HotelsByDay Lets Travelers Book Daytime Hotel Rooms For Less Than Overnight Stays
A new travel technology company called HotelsByDay wants to offer a new option for those looking for a place to work or unwind during their trips, when they don’t need to book a full overnight stay at a hotel. As you may have guessed by the name, the company is attempting to break open a new category in lodging: hotel rooms you can book by the day, for roughly 40 percent less than… Read MoreJW Player Brings Its Video Player To Android Apps
JW Player, the streaming video company that (in the words of its president Chris Mahl) helps online publishers find “life after YouTube, or life beyond YouTube,” has made a big move onto mobile with the general release of its Android SDK. The player already worked in mobile web browsers, so it wasn’t entirely absent from Android. But this will allow publishers to include… Read MoreReserve Raises $15M To Help With Your Restaurant Reservations And Payments
Reserve, the app promising to serve as your “personal dining concierge,” is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The company was incubated at Expa, the startup studio created by StumbleUpon and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp. The app launched on iOS last fall. Read MoreFates Forever-Maker Hammer & Chisel Raises Additional Funding From Tencent, Benchmark
Hammer & Chisel, the core gaming startup founded by Jason Citron, an early pioneer in smartphone gaming, just raised additional funding from Tencent, Benchmark Capital and YouWeb’s 9+. Citron previously founded and then sold mobile-social gaming network OpenFeint for $104 million. Hammer & Chisel’s first game was a MOBA or multiplayer online battle arena title called… Read MoreUrban Engines Takes The Power Of Its Transit Platform To Consumers With A Smart Offline Maps App
As a part-time urban planning nerd, I love visualizations of buses, trains and cars pulsating through cities. Now with more data available through smartphones, emergent logistics platforms like Uber and eventually Internet-connected and self-driving cars, it’s inevitable that software will become indispensable in managing and making mass transit more efficient. Read MoreSnapchat Cuts Off Sharing From Music Video App Mindie
Hackers have screwed Snapchat several times and now the startup is taking aggressive action to keep it from happening again. Yesterday, Snapchat cut off access from music video sharing app Mindie citing its security policy. The company confirmed the enforcement to me, and said it reset the Snapchat passwords of anyone who’d given Mindie their credentials. Unfortunately, that’s left… Read MoreMicrosoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley
Y Combinator and Microsoft announced a program this week that will pour free access to the Azure cloud computing platform onto the incubator’s current class of startups. The deal includes $500,000 in credits to Microsoft’s cloud computing service Azure, and three years of access to its Office 365 suite of productivity tools. Half a million worth of Azure usage is nothing to… Read MoreCapital Float, An Online Lending Platform For Indian Entrepreneurs, Scoops Up $13M From Sequoia and SAIF
Capital Float, a financial tech startup that wants to make it easier for small businesses in India to get loans, has raised a $13 million Series A led by SAIF Partners and Sequoia Capital. Existing investor Aspada also returned for the round. Read MoreL.A.-Based Valet Parking App CurbStand Acquires Competitor Curby
Two L.A.-based valet parking apps are joining forces today, with news that the quickly growing app maker CurbStand is acquiring its close competitor Curby, whose technology will now be integrated into a future product release. While both teams had built apps that let consumers request their car and pay their valet through their smartphone, Curby’s appeal was in the enterprise side of… Read MoreAnother LatAm Bet For Seaya Ventures With $4M Investment In Price Comparison Site ComparaGuru
Chalk this up as Seaya Ventures’ third investment in Latin America. After backing online takeout delivery service SinDelantal.Mx, and Uber competitor Cabify, the Spanish VC is placing a $4 million bet on Mexican price comparison site ComparaGuru. Founded in August 2014 by VC Nova Founders, Mexico City-headquartered ComparaGuru lets consumers compare and apply to a wide range of… Read MoreScribd Adds Comics From Marvel, IDW, And Others To Its Subscription E-Book Service
In case getting unlimited access to an enormous library of e-books and audiobooks for $8.99 a month wasn’t enough for you, Scribd is announcing today that it’s expanding into comic books. Specifically, Scribd is adding more than 10,000 comics and graphic novels from publishers including Marvel, Archie, Boom! Studios, Dynamite, IDW/Top Shelf, and Valiant. Read More
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