Yale boosting venture capital coffers

Despite dismal returns, university is upping its commitment to private equity. Gurley is vindicated.

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Twitter to rank "most popular" tweets

by Matt Bowman, March 19, 2010 | Comments

The switch will introduce even more jostling for position, rabid use among the twitterati.

Finally, Twitter will be allowing tweets to be searched by most popular and not just most recent, according to an update from Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary. The switch constitutes a plate shift for the company, which to date has given equal weight to all users in search results, filtering them only by time. Developers of Twitter apps will soon ...

OneRiot releases real-time trending ads

by Ronny Kerr, March 19, 2010 | Comments

Real-time web search engine announces the availability of ad units for trending sites like Twitter

OneRiot today announced the release of RiotWise trending ad units that, like the feeds they're meant to follow, automatically generate real-time advertising content related to trending topics.The Boulder, Colorado-based company launched RiotWise in October 2009 as an ad format specifically targeted at publishers interested in monetizing content on the real-time Web.Trending ads had previously been available only through OneRiot's API, ...

Google launches Buzz widget for Android

by Chris Caceres, March 19, 2010 | Comments

Widget aims to give people an easier way to update while on the go

Google announced this week it launched a Buzz widget for Android phones. In case you haven't tried Buzz out yet, it's pretty much Google's version of a social network. It's a stream for sharing content with your contacts that integrates directly into Gmail. And of course, with any social networking service comes the need for a mobile counterpart, especially if ...

Plastic Jungle picks up $7.4 million

by Ronny Kerr, March 19, 2010 | Comments

Gift card exchange company raises a second round, competing with CardPool and Swapagift

Plastic Jungle, a gift card exchange marketplace for buying, selling, and swapping, has raised $7.4 million in a Series B round of funding.The Mountain View, CA-based company in 2009 raised a $6 million Series A from Shasta Ventures, along with Bay Partners, First Round Capital, Harrison Metal Capital, and Western Technology Investment. Redpoint Ventures led the latest round, with returning ...

Formspring.me takes off with $2.5M and a hoax

by Matt Bowman, March 18, 2010 | Comments

Online Q&A site attracts heavy-hitting investors, millions of users in under 4 months.

I’ve used Formspring quite a bit for event registration purposes. The site lets anyone create an online form, and has robust data-collection backend. From the start, I thought the service was a great small businesses tool, but apparently I (and the company) got it wrong—the real opportunity is in social media. That’s why Formspring.com is soon changing its name to ...

Fisher-Price fires up iPhone and Facebook app

by Ronny Kerr, March 18, 2010 | Comments

Toy company says parents already share iPhones and iPod touch devices with their children

Mattel's Fisher-Price, a company that traditionally makes toys for infants and small children, has just released three new apps for the iPhone, all designed for the company's standard 2-5 year old audience.Just like the real thing, See 'n Say is a virtual spinning toy with an arrow that lands on an animal for the child to identify. Little People Farm features ...

Trada raises $2.2M to crowdsource paid search

by Matt Bowman, March 18, 2010 | Comments

Company wants to handle keyword search ad campaigns for mom-and-pop shops

We’re seeing a lot of crowd-sourcing enterprise companies help small businesses act more like big ones. Crowdspring takes care of design and writing projects, CrowdFlower finds hands for menial digital tasks, and Get Satisfaction handles customer support. Boulder-based Trada, which launches to the public today wants to take care of paid search. The company also announced a $2.2 million round ...

The national broadband plan

by Fred Wilson, March 18, 2010 | Comments

Make the entire 500mhz available as unregulated spectrum

I went down to Washington, DC on Tuesday to participate in an event that celebrated the 25th anniversary of .com. I spoke on a panel (yes a hated panel) moderated by Kara Swisher and including Aneesh Chopra, CTO of the Federal Government, Arianna Huffington, and Ken Silva, CTO of Verisign. Kara started out the discussion by holding up a binder ...

Search/swipe on Google Maps for Android 4.1

by Ronny Kerr, March 18, 2010 | Comments

Comprehensive search results page, latitude widget, live wallpaper; Maps is getting fancy

Google on Wednesday announced the release of Google Maps for Android 4.1, the latest iteration of the company's popular navigation app, now chock full of new efficient and bonus features.The most useful, though arguably least exciting, feature in the new iteration is an updated search results page that, unlike previous versions, displays all the most important information all one screen: ...

iPad losing the race to 1 million units

by Matt Bowman, March 17, 2010 | Comments (1)

Online casino Youwager lets users bet on whether Apple's latest game-changer will beat the iPhone

Seventy-four. Techies, scratch that number into the back of your Macbook. Spray paint it onto the highway overpasses in San Jose. Tattoo it to your bicep, just under the smartphone holster. It’s the number every new super gadget must beat. Since the iPhone reached 1 million units sold in 74 days, that number has become the new benchmark for game-changing ...

Google gives Exchange users an easy way out

by Ronny Kerr, March 17, 2010 | Comments

Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange intended to make migrations easy and efficient

Often, when it comes to Google and Microsoft, we've come to expect the latter to employ the most aggressive tactics in an effort to topple the former's dominance. But that's only for search; when it comes to server-side products in the enterprise, Microsoft is a clear leader.That's why Google today is launching Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, a new ...

YouTube: 24 hrs/min of video uploaded daily

by Chris Caceres, March 17, 2010 | Comments

Online video giant seeing massive amounts of content uploaded to site every minute of the day

YouTube is now seeing a massive 24 hours of video uploaded to its site for every minute that passes in our daily lives. The company announced this amazing statistic in a blog post on Wednesday. A little less than a year ago, people were uploading about 20 hours of video per minute, according to the online video provider. Commenting on ...

Facebook expanding its instant search results

by Chris Caceres, March 17, 2010 | Comments

New instant feature taps into your social network of friends for more relevant results

Facebook, announced this week it would be rolling out a new feature to its instant search results. The feature taps into a users network of friends to attempt deliver more relevant search results. The social networking giant showed off an example on its blog using the search "MGM." Facebook engineer, Wayne explained,"if you start typing in "MGM" to find the ...

Answers from Wikia lets anyone make Q/A site

by Ronny Kerr, March 17, 2010 | Comments

New Wikia site lets experts in a field create a niche question and answers community

Wikia, a free Web hosting service for wikis, is launching a new niche site called Answers from Wikia, which gives anyone the tools to launch their own question and answers site.Designed to let anybody, experienced with Web design or not, create a Q/A site, Wikia intends for users to create specific niche communities, targeted at a small cross-section of the ...

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