I really like what Dennis Crowley, founder and CEO of Foursquare, said about “rewarding checkins” in this post Read More
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Ustream.tv seals $20M from Japanese telecom
Live Web and mobile streaming video service Ustream.tv has raised $20 million in Series B funding from SoftBank Read More
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Flook closes $1 million seed round
Flook, a location browsing app for the iPhone that we first profiled a couple weeks ago, has extended Read More
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Yodle raises $10M for local advertising
Yodle, provider of local online advertising and marketing for businesses, has raised $10 million in Series D funding Read More
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Google Social Search graduates from Labs
Social Search, a Google Labs experiment first introduced at the Web 2.0 conference back in October, has graduated Read More
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Yelp to receive $100 million investment
Yelp, a social networking site for sharing reviews of local establishments, announced Wednesday that private equity firm Elevation Read More
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Twitter now lists local trending topics
Twitter updated its site on Tuesday evening to now provide, alongside worldwide trends, local trending topics that display Read More
In the Official Google Blog today, Steve Baker gives some (frankly unusual) insight into how it is Google’s Read More
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SoundCloud and HypeMachine partner up
Finding and discovering new music has come quite a ways with the rise of social media. Two very Read More
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The History of the Credit Report
Let’s take a brief look at how credit bureaus came into existence. Back in the good Read More
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Local Business Listings And Citations
Search Engines certainly are not able to make things too easy for the local business. I don’t blame Read More
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Twitter tweaks suggested users lists
Twitter announced changes to its site on Thursday afternoon that will update the way Suggested Users List (SUL) Read More
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What Venrock wants to fund
Entrepreneurs in the social and real-time data sectors would do well to study up on Venrock’s Brian Ascher. Read More
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Clinton: Unrestricted Web access is a right
In response to Google’s recent threat to withdraw from China over security and privacy concerns, Secretary of State Read More
When the ducks are quacking. Feed them. It seems 2010 may be shaping up to be the start Read More