A new report analyzing trends in venture capital found that Google Ventures has been the most active corporate VC since early 2012, which makes sense as the firm has Google’s financial… Read more »
Angie’s List announced on Monday that it acquired BrightNest, the company we wrote about in March that was one of several startups targeting the home cleaning space. BrightNest provides consumers with… Read more »
It’s a shame that Rockmelt is shuttering its social web browser and news apps when Yahoo could have put that technology to use. But there’s still a chance that Rockmelt was… Read more »
Yahoo has acquired Rockmelt, the company that raised funding from top Silicon Valley investors to build a social browser for the web, but which had since pivoted to building social news… Read more »
RebelMouse, the company founded by former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry, closed a $10.25 million Series A round led by Oak Investment Partners, SoftBank, Sterling Investment Partners and Michael Lazerow. The… Read more »
LinkedIn reported its second quarter earnings on Thursday, beating analyst estimates with both revenue, at $363.7 million, and earnings per share, at $0.38. The company has seen increased traffic and users… Read more »
Being an entrepreneur is about knowing when something isn’t working and it’s time to pivot. Albumatic is re-launching Thursday in hopes of figuring out group photo-sharing. Read more »
Salon wrote about a new organization called Peers, which works to promote the sharing economy. While Peers isn’t a lobbying organization, the founder said, it tries to get more people sharing… Read more »
Glide is an Israeli-based video messaging app that’s seen strong growth recently, but it has had a spamming problem. The company told us that it’s now stopped auto-inviting your friends after… Read more »