July 30th, 2012
As the giants of Silicon Valley continue to position themselves for battles ahead, Apple and Twitter have cemented their alliance by integrating Twitter into Mac OS X as well as iOS software. Now there’s...
July 13th, 2012
Despite global economic wobbles, we’re living in times when a social travel app for iPad that launched three months ago can raise $2.4m in Series A funding. The company is Jetpac, and the investors...
May 14th, 2012
Video-sharing app Viddy has announced a new $30m funding round, with NEA, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, and Battery Ventures all chipping in. The round came as Viddy passed 27m registered users, with...
May 10th, 2012
Yesterday afternoon, Music Ally reported on a Korean news site’s claim that Samsung was buying US cloud-entertainment startup mSpot for $10m. By the evening, the news was official. It means we have...
May 3rd, 2012
One possible reason for getting out of Facebook web games and into mobile social games? Investors will fling money at you. US social publisher CrowdStar made the pivot last month, and has now announced...
April 17th, 2012
Is the apps world in a financial bubble? Plenty of VC firms and investors continue to disagree. This week has seen a flurry of funding news from consumer-focused mobile app startups. Starting with the...
November 1st, 2011
UK startup Mindshapes has announced a $5 million funding round from its founders and angel investors, which will be used to launch two new virtual worlds for children. The company has already released...
November 1st, 2011
Music app developer Smule has announced a $12 million funding round, led by Shasta Ventures with Granite Ventures and Bessemer Ventures participating. The funding follows an $8 million round in December...
