AngelPad , the startup accelerator program started two years ago by ex-Googler and tech investor Thomas Korte , held Demo Day for its Spring 2012 class in San Francisco this week. The event was a very buzzy one, with ten solid startups pitching to a standing-room-only room packed with investors.

Three guys from Provo, Utah set out on a mission to make QR codes, those boring pixellated, black-and-white squares come alive — in other words, to extend their functionality by turning them into realworld “like,” “follow,” and “buy” buttons. And it’s been working. In February, Scan announced a seed funding round from Shervin Pishevar, Google Ventures, CRV, Start Fund, Social + Capital, Ludlow Ventures, and more

A lot of people in Silicon Valley are pretty obsessed with organic this and that. One or two startups have looked at the whole connecting-fams-with-consumers-directly model, even. So it’s odd that it’s taken a startup from little old Croatia to realise that it’s the farmers themselves that could use a little help

This is clever. A new Kickstarter project aims to disrupt the pill case market.

KeKu is a VoIP telephony startup that has quietly build a global platform during its beta phase. Now, the company is ready to come out of beta

Twitter has just finalized a deal to  hire the team and buy the technology of RestEngine , a personalized email marketing service, which could help Twitter deliver email digests of great tweets you’ve missed.

Social enterprise software company Vitrue today announced a partnership with seven ad management companies to give its customers a way to track paid and owned media from its platform without necessarily forcing marketers to switch ad providers. Vitrue’s Media Partner Program includes Involved Media , Marin Software , Nanigans , Optimal , SocialCode , Spruce Media and Unified , all of whom work with the Facebook Ads API to manage and optimize campaigns at scale.

In a world where Instagram is worth more than the New York Times, old media is no longer dying, it’s dead. Instead, in its wake, we’ve got the Wild West: A chaotic morass of never-ending slideshows, puny WordPress blogs breaking big time news (and selling for tens of millions) and the merger of lolcats and politics on a site which focuses just as much on content sharing as content. Although we all agree that new media is just media now, there are many perspectives battling it out for the future of the medium and whatever form it will take — Aggregation vs.

Miami-based streaming music startup  Senzari , which aims to take on Pandora by targeting the markets Pandora misses (i.e., the rest of the world), has just closed an additional round of funding totaling $1 million. The round includes investors in both Miami and Silicon Valley, including, notably Dave McClure’s 500 Startups.

European newcomer Shavenu is now offering shaving blade subscriptions to scruffy Brits, Canadians, and Deutschlanders using the DollarShaveClub.com model that set the shaving world alight last month.