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What you need to know – Thursday 9/16/10

OpenTable bought UK-based company toptable.com for about $55 million. OpenTable is a provider of free online reservations and guest management Read More

Craigslist speaks: No more adult ads

Less than two weeks ago, Craigslist removed the adult services section of its website and slapped a big, fat, obnoxious Read More

Online education network, Grockit TV, debuts

What do you get when you combine advances in streaming technology with education?  A Star Wars analogy (to follow).   Read More

Three ways to make social games profitable

Any fan of South Park can tell you that "Underpants + ? = Profit" is not a sustainable business model. Read More

Extole social marketing company raises $5M

Your friends often know what you like. Though it's likely difficult for them to be entirely accurate, given our fickle Read More

RealNetworks buys Backstage Technologies

Social gaming is a sizzling hot market right now.  Companies like Zynga reach an estimated 65-plus million users each day. Read More

What you need to know – Wednesday 9/15/2010

Conviva raised $15 million in C Series funding, bringing its total amount raised to $44 million since the companies launch Read More

Kwedit becomes PayNearMe, launches today

Online shopping is a big business, and many companies can attest to the fact that giving customers the option to Read More

How Udemy raised $1,000,000

Udemy recently closed a $1 million financing from a syndicate of angel investors. I couldn’t be prouder of the Udemy Read More

App penetration among adults hits 24%

Prior to 2008, the idea of apps on a phone was barely a reality. After all, it was only in Read More

Get Satisfaction raises $6M

What I hate more than anything else in the world - more than freeway traffic, Thai food, and bad comb-overs Read More

Plastics recycling operation raises $6.6M

As Mr. McGuire says in The Graduate: "One word: plastics." MBA Polymers, a company that recovers and recycles plastics, on Read More

The Superbowl ad test

I am a firm believer in the danger of vanity metrics, numbers that give the illusion of progress but often Read More

Outsourcing

This MBA Mondays topic was suggested by Aviah Laor, a regular member of this community. I'll start this post by Read More

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