List Site Ranker.com Raises $750,000
List-building startup Ranker has raised $750,000 in a seed round led by Siemer Venture Capital. The site lets users easily build lists about… Read more »
Career Site Doostang Gets $1.25 Million
Career site Doostang has raised $1.25 million in a funding round from Shasta Ventures, the company tells us. The site promises its users “in… Read more »
Zynga To Bring Its Games To Microsoft Properties
Zynga’s social games — which are already played by upwards of 230 million people each month — are about to get even more reach. The compan… Read more »
Open Data Startup Factual Gets Funding
Factual, a startup that provides online tools so that users can share and manipulate databases, has raised about $1 million from a long list… Read more »
Video Interview: Marc Cenedella, CEO, TheLadders.com: We’ll Hit $100M Revs This Year; IPO Coming?
Last week at DLD in Munich, I did a short video interview with Marc Cenedella, the CEO of higher end jobs site TheLadders.com, on the compan… Read more »
Professional Social Network Brazen Careerist Raises About $1 Million
Brazen Careerist, a social networking site geared towards “next-generation professionals,” has raised about $1 million in a funding round, a… Read more »
MyHeritage.com Buys OSN Group In European Expansion
Online genealogy firm MyHeritage.com has bought up rival OSN Group, in a move that it says will propel it into the “largest international si… Read more »
Building A Social Network In A Facebook And Twitter World
Geoff Cook is the CEO of myYearbook, a social network built around meeting new people. He also founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge and sold the… Read more »
Linden Lab Buys Social Network Avatars United
Second Life-parent Linden Lab has bought up Avatars United, an online community for avatars, as part of an effort to improve what it calls t… Read more »
Class Action Suit Against Facebook Over ‘Scammy’ Ads Withdrawn
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That was fast. A class-action lawsuit filed only two months ago against Facebook for promoting “scammy” offer-based ads has been dropped, ac… Read more »
Weight Loss Community iChange Gets Funding
iChange — an online community for people who want to lose weight — has raised a first round of funding from Momentum Venture Management, a… Read more »
Building A Social Network In A Facebook And Twitter World
Geoff Cook is the CEO of myYearbook, a social network built around meeting new people. He also founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge and sold the… Read more »
Location-Based Social Net Foursquare Partners With Bravo
Another media partnership for hot location-based social networking startup Foursquare. The company is partnering with Bravo TV so that viewe… Read more »
Social Net For Gay Men Fabulis Raises $625K From WaPo, Others
Fabulis, a social net and lifestyle site aimed at gay men, has raised $625,000 in a first round funding, founder and CEO Jason Goldberg told… Read more »
AT&T To Go After Yelp With Buzz.com
Following in the steps of Google, print directory publishers, and a host of startups, AT&T (NYSE: T) is trying to challenge Yelp’s dominance… Read more »
StockTwits Buys Financial Blog Abnormal Returns
On the heels of its $3 million funding round, StockTwits has made a small acquisition. The startup — which lets investors track conversatio… Read more »
Hope for Haiti Now Telethon Shaping Up As Massive Digital Event
How far we have come since Live 8 …. tonight’s hastily produced multi-country Hope for Haiti Now benefit could wind up being the most-watc… Read more »
Updated: College Class Resource Site Koofers Raises $1.5 Million
Updated: College site Koofers has raised $1.5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The site features a range of resources for stu… Read more »
Social Gaming Startup 6 Waves Gets $17.5 Million
Yet another social game developer has raised a big round. 6 Waves, which is behind popular Facebook games like Crazy Office, has raised $17.… Read more »
Facebook, Microsoft Scale Back Ad Relationship
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A $240 million investment seemingly can bring only so much leverage. Two years after Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) bought a 1.6 percent stake in Fa… Read more »
BuyWithMe Raises $5.5 Million For Social Deals
Social shopping site BuyWithMe has raised $5.5 million in a first round of funding from Matrix Partners. BuyWithMe offers exclusive discount… Read more »
Microsoft, Partners Launch Social Finance Site Bundle.com; Incubated Out of Citigroup
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Morningstar and Citigroup are backing Bundle.com, a new social finance site, which the three companies are pitching… Read more »
Crowdsourcing Startup CrowdFlower Raises $5 Million
CrowdFlower, a crowdsourcing startup that recruits thousands of people online to complete repetitive tasks for big companies, has raised $5… Read more »
Vanilla Forums Gets Funding For Website Forums
Community forum startup Vanilla Forums, has raised $500,000 in a first round of funding. The company claims that more than 300,000 people ha… Read more »
New MSN Home Page Still Set To Launch ‘Early This Year’ — But Some ‘Tweaks’ Coming
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says it is making some “tweaks” to its overhaul of the MSN home page before it rolls it out more broadly. In its Read more »
ETrade Buys Online Financial Community Cake Financial
ETrade has bought up online financial community Cake Financial. In an announcement on the Cake Financial site, CEO Stan Carpenter says aspec… Read more »
Get Satisfaction Raises $2.3 Million For Customer Service Communities
Get Satisfaction, a startup that hosts online customer service communities, has raised $2.3 million in a funding round, we have confirmed wi… Read more »
Academic Community StudyBlue Raising $1 Million Second Round
StudyBlue, a social “studying” network and online community for HS and college students, has raised $626,000 worth of a $1 million second ro… Read more »
Social Network Maker SocialGO Raises $800,000
SocialGO, a startup which lets its users set up their own social networking sites, has raised $800,000 from Veddis Ventures; SocialGO’s pare… Read more »
Lithium Gets $18 Million In Third Round For Online Customer Communities
Lithium Technologies — which provides white-label social networking tools for enterprises — has raised $18 million in a third round of fun… Read more »
LivingSocial Raises Another $5 Million From Case, Others
Social app developer LivingSocial has raised an additional $5 million in funding, a spokeswoman tells us. The round was led by Grotech Ventu… Read more »
Seesmic Buys Social Network Updating Service Ping.fm
Seesmic has bought Ping.fm, a service which lets users post updates to more than 46 sites from one place. Seesmic lets its own users manage… Read more »
Curse Raises $6 Million For MMOG Portal
We missed this one last week, but massively multiplayer online game portal Curse.com has raised $6 million in a second round of funding. PEH… Read more »
The Mobile Implications Of Google Buying Yelp
It’s not hard to understand why Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is interested in buying Yelp, which has successfully created a community around thousand… Read more »
In A Technology Play, Crispy Gamer Gobbles Up GamerDNA
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Video game news and reviews site Crispy Gamer has acquired GamerDNA, the social network/automated gameplay notification system and ad networ… Read more »
Mobile Social Network Mozat Gets Funding
Mobile social network Mozat has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a round led by JAFCO Asia. The Singapore-based social network let… Read more »
Groups File Complaint With FTC Over Facebook’s New Privacy Settings
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Several top privacy groups have filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over Facebook’s recent changes to its privacy set… Read more »
DST Reportedly More Than Doubles Stake In Facebook
Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies, which bought 1.9 percent of Facebook for $200 million earlier this year, has now boosted… Read more »
American City Business Journals-Backed ThePort Gets More Cash
ThePort, a startup which helps media companies and non-profits add social networking features to their sites, has raised an additional $500,… Read more »
Latin American Social Network Sonico Gets $1.7 Million More
Latin American social network Sonico has raised another $1.7 million in funding from DN Capital, along with other investors. The startup now… Read more »
