Photoshop not required: Visual.ly wants to makes data visualization easy
The creative minds behind the beautiful infographics found on finance service Mint launched a public beta site for its new startup Visual.ly today. Visual.ly’s service is similar to document-sharing...
View ArticleVisual.ly raises $2M to make your data pretty and interesting
Infographics startup Visual.ly has raised a new $2 million round of funding, the company announced today. Visual.ly is building a service that will allow people to create beautiful, custom infographics...
View ArticleRich men love Pinterest too (infographic)
Scrap everything you think you know about the people of Pinterest. Pinterest, the insanely buzzy invite-only digital pin-board site, has been pegged as the online place where 35-to-44-year-old Suzy...
View ArticleVisual.ly’s new service lets anyone make infographics, even if they stink at...
Infographics startup Visual.ly is launching its automated service today that plans to quench the public’s thirst for interesting and visually stimulating data without the need of Photoshop or a team...
View ArticlePaypal faces a lot of competition in mobile payments (infographic)
PayPal announced today that it would be entering the mobile payment market with its own smartphone dongle, PayPal Here. It’s a triangular widget that plugs into the headphone jack of your phone,...
View ArticleVisually raises $8.1M to flood the Internet with even more infographics
How to be happy? Tying scarves? SEO? Dog bowls? Yes, there is an infographic for all of these — and more. And Visually is standing at the ready to supply them. Today, the marketplace for data...
View ArticleFunding Daily: No trespassing without treats edition
In today’s edition of legendary funding column Funding Daily, we have news about storage boxes, a “Netflix for ebooks,” app testing, and so much more. Check out all the news below. Investors knight...
View ArticleHow infographics jumped the shark
We’ve tumbled headlong into the era of infographics. Visual presentations of data are everywhere, popping up on every type of online publication (even VentureBeat). There are so many infographics on...
View ArticleFor Facebook IPO day, Visual.ly lets you track how much Zuckerberg is worth...
While most of the tech industry is watching Facebook’s historic IPO day unfold, data startup Visual.ly is taking advantage of the situation by showing off the capabilities of its infographics service....
View ArticleNavigate the war on Internet piracy with this nifty battle map (infographic)
If someone were to layout all the important organizations, factions, companies, and components of the war on online piracy into a comprehensive battle map, it would look like the infographic below. The...
View ArticleKayak unwraps the best and worst times to travel this holiday season...
Upward of 90 million people are traveling for the holidays. These journeys involve long security lines, weather-delayed flights, and excessive levels of stress as travelers try to navigate crowded...
View ArticleData visualization startup Visual.ly grabs another $2M to take on ad agencies...
Big data may be cool, but it’s not pretty. Visual.ly, a startup focused on data visualizations and infographics, has raised a new $2 million round of funding, the company has confirmed to VentureBeat...
View ArticleFunding Daily: Analyze it
So, we’ve got all this data out there. We collect it, we store it, we think it’s awesome and we boast about all the types of stuff we now know. But when it comes down to it, to really know it, we’ve...
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