Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 18, 2011 at 7:50 pm PT
Adgregate Markets, which helps brands build storefronts on Facebook, has conducted a study to help define the opportunity for social commerce.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 13, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
RockYou has acquired Playdemic of Manchester, England, to continue its transformation from a widget-maker on Facebook to a social games developer.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 13, 2010 at 4:01 am PT
The new conventional wisdom is that photo-sharing systems built around Twitter are toast.
But don’t tell that to the TweetPhoto team. The San Diego-based photo service just raised its first big funding round.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 12, 2010 at 1:40 pm PT
The crowdsourced recommendations site led by Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon gets a big vote of confidence from a high-profile investor.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 25, 2010 at 12:15 pm PT
Interested in buying Associated Content, which specializes in generating lots of low-cost, search-friendly content? The company isn’t technically for sale, and there’s no pitch book. But if you’ve got an offer, you can go ahead and contact Allen & Company, the media bankers that Associated Content hired late last year.
John Paczkowski in Social on February 22, 2010 at 3:00 pm PT
In 2007, Twitter broadcast about 5,000 tweets per day. Just three years later, it is broadcasting some 50 million–about 600 tweets per second. In a TPS report filed today, Kevin Weil of the Twitter analytics team points out that tweets grew 1,400 percent last year, offering further proof that there’s still no end to the microblogging service’s growth.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 18, 2010 at 6:01 am PT
How do you launch a Web video start-up without getting crushed by lawsuits and bandwidth bills? Launch a Web video search engine.
That’s the thesis behind Clicker, a would-be TV Guide for Web video, which has raised an $11 million B round led by JAFCO Ventures, with participation from earlier investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures. The funding follows an $8 million round announced last fall that was actually raised in 2008.
John Paczkowski in Social on February 17, 2010 at 9:16 am PT
If Twitter’s astonishing month-over-month growth rate hit a ceiling last fall, the microblogging service has clearly broken through it. According to new metrics from comScore, Twitter.com saw 73.5 million unique visitors in January, up eight percent from the 65.2 million who visited it in December 2009.
John Paczkowski in News on February 3, 2010 at 1:43 pm PT
Apparently, Yahoo’s efforts to sell off some of its noncore properties are going quite a bit better than previously thought. Moments ago, the company said it will sell Yahoo HotJobs to Monster Worldwide, proprietor of rival online career site Monster.com. Price: $225 million in cash.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 22, 2010 at 3:00 am PT
Web publishers love to grouse about comScore’s traffic estimates. But many of them are much happier these days: A new measurement system is giving some sites a dramatic boost in Web visitors.
