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Garrett Camp Steps Down As StumbleUpon CEO
StumbleUpon co-founder and CEO Garrett Camp has stepped down from the company. He will remain as Chairman of the board though. StumbleUpon is now looking for a new CEO. Camp has been CEO of StumbleUpon for 10 years since he created it as a grad student. He was CEO when eBay bought the company for $75 million and when he bought it back with several investors. StumbleUpon has 25 million registered users. “It was my first job and my first love,” said Camp. Camp also founded an on-demand ride service called Uber and he is chairman there as well.
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Car Request Servicer Uber Raises $32 Million From Menlo Ventures, Benchmark, Goldman Sachs, and Jeff Bezos
StumbleUpon Overhauls Design With More Of A Focus On Brands
StumbleUpon, the Internet discovery toolbar company that recently hit 20 million users, has overhauled their design entirely. StumbleUpon users can now feed them information from specific brands like Audi, FunnyOrDie.com, AOL, Disney, ESPN, etc. StumbleUpon users can also subscribe specifically to celebrities like Tom Hanks and Magic Johnson.
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Former Yahoo! CTO and EVP Of Products Ari Balogh Joins StumbleUpon
Ari Balogh is the former CTO and EVP of Products at Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). Now he is bringing his experience at a major Internet media company to Internet toolbar company StumbleUpon.com as the VP of engineering. He will have a major focus on the “recommendation technology” at StumbleUpon. Balogh will also be extending StumbleUpon’s development of the open-source Hadoop database HBase. Balogh will report to StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp. StumbleUpon has 15 million monthly users and hits one billion recommendations per month. StumbleUpon recently raised $17 million in funding after they spun out of eBay in 2009. eBay acquired StumbleUpon for $75 million in cash in 2007. [AllThingsD]
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Uber Raises $11 Million For Booking Black Car Services On-The-Go
Uber is a company that was founded by StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp. The company has raised $11 million in a round of funding that gives them a $49 million pre-money and $60 million post-money valuation. Benchmark Capital led the round and Sequoia Capital partner Alfred Lin participated as an individual. Benchmark partner Bill Gurley will be joining the board of directors.
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StumbleUpon Launching Pro Version and Is Growing 700,000 Users Per Month
StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp took some time off to report some of their plans to the media. Camp said that StumbleUpon is growing 700,000 new users per month. Currently they have over 12 million users.
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StumbleUpon Releases iPhone and Android Application
StumbleUpon is now available on the iPhone. I’ve tested it out and it works great. You can respond to messages, thumb up, thumb down, stumble, and visit your personal homepage through the application. You can also share and write reviews on stumbled websites. You can also Stumble by category and website type.
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Melinda Chung and Katie Gray Join StumbleUpon’s Marketing Team From Yahoo! and Google
StumbleUpon has hired Melinda Chung as the company Product Marketing Manager and Katie Gray as the Marketing Communications Manager. Both Melinda and Katie will focus on growing StumbleUpon’s external communications base.
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StumbleUpon Is Offering $10,000 To Help Them Find A Good PHP Architect
StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp just sent out a tweet that said “Do you know a rockstar PHP architect? We are now offering a $10,000 referral bonus for this position at StumbleUpon!” StumbleUpon is based in San Francisco, California. Below is some of the credentials that they are looking for:
* PHP expert with strong LAMP stack experience.
* BS in computer science or related field.
* 5+ years experience designing and building commercial internet applications.
* Experience building large-scale web-applications.
* Experience with Javascript and SQL.
* Experience using Memcache in large scale production environments.
* Experience working in small development teams within large-scale operations environments.
* Familiarity with StumbleUpon.
The official application page is located here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2xATta/stumbleupon.com/jobs/#PHP%20Architect. Check out our previous StumbleUpon coverage here: pulse2.com/category/stumbleupon.
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StumbleUpon Users Get A New Homepage With Focus On Search and News Feed
Oh, hello there new StumbleUpon design. This past April, StumbleUpon had spun-off from their parent company eBay and has been improving upon the service ever since. The company improved their web toolbar and created a new analytics service called Su.pr.
Now the social media toolbar company has launched a new user interface that is “somewhere between a Twitter and Google” according to StumbleUpon co-founder Garrett Camp. StumbleUpon has about 8 million users that have stumbled about 35 million websites. All of these stumbled websites have now been indexed and StumbleUpon is tracking how many hits have been sent to them. The homepage for StumbleUpon users shows the recent activity for themselves and their friends.
StumbleUpon search results can be sorted by friends and by your own stumbles. The Discover tab allows users to sort recent stumbles by top rated, stumbles from friends, most shared, or by the topic. The toolbar itself will be updated later this week which will have the new features integrated. The toolbar will also have a new feature which will allow users to share links on Twitter and Facebook.
Below is a screenshot of the new user homepage:
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