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Zulily raises $6 million for private shopping

by Ronny Kerr, August 4, 2010 | Comments

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Series B funding round fuels private daily deals site for moms shopping for babies and kids

Zulily, a private online store targeting moms shopping for apparel and gear for babies and kids, has closed a $6 million funding round led by August Capital with participation from return backer Maveron LLC.The Seattle-based startup has raised $10.6 million to date.Promising to "carry the best brands at the lowest prices," Zulily offers its members (who sign up for free) ...

Facebook ad revenue jumps 1000%

by Matt Bowman, August 4, 2010 | Comments

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Advertisers cast aside misgivings and turned on spending spigit in last 12 months, COO maintains.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says in an interview with Bloomberg published this morning that the company’s advertisers have boosted spending 10-fold in the last year. This means a lot of things. It means that Facebook can push back an IPO even longer, till 2012 or beyond (arm-chair pundits had unanimously agreed on 2011 before another Bloomberg report last week). The ...

Android sales pass iPhone in last half year

by Ronny Kerr, August 3, 2010 | Comments

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As smartphone penetration continues to rise, the balance of brand shares seems to teeter

The number of U.S. smartphone users is on the rise: smartphone penetration of all mobile subscribers, which was 16% in Q2 2009, has now hit 25%, according to the latest Nielsen Company data. But then, what with dropping costs of smartphones in tandem with a fiercely growing competitive market, this shouldn't be news to anyone. What really surprises is Android's ...

Two in five mobile users access location apps

by Ronny Kerr, August 3, 2010 | Comments

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Study: usability and popularity of location-aware services overshadow privacy concerns

When Ron Bowes of Skull Security created a publicly available 2.8GB torrent download last week including 100 million Facebook profiles, in some cases containing sensitive information like phone numbers and email addresses, the "hacker" (as he was reported in some headlines, despite using only a Web crawling program) wanted to make a point: at least one in five of Facebook's ...

Why did Apple vaporize Lala?

by Matt Bowman, August 3, 2010 | Comments

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Apple tells labels "iTunes in the Cloud" isn't ready yet. Perhaps Cupertino bought to kill.

When Apple bought cloud music service Lala in December, iTunes in the Cloud was expected to follow quickly. Last night, CNet published their best guess as to why that never happened—or rather, several disparate clues to possible explanations: Apple has the Lala team working on a video technology; Apple hasn’t reached licensing deals with the record labels; management disagreements led ...

Microsoft sold your privacy (thank goodness)

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

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The company bowed to advertising pressure, quashed pro-privacy Explorer design in 2008.

The WSJ just published the billy club for your weekly Microsoft beatdown. Turns out the company quashed internal efforts to boost online privacy in favor of making more money with advertising. Horrible, right? The Microsoft lynch mob is gathering on the Washington border. But before you start practicing your sideswipe, here's an apologia for Redmond. First, the facts: In 2008, ...

Summer reading (and year-round blogs)

by Yield Software, August 2, 2010 | Comments (2)

	What to read when you put down those Stieg Larsson novels It’s summer and I understand everywhere else in the United States, it’s hot. In San Francisco, we’ve endured day after day of thick fog (during my run through Golden Gate Park the other day, I swear it was snowing) so I can only imagine what it’s like to lay in a backyard hammock reading great books (now, on my iPad) ...
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Playdom to exclusively use Facebook Credits

by Ronny Kerr, July 30, 2010 | Comments

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Social gaming company signs five-year contract, committing to Facebook's virtual currency

Playdom, the social gaming startup sold to Disney earlier this week, has signed a five-year contract for the exclusive use of Facebook Credits, Facebook's virtual currency, in all Playdom games.Demonstrating clearly that Credits matter greatly to the social networking service going forward, Facebook has of late focused on fostering deep relationships with its most popular third-party developers, often ensuring that ...

Funding roundup - week ending 07/30/10

by Ronny Kerr, July 30, 2010 | Comments

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Zynga confirms another $150 million; CloudMade, eWise, LearnBoost, and MadBid raise some funds too

The biggest funding news of the week, perhaps ironically, is over a month old.Zynga, still one of the hottest social gaming startups around (see: Playfish, Playdom), finally confirmed news that Japanese telecommunications and media corporation Softbank has completed a $150 million investment in the social gaming company. The two partners also announced the formation of a new joint venture called ...

Zynga finally announces Softbank investment

by Ronny Kerr, July 29, 2010 | Comments

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$150 million from Japanese telecom company ensures deployment of Zynga games overseas

Confirming news over a month old, Zynga on Thursday announced that Japanese telecommunications and media corporation Softbank has completed a $150 million investment in the social gaming company.The press release for the announcement says Zynga and Softbank have formed a new joint venture called Zynga Japan that will develop and distribute social games in Japan.The new funding, added to a ...

YouTube blocked by Russian court over video

by Ronny Kerr, July 29, 2010 | Comments (1)

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"Russia for Russians," deemed an extremist propaganda video, banned by Russian court ruling

YouTube just got the censorship treatment again.This time around, a Russian court in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur has ordered the local ISP to block access to YouTube for hosting a video called "Russia for Russians," determined by the court to be extremist propaganda.Also banned are four other Web sites--the Internet Archive and three online libraries, Lib.rus.ec, Thelib.ru and Zhurnal.ru--found to ...

IGN launches social network for gamers

by Ronny Kerr, July 28, 2010 | Comments (1)

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My IGN designed to be a social network for gamers not eager about sharing on Facebook

IGN, a subsidiary of News Corp. and the Web's biggest video game site, just launched My IGN, a new social network for gamers.The idea behind My IGN is that even the most popular social networks, like Facebook and MySpace, don't offer the kind of community a video game fan might find fitting to discuss games.“We created it because gamers are ...

Disney purchases Playdom for $563.2 million

by Ronny Kerr, July 28, 2010 | Comments

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Deal includes $563.2 million up-front payment and a $200 million earn-out

Disney, continuing its energetic and assertive push into social gaming, has agreed to pay $563.2 million up-front for Playdom, developer of some of the most popular games on MySpace and Facebook. If Playdom meets certain performance milestones, the company's owners could receive an additional $200 million. Playdom CEO John Pleasants will become an executive vice president of the Disney Interactive ...

GameStop acquires social gamers Kongregate

by Ronny Kerr, July 27, 2010 | Comments (1)

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Brick-and-mortar video game retailer picks up social gaming site for undisclosed sum

GameStop, the world's largest brick-and-mortar video game retailer, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Kongregate, one of the Web's prime social gaming sites.Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Kongregate will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of GameStop. The gaming site will keep its office in San Francisco.The purchase "is intended to hasten the transformation of GameStop's website from ...

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