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- BNET Gets Social
- We recently launched a new tool that allows you, dear BNET reader, to bookmark and share BNET content via your favorite social bookmarking and sharing sites, such as Stumbleupon, del.icio.us, Digg, and a stack of others. So don't be shy about sharing. At...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Founders buy back StumbleUpon
- StumbleUpon is again in the hands of its founders after eBay offloaded the internet recommendation engine after just two years. eBay is not disclosing the value of the deal, which saw a number of private equity firms including Accel Partners...
- Articles 2009-04-13
- Twitter Hammers Nail in Coffin for Tr.im
- The list of URL shorteners just got shorter. According to a blog post by Nambu, the company is shutting its doors on URL shortening tool, Tr.im. After a number of attempts to sell the service, no companies in the Twitter space stepped forward to purchase and operate it in its...
- News items 2009-08-09
- Google Reader Updates: Share News on Twitter, Facebook, and More
- Today confirms that Google's not giving up their quest to become more social media friendly. Earlier today they introduced a series of new iGoogle features that make it more of a social network than a start page, and just now they've released an update to your Google Reader to turn...
- News items 2009-08-12
- Google Reader Now Lets You Launch Content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg
- Google Reader is turning into quite the launching pad for helping users share content. Now the service lets users post content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Blogger,Delicious, MySpace, Reddit and StumbleUpon. You'll find this capability in the "Send To" feature under the settings page in Reader. As you can see, if...
- News items 2009-08-13
- StumbleUpon Integrating More Social Aspects Into Redesign
- By Jordan McCollum Earlier this month, StumbleUpon started showcasing their new homepage design, when they touted their "Google + Twitter" social search. Now they've gone through the rest of the site to make it more consistent less customizable, easy to understand and streamlined. Read Write Web reports: The new interface...
- News items 2009-10-30
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- StumbleUpon's eBay Spinoff Valuation: $29 Million
- Michael Arrington submits: Earlier this month we reported on eBay’s spinoff of StumbleUpon, a company it owned for a little less than two years. Ebay bought the company for $75 million in May 2007. Unknown until now, though, was the spinoff value of StumbleUpon. According to a source close...
- External links 2009-05-01
- eBay Acquires StumbleUpon
- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) today announced it has acquired StumbleUpon, an early-stage company that helps people discover and share content online, for an aggregate transaction value of approximately $75 million. This acquisition will provide eBay with in-depth exposure to a fast-growing community-based service with approximately 2.3 million...
- Research articles 2007-05-30
- So Much for That: EBay Looks To Sell StumbleUpon
- Michael Arrington submits: In May 2007 eBay acquired website recommendation engine StumbleUpon for $75 million. Now, less than a year and a half later, they’re trying to unload it according to a source with knowledge of the sale process. eBay has hired Deutsche Bank to find the right buyer,...
- External links 2008-09-19
- eBay Looking to Sell StumbleUpon
- Ron Haruni submits: TechCrunch is reporting that eBay EBAY has recruited Deutsche Bank DB in the hopes of finding a suitable buyer for StumbleUpon, the venerable website that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. StumbleUpon as a personalized recommendation engine, according to...
- External links 2008-09-22
- eBay Sells StumbleUpon Back to Founders: Case Study In Efficient Allocation Of Resources
- Michael Arrington submits: So StumbleUpon, a social bookmarking site that lets users browse and discover new websites by clicking a button, was a subsidiary of eBay EBAY for just less than two years. The acquisition made the startup’s founders extremely wealthy, given that they raised just $1.5 million in...
- External links 2009-04-14
- EBay Wants No Less Than $75M for StumbleUpon
- Michael Arrington submits: Deutsche Bank is still out there trying to find a buyer for eBay’s StumbleUpon business, we’ve heard from new sources (we first reported on this on September 18). But there’s one problem: while eBay EBAY wants to unload the business, they aren’t willing to sell it...
- External links 2008-10-03
- slashdotted and Why the Rich Get Richer
- It started with a post by CmdrTaco on Slashdot saying: “replicant108 wrote in to give us Tom Evslins fascinating account of working for Microsoft in the early 90s.” All of a sudden traffic skyrocketed to over 100x the normal hourly volume for the Fractals of Change website....
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- slashdotted and Why the Rich Get Richer
- It started with a post by CmdrTaco on Slashdot saying: “replicant108 wrote in to give us Tom Evslin's fascinating account of working for Microsoft in the early 90s.†All of a sudden traffic skyrocketed to over 100x the normal hourly volume for the ...
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- eBay Opens Bidding On Itself
- First Skype, then StumbleUpon. What's next -- PayPal? One thing is certain: a year from now, eBay will look like a very different company. It's unclear whether eBay will actually go through with its plan to launch an IPO for Internet telephony vendor Skype next year or...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 6
- How can online video help with SEO and online reputation management ? Which social bookmarking sites have the most clout? Can social media really increase revenue? What common mistakes should you avoid in social media marketing? Get the answers to these questions and others here in the final...
- News items 2009-10-18
- Marketing and PR Blog Picks of the Week
- Monday, 10/8 Online Marketing Blog -- "Why Search Marketing is So Hard" Pronet Advertising -- "StumbleUpon: The Antithesis of Google?" Tuesday, 10/9 Marketing Pilgrim -- "Are Newspapers Squandering Yahoo Ad Opportunities? InfoFlow -- "Marketers: There are Seven Separate Intelligences"...
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- Do It Yourself Social Media Marketing: A Stepforth Whitepaper
- Social media marketing is a method of promoting your brand (be it yourself, a product, a service, or company) by strategically making your presence known across various social media networks (such as Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Myspace, etc.) This may seem overly elementary but "Making yourself known" is the kicker because...
- White papers 2007-06-27
- Top Technology Innovators Unveil Products Aimed to Shape the Connected Future at Supernova 2006; ''Connected Innovators'' Are First to Have Technologies Showcased Live in ''Second Life'' Virtual World
- SAN FRANCISCO -- The Supernova Group has teamed with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com to select an elite group of start-up companies as "Connected Innovators." The Connected Innovators who will present at the Supernova 2006 Conference are: Attensa, Ether, LifeIO, Netvibes, PROTOMOBL, PostApp, Sharpcast, SoonR, StumbleUpon, Vpod.tv, Webaroo, and ZiXXo. Each...
- Research articles 2006-06-12
- Is Buzz the Solution to Digg's Failures?
- Yesterday's post about Digg led a number of readers to ask me about other social bookmarking sites. Are they just as likely to be controlled by an elite group of power users as is the case at Digg, or do they provide a more "honest" opportunity...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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