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.

Vizibility as "Google Me" button for career professionals. Through a simple wizard Vizibility service allows people to quickly create an optimal search Google for themselves based on ...

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Jumio comes to WordPress, makes blog readers webcams in credit card readers

Jumio, a new technology that transforms your webcam in credit card readers, now offers a plugin for WordPress websites. New Jumio Netswipe-ins allows site visitors to pay for products or make donations quickly and easily, simply, holding up their credit cards to their computer webcam.

For publishers, WordPress by adding Netswipe to their site is simple-just download, install and activate like any other WordPress plugin.

With the new plugin WordPress site owners receive a "Netswipe PayMe" button that can be placed anywhere on their website. All payments are managed through your Jumio account, which is provided free of charge after registration.

After you download the WordPress plugin here, just unzip it and upload the folder "Wordpress_Jumio_Payment_Plugin" at the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory. Then activate the plugin through the plugins menu in WordPress. You can then configure the options in the menu "settings for WordPress. (More detailed instructions can be found here).

Jumio started last month, introducing its seamless, integrated solutions for merchants and developers for the failure of the payment industry. This is not only the technology easy to use, also adds a layer of security to digital operations to the physical card must be present in order to address the webcam Jumio to work.

Initially, the technology is available only for Desktop Web sites, but later this year, the two parts of the mobile solutions become available. This part of the system Jumio will include a mobile app and developer libraries. Jumio mobile developer tools are an aspect of the solution that is most like a Card.io, which offers similar tools.

Jumio received $ 6.5 million in funding from Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and other investors back in March.

Jumio offers advanced technology, which increases security and ease of use for credit card payment via the Internet. Jumio is the inventor of Netswipe, a patent pending solution that turns ...

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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.

Kevin o' Connor, co-founder and CEO of FindTheBest.com. Prior to founding FindTheBest in 2009, ' Connor started on ' Connor enterprises in 2001, a company specializing in tech startups. IN THE ...

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FindTheBest, based in Santa Barbara, California and New York City, is the engine of an impartial, curator, decision-making that enables users to search through a wide range of topics — from ...

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