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Placed Launches Placed Affiliate to Let Developers Monetize by Sharing App Location Data
— Seattle-based Placed is an analytics service that ties consumers' smartphone behavior to brand insights, helping companies understand how their customers shop in retail locations, and showcasing to developers how users behave in their apps.
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Recommendation Engine Noodle Acquires Lore to Make Education More Social
— The explosion of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and the rise of e-learning platforms like Coursera and Udemy has changed the way both students and lifelong learners learn online.
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PayPal Competitor WePay Launches iOS App to Take Invoicing & Payments Mobile
— Startup WePay launched as a group payments solution that allowed people to purchase an item together online, and has since pivoted to become a PayPal-like contender in the online payments space.
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Influitive Acquires Engagio, Aims to Engage Advocates By Tapping Into the Social Web
— Today, Toronto-based Influitive, a B2B advocate marketing platform, announced that it has acquired another Toronto-based startup Engagio, a platform to search, discover, and follow online comments, for an undisclosed amount.
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Social Advocacy Platform Extole Adds $7.6M to Help Brands Drive Referrals
— Today San Francisco-based Extole, a consumer-to-consumer social advocacy platform, announced that it has closed $7.6 million funding from existing investors Shasta Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Trident Capital.
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With 3M Parking Spots Across the U.S., ParkWhiz Adds $2M in Series A Funding
— Today Chicago-based startup ParkWhiz announced it has closed $2 million in funding, led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with participation from investors including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Y Combinator partner Garry Tan, and several others.
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With $2.5M in Funding, Koozoo Launching to Be Google Street View for Video
— San Francisco-based startup Koozoo wants to help its users answers questions like ‘how big is the lineup at my favorite restaurant?’ or ‘how crowded is the beach?’ by crowdsourcing live video feeds of the world's public places.
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Clarity Adds $1.6M from 500 Startups, Mark Cuban to Be ‘Lifeline for Entrepreneurs’
— BetaKit covered San Francisco and Moncton, NB-based Clarity, which lets anyone get access to entrepreneurial advice over the phone, when it hit 10,000 calls after launching in May 2012.
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Viddy Competitor Klip Adds Video Replies, Private Messaging to Increase Engagement
— Mobile video app Klip today announced an update to its service, with the addition of several features that will let users converse through video. BetaKit covered the company when it launched its Android app in June 2012 …
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biNu Raises $4.3M, Adds biNu Credits to Monetize Cloud Platform for Feature Phones
— Mobile phone adoption has grown to six billion people globally, with five billion users still in emerging markets, according to a study by the World Bank. Out of that number, only 38 percent are smartphones …
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.