Uber is a private car service company that has raised $32 million in Series B funding from Menlo Ventures, Goldman Sachs, and Jeff Bezos. Previous investor Benchmark Capital also participated in this round.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.