6fusion, a provider of utility-metered public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure management software and services, completed a $7 Read More
What you need to know – 08/22/11
In the age of automatic bill pay, it’s pretty hard to be late on a payment, but for Read More
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Microsoft-acquired Skype snaps up GroupMe
The big fish eats the medium fish and the medium fish swallows the small fish. Three months after Read More
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Funding roundup – week ending 08/19/11
Seed-stage drchrono closed an additional $650,000 in seed funding from prominent startup investor Yuri Milner, founder of DST Read More
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StumbleUpon bests Facebook in sharing… maybe
[UPDATED on 08/22/11 at 8:17 PDT to add additional comment from StatCounter. Read at bottom.] The social media Read More
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German state bans Facebook pages and plugins
Social marketing is so awesome. Businesses love it, brands love it, even governments love it. Too bad some Read More
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Over 20% of new active domains run WordPress
WordPress announced Friday that its open source blogging platform now powers 14.7 percent of the top million websites Read More
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What you need to know – 08/19/11
Amazon says its Instant Video library has grown to more than 100,000 titles available for instant streaming—some five-times the Read More
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Foursquare squeezes in events next to check-ins
Foursquare announced Thursday that it is getting in the events business. That is, after a couple years of Read More
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Hot off funding, Evernote acquires Skitch image app
Everything-organizer Evernote announced Thursday that it has acquired image annotation application Skitch. Terms of the deal were not Read More
Xiu.com, the biggest high-end fashion retailer in China, announced Thursday that it has raised $100 million in Series Read More
Birchbox, a startup that delivers beauty samples to paying subscribers, announced Thursday that it has closed $10.5 million Read More
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What you need to know – 08/18/11
Amazon is the indomitable king of retail—both online and off. One in five Internet users worldwide visited an Read More
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“If You Have an Idea, Get Started”
Wildfire Interactive is an icon of a successful startup. Since founding in 2009, the company with its software Read More
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More mobile: Zynga acquires Astro Ape Studios?
Zynga has reportedly acquired New York City mobile social gaming developer Astro Ape Studios, according to the results Read More