New Vertical From News Aggregator Techmeme: Mediagazer
It took just two years for Gabe Rivera to have four verticals, including tech “front page” Techmeme, running off his algorithm for discoveri… Read more »
Blog Platform Posterous Raises $4.4 Million More
Posterous, the popular quick blogging platform, has raised $4.4 million in additional funding, CEO Sachin Agarwal tells us. The site — whic… Read more »
Roger Ebert Makes Pay Play: The Ebert Club
Roger Ebert thrives on the web. Now he’d like to get paid for it but not by blocking access to the site or its 10,000-review archive. Instea… Read more »
Gawker Does Its First Ever Acquisition: Buys Cityfile
Gawker Media has done its first ever acquisition, after being in existence for about eight years: it has acquired New York blog and people d… Read more »
Responding To Outcry, Google Tweaks Buzz Again
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is now working full-force to counteract the privacy backlash that has followed the release of Buzz. Over the weekend the… 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 »
Twitter Names Pixar’s Rowghani CFO
Twitter has hired Ali Rowghani, the CFO of Pixar Animation Studios, as its new CFO. This is the site’s second big outside executive hire. In… 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 »
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 »
Enterprise Microblogging Startup Yammer Raises $10 Million
Yammer has raised $10 million in a second round of funding led by Emergence Capital; serial angel investor Ron Conway, along with existing… 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 »
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 »
Blippy Gets $1.6 Million For Purchase (Over)Sharing
Blippy, a site which lets users share info about their “favorite purchases” with friends, has raised $1.6 million in funding from a set of b… Read more »
HootSuite Raises $1.9 Million For Popular Twitter Client
HootSuite, which is behind the popular Twitter client, has raised $1.9 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The company’s dashboa… Read more »
Sale Or No Sale: Mashable To AOL Talk Is Just That
So far, AOL (NYSE: AOL) is sticking to the “no comment” on speculation rule but if the portal is on the verge of acquiring Mashable from Pet… Read more »
Twitter App Directory OneForty Raises $1.6 Million
OneForty, the Twitter app directory and marketplace started by Twitter for Dummies author Laura Fitton, has raised $1.6 million in a funding… Read more »
Accused Of Being A Copycat, Microsoft Suspends Its Twitter-Like Service In China
Less than a month after Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launched a microblogging service in China, the company has pulled the product off the market,… Read more »
Google, Facebook Launch Their Own URL Shorteners
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Two internet heavyweights are entering the URL shortening business, despite its lack of a solid business model. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) says it… Read more »
Location-Aware Social Network Gowalla Raises $8.4 Million
Yet another location-aware startup has received venture backing. On the heels of funding rounds at SimpleGeo and Foursquare, Gowalla has rai… Read more »
Russell Simmons’ Global Grind Buys CelebrityTweet.com
Hip hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons’ Global Grind has purchased CelebrityTweet.com, which aggregates Tweets from celebrities, including Sim… Read more »
NatGeo Takes Stake in ScienceBlogs; Will Lead Ad Sales
ScienceBlogs, the science-related blogging platform owned in part by NYC-based Seed Media Group and German publisher Hubert Burda, has cut a… Read more »
StockTwits Raises $3 Million In Second Round
Only seven months after raising $800,000 in a first round, StockTwits — which lets investors track conversations about stocks on Twitter –… Read more »
Microsoft Launches A Twitter-Like Service In China
At least for now, Twitter has pretty much locked up the microblogging market in the U.S., but a couple of big players seem to think they can… Read more »
Inside Word: In Defense Of Ads In Twitter
The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital… Read more »
Microblogging Platform StatusNet Gets $875,000
Canadian microblogging startup StatusNet has raised $875,000 in a round of seed funding from Montreal Start Up, iNovia Capital and angel inv… Read more »
DailyBooth Raises $1 Million For Photo Social Network
DailyBooth, a nine-month-old social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $1 million in a round of funding from a gr… Read more »
Twitter Cracks Down On Spam
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In its latest attempt to clean up the messages being sent across its site, Twitter is now letting users flag spammers by clicking a “report… Read more »
About That Fine … FTC Tries To Calm Blogger Concerns About Product Mentions
The Federal Trade Commission is trying to calm some fears in the wake of its revisions to the FTC Act of 1980, amended to include bloggers i… Read more »
The $100 Million Club
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How rare is it to land a $100 million round of venture funding? Well, Twitter just became the first U.S. based digital media company in the… Read more »
Confirmed: Twitter Raises New Round Of Funding
Twitter just confirmed on its corporate blog that it raised a third round of funding from new backers Insight Venture Partners and T. Rowe P… Read more »
New Details On Twitter’s Latest Funding Round: Twitter Set To Raise $100 Million
Turns out Twitter is raising even more money in its new funding round than previously reported. The company is close to raising $100 million… Read more »
MySpace Trumps Facebook With Two-Way Twitter Syncing
A month after Facebook started letting “Page” owners sync their status updates with their Twitter accounts, MySpace has one-upped its rival.… Read more »
Thomson Reuters Closer To Buying Breakingviews?
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Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN) is closer to a deal to buy U.K.-based financial news site Breakingviews.com, according to The Sunday Times. The… Read more »
Twitter Is Raising Money At A $1 Billion Valuation
Twitter — which has raised $55 million so far — is now looking to raise an additional $50 million at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch re… Read more »
Twitter Officially Makes Ads An Option
Twitter has never expressly ruled out the possibility of introducing ads to its site — and the microblogging site has now officially made i… Read more »
Revamped SBNation Hooks Up With FanHouse
So what does a five-year-old sports start-up do with $13 million in funding? Blog network SBNation is spending some of it on a new strategy… Read more »
NYMag.com Ramps Up Sports, TV Coverage With Blogs From Leitch, Nussbaum
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Can’t get enough Will Leitch on sports? Tired of waiting for his emeritus appearances on Gawker’s Deadspin or for a sports piece in New York… Read more »
Yahoo Tries Its Hand At A Microblogging Service
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) — which has failed several times to launch a successful social network — is trying once again with a Twitter-style micr… Read more »
Vidly Raises $500,000 From Investors, Including Conway, For Video Sharing
Vidly, a startup that makes it easy for users to share videos on Twitter, has raised $500,000 in a seed round from several investors, includ… Read more »
Inside Word: Twitter Could Be The Next MySpace (And That's Not A Compliment)
The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital… Read more »
