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Pinterest just ‘acqui-hired’ Seattle startup Livestar, dev team moving to San Fran

Pinterest, the fast-growing social networking startup that raised a $200 million funding round last month at a reported $2.5 billion… Read More

Layoffs hit Memory Lane, operator of Classmates.com

Memory Lane, the social networking site that operates Classmates.com, has laid off staffers at its offices in the Seattle area,… Read More

Seeking a new combination, social commerce startup Lockerz confirms cutbacks

Lockerz, the heavily-funded social commerce startup, has reportedly laid off a chunk of its staff and closed down an office… Read More

The time suck economy: Let’s start building value

Time is our most precious asset. Yet, we’re wasting far too much of it. It’s called the time suck economy.… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘Socl’ search experiment takes a new turn

Microsoft’s experimental social network, Socl, is rolling out a new design and updated tools more closely aligned with what early… Read More

Sports social network Fanzo enters a very crowded field

Paul Ingalls readily admits that there’s no shortage of players trying to carve new businesses in the arena of social… Read More

Härnu lets you discuss global events with people from around the world

The world is becoming a smaller place, yet even with communications and social media technologies you can still feel cut… Read More

Messages superimposed on images may be less mind blowing than they appear

I was scrolling through my news feed, minding my own (friends’) business, when I was hit with the blinding orange… Read More

After CEO departs for Yahoo, Lockerz raises more cash

Seattle startup Lockerz lost its founder and CEO — retail and PR vet Kathy Savitt —  to an executive role at Yahoo… Read More

Facebook: The personalization engine for all of the Web

Facebook and its third-party applications today know a hell of a lot about each us: what content we read (Washington… Read More

Tweet, tweet: UW tags help study animal social networks

While researchers studying animal behavior can’t quite yet track how many tweeting birds have lots of “followers” and which ones… Read More

Ex-Microsofties land cash for private social network Discuzz

Discuzz, a Bellevue startup that’s developing technologies to help organizations better communicate with partners and customers, has raised $275,000, according… Read More

This week in Facebook: Stock lows and ‘Sub-Zero’ back-up plans

Wow, what another crummy week for the social media master Facebook. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that Facebook stock… Read More

SEOMoz buys Twitter analytics upstart Followerwonk

Ever want to know how your Twitter standing stacks up against friends, business rivals or celebrities? That’s the idea behind… Read More

Cloud telephony startup Infratel lands $3M, adds ‘click-to-call’ to Facebook pages

Infratel, a Seattle startup that provides cloud-based telephony services to small businesses, has raised $3 million in startup financing. Investors… Read More

Vizify turns your ‘ugly’ social media pages into a hip presence

The way Vizify CEO Todd Silverstein sees it, social media pages are “cluttered, ugly and noisy.” In other words, the… Read More

Washington state becomes first to offer voter registration via Facebook

Facebook just isn’t about browsing photos of friends. A new initiative in Washington state actually might have a higher purpose:… Read More

Beyond online advertising into knowledge monetization

Each year, investors sink $2 million in U.S. Internet companies per every million dollars of total online advertising addressable opportunity:… Read More

Twitter outage: Don’t know what you got until it’s gone

Twitter appears to be gradually coming back online after an outage this morning that lasted at least a half-hour for… Read More

Casino giant IGT goes social, launches Vegas slot machine favorite on Facebook

International Game Technologies — which purchased Seattle social game maker Double Down Interactive for up to $500 million in January… Read More

Facebook buys facial recognition startup Face.com

In a deal that was widely anticipated, Facebook announced today that it has acquired facial recognition upstart Face.com. TechCrunch reports… Read More

PopCap Games cancels Bejeweled Blitz on Google+

PopCap Games is pulling its popular Bejeweled Blitz puzzle game from Google+, saying that it wants to focus efforts on… Read More

Evri spins out SportStream with $3.5M from Paul Allen

Seattle startup Evri was founded in 2007, designed to help people make better sense of news and information. A lot… Read More

LinkedIn: No accounts hacked as result of stolen passwords

LinkedIn today updated its users on the stolen password fiasco that arose last week in which 6.4 million passwords were… Read More

Social network for gun lovers moving to South Dakota, can’t hit funding target on West Coast

Internet entrepreneur Dan Hall’s 2-year-old social networking company attracts more than two million unique visitors per month; counts some big-name… Read More

Chart: Who is using Twitter?

Do you use Twitter on a daily basis? If so, you are one of eight percent of Americans who do… Read More

Facebook’s first 8 days: One of the worst tech debuts we’ve seen

Just how bad has Facebook’s stock performance been since its IPO? Well, consider the visualization below from Tableau Software’s Daniel… Read More

Voicepic: Add 5-second audio captions to your favorite photos

A picture may often be worth a thousand words.  But for those instances when images alone can’t tell the story,… Read More

Another bad day: Facebook shares tumble nearly 10%

Investors are continuing to hammer Facebook just 11 days after its initial public offering, sending the stock of the social… Read More

Evri CTO Deep Dhillon jumps to Alliance Health Networks

Alliance Health Networks isn’t wasting anytime bolstering its Pacific Northwest operations following the purchase Medify, a Seattle upstart that it… Read More

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