• January 20, 2010

Crowdflower raises $5M to grow crowdsourcing

Bessemer and Trinity join a top-tier group of investors to boost the ondemand labor company.

• January 20, 2010

gWallet launches gWallet Ventures

In hopes to spur innovation and invest in social gaming companies

• January 20, 2010

Zynga raises $1.5M for Haiti relief effort

In last five days, social gaming users have contributed $1.5 million to Haitian earthquake relief

• January 19, 2010

Yankees in Chairman Hu's Court

The Chinese and U.S. venture-backed industries are learning to play nice.

• January 19, 2010

The tug of war between M&A and VC

VCs are starting to compete directly with the M&A market

• January 19, 2010

Time acquires StyleFeeder

Magazine giant looking to step into e-commerce space for new revenue stream

• January 19, 2010

Sway raises $2 million for Shoutlet

Origin Ventures and Leo Capital betting on social media distribution platform

• January 19, 2010

AudioMicro now features 200K tracks

Stock music and sound effects database adds 20,000 track-strong "Platinum Collection"

• January 19, 2010

Ed site lands $8 million to train nurses

Lightspeed Venture Partners leads round in Orbis, sees opportunity in online medical education.

• January 19, 2010

Flook: Location discovery for stumblers

Another Gowalla/Foursquare competitor, but this one comes with serendipity

• January 18, 2010

Think the Internet will replace cable?

It's cheaper to reach a big audience using traditional cable distribution vs the Web

• January 18, 2010

Twitter vs. the Twitter ecosystem

The latter is 3 to 5x bigger than the former and that delta is likely to grow larger

• January 15, 2010

OneRiot releases realtime ad network RiotWise

Innovative RiotWise delivers advertising content directly to the stream

• January 15, 2010

Google Suggest knows where you are

Suggested results on mobile searches will now be location-aware.

• January 15, 2010

Zynga runs campaign for Haiti

Social gaming company offers limited edition virtual goods, 100% of profits for Haitian relief