• AIMIA has announced the creation of a new wing of the organization called the Retail Sector Industry Group, designed to act as an education and connection vehicle between retailers and Australia’s interactive industry.
• Only two years after announcing a personalized news and alert service and a year after releasing an application for following Twitter keywords, ZDNet reporter Brad Howarth uncover that Australian web startup Particls has gone dark. Co-founded by Aussie-gone-Silicon-Valley entrepreneur Chris Saad, the Particls site now appears to be dead.
• Melbourne startup Adioso has added over 500 US routes to its natural language travel search site and has announced that they are now covering 719 domestic and international routes to/from the US.
• Sydney-based mobile startup and recent Tech23 presenter BigTinCan announced it has partnered with Cellmania, a US-based global directory of mobile applications which broadens the company’s reach to areas like South East Asia and India, where smartphone sales have increased exponentially.
• Seek co-founder Matthew Rockman has announced he will be joining San Francisco company Nitro PDF Software as a non-executive chairman.
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