October, 2007
BitTorrent DNA – which will leverage the company’s peer-to-peer technology to try and attract business
By admin at October 9, 2007 | 8:32 pm | 0 Comment
What Company is about:BitTorrent is set to release their first enterprise product – BitTorrent DNA - which will leverage the company’s peer-to-peer technology to try and attract business customers. The company’s first client is Brightcove, who provides video content to many large publishers including Reuters, National Geographic, and TMZ. The move puts the company more...
Yoink’d is a new media search and viewing tool
By admin at October 9, 2007 | 8:28 pm | 0 Comment
What Company is About:Yoink’d is a new media search and viewing tool that gives you a lot of functionality in a tiny package. There are a few things you can do with Yoink’d. You can use it as a media player, use it to find new videos on your own or through the Yoink’d community, and you can share it with the world using the Yoink’d widget. How It Works:Go to the more...
Companies using Voodoovox will be able to directly reach their consumers in a precise and timely manner
By admin at October 9, 2007 | 8:24 pm | 0 Comment
What Company is Is Offering:Telephony will be free, and VoodooVox’s In-Call Media™ will make it happen. VoodooVox’s patent-pending In-Call Media™ process involves the targeted insertion of ad-supported audio content directly into the call stream of any type of phone traffic, providing new revenue sources for the call “publisher,” and additional features and more...
"ServiceSeeking" mediates the selling and buying of any type of service
By admin at October 9, 2007 | 8:20 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is About:ServiceSeeking is an online service market based in Australia. The site mediates the selling and buying of any type of service whether it be contractual construction work or one time projects.How It Works:Finding the right professionals, contractors or freelancers to do your work can be exhausting, particularly if you’re not sure what you are more...
Freenormous shows the best free offers
By admin at October 9, 2007 | 8:14 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is About:Freenormous shows the best free offers, free samples, contests and freebies from around the web. Submit free offers for the community to review and promote to the main page based on votes. When a user submits a new offer, the article is placed in the "upcoming" area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page.How It Works:Once you more...
SupportSpace is a new technical support service for individual users and small businesses that need online support
By admin at October 9, 2007 | 5:10 am | 1 Comments
What Company Is About:SupportSpace is a new technical support service for individual users and small businesses that need online support with a centralized platform, connecting them to a live technician. The service is not yet live, but will be available towards the middle of this week.How It Works:The SupportSpace tech team consists of independent tech experts that are more...
Chinese social networking site Wangyou Media (www.wangyou.com) has raised a US$6.12 Series B round of funding
By admin at October 9, 2007 | 4:57 am | 0 Comment
Chinese social networking site Wangyou Media (www.wangyou.com) has raised a US$6.12 Series B round of funding, reports ChinaVenture.com.cn. Previous Wangyou investor Charles River Ventures participated in the round, as well as new investors Transcosmos Investments & Business Development, ADS Global Partners (Tokyo) and Oxsino Venture Ltd, said the report. Charles River more...
Is Wal-Mart Era Ending?
By admin at October 9, 2007 | 4:29 am | 0 Comment
The ever-expanding chain of drab big-box stores emerged from its dusty down-home beginnings in Arkansas in the 1970s, teaching Americans to demand ever-lower prices and instructing companies to shave their margins to the bone.But today, the Journal reports, Wal-Mart's influence is slipping as the Internet and smaller, hipper rivals take ever bigger bites out of its market more...
Google SMS Now In India For Local Information On Your Mobile
By admin at October 9, 2007 | 3:47 am | 0 Comment
Mobile users in the country can now easily get local information on their handsets as leading search engine Google introduced a service on 9 October to facilitate access to such content.The new offering Google SMS, has been launched in beta version across four cities Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Google has tied-up with five operators Reliance, Bharti Airtel, more...
MillionBlogs.org is a brand new concept that allows users to create their own fully functional website based on the word/phrase purchased
By admin at October 8, 2007 | 8:49 pm | 0 Comment
What Company is About:MillionBlogs.org is a brand new concept that allows users to create their own fully functional website based on the word/phrase purchased. It is an experiment aiming to become one of the biggest informational platforms on the Internet. The experiment is running on WordPress which is the best and the most popular publishing platform offering a more...
Text Link Center For "If you are interested in profiting from your website"
By admin at October 8, 2007 | 8:45 pm | 0 Comment
What Company is About: Text Link Center is completely free, you'll receive twice the number of links and reap the benefits of exponentially greater traffic. If you are interested in profiting from your website, there is no better text link system on Earth.How It Works:By copying the paid link detection algorithm of Google and the other search engines, you can now input more...
MyBuys builds deep behavioral profiles on each and every consumer
By admin at October 8, 2007 | 8:32 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is About:MyBuys builds deep behavioral profiles on each and every consumer. These profiles allow MyBuys to deliver the highest converting recommendations - resulting in revenues 300% greater per interaction than traditional approaches.By reaching consumers on a retailer’s web site, through email, and in RSS feeds, clients realize more repeat visits, more...
"Fashion Mash" where you can upload photos of items in your closet, and mix and match objects to create outfits online
By admin at October 8, 2007 | 8:25 pm | 0 Comment
What Company is About:Fashion Mash is a new social network for fashion folks, where you can upload photos of items in your closet, and mix and match objects to create outfits online. When you first sign up for the site, you can choose to import your own Meez avatar, create a new one, or choose a default avatar. From there, you can begin to upload your items. How It more...
ReachLocal, a company that provides online advertising services for small businesses
By admin at October 8, 2007 | 8:14 pm | 0 Comment
What Company is About:ReachLocal, a company that provides online advertising services for small businesses. How Much They Got From VCs:They just gotten a massive $55.2 million in a round of funding. The round was led by Rho Ventures, with Galleon Crossover Fund also participating, and VantagePoint Venture Partners as return investors. This recent round of funding comes more...
"Ring-To-Number"lets you offer tool free ways for people to call you, without you giving out your real phone number
By admin at October 8, 2007 | 4:27 am | 0 Comment
What Company is Offering:CallDigits has just launched a new service called Ring-To-Number, which is a tool that lets you offer tool free ways for people to call you, without you giving out your real phone number.What Its Purpose:This product is being promoted as a way to protect your identity from people online, but this can be used for off line purposes as well. The more...
Price comparison engine "Tjoos"
By admin at October 8, 2007 | 4:19 am | 0 Comment
When you take a closer look at price comparison sites you will soon notice that most sites only compare stores that have affiliate programs. These stores pay a commision to referring sites. In essence you get to choose from several store advertisements, we call this 'Ad comparison shopping'. At Tjoos we believe the user should be provided with the largest possible range more...
Is Google’s Rival Coming?
By admin at October 7, 2007 | 8:54 pm | 0 Comment
It's the nightmare of any Silicon Valley CEO: The thought that a smart kid in a messy garage in Silicon Valley is right now developing technology that will make his company's products obsolete.So should Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin be losing sleep about a tiny German company called Proximic?While the notion may at first seem ridiculous, given Google's more...
TextPayMe
By admin at October 7, 2007 | 8:35 pm | 0 Comment
What is TextPayMe?Use TextPayMe to Send and Receive Money with your Phone via Text Messaging.How It Works:With TextPayMe, you can send a payment to anybody, anytime, and anywhere just by using your mobile phone.To pay with your mobile phone, simply send a text message to the short code 262966 with the following command:Pay more...
Deadline for entries for Entrepreneur of the Year Award is October 27
By admin at October 7, 2007 | 8:32 pm | 0 Comment
The Ernst & Young Middle East Entrepreneur of the Year Award is currently accepting nominations from entrepreneurs in the region, the deadline for which is October 27. To enter the awards programme either download the application form from www.ey.com/me/eoy or contact local Ernst & Young office for more information. To be eligible to enter, entrepreneurs must be an more...
MSNBC Acquired Newsvine Inc
By admin at October 7, 2007 | 8:30 pm | 0 Comment
MSNBC Interactive News LLC said it acquired Newsvine Inc., a small Seattle startup that lets visitors read and comment on news stories from mainstream media outlets. MSNBC, which is jointly owned by Microsoft Corp. and NBC Universal, did not disclose financial terms of the deal late Sunday. NBC Universal is a joint venture of General Electric Co. and Vivendi SA. more...
