Cheng Jianping, a 46-year-old human rights activist in China, was sentenced to one year of re-education in a Read More
Chinese woman jailed for tweet
A recent trade in Facebook stock and an upcoming auction-styled process for Facebook shares on SecondMarket may indicate Read More
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Funding roundup – week ending 11/19/10
Seed Fabricly raised a $400,000 seed round from Atomico Ventures for a site that crowdsource styles. The funds Read More
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Facebook visits increased by 55% in last year
Hold on to those employees for dear life, Google, because Facebook just keeps getting more powerful by the Read More
The Kindle is Amazon’s most gifted item, and now Web users can give the gift of a Kindle Read More
Fashion is usually a top-down process, with designers telling the masses what they should like. One company is Read More
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Fashism raises $1M round from Kutcher, others
Social shopping site Fashism announced Friday that it has raised $1 million in a Series A round of Read More
Bummed because you can’t actually watch anything on Google TV now that all of the major networks have Read More
Update: The rumors may have some merit. Groupon just tweeted: “Hang in there, everyone: big things are afoot Read More
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What you need to know – Friday 11/19/10
President Obama said that he is going to push Congress next year to move ahead on critical technology Read More
Gift card marketplace Plastic Jungle announced Thursday that it has closed a $10 million Series C round of Read More
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Eric Ries on learning, failing, and pivoting
Author, speaker, and consultant Eric Ries spoke at Thursday’s Amplify event, where the former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Read More
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Gnip gets $2M to resell the Twitter firehose
[Updated at 7:51 PST, Nov. 19 to clarify details of funding round.] Gnip, a social media data provider Read More
Thirteen startups competed in Thursday’s Amplify business pitch competition, but only one walked away the victor. Jen O’Neal, Read More
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CityVille: Zynga still knows how to clone
In Hello City (Crowdstar), you build a city. In Millionaire City (Digital Chocolate), you’re a rich businessperson that Read More