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Mintigo secures $9 million round for sales leads

by Nathan Pensky, September 23, 2011 | Comments

Mintigo knows what you need and how to get it for you

Lead-generation company Mintigo secured Friday a $9 million second round of funding from Sequoia Capitol. Other investors include Giva Venture Capitol and several private investors. A leading provider of sales leads and customer acquisition, Mintigo uses Internet profiling data to match potential customers with companies. Mintigo's website states: "Today's biggest challenge for businesses is to extract meaningful customer insights out of big ...

Hulu hits one million subs, ahead of schedule

by Nathan Pensky, September 22, 2011 | Comments

Video site seems to be outperforming, yet suitors are throwing low-ball offers

Hulu might be getting snubbed by potential acquirors, but that's certainly not affecting the Internet's most popular streaming video provider from outperforming. At a Goldman Sachs conference this week, CEO Jason Kilar said that the company has hit the one million mark, according to Reuters. Hulu was not immediately available for comment. Additionally, Kilar said the company would invest $375 ...

Zynga shows slightly slower revenue growth

by Nathan Pensky, September 22, 2011 | Comments

The arrow points up or down, depending on how you look

Depending on how you look at it, things are are looking both up and down for popular social-gaming site Zynga. The company is currently reporting slightly slower revenue growth, but this decrease as compared with last year's numbers arte still very positive. In its recently amended IPO filing, Zynga reported a 4% dip in second-quarter bookings citing "a decrease in ...

Wall Street Journal gets social on Facebook

by Nathan Pensky, September 20, 2011 | Comments

One more reason to log on to Facebook - get free WSJ content, at least for a month

It seems there's yet another excuse to log on to Facebook at work -- to check the financial news. The Wall Street Journal announced Tuesday that it's joined forces with Facebook to create WSJ Social, a new app that offers Facebook users with a news feed tailored to their online personalities, based on social graphing technology. The app is currently ...

The good sense of Web anonymity

by Nathan Pensky, September 20, 2011 | Comments

	Twitter gets it... Why doesn't anyone else? There is an old adage that originated from a 1993 cartoon caption that said: "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog." The cartoon came to symbolize the unnerving aspects of Internet life - people could interact with general anonymity. But as we've moved toward more stringent rules around user verification over the last 15 years, we've lost a ...
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Is Unthink the Un-Facebook?

by Nathan Pensky, September 19, 2011 | Comments

Unthink goes for broke with anti-Facebook rhetoric

There's a new social networking site in town, and it's on a mission to take down its competitors. In fact, the masterminds behind the new Unthink, which was unveiled last week, have described their startup so far almost entirely in terms of what it is not, mainly not Facebook, Google +, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Kickstarter. In everything from its name, ...

Twitter's latest departure reveals a leaky ship

by Nathan Pensky, September 18, 2011 | Comments

Chief Scientist Chowdhury, and two board members Wilson and Sabet leave in the same week

It was a bit of a corporate shake-up week for Twitter. On Friday, Twitter's Chief Scientist Abdur Chowdhury left the company, confirming as much via his own Twitter account. Chowdhury Tweeted on Friday, "So Long and THanks for All the Fish. Twitter was an amazing experience & even greater set of people." The initial sentence of this statement is a ...

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