Remains of the Day: Google vs. Facebook

The iPhone 4 is the most
accident-prone smartphone,
Google and Facebook fight it
out over data exports, and
search engine Blekko is gaining
popularity fast.

*Report: iPhone 4 Is
Most Fragile
Smartphone
Maybe it's the
glass, or maybe
it's just the users
but iPhones are
reported as having
the highest
accident rate when
compared to other
smartphones.
[Wired]

*Livestream For
Facebook Lets You
DIY Live Stream
Video On Fan
Pages
Livestream has
partnered up with
Facebook to allow
users to embed
live streaming
video on their
Facebook Fan
Pages.
[TechCrunch]


*Trap my contacts
now
Google, feeling
Facebook should
allow users the
ability to export
their contacts
data, has, in
response, stopped
allowing Facebook
users to directly
link their Gmail
contacts with
Facebook. With this
recent message
targeting their
users, Google is
now taking every
possible measure
to raise user
awareness.
[Google]

*Aiming for Bronze,
Blekko Gets a
Million Searches a
Day
New slash-tag
search engine
Blekko is already
approaching one
million queries a
day. And just in
case you missed it,
here's our take on
how to better
search with Blekko.
[Wired]

*Voice Search in
underrepresented
languages
Google Voice
Search is quickly
becoming the
global translation
tool as it continues
to expand support
for other
languages. Today
it gains Zulu and
Afrikaans speech
recognition.
[Google Mobile
Blog]

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Cloud ComputingStartup NomadeskRaises $7 Million ToSupportUS Expansion

Nomadesk, formerly
known as Aventiv, offers
one of the most elegant
cloud-based data
sharing, synchronization
and storage solutions on
the market, and
you
probably never even
heard of it.

Perhaps this will change
in the near future, as the
Belgian company has just
raised $7 million in Series
B financing to support its
plans for expansion in
North America.

The capital injection
comes from previous
backer GIMV and a new
investor, BAMS Angel
Fund.

To bring its solutions to
market, Nomadesk
partners with operators
and OEMs, and
it
precisely that indirect
business that it aims to
accelerate using the new
funds. The company
already boasts
agreements with leading
ISPs and hosting
companies in Belgium,
namely Telenet and
Hostbasket, but has also
struck partnerships with
US-based Novatel
Wireless and
Canada
Bell .

With the new funds,
Nomadesk intends to
expand its international
presence as its pipeline
for new partners in
North America and other
parts of the world is
filling up nicely, according
to the company.

Nomadesk, for the first
time to my knowledge,
also publicly disclosed
who sits on its board of
directors. Apart from
management and
investor representatives,
the board includes
people like Yves Michali
(formerly at Novell,
Microsoft, Mobiclick and
Groove Networks) and
Yvan Morel de
Westgaver (previously
an executive at EDS and
now an active private
equity investor).


Nomadesk has now
raised more than $10
million in venture capital...

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