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Updated: TechCrunch is reporting that HotorNot, the little meme that’s lasted two web bubbles, has been sold to “investors connected with Avid Life Media.”
HotorNot has been a cash cow for the last seven years for founders James Hong and Jim Young. The site, which started out as a simple photo rating service, had brought [...]

Get to know the new CEO of Mozilla, John Lilly, on this week’s GigaOM Show, where I subbed in for Om again. Joyce Kim and I had a nice chat with Lilly — he shares details on the recent executive changeover, the impending release of Firefox 3 (which Lilly claims never crashes on his machine), [...]

Hulu CTO Eric Feng stopped by NewTeeVee HQ this week (while on a tour of various Silicon Valley tech publications) and shared a progress check as well as some forward-looking thoughts on the product he’s been building since last summer, when News Corp and NBC’s “YouTube killer” acquired his video markup company Mojiti. Embedded below [...]

Slide has taken $50 million from Fidelity and T-Rowe Price, according to Brad Stone at the New York Times, exchanging a 9-percent stake of the company at a valuation of $500 million. Kara Swisher of BoomTown had first reported inklings of the news this morning.

Want tips on how to move to the Valley, take funding, and flip your startup for $75 million in under two years? Watch this week’s episode of “The GigaOM Show” with StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp. With a little prodding from startup lawyer and co-host Joyce Kim, Camp gets down to the nitty-gritty of stock options [...]