they then share with their friends, or with the world at large. The site has some 20 million users and is adding 1 million each month.

Uncategorized

Haiku Deck Update Brings Getty Images To Slides, Adds Image History, Public And Private Notes

Posted on 04 June 2013

Haiku Deck , the iPad-based presentation tool that aims to be both simpler and more effective than Microsoft’s cumbersome desktop PowerPoint software, today unveiled version 2.1, which adds a number of top-requested features, and which also brings Getty Images to the app. The Getty deal means that users will be able to select from a selection of Getty’s stock imagery, at a special price that covers one-off licensing for use exclusively within the Haiku Deck app

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