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As Yahoo Readies Doling Out Alibaba Billions to Shareholders, Mayer Memo Says Tech Reporters Can’t Add
One plus one equals — wait, I am stumped …
Trying to Define the Opportunity for Commerce on Facebook
Adgregate Markets, which helps brands build storefronts on Facebook, has conducted a study to help define the opportunity for social commerce.
RockYou Acquires Playdemic for Bigger Push Into Social Games
RockYou has acquired Playdemic of Manchester, England, to continue its transformation from a widget-maker on Facebook to a social games developer.
A “Hole-Filler” Gets Funded: TweetPhoto Raises $2.6 Million
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.
Hunch Gets It Right, Adds a $10 Million Series B Round Led by Khosla Ventures
The crowdsourced recommendations site led by Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon gets a big vote of confidence from a high-profile investor.
Left at the Altar by AOL, Associated Content Hires Allen
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.Twitter Sees 600 Tweets-Per-Second #OMG #YeahButWheres TheBusinessModel
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.
More Money for Web Video? Sure: Clicker Raises Another $11 Million.
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.
Twitter’s Annual Growth Rate as of January: 1,107 Percent
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.
HotJobs Sold to Monster in Yahoo Garage Sale
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.