eBay Motors today announced new updates to the eBay Motors iPhone® app,
available for immediate download on iTunes, with features including taking a
picture of a vehicle to instantly search for it on eBay, and streaming live,
exclusive content. The eBay Motors iPhone® app already enables auto lovers
to shop for vehicles and the parts that go with them anytime, anywhere –
the updates announced today enable auto fans to further simplify their
shopping experience, make sharing with their friends more seamless, and
access entertaining and informative original content, right from their
smartphones.
With the eBay Motors iPhone app’s new streaming feature, car enthusiasts
can watch live broadcasts exclusive to eBay Motors from auto events and races
directly from their iPhone or iPod Touch®. To kick off this feature, former
Le Mans winner Justin Bell will host live, behind... (more)
955 Dreams, the next-generation mobile publishing company, raises $3.25M seed
round from 500 Startups, m8 Capital, Kapor Capital, Felicis Ventures, and
CrunchFund.
Mountain View, CA: January 26th, 2012 955 Dreams Inc., a next generation
mobile publishing company announces the closing of a $3.25M seed round.
Participating in this round are leading technology investors, including 500
Startups, m8 Capital, Kapor Capital, Felicis Ventures, and CrunchFund. This
round is being led by 500 Startups and m8 Capital. 500 Startups is a Mountain
View-based seed fund and startup accelerator p... (more)
CLEVELAND, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Since justWink™ was introduced
last summer by American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM), the free app has
brought decidedly fresh greetings to where consumers most often communicate
these days – their phones. The popular app has entered a new era as iPhone
users now have the ability to not only send greetings via text message,
email, and Facebook, but to personalize any card and send it directly to the
lucky recipient's real mailbox. Additionally, even more justWink paper cards
are set to launch at retailers nationwide this spring to provi... (more)
Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility
between now and 2016, so I am now tracking developments in this market on a
weekly basis and publishing my research here.
Standard Chartered Bank - India has provided 12,000 iPhones to employees
across 70 countries, replacing some 8,000 BlackBerry devices, and has
developed a range of custom-built apps to streamline internal processes.
“Our increasing usage of, and dependence on smartphones allows our
employees to utilize a wide array of applications anywhere and at anytime,”
reports Matthew Norris, CIO, ... (more)
LCOR Inc., a real estate investment and development company, is drawing
prospects to its multifamily properties with RENTCafé, an Internet listing
service that provides property listings, availability, photos and floor plans
to prospective renters.
“We initially used another Internet listing service. Then we saw that
RENTCafé offers so much more functionality than any other ILS,” said Dave
Wise, director of information services for LCOR, which adopted RENTCafé in
the spring of 2011. “RENTCafé not only brings in prospects, it also makes
the prospect workflow much smoother because... (more)