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Badgeville’s Kris Duggan: Six frameworks can gamify employee and customer engagement (interview) 30 May 2012 | 11:30 pm
Brands have embraced “gamification,” or using game-like behavior in non-game applications, as a way to engage their audiences. That is why gamification vendor Badgeville has more than 165 customers an...
Badgeville Levels Up With $25M From InterWest & More To Gamify Enterprise 30 May 2012 | 11:29 pm
When Badgeville launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco back in 2010 and took home the “Audience Choice Award,” its mission to help companies big and small leverage gamification elements like lea...
Meet the Connected Car of the Future [INFOGRAPHIC] 30 May 2012 | 11:28 pm
Futurists, meet your car of tomorrow. We know plenty about how digital technology is reshaping computing, smartphones , personal relationships and business. But what about something most of us depend ...
Buddy.com raises $1m, offers a “backend-as-a-service” platform for app developers 30 May 2012 | 10:22 pm
Buddy Platform this morning announced that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from Transmedia Capital and Crestlight Venture Productions as it launches its ‘backend-as-a-service’ (okay we’ll cal...
Google Honors Peter Carl Fabergé With a Bejeweled Doodle 30 May 2012 | 09:40 pm
Today’s Google Doodle honors Peter Carl Fabergé, a famous Russian jeweller, best known for his Fabergé eggs. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Fabergé inherited the family jeweler business from his fa...
Facebook HQ expansion plan approved; new limit of 6,600 workers, will pay Menlo Park up to $15m 30 May 2012 | 08:10 pm
At a meeting last night, Menlo Park officials approved a deal that will let Facebook employ thousands more people at its headquarters in the Silicon Valley city. Today, the social networking company e...
Educational games maker Mindshapes raises $4 million from Index, others 30 May 2012 | 06:00 pm
London-based app development startup Mindshapes , which is behind a series of educational games and applications , has secured $4 million in funding from VC firm Index Ventures, Richmond Park Partners...
More Bad News For HP: The New Google Chromebook Compared to a Typical HP Laptop 30 May 2012 | 05:45 pm
Today Google announced two new computers, the latest Chromebook laptop and a brand new desktop machine called the Chromebox. After reading Jon Mitchell's thorough review , it became apparent that ther...
Five Stars Hits 1.3 Million Check-Ins, Emerging As A Quiet Giant In Customer Loyalty 30 May 2012 | 05:30 pm
We in the press haven’t heard too much from Five Stars , the customer loyalty startup, since it launched out of the Winter 2011 class of Y Combinator last year. But now that seems the silence has been...
Interactive Outdoor Ad Startup smartDIGITAL Raises $2.7M 30 May 2012 | 05:00 pm
smartDIGITAL , a startup that makes interactive ad displays, has raised $2.7 million in a Series A round of funding. smartDIGITAL displays are already available in Chicago and Miami, says co-founder a...
