Digg, the social news site that skyrocketed to notoriety in the mid-2000s and then subsequently saw its star fade with the rise of Twitter and Facebook, said it will lay off 10 percent of its staff today.
The company’s founder …
Facebook is starting to measure the overall happiness of dozens of countries based on their status updates.
They’ve taken the idea of Gross National Happiness, which is meant to be a more holistic way of measuring quality of life compared …
Guest Post
Amy Errett is a partner with venture capital and private equity firm Maveron LLC.
Every 20 years or so, the financial services industry experiences a wave of consumer innovation, such as when companies like E-Trade and Intuit changed the landscape …
Starting next week, Skype will begin beta testing a new group video chat feature on Windows PCs, according to the Associated Press. The feature will let up to five people join in on a video chat simultaneously, which is a …
Facebook is set to open an engineering office in Seattle this summer. The company is bringing on Hadi Partovi, who co-founded and sold iLike to MySpace and TellMe Networks to Microsoft, to build the team.
“Seattle has a strong history …
Group buying site Groupon is setting up twin beachheads on the West Coast with the acquisition of San Francisco, Calif.-based Mob.ly, a startup that has built mobile apps for big brand name clients like Digg, OpenTable and NBC, and a …
SlideShare is a site where users can share business presentations, but today it’s going beyond the “Slide” in the company’s name. It’s adding the ability to upload and share business videos.
Chief executive Rashmi Sinha (pictured here) described the new …
Internet censorship hit another hot Web startup this week.
“We found out yesterday the the Thai government has censored Justin.tv for anti-government content on the site,” Justin.tv vice president of marketing Evan Solomon wrote in an email this morning. “The …
One-stop social networking site Threadsy officially took the wraps off its well-tested website today, ending the beta period for what it calls an “integrated communication client” that combines email, Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging, and other social Web media to create …
Facebook’s Paul Buchheit, the Gmail creator who coined Google’s “Don’t be evil” slogan and later came to the social network through its FriendFeed acquisition, said he’s found immense value in removing most privacy restrictions to his profile.
His comments come …
Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences lab unveiled a personal and social way of navigating your news streams called Spindex today.
Spindex is a way of surfacing the most shared or popular items that come through your personal news feeds on social …
Reid Hoffman, founder and chairman of business social network LinkedIn and now a partner a Greylock Partners, talked this afternoon about Facebook’s ambitious new Open Graph initiative.
Hoffman was speaking at the annual meeting of the National Venture Capital Association. …
Social oversharing network Twitter has launched a new service that spits out HTML code for embedding a specific tweet into another Web page outside Twitter. Compared to the site’s simple, short text tweets, its quotes are a daunting barrage of …
Lawmakers unveiled proposed legislation that would regulate the way online advertisers can target consumers and how Internet companies collect data about their users today.
Rep. Rick Boucher (D., Va.), who has been talking about such a consumer privacy bill for …
Proferi, a still-secretive analytics company founded by Greylock entrepreneur-in-residence and former SAP CTO Christian Gheorghe, has raised $2 million from the venture capital firm and Andreessen Horowitz, according to an SEC filing.
Although the company is in stealth mode, it’s …
Offerpal Media is launching a universal virtual currency for games today as part of an effort to expand its reach and revenues in the social gaming industry.
Gamers will be able to earn Offerpal’s Game Points virtual currency in more …
One of the mobile developers questioned by the Federal Trade Commission about Google’s agreement to buy ad network AdMob has stepped up to defend the search giant’s deal.
Wertago, which built a nightlife app for both the iPhone and Android …
Virtual conferences are about to get more hip. InXpo, which stages online conferences that replace physical events, is expanding its repertoire to include games and social media inside its virtual experiences.
The Chicago-based company is one of a number of …
SuccessFactors, a public company offering Web-based tools for managing business processes, just announced it’s acquiring a startup called CubeTree. CubeTree is one of a number of companies offering “Facebook for enterprise” social networking tools, and SuccessFactors plans to add those …
For better and for worse, Twitter has become an essential tool for reporters.
Breaking news often speeds through Twitter faster than any other source. Influencers and thought leaders opine on it hourly, and its 140-character limit forces them to be …
