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Google to buy Like; Facebook buys Chai Labs

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 16, 2010 | Comments (1)

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It's hardly a slow summer for 'search-related' startups and mergers and acquisitions

It hardly feels like the dog days of summer in Silicon Valley, as both Google and Facebook make some interesting acquisitions in search-related businesses. Facebook has bought Chai Labs for more than $10 million, according to AllThingsD. Chai Labs, which focuses on improving search for publishers, such as current clients - NBC Local and Associated Content - was founded in ...

Aydin Senkut raises $40M super angel fund

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 16, 2010 | Comments (3)

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Angel investor in Mint, Tapulous sees fund oversubscribed by 33%

(*This story was updated to include my interview with Aydin) Aydin Senkut is one of the more high-profile angel investors these days. And, it's not because he has a great track record in seed funding, having invested in Mint (acquired by Intuit), Aardvark (acquired by Google), and Tapulous (acquired by Disney). Nor is it because he's one of our VC ...

Funding roundup - week ending 08/13/10

by Ronny Kerr, August 13, 2010 | Comments

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Empire Avenue, Marginize, Medialets, ngmoco, TransFS, and WePay: six awesome startups raise funds

This week we've got a social network for buying and selling shares in people and brands, yet another browser sidebar for commenting on Web pages with other users, a mobile analytics platform, and more. Here are a few of the most notable fundraisers from the past week: Empire Avenue, a social site where users buy and sell shares in each ...

Starbucks to offer WSJ for free this fall

by Matt Bowman, August 13, 2010 | Comments (3)

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Coffee chain is betting that free subscriber content will boost the power of its psycho-magnet

It’s Friday. At some point today, you’ll get the urge for an end-of-the-week, longish break to do some of that leisure reading you heroically denied yourself for the last five days. Troll the headlines, check Facebook, that sort of thing. You do it often, but come this fall, the experience will change. On a Friday this fall, the balance in ...

Google introduces Voice Actions for Android

by Ronny Kerr, August 12, 2010 | Comments (1)

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Want to play a song? Write a note? Call a contact? Now Android users can speak their commands

Google just announced the launch of Voice Actions for Android, a series of spoken commands that users speak to perform tasks on their phone. Noting that "the most natural way of interacting with a phone remains what it always has been" (speaking), Google hopes to streamline interaction with the mobile devices that seem to do everything for us, like play ...

Twitter launches official Tweet button

by Ronny Kerr, August 12, 2010 | Comments

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Replacing Techmeme's retweet button, Twitter takes over some 750 million daily button impressions

Twitter just launched a 'Tweet' button, an easily implementable piece of code that makes it possible for users to share any page on the Web. The button, Twittter's official sharing option for third-party sites, will be replacing the ubiquitous Techmeme 'retweet' button. The Tweet button will likely start popping up all over the Web next to other sharing buttons, like ...

Boomerang: send & receive gmail in the future

by Matt Bowman, August 12, 2010 | Comments

	The most important new gmail feature in years isn't coming from Google. This has been a long time coming. Email is a mess. As a guy who whose office is his inbox, I’m ashamed to say that I still haven’t figured out how to manage the office. I’m left with endless clutter, important emails unresponded-to, and no way to get a jump on emails that need to go out. Very soon, gmail ...
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VC seed funding example: Trada

by Brad Feld, August 12, 2010 | Comments

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This is a case of where a venture capitalist can be an excellent seed investor

My partner Seth Levine has a detailed post up today titled Trada – from the beginning that describes the creation and financing of Trada. Foundry Group is the seed investor in Trada and Seth’s post describes one example of what I think is effective VC seed investing. The meat of the funding story follows: “Of course coming up with the ...

Regulation strangulation

by Fred Wilson, August 12, 2010 | Comments

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A regulated Internet is a frightening thought to entrepreneurs and the ecosystem around them

I've written a bit about net neutrality on this blog in the past few years. Every time I do, I hear about problems with regulating the Internet. The readers of this blog are a fairly "laissez faire" bunch. Guess what? So am I.Edit Somehow net neutrality got painted as "regulating the Internet" when it is really all about not regulating ...

Twitter grew 109% in the last year

by Ronny Kerr, August 11, 2010 | Comments (2)

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Main site usage in South America and Asia Pacific grew the most, by 305% and 243%, respectively

Though the biggest milestone made in the past month would have to be Facebook's having reached 500 million registered users, that's not the only social network showing healthy signs of growth. Usage of the main Twitter site has grown by 109% in the last year, according to comScore, with 93 million unique users visiting the popular microblogging service in ...

Social gaming ad spending soaring to $220M

by Ronny Kerr, August 11, 2010 | Comments (1)

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By 2011, advertisers will be spending $293 million on social game marketing, says eMarketer

Everyone knows the social gaming sector gets a little bigger everyday, as 2010 increasingly looks like the year that playing games on social sites and platforms truly went mainstream. One easy way to determine the market's success is to look at how much advertisers are willing to spend to tap into that market. This year alone, businesses will pay ...

Facebook's Foursquare killer is weeks away

by Matt Bowman, August 11, 2010 | Comments

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As Social King readies location-based features, privacy and Foursquare's fate hang in the balance

Facebook is readying to launch its Foursquare competitor in a few weeks, according to CNet. This is probably the main reason for Mark Zuckerberg's company-wide 60-day lock-down. Caroline McCarthy picks up several hints about what the offering will look like: It will be an API for use by third-party apps. It’ll have an events check-in dimension, thanks to the Hot ...

HipChat raises $100k in an atypical way

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 10, 2010 | Comments

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Meebo founders place $50k bet into the instant messaging startup while Founders Fund matches

Staying lean and forgoing fundraising are popular approaches to starting companies these days. In keeping with that philosophy, HipChat, a provider of instant messaging for small businesses, has opted to avoid Sand Hill Road and focus on getting to profitability. The seven-month-old startup, however, did take some funds, as the recipient of a program started by blue-chip VC firm Founders ...

Ellison blasts HP for ousting Hurd

by Matt Bowman, August 10, 2010 | Comments (2)

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Oracle chief defends his tennis buddy against what looks like an unscrupulous HP board.

Oracle Chief Larry Ellison is livid. HP just ousted his good friend Mark Hurd for a minor accounting discrepancy and a claim of sexual harassment HP apparently knows is false. In a letter to the New York Times, Ellison let it be known that he has his friend’s back. “The H.P. board just made the worst personnel decision since the ...

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