Path founder Dave Morin constructs an oasis on the chaotic streets of ‘Facebook city’

Path founder Dave Morin talks about creating a safe space within the Facebook 'city.'

In mobile design, failure is inevitable, says Path’s Dave Morin

Dave Morin, the chief executive of the private mobile social network app Path, was onstage at MobileBeat 2012 this morning with Michael Copeland, the senior editor of Wired. And Morin, true to form, was full of great one-liners.

Morin zinger 

Betable’s potential jackpot: Bringing real gambling to social casino games

Betable hopes to disrupt social casino games by enabling real-money online gambling in social gaming titles.

Facebook alumni startup funding up 137 percent over last year

Mark Zuckerberg and his current employees aren’t the only ones making it big in Silicon Valley today. Former Facebook employees who have struck out on their own and started companies — referred to as the Facebook Mafia — have collectively …

Path CEO Dave Morin to join Eventbrite’s board of directors

Dave Morin, CEO of social-network Path, has joined ticketing startup Eventbrite‘s board of the directors, a move Eventbrite claims will help it continue innovating on the social front.

While Path had a major privacy blowup early this year, the company …

Path raising $30M round led by Redpoint. No, it won’t be the next Instagram. (updated)

Updated 4:52 pm with confirmed funding amount, full list of investors, and quote from Satish Dharmaraj.

Rumors about Path’s new round of funding have circulated for some time, but they are now being reported as hard numbers. Path confirmed to …

Dylan’s Desk: Why Instagram is worth $1 billion, and your startup isn’t

A lot of people were scratching their heads yesterday at the news that Facebook is acquiring photo-sharing site Instagram for $1 billion.

The allure of retro-styled photo filters is pretty weak justification for a price tag that high. But of …

Pair lets you kiss your lover with your thumb, share private moments of love

If your friends are sick of seeing lovey-dovey status updates meant only for your significant other, it might be time to take your love to a new private social network.

Pair is an iOS app for couples to share pictures, …

Path may have just sealed a new $20M funding deal

We’re hearing loud rumors this morning that hot-as-molten-lava startup Path may have just closed a $20 million round of funding.

The round was reportedly led by Redpoint Ventures and pegged Path at a $250 million valuation.

While Business Insider is …

Tim Cook reportedly questioned Path CEO after iPhone privacy fiasco

After social network Path was caught red-handed for copying personal data from people’s iPhones, CEO Dave Morin apologized for the major screw up and moved on. But before the apology came, Morin was reportedly dragged into Apple CEO Tim Cook’s …

Why Path will never be a mobile web app [video]

Dave Morin and the rest of the Path team are staunchly on the native side of the mobile-web-apps-versus-native-apps debate, and in this interview, he explains why.

Morin took a few minutes to chat with VentureBeat at South By Southwest; we …

Path launches version 2.1 with open API, new camera and music functions

Social network Path has opened its API today, but don’t get excited yet developers. It’s only open to Nike for now, which Path partnered with to create “Step Out.”

“Step Out” allows you to connect your Nike Run application with …

Wanderfly re-launches with a Pinterest-inspired travel site

Wanderfly, a travel recommendation search engine, re-launched its service Wednesday with a whole new site. The company is doing away with details like hotel prices and is offering picture-heavy travel guides for cities instead.

Wanderfly’s new site is full of …

Path-ological: In 2010, founder Dave Morin said Path never stored user data

It’s the privacy snafu that will not die. A day after a developer discovered that mobile social network Path was storing users’ entire address books on its servers, the startup seemed to have defused the incident by apologizing and deleting …

Path CEO: We screwed up by uploading your personal data, and we’ve erased it

The CEO of Path, a startup focused on sharing your life with just close contacts, has apologized after a hacker showed that Path’s iOS app uploaded extremely personal data to its servers without permission.

The company’s purpose in uploading that …

Path is grabbing names, numbers, and emails from users’ phones

A brief post from Arun Thampi, an iOS developer based in Singapore, has sparked an outcry among Path users. Thampi was poking around the Path API for a hackathon when he stumbled on request which sent his entire contact list including names, emails and phone numbers to Path.

"Now I don’t remember having given permission to Path to access my address book and send its contents to its servers, so I created a completely new “Path” and repeated the experiment and I got the same result – my address book was in Path’s hands," he wrote on his blog.

Kevin Rose launches Oink on iPhone: Yelp, Instagram and a dash of Foursquare

Digg co-founder Kevin Rose has just launched his new discovery app Oink, which lets users tag and rate the things around them.

Oink users take photos with their iPhone, tag their location, and can use photo filters, so the concept …

Path hits Android — but does anyone care?

“Personal network” app Path has broken out of its iOS prison and is now available for Android, the company announced on its blog today.

While the free Android app is still a beta release, meaning it’s not completely finished yet, …