Hot social media service Pinterest has hired Facebook Corporate Communications Director Barry Schnitt to lead communications and public policy, VentureBeat has confirmed. He will start in mid-June.
“Barry brings incredible relevant experience to Pinterest and will be pivotal as we …
Happy Facebook IPO eve! Check out the companies getting funded today below. Click the links in each paragraph to learn more about the day’s funding news.
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After Facebook’s surprising Instagram buy, it now seems like every hot startup needs to reach a billion dollar valuation to truly be taken seriously. So it was inevitable that Pinterest, the popular image pinboard site, would eventually skyrocket in value.…
We’ve known for a while that spam was jumping on the Pinterest train. Now, security software service McAfee is sending out an official warning to keep an eye out for fraudulent pins.
According to McAfee, hackers have created entire toolkits …
People often say Silicon Valley is not like the rest of the world. We’re more tolerant of failure, embrace risk-taking more eagerly, get more enthusiastic about technical solutions, and have a huge, deep pool of engineering and marketing talent to …
To get us excited for Mother’s Day this Sunday, research firm Nielsen has released a few stats on the online habits of American moms.
Facebook ranks number one for moms in the U.S., something that comes as no shock to …
Sex.com, the most expensive public domain ever purchased, has just re-launched as yet another Pinterest for porn, joining sites like Snatchly and Pornterest in curating the web’s randiest material. (NSFW links)
While lurid, Sex.com is interesting because in the early …
Flickr and Pinterest have teamed up to provide photo-pinners with a simple tool for inspired sharing.
Tuesday, Flickr released a share-to-Pinterest button that will ensure all pinners past and present properly attribute images plucked from Flickr to the source of …
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Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram was the topic on everyone’s lips at Mega Startup Weekend last Saturday and Sunday. The world’s most expensive “Like” has clearly gotten tech entrepreneurs buzzing about who will be next. While there’s no way …
Bruce Linn was sitting on a surfboard just outside his favorite surf break in Costa Rica when the idea came to him.
He wanted a way to collect and save everything he was interested in — notes, pictures, web pages, …
Today, the people of Pinterest have a new way to express themselves: through Vimeo videos.
The third most popular social network, known for its arts, crafts, and food-enthusiast members, has expanded the functionality of its popular “pin it” bookmarklet to …
Wednesday, Springpad launched the latest version of its digital notebook service, which includes a web, iOS, and Android app that help you save snippets of information from the Internet. The new version is a major overhaul of the service and …
Beauty retailer Sephora has just become one of the first retailers to fully integrate with digital pin-board Pinterest by adding a “Pin It” button to every one of its 14,000 products.
Sephora staffers will also highlight their favorite products on …
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If you’re an e-commerce marketer and you’re not already on the Pinterest bandwagon, you need to hop on it as soon as you can. Pinterest is the first social network that’s delivering not only lots of traffic but also real …
Tweets, status updates, pins, check-ins: They may seem trivial to you, but they’re valuable content to social networking companies.
For example: Next time you make an update in Path, consider that you just helped that company make 50 cents in …
As if there was ever any doubt that the “pin” is winning, a new report from Experian says Pinterest is now the third most popular social network in the U.S., based on number of visits, surpassed only by Facebook and …
Bored with your boards?
Pinterest, the visual-bookmarking site and social-network, introduced a new feature Thursday that allows for more self-expression. The site, where millions of people “pin” products to collections called “boards,” has introduced board covers.
“One of the most …
Pinterest has finally confirmed co-founder Paul Sciarra (pictured, left) has left the company.
He’ll be serving as entrepreneur-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the more important venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.
“Of course, I’ll continue to be there for …
Update: Sciarra, in a Pinterest blog post, confirmed his departure.
Is there trouble in Pinterest paradise?
Paul Sciarra (pictured, left), co-founder of digital pin-board sensation Pinterest, is said to be on his way out the door. Sciarra will be …
As soon as one startup hits it big, a crop of clones rush to cash in on the excitement. The latest company de jour to mimic is Pinterest, the popular visual-bookmarking site. And, as with Groupon and Airbnb before it, …
