Loyal3 = an incredibly easy and creative way of owning stocks. Loyal3 is making company ownership fun and easy - and flips the investing model over by introducing flat contributions instead of a per-share price as well as select “brands you love”. Revolutionary.
[reproduced from VentureBeat] Loyal3 raises $18M to make buying stock as easy as a Facebook ‘like’ [By Rebecca Grant] It is one thing to ‘like’ a brand’s Facebook page, but quite another throw down actual dollars. Loyal3 has raised $18 million so consumers can put their money where their mouth is. Loyal3 makes buying stock more social and accessible for people who don’t have much experience with the stock market. In three steps, you can invest as little as $10 in well-known companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Starbucks, Disney, Google, Coca Cola, Walmart etc… Loyal3′s core philosophy is “own what you love.” Buying stocks can seem daunting for people without financial expertise. Loyal3 wants to make this process more user-friendly by providing fee-free investing and enabling the purchase of stock through a brands’ Facebook page. Loyal3 is a registered broker-dealer and offers stock in publicly traded companies, stock in Initial public Offerings (IPOs) and stock in follow-on offerings. Consumer engagement is a major buzz word in the brand world right now as companies try to deepen their bonds with consumers and build loyalty. Loyal3 serves companies that want excited shareholders, as well as consumers who want to feel a strong connection to the brands they use everyday. DNS-L3, LLC, an entity owned by Michael and Gigi Pritzker Pucker, led this round, along with existing investors Cris Kelly (former Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook) and Barry Schneider, Loyal3′s CEO. This is the company’s third round of financing. Loyal3 is based in San Francisco.
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xbox one: a kinect, windows 8-based version of media center xp meets game console ? or vice versa. In a sense, the only interesting news was the announcement that the NFL will be bringing original content to the platform.
It’s however far fetched from the real holy grail: live HD streaming of major US sports leagues, i.e. football and baseball. [Reproduced from VentureBeat] Microsoft draws a mixed reaction for the Xbox One 05.22.13 Dean Takahashi Microsoft’s announcement of its Xbox One video game console landed with a thud on Wall Street, where the company’s shares are falling this morning. Other reactions have focused on what Microsoft didn’t talk about (it’s saving a lot for E3 in June) and consumer rights issues that it didn’t fully address. Unfortunately, stock traders are reacting to the partial information that Microsoft released yesterday, and they’re not inclined to care if Microsoft was keeping its powder dry until the official E3 press conference June 10. Microsoft touted features such as the integration of Kinect motion and voice controls into the heart of the system and the addition of new entertainment services and Skype. It showed glimpses of games such as Call of Duty: Ghosts (with exclusive downloadable content), EA Sports titles, and Microsoft’s own Quantum Break, promising they would look awesome. It touted clever hardware innovations such as cloud processing, which uses data centers to complement the processing power inside the machine. It also said it would integrate SmartGlass app controls into the system. Instant Kinect command recognition is Microsoft’s main selling point for how entertainment will become better on Xbox One. But those features didn’t capture a lot of the headlines. Analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities said in a research note that he liked what he saw so far but details that will determine long-term success will likely have to wait until the E3 trade show in June. Ben Schachter of Macquarie Research wrote there were great new features in Kinect integration for multimedia, some exclusive content and a confirmed 2013 launch. San Francisco’s bay area to host Super Bowl L. Awesome news: Super Bowl 50 will be held in Silicon Valley at Santa Clara’s 49ers stadium. 49ers die-hard fan post: with the best team in the NFL (sorry Green Bay), the greatest location (Sorry NOLA) and arguably the awesomest football stadium in the union, Superbowl L promises to be epic !
[Reproduced from 49ers.com] Bay Area to Host Super Bowl L May 21, 2013 Taylor Price, 49ers.com The 50th anniversary of the most prestigious game in professional sports will take place in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following a vote by 32 NFL owners on Tuesday, Super Bowl L will be played at Levi’s® Stadium, the future home of the San Francisco 49ers. The San Francisco Super Bowl bid committee was selected over the South Florida committee to host the league’s championship game in 2016. “Today’s vote is the culmination of hard work from a number of dedicated individuals,” 49ers CEO Jed York told 49ers.com moments after the big game was awarded to the Bay Area. “Our bid committee should be commended for putting together a proposal for NFL ownership that accurately depicted how memorable a Bay Area Super Bowl will be.” Levi’s® Stadium, set to open in 2014, will be the most technologically advanced venue to ever host a Super Bowl. It also figures to be the first cashless, ticketless venue with WiFi capability for 75,000 people in Super Bowl history. The Super Bowl’s 50th anniversary game will return to the Bay Area for the first time since Super Bowl XIX, a 38-16 victory by the 49ers that was held at Stanford Stadium in 1985. The 49ers still stand as the only team in league history to have won a Super Bowl in the same year their region hosted the championship game. Tuesday’s bid victory was another win for the Bay Area which continues to be one of the most prosperous sports regions in the nation. [more] Yahoo acquires Tumblr: mass exodus has already started ? A lot of Tumblr’s content is NSFW. Last time Yahoo went through this was more than 10 years ago with the acquisitions of e-groups and geocities. At that time, most of the yahoo groups were also of that type. Until shareholders started to comment negatively on the content and yahoo had to discretely, but surely pull the groups … paving the way to mass exodus to other sites such as craigslist.
[Reproduced from venturebeat 05.20.13] WordPress CEO: Yahoo deal led to 72,000 Tumblr posts imported to WP in one hour By Devindra Hardawar While it may be too early to tell how Tumblr users will ultimately respond to Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition, we’re seeing signs that are jumping to other blogging services. Matt Mullenwag, CEO of WordPress parent company Automattic, points out his service saw more than 72,000 imported posts from Tumblr in one hour on Sunday night, following the hoopla around Tumblr’s acquisition. Typically, WordPress sees around 400 to 600 imported posts from Tumblr every hour, he said. The massive import increase is a sign that more astute Tumblr users would rather have their blogs on an independent service, rather than one owned by a giant (and honestly, not that cool) company. But by leaving the Tumblr platform, they’re also giving up Tumblr’s social benefits, like its simple ability to “like” and reblog other Tumblr posts. (WordPress now allows similar social features, but they were initially popularized by Tumblr’s tiny blogs.) “News like this, whether from a friend or a competitor, is always bittersweet: I’m curious to see what the creative folks behind Tumblr do with their new resources, both personal and corporate, but I’m more interested to know what they would have done over the next 5-10 years as an independent company,” Mullenwag wrote on his blog. “I think we’re at the cusp of understanding the ultimate value of web publishing platforms, particularly ones that work cross-domain, and while Yahoo’s all-cash deal by some metrics, like revenue, is very generous, I think it’s a tenth of the value that will be created in these platforms over the coming years.” |
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