Foundry Group adds $225M to its venture capital pool Foundry Group, the Colorado venture capital firm that’s backed Seattle area upstarts such as Big Door, SEOMoz and Cheezburger as well as Portland-based Cloudability, announced… Read More
Tech Moves: Cheezburger adds AllRecipes vet Dunn as Sawicki changes roles Cheezburger’s Todd Sawicki is transitioning to a new position at the online humor network, taking on the role of vice… Read More
Cheezburger gets Olympic spirit with ROFLympics Cheezburger is turning its focus from cats to Olympians with a new site called ROFLympics 2012 that’s launched just in time for… Read More
Cheezburger’s ‘Luddite’ CTO Scott Porad on why his job beats laying railroad ties Scott Porad is the CTO at Cheezburger, a company that specializes in “making the world happy for five minutes a… Read More
Internet Defense League’s ‘bat signal’ to warn of threats to the Internet Following the online activism that led to the demise of the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, some… Read More
Ben Huh news startup Circa raises $750K seed funding Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh has been uncharacteristically quiet about Circa, his online journalism startup. Now word is out that… Read More
Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh on why we need to invest in education right now Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh may be in the business of cracking people up. But the Seattle Internet entrepreneur also has some… Read More
Microsoft uses cash to boost Windows Phone, but some app developers aren’t biting One of the big challenges Microsoft faces in mobile phones is that developers don’t have the time — or resources… Read More
Coming to Bravo: A reality TV show starring Cheezburger’s Ben Huh “Huh?” That’s the working title of new reality TV show that Bravo announced today featuring none other than Ben Huh,… Read More
The new Cheezburger redesign: Faster, funnier and fewer trolls Cheezburger’s rise to the top of the Internet charts has certainly been impressive to watch, leaving some investors kicking themselves… Read More
Watch my dog help me make the picks for the WTIA awards We’ve already made it through Oscar season, and now we’re gearing up for March Madness. But before we get there,… Read More
Why Facebook may surrender users to niche social networks What do you recall seeing in your Facebook feed recently? The following are recurring items in mine: an e-card character… Read More
Microsoft Windows as a ‘beautiful metaphor’ and other comments of the week The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “Windows really is a beautiful metaphor for… Read More
Ben Huh’s love affair with the Internet (Or why we need to protect our greatest creation) Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh appeared today at the In NW social media conference in Seattle, offering an impassioned plea on… Read More
SOPA is a lobotomy, Google’s cutbacks are heartless … and other fun quotes of the week The best observations, quotes, comments and zingers we heard this week. “There’s a fundamental difference between people who want to… Read More
Watch Ben Huh debate an NBC executive over SOPA It took an email from my mom in Ohio to realize just how big the controversy over the Stop Online… Read More
Seattle snow storm stops SOPA protest in its tracks For the past few days, Seattle’s Zachary Cohn has been spending his days and nights planning for a January 18th rally… Read More
Amazon: We dislike piracy, but ‘strongly oppose’ SOPA Amazon.com will not be blacking out its Web site tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act as Cheezburger… Read More
Can this song help kill SOPA? ‘The Day the LOLcats Died’ The campaign to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act has lots of support from some of the Internet’s biggest names,… Read More
With SOPA on the ropes, opponents taking their campaign to the streets The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) suffered a pair of blows over the weekend, as the White House spoke… Read More
Cheezburger celebrates five years of LOLs, plans January 18th blackout to protest SOPA Who could have imagined that a Web site featuring oddly-worded captions accompanying cat photos could one day hold so much… Read More
Startup Spotlight: BlooperBox is America’s Funniest Home Videos for the Web (minus Bob Saget) Take America’s Funniest Home Videos, add a touch of Fail Blog and CollegeHumor.com and then mix in King of the Web… Read More
Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh calls SOPA ‘cancer to the free web,’ threatens to ditch GoDaddy Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh is threatening to remove the company’s 1,000 domain names off of GoDaddy after the huge Internet… Read More
Cheezburger cans ‘collectibles,’ discontinues virtual coins Cheezburger’s experiment with an online currency and collectibles program has ended in … failure. The Seattle company announced this week… Read More
Morning Radar: Steve Jobs is ‘most fascinating’ of 2011; Cheezburger’s latest; Big Fish; Wetpaint and more A quick rundown of stories and offbeat tidbits catching our attention this morning … Pet and animal lovers can now get… Read More
Planking, Pepper Spray Cop and other top Internet memes of 2011 Cheezburger is the master of memes, and 2011 created some memorable moments for lovers of Internet culture. From planking to… Read More
Cheezburger’s Ben Huh talks candidly about his personal struggles with depression Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh is known as a master of Web humor, with his company’s network of comedy sites drawing… Read More
Trekkies beware: Cheezburger looks to corner the market on geek humor with new sites Cheezburger may be best known for funny cat photos with captions, and the occasional break dancing mishap on Fail Blog.… Read More
Newsmakers 2011: Ben and Emily Huh unlock secret to Web humor at Cheezburger What’s it like being married to one of the worst-dressed men in tech? Emily Huh lives with that pain every… Read More
Have it your way on Cheezburger with new personalized Web pages The folks over at Cheezburger are masters of user-generated content — obtaining and showcasing funny photos and videos from the… Read More
