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iBitz : une application qui oblige les enfants à faire du sport pour pouvoir jouer aux jeux vidéos. Une contrepartie qui vous veut du bien ! Quand j’étais petit, je jouais à la plus que je ne faisais de sport, et ce au grand de mes parents. Il faut croire que ces derniers auraient bien aimé le que je vais vous dévoiler dans cet article : . Créé par la américaine , permet aux parents de afin de leur donner la permission de jouer. . : c’est un peu le genre de phrases qui vont se développer avec la de ce service.

Tout fonctionne avec un de couleur que l’on attache à la ceinture ou aux lacets de ses chaussures. Je vous entend déjà penser , car oui s’adresse aussi aux adultes, dans quel cas il offre une . Mais si ce service va devenir populaire chez les enfants américains, c’est bien grâce à l’aspect qui a été développé autour. L’application a aussi été pensée pour être utilisée dans des et pour suivre les résultats des adhérents. Actuellement seuls les pour enfants sont disponibles sur le site . Personnellement, je trouve . Côté parent, c’est un moyen d’inciter les enfants à . Dites-le plutôt Via Hector ! Snapchat Raises $13.5M Series A Led By Benchmark, Now Sees 60M Snaps Sent Per Day.

Snapchat, the impermanent messaging app that won “Fastest Rising Startup” at the 2012 Crunchies, has finalized a $13.5 million Series A round led by Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky. According to The New York Times, Snapchat is now valued between $60 and $70 million. In December, GigaOm’s Om Malik reported that Snapchat was raising an $8 million round from Benchmark at roughly a $50 million valuation; and our own Eric Eldon wrote that Snapchat was raising a Series A “north of $10 million” at a rough $70 million valuation, led by Lasky. Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel confirmed the funding to me, and noted that the company now sees 60 million snaps sent per day, and users have sent over 5 billion snaps in total.

The company has hired five new employees, bringing the total staff to 10, and has moved to a new office in Venice Beach, CA. Spiegel tells me the company will use the funding for “hiring and servers, definitely. Snapchat previously raised $485,000 from Lightspeed Venture Partners. Sevenly. Emerging bets at the intersection of technology and culture. 03 May, 2012 – 2 comments click to embiggen Download Deutsch LA’s Key Startups and Trends for 2012 Deutsch LA’s Invention Strategy team journeyed to South by Southwest 2012 to document the birth of over 100 new digital startups. Following the conference, our team monitored each startups’ social mentions and press, along with cataloguing their feature set, user base, and underlying social technologies. This research has culminated in a 12-page report, free to download, that identifies the key trends and opportunities that marketers should be focused on in their work for the year ahead.

I’m incredibly proud of my team for putting this together and I hope you find it useful. Procter & Gamble’s Charmin brand runs first mobile sponsorship. By Mickey Alam Khan April 10, 2009 P&G taps Carat agency to power a multichannel campaign in conjunction with Charmin's sponsorship of the Sit or Sqaut iPhone app Procter & Gamble Co.'s Charmin, the nation's No. 1 toilet paper brand, has debuted its first mobile advertising sponsorship, working with global bathroom directory SitOrSquat Inc. on its Web site and mobile applications.

The consumer packaged goods giant is sponsoring SitOrSquat's site and iPhone application to help consumers on the go find the cleanest public toilets worldwide. "SitOrSquat is the perfect partner for us," said Dewayne Guy, external relations manager at P&G, Cincinnati, OH. SitOrSquat is a New York-based user-generated service that lets consumers find bathrooms with myriad facilities including changing tables and handicap access across 55,000 bathrooms in 32 countries. Charmin takes baby steps on mobile Got your backThe Charmin sponsorship is currently live on the Web site and iPhone application. Ms. Mr. Shopkick: Treat yourself for all the shopping you already do. Really.