As a source told us yesterday, Tumblr has indeed taken funding. The 750K Series A round comes from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures, an investor in micro-blogging rival Twitter. But Tumblr, our source says, isn’t really a direct Twitter rival in the way Jaiku is; it’s becoming more of a social feed, [...]

Cisco wants in on the social networking pie. It’s announced its plans for creating social networking websites for other companies at the Web 2.0 Conference this week, in what looks to be a white label offering. With its acquisition of Five Across Inc., a company that offers website creation tools, and the [...]

Looks like Sony’s run of minisodes on MySpace got some good feedback. Sony has created an entire network for the distribution of its 4-6 minute compressed versions of classic television episodes from past generations. It’s added more shows as well, like Bewitched and The Jeffersons. The minisodes, which initially ran [...]

Firefox 2.0.0.8 is out today, released by Mozilla. The update fixes several compatibility and security issues, and now works with Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard.”Some who have installed the browser update also report other problems with some media plugins, Adobe Flash content failing on Intel-based Mac systems, and the ‘close other tabs’ function failing when [...]

Yahoo’s losing another exec as Cammie Dunaway, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Customer Experience Division for Yahoo, has stepped down. Dunway has said she’s seeking new opportunities. After about 4 years with Yahoo, Dunway was in charge of overseeing key initiatives for consumers, including things like global branding, marketing, consumer insights, user [...]

Brightroll, the online video advertising network, has raised about $5 million in a Series B funding. The round was led by True Ventures and Adams Street Partners. With the offering of both pre-roll and mid-roll ads, Brightroll contextually places ads based on webpage information, site behavior and demographics. Assessing tags, profiles and [...]

On the heals of its earnings report yesterday, Google has hit a new all-time high and surpassed the $200 billion mark in terms of market value. For some perspective, that is more than News Corp, Disney, Viacom, and CBS are worth … combined. The number makes Google the second largest technology company in [...]

Here’s the latest from Microsoft Live Labs: Listas. Listas, get it? Funny, right? This is a list-sharing tool that lets you edit lists, share them with others, and search for public lists that have been created by users. Microsoft is proposing its use for just about any reason you’d make [...]

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