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Betable Gets $3 million From Atomico To Become A Twitter For Betting

bestcbstore — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:59:07 +0000

Betable , where users can literally place a bet on anything and have their friends bet with them, has secured a $3 million first time funding led by Atomico, the venture fund set up by former Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Former Skype chief strategy officer Geoffrey Prentice joins the board

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Trada Raises $5.75M From Google Ventures To Crowdsource Search Engine Marketing

kram412 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:30:38 +0000

Google’s AdWords may be one of the most successful products in Internet history, but it’s fair to say that most small and medium-sized business owners aren’t exactly experts when it comes to writing their ad copy or picking out keywords — in fact, there’s a whole industry of consultants and firms who specialize in doing just that.

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Online Gaming Portal ‘Curse’ Acquires MMO-Champion (And Its 7 Million Uniques)

ACMAir — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:33:47 +0000

Curse , a startup that offers a variety of gaming-related resources, tools, and news sites, has added a new property to its arsenal: the company has just acquired MMO-Champion , a very popular site that follows news for the hit massively multiplayer game World of Warcraft. Curse is acquiring the site from Major League Gaming and is not disclosing the terms of the deal, other than to say MMO-Champion founder Fabien Bonte will be joining the Curse team. This continues Curse’s streak of purchasing promising and successful gaming properties as it looks to establish itself as the de facto resource for serious gamers

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Facebook Preparing To Announce 500 Million Users

vertical8 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:48:50 +0000

Facebook is about to announce that they’ve hit 500 million users — a milestone that cements (as if it hadn’t already) the site’s status as one of the web’s biggest successes ever. Of course, at the site’s growth trajectory it hasn’t been a matter of if the social network would be hitting 500 million, but when it would (in fact, the movie poster for the upcoming movie The Social Network uses the 500 million stat in its tagline)

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AndroLib Gets A Makeover, Estimates Over 1 Billion Android Apps Downloaded So Far

blogger — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:04:15 +0000

AndroLib , the website that enables you to browse and discover apps for your Android phone far better than the Android Market site does, has gotten a makeover and a bunch of new features today.

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DevHub Now Turns Building A Website Into A Game

ACMAir — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:01:30 +0000

Back in February 2009 we covered the launch of DevHub , a startup that helps users build their own blogs and websites. At the time the site creator was pretty straightforward, with a focus on monetization through some syndication deals

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YouTube ‘Leanback’ Launches, Takes Aim At Your Television Set

Administrator — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:07:22 +0000

Earlier today YouTube debuted a new mobile experience, using HTML5 to offer a mobile site that sports better video quality and (soon) more content than the native YouTube iPhone application (and it works on other smart phones as well). But they’re not done. Tonight, the video portal is also launching YouTube Leanback, a version of YouTube that’s optimized for watching content on your TV set, or when you’re sitting a few feet away from your desktop computer.

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YouTube ‘Leanback’ Launches, Takes Aim At Your Television Set

Foursquare Extending The Physical Reach Of Offers And Hints At Hardware Integration

user — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:59:00 +0000

There’s no denying that the location-based service Foursquare has done a great job with regard to partnerships with local merchants. A new blog post today touts that and highlights some examples of how the system is working for both Foursquare and the companies. But underneath that are a few other nuggets of interesting information about Foursquare going forward.

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Get A White iPhone 4 Right Now — If You Have Money, Steady Hands, And No Fear

blogger — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:02:15 +0000

In the past week or so that the iPhone 4 has been available, there’s been one major thing holding people back from from getting one. No, not the antenna issue

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Citizen Journalism Platform Allvoices Growing Fast Thanks To Global Expansion

bestcbstore — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:35:55 +0000

We’ve written about Allvoices, a citizen journalism platform that is seeing fast growth internationally. In fact, the site, which was launched in 2008, is even approaching CNN’s iReport in terms of worldwide traffic. According to comScore’s May data, Allvoices saw 3 million unique visitors worldwide compared to 3.6 million unique visitors for CNN’s iReport

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