Twitter starts, moving to a secure HTTPS by default

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In March, after at least one high profile security incident Twitter created the option Enable HTTPS at all times. But a more secure way to view the twitter.com could include only manually by selecting it in your profile (or typing "https://" every time you went to Twitter). Today, the service begins to enable HTTPS by default.

Firstly this will include only a small group of users, says Twitter. Over time they will expand it more. This is a welcome change, which added other services like Gmail, over the years. Google even experimented with it on google.com, and Facebook is able to use it, and after many years of avoiding it.

Many services, avoid it because it means a small performance hit. Others don't like it, because he scrubs the data transfer. And this may mean that some of these third parties may be funky. However, in the era of Firesheep HTTPS becomes necessary.

If you're not in the default test group and want to learn more about HTTPS, you can do so here. Twitter recommends that all lit it at the time as they slowly roll it all.

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Group buying site BuyWithMe Snags Patch.com paper from AOL

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Our parent company AOL has a rough time making money from spots, its rapidly expanding network of local news sites, and this is not the only problem. Today, buying website BuyWithMe Group announced that it has hired Charlie Gray, former Executive Vice President at the patch, as his new ' people Manager '.

BuyWithMe, Groupon and LivingSocial VIES loves in the United States, said that grey would help manage the company's growth plans and to hire, train and retain talented workers throughout the country.

BuyWithMe certainly aggressive when it comes to buying its way into new markets. This year he has already completed five acquisitions, scoop site deals New York, scoop St., Chicago deals siteDealADayOnline, San Francisco deals site swoop, loyalty company Edhance and LocalTwist.

BuyWithMe started in 2009, and currently operates in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, d.c.

In the grey patch scale growth from 100 staff in 30 locations up to 1400 employees in more than 800 seats, only one year, so the Car shows the ambition of BuyWithMe for further expansion.

Earlier, Gray worked as head of HR and staffing of the Division of North American advertising sales at Google, where he oversaw all the functions associated with the people, for the United States and Canada Google sales and operations team. He also worked for Ziff-Davis and RecycleBank in the past.

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Phone Radiation measuring App Maker raises $ 1.5 million Tawkon

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Tawkon, an Israeli startup that offers mobile apps to measure cellular radiation, provided initial funding of $ 1.5 million.

Capital injections from thetime, an investment company owned by Ilan Shiloah, Chairman, McCann Erickson of Israel and Nir Tarlovsky Tzvika and Barinboim. Other supporters include management consulting company TASC, Don Perrin (one of the first investors in Zipcar) and Yossi Sandler, an early investor in Yedda (which was acquired by AOL).

Tawkon's offers mobile apps for Android phones, BlackBerry handsets and iOS platforms, while the iPhone app only works on jailbroken devices.

You see, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has become quite clear that the application of radiation measurement that phone not Tawkon welcome to the official App Store, instead of clicking Start do it for free (again, for jailbroken iPhones) via Cydia.

In March this year, the Tawkon sent a letter to jobs in hopes of getting approval for distributing applications via the Apple App Store, only to get this answer from the man, the legend:

No interest.

Sent from my iPhone

Well, at least his disinterest not too spooked investors.

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Engine Yard takes Orchestra to add PHP support to its PAAS

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Engine Yard, provider solutions platform as a service (PAAS) this morning announced that it acquired developer platform for Orchestra, deployment, scaling and managing PHP applications.

Engine Yard, which is based on the investors as benchmark capital, new Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.com, decided not to disclose the financial terms of the acquisition.

San Francisco company is best known for his PAAS for Ruby on Rails applications, but the acquisition will allow the company to add support for PHP applications.

Engine Yard statement said will continue to develop PHP platform and the Orchestra continue to invest in both Ruby on Rails and PHP open source communities and projects. There are no plans to discontinue support or development of any Orchestra's offerings.

The Orchestra is echolibre, an Irish company avid contribution to community PHP and the creators of the open API framework FRAPI, source (among other projects).

The whole team will be joining engine yard Orchestra due to the acquisition.

To date, engine yard was raised $37,5 million in financing. The company competes with other venture-backed startup Heroku, which was acquired by Salesforce for 212 million dollars in cash at the end of last year), among others.

Announcement-August 23, 2011 Orchestra from the Orchestra on Vimeo.

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Desktop Virtualization Company raises $ 10 m from Wanova Lake Greylock and other

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Wanova, a provider of turnkey cloud desktop management raises $ 10 million in series b financing from Carmel Ventures, Greylock Partners and Opus capital. This brings the company's total funding to $ 23 million.

Wanova distributed provides solutions for desktop virtualization to centralize the management of the desktop infrastructure while optimizing the user experience and provides full support for offline use. Wanova Mirage flagship product combines centralized image management PC ability to run images on YOUR PC that allows a company to reduce desktop total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve operations.

With Mirage, PC images, including personalization options, run on the PC, allowing users to take advantage of the native PC performance, including the ability to run multimedia applications and work when you are disconnected from the network.

Wanova actually just scored a big win in the world of IP, declaring it the first United States patent on its interlocking technology, which provides a layered, single image Office PC on your network, local execution images on your PC and optimize synchronization between local and Central images.

The new funds will be utilized towards the establishment of a global sales, support groups and product development.

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Erply takes on the square and Intuit with NFC-Enabled Mobile credit card reader for iOS

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Erply, a company that develops retail inventory management software takes on the square, Intuit and VeriFone today with new mobile credit card reader for device iOS. Erply credit card device connects to the iPad or iPhone and will transmit data encrypted credit card customer to point of sale and inventory management suite software payment processing.

With Erply reader retail iPhone charger attached to the port or the iPad and it communicates with the POS software company for transaction processing and accounting for the sale of stocks. Actually, credit card data is encrypted inside the device, ensuring that the transaction is safe and secure.

The advantage for the reader to link with inventory management, offers a complex solution for retail instead of user different software. And it works particularly well in the retail environment, where there are a large number of stocks. Plus, the founder of the Christian Hiiemaa said that the NFC reader, mobile-enabled transactions.

Erply credit card reader at a price of $ 50 with 1.9% transaction fee is a bit smaller than the square, VeriFone and Intuit charges. The area has recently dropped its transaction fee of $ 0.15 and charges merchants a flat 2.75%. Intuit made a similar move. But the square reader software for free, while software Erply nowhere varies from $ 70 to $ 1000 per month. You can also use Erply their existing user base of 20000 retailers who use the company's software for inventory management.

Of course it is important to note that Intuit GoPayment reader integrates with popular accounting software Quickbooks, and also developed a more comprehensive point of sale system with his latest iPad app. And the square grows quickly, especially among small businesses.

Erply actually is the winner of Seedcamp and has raised $ 2 million in funding from Redpoint and Index Ventures, Marten Mickos, Zack Urlocker (both formerly of MySQL), Kenny Van Zant (SolarWinds), Aydin Senkut, David McClure and the accelerator group. Erply mobile credit card reader is available now for iPad and will be provided within three months for the iPhone.

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KNO turns 3D tutorials (videos)

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How to make a digital textbook is more than just a glorified PDF in a pill? KNO, Tablet, textbooks company co-founder Osman Rashid, Chegg rolling out multiple functions to try to bring textbooks to life, including Facebook integration, automated quiz, activity stream music. However, updating its iPad app today indicates as digital textbooks, you can create a totally new experience from a static value. In the above Vidå Rashid shows me Kno in 3D modeling function.

3D function now works only with models of molecules in chemistry textbooks. It converts standard chemical notation that indicates how the atoms are bonded together in a molecule in 3D model spinning along the field. These 3D models can be extended and rotated gave students demonstrate how each of them.

Of all the new features, Rasheed showed me this one impressed me the most because taking the initial text and make it a wealth of experience on the iPad Kno. You can't do that on paper. And you can imagine the 3D model appears on other types of 2D content, such as engineering drawings, diagrams or other types of illustrations.

KNO introduces several other functions today as well, the video sticky notes and smart links. Textbooks KNO include "magazine" who s thread highlights, notes, audio notes, and photographs. Now you can add video clips, recorded directly from the camera, iPad a. Smart links also lead to more videos in each tutorial, but as you read. They will initially Khan Academy video, but will in future include other educational videos online.

Below is a video of QuizMe and magazine capacity, earlier this month.

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Placecast brings location-based retail trade signals Smartphone applications

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Placecast's ShopAlerts service that provides retail and commercial offers and discounts to consumers via their mobile phones, today announces the new functionality, integration with Mobile Smartphone apps.

As we wrote in the past, ShopAlerts is a white-label geofencing platform for businesses that want to deliver the GEO work offers to its customers on their mobile phones. Consumers can sign up to receive text messages in different ways — in-store, online, via text message, mobile Web sites, or on Facebook. Geofences virtual cause around physical location; When the user selected in the geofenced area, it receives a message from the business, including discount, sale, shop or other content.

With the new feature, retailers have deployed mobile applications can allow users to obtain from the nearest store, retailer or other appropriate location, location-based communication without the app being open in the same way as ShopAlerts programs work on any phone, this new feature works on any Smartphone platform.

Once a retailer integrates with ShopAlerts, clients (who are in receipt of alerts) will have location-based push notifications when they are in the area of geofenced. Retailers can also use the preferences expressed by the consumer, such as loyalty or past purchase data to improve the relevance of the message or transaction. Time of day and weather can also be taken into account for the creation of added value, and brands could also enable location-based notification when a particular product is available in a nearby store.

Placecast says that he will work directly with retailers to integrate ShopAlerts into their applications, helping them to develop a programme and a messaging strategy, choose the number and size of geofences and activate the field.

Integration with retail Smartphone applications makes a lot of sense for Placecast. With the increase in offline and online commerce Placecast gives retailers another way for consumers and offer relevant transactions and information. The aim is to bring the user in the repository, and messages sent via the Smartphone app can help do that.

Placecast is already used by a number of high-profile brands such as North face and even AT&T.

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Streaming Flash games run iSwifter said proceeds will Pass $ 10 m this year

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iSwifter, the iPad app that allows Flash developers to stream games for the tablet device, announces revenue for 2011 will be for $ 10 million. It's impressive considering the company is only a year ago.

As we wrote in the past, the iSwifter enables users to view, play, and the speed of Flash games from gaming portals (like Facebook) online, with each game, optimized for the iPad. Actually run from the incubator YouWeb spun last year. With Flash iSwifter not run on the device, but it is for tablet as Netflix movie or YouTube videos.

The company makes money from the subscription model for monthly games in which users pay $ 4.99 for unlimited access to Flash social games on Facebook and MMOs. And the company has recently revealed that 500 000 people games almost 2000 Facebook using iSwifter.

In fact, iSwifter came to the conclusion that many users (20 per cent) are willing to pay for a free games if they can play the iPad. Hundreds of thousands of users iSwifter spent millions of minutes on Facebook with nearly half make purchases in the App.

iSwifter staff up engineering talents. Ajit Maya, former Senior Director of engineering at VMware; Lucian Masalar, architect of eBay and Pankaj Kumar, previously at Microsoft; combine all of the development team of the firm.

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From mobile games to the connected car: Sneak peak at Gazelle laboratory first 6 startups

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Earlier today, new TechStars Network member, the Tampa Bay-based Gazelle Lab, announced its first full round of program participants. This 3-month, mentor-driven program based on the TechStars model is one of the first of its kind to emerge in the Tampa Bay region –  a region that’s been pushing to become a new home to technological and entrepreneurial innovation.

This first group includes some unique companies, like a location-based mobile platform for sharing digital media, an app that connects to your car to diagnose those baffling “check engine” messages and an online ordering system for restaurants that puts big company technology into the hands of SMBs, just to name a few. We got a sneak peak at all 6 of the new companies today, and are now eagerly awaiting their launches later this fall.

While a group of 6 is small compared with other accelerator programs’ outputs, for Tampa Bay, it’s a notable number. This under-the-radar geographic region, which was previously home to Wikipedia before its 2007 relocation to California as well as the recently acquired website builder Wufoo, isn’t really on the map of notable “tech hotspots.” But Gazelle Lab is hoping to change that with its new program for early stage startups.

Below are today’s Gazelle Labs’ first participants, all of which are in various stages of development. The startups will launch this fall, when they present to potential investors at Gazelle Labs’ Demo Day event.

AutoIQ

AutoIQ is a combination gadget and HTML5-based mobile application that listens to your car in order to save you money. The company sells an off-the-shelf diagnostic gadget that connects to the onboard diagnostic (OBD) port of your vehicle. There are several different payment options for the service’s users. For $50, you receive the gadget and a year of service. You can also choose to buy your own gadget from a third-party and pay just $3/month for the service, or you can choose to pay $5/month for both the gadget and the service on a subscription basis. The OBD port is a standard port, accessible on all modern vehicles without having to get your hands dirty poking around under the hood. The gadget, which the company calls the “translator,” listens to the car’s computer and then “translates” those mysterious error messages into understandable language. Messages can come to you through push notifications, text messages, emails or via the AutoIQ online service. How bad is that “check engine” message, for example? Do you really need an air filter, as your mechanic says?

In addition, AutoIQ not only makes it easier to understand what your car is trying to tell you, it will also help you find the best prices for servicing your vehicle in town. Repair shops will eventually be able to tap into the data AutoIQ generates and target offers to groups of customers. Pricing for that aspect of the service is still being worked out, however. The service will launch first in Tampa Bay and will then roll out to Southern California, followed by the rest of the U.S.

CityQuest

CityQuest is a new (in-development) mobile application that transforms normal metropolitan landscapes into adventure-filled mini-games that “promote local commerce and vanquish boredom.” While operating in the same general space as Foursquare and Gowalla, the app doesn’t see itself as competing directly with those “check in” based networks. Its goal is slightly different – promote local discovery, encourage users to “get out of the house” and explore their city, visit popular landmarks, discover new businesses and patronize those which are their favorites.

Instead of checkins, the game will utilize “quests” – simple and fun tasks that enable users to earn badges and points and acquire gold. But unlike other apps that employ gamification techniques, CityQuest doesn’t want the rewards users earn to be meaningless. That’s why players can choose to donate gold they earn to local charities, community groups or schools in the form of actual cash. And regular users who acquire “experience points” will actually be able to help shape the game’s future development, suggesting businesses that should be included in future quests, for example. Of course, there may be a “deals” angle, too, where gold could lead to discounts at local stores, but that’s further down the road. The app will initially launch on one mobile platform this fall, and will then be ported to more platforms in the future. CityQuest also tied for first place at Tampa Bay’s Startup Weekend last month.

Dropost.it

Dropost.it, another mobile app that emerged from Tampa Bay’s first Startup Weekend, allows you to “drop” text messages and media in a geographical area for others to receive when they get there. That media can be music, video, photos, games, or any other digital file. The best way to understand Dropost.it is to think of it as sort of “location-based graffiti.” It’s not designed to be a niche experience, but rather a location-based platform for sharing media. There are several possible uses for this sort of technology, ranging from geo-fenced location-based reminders to in-store promotions where the app’s users receive discounts at local businesses. But the most intriguing thing about this app is how it attaches a real-world location to the online, virtual world.

Using Dropost.it, you could see a video of an interesting event that happened at particular spot. Or maybe you discover a simple game to play while waiting in the long line at the bank. Or you arrive at the grocery store, and get a message from your roommate to pick up some milk. Messages posted to Dropost.it can be set to public or private, as desired. It will also integrate with social networks, like Twitter, Facebook and Google+, to enable friend discovery. Dropost.it will be available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone when it launches later this fall.

Leads Direct, Inc.

Leads Direct, LLC is an online lead aggregator and cost-per-lead provider for multiple service-based verticals. That description is being kept fairly high-level because the company’s founders are still at their day jobs. This company is taking a different approach from the other startups in Gazelle Lab in that it isn’t disruptive in terms of the core service being offered, but in the way that the service works. Lead generation is a business that’s been around for some time, and has a sound business model, the founders explain, but the company plans on making some changes to address specific needs in each vertical they target. The company will initially target property management and real estate, where it will provide advertisers with more control over budgets, a better understaning of where ad dollars are being spent and itemized billing – all things its competitors currently lack. In short, Leads Directo will offer a Google AdWords-like toolset for acquiring leads.

Red Hawk Interactive, Inc.

Red Hawk Interactive plans to integrate restaurant listings and menu ordering systems into streaming video services. While it can’t discuss specifics, the company says it’s in talks with a well-known streaming video brand. And it’s currently reaching out to others in the same market. To give you an idea of the clients RedHawk has in mind, streaming video services like Netflix, Hulu, or Boxee are the types of targets the company is interested in talking with. RedHawk would provide a way for these service to display links to restaurants via the screen that loads before you start the movie. For example, under the movie’s description, would be a simple option that read something like “Order Food.” Clicking the link would take you to a list of participating restaurants with online ordering systems. The way this interface would look and operate is up to the streaming video provider, as this would be a white label product only.

However, RedHawk’s goal is not to function as an ad platform. That means local restaurants are not buying the links, or paying for a higher position. Instead RedHawk pulls from menu providers’ lists, and filters those by zip code in order to suggest the available restaurants to end users, along with delivery times and delivery areas. The customer would then be walked through a simplified online ordering system. RedHawk isn’t the final product name for the service, which has been in development since April.

Teburu

Teburu (Japanese for “table”) provides a web-based and mobile platform for restaurants to easily manage their online and mobile ordering services. For small to medium-sized restaurants, it’s still a challenge to get the information from the ordering system to the kitchen, says Teburu. Typical third-party systems often forgo expensive point-of-sale (POS) integration and instead phone the restaurant, fax in orders or send orders via email. Teburu makes POS integration a more affordable option, or restaurants can opt for the company’s specially designed HTML5 tablet application which runs on locked-down mobile hardware and software, like a customized version of Android, for example. The app will alert order takers to incoming orders via flashes or beeps. Then staff simply inputs the order in their own system.

The overall goal is to provide SMBs with the same level of control over their menus and online ordering presence as larger companies have. The product will be white-labeled so restaurants can control own branding. A mobile app framework is also in development which would allow restaurants to take orders via a branded mobile application. Teburu already has a large chain testing the service right now, but will open up to others later this year.

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Co-founder of SimpleGeo Matt Galligan as steps down; Will focus on assisting the TechStars and non-profit

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In November last year, the location of the launch, SimpleGeo, former CEO of Digg's Jay Adelson has replaced co-founder Matt Galligan, Director-General. While Zach Galligan slid as Chief Strategy and became a public face of the company. Now he is leaving the company altogether.

You can read news on the SimpleGeo blog here, as well as Zach Galligan own thoughts here. But in fact it is something that has been in the works since Adelson took over these many months ago, Zach Galligan said. The company is now moving into the next phase of Zach Galligan believes that the time has come to step aside. He will continue to act as an adviser, but Sheldon Adelson and SimpleGeo co-founder Joe Stump will continue to steer the ship.

While Zach Galligan figures that he wants to do next, he's going to take an extended period of time. He dove right into SimpleGeo (then known as Crash Corp.) following the resignation of AOL in May 2009. He sold his first startup, Socialthing, AOL in August 2008.

But Zach Galligan did not fully away from the scene at the time of its launch. He'll be helping out of TechStars incubator, giving much needed voice and presence on the West Coast. Zach Galligan has long had ties with TechStars community as Socialthing first class in 2007.

In addition, he will soon be starting a non-profit foundation with Shervin Pishevar, longtime businessman and currently the Managing Director of Menlo Ventures. "1% of nothing", the Fund will request the founders to commit one percent stake in their company should be given to charity in the event of a liquidity event. Zach Galligan did it himself, giving a percentage of the sale of Socialthing Foundation in Boulder, Colorado.

SimpleGeo has raised about $ 10 million in funding so far. As they enter the next stage whispers have them there more.

SimpleGeo provides ready-to-use location infrastructure, which allows you to easily location-aware ad functionality for applications. The company was founded in 2009, Galligan as Matt and Joe Stump.

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With the support of the YC Vidyard is YouTube for business

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Many businesses put YouTube videos on their sites, but one of the sore points using YouTube as a platform is that visitors can click through the video on YouTube and off site brand — and those videos include YouTube advertising and branding. Brightcove and Ooyala offer professional Web-hosted enterprise video platform, but it can be expensive. Enter Y Combinator support Vidyard, which starts today as an affordable way for businesses to host videos that can be viewed on a page or through the embeddable player.

In principle, Vidyard offers a service that is very similar to YouTube, but without the link to the portal by third parties. Start also offers instant, detailed and real time analytics with embedded video performance. Co-founder Michael Litt said that at present 3.5 million enterprises receiving YouTube videos to your site and there is a huge opportunity to offer better, more simple, easy-to-use product video hosting companies.

Here's how Vidyard works. Firstly you can choose to download the video file or video from YouTube. You can then add custom thumbnail, choose from 10 different player skins customize size and color, viral share on Twitter and Facebook and HD content by default, if you want.

In terms of integrating video on the site Vidyard offers a simple code that can be embedded on any site (users can have video in-line or that appears as a pop-up window). Or you can choose to send people to the main page with links to video that Litt said, ideal for email marketing. Users can also leave comments on these pages via Twitter and Facebook.

After the business uses Vidyard, it can also access detailed analytics on the performance of the video. Run allows businesses to find out how many people watched the video, the amount of attention minutes watched, the most popular time in the video, where people are located geographically, and much more.

Monetization, Vidyard uses a freemium: startups and companies with less marketing budget can create a hosted video via Vidyard for free with some of the features above (including Analytics). For $ 20 to $ 50 per month they can add branded players, real time analytics and other additional features. And Vidyard also has plans for large-scale video hosting.

Startup uses RTMP streaming, which means that you can go to the middle of the video without waiting for the buffer to catch up. You can also implement chaptering, which means that the overlay links to more videos on the upper part of the observed. Each plan includes a 101 GB bandwidth, and Litt said no business goes beyond that amount. Running the tweaked it a hosting technology effective bandwidth and only buffers ten second beforehand so business not to waste bandwidth to customers who didn't watch the whole video.

Vidyard has not yet finished Y Combinator incubator (what's happening this week), but is already caught the eye of some well-known companies and investors. Ernst and young, Adchemy and TheBizMedia (digital video agency, represents coke and Maxwell House) use hosting platform Vidyard's. And in addition to launch and fund Y Combinator financial support Vidyard is additional funds from former RIM COO Dennis Kavelman and SV Angel.

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Former members of Expedia raise $ 8 million for the trip search launch Hopper

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Hopper, Montreal, Canada at the start, had raised $ 8 million in new funding from Atlas venture and previous Backer Brightspark Ventures, to try to ' reinvent travel search '.

Hopper is still in stealth mode, but if you want to learn more about what they cook, check out this Boston.com profile or this article from Boston's Xconomy.

Really Hopper plans to open new Office in Boston, where he plans to double its engineering team within the next year.

The company builds on the merits of the "journey of discovery" engine for consumers, allowing people to know the directions and products using only keywords such as "the best beaches in Europe".

The launch was conceived by Sebastian Rejnvillâ, Chief Engineer Frederick Lalonde, the Director-General and Chief of product Joost Ouwerkerk. The last two were Expedia Lalonde, who purchased the previous company Newtrade technologies back in 2002.

Hopper was originally founded in 2007 and previously raised $ 2 million in 2008, the company's total funding to $ 10 million today.

Jeff Fagnan, partner at Atlas venture, will join the Hopper, the Board of Directors.

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6fusion raises $ 7 million for a cloud infrastructure management software

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6fusion, a provider of infrastructure management software and cloud services, this morning announced that it raised $ 7 million in series b round of financing led by Grotech ventures.

Previous Baker Intersouth partners also participated in the round.

The company provides a platform for managing end-to-end cloud to global pressure, making clouds, both public and private companies paid utilities pay for use.

6fusion been developed an algorithm called a cube dimension, the distribution of workload, which he said standardizes the quantitative assessment of supply and demand for computing resources.

The company's management platform in UC6 cloud federates private data center and cloud operators of third party, providing a single console to enable organizations to manage and optimize the meter, hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Lawson DeVries Grotech ventures joins 6fusion's Board.

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Luxemi — A, rent the podium to Indian clothing and jewellery

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Using the success of the model lease Luxemi starts off as a Commerce site, where customers can either borrow or buy Indian clothing and accessories. Site is focused on the niche audience of South Asian American women, who do not want to spend money on expensive Indian outfit, or who do not live near a store that sells Traditional Indian wear.

Instead of simply offering clothing and accessories for sale, Luxemi supports two completely different collections: one of the clothing and accessories for sale and the other in "take Cabinet" consisting of clothing and accessories are available for rent. When borrowing, buyers will choose their date of reservation, the rental period (the 4 or 10 days) and their size.

The price for the site starts at $ 78 for traditional Sarees, Salwars and $ 28 for jewellery (backup includes the size of the saree blouse to fit, Luxe Pack for clothes, including contacts, Bindis and clothing bag monitor, free return shipping). Luxemi, which was opened for the entire month, joined 4200 membership, and average order size is over $ 250.

While this certainly will be a hit among American women, it is doubtful whether the Luxemi will have the opportunity to create a market outside of this ethnic demographic. But the launch said that they had seen much interest outside of the South Asian community, with 40 percent of customer orders-Indian.

And Luxemi not the first retail site to meet the Indian-American trading community. Exclusively .in is another e-commerce site, which caters to the Indian diaspora, but with Flash sales model. The company just raised $ 16 million from the global Tiger and is growing fast for the site e-commerce niche.

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I hope Amazon with Groupon challenge Groupon "goods"?

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Last week, the daily Groupon giant registered a bunch of domain names with "groupongoods" (.com, .net, .us, .info, .biz and wondering. fr). Obviously these domain names does not necessarily mean the company is going to debut by the name ' Groupon goods soon or even in the distant future, but let's assume for a moment that this is exactly what they plan to do.

Imagine if Groupon begins with his extensive sales force, which are located around the world to start focusing on opportunities in addition to restaurants, spas, massage and Pilates classes.

Better yet: what if they end up finding mutually beneficial partnerships with companies like Alice.com, Drugstore.com, Pets.com, Overstock.com, or Newegg.com, in order to be engaged in selling discount groceries, household supplies, consumer electronics and whatnot.

In theory, the fastest growing companies can apply its successful "local Chamber model and harness its huge international subscribers (about 120 million subscribers and counting) go into offering deals for groceries, household supplies and other goods, regularly purchased online. Actually, it would make sense in my head.

For example, it would be way to Groupon to diversify their income sources and to accelerate the growth of sales as the company prepares to go public without necessarily adding a lot of overhead (especially if they go on partnerships, rather than building a domestic service).

In particular it will not be the first time Groupon makes such a move. They are already cooperating with the juggernauts Expedia and Livenation is fully thanked offer online deals at travel (Groupon Getaways) and event tickets (GrouponLive), respectively.

We contacted Groupon – perhaps they cool enough not to refuse to comment on rumors or speculation. Hope springs eternal, etc.

"Goods", Groupon correctly can potentially be contenders on Amazon, which is not only known for its Amazon.com e-commerce business, but also for their grocery shopping Amazon fresh site and (acquired) Niche Internet shops for example, Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com and Zappos.com.

Amazon also owns Woot, which offers daily deals on a number of points (mostly electronics).

On a sidenote: this will not be a unilateral attack. In the end, Amazon now after Groupon bread and butter, with a quiet car AmazonLocal in the United States.

GroupOn announced recently that it took a net loss of $ 102.7 million in the second quarter of 2011 to 878 million income (and lost approximately 205 million dollars in the first half of the year). GroupOn currently employs about 10 000 people worldwide.

Thus, any Groupon cats on hand to feed or deprive the above-mentioned goods Groupon rumors?

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(Founder, stories) about ' Connor about what makes a good entrepreneur: "you told your boss to shove it?"

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Chris Dixon begins this episode in the history of the founder with DoubleClick and co-founder of FindTheBest Kevin O'Conner talking about ' Connor, "DoubleClick probably closest." New York is PayPal, there are two companies share the aptitude for hiring staff, which went on to create innovative enterprises.  In the same way as Paypal has Yelp, LinkedIn, YouTube and DoubleClick has spawned dozens of startups in New York as the right of the media.

With this in mind Dickson requests ' Connor if he deliberately creates conditions that encourage innovation in DoubleClick before you ask for ' Connor that he considered the defining characteristics of successful entrepreneurs.

About ' Connor describes his systematic way of accelerating the pace of innovation.  He lists several signs of a successful entrepreneur.  The desire for control and the opportunity to challenge the authorities are near the top of the list. The second way to detect the feature? "You told your boss to shove it?"

In the video below about ' Connor discusses the genesis of his last start, FindTheBest, service, which offers side-by-side comparison of all cigars for business schools. At the intersection of trying to solve the "big obvious" idea and not find a site that serves his needs ' Connor began to build what would become the company. He describes it as a "decision engine" to help you make difficult decisions, where search fall flat. What kind of dog should I buy? Where summer camp should send my kid? What investment adviser should hire?

Be sure to watch both videos for additional considerations, together with the first two parts of this interview (part I and part II), as well as recent episodes of the history of the founder of here.

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Social commerce site Zlio joins the Deadpool

Zlio, a site that allows users to create online stores where they sell goods from other e-commerce services, joins the deadpool. 6-year-getting going out of business and will be officially closes its doors on 11 September. The company is accusing Google algorithms for its demise, amazing, Zlio in the concept, or business model.

In an e-mail to users to inform them of an impending shutdown service fingers were pointed out all around, not only on Google, but also on an SEO company to improve website ranking in Google search results.

Oddly, Amazon aStore by Amazon service that allows Associates to build their own stores, not mentioned as a contribution to the service. The product was not a professional Web store Amazon. Or the dozens of DIY online shops filled with user-created content, such as Cafepress, Zazzle or Spreadshirt, for example.

Oh no, it's all Google's fault.

Full email is below.

Six years after its launch, we regret to announce that we are going out of business.

The service officially expires 11 September!

Zlio was a fantastic start, getting capital from one of Europe's largest venture capital funds, mangrove capital. In addition, we have advanced m & amp; talks with Google, which unfortunately is not at the last minute.

Our strong initial growth was interrupted on 27 September 2007, when most shops Zlio, which as a rule very well occupy, saw their Google ranking fall sharply, the Elimination of 65 per cent of our movement.

Despite our best efforts, as well as opening of 380 000 shops have so far failed to restore our previous rankings on Google, except in exceptional cases.

When we founded the Zlio, we thought that you, the members of the Zlio successfully will promote your shops among your community. We do not believe that links to Google is so important. Unfortunately, it was necessary.

Among the measures taken to improve our Google ranking, we came to the SEO company who claimed that they were able to resolve our problem.

Due to their poor performance, we evaluated that this company has not fulfilled its obligations. Thus we have entered into a dispute with him, resulting in a court case, whose sentence was passed on 26 July 2011. This decision is available on the Web site of the Paris commercial court (Tribunal de commerce de Paris).

This solution offers us to pay the entire service, which we continue to believe that was not provided and to pay compensation for the publication of our view Referencement on Twitter. The last part of the sentence has already drawn attention in the French media.

This phrase means that we cannot go. Service losing money for several years (which have forced us to gradually reduce our employees), and the amounts to pay today we sentenced to no longer allow us to fulfil our obligations.

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(Founder of stories) Kevin o' Connor DoubleClick: we were Netscape profit

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When Kevin o' Connor started DoubleClick in the mid-1990s, he was half of online MEDIA sales company for early Web companies like Netscape and Excite and technology company. "We were their profits," the ' Connor said Chris Dickson on the Netscape in this second edition of its founder stories interviews. (See first here).

About ' Connor is how he got DoubleClick, occurs in the early days, why he chose New York City over Silicon Valley and the introduction of measurable advertising just when the Internet begins to take off. "People don't want to accountability," he says. Even technology companies that are clients of DoubleClick them only wanted to use the media and not for their technology. When their contract with Netscape for updates, DoubleClick will run as Netscape rep firm because Netscape does not believe in their technology or that they could sell advertising CIOs (complete with servers, which is what would make Netscape). "Have you ever met a CIO who buys advertising? It was so senseless. "

Tensions between the ad network and technology companies continued, but bets on technology has proven to be correct. In the previous history of the founder of the former DoubelClick CEO Kevin Ryan, both during the bust, DoubleClick will lose 70 percent of their customers before coming out on the other side.

In the video below about ' Connor recalled how DoubleClick got through the crash. Fortunately DoubleClick just raised $ 700 million. "Thus, to save money," said Dixon. He then requests-Connor made DoubleClick a success. There is always the element of luck, "recognizes the ' Connor, but two keys to success in his mind for any tech company" the best technological solution to a problem and hire a smart athletes "(in which it means intelligent people who are competitive, hyper).

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Drchrono raises $ 650 K of Yuri Milner; Starts the patient check-in App for iPad

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Drchrono, a startup that simplifies the professional lives of doctors by using electronic medical records and much more than the iPad, has raised another $ 650 000 in seed funding from founder of DST, Yuri Milner and General catalyst. In July the company raised seed funding of $ 675.000 General catalyst, Charles River Ventures, 500 startups, creator of Gmail and FriendFeed co-founder Google senior engineer Matt Cutts, Paul Buchheit and Fund launch.

As we wrote in the past, the drchrono in the iPad app allows physicians to meet patient to dictate notes through audio, take photos, write prescriptions and send them in drugstores, enable reminders, clinical notes, access to laboratory results and, most importantly the input of electronic health records.

Now it looks drchrono to disrupt another part of the medical office experience, providing a new iPad application, called OnPatient, which replaces the patient check-in process. So as soon as you enter the medical office, you usually give the Clipboard with a number of forms to fill in the waiting room, including General information, history, privacy, and much more.

Now doctors offices can provide users with Drchrono free iPad application instead of from the Clipboard. The patient enables patients to complete family history, demographic information and insurance; Take a photo and sign a consent form HIPAA with a digital signature. With the application, you can only fill out the form, and they are recorded in this interface, so that patients will not be able to switch to other applications or access information from other patients.

And to facilitate the lives of doctors, the application integrates with drchrono in the medical record interface, so the medical staff should not enter all the data of the patient. On subsequent visits, patients should not duplicate forms — they only needed to review their information and make any necessary changes on the iPad.

This is just another way in which the drchrono facilitates the lives of doctors and their staff. As you might have heard, the Obama administration is currently incentives for physicians to start their medical records online. drchrono was approved for the training of doctors to get $ 44 million in incentives when they use the software as a platform for electronic medical records. In fact, drchrono is the first native of EMC on the iPad must be given for constructive use under stimulation.

Michael Nusimow, co-founder and CEO of drchrono, tells us that the company sweetened the deal for many doctors and now refuses to fee structure for its EMC platform (freemium model is drchrono). And he reiterated the company's goal: for each doctor in the country will use drchrono for medical records and data entry.

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Lean startup thinker Eric Ries: "don't be in a hurry to get big, be in a hurry to have a great product"

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Each tech founder thinks he or she works lean startup. But what does this mean exactly? In a video interview above, Eric Ries, who coined the term Lean startup and is the author of upcoming book of the same name, explains his theory of learning by a small number of the first clients to enhance and improve your product before exposing it to a wider audience. "Don't be in a hurry to get big", he sums up the results at the end of our conversation, "to be in a hurry to have a great product."

RIES argues that the greatest advantage of the entrepreneur is their obscurity. If your first product sucks, at least not too many people will know about it. But this is the best time to make mistakes, provided that you learn from them, to make the product better. "It is inevitable that the first product is going to be bad in a sense," he said. Lean startup methodology is to systematically test product ideas company.

Fail early and often. "Our goal is to learn as soon as possible," he says. He also claims that launches start their products quietly until they figure out what clients really want. We discuss how color could use these recommendations. RIES also gives me a crash course in some of the more popular Lean startup, terms such as "minimum viable product", "product market fit" or "construction measure know feedback loops."

But you can build lean run in bubble (if we still have one)? "This is even more important," he says, go meat, when each throwing money at "the success of the theatre and to demonstrate vanity metric. "Vanity metrics are the numbers that you want to post on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad," he says. Don't believe their own propaganda, or run your company on these metrics. Useful metrics that actually allow you to understand what drives your growth are much more important.

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Accel leads $ 10. Round 5 m Birchbox cosmetics Discovery platform

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Birchbox, which serves as a platform for retail detection makeup, raised $ 10.5 million in series a round of funding led by Accel Partners with first round capital, Harrison metal Forerunner enterprises, enterprises Lehrer, Sam Lessin, Counsellor, Gary Vaynerchuck, Dave Morin, Stanford University Endowment and Andy Dunn, participated in the round.

Like Foodzie, Blissmobox, BeachMint and Babbaco; Birchbox adopted the subscription box model of the month, where members receive curator makeup and beauty products. Each month users get at least four awards samples of cosmetics, sent to their homes of more than 80 high beauty retailer as Kiehl, Laura Mercier, Smashbox, NARS and goods.

Web site complements the monthly packages, providing appropriate advice and training materials on its Web site to the featured designs. If a user wants to buy a full-sized version, they can buy at Birchbox, which will bring them points for future discounts (inviting new members will also help increase the points). Idea to help consumers discover new brands and products at an affordable price, as well as stimulation of sales.

One of the unique aspects of the Birchbox is that it offers personalized set of products each month that are configured for the user profiles and settings. Each user fills out a survey of beauty and create a profile which is then used to fetch the priest for each individual client.

Birchbox, which was founded in the Harvard Business School grads Hayley Barna and Kate Beauchamp, launched almost a year ago and already has a subscriber base of 45 000 clients (all of whom paid up to $ 10 a month apiece or $ 110 per year). And subscribers up to 50 per cent of the month for the past eleven months.

Accel partner Theresia Gouw Ranzetta said, "the team has established partnerships with some of the leading cosmetic brands to give consumers experience sampling fun monthly beauty in the world. We believe Birchbox has many opportunities for further growth, and we look forward to assisting their success ".

Beauchamp tells us that the site strives to be a combination of niche and the most famous products. In the end, she explained that Birchbox was trying to make cosmetics sales process easier for women and help get production in the hands of the consumer brands.

Beauchamp said that the new funding will be used to further the development of products and hiring. And the company is considering expanding to other verticals.

While many retailers seem to have jumped on the bandwagon of the month box, cosmetics industry is especially suitable for sampling experience. And Birchbox was one of the pioneers in the field model of the month. Many women (including me) want to try beauty products (irrespective of the price), whether makeup, shampoo, milk or cream; Before investing in them. Birchbox not only performs but also helps women discover new products and adds the element of an editorial nature.

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Just in time for the new season of NFL Fantasy Football Mobile Taptu brings readers

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Since its founding in 2007, Taptu was run, which specialized in search and touch based interface for mobile devices, mobile search, real-time system, combined with the OneRiot back in 2009, for example. In November last year, however, made a smart decision to bring his knowledge of the mobile search market news reader, Flipboard as Android and iPhone apps that have interesting offers value to the growing market of mobile reader: users will be able to join more than 5000 mixed flows is paltry and not much more than the competition.

Taptu started in April with the iPad a sleek and clean design that, again, sought to differentiate itself from competitors like Flipboard, pulse, flood (and possibly Edition) through its proprietary mobile search tech on the aggregation of the thousands of news sources, rather than relying on those tired RSS feeds.

As some readers may know, the National Football League had been in the throes of a controversial block, which threaten the 2011 season. Owners and players have recently come to an agreement, ending on 25 July, the lock and allowing the show to go on pigskin. Seeing as how football is on time, not wanting to miss out on a great opportunity to expand their feature set, Taptu today entered a new domain Athletic running NFL Fantasy Football News flow for users of Taptu on Smartphones and tablets. New thread allows fans to get updates on each critical STAT and news in real time, allowing fantasy football players to field a competitive team each week.

As my colleague mg wrote last week, the sports world was significantly underrepresented at the pills and News readers, because ESPN (behemoth of sports content) mostly absent from space — at least in terms of partnerships with other developers and startups to syndicate their content. But last week dropped a bomb on the pulse of the tablet market news reader by declaring that he was the first player in the space to get injections of ESPN, along with the existing contents of the report, baseball, Yahoo Sports, and so on.

Although this was a big win for the momentum continues, the more coveted demographic niches that are still under-represented on the tablets, which would be none other than sports fantasy. Fantasy sports are now more than 27 million Americans; It is becoming increasingly popular pastime (money maker). And for those who are, or have friends who play fantasy sports in General, a rabid group.

Although it depends on the sport, in order to field the best team every week, fantasy sports players must consume a lot of information about who plays well, including what players are injured, or at run time, etc. of fantasy sports enthusiasts consume large amounts of statistics and news, they do their homework, as analysts or enterprising journalists is obviously different if you're a mobile startup.

Over the next 30 days, loads of football fans will be building their teams on their desktops and mobile devices in preparation for the commencement of the season. And now, thanks to Taptu, those fans no longer need to visit multiple websites to get the lowdown on trade or injury. In addition, Taptu in fantasy feature allows users to mix and match from football great publications and blogs in one thread, that is easy to read and look for the information.

And nose thumbing at the pulse, Taptu will present the latest news from ESPN, SB nation, Fox and CBS Sports, among others. To find the app fantasy football thread, users simply go to "thread shop" and locate the fantasy football icon, click the plus (+) button, and the thread will be added to the collection of user News. As before, Taptu is available for free at iOS (here), as well as Android phones and tablets (here).

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