Cuban and Lauder invest $1M in TV app platform Flingo. Flingo has received $1 million from Mark Cuban and Gary Lauder, bringing the TV app company’s total Series A funding to $8 million and helping to bring connected television further into the mainstream.
The previous $7 million was led by August Capital in February. The funding will be used to expand Flingo’s presence beyond its current OEM partnerships with Samsung, LG, Vizio, Sanyo, Insignia, Western Digital, Netgear and others, and to partner with media companies in addition to its relationships with Fox, A+E Networks, Showtime, Warner Bros., CBS, Blip andVimeo. Flingo‘s SyncApps platform is available on over 8.5 million screens in 118 countries. It identifies what program viewers are watching, globally and in real-time, and integrates contextually relevant streaming video, dynamic advertising and other content. Viewers can then interact with it on a connected TV, laptop, tablet or smartphone by sharing it on social networks or in other ways.
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Movl designs multiscreen, multidevice apps to enhance the connected-TV viewing experience. Now Movl is working on a program called Direct Connect, which adds to the existing Connect service and is designed to work with both the Wi-Fi and 3G capabilities of mobile devices. Movl explained the program would have the capability to tap into a smartphone’s built-in accelerometer to use the phone as a game controller. The business model is ad-supported or paid ($30/month) for Direct Connect with a free trial available for developers. Last month, Movl announced a new app called SwipeIt, which works on Android phones and Samsung TVs (and is technically owned by Samsung), allowing users to “swipe” content from their phones and have it appear on their TV screens.
No Comment. Snap of What Do Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley Investors Say About Social TV? on Social TV Summit - San Francisco created by steve. Google Ventures, Mark Cuban And Others Invest $1M In Social CRM Startup Nimble. Google Ventures, Mark Cuban And Others Invest $1M In Social CRM Startup Nimble January 19, 2012 (datsyn.com) - Customer relationship management startup Nimble has raised $1 million in funding from notable investors Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, Dharmesh Shah and more!
Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara views Nimble as a combination Hootsuite, Yammer and Salesforce. Unlike CRM tools like Salesforce, which Ferrara equates to stagnant databases of customers, Nimble takes into account that today’s salespeople are social. Instead of having to cc: and bcc: their communications, Nimble users can OAuth into Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google to bring their contacts and messaging to Nimble. Not only does the platform bring in contacts, but it also adjusts and lets you know when one of your contacts is using a different service. Mark Cuban bets $5 million on future of device-tracking firm BlueCava. BlueCava, a credit bureau for devices conducting business online, has closed a $5 million first round of funding led by billionaire Mark Cuban and entrepreneur Tim Headington.
The company told VentureBeat it expects to conduct a second round as soon as April. BlueCava is used by companies doing business online to identify the individual “fingerprint” of any desktop or mobile device being used in a web transaction. This snapshot then provides businesses with the device’s IP address, cookies, browser and any credit information it can find about past historical activities, thereby lowering the risk of possible fraud during online buying or selling. Blue Cava CEO David Norris said the firm has a clear outline for where it will put the new cash first. “We’ll be using the funding to accelerate growth on the sales and marketing front as well as on the development side,” said Norris. As part of the $5 million investment, Cuban will now join BlueCava’s board of directors.
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