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StumbleUpon Gets a Face-Lift and Some Boldfaced Names

Lauren Goode in Social on December 5, 2011 at 9:06 pm PT

StumbleUpon, the social discovery engine that was famously acquired by eBay, only to take itself private again two years later, is reinventing itself again.

Google Grabs Former Yahoo Ari Balogh En Route to StumbleUpon

Liz Gannes in Social on July 7, 2011 at 7:55 am PT

The Web discovery start-up StumbleUpon has hired Japjit Tulsi, who was previously a director of engineering at Google, as its VP of engineering, filling the role it had previously tried to give to former Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh.

Former Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh Joins StumbleUpon

Liz Gannes in Social on May 16, 2011 at 9:27 am PT

Former Yahoo CTO and EVP Products Ari Balogh is to become StumbleUpon’s VP of engineering, the company said this morning.

Inside the Recommendation Engines of StumbleUpon, YouTube, Pandora and Hotpot

Liz Gannes in Social on March 15, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Product leaders for four of the Web’s leading recommendation engines lay out the signals and measurements they take into account when trying to figure out what content their users will like.

LinkedIn Launches Professional Social News Site, LinkedIn Today

Liz Gannes in Social on March 10, 2011 at 10:02 am PT

LinkedIn today launched a personalized social news aggregator called LinkedIn Today that filters shared stories from its users’ connections and industry affiliations.

SXSW Gets Its Own Apple Store

Liz Gannes in Social on March 9, 2011 at 11:00 pm PT

Apple is reportedly preparing to open a pop-up shop during SXSW at 6th and Congress in downtown Austin. Will we see you there?

StumbleUpon's Second Wind Continues as It Raises $17M

Liz Gannes in Social on March 9, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

StumbleUpon, the content discovery service, has raised $17 million in new funding, according to sources close to the company.

Digg's Decline, Illustrated

Peter Kafka in Media on September 3, 2010 at 6:34 am PT

Why does once-mighty Digg have a new design and a new CEO? Nick Denton’s Gawker Media provides an answer, via a handy chart.

Happy Chat: Paltalk Buys Back Its Shares From Softbank, at a Premium

Peter Kafka in Media on July 15, 2009 at 3:35 am PT

Here’s a funding story you don’t see often, recession or no: A start-up buying back its shares from its venture capitalist, at a premium. But that’s the transaction that video-chat firm Paltalk and Softbank have completed. Paltalk, which sold off 20 percent of its equity to Softbank for $6 million in 2004, has bought the shares back. No one has spelled out a purchase price, but I’m told the deal will be considered a “single” for Softbank–it gets its capital back, plus a return–which in this economy ought to be a home run.