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Square’s Credit Card Reader, Available On Apple.com Store
Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey not long ago started mobile payment company – Square which is the simplest way for individuals and businesses to accept credit cards according to their description on the Apple.com Store. Right now, Square is available on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The whole concept of Square is to allow easy credit/debit [...]
Continue reading...New Mobile App Allows Users To “Talk To Strangers”
Ross McNeil, 9. March 2011
There’s a new mobile application that is set to launch today for both iPhone and Android Platforms. The app is called Domo, and its main intentions are to allow users to “talk to strangers via mobile”. The Domo application has been developed to revamp new person-to-person interrelation by sharing Facebook interests. The way it works; Users log in with [...]
Continue reading...It’s All About SnogMarryAvoid.me [INTERVIEW]
Cameron Rawson, 17. January 2011
It’s been three days since the inception of SnogMarryAvoid.me – it’s a simple, yet very effective idea. Simply put unlike ThreeWords.me where you choose three words to describe someone, you choose whether or not you’d snog, marry or avoid a user. Each registered user uploads one square, avatar like image and away you go with [...]
Continue reading...Bringing Twitter To Life: One Million Tweeps
Cameron Rawson, 5. October 2010
It was around 14 days ago that Alex Tew, the most annoying guy on the internet according to The Telegraph and the founder of well known website; The Million Dollar Homepage, you will have most likely heard of it before – each pixel sells for $1 and you can guess how many pixels he had [...]
Continue reading...Stephen Ou Strikes Again: The Birth of iTunes Instant
Cameron Rawson, 12. September 2010
It’s been an action packed week for the ‘instant’ market. If you don’t know what I mean, I’m talking about the amount of web applications now set-up by developers since the inception of Google Instant. From YouTube instant to the most recent, iTunes Instant, set-up by 15-year-old Stephen Ou who we recently wrote up a [...]
Continue reading...It’s Official: Alexis Ohanian has Joined YCombinator
Cameron Rawson, 1. September 2010
It’s been announced by YCombinator’s Harjeet Taggar, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has now joined YCombinator. TechCrunch earlier reported that Ohanian’s role will take place in New York and that he will represent YCombinator in the East and meet with those applying from the East coast. Finally, it’s clear to say that Ohanian will not be [...]
Continue reading...OneExtraLap, Why You Should Register
Cameron Rawson, 16. August 2010
OneExtraLap, the creation of Stephen Ou’s launched last week, the startup has already gone from strength to strength. Before launch date, Stephen already had people using the service whilst in beta and by launch day he had many users of Twitter going crazy for it, with a lot of hype he launched the site. Users began registering straight away, [...]
Continue reading...YCombinator Receives $8.25 Million Fund
Cameron Rawson, 21. May 2010
The very popular and very well known seed fund, incubator and accelerator YCombinator has received $8.25 million in investment, the investors include Sequoia Capital who lead the investment with angels investors such as Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit, Aydin Senkut, XG Ventures and Geoff Ralston. Paul Graham announced on the YCombinator blog: The previous YC funding cycle, winter 2010, had [...]
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Cameron Rawson, 18. April 2011
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