And you thought Facebook Places was late to the game. Google Latitude, Google’s location-sharing app, launched Monday on Read More
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CityVille hits 22 million users in two weeks
CityVille, the most recently launched Zynga game, has accrued six million daily active users and 22 million monthly Read More
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Hacker group exposes Gawker user passwords
Readers’ passwords on multiple Gawker Media sites, including gossip blog Gawker.com and technology blog Gizmodo, were compromised over Read More
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Funding roundup – week ending 12/10/10
Every funding announcement we covered in the past week came from an early-stage company raising either a Series Read More
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Foursquare unwraps APIv2 in beta
Location-based network Foursquare officially launched Friday the second version of its API in beta. Foursquare for Android is Read More
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Xing acquires Amiando for $13.6 million
Professional business network Xing announced this week that it has acquired Amiando, an online event registration and ticketing Read More
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Openleaks: A more democratic WikiLeaks
Julian Assange (left), founder of WikiLeaks, and former associate Daniel Domscheit-Berg. Based only on conversations I’ve shared with Read More
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Bebo co-founder to advise his old company
Bebo co-founder Michael Birch has come full circle, back to the startup he helped create in 2005. Birch Read More
Factual, an open and collaborative data platform, announced Thursday that it has secured $25 million in a first Read More
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WhitePages hits the iPad, gets more local
People and business directory WhitePages unveiled Thursday its first iPad app, which translates many of the same features Read More
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4Chan-supported Anonymous takes down PayPal
In retaliation for suspending payments made to whistleblower WikiLeaks’ account, Operation Payback directed three successive distributed denial of Read More
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Anonymous compromises MasterCard accounts?
[Updated at 15:15 PST Dec 8: Operation Payback’s Twitter account has been deleted.] Both of the main websites Read More
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Viki rakes in $4.3M Series A from great VCs
Viki, a community-powered site that offers TV shows and movies from around the world in multiple languages, announced Read More
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Chegg purchases homework help site Cramster
Online textbook rental site Chegg.com announced Wednesday that it has acquired Cramster, a homework help site for high Read More
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Pixorial poised to launch mobile video apps
Pixorial, a video sharing startup streamlining the process of sharing video from any format to anywhere online, is Read More
