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Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of one of the biggest technology blogs on the web, TechCrunch has now announced that he will be joining hands with VantagePoint Partner, Patrick Gallagher to set up a Venture Capital Fund that will amount to a whopping $20 million. The VC fund will primarily focus on providing essential capital assistance [...]

The Huffington Post, one of the most prominent news, analysis, and lifestyle website boasting of 25 million unique monthly visitors has been bought by AOL for $315 million. Yahoo had also been in talks with Huffington Post for a possible acquisition in June but apparently that deal did not go through and AOL’s offer stuck. With this deal, Arianna [...]

The numbers are impressive Tumblr: In a TV interview with TechCrunch, the founder of the microblogging service, David Karp, said the platform grows to 250 million page views each week. Last week, the sites of the service generated a total of 1.2 billion page views in the last thirty days were over 4 billion. According to Karp, it is one of the reasons [...]

With a large community of 72 million users, Babylon, translation program launched in 1997, remains a reference in its area. Today, Babylon was released the latest version of the program that brings the main novelty, the ability to read content translated from languages like English, German and French, among others. Besides the software, however, the [...]

It took a whole year for the Foursquare reach 1 million users and two years for Twitter to reach this level. Instagram already, a simple photo-sharing application, achieved this feat in less than three months. In recent weeks the pair who created the application included some new tools such as search filters and seven new languages. And to achieve [...]

Created by Gisele Muller and Edward Sasso, the same minds behind the most useful Remake, the Mentaway is an interactive journey log, based on social networks. And here lies the great advantage of the tool: no need to make huge entries or subscribe to various services again. Just link your accounts and publish content! The Mentaway supports Flickr, [...]

A social network is a social structure composed of persons or organizations connected by one or more types of relationships that share common values and goals. Social Networks can operate at different levels, for example, social networks (Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Twitter), professional networks (Linkedin), and other types of networks. And was thinking [...]

In February this year, appeared the first rumors about the secret project Titan from Facebook, an e-mail to Internet affectionately dubbed (by their creators, of course) “Gmail killer”. Now it could be released on Monday, November 15, during a special event scheduled for this day. It would be a big surprise, says the site TechCrunch, now that [...]

A change in the terms of service of a Google software may cause severe impact on how social networks using data from other networks on the web. The measure affects especially the social network Facebook, which does not allow export of data to other services. The change affects the terms of use of the API (application programming interface) Contacts [...]

A tool for amateur hack user information in a public network has been downloaded over 104,000 times in the first 24 hours after its launch, according to the website TechCrunch. Called Firesheep, it is an extension for the Firefox browser programmed by software developer Eric Butler, in which he said the add-on is designed to demonstrate the vulnerability [...]