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Lovely rental search expanding across the nation
Simplified search going national Last fall, AGBeat introduced you to Lovely, the San Francisco rental search startup with big plans and were named two short months later to the 60 Genius Brands to watch in 2012 list, and so far they have not disappointed, today secretly adding to their websites the names of the five cities they are about to ...
Klout’s first acquisition expands their own influence
Klout’s first acquisition Influence measuring site, Klout allows users to “track the impact of their opinions, links and recommendations across your social graph” and “identifies influencers and provides tools for influencers to monitor their influence.” Klout CEO, Joe Fernandez was named in the 2011 Genius50 Power Moves and the company was named on the 60 Genius Brands to Watch in ...
How a real estate startup stepped up when the MLS vendor would not
Property tours today As of today, only a select few agents in San Francisco can manage, search, sort, and map their Tuesday Broker’s property tour report using a smartphone. Everyone else is still either printing out a paper version of their tour or using a static PDF file to figure out what homes they will view and in what order. ...
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TaskRabbit acquires SkillSlate, expands services platform
TaskRabbit acquires SkillSlate Today, San Francisco-based online marketplace for outsourcing errands and tasks, TaskRabbit has announced that they are using an undisclosed portion of their their nearly $25 million in funding to acquire SkillSlate, an auction-based website for local services. In a statement, TaskRabbit said, “SkillSlate crowdsources its network of service providers to help its customers with any task they ...
Smartr inbox enhances email for business
Smartr inbox for Gmail Smartr inbox for Gmail by San Francisco tech company, Xobni makes your inbox and address book smarter. After being founded in 2006 and launching publicly in 2008, Xobni now offers the Smartr app (for Outlook, Gmail, Android, BlackBerry or iPhones) which makes everyone and everything you have ever emailed, called, or texted from your Google Voice ...
Startup Expensify keeps business expenses organized on the go
“Expense reports that don’t suck” One crucial part of any successful small business is keeping track of finances and expenses. The one simple task of taking control of your company’s expenses can make the difference between profitable and organized success and disorganized chaos. With this in mind, let’s take a look at Expensify, the company that says they offer “expense ...
Kred offers social scoring, picks up transparency slack where Klout refuses to
Introducing Kred, the new social scoring system Klout has come under fire recently for a lack of transparency in how their social scoring model works and many say it is easy to game. They have also come under fire for creating profiles on minors, among other things, making it the perfect time for an alternative. Although many despise the very ...
Free HTML5 web conferencing that is better than sliced bread
Web conferencing that doesn’t suck As a news organization, we are on web conferences all the time and some of the biggest challenges are poor sound quality, a slow product, features that are lacking, but most importantly, inaccessibility because most web conferencing tools use Adobe Flash or are web based only and cannot be used on a smartphone or tablet, ...
Survey finds that most consumers don’t understand QR codes
Revitalizing an old argument We have long predicted that QR codes are just a passing trend and although companies will take a shine to them, consumers will ultimately opt to type in a memorable URL or use augmented reality apps as they become mainstream. Up to this point it has mostly been through discussion with consumers that we have made ...
Twylah creates custom brand pages for company tweets
Redefining Twitter use Twylah.com has launched in beta to help serve brands and celebrities on Twitter in a more customized environment than Twitter can offer. Brands are limited to the chronological timeline on Twitter, and although they are able to change the background image of their page, there is insufficient organization to the status updates. Twylah has set out to ...
Twitter signups triple and there are now 250 million tweets per day
Twitter’s growth is skyrocketing At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo reported that Twitter had 90 million tweets per day in September 2010, jumped to 100 million per day in the first quarter, and today, the social network has nearly 250 million tweets per day, a massive increase in a very short period of time. ...
StumbleUpon hits 20 million users, has over 1 billion stumbles per month
Click image above to enlarge. Major milestone for StumbleUpon Personalized discovery engine StumbleUpon started as a simple extension and just a few short years later, they are now owned by eBay and enjoy 20 million users, 1 billion stumbles per month, and at peak times of the day see over 1,000 stumbles per second, a major growth milestone given that ...
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