According to GigaOm, Twitter has closed its second round of funding in which it raised around $15 million.
Twitter, a San Francisco based startup which was started by Ev Williams (founder of Odeo and Blogger) is in news for quite some time regarding their investment deal. Although it has been reported earlier that the company has raised around $15million to $20million at a valuation north of $70 million. But then all this chatter proved out to be plain hype.
A new investor is participating in this round along with the current ones, is one of them.
The official news of this agreement is going to come out soon along with the specifics about the lead investor which is yet to be known. The VCs who have participated in the current round of funding include Union Square Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Spark Capital. Charles River Ventures were unable to make it through to the final lot.
The San Francisco based company which started their services to group alert friends through SMS has now evolved as a communication tool. Twitter has managed to raise funding at a time when it is seriously struggling with scaling issues. Hopefully it could now use this money to bring in some good people, who knows how to deal with all these issues.
SOCIAL NETWORKS BEWARE: BUENO.COM LAUNCHES ITS TELECOM-RICH SOCIAL NETWORK – YOUR COMPUTER MAY BE THE NEW PHONE AND IT’S FREE.
MAY 1ST, MIAMI, FLORIDA
Bueno.com may be the newest entry into the social network scene but it’s got something everyone is talking about – a free virtual phone empowering site users to make free calls to their friends as long as they have a microphone and speakers and both parties are members of the BUENO network (which is also free of course).And dont forget a free USA phone number.
Developers and web gurus are busy at BUENO. While the launch of its beta version of “what’s soon to come”, even though many of the gadgets work, there are several significant features placing what Bueno will be, in a league of its own. We’ll get to the free phone in a minute.
First, of course you get your own email address and in box – send and receive features are pretty standard. You get a very well organized wall with a nice feature – your wall is always present so you can keep up with the activity without having to open and close screens. You can post and receive not only text messages, but voice and video messages as well. Very slick. Want to let your friends know what you’re doing right now – record and send a video post in seconds (but make sure you have a web cam).
If you like what you see so far, BUENO can also automatically import (scrape) your profile and friends information from other networks and email boxes when you’re ready to consolidate your daily business under one community.
Bueno users also get their own photo album page enabling users to import and collect your favorite pix and video galleries where you can store the video messages you want to hold on to.
With all of these robust features, the sense is that you can communicate with any of your member friends using text, email, video and now, your own virtual phone, for free, as well as keeping your life in a fairly sane state – let’s not forget the calendar, blog, and chat.
At sign up, you’ll choose a phone number – you’ll now have the ability to call a friend, from your computer, and give them your real BUENO phone number, named “ME”. If your friend happens to be in Mexico or Italy, and you’re in the USA, the call is free. When your friends sign up – you’re all in, chatting, emailing, sending video messages and calling all simultaneously and for free.
Let’s not forget the music library you can load up with your new found favorite artists thanks to BUENO’s legally free search technology.
Bueno.com is a Miami based technology and communications enterprise. Ownership and management have spent thousands of hours collaborating with their team of techies and it is apparent this network really has a grasp on not only what everyone seems to want in a feature rich community, but something very innovative, new, and free.
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