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Brad Garlinghouse Becomes CEO Of Booming File Sharing Site YouSendIt

114811v1-max-250x250Box has been grabbing headlines lately because it has been nailing a big market: enterprise customers who need to easily share and store big collections of documents online. But a quiet Silicon Valley rival has also been winning a bunch of...

Mobile Could Be What Makes Private Social Networks Succeed

path5.6.12Photos, location, professional networking, or all your real-life friends... Instagram, Foursquare, LinkedIn and Facebook lead social networking today because they've found existing the types of networks to connect users around. Now a new generation of startups has been showing up in recent months,...

Cooking The Books: Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s CS Degree “Error” Should Cost Him The Job

800px-CEO_Scott_Thompson_greets_Yahoos_at_Sunnyvale_HQ"You guys might want to cover this before he resigns tomorrow," one hardcore reader emailed in this evening. And yes indeed, newish Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's "inadvertent error" about which degree he got in college is looking like it could...

Online Video Content Pioneer Revision3 In Acquisition Talks With The Discovery Channel

Screen Shot 2012-04-30 at 10.10.25 PMSeven years in, Revision3 and its stable of web stars have more than survived the tough early days of building a video content business on the web. The San Francisco company is now bringing in a respectable 

Tech Investors Dive Into Adrian Grenier’s New Beer Startup, Churchkey

Adrian-Grenier-flat-top-beer (2)Old movie buffs (and older readers) may remember a time when beer was sold in steel cans that were opened with a "church key." Entourage star Adrian Grenier is tapping into that nostalgia, we hear, with a new beer startup...

TheComplete.me Launches Social Dating Site, Matches With $1.22M From Industry Leaders

Screen Shot 2012-04-16 at 12.08.22 PMIf Facebook itself isn't a covert dating site, then at least its social graph could be -- a big group of startups have been going for this honeypot of user data and connections ever since the company...

Walkie Talkie App Voxer Goes Big, IVP And Intel Lead $30 Million Round

1_PTT_webVoxer, a walkie talkie mobile app that lets you talk to friends across iPhones and Androids, looked like an overnight success last November when it soared to its current place as a top social networking app in...

OMGPOP Draws Zynga’s Daily User Traffic Up By 25%

omgpop3.30.12As the dust settles after Zynga's purchase of New York mobile social game developer OMGPOP, the company is visibly taking on a new shape. A 25% larger and more mobile one. That's the percentage growth of its total daily active user...

A Peek Inside Dropbox’s Company-Wide Hack Week At Its Big New SF Offices

From the outside, Dropbox looks occupied with launches these days. It came out with a big redesign this month, then followed up quickly with a new way to share files with Facebook friends. But the company is busy with a lot of internal growth, too. It recently moved into big new offices...

Forget Today’s Drama, Dustin Curtis’ Svbtle Is About Pushing Blogging Forward

Screen Shot 2012-03-24 at 2.56.47 AMWell-read designer Dustin Curtis has come up with a new blogging platform called Svbtle, that's meant to help you take blog posts from ideas to well-presented articles. At first, it looks like a better Tumblr,...

Pair Is A Path For The Two Of Us

pair3.23.12Let's say you're in a serious relationship, but you work all the time and you're long-distance. How do you stay close to the other person? I've personally had this situation for the last year and a half. My girlfriend and I use...

Rejoice, Twitter Power Users: “Next Generation” Tweetdeck Apps Coming For Android And iOS

tweetdeck_avatar_2_reasonably_smallThe big Twitter redesign at the end of last year seemed to mean that the company was ditching power users to get more mainstream. The website and the mobile apps added "Connect" and "Discover" pages to help new users find interesting...