Russian giant Yandex search gets social news startup Tweeted times»

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Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, has acquired a startup enterprise "Times" Tweeted that lets people create custom online "newspaper" of their Twitter accounts. Financial terms of the purchase were not disclosed, but ESPN Sports said it aims to continue to offer social news service and that the whole team "Times" Tweeted to join search engine company.

Tweeted once co-founded Maxim Grinev and Maria Grineva, computer scientists at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and others.

Its users include celebrities like Snoop Dogg Alyssa Milano and Lance Weiler.

Yandex, which became public in May and is currently estimated at just shy of 10 billion dollars, plans to use the technology acquired from The Times, Tweeted to increase its search and content services with information from social networks.

This is the third Company Yandex acquired in the past nine months – his most recent purchases include single sign-on plugin maker Loginza and WebVisor in technology of analysis of behaviors and commands.

Tweeted once, formerly called the Twitter times competes with social news curation service Paper.li, which itself has raised more than $ 2 million in funding.

Another company operating in this space — Summify.

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Chris Hughes launch social causes lay in the Jumo gets GOOD

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Social causes startup Jumo had bought the product, Publisher of the website and magazine aimed at do-gooders. Chris Hughes, one of the co-founders of Facebook and need a roommate Harvard Mark Zuckerberg was founded JUMO. Hughes left Facebook to run Obama's Web site and social media during the elections of 2008. "The GOOD purchased Jumo," Hughes tells me, and soon users will see a single online platform for GOOD is. I'll be teaming up with the goods of the CEO, Ben Goldhirsh, to help grow good and Jumo. "terms of the deal were not disclosed.

JUMO is designed to match people with causes, separating them by topics and enable you to monitor the 15 000 non-profit, making it easy to donate time or money. After an initial pop after its launch last year have fizzled out traffic to the site. According to compete, the site went from peak 114 000 unique visitors in the United States in December last year to 8500 people in June. According to Hughes, good website has 3 million monthly unique visitors (estimated it at compete 760 000 visitors to the United States).

Well korrekturoj initiative media site, which is what drives its traffic. Now will be able to mount the Jumo in conformity with reason technology platform. Hughes also said Jumo in codebase will be open source.

JUMO site certainly complex and works well in terms of helping users find worthy causes. Perhaps the problem that most people don't look for good causes in the natural course of their day. They must be pulled into it or through media, events, or by their friends (which is why Facebook application causes first flew in the air and continues to be popular is always in your face). Folding Jumo in good can help you find its natural audience platform.

Founded in February 2010, JUMO is a social network that connects individuals and organizations involved in global change. Using connector technology, Jumo allows everyday people to find, review and support ...

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Chris Hughes, the original co-founder of Facebook, is the founder of the Jumo, launch, which seeks to use the social web to establish long-term relations of responsibility among the people.

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Empire Avenue raises $ 1.2 million to transform social influence in virtual stock market

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Edmonton-based Empire Avenue, the stock market for social impact, announced today that it raised $ 1.2 million in series a seed funding. Round headed VC San Francisco firm, Crosslink Capital, iNovia capital, TriplePoint capital (which are incubated Empire Avenue in Silicon Valley), as well as BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka dogah and Greg Zeschuk, among others.

According to launch press release "instead of buying a fancy zeppelin or, say, full of diamonds clad singing shark", the team plans to use the new infusion of capital to ramp up hiring and expand its platform, with an emphasis on increased sales of virtual goods and currency. This is all well and good, but we were all in the tech community really pulling for singing sharks. Or at least the monkey Butlers. (There is always a serie b).

Empire Avenue, which started in early 2010, is the so-called "social stock market", where users to assume the role of companies and their product cost is determined by the level of your online activities and networks, one creates during daily webernets surfings. Essentially run wants to encourage Web users to jump start their own personal brands and maximize the results from the interaction of social networks (and have a little fun while doing it).

Like Klout with the added advantage of buying and selling virtual shares personal brand real, living people, Cork Empire Avenue in a range of sites, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Flickr to show users the importance of their impact and reach on popular social networks.

Users can also include the value of their Web contributions to actual revenue through advertising platform used at the start to deliver relevant and targeted ads, while buying and selling virtual shares in any other user is free. Very stylish.

To the personal account user: impact of tens is equivalent to the price of shares of the individual in the Empire, which is based on the extent to which brand is traded on the site of helminthes in the course of the day, as well as to user their own blogs, websites, networks, social media, etc.

Shareholders can make an assessment of these interactions, the vote for the quality of the contributions that affect the cost of inventories, while shareholders are also rewarded with virtual currency for successful investments.

In addition to scoring some new investment loot, the Canadian startup also announced today the addition of Foursquare and Instagram as sources for further metrics used to calculate the user impact and value of stocks. Not to mention the fact that it now has users in more than 190 countries.

This is an awesome service, so take it for a test drive and let us know what you think.

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Battery Ventures and Nea back social App Umami TV

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More cash flows in social TV application. Cautious company Umami attracted $ 1.65 million in seed funding from battery ventures, NEA and other Angels companion, social TV platform.

Although information about Umami is limited, we know an application free of charge the iPad its launch is currently in closed beta with the television networks and is set to launch in the fall of 2011 TV season. Like apps like miso and GetGlue, Umami provides viewers with a second screen experience for the content of television programmes. Umami adds additional contextual content around programme viewers are watching, as well as provides a platform for the network to interact with consumers.

Umami was founded by Rovi former Vice President of advanced advertising Scott Rosenberg and Brian Slavin, who held positions in technology and product Lightningcast (acquired by AOL), leap wireless and Broadsoft. The Lightningcast, he helped launch broadband video advertising products and solutions with the television networks and built a launch online video ad network.

Faced with competition from startup GetGlue, miso, TV Tune-in and other.

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Morgan Stanley leads $ 7 M round in social media compliance launch Socialware

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Socialware, which helps companies manage compiance social media and sales, raises $ 7 million in series c funding led by Morgan Stanley Capital expansion. Earlier this year run raised $ 3 million from GATEWAY, G-51 capital and Sil'vertona partners. To date, Socialware had raised $ 12 million.

Socialware provides technology and social networking tools for the highly regulated financial services industry, in particular, to engage with customers and partners through social networking on a lasting basis. The company also provides tools for lead generation in social sales channels such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

The company said that currently services approximately 100 clients, which include the five largest insurance companies in the United States, as well as other major financial brands current clients include American portfolios, Cambridge investment research, Guardian life and life of New York.

Socialware on we made it our mission to transform the way companies and their employees to participate, communicate and interact with customers, partners and each other. State social technology ...

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Buddy MEDIA raises $ 54 M for brand-oriented management platform of social media

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Buddy MEDIA, a company that provides Facebook page and social media brand management raises $ 54 million in series d funding led by GGV capital with institutional venture partners, Bay partners and Business Insight. This brings total financing MEDIA buddy just under $ 90 million. GGV partner Jeff Richards joined Buddy MEDIA Board of Directors. One of Facebook's first ad sales execs, Kevin Colleran, also joined the company's Advisory Board.

Buddy MEDIA is best known for its management all-in-one social media to help create, manage and track your social campaign on Facebook. In connection with the Facebook platform enables brand managers agencies create, manage and keep track of Facebook pages in different languages to drive and increase user and brand. Users should not have any prior knowledge of form to create pages on Facebook and can create sleek and interactive pages pretty easily.

But Facebook is not only social media platform that brands should participate; Twitter has also has a powerful communications tool. A buddy MEDIA also offers Twitter management system, as well as CEO and founder Michael lasers tells us it's not just about Facebook and how brands participate through various channels, buddy MEDIA will provide them with the SaaS to manage this. He added that Google + scaling and ultimately adds feature brand and company, the company will look to provide integration with social platforms.

Earlier this year, buddy MEDIA acquired social analytics tool Spinback, which develops social commerce widget allows users to share products and purchase through Facebook, Twitter and email. This product is currently integrated with Buddy MEDIA SaaS

Of course when more brands look to social media to interact with consumers, buddy MEDIA results. Company's profit more than doubled since the end of 2010. In the past year, lasers told us that buddy MEDIA is on the way to make 20 million dollars in sales, profits can be at least $ 40 million.

Buddy MEDIA added about 200 new customers in 2011, including brands, retailers and media companies such as Ford Motor Company, Haines, ESPN, Hearst Corporation (more about this partnership) and Virgin Mobile, United States.

Buddy MEDIA staff had increased from 40 employees in 2009 to nearly 200, and the company opened a London Office this year. The last hired include CFO, Dennis Morgan, who headed the corporate finance and acquisition efforts for Yahoo.

Lasers said, the company continuously evaluates a couple of things: how brands more focused content on Facebook or on twitter; as they get the right content to man, and how to use the social graph for all fixed assets, it will happen. He explains that for major brands and companies to monitor social media complicated delivery audit and scaling in different countries. MEDIA Buddy simplifies this process, said lasers.

Laser and said that the company continues to grow, this capital will help scale development, global expansion, recruitment, sales, purchasing and much more. One of the problems, said he will hire the right people, but he plans to double the number of employees in the following year.

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NEA and Sequoia put $ 18 m in socially oriented brand social media platform for hearsay

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Rumors social, SaaS dashboard for national enterprises and their local offices to manage Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter pages, raised $ 18 million in new funding led by new Enterprise Associates (NEA) participation by existing investor Sequoia Capital. In connection with the financing of NEA partner John Sakoda joins the rumored Social Board of Directors. To date, hearsay social raises $ 21 million in funding.
The social rumour, which is open to the public in February, is designed to help big brands that have local offices (i.e., Starbucks, BestBuy), manage Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages. From the highly distributed nature of some of the companies that have the local offices of the Office of the social media pages for shops or offices, which is still in accordance with the decision of the company is a complex process.
Rumors of a social enterprise has been optimized for enterprise/local "allow local representatives, agents, advisers, franchisee or store managers to manage social media pages, while ensuring that local representatives to remain in line with the brand guidelines and content rules. SaaS applications makes compliance, workflow, content management and analytics on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
The central panel for the communication functions of brands, archiving, keyword flag and workflow and approval capabilities of filtering. Users can also suggest taking the campaign to the local offices and reps and analysts access to Facebook, Twitter and Facebook pages for regions or subregions.
In the opinion of the local branch of the hearsay social invites heads of proposed content, and 360-degree view of Facebook fans and friends, LinkedIn, and twitter followers. The platform will also allow local branch post updates and checks their updates page (that is, filter profanity) in accordance with the policy of the chain of social media. The company also signed a contract with LinkedIn to collaborate on sales and marketing efforts, as well as full integration between social hearsay and LinkedIn, Messaging API.
Today rumors also adds several new features to its software. Integrated social campaigns allows marketing package Facebook tabs, posts and ads in campaigns that local representatives can run with a single click. Targeting and timing may also be predefined so that companies can deploy phase campaign that reps can easily run on a local level.
One of the social rumour came to when helps companies manage local shops that many company heads of district and regional operations that manage local offices. This run included her administrator access to the district level with a custom hierarchy, roles and privileges.
Furthermore rumours social now define pages rogue social media, which represent the company's brand, but are outside of corporate control. Any violations or correspondence on these pages is also captured by hearsay.
Hearsay social was founded by a former employee of Google and Salesforce Clara Shih and former Microsoft employee Steve Garrity. Shi said she wrote the Facebook era, she saw that there was a market for a better local service for corporate brands.
Rumours have convinced some financial services company and is already in use by State Farm and farmers insurance group of companies (as well as fitness chain 24 hour fitness). Shea tells us that the new funds would be used twice the number of the company for 80 staff by the end of the year.

Hearsay social provides the first comprehensive SaaS social media for brands with local branches and representative offices. Hearsay social helps these organizations ' corporate/local "centrally measure, manage, and deploy the content.
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Lightbank invests in WhosHere location-based mobile social networking

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After back-Babbaco, Lightbank makes another investment today. Investment company finances myRete, developers of WhosHere, location-based mobile social network. This is the first outside investment for myRete.

WhosHere is a location-based social application network (iOS app for now) which allows you to see who in your nearest location and message to the people. When a user is someone they are interested in drawing, they can message the user enters the application identity and others with whom they have something in common. You can communicate with people, send free text messages and images and make free VoIP calls without providing any personal information. You can also send virtual gifts to other users.

For the initial company WhosHere has an impressive user base, and profitable. IOS application has more than four million registered users that have more than 2 billion text messages in 14 languages. Run an average of 10 users said millions of messages per day.

MyRete said that the new funding will be used for recruitment and extended to other mobile platforms, including Android.

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