Facebook Acquires the Lightbox Team
Facebook are on the move again acquiring the team of photo sharing application Lightbox ahead of it’s upcoming IPO. Thai Tran & Nilesh Patel have announced that their team is joining Facebook and closing down the service entirely on June 15. Facebook are clearly trying to dominate the way users share photos across the Web. It will be interesting to see how successful they are at doing so. Below is the statement from the Lightbox Team:
The Funding Games – 4th 500Startups Class!
We must say we are extremely impressed and proud of what members of this years Startmate class are getting up to overseas. 500Startups began their 4th incubator class at the beginning of April and Aussie Startup – Happy Inspector was one of the ones chosen.
16 year old who runs a 5 Million Dollar Company
Get ready to start hearing a lot more about young entrepreneur Maddie Bradshaw. She is 16 years old and already heads up the multimillion dollar business M3 Designs which she created from her bedroom back in 2006 when she was just 10 years old!
Startup TidePool closes $1.5 million Funding Round
TidePool is a startup that aims to determine a users personality from photos. Tidepool uses a unique set of images to uncover personality and other psychological characteristics from photos. To begin your assessment on Tidepool, you are presented a number of photos. You are asked to rank photos by which ones you like best.
