Liz Gannes in News on October 26, 2011 at 9:37 am PT
Mahalo, the often-pivoted company run by well-known entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, laid off a quarter of its staff earlier this month.
Peter Kafka in Social on August 8, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Start-ups that rely on the Internet as a source of free labor are nothing new. But the idea keeps coming back, in different forms, because it seems to work.
John Paczkowski in News on May 27, 2011 at 2:05 pm PT
A report claiming that manual updates to Google’s search results have been frozen because of possible government investigations is entirely untrue, the search sovereign says.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on March 1, 2011 at 7:40 pm PT
Here’s one ripple effect from the change Google made to its search engine algorithm last week: Jason Calacanis’
Mahalo.com has cut 10 percent of its staff. The site, which started out life as a “human powered search engine” and which is
now focusing on “how-to” videos, cited a “significant dip in our traffic and revenue” since
Google made its change, which is supposed to “reduce rankings for low-quality sites”.
Allen Stern has more details.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 25, 2011 at 12:20 am PT
Tyler Crowley, who has long been tech rabble rouser Jason Calacanis’ right-hand man, is branching out and starting his own company. Called Skweal, it is a way for customers to give retailers feedback privately, rather than posting a negative review on a site like Yelp.
Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, D: All Things Digital in News on February 24, 2011 at 1:30 am PT
Yesterday was the launch of the two-day Launch Conference, a start-up demo orchestrated by entrepreneur Jason Calacanis.
So here are some snippets from the event, along with the Early Adopter picks from the demo pit.
Kara Swisher in News on February 14, 2011 at 9:04 am PT
UberMedia, which just bought TweetDeck for $30 million in equity last week, has raised $17.5 million in a round led by Accel Partners.
The valuation for the Pasadena, Calif., start-up founded by well-known entrepreneur Bill Gross–which was actually struck some month ago–is $40 million.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 6, 2011 at 11:24 pm PT
Korean video fingerprinting company Enswers has acquired Soompi, a San Francisco-based company that runs the largest English-language Korean pop culture site.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 25, 2011 at 3:00 am PT
But what he really wants is a billion-dollar-plus valuation, like the one that competitor Demand Media is going to get.
Peter Kafka in D8 on June 4, 2010 at 10:39 am PT
Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis loves his Tesla. So why can’t the rest of us drive an electric car, too? Ford CEO Alan Mulally fielded the question in the final panel of the
D8 conference today.
