Solvate, famous for providing an online platform that easily connects freelancers and clients, will be ending its service on March 1, 2012. Launched in 2009, the New York-based company is a one-stop platform for businesses seeking freelancers and consultants, competing against oDesk and Elance for market share. The twitterverse went abuzz when news broke of [...]
Daily deals giant Groupon acquired two-year-old, New York based company Hyperpublic for a still undisclosed amount in a move to access the latter’s rich, publicly available social data that has to do with how consumers make commercial decisions. In a note posted on its website, Hyperpublic said, “We set out to change the way people [...]
There are a lot of apps that increases productivity while using mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. Apps like Skype, Dropbox, Yammer and Salesforce Mobile are the indispensables when it comes to using mobile devices as your primary workhorse. Wouldn’t it be perfect if one app can do all that, and then some? New [...]
Before Yext became “The Next Yellow Pages”, it was once offering pay-per-call online advertising for 15,000 advertisers with the company valued at around $200M. Last year, Yext made a surprising turn when the company shifted its focus to a product called “PowerListings”, a platform that syncs listings across vast networks so consumers can easily locate [...]
Klout, put simply, measures online influence. It allows users to track the reach of their social ripple, like opinions, links and recommendations by using data harvested from their Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media accounts. Klout has teamed up with gamification company Badgeville which was announced recently thru an email to its members. Badgeville [...]
Who would have thought that a funded start-up can come up between conversations in comment boxes? Engagio came into being just four months after Mr. William Mougayar, founder of Equentia, started posting on comment boxes on Mr. Fred Wilson’s blog regarding the “scattered comments” problem as comments feeds from the multitude of social networking sites [...]
New York City startup Matchbook, launched last summer, has recently raised $250,000 in seed funding from Quotidian Ventures as well as from Percolate, Mashape, Nestio and Rick Webb, a Foursquare investor and co-founder of the Barbarian Group. As of this writing, Matchbook is only available in the App Store but will soon be released to [...]
Self-funded company RentJolt offers New Yorkers convenience and savings by directly connecting a “renter” to the “current tenant” with the broker coming into picture only in the final stages of the deal. Samuel Sheinin, co-founder of RentJolt, explains that “current tenants are to post information about their apartments months in advance of moving, and allows [...]
Because of the relative growth of start-ups and tech companies, demand for software engineers is in an all time high. This may have been the reason why roommates Amit Pitaru and David Nolen have been teaching a wide variety of classes like Javascript, node.js, XBox Kinect, LISP, Android, Intro to Objective C in their – [...]
Nowadays, people will buy just about anything and - have it delivered to their homes. For example, BarkBox, Meetup co-founder Matt Meeker’s new start-up, just raised $100,000 from angel investors just so your dogs can enjoy their monthly treats and new toys. Subscription Startups are gaining headway now that more and more people are willing to pay for [...]