Press for Consumer, New Media and Internet
If EVE Online's website were a teenage girl in a movie -- and we're not for a moment suggesting that it's not -- today is the day she'd go through one of those peppy makeover montages and ultimately reveal the beauty that was there all along (just in hiding -- stupid glasses). The new design is up for the world to see, sporting a sleek sexiness along with an interesting ticker relating the latest and greatest from the game. CCP is hoping that the redesign will come off as more "user friendly" for newbies.
Tudou Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: TUDO) ("Tudou" or the "Company"), a leading integrated Internet video company in China, announced today an enhanced video sharing platform for Sina Weibo (NASDAQ: SINA) users to upload and share videos seamlessly to and from Tudou's video site. The enhanced functionality builds upon the existing cooperation between the two companies. Tudou is the first third party video site to enable this level of enhanced functionality for Sina Weibo users, who can now share their video content on Tudou's platform.
Trover is a mobile local discovery app (iOS & Android) that is built around geotagged images. It was founded by Karas, Andrew Coldham, and Expedia (and Zillow) founder Rich Barton; and it's backed by General Catalyst, Ignition, and Benchmark Capital.
Trover, Inc. a company created for explorers worldwide, today announced new features for its SoLoMo app designed specifically to help build communities around discoveries. These include "Lists" that allow users to create collections of things to do, @Name Tags to tag friends in discovery comments and invite them to see and share activities of common interest, and a redesigned News Feed to tune-in to friends and their latest Trover activity.