Liz Gannes in Social on January 19 at 9:33 am PT
Twitter has acquired Summify, a small start-up that smartly aggregates links shared by users’ friends on social networks.
Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
Remedy Health, a New York-based health information company, has bought HealthCentral, a start-up that offers online clinical and patient tools, community and content in a variety of topic areas.
Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 10:15 am PT
Looks like Apple’s Steve Jobs was right (as usual).
Kara Swisher in Media on November 2, 2011 at 10:41 am PT
I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.
Kara Swisher in Media on October 28, 2011 at 5:35 am PT
Memo to Flipboard, Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the crowded news and social reader space — you’re about to get some bigfoot company.
Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg in News on August 15, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
AllThingsD has undergone a few changes to the social media on our site, including adding a social media editor, Drake Martinet.
Kara Swisher in Media on June 20, 2011 at 12:02 pm PT
Maker Studios, a new-generation production company, has just gotten another $2.5 million in venture funding to help it make videos, mostly for YouTube.
That brings total funding from Greycroft Partners and GRP Partners to $4 million for a studio created to bring more professional original content to the Internet.
Kara Swisher in Social on June 15, 2011 at 12:22 am PT
Whatever side of the Facebook facial recognition debate you are on — is it privacy panic or a Big-Brother crisis? — this video by Forbes blogger Kashmir Hill is pretty clever.
(Hey, Kashmir: Let me know when the aliens who really created Facebook and Google come for you, after they decide to start harvesting the Earth as planned using their nefarious photo-tagging tools!)
Kara Swisher in News on April 25, 2011 at 8:28 am PT
SurveyMonkey, the quiet but profitable and fast-growing Web survey company, is buying online forms start-up Wufoo.
While the terms of the transaction for the Tampa, Fla.-based Infinity Box–makers of Wufoo–were not disclosed, sources said the price was $35 million in cash and stock.
Kara Swisher in News on March 8, 2011 at 1:27 pm PT
Another day, another honking big funding for another online start-up (and another broken embargo too!).
It’s like Groundhog Day in Silicon Valley as usual.
Today, Cambridge, Mass.-based HubSpot wins tech’s version of the lottery, grabbing $32 million from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and also Salesforce.com.