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Twitter is taking its Nielsen TV ratings to Australia

Twitter's big television push of 2013 involved numerous aspects, including tv ad targeting software, as well as the purchase of real-time TV data company Trendrr. One Read More

Twitter to officially shut down #Music on April 18th

Not at all surprising, given that this news was leaked all the way back in October, but pretty disappointing: Twitter's #Music Read More

Rhapsody drops The Echo Nest after Spotify purchase

When Spotify bought music intelligence service The Echo Nest at the beginning of the month, it seemed pretty likely that all of the Read More

How does Lending Club make money?

Lending Club is on a roll. The company announced yesterday that it’s now offering business loans of up to $100,000 Read More

Funding roundup – week ending 3/21/14

Seed stage Meducation, a medical education network aimed at medical students and professionals, completed a $1 million seed funding round from Technology Strategy Read More

LinkedIn’s Weiner dethrones Zuckerberg for top CEO spot

(Updated to reflect comment from Glassdoor) It's hard to be the king... err, I mean CEO. Even if your company Read More

Reed Hastings just as irritated with Comcast as you are

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is just as irritated over Netflix’s pay out to Comcast to get better streaming quality as Read More

Turkey becomes the latest country to ban Twitter

Authoritarian regimes hate Twitter. Hate it, hate it, hate it. It gives their people a way to openly express themselves and communicate Read More

Toy rental service Pley bags $6.75M

There are okay ideas, good ideas, and then why-in-God’s-name-hasn’t-this-been-done-yet ideas. Pley (formerly Pleygo) falls in the latter category. The startup Read More

Airbnb seeking funding at reported $10B valuation

Honestly, the idea behind Airbnb makes me really uncomfortable. I barely like having people I know in my place when I'm there, Read More

Beyond the lemonade stand

While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we get is, Read More

Lending Club now offering business loans

Lending Club CEO Renaud LaPlanche has been open about Lending Club’s plans to expand into home loans, business loans, and Read More

Alibaba invests $215M in mobile messaging app Tango

It was only a week or so ago that Chinese Internet giant Tencent, the company behind WeChat, a.k.a. the country's Read More

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