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New Media Infrastructure Company Ankeena Networks Raises $16 Million
Ankeena Networks’ flagship product is a content delivery platform dubbed Media Flow Director , which enables mobile operators and other service providers to take advantage of rising consumer demand for mobile content and other rich media content across mobile devices, PCs and televisions. Ankeena Networks , a Santa Clara, CA-based provider of new media infrastructure solutions, has raised approximately $16 million in new VC funding, according to a regulatory filing (via peHUB ). No word about who backed the company with this third round of financing, but Ankeena Networks was
TechCrunch - Friday, March 19, 2010
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DIY Social Network Platform GROU.PS Now Syncs With Yahoo Groups
So Yahoo Groups admins can incorporate functionality such as, location-based services and chat, into their platforms from GROU.PS. The startup, which has over 40,000 networks on its platform and 2.5 GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration has unveiled a synchronization tool that allows the group administrators on Yahoo Groups to sync with GROU.PS. The new tool doesn’t require the Yahoo Group owners to shut down their existing group.
TechCrunch - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Siri Hires Mobile Expert Gummi Hafsteinsson Away From Google
More recently, he led development of Google’s voice-powered search app for all the major mobile platforms – iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Symbian. His experience in developing scalable applications for multiple platforms tells us Siri is working on making its virtual personal assistant product cross-platform. We haven’t heard all that much from Siri , the venture-backed startup that is working on virtual assistant applications for smartphones. Still well below most people’s radar, the company raised $24 million in venture capital and recently released
TechCrunch - Friday, March 19, 2010
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  • Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden
    Instead, like Microsoft they have willfully ignored many industry efforts in favor of their own proprietary development platforms. To their credit, they've been one of the most innovative social networks over the past two years, pushing the boundaries of what's been thought of as possible with features like social tagging in photos, Newsfeed, Platform, Beacon, integrated chat and Connect. Tags: facebook platforms socialwe A lot of what I've been working on the past two years has been built on the assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change.
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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  • 2 Years Later, the Facebook App Platform is Still Thriving
    In a few weeks, the Facebook application platform will mark its second anniversary. The media glow is understandable: among other things, the younger iTunes platform is adding apps at a much faster rate than Facebook or Myspace. Games Games comprise a sizable chunk of app revenues in all three platforms and recent stories suggest that 2009 has been a great year for developers. While it garnered lots of press coverage in the months after it launched, the arrival of the iTunes app store shifted attention away from Facebook's vibrant ecosystem. The substantial
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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  • Waiting for the Billionth Download
    Tags: iphone mobile platfor Over the next week, the iTunes App Store is set to record its billionth download , an impressive milestone given that it launched less than a year ago. Granted the actual usage of most apps is spotty . To mark the event, I'm updating a few charts that I produced for previous posts . Slightly
    OReilly Radar - Thursday, April 16, 2009
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  • Active Facebook Users By Country
    Tags: facebook hardnumbers platforms research socialnetworkin Since I last posted numbers on Facebook's user base six week ago, the company has added close to 20 million active users. I've I've had a few requests for detailed numbers by country so I quickly assembled an update for each of the regions shown above. Among countries with at least a million users,
    OReilly Radar - Sunday, April 19, 2009
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  • The Fastest-Growing Category in the iTunes App Store: Books
    Tags: iphone mobile platfor At least as measured in terms of number of unique applications, Books have grown the fastest over the last 12 weeks. (Data Data for this post limited to apps on the U.S. iTunes store through 3/1/2009.) Granted
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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  • News Providers are Embracing the iPhone
    Tags: iphone mobile platfor To mark another iPhone milestone (1.5 billion app downloads in a year), I checked our iTunes app store data warehouse † . I was expecting the Books category to continue to register the fastest-growth but was instead greeted by an explosion in News (and to a lesser extent, Navigation) apps: On
    OReilly Radar - Thursday, July 16, 2009
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  • The iTunes App Store and One-hit Wonders
    Tags: iphone mobile platform slide Thousands of sellers created the 40,000 apps that have appeared in the U.S. iTunes app store. Measured in terms of apps per seller, developer and vendor engagement has gotten stronger over time: The The above average (mean) is somewhat misleading: 52% of sellers have produced just one
    OReilly Radar - Friday, May 1, 2009
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  • The iTunes App Store Rolls with the Travel Season
    Tags: apple iphone mobile platfor Sometime last week, the iTunes app store passed 70,000 unique apps (70K apps have appeared in the app store since it launched). One of the fastest-growing categories in the U.S. iTunes app store has been Travel, displacing Education to move into the top 5 largest categories.
    OReilly Radar - Monday, August 10, 2009
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  • iTunes App Store Incubation Period Increases In Most Categories
    Tags: iphone mobile platfor Over the last few weeks, media coverage of the iTunes app store often touches on concerns about Apple's approval process . Some apps drew enough complaints that Apple pulled them off the app store . With thousands of developers wanting to launch apps and Apple unable to come up with a more efficient vetting process, I'm revisiting an earlier post on the duration of incubation periods by category : Individual
    OReilly Radar - Friday, July 31, 2009
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  • The Most Popular iTunes Apps Aren't Always The Cheapest
    Tags: iphone mobile platfor While the most popular aren't always the cheapest, on average, the Top 10 Paid apps † tend to be cheaper than less popular ones (those ranked 45 to 55 or 91 to 100): The The situation varies across categories and in this post I'll briefly examine a few of the larger ones. In both the Books and Games categories, the mean price of the
    OReilly Radar - Thursday, August 27, 2009
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