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Exclusive: Houzz Brings Home $11.6 Million in Series B Funding

Lauren Goode in News on December 19, 2011 at 11:02 am PT

Houzz, an online community for homeowners and home renovation professionals, has landed a fresh round of financing as it continues to expand amid an improving renovation market.

Will Yahoo Be In Play Again? Here's a Few Scenarios (That Could Be More Than Just Scenarios)

Kara Swisher in News on April 22, 2011 at 10:58 am PT

One of the results of Yahoo’s weak earnings report earlier this week has been the renewal of chatter about possible changes in its leadership and even ownership. And continued investor discomfort with its troubled stock price and the level of renewed grumbling by major institutional shareholders is causing some key players to go back to their PowerPoints to reevaluate various options.

Asana Hires "COO-Type"–Van Zant First Biz Side Hire for Workplace Collaboration Start-Up

Kara Swisher in News on March 21, 2011 at 6:19 pm PT

As it gets ramped up for a wider launch, Asana, the high-profile group collaboration start-up founded by top former Facebook execs, has hired former SolarWinds product strategy exec Kenny Van Zant in a “COO-type of role.” Co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein remain at the top of the leadership at the San Francisco company, which–perhaps in keeping with its yoga-style name–does not have official titles. But Van Zant will essentially fulfill the COO role, focusing on bringing Asana to the enterprise market in a socially-fueled “bottom-up” approach.

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Early Adopter: Think That Restaurant Looks Shady? Donteat.at Lets You Know for Sure

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on February 25, 2011 at 10:01 am PT

It’s happened to everyone—the terrible fallout from eating at that unfamiliar restaurant with the spoons that were a little too greasy, or the chicken that was served a little too rare. New York University junior Max Stoller feels your pain, and built donteat.at to keep his fellow New Yorkers out of unclean restaurants and the gastric turmoil that inevitably follows.

Salesforce.com Buys Manymoon for Between $25 Million and $35 Million

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 1:44 pm PT

Salesforce.com has bought Manymoon, the social productivity start-up. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed, but one source put the sale at upward of $25 million. Manymoon makes one of the more popular tools on Google’s apps platform.

Richard Branson's iPad App: $2.99, Instructions Included. You'll Need Them.

Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2010 at 4:29 am PT

It’s a magazine app! With no magazine! But it’s still pretty similar to other magazine apps you’ve seen before. Click through for instructions (!) and a jaw-dropping photo of a dude going over a waterfall in a kayak.

Party On, Tim! AOL Hooks Up With Chuck Close for 25th Anniversary.

Kara Swisher in News on May 11, 2010 at 4:33 pm PT

What in the world is AOL CEO Tim Armstrong up to now? A “Project on Creativity With American Artist Chuck Close,” according to a party invite for the iconic online service’s 25th anniversary that the company just sent out. I have calls in to the chiseled-cheekbone exec find out what that means. But extra points for putting AOL and creativity in the same sentence without even a trace of irony!