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How Blippy’s founders dreamed up a Twitter for your credit card (invites)

Dec 22nd

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There’s a new site called Blippy based around a pretty provocative idea — it gives users the ability to share all the purchase information from one of their credit cards. Once you buy a movie ticket from Fandango or a cup of coffee from Starbucks, Blippy automatically publishes those purchases in a stream of [...]

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Group texting startup Gogii raises $8.2M more

Dec 11th

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Gogii, which created the the textPlus mobile application for group chatting, has raised $8.2 million in a second round of institutional funding. The company was already backed by top tier venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Matrix Partners led the new round.
Using your phone’s SMS text messaging features, textPlus (iTunes link) creates a chat room-like [...]

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Group texting startup Gogii raises $8.2M more

Dec 11th

Posted by gizmodose in Hi Tech News

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Gogii, which created the the textPlus mobile application for group chatting, has raised $8.2 million in a second round of institutional funding. The company was already backed by top tier venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Matrix Partners led the new round.
Using your phone’s SMS text messaging features, textPlus (iTunes link) creates a chat room-like [...]

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StockTwits gets $3M more for stock-related comments on Twitter (via postie)

Dec 2nd

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StockTwits, a startup that helps you see people’s stock-related comments on microblogging service Twitter, today announced $3 million in round 2 funding from Foundry Group and returning investor True Ventures.
The free service aggregates tweets and streams them to StockTwits when Twitter users do one of two things – enter a $ symbol before a stock [...]

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eBay completes sale of Skype at $2.75 billion valuation

Nov 20th

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eBay said it has completed the sale of a 70-percent stake in Skype communications service for an amount that values the company at $2.75 billion.
The buyer is an investor consortium led by Silver Lake Partners, the private equity buyout firm. It includes participation from Joltid, the company founded by Skype’s founders. Other members include Canada [...]

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