World Golf Tour has raised $10 million in a third round of funding to support an expansion into social games and overseas markets. JAFCO Ventures, a big private equity firm in Japan, led the round.
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World Golf Tour raises $10M as it expands overseas and explores social games
PowerReviews , a service that aggregates consumer reviews for e-commerce retailers looking to improve their businesses, has brought in $4.9 million of a targeted $9 million round of equity, according to a filing with the SEC . Based in San Francisco, the company, which also operates product review site Buzzillions , previously raised $26.2 million, and is backed by Menlo Ventures , Draper Richards , and Lehman spin-off Tenaya Capital
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PowerReviews gobbles $4.9M to do recon for e-commerce sites
When Google introduced the Nexus One, industry watchers and armchair pundits alike questioned the company’s decision to sell its flagship Android phone only on Google’s web site , rather than in stores. Despite the tremendous buzz surrounding the Nexus One’s launch, a report from mobile analytics startup Flurry suggests the skeptics were right
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Nexus One’s slow sales blamed on online-only strategy
The value of Twitter when it comes to breaking news and eyewitness reports has been discussed as length (evidenced by CNN’s race to get the most followers, and the buzz surrounding the site’s role in the Iran protests last year), but its impact on the news and media may be overestimated. According to traffic monitoring service Hitwise , Twitter doesn’t even come close to Google News and Facebook when it comes to where people actually get their news
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Hitwise: People get their news from Facebook and Google — not Twitter
Until now, people using Google’s Nexus One smartphone with AT&T service have only been able to access the carrier’s slower 2G or EDGE networks. But today, Google announced a new version of the phone that is compatible with AT&T’s 3G network, boosting speeds to stem consumer complaints. The new version is also compatible with Rogers Wireless’ 3G network in Canada
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Nexus One speeds up on AT&T’s 3G network
Filed under: iPhone , App Review A new version of CoPilot Live enhances and fixes a lot of issues in the previous versions. According to the company, the app now includes improved guidance at complex intersections, Facebook status updates, free local search, and the latest maps of North America
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CoPilot live is updated and continues 30 day free trial offer
Here’s a fun tidbit we just learned from Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore: in order to focus Windows Phone 7 Series on the idea of best serving end users, the team actually created two fictional targets consumers named “Miles” and “Anna,” a pair of married 38-year old “life maximizers” who demand the most from their devices. Yes, it’s a little strange and hilariously specific on the surface — Anna just scaled back her PR job to part-time so she can take care of the kids! Miles like to take pictures and use Facebook to share them with his parents in Europe! — but it makes a certain amount of sense: Microsoft says it’s trying to create a device that appeals to someone with both a work Exchange account and personal Gmail account, someone who needs to get work done but also wants to play 3D games, and it thinks that if Miles and Anna are happy, chances are a lot of other customer segments will satisfied as well. Of course, this is almost exactly the same message we’ve heard from Palm about the Pre , but at least Microsoft’s ideal users aren’t a creepy alien lady or a mom from the 50s — and they have a much better reason to Bing their way through the WP7S UI.
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Windows Phone 7 Series targeted at 38 year-old ‘life maximizers’
Although Twitter co-founder and and chief executive Evan Williams made a couple of i nteresting points during his keynote interview, the consensus was that it did not go well — as a number of Twitter users noted , it seemed like interviewer Umair Haque spent as much time talking about his own ideas as Williams did. I sat near the front of the packed keynote auditorium, and by halfway through I noticed that the seats around me were starting to empty
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Evan Williams tries to do-over SXSW interview via Twitter
