44 posts and columns on Path

Are Celebrity Accounts on Private Social Media an Oxymoron? Ask Chinese Pop Star Wang Leehom.

in Social on April 20 at 7:00 am PT

How a leading Chinese mobile social network “broke” itself to allow a celebrity user — and it worked.
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Banjo’s Response to Congress on iOS Address Book Privacy (Letter)

in Social on April 18 at 9:23 am PT

Here’s Banjo’s reply to Congress over the iOS address book sharing scandal.
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Path Confirms Series B Funding From Redpoint, Richard Branson and Others

in Social on April 16 at 4:20 pm PT

Path raised Series B funding led by Redpoint Ventures, it finally admitted.
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Confirmed: Redpoint Leads $40M Funding Round for Path

in Social on April 15 at 11:23 pm PT

Path, the mobile social networking start-up, is planning to announce it has raised Series B funding as early as Monday, according to sources.
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Facebook’s First Sales Guy, Kevin Colleran, Joins General Catalyst Partners

in Social on March 30 at 10:01 am PT

Kevin Colleran, one of the first 10 Facebook employees and its first salesperson, has joined General Catalyst Partners as a venture partner.
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Spotify’s Special Projects Head Shakil Khan Moves to Path to Do Same

in News on March 30 at 5:00 am PT

The fix-it guy for the popular music service takes his tools over to the personal social network.
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Pair App for Couples Strikes a Chord in First Four Days

in Social on March 27 at 2:27 pm PT

One start-up that caught my eye at Y Combinator’s supersized Demo Day today is Pair, which makes a smartphone app to help two people in a relationship stay in touch and share little moments — and “thumbkisses.”
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Congress Questions iOS Developers on Privacy, Data Collection

in News on March 22 at 2:47 pm PT

Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Path, Tapbots …
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iPhone Address Book Rage (Comic)

in Voices on February 17 at 4:20 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Apple: App Access to Contact Data Will Require Explicit User Permission

in Mobile on February 15 at 10:33 am PT

In the wake of the Path address book flap, Apple says all apps that want access to your data will have to ask nicely.
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Following Path Address Book Uproar, Many Apps Clean Up Their Acts

in Social, February 15, 2012 at 7:18 am PT

People Say They Care About Their Online Privacy, But Do They Care Enough to Switch?

in Social, February 13, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

Path Apologizes for and Removes Automatic User Address Book Uploads

Path Now Has 2M Users, Having Doubled Since It Relaunched Two Months Ago

in Social, February 3, 2012 at 5:00 am PT

Facebook Is Totally Not an Echo Chamber, Says Facebook

in Social, January 17, 2012 at 9:38 am PT

SendGrid Raises $21M to Send Even More Emails

IAC’s Proust Personal Social Network to Shut Down

in Social, January 4, 2012 at 11:57 am PT

Spool Raises Funding to Help You Take the Web Offline

in Social, January 4, 2012 at 5:00 am PT

The Social Network of Two: Ourspot Gives Relationships a Space for Sharing

in Social, January 3, 2012 at 5:00 am PT

What Color Has Actually Done Right

in Social, December 22, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Viral Video: This Year, First Round VCs Channel Rebecca Black (Rrrreeaaallly!)

in Media, December 20, 2011 at 9:30 am PT

Foursquare’s Crowley Declares Bygones! — And Maybe More? — With Google

in Social, December 15, 2011 at 8:06 am PT

Path Tries Again, Now as a Mobile Journal App

in Social, November 29, 2011 at 8:44 pm PT

SendGrid Sends 22B Emails for Spotify, Foursquare, Airbnb and Others

What Bad Economy? Three Big Silicon Valley VCs Poised to Haul in $2B in New Fund Raising.

in News, September 8, 2011 at 6:15 am PT