The Morning Lowdown 12.10.10
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» A year-and-a-half after the NYT created the position of Social Media Editor to help the paper’s reporters manage, gather and di… Read more »
LinkedIn Rival Xing Buying Event Organiser Amiando For Up To €10.35 Million
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Germany’s Xing is making another acquisition, as it continues competing with LinkedIn in the professional networking space.
It’s buying onl… Read more »
Facebook Gives Its Profile Pages A Refresh
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Facebook, which has never been shy about tweaking its design, is doing so again with a new set-up for profile pages. The biggest change is a… Read more »
Business.com Veterans Surface At A New Daily Deals Site
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Yet another daily deals startup with big names behind it has raised funding. Family Finds, which, as its name implies, is targeting its dail… Read more »
TBD Drops Its Ad Network; Will Seek Other Ways Of Paying Partner Sites
Washington DC-area hyperlocal news site TBD will no longer be serving ads on its partner blogs’ pages and websites, the company announced la… Read more »
On Google Decision Day, Groupon Buys Ludic Labs
Groupon’s board is reportedly meeting today via conference call to talk about whether or not to accept Google’s $6 billion bid for the compa… Read more »
Yammer Raises $25 Million As It Prepares For A Big Expansion
Yammer, the so-called Twitter for businesses, has raised $25 million in third round of funding. The big investment comes as the service, whi… Read more »
Delicious Founder Schachter Gets Backing For A New Social Startup
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Joshua Schachter, who sold Delicious to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) five years ago is starting again with a new social startup, Tasty Labs. Schachter… Read more »
Fashism Raises $1 Million To Grow Social Shopping Business
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Fashism, the online and mobile service that lets users post pictures of themselves to get feedback from other users, has raised $1 million i… Read more »
Online Classifieds Site Oodle Acquires Crowd Organizer Grouply
Oodle, a company that’s long been trying to challenge Craigslist in the online classifieds space, is hoping to better organize its social me… Read more »
Outside.in Partners With CityGrid On Targeted Local Ads
Hyperlocal news aggregator Outside.in has been testing targeted ads from IAC’s CityGrid ad network. CityGrid, parent of the Citysearch local… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.12.10
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» As the weeks tick down until the launch of the NYTimes.com metered paywall, the paper is taking a step towards bringing the new… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.09.10
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» Time (NYSE: TWX) spent online is rising, but publishers can’t keep up with the never ending supply of content — mostly from so… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Opera Mini; 4INFO Ad Network; Big VC Fund; mig33 Games
– Opera Mini on T-Mobile: T-Mobile USA will be making Opera Software’s Mini browser available for download on eight feature phones. The bro… Read more »
Dutch News Publisher Telegraaf Buying Social Network Hyves
Telegraaf Media Group, which publishes De Telegraaf newspaper and Telegraaf.nl in the Netherlands, is buying Hyves, a social network with ov… Read more »
10-Q Watch: Google Paid $179 Million In Cash For Social App Maker Slide
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) paid $179 million in cash to buy social app maker Slide in August, according to the company’s quarterly filing with the… Read more »
Crowdsourced Video Site Poptent Raises $3 Million, Hires New CEO
Poptent, a social network focusing on crowdsourcing video, has raised $3 million in a first round funding. The Los Angeles-based company als… Read more »
Aurora Feint Raises Cash From Intel In The Midst Of Social Frenzy
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The funding of mobile social companies continues with Aurora Feint, creator of the mobile social gaming network OpenFeint, picking up cash f… Read more »
Linden Lab Founder Steps Down As Interim CEO
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More management upheaval at Second Life-parent Linden Lab: Founder Philip Rosedale, who took over as interim CEO after Mark Kingdon stepped… Read more »
LivingSocial Buys Urban Escapes, Adding Weekend Trips To Daily Deals
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LivingSocial, the fast-growing daily deals service, has made a small acquisition, signaling its desire to distinguish itself from rivals. Th… Read more »
VideoJug Tries Being Demand Media With New User-Authored How-To Site
Over the last couple of years, VideoJug has done a good job of making a repository of professionally-produced video guides to things like se… Read more »
Online Study Helper StudyBlue Raises $3.65 Million
StudyBlue, a site designed to help college and high school students prepare for their classes, has raised $3.65 million in a new funding rou… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.12.10
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» To promote the launch of its Windows 7 Phone, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is running an ad campaign intended to aim for “average fol… Read more »
Tween Fashion Site FashionPlaytes Raises $4 Million
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FashionPlaytes, a teen fashion site that lets its users design their own clothes, has raised $4 million. On the site, users choose a basic g… Read more »
Current TV Taps Sims Creator Will Wright For Interactive Webisode Series
Will Wright, creator of virtual world The Sims, is getting into television with an episodic series for Current TV tentatively titled Bar Ka… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.07.10
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» The NY Post’s Page Six columnist Richard Johnson is the latest prominent print journalist to make the leap to digital. But he’s… Read more »
Facebook Gives Users A Few More Controls
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In what had to be a bit of a letdown for those expecting a redesign of Facebook’s site, Facebook used an event at its headquarters this morn… Read more »
PlayPhone Invests In Social Gaming Platform As Ringtone Sales Dwindle
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San Jose, Calif.-based PlayPhone was one of the early entrants to the cellphone industry, riding high on selling ringtones and other mobile… Read more »
Video: Twitter’s Dick Costolo On New Twitter, Cracking The Ad Code And More
I spent a little time on a trip to Beverly Hills interviewing a stand-up comic, a human Magic 8 Ball and a guy with one of the hottest — an… Read more »
LinkedIn Buys B-To-B Ratings Startup ChoiceVendor
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LinkedIn has made its second acquisition in two months, buying up ChoiceVendor, a startup that features customer ratings of business-to-busi… Read more »
MocoSpace Gets SoftBank Investment For Mobile Gaming Expansion
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Over the past five years, MocoSpace has built a community of 14 million users on its mobile social network, and is now planning a significan… Read more »
Facebook Says No Phone Is In The Works, But All Apps Are Better Social
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What’s with all this gossip about Facebook creating a phone?
Well, Facebook’s Chief Mark Zuckerberg is here to set the record straight –… Read more »
Ngmoco Smartly Decides To Develop For Android Following Google Investment
Long-standing iPhone game developer Ngmoco will start creating game titles for the Android operating system, which continues to gain signifi… Read more »
Latest Online Hyperlocal News Player: Press Release Distributor ReadMedia
ReadMedia, which has made a business of distributing hundreds of thousands of locally-targeted press releases to media outlets across the co… Read more »
Twitter Transforms On The Web; Adds A Second Pane With Photos And More
Your Twitter stream — on Twitter.com — is getting a completely new look. The company just announced an overhaul of its site that adds a se… Read more »
DeNA Makes Third Foray Into U.S. With Mobile Acquisition
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Japanese-based social gaming company DeNA has made its next strategic move in the U.S. turf war between themselves and Zynga. DeNA has acqui… Read more »
Google Says Google Reader Is Doing Just Fine
We reported last week in the aftermath of IAC’s decision to shut down Bloglines that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Reader was not doing that well eith… Read more »
Knight Foundation Puts $3.14 Million In New Set Of Local Media Experiments
A host of sites dedicated to reporting on specific issues are getting funding, as part of the Knight Foundation’s latest wave of local-media… Read more »
Instamedia Raises $4 Million From Times Of India Owner
Instamedia, which is best known for its Instablogs citizen journalism platform, has raised $4 million in a first round of funding from Times… Read more »
NYT Partners With Betaworks For An iPad-Based ‘Personalized News Service’
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) and NYC-based tech and social media incubator Betaworks are working on a new “personalized news service” call… Read more »
