Offerpal Media after providing monetization platform for social apps has itself grabbed in $15 million in Series B. The round was led by D.E. Shaw Ventures with returning backers, InterWest Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners joining in. Anu Shukla, founder and CEO of Offerpal Media stated in a release:
Archive for February, 2009
We had earlier reported that Fujitsu had put down rumors associated to selling its Hard Disk division to Western Digital. It had rejected so only to have it sold to Toshiba as the electronics good manufacturer has bought it. The price remains undisclosed s far and reports are that the deal will be completed by June this year. As per the deal, Fujitsu would transfer the following to Toshiba:
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Al right so Twitter is definitely the best way to break in any news from any part of the world where access to the Internet is possible, but at times this reach may not exactly sound useful. The same happened today when Twitter’s HR department sent a notice of rejection to those who had applied for the position of Project Manager. Apparently the micromessaging service ended up sending the notice to all candidates making the list visible to all of the 185 people who had applied for it. Following is the message that was delivered to the recipients:
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If you have property and are looking forward to market it on the web and have your listings appear on other similar property listing sites then head on to estatecreate.com. The service lets you easily put up pictures, details, maps for guidance, etc on the website in a matter of minutes. Once done with the basics, you have an option to buy your own URL and distribute/share your property details with others via feeds, etc. The service has been launched in partnership with The Independent. CEO, Henry Yates stated on the launch:
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More from Truphone as it announces its plans to launch Truphone Local Anywhere. The project is a single SIM, global mobile service that enables its users to make mobile calls for supported countries as a local one. The service will definitely be a leap as it will rid mobile users worldwide of the roaming charges and more importantly buying new connections as they move from one country to another. We aren’t sure how many countries the service is going to begin with nor do we have idea of when exactly when it begins, perhaps by midyear. A few of the features it offers are:
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Facebook might be altering its terms of service and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg defending it, there is one more thing that many users won’t like; receiving a countless email alerts from Facebook. Somebody pays attention to this and has developed an app; NutshellMail Facebook that helps you keep track of any and every activity on your Facebook with a better notification system. The app simply sends you those updates on a schedule that is defined by you. The updates you receive have a snapshot of every new activity along with the links, so you know if it’s worth to hit and know the entire thing. Plus users can integrate various social networking accounts to their NutshellMail updates.
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Truphone is heading on with major announcements at the WMC the major including updates to various features. Users can now utilize PayPal to load their accounts (top) plus giving AIM users to make use of Truphone as their IM client on the iPhone (it had earlier announced its feature for the Android). CEO Geraldine Wilson stated on the occasion:
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