Staci D. Kramer
Sep 21, 2011 1:50 AM
Why buy Ning? Aside from the obvious aspects—more scale and better stats for a possible IPO, an expanded ad network, subscription revenue—Glam Media Chairman and CEO Samir Arora is into control. Glam, which bills itself as the leading network for women, already had its own ad platform and recently launched…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 20, 2011 7:03 PM
Co-founded by Marc Andreessen, Ning, once among the highest-profile social network startups, gave up on its grandest plans a while ago and did a full reset. Now it will be part of another startup with ambitious plans, Samir Arora’s ad network Glam Media. The combined companies would have 240 million…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Apr 15, 2010 1:58 PM
Looks like the departure exactly a month ago of long-time Ning CEO Gina Bianchini was not as benign as Ning tried to portray it. The build-your-own social network startup is laying off 40 percent of its staff, or 69 employees, and is moving to an entirely paid model. In a…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 15, 2010 11:56 AM
Gina Bianchini, the long-time head (and co-founder) of build-your-own social network service Ning, is resigning; she’s joining Ning backer Andreesen Horowitz as an executive in residence. In a blog post, Ning Chairman Marc Andreessen emphasizes that the resignation is Bianchini’s decision and that “nothing else is changing” at the startup.…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 21, 2009 7:50 PM
Automagically, Ning‘s still binging on money: The social-network-in-a-box startup founded by Marc Andresseen and current CEO Gina Bianchini, has raised another $15 million, at a crazy $750 million valuation in its fifth round, from Lightspeed Venture Partners, reports Kara. This comes after it raised a $60 million round (at $500…
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Tameka Kee
May 7, 2009 7:52 AM
Add one more platform to the ranks of Facebook, MySpace and the iPhone for developers wanting to cash in on the app trend: Ning. The D-I-Y social network-creation service is rolling out “Ning Apps,” which let bands and companies running Ning communities build functionality like ticket sales, video chats and…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Apr 20, 2008 8:56 PM
Automagically, news of Ning’s latest funding comes out concurrently with a rather glowing piece in Fast Company... the make-your-own social network has raised a $60 million fourth round from unspecified institutional investors investors, valuing the company at $500 million, pre-money. The company last raised $44 million last summer, which then…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 18, 2008 2:35 PM
FastCompany has unloaded the biggest piece of Turducken shaped in the form of a cover story on Ning, in the latest issue. And for once, Valleywag is actually tame in its skewering of the story. In terms of hype, this is of BW-cover-story-on-Digg proportions (hence the similar headline in my…
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