Yahoo Earnings Meet Expectations, More-or-Less
Yahoo just released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2011, with results that were basically in line with the expectations of Wall Street analysts. The company earned 24…
Vimeo Gets Its First Facelift Since 2007
Popular video site Vimeo is now starting to roll out a big redesign of its website. If you’re a casual user of the site like me, you might not notice…
An startup called tumblecloud is launching the public beta test today for its easy way to create high-quality slideshows. Founder and CEO Brian Andreas (an artist who also runs the…
CEO Invests Another $500K In CrowdOptic’s “New Social Medium”
Jon Fisher, co-founder and CEO of startup CrowdOptic, just told me that he has invested another $500,000 so the company can build out what it’s calling a “new social medium.”…
Google+ Allows Pseudonyms, But Only If They’re “Established”
Google’s Bradley Horowitz just announced that as part of a more “inclusive” naming policy, Google+ will now be allow people to employ pseudonyms as their user names. The company’s previous…
Thanks To Santa, Tablets And E-Readers Are (Almost) Everywhere
Ownership of tablets and e-book readers saw a big spike over the holidays — in fact, it nearly doubled in the United States, according to a new study from the…
A new startup called Clearstream says it’s time to tame the “Wild West” of online video advertising. According to co-founder Brian Mandelbaum, the idea for the company came from his…
When social news startup Summify announced Thursday that it was being acquired by Twitter, it looked like the Summify’s existing users were out-of-luck — the company said the current version…
In recent months, there’s been some hand-wringing about a “Series A Crunch” — namely, a glut of startups raising seed and angel funding, then struggling once they need to raise…
Heyzap Announces Mobile Gaming Partners: PocketGems And More
Gaming startup Heyzap first launched its social discovery service for mobile games nearly a year ago. Now it’s unveiling the first list of partners who are using the service. Some…
Sheryl Sandberg on Facebook Culture: It’s in the Posters
For the latest episode of her Valley Girl web show, Jesse Draper (daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper) managed to score an interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. For the…
Anonymous Reacts to Megaupload Takedown With “Largest Attack Ever”
Hacker group Anonymous isn’t happy about the takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, and as a result, it’s targeting some big companies and government agencies are going to Earlier this afternoon,…
Summify, a startup that uses social data to create a personalized news digest, just announced that it has been acquired by Twitter. This sounds like a talent acquisition on Twitter’s…
Vibrant Media Boosts In-Image Ads With Acquisition
You may not have heard of Vibrant Media, but you’ve almost certainly seem its product — specifically, the “in-text advertising” that pops up when you click on double-underlined words on…
There Were More Than 2.4M Tweets About SOPA Today
Today was the internet’s big protest day against SOPA and PIPA, and not surprisingly, there was plenty of discussion about the issue on Twitter. Specifically, the company tweeted that that…
Foursquare Adds Restaurant Menus, What About Food Check Ins?
Less than a week after unveiling the Explore section of its website, Foursquare announced a nice addition — restaurant menus. Foursquare says it has partnered with startup SinglePlatform to add…
Mark Zuckerberg Posts Against SOPA, Suddenly Remembers Twitter Account
Facebook may not be opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act as prominently as some other websites — it’s not blacking out the site today, or…
Social network Tagged seems to have found a model that works — the company says that 2011 was its fourth consecutive profitable year, and that its revenue grew 35 percent…
Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo
Yahoo just announced that co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from its board of directors. “My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most…
Yes, Google Will Protest SOPA on its Homepage
Tomorrow, Google’s US homepage will include a link declaring its opposition to the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Act. The news was reported on CNET and confirmed…
Coliloquy Makes Romance E-Books A Two-Way Conversation
Right now, most e-books look an awful lot like their print counterparts, but startups like just-launched Coliloquy want to change that. In the past few months, other companies like Findings,…
If you’ve ever tried to find an apartment with your friends, you’ve probably had a moment where you thought that there has to be something better than sites like Craigslist.…