Weebly is a four-year-old company that helps consumers make websites. VC Steve Anderson, who invested in Weebly, described its huge success in a TechCrunch interview Tuesday: One in ten sites created last year were created with the service, and it just got some hefty funding from Sequoia Capital. READ MORE
Much to the delight of IT administrators, Dropbox just launched a new version of its cloud storage and file sharing service, Dropbox for Teams. While more than 45 million people already use Dropbox individually, now businesses can take advantage of new administrative controls, centralized billing, phone support and a whopping 1,000 GB of storage. READ MORE
Personal finance site Mint now has an iPad app. And while it might not seem a like a major deal to some, it’s a big improvement over what it currently offers for mobile. READ MORE
If you’re starting a new venture, chances are you know how important landing pages are. (A landing page is a targeted page, other than your home page, which brings users to the specific information or product they may be looking for, or is particularly suited to them.) Taking users right to what interests them helps with conversion, improves quality scores for your ads, and raises search engine ranking too. The drawback, of course, is that creating landing pages creates extra work. READ MORE
Prism Skylabs has developed a product that offers real-time updates on a store using footage from security cameras. The product, which is undergoing a trial run at a few small stores, sees itself as offering “analytics” on coffee shops, boutiques, and other locations. READ MORE
If you regularly buy stuff from Amazon, eBay and other online stores, you know that you need to hang on to receipts and tracking numbers, but it’s always a bit of drudgery to cut and paste and save receipts, and then search through your email or account info for that tracking number when an item doesn’t arrive on time. Slice, a free service currently in beta, makes this process painless by automatically grabbing receipts and tracking numbers that turn up in your email and assembling them in one place. READ MORE
More phones shipped and its open-source strategy appear to be behind the fact that Android captured 44 percent of all mobile app downloads in the second quarter, compared to the 31 percent that Apple’s iOS grabbed, reports the technology market intelligence firm ABI Research. READ MORE
Over the next few weeks Google will be rolling out the ability for advertisers to bid for phone calls—in addition to bidding for clicks—when they show Google search ads on computers and tablets. READ MORE
Grovo, an Internet education and training platform that helps people discover and learn to use Web sites faster than fumbling around on them on their own, just launched a redesigned site. Want to figure out how to use Twitter for your business, or make the most of Google Analytics? There are Grovo tutorials that cover those topics, plus loads of others. Grovo’s content library currently features over 1,000 lessons and provides education for nearly 100 leading sites. READ MORE
Square, the mobile-payment technology, may soon be available at Wal-Mart stores nationwide, giving the company, which was founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, access to new markets. Square Inc. provides the mobile credit card reader and other technology necessary to make credit card payments via mobile devices. READ MORE
