Companies
Facebook to borrow 100mn$?
Facebook is taking up 100mn$ to buy servers (?). And apparently it is burning at least 150mn$ per year. Noty bad for the enfant prodige company that was able to get 240mn$ at 15bn$ valuation from Microsoft. They had better figure out a way to make more money, pronto.
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Nestoria - smart house search
Nestoria is a vertical search engine focused on real estate with operations in UK and Spain. Founded by a few Spaniards -amongst which friend and former top dog for Yahoo Search Europe Javier Etxebeste- it aggregates information and data from other vertical engines and estate agencies, properly and smartly aggregate and present in a pleasant […]
AdMob Analytics
Surely AdMob is moving swiftly and smartly in the mobile space. Just shortly after having announced the 20th billion ad served, they are rolling out a very interesting product: AdMob Analytics.
The product is now in beta and, not having a mobile site, unfortunately I can’t try it, but some information is given on the website. […]
Panedia - see the world from your desk
I just came across a company with an amazing product. Panedia. It is really amazing. They organize high resolution and high quality geo-referenced pictures. They are made by professional photographers. The company is Australian, or at least I think so as all of the pictures they have in their archives are from Australia.
You can select […]
Signs of a bubble bursting
I remember back in January a colleague of mine telling this story to a small audience.
“Sunday I was in bad with a bit of flu, and here he calls, the agent from XXX, asking me if I wanted to see some property to buy (he showed interest in buying a property weeks before). I […]
Obopay - pay via mobile phone
Today I want to introduce you to a company new to me. Obopay.
The company allows money transfer via mobile. All you need is to set up an account with them, and then you can start transferring money to other mobile phones. Clearly, you need to deposit some funds. Once that is done, you can immediately […]