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kaufDa is one of Germany’s leading “promotion search” sites. What’s that? It helps you look for the best sales and mobile couponing running near where you live.
Axel Springer acquires majority stake in kaufDa mobile coupons startup for $40 million
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Foursquare
TVtrip
Gowalla
Etsy
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Evernote Reaches Two Million Lifeloggers, Half Of Them Are On Th
The idea of a life recorder that captures every moments of your life on video is still a bit of a tech fantasy, but an early version of the life recorder already exists. It is called Evernote , the popular iPhone (and now Android ) app which lets you record your memories by snapping geo-tagged photos, making voice notes, or just text notes and making it easy to search through them. Evernote does not yet support video recording other than as an attachment (for premium subscribers), but when that becomes more practical it will. “Evernote is definitely positioned to be the lifelogging tool of choice,” says CEO Phil Libin. “That ambient video capture was my original plan for Evernote—always recording, not storing, you bookmark it—that is exactly what we want to do.” Next year Evernote will introduce voice search, which will be a big step towards that ultimate vision (if you can search audio, you can search through what was said in videos).
Our earlier report about Critical Path buying mobile services startup ShoZu turns out to have been right on the money.
Done deal: Critical Path acquires Shozu, CEO Chris Wade stays on
Hungry Machine Inc., the application developer behind LivingSocial.com , the social cataloging service, has raised $5 million in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing .
LivingSocial Creator Takes New $5M Round – GigaOM
For the past four months, Amsterdam-based eBuddy has turned a profit, CEO Jan-Joost Rueb tells me, by offering advertising-supported services for free in combination with sales of a premium iPhone application. The company, backed by 11.5 million Euros in venture capital from Lowland Capital Partners and Prime Technology Ventures, markets a Web-based social network and instant messaging aggregator that enables people to sign in to their service once and stay connected to people through various platforms in one single interface where all of them are centralized. It also offers a number of ways for people to use the service on their mobile phones, through a mobile web service, a Java-based messenger client and applications for iPhone and Android .
How eBuddy’s Mobile Monetization Strategy Helped It Turn A Profi
Eyeka raises €3 million for crowd-sourcing ad campaigns
[France] Eyeka , which connects brands and creative consumers, has raised €3 million in a second round of financing. The company already had €5 million in backing in 2006 with Ventech , DN Capital and SFR Developpement , while the company was focused on a platform to enhance pictures and videos management from mobiles.Tumblr
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Social network for currency traders Currensee has raised $8M in Series B funding led by prior backer Northbridge Venture Partners and joined by new investor Egan-Managed Capital . The company had earlier raised $6 million from Northbridge Venture Partners, but $2 million of the Series A round (raised in October 2009) was converted to Series B terms as part of the deal.