Liz Gannes in News on January 25 at 2:00 am PT
Stanford and Google’s Sebastian Thrun announced on stage that he is giving up his tenured professorship to teach free online courses at a new start-up he’s founded, called Udacity.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 5 at 3:23 pm PT
It’s the first player in the small, rapidly growing mobile ad business to go public instead of selling to a bigger fish.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 9, 2011 at 5:59 am PT
Once is a fluke, but two in as many months begins to look like a pattern.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on November 7, 2011 at 10:01 am PT
Orchestra, which calls its iPhone and Web productivity and collaboration app “group chat disguised as a to-do list,” has raised $5 million in funding less than two months after it launched (
we broke the news here). The new funding for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company led by Apple and Ideo alums comes from Charles River Ventures and SV Angel.
Liz Gannes in News on September 6, 2011 at 11:53 am PT
Mashape, an up-and-coming marketplace for APIs, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding — which, given some of the names backing it, seems like a pretty small amount.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 22, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Yammer, once known as a “Twitter for Work,” is transforming itself a key player in the fast-growing business of making enterprise applications more social.
Liz Gannes in Social on May 2, 2011 at 6:20 pm PT
The start-up LikeALittle, or LAL, had fended off NetworkEffect’s reportorial advances for weeks. Funny, considering the site helps people flirt with one another.
Liz Gannes in Social on April 21, 2011 at 3:29 pm PT
Q&A start-up PeerPong has closed, and competitor Formspring has already picked up PeerPong CEO Ro Choy to serve as its COO.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 21, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
This week is Y Combinator’s Demo Day sessions (NetworkEffect will be in Mountain View, CA, for coverage on Tuesday), followed by those of AngelPad, 500 Startups and Tech Stars New York in the coming weeks.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 2, 2011 at 9:33 am PT
Massive Health, the new start-up from former Firefox creative lead Aza Raskin, announced this morning it has raised $2.25 million in seed funding.
