{"id":49499,"date":"2012-05-08T10:28:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T08:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49499"},"modified":"2012-05-08T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T08:50:55","slug":"echoecho-gets-google-ventures-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49499-echoecho-gets-google-ventures-backing.html","title":{"rendered":"EchoEcho gets Google Ventures backing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Location-based application, EchoEcho raised $750,000 (R5,9M*) from <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> Ventures last September, as well as an additional $750,000 for this quarter.<\/p>\n<p>EchoEcho allows users to quickly figure out where their friends are, and share one another&#8217;s location within a prescribed group.<\/p>\n<p>A built-in chat then lets the group decide on which location &#8211; such as a bar, restaurant or other public spot &#8211; to meet at from a location finder, which lists possible meeting places.<\/p>\n<p>The funding is to grow the EchoEcho team and focus on user acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>EchoEcho is currently available for all major smartphone platforms.<\/p>\n<h5>*Exchange rates calculated at time of article.<\/h5>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/05\/07\/google-ventures-backed-location-sharing-service-echoecho-raises-750k-from-bullpen-profounders\/\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social app gets backed by Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":49503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,9057,11463,11465,1125],"class_list":["post-49499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-app","tag-echoecho","tag-google-ventures","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49517,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49499\/revisions\/49517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}