Tag: Photo Sharing
Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion, To Grow Strength, Remain Standalone
Facebook announced earlier this morning that it has agreed to buy Instagram for US$1 billion, just one week after the number 1 photo-sharing app released its version for Android. Not since Google bought Youtube have we heard of such a huge acquisition in the tech startup scene. “I’m excited to share the news that we’ve [...]
Facebook ‘talent’ acquisition on Gowalla is confirmed
This article is also available in Bahasa Malaysia. It is now confirmed that part of the team behind Gowalla will be moving to Facebook office in California, however the number of talent is still in question. Although, Gowalla has made it clear that its services at Gowalla.com will stop by the end of January. “Gowalla, [...]
uSnap.Us Aces Kiwi Startup Weekend
After 54 hours of pitching, researching, coding and designing – uSnap.Us emerged as the winner of Startup Weekend Wellington. Despite the fact that it was the first Startup Weekend ever held in New Zealand’s capital, the event attracted around 100 participants; further cementing the reputation of the city as a creative hub for start-ups. Perhaps [...]
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Adding flavors to Social-Sharing: Flvrd bags $40k, 1-year working-visa [Startups]
Social sharing is pretty much bigger than Facebook and Twitter, “the ultimate form of distribution” as David Armano – Senior Vice President at Edelman Digital explain in an article at Harvard Business Review blog. The potential is infinity. We’ve seen many start-ups coming up with great ideas and product, introducing new social platform and made it big. How they [...]
Startups: Go Try It On raised $3 million of funding
On Friday, Go Try It On has announced that the company will received a round of funding worth $3 million from SPA Investments and Index Ventures. Go Try it On is a new startup on website and mobile app that enables user to ask for others’ feedback on outfits. With it, user can get fashion [...]
Facebook: Users spent 3 times longer on News Feed than using Apps
Facebook is the largest social network in the world with 750 million active users of whom 50% log in on a daily basis. Its user base has been increasing rapidly in the past two years. Just last year, Facebook only had 400 million registered users. Here are some comparisons of some country population to Facebook [...]
Your Personal Travel Documenter. Lifelapse for iPhone
Lifelapse for iPhone is a new application that automatically capture photo every thirty seconds. This application is suitable for a time-lapse photography project and to document your travel journey without the hassle to keep snapping photo while traveling. To start, all you have to do is just start Lifelapse, and click on start recording – which your iPhone [...]
Start-ups: $41 million does not promise success
“For every success there will be 250 really dumb valuations.” – Mark Suster Color, a start-up company for photo-sharing received a huge amount of investment earlier this year. The news was a big-thing when I heard about it, and I was quite excited when watching the demo video in their website. Unfortunately, that does not reflect user experience when the application was made available [...]
Style Snaps: Show Me Whatcha Got
Recently launched in May, Style Snaps is a ‘fashionista’ community site which enables users to upload photos of their current fashion style. Users are allowed to upload photos directly to the website, via Facebook or Style Snaps iOS app. Style Snaps is the latest innovation by BlueBots, a Kuala Lumpur-based web publisher which is also [...]
