Zapier Raises $1.2M Seed Round From Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson & Others
Updated: 2012-10-31 16:00:27
Zapier, which is essentially IFTTT for business users, just announced that it has raised a $1.2 million seed round from Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvesten, Wufoo co-founder Kevin Hale and a number of other angel investors. The company plans to use this additional investment to continue the development of its core platform and to expand its developer platform. 
Dave McClure’s 500 Startups has just announced the newest batch of companies to be accepted for its fifth accelerator class. This group is the first through which 500 Startups used an open application process, rather than rely solely on referrals when evaluating participants.
Apple announced Fusion Drive along with its new Macs and iPads last week, and while it may have seemed like a hardware option only available from Apple itself, it's actually more about how OS X handles storage, startup and other software operations. Which means, as Mac developer Patrick Stein has proven, you can create your own Fusion drive at home with Terminal and existing hardware.
Today Canada Post introduced a new e-commerce product line for retailers who want to integrate Canada Post data into their platform, online store or customer application.
With Canada Post Web Services, retailers can offer more choice directly to customers, including alternative pickup options, [...]
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Clear, a simple task manager from Realmac software and Impending, has just announced that it will be delivering a Mac version of its client for OS X launching next Thursday for $14.99. The app looks an awful lot like it does on iOS, but offers additional features like the ability to break out different lists in new windows, as well as iCloud syncing with the iOS client.
Threadlife is a new app from Zappos co-founder Nick Swinmurn and BLITZ agency co-founder Ken Martin. Threadlife works like pretty much any other social mobile video app, except for a few things: For one, users are limited to capturing three-second clips -- which it calls "stitches" -- which are "threaded" together based on topics. 
Small business mobile payments startup Emu launched its flat-fee dongle-less m-payments service in the U.K. last month. Today the company has announced its opening up to accept card payments in 16 more countries in Europe. Emu had previously offered registrations to European merchants outside the U.K. but with international registrations growing by more than 65 percent per day it's expanding.
You're supposed to toss your toothbrush in the trash and get a new one every three months? Do you?
Either you do, and you waste a lot of plastic and bristle to keep your mouth clean, or you don't, and your mouth simply isn't clean. But Oliver Haas and Jake Felser in Boston are disrupting the tooth cleaning landscape with the ReBrush. 
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Montreal-based social data analytics startup Nexalogy is the latest company to join Hootsuite’ ever-growing roster of apps. The company announced Tuesday that the application for Hootsuite will be an adaptation of their current free social media visualizer tool, NexaMe.
“We are [...]
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Two data centres housed in one New York building were shut down by flooding today. Not before they could each brag about their respective invincibility on Twitter, however.
Peer 1, which is based in Vancouver, boldly tweeted that "Storm Sandy highlights value of storage," adding [...]
According to new data revealed by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, text messaging in Canada continues to grow.
Canadians send just under 24 billion text messages in the second quarter of 2012. That's nearly eight billion texts per month or almost 270 million texts per day.
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Canada's clean technology industry is now worth nearly $11 billion and is on course to eclipse the nation's aerospace industry within five years, a new report suggests.
According to the Canadian Clean Technology Industry Report 2013, prepared by Analytica Advisors president Celine Bak, our [...]
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Are you going to vote for Romney? Or Obama? Or perhaps you think both of these people suck. Regardless of your opinion on the U.S. election, you are being marketed to like nobody’s business. Watching the game of politics has many marketing lessons in it – if you’re watching for it. I must admit… I [...]
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Lately, I’ve been looking for a good CRM for my business. Now, first of all, what is a CRM? CRM basically stand for Customer Relationship Manager. Essentially, I look at it as a glorified customer database. Now, a true blue enterprise level CRM does a lot of things, many of which I’m not interested in. You [...]
In the last post I talked about what success actually mean for a blogger and there are basically two camps there: Being famous How much money they’re actually making The Hard Truth Now, when it comes to true success, here is a REALLY hard truth that sucks in a way but, it is what it is. [...]