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CHART OF THE DAY: iPhone Vs. The Gadget Hall Of Fame
Apple sold about 45 million iPhones and iPod touch devices after two years on the market. How does that compare against some other top gadgets?
It’s nowhere near the number of RAZRs that Motorola sold in its first two years — about 75 million, RBC estimates. But it’s on par with Nintendo’s Wii, and ahead of Sony’s PSP and PS2.
MashLogic Raises $2.5M Series A Round [GigaOM]
MashLogic has received $2.5 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Ventures, according to the Menlo Park, Calif-based startup’s CTO and co-founder, Ranjit Padmanabhan. MashLogic makes a browser plug-in that provides contextual information about content on web pages, encouraging visitors to those pages to linger. Bessemer Venture Partners, an early investor in the startup, also participated in the round, which closed two weeks ago and will see New Enterprise Associates’ Kittu Kolluri join MashLogic’s board.
25% Of Facebook Users Connect Via Mobile
RSS isn’t dead [ReadWriteWeb]
- Caution on Disney-Marvel deal at Citi [AP]
- Just a quarter of women say social media influences purchases [ClickZ]
- EU to investigate Oracle-Sun deal [CNet]
- One in four Facebook users — or 65 million users — connects via mobile [Facebook Blog]
Tucson Utility Hooks Up with Tendril to Grab Smart Grid Stimulus [Earth2Tech]
Earlier this week we pointed out how the almost $4 billion in smart grid stimulus funds would provide a way for young startups to do deals with utilities, and a potential way for a startup to leapfrog the competition. Well, here’s another example of that: On Wednesday Tucson utility Tucson Electric Power (TEP) announced it has requested $25 million under a smart grid grant program that’s part of the stimulus package, and it plans to use the funds for a project that would include a residential demand response program from energy management startup Tendril.

