Joseph Tartakoff
May 16, 2011 2:37 PM
Ari Balogh, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CTO and EVP of products who left the company a year ago, is joining StumbleUpon as its VP of engineering. The content recommendation service tells us Balogh will be a member of the company’s management team and will “oversee all of the company’s engineering…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 9, 2011 2:45 PM
StumbleUpon, the content recommendation service that eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) purchased for $75 million in 2007 and then sold back to its founders two years ago, has raised $17 million in a new funding round.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Apr 13, 2009 4:31 PM
Two years after purchasing web-page rating tool StumbleUpon for $75 million, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is handing the company back to its founders as well as Sherpalo Ventures, Accel Partners and August Capital. Financial terms were not disclosed. In a blunt statement, StumbleUpon founder Garrett Smith said there were “few long-term…
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