| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.11.2012 | Entrepreneurs, quit your whining about fundraising! | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is a guest post by Flybridge Capital Partner... |
| 19.08.2011 | HubSpot Acquires @oneforty | HubSpot, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based provider of all-in-one marketing software for small and medium sized businesses, acquired @oneforty, a social media marketing company headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
Following the transaction, @onef... |
| 18.08.2011 | Twitter app store Oneforty acquired by HubSpot | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Oneforty, entrepreneur and marketer Laura Fitton’... |
| 18.08.2011 | HubSpot Absorbs Oneforty in Latest Boston Area Social Marketing Acquisition | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Leave it to two of the most talked-about social media and marketing companies in town to orchestrate this bit of news to maximum effect.
HubSpot is announcing this afternoon t... |
| 18.08.2011 | HubSpot Buys Social Media Management Platform And App Directory Oneforty | HubSpot has acquired social business management platform Oneforty.
Oneforty originally launched two years ago as an app store for Twitter, the startup undoubtedly filled a hole in the media platform. The brainchild of Laura Fitton, the star... |
| 11.03.2011 | Twitter Tells Developers to Stop Building Twitter Clients | Now Friends With Charlie Sheen, Twitter Tells Its Nerdy Old Pals to Drop Dead
Twitter’s platform/API leader Ryan Sarver issued an official statement to the Twitter developer world today that’s sure to send a shudder down the backs of many p... |
| 23.02.2011 | Make Sense Of Your Social Photos With VVall's GRID | Ever find yourself posting a ton of pictures to Twitter and Facebook and Dailybooth and so on and so forth, just to have them fall into the digital abyss? The people behind vvall, a stealthish mobile photo app, have created GRID, a humble p... |
| 11.02.2011 | Oneforty Moves Beyond Twitter App Store Into Big, Bad World of Social Business | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
You might think that someone with 75,000 Twitter followers would be just plain annoying. But Laura Fitton (@pistachio) has some very useful things to share—on Twitter and else... |
| 11.02.2011 | Twitter App Store Oneforty Refocuses On Helping Business Users Manage 'Social' | When Oneforty launched two years ago as an app store for Twitter, the startup undoubtedly filled a hole in the media platform. The brainchild of Laura Fitton, the startup provides a comprehensive e-commerce marketplace where third-party dev... |
| 30.12.2010 | Who Gives A Tweet: MIT Researchers Build A "Hot Or Not" For Twitter | Because everything eventually becomes an academic field (I’m still waiting for “Internet” to become a major), researchers from MIT, University of Southampton and Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to build Who Gives A Tweet, a T... |
| 10.11.2010 | Flowtown Turns E-Mail Lists into Customer Networks; Acquires Who Should I Follow? to Boost Twitter Marketing | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s obvious, these days, that anyone who wants to sell things or build an audience on the Web should be tapping into social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, where in... |
| 07.10.2010 | 33 ways to make your app a hit: VentureBeat’s Discovery Directory | As app stores multiply and the number of publicly released apps — just the ones we can see and count — approaches 1 million, content developers are having a hard time standing out from the crowd.
That process is known in the app world as di... |
| 17.09.2010 | Can #NewTwitter Swim Faster Than a Fail Whale? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Coast Guard reported Thursday that a ship entering San Francisco Bay struck a 25-foot whale and dragged it all the way to Berth 57 at the Port of Oakland, where it was pro... |
| 15.09.2010 | Waiting For The New Twitter? Get A DM When You're Eligible | If you’re like me you don’t have the new Twitter yet (Wow, talk about a gradual roll-out fail. Hey dudes, I work for TechCrunch remember!). So what’s a girl to do other than stay up all night crying and manually refreshing Twitter.com until... |
| 07.09.2010 | Investors shy from third-party Twitter apps | Report finds companies building on top of Twitter are receiving fewer funds
Bad news if you’re trying to cash in on Twitter’s fame and fortune by building a company that will provide a Twitter-based feature as a third-party app. According t... |
| 23.08.2010 | How Twitter Can Help You Quit Smoking | In this Sunday’s New York Times, reporter Brian Stelter outlines his using Twitter as a tool for weight loss by setting up a @brianstelter25 account for his progress and tweeting out his exercise plan and meals.
“I knew that I could not die... |
| 12.08.2010 | Rethinking Some of Those Funding Success Stories | Have a great team. Pick a huge market. Build an awesome product. And boom, the financing will be yours, just like that. Except, not really.
Perhaps we do tend to glamorize those sorts of amazing funding success stories, something that can p... |
| 23.06.2010 | Greenhorn Connect, Growing Fast, Looks to Continue “Snowball Effect” of Young Tech Entrepreneurs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’re a young entrepreneur in the Boston area, you need to know about Greenhorn Connect. It’s a fast-growing resource site that, as its name suggests, connects entrepreneu... |
| 03.06.2010 | TechStars Boston Graduates Ten New Startups In 2010 | Editor’s note: The following report comes from Don Dodge, who blogs at Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing and is a Developer Advocate for Google. TechStars is a seed accelerator program that selects about ten companies and provides funding of ... |
| 03.06.2010 | TechStars Boston debuts 10 new startups | From data analytics, crowdsourcing, sports stock market to interactive radio stations
TechStars has now been operating for four years. According to results data that TechStars has published, six of the first twenty companies to go through t... |
| 06.05.2010 | Winners: 5 Free Tickets to RWW Mobile Summit, Mountain View, Friday 7 May #RWWSummit | Tomorrow we’re running our second unconference event, the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit. It’s on right after the Web 2.0 Expo and we’re once again holding it at the beautiful Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Our last unconference was ... |
| 05.05.2010 | Giveaway: 5 Free Tickets to RWW Mobile Summit, Mountain View, Friday 7 May #RWWSummit | This Friday we’re running our second unconference event, the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit. It’s on right after the Web 2.0 Expo and we’re once again holding it at the beautiful Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Our last unconference w... |
| 30.04.2010 | 1 More Week Until the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit – Register Today! | There’s only one week left until the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010, so we invite you to register now. Be a part of high-value, intimate conversations with people working throughout the world of mobile, from garage developers to industry l... |
| 27.04.2010 | Central Square’s Barron Building Emerges as Startup Hub | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If there were a heat map showing how high-tech entrepreneurs are distributed around Boston, there would be a new red spot at 614 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge’s Central Sq... |
| 26.04.2010 | 2 More Weeks Until the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit – Register Today! | There are just two more weeks until the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010, so we invite you to register now. Be a part of high-value, intimate conversations with people working throughout the world of mobile, from garage developers to industr... |
| 14.01.2010 | Oneforty raises $1.85 million | Flybridge Capital invests in startup that wants to be the App Store of Twitter Oneforty, a discovery engine for Twitter tools and apps, has launched its Alpha version. Along with the announcment, Oneforty confirmed it raised $1.85 million f... |
| 14.01.2010 | Oneforty Rolls Out Premium Twitter App Marketplace; Raises $1.9 Million | There’s no doubt that Twitter has managed to create a vibrant ecosystem of third party apps and services around its microblogging platform. When we wrote about oneforty, a social app directory for all things Twitter, last year, the startup’... |
| 14.01.2010 | Twitter app store Oneforty tests commerce platform, jumps to 2,300 apps | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter app store Oneforty is ramping up its offe... |
| 14.01.2010 | Oneforty Opens Twitter App Store for Business, Details Funding from Boston, Seattle, and Bay Area Investors | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Starting today, developers of Twitter applications who list their apps at oneforty, the burgeoning Twitter app directory based in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood, can also sell... |
| 14.01.2010 | Twitter app store Oneforty tests commerce platform, jumps to 2,300 apps | Twitter app store Oneforty is ramping up its offerings around paid apps, giving developers the ability to sell their services on the site. It also confirmed that it closed a $1.85 million first round of venture-backed funding, which we prev... |
| 06.01.2010 | Oneforty Launching Its Premium Twitter App Store In Alpha Next Week | When we first wrote about Oneforty, the “App Store for Twitter” in September, founder Laura Fitton told us that plan was for the service to be a full-fledged e-commerce platform eventually. That will start happening next week, we’ve learned... |
| 18.12.2009 | Twitter app store oneforty raises $1.6M | "Twitter outfitter" gets new funding to support directory for Twitter resources
When a company releases its API publicly, anything can happen. When an extremely popular social networking site releases its API publicly, a lot of th... |
| 18.12.2009 | Oneforty Raises $1.2M More to Develop Twitter App Store | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Oneforty, the Brighton, MA-based Twitter app store startup that has wooed and wowed angel investors on both coasts, has taken in about $1.25 million in new funding, to go alon... |
| 18.12.2009 | Good week for app directories: OneForty raising $2.4M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Applications have been a hot ticket to venture fu... |
| 18.12.2009 | Twitter App Store oneforty Raises $1.6 Million, With More On The Way | Twitter app directory oneforty has raised $1.6 million, according to an SEC filing. Of that, a previously undisclosed $375,000 is in the form of convertible debt already raised in a couple of angel rounds last year (which are converting to ... |
| 18.12.2009 | Good week for app directories: OneForty raising $2.4M | Applications have been a hot ticket to venture funding this week. Two directory-style startups landed cash to help users navigate the thousands of different apps for iPhone and Twitter. Not a new concept, we recently spotlighted several dif... |
| 17.12.2009 | 5 Features From Third-Party Apps Twitter Should Integrate | When I called Twitter out in my post of the top 10 failures of 2009 for “failing to innovate,” what I probably should have said was this: Twitter has done a decent job of implementing features that we first saw being used by third-party app... |
| 16.12.2009 | TechStars Expands to Seattle | The downturn certainly hasn’t made getting a term sheet an easy endeavor. Many early-stage companies have chosen to forgo traditional investment in favor of participating in incubator programs . This trend is exactly why the TechStars mento... |
| 10.12.2009 | Top 10 Startup Products of 2009 | There were a ton of great products launched in 2009 by big companies and startups alike, but in this post we focus on the best products released by startups.
The easiest way to become a leading product in your industry is to meet a need bet... |
| 23.11.2009 | What Apps Should Twitter Acquire? | According to a statement made today by Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone, the company is interested in acquiring more companies to expand upon their current core set of features. At a news conference held in Tel Aviv, Stone was quoted as sayin... |
| 12.10.2009 | From SMCEDU: 5 Steps to Make the Social Web Work for Higher Ed | A new offshoot of Social Media Club, the Social Media Club Education Connection (SMCEDU) is a Chris Heuer-led organization intended to promote social media in higher education curricula.
At a kickoff event tonight in Richmond, Virginia, I g... |
| 12.10.2009 | Yahoo Meme Opens Up Its API | Twitter has produced a vibrant ecosystem of third party applications thanks to the release of its API. If you take a look at Twitter app store oneforty, there are thousands of applications and sites that are using Twitter’s various APIs to ... |
| 07.10.2009 | Should Twitter Buy Oneforty? | We’ve heard an unconfirmed rumor that conversations are taking place between Twitter and Twitter-focused app marketplace oneforty. This is PURELY speculative and it’s unclear if talks are about a possible acquisition or a partnership. But i... |
| 06.10.2009 | How Twitter Got an App Store: The Oneforty Story (Part 1) | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“Ohh, Twitter needs an app store.” It was coming up on Christmas of 2008. Laura Fitton was writing a chapter on the top 10 applications for Twitter for her book Twitter for Du... |
| 30.09.2009 | TechStars Investor Day Hits a Home Run | With bleary eyes and bellies full of coffee, a roomful of investors, journalists and young entrepreneurs gathered this morning for the Bay Area TechStars Investor day. The Boulder and Boston-based startup incubator pulled out all the stops ... |
| 23.09.2009 | Twitter Needs An App Store, Oneforty Provides One | With the explosion of Twitter mobile apps, web-based clients, and desktop applications, it was only a matter of time before someone launched an actual Twitter-focused app store. Oneforty has built a marketplace to for basically all things T... |
| 23.09.2009 | Finally, an app store for Twitter from Oneforty | For Twitter newbies and pros alike, a wealth of apps have cropped up over the past year with scarcely any way to search through and elevate the best of the pack.
So Twitter for Dummies author Laura Fitton is launching oneforty today, a stor... |
| 23.09.2009 | @Pistachio Launches OneForty, Twitter’s App Store: 140 Beta Invites | After months of breathless anticipation, the waiting world can now catch a glimpse of oneforty, a collection and curation of the Twitter third-party app universe from consultant and Twitter for Dummies author Laura Fitton (@Pistachio).
From... |
| 11.09.2009 | Incubator TechStars Boston launches its first class of startups | See, you really can launch a startup outside Silicon Valley.
Tech incubator TechStars has been demonstrating this with its Boulder, Colo., program for three years now, but this year it expanded into Boston with nine companies that launched ... |
| 11.09.2009 | Incubator TechStars Boston launches its first class of startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
See, you really can launch a startup outside Sili... |
| 10.09.2009 | TechStars Debuts Nine Startups In Boston | Editor’s note: The following report comes from Don Dodge, who blogs at Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing and is a business development executive for Microsoft. TechStars is a startup accelerator program that selects about ten companies and pr... |
| 29.06.2009 | Oneforty Gets Funded | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Oneforty, a company creating an online clearinghouse of applications related to Twitter, is the first participant in the TechStars Boston summer startup incubator program to r... |
| 26.06.2009 | @Pistachio’s TechStars Startup Gets Funded Fifteen Days Into Program | Laura “Pistachio” Fitton’s TechStars project, OneForty, has received an angel round of funding to the tune of around $250,000 just 15 days into the business accelerator session.
The startup, which was selected to participate in the Boston T... |
