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UserVoice Partners With Crittercism to Power Mobile Customer Support

Humayun Khan December 10, 2012

Today San Francisco-based UserVoice, an online customer service platform, and Crittercism, a mobile application management…

IntroHive Adds $1.8M to Incentivize Employee Introductions to Sales Leads

Humayun Khan December 10, 2012

Washington and New Brunswick-based IntroHive, a platform that lets companies leverage and analyze their enterprise and employee…

Trover Adds Desktop Uploader to Move Away from Being Mobile-First Travel Site

Humayun Khan December 7, 2012

BetaKit covered Seattle-based Trover when it launched a web companion to its mobile discovery app targeted at travelers and…

Udemy Adds $12M Series B, Looks To Build Largest Library Of Online Courses

Humayun Khan December 7, 2012

Today San Francisco-based Udemy, an online education marketplace, announced that it closed a $12 million Series B round led…

AppFirst Adds $8.7M in Series B Funding for Application Monitoring Dashboard

Humayun Khan December 6, 2012

Today NYC-based AppFirst, providers of cloud-based enterprise application performance monitoring (APM) solutions, secured $8.7…

Revolve Robotics Launches Kubi, a Robot That Follows Video Callers As They Chat

Humayun Khan December 6, 2012

Kubi, a robotic platform created to enhance and improve the use of FaceTime, Skype, and other video calling and telepresence…

Indiegogo Expands International Footprint, Brings Localized Versions to Europe and Canada

Humayun Khan December 5, 2012

San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform Indiegogo announced today that it will expand its offerings in key global markets…

iPad POS Company ShopKeep Adds $10M to Be All-In-One Solution for SMBs

Humayun Khan December 5, 2012

The race to be the go-to iPad POS continues to heat up with NYC-based ShopKeep announcing today that it has closed $10 million…

LevelUp Partners With First Trade Union Bank for Branded Mobile Payments App

Erin Bury December 5, 2012

Today Boston-based mobile payments company LevelUp announced it has partnered with First Trade Union Bank (FTUB) to create…

ScaleIO Launches Virtual Storage Solution to Disrupt How Companies Scale Data Centers

Humayun Khan December 4, 2012

Today web-based data storage solutions provider ScaleIO announced the launch of its Elastic Converged Storage (ECS), which…

Social Data Provider Gnip Debuts Partner Program to Get Companies "Plugged In To Gnip"

Erin Bury December 4, 2012

Today Boulder, CO-based social media data provider Gnip announced the launch of its Plugged In To Gnip partner program, which…

Clarity Adds $1.6M from 500 Startups, Mark Cuban to Be ‘Lifeline for Entrepreneurs’

Humayun Khan December 4, 2012

BetaKit covered San Francisco and Moncton, NB-based Clarity, which lets anyone get access to entrepreneurial advice over the…

Kickvox Launches Bing-Powered Apps to Take a Visual Approach to Mobile Search

Humayun Khan December 4, 2012

According to Toronto-based Kickvox mobile search is ‘broken,’ with existing technologies still having been built and optimized…

Kira Talent Adds Seed Funding for Cloud-Based Video Interview Platform

Erin Bury December 4, 2012

This week cloud-based video screening tool Kira Talent announced that it has raised seed funding from Relay Ventures, with…

TrueLens Adds $1.2M to Add Social Layer On Top of Existing CRM Data

Humayun Khan December 3, 2012

Cambridge, MA-based TrueLens, providers of customer intelligence product Socialgraphics, announced today the closing of a…

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UserVoice Partners With Crittercism to Power Mobile Customer Support

IntroHive Adds $1.8M to Incentivize Employee Introductions to Sales Leads

Trover Adds Desktop Uploader to Move Away from Being Mobile-First Travel Site

Udemy Adds $12M Series B, Looks To Build Largest Library Of Online Courses

AppFirst Adds $8.7M in Series B Funding for Application Monitoring Dashboard

Revolve Robotics Launches Kubi, a Robot That Follows Video Callers As They Chat

Indiegogo Expands International Footprint, Brings Localized Versions to Europe and Canada

iPad POS Company ShopKeep Adds $10M to Be All-In-One Solution for SMBs

LevelUp Partners With First Trade Union Bank for Branded Mobile Payments App

ScaleIO Launches Virtual Storage Solution to Disrupt How Companies Scale Data Centers

Social Data Provider Gnip Debuts Partner Program to Get Companies "Plugged In To Gnip"

Clarity Adds $1.6M from 500 Startups, Mark Cuban to Be ‘Lifeline for Entrepreneurs’

Kickvox Launches Bing-Powered Apps to Take a Visual Approach to Mobile Search

Kira Talent Adds Seed Funding for Cloud-Based Video Interview Platform

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