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Will Meta’s Metaverse efforts survive the latest setbacks?
Meta's metaverse ambitions are going through a challenging moment, but don't write it off anytime soon
Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million
Facebook surprised with its first acquisition in Israel today, with the announcement that it is buying Israeli startup Snaptu (previously known as Moblica) for an estimated $60-70 million. Founded in 2007 by Ron Makavy, Micha Berdichevsky, and Barak Naveh, Snaptu raised a total of $9 million in three rounds
The Gifts Project leverages the social graph for real gift giving
The Gifts Project takes the concept of social shopping and applies it specifically to group gifting. Via a Facebook application, the service allows users to identify gifts that they would like to give/receive to/from friends for a particular occasion (e.g. birthday, anniversary), and then allows users to select up to 20 friends to contribute to the gift purchase.
Did you Get Your Facebook Vanity URL?
The facebook land rush is on and boy it’s intense. Starting today, June 13, Facebook allows users to…
MySpace Opens its Developer Platform – What will be the impact?
Trailing after Facebook, MySpace will announce the launch of its Developer platform today, by opening the MySpace Developer Site to app creators…
The Next-Israeli “Killer Application for Facebook” Challenge
How can you get a few dozen ideas for facebook apps for the price of an iPhone? announce…
Clip Djour: Yet Another Web 2.0 Video (or ‘Are we in a bubble?’)
For those who are caught up in the constant debate of bubble vs. no bubble, here’s yet another…
The New Million Dollar Page (wannabe) and How I Saved an Alien
It’s silly, but what if this crazy idea worked? Save an Alien, an Israeli Facebook app hopes to…
TGIF – Friday Wrap Up and Weekly News
This week was full of tech news that deserve some VC Cafe attention. Here’s a short recap on…
Dapper launches AppMaker – Mass Production of Facebook Apps
If you build it, they will come. Israeli based Dapper, a widget creation site has announced the launch…