Microsoft’s Bing Adds Foursquare To Maps
To add to Microsoft’s growing list of partners in its battle to take on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in the search market: Hot location startup Fours… Read more »
Second Porch Gets $1 Million For Its Vacation Home Facebook App
Second Porch, which lets users find and list available vacation homes via a Facebook app, has raised $1 million in a first round of funding… Read more »
World Golf Tour Gets $10 Million More For Online Golf Game
Popular online golf game World Golf Tour has raised $10 million in a third round of funding, which the company says demonstrates that “inves… Read more »
CrowdGather Buys FreeForums.org For $1 Million
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CrowdGather, which owns a network of community forums, is buying up FreeForums.org, for $1 million in cash and stock (An SEC filing shows th… Read more »
Skill Finding Site Weedle Gets $4 Million
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Weedle, a site that lets users find people who have specific skills and also pitch their own, has raised $4 million in funding. On Weedle, u… Read more »
Ning CEO Bianchini Quits Four Days After Charlie Rose Appearance
Gina Bianchini, the long-time head (and co-founder) of build-your-own social network service Ning, is resigning; she’s joining Ning backer A… Read more »
GyPSii Raises Another $11 Million For Mobile Location Sharing
Latitude, Foursquare. There’s no shortage of mobile social location candidates stepping up. Now GeoSentric’s GyPSii of Holland has raised a… Read more »
Decision-Making Site Hunch Raises $12 Million
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Hunch, the year-old decision-making site, has raised $12 million in a second round of funding led by Khosla Ventures. Co-founder Caterina Fa… Read more »
Classmates.com Settles One Privacy Lawsuit — And Gets Hit With A Second
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The lawyers at United Online-owned Classmates.com are busy; the social networking site is paying up to $9.5 million, along with $1.3 million… Read more »
LivingSocial Raises $25 Million To Expand Group Buying Service
LivingSocial, which develops various social apps and also runs a group-buying service, has raised $25 million in a second round of funding l… Read more »
Why MySpace Co-Presidents Aren’t Worried About Growth
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MySpace (NYSE: NWS) pulled up the curtain a little this week, letting in some light on a makeover still very much in progress and marking a… Read more »
Here Comes Facebook’s Move Into Location Sharing …
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With services that make it easy for users to share their location — like FourSquare and Gowalla — gaining buzz and usage, Facebook is fina… Read more »
Teen Social Shopping Site PlumWillow Gets Funding
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PlumWillow, a to-be-launched social shopping site betting that teens will skip the mall for online — as long as online shopping is social e… Read more »
Chris DeWolfe, Austin Ventures Buy Social Games Portal MindJolt
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Former MySpace (NYSE: NWS) CEO Chris DeWolfe — who left MySpace last April — is back in the social media space via the acquisition of soci… Read more »
Social Dating Site Smartdate Raises $2.2 Million
As traditional dating sites stagnate, investors appear to be sensing an opportunity in social dating startups. European venture fund 360 Cap… Read more »
Facebook And Omniture Deepen Their Ties For Analytics And Marketing
Facebook is going to be working more closely with web analytics provider Omniture (NSDQ: OMTR) to build up the social net’s strong attractio… Read more »
PE Firm Offers To Take JDate Parent Spark Networks Private
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PE firm Grant Great Hill Partners, which might be best known for buying (and then selling) IGN, wants to take online dating company Spark Ne… Read more »
The Career Site Funding Spree: BraveNewTalent Gets Its Round
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BraveNewTalent, a British social recruiting site which has its sites on an overseas expansion, has raised £350,000 (roughly $560,000) in a… Read more »
IAC’s Match.com Buys Dating Site Singlesnet
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IAC’s Match.com is making another acquisition — this time buying up Singlesnet, which as of January was the 11th largest dating site in the… Read more »
Hi5 Buys Social Game Developer Big Six
Social network hi5 — which is increasingly emphasizing social gaming on its site (and now refers to itself as “the largest social entertain… Read more »
Another Language Learning Community Raises Funding: Busuu Gets ‘Six Digit’ Round
The streak of recent language learning fundings continues … Busuu, which claims more than 300,000 users, is set to announce Thursday that… Read more »
Social Search Startup PeerPong Raises $2.8 Million
Social search startup PeerPong has raised $2.8 million in a funding round from Doll Capital Management, First Round Capital, Charles River V… Read more »
Forex Traders Social Network Currensee Gets Another $6 Million
Currensee, a social network for foreign exchange traders, has raised $6 million more in funding. On Currensee, users link their brokerage ac… Read more »
Facebook Adds ‘Talent’: Buys Octazen Solutions
Facebook has bought up under-the-radar Octazen Solutions, in what the company says is a “small talent acquisition.” Facebook’s statement: “W… Read more »
ITV’s Friends Reunited Sale Approved By Competition Commission
ITV’s new guard will be happy with this – after a three-month inquiry, the Competition Commission has provisionally approved the £25 millio… Read more »
Graphic.ly Buys Comics Community iFanboy
Graphic.ly, which offers a digital content delivery platform for print comics book publishers, has purchased 10-year-old online comics book… Read more »
Google Gets The Facebook Treatment: Privacy Group Files FTC Complaint Over Buzz
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Despite making significant changes to its Buzz social networking service (and apologizing), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still can’t shake the ire of… Read more »
Online Family Organizer Cozi Raises $5 Million More
Gannett-backed Cozi, which offers a set of online organization tools geared for families, has raised another $5 million in funding, accordin… Read more »
Despite Criticism, Google Won’t Separate Buzz From Gmail
In its four days of existence, Google’s Buzz has come under attack for exposing information about user’s Gmail contacts on the web. But whil… Read more »
Microsoft Reportedly In Talks To Buy Social Games Maker CrowdStar
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) seems intent on making a big entry into the social games space. The company announced a week ago that it would bring… Read more »
LikeMe Raises $3.1 Million For Personalized Recommendations
LikeMe, an online service that provides personalized recommendations, has raised $3.1 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. On Lik… Read more »
Facebook’s Mobile Usage Quintuples In A Year
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To add to the hall of fame of Facebook growth stats: Facebook has added 45 million mobile users in the last six months alone; the company ju… Read more »
AOL Mail Goes Social Too
Not to be left out of the social spotlight, AOL (NYSE: AOL) is making a few social announcements of its own. The company says that users of… Read more »
Celebrity Site iFollo Gets $1 Million
iFollo, a site that lets members share stories about their run-ins with celebrities, has raised $1 million in a funding round from real esta… Read more »
Google Tries To Get Social With ‘Buzz’
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is trying once again to make a social play with the introduction of a new service that makes it easy for users of its pr… Read more »
@ Local Online: Facebook’s Kendall: Facebook Ads Are Content (And Vice Versa)
With Facebook’s Beacon ad targeting debacle a distant memory for most, Tim Kendall, Facebook’s director of monetization, tried a soft sell o… Read more »
News Corp. Got $12.5 Million In Flixster Stock For Rotten Tomatoes
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News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) received $12.5 million in Flixster stock when it sold its Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews site to the startup last mont… Read more »
EA Will Bring Madden NFL To Facebook
Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) — which continues to try to move its business “beyond the console” — is bringing Madden NFL to Facebook. It i… Read more »
Following Rivals, Gmail Will Add Status Updates
Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which shook up the e-mail industry when it integrated chat with e-mail, is now trying to catch up to its rivals by lett… Read more »
Motorola, Others Invest In TuneWiki
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Ventures is leading a round of funding in social music startup TuneWiki; HillsVen Capital, Novel TMT, Benchmark Capital… Read more »
