A startup once again, Kontiki raises $10.7M to give each company its own YouTube
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Kontiki, a startup with clever Web video technology and a storied past in Silicon Valley, announced today that it has raised $10.7 million in its...
View ArticleSkype outage affects tens of millions
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Skype suffered a widespread and lengthy outage today with its Internet calling service. The company said in a post that problems with the Skype...
View ArticleTwitter VC Fred Wilson’s first late-stage investment: $25M for Lending Club
Union Square Ventures made its first late-stage investment today, leading a $25 million raise for peer-to-peer lending startup Lending Club. This was the startup’s fourth round, and it represents a...
View ArticleVCs show healthy appetite for peer-to-peer companies (analysis)
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Venture capital firm investment in peer-to-peer technology continues to build strength, according to a recent VentureTrends report by VentureDeal....
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay gets the boot from Sweden — now hosted in Norway & Spain
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now The Pirate Bay has run out of luck in Sweden, where the Swedish Pirate Party has been providing hosting for the popular file-swapping site. Due to...
View ArticleUniiverse releases Direct Payments so anyone can sell tickets to anything...
Uniiverse wants to make it easier for people to make money doing what they love. The startup released a Direct Payments feature today which sets up peer-to-peer payments for activities and services on...
View ArticleGoing once, going twice, sold! Tophatter releases rapid-fire live auctions on...
TophatterTophatter turns shopping online into an adrenaline-pumping activity. The company powers a real-time, super fast, peer-to-peer auction platform that does $100,000 in sales a day. It released an...
View ArticleP2P lending platform Prosper lines coffers with $25M in new funding
Shutterstock Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Lending platform Prosper continues to prosper with $25 million of new funding. Prosper powers a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects...
View ArticleMore people pirate TV shows than tweet about them
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View ArticleKayak co-founder launches Classy app for students with stuff to sell to other...
Above: Using Classy to dump those Brooks Brothers sunglassesImage Credit: ClassyStudents now have another way to sell that textbook they hated to someone else. It’s an app called Classy, a peer-to-peer...
View ArticleVenmo announces multi-factor authentication and email notifications in the...
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View ArticleApple may be building a peer-to-peer payment app to rival Venmo
A new report suggests that Apple is working on a peer-to-peer payment app that would compete with PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo. Apple is supposedly in talks with banks to develop the app, which...
View ArticleGoogle confirms Hangouts will now use peer-to-peer connections to improve...
Google Hangouts has received a small but important backend upgrade: peer-to-peer (p2p) connections. Google confirmed to VentureBeat that the functionality started rolling out to all users this week....
View ArticleP2P currency exchange marketplace CurrencyFair raises $8.8 million
CurrencyFair, a peer-to-peer currency exchange marketplace based in Ireland, has closed an €8 million ($8.8 million) funding round led by existing investors Octopus Ventures and Frontline Ventures....
View ArticleFacebook Messenger now sends money via PayPal
PayPal peer-to-peer (P2P) payments can now be sent in Facebook Messenger. The service will begin to roll out to customers in the United States starting today, PayPal COO Bill Ready said in this...
View ArticleFrom P2P to B2B: The next phase of the sharing economy
GUEST: In the wake of Uber and Airbnb’s rapid growth and billion dollar valuations, everyone is talking about the sharing economy. Sharing marketplaces are experiencing tremendous growth, and today...
View ArticleGoogle Play offline peer-to-peer installs prevents malicious Android apps...
Google's authentication service prevents malicious apps and updates installed from offline sources from infecting devices. It's now available in beta.Read More
View ArticleProsper takes on Wall Street, hopes to rewire banking
Peer-to-peer lending startup Prosper makes no secret of its support for the Occupy Wall Street movement, which seeks to break the hold of banks on the American political process. Prosper wants to do a...
View ArticleTransferwise undercuts the banks with crowdsourced currency exchange
Do you live outside your native country? Need to transfer money home? Most banks will charge you not only for the currency exchange but also for the transfer itself. TransferWise today announced...
View ArticleWith the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Getaround gets to Chicago
Getaround has some high-profile supporters. The peer-to-peer car sharing service recently raised $13.9 million from investors like Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer and Google’s Eric Schmidt, and now it’s...
View ArticleWhy pundits are wrong to trash the Zipcar deal
Hats off to Avis Budget Group for closing one of the most opportunistic deals in recent years. The company’s $500 million acquisition of Zipcar represents a 180-degree shift in strategy, and may put...
View ArticleProsper.com to live long and prosper with $20M from Sequoia
In Act 1, Scene 3 of Hamlet, Polonius counsels “neither a borrower nor a lender be.” However, for people looking to do either, Prosper.com’s peer-to-peer lending marketplace is an online place to do...
View ArticleRelayRides acquires Wheelz to zoom ahead in car-sharing race
The car-sharing space is beginning to resemble a NASCAR race, with a multiple contestants putting the pedal to the floor in an effort to break ahead. Today, car-sharing startup RelayRides announced...
View ArticleAbbey Post challenges fashion’s ‘thin’ obsession using social e-commerce...
Cynthia Schames was laid off from her job a day before her wedding. She worked in enterprise software sales for 12 years, but ultimately this setback led her to found Abbey Post. Abbey Post is a...
View ArticleGroundfloor unveils 'Lending Club for real-estate' so you can get richer,...
Groundfloor wants to take power away from banks and put it in the hands of the people. The startup is building a peer-to-peer platform that gives regular people opportunities to invest in real estate...
View ArticleUber & Lyft have a secret weapon in the fight for regulatory approval: You
FEATURE: “I am readying for a fight.” These are brave words from a beleaguered man, Lyft CEO John Zimmer. I’ve interviewed him enough times to tell you that he’s not a belligerent type. He’s developed...
View ArticleRoadie raises $37 million to expand peer-to-peer package delivery service
Atlanta, Georgia-based peer-to-peer package delivery startup Roadie has raised $37 million in an oversubscribed series C round.Read More
View ArticleApple reportedly halts peer-to-peer iPhone walkie-talkie project
A secret Apple project to enable iPhones to communicate directly, without nearby cellular towers, has reportedly been halted for the time being.Read More
View ArticleDitto raises $9M to connect devices peer-to-peer
Ditto, a startup developing a platform that connects devices peer-to-peer, with or without internet, has raised $9 million in seed funding.Read More
View ArticleHow blockchain technology is paving the way for a new era of cloud computing
Cloud infrastructure is being revolutionized by blockchain technology — making it decentralized and with high fault tolerance.Read More
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