Liz Gannes in Social on February 17, 2011 at 10:34 am PT
Sharethrough is a new kind of ad platform: One focused exclusively on video and social sharing. Basically, it guarantees it can get your funny ad a lot of views.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 16, 2011 at 11:15 pm PT
The lightweight blogging company Posterous volunteered to open its books recently, coughing up every product stat NetworkEffect asked for during a recent visit.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 16, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
1000Memories, the social media site for friends and family to memorialize loved ones who’ve passed away, is disclosing today it has raised $3 million worth of funding.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 13, 2011 at 10:48 pm PT
Motorola Mobility has snapped up 3LM, a tiny 10-person Mountain View start-up that aims to make Android a more secure platform for businesses.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 12, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
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.
Voices
Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on February 11, 2011 at 9:00 am PT
APIs make the personal Web go round, but for years now, dealing with them has been the domain of the programmer.
Now, San Francisco start-up ifttt is hoping to use super-simple design to allow ordinary users to bend pieces of the Web to their own will and create connections between previously siloed services.
No coding required.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 3, 2011 at 10:30 pm PT
A new start-up called Singly is building an open-source service called the Locker Project to help users archive and leverage their own data.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 3, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Hearsay Labs today launched a social media platform for companies that have both corporate brands and local representatives, with existing customers such as Farmers Insurance, State Farm and 24 Hour Fitness.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 2, 2011 at 11:20 am PT
Milk & Honey, a Web site started by two sisters that lets women design their own shoes, is back online today after its business came to a screeching halt after making a rare appearance on E! News.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 7:21 pm PT
Mike Matas, the designer known for joining Apple at age 19 after creating the media management tool Delicious Library, today launched a new start-up called Push Pop Press.