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Hot Potato serves up social event stream

by Ronny Kerr, November 20, 2009 | Comments

Launching today, this startup's iPhone app geo-locates you and geo-locates the party

Hot Potato, a startup focusing on an iPhone app that streams updates from friends at events in your area, launched on Friday, just one month after the completion of its Series A round of funding. The Brooklyn-based early-stage startup has raised $1 million so far for its mobile brand of social networking via events.Backed by Vimeo co-founder Zach Klein, Hot ...

Facebook shares rise 42% in 4 months

by Matt Bowman, November 20, 2009 | Comments

Common stock is trading at $21/ share on SecondMarket, giving the company a $9.5 billion valuation.

Facebook’s valuation has been all over the map. In 2007, a $240 million investment from Microsoft pegged the company at a whopping $15 billion. After Wall Street imploded, the company plummeted to $3.7 billion in its own estimation, according to court documents discovered by the AP in February of this year. By May it climbed back to $10 billion with ...

Adobe to release Acrobat.com for smartphones

by Ronny Kerr, November 20, 2009 | Comments

After a couple weeks worth of mobile news, Adobe keeps the updates coming

Adobe revealed Thursday that this weekend it will be launching a new version of Acrobat.com, an online platform which allows for PDF conversion, web conferencing, and more. Included in the announcement is the news that Adobe will likewise be releasing both iPhone and BlackBerry applications for Acrobat.com.The new Acrobat.com, which launches this Saturday, Nov. 21 at 3:00am PST, consolidates all ...

Twitter's new question: What's happening?

by Ronny Kerr, November 19, 2009 | Comments (1)

Biz Stone says "What are you doing?" was never the most important question

From the beginning, Twitter has asked its users one simple question: "What are you doing?" The original idea assumed the network would be a place for people to keep in touch with each other and the occurrences in their day-to-day lives.But, as co-founder Biz Stone acknowledges in a Twitter Blog post today, that question has taken a backseat to a ...

YouTube launches automatic captions

by Chris Caceres, November 19, 2009 | Comments

Feature will grant online video viewing access to hearing impaired and translate to 51 languages

YouTube is taking initiatives today to help the hearing impaired by announcing a new automatic captioning feature across its millions of videos.This isn't your traditional hand written captioning either. Google is combing its automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions. So basically, the machines understand what is being said in the video and ...

GettingHired gets $3 million

by Chris Caceres, November 19, 2009 | Comments

Career site focused on serving disabled, raises funds for its audience of 22 million

GettingHired, an organization focused on careers and community for people with disabilities, announced on Thursday it secured $3 million of additional investment from Zenith Insurance Company, Kamine Development Corp and Fisher Capital. Launched back in November of 2008, GettingHired.com serves as an online career center with social networking features for people with disabilities. People looking for jobs can use the ...

The 100 top performing VCs

by Matt Bowman, November 19, 2009 | Comments

These 100 cutting-edge venture investors are keeping the global innnovation engine humming

When I'm not writing for VatorNews or working with Bambi on the next mixer, I'm doing research for AlwaysOn. Over there, we just released the VC 100--our pick of the top venture capitalists based on exit performance in the last four years. One thing we learned in the process was how many top dealmakers don't make it into the limelight. ...

Olive Media launches first HD Hi-Fi server

by Ronny Kerr, November 19, 2009 | Comments

Reiterating its obsession with perfect audio, Olive creates a new genre of audio equipment

The high fidelity digital media designers at Olive Media just created a new category of audio equipment for audiophiles to drool over.On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based company unveiled the first-ever HD Hi-Fi server, the Olive 4HD, a device built for music at 24-bit sound and 192 kHz sample rate, 250 times the resolution of standard compact discs--the kind of quality ...

Microsoft announces Office 2010 public beta

by Ronny Kerr, November 18, 2009 | Comments

Releasing a line of productive applications in beta, Microsoft introduces social networking features

Microsoft released a slew of 2010 iterations of its Office-related products in public beta on Wednesday, including Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010, Office Web Apps for businesses and Office Mobile 2010.Office, comprised of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and other software, will likely be held under the closest scrutiny as it is one of the most popular ...

EveryZing RAMPS up

by Chris Caceres, November 18, 2009 | Comments

Content optimization platform announces rebranding to RAMP and upgraded product

EveryZing announced on Wednesday it has re-branded and is now called RAMP. The Woburn, MA-based startup offers universal search and publishing solutions for dynamic Web publishers. The re-branding was, "largely driven by the completion of our solution to a business-to-business SaaS provider to media companies. Everyzing was an older consumer destination name and we didn't feel it was reflective of ...

Salesforce launches Chatter

by Chris Caceres, November 18, 2009 | Comments

Cloud computing giant stepping into social networking, launches a "Facebook for the enterprise"

With Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference kicking off this week in San Francisco comes a major announcement from the company. It's launching a product called Salesforce Chatter, which the cloud computing giant describes as a "Facebook for the Enterprise."Salesforce is stepping into a market already touched on, social networking for enterprises. Some startups playing in the space include CubeTree, a freemium enterprise ...

Facebook adopts new privacy policy

by Ronny Kerr, November 18, 2009 | Comments

Lacking the minimum 7,000 commenters needed for a vote, policy changes go into effect unchallenged

On Tuesday night, Facebook announced that it has adopted its revised privacy policy changes, without the need to submit the changes to the site's user base for a vote. Facebook said that if 7,000 users commented on the proposal revision, then it would organize a poll, wherein all the site's users could vote on whether or not to approve the ...

Zynga raises $15.18 million

by Chris Caceres, November 17, 2009 | Comments

Social gaming giant raking in more cash

Google Image Swirl launches in Labs

by Ronny Kerr, November 17, 2009 | Comments

Building on Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition, new tool makes searching images easier

First, they gave us Image Search, then came Similar Images, and now, Google is adding a new application to Google Labs, called Google Image Swirl.Announced Tuesday morning on the Google Blog, Image Swirl functions similarly to Google Wonder Wheel, in that it creates an initial grid or cluster, based on an initial search query. Whenever the user clicks on an ...

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