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Eduardo Saverin Leads $7M Funding in ShopSavvy

Three-year-old ShopSavvy, maker of popular comparison shopping apps, has raised its first outside funding: $7 million led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. ShopSavvy CEO Alexander Muse said he plans to expand into social sharing and outfit-comparison polls, add a wallet feature and recruit celebrity users. ShopSavvy has 10 million active users, with 20 million user images uploaded, as well as relationships with 40,000 retailers.


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While it’s tempting to see the Huffington Post’s Pulitzer as a “big win for new media,” or something like that, the real story is that these organizations — the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post — are becoming more like each other. Old media and new media are increasingly antiquated terms.

— Journalism professor Jay Rosen to HuffPo media writer Michael Calderone (via GigaOM)