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E MARKETER -- Sep 28 -- The VC party is on for mobile social networking. Companies, like Mobango, Mobile Technologies, Intercasting and Meetmoi, all have successfully raised funding this year. These companies are being launched with far fewer investment dollars, which means a lot of consolidation and re-launching will occur next year as first and second rounds get spent. FULL ARTICLE @ E MARKETER
USA TODAY -- Sep 28 -- Need proof that another dot-com boom is underway? Consider Jangl, Jaxtr, and Jajah, three Silicon Valley-area tech start-ups that each offer a type of internet phone service and have collectively raised almost $50 million in venture capital. U.S. venture-capital investment in the first half of the year jumped 9% from the previous year. IPO's and mergers are also on the rise. FULL ARTICLE @ USA TODAY
C NET NEWS -- Sep 27 -- Onetime social networking leader Friendster has announced a new feature called "Fan Profiles", which is essentially a way for celebrities, bands, companies, nonprofit organizations, and other entities to self-promote. It's an ambitious move for the struggling social network, but one that likely won't help it reclaim market share lost to Facebook and MySpace. FULL ARTICLE @ C NET NEWS
GIGA OM -- Sep 27 -- Google is acquiring certain assets and technology of Zingku, a mobile social network startup that helps users organize their social life via the web and text messaging. Google's motivation may be to bolster their Orkut social network, which is extremely popular in Brazil and India, two countries where basic phones and text messaging reign supreme. FULL ARTICLE @ GIGA OM
OCOLLY.COM -- Sep 27 -- Qlique, another social network for college students that is due out within months, will offer live and interactive quizzes, games, instant messaging, and chat rooms, as well as the traditional profiles and wall-posting capabilities of other social networking sites. The network will only be available to college students and will focus on its unique opportunity for live interactions. FULL ARTICLE @ OCOLLY.COM
WEB PRO NEWS -- Sep 27 -- College.com aims to be a "one-stop shop for information and communication between students". The social network can connect students not only with their social lives, but also with their courses. A "Wake Up Call" system will alert your phone when you need to wake up for a class and online note cards help you organize your workload and study for tests. FULL ARTICLE @ WEB PRO NEWS
TECH CRUNCH -- Sep 27 -- Jajah officially will announce their click-to-call buttons on Monday. The buttons, which let people call the owner for free and anonymously, are available to registered Jajah users and can be embedded on a web page or at the end of an email. Calls are placed over a VoIP line and are charged to the owner, like an 800 number, at 2-3 cents per minute. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
SNW -- Sep 27 -- If you want to know what's happening in the European social networking market, and meet fellow executives, SNC Europe is just around the corner again. The last SNC conference in San Francisco was the best conference yet. Great speakers, great networking. Anyway, I'm exhibiting at SNC Barcelona, so perhaps I'll see you at the booth, or in the hallways, or at one of the sessions. (I'll be keynoting in Miami in February). Here's the agenda. Here's the travel and venue info, and here's where you can pick up a ticket.
SPARTAN DAILY -- Sep 26 -- Some people argue that all this texting, IMing, and emailing is making our society too impersonal. Others argue that the telephone was never exactly the most intimate form of communication either. With the ultimate objective of “friending” someone online being to eventually meet them in person, some simply find technology to be a more efficient screening process. FULL ARTICLE @ SPARTAN DAILY
PRESS RELEASE -- Sep 26 -- Today, Truphone will give the first public demonstration of a VoIP-over-WiFi call on the Apple iPhone. The company also will introduce an application that allows any Facebook user to click on a friend's Truphone 'Call Me' button and call whichever phone their friend has chosen for free. This will mean free calls to real phones for everyone in the Facebook community. FULL ARTICLE @ WEB IT PR
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