Archive for September, 2007

Xoom, money transfer site, raises $20M more

Xoom, a company that lets you go online to transfer money internationally, has raised $20.29 million in a fifth round of funding.
It’s just the latest in a wave of companies using the Web to shake up the payment-lending industry.
This six-year-old San Francisco company has now raised more than $50 million. To use it, you log [...]

Electric motorbike Zero to ship next month

When the CEO and product development manager of Zero Motorcycles first wheeled their electric motorcycle up to my front door, it didn’t look like much.
A slim, 120 pound bike, the Zero-S testing model comes with none of the bulky appurtenances of a regular motorcycle. Instead, there’s only a rectangular battery and a small engine, discreetly [...]

Roundup: Zlango’s leaked PowerPoint, DIY Facebook apps, and more

Here’s the latest action:
1) For entrepreneurs: Zlango and the art of the PowerPoint pitch
2) DIY widget makers help you create your own Facebook applications, sell ads
3) Compete suggest smaller video sites are eating up market share
4) Do buyouts, young man, not venture capital
For entrepreneurs: Zlango and the art of the PowerPoint pitch — Zlango launched [...]

Surf Canyon, building atop pre-existing search engines

Although developmental search services like Powerset and Hakia may one day rule the search market, for the moment, Google and Yahoo still dominate.
Surf Canyon is a new service that wants you to use it along with Google or Yahoo, offering users an easier way to instantly refine results. Google makes you change or add [...]

PlayFirst brings microtransactions to popular casual game

Tired of paying cash up front in order to play the most popular casual games?
Now, game publisher, PlayFirst, lets you make “micropayments” to progress through a game.
In the San Francisco company’s latest game, Diner Dash: Hometown Heroes (which is the third in the Diner Dash series), you create an avatar, customize it to your liking, [...]