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Tiger Pistol Raises $1M+ For Easy Social Media Marketing, Leaves Beta
Posted on May 17th, 2012 @ 9:44 AM
Tiger Pistol, an Australian startup offering social media marketing tools that it describes as both "small business friendly" and "enterprise powerful", is coming out of its closed beta test today and launching to the public. It's also announcing that it has raised $1 million in angel funding. Co-founder and CEO Stephen Hibber says that the goal was to create something that could take most of the difficulty and uncertainty out of creating marketing campaigns on social networks. You can start off with pre-built campaigns and templates, so you don't have to create anything from scratch, and you're tapping into Tiger Pistol's knowledge about best practices. Read More
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Kickstarter For Groups And Events: YC Alum Crowdtilt Picks Up $2.1M From SV Angel, YC Partners And More
Posted on May 17th, 2012 @ 9:38 AM
The rush of interest around crowdfunding is spawning many variations on the theme, and one of the more original of them -- Crowdtilt, part of the most recent crop of Y-Combinator startups -- is today announcing a funding round of $2.1 million for its platform that lets groups of friends come together to fund an event or project, like a house party or group vacation. The company tells us that the seed round is coming from SV Angel, Crunch Fund, Y-Combinator partners Paul Buchheit, Alexis Ohanian, Harj Taggar and Garry Tan, as well as other prominent angels, and it follows on from a very impressive three months of growth. James Beshara, the CEO and co-founder, tells us that it has now seen nearly $1 million of events funded since launching in February 2012. Read More
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Twitter Now Honors Mozilla’s Do Not Track Feature
Posted on May 17th, 2012 @ 9:19 AM
Mozilla's Do Not Track feature, which allows users to tell websites that they would like to opt-out of being tracked by third parties, is starting to gain some traction among both users and publishers. According to new data shared by Mozilla today, 8.6% of Firefox desktop users and 19% of mobile users now turn this opt-in feature on. The latest company to announce that it will honor Do Not Track is Twitter. Read More