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Cheers Raises $2.5M Series A To Expand Its Positivity Network And Make The...
Cheers, the app and social network built around giving users the chance to celebrate the good things in their lives, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by MindFund and including...
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Google+ Launches Updated Profile Pages With Larger Cover Photos, Revamped...
Google just launched an update for Google+ that brings a number of significant visual updates to the company’s social backbone. The first things Google+ users will notice when they visit their profile...
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With Users In Over 83 Countries, Social Discovery Platform At The Pool Wants...
At The Pool, the Los Angeles-based social discovery platform, is today rolling out a big re-design that sees the startup becoming laser-focused on creating the “anti-Facebook” social network for young...
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Um, That's What My Kid Watches, Not Me – With User Profiles Still In Testing,...
Great news. You’ll now know the viewing preferences of your friends’ kids on Netflix, thanks to the service’s foray into social sharing via opt-in Facebook integration, announced earlier this morning....
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Aggregift Turns Anything On Amazon Into A Crowdfunded, Group Gift
A new gifting startup called Aggregift is launching an entirely new way to purchase goods on Amazon. The company, which has been quietly running its beta tests with a few thousand users over the past...
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ShareThis Aims For Mobile, With $23M Series C Led By T-Venture, Acquisition...
Palo Alto-based publisher platform ShareThis, the maker of those “social sharing” buttons scattered across the web, is today announcing having closed on $23 million in Series C financing, in a round...
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Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A...
Today, Amazon has announced the acquisition of social reading service, Goodreads. Specific terms of the deal weren’t disclosed and it should close by the end of Q2. Goodreads had raised $2.75 million...
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Microsoft Tells Facebook It Already Made A People-First Phone, Calling The...
Microsoft is maybe a little jealous of the spotlight shone on Facebook yesterday for its Facebook Home announcement. In a new blog post today, Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate...
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Medium Adds Collaboration Tools To Its Publishing Platform, Allowing People...
Today, Ev Williams’ latest startup, Medium, added some tools to bring people together while they’re writing. The collaboration tools are similar to what you’d find in Google Docs, but the key is to...
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Google Adds Non-Profit Information To Knowledge Graph, Gives Them A Boost...
Some people believe that Google’s practices when it comes to search are mystical and unfair — or sometimes evil – but what the company wants to do is surface the most important information for you when...
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Google's Wildfire Social Marketing Platform Cuts Standalone Plans To Upsell...
When Google wanted to get into the game of selling social ads across all platforms, it decided to acquire Wildfire, a company that had the market on lockdown. Since the acquisition last July, little...
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HealthKeep Launches An Anonymous Social Network To Let You Share And Track...
Services like HealthTap have proliferated over the last year as a way to let anyone with questions about their health connect with real, licensed physicians online and avoid the pain of waiting in line...
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Pocket Launches ‘Send To Friend' Feature For One-To-One Sharing As It Hits...
Save for later service Pocket debuted a new feature today, which allows users to quickly send content saved to their Pocket accounts to contacts from within the app. The feature uses that most...
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Social Sentiment Platform Swipp Launches Consumer Opinion Tracker For...
Mountain View-based startup Swipp, which earlier this year launched its social interest platform for consumers to share what they think of “a person, place or thing”, has taken the natural next step by...
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Newly Redesigned Cluster Makes Photo Sharing Among Small Groups Simpler, More...
Despite the ubiquity of smartphones and the insane number of photos we now save and share, surprisingly, no one has yet to figure out how to shift more personal and private photo-sharing away from...
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Blink, A New App For Ephemeral Text And Photo Messaging, Arrives On iPhone
Blink, a new mobile application for ephemeral messaging, is debuting today on the Apple App Store allowing users to text, plus share photos, and soon videos, with other friends as well as with groups....
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Bar Power Is A Nightlife App To Help You Be Less Of A Jerk At Bars
Once you’ve had a few drinks at a bar it’s easy to let loose and blow off steam. Unfortunately, while you’re having fun, you could end up annoying others around you, namely the staff at the venue...
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Share Practice Aims To Give Doctors Treatment Information And Feedback From...
During their work with patients, doctors will frequently contact colleagues with questions, trade horror stories, or converse about treatment methods. There isn’t really a technological solution to...
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“Ambient Location” Didn't Work, So Business Networking App Intro Pivots To...
It’s fair to say that the “ambient location” craze has passed. Several of the mobile apps intent on connecting people with friends and other recommended users nearby are still struggling to find...
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With New Study And Marketing Campaign, Microsoft Puts Renewed Emphasis On Its...
Microsoft’s SharePoint always featured a core set of social tools, but with the acquisition of Yammer, as well as the ongoing integration of Lync and Skype, the folks over in Redmond are clearly ready...
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