LocalResponse, a NY startup that has developed an online ad network that uses location data from social media "check ins" to target ads to users, announced this week that it has closed a $5 million round of financing from investors Cava Capital, Vodafone Ventures, Advancit Capital and Progress [Full Story…]
City’s 911 System Upgrade Fails Final Quality Reviews
September 2, 2010 at 12:05 pm
A Verizon subcontractor's computer system has failed final quality reviews in recent weeks, setting back Mayor Bloomberg's effort to upgrade the city's 911 system. Sources told The New York Daily News that the city is on the verge of canceling the contract in order to find a new vendor. [Full Story…]
Foursquare Working With Facebook Places: Crowley
August 28, 2010 at 11:00 am
NY-based Foursquare is working with Facebook to allow people checking into Foursquare to push information through the Facebook Places feed, and will turn on this capability within the next two weeks, according to co-founder Dennis Crowley in an interview with UK's The Telegraph.earlier this [Full Story…]
Android Users Can Get DailyCandy’s “Stylish Alerts”
August 9, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Comcast's DailyCandy, the NY-founded fashion and entertainment e-newsletter operator, took its first foray into apps, releasing a Google Android-based phone app that allows pop up location triggered messages called "DailyCandy Stylish Alerts."Although the general trend is for companies [Full Story…]
Sency Real Time Search Startup Launched in NY
May 26, 2010 at 11:00 am
NYConvergence ORIGINALBy: Esther SurdenSency, the start-up web site that monitors Twitter traffic based on location and allows search of that real-time data, recently launched in New York and 12 other cities. “New York was the first major city we launched in,” Evan Britton, Sency's [Full Story…]
Mashable and CNN Host Media Summit 2010
April 23, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Mashable and CNN are hosting a joint one day conference --Mashable Media Summit 2010 -- Tuesday June 8, during Internet Week New York, at The Times Center in The New York Times building. The event, which focuses on the intersection of social and digital media, features presentations from the fields [Full Story…]
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