News Sharing

Digging on Digg: Early Days on A Deal - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Jan 2008 10:06 AM PST

Over the holidays, the rumors about the sale of Digg, the social news site, cropped up again, like many times before. Only this time, it has hired Allen & Co…

LA Times Invests In Social News Site Mixx - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 04 Dec 2007 11:26 AM PST

Mixx, a social news startup from McLean, VA which announced its first round funding in October, has now added an interesting strategic investor: Los Angeles Times, part of the the…

AFP Buys Stake In Cit-J Platform Scooplive, Offers To Media As White Label - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 29 Nov 2007 07:47 AM PST

Newswire Agence France Press (AFP) has bought a minority stake in Scooplive, a French citizen journalism portal that gives contributors commission on contributions sold to news media. The size of…

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Reuters Mobile Journalism Roundtable: Rolling Out The MoJo, Planning For HD Mobiles - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 27 Nov 2007 09:40 PM PST

Our sister site paidContent:UK reports on Reuters’ (NSDQ: RTRSY) implementation of a “mobile journalism toolkit” developed in partnership with Nokia. The first trials were with TV reporters shooting video for…

Forbes Takes 51 Percent Stake in RealClearPolitics; Confirms Purchase of Clipmarks - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 07 Nov 2007 12:13 PM PST

Forbes Media is taking a 51 percent stake in popular politics site RealClearPolitics.com. The site, which claims 1,000,000 users per month, will join other Forbes.com assets, helping the unit expand…

Personalized News Service DailyMe Raises First Round From PE Firm Palladium Equity - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 25 Oct 2007 08:58 AM PST

DailyMe, a personalized news aggregator based in Hollywood, FL, has received funding from private equity firm Palladium Equity Partners. Also participating were individual investors Miles Gilburne and Jose Luis Suares,…

Social News Service CrispyNews Sold to Salesforce.com; Now Targeting the Enterprise - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 22 Oct 2007 11:54 PM PST

Jeff Nolan noticed this morning that the URLs for CrispyNews, a make-your-own-Digg service, now redirect to a Salesforce.com site. Turns out, the company has since confirmed, Salesforce.com acquired the assets…

A Real Google-Facebook Pairing: Google News Experiments With Facebook App - 4 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 19 Oct 2007 03:19 PM PST

With all the rumors and gossip out there, it’s nice to be able to report a legit piece of Google-Facebook news. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News, which is on a bit…

Blog Sharing Service Madkast Raises $300,000 Initial Round - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 09 Oct 2007 12:42 PM PST

Boulder, CO-based Madkast, a maker of tools to facilitate sharing of blog content, has raised an initial $300,000 round from a long list of investors including EONBusiness Venture Capital and…

Social News Site Mixx Gets Funding From Intersouth Partners - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 09 Oct 2007 07:55 AM PST

Mixx, a social news startup from McLean, VA, has announced a first round of funding from Intersouth Partners along with plans to launch a public beta this month. Terms of…

News Sharing: Digg Add Social Networking Elements; Netscape’s New Avatar Propeller Launches - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 19 Sep 2007 08:06 PM PST

Couple of development in the social news sharing space: -- Digg has added some major elements of social networking to its site, designed to take the site beyond simply “digging”…

Yahoo Acquires News Aggregator Site BuzzTracker; Expanding Yahoo News Into Software-Driven - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 14 Sep 2007 07:40 AM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has announced a small acquisition in the news space: it has bought news aggregator and blog tracking site BuzzTracker. The site’s founder Alan Warms has joined as…

AOL Rebrands Netscape Social News Site As Propeller - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 12 Sep 2007 07:41 AM PST

AOL (NYSE:TWX) has re-branded its Netscape social news ranking site as Propeller.com (not online yet). As we noted last week, AOL had pulled the plug on Netscape’s 14-month experiment as…

Medical Information Aggregator Sermo Secures $26.7 Million In Third Funding Round - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 10 Sep 2007 09:01 AM PST

Sermo, a social net for doctors, has raised $26.7 million in a third funding round. Legg Mason Capital Management led the round and was joined by previous backers Longworth Venture…

Netscape.com’s Social News Experiment Dies, At Least For Now - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 06 Sep 2007 11:39 PM PST

As had been rumored for a while now, the social news site reincarnation of Netscape.com, about 14 months old, is now about to go dead, as the site reverts back…

NYTimes.com Takes ‘My Times’ Out Of Private Beta; Personalized Service Now Open To All - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 23 Aug 2007 04:25 PM PST

After more than a year in private and limited beta, NYTimes.com has opened its personalized My Times service to all of the site’s registered users—albeit still in beta. The private…

Hip-Hop-Influenced Personalized Start Page GlobalGrind Gets $4.5 Million Funding - 31 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 19 Aug 2007 06:13 PM PST

A yet-to-launch personalized start page GlobalGrind has received about $3.5 million of a $4.5 million round it is raising, reports PEHub. The round was led by Accel Partners, along with…

Cit-J Site NowPublic Gets A Big $10.6 Million Round of Funding - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 29 Jul 2007 09:00 PM PST

Vancouver-based NowPublic.com, the citizen journalism news site which recently signed a deal with AP to collaborate on coverage, has received a relatively big $10.6 million in its first formal round…