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Jeffrey Tinsley on revamping Reunion.com, buying Wink, finding people

Reunion.com's acquisition of people search engine Wink Technologies Inc. is part of a broader strategy to revamp the company's business, CEO and founder Jeffrey Tinsley (pictured) tells Tech Confidential. The...


Video: Tim O'Reilly urges Web 2.0 firms to solve real-world problems

"How can we use this technology to solve real-world problems?," ponders Tim O'Reilly, who coined the term Web 2.0 four years ago when he hosted a San Francisco conference on the...


Someecards founders quit day jobs, seek tech lead

When is it time to quit your day job? If you're Someecards Inc. co-founders Duncan Mitchell and Brook Lundy (pictured, left and right), the answer is when your Web site starts drawing...


Loomia's Dave McMurtry: Friends know what you want

Loomia Inc., developer of SeenThis?, a social recommendations application for Facebook, is announcing Wednesday that it has closed a $5 million Series A from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Asset Management Co. and...


Scott Karp: 'You can't just ride the old business model all the way down'

Publish2 Inc., a Digg-like news aggregation service for professional journalists founded by Publishing 2.0 blogger Scott Karp (pictured), has raised a $2.75 million Series A from Velocity Interactive Group. "Think...


Veveo unveils video feed service

Veveo Inc. vice president Daren Gill stopped by Tech Confidential's office to show us vtap Feed, a customized video feed service being unveiled Monday. Veveo is often mentioned as a favorite by...


Widgets key to customizing online experience

This year "is going to be the year of the widget," Dan Schnapp, 38, lead partner in Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP's new media, entertainment and technology group, tells Tech...


Balderton Capital scores on Bebo sale, but could it have done even better?

The sale of social networking firm Bebo Inc. to Time Warner Inc.'s [TWX] AOL division for $850 million is a big win for Balderton Capital, the European venture capital firm...


Google's fab four launches FriendFeed with a $5M Series A

FriendFeed Inc. on Tuesday is launching publicly after a private beta test and announcing a $5 million Series A round. Like dozens of other companies, FriendFeed is trying to leverage...


How did Etsy founder Rob Kalin learn to stop worrying and love the VCs?

As regular readers of Tech Confidential know, we're intrigued by Rob Kalin, the 27-year-old founder of handmade goods e-marketplace Etsy Inc. He was one of five New York tech entrepreneurs...


Behavioral targeting guru Richard Frankel: Social networks take ads to next level

 Online advertising exec Richard Frankel, a veteran of NetGravity, DoubleClick Inc. and most recently Yahoo! Inc., is joining SocialMedia Networks Inc. as chief operating officer."Social networking takes advertising to the...


Gmail interface designer Kevin Fox joins Google alumni at FriendFeed

We've tracked down Kevin Fox, the playful designer who crafted the look and feel of Gmail and other Google Inc. programs and who told the world last Friday that he...


PE investor puts money on TrustChip

"Soon there will be 10 billion devices from cell phones to electricity meter readers to gadgets in your car," predicts Elad Yoran, CEO and founder of Security Growth Partners, a...



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