Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential Future Conflicts (Or Closer Cooperation)

There is a growing feeling that the social communications companies are on a product collision course, with a possible troubled or perhaps more attractive result.
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Video Ads + App Ads = Vungle, a Freshly Minted Start-Up With a Big Pile of Cash

A start-up that didn’t exist last fall now has a $2 million seed round.
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San Francisco’s Pursuit of Tech Spurs Questions

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee wants to do more to promote the local technology industry than any mayor before him. But some who advocate for low-income residents in this rapidly changing city are saying that’s not necessarily a good thing.

Dude, Where’s My Facebook IPO Filing? (Ashton’s on Hold!)

Mr. Kutcher really wants to know what’s what this fine IPO-awaiting morning.
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Josh James Start-Up Domo Says Arigato to IVP in $20 Million Funding Round

Utah-based Domo Technologies has now raised $63 million. So what’s it going to use all that money for? Maybe, just maybe, an acquisition or two?
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SteelHouse Raises $6.3 Million to Be the eHarmony of E-Commerce

SteelHouse has raised a second round of funding, totaling $6.3 million, to build an e-commerce platform tailored to each shopper’s individual personality.
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Sean Parker and Jim Breyer Slam Silicon Valley Funding Glut

Early Facebook exec Parker and Accel partner Breyer claim that freely available money spreads talent too thinly among too many Internet start-ups, lessening the impact of each company.
Sean Parker and Jim Breyer with Techonomy host David Kirkpatrick

Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt Joins Kno Board

The online education start-up grabs a new director.
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Local Marketplace Zaarly Raises $14 Million; Adds Meg Whitman as Director

Zaarly has secured $14 million in financing; as part of the round, it has added former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, now chief executive at Hewlett-Packard, to the board.
Zaarly Co-Founders Ian Hunter, Bo Fishback and Eric Koester (from left to right).

The Three Ventureers: Andreessen Horowitz Joining Conway and Milner in Y Combinator Start Fund

The high-profile venture firm is in for $50,000 per start-up. What cash crunch?
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