LinkedIn, the social network for business and professional networking has just raised $53m of new funding from investors, taking its total funding raised to over $80m. Bain Capital Ventures led their latest round of funding giving investors a 5% stake.
Venture capitalists now value LinkedIn at $1bn, which following on from Facebook’s recent $15bn valuation, once again shows ... Read more
eBay are suing community ad site Craigslist to “safeguard its four year financial investment”. eBay believe that Craigslist’s executives Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster have adopted unspecified measures that have disadvantaged eBay and unfairly diluted their “economic interest by more than 10%”. EBay’s general counsel Mike Jacobson has said “since negotiating our investment with Craigslist’s ... Read more
Yesterday, we found out that Flickr now adds video! So, it’s a multimedia sharing site, that involves both photos and videos.
You’ll need to have a Pro account for video sharing, and clips up to 150MB can be uploaded. And, as with photos, there are a number of privacy settings to take advantage of, licensing, as ... Read more
This week was the launch of the new improved MeasuredUp site. MeasuredUp is a consumer review platform, where users can critique companies from big corporations like Wal-Mart to much smaller businesses like local travel outlets or restaurants. The range of subject matter varies greatly – covering everything from ad agencies to Web services to medical ... Read more





