There are no secrets online anymore. People share everything, even the performance of their personal stock portfolios. Social investing site Covestor raised $6.5 million in a series A financing based on the appeal of this concept. The round was led by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. Europe’s Amadeus Capital Partners also participated. The startup previously raised $1 million last June from the founders of Seekingalpha, Betfair, Tribe.net, and Wallstrip.
Covestor, which is still in beta, lets you link your real brokerage account to the service so that you can compare your returns against other Covestor members, professional fund managers, and the overall market. As I wrote last October :
The idea is that eventually, the best investors will emerge, and Covestor plans on creating ways to invest in their “funds.” They are actually just going to be selling the data and linking it to the brokerage accounts of people who choose to be followers. The investin...
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Following the successful raising of its first fund andseveral acquisitions, the three managing directors of Buchanan Capital Partners have recently acquired the remaining shares in the business from minority investor Buchanan Capital Holding AG, and re-brandedthe company Aheim Capital... more
Petrom, Orange si Vodafone sunt cele mai valoroase companii din Romania, dar fiecare valoreaza substantial mai putin decat anul trecut, arata Topul celor mai valoroase 100 de companii din Romania, publicat de Ziarul Financiar in colaborare cu casa de investitii Capital Partners. Petrom a fost evaluata, ca si BRD, Alro, Transgaz sau Transelectrica, pe baza [...]... more
The National Association of Realtors announced that it has become a real estate news and content contributor to the Real Estate Channel.
According to a release, Real Estate Channel, a property of Orlando-based Real Estate Channel Corp., will now use real estate news stories and related market reports provided by the association in its news, market data and property profiles features among others.
Real Estate Channel Corp. is a subsidiary of Orlando-based Gerrity Capital Partners LLC, and a W... more
Boxee , una empresa proveedora de una plataforma de software de medios de comunciación social, ha recibido una inversión de 4 millones de dólares por parte de Spark Capital y Union Square Ventures . Cada una ha puesto exactamente el 50% de la inversión.
Bijan Sabet de Spark y Fred Wilson de Union Square se unirán a la junta de la compañía. La aplicación de Boxee proporciona al usuario una interfaz para su ordenador ((Mac OSX o Linux, y pronto también Windows) o una Apple... more
Apple’s plans to give third-party developers access to its iPhone will be unveiled Thursday at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. But what it plans do at its iPhone Software Roadmap event has developers anxious.
It’s not clear if Apple will release a promised software development kit, but failing to do so would be a major disappointment for developers. Apple is already late on its promise to have an iPhone SDK in developers’ hands in February.
The iLounge Web site has ... more
Malicious-code attacks are being aimed at mobile devices, security researchers say. The malware, which comes hidden inside legitimate applications, can compromise information on the device and even target the user for extortion.
One recent attack was a Trojan called WinCE/InfoJack that was aimed at Windows Mobile PocketPCs. Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager of McAfee Avert Labs, told us that WinCE/InfoJack was bundled with legitimate installation files such as Google ... more
Nokia plans to include Microsoft’s Silverlight on its S60 software platform for smartphones running the Symbian OS, beginning later this year. Microsoft’s cross-platform multimedia plug-in will eventually also be on Nokia’s Series 40 devices and Internet Web tablets as well as devices running the Windows Mobile and Linux operating systems.
The deal with Microsoft will provide smartphone developers with more opportunities to create media-rich, interactive applications that ... more
Microsoft said Monday that it will make the current Web standard for rendering browser content the default in Internet Explorer 8. As the Web has evolved, there have been different levels of support for Web standards and new forms of Web-site behavior. Unless a Web site provides specific instructions, a browser uses a default mode.
Three Modes
IE8 will have three rendering modes. One supports the current implementation of Web standards, the second supports the implementation that existed a... more
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