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
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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
Facebook’s Virtual Currency Push Hints at Micro-Payments Battle
September 9, 2010 by
Publication: Wired.com | Client: TrialPlay Facebook is making a play to become the dominant player in virtual currency — the funny money you use to everything from digital magazines to Farmville turnips. It’s already a billion-dollar business in which Facebook, the world’s largest social network, will face stiff competition from other behemoths like Apple, Google … read more here
Seedcamp kicks off its biggest week yet
September 8, 2010 by
Seedcamp kicks off its biggest week yet Seedcamp Week, the week when the startup programme brings its European travels to a head and lands in London, starts next week and they’ve released the startups they will be running through their intense mentoring wringer during the 13th until the 17th of September. Over 600 teams applied … read more here
GetJar applies itself to growth
August 24, 2010 by
RCR Unplugged RCR Unplugged recently caught up with GetJar’s chief marketing officer Patrick Mork to discuss the cross- platform app store’s explosive success and what it means to have more than 73,000 apps distributed across 200 countries for about 2,200 devices. “For GetJar, the focus has always on discovery, distribution and making consumption of content … read more here
The Daily Start-Up: Sequoia, Kleiner Team Up Again
July 21, 2010 by
An inside look from VentureWire at high-tech start-ups and their investors. This morning’s roundup of the latest venture capital news and analysis across the Web: Most venture syndicates draw little media attention, but when Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers team up it seems that everyone notices. This morning, media outlets are abuzz … read more here
