Sonar Nabs Funding From Bing Fund: Can It Overcome Ambient Discovery Hurdles?
At last year’s SXSW conference in Austin ambient networking apps were all the rage. The concept is simple: the apps run in the background on…
At last year’s SXSW conference in Austin ambient networking apps were all the rage. The concept is simple: the apps run in the background on…
NYC-based Echolocation, a location-based microblogging mobile app, recently announced that it closed a $200,000 round of seed funding from TechLaunch, Casabona Ventures, in addition…
BetaKit covered Redwood, CA-based Banjo earlier in the year when it reached the one million user mark in nine months, faster than both Facebook…
Today Austin, TX-based CanWe Studios announced a new app, CanWeNetwork, that takes the idea behind ambient discovery apps like Highlight, Banjo and Sonar and applies them…
Ambient location apps were a hot commodity at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, but they’ve failed to really capture the public’s attention the…
Event networking is bound to be a hot topic at SXSW Interactive, which kicks off on Friday. There hasn’t been a super-effective way for…
If someone had asked entrepreneur Mark Hendrickson his own plans three years ago, chances are he wouldn’t have put ‘entering the deadpool’ on his…