SAN FRANCISCO -- Linden LabR, creator of the acclaimed 3D digital world, Second LifeR, announced today it has closed a financing round of $8,000,000 led by Benchmark Capital and with participation from Omidyar Network, a new organization lead by eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar. Existing investors including software pioneer Mitch Kapor...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Digg, Inc., a pioneering Web community that enables the mass Internet audience to prioritize news and content, today announced that it has closed an initial round of funding in the amount of $2.8 million led by Greylock Partners with Omidyar Network and several angel investors, including Marc...
SourceForge.net (www.sourceforge.net), an OSDN (a subsidiary of VA Software Corp.) (NASDAQ: LNUX) site, and the world's largest collaborative site for cross-platform and Open Source developers, today announced it has received its largest donation ever in support of its Open Source collaborative development initiatives from Omidyar Network, an organization investing based...
Ask a dozen tech pundits to describe Web 2.0 and you're likely to get two dozen explanations as to what it is. Why It Matters Now In 1984, Sun Microsystems co-founder John Gage coined the phrase "the network is the computer" to describe his vision for the future...