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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Talks About Growth, Business Intelligence, IPO and...
Last week, BoomTown paid a long overdue visit on Jeff Weiner, the former Yahoo exec who took over the helm of LinkedIn from founder Reid Hoffman just over a year ago. Among the topics of discussion:...
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Silicon Valley-based professional social networking site LinkedIn said in a press release that it has acquired ChoiceVendor, a San Francisco start-up that “provides real-world ratings and reviews of...
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Index, Union Square Like SoundCloud's Web-Based Tune
Here’s another bet on Web-based music: SoundCloud, a start-up that makes it easy to share streaming music, is about to land a funding round from high-profile investors. Sources tell me that Index...
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Presto Chango: KaChing Becomes Wealthfront
Today, the execs at kaChing, a social investing site, are ringing the closing bell at the Nasdaq–actually, it is more of a button-pushing–to herald in a complete shift for the Palo Alto, Calif.,...
View ArticleHP Sees Collapsing Distance Between Personal And Professional (FASTech)
We’re here at the VentureWire FASTech conference in beautiful Redwood City, Calif., where technology executives and investors foregoing the San Francisco Giants World Series parade a few miles to the...
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Exclusive: SB Nation Raises $10.5 Million in Khosla Ventures-Led Series C Round
SB Nation, the Washington, D.C.-based sports blog and news start-up, has just completed a $10.5 million Series C round, which is being led by Khosla Ventures, according to sources. SB Nation has...
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What Facebook Messages Means and Why You Should Care
Facebook yesterday launched an interesting product that tries to get at the heart of how highly connected people communicate casually. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others from the company reiterated over...
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Bleacher Report's Brian Grey Talks About New Content Biz, as Patrick Keane...
Earlier this week, BoomTown went downtown to the San Francisco HQ of Bleacher Report, one of the many interesting efforts trying to change the way content is made and distributed. Bleacher Report, no...
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Eight Million or 10 Million: Either Way, That's a Lot of PlayBooks
Investors betting Research in Motion will sell about 10 million BlackBerry PlayBooks in the next fiscal year best temper their expectations a bit. With the iPad juggernaut rolling inexorably forward...
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Multitouch Pioneer Jeff Han Starts to Think Small (Devices)
For years now, Jeff Han has been working on large-screen multitouch displays. Han and his company, Perceptive Pixel, are best known for creating the giant touch wall that John King and others at CNN...
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Comcast Unit Finds New Use for the iPhone: Getting Work Done
While plenty of people are using their iPhones and iPads to watch video, Comcast also thinks Apple’s mobile devices can play a role in helping professional video get onto the Internet. ThePlatform, a...
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Holy Start-Up Pileup! Social Networking Gets Professional.
The same variety of apple has apparently been falling from trees all over Silicon Valley, hitting Web entrepreneurs on the head and inspiring them to create better ways to connect personal and...
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Exclusive: SnagFilms Snags $10 Million in Funding at $50 Million Valuation
SnagFilms, the online video distribution site for professional documentaries, has nabbed $10 million in funding from Comcast’s investment arm and New Enterprise Associates, and will also now be...
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Here Comes Another Web IPO: LinkedIn S-1 Filing Imminent
LinkedIn, the online business networking site, is likely to file regulatory documents for an initial public offering as early as today, according to sources close to the situation. Sources said...
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Multiple Identities in Action: LinkedIn-Powered Logins Grow on Business Sites
Most of us play various roles in our offline lives–parent, employee, friend, etc.–and now it’s getting easier to express those multiple identities in the online world. (It’s a topic explored often on...
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100 Percent Fresh Exclusive!: Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes in Acquisition Talks...
Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said...
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More Fake Videos As "Viral" Web Advertising–Where Is the Old Spice Guy When...
Ugh, yet another attempt to pass off “authentic” online videos as real ones, in order to hawk something. This time, it’s a video of a geeky man using a little transmitter, a red balloon and an Apple...
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Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and...
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Hey Kids, Let's Put on a $4M VC-Funded Show! A Visit to the YouTube Moguls of...
Recently, I went to Venice, Calif., to visit the hipster HQ of Maker Studios, a new-generation production company that has just gotten another $2.5 million in venture funding to help it make videos,...
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Former Myspace Music Head Holt Lands as COO at Maker (Plus Cool Video!)
Courtney Holt, who stepped down as president of Myspace Music early this year, is taking a new job as COO of Maker Studios. Holt has been an adviser to the Venice, Calif., new-generation production...
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Talent Management Start-Up PeopleMatter Raises $14M, Led by Morgenthaler
PeopleMatter said it has raised $14 million in a Series C funding, which was led by Morgenthaler Ventures. The Charleston, S.C.-based software company, which focuses on hourly workers, said the new...
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Exclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie's Whiskey Media
In a deal that was just signed, longtime Silicon Valley exec Shelby Bonnie has sold his social publishing start-up, Whiskey Media, to Santa Monica-based entertainment and interactive production...
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Demand Media Finally Breaks Away for Good From Lance Armstrong
In the midst of last week’s earnings call, after the company had released strong results, Demand Media CEO and co-founder Richard Rosenblatt made an unusual declaration about its once-tight...
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Exclusive: Is Andrew Mason on the Bubble as CEO of Groupon?
According to sources close to the situation, several Groupon board members have been seriously discussing making major leadership changes at the Chicago-based daily deals company, including bringing...
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Ready for His Close-Up: Ross Levinsohn to Join Zefr Board
Former Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn, who has laid pretty low since he left there earlier this year, will be joining the board of the Venice, Calif.-based video start-up, Zefr. “Ross is a perfect...
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