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The Battle To Be The (Profitable) YouTube For Documents

December 19, 2008

Y Combinator startup Scribd has raised its 4th round of financing – $9 million from Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group. This puts their total funding at around $12.8 million in an attempt to become the YouTube for documents. 
Launched one year after Scribd, Los Angeles based, DocStoc jumped onto the scene to capture some [...]

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SlideRockets Leaves Public Beta, Launches New Feature Set And Revenue Model

October 28, 2008

SlideRocket is a collaborative online presentation application that produces slideshows similar to PowerPoint in the cloud.
As they leave public beta, they have launched a new feature set that will start producing revenue for the 2 year old company.

They will now allows users to purchase assets for their projects include licensed stock photos through a partnership [...]

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Zoho Readies Creator App Store

September 19, 2008

Zoho will launch an app store for it’s Creator service on Sept. 29th.
Creator is Zoho’s database tool that allows users to create anything from custom CRM solutions to tracking comic book collections.
Zoho will let developers keep 100% of revenue, while charging users who run huge (undefined as of now) databases.
Non-enterprise users will be able to [...]

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iCharts, It’s DocStoc For Charts

September 9, 2008

iCharts lets users take data from spreadsheets (Excel, Google Docs), upload it directly to iCharts, and easily create or replicate an interactive chart.
iCharts will let you host and customize charts on their site, which can then be embedded anywhere html is accepted.
The easy UI of the site let’s you find relative charts that may be [...]

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