Merrill Lynch Claims 30% Of US Households Will Have A Wii By 2011
Looks like Merrill Lynch is the latest company to be added to the Nintendo payroll. Analyst Yoshiyuki Kinoshita is now claiming that by the year 2011, 30% of US households will own a Nintendo Wii and...
View ArticleXbox gets family-friendly, kinda boring
In an effort to bring families together and unify them under a strong head of household, as God intended, Microsoft is going to be introducing some family-friendly games to the Xbox lineup, as well as...
View ArticleHP MediaSmart Server available for pre-order
Ah Windows Home Server. I’m interested to see how it fares. I am of the opinion that marketing a $500+ home networking storage device to casual consumers is an odd choice. I could be wrong, though. I...
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Famigo Raises $1M For Its Kid-Friendly App Directory And Parental Control...
Famigo, the Austin-based startup building a directory of family-oriented and kid-friendly mobile apps, announced today that it has raised $1 million in funding led by Silverton Partners. Also...
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23snaps Tries Its Hand At Being The Facebook For Families
Another entry in the mobile-first, private social networking for families space (yes, apparently this is a thing now): 23snaps, a new iOS application that works like a mini-Facebook for posting status...
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500 Startups-Backed HighScore House Launches A Family-Friendly Drawing App,...
HighScore House, the family-focused startup whose previous app was a “gamified” chore list tracker for iPad, has today released its latest creation: FamJam. Parents might call it an inter-family...
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Targeting Families, Sidebark's Private Photo & Video Sharing App Debuts With...
Want more proof that the private, mobile social networking space is exploding? Today, there comes yet another entrant into the game: an iOS and web application called Sidebark, which targets families...
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Rootsy's Private Social Network Lets You Build Your Family Tree Online
Rootsy is the latest entry in the private, family-focused social networking space – an area which has seen a surge of startups in the wake of Facebook’s rise to become the largest social network...
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Ancestry.com Acquires Photo Digitization And Sharing Service 1000memories
1000memories, the San Francisco-based startup which offers web and mobile applications for storing, organizing, sharing, and most importantly, digitizing, your print photographs, has been acquired....
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KIDO'Z Arrives On Mobile, Making Android Devices Safe For Kids
Tel Aviv-based KIDO’Z, which got its start back in 2009 as a kid-friendly media browser for desktop computers is finally making the jump to mobile. The company is today officially announcing an Android...
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Another Private Social Network For Families: Grou.ps Debuts Babyzilla App
White label social networking platform Grou.ps is the latest to join the increasingly crowded “private networks for posting about babies” space (we may need a better title for this…), which has been...
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Amazon's Quidsi Targets Kids With New Sites Bookworm.com & AfterSchool.com
Amazon subsidiary Quidsi, which currently operates sites like Soap.com, Diapers.com and the newly launched eco site Vine.com to name a few, will launched two more sites this week, AfterSchool.com and...
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YC-Backed TrustEgg Launches, Lets Anyone Create Trust Accounts For Their Kids
TrustEgg, a Y Combinator-backed startup which lets parents set up trusts for their children is actually launching. That’s a milestone in and of itself, because, as a financial services company, it had...
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Like A Net Nanny For The Mobile App Age, AppCertain Alerts Parents What Apps...
It’s rare to come across a service that’s directly tackling a problem affecting a large number of people out in the real world, but AppCertain is doing just that. Designed for parents whose children...
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Former Flip Video Execs Launch Hubble, A Private Network For Families
Hubble, a new mobile application for private social networking created by the team that developed Flip Video, is launching today to serve as the secure hub (get it? Hubble?) for family communication....
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Sproutkin Launches A “Netflix For Children's Books”
Sproutkin, a newly launched subscription service for children’s books, has raised an initial, but undisclosed (and still ongoing) seed round of under $1 million from investors which include 500...
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Um, That's What My Kid Watches, Not Me – With User Profiles Still In Testing,...
Great news. You’ll now know the viewing preferences of your friends’ kids on Netflix, thanks to the service’s foray into social sharing via opt-in Facebook integration, announced earlier this morning....
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Private Photo And Video Sharing Service For Families, Famil.io, Is Like A...
Famil.io, a new service for privately sharing photos and videos with your family across web and mobile, is today officially launching to the public. The sharing platform can serve as a complement to...
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Tweekaboo, A Family Moment Sharing System, Has An Eye On Asia
As we raise a generation of extroverted over-sharers, some are making tools that ensure that our private moments – baby’s first steps, junior’s tumble down the ski hill – remain private. Take...
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Kids' iPad Magazine Timbuktu Rethinks Its Tricky In-App Purchasing Model,...
Timbuktu, an adorably designed educational and entertainment-focused iPad app for kids, has finally revamped its business model, which had previously been a terrible example of how children’s apps too...
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