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Twitter,one of the fastest growing web services last year has raised yet another round of funding of over $35Mn led by Benchmark and IVP($21 million and $14 million respectively).The early investors of Twitter namely Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital have also jumped in this time but the funding amount is still under cover. With the latest update on Twitter blog,it seems that the entire Twitter team(29 folks) is happy with the overwhelming growth and future prospects and we can expect Twitter to show up a lot of cards to the world in near future,turning itself a good proposition as a 'Profit making business'. And now when Twitter has attracted more than $55Mn of cumulative investment so far,a stable business model is a 'Must have' for the micro-blogging service.On the contrast,the encouraging fact for Twitter is that they have secured enough funds in their bank that they can last for years without generatingIn this article we will tell you about twitter funding founders as Twitter has raised yet another round of funding of over $35Mn led by Benchmark and IVP.
Google has made some of the good changes in their latitude privacy. Find complete details below.
After launching (incredible!)version 5.0 of Google Earth,Google has launched yet another service for its users worldwide(27 countries to be precise).It's Google Latitude.This service is meant to help its users broadcast their approximate physical locations to anybody whom they want it to be shared to.The location will be tracked on Google Maps,a popular service by Google.At the moment, Blackberry S60, and Windows Mobile are supporting this feature(provided you download the latest version of Google Maps with Latitude for your mobile).
Within a week,Android will start supporting this feature.There's no official date confirmed for arrival of 'Latitude support' for iPhone but it will happen soon through Google Mobile App for iPhone.One can also share his location by adding an iGoogle widget to his PC/Laptop.
Apart from location tracking,Latitude users can stay in touch with their friends via SMS, Google Talk, Gmail, or by updating their status message.
But there's one thing that's out of limelight but holds enough weight in it...What about Privacy concerns ??
Cha-cha is a free mobile answering service which is powered by a QA service. The complete details of it are given below.
It has just raised Series C round of $30 million,adding to the earlier rounds of $6 Million(Series A) and $10 Million(Series B) and making the total investment in this 2 years old startup to whopping $46 Million.For those who haven't heard of this service before,it basically allows people to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate(what they claim) answer as a text message using any mobile phone,from a basic flip phone to advanced Smartphones such as iPhone.
TechCrunch,a notable tech blog in Silicon valley has manytimes blogged about its updates and progress and has mostly discouraged it for having a 'dumb concept' as their backbone.ChaCha uses real time humans at the back-end to answer queries coming mostly from the users on the go(using a mobile phone)."Human powered" is something that hits TC the most and forces them to declare it an 'unscalable' and 'dumb' idea.
Logically,if ChaCha's usage keeps on increasing,then there will be a time when "human powered" system would really turn impractical and will simply
Microsoft, India has launched an Online marketing campaign called WinWithSearch where Indian users will get to win talk time. Find details below.
Today,I went to Microsoft's Live Search again (after a really long time),just to take a look at the latest marketing stint they are upto.And it seems that the marketing folks at MS,India are experimenting some cheap but innovative ways to market their doomed search engine(and it's still doomed).
Talking straight, Microsoft, India has just launched an online marketing campaign called WinWithSearch where Indian users will get to win talktime worth Rs.100 ($2) every 10 minutes of doing nothing but searching.
Every search you make will trigger two dice at the top of search results page the dice will start rolling.A few seconds after,when both the dices
Jerry yang will soon be stepping down as CEO and the search for the Yahoo new CEO is already ON.
The hottest news in internet industry at the moment is about Yahoo's CEO.Jerry yang will soon be stepping down as CEO and the search for the Yahoo's new CEO is already ON.
Yang will get restored to his earlier position of Chief Yahoo! and will keep serving as a part of board of directors.You may call it a bad news for Yang but the market seems to be taking it otherwise.There has been a significant rise in Yahoo's share price with over 10% jump,next day after the this news broke out.
There are no two ways about the fact that Yahoo! is in serious trouble and Yang's last hope got crushed by Google recently.So,there was hardly any other option left for Yang and therefore this decision came out.
And now the search of the "New CEO" is bang