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Waze, the smart crowd-sourced traffic information application, has picked up $30 million in a Series C round of funding as it looks to capitalize on a burgeoning international opportunity, particularly in China. The Palo Alto company’s latest funding comes from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Horizon Ventures, which is managing the funds of Hong Kong’s Li Ka Shing, considered [...]

Twittelator Neue – Twitter Client for iOS5 ($1.99) by Big Stone Phone shows that innovation is not dead for Twitter apps on your iPhone. I’m sure that we all have our favorite Twitter apps by now, whether it be the official app or the awesome Tweetbot. However, I truly feel that Twittelator Neue is a worthy contender to the Twitter app market, though it does have a few flaws. The [...]

Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Tom Anderson, the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace. You can now find Tom on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Around 2004-2005, puzzled non-tech journalists continually asked me why people were using MySpace — this was before social networking was a common phrase, before moms & dads were using social sites, and before [...]

Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Tom Anderson, the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace. You can now find Tom on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Around 2004-2005, puzzled non-tech journalists continually asked me why people were using MySpace — this was before social networking was a common phrase, before moms & dads were using social sites, and before [...]

The latest report from mobile analytics firm Distimo examines in detail the trends surrounding the localization of mobile applications. That is, which app stores tend to have a higher or lower number of apps that are published in just one country alone. According to its findings, globally, 27% of the most popular applications are popular exclusively in one country in Apple’s App Store for iPhone. [...]