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Lending Club Files For SEC Registration, Hopes To Resume Service

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:22:31 +0000

Lending Club, the P2P money lending site, has filed registration forms with the SEC. Pending their approval, the site should be able to relaunch its lending service, which has been on hiatus since April (while the company didn’t provide an explanation for the shutdown at the time, we speculated that they lacked the proper [...]

Which SVP At Yahoo Quit Today?

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:41:29 +0000

The Yahoo resignation parade is getting so popular that Wired contributing editor Mat Honan created a Do-It-Yourself Resignation Letter, just fill in the blanks and hit submit (nice subject line on that email, by the way). Today’s winner after yesterday’s record day of four executive departures is SVP Strategic Alliances Chris Bolte, who has definitely resigned, [...]

Ex-Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers Launches Topspin Media

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:55:28 +0000

Ian Rogers, the former GM of Yahoo Music, has finally taken music startup TopSpin Media out of stealth mode. The new company will offer a marketing software platform for music artists to maximize their fanbase and brand exposure. Rogers, who was the GM of Yahoo Music until April 2008, is one of the few beacons [...]

Citi’s Mahaney: If Google Wants To Stay On Top, It Needs To Ramp Up Its Display Ad Revenues

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:58:25 +0000

A decade ago, the leading Internet companies were AOL, Amazon, eBay, and Yahoo. With the exception of Amazon, which is experiencing a renewal as it embraces digital distribution and cloud computing, they all fell by the wayside because they failed to adapt to a major market transition. For AOL, it was the transition to [...]

Justin.tv Captures Apartment Robbery

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:55:24 +0000

Every once in a while some great real-life drama comes out of lifecasting site Justin.tv (you just have to sift through thousands of hours of footage to find it). A year ago the police raided the Justin.tv offices/house, guns drawn, for example (I wonder what happened to that video?). More recently, blogger/lifecaster Ronald Lewis was [...]

Google Faces Off With Compete, Alexa, Comscore, Quantcast (And Soon Firefox)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:50:22 +0000

Google has just introduced Google Trends For Websites, a new tool that lets users take a peek at the traffic data from sites around the web. The new feature pits Google against a number of well-established players in the traffic data space, including Compete, Comscore, Alexa, and a host of others. All these services fall [...]

Celsias Wants To Keep “Green” Companies Honest

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:00:20 +0000

Celsias, one of the more more authoritative blogs on climate change, has launched a revamped version of its site that aims to encourage corporations to be more transparent with their eco-friendly projects. The site will continue to offer articles on climate change, and is also trying to foster a community of individual activists looking [...]

Arrington Analyzes Yahoo on ABC

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:30:18 +0000

Michael was dragged out of bed at 8AM on Wednesday morning to talk with ABC’s Vinita Nair about the situation at Yahoo, its deal with Google, and where that leaves Microsoft. He wakes up about a minute into the interview when he starts discussing the talent drain at Yahoo and how the deal gives [...]

Network Solutions Suddenly Opposed To Domain Hijacking

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:09:16 +0000

Hypocrisy alert: Domain name registrar Network Solutions, which earlier this year adopted the questionable practice of registering on its own behalf any domain name searches done on its site, today urged the industry to abandon the practice. Here’s how the scam works: You go to Network Solutions (or virtually any of their competitors) and do a [...]

Seesmic Raises Another $6 Million Round

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:23:11 +0000

Video conversation startup Seesmic raised another $6 million in a series B financing. The round was co-led by Omidyar Network and Wellington Partners. The series A financing last February, which was also for $6 million, was led by Atomico (the investment vehicle of Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis), and included angel [...]

Want In To the Angelina Jolie Wanted Screening? Tell Us Why And Get Two Tickets

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:18:27 +0000

Wanted Exclusive Trailer HD On Monday MySpace and TechCrunch will be showing a special free screening of the new Angelina Jolie movie Wanted at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco. We gave out 200 tickets earlier this week (they were gone in 15 minutes, the wait list was full right after). We have a few more seats [...]

Facebook Blows Past MySpace In Global Visitors For May

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:49:26 +0000

In April, Facebook caught up to MySpace in worldwide unique visitors (actually nudging past it with 116.4 million unique visitors versus 115.7 million for MySpace). Now the worldwide comScore numbers are out for May and Facebook continues to blow past MySpace with 123.9 million uniques (up 6 percent), versus 114.6 million for MySpace [...]

The Matt Cohler Exit Interview

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:50:18 +0000

Early Facebook executive Matt Cohler announced his departure today to join top tier venture fund Benchmark Capital. I spent nearly half an hour this afternoon talking to him about his decision to join Benchmark Capital, his predictions for Facebook and a variety of topics that we touched on via various non sequiturs. Joining us was [...]

Topix Nabs 6 Content Partners To Become Local Info Hub

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:28:16 +0000

Topix, the local news community that allows readers to submit and edit stories, has secured deals with six content providers as it moves to establish itself as a one-stop-shop for local information. Topix will now use Eventful as an events database, and will offer current TV and movie listings through Zap2It. InfoUSA will supply [...]

Seesmic Hijacks Comments With Threaded Replies

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:52:12 +0000

If content was king in old media, conversation is king on the Web. That is why everybody wants to control the conversation. Video commenting startup Seesmic is no exception. People can post short videos on Seesmic that other people can follow, just like on Twitter. Some blogs and Websites also make it [...]