Frederic Lardinois
SiliconFilter
Nov 16, 2011 1:31 PM
You know things aren’t going well for a website when it has to come out and deny rumors that it’s traffic has fallen 50 percent over the last few months by sharing its actual Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Analytics numbers. It’s even worse when these numbers, while better than the rumors,…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 20, 2010 11:00 AM
Reddit.com is turning an experimental fundraiser into a full-fledged subscription model. The Conde Nast site startled users earlier this month by asking for money—any amount—in exchange for yet-to-be-decided benefits with the proceeds to go to site improvements. Nearly 9,000 subscribers later, reddit gold is going live as a “true service”…
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Rafat Ali
Aug 2, 2008 1:36 PM
Sorry, couldn’t resist it…Thoof, the social news ranking site formed last year and which had $1 million in funding from Austin Ventures and angel investor Ron Conway, has closed down. The site now redirects to Reddit, the social news site now owned by Conde Nast (Thoof had many similarities with…
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Entertainment, Music, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, reddit, thoof
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