Microsoft’s Bing Fund invests in social discovery app Sonar

New York City startup Sonar announced today that is has received a strategic investment from Microsoft's Bing Fund.

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 limitations of social discovery

“Discovery” is a hot topic these days. The curse of a new buzzword is that it’s difficult to come to a shared mental model in the early stages. Instead of tackling that large problem, I’ll start with something simpler: defining …

Fancy beats Pinterest to social commerce, but did it sell its soul for cash?

Elegant discovery and sharing tool Fancy released a new iPhone and iPad app today, adding some simple social commerce to the mix that might just change the whole experience.

If you haven’t heard of Fancy, think of it this way: …

Social discovery service Banjo hits 1 million users in just 9 months

Banjo founder and CEO Damien Patton has held a variety of jobs in his life, but the career experience that he believes is paying off big at his current startup is the time he spent head mechanic on one of …

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 …

Demo: Pinevio and trueRSVP offer new consumer technologies

Sixteen startups intend to break out big with consumers in the Consumer Technologies category at theDemo Fall 2011 conference in Silicon Valley. Here are two companies that presented today.

Pinevio

Pinevio is a tool that works with your social networks …