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Pearltrees lands $1.6M more for social discovery on the Web
Pearltrees, a social tool for discovering and organizing Web content, has announced it secured a second round of funding for €1.3 million (US$1.6 million). The funding will be used to expand globally,...
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Former MySpace execs launch Gravity to personalize the Web
A team of former MySpace executives is launching a new company on-stage at the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco. Chief executive Amit Kapur said he left MySpace, the troubled News Corp. Internet...
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Zoom! StumbleUpon traffic doubles in 6 months
Website discovery engine StumbleUpon had 500 million hits last month and its traffic has doubled in 6 months, the company announced today. StumbleUpon lets users jump through websites by adding a...
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DEMO: Thoora uncovers the most talked about web content
Thoora is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective....
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Among Gen Y, some are abandoning Facebook for Google+
People who have grown up online might be more eager than most to make the switch from Facebook to Google. The search giant’s social network — which delivers data in bite-sized chunks thanks to the use...
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Turntable.fm spins to the iPhone with new app
Music curation social network Turntable.fm is developing a mobile application for Apple’s iOS devices, according to a report from TechCrunch. Turntable.fm turns its users into DJs who can share musical...
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Rolling.fm has 1M friend connections; now serving virtual drinks
A little over a month after launching, music curation social network Rolling.fm has more than 85,000 registered members who have collectively made over a million friend connections through the service,...
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Digg delivers automatically curated news content with new Newsrooms
News aggregation site Digg unveiled Newsrooms today, a new section of the site that features automatically curated news content on specific topics like technology or politics. Here’s how it works: Digg...
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Anyone’s a magazine editor with Scoop.it, launching publicly today
Scoop.it, a tool that lets people gather and distribute content from around the Web based their interests and passions, is launching publicly today after a year in an invite-only beta. A robust...
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Twitvid buys music video curation site Cull TV for its rockin’ tech
Cull TV, a site that features curated playlists of music videos from indie artists, has been acquired by social video network Twitvid, the companies announced today. Cull TV is sort of what the...
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KinderTown releases search data: what parents want in educational apps
Educational app-store-inside-the-app-store KinderTown is releasing data about which educational apps parents want for their kids, based on over 120,000 parental app searches. The most surprising...
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Study: Almost 50% of top Pinterest pins link to webpages that don’t exist
48 percent of the most popular pins on Pinterest lead to expired pages on top retailers’ websites, according to a new study by Curalate, the social curation company. Since Pinterest is the fourth...
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Ajent launches its online personal stylist service (exclusive)
Don’t have time to obsess over the latest fashion trends? Launching today, a new service called Ajent is bringing curated style options to busy professionals. Most e-commerce sites focus on breadth...
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Want to see the market potential of Vine? Check out Mass Relevance’s new...
We are working with UK Trade & Investment to showcase the United Kingdom's thriving start-up and investment scene through a series of posts and video interviews at SXSW. Check out all of the...
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Google Glass gets the first news app for the ‘connected generation’
Google Glass will likely be immensely useful for doctors, field workers, and other service providers. But for ordinary people, it’s disorienting and nerdy. But that hasn’t stopped developers from...
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Video startup Magnify closes $1M from TED’s Chris Anderson, former Facebooker...
Video discovery and curation startup Magnify closed a fresh $1 million round of funding today, VentureBeat has learned. While there’s no shortage of video discovery services available today,...
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Editorially curated site Upworthy sees explosive growth
Finding good content on the Internet can be tedious at times, so it’s not difficult to see why a site like Upworthy is currently experiencing impressive growth. The site, cofounded by Peter Koechley...
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Rip, mix, burn: YouTube founders launch MixBit to challenge Vine, Instagram
John KoetsierVine lets you take six-second videos and post them. Instagram gives you 15 seconds. But a new video app from YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen will let you not only take videos,...
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‘Thought leaders’ take LinkedIn away from its roots
ShutterstockRoss Avner is the principle and strategist for consultancy firm Point A2B, where he advises companies on digital media, game products, and business development. In its formative days,...
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Video startup Telly raises $3.4M
Source: Telly Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Telly, the video discovery service formerly called TwitVid, has raised a fresh $3.4 million investment, according to an SEC document...
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