Viralheat, the social media measurement tool that allows content producers to monitor consumer-generated content on the Web in realtime, announced today that it has closed a $4.25 million series A round of funding. The round was led by the venture firm Mayfield Fund and adds to the $75K of seed capital Viralheat raised back in December 2009.
Santa Monica, Calif. Digital Music News has released a roundup of funding for music-related start-up companies in 2011, with numbers that reached nearly $397.1 million. Companies such as Spotify, Eventbrite, <a Read More
After creating 50 days of havoc and panic across the internet, the infamous hacking group LulzSec has gone into retirement.
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Hacker group LulzSec has announced that after 50 days of hacking companies and organizations, it is finally done. Check out the message from LulzSec below, which was posted on Pastebin. Check out the video as well (embedded below).
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What’s more impressive than a car that can do over a thousand miles per gallon? One that was designed by school kids.
The Apple iPad is finally going to get its own Skype application and, on first impressions, it looks every bit like the app we’ve all been waiting for.
Quora has just announced a redesign of its Topic Pages and the introduction of Topic Groups, aiming to make information discovery and navigation on the site a little bit easier. The motivation behind these changes is a thrust towards ease of search and content relevancy on Quora, as there is currently a ton of content on the site that people need to figure out how to navigate.