Pinterest to Amazon: no pinning for you on Black Friday!

Traffic is generally a good thing for websites. But perhaps Pinterest, which has been called the third most popular social network after Facebook and Twitter, has enough.

Foodily launches “Food with Friends” to make online culinary conversations drool-worthy

Foodily launches the latest version of its recipe sharing network to give people a better way to talk about food online.

Pinterest gets down to business by opening doors to brands

Pinterest officially opened its doors to businesses, welcoming them with a promise to help them get the most out of their digital pin-board experiences

Over half of the world’s top 100 brands now on Instagram

54 percent of the world's biggest 100 brands are now connecting with fans and customers on Instagram, and brand adoption on Instagram is growing faster than Google+ and Pinterest.

Bring out the caviar: The Fancy gets $26M

Pinterest competitor The Fancy got a little fancier today when it took on $26 million in a new round of funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Small business loves Facebook and Twitter, ignores LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest (infographic)

90 percent of small businesses are Facebook, and 70 percent are on Twitter. LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest? Not so much.

Pin it, like it, buy it: Ubokia enables back-door e-commerce on Pinterest

Online want marketplace Ubokia is launching a back-door e-commerce gateway into Pinterest, the most popular network for sharing (but not buying) beautiful stuff.

Pinterest now pinning in Dutch and German

The additions up the total number of supported languages to seven, as the service is already available in English, two versions of Spanish, and two Portuguese dialects.

Pin on the go: Pinterest finally lands on Android & iPad

Popular social network Pinterest has finally brought its addictive photo-driven service to Android devices and the iPad, a sign it wants to seriously step up its game in mobile.

Is the Hacker Dojo worth saving? (spoilers: yes!)

We met up with the director of development to discuss what the Dojo is doing about its current woes and why this place is worth saving.

Pinterest finally drops invites in favor of open registration

Popular social networking service Pinterest has finally ditched invitations and opened its doors to anyone who wants to sign up on the spot.

Pinterest ditches Palo Alto ‘burbs for city-slicking San Francisco

In yet another case of San Francisco “stealing the show” from Silicon Valley, visual interest site Pinterest has just moved its headquarters from Palo Alto to San Francisco’s South-of-Market (SoMa) neighborhood.

It was only in May that venture firm Benchmark …

Amazon explains weekend outage, but Instagram, Netflix, & Pinterest stay mum

Amazon has released a detailed explanation of its massive EC2 outage this past Friday and Saturday. But even with all the new info, services that went down, including Netflix, Instagram, and Pinterest, have yet to fill in some crucial blanks.…

Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more

An outage of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia has taken down Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services. According to numerous Twitter updates and our own checks, all three services are unavailable as of Friday evening at 9:10 p.m. …

Science’s new acquisition gives its portfolio a Pinterest edge

Los Angeles incubator Science has just made an interesting acquisition — and one that will give all its portfolio companies a huge advantage in getting traffic and revenue from Pinterest.

It’s bought Pinpuff. You’ve probably never heard of it; we …