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Kid-Friendly Social Network Everloop Is Coming To iPhone, Raising Series A
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Everloop, the social network for children under 13, is planning to launch a mobile application, making it one of the first companies to attempt a mobile, social network just for kids. The app, arriving in the third week of June, will translate the desktop experience to the small screen, beginning...
Startup steroids: Pinterest feels the burn of Facebook's Open Graph
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A packed room of more than 200 founders, VCs and internet bankers took a moment to look up from their iPhones and listen in hushed reverence as one of Silicon Valley’s top investors explained what he looks for when choosing the next hot startup. "For us, it’s all about...
Confirmed: Apple Will Live Stream Today's iPad Mini Event On Web Site, Apple TV
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It’s been a long while since Apple live streamed its press events. In fact, some of us may not even remember a live-streamed Apple event, instead hunting out the best possible live blog until we can check out the whole video post-excitement. But the company’s web site now has a...
Who cares about the money anyway?
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A lot of questions surrounding startups and Internet companies revolve around money. What is their business model? How will they make money? I don’t see how they will ever make money! Look at Facebook; they have close to a billion loyal customers and people still worry that they won’t be...
DATA: Pinterest Now Bigger Than Google+ And Tumblr For Brands
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Pinterest sharing is now greater than Google+ and Tumblr according to new data from social bookmarking service AddThis. The data dovetails with earlier reports that marketers were giving up on Google+ in favor of Pinterest, with its shopping-friendly audience. Sharing to Pinterest is 6% greater than Tumblr and 7% greater...
'Infinity Blade' is Epic Games' most profitable game ever, says CEO
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At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in Taipei today, Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, told the audience that the iOS title Infinity Blade is "the most profitable game we've ever made — in terms of man years invested versus revenue, it's more profitable than Gears of War." The...
Man City Football Club furthers digital engagement as it partners with Foursquare
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Manchester City Football club has never been afraid to push digital boundaries to engage its fans. Today the club has announced a partnership with the location-based social network Foursquare. City supporters can now check into Foursquare at the Etihad Stadium, City Square, City Stores and official Heart of the City...
NASA's Restored Footage of Neil Armstrong's First Steps on the Moon
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As the world mourns the loss of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, it's worth taking a moment to revisit the iconic Apollo 11 landing. Armstrong's first steps on the moon were broadcast live to an audience of millions, but it wasn't until 2009 that NASA restored...
Musicians Realizing They Don't Need Major Labels Anymore
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Music reality TV has become a key feeding ground for the major labels lately. Shows like American Idol, the Voice, X Factor and the like seem to be where the labels have been picking up some of their bigger name stars lately -- allowing the shows to help build up...
Facebook Has A Business Model Problem
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I spent some time this week trading email with Mark Cuban about Facebook and hearing his frustrations about the way Facebook is treating its corporate customers and brand partners. The deal with Facebook, now and apparently forever, is that if brands want to reach all (or even just a large...
Steve Jobs discusses 21st century technology in rare 1983 speech
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An additional 40 minutes of a speech that Steve Jobs gave at the International Design Conference in Aspen in 1983 has been released for the first time. The first 20 minutes of the recording were made available by the Center of Design Innovation in August, but answers to questions...
LeWeb London startup competition semifinalist shortlist announced
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As you may have heard, the French are coming to take over in June as LeWeb London 2012 conference arrives to celebrate and explore digital advances. The theme for the event is ‘Faster than Real Time‘ so it’s no surprise that the startup competition at the event is all about...
Sarah Tavel, Who Led Bessemer’s Investment In Pinterest, Gets Down To Busines At Pinterest
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Pinterest is starting to fill up its own Pinboard… with money people. Sarah Tavel, a former VP at Bessemer Venture Partners (the same BVP that led a Series A round in Pinterest in 2011), has now joined the social startup in a business development role. The move comes about a...
GOOD Magazine Retools As A Social Network For The Civic Self
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GOOD used to be a magazine. It attracted doers and makers and activists, people with a civic mission. It wasn't able to make a lasting business out of that, and in June, it laid off most of its editorial staff. It relaunches Wednesday, and it's almost unrecognizable. Instead of staff...
On Privacy in Social Networks: The Provider's Perspective
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Editor's note: This is the second story in a three-part series by Alex Korth on privacy. Read the first post: On Privacy in Social Networks: What Drives Users? Most of the time, providers of social networks are commercial enterprises. Developing, bootstrapping and running a social network comes with very...
After 80 Years, Newsweek Is Abandoning Print
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Newsweek just announced that it will abandon its print magazine and go "all digital" in 2013. The last print edition will be published December 31, 2012. Newsweek editor Tina Brown writes: ...our business has been increasingly affected by the challenging print advertising environment, while Newsweek's online and e-reader content has...
Twitter founders launch two new websites, Medium and Branch
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Ev Williams and Biz Stone launch two new sites - Medium and Branch - which they hope will launch an eveolutionary leap in online sharingThey inspired a boom in self-publishing with Blogger, then turned the world to 140 characters with Twitter. Now Ev Williams and Biz Stone have launched two...
Google is making a huge and annoying mistake.
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I like Google Plus. Some of the smartest people I've ever read are on Google Plus, and the Hangout is amazing. But Google is doing everything it can to force Google Plus on everyone, and it's pissing me off. Yesterday, I tried to like a video on YouTube. I wasn't...
Steve Wozniak: Cloud Computing Will Cause 'Horrible Problems In The Next Five Years'
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Steve Wozniak really, really doesn't like the cloud. The Apple cofounder slammed cloud computing during a Q&A after a recent performance of The Agony And The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, the controversial play by Mike Daisy. "I really worry about everything going to the cloud," Wozniak told the audience, according...
LinkedIn Unveils Redesigned Company Pages: Simpler, More Visual, And More Relevant
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LinkedIn plans to roll out a redesigned version of its company pages today, part of a broader attempt to redesign and simplify everything, including its homepage. I went down to the LinkedIn office yesterday to get a preview of the new design. As Senior Product manager Mike Grishaver jumped back-and-forth...
★ Why 'The Daily' Failed
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Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter: With the benefit of hindsight, there seem to be at least two other major lessons from The Daily’s failure: Audience clarity. It was difficult to grasp who exactly was the intended audience of The Daily. It excelled at interactive elements and visual appeal, but the...
Google begins linking Google+ with Orkut. Is this the beginning of the end for Orkut?
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Google’s first social network Orkut will now let its users link their profiles to Google+, the company announced today on Orkut’s official blog. In practical terms, Orkut users will be able to automatically share their public posts on both networks at the same time. While it sounds convenient, they may want...
Metal Gear movie being made by Marvel Studios
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A Metal Gear movie is in the works, according to an announcement made at the Metal Gear 25th Anniversary Party held today in Tokyo. During the party Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima was joined on stage by the CEO and founder of Marvel Studios, Avi Arad, whose studio has...
6 Skills Every Startup Team Needs
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So many tech startups begin the same way: One founder, one dream and a plan to make it happen. Most businesses stay that way - there are many more solo entrepreneurs than business owners with employees. But to succeed, most startups need a much broader set of skills and...
ShareThis Launches A Dashboard For Publishers To Measure Their “Social Quality”
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ShareThis wants to give publishers more insight into how their social sharing strategy stacks up, so it’s launching two new tools — the SQI Analytics Dashboard and SQI Lookup. SQI stands for Social Quality Index, a measurement that ShareThis announced last fall. Using data from any page that has embedded...
Twitter Cofounders Unveil Their Newest Project, An Online Publishing Platform Called Medium
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Evan Williams and Biz Stone are looking to change the way we think of online publishing yet again. On Tuesday, the Twitter cofounders lifted the curtain on their latest top secret a project, a new online publishing tool called Medium. Medium provides users with beautifully designed platform for sharing...
Twitter airs first TV spot during NASCAR, implores racing fans to discover the magic of hashtags
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Given #thescope with which Twitter has #invadedpopularculture, it may come as a shock to realize that the company hasn't really ventured too far into the world of television advertising -- but then, it seems that it's been doing a pretty good job getting enough #freeadvertising as is. Clearly the...
Steam for Linux going into limited public beta for the first time
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The long-awaited Linux version of Valve's Steam gaming platform has been in gestation for a while, but the company has just announced plans for its first beta. It'll be to a very select audience, mind — while you can apply for the beta right now, Valve says it's "primarily...
Proxio buys SocialKandy, maker of real estate-specific Facebook apps
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SocialKandy, which delivers custom Facebook applications and other social media solutions to real estate professionals, has been acquired by Proxio, which offers marketing and networking services in 19 languages to nearly 500,000 real estate brokerages, agents and associations worldwide. SocialKandy basically builds real estate-specific apps for Facebook to allow businesses...
A YouTube Studio Borrows The Old Hollywood System To Make Big Hits
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Does a billion hits a month sound pretty good to you? Meet Danny Zappin, co-founder of Maker Studios, which is poised to reach that milestone in June.Danny Zappin is one of the cofounders of Maker Studios, a studio for aspiring YouTube star. Having raised over $1.5 million last year, Maker...
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