Vizibility raises $ 1. 3 M, makes you look good when people Google you

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Vizibility, a provider of personal branding platform for individuals and companies, today announced that it raised $ 1.3 million people in more than $ 1 million for seed funding.

Enterprise Group Launchpad Boston led round and was joined by additional investors from Angels Boston Harbor, New York Angels and Angels tie, as well as a number of independent investors from North-East and Europe. Previous backers also participated in the round.

Vizibility was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Manhattan, New York.

The company offers online identity management platform for individuals and companies, which allows them to the priest and share their online identities, including personalized Google search results, professional profiles, contact information, and much more.

SearchMe's buttons, links, and QR codes can be shared and posted on websites, blogs, business cards, marketing materials and whatnot. Its services are distributed primarily in the form of an integrated function of social networking sites, including job search, online reputation management and Executive profile hubs as well as dating sites.

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August capital, Google Ventures to the $ 18. 5 m in online legal service rocket lawyer

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More big money online legal services. After LegalZoom raised $ 66 million from Kleiner Perkins and IVP, competitor rocket lawyer also announced a new round of funding. Start generated 18.5 million in funding led by August capital, Google Ventures and Investor Growth Capital (IGC) participated in the round. This brings total funding to rocket lawyer $ 30 million.

Founded by Charles Moore, the rocket lawyer not only provides legal documents for consumers and small businesses, but also helps users create customized legal documents that can be electronically signed and shares instantly online or downloaded for printing. Moore says that every month, more than 20000 the last wills and 40000 business contracts created. Rocket lawyer offers these documents free of charge.

While users can use rocket lawyer on a one-time basis, many of the users of the site pay for actual legal advice along with access to documents. Users can pay just $ 20 per consultation up to $ 200 to $ 300 per year for the legal service of the call, which is a fraction of the cost that some lawyers (the company currently has thousands of people who pay for annual maintenance).

Moore said that 20 million people will use rocket lawyer by the end of this year. Rocket lawyer and the visitors increased by more than 100%, year over year. The company grows revenue by 10 million dollars annually, but refused to say if the lawyer launch profitable yet.

Taking into account the traction that other players like LegalZoom is seen, it looks like the industry online legal services to the fast-growing market that still has great potential. LegalZoom and looks to IPO next year.

The new funds will be used to continue building the rocket lawyer brand and patent online legal solutions.

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Google Enterprise support with legal Q&A LawPivot opens platform to the public

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Google Enterprise support LawPivot mix Q&A platform for legal advice for businesses and allows technology companies and startups confidentially to request legal expert lawyers. But so far, LawPivot retained legal links on his site private so that only the lawyer and business can get access to this information. Today run produces publicly available Q&A platform enables businesses to also publicly ask questions and receive answers from the LawPivot community of users throughout the country.

For the background, LawPivot was founded by a group of lawyers and tech execs, including Jay Mandal, a mergers and acquisitions lead to Apple; Nitin Gupta; lawyer litigation intellectual property; and Steven Kam, engineer and architect with experience as an attorney in litigation intellectual property.

The LawPivot public Q&A of legal experts on subjects such as corporate, intellectual property, contracts, employment, tax and immigration law, you can share their knowledge and understanding of the business of answering publicly legal issues raised by the LawPivot community.

Of course enterprises still can ask private questions, but it creates a way for lawyers to publish their legal advice (and possibly get more business) and allows startups to build a resource for other businesses to use when searching for answers to such questions. For example, many entrepreneurs strapped boot can use public product has the ability to receive advice on issues, not necessarily harder.

As we wrote in the past, run calls upon lawyers to build comprehensive profiles on LawPivot, companies know where their legal advice. LawPivot will also connects companies to appropriate lawyers to answer your legal questions. How companies interact with LawPivot over time, technology site will use past and present user data and trends to ensure the best lawyers to answer your question, based on the specific needs of the company.

The company has also released an infographic detailing the most popular legal topics at LawPivot, including word cloud visualization shows the relative frequency of some of the topics raised by the company at LawPivot in the description of the nature of the issues on the site. Most popular legal issues on the LawPivot are located in areas or corporate law, intellectual property, contracts, and Internet law.

Online legal space is growing rapidly, and companies like rocket lawyer and raise hefty funding rounds of LegalZoom. While LawPivot focuses on more niche community site still has the ability to disrupt the legal space for the business world.

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Groupchat. tv brings Google hangouts like the experience on Facebook

Groupchat. TV is a new Facebook application that brings Google hangouts such group video chat experience for Facebook. The application was created over the weekend, the HAPI hackathon in San Francisco, the same people who run ecommerce site TinyPay. me.

And here's the crazy part Groupchat. tv supports up to 50 video streams at the same time!

The App creators do not recommend that you click Groupchat. tv, quite that far, though. It should be noted, however, that there is such a tough limit 10 people on chat is over at Google, where "Hangouts" are one of the key selling points of the site.

For a video chat on Google + you run Crowd (session video chat) by clicking and then share it with a circle or circles, personal friends or among the general public, as you choose.

To use a Groupchat. tv, you must first authorize the use of Facebook, and then share with your friends a special link that it generates. The link can be found by using instant messaging, such as Facebook in their own chat in e-mail, for example, wall post, or however you choose. Groupchat .TV in the main interface provides you with Facebook status updates window, however, that makes the process relatively easy.

Your friend will also authorize Facebook application before being able to communicate with you. In the test group this morning, we ran into common problems Mac/Flash (it's not "just work", you must configure settings for Flash here) However, the application provides at least with a simple "how" a pop-up window that explains how to make the necessary changes.

Groupchat. TV that uses Tokbox in the opentok API has not been as smooth as Google hangouts or Facebook in Skype integration, of course. You can hear your voice echoing your friends PC speakers, for example. But if you die in a group chat with friends on Facebook, it's definitely worth a look.

According to the app developer, Melvin Tercan (also Tinypay .me founder and CEO), the verb is already tossing around ideas for new features, such as a public list of group chat, that anyone can join. But now, they just hope the app takes off and goes viral.

I think that can happen now?

Update: I said that this application sends a message to your Facebook wall when you start the chat session. Automatic wall posts it seems par for the course on Facebook, so I wasn't surprised or unpleasantly so. However, you can in various ways. Be warned!

Correction: this article originally gave credit Richard Straver, because Melvin Tercan sent to us using the e-mail address of Richard. Oops!

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Hides the new Google Android Malware + App, answers calls for you

Trend Micro security researchers have discovered a new application for Android mobile malware that disguises itself as Google +. The application has the ability to record phone calls, and collect GPS location phone, text messages and call logs, all of which are sent to remote servers.

The application installs itself on the Android devices under the guise of Google + application using the Google icon + disguise myself in Android applications and services list.

Malware is a version of the previously detected ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY.(A) and (B) because it uses the same code structure found within those applications. This particular version is called ANDROIDOS_NICISPY.(C).

In this case at least, it is unlikely that the malware is especially prevalent, as it is not listed in the Android market. The application displays only for mobile phone users who unknowingly visit malicious Web site. And delete as simple as uninstalling the application.

Interestingly, here's how quickly malware authors used the hype about Google's new social network to their advantage. Not even 2 months and Google + has already been used as cover for mobile malware.

In addition to recording calls and collect personal data from the device, the malware can also receive commands via text message that explains the Trend Micro threat analyst Mark Balanza. To do this, it requires the sender to use predefined controller» number from an application configuration file to run all commands.

But the uniqueness of this malware especially Balanza says is its ability to record calls automatically, what other options do not. To answer calls, you must disable the screen of the phone and call should come from a certain telephone number in the application configuration file. Before you answer, the app puts phone into silent mode and hides the dial pad. And when is a phone call, the screen goes blank.

It is important to note that the "auto reply" feature of the malware can only affect Android version 2.2 and below how MODIFY_PHONE_STATE permission was disabled in Android 2.3. Again, this is another very good example to why manufacturers and carriers should not hold back the Android OS updates from pushed to consumer devices.

The Android operating system becomes a target for malware, such as this, the security firm lookout reported earlier this month. Android users are two and 1.5 times faced with malware today than just 6 months ago. And half a million to one million users were affected by the Android malware this year alone. Although this individual application can only be a minor threat, combined with all other for many months, the threat of malware is becoming a problem for Android users, developers, carriers and OEMs.

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Social learning game developers Airey Labs raises $ 1. 5 m from Google Ventures, others

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Airey Labs, mobile, Tablet and started building browser games with educational twist to young children, has landed $ 1.5 million in seed funding from Google Ventures, Foundation of wealth and the founder of Playdom, Rick Thompson.

Airey Labs said that he wants his social games to come with a genuine educational value that will be approved by parents.

The company is part of the StartX command (formerly known as SSE Labs), Stanford student Startup Accelerator.

The launch was founded in the year 2011 genius named Andrew Hsu.

Check this guy's summary:

Hsu, who began the study of molecular biology at the University of Washington (Uw) laboratory at the age of 10, won the Grand Prize in the Washington State Science and engineering fair in 11, matriculated in SS 12 and finished with three degrees of Bachelors of science in the age of 16 years. At the age of 19 years he was a 4 year old candidate in Neurobiology at Stanford University, when he left in early 2011 to continue his dream run. He was recently named a member of the Thiel 20-20.

He is also the author of several books and once a competitive swimmer.

Airey Labs is a new generation of social learning games for children. We build iOS games on your mobile phone and tablet, social games for your browser and casual massively.

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