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| Warby Parker Competitor Rivet & Sway Raises $2 Million More | | Tricia Duryee | | Feb 01, 2013 06:00 am | | | Rivet & Sway, which sells prescription glasses online to women at $199 a pair, has raised $2 million in capital. The lead investor was Mousse Partners, with its existing investors Baseline Ventures and Harrison Metal also participating. The Seattle company has now raised $3.3 million in total, a fraction of the $50 million raised by New York-based Warby Parker. Rivet & Sway said it will use the proceeds this year for hiring, introducing sunglasses, and for launching a $50 discount for Valentine's Day. read more » |
| Sony to Host PlayStation Event February 20 | | Bonnie Cha | | Jan 31, 2013 04:22 pm | | | Sony has just sent out invites for a Feb. 20 event where we may get our first glimpse of the PlayStation 4. The company also teased the event on its official PlayStation Twitter account, inviting users to "See the future," with a link to this cryptic video. There aren't a ton of details in the clip, but it ends with the traditional PlayStation symbols. It has been more than six years since the company released the PlayStation 3, so a next-gen console would certainly be welcome. The Feb. 20 event kicks off in New York at 3 pm PT. read more » |
| NetSuite Shares Rise on Record Q4 Sales | | Arik Hesseldahl | | Jan 31, 2013 03:43 pm | | | Shares of cloud software company NetSuite are rising sharply after hours as the company reported record earnings and sales for its fiscal fourth quarter. Earnings per share were 6 cents higher than the consensus view of 4 cents on sales of $85 million, up 33 percent over the year-ago quarter. Total revenue for the year was $308 million, up 31 percent. NetSuite shares rose nearly 8 percent to $75.81 in after-hours trading on the news. read more » |
| Temple Run 2 Sets New Mobile Game Download Record | | Eric Johnson | | Jan 31, 2013 10:30 am | | | Imangi is giving Rovio a (temple) run for its money. According to a press release, Imangi Studios' newest game, Temple Run 2, was downloaded 50 million times in 13 days, besting the previous record held by Rovio Entertainment's Angry Birds Space, which crossed the 50 million threshold after 35 days last year. It's worth pointing out, however, that the main version of Angry Birds Space costs 99 cents, while the Temple Run games are free. Rovio's game has been downloaded more than 100 million times, and was the most popular paid app on both iPhone and iPad in 2012. read more » |
| Sift Raises More Funding to Help Turn Your Inbox Into a Personalized Shopping App | | Tricia Duryee | | Jan 31, 2013 09:17 am | | | Sift has raised $540,000 in funding to turn the deluge of offers sent to consumers via email into a shopping app for the iPad. The Burlingame, Calif.-based company, which was incubated by the Tandem accelerator, said the seed funding comes from Shawn Wang, co-founder of Baidu and Unity Ventures; Deep Nishar, SVP of Product at LinkedIn; Bhupen Shah, co-founder of Sling Media; Sand Hill Angels and others. The money will be used to hire more employees. read more » |
| Tennis Champ Agassi Gives Yahoo Sales Troops a Pep Talk | | Kara Swisher | | Jan 31, 2013 08:24 am | | | Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro has been holding a global sales conference in Las Vegas this week, bringing together the large group of employees at the Silicon Valley Internet giant who are in charge of a big chunk of its revenue. While it's a lot of talking by top execs about the dramatic new advertising structure that he has put into place, there is always the requisite inspirational speaker (in 2007, at another meeting, it was Apple's Steve Jobs). For this event, sources said, it was former tennis champ Andre Agassi appearing there to get the troops juiced. The once-pugnacious athlete -- who is now married to another tennis phenom, Steffi Graf -- was probably a good choice, especially since one of his well-known quotes is: "Being number two sucks." read more » |
| Twitter Goes Down. Again. | | Mike Isaac | | Jan 31, 2013 07:32 am | | | Twitter experienced site-wide downtime for the third instance in as many weeks on Thursday morning, as many users were unable to load the site via the Web or mobile devices. "Some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue," the company said via a site status blog. It's disconcerting as the site grows into popular mainstream use; Twitter needs to distance itself from the early "fail whale" days if it wants to prove reliable to both consumers and advertisers alike. read more » |
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