Funding Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Peel iOS remote raises $16 million in funding

by Mike Schramm (May 3rd, 2011)

We've posted about the Peel universal IR remote before. It's an interesting setup using a third-party unit that looks almost like a pear, designed to fit right into your living room wirelessly. It connects to an iOS app and turns your iDevice into a universal remote for any other units you ...

Apperian picks up first enterprise iFund payout

by Mike Schramm (Mar 30th, 2011)

The iFund has been pretty influential ever since it was announced a couple of years ago -- it's a pool of money set up by Apple and a few other companies to support and grow companies that are contributing to the iOS ecosystem. It's been growing along with Apple's platform, and now the fund has ...

Dreams, teams and the Color app

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 24th, 2011)

The latest app making a big buzz seems to be one simply called Color. Why the hoopla about what is, at best, a location-based photo sharing app? Because they raised a whopping US$41 million dollars in funding before even launching. Before you say "bubble 2.0," let's take a look at what Color ...

Trade Nations dev picks up new funding, former Xbox exec Ed Fries

by Mike Schramm (Mar 23rd, 2011)

Here's another iPhone dev hitting the jackpot. Developer Z2Live is the company behind the hit iPhone social game Trade Nations, and it's picked up what's probably a nice chunk of change in a round of funding from VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Unfortunately, the actual total of funding hasn't ...

Rovio picks up $42 million in first funding round

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2011)

Rovio, the makers of Angry Birds, has nabbed a total of $42 million in a first round of venture capitalist funding. This isn't necessarily quite that big a payday for the company -- while that's obviously a lot of money, the company has reportedly already pulled in about $70 million from app ...

Digital Chocolate picks up $12 million in funding round, mostly from Intel

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2011)

Digital Chocolate is one of the biggest iPhone developers that no one talks about much, but maybe that'll change now that the company has picked up a whopping $12 million in venture capital. The company behind a huge amount of iOS titles of all kinds (with more than 100 million mobile downloads ...

iPod nano watch kits nab almost $1 million on Kickstarter

by Steven Sande (Dec 17th, 2010)

Does anyone out there want to go into business with me with a design for an iPod nano watch kit? MINIMAL is a design house that decided to fund the development of a line of iPod nano 6G watch kits through Kickstarter. If you're not familiar with that site, it's where you can send your pet project up ...

Evernote hits 5 million users

by Mike Schramm (Nov 11th, 2010)

Cloud memory service Evernote has reached 5 million users and continues to grow, according to an official statement on the company's blog. The service is gaining tens of thousands of new users per day and has recently seen its highest daily revenue from premium users, plus big jumps off of Apple ...

iPhone: Prepay the right way

by Erica Sadun (Jul 2nd, 2007)

It is now about 5:00 Mountain Time as I write this. I spent most of the day at the AT&T store from about 9 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon. Then I spent several more hours at home talking to AT&T and Apple support personnel. I have swapped SIMs so often that I deserve a SIM merit ...

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