Nimble is a customer relationship management startup company that has raised $1 million in funding from Mark Cuban, Dharmesh Shah, Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge, Google Ventures, etc.  Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara believes that Nimble is a combination of Hootsuite, Yammer, and Salesforce.com.

Backyard launched this past December and was backed with $150,000 in seed funding from 500 Startups, Jason Calacanis, and Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures. PixelFish, a local video marketing solutions company, has acquired Backyard. Backyard is a local business guide that is available on the web and on mobile devices. PixelFish has no plans of shutting down Backyard as a result of the acquisition.

Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis filed a lawsuit against TechCrunch in November 2010. Calacanis and Arrington are former partners on the TechCrunch50 events. Calacanis also wanted some proceeds from TechCrunch’s sale to AOL. One business day after Calacanis’ Launch Conference, he dropped the lawsuit against Arrington. [TechCrunch]

Mahalo.com is completely transforming their website from a search engine into an educational hub. Based in Santa Monica, California Mahalo.com will have educational and instruction videos.

I read an interesting article on the American Express Open Forum this past week about how Jason Calacanis fosters a healthy work environment at his start-up company Mahalo.com. Calacanis hired a professional chef to prepare healthy snacks for every employee every day. These snacks are even brought to every employee’s desk at regular times throughout the day.

[Jason Calacanis, left - Michael Arrington, right]

Jason Calacanis, the founder of Mahalo.com and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against his former TechCrunch50 conference partner Michael Arrington. Arrington recently sold his blog TechCrunch to AOL for an estimated $25-$40 million and Aol gained ownership of the conference as part of the deal. Before the acquisition Arrington kicked out Calacanis from TechCrunch50 and rebranded it as TechCrunch Disrupt. Below is a post that Arrington wrote and a post that Calacanis wrote about the situation so you can get both perspectives.

Propeller.com is a social media link-sharing website that is similar to Digg.com and Reddit.com. Somebody submits a story and if it gains enough popularity, that story hits the homepage. Propeller.com was created out of an experiment by AOL subsidiary Netscape.