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YC Alum/Construction Disruptor PlanGrid Nails $1.1M Seed Funding From Box, 500 Startups, And More
One more Y Combinator startup from the March 2012 class has bagged a seed round of funding. PlanGrid, which has created a groundbreaking app for the construction industry, has raised $1.1 million from a notable list of backers. They includeSuleman Ali, founder and CEO of TinyCo; Sam Altman, found...
Apple Rejects Apps Integrating Micro-Payments Service Flattr, Company Claims "It's Not the End"
It may not be the end, but the prognosis doesn’t look good. Social micro-payments platformFlattris taking an unkind hit in terms of its future growth opportunities on mobile, the company details on its blog this morning. After being integrated into popular third-party podcast manager Instac...
Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M
Exec, a mobile app that instantly gets people to do your errands, has raised $3.3 million, according to an SEC filing. The company’s co-founder Justin Kan, who is also behind Justin.tv, Twitch.tv and SocialCam, says he’s not ready to disclose investors yet, except to say that there ar...
MoPub Launches A "Buy It Now" Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers
MoPub, an ad serving startup for smartphone apps, is announcing a new way for its publishers to offer their inventory to advertisers - a private marketplace limited to select publishers and advertisers.Basically, the market creates a more direct relationship, where publishers get more control and...
TinyTap App Lets Kids Create Customized iPad Books & Games
TinyTap is a new iPad application designed for kids which introduces a different angle on the “record-your-own-voice” storybooks craze, by offering a playable book or game you and your kids can customize with your own photos, camera shots, music, narration, and more. The resulting cre...
Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
shopkick, the location-based shopping app backed by Greylock and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is having its biggest rollout yet - Target says it’s making the service available in its stores nationwide.Target was already announced as a shopkick partner, but until now, it was limited...
Rubicon Project Acquires Mobsmith To Expand Into Mobile Ads
Online advertising company Rubicon Project just announced that it’s getting into the mobile market by acquiring a startup called Mobsmith.The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in the announcement, but AllThingsD is hearing that the price was $10 million.Rubicon does say that it...
The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle's Patents
Just over a week ago, the jury began deliberations on the ongoing patent infringement case between Google and Oracle. After waiting in the wings, with bated breath, the verdict is finally in, as Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court of Northern California dismissed the jury this afternoo...
From Your iPhone, With Love: Thank You Pen Does What Cards App Can't [Feature]
Say hello to Thank You Pen. A warehouse nestled in the heart of Louisville, Kentucky is home to hundreds of unnamed machines. Each white box gently wields a robotic arm that grips a normal-looking pen. As I walkdown the aisles separating the machines, disjointed sounds of clicks and squeaks fill ...
9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
MapMyFitness is a veteran of the online health and fitness space, with the first iteration of its website appearing back in the summer of 2005. Since then, the startup has developed a suite of fitness-oriented websites (like MapMyRUN.com, MapMyRIDE.com, MapMyWALK.com, et al) to let users track an...
