Israel’s equity Crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd announced that it has closed $5.5M in Series A funding and successfully closed 12 company funding rounds from accredited investors in its first quarter of operation with an average deal size of $500,000. Total capital raised for companies and the platform now totals over $12 Million. It is a new and innovative way to invest in Israeli startups. As an equity Crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd identifies companies seeking early stage investment and brings these opportunities to its membership who choose which deals they participate in via OurCrowd-managed partnerships. OurCrowd co-invests in all of these deals, and ... Read More »

WikiDo.com is a new search engine that first appeared in October. It helps people find local events throughout the United States. Like other wikis, it relies on users to add and edit some of the data. However, it also uses spider software to automatically collect information from other websites. It currently lists over 750,000 events. WikiDo shows today’s listings when a searcher enters the name of a city. For example, a search for “Boston, MA” returns 315 results. They include parties, classes, concerts and over 100 social events. Among other things, there is a pottery exhibition, an art sale and ... Read More »

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but there’s no reason you can’t add just a few more. Meet Digisocial, a new social sharing app from Digisocial, Inc., which offers users some new wrinkles on content-sharing, including the ability to attach audio recordings to their shared photos. Digisocial users can post their photos and offer observations and commentary in their own unique voice – literally – using the audio feature, appropriately named “VoicePhotos.” Adding a vocal caption to a picture is the obvious use of VoicePhotos, but Digisocial suggests that users are likely to find other unique ways ... Read More »

What separates good internet marketers from great internet marketers is their ability to bring eyes to a product and generate sales or leads. This isn’t a secret. What might be a secret to some of you is some of the tactics they’re using to do it. Let’s take a quick look at some of the common ways internet marketers are controlling your mind. Attention Grabbing Headlines “15-year-old Millionaire Starts a Business with $50 in His Parent’s Basement and Wants to Give You His Top-Secret Blueprint for Success.” A marketer must get your attention within the first few seconds of loading ... Read More »

There is a new tech startup called Pheed, aimed to make your social media life a lot easier and simpler. Labelled by Forbes in a recent article as ‘the new Twitter,’ Pheed combines all your favorite social networks into one. The idea is that rather than having Twitter for texts, Instagram for photos, Viddy for videos, Soundcloud for sound, etc., Pheed allows you to do all of the above, in one simple and easy-to-use platform. In a sense, Pheed has cherry picked the features we love from other platforms and integrated them into one simple and fast app. Users new ... Read More »