Scale Computing , which sells storage solutions to small and medium businesses, has raised $9 million in a second round led by Benchmark Capital . Scale’s earlier investors, including Blue Chip Venture Company , CID Equity and Spring Mill Venture Partners also participated in the round
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Scale Computing raises $9M to sell enterprise storage
A startup called Bazaar Labs just released a new app called Miso , way to share what movies and TV shows you’re watching with your friends. Like the company’s last app, FlixUp, this is a movie-focused spin on an existing social service.
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Bazaar Labs launches Miso, a Foursquare-style app for TV and movies
As the Internet is getting faster, with everything coming and going in real-time, advertising is playing catch-up.
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DataXu raises $11M to serve the right ad, right now
“IBM research shows that about 80 percent of those who begin a corporate blog never post more than five entries,” journalist and heavy-duty blogger Mathew Ingram wrote on GigaOm on Friday.
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Eighty percent of corporate bloggers stop after 5 posts max
Local shopping search tool Milo.com has expanded its coverage of 50,000 retailers to allow customers to watch for local sales. Milo already offers what the company says is “real-time availability and pricing information.” Why use Milo
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Milo.com finds local sales
Today Techmeme creator Gabe Rivera just launched Mediagazer , his latest news aggregator. The site will cover the latest media news, from the production side, to distribution and new technologies. Mediagazer features the same hybrid approach of automatic and manual editing for selecting stories as Techmeme.
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Mediagazer launches as the Techmeme of media
A new Google Labs project merges two breakthroughs into one. Public Data Explorer brings together more than a dozen databases — health statistics, population numbers, employment figures — with a browser-based technology that lets researchers and presenters create charts that move. Google’s motion charts show trends in two ways not possible with motionless plots. First, the motion feature removes the requirement to use a chart’s X axis to represent time
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Google sexes up stats with Public Data Explorer — 10 live demos
After catching a glimpse of Microsoft’s intriguing Courier device last fall — a dual screen multitouch and pen-based digital booklet — we’ve heard little about it. Now Engadget is reporting on new Courier pictures and details which bring the device one step closer to reality. The Courier is being positioned as a “digital journal” (instead of a generic multifunctional tablet device), and it’s said to be incredibly portable.
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New pictures and details emerge on Microsoft’s Courier “digital journal”
