ChaCha, Still Grinding Away at This Online Q&A Thing, Raises Another $14M

Q: What Comes After Series G? A: Hopefully, profits!
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Quora Inverts Itself by Offering a Blogging Tool

Not every A needs a Q to get started.
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Quora Adds “Online Now” Feature to Drive Faster Answers

Quora today is making its site come a little more alive.
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JustAnswer Becomes Pearl, Comes Out From Under the Radar

Quora, what? Pearl is an eight-year-old site with 40 million monthly global unique visitors and an annual run rate of $100 million.
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InboxQ Inverts Twitter Q&A Product to Help People Find Experts

InboxQ will today launch a Q&A site that directs users to experts who might be able to answer their questions, and then gets out of the way.
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Facebook Redesigns Questions Product Around Friends' Advice

Facebook today relaunched its Questions product, which had been in a limited beta since last summer. The product now focuses on asking for friends’ opinions and recommendations, with answers ordered in a poll format. It is much more of a social search tool.

Google Ventures Sows Seed Funding With New Start-Up Lab (Video Tour)

As incoming CEO Larry Page seeks to recapture Google’s entrepreneurial spirit, Google Ventures thinks it’s in for a year of expansion and support from its corporate parent.

Q: How Much Did Formspring Just Raise? A: $11M.

Formspring has raised a Series A round of $11.5 million led by Redpoint Partners. And it’s also releasing a self-service product for publishers called “the Respond button.”

For Ask.com, Foray Into Social Search Points to Mobile

As Ask re-emphasizes questions and answers, President Doug Leeds is particularly high on the company’s efforts in mobile as an ideal environment for asking questions and getting timely replies from other users.

Stealthy Start-Up Sponge Builds Community Q&A for Companies

I recently stumbled across a venture-backed start-up that has managed to keep itself out of the news despite doing what appears to be pretty noteworthy stuff. Sponge, which calls itself “the future of Q&A,” powers pages for businesses to share and build community knowledge.

Twitter Triples Team in One Year, Acqhires Q&A Start-Up

Ask Adds to Consensus: Social Is the Way to Compete With Google