It’s clear that Pinterest is really hot, but a new study shows just how powerful the virtual pinboard company has become. Pinterest is now driving more referral traffic on the web than Google+, YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn combined, according to Shareaholic’s January 2012 Referral Traffic Report. Read More »
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StumbleUpon has undergone a major makeover. On Tuesday the company will unveil a totally redesigned website, a complete rebrand, and a new “channels” feature. It’s the most comprehensive redesign the company’s ever undertaken, CEO Garrett Camp said: “Finally, our front-end is as good as our back-end.” Read More »
Social discovery platform StumbleUpon says it’s cutting back on the ability of users to blog and customize their profiles on the site. That includes shutting down groups, photo blogging, and the ability to select themes, which are all going away as of Oct. 24. Read More »
Since its inception, StumbleUpon has worked pretty much as the name advertised, allowing you to stumble upon cool things on the web, rather than through explicit web searches. But a new “Explore Box” expands StumbleUpon’s offering significantly, bringing the app more search engine-like specificity. Read More »
At nearly ten years old, web discovery engine company StumbleUpon is certainly well past the point where websites can attract users by being a new and hot trend. But the San Francisco-based company has proven that slow and steady growth can still lead to success. Read More »
Web discovery engine StumbleUpon is now the biggest traffic driver among social media websites in the US, according to global web analytics service StatCounter. The company unseated Facebook at the top during June 2011 .The ten-year-old StumbleUpon has been working diligently at its comeback since 2009. Read More »
Fresh off a new round of funding, StumbleUpon has launched a new advertising platform that lets advertisers serve up pages through its targeted discovery platform. The paid discovery platform adds a new tiered pricing system and improved analytics for pages served on PCs and mobile devices. Read More »
Stumbleupon, which was reborn as a recommendation-and-discovery service in 2009 after an earlier ill-fated acquisition by eBay, produced another tangible sign of that rebirth today with the news that the company has landed a Series B financing round of $17 million from a group of funds. Read More »
StumbleUpon is about to take its web recommendation savvy and apply it to mobile apps for the first time. The service, which builds personal recommendations for users who want to find web content, is now launching an app discovery feature for Android apps. Read More »
A chart of the traffic that Gawker Media gets from social networks shows Facebook in number one position and Fark as number 5 — but the most interesting part is how much influence Stumbleupon has on traffic, despite the lack of attention the site gets. Read More »
StumbleUpon, the early web discovery engine, has reached a new milestone: 10 million Stumblers, all of whom have helped create a great little company building a structured database for the relevant web, something that Facebook is now trying to do with its Like button. Read More »
StumbleUpon has launched a new URL-shortening service to compete with Bit.ly et al, called SU.PR. Om hypothesized earlier this year that services like Bit.ly could challenge Digg for social news supremacy, in part because Bit.ly tracks how many users click each particular… Read More »
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