StumbleUpon: 30% headcount reduction to ‘streamline, focus, execute’

Mike Mayzel, StumbleUpon's director of communications, said the layoffs were not the initial stages of a death spiral.

The top 10 apps to show off your new tablet (holiday 2012 edition)

If you've got a new tablet, you'll need some apps that show off its gorgeous, touch-enabled screen. Here are 10 apps perfect for your iPad or Android tablet.

Got milk? First ever “Growthathon” will help 7 startups get big and strong

Seven startups will come together with expert "growth hackers" to address challenges in distribution and acquisition.

‘Uber for airplanes’: BlackJet takes off with Ashton Kutcher and other celeb investors

Serial founder Garrett Camp, who started both StumbleUpon and Uber, a modern re-imagining of the limo-slash-taxi business, is now trying to reinvent executive air travel.

StumbleUpon finds its way to Windows 8 with its most distinctive app yet

StumbleUpon is fueling new life into a 10-year-old product that was once teetering on the edge of irrelevancy. The most dramatic evidence of such can be seen in the company's just-released application for Windows 8.

Sexed-up StumbleUpon.com goes live for all

StumbleUpon is shaking off the beta label and introducing all 25 million of its members to the colorfully redone and hyper-personalized version of its site first launched one month ago.

Say hello to the new, dramatically different StumbleUpon.com

A radically different StumbleUpon web experience has arrived to provide content seekers with reworked ways to explore videos, photos, news, and articles from across the web.

StumbleUpon reinvents the stumble in stunning new app for iPhone, iPad

StumbleUpon's new application for iPhone and iPad offers iOS users a fresh, colorful, and personalized twist on the now 10-year-old practice of thumbing through the most interesting content the web has to offer.

Top 10 Windows 8 apps — so far

We've picked out 10 stand-out apps that look and work great on Windows 8, and which show off the platform's potential for gorgeous graphics and tablet-friendly touch controls.

StumbleUpon has mastered the science of making money on mobile

Older than Facebook, 10-year-old Internet discovery engine StumbleUpon may also be wiser.

The social web exploration company is growing fastest on mobile, but unlike behemoth social network Facebook, Stumbleupon has not-so-accidentally stumbled upon a formula for serving ads to mobile …

Flipora is the fastest-growing social surfing service you’ve never heard of (interview)

Never heard of Flipora? Join the club.

But you’re likely to hear more about this new service for discovering and sharing online content, as it’s growing by 150,000 users each week — and just today added significant new features to …

Garrett Camp vacates CEO role at StumbleUpon

Other than the dedication of its founding team, few things have remained consistent at the click-to-discover, reborn startup StumbleUpon during its tumultuous, 10-year history. But, as frequent change has yet to kill the company, perhaps it can withstand the exit …

StumbleUpon’s new Facebook Timeline app aims to spark conversation when you find cool stuff

Web content discovery service StumbleUpon is rolling out a new Facebook Timeline app today that allow you to share all the cool stuff you find during the day with friends and family.

StumbleUpon’s service lets people discover and share new …

Show me the money: StumbleUpon hires a VP of sales for revenue growth

StumbleUpon kicked its turnaround into higher gear Monday with the hire of its first-ever vice president of sales.

Teal Newland, a former Digitas executive and Disney brand strategist, has joined the long-running web discovery engine and will oversee StumbleUpon’s advertising …

The most popular StumbleUpon links of 2011 (infographic)

What do Japan’s earthquakes and tsunami, the royal wedding, and the passing of Steve Jobs have in common? They were all hugely popular topics on StumbleUpon in 2011. The link discovery website had quite a year — in October it …

StumbleUpon to roll out new updates today

Link discovery service StumbleUpon will be rolling out a major update today, the first in nearly a decade, that cleans up the site’s user interface, revises the site’s design and adds a new channel feature.

“The changes reflect what our …

Want your links to live longer? Share them on StumbleUpon (infographic)

StumbleUpon has released new information about the level of activity that’s added to a link when shared through its content discovery service.

StumbleUpon’s service lets people discover and share new web content based on a broad spectrum of categories. Users …

StumbleUpon reaches 20M users, over 1B stumbles per month

Social link sharing startup StumbleUpon has reached a record 20 million users, the company announced today.

StumbleUpon’s service lets people discover and share new web content based on a broad spectrum of categories. Users click a “stumble” button to discover …

StumbleUpon’s new Explore Box adds search engine functionality to web surfing

StumbleUpon debuted a new “Explore Box” feature today that lets you find community-endorsed content when typing in a specific word or search term.

No longer are people restricted from searching content within a set of about 500 topics, which was …

News discovery site TrapIt could be Pandora for news stories

TrapIt, an online service that’s designed to help individuals discover new content on the web, launched pretty quietly on Tuesday and is still cruising in a private beta. VentureBeat had a chance to try the site out for a few …