Archive for October, 2006

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In Other NEooWS

Liz Gannes, Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 1:19 PM PT Comments (0)

Pluck’s RSS reader has died, but NEooWS, which promises community discussion around feeds, is the latest to go after this commoditized market. Let us know if you check it out.

Vonage, Shaken & Stirred, Again

Om Malik, Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 11:45 AM PT Comments (10)

There seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel for Vonage investors. The company reported its third quarter 2006 earnings, and things don’t look pretty. Here is a laundry list of bad news:
1. Net new subscribers were 205,000, down from 256,000 in the second quarter of 2006.
2. Churn is up, 2.6% versus [...]

Wired Buys Reddit (Extended Version)

Liz Gannes, Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 11:15 AM PT Comments (9)

We told you via our new reporters’ log this morning as soon as we found out Conde Nast had bought Reddit. Now we’ve had a chance to talk to Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian to get a few more details. He’s not spilling the price, but he tells us that Reddit broke 1 million unique visitors [...]

Mobile Content Startups: Easy Money

Katie Fehrenbacher, Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 10:30 AM PT Comments (6)

Venture firms and investors seem to be pouring more and more money into startups that create or enable mobile content. In September over $150 million in venture funding was invested in companies in the mobile content industry. October and November will likely have high numbers too, given the large amount mobile content company fundings already [...]

VentureBeat Adds $100K+ Job Board

Liz Gannes, Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 9:58 AM PT Comments (2)

VentureBeat has started a job board for Valley jobs paying $100,000 and up. TheLadders has had a lot of success with this demographic. Yes, everybody has a job board these days, but the newcomer has more than 100 listings already.

Facebook Logo Now Appearing Web-wide

Liz Gannes, Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 9:44 AM PT Comments (4)

Facebook is infiltrating sites across the web, decorating everyone from the Washington Post to the Onion to IMDB with its new little “f” logo. The social networking site over the last week has been introducing features allowing members to collect content from all over the web and bring it home to Facebook through the new [...]

Wired buys Reddit

Om Malik, Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 9:06 AM PT Comments (1)

Conde Nast has bought Reddit. It is one of those days… everyone is buying everyone.

SideStep Buys TravelPost

Katie Fehrenbacher, Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 8:53 AM PT Comments (0)

Online travel search company SideStep has bought hotel review site TravelPost. SideStep was one of the first of the new wave of meta-search travel sites around, though now there are many. We guess they have to stand out somehow — why not buy a travel blogging site?

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We Have Completed $4.5 Million in New Funding
Om Malik, October 6, 94 comments
Google Chrome: One Month Later
Om Malik, October 4, 68 comments
Why a War on Virtual Gold Sellers Makes No Sense
Wagner James Au, October 1, 28 comments
The Bailout Passes
Om Malik, October 3, 17 comments
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud Gets Windows
Stacey Higginbotham, October 1, 16 comments

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Om Malik, October 6, 68%
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Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud Gets Windows
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Nokia Takes Another Crack at IM With OZ Buy
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