Clearspring

Clearspring Buys Data Science Start-Up XGraph

Kara Swisher in News on November 1, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Clearspring, the social sharing company — in an effort to increase its business as a marketing analytics player — has acquired XGraph, a data science firm.

Clearspring Raises $20M for Audience Data and Gobbling Up Start-ups

Liz Gannes in Social on May 10, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Clearspring, maker of the AddThis sharing tool seen on nine million Web sites, has raised $20 million in Series D funding led by Institutional Venture Partners.

OAuth Helps ShareThis Double the Effectiveness of Its Sharing Widgets

Liz Gannes in Social on April 18, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

ShareThis, the largest widget provider, recently doubled its conversion rates by implementing OAuth, the open standard for authorizing access to a user’s accounts.

Revolution CEO Steve Case at D8: AOL Could Come Back–Look What Happened to Apple

Peter Kafka in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 1:56 pm PT

Steve Case is most famous for building America Online, which became the Internet’s first mega-company, and for merging it with Time Warner, which became the worst corporate marriage in recent history. But AOL is 25 years old, and the AOL-Time Warner deal is a decade old. What has Steve Case been doing since then? Investing, in a lot of different stuff. Time to talk about old deals and new ones.