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Path Raises $40 Million In Series B
Mobile social networking company Path has raised $40 million in Series B according to sources with AllThingsD. Redpoint Ventures led the $40 million round, which puts Path at a valuation of $250 million. Path currently has 2 million registered users after they completely redesigned their app last year to become a personal journaling app with ways to share travel, photos, location, and workouts with a Nike partnership. Path’s last ronud of funding was $8.65 million from KPCB, Index Ventures, and Digital Garage Japan.
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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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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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Path Announces Version 2.0
Path is a “Smart Journal” app that helps you share the music you are listening to, where you are, who you are with, when you wake up, when you sleep, photos, and videos with people that you love. For those of you that use Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare, you can easily share photos, check-in to places, and tweet directly from Path as well. Now Path has launched a new version called Path 2.0. Below is what Path wrote on their company blog:
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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.
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Mobile Social Network Path Raises $8.5 Million
Path is a San Francisco based mobile social networking company that has raised $8.5 million in funding led by Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures. Digital Garage and First Round Capital also participated in this round. Chi-Hua Chien of Kleiner and Mike Volpi of Index will join the board of directors. This brings Path to a total of $11.2 million in funding. Path used to be completely private where people could only post pictures and videos to friends. These files could not be shared on Twitter or Facebook. Now people can e-mail photos and videos to contacts through the app. Path is currently working on building an Android app.