News.me, the social news-curation app that was developed at the New York Times and then incubated by Betaworks, has been spun off as a separate company to sink or swim on its own. But can it compete with giants like Flipboard and other newer competitors? Read More »
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Bit.ly figures if one link is great, why not a bundle? The popular URL shortening service has added a new feature that allows a user to collect multiple links, up to 100, on a single page that can be shared with users. Read More »
Chartbeat, which offers real-time website analytics, has closed a $3-million Series A round of financing from a group of VCs led by Index Ventures. This is the first external financing the startup has taken after being founded by betaworks, the venture group/incubator run by John Borthwick. Read More »
Yahoo and other web giants have been kicking the tires on New York-based URL shortening service Bit.ly, according to a people in the know. Like many others, Yahoo knows it needs to figure out a way to participate in the emergent real-time and location-aware web. Read More »
What makes Twitter so special is also what makes it so infuriating. There isn’t enough context to the information that is flowing through Twitter. A New York-based start-up, SocialFlow wants to change all that with its technology that marries relevance, engagement and big brands. Read More »
Former superstar gadget bloggers Peter Rojas and Ryan Block have raised $3.2 million in financing from a group of venture capital firms and private individuals to fund their “crowdsourced” gadget review site, called gdgt. The company says it has hundreds of thousands of registered users. Read More »
Betaworks, a New York City-based Internet company, has raised $20 million in new venture funding in a round led by Intel Capital and RRE Ventures. Softbank, Founders Collective, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures and the New York Times are new investors in the company. Read More »
CoTweet, a Twitter application made with businesses in mind, announced today that it received $1.1 million in funding, joining a small — yet growing — group of Twitter-focused startups that have received investor financing. The investors behind CoTweet include Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital,… Read More »
If you’re an active Twitter user, then you’re already familiar with Bit.ly, a web service that not only allows you to shorten URLs to meet the 140-character limit of the Twitter system, but offers up analytics, such as how many people clicked on the link… Read More »
Some days you read something that makes you go: What the…? I got that feeling when I read Peter Kafka’s report that Tweetdeck, one of the many Twitter desktop apps that use Adobe Air and has been downloaded 250,000 times, is getting just shy of… Read More »
For some of us old fogies who grew up using bulletin boards and forums on closed online services, online chat has always held a special allure. Remember, it was chatting that proved to be the killer application for AOL. Yet somehow the chat phenomenon didn’t quite… Read More »
The big buzz of the evening is that Twitter, a San Francisco-based startup that allows anyone to post short (up to 140 characters) messages to its platform and thus broadcast them to one or many using different media such as web and mobile, is… Read More »
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