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Kevin Rose Believed To Be Joining Google To Work On Social Efforts
In April 2011, Kevin Rose started working full-time at a mobile development company called Milk. Milk launched a food and restaurant recommendation app called Oink, which was downloaded about 150,000 times in its first month as a free app. Rose is known for launching the social bookmarking website Digg.com and being a host of the popular podcast called Diggnation. Google has hired Kevin Rose through some sort of acqui-hire deal.
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Categories Dave Morin, Evan Williams, Facebook, Google, Kevin Rose, Milk Inc., Oink, Philip Rosedale, Shervin Pishevar
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Path Apologizes and Deletes Data
Yesterday I wrote about how Path was caught stealing personal information through their mobile app and uploading it to their servers. Today Path acknowledged that they designed the “Add Friends” feature wrong and apologized. Path 2.0.6 was released to the Apple App Store today and it now allows people to opt in or out of sharing phone contacts with their servers.
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Path Caught Uploading iPhone Address Books To Servers
Arun Thampi is a developer that was looking for ways to port photo software Path to Mac OS X. However he noticed that some data was being sent from the Path iPhone app to the company’s servers. After diving in a bit more, he realized that the Path app was collecting his whole address book including full names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers. All of this information was being uploaded to Path’s central servers. The app was not notifying people that information was being collected though.
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Categories Arun Thampi, Dave Morin, Path
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Path Goes From 10,000 To 300,000 Active Users In 2.5 Weeks
Path is a “smart journal that helps you share life with the ones you love” including the music you are listening to, where you are, when you wake up, when you sleep, etc. You can also share photos and videos on public networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook directly from Path. Path was founded by Dave Morin and he refused to sell his company to Google for $100 million when he was offered.
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Liftopia Raises $1.3 Million Led By First Round Capital
Liftopia is a San Francisco based online retailer of ski lifting and mountain resort transactions. Liftopia has raised $1.3 million in a round of funding led by First Round Capital. Other investors in this round includes Dave Morin, Chris Sacca, Erik Blachford, and Sam Shank.
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Categories Chris Sacca, Dave Morin, Erik Blachford, First Round Capital, Liftopia, Sam Shank
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Social Media Management Company Hearsay Social Raises $18 Million
Corporate social media management company Hearsay Social has raised $18 million. The company launched this past February. Hearsay provides franchise companies and businesses with local chapters the ability to monitor social media across the whole organization.
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Kevin Rose’s Milk Inc. Raises $1.5 Million
Milk Inc. is a new company that was co-founded by Kevin Rose. Rose is the founder of Digg and co-founder of Revision3. Milk is essentially a company where several developers brainstorm technology and mobile ideas and works away at building them. If there isn’t any sudden traction, then the project gets shut down. Milk has raised $1.5 million in angel funding from well known investors. Investors include Mike Maples, Jr. (Floodgate), David Sze (Greylock Partners), Ron Conway, Dave Morin, Philip Rosedale, Evan Williams, Joshua Schachter, Ashton Kutcher, Michael Arrington, Philip Kaplan, Chris Sacca, Tony Hsieh, Gary Vaynerchuk, and several others. [VentureBeat]
Yobongo Raises $1.35 Million From Angel Investors
Yobongo is a location based mobile group chat startup company that has raised $1.35 million in funding from several angel investors. You can chat with random people that are near you and they plan to launch an Android app soon too.
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Categories Caleb Elston, Dave Morin, Gary Vaynerchuk, Mitch Kapor, Yobongo
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Google Wanted To Buy Path For $100 Million
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) wanted to buy mobile social network Path. I wrote about Path raising over $8 million in funding early today. Apparently Path decided to reject Google’s $100 million offer. Google liked the Path team and their design skills. Google also appreciated that Morin was heavily involved in the operations at Facebook. “They hoped it might help Google recruit more Facebook employees over time.” Morin said that he sees Path as a 30-year brand so selling to Google would be too premature.
Categories Dave Morin, Google, Path
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Art.sy Raises $1.25 Million From Several Angel Investors
Art.sy is a New York City based startup company that has raised $1.25 million in funding. Investors in Art.sy include Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Rupert Murdoch’s wife Wendi, Jack Dorsey (Twitter co-founder), Jim Breyer, Dash Zhukova, Founder Collective, Keith Rabois, David Tisch, Charlei Cheever, Dave Morin, and David Kidder. Art.sy’s funding was led by Thrive Capital. Art.sy raised $160,000 in seed funding and launched at TechCrunch Disrupt. Art.sy was founded by 24 year old founder Carter Cleveland and he decided to make the website private again. Now he is shifting his service to be more focused on high-end art deals. [TechCrunch]