Cramster, global online study community has raised $3 million funding in Series A round led by Shai Reshef who is an online education industry veteran. The company has also hired Reshef as a new Chairman to filter its strategy and move in the right direction. According to TechCrunch, the company will use the funding to escalate its service and to fuel more users and their needs.
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Alerts.com a service that lets you track relevant information via email notifications and alert messages has recently signed a number of technology partnerships after its successful DEMO launch. The company has collaborated with 4INFO, Phone.com and Message Systems Inc. to further enhance and expand its service. Alerts.com can be used as a nifty reminder tool to avoid procrastination and help users organize their overwhelmed routines.
Alerts.com told startupmeme that the partnership will help it to deliver its alerts across the world. The company would be able to handle millions of messages in a real time as each partner is offering its complementary technology to produce the bet results.
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Mozilla has released the new version(0.9) of its standalone calendar application, Sunbird. A lot of changes are noted in the Sunbird 0.9 that includes the incorporation of various nifty features that makes it user friendly and visually appealing along with the changes in technical areas to boost its fidelity and to further enhance the productivity of the application. The features are also added in the Lightening calendar extension for the Thunderbird email client.
Some of the major upgrades are as follow:
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One of the most poplar social news site, Digg has raised whopping $28.7 million in Series C Venture Round. The round was led by Highland Capital Partners with existing investors Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network. Its indeed a big day for Digg and the funding will act as a catalyst in accelerating some under development programs which includes new feature development, international expansion, investment in development of infrastructure and hiring new people to cater the needs of customers.
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ShareThis, a widget provider that lets users share blog or a news article across multiple social media sites such as Digg, Delicious, MySpace etc is going to acquire madKast. madKast is also a widget maker that allows users to share blog/news through SMS messages and email along with other web services. Further details about the acquisition hasn’t been disclosed yet by any party.
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An Online game developer Trion has recently raised a $70 million funding in Series C funding round. The round was led by Act II Capital with all previous investors DCM, Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon, Time Warner and Peacock Equity (NBC and GE’s JV). The company has raised $100 million funding till now. Trion’s new funding and its partnership with different entertainment and technology services will help it to gain an emerging position in the world of server-based games.
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Google has recently updated its RSS Reader product to enhance the user experience and make itself compatible with on growing business needs. The array of introduced updates includes friends worldwide, tagging with note, alphabetical ordering and the last-crawl date. Google Readers now support international sharing through its new ‘Friends Everywhere’ update. The new tagging system allows you to add a tag while adding a note so that people who use lots of tags could easily manage their subscriptions.
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Imagekind’s founder Kelly Smith raises $1.7 Million in initial round of financing to initiate his new project PressPlane, a marketplace for buying and selling products and service. Smith after selling his former project ‘Imagekind’ (an online marketplace for original and reprinted artwork) to CafePress would be working on his new startup by practicing experiences and skills, he learned from the development of Imagekind. The round was led by Second Avenue Partners along with other angel investors MTV President Mika Salmi, Expedia founder Rich Barton, and Erik Blachford, former Expedia CEO.
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LetsEat allows you to create the website for your restaurant with few clicks. If you are running a restaurant and wants to share it with the rest of the world but issues like hosting, designing and updating takes crap out of you than try LetsEat. Its an awesome free service that provides a wholesome collection of quality themes to make your site appealing and unique. The site also offers a free hosting platform and you can get started by creating your account, No fees and no graphics tools to suffocate your work.
LetsEat is stunningly simple and provides array of productive features that helps you build an eloquent and complete site for your eating place. Owners can create customize menus, post daily/weekly specials (let customers know about it through the site’s RSS system), post restaurant’s reviews of newspapers and magazines. The site also serves as a good marketing platform and you can create your own printable and customizable coupons to allure customers. The recently added LetsEat. at Mobile Edition will be a boon to busy commuters. The mobile edition lets customers place their order when they are on move with an easily accessible online menu that gives an idea about the availability of your favourite appetite.
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Google Labs has recently launched its new project In Quotes that lets users view and compare quotes from various political leaders. The service works by extracting keywords from the recently delivered speeches and interviews. In Quotes are by default set to show the quotes of US Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain while you can choose different candidates from the available drop down menu list to view their opinions.
Various excerpts are already available such as education, texes, Iran and oil but users can also search for their own keywords. You can ‘spin’ to compare two randomly selected quotes or manually click to view the next quote. Apart from the US Presidential body, the product also supports UK, Canadian and Indian versions. The quotes are fetched from The Google News and does not support any discriminative views. The tool could be used to understand the views of different people in the news and to glance the discussions from various political bodies.
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