With an extensive summer internship program, New York City-based ff Venture Capital hopes to help its portfolio companies and budding entrepreneurs alike.
Prollie is a social search platform that tracks how "well" people use social media platforms and makes connections with others who share the same interests and passions.
Big Klout score? Now there might be a way to get a TV, iPhone, or other tangible reward for your influence.
Salesforce has added a wider array of services to its Marketing Cloud toolset, including Klout, Kred, Kanjoya, and PeekAnalytics, to help businesses not only listen to customers but also better understand them.
Klout updated its iPhone application to allow members to receive rewards on their phones and add an influence identification card to Apple's Passbook application.
Microsoft is buying a little influence for its number-two search engine with a strategic investment in Klout.
Klout launches an all-new scoring system alongside a dramatically redesigned site to make its calculations more accurate and less ambiguous.
At one of LA’s hottest nightclubs, social media enthusiasts and horn-rimmed hipsters can jump straight to the front of the line, swiftly past gaggles of giggling girls. Oh, how the tables have turned.
Playhouse nightclub announced today a first-of-its-kind partnership …
MicroVentures Investment Challenge is a Facebook game pitting notable Internet startups against each other in a fantasy sports-like competition aimed at venture capitalists.
The masses can now travel in first-class style without dropping cash on a first-class airplane ticket, but only if they’re influential.
Influence-scoring startup Klout has partnered with Cathay Pacific Airways to provide members with stellar social-reputation access to the airline’s …
Can anyone say tempest in a teapot?
Nothing gets the interwebs’ panties in a knot like a good ranking controversy. Think of all the catfights we’ve had over Google’s PageRank, Facebook’s EdgeRank, or ComScore site metrics. But perhaps Klout beats …
We’ve heard a couple of stories in recent weeks about startups that choose celebrity investors over seasoned VCs because they wanted someone with a big online audience who could help attract new users and press to their product.
According to …
Influence-tracking startup Klout is making its scores accessible to members on mobile with the release of an iPhone application.
Klout for iPhone, released Wednesday, is an app for the influence tracking-obsessed minimalist who needs to know her score at all …
American car maker Chevrolet is once again turning to influence-tracking startup Klout to promote its cars.
Chevrolet is offering Klout members influential in social media, technology, and environmental topics the opportunity to borrow 2012 Volts for three-day joy rides. The …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we decided to round up the quick-and-dirty details for the funding deals of the day and put them in …
Money can’t buy you friends, but in the case of influence tracking startup Klout, money can buy you neighbors and possibly an understanding of the social dynamic linking people in communities.
Klout, a San Francisco-based company that attempts to quantify …
Investing in startups is a funny business. Sometimes venture capitalists find themselves with a company that is growing and profitable. But if there is no opportunity for an IPO or acquisition by a bigger competitor, there may not be an …
While it’s been talked about for some time, Klout today finally confirmed that it raised a “strong” third round of funding — though it won’t say how much.
Klout CEO Joe Fernandez confirmed the funding with All Things D, and …
The mine-is-bigger-than-yours need to measure our self-worth against others is alive and well on the web. For proof, look no further than controversial influence-scoring startup Klout, which is now processing 7.5 billion API calls per month.
Klout measures online influence …
Why did that all-important, life-changing tweet you feverishly posted lose steam after just a few minutes? Odds are, it’s because you’re just not influential enough.
Klout, the startup that measures a social media users digital influence, analyzed a week’s worth …
