Increasingly popular and super-awesome social music streaming service Rdio announced today the release of their newly updated Mac app, hot on the heels of a revamped iPhone app. The app is free to download, though you need to have a paid subscription to Rdio to take proper advantage of it. If you’re unfamiliar with Rdio.com, … read more here
Articles Tagged: Applications
Seedcamp invests in 12 European startups
September 17, 2010 by
Seedcamp is most easily described as Europe’s Y Combinator. It provides seed investment of up to €50.000 in exchange for 8 to 10 percent of the startup in question. Seedcamp stages events all over Europe which culminate in 20 or so companies being selected to participate in Seedcamp week in London. Following an investment, the … read more here
Secure Vault Payments Launches As a Commercial Service
September 16, 2010 by
NACHA’s long-awaited Secure Vault Payments (SVP) program, which lets consumers make guaranteed payments online through the automated clearing house network, officially became a commercially available product on Thursday after a pilot that began in the spring of 2008. The new product can now be offered by any bank linked to the nearly ubiquitous ACH network … read more here
The Next PayPal? Facebook Credits Takes A Step Forward
September 15, 2010 by
Will Facebook Credits become the next PayPal? Recent moves are bringing the nascent virtual currency closer into competition with payment providers like the eBay-owned site, as well as Apple and Amazon. Last week, Facebook and Zynga announced that the five-year deal over Credits they had signed last May was an exclusive one, meaning Zynga’s games … read more here
RIM Duels With Droid
September 15, 2010 by
For the past few years, Research in Motion Inc. has been fighting a rear-guard defense of its BlackBerry smartphones against Apple Inc.’s iPhones. Now there’s another competitor on the horizon in the business market: phones powered by Google Inc.’s Android software. Requests to connect Android phones to corporate email are popping up in the inboxes … read more here
Seedcamp selects local finalists
September 10, 2010 by
European micro seed fund Seedcamp has invited three South African start-ups to London to compete for a possible investment of €50 000. Seedcamp recently hosted an Africa Seedcamp week and put out a call for applications for funding, which received more than 40 entries from technology start-ups across SA. Of those 40 entries, Cognician, iSigned … read more here
