Swaptree, a web-based swap meet for books, CDs, DVDs and video games, has nabbed $6 million in fresh venture funding. The news comes at a time of expansion for the company, which has also just named Jeff Bennett as its …
The red-hot location-based service Foursquare is supposedly bringing in 15,000 users a day and recently passed the 1 million user mark. It seems to be having problems keeping up, though, as there are increasing reports on Foursquare downtime, recognized by …
Tomorrow Facebook will launch a host of new privacy controls that it says will be simpler for users to navigate. But what all keen observers will be watching are the default settings.
This is where Facebook will signal whether it …
Ads with images outperform those without. Put your brand name at the top. Change your ad’s image or title every couple of days so it appears fresh. And always, always tell your audience exactly what you want them to do, …
Tripping, a site that’s ending its beta test today, aims to connect travelers who want a richer experience than your average tourist trip with hosts who can help provide it.
Cofounder and chief executive Jen O’Neal is a big traveler …
The fourth-generation iPhone due in June will allow users to conduct video chat sessions, according to the ace rumormongers at Engadget. Hit movie producer Sam Mendes (American Beauty) is said to be filming video commercials in which a mother and …
New York-based startup Yext has been working to bring more effective advertising and analytics to local businesses for some time. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Yext CEO Howard Lerman announced its next big product: Yext Rep, a simple way …
Twitter developers say they’re pivoting around the social network’s broad new restrictions on advertising and that their business models won’t be too detrimentally affected.
The San Francisco-based microblogging network said today that it won’t allow third-party companies to serve ads …
Email marketing company Constant Contact announced that it has acquired startup NutshellMail for an undisclosed amount.
The move is supposed to expand Constant Contact’s services into social networking. A growing number of companies bring social networking data into email, including …
Giving another disruptive jolt to its ecosystem, Twitter has banned third-party ad networks from serving sponsored tweets in user feeds.
“We will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally began speaking publicly about the latest round of privacy troubles the social network has faced in the month after the company’s first big developer conference in two years. He also pledged to launch new tools …
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s baby-faced founder, is under a lot of criticism for his social network’s personal privacy policies. But you have to give the guy this: You don’t have to guess where he’s coming from. Zuckerberg shares online more than …
After making itself available to early adopter advertisers for the past month, the Twitter search and advertising startup TweetUp officially launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.
In our previous coverage, we described TweetUp as a sort of AdSense for …
Bazaar Labs, the creator of a mobile application for sharing what movies and television you’re watching called Miso, just announced that it has raised a seed round of undisclosed size.
Miso is modeled on Foursquare, the mobile application for sharing …
MySpace announced today it is launching MySpace Games Lab to help third-party app makers bring more social games onto its social network. It is also launching an internal team to make more in-house games on MySpace.
The pilot program will …
Los Angeles-based Cocodot, an invitation and greetings service, has raised $2 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. Anthem Venture Partners and Rincon Venture Partners participated in the round. Founder Shawn Gold was previously MySpace’s chief marketing officer.
Isn’t …
The Federal Trade Commission gave the green light for Google to buy mobile advertising network AdMob after the deal had been held up for six months in a competitive review. The search giant agreed to buy the San Mateo company …
Overnight, the Wall Street Journal reported what sounds like yet another breach of privacy at Facebook. The Journal cited MySpace as an offender, too.
What you need to know is that while the leaked info has indeed been leaked, no …
Klout, a San Francisco startup that wants to provide definitive metrics for influence in social media, has revamped its offerings to attract a more professional crowd of big brand clients and enterprise-focused third-party apps.
The service, which started as a …
As 18-year-old Russian wunderkind Andrey Ternovskiy wrestles with making his random video chat service ChatRoulette more tasteful, several competitors have barged in within the last two months.
Today, the developers behind instant messaging client Digsby unveiled their own addition to …
