Viddy adds 5.5M users in 11 days, signs on celebrity investors and partners

April 23, 2012 11:07 AM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Fresh after receiving a vote of confidence from Silicon Valley venture firms and rocketing to fame through Facebook, social video application Viddy is getting the red-carpet treatment from Hollywood.

Singers Shakira and Jay-Z and actor Will Smith join other high-profile …

Social video app Viddy hot on Facebook, adds 300k users in a day

April 12, 2012 4:50 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Hang on to your seats, kids. An application for shooting and sharing pretty little videos is rocketing through Facebook and picking up new users at whirlwind speed.

Social video app Viddy added 300,000 new users yesterday, bringing its total to …

Vevo music video service nets 3.5B monthly views after relaunch

March 21, 2012 5:42 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Less than two weeks after a relaunch featuring deeper ties to Facebook, music video service Vevo is seeing a record number of video views per person and is now netting 3.5 billion total views a month.

Vevo, the independent music …

Facebook resuscitates Digg, traffic up 35%

February 24, 2012 4:16 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Think Digg is deader than a doornail? Think again. The news aggregation site is showing new signs of life and has Facebook to thank for its recent resuscitation.

Digg’s pageviews jumped 35 percent in January, and the struggling company saw …

Media companies cling to Facebook, release social news apps

February 16, 2012 4:42 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Tomorrow’s news organization will be the one that reaches the more than 845 million monthly active users on Facebook, or at least that’s the prediction 11 different media companies are making today.

MTV News, the Today Show, The Daily Show, …

Facebook about to launch Actions, the final piece of its plan for frictionless sharing

January 5, 2012 4:55 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Facebook’s ambitious plan to weave various actions we take across the web into the social network via “frictionless” sharing is finally ready to be deployed, VentureBeat has learned.

The remaining pieces of Facebook’s new Open Graph are in the final …

eBay’s X.commerce and Facebook team up, recognize social as commerce gold

October 12, 2011 11:53 AM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

EBay is starting to think social. Today, the online auction company announced integration with Facebook’s open graph for its developer arm, X.commerce. It also unveiled PayPal access, a Facebook Connect-like way of checking out.

“[Facebook] wants to enable their developers …