The game of musical chairs in the executive suite at Second Life parent company Linden Lab continued today, as founder Philip Rosedale, who had been serving as interim CEO since June, announced he was stepping down from the job immediately.…
Some six weeks after he was hired to be the new chief executive of news aggregator Digg.com, Matt Williams greeted community members for the first time today, apologized for the site’s botched attempt at a redesign, and announced officially that …
Are angel investors, fund managers and even some retail investors getting in on the back end of privately held multibillion dollar startups by snatching up shares from employees and stockholders now?
A story published today by Fortune says yes, and …
Early stage venture firm Alsop Louie Partners confirmed to VentureBeat Friday that it has closed its second fund with $98.6 million and added three new partners.
The firm named its new partners as Cassatt Corporation founder and BEA Systems’ exec …
Social media provider Syncapse announced today it has finalized a $2 million round of financing from the Business Development Bank of Canada.
Toronto-based Syncapse, which develops tools to help brands and marketers build their own social communities and track in …
Social news aggregator Digg hired former Amazon executive Matt Williams to be CEO a little over a month ago, but ex-CEO and co-founder Kevin Rose is still fiddling around with the site it seems.
In a move that might have …
SocialShield, a service designed to help parents keep their kids safe while using online social networks, announced today that it has received $10 million in a first round of institutional financing from a conglomeration of sources including U.S. Venture Partners, …
While big brands and agencies have the luxury of resources and money, local businesses don’t. What they need is a social-media dashboard — an all-in-one, Web-based monitoring tool for Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites where customers hang out — …
Social news aggregator site Digg.com is trying to work its way out of the traffic hole it created with its botched redesign attempt. Today it announced the return of several popular features from its previous version.
In the last few …
Digg, the pioneering social-news site which lets users vote on top headlines, began to lose momentum during the recession because it pulled engineers from designing new site features to work on improving revenue, founder Kevin Rose said today.
Rose said …
Storify, which allows users to embed content from all avenues of the web like Twitter, Flickr and the like into a continuous story, launched its closed beta today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
The web-based software lets users integrate …
A month ago, popular news aggregator Digg underwent a redesign that many describe as disastrous. Now, despite bad press, site bugs, and a traffic collapse, the company is trying to put a good face on its current state. It sent …
LinkedIn announced its second acquisition today with its purchase of ChoiceVendor, a review site for business services. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
We initially described ChoiceVendor as “Yelp-for-businesses” — a description that goes a long way towards …
Engage121, a company that has developed a social media monitoring and engagement tool, is attempting to differentiate itself from all the competing social media monitoring companies by launching a service specially designed for national brands with local franchises.
The new …
Tumblr chief technology officer Marco Arment said he has left the company to work on his own startup, Instapaper. His comments came in an e-mail to VentureBeat today.
While he has left Tumblr as an official executive, Arment (pictured left) …
Reddit, the headline aggregator and discussion site run by the parent company of Wired magazine, features plenty of talked-about stories. But only recently has it seen news that bodes well for the site’s own business.
Rival Digg‘s botched attempt at …
Tumblr, a social media network made up of millions of personal and business blogs, is seeing massive traffic growth, but is undergoing equally big growing pains.
Activity on the network of Tumblr blogs skyrocketed over the first half of the …
Cloud storage provider Backupify, which specializes in backing up data from social media services like Twitter and Facebook announced Tuesday that it raised $4.5 million in its first round of fundraising led by Avalon Ventures and General Catalyst Partners.
Backupify, …
Twitter CEO Ev Williams posted a blog entry Thursday with an update on the microblogging service’s usage, which continues to grow sharply. More interesting than the numbers, though, was the message written between the lines: Twitter now has 145 million …
Yammer, originally launched as a “Twitter for businesses,” will soon expand its services into a full-on social network like Facebook — built to help streamline workplaces and network business professionals.
Along with a redesign to be more social, the Yammer …
