Circa Launches to Take a Mobile-First Approach to Creating and Consuming News
Today Circa launched its mobile news app to the public after being in stealth mode since December 2011. The free iOS app was…
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Favery Launches Pinterest-Style Platform to Help Shoppers Poll Their Friends
Pinterest has helped millions of people create pinboards around design, food, and any other topic, and its visual layout has…
Google Ventures-Backed TopFloor Launches to Turn Video Viewers Into Customers
Santa Monica, CA-based TopFloor, a video-based platform which lets brands embed links to purchase items in media like videos…
Referly Adds $1.1M to Grow Referral-Driven Curated Shopping Platform
Today San Francisco-based Referly announced it has closed $1 million in seed funding for its referral-driven shopping platform,…
SWIX Rebrands to Source Metrics to Help Companies Measure Social ROI
This week Ottawa-based social analytics platform SWIX announced that is has rebranded to Source Metrics to help enterprise…
SaleMove Launching to Help Sell Cars, Jewelry, and Other Big Ticket Items Online
New York City-based SaleMove is looking to bring the idea of selling real-life complex or expensive purchases to the online…
Seevibes Launches Dashboard to Help Measure the Social Impact of TV Shows
Montreal-based Seevibes launched its new TV Dashboard tool this week to help network and media agencies analyze the social…
AudioBox Debuts New Version to Help People Store and Stream Music Anywhere
For people who have extensive media libraries on their desktop or stored in the cloud, finding a way to easily stream music…
TitanFile Adds $1.1M, Pivots From One-Way File-Sharing to Take on Dropbox
Waterloo, ON and Halifax, NS-based cloud storage company TitanFile announced today that it has added $1.1 million in funding,…
On Track for $6M in 2012 Revenue, Online Men's Retailer Frank & Oak Raises $5M
Today Montreal-based ecommerce startup Frank & Oak announced it has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Lightbank,…
Sharethrough Adds $5M to Help Publishers Build Native Ads Into Their Content
Today San Francisco-based Sharethrough, a native video advertising company, announced it has raised $5 million in a Series…
Tout’d Acquires Villij, Rebrands to Help People Get Recommendations From Friends
Today New York City-based Tout’d, a word-of-mouth referral platform we covered in July, announced its acquisition of Villij,…
Crowdsend Launches to Use Crowdsourcing to Identify Products in Images
Companies like Stipple, Thinglink and Luminate have been trying to take photos from static to dynamic with their tools for…
Kobo Acquires Aquafadas to Add More Magazines, Comic Books, and Children’s Books
Today Toronto-based Kobo, owned by Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten, announced its acquisition of French company Aquafadas,…
Venngage Launches to Help Marketers Create Data-Driven Visual Reports
The rise of big data has been well-documented this year, and along with it the number of companies, from DataHero to Visually, that…