Jan 27, 2012 9:34 AM
Angry game owners are demanding Google (NSDQ: GOOG) compensate them for wiping out their investments in online pets. The loss of a virtual kitty may seem like a trifle to some but, in the big picture, the new lawsuit could be a bellwether for how the law treats what is…
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Legal, Companies, Facebook, facebook credits, slide, superpoke pets, virtual currencies
Aug 26, 2011 1:28 PM
Google’s social reinvention under CEO Larry Page has claimed another victim. Slide founder Max Levchin is leaving the company after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided to chop most of the products under his domain as it consolidates its social-media strategy around Google+.
Posted In: Apps, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Google, max levchin, slide
Aug 4, 2010 7:00 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is buying social app maker Slide, as part of its soon-to-come new entry into the social networking/social games space. Slide, which was founded four years ago by Paypal co-founder Max Levchin, is behind a number of popular social networking apps, including SuperPoke Pets and Top Fish.
Posted In: Advertising, Social Media, Community, Companies, Google, slide
Jul 7, 2009 1:16 AM
It was almost inevitable. This time last year widget-maker (because that’s what they were called, then) Slide was sitting on $50 million worth of new funding from Fidelity and T-Rowe Price. Now, the S.F.-based startup is slashing its sales force, GigaOm reports, in what CEO Max Levchin says is a…
Posted In: Advertising, Jobs & Layoffs, Money, Social Media, Photo Sharing, layoffs, slide
Dec 10, 2008 1:48 AM
Katalyst Films, the production company run by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, will be rolling out an original online series via widget-maker Slide in the coming months. Facebook users that have enabled the Slide FunSpace app will be able to watch and share the sponsored clips, and the two companies…
Posted In: Social Media, Video, ashton kutcher, katalyst films, la year-end review panel, slide
Jan 20, 2008 5:08 PM
Why not to let doting, in-awe reporters-posing-as-insiders near a valuation story: case in point, this story from the BW columnist/reporter we have skewered before, writing on Slide’s $50 million funding and the $500 million valuation: —“The naysayers have a point, but I’ve long thought Slide was a far more valuable…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing, slide
Jan 18, 2008 6:03 PM
Slide, the maker of social networking widgets, has raised a big $50 million fourth round from Fidelity and T-Rowe Price. The round, sans-dollar amount, was first reported by Kara at All Things D; Brad Stone at Bits then reported the amount. The Silicon Valley-based company founded by PayPal’s Max Levchin…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing, fidelity investments, slide, t-rowe price
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