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Sale of iLike to MySpace–$13.5 Million in Cash, $6 Million for Talent...
The board of iLike planned a meeting earlier tonight to go over a buyout offer by MySpace, several sources close to the situation said. But it was suddenly canceled because of some thorny tax...
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Serial Entrepreneur Al Warms Debuts Appolicious, Hoping iPhone Apps Fans Will...
Longtime Internet entrepreneur Al Warms paid a visit to BoomTown HQ today to show off a new company he has founded called Appolicious. That is the unusual name Warms–who sold his Participate Media,...
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Let no good deed go unpunished. Mom may have told you not to say anything if you can’t say something nice. A lawyer who represents companies in human-relations cases said you better not say anything...
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Nook E-Reader Has Potential, but Needs Work
Amazon’s Kindle has been the king of the nascent, much-hyped, category of wireless e-readers since it came out in 2007. Now, numerous companies are determined to challenge the Kindle with dedicated,...
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MySpace and News Corp. Eye Flixster (But for What?)
[UPDATED] Now that the digital equivalent of a super-vac, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, has sucked up some decent music start-ups–Imeem and iLike–for a song, to bolster the social networking site’s...
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Hunch's Fake and Dixon Speak (And They've Got a Hunch, You Might Not Get...
When Aardvark was sold to Google (GOOG) for $50 million last week, a lot of folks wondered about the fate of Hunch, another hot start-up in the space. Except, as correctly noted by two of its four...
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Almost Famous: David Maher Roberts of The Filter
This week, we interviewed David Maher Roberts, CEO of The Filter. The Filter has been around for awhile, but has been reinvented as a service for content companies. It takes what David describes as...
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Appolicious Signs Partnership to Integrate With Yahoo
Although serial entrepreneur Al Warms sold his start-up to Yahoo and ultimately left the Internet giant to launch a new one, he is coming back a bit via an interesting partnership. Warms’s Appolicious...
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Liveblogging Facebook's F8: Behind the 8-Ball on a Stairway to Heaven!
So, BoomTown was at the Design Center Concourse in San Francisco today for Facebook’s f8 developers conference. There is a giant logo of an 8-Ball looming over it all, which suggested a questioning...
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Almost Famous: Kent Lindstrom of PlacePop
This week, we stopped by Ooga Labs, a little incubator on Market Street in San Francisco, to meet Kent Lindstrom, CEO of PlacePop. PlacePop is an Apple (AAPL) iPhone app and Web site, advertised as a...
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Liveblogging the Bing-Facebook Bromance: "Underdog" Search With a Little Help...
BoomTown motored on down to the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley on a fabulously sunny day to liveblog the latest Bing event. The software giant is updating its search service, announcing deep...
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Another TV Guide for Web Video! But Shufflr Wants Your Friends to Do the Work
Smart people are sure that you’re going to watch more and more Web video from the comfort of your couch. But if that’s the case, how are you going to decide what to watch? The world of Internet video...
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Clicker Links Up Facebook for Video Recommendations
The online television guide Clicker today launched its own social recommendation system called Clicker Predict, which utilizes “more than 50 explicit and implicit behaviors of individuals, their...
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AOL Sells Content Recommender Surphace to Content Recommender Outbrain
Tim Armstrong has disposed of another asset that AOL bought before he showed up: The company has sold Surphace, its content recommendation engine, to Outbrain, which does the same thing. I don’t have...
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100 Percent Fresh Exclusive!: Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes in Acquisition Talks...
Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said...
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Demand Media Q2 Call Liveblog: Spam-a-Not
Today, Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations in its second-quarter earning, growing revenue and lessening losses. The Santa Monica, Calif., online content maker also announced that it had...
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Gogobot Goes Mobile With New iPhone App
The innovative social travel site Gogobot is unveiling its Apple iPhone app today, which will give users of the service the ability to post from a location immediately and also to see where friends...
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First Class Ticket: Social Travel Start-Up Gogobot Raises $15M in Funding at...
Gogobot, the social travel site, said it has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. Sources said the valuation for the Silicon Valley start-up was around $70 million. Gogobot...
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Yahoo Intensifies Search for CEO (With Hulu's Kilar as One Dream Unicorn...
Whatever you want to call him or her — a silver bullet, the cure or, as I like to say, the last unicorn — Yahoo’s ever-seeking and never-deciding board has now renewed its focus on finding a new CEO....
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Meet Mulu, a Pinterest-Like Site for E-Commerce -- With a Cause
What do businesswoman Ivanka Trump, author Jonathan Franzen and former Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz all have in common? Not a whole lot, except they’re all featured users on Mulu.me, a...
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