If you really feel that your Mac’s desktop is missing a news ticker that displays best stories and your RSS feed, Retickr has got you covered.The business announced the launch of Reticker 2. and $ 1.5 million in funding.
Retickr is a basic app, when open, a news ticker bar displays and scrolls headlines across your desktop. You can manage what kinds of news you see, specify RSS feeds from Google Reader, and manage the speed of ticker. You can also allow the ticker to remain on best of all other windows (which can be distracting unless you have a huge screen) or you can hid the ticker when you minimize the app.
The colors, orange, black, and navy can be a bit jarring and the app had a tough time pulling the appropriate thumbnails and titles of the blogs I adhere to in Google Reader. It appears Retickr functions far better with the already-readily available news sources you can decide on from when you set it up.
Retickr’s team, co-founders Travis Truett, Brian Trautschold, Adam Haney, and Jared Houghton bootstrapped the business prior to raising $ 150,000 in seed income in 2011. The 1st version of the app was released in August 2011 and faced some mixed critiques from Apple users on the App Retailer, saying it negatively affected battery life. The firm spent the last six months operating on enhancing the app and released 2. these days.
A search of the Mac App Shop shows that there aren’t a lot of other apps that do close to what Retickr does. News Ticker for Mac comes close, but just scrolls headlines across your desktop, and it expenses 99 cents (Retickr is free for the foreseeable future). No such extension is available for Chrome, and the closest match for Firefox is RSS Ticker, an add-on that displays headlines from your bookmarked web sites in your bookmark toolbar.
Now, the company has raised a first round of institutional funding from the same venture capital firm the gave it its seed round, a little incubator in Tennessee called Lamp Post Group. Retickr hopes to use the income to boost upon its item and expand its team.
Retickr is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee and has a team of six staff. It has raised a total of about $ 1.65 million in funding.
 
 
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