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Facebook has has acquired San Francisco based startup Tugboat Yards. Under this acquisition, Tugboat Yards will down its shutters on June 30, and its entire team will join Facebook's Product team, working on media products including video and news.

What Tugboat Yards offered?

The startup based in San Francisco offers publishers/media a way to “promote custom offers" at their audiences as a way to gain support. That's why the name TugBoat yards.

Anyone with an app, website, podcast, etc. could create an account free of cost, and use it to get support from its own audiences. Thus, in order to use Tugboat yards, you should have some online property or online product service for which you want to get support. This way the Start-up ensured that only a specific group join the service.

What Facebook will gain from the Tugboat Yards Acquisition

Facebook plans to enrich its media products including videos and news, with this acquisition. This can be read as ability to create more money. Which is justified.

What money exchanged hands is not disclosed.

At the time of writing this post, the ability to create a new publisher account at Tugboat Yards has been disabled. Subscriptions that already exist will renew up until June 30. New account creation will only be available to those who need to finish a purchase.

The Tugboat Yards existing customers will be able to export their existing data till July 15.

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Acquisitions , custom offer promotions , Facebook Acquisitions , StartUps , tugboat yards

Facebook enriches custom promotions on videos, news with Tugboat Yards Acquisition

Anil Singh Thursday, May 21, 2015

NIKE ColorDry Technology to Eliminate Water and Chemicals in Dyeing

Sportswear maker, NIKE, Inc. just yesterday opened a waterfree dyeing facility featuring high-tech equipment to eliminate the use of water and process chemicals from fabric dyeing at its Taiwanese contract manufacturer Far Eastern New Century Corp.

NIKE, Inc. has named this sustainable innovation "ColorDry" to highlight the environmental benefits and unprecedented coloring achieved with the technology. The event marks NIKE, Inc.'s February 2012 announcement that it had taken a strategic stake in Dutch start-up, DyeCoo Textile Systems B.V., a company that invented a technology to replace water, normally used for dyeing, with recyclable CO2, reducing energy use and eliminating the need for added chemicals in the process.

On average, an estimated 100-150 liters of water is needed to process one kg of textiles today. Industry analysts estimate that more than 39 million tons of polyester will be dyed annually by 2015.

NIKE, Inc. sees the step as a step closer towards its Chief Operating Officer, Eric Sprunk's belief that businesses recognize the need to reduce dependence on constrained resources, manufacturing innovation can play a key role.

Initial indications from Far Eastern New Century Corp. (FENC) show the ColorDry process is both more efficient and more consistent than traditional, resource-intensive dyeing methods."Compared to traditional dyeing methods, the ColorDry process reduces dyeing time by 40%, energy use by around 60% and the required factory footprint by a quarter. It's also the most saturated, intense and consistent color we've seen," said Mr Kuenlin Ho, Exec. Vice President at FENC.

Consumers can expect to see NIKE Inc. ColorDry products in the marketplace from early 2014.

Info graphic below explains The ColorDry Technology better:

Click On Image To Enlarge

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Innovation , Nike ColorDry Technology , StartUps , Think Green

NIKE ColorDry Technology to Eliminate Water and Chemicals in Dyeing

Anil Singh Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Twitter processing 1B Tweets Every 2 Days. 350 Billion Tweets Since Being Founded.

In the upbeat atmosphere of the Twitter IPO, where the micro blogging site, real time search site, real time news site or whatever you want to call it, got a public valuation of $24 Billion at $45 per share; lets have a look at some latest Twitter Numbers. Below are they:

Cumulatively, there have been over 350 billion tweets sent since Twitter got launched in 2006.

Twitter took over 3 years and 2 months to hit the First 1 Billion tweets.

Now Twitter users send over a billion tweets every 2 days. Thus the time Twitter took to send the next billion Tweets kept on decreasing. To the extent that now

Twitter has over 230 million monthly active users (MAUs). 77% of the average MAUs are international. Around 76% of the users primarily access Twitter on mobile devices.

What makes Twitter unique?

Twitter is the only public, real-time, distributed, and conversational platform that is at scale, says Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. That's whatever you want to broadcast on Twitter immediately shows. That's why we see many celebrities suffer Twitter backlash. But Twitter doesn't stop at just being a broadcaster, since people interact with each other on Twitter (that's why we have trending Topics), hence its suits brands connect with customers.

Twitter is distributed through the mobile ecosystem and third party platforms. And Mobile platforms are the in thing. Facebook saw a surge in its revenue primarily because of revenue from mobile platform. Costolo said that around 71% of the advertising revenue is generated from mobile devices.

Twitter CFO Mike Gupta said that for the 9 months ended September 2013, “we generated $422 million in revenue, more than double what we generated in the same period in the prior year.” Advertising accounted for 89% and the remaining 11% was data licensing. ---------

Dick Costolo , Mike Gupta , StartUps , Twitter , Twitter CEO , Twitter CFO

USD 24 Billion Twitter processing 1 Billion Tweets Every Two Days

Anil Singh Friday, November 8, 2013

Nobody wants to give someone access to his/her Wi-Fi network. As it involves a tough decision:, which among other things involves handing out the password.

A Swedish startup called Instabridge, has an easier way.

Instabridge’s free Android app lets you automatically share Wi-Fi networks with your Facebook friends. The app works by taking advantage of the Facebook Connect authentication tool, which lets users to log on to websites with Facebook credentials. The app is available in a few of European countries at present.

How to use the App:

When you install Instabridge, you need to log in with your Facebook username and password. The app then determines who your friends are and lets you invite them to use a network. To share a Wi-Fi network through Instabridge for the first time, you must type in your network’s password, which is encrypted and stored on Instabridge’s servers. If a friend using the Instabridge app on his smartphone comes within range of a network you’ve shared, Instabridge pushes the network credential to your friend’s phone so he can get online, but it doesn’t show it to him. Once he’s moved out of range, the credentials are deleted from his phone.

The App also allows the user to lock users out of the network. The app also includes a map showing all the networks available to the user. In the next version, the start-up is adding a feature, by which a user will be able to add friends with the address book on his/her phone. Other fiture additions include, adding other social sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn in the mix.

Instabridge says that although Instabridge app must be running all the time (along with your smartphone’s Wi-Fi), it doesn’t deplete the smartphone’s battery; as it operates in the background and links into the phone’s normal Wi-Fi scanning activities only when it sees a network it recognizes (just as a smartphone with Wifi does).

Instabridge’s cofounder and CEO, Niklas Agevik, is confident that with the more smartphones and tablets proliferation, the inconvenience of having to share a Wi-Fi password (which means losing money as well; if the WiFi owner is on a limited data plan) will make more and more users uneasy. And this will help the start-up.

Availability: The app is currently available only for Android users in countries like Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland. About 5,000 people have downloaded the app from Google Play till now and there are about 2,000 active users.

Instabridge plans to launch the app in US in early 2013, and after that in other countries.The company is also considering an iOS version of the app.
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Android Apps , Facebook Connect , Instabridge , StartUps , Wifi Sharing

Sharing Wifi network using Facebook Connect Feature

Anil Singh Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Below $100 USB Dongle For Streaming Online Video To Your TV -- PLAiR

A new startup, named PLAiR, which only yesterday got a decent funding, is to roll out a new product. A Product, a USB dongle, to help users distribute content from over the Internet to their TVs.

The motto of PLAiR is to enable users “watch anything, anytime, anywhere.” Yes, unlike Apple TV and other streaming products, which allow streaming of content and apps of the partners and self; PLAiR is designed to stream everything. That's the dongle will be unlocked, so that the entire web and mobile video content can be streamed to your TV.

This is what, the PLAiR promotional video says:

“Basically, if you can find it online or play it on your mobile device, you can play it on TV,”.

TechCruch, has unearthed some more details about the Start-ups upcoming USB dongle.

PLAiR is a dolphin fin-shaped USB dongle designed to connect to your TV and, through the power of wireless networking, will allow you to send photos or videos from your computer, tablet, or mobile phone directly to the big screen in your living room.

The PLAir USB dongle will cost less than $100, and probably in the $59-$79 range.

At that cost, the PLAiR USB dongle can give competition to other streaming video devices like the Apple TV, Roku etc.

How PLAiR USB Dongle works:

Connect the USB dongle to TV’s USB port, wait 30 seconds, once ready, launch the PLAiR mobile app, which scans for local devices. Once a device is chosen and the WiFi network info and password is provided through the app, the device starts using that hotspot to beam content to the TV. After that you choose your TV brand, to help the dongle format the content for the TV. Once done, the content starts streaming to the TV. The Good thing is, once the process is over; a viewer can resume browsing the web on the device from where the PLAiR dongle is beaming the content. That apart, the dongle supports multiple devices and beam to more than one TV at the same time.

PLAiR, plans to launch apps for iOS and Android devices, so that users easily beam videos they’re watching on those devices to the TV. In addition, the Start-up will also have a web page and browser extensions that will let users create and manage playlists of content.

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Below $100 USB Dongle , Gadgets , PLAiR , PLAiR dongle For Streaming Online Video To Your TV , StartUps

Below $100 USB Dongle For Streaming Online Video To Your TV -- PLAiR

Anil Singh Thursday, August 23, 2012

What are the two most difficult processes for any Mobile App developer?

1) The Back end of a Mobile App and

2) Ensuring that the Mobile App created is picture perfect for App Store submission. If the app is less than perfect, courtesy current high standards of App Store, the developer is always at a risk of the App rejection (and as a consequence of time and money).

CloudMine is well aware of that(it itself started of as a development app itself, finally graduating to a platform), that's why CloudMine has launched a platform which not only ensures a Hassle Free App Development, but also Perfect App Store Submission.

In short, an antidote to your mobile development pain points.

CloudMine App Development Platform:

As said, the Startup Cloudmine has launched a new platform, which offers the backend platform to simplify and streamline the app building process, leaving developers to focus on the front-end fun.

To pick the essence of the objective behind CloudMine's new app development platform, one can safely say that Cloudmine team collated the processes developers don't want to do themselves, and provided all those processes in the platform.

Working on this philosophy, CloudMine took the back-end focus away from engineers so they can focus on the part users (developers like you and I) actually interact with. To be specific, tasks like data storage, user account management, password encryption, any sort of permissions, dealing with public and private data, and scaling. But unlike similar existing services in the market, which give developers the tools to build their apps, CloudMine will put it all together (that's instead of giving you nails, hammer and wood to make a stage, it creates a stage for you, so that you can decorate the stage for audience).

A Bonus!

Treat it as a Bonus. The CloudMine service helps apps scale from the beginning. Developers often have to the make the decision early on how successful they believe their apps will be — and those who are damn serious about their app venture, end up spending too much on on services, they shouldn't, for instance on a hosting service.

On contrary, there are others who fail to spend adequately on resources and later lament when the app gets featured in the App Store within the first week, but their service gets marred by slow load times and constant crashing.

Cloudmine's platform does all this scaling in advance. So that neither there's wastefulness on resources nor dearth of them.

In simple, Cloudmine's helps the programmer timely realise that his App is or is not the next Angry Bird or Temple Run. To save the developers from any bloodbath (money-wise), the platform decided that clients can pay by user ($0.05 per active user) or find a custom pricing plan that works better for their needs.

A bit more about CloudMine:

CloudMind is funded by Startup Weekend. It has 10 employees. CloudMine recently raised $100k from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania.

It’s already about 1,500 clients who have made about 1,500 apps with its service. They range in shape, size, and form — from college kids building weekend projects to creative agencies working as third party builders-for-hire to Fortune 500 companies. ---------

App Store , Cloudmine , Developing Apps for App Store , Mobile App Development , StartUps

Cloudmine launches Hassle Free App Development & Perfect App Store Submission

Anil Singh Sunday, June 24, 2012

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