article thumbnail

Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

socalTECH

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. We also have a mobile version of the product, Idrive Lite, which is primarily used to back up contacts. We''re not using third party services such as Amazon S3, which just adds to your cost. What is iDrive?

article thumbnail

This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. OTHER DEALS: 1.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile.

article thumbnail

REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

Wilson joined Paltalk from Zynga/OMGPOP where he was Chief Revenue Officer of the New York City based developer/publisher social mobile games company, which was sold to Zynga in 2012 for $210 Million. It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising. Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!

article thumbnail

What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002).

article thumbnail

Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense. I was dead set against it.

Startup 343