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Jildy, Whose Patents Google Owns and Facebook Licenses, Launches Its First App

Liz Gannes in Social on December 27, 2011 at 12:28 pm PT

There’s now a body of social search intellectual property that three companies have the rights to use: Google, Facebook and a virtually unknown start-up named Jildy.

Wowd Assets Split Up Among Three Companies, Including Facebook

Liz Gannes in Social on July 21, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Social search start-up Wowd has shut down, with Facebook “acqhiring” seven of its engineers and licensing its technology, another company outright buying its patents, and the founder starting a new company based on some of the same ideas.

Box Expands Mobile Offerings, Names Yahoo’s Chris Yeh as VP of Platforms

Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 14, 2011 at 7:49 am PT

The fast-moving, enterprise-focused file-sharing service makes a big mobile push and makes a key hire from Yahoo to manage developer relations.

Google Wallet Hardware Partner Raises $24 Million in Capital

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 27, 2011 at 2:50 pm PT

ViVOtech, one of the software and hardware providers behind Google’s mobile payments initiative, has raised $24 million to top off its third round of funding.

Ex-Myspace Exec to Launch Facebook Alternative With Funding From DFJ

Liz Gannes in Social on May 26, 2011 at 10:09 am PT

Former Myspace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro has raised about $1 million in funding from investors including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Myspace founder Tom Anderson to launch a privacy-conscious alternative to Facebook named (for the moment) Altly.

Do@ Shortcuts Mobile Search With New iPhone App, Raises $7M

Liz Gannes in Mobile on May 23, 2011 at 10:30 am PT

Do@ launches today a mobile search application for the iPhone that tries to minimize the time and effort needed to find information while using a phone.

CafeMom Launches Daily Deals and Plans Hispanic Moms Site

Kara Swisher in News on May 4, 2011 at 5:27 am PT

CafeMom, a social-networking and community site aimed at mothers, is expanding its offerings to daily deals, as well as announcing an anticipated launch of a site aimed at Hispanic moms. The deals site has just been launched under the killer URL of Mom.com.

Box.net, The File Sharing and Collaboration Cloud For Businesses, Raises $48 Million

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 24, 2011 at 5:15 am PT

Box.net, the cloud-based collboration and file-sharing service launched a in a dorm room, has landed a big round of venture capital funding–and has also raised some debt.

Google Elevates Social From the Search Results Ghetto (But Only When Deemed Worthy)

Liz Gannes in Social on February 17, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Google is making some careful tweaks to weave social signals into search–most notably, bringing social search results up from the bottom of the page and parsing links shared by friends.

Meebo Finishes Series D at $27.5M

Liz Gannes in Social on December 21, 2010 at 12:33 pm PT

The content-sharing platform Meebo has completed its latest round of funding, the one we broke the news on last month. As reported previously, Khosla Ventures led the round, but now the total has been raised to $27.5 million from $25 million.